excerpt God, Cosmology, Nothingness (video 16 minutes)

Gary reads from his 2015 philosophy-theology-cosmology book. Voice over unrelated scenic images

Arguments 4 the Existence of God (video 2015)

Someone wondered about the covenant of works versus the covenant of redemption and where Jesus fits in; maybe the question is a categorical error, though it reminds me of Plotinus' query about why 'the One' or God would emanate or create anything to start with since He is perfect and one might infer that anything created would need to be less so. That is God transcends covenants-for-non-contingent beings, though He has stipulated them. Jesus is God and satisfies the covenant of works with the covenant of Grace-for-the-elect. Redemption is grace sine qua non. No one besides the Lord could satisfy the covenant of works, hence the covenant of Grace appeared with the Lord.

Widget excerpt - philosophical science fiction (videos)

Trump Rally and Social Media Protest Organizing

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has experienced flash mob protest phenomena that is I suppose an inevitable outgrowth of the Twitter and Facebook social media mass organizational protest coordination of recent years. Special interest protest groups can plan disruptions at any targeted political meeting and get news coverage. Rival candidates will then exploit the action and blame the candidate for being victimized by political special interest attacks.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/12/sanders-attacks-trump-vicious-campaign-chicago-backlash

Chicago and St. Louis each had substantive crowd protests at Trump rallies. St. Louis has enjoyed a year of protests following the police shooting of a black giant youth walking in the middle of the road after a shoplifting mission who allegedly attacked a police in his car who had stopped to inquire what was up. Trump rallys are a good substitute for the St. Louis protests that have lost steam yet morphed into a black lives matter movement looking for any place to flash mob and protest. In Texas a police officer was shot and killed last week by a recently released felon that stole a gun from a house and waited for a police office to walk out of the station. Police lives matter too. In fact everyone's life matters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-trump-supporters-protesters-fill-chicago-arena/2016/03/11/f394436e-e7e7-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html

I watched a youtube video of Muslim Minister Louis Farrakhan speaking out against that 'wicked woman' Hillary Clinton. Chicago has a lot of ethnic political organization these days and it is too easy to crank up a protest in that city. I tended to agree with Farrakhan about Clinton and Libya, even so his antipathy toward white people that demand to be 'bosses' seems a darker ethnic note that is an undercurrent to the 2016 Presidential campaign that is a racist demand that a non-white male be elected President.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu41CPQw0hg wicked woman

Donald Trump is the lightening rod for mobs of attacking racist, sexist, anti-capitalist, anti-God, anti-straight-even anti-United States political opposition. It is an interesting post-cold war evolution. Maybe it is easier to attack the U.S.A. from within rather than from without and dismantle everything it was.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-latest-trump-supporters-protesters-fill-chicago-arena/2016/03/11/f394436e-e7e7-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html

Lawyer Is Not A Good Presidential Occupation Now

Lawyer Presidents early in the nation's history weren't so bad; 24 Presidents have been lawyers, yet in the 20th century they have tended, like V.I. Lenin (a lawyer) to be too inclined to do with the executive post whatever they like or think they can get away with.

Consider the four lawyer-President; F.D.R., Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama and RIchard Nixon. Those guys tended to think of the country's institutions as putty for them to mold. They did not respect the nation's institutions much-not even marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_occupation

Ted Cruz is running as a natural born Canadian-he thinks he can get away with it and has no respect for the one thing-being a native born American citizen-that prevents Vladimir Putin from running if he were to get U.S. citizenship. The nation revolted against imperialism and Cruz just lacks the sensitivity to comprehend.

Marco Rubio wants to raise the minimum retirement age for social security to 70; about the average life expectancy of black working men and the poor. Raising the minimum age for those with solid retirement income and savings would be reasonable since some of those live to 100, yert the poor just struggle to reach 65 and many don't make it. Why make those suffering working people go on probably without work since few hire older people and groveling sleeping in ditches or wherever from 55 to 70.

Businessmen, scientists, educators and generals make substantive changes when Presidents rather than just stuffing the rich or burning down the nation';s institutions and houses as the Clinton mortgage lending deregulation restructuring did eventually.

Why Not More Ideas for Easier Earth to Orbit Launches?

Since so many people are impatient with N.A.S.A. manned space Earth to orbit methods I thought I would add another concept on the topic.

I like electro-magnetic accelerators a lot. They can easily achieve orbital escape velocity. Originally developed for the S.D.I. rail gun they have been used by the Navy for artillery on ships and in the metal-storm pistol manufactured by an Australian. It would be a useful concept approach to put an e.m.a. aboard a very large edge-of-the-atmosphere balloon launch platform and lift an orbital capsule 'bullet' up to the rarefied air where it would then be fired through the tube and into space.

That would be stage one of the idea. The balloon itself might be a winged delta shape and have rockets in it to fire when the e.m.a. sends of the space capsule in an opposite direction from the balloon delta-wing platform. The platform-launchers should be fairly cheap and easy to reload with another capsule for launch.

Obviously there are a zillion varieties and permutations for the shape and composition of the high-altitude space-capsule lift and launching platform. The balloons could be collapsible and the very large delta/balloon object could glide down to Earth after use for reloading perhaps landing in the ocean near Cape Canaveral Florida.

Less atmosphere less friction for the manned or cargo bullets. I haven't time to write more about the idea presently.  

Wiping Clean Vulgar Primary Issues

Much ado has been made by the pristine Republican elite about the infrequently rough language of Donald Trump as if Teddy Roosevelt or Andrew Jackson would have turned scarlet at such language. In the stratosphere of Republican PACs with lots of spare money to throw on campaign spots probably from zero-interest Federal Reserve loans to banks than are thereafter free to mint four e-dollars in new loans out of thin air for each buck from the Fed borrowed rough language is seldom used. On Wall Street behind the scenes the elites have prayer breakfasts each day before skimming billions in high-speed trading. The elite Republicans for ZIllary PAC financiers may use unkind words themselves behind golden doors.

I personally wouldn't mind a million bucks in order to experience some of the selflessness of consolidating wealth. If Donald Trump can return some manufacturing opportunities from China or coordinate a new easy-access print on demand industry that could make timely things like Presidential candidate toilet tissue and delivery them to retail outlets innovators might be able to just dial-in an idea and get the product made with a percentage of the profits eventually deposited in a friendly bank account.

Sht-if enough candidates remain until April to have a semblance of competition three or five different a-wipes could be big sellers to millions.

Sure it is good to carefully select one's language and exist in a non-pressured way wherein one may offer an appearance of saintliness and composure to the public. In my opinion though that is not always possible. A good candidate with rough language now and then may have the redeeming quality of good policy for the public. If elected he may use a teleprompter and not ad hoc so much, if he decides to remain an American citizen and not return home to Canada to run there. A candidate sometimes needs not only to tone down the rough edges although that may be something a reality-TV era public likes, sometimes he needs to wait and see if he gets the Presidential nomination before choosing to denounce any spare citizenships in foreign nations he or she may have.

Economic Analysis Necessarily Is Political

Economic policy analytic is necessarily political. Global economics isn't democratic. The most rich are best able to exploit it. An economist may be talking on American radio or television with comments that may be completely anational and empirically global . The economist may be irrelevant to national concerns of citizens.

It is the poor and middle class that stand to benefit the most from nationalist economics. Yet because of the Clinton's Yale-Oxford Boston takeover of the Democrat party and the Bush-Romney ultra-elite hegemony over the Republican Party the United States may be said to have a no-party system with Donald Trump possibly trying to upset the status quo.

Back in the day when the U.S.A. was a somewhat isolated power economists could reasonably talk about economic policy without concern for the globe except for matters of tariffs on trade goods and the value of foreign currencies based on their gold holdings. Today of course that has all changed and economists may default to planetary economic criteria concerning labor available globally, planetary transport costs of distal manufactured goods, tax rates in various nations on currencies in other nations, etc. Manipulating international politics and supporting various conflicts abroad directly effects economic criteria exploited by global economists for the benefit of investors in international markets comprising holdings of the plutonomy (the upper 5% of the 1%).

Economics for the benefit of U.S. citizens differs from economics for the benefit of plutonomy or economics for the benefit of the dar al Islam. Economic policy for the benefit of Russians differs from economic policies designed to benefit Argentinians or Mexicans. National economic policies are the sole direct approach to intentionally benefiting national citizens yet many may benefit indirectly, sometimes from regional politics.

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is a natural Canadian citizen. If elected President of the U.S.A. he would also technically be a subject of the British Empire and complicate ancient ideas about the legality of the American Revolution against the King. He might also enable the United States to consider a legal annexation of Canada through a consolidation procedure involving business transcendence of boundaries. As a Canadian citizen and subject of the Queen Ted Cruz could exploit NAFTA from both sides of the border and possibly get elected President of Canada simultaneously and agitate to make Canada the 51^st state. Economic policy necessarily is political.

Environmental issues are another factor determining economic definition and relevance to national citizens. There is an entire academic discipline concerned with the objective state of natural resources and human economic interaction with them that objectify the value of those resources and the real cost to society of degrading and/or depleting them. Environmental economics is not just a preference for green or renewable resources that don't pollute.

An economist may be global, regional or national, she may be an environmental economist or not, she may be a socialist, a corporatist, an unlimited existential capitalist or a reformer with a preference for a new synthetic economic method of her own invention. One could make a table to show some of the varieties or combinations of economic viewpoints and recognize some of the confusion that goes abroad through the broadcast media and publishing world when various economic analysis and remedies are advanced to the public.

There are many short-term existential economists it seems concerned with short-term phenomenal changes to various  disingenuous government measured statistics of inflation, employment, value of bonds, treasury notes, public debt, tax rate and so forth with various theoretical filters for interpretation also based upon their own choices for economic viewpoint. Many of those are what the public gets in the U.S.A. today. It is a sort of possession is 9/10ths of the law sort of economics, rather than one of cold, rational objectivity for the good of the people and environment.

An Essay & Poem (video); Concentration of Wealth and Power

Where Nothing Disappears (poem)