Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should quit acting like a juvenile with the liberal use of derogatory epithets for Republican leaders. "Moscow Mitch" is just wrong, dirty assonance. What if Senator McConnell referred to her as 'Puta Pelosi' or Speaker Assonance? She is a mouthpiece for an illegal alien invasion of California. Grow up Nancy.
Since the Obama era the Democratic Party has evolved out of bi-partisan legislation towards one of pure partisan force. Democrats were first to use the nuclear option to pass partisan legislation. They rely more upon technical congressional leverage to force their own agenda forward than anything else that would require bi-partisan support.
The basic tactic for the Democratic Party
these days since the Obama era is to use the White House to appoint partisan
judges who will force their agenda forward; legislating from the bench. The
balance is to issue executive orders from a Democrat President. President G.W. Bush
importunately appointed a Wall Street corporatist judge- Chief Justice Roberts,
who enabled Democrats to corrupt the nation as he determined which way the
financial winds blew.
Too many silly people in the political arena seeking to restore aristocracy, tyranny and all of the things that go with it bring up the topic of getting rid of the natural born citizen. Certain weenies cannot enforce control of border security and imagine a bureaucratic, paper solution would serve very well to compensate for their incompetence. They wish to strip Americans of citizenship if they were just born in the U.S.A.- perhaps they should be a member of some exclusive club to be a real citizen, or have a million dollars invested in Wall Street. Leave the native born citizenship issue alone forever. It is the sole paradigm for true citizenship as far as many are concerned. Naturalized citizens are always a little suspect of divided loyalties, as might a double agent turncoat. No human can choose where they are born though- nation of birth is a true test for citizenship in a nation. If some object because they want to keep anchor babies from being dropped inside U.S. borders they should enforce border security and immigration criteria such that no opportunistic predatory births are dropped on American soil.
America has innumerable endangered species as a result of human economic development. The United States need be a leader rather than a loser at protecting the environment and endangered species. Government leaders should not be environmental yippees that don't give a rat's a about life on Earth in comparison to their excess profits and bad maladaptive economic designs, methods and practices. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/13/endangered-species-here-usas-most-endangered-animals/1998528001/ The U.S. government should have intelligent leader well educated in environmental economics. Unfortunately there is no major party nor party leaders that are so educated. Democrats are an unthinkable alternative corrupting human social morality and being anti-American regarding border security.
I don't blame the Russians for wanting reliable power for the cold Arctic shore. A floating nuclear power plant is a strategic terrorist target though for a rogue torpedo or suicide drone attack. Chernobylo upwind of Alaska isn't good. Democrat policies that force Russians to go alone and be regarded as a frenemie at best preclude peaceful Russian-American Arctic conservative development in sustainable ecospheric economic parameters.. Another step toward poisoning the Arctic too. https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019/08/10/alaskans-concerned-about-russian-floating-nuclear-power-plant/ A better alternative might have been for Russian and American scientists and engineers to research and build a Finland to Chicago super-conductor cable cooled in liquid hydrogen that is also used to power a Musk hyper-tube transport system. It would be useful to keep nuclear out of the Arctic for long-range human survival. https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Russias-floating-nuclear-power-plant-in-the-Arctic-causes-anxiety-in-Alaska-533005471.html
Socrates with true and false opinion; one can in error believe false opinion, getting to the heart of the matter of epistemological verification that plagues any idea including scientific. Rational ideas- those of ratios as one finds in math, with equal spacing, magnitudes and logical subtraction and addition within a given, stipulated paradigm are in a sense contingent. Beliefs concerning God are better comparable to evaluating infinities. The best one might do is to use Cantor's trans-finite infinities to illustrate the difficulty of using finite ratios to evaluate the infinite. God is just too large to be encompassed within a rational criterion entirely or even in part, as a subject. It is difficult to encompass all times and places of every possible Universe, knowledge datum and so forth from a finite point of view. When I mentioned equal spacing that was in reference to a characteristic of math systems from geometry to number systems like natural numbers etc. People like to put God in such a paradigm too, and even make inferences from a theoretical system regarding the freedom of God confined to such a system and its mechanics. Things are pluralist parts of a whole. Things are made or exist contingently within a whole. God is not a part of the whole. The whole of things is not the entirety of God. It's a kind of double categorical error. Eventually i plan to write a bit about the human brain as being comparable to a 4-dimensional television that receives and converts digital data into a picture of a world and Universe. Intelligence is what allows thought about the date-world-universe (without intelligence the TV image would not be perceived by a knower). The word 'things' might refer to material objects, or pluralist pieces of sections of a larger unit. I don't believe though that one can logically reason or make inferences from one set of 'things' to find the content, nature or structure of all other sets of 'things'. For example, one might have a set of all shapes and varieties of pink neckties worn by a chess commentator in 2019. From that data it probably would not be possible to reason to the solution for what dark matter is. If human brains are comparable to televisions that receive digital input, dark matter may be a spectral wave signal they are not equipped to process. In my opinion the Holy Trinity as Persons rather than places or things differ in more than quality or quantity from 'things' or Tegmark's level 4 Multiverse wherein all things that can exist, do exist already, in all possible Universes and mind travels and switches between them. God is spirit and not confined to His Multiverse that is a knowledge-datum within Spirit perhaps, theoretically only, for it cannot be known. Everyone may be immortal after physical death. Some Biblical scripture comments on the topic... https://www.openbible.info/topics/immortality_of_the_soul?fbclid=IwAR0NHd9Xdj7aev9CEfUMwDybNaESvnc4YM7z0sdf7rUTg6sfs_rQTCzMg_c Psalm 6:5 seems to indicate never ending death as a kind of life without God-"For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?". 2nd Timothy 1:10 has the plain reference- "And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel," 1st Corinthians 15:54 has another plain, explicit statement that death has been abolished- "When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” One could say that immortality applies only to the elect that were saved. That would be one way to limit the logical distribution of death as particular rather than Universal. 1st Corinthians 15:51-58 restates the above and adds more to the idea that everyone is resurrected unto eternal life or eternal death (as a kind of living hell) "Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” " There is a physical death of mortals that ends. There is another kind of death though-life without God for eternity. I think that is enough to prove the point.
A very substantial prologue of a brilliant society on a world with high, crisp October days, cool with mists and full of hope where one can see forever...then the main story of dystopian darkness, rotting putrid political corruption pervasive and reinforcing the fallen ecosphere of the planet. Light and darkness. A billion remaining former socialists fighting for scraps in little, tight enclaves of evil boiling shoe stew over flaming trash barrels.
Capitalism is just making a pile for oneself, as large as one needs or wants. The greatest paradox of that, or irony, is that the world environment is being destroyed as an unintended consequence of about 8 billion people taking what they can from that which no one owns (the world).
Ownership of something means exclusive use of it, or right to say what may be done with it (property). Private properties are capital, and people are concerned with and care most about their own capital.
Aristotle commented that public properties- the commons- are the worst looked after. The world is generally regarded as a commons subdivided with millions of exclusive use areas of private interests, though public lands are regulated too (and sometimes exploited destructively).
Exclusive use of ownership is requisite for careful management of capital resources. One cannot construct a well-designed structure or infrastructure for example, or formulate a special use plan for real estate, without ownership. Farmers could not plan their planting cycles, or have a reason to invest in capital farm equipment for example, if they did not own the land, or at least have exclusive use of it through rental agreement. If the land were a commons and some one else decided to graze their cattle on the crops grown, or have a heavy metal rock festival, the crop loss could be complete.
There is no question that intelligent individuals can determine for-themselves best how to manage their own capital interests as opposed to bureaucratic, indirect management of other people’s interests. Since no one owns the world, and the individual capital interests are private and necessarily detached from inter-capital management and land use coordinated efforts, the well-being of the world environment is in serious decline.
The remedy might be for one individual to own the world. One might say that God owns the world. Most of humanity don’t recognize that nor their proper role as stewards. So the default evolution may be dystopian. Probably that would be an A.I. that would decide following science fiction protocols well established, that humanity is a viral plague on the ecosphere, yet it has, for itself, as an A.I., no need for an ecosphere with life in it, except for computer maintenance engineers to serve it.
Collapsology is a study of contemporary anthropology concerning the theoretical collapse of industrial and post-industrial civilization. It is a sky is falling field of human concern. The late Allan Watts wrote a book named ‘The Wisdom of Insecurity’, yet too much is enough already; one should not fire one’s guns until there is a real rather than an imagined enemy at the gate.
A world of possible collapses certainly exist. One might experience the collapse of civilization, or the atmosphere with a cobalt bomb, or the oceanic health with acidification, or of humanity with a viral plague, or of the temperate environments of the planet with global heating. The U.S.A. could have a financial collapse. The Democrat Party could collapse national morality and flood the nation with illegal aliens to replace vestigial Americans that are pro-nationalist rather than global socialists.
The collapse of most life on Earth from the eruption of a super-volcano would be something to worry about for those easily prone to collapse rumors. The space program and lunar base development could collapse and global recession set in with a dicature of the proletariat’s favorite Harvard alumnus taking leadership.
Entering into dark chatonic labyrintian channels of intrigue with the dark light at the end of the tunnel being merely illusory is something to be concerned about. Good leadership can fix most problems, yet bad leadership is required for really substantial national problems. And that bad leadership requires support of Harvard and Hollywood, billionaires and the broadcast media all pulling together to bring a good old fashioned economic art nouveau collapse to materialize. Anything is possible. Even the Lakers could win the 2020 NBA title. Gradual environmental decay, overpopulation and bad zoning and unsustainable economic methodology, and illegal alien surges that render rational political sentiment superfluous appear larger drops of precipitants of potential collapse.
Apparently cosmic ray exposure for months causes brain damage and cognitive decline in some life forms ( https://thenextweb.com/science/2019/08/07/scientists-ask-nasa-to-reconsider-mars-mission-after-studying-effects-of-space-radiation/ ). Water or ice several feet thick filter out cosmic rays, so moon water or water lifted from Earth aboard a Star-liner to an orbiting space-dock facility would be required to fill a hinged, spherical shield for spacecraft launched to orbit before beginning the journey. Building a space-dock to orbit Earth where advanced finishing and modifying work could be done on space-ships should be a practical international effort. Ice-spheres would be very simple. Like an empty bottle filled with water that freezes- hollow in the center with room for a space-ship and its engine exhaust . An example paradigm from my story 'Alterwall Objectives' in my free story collection; Wrangell'd Pulp Fiction. http://www.lulu.com/shop/gary-clifford-gibson/wrangelld-pulp-fiction/ebook/product-23037183.html "They've sunk the Semi-annual reports of most of the mutual funds I've invested in. I can invent a hundred new devices a year and not sell one...I can't keep this micro-world open" Voevoda said looking out the Big Picture window at the Earth spinning in the distance. The micro-world was a mostly hollow, creation dry-dock for the construction of material objects through a variety of atom adhesion, accretion techniques. Products were invented, down loaded to micro-world cad/cam and robotically assembled. The entire world could come apart on magnetic hinges and allow the birth of an object two-thirds its own size to emerge. Several similar micro-worlds for various purposes were parked in orbit near the Earth-market. Smaller micro-worlds were sprayed onto magnetic field molds and flash-fused into place. Dozens of instant Void-ships were turned out each day when business was good. The Solar System was strewn with Voevoda's Diatom brand Cor-Ships. Double hull construction with a fifteen foot thick ice sheet between hulls stopped lethal cosmic ray penetration. The core ships manufactured their own water for ice from universal hydrogen and oxygen from plant photosynthetic respiration. Cheri removed her static-cling body wrap to place on a one-piece stealth planetfall suit she'd need to reach down to Earth. She stood in back of Patrick, whom was already wearing a similar suit, appearing as a head floating without a body in the green, lush tropical eco-office such were the camouflage waveform properties of the Voevoda model stealth suit. "I'm ready,” she said. "Alright" Patrick answered looking ahead in thought out the window. "Hop.”
The impending financial crash of 2020 was determined by expert mathematical savants that added one to the number 2019, deducing that 2020 is next in the inevitable series of 2019 + 1. Plainly with just four months and change left in 2019 the odds are not so good for predicting a 2019 crash- hence the rigorous mathematical extrapolation from the loneliest set of trans-finite irrational numbers provides meat for subset analysis of the future leaving us with corrected 2020 vision.
