Apparently Democrats Want a 2nd Impeachment Trial in the Senate

 Democrat leaders apparently want a second impeachment trial in the Senate. Dissatisfied with the House impeachment they feel a desire to have another one with witnesses, depositions and testimony in the Senate. That isn't the way it's supposed to work. Witnesses should only be called after the prosecution and defense have made their cases, if the Senate needs more input or data for clarification.

The streamlined version of a constitutional impeachment process is for the House to have what amounts to a trial and the Senate acting as a jury to decide the verdict to convict the President of impeachment. When the House chooses to impeach a President it has made a material finding with a higher standard than that of a Grand Jury. It has in effect had a trial and rendered a verdict. The Senate is supposed to convict or acquit the Democrat's finding.  Democrats want to jury rig the Senate's deliberation process and make another trial of it, and that is wrong.

The House acts as the prosecution in an impeachment movement and indicts a President if partisan or if the President has committed high crimes or misdemeanors. The House prosecutors aka impeachment managers make their case before the Senate, and the President is permitted a defense; then a vote should occur although more witnesses or other material may be brought in. In a purely partisan prosecution a purely counter-partisan acquittal is anticipated.

Democrats did not charge the President with specific crimes in the House kangaroo court. The Democrat Party is regarded by a few as lunacy in post-modernism bereft of truth and incompetent at legislating. Anti-global warming remediation for example should not be packaged with poison pill riders such as socialism. If the party were serious about that issue it would promote atmospheric remediation with free enterprise and directed economic evolution with a few good regulations and incentives.

Are Fox, Google Search Englne Listings, C.N.N. etc Repressive of the Public Sphere?

There is a brief review of Jürgen Habermas' thesis of the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere that seems apropos for this particular 2020 Presidential race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1K46oK3xTU

If the public is holding the bag on vast public debt and don't really participate in the public sphere except as left or right party sycophantic echoes how can America ever be great again? That would require no public debt and the poor very squared away, with a great ecospheric restoration to health.

Lunar and Martian Construction note three

Exploiting readily available building materials on new solid planetary objects (or ones that are mostly ice) will use a number of innovative construction techniques eventually. The Defense Advanced Researched Project Agency recently invented a method to make living  bricks grow with bacteria, gelatin and CO2. https://www.slashgear.com/darpa-backed-living-bricks-could-reproduce-self-heal-and-slurp-co2-15606931/

Using the local chemicals of planets, moons and comets to form buildings is an obvious efficient approach. Bringing a sourdough starter to add to a growing structure could have innumerable variable components to shelter humans in adverse environments.

Ice shelters, and dirt-regolith domes moved into place with A.I. driven bobcats would compete for ubiquity with electromagnetic charged particle fields attracting material for growth and stabilization. It may also be possible to make a kind of laser-sculpted dwelling in the right material as an opposite of the 3D printing approach.

If some process were made to produce charged particles from local materials (i.e. dirt) a magnetized thin-wire structure such as is used to build a chicken coop could be made into any sort of shape to which the charged particles could stick and be fused permanently in place. N.A.S.A. is also experimenting with growing mushroom fungus into shaped structures. https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-grow-moon-base-mushrooms

Another planet- a large one six times the size of Earth (in mass probably since the discovery was made measuring gravitational impact) may have been found orbiting a star relatively near the solar system. Proxima Centauri c is just 4.2 light years away. The red dwarf star doesn't provide nearly as much sunshine as Sol and the new planet may be very cold- perhaps more than 300 degrees below zero. It is too far away to be warm.

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-discovery-super-earth-orbiting-proxima-centauri.html

In a couple of centuries when technology exists in various combinations to allow Earthers to visit Proxima Centauri tech to grind up the large planet to make six Earth size planets may be developed. Then Earth normal gravity could be established to allow human settlement. A lot of new geo-engineering and construction techniques will need to be researched and developed before actual use- in theory.

Slop Socialism of Democrats is Bureaucrat's Dream

The Democrat Party has largely abandoned free enterprise principles in their approach to governing philosophy and implemented slop socialism where one bumbles into government debt and gross inefficiency to add a hodge-podge of programs to bring everyone into reliance on the government for services. A plain socialist system might be more efficient than slop socialism, yet no one wants pure socialism in the U.S.A. except for a minority of socialists.

Democrats seem to have made accusations and litigation a continuing process, a perpetual revolution, to attempt to always remain in political power in the executive branch notably. Today speaker Pelosi finally said she would send the impeachment over to the Senate next week. The Democrat insider-media axis of leaking to maintain a pejorative narrative continues. A leaker plead guilt to sending S.A.R. reports to the media; one wonders if the reports themselves were also made by a Democrat.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/treasury-natalie-edwards-leaking-trump-documents-guilty-plea

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/15/trump-impeachment-who-managers-senate-trial/4431717002/

Slop socialism flourished in the Obama administration era. Inefficient Obamacare excluded a large number of the very poor-especially if they traveled from state to state seasonally looking for odd jobs and were homeless. Iran was given a nuclear missile development program so the next generation of Americans could have vast public debt and a nuclear weapons rich Iran too. A nuclear arms race in the Middle East with Saudi and Israel  building batteries of nuclear ballistic and cruise missiles wouldn't really be a safety improvement for anyone.

Ballistic missiles travel much faster than jet aircraft. For defense against Iran's developing nuclear missile armory Saudi and Israel would each need to develop 100 counter-strike missiles to point at Iran. Then again, with three players each might want to have 100 more to counter-strike the other two belligerents. The situation is ripe for a Shi'a-Sunni-Jewish tripartite arms race. The world would wait to see who would win the prize for best-decorated nuclear missile with 50 megaton warhead.

The Obama administration also gave tax cuts to the most rich leading the way to further tax cuts. In slop socialism its okay to enrich the most rich more, including Hollywood and Sports millionaires and billionaires and politicians, while throwing some bread and circuses to the lower classes, because slop socialists don't invest in making free enterprise work for everyone at all and can't differentiate between free enterprise efficiency with a good progressive tax rate and capitalism that isn't defined by a Marxist paradigm. Slop socialists tend to believe that inefficient government policy and the machines of big corporate will lead to the Utopia of socialism and a pure environment bottled and sold with special homosexual, greenish-purple, three-sexed rangers providing tours for the public of Bambi's realm.

Oh right; the Obama administration also greased the way to force homosexual marriage on the nation instead of establishing a new yet different structure for the queer persuasion; slop socialists prefer to expropriate rather than procreate. Plainly ecological economics within a free enterprise context isn't on the Democrat's radar screen.

With the Democrat abandonment of free enterprise as the founding principle of political economy the work in that field for reform to apply it to repair the ecosphere and restore a more egalitarian and creative economy simply doesn't develop. Without a free enterprise, egalitarian, ecologically economic realism party to challenge rich Republicans the concentration of wealth crowds unchecked and that too oppresses free enterprise for all.

Clear Solar Window Panels are Making Progress

Creating clear solar panels as transparent windows is an idea that could transform ordinary buildings into energy producers. Windows might be made that release light at night into the interior perhaps with a mirror surface appearing at night facing outside when the sun has set.

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/05/9-8-efficient-transparent-solar-glass-product-clearview-power-finds-global-glass-manufacturer/?unapproved=80354&moderation-hash=f4da39f444f7d24c7c0a7e844673ea4b#comment-80354

If transparent surface coatings for glass could retrofitted to cover glass or automobile then entire office buildings with glass panels could be made into energy producers. Presently the transparent windows from one company have about 10% conversion efficiency.

Quantum Wave-Particle Duality note

The quantum world is logical and structured. I would think that most if not all structured systems have a large part determined a priori rather than chaoticly formed with retrocausality.

Regarding quantum wave-particle duality; The apparent phenomena observed are part of a structure and field of the entire Universe. I like the quantum super-position questions and sum-over-histories paradigm for interesting thought. To the point though; consider an ocean wave or swell that is an area phenomenon rather than a point phenomenon that it could be taken for if measured at a particular location where its energy is focused or elicited with observation. Maybe it is like that, although just analogously. The strength or location measurement of a wave may be greatest where it is observed.

Social Trophic Order

Agree or disagree; Electronics and machines supporting social networking, racketeering command and control is the gist of modern society. Philosophical questions of pros seem to be about trophic order (dinner place settings) in support of the quest for comfort civilization. A casualty of the human comfort prime directive society is the ecosphere. The pool and SUV have far higher priority than the lynx, cougar and forest.

Socrates said that failure at being virtuous was bad, and putting an innocent man to death was worse than dying oneself. Plato was a student-apprentice of Socrates acting like a scribe recording what Socrates said in the brilliant dialogues. Plato was quite a good writer. From The Apology page 41 "But you also, judges, must regard death hopefully and must bear in mind this one truth, [41d] that no evil can come to a good man either in life or after death, and God does not neglect him." Since Socrates was on trial for his life (or permanent exile) the statement was especially pithy.

Faith vs Assumption

An assumption is an unverified classification made with inference from similar cases/instances. Faith is nothing like assumption. Faith may be construed to be trust, yet faith may arise from any number of causes with none being an inference. Faith may be trust in witness accounts, and faith may occur outside a religious context obviously. An example would be faith that the world economy won't collapse because President Trump is good at business. An assumption might be that if the U.S. economy has a recession it would recover in due time because it always has. One could assume that any Democrat Presidential candidate would support some illegal drugs being made legal, abortion, homosexuality and illegal immigration, is cold to Christian fundamentalists etc, yet have faith that eventually a right-thinking Republican could be elected to right a few wrongs. One could assume that any given Democrat presidential nominee would want to add trillions to public debt, eliminate private gun ownership and would tailor environmentalism and environmental remediation to appeal to socialists because it has a large element of the commons to it. One might assume that some Republican candidates and President Trump would disregard the harm fossil fuel burning causes to the atmosphere, yet have faith that in some way an environmental economist would run for and be elected to office in time to curtail planetary mass extinction while there are a few rhinos, tigers and Kodiak bears remaining alive. One can assume candidates from both parties increase the concentration of wealth. A run-of-the-mill assumption can be made easily about future events- Faith requires more than that.

If most ideas were a form of propositional or syllogistic logic it would be easy to say that the premises of faith were verified when the conclusion verified the premises. If one has faith that a tenth planet exists beyond the Oort Cloud though the evidence is sketchy presently, the discovery of that planet would verify the accuracy of faith in that planet existing. Socrates discussed belief and problems of it in The Meno, I believe it was. 

https://www.coursera.org/.../knowledge-vs-true-belief-CG5vh

Suffering, Stimulus, Response, Challenges and Adversity etc

 Suffering is a form of adversity. The coefficient of adversity when too high precludes the development of civilization. Alternatively when it is too low societies tend to stagnate. Arnold Toynbee's paradigm of challenge and response is a parallel of stimulus and response. With no stimulus the mind and body atrophy (as in a sensory deprivation chamber for example), with too much stimulus the mind and body can break down I suppose; imagine stimulus as fire or heave weights (a couple of tons) or a dozen loudspeakers blaring one of the worst songs of the 1960s in an endless loop. An appropriate and high level of suffering such as a distance runner or a football player might use to build up stamina, endurance and strength is a golden mean.

Morality is a description of what people socially actually do behaviorally. Cultures repeat certain behavioral norms/patterns. Deviations from those are said to be immoral. A religion or re-allegiance is a horse of a different color. People have allegiance to certain objective ensembles for various reasons; some good, some bad and some ugly.

 I am not sure that materialistic minded people value relationships less than intelligent people. Materialistic minded could mean a behavioral doggishness regarding the bones of the world for-oneself and snarling or dog-fighting to keep control instead of thought about macro-social circumstances or philosophic reflection. Materialistic minded people can regard people as quite important too; for good people might have material value to the materialistic in that they bring good material things or security. Dos a dog love his master? Those that are energy minded (E=MC2) may also have a fair regard for people and relationships. Jesus; the spiritual minded sine qua non is said to have said; (Luke 14-26; "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."

U.S. Could Move Troops To Kurdistan from Iraq

Iraq's Shi'a leaders want American military forces to leave; maybe sending them to Iraq would be a good idea.

After the U.S. withdraws military forces a renewed Shi'a-Sunni conflict probably will evolve. The United States has no interest in general regional Middle East conflict occurring and yet would probably not intervene in the national spat. An Iraq civil war would place Kurds in an odd position of choosing sides or remaining neutral. Iran would probably be expected to intervene on behalf of the Shi'a theocracy that would grow under Iranian tuteladge. It would be good to have the U.S. secure the peace of certain neutral allies in the area that aren't adverse to an American troop presence; a new state of Kurdistan.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-asks-us-withdrawal-prime-minister-adel-abdul-mahdi-pompeo-phone-call-iran-strike-2020-01-10/

American foreign policy recently treated the Kurds rather badly as has the west for a few centuries. Maybe they don't trust Kurds as a consequence of Kurdish General Suliman Saladin defeating the last of the Crusaders at Acre, yet Kurds always were territorially protectively inclined and that isn't historically unusual. One must move on to trust and support allies with a certain pragmatism.

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

Turkey should  concede, with the proper incentives, the formation of a new Kurdish state with some Syrian and even a Turkish territory in order to stablish the Middle East while the Shi'a foment wars across the region and seek to attack Saudi better etc.

A strong upcountry base to defend various Middle East tactical requirements would be useful for maintaining peace in the region while Iraq moves into its desired interminable civil war phase. Maybe the Trump administration should think twice about blocking Iraq's right to have civil war free from foreign interference except for Iran.