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11/5/21
11/4/21
Democrats’ Social Pork Technology Failed to See Lisa on the Horizon
Like ships passing in the night echos of prior political eras (41 and 46) the triple B’s pf Presidents past and present juxtaposed aspects of dubious temporal zeitgeist deleteriously. The build back better plan arrived like a cloud of flies on dead meat; the corpus delecti, of the green environmental reform movement that floated President Biden’s boat a year ago. When the word green or environmental show up in contemporary affairs around election time Democrats arrive to take the issue unto-themselves as a spearhead for social programs.
While honesty is lacking in the use of global
warming and green economic reform to camouflage social spending bills that
appear suspiciously like pork for constituents, if the build back better
(or back biting bitch as 41 bit-coined the triple B term) putsch for
inadequacy had poltical ergonomic efficiency it would have dwelt allocating 5
billion bucks or so to buy a single Republican vote in the Senate. That should
have been easy.
Of the initial 3.5 billion dollars in the BBB
plan just 500 billion was (appx.) for green tech investments to slow global
warming acceleration. That five billion invested in purely green projects for
Alaska might have brought Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski around to support
the triple B plan in its present reduced size. Select insider politicians have
a Boston-Harvard-DC axis of investment kickbacks that sometimes is blind to
common sense politics that essentially are alien and external to it. DC politics preponderantly are a dull
kickback of power pork.
Alaska is divided between those that hate
government regulation and want to actualize under the pursuit of happiness
article of the constitution, the right to launch car to car missiles whenever
rodent scholar rage motivates them (as well as getting rid of traffic signals
that impede happiness and freedom (like seat belts do too), and those that love
government regulation and regulators and want to compel every home owner to
have a uniform tori/spirit gate regulator perch on his/her or its property for
the happiness of visiting regulators to land upon.
Alaska has a population of fewer than a
million people and many live scattered over a constellation of roadless rural
areas. High arctic air pollution might have a stronger effect than mid-Earth
air pollution proportionately acting as a catalyst for permafrost melting and
release of vast quantities of methane gas into the atmosphere. Investing five
billion dollars in fuel cells, wind, solar and geothermal energy production for
every Alaskan city with more than 100 people living there might have attracted
the Senator’s vote because she is facing an election.
Her constituents could regard her choice to kill
plentiful low cost green energy unfavorably when the temperature is forty
degrees below zero and oil stove fuel is running low with exorbitant prices only
Boston and San Francisco millionaires and billionaires could find trivial.
Five billion dollars of spending on home energy
with green refueling locally is preferable to some paying oil companies cash forever
that would be better spent on food and warm boots.
Alaska’s government following Jay Hammond,
with the exception of Steve Cowper, was usually uncreative and reliant upon oil
sales revenues to fund itself. One could write suggesting energy and business
diversification for decades and Alaska politicians would be like cold stone
walls of disregard falling back to their natal streams of reliance on oil
revenues to fund state government spending.
The
kind of people elected to government at the state and federal level serve
corporatism far more than democracy is at any rate generally toady to
corporatism these days. One gets elected to share the rem of oil revenues,
public debt, and Wall Street percs.
10/27/21
Hyper-sonic missile is 'transformational; once in a generational for war progressives
New hypersonic missiles that travel from mach 6 to mach 17 have taken center stage recently in the global race to annihilate itself. Fortunately the Chinese have joined the Russians in owning the fast and nearly direct fire missiles that can shoot under the radar to hit sitting duck targets defending by anti-ballistic missiles.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/27/us-general-china-missile-test-very-close-to-sputnik-moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Range_Hypersonic_Weapon
https://www.military.com/equipment/weapons/why-russias-hypersonic-missiles-cant-be-seen-radar.html
These hyper-sonic weapons are a great advance over the old, slow, mirved, marved ballistic missiles of your dad's day that merely delivered high trajectory packages of city incineration and global winter. The hypersonic items can be launched soon from a number of platforms such as submarines and any old sort of surface ship traveling the oceans and possibly even dropped like cruise missiles from an airborne platform in the near future. Thus plenty of boom is promised for everyone without any sort of supply shortages.
Once more global political leadership is making great strides of progress to kill everyone thus saving money and bitcoin on the problem of global warming that has taken a minority portion of the comfort food economic budget of the Democrat party. One can't tax those millionaires or their poor relative millionaire kindred and keep the economy going.
10/25/21
A Thought of Infinite Being (a science fiction story)
I have published a science fiction book. It's named A Thought of Infinite Being.
Here is the description I wrote for it.
A science fiction story of metaphysical speculation, defense response to networked terror, social philosophical analysis and meta-cosmological circumspection with a Christian spin. Protagonists consider implications of a Multiverse for metaphysics, morals, creation, the natural theology of God, and select works.
10/16/21
Fix Depleted Yukon salmon fishery with Steelhead and Kokane?
The tragedy of over-fishing Yukon River salmon fishing to the point of the brink of extinction is a natural human fish management course of events. Humans ordinarily over-utilize a resource and through competition and social inertia continue to do so. Rivers are especially easy to over-fish in regard to salmon that obligingly return to their ancestral rivers from the sea every few years making them prey for nets put in their path. Could land-locked salmon like Kokane and steelhead that re main in the river for life and hence escape the international fishing fleet in the Bering Sea stand a better chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokanee_salmon
I stipulate that I know little about the Yukon or salmon fishing there. I live about 700 miles away in Wrangell Alaska about fifteen miles from British Columbia. The only pro fisheries guy I knew was from Argentina and studied in a graduate program at the University of Alaska at Juneau. Therefore I am just suggesting the creation of steelhead and Kokane hatcheries along the Yukon designed expressly to replenish the emptying out of the river from Bering Sea over-fishing. I got a couple of undergraduate degrees yet never could afford that graduate degree I wanted to be an educator in East Africa or Eastern Europe so I generate some ideas that aren't pro career stuff now and then.
In theory (a philosophical theory rather than a graduate of fisheries theory) nature abhors a vacuum. If salmon that formerly dominated the Yukon are gone something else might or even should replace it. Rather than flooding the river with a sort of fish less desirable than a salmonid, the good human policy of intervening to synthetically balance nature (they habitually unbalance the natural balance) might be applied.
Sure the Yukon would be a cold place to have a fish hatchery with the annual hard freeze. Maybe some sort of geothermal heating of water enough to keep the hatchery waters from freezing within an indoor ecosystem along the river would work. Maybe geothermal heating could be used to generate electricity as well.
A Yukon River stuffed to the gills with salmonids, albeit smaller than king salmon, could be a good subsistence harvest for humans and returning kings as well.
10/15/21
Leftengnat Blip Von Bonzo’s Wind Egg Infrastructure Plan
The artist
formerly known as Xyphoid Process obtained learned of a Von Bonzo report
unreleased to the public and released it for publication…
Leftengnat Edgerton Von Bonzo said recently
that some progress has been made on advancing his wind egg infrastructure bill
through congress. Specifically, the goose egg gambit was referred to the
special secret sauce committee for a party-line vote of approval as a rider on
the Human Prison Infrastructure bill that has space for numerous Eleatic
amendments.
Blog and Vlogs should be the Vox Populi and Fourth Estate
Web blogs are the voice of the majority of the people, the Vox Populi . These days free expression of the vox populi is under assault from myriad megalomaniacal organizations and individuals such as the broadcast media. So many people would like to monopolize public political speech and thought bending it to conform to special controlling interests .
Perhaps in the past there actually were three ‘estates’ in American democracy. The people, the government and the print media that supposedly expressed the will of the people through publication. Obviously that role became obsolete and evolved into becoming rather repressive occasionally with the rise of Internet blog writing that anyone on Earth in a free society could use for themselves including U.S. citizens.
The traditional media did not go quietly into that good night and fade away as blogs rose. Obsolete print and broadcast media forms of business clung to any gambit and lever possible to remain relevant even as their monopoly of public expression ended.
The rich too that has enjoyed a cozy relationship and corner on the media market ownership neither were content with the appearance of the Internet vox populi and free public speech for anyone; they crimped down the free speech of the early Internet blogs through acquisition and control of web sites. Large corporations that grew from small beginnings hosted web sites that began to divide and conquer free speech and blogs under the rubric of moderating content.
During the centuries of monopoly of public speech the print media enjoyed followed later by the broadcast media after invention of radio about a century ago, anyone that wanted to rule others could just get into the media without needing to be elected.
Power of the media in the old days wasn’t as blatantly repressive or controlling as in the present era when its value fell into decline and quality was debased, yet it provided an unelected means for publicized speech.
The U.S. Government does sometimes lack modernizing competence for upgrading how laws written in and for prior times and culture are applied today, and may fail to respond to existential political challenges too regularly with the fast pace of change. It should be seeking ways to actualize and upgrade democracy and national sovereignty. Democracy needs to be defended against media monopolies that attack private citizen blogs and bloggers; cliques of networked goons that repress free speech where they can as yap dogs of corporatism. The government needs to defend the new vox populi; internet blogs from corporate censorship and control. Corporations should not be the only place where poor private citizens can publish or have their material not simply disappear as corporate apparachiks deem amusing.
The U.S. government should recognize the value to a democratic society of free speech and blogger blog independence, integrity and longevity. Citizen free speech publications should not be subject to the whims and vagaries of corporations and political party partisans working for them.
The argument is made that private interests own the free speech platforms and have the right to censor them, and that is true. That is why the government should add blogging of the people as a fundamental, inalienable and necessary right for the citizens of a free society and create a platform and server providing space hosting for every citizen with a social security number a permanent, no problem or censorship blog and dat storage area publicly viewable with the account holders permission per item. The material should be available and secure for life.
If the vox populi is secure, corporations that own internet sites should be more motivated to make their sites more serviceable and trustworthy instead of treacherous. Some writers have had their web blogging sites disappear many times, or have been censored or banned too often with their material deleted.
Understandably there is great resistance to allowing a secure vox populi to arise and remain that could voice political opinions antipathetic to concentrated wealth special interests and corrupt political elite’s will-to-power or monopoly and ownership of free speech venues to tame them. Maybe it is still not too late in the day to fix the problem. Even journalists (a very quaint, anachronistic term) might down-size and adapt to a Vox Populi role themselves in small professional high-quality investigative and think tank research units that publish their information for-profit not as rivals, but as new developments of the Vox Populi of the people as the voice of the people not as the third, but as part of the second estate; the people of the United States that have returned the voice of the people to the people.
10/4/21
Will Covid 19 vaccines be like annual flu vaccines in the future?
I wonder if Covid 19 vaccines will be need every year somewhat like flu shots. If so that would present challenges to vaccinating the world population. If there are different and new versions of lethal Covid each year that would require some kind of new apparatus for prophylaxis, planetarily speaking.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/covid-vaccine-stocks-51633349371?tesla=y
10/3/21
Kant, the Higgs Field and Swarms
The philosopher Immanual Kant wrote the Critique of Pure Reason and elucidated sundry terms and concepts therein that remain useful philosophically speaking. Sartre too created many useful words and phrases in his tome Being and Nothingness. Each philosophers terminology present useful ways for describing the relationship of the Higgs field's 3-d mass in relationship to the two-dimensional massless particles that exist theoretically outside the Higgs field and journey into it to be slowed down and acquire a third dimension regarded by humanity as mass.
It is somewhat amazing to realize that mass is a secondary characteristic that epiphenomenalizes in the Higgs field having no independent existence in-itself as might be said of the Higgs field or of massless particles and fields not within the Higgs field. One might wonder if information created within the phenomenal Higgs field is a kind of virtual information too; and if the loss of information when the mass conversion of the Higgs field turn off is a violation of the laws of conservation of information far worse that Shannon entropy (actually total).
The human experience of mass and energy are phenomena. Alternatively, the information of massless particles before they enter the Higgs field should I believe be included within the noumenal realm of Kant's terminological coinage. Kant considered knowledge that cannot be known by humans as noumena, as opposed to phenomena that can be known or experienced. Modern physics has historical explained phenomena with deeper understand sending the demarcating line between the phenomenal and the noumenal farther away from ordinary experience and perceptions and to join with the realm of meta-physics (greater physics).
One might wonder of the boundaries of the noumenal realm of massless energy not slowed down within the Higgs field. The range and extent of the noumenal is quite unknown and by definition unknowable...it simply recedes in the distance while human knowledge chases after the edge it can never attain.
How far into the future human knowledge will be able to manage its own affairs on the Earth and not be taken over by an artificial intelligence isn't certain either. Since economics advanced beyond the little house on the prairie with men and women working their own micro and macro economic works and moved into post-modern social organizations and networking for clusters of collectives, klans and various Venn diagram member element ad hoc allied interest groups economic management has become more complex. One might wonder if the complexity of social swarms, trading in dark pools, digital currencies and devaluing individual human integrity will require an artificial intellect to fully understand in the near future. People cannot even fix the environment of the planet they live on so immersed in swarms of social, virtual economic reality as they are.
Democrat's Great Raid stalled in Congress
The Democrat Party's four and a half trillion dollar great raid has stalled in Congress with Democrats fighting amongst themselves. There are two kinds of meaningful infrastructure that refer to physical infrastructure that are plain in the present circumstance; traditional and green. The fake label 'human infrastructure' was conjured up to put the party's L.S.D. platform through in a great raid on the treasury. L.S.D. in the party lexicon refers to the Liberal Socialist Democrat faction.
An honorable government works better in the long run than a dishonorable one with a myriad of fake names and labels, pass it to find out what's in it bills and various sorts of flummery to send pork to favorite special interests. Too many dishonorable government policies actual do add up to a bent and deleterious national course over time. The broadcast media have been especially helpful in conditioning government and the public to forked tongue slight of hand trickery so the government is not entirely alone.
When one compiles dishonorable federal policies of the past half century it is fairly weighty. Thirty four trillion dollars of public debt requiring more than a trillion annually to pay the interest is just bad policy. Good policy would work toward a balanced budget that eliminates federal debt. Bills through Congress should be accurately named. Social service bills should be categorized as social services rather than as infrastructure. Confucius began his career with the rectification of names- that venerable honesty in labeling paradigm continues to have merit.
The trillion dollar traditional infrastructure should just go ahead. Then a 2 trillion dollar soley green infrastructure bill should be passed. After that would be the time for a billion to increase taxes on the rich followed by a social services bill. Honest government does not need to trick or force every measure upon the populace nor should it seek to do so.
I should mention that someone should include a budget to create a scientific council and study group to find a way to make those millions of miles of U.S. heat absorbing asphalt highways heat reflectors ot collect photons for electrical power. New intelligence can be useful.
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