Cap and Trade is Smoke and Mirrors

The cap and trade policy to rectify the over-emission of greenhouse gases seems to be a convenient way to let the rich continue polluting practices through straw man methodsof diverting attention from their dirty practices.

 Humanity hasn't a pervasive surfeit of good judgment or intellect. There are brilliant inventors that produce new technology and billions of followers that use it. Once the technology exists the users believe it to be existentially kosher as received technology from an advanced civiliation (their own) that is the embodiment of Hegel's notion that the German state is the highest form of Spirit evolving to realize itself in history. For those users any challenge to its value to society including negative impacts on global warming is equal to economic heresy. The thoughtless will be idling thier large truck motors in driveways adding greenhouse gases until it is too warm for gasoline powered vehicles without the tanks blowing up.

Emissions into the atmosphere that are greenhouse gases needed be measured directly, quantifiably and as point sources without Byzantine policies pointing away from the reality before them via cap and trade to the benefits somewhere else at an undisclosed or known location over there. Land that is wild or health ecologically speaking need be conserved and increased in its own regard without being attached via cap and trade to a business hostage relationship.

Directly tax to extinction large greenhouse sources and zone laws to reinforce existing wilderness and plan good policy to increase it. Cap and trade is a way for the rich to feel good about themselves flying in private jets globally. It isn’t a policy that ordinary American autombile drivers will ever use. Even Air Force One burns 4,600 gallons of fuel per hour–couldn’t the brilliant Biden administration puppeteers innovate a better way to travel?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cap-and-trade.asp

Bits of Light (poem)

 

More than a speck of dust
each of an infinity of planets
where life could grow
and merge to know

Of a wealth of divine plans
For the benefit of man
With one life timed
fortunes of fate sing the chorus

Quanta and gluons
Fused with sparks of light
Earth where being emerged
Spans in gravity through the night

In the midst of forevers
outside entropy’s shadows
beyond the nothingness of nevers
the Earthy silence glows.

Reflections of Rejections (the poem)

 

In the mud puddle rejection glimmered
while another new thought awoke
a parchment place for a script  began to simmer
inspiring an author’s next joke

  Everything was doomed with original sin
no story was good from any striving man
where were the words to clear the rejection bin
what could be known of plain divine plans

  Square pegs in round holes
with such is victory assured
my way and highways
winning can’t be demurred

    And yet rejections rocket
like crumbling cliffs time assured
trust in breaking composite sprockets
stanzas and paragraphs so pure

  Hope in the Lord before life fades away
papers dropped float in troubles
alive to fight another sunny day
Jacob learned of mankind’s skill making rubble.

A Ron DeSantis Term ; Better than the Biden Agenda?

 

Republican Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has a few qualifications other candidates don’t in 2024 yet are they meaningful? As captain of the Yale baseball team four years his batting average was .336 and in one year he hit 44 home runs. As a captain in the Navy he attended the JAG college for lawyers and worked with a Navy Seal Team as a legal adviser.

Military understanding through experience can be a useful piece of training for a President who must be the commander in chief of the nation. Mr. DeSantis apparently did okay working in Iraq since he received a Bronze Star for the service.

As an alum of Harvard and Yale he understands the Ivy League and eastern establishment yet doesn’t actually seem like one of the establishment types like the Obama’s, Bushes and Clintons, Bidens etc although G.W. Bush was somewhat more Texas than Washington D.C. DeSantis is intelligent enough, perhaps more than enough, to be President while still understanding ordinary people. Being elected twice to be the Governor of Florida supports the notion that he has some experience administering the law of a populous state.

Democrats have elected lawyers to the White House three times in a row and thereafter the nation became heavily in debt, divided politically and racism was encouraged while the idea of hate speech led to de facto censorship in social media. Donald Trump as President has struggled with the problems of being a target of Democrat legal maneuvers. Mr. Trump isn’t a lawyer and draws lawsuits and charges like flies with his volatile discourse. Much of his time in office was devoted to legal defense against Democrat legal offensives like the Russian collusion adventure. Republicans could stand to have a competent lawyer in the Presidency in order to sort things out.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/18/brett-odonell-desantis-gop-debate-00111713

Sure it would be great to have a great environmental economist with military experience and the idea of taxing the rich enough to eliminate poverty , resurrect environmental health and end the Ukraine war well enough to assure that it won’t recur and Russians can do business with the U.S.A. again. It’s rare to find a perfect candidate though.has

No Better Idea (a poem)

 

The animals war in the heat and mud
was over food, cilia moving power
labels on soup cans rotting away
motivations to be and become
victors while rain fell
dreary drizzles with grey clouds
dominating pain’s sharp breaths
the poet classified as allied agony’s
friends with friends first
before foes could live without gun shots
cluster-bombs scattering body parts
social classes structured
stratified demolition of reason
for the heat and mud
with buildings crumbling
like the opportunity of day
when night falls.

Deep Space Question Mark Could be Tip-of-the-Iceberg

 The appearance of a vast right-wing question mark in deep space discovered by the James Webb Space telescope during its five-year mission to seek out and discover strange punctuation marks possible left by extraterrestrials has given jitters to those that don't believe the Lakers will win the N.B.A. title next year. There is no reason to worry though when the question mark may be interpreted scientifically as a sign to wonder about.

Special expert Sheryl Luna said the question mark could be intentional misdirection to cover up dark matter impacts on gravity repulsed by dark energy to extra dimensions-possible more than several thousand; a government could be supplying aliens with enough weapons to defend themselves gainst the loss of gravitons across whole parsecs of deep space.

Former aspiring astronaut-artiste-candidate for mayor of Bidansky Eddie Rivers considered the question mark in light of quantum configuration criteria pertaining to authorized cosmology and determined the mark is best employed as a 'standard candle' to measure the distance the aliens are from finding there way home to the lost civilization of the federation of nations with balanced budgets.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/question-mark-deep-space-james-webb-telescope/

The Desert Space (poem)

 

Gradient illuminating sight
unlike darkest night
just before dawn
when sunlight rises
with a world colored
for a few hours
a sense of peace passing through
then is gone.

The U.S.A. Shouldn't Provide Military Support to Ukraine

 There is unlikely to be global stability until the U.S. recognizes Russia's historical ownership of the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Russia is trying to assert its historical boundaries suppressed by the Soviets and dittoed by the Clinton-Obama-Biden leadership. Degradation of the Arctic littoral environmentally, a divided east-west economic world order, piling up U.S. public debt, non-cooperation against terrorism- just so western arms dealers and ideologues of the Democrat Party establishment can have an obsolete, perennial, Orwellian-like war to prop up a paranoid Europe. The war is senseless, stupid and should be ended by a right-thinking Republican candidate for President if elected.

Election Interference of State's Rights in Georgia?

Georgia’s case against former President Trump on 13 felony counts related to trying to swing the bad presidential election vote total his way is of course part of the general Democrat Party hatred of all things pertaining to Donald Trump. Mr. Trump himself declared the prosecutor to be left wing, and that is the paradox.

Democrats tend to identify President Trump and his supporters as the far right and tend to exaggerate any sort of political charge against Republicans. The January 6th protest wasn’t a Tienanmen Square quelled by tanks-it is being taken apart post hoc by vindictive Democrats. Democrats persecuted President Trump with a majority in the House by investigating a demonstrably false collusion with Russia to swing votes or steal the election of 2016 and later with the impeachment vote.

The prosecution of Donald Trump and eighteen others defends state’s rights against federal interference. That’s the paradox; that a southern black female prosecutor- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis- would be defending state’s rights in Georgia against a white northerner (well, for most of his life Trump was a New Yorker) that felt a need to get help or at least to admonish Georgia election officials to count all of the votes honestly. Mr. Trump might not have pressured Georgia election officials to the extent that Al Gore, G.W. Bush and legions of lawyers pressurized Florida officials in counting votes in the 2000 Presidential election yet he did apparently ask some state personnel to make sure the election was honest so far as I know about it (and that isn’t much).

State’s rights pushing back against Federal pressure and overreach is an old sore spot in the states that even became fuel for the civil war. Maybe the Proud Boys and the Georgia prosecution team will find themselves on the same page about that.

Sentience and Evolution Differ

Human sentience rise far above the form of evolution that inheres within nature; therefore humanity in a real sense may be said not to evolve as much as to be self-determining. Evolution is natural sequential change of mass subject to the laws of thermodynamics. Time is evolving matter measured by human sentience in an orderly progress at a constant rate of change. Albert Einstein informed humanity that time and space are united and differ in rate of change from one place to another, or if one is in motion or at rest. Evolution is the change of mass observed by sentient beings when its molecular and atomic structures change with interaction and thermodynamics. Mass in various fields may change within structured parameters in regard to its material of composition and forces acting on it. Humans with sentience have placed themselves apart from natural forces of evolution and the pace of non-sentient animate and inanimate matter to a significant degree.

It became fashionable during the Obama administration for politicians to say that their point of view was evolving. Evolution as a popular theory and explanation was taken to encompass human behavior too even including government. G.W.F. Hegel believed evolution was being done by a spirit that was coming to realize itself in history and further that the German government was the highest evolved state. The United States today with 31 trillion dollars of public debt and running the ending of the Cold War in reverse has demonstrated the silliness of Hegel’s thesis from The Phenomenology of Mind that a government could be the highest form of evolution.

It is alternatively possible that material evolution occurs with a small part of the mind of God within and infinite Multiverse with variegated mechanics perhaps also given some sort of orderly progressive structure in order to accomplish some teleological destiny. Though God may know all things before they exist and the end state of every possible Universe before its creation He may yet have some reason to let self-awareness arise for individual sentient beings existing within one of His Universes. Mass arises from energy interacting with fields and sentient minds are embedded within mass with an evolved state with select configurations to support it.

Sentient minds arise from an evolving Universe yet are superior to it qualitatively speaking if no morally. Morally people are in a fallen state as they are subject to the thermodynamic fields in which they exist. That desire for more energy and food as mass along with procreative drives brings them to sin exist other people existing as material objects-in-themselves too. Mind may try to subdue and control thermodynamic drives yet they are ubiquitous and ever-present too-even if just a desire for water to quench thirst. When a Democratic form of government elects leaders that promote evolution as a rationale for governance they are employing and excuse for elites to disregard the advise and consent voluntarily for of governance with the consent of the governed for an elitist ethic that excuses anything at all as just evolution. Democratic governments are not evolving entities-they are instead stable, representative bodies following stable rules assuring equal protection of well understood and just laws for all citizens. That is quite different from an imperialistic pursuit of advantage fr elites or cliches and special classes with the prevailing ethic that anything is OK if you can get away with it.

Lawmakers and chief law enforcement officers should not treat laws and a democratic constitution as a malleable tool for evolving unfair advantages for special interests if they have the opportunity to do so, or gaming the constitution to let one’s proprietary laws be implemented and efforts to make subsequent changes to those laws illegal to bring about.

It is wrong for politicians and media elites to pretend that evolution is a good or even necessary reason for abandonment of human ethics and government standards that are plain, open and just. The human mind and human democratic or republic governments are made by and for humans apart from the thermodynamic challenges for natural evolution although they be cognizant of it. Human political representatives have responsibilities that cannot and should not be obscure through the smokescreen of evolution paradigmata. Post hoc it is fine for historians to note that governments have ‘evolved’ over time in response to external challenges or social corruption ad of course rarely in response to rare political wisdom donated by some one or few benefactors of society. In real time it is simply wrong to excuse corruption and bad governance with the rubric of evolution.