Shouldn't Republicans that Voted Against Repeal Produce Their own Versions?

Senators Murkowski, Collins, and others that voted against Obamacare Repeal should produce their own acceptable versions rather than sit a chesire cats voting down anything that appears. Republicans should be able to communicate adequately to know a priori what is wrong with a particular bill such that it gives to great of offense to particular senators and then avopid the embarrassment and not bring it to a vote until its fixed. That seems like basic logic and political competence one should expect from pros.

Russia 3rd Rate Hacking Behind China and U.S.A.

Apparently Russia isn't the only nation that has a lot of hackers. Five years ago China and the United States ranked ahead of Russia in world hacking ratings and that sat probably hasn't changed.

https://cyware.com/news/top-10-countries-with-most-hackers-in-the-world-42e1c94e

Microsoft is soon set to release a quantum computer language that if learned and exploited by patriotic U.S. hackers will give America a boost past China to take the world's top spot, even if that isn't politically correct.

Assuredly Russian hacking efforts to stuff ballot boxes technologically such as Mayor Daley's Chicago machine reputedly did for J.F.K. may be matched by a planet-ful of hackers including even some American one perhaps of each major party.

Puerto Rico; In Need of Nation Rebuilding Military Exercise

President Trump should send the crack nation-rebuilding team improved since the Iraq debacle, to Puerto Rico to field test their nation-rebuilding skills. Quick. They may be needed in North Korea eventually too.

Trump’s Tax Plan (Public Enslavement Act) Needs Four Brackets, Not Three

President Trump is a great guy, immeasurably better than Hillary Clinton in all things, and Bernie Sanders might be anti-Semitic since he is against funding Israeli defense needs. Even so, the new tax plan is little more than a public enslavement act.

Interpreting the new Trump tax plan from the bottom up. Here’s how it works…

The bottom 1/3rd bracket are dirt and not economically significant. Fifty million of them alone have less than ½ of 1% of the national income together.

The second bracket-ostensibly the middle class are regarded by the most rich as the new poor class. They will protect the class above them a little because they are insecure.

The top third class is really, for the most rich 10% of the top 1% that own a third of all U.S. wealth, the new middle class. It has numerous petty millionaires who work in the Senate and will protect their class interests. That is a good class for the most rich to hide in protected by their Senate servant class-peers making tax law.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/27/trump-tax-plan-called-a-huge-cut-for-the-top-1-percent/

One of the oldest political arguments, in fact a foundational one for democracy, is that between the demos and oligarchy. Socrates supported oligarchy and corrupted youth to believe that oligarchy is a good thing, and the democracy ordered him executed.

President Trump’s tax plan with just three tax brackets provides a large insulating class for the top 1% to hide in. It’s an amusing ad hoc union to benefit plutocrats. The super-rich are not like those marginally qualified for the upper third of the nation’s income earners. They are a danger to the freedom and democratic form of government. Yet if properly harnessed they can be of service to the people and environment rather than dooming it to their whims and caprice.

The over-concentration of wealth present de facto oligarchy. Defending democracy requires taxation on the rich sufficient to prevent their purchase of the democracy and control of all economic networks through ownership. The top 5% of income earners should be charged a 65% tax rate. The founders revolted against foreign aristocracy that was domestic aristocracy too; Presidents since Ronald Reagan have given them love as if they were sweet toes to lavishly suck.

If those super-rich people wanted to accumulate even more wealth they would need to just produce more and be of more benefit to the nation rather than extend domination over every aspect of the economy stagnating innovation and controlling the media that conditions the electorate about public issues and who to victimize. A feedback-control loop need be formed with taxation that prevents the rich from becoming royals yet allows them to work to increase wealth with the entire average worth of the people proportionately increasing.

Black Lives Matter protest about all sorts of issues rather superfluously because the issues are over generalized. The takeover of the economy by the super-rich that will reduce Americans to little more than lasting wage servitude and that is something they could meaningfully protest about, and should., or would if they were not trained to just react with race content as their red flag. If the super-rich would just wear red for a few days B.LM. might more readily recognize what issues to charge. Maybe Americans have been conditioned to become dopey slaves of plutocrats and nothing can be done about it. Time will tell if the people are really lost without a clue about the founding father’s political philosophy.

The corporate tax rate being lowered to 20% might increase revenue or not. The proposal seems somewhat like President Reagan’s supply-side economics that got the ball rolling on the deficit build up. I read somewhere that multi-national corporations pay no net taxes because of deductions and clever accounting as it is, and that U.S. corporations pay less than 5% as it is, so getting anything from them could be an improvement. President Trump’s tax plan just requires some simple modifications and could be given a chance.

Would Sen. Payton Manning Stand for the National Anthem?

Reports say that former football quarterback Payton Manning may be interested in running for the Senate seat that Tennessee Republican Bob Corker is leaving. Manning has a reputation as a somewhat brainy quarterback, hence he may be as able as former quarterback of the Bills Jack Kemp at negotiating his way through politics.

It is an irony that the NFL is somewhat unpatriotic in pr these days full of youth socialized during the Obama administration to take a knee during the national anthem to protest the state of race relations of police in the U.S.A. I wonder if people expect too much from those   (police) high school graduates and shouldn’t look elsewhere for solutions to law enforcement procedure problems; such as eliminating poverty.

If each NFL player that takes a free knee during the national anthem were instead to contribute $50,000 to the United Negro College Fund each game it would probably produce better results and scholars than were NFL players on football scholarships.

Solar Power for Puerto Rico- Enough Federal Support?

FEMA relief for Puerto Rico should include a substantial solar panel element to help the people move more off-grid and less reliant on energy networks that obviously can crash for numerous reasons. Two hurricanes will leave many people without electricity for months. Yet 12 volt off-the-grid solar and wind energy systems that can at least keep lights in the darkness going without pollution are easily to install, and can be removed when Hurricanes strike and set outside again later.

Puerto Rico had already planned to acheive 20% power by 2135...why not expedite that?
http://www.sunnova.com/service-areas/puerto-rico/

Storing energy in 12 volt batteries and using 12 volt tech that is very common in cars lets people use those cigarette lighter plug ins and adapter with little effort. LED lights have gotten much better than years ago and use little power. It is rather sad to hear reports of so many people waiting to buy gas powered generators and waiting in line to buy gas when there is so much free sunshine lighting Puerto Rico up every day.

I should note that 12 volt wind power systems are also easy to install and tech installers for emergency sites like Puerto Rico could be trained in a day or two how to wire simple 12 volt systems up for homes.

It would be great it Puerto Rico had a surfeit of electric powered 4 wheelers and fuel cell charging stations...to cut down on recovery and immobility time.

ie.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/131892037359?chn=ps&dispItem=1

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wind-turbine-generator-kit-Missouri-Freedom-12-volt-1700-watt-5-blade-turbine-/390944937521?hash=item5b06225631:g:6cEAAOSwhcJWJlwT

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Grape-Solar-50-Watt-Off-Grid-Solar-Panel-Kit-GS-50-KIT/206877151

Kurdish Independence and NFL Player Disdain for National Anthem

NFL players show as little public regard for the national anthem of the United States as would Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis. The public wants to debate Francis Scott Keys song commemorating the War of 1812 victory over the British and defense of Fort McHenry because he owned slaves. The Union was a growing item, imperfect as the U.S. Congress is today (or less so), that only over time was able to evolve the free democratic state for all envisioned by the founders who were revolted by aristocratic elites.

The Kurds have been promised there own nation for at least a century (since the WW I negotiations) and with those promises never fulfilled there has been a coincidence of instability. Most of human history including the feudal era is fundamentally a race war-even if the races and tribes are very similar and little different. Kings sired as many as Wilt Chamberlain perhaps, and with a smaller demographic the gene pools of royals and aristocrats were reproduced in common faces. In the United States today the NFL player knee taking during the national anthem of the world’s primary democracy in support of race shows the continuing nature of human social and political structures. Not surprisingly the Kurds have found support mainly in their own race and ethnic identity, and so they vote on independence and security perhaps not trusting Iraq to withhold using chemical weapons again on them someday.

American black concerns with police brutality cannot be allayed in a month or two or by a sudden act of congress. The nation has elected government that is too influenced these days by concentrated wealth and power of course, even so it is through specific legislation that the democracy moves forward, rather than with sensationalist camera grabbing and riots. In seeking general remedies without attachment to anything real, and in seeking special race measures rather than egalitarian ideas for social betterment of all people of a given economic class, the Black Lives Matters movement does err.

The U.S.A. must be bettered and restructured from the bottom up rather than the top down. The nation could hardly go wrong if it created a guaranteed minimum income, free higher education and universal free medical care for the poor. Letting a society fill and be complete from the bottom up in economic classes makes certain that human potential is fulfilled rather than repressed, that progress develops rather than prisons. The nation is lacking concern about the bottom economic classes today and that is reflected in the decaying environment, infrastructure, increase of prison populations and impotent manned space exploration programs.

One may double the number of police and try to improve their training and equipment so they are more comfortable with a network and digital photo capture of resistant suspects confident they can be arrested in time, peacefully. One cannot create such advanced structures without a lot of money though- and that can’t occur with tax cuts. It is therefore remarkable that black leaders don’t ever mention the subject of tax increases on the rich, and that they supported the Obama tax cuts.

In an advanced post-industrial society with 3d printing of building and weapons it should be possible to reform capitalism with conformity to the new means of capital and communication. Capitalism does not naturally evolve to a perfect form of capitalism. With reforming legislation it may evolve into oligarchy or monopoly or be ripe with implicit structural inefficiencies. It is not an economic system as naturally occurring as biological evolution wherein reason may be abandoned and the best possible situation will appear even if most life is exterminated by human actions. If a tyrant owns Wall Street or at least his or its clones then that is the best state possible for capitalism? No.

In a prosperous advanced society wherein the basic ,material and social needs are guaranteed by a social net the development of new ideas, inventions and economic phenomenalities that advance human society and restore the ecosphere should be promoted. Patents should be reduced to just five years exclusivity so that generic application of new ideas can quickly follow, and inventors would receive 10% royalties from anyone using the patented product or technology.

With poverty eliminated and people generally secure and with constant technological companions to record life circumstances crime and police brutality should fade away for anyone. If one wants truth in policing and living, in crime and punishment, rather than making a show in front of cameras, people should seek to change society for all for the good from the bottom up.

And the Kurdish vote on independence should be supported by the United State. It is not improbable that the basic condition for nations of the Middle East will be racial or tribal for some time. Living in peace in close proximity to other tribes within their own secure national borders should be recognized as a practical diplomatic objective for Mesopotamia. There is no reason why the United States couldn’t support an independent Kurdistan that is united in defense agreement protocols with Iraq.

The National Football League and The Internationale

Players of the national football league have been exploiting the national anthem during football games for political purposes recently. They take a knee to protest either the way black Americans are treated by American police forces in the states or President Donald Trump. In either case the nation nis not favored to have the gracious loyalty of such wonderful Americans as football stars. If war breaks out the NFL will perhaps not be people one can count on to go to basic training to be available for service after the war is ended. Well, they have a lot of money to count anyway.

The national football league acquiring an unsavory reputation as yippees loyal to the nation only if their political party wins or if it suits them are not helpful to the cause of nationalism. Nationalism is the right realm for the existence of democracy. Elites have been trying to give it a bad reputation ever since aristocracies lost power. Quite grudgingly I might add.

Elites and aristocracies are the traditional enemy against which democracy formed. Communism and a classless society is equally bad for it represses individualism and promotes elite dictatorial rulers and committees, besides usually being atheist. Aristocracies or their proxies-national socialist corporatists such as Hitler evolved or plutocrats dominating power through the extreme concentration of wealth, have always warred against democracy. Especially the American democracy. Keeping it free from global and international elites of any sort- imperial, communist , aristocratic or plutocratic is a never ending challenge.

Nations can support any sort of government. A geographic region is not the problem. The problem is the sort of government that is sovereign in it. In the era of aristocratic, royal nationalism kings warred against other kings. Nations did fight nations yet the nation was no more than an extension of the will to power of a monarch.

Europe has little history of large scale democracy. Aristocracy or communism-totalitarianism of some form or other is behind about every nation during its time. Athens had a limited democracy, and so did Holland with the Dewitt brothers before being torn apart, even so most of European history is one of elites ruling masses of inferiors, and that isn’t what then United States was supposed to be about.

So the NFL stars that support tribalism or globalism, Internationale communist songs or those were the days tunes and need to protest during the U.S. national anthem are doing a double disservice to the nation. Or make that triple.

1) They are bad role models training youth to hate the national anthem, sports or football players

2) They represent the word nation as disloyal, spoilt rich guys with head injuries

3) They seem too spaced to have particular issues to fix that might have some political remedy directly such as increasing taxes on the rich to pay for better police forces in the U.S.A., and must instead support anomie and chaos to help destroy U.S. democracy in order to benefit the rich

NFL Free Riders and a Minute With Gen WT Sherman

NFL players have taken to free riding political advertising during the playing of the national anthem at NFL games. That is, the protest by disrespecting the national anthem written by Francis Scott Key during a notable battle.

NFL players are rich and could easily afford full-page ads in the N.Y. Times expressing whatever political opinion they have. They could hire writers to write graphic novels and cartoons to reach Democrat Party members with their opinions, and of course they have radio, television and Internet advertising media, as well as formation of political action committees to express their grievances with President Donald Trump and American policemen and women. Yet they choose to disrespect the playing of the national anthem because they don’t have to pay anything at all.

The solution to the police indiscipline issue perceived by NFL players is not to pass hate crimes laws against those who kill white policemen instead of black because each year 99% of slain policemen are white men. The solution is to have Congress raise a special tax on rich people solely to pay for doubling the number of policemen, raise police salaries 50% and double the training budget.

Quite likely over-worked, underpaid police forces without adequate equipment and training or supervision feel the need to use decisive force instead of more relaxed means of apprehension of suspected felons that result fatalities.

Thus I sought the opinion through the means of the erstwhile reporter with the latest tech gizmos, of Civil War General W.T. Sherman about the national anthem. 

Sign of the Times- Record Minimum Arctic Ice 2017

There is no question that the atmosphere is warming this era. Regardless of the cause humans should take action against increasing global heating. 
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/videos/arctic-ice-record-low-29075
It is ironic that the capitalism has improved the human material condition while degrading the ecosphere simultaneously. Unreformed philosophy of capitalism theory little improved from its foundation by Adam Smith cannot support less than viscous competition or alternatively plutocratic network oligarchy neither of which actually are functioning models for capitalism or ecosphere defense to follow in a new era of material and technical production.

A basic minimum income for all to enable individuals never to be stuck in non-productive, oppressive currents, and free education along with a reformed U.S. patent system with patents limited to 5 years followed by just 10% royalties for inventors, would support a capitalist philosophy wherein  it is recognized that since everyone has basic social and material requirements for existence cynched, that it is better for a hundred inventors to be searching for tools to better the republic's life than for just a few that dominate and stagnate the market forcing unresponsiveness onto it.

image credit; Cryosphere Today