Major Media I.D.'s Innocent Guy as Newtown Killer for an Hour or Two

The race to be first to post the perp's picture led Fox, NBC and ABC News and many others to i.d.Ryan Lanza age 24 in error instead of the present suspect Adam Lanza age 20 as the shooter. Poor young Ryan Lanza and his Facebook page has been getting a lot of wrong attention. It took more than an hour for most to get it right, yet some still haven't.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/27-people-dead-children-connecticut-school-gunman-dead/story?id=17973836

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/14/15911025-authorities-id-gunman-who-killed-27-in-elementary-school-massacre?lite

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/ryan-lanza-connecticut-elementary-shooter_n_2302541.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/adam-lanza-sandy-hook-elementary-school-newtown-connecticut_n_2303393.html

http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-ryan-lanza-may-pictured-200504091.html

https://gist.github.com/4288755

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/14/police-respond-to-shooting-at-connecticut-elementary-school/

http://www.carbonated.tv/news/wrong-ryan-lanza-drudge-report-posts-photo-of-fake-newtown-shooter

Leftists Call for Tokugawa U.S.A. After Newtown Massacre

In the Tokugawa Shogunate the citizens were forbidden to own firearms and  the politically correct powers employing professional warriors dominated the subjective populace until the Meiji restoration in effect. Even then the change to a corporatist zaibatsu-military complex under an Emperor made for a tensioned public without personal guns of potential dissent. A 20 year old has killed his school teacher mother and 26 more at Newtown Conn. stimulating leftist theory construction about making a better society by disarming the citizens.

The massacre of 27 people including 20 elementary students at Newtown Connecticut has stimulated writing in support of consolidating power for the state a little more (or a lot). In the New Democrat Party vision of Americatopia children would learn with BBC guidance at an early age to grow up to be dope smoking homosexuals under lesbian supervision without a gun anyplace but in the benevolent neo-Tokugawa Shogunate Samuri's holsters watching over the masses like Nietzche's supermen while Zarathustran oligharchs watch mirthfully from shining city condos on a hill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/the-japan-lesson-can-americans-learn-from-the-country-that-has-almost-zero-gun-deaths/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-sanghoee/moral-nation-why-our-cons_b_2303558.html

Schoolchildren might be better off learning gun use at an early age-perhaps by age 10 in schools so they know that any idiot can accurately fire a weapon and if he does will likely get shot quickly. Public schools spend so much money on buildings as it is one would think than building gun-detecting metal scanners into doorways and putting burglar sensors on windows would be the rule rather than an exception. If one was radical it would be possible to invent a handgun with artificial intelligence and position it near the entrance so it could shoot bad guys it recognized with face recognition software-well, it might be more thoughtful than the p.s. security designers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323297104578179271453737596.html 28 killed

The Washington Post is featuring a typical post pointing out how America could not be more different than the disarmed Japanese populace and using them as the good example. What they don't mention is that Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world with something like 20,000 people killing themselves annually, Japan has almost airtight borders that keeps the foreign element of low-wage workers out as well as their criminal activities, and the Japanese with all of that social controlling supervision were gullible enough to follow the Emperor's lead in waging total war upon  the United States with savage ferocity as a group even using war captives for biological experimentation in the infamous unit 731.

Most of the shooters since the Gifford massacre were leftists or left-leaning white guys that some how didn't fit in to the New Democrat party mold well enough. At least they were in leftist hives such as the Colorado School of Shrinks were the Batman killer was formed. None of those guys were of the right. Those that flaked out to shoot the sheep should have taken another course for political resistance. Maybe the correction for that is to have more democracy in the airwaves with all citizens have an Internet podcast broadcast time-slice in some local community so they would feel that there really is a responsive democracy where they can have a say besides in some idiotic and futile malevolent act of violence.

The next time you read an article saying how the United States should get rid of its guns and take the doper's path to peace-think about a little more  Lee Marvin and a little less Marvin gay in the school classrooms. Think about school teachers with defense credentials from Afghanistan and Iraq wars wit concealed carry permits instead of politically correct leftists that aren't concerned enough about civil liberties for all Americans behind effective defense perimeters. Wouldn't it be possible to have public schools fitted with face recognition software in cameras that would only let in authorized students and staff after going through metal scanners? The easy global mobility of terrorists in the modern era will catch up with Americans even if their idea is to have a Leopold Punyetti defense minister conducting a harmonious 'nothing to live or die for' orcheotomy of the liberty of Americans to keep and own personal defense weapons.

Evolving Legality for Illegal Combatants, Civil Rights, Foreign Wars, Government Union Monopolies, Etc.

The question of the legal right to condemn a government, flank civil rights and equal protection of the law for some may seem disparate concepts, yet in the progress or digress of political time people may wonder how the laws are applied historically. Is the purpose to establish clearly manifest conventional criteria or to allow the will of the stronger to prevail?

The first Bush administration sought U.N. support for its Gulf War and found solid legal grounds to deploy troops in Kuwait at the request of the legitimate Kuwaiti government instead of that of the invading military authority of Sadam Hussein. The second Bush administration sought U.N. approval to wage war upon Kuwait and falling a little short of that-just a little-formed a 'coalition of the willing to wage war upon Iraq.

The Obama administration has given loud public support toward overthrow of the lawful Syrian government-so how does that work ethically? Is that consistent with rule of law?

One would think that U.N. approval for removal of a lawful government should occur at some level before the U.S. government decides to support the overthrow of one. At least that is one approach. Another way might be to go before a World Court and win a judgment to overthrow and incorrigible regime. Falling short of that it might be possible to have a trial and get a judgment to remove a corrupt political leader yet leave the government intact. 

In some respects it seems that the informal, unlawful approach to supporting regime change produces inconsistent and difficult to support results for many Americans. Though the broadcast media is plainly in support of regime change in Syria, the U.S. government ought to withhold further recognition of unlawful combatants and unlawful governments as the new revolutionary legitimate government simply because the U.S. finds the new government a moral improvement over the old. The consequences of that are emergent in Egypt and have yet to be determined in Libya.

The American left along with the European left and even the Tudeh-communist party of Iran-supported the revolutionary movement of the Ayatollah Khomeini in the belief that getting rid of the government of the Shah was of overriding value. Of course the communist party was subsequently purged by the fundamentalist a.s.a.p. The new left seems to be seeking the same results in 'the Arab spring' movements. So I wonder where that will lead if not in the same direction.

One may believe that for the American left homosexual empowerment is the most important element of 'civil rights' in which they equate themselves with black slaves and freedom marchers. In Africa it might be difficult to persuade Islamists that homosexuals are the moral equivalent of repressed blacks. It might be difficult to persuade Islamists that homosexual marriage ought to be made legal in a society in which one husband can have four wives. Arab societies may have trouble supporting the concept socially that one bull homosexual should have four fem-homosexual 'wives' though Obama administration supporters might like that.

After the Obama administration is successful in removing the Assad government and creating a new Lebanon chaos in that region, will it logically follow up its effort to organize democracy inn the Middle East and support overthrow of the Jordan monarchy to rid the region of the Hashemite Government once and for all that was long ago a rival to the Saudi Government for rulership of Saudi Arabia?

The jewel in the crown for liberation leading to a snowfall of democracy in hell lasting for an hour or two would be Saudi Arabia itself. A long range goal perhaps yet a nation crying out for the egalitarianism of fundamentalist Islam-at least that appears to be the logical criteria of what fundamentally works amidst people of moderate to poor incomes living in the hotter regions of the planet.

The administration did come out in support of the no-right-to-work position in Michigan recently that would only allow duess paying members of a Democrat part supporting union work for the Michigan government-something like requiring that only dies paying communist party members could work for the Soviet Union, and that seems a flgrant violation of the concept of a government for, of and by the people wiithout requiring does-paying allegiance to anyone. 

The prosperous do seem to have a bent point of view of civil rights though now and then fundamentally failing to understand that civl rights are real as well as abstract. Equal protection of the law has a purpose-to let a citizen be secure in job opportunity, security and business negotiation on an equal basis with everyone else that is a citizen of the United States. Letting illegal aliens into the U.S.A. to work comprises the largest and most egregious violation of civil rights doing harm to the poor of the U.S.A. today. Illegal workers benefit the people they work for and displace the economic, social and lifestyle equal rights of the poor through their illegal entry that civil rights are supposed to protect.

With a Democrat Party moving more toward developing areas of historically traditional decadence such as legalized marijuana and homosexual marriage the existential live-for-the-moment arrogance of the amoral lets much practical public interest structuring go to hell. In 30 years when Asians surpass the United States economically and perhaps militarily as leftist propagandists proudly prophesied recently, perhaps the corrections of different forms of more disciplined fundamentalism will remove U.S. concerns about decadence or global warming. Its difficult to say. Its also difficult to discern what the logic of legal consistency is of the Obama administration.

The Phenomenal Language Meaning in Language Systems

Philosophy in Quinian logic terms of language meanings ought to regard itself as utilitarian I would think. Concepts and ideas expressed in language are phenomenal and have what truth-value in ontological relativity as they have. While the Universe(1) and supporting quantum phenomenalism may have deep Platonic forms that are unknown or unknowable in the human cognitive paradigm, philosophers are interested in that sort of thing anyway.

I am not an academic philosopher and have the idea that Darwinianism tends to be used with a politically correct mutually exclusive and exhaustive relationship with faith, the concept of a transcendent God and so forth. That isn't a very philosophical dialectic.

Solid-state quantum mechanical phenomena seem to have a temporal order and logical material change and evolution seems to be an implicit aspect of the existence of spacetime, mass and concatenated or interacting dimensions, yet that does not necessitate there being no deeper transcending explanation for the fact of mass than evolution as the end-for-itself.

If philosophy is constricted a little by the dogmatic political correctness of scientific Darwinism and cognitive scientific language it should be simple enough to be aware of Sartre's ideas about epistemology and the history of science nearly always becoming surpassed by deeper  knowledge making the past knowledge actually false or woefully incomplete.

 The humor of phenomenalism and constructions of ideas produced with mind is in the conservido being as valid as the libido in searching for eternal verities rather than going with the flow of a temporal social zeitgeist.

The Writer's Universe is Expanding Too

That's a good thing for individuals that like blogging about. If one has the time to write and put some intention on it the potential for compensation might be getting better.The writer's Universe seems to be expanding too.

This page has 26 sites that seem recent listings...

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/sites-that-pays-you-to-blog/

This is a site list including a $10 per article page

http://aw1219.hubpages.com/hub/Online-Jobs-that-Pay

The there are some of the more traditional sites...

http://freelance-writing-articles.knoji.com/paid-to-write-a-z-list-of-websites-which-pay-you-for-writing-articles-reviews-posts/

image credit: N.A.S.A./J.P.L.-CalTech 
 

The $20 Cardboard Bike for the Masses to Help Combat Global Warming

I like this idea quite a bit. Using new or recycled cardboard for the same use as melted metals could reduce global warming heat emissions.

A lightweight (20 lb.) cardboard bicycle invented by the Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni that he plans to sell for $20 when it eventually reaches the market seems like an especially good idea-concept headed in the right direction regarding renewability and eco-friendlyness.
Made from ordinary cardboard and glue the bike stylishly omits use of most metal required for usual bicycles. In production it will have no metal parts at all. Low-cost bikes for the second and third world, disposable bikes for American trans-continental trekkers, and perhaps sit-down three or four wheel bikes with a lightweight electric fuel cell wheel motor and a wind screen might bring cheaper personal transportation to billions.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-10-16/news/34505416_1_izhar-gafni-cardboard-mass-production

The energy cost required for a cardboard bike ought to be less than that of a metal allow bike. If only there were a trans-continental network of bike paths the adventurous would have someplace to go more or less safely without concern of being squashed by a semi-truck on the side of the highway.

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/11/12/cardboard-bicycle-by-izhar-gafni/

Michigan Set to Become a 'Right to Work' State

It should be unneccesary to say in the U.S.A. that an individual has a right to work without being a member of any organization. Yet Michigan will pass such a law evidently because some Unions have excluded American citizens from work based upon not paying dues to some organization. Organizational power has run amok in the U.S.A.-more so the large corporations than unions, but every little bit taken to defend the individual from the power of collectives is good.

Labor unions often take political stands and advocate the election of particular candidates or support particular platforms. It is wrong to compel any citizen to belong to a political activism organization with political goals they don't support. Some organizations these days are opposed to individual free speech on the Internet too as some language might be generally offensive to members of a special class.

It would be useful to limit the size of corporations to 3000 employees. A corporation needing more for a special project could find sub-contractors. Competition should increase in the corporate world and government power and size to stay up with large global corporate power would not be as challenged.

Unions cannot compensate for ineffective governance in the modern world. It is helpful to have a cohort of people supporting one in finding economic justice, and the government ought to defend the rights of citizens from experiencing unfair foreign labor competition arriving illegally in the U.S.A. Ironically it is the neo-socialist left Democrat constituency along with some of the wealthy that have supported illegal and cheap foreign migrant labor into the U.S.A. stimulating vicious labor competition and the general decline of labor union vitality. They have made their own unionism ineffective, yet they desire to receive the comfortable benefits of secure good-paying jobs to the last even as tens of millions of Americans are unemployed and can't  find work at all.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/10/news/economy/michigan-right-to-work/

Higher Taxes Ahead to Pay for A Decade of Interminable Foreign Conflict?

I read a book by Lester Thurow-the economist in 1999 describing styles of national economic management. The Bush II administration fit the maint. method-largely uncreative and reliant upon military and natural resource extraction business and the war on terror has been profitable to bureaucrats and the extraction industries and military contractors. I think that's likely to continue for a while.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/40603/william-diebold-jr/the-zero-sum-solution

https://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/economics-and-politics/the-future-of-capitalism/3353/

http://www.questia.com/library/325249/dangerous-currents-the-state-of-economics

Negative interest rates for government auction of debt allowed the U.S. and U.K. to erase nearly  40% of public debt between the 1940s and 1970s. It's an odd concept for us non-economists, yet perhaps the quantitative easing does that. During the 40s to the 70s U.S. economic growth was more substantial than today however, and the public debt was nearly so large. Negative interest rates on auctioned government bonds purchased by the Fed (who else would do that?) might have long rang effects in other areas one would think.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

Plainly not increasing taxes to pay for the Orwellian forever 'war' isn't historically a good idea. The public really hasn't felt the cost yet. I wonder if the female majority in the Democrat Party that are middle class have the slightest interest in having their taxes increase? In the future it may require a triple portion of taxation to pay for that trillion dollar a year in interest, for which the people will get nothing material in exchange by the end of the Obama administration.

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm

If there are political consultants channeling F.D.R. to political leaders contemplating the federal budget it is possible that F.D.R. might whisper to them 'Cut taxes and economic growth will pay for two wars' yet in my opinion it's doubtful.

If a nation hasn't a good sense of direction or purpose it would find it difficult to lead. The New York Jets football time might be an illustrative example-as are the Philadelphia Eagles. Each team could probably do better if they had Tim Tebow and Michael Vick sharing the running quarterback role with an Adrian Peterson in the backfield too. The method of keeping a running Q.B. benched or playing them full time rather than half-time to recover from head butts and gut shots is just ineffective.

The U.S.A. probably needs to be an ecological restoration business leader rather than a global corporate outsourcer of its own national independence accompanied with a left agenda of making the rest of the world comfortable for a butch hegemony under corporate censorship of expression.

2010 Drought Killed a Lot of Amazon Rainforest Trees

New data gathering method found that 4% of the trees in severely drought affected areas of the Amazon rainforest died in a 2010 drought. That rate is 400% higher than normal. Global warming causing northern forests to warm up and let beetles breed year-round to infest and kill Canadian pine trees isn't the only problem that warmer temperatures cause for forests.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/12/widespread-devastation-found-in-.html?rss=1

Some scientists say this is a problem for forests in the next few decades rather than in the year 2100. Global warming has the potential to cascade ecosphere issues sooner than the U.S. Government might be prepared for.

Reduce Spending, Return to Clinton Tax Rates & Make a New Dept. of Global Warming Remediation

The U.S. Government ought to try to act like grown-ups more in the sense of being efficient, accountable and effective instead of not so much. Because global warming may become a grave national security threat a new Federal Department should be created to coordinate American response on-the-fly as a realistic way to deal with more forest fires, more drought, more dry Mississippi River channels, desertification of farmland, hurricanes, coastal flooding, population immigration emergencies and so forth.

The Department needn't have a large budget initially. It would do well to have a division of direct attack on global warming causality, one on economic innovation and transition as environmental conditions change, and one to modify the environment directly within an increasingly hot world.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/08/us-usa-stormsandy-aids-idUSBRE8B61AH20121208 President Obama wants $60 billion for storm repairs

That last department would seek to reinforce wild habitat and to create new forms to continue viable agricultural habitat including large scale desalinization of sea water and replanting of areas that have lost their traditional ecospheric compliment of flora and fauna because of climate change.

In the meanwhile balancing the federal budget post-hast with budget cuts where possible and letting the tax schedules return to a responsible level such as existed during the Clinton era in order to run a surplus and pay off the federal debt soon saving a trillion in interest annually in the process should be done. Of course Rush Limbaugh is only for tax cuts and seems to believe that global warming is a hoax. Oh well, he now and then has some fair opinions on other topics.

The Foundational Questions Institute and Points of Cosmology and Philosophy

The December 2012 issue of scientific American has an informative article on the work and essays sponsored by the Foundational Questions Institute. http://www.fqxi.org/

David Tong-a theoretical physicist-wrote an article on the topic of the quanta of the smallest scale as digital or continuous. That's a philosophically interesting topic. Foundational questions have been philosophically pursued since people were able to think. 

Today one wonders not only about mass, but about dimensions and the philosophy of dimensions. Is their are an infinite number. If their is just one source hyper-dimension comparable to a Higgs field is that hyper-dimension infinitely divisible, or how dimensions connect together? How can one dimension be anything besides a dot singularity of infinitely small size? If a dimension fails to expand tied into some field does it remain at a particular one-dimensional size? How would anything with one dimension have direction or size?

Physicists theoretically study mass with math constructs such as appear in 'Calibi-Yau eleven dimensional space' etc.in order to design structures that would account for the mass order and quantum physical structures supporting the observable universe yet that seems an arbitrary and phenomenal selection of dimensions.

A friend of Albert Einstein named Paul Ehrenfrest explained why mass could appear stable and coherent in just three dimensions of space. There seems to be an infinite potential to consider the metaphysics that are possible beyond the physics of the phenomenal Universe (1).

2012 London Chess Classic Moves to Round Six

The 2012 London Chess Classic completed five rounds (there are nine) with many of the best players in the world including the all-time (so far) woman's chess champ Judit Polgar competing for the top prize.

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/classic.standings.htm

There are several top chess competitions each year including blitz matches of as few as five minutes (or watch good players at chess.com battle in three minute matches) and up. Top-ranked Magnus Carlsen is leading so far with Vladimir Kramnik in second and the American Hikaru Nakamura in third. Nakamura defeated the second ranked player in the world Levon Aronian in the first round with and interesting and stifling defense. He has been said to have worked with former world chess champion Garry Kasparov recently and maybe that improved his game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

Viswanathan Anand of India is also in the running. He won a world chess title this year and is from India where the game was invented. For those that are a little bit far away from playing football yet enjoy following sport standings in the abstract the game of chess is fun to watch. With a little investment of time YouTube chess videos and play at chess.com (free)one can learn chess well enough to understand even simple opening of the Magnus Carlsen variation of the Magnus Smith trap in reply to the Sicilian Defense and the Fisher variation too. 

Fiscal Cliff Zombies Walk the Green Mile

President Obama fresh from a 'We didn't build that' comment on a drone Iran captured (or built themselves) had time to comment on the Republican Existential Greed Party plan to fairly extend and enhance tax cuts for the wealthy in order to help concentrate wealth and let jobs trickle down to China, India and Mexico while accelerating global warming greenhouse gassing in effect  said of the Republoft plan, 'Drop dead'.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501404578161162667441912.html

Speaker Boehner in the avant guard wing of the Republican Party entertaining ideas of letting millions of Mexican workers flood the nation to help create jobs for Mexicans and votes for Republicans-Republican strategists are sure that poor Mexicans will be grateful to Republicans for letting them in and will vote to concentrate wealth for millionaires and billionaires) said in effect 'Drop Dead' to the President's plan for avoiding the fiscal cliff by letting the rich pay Clinton era tax rates.

The default plan to let the dread Clinton era tax rates return seems nearly unavoidable now as the respective plans appear to be dead men walking. We find this rather interesting. As the only political party in history to have used a nuclear weapon in war, the Democrat Party is not reluctant to go off the deep end.

 image credit White House.gov

China Increases CO2 Pollution to More Than 10 Billion Tons Annually-World Output Up 3.1

An article published Sunday in Nature Climate Change reports planetary CO2 emissions increased 2.6% in 2012 with China being the greatest polluter increasing its emissions to more than 10 billion tons while the U.S.A reduced its emissions yet is still second in rank at 5.9 billion tons. The trend of other countries such as China and Russia to increase their CO2 output along with the developing world presents a gloomy scenario for controlling global climate change and temperature increases. Scientists expect that the higher range of temperature increase scenarios will develop rather than the moderate.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/02/us-climate-emissions-idUSBRE8B10AT20121202

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/index.html

Inn 2011 global carbon dioxide releases increased by 3.1%. Without strident and ecospherically correct U.S. economic leadership toward low-entropy, low carbon production methodical transformation of production infrastructure the Lovelock prophecy of planetary population crash with desertification by emerge one day in the distant future a hundred years or two.

Atheist Acts Against Christians & A Clarification of Relevant Civil Rights Act Elements in Set Theory

A Pennsylvania restaurant named Prudhomme's Lost Cajun Kitchen provided a 10% menu discount to Christians bring in a Church bulletin on Sundays. It's a reasonably way to attract business yet charges were filed by the state after a complaint from an atheist. Recently the decision was found in favor of the complainant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/john-wolff-lost-cajun-kitchen-discount-churchgoers_n_1661439.html

Following is my opinion about such terms of the civil rights act precluding discrimination.

The issue is simple and can be expressed in set theory terms;

.The Civil right's acts enumerated elements that one may not use as a basis for discrimination (such as discrimination race, color, religion, or national origin) can be regard for-themselves as Universals A, B, C & D. One may not form a set using A, B, C or D as the basis for discrimination positively or negatively. That is, one cannot exclude Christian or others of faith, require them to sit at the back of the bus while non-Christians ride up front an so forth.

The set of elements one uses for offering specials on goods and services may include A, B, C, and D yet not exclude any. If one offers special rates to A, B, C, or D it need must be free to all members of the set. Probably A, B,C, & D must remain universals for themselves in any particular set and cannot be reduced to particulars of the universals A, B, C, or D.

It's alright to form a set to provide special access to goods and services if that set does not include the Universals A, B, C or D in it as test condition disjunctives.

The court probably failed to clarify what valid elements are that can be used to form a set for special business benefits and that didn't help at all, and may have fired up some godless atheists to expand their anti-Christian acts.

The restaurant owner could offer a 20% discount to anyone bringing in a bulletin from a Sunday meeting perhaps, as any organization can meet on a Sunday without violating the Set C.R.A. The restaurant owner probably would like the business of N.A.S.C.A.R. Sunday patrons with a program that showed they attended yet of course he might dispute that they were members of an organization.

If the civil rights act was the basis for a court discrimination against a restaurateur's 10% discount to those with Church bulletins it indicates the court's failure to clarify the range of applicability of relevant civil rights law. Those willing to attract business with sales discounts need plain criteria that will help bring in the maximum number of diners.

If the restaurant had offered a 10% discount to any organizational meeting on Sunday with a bulletin bearing the appropriate date it would have been plain discrimination on the basis of religion to exclude churches. One should be free to offer once-a-week discounts anytime including Sunday.

It was a remarkable change in the constitution of the U.S. body politick when a Sunday discount on veal cutlets, mash potatoes and gravy was prohibited while after abolition Sunday liquor sales blue laws. Atheists can booze and choose what football games to watch Sunday without worrying about paying more for Buffalo wings than Christians.

The intent of the law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of religion was perhaps written to ensure that Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Christian Scientists, Mormons and whatnot would not use sectarianism for housing and job discrimination. It can be wrongly applied when too broadly extended such that it prohibits religious organizations from enjoying equal opportunity with other organizations to receive benefits of a general non-religious based class discount. If private schools can receive research grants then so ought Christian schools.

Some atheists might yet be aghast at the concept that anyone should provide discounts to organizations meeting 'to better the spiritual well-being of mankind'' on Sundays. It might be that atheists feel they contribute nothing to better the human spirit and feel excluded on a religious basis with atheism on the dark side of the spiritual force. Plainly the language used in offering restaurant discounts must constructed carefully in an appetizing way.

Melt from Greenland & Antarctica Increases World Sea Level .95 mm Annually

Scientists found that Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets are melting (Greenland at a faster pace) and contributing to the rise in sea level. The rate of increase has risen several hundred percent since 1992. There should be a carbon tax and passage of tax credits for alternative energy.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/news/grace20121129.html

Long ago Canada's Banks Island had foot-thick trees growing on it according to petrified wood discoveries. It appears that fossil fuels and cars are driving the world further in that direction with mid-west drought along the way.

The Obama administration will spend another 120 million on cheaper electric battery development though that hasn't worked before when the government spent 2 billion. Passing tax credit legislation for a decade might be a better way to go.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-launches-new-project-to-develop

Obamacare Will Inflate Public Cost of AIDS by Trillions

With medical costs at 400,000 dollars per AIDS patient over a lifetime the homosexual lifestyle bites hard on public budgeting. Obamacare's 'compassionate liberalism' approach to medicine will cost the public trillions unnecessarily at that cost will transfer wealth from the middle class to the powers of concentrated wealth. It would be far less costly to simply expand the V.A. hospital system to include the poor. AIDS patients could be given free AIDS drugs and medical treatment without transferring that cost to private insurers who in turn transfer the cost to the public paying taxes.

The C.D.C. presently estimates the number of people with AIDS in the U.S.A. at about one million and one hundred fifty thousand. That number multiplied by 400,000 dollars is about a half a trillion bucks, and of course there are another 12,000 individuals contracting the disease each new year. It gets to be real money.
Some public illnesses such as HIV are too epidemic and lasting to treat as usual medical phenomena financially. Transferring coverage for AIDS to insurers by force of law as a pre-existing condition probably will cost trillions when generic drugs and government incentives to provide low cost AIDS treatment to pharmaceutical companies could drive the cost way down-and should.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm

U.S. veterans already have a vast and epidemic number of head injuries and P.T.S.D. psych treatments as well as Gulf War disease and a host of other problems that could use a better V.A. hospital system and of course a substantial public hospital system would be a good way to treat large numbers of biological or radiological casualties some day if that ever occurs. It is better to be prepared and with a balanced budget than to be on vacation when disaster strikes.

Another D.O.D. Spending Reform Scenario

The President as the executive chooses to order troops here or there for 90 days (War Powers Act) before requiring Congressional approval (if they actually took their responsibility seriously) and the Department of Defense deploys them.

The D.O.D. should train the Army and Marines to fight a large conventional war (with the new unconventional, emergent weapons systems included) instead of anti-terrorist cell operations. Anti-terrorism wars tasking should fall to S.F. Black Ops in the 50,000 man rapid deployment S.F. BOP for efficiency. A conventional Army or Marines is rather a large target for-itself and attacked as a sitting duck in financially assymetric warfare thereby harming the United States with great cost effectiveness.

Obviously with American reliance on foreign fossil fuels the Bin Ladens of the world have ample spare change to finance terrorist ops now and then to which the states leadership responds with speeches and multi-trillion dollar troop deployments that are as effective as a snowball in hell at making permanent social transformations stop nurturing  terrorism.

The United States cannot become a colonial power enacting the mistakes of the past especially as a temporal occupier. That direction is an egregious historical error and ought to be avoided. The military is no substitute for intelligent civil economic leadership and a good society that others want to emulate. A blunt instrument does not raise I.Q. even if it obliterates some opposition.

Much effort to transform society for the good should be found in global ecospheric restoration concurrent with full employment and enhanced well-being of all American citizens.

Anti-safe haven interdiction efforts can be accomplished with surveillance droids on ground and air with some being as small as a mosquito along with aerial weapons delivery packages. If the governments themselves are corrupt the U.S. cannot simply send a conventional military to do nation makeovers and it ought not conduct aggressive war upon governments it does not regard as 'democratic' because they don't want to have a Wal-Mart society.

Contemporary U.S. politics are largely designed to concentrate wealth with real support from both parties and the is media owned by the rich even if they own both the left and the right broadcasters. The displacing political power of the media means that thousands of individuals never rise to run by acclaim from local radio podcast-broadcasters reaching consensus. That situation presents not even a semblance of democratic, popular nomination or selection of qualified citizens in the Presidential campaigns.

'Lots of Money' can be spent very quickly by the congress and war excuses for dubiously necessary contests are a modern leverage tool for redistribution of wealth to the rich from all taxpayers. Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address about the 'military-industrial complex'. The economist Lester Thurow described the military-industrial 'maintennance economy' pattern in a (1999?) book-The G.W. Bush administration embodied that non-creative political modus vivendi.

 A profligacy in spending and perennial foreign wars have defeated more than one civilization or nation. Incompetent and corrupt national leadership that fails to develop its economy in an ecospherically useful way as well as its social environment moves toward being an obstruction to democracy, human survival on Earth and Toynbean fin de sicle status.

One wants to have constructive civil rather than military engagement with adverse foreign powers, lend support to regimes experiencing subversive  anti-freedom rebellion movements and develop an excellent and consolidated intelligence gathering capability that would locate actual terrorist dangers to the security of then people of the United States in addition to the problem of egregious deficit spending.

Altruism doesn't require payment-that's why its altruism. Those fighting for their own interests (themselves, profit motive, family, global powers of concentrated wealth, NPR etc) should be paid moderately in a Democratic society. Their pay should be consistent with the best interests of the society. I met a medal of honor winner from EL Campo Texas that was a Green Beret that didn't get paid a lot ('Sgt. Benevidez had a glorious day'). He returned his medal to the Congress because of the way they treat the poor. The late Sgt. Benevidez was a humble auto mechanic-small business auto garage owner.

One cannot purchase freedom from hostile foreign or domestic powers without in effect paying tribute to the victors. A people that requires military substitutes for themselves is one in decline. In the Spanish American war there were far too many volunteers to accept into the Army. In the Vietnam war the Army volunteers that enlisted inn the 1950s fought very well until discharge about 1966 and at low cost. The draft Army didn't do too badly either considering and they weren't paid much either. Before the Bush administration a private e-1 might get just a few hundred dollars a month-and that's an acceptable cost for the nation to shoulder on a longer-term basis.

A permanent high cost military where a 'combat' soldier e-1 on some sort of foreign occupation is paid about 24,000 annually isn't reasonably sustainable. It creates a culture of paying off a mercenary militia that is economically devastating.

My father was a four year world war two veteran that wasn't paid much like the other 20 million Americans that served in uniform from a national population of what-about 140 million? Military training before the end of the cold war in December 1990 when President Gorbachev withdrew 250,000 troops from East Germany during the Reagan years had pay still quite low. Reagan developed a potential military power rather than exploiting that power in protracted-ill-thought out and ineffective military contests of less than total war. That is still not a bad idea. One should put a firewall between special forces (S.F. BOP) rapid response units and escalation by the conventional military by separating the S.F. BOP into its own force. The conventional special forces such as the Seals and Rangers would remain as they are.

The planetary anti-terrorism war so far as the United States goes should be met by the intelligence community and specialized rather than conventional forces.

Congressional Vertigo at the Fiscal Cliff

Because it's there the U.S. government hasn't so far found a way to ford the fiscal cliff regardless of presentation as a vertical or horizontal challenge. A cliff viewed from below is a wall to climb while viewed from above it's the mouse in the elephant's tent. When the nation was on the way up it overcome challenges, and while a decadent establishment is on the top (establishments implicitly become supremist) it is paralyzed with fear of budget cutting vertigo.

The military cost in a personnel pay bloated era is a good example. It could easily use a 25% budget reduction and become more efficient. Since L.B.J. and Brown and Root developed a cozy relationship Texas and military contractors have profited from protracted, expensive foreign wars. In times past though the soldiers weren't paid much unlike today.

The Department of Defense should not deploy the Army or Marines to bizarre locales with dubious national interests. They should be reduced in size and train to fight one large conventional war against China in a decade or two, as they are the realistically single substantial possible general war foe. The United States cannot afford to splurge on a bloated military budget now when it isn't necessary and be broke and incapable of fighting in the future when it may be necessary.

Money diverted from development of the U.S. economy and scientific research to pay for an overpaid military and legions of military contractors weakens the United States in its global economic competition and status. Since so many of the establishment (implicitly supremist) have deemed the United States to be a declining economic power comparatively they seem unconcerned about wasting tax dollars on a presently badly deployed military instead of developing the U.S. economy toward a new era of global high efficiency, advanced tech ecospheric syntegrity with liberty and justice for all citizens.

The Marines should be reduced in size by 25%, as should the Army. The Air Force research budget should increase and the Navy should develop a next generation of ships able to survive the plethora of drone mach assault platforms below and above the surface. A new corps of special force fighters numbering 50,000 should be created as a rapid deployment force able to work anywhere globally needed very swiftly to relieve the oppressed such as they are until a U.N., African, Asian or other interim occupation force arrives for sedentary security.

The vertigo of the budget cutters at cutters seems to preclude the reorganization of anything so that it would increase efficiency. Soldiers can receive lower pay as they used to yet they deserve far better veterans health and hiring services after service. Obamacare should have expanded the V.A. hospital system and included all veterans as well as the poor of the nation for free, quality reliable service.

The poor have 50 state bureaucracies to go through for 'insurance' as they travel around the nation seeking work to deny they are have a domicile in Fargo, Houston or Anchorage where they might seasonally look for a job. Establishments are implicitly supremist and badly serve veterans not uncommonly after their active useful value date stamp term of service has expired.

Proportional tax incentives should be created to employers to hire those without a job for the greatest length of time. Keeping people working and off relief will be necessary in the new economic era ahead. Keeping soldier out of protracted unnecessary troop deployments such as Afghanistan and Iraq will reduce public medical costs for generations as well as public payments to military contractors for luxury deserts and foods in restaurants former palaces of dictators. A little good intelligence is a leavening needed in political leadership to use a military effectively. Quality C.I.A. field operatives are one method of learning of terrorist planners from madrassas to laboratories. Like the chess pieces on a board politicians have the choice to use knights to play a good game or for cracking nuts.

The chiaroscuro political landscape of the nation in a twilight era of alleged decline suffused with a thousand points of starlight and more receding to the beginning of light in the Universe presents the paradox of sweet and sour pork politics, unused rice dishes of invention and hopes for a new ecospheric renewal economic foundation with low entropy, conservation of endangered species, wild habitat and full employment without global warming.

Plainly the Congress is not up to the challenge of fording the fiscal cliff or of finding a way to overcome their own contentedness in material wealth and comfort, security and power. Legislating more of the same fiduciary input with clever legalistic tricks is the congressionally preferred method even if that way leads to more national comparative decline as if taking a stroll on moss covered boulders in rain and cold wind downhill was less difficult.

The uncompetitive broadcast media has saturated the nation with fantasy politics and fantasy economic reality. Chess at chess.com is competitive-the broadcast media is not. Like the Congress it is used to being a silly elite lecturing the public who are not peers of power in any way. That conditioning by the media is permitted by the congress that could reform it if they could reform anything positively and as during the Clinton era it just keeps getting dumber and dumber with concentrated wealth.

A nation or civilization on the rise finds new ways to overcome challenges that a contented society at the top does not. They may be concerned with standing tall and looking good while they crumble as social cookies baked by hostesses of the legendary past of which the recipe is lost. Tomorrow's economic leadership twits can bring a new message to the masses that a ford beyond the terrible cliff at the edge of the world has been found. Those visionaries work simply in faith to transcend the temporal challenges by ignoring them and hoping they go away, they work tirelessly to overcome the perennially emerging establishment of new supremacies in opposition to a healthy, recovering ecosphere, full employment and freedom of religion trusting that God will bring the end game on his own schedule. It is the role of the Congress to find ways to generate a balanced budget and full employment without public debt while the citizens wait on God and take care of the planet that is his footstool, as it were.

Hamas Attack on Israel & Egyptian President's Move Toward Authoritarianism Follows Obama Re-election

Such coincidences make me wonder a little about the under-the-surface motivations for the Muslim Brotherhood's season of organized power enhancement across the Middle East from Syria to Israel, Gaza and Egypt. I guess they might have believed that Mitt Romney would have taken a different stance on the issues than President Obama. N.P.R. reporters have called the Hamas missile attacks those of 'resistance fighters'. Romney might have closed down N.P.R. One can discern which way the cookies crumble even while they are standing tall.

http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4465801/k.972/Timeline_Terror_Attacks_by_Hamas_Since_Israel8217s_Gaza_Withdrawal.htm

http://www.idfblog.com/facts-figures/rocket-attacks-toward-israel/

Hamas has increased its rocket range to reach most densely populated regions of Israel. With the open border between Gaza and Egypt since the Muslim Brotherhood took over the security situation has become more complex for Israel. Not only is Iran a potential nuclear threat-so is Hamas in then future with short hop suitcase nuclear package launched from Gaza to air burst at a thousand feet or so over Tel Aviv if Pakistan, Iran or Korea convey such a device clandestinely to the wicked ones.

One might argue that Israel can't look to the U.S.A. for much help since from some perspectives Republican and Democrat Parties are parties of death. The Democrat party support abortion and partial birth infanticide and the error of homosexual 'marriage' in disregard of biological realism while the Republican Party supports the death of all life on Earth through global warming and species extirpation in their blind quest for concentration of wealth. So both parties are under the authority a little, of Satan.

Yet Satan is inherent in original sin of us all and only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ might humanity be washed and freed from the ignorance of Washington D.C. political elites. Unfortunately there is not a priesthood of believers ecclesiastical structure preponderantly for Christians (and paradoxically the Muslims are closer to that) so most churches resemble a shadow of the commercial and feudal business model that serves commercial priesthoods and their families. That conflict of interest means the non-development of a Christian church that works for all equally well in America.

Israel is then in a tough spot today with a Muslim Brotherhood leader and President of Egypt Morsi taking steps toward theocracy a day or two ago. He is now called 'Pharaoh' by many.Pharaoh will be able to better supply the Gaza strip (the Obama administration must like that name a lot) and informally bring it into the Egyptian annexed status useful for generating a sustainable low level conflict of attrition against Israel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/egypt-mohamed-morsi_n_2176978.html?utm_hp_ref=world

Recently I started reading Reston's book 'Defenders of the Faith' about a time in the 16th century when Suleyman the Magnificent and Charles V eyed down one another over the future of Europe. One wonder today if the future of environmentalism and of morality too may not be wrapped up in an equally significant struggle for the Israelites to survive against overwhelming demographics (I think they can). The lawyer President Obama seems to approach political leadership in a reactive lawful way rather than materially inventive son the quantitative easing of macro-social economic and social issues isn't likely to develop through innovation.

It isn't easy to find an inventor President obviously, one could write a book on Reagan & Roosevelt and why they were successful macro-social changers of the way things were and probably all it would accomplish would be to create even more support for dogmatic followers of the way it was already done. One must be cautious about using the idea of change though, for the present Democrat party that seems to mean to make everything as queer as possible and little else. The lawyerly way of following the decadent upper class concerned with getting more wealth on earth concentrated and flooding the U.S.A. with cheap labor that won't vote for them in thanks for letting them in to the U.S.A. to keep wages done for poor citizens isn't going to invent new political reforms of material evolution.

I wish I could find something to be optimistic about in this post. I guess it is that God is good-so that goodness exists even while people are stupid as sin politically speaking.