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30 July 2017
Murkowskicare; Next Dysfunctional Health Plan Up?
Senators
Murkowski, Collins and McCain seemed to have fated the U.S.A. to have
some sort of Obamacare light ahead. Senator Murkowski at least has
some few thousands of people that use the Obamacare exchanges (maybe
23,000) and the expanded Medicare coverage. Yet Obamacare should be
entirely scrapped (repealed) and replaced with a tripled V.A.
hospital system that covers all vets and poor civilians too (maybe 40
million people) with direct, free medical services without using
insurance at all.
Shouldn't all government medical care be abolished to avoid communism? Government workers should then be free to buy their own from private insurers. If government is to provide medical support to the public shouldn't it be the poor that are first covered? What if F.D.R. had designed social security to benefit people from the top-down but realistically excluded the poorest of the poor?
Shouldn't all government medical care be abolished to avoid communism? Government workers should then be free to buy their own from private insurers. If government is to provide medical support to the public shouldn't it be the poor that are first covered? What if F.D.R. had designed social security to benefit people from the top-down but realistically excluded the poorest of the poor?
That
can never happen id Murkowski care forces a cheap Obamacare into law
leaving no one satisfied. Murkowskicare would bloat the nation’s
budget and still not cover the millions of the very poor that fall
through the cracks because they aren’t sedentary enough to remain
on just one state bureaucratic surveillance-ministry of control
screens.
Obamacare
was designed to enrich corporations and provide cheap stuff for
working women and homosexuals in addition to the middle class that
have exhausted insurance benefits.
Deciding
what those people should pay for and how they should collectively
negotiate with insurance corporations should be an issue entirely
separate from hat of covering the most poor and veterans with free
walk-in service without documentation besides a valid state ID card
and federal tax record of poverty the year or three before.
Lisa
Murkowski votes Democrat on most of the controversial issues, yet
support oil development too. Her interest is in satisfying cross over
voters and cross dressers too, rather than any sort of concern about
the fate of the national budget or the very poor of the U.S.A.
Germans Against New Russian Sanctions; Fallout from U.S. Decision
Polls
show that the majority of Germans; the EU leadership in effect, are
against the new U.S. sanctions forced by congress upon Russia. They
were an unnecessary and belligerent step toward resurrecting the cold
war.
Most
people want good Russia-Trump relations rather than bad. The Democrat
party requires a foreign villain however, and Russia is the choice.
That probably works well for Democrat party leadership in the Harvard
Business School Alumni network too. They wanted to pick over the
carcass of the old Soviet Union like it was a thanksgiving turkey,
and there are still plenty of sandwiches remaining.
For
the United States the sanctions will have the consequence of drawing
Europe and Russia closer together. The tectonic plates of the two
regions will slide over one another and raise a new Alps (only joking
here). Russian and European economies can work together along with
China to leave the US. as a rather daft 3rd party and
outsider unable to actually have an independent, non-fossil fuel
based energy infrastructure and economics, gasping for breath,
desirous of new Russian rockets to take them to the moon.
Seriously
though, the sanctions should be ended rather than increased. The
U.S.A. will be the loser as it builds new problems over-there.
29 July 2017
Alaska D.E.C. Should Closely Monitor Nitrogen Sources for Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers
There
are a number of ways that human activity increase nitrogen running
off into rivers. Dead zones can develop with too much nitrogen build
up and that is bad for fishing.
In
the long run, not just over-fishing and direct habitat destruction
from road building and mining activity bring ruin to fisheries,
nitrogen as well as acidification each challenge life in rivers and
possibly oceans to exist.
It
is easy to imagine a great river like the Yukon accumulating over
time myriad new sources of nitrogen input from farming and
fertilizer, auto exhaust etc. Downstream the Bering Sea could be the
immediate casualty as well as the river itself. It would be great if
public land use designers could anticipate these temporal
‘externalities’ to various business and recreational activity
that bring about dead zones in the long run.
Astronauts Can Excrete Their Own Cosmic Ray Shield in Space
Manure can produce heat in deep quantity. If thick enough surrounding a water tank it can heat the water even in Siberia. In space, human manure can be produced by astronaughts and used to screen out harmful cosmic rays. Gradually filling the empty space between bulkheads on a space station, with human manure, as food stores are depleted the cosmic ray shield ca be completed.
Cosmic rays may be stopped by a 15' thick barrier of water or ice. Frozen manure should work equally well
If the space-ship is a 2001-style circle with spokes and the manure fills the outer edge, it might be adapted to be a large electricity-producing alternator with a complex of magnetic coils around a central alternator. If enough mass is built into the perimeter shield wall and the wheel is rotating quickly enough maybe some artifical gravity could be made.
Cosmic rays may be stopped by a 15' thick barrier of water or ice. Frozen manure should work equally well
If the space-ship is a 2001-style circle with spokes and the manure fills the outer edge, it might be adapted to be a large electricity-producing alternator with a complex of magnetic coils around a central alternator. If enough mass is built into the perimeter shield wall and the wheel is rotating quickly enough maybe some artifical gravity could be made.
Retribution for the High Priestess of the OIl god in Alaska
Murkowski
Put Alaska on Wrong Side of Administration and Repubican Party
Retribution
for Senator Murkowski’s now vote on the repeal of Obamacare put
Alaska on the wrong side of the Republican administration the next
four years. With just 23,000 enrolled in Obamacare in Alaska it is
questionable if placing the interests of a tiny minority above that
of the nation was really a good idea. There probably were alternative
ways to provide medical services to those people.
The
President has indicated a willingness to exact retribution. Maybe
Alaskan-interest votes in Congress the next few years will fall flat
as Republicans remember the Mankowski vote that was critical for the
fail of repeal. Republicans should have expected the Senator’s vote
though since she is elected by Democrats in Alaska that recognize one
of their own.
President
Trump’s best target for revenge is of course revenue sharing that
he can delay or cancel, redistribute to build the wall with solar
panels. Beyond that canceling any plans for expansion of the oil
patch in Alaska on federal lands is a possible method. If President
Trump really wants to hurt the Alaska Murkowski people he can channel
all federal energy support to wind, solar, fuel cells and especially
geothermal power development in Alaska. Working against the
oil-people in Alaska is the best way to get someone besides Lisa
Murkowski elected in the next cycle. In fact that’s about the only
way. Alaska politicians are like Neanderthals that worship the oil
god. She is a high priestess of devotees, and if they discern the oil
god is unhappy with her performance she will be cancelled.
Sen. Murkowski fundamentally is a democrat with loyalty to oil and global warming. She had to vote with Democrats to get democrats to help re-elect her. Republicans are paying the price for not electing Joe Miller or the next one (who was that guy?), yet the media like her, legal dope, homosexual marriage, abortion and cold war with Russia too. She probably won't even protect the Yukon and Bering Sea from increasing nitrogen input and those dead zones for fish that follow.
Tripling the V.A. from 9 million to 30 million Americans served and expanding federal support to community clinics for the poor (the latter was in the bill) is better for the poor than Obama-Nixon care. When Nixon suggested corporate health insurance back in the day, Demos wanted a British style universal hospital plan. Republicans in the Senate are likely to remember Sen. Murkowski's vote a decade or so. Bad timing for an era with Republicans in the White House and Congress.
Sen. Murkowski fundamentally is a democrat with loyalty to oil and global warming. She had to vote with Democrats to get democrats to help re-elect her. Republicans are paying the price for not electing Joe Miller or the next one (who was that guy?), yet the media like her, legal dope, homosexual marriage, abortion and cold war with Russia too. She probably won't even protect the Yukon and Bering Sea from increasing nitrogen input and those dead zones for fish that follow.
Tripling the V.A. from 9 million to 30 million Americans served and expanding federal support to community clinics for the poor (the latter was in the bill) is better for the poor than Obama-Nixon care. When Nixon suggested corporate health insurance back in the day, Demos wanted a British style universal hospital plan. Republicans in the Senate are likely to remember Sen. Murkowski's vote a decade or so. Bad timing for an era with Republicans in the White House and Congress.
28 July 2017
Do E-Cars Need Extended Range Battery Cart?
Tesla Model 3 and the Chevy Volt are fine e-cars and close to being affordable, yet they probably should be able to tow a two-wheeled e-charge battery cart to double the range of the vehicle, or even have fuel cell elements to make elecricity at remote locations.
People used to take extra gas in jerry cans with them. E Cars should be able to recharge themselves if they need to, such as if driving from Watson Lake past Destruction Bay to Beaver Creek.
https://www.torquenews.com/1/how-buy-tesla-model-3-only-25000-california-cost-comparison
People used to take extra gas in jerry cans with them. E Cars should be able to recharge themselves if they need to, such as if driving from Watson Lake past Destruction Bay to Beaver Creek.
https://www.torquenews.com/1/how-buy-tesla-model-3-only-25000-california-cost-comparison
27 July 2017
For Profit Prisons- Corrupt or Not?
Fundamentally arresting the innocent or violating constitutional rights of individuals for the economic advantageof the corrupt seems to be the largest problem. Yet I disagree that privately operated prisons are inherently evil, though I am no expert.
If the Judiciary were privately run then their would be an enourmous problem that ends democracy I would think. Yet private contractors responding to government contracts should create efficiency, and the contracts need not be extended if their performance was poor.
Maybe the largest problem is that the government writes poor contracts that don't reward private prisons for performance or take away money for high recidivism rates. Rpsions that produce excelent 'graduates' should be rewarded.
The private sector is supposed to produce better products or services through competition and the profit motive. If government officials writing contracts are stupid or corrupt they wouldn't even know what sort of results to reward or penalize.
Governments like to expand in size too. Government jobs are fundamentally the best-paying and safest bet for ordinary people to work for with good retirement and health benefits, good pay and easy hours. Building more public prisons staffed by union workers is very expensive and difficult to change or close too-probably more difficult to shut down than a private prison.
The corruption of the old south before the end of peopnage, involuntary servitude, share cropping, work gangs and reconstruction era neo-slavery in for-profit subjegation was a terible offense against democracy. Plainly history shows that different cultures merging can be brutal and slow to change. Before modern technology it was challenging even to communicate well from city to city for many people. That social isolation allowed the corrupt to flourish and corrupt organizations to prosper. Nearly all human social organizations seek to increase in size and power. People occupy roles in organizations with inertai drive seeking to be materially rewarded and secure.
Free enterprise given ome liberty to experiement with the means and methods to deliver select reform criteria may produce better results than govenrmnet thinkers that have largely failed to generate satisfactory results so far.
Many have noted that drug dealers often called low level go to jail a lot. No one has commented that illegual mind-altering drugs cause brain damage in people, and that altered brains and thought can drive people to commit crimes-even if they are not drug sales crimes. Stopping the epidemic of brain damage; opiod use cause brain damage and even marijuana is believed to damage white matter-the corpus callosum connecting the haves of the brain together.
Science Wrong About the Bible Again (On Canaanites)
A
Science article claims the Bible says the Canaanites were wiped out,
and scientists have examined D.N.A. from the era showing that
millions of people exist descended from Canaanites. They want to
prove the Bible wrong- an unscientific motive that creates glee in
the godless atheist left branch of scientists (maybe a majority).
Scientists
often interpret scripture in a way that suits them in order to refute
it. In other words they create a straw man fallacy and beat that.
In Deuteronomy God commands the Chosen people to wipe out the sinful nations- 7 of them, already occupying the land that today is known as Israel. It was made plain that the Jews weren't supposed to fraternize or merge with the Canaanites even a little bit-hence the harsh language. Reason and scripture would indicate there would be lots of survivors. The Jews just couldn’t perfectly fulfill divine commands in the case as elsewhere. In
Incidentally
the 7 Canaanite cities represent 7 sins. Canaanite is said to mean
‘merchants’. I suppose one could compare that to Wall Street. I
will post the passage about the order...
Deuteronomy 7King James Version (KJV)
"7 When
the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither
thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And
when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither
shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For
they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled
against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But
thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
6 For
thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did
not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in
number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But
because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the
oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought
you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know
therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And
repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou
shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore
it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep,
and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the
covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And
he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also
bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and
thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee."
It's lucky that scientists don't actually read the Bible, or know that in Isaiah 17:9 it says that the Moabites were driven away leaving because of desolation. Moab was another problem nation adjacent to the lost Canaanite ctiy-nations (7 nations wiped out).
Even if Israel had defeated and destroyed as many Canaanites as they could during the conquest, there would still have been numerous rural Canaanite survivors that would have decided moving away is a good idea. I feel sure that God new the Jews could not accomplish genocide; not even having tracking drones to blast escaping fugitives.
Some scientists should use a little reason when addressing the Bible, and at least have a fair idea what's in it-even if not what it means, and try using a Google search before publishing in prestigious scientific journals.
Isaiah 17:9-11King James Version (KJV)
"9 In
that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel:
and there shall be desolation.
10 Because
thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant
pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In
the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow."
That Chapter of U.S. History Most Don't Know
Usually I don't watch T.V. So I missed one interesting P.B.S. documentary on a form of slavery that continued after the civil war, in the south. What happened was prisons for profit were invented, and freed slaves having a hard time getting a job were often snared for vagrancy or other petty offenses and given crazy sentences on the chain gang for a sheriff or leased to mining and other corporations.
http://www.pbs.org/show/slavery-another-name/
That was a big business and continued until 1923...a little too recently.
Humanity has always discovered ways to procure cheap or free labor. Illegal aliens are the big item now for exploiters looking to pay below legal minimum wage.
The mortality rate of the neo-slaved blacks (it was usually black labor) was nearly 50%. As someone pointed out, slave owners cared about their investment staying alive somewhat, while leased slaves provided by for-profit legal procurers might have been regarded as nearly disposable since leased workers could be replaced for free.
http://www.pbs.org/show/slavery-another-name/
That was a big business and continued until 1923...a little too recently.
Humanity has always discovered ways to procure cheap or free labor. Illegal aliens are the big item now for exploiters looking to pay below legal minimum wage.
The mortality rate of the neo-slaved blacks (it was usually black labor) was nearly 50%. As someone pointed out, slave owners cared about their investment staying alive somewhat, while leased slaves provided by for-profit legal procurers might have been regarded as nearly disposable since leased workers could be replaced for free.
26 July 2017
President Trump isn't a Team Player
Donald
Trump is a lone-wold capitalist to such an extent that he is willing
to publicly attack a cabinet member; A.G. Sessions, without his
election would have been improbable. At a time in the campaign when
much of the nation including the Harvard Business Review believed
Trump was losing for all of his wild talk, Senator Sessions was one
of the very few credible supporters he had.
Being
a strong individual is most often a good thing, yet in criticizing
Sessions as an extension of his own defense from various attackers
and accusers the President has failed to discern friend from foe.
In
recusing himself A.G. Sessions put himself beyond creating an
impression of a conflict of interest. President Trump seems to want
to attack and fire people to end the Russia problem when the only
solid way is to let the Mueller investigation take its course and to
let the Congress approve his new F.B.I. Director in due time, with
due diligence, as if the government was working normally and no
urgency existed for the President to cover up pigeon drops and sex
trysts with Russian agents smeared in caviar.
Jeff
Sessions has tried to stand by the President and do what is right
regarding public interest in the probably specious Russia claims, yet
the President seems no teamwork anywhere that he should work with and
just enemies down the tube, like a bull with tunnel vision kicking
against the pricks.
The really hostile media love it as the President himself pours gasoline on the flames of those seeking to politically burn him at the stake.
On Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement is used to
control the violent, to protect the vulnerable and to prevent
communication amongst organized crime and revolutionaries seeking to
destroy the state.
I should say that I disagree with the move against solitary confinement and the opinion that ending it would be a good thing. Having spent quite a lot of time myself in social isolation for various reasons, I highly value time alone at least when not starving or in pain from toothaches or other health issues.
One may be isolated walking down a crowded street as one is aware that so many people are rather thoughtless proles going about their lives without philosophical examination. One may discover that people are often as dehumanized as rude robots going about their commercial roles. One may feel relief in being absent from the daily hate.
Perhaps women and organized crime dislike isolation and solitude more than men with good books to read. Maybe the educated enjoy solitude more than political activists such as the lady that made the two videos.
Incarceration with human rights taken away of freedom is the great offense, and that must be done with grave concern for justice, while solitary confinement can be made, with modern technology a very positive experience for many. It is the lack of sober moderation in the configuration of solitary confinement criteria that brings it to crash or ineffectively reform prisoners. Just as in rash or extreme aircraft design that might crash a product when flown, it is not useful to end a fundamentally good idea because the delivery or activation was badly or ineffectively put together.
With the right software and hardware provided to a captive in isolation he or she might not even feel very isolated. I think the designers of Eastern State Prison were basically on the right track yet a couple of centuries pre-mature. Saturated with a wealth of carefully screened internet programs prisoners might learn a tremendous amount of their own free will. Maybe a prison-safe virtual reality headset cout let those in isloation visit Mars.
In the United States much is made by the left of the racial disparity between blacks, whites and Hispanics. Consider though that ending slavery was something like ending feudalism centuries before. Millions were thrown into a new social and property paradigm. In the United States that mass economic anomie occurred again with the end of Jim Crow laws, and black Americans had no great and general intellectual and professional institutions or structure to guide the young.
Consider also that in the past 20 years more than 90% of U.S. population growth has been non-white. The media age of white women is nearly beyond child bearing age while that of Hispanics in right in the prime. With white society aging and a minority of children being born are white, it is not unreasonable to expect that a youthful, vigorous and under-educated population including millions of immigrants with poor English language skills would have a majority of the prison population.
I suppose the question is to what extent those Americans of fairly sedentary European cultural origin historically should be concerned about the future of an emerging non-white majority that is restive, desirous of material wealth and social power, and less concerned about the well-being of the ecosphere.
Another point of interet interest is that a godless society led by leftist evolutionists, and in the future with larger number of Muslim immigrants, may not share Christian values such as were found in American white culture until recent times when the left especially waged social war upon it.
Maybe the most offensive thing about the paradigm of imprisonment is that it might be thought good to force behavioral modification of subjects rather than to provide them the tools and resources to change voluntarily. The idea is not good, yet good ideas that were premature in delivery should not be discarded arbitrarily.
I should say that I disagree with the move against solitary confinement and the opinion that ending it would be a good thing. Having spent quite a lot of time myself in social isolation for various reasons, I highly value time alone at least when not starving or in pain from toothaches or other health issues.
One may be isolated walking down a crowded street as one is aware that so many people are rather thoughtless proles going about their lives without philosophical examination. One may discover that people are often as dehumanized as rude robots going about their commercial roles. One may feel relief in being absent from the daily hate.
Perhaps women and organized crime dislike isolation and solitude more than men with good books to read. Maybe the educated enjoy solitude more than political activists such as the lady that made the two videos.
Incarceration with human rights taken away of freedom is the great offense, and that must be done with grave concern for justice, while solitary confinement can be made, with modern technology a very positive experience for many. It is the lack of sober moderation in the configuration of solitary confinement criteria that brings it to crash or ineffectively reform prisoners. Just as in rash or extreme aircraft design that might crash a product when flown, it is not useful to end a fundamentally good idea because the delivery or activation was badly or ineffectively put together.
With the right software and hardware provided to a captive in isolation he or she might not even feel very isolated. I think the designers of Eastern State Prison were basically on the right track yet a couple of centuries pre-mature. Saturated with a wealth of carefully screened internet programs prisoners might learn a tremendous amount of their own free will. Maybe a prison-safe virtual reality headset cout let those in isloation visit Mars.
In the United States much is made by the left of the racial disparity between blacks, whites and Hispanics. Consider though that ending slavery was something like ending feudalism centuries before. Millions were thrown into a new social and property paradigm. In the United States that mass economic anomie occurred again with the end of Jim Crow laws, and black Americans had no great and general intellectual and professional institutions or structure to guide the young.
Consider also that in the past 20 years more than 90% of U.S. population growth has been non-white. The media age of white women is nearly beyond child bearing age while that of Hispanics in right in the prime. With white society aging and a minority of children being born are white, it is not unreasonable to expect that a youthful, vigorous and under-educated population including millions of immigrants with poor English language skills would have a majority of the prison population.
I suppose the question is to what extent those Americans of fairly sedentary European cultural origin historically should be concerned about the future of an emerging non-white majority that is restive, desirous of material wealth and social power, and less concerned about the well-being of the ecosphere.
Another point of interet interest is that a godless society led by leftist evolutionists, and in the future with larger number of Muslim immigrants, may not share Christian values such as were found in American white culture until recent times when the left especially waged social war upon it.
Maybe the most offensive thing about the paradigm of imprisonment is that it might be thought good to force behavioral modification of subjects rather than to provide them the tools and resources to change voluntarily. The idea is not good, yet good ideas that were premature in delivery should not be discarded arbitrarily.
Finally One Nation Will Ban Sales of New Fossil Fuel Burning Cars
Britain
took the first step toward banning sales of new fossil fuel vehicles,
finally leading where others fear to tread. Of course the measure
won’t start until the present generation of politicians are mostly
dead (in 2040). Even so right-thinking nations that honor Churchill
instead of Hitler’s legacy should line up with Britain as an ally
of Earth and ecospheric sustainability instead of the new Nazis
building an atmospheric gas chamber for those to poor to move
off-whirld and genetically re-engineered dinosaurs that vote
Democrat.
If Trump Was Really Crazy (Trump vs Mayweather)
The
American Psychoanalytic Association said that its members no longer
need to follow the Goldwater Rule and are free to talk about Donald
Trump's real or imagined mental state. It's good to know that
psychiatrist can call a crazy a crazy, a spade a spade or a political
foe crazy.
Donald
Trump seems to be crazy in the sense that he tends to punch and
counter punch verbally a lot against political and economic rivals
and those he wants to subordinate coercively. It is hard to call that
really crazy. Its like someone that will always punch someone that
hits them, and occasionally throw a first strike. Probably the President showers and bathes several times a year and hasn't a distinctive body odur.
One
might ask however, if President Trump is said to be a mental in a
state, can it make any difference in comparison to the usual politics
of Washington? Besides, if the President is really a member of the
open air lunatic asylum of the U.S.A. known as a psych nigger
plantation would it be constitutional to discriminate against the
President for being crazy? The American Disabilities Act is more
often observed in theory than reality, and it is hard for people with
labels to find employment unless providing a mea culpa for craziness.
If
the President admits he is crazy will the media quit with the Russia
probes? It the American Psychiatric Association has a majority of
crazy members does that controvert their finding at all? If the media
is the most crazy and dopish of all the shingle scams with trickery,
sophist speech and collusion, are they immune from recognition as
criminally insane lunatics now and then?
25 July 2017
The Brideswell Prisons
in 1655 the first 'house of correction, named the Brideswell, was built in London to put 'idlers, vagabonds' and sundry poor people thought to be up to no good, to forced work and incarceration. Numerous such facilities were built around England. According to one article the distinction between those 'poorhouses' and prisons was abolished in 1865.
Karl Marx, a fair social observer, commented in Das Kapital that a vast number of rural people were kicked off rural holdings to be forced into the city to work in factories of the industrial revolution. That would have increased problems of urban life, social strife and poverty obviously.
In the United States, in New York, a very famous Brideswell Prison was built by the British to incarcerate American prisoners of war with extreme and harsh conditions. The Provost Marshall of British prisoners admitted straving 2000 patriots to death and executing 275 outright for being obnoxious persons.
The Brits reopened the prison during the War of 1812 when they occupied N.Y.C.
ref. http://www.aaronburrassociation.org/bridewell_prison.htm
Arron Burr fled to avoid being incarcerated in the Brideswell.
With Rose Aboard Shouldn't Irving Stay WIth Cavs a Year?
The Cavs with James, Rose and Love could make a serious run at the title with Kyrie Irving aboard too. If he wants to be well known, as Scottie Pipin was with the Bulls , or Dennis Rodman, he ought to stay with James a year and win a title.
Some may have been put off by being in Michael Jordan's shadow however the really good players were never bothered by such concerns. For them winning was everything.
If it all falls through in a year then Irving should think about getting traded to Sacramento or Memphis to be a star.
Some may have been put off by being in Michael Jordan's shadow however the really good players were never bothered by such concerns. For them winning was everything.
If it all falls through in a year then Irving should think about getting traded to Sacramento or Memphis to be a star.
Sketching the Ancient History of Prisons
Prisons were not
too rare in ancient times yet to the extent they were it was
because only select classes could be imprisoned . As democracy spread
the franchise of imprisonment increased too replacing former forced
labor, serfdom, slavery and death as punishments for the masses from
above. A modern understanding of what prisons are may distort the
view of history though. One recalls the Apostle Paul's time in prison
as well as John the Baptist. Prisons occupy a niche however for
political systems that must treat a select class of subjects or
citizens with some human rights, and not just send them into slavery
or the slave galleys, salt mine until death or wherever the
authorities sent them.
The Romans developed prisons
and a famous one was the Mamertine Prison created by Ancus Marius in
640 a.d., and was in a sewer and dungeons beneath Rome.In the Middle Ages numerous prisons existed where hostages and subjects were kept by the ruling class for various reasons. Famous prisons in England included the dungeons of Pontefraact Castle mentioned by Shakespeare in Richard III and Caernarfon Castle's dungeons established in the 13th century. Switzerland had the notorius Chillon Castle dungeon and of course during the 16th and 17th centuries the Bastille Prison in Paris that had been converted from a fort.
Some local gaols or jails kept prisoners for a very long time. The author John Bunyan was kept in the local Bedford town gaol for a dozen years for preaching without a license. Butyrka prison in Moscow is referenced as existing in the 1600s and probably was used to incarcerate individuals from social classes that could not be sent to forced labor camps or converted into serfs. Chateau d'If in France held religious and political prisoners from 1634 to apprx. 1899. One shouldn't overlook the Tower of London or lesser known places of captivity such as Warwick Castle.
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Here and there pointillist continua build rowing the skiff clambering over the road staying in shadows until spring insouciant compact snow ...
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Upgrading standard hard-plastic Halloween masks with eye covering and nose and mouth filters probably would substantially reduce the odds of...
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President Trump made a statement today that Ukraine can't win just being defensive. He said offense is necessary to win a war. He also...


