Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Bill to Tax the Internet Marketplace

Recently I wrote to Sen. Murkowski on the unjust effort of the federal government to tax poor Internet entrepreneurs trying to eek out a few dollars. She replied...

"On May 6, 2013, I voted against S. 743 because I believe this legislation unfairly infringes upon state's sovereign rights, exposing online sellers to other states' sales tax requirements.  Additionally, I have heard from business owners across Alaska who explained to me the time-consuming expense of complying with sales tax laws for every jurisdiction in this country

For states like Alaska who have chosen not to have a statewide sales tax, this bill creates an unlevel playing field among other states with sales taxes. Now is the wrong time to create additional regulatory burdens and paperwork for our small businesses and entrepreneurs, but despite my vote against the bill, S. 743 passed the Senate by a vote of 69-27. The bill has now been sent to the House. "

image credit: official congressional phtotgraph

First Black Woman Harvard Undergrad Dean Pressurized into Quitting

The first black woman to be an undergraduate dean at Harvard University resigned under faculty pressure. Evelynn Hammond admitted checking faculty e-mail topics in an effort to discover the source of student cheating on take-out exams. Apparently faculty e-mail at Harvard traditionally is regarded as sacred and highly classified to protect the innocent, insider tips, sex favor trading for grades, special conspiracies or communications with foreign governments if anything such exists. Ms. Hammond didn't say if she discovered anything interesting among Harvard faculty-of-interest email, yet one wonders

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/dean-release-july/

Ms. Hammond will stay on the faculty herself, and hopefully will use some kind of top-shelf encryption software for her own email.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/education/harvard-dean-in-e-mail-controversy-to-step-down.html?_r=0

Quantum Entanglement; Questions of Causality and Time of Bosons in an Electromagnetic Field

Physicists developed a way to use entangled pairs of photons to determine qualities of an additional pair of photons. It seems to me something like determining a logical contrapositive state of quantum wavelets by determining the values of the initial bound pairs. The new trick is in making a relation between particles that don't exist at the same time. So can there be other logical relationships determined in such ways, and what would be the limits to structural construction complexity?

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/physicists-create-quantum-link-b.html?ref=hp

One wonders of the relationship of quanta such as photons (that are bosons and carriers of force in an electromagnetic field) to causality and time. Perhaps very small nearly mass-less units of force in low number have so few features they are able to have time order inconsequentiality. Not enough mass to be disordered by entropy?

Could photons for quantum entanglement experiments in an electromagnetic field or fields such as exist on Earth borrow data and ordered structure from those fields to qualify and 'sponsor' entangled quanta?

Physicists Invent A New Quantum Entanglement Derivative

Physicists developed a way to use entangled pairs of photons to determine qualities of an additional pair of photons. It seems to me something like determining a logical contrapositive state of quantum wavelets by determining the values of the initial bound pairs. The new trick is in making a relation between particles that don't exist at the same time. So can there be other logical relationships determined in such ways, and what would be the limits to structural construction complexity?

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/physicists-create-quantum-link-b.html?ref=hp

Remember Building 7, Thermite, Melting Point of Steel, Temperature of Burning Jet Fuel etc.

Recently I read a novel written in 2011 named The Grim Reaper about a bio-war apocalypse in New York City. There were several interesting references to historical things in that book pertaining to the 9-11 2001 event that I wasn't aware of, so I included some of those here.

http://rememberbuilding7.org/  Building 7 was a 42-story structure that collapsed as if it had been demolished by experts from within-it wasn't hit by an airplane.  It was the building where the F.T.C. kept information on corrupt Wall Street activities investigations such as Worldcom and Enron.

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc7.html

Evidently jet fuel burns in a flash fire quickly at about 1400 degrees F while steel doesn't melt until 2500 F. So why did the steel frames of the world trade towers melt? Thermite explosives burn at 4500 degrees F, and there were traces/residue of thermite in the world trade tower rubble. A pool of molten steel remained for months in the rubble of the WTC. These are all facts inconsistent with the simple cause of mass structural collapse by airplane crashes.

http://www.ae911truth.org/  Architects and Engineers for Truth 

President of Russia Vladimir Putin sent a warning memo to Vice President Dick Cheney on 6 August 2001 of a planned attack by terrorists with aircraft on the WTC.

http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/EarlyWarnings.shtml A list of foreign intelligence agencies that warned the U.S.A. of the impending attack before 9-11.

image credit U.S. Navy Building 7 C.P.M. Eric TIlford

President Obama's Common Nonsense Immigration Reform Ideas

President Obama's whitehouse.gov website features a 'Common Sense Immigration Reform' article that lacks common sense. The President's ideas reflect the politically correct fantasy paradigm about what America is and who Americans are.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration

"Together we can build a fair, effective and common sense immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."-President Obama

Without letting all U.S. law enforcement officials have the right to arrest and remand to federal custody illegal aliens no fence, border security bill or anything else King Canute might pass as legislation will stop illegal immigration. That is common sense. However many illegal aliens are made legal an equal number of new illegals will arrive to replace them and provide the cheap labor the middle class and rich like so much. Laws of supply and demand actually work and with the President's leadership they work best for the rich and government collectivists.

 It would be possible to build an eco-border barrier zone of salt water desalinization canals across the Mexican border I suppose yet the U.S.A. does not build macro-engineering projects anymore-it's more of a runty era of U.S. history in a moderately brain dead political elite.

The rich broke unions, outsourcing jobs and flooding the nation with cheap immigrant labor after the 1970's ended. The middle class also like cheap workers-California has a two-class society of those with high minimum wages and those working under-the-table at below minimum wages. Sure that's corrupt, yet the illegal aliens shouldn't be here to start with and neither should lawful immigrant cheap labor move over the border. Wages should rise for local, legal workers in the paradigm of labor supply and demand instead..

Common sense is that if 11 to 20 million illegal aliens become legal residents it will be about impossible to filter through those to find newly arriving illegal alien workers. Basically the U.S.A. will admit defeat on border control and just try to arrest drug importers and terrorists, except where some states are developing legalization of illegal drug use I suppose.

With millions of illegals moving toward a lawful work status able to take minimum wage jobs the value of legal labor will become cheaper and wages stagnate for the poor-if they can even get a job competing with younger, healthier former illegal aliens. Well, American citizens earning fewer than $20,000 a year are disposable trash anyway for the middle class, rich and government sinecure collectivists.

What might help would be to cap government employment at 20 years so that informal exclusive social class doesn't get second helpings on tax dollars and instead have to compete in the private enterprise realm they are unfamiliar with to learn a little more about the life of the peons comprising the U.S. populace outside the beltway and optimally massaged statistics of the Department of Labor. In an actual democracy public opportunity to work for the government should be shared more equally than it is now.

Mexico is a good country, and I don't hold it against them that I couldn't find a bonita seniorita when I visited in 1987, yet it can be made much better with eco-conservation, more humanitarian economic development and pressurizing of political and economic interest by slowing down to a trickle illegal migration to the U.S.A.

image credit Whitehouse.gov

Administration Missile Kills of U.S. Citizens WiIthout a Jury Trial is Threat to Security of Individual Civil RIghts

The Obama administration admitted recently that it had killed four U.S. citizens with air launched missile strikes intentionally or unintentionally. That admission to a policy letting the government kill citizens without a jury trial is onerous and anti-democratic. It's definitely a step in the wrong direction as far as classical liberal protection of individual civil liberties, and really not necessary as might Abraham Lincoln have argued in behalf of his largest ever public hanging of first citizens for a reservation revolt during the civil war, or F.D.R. for ordering the internment without trial of Japanese-Americans in California. We hope the Congress gives American citizens at least as much protection from government killing without trial as foreign heads of state.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/23/obama-defends-us-drone-program/

In the Brave New World of corrupt global and network-even collective power the properties of individual civil rights are in decline in favor of mass, collective fiat. The administration has barely reduced the U.S. unemployment rate yet has bailed out the rich, banks and Wall Street without end. In the Obamacare health plan the poor and working poor are left in the cold on the reality of applying Medicare for themselves. If one is injured as a journeyman worker would he or she really get adequate coverage or more realistically get a large bill from the emergency room visit? The taking of human life without necessity is unfortunate; when that human life is American it is a crime if developed without public trial with objective standards applicable to all.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578501360528403172.html

It is not at all reasonable to argue that any American killed by the President's murder-from-the-sky drone program was necessary to prevent loss of American life. While the Homeland Security program isn't well regarded at stopping illegal alien entry, the ingression of terrorists over the border to cache weapons or explosives from Mexico, or able to meaningfully well screen out potential terrorists such as the Tsarnaevs even if warned by the F.S.B. or other foreign intelligence agencies it is necessary to rely upon their law enforcement work rather than to kill Americans abroad with missiles from robotic aircraft.

The Delta Force combined in some sort of BlackOPBop team with elements of the F.B.I. hostage rescue team perhaps helped by the N.S.A. and a high tech Skunk Works for development of technology to arrest Americans abroad wanted for terrorism should be able to capture and return for trial to the U.S.A. U.S. desperados instead of killing them. 

The four easy kills with robotic missile strikes are more of a threat to the security of all U.S. citizens than a reinforcement in many senses, for the security of individual citizens from state terrorism and these days corporate and media terrorism was always at the heart of the progress of civil liberties in the west from the day of The Lord to the U.S. and French revolutions.