Profuse Propaganda from the Majors This Year

This isn't an in-depth investigative article-just a remark that the media seems full of propaganda this year with inaccuracy and hyperbole or plain falsehoods almost normal. Anything to get people to read or click on an ad.

The Atlantic, normally a respectable publication put out some b.s. today about Trump as Putin's agent and Hillary running officially against Putin. It is full of logic errors and baloney. Its policy opinions are simply wrong besides. Those opinions are good for business aggressors seeking land and territorial expansion that were promulgated by the Clintons and Bushes yek destabilize and divide east and.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-putin-nato/492332/

An example of misdirection was a story about an 'explosion' in Ankara 'just days after the coup'. Readers would check it out and discover that it was actually a house fire. A house fire utting out smoke in Ankara is not a terror or coup related explosion. Yet people would click on and the ad revenues roll in.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ankara-explosion-huge-plume-smoke-8450043

Cruz at Convention; "America is Not Just a Land Mass Between Two Oceans"

Ted Cruz speaking at the Republican national convention spoke emotionally of the slaughtered Dallas policemen and several elementary civics concepts for quite a while. Notably he said that America is not just a land mass between two oceans. He said that the U.S.A. was founded upon five famous words I'd never heard before. I thought he would say "In God We Trust, Amen" or something like that. Instead he "We want to be free." I think that is more suitable for a Mel Gibson movie, the founders probably said things like 'dump the Brits', let's kick their butts' or they can eat sh...

In eloquent language the founders wrote the declaration and constitution, yet they were rugged individualist already free unwilling to be further oppressed by globalists. Ted Cruz got several elementary civics platitudes right and erred in refusing to endorse the Trump candidacy. It evidently is Ted's way or no way...and people will remember that in 2024 if he decides to waste the public's time again.

Scientific Skepticism & Epistemological Nihilism Due to Evolution

Some scientific fans of atheism are epistemological nihilists and unfamiliar with Bishop Berkeley's Three Dialogues. The points about idea-ism aren't new. Berkeley wrote them in 1713. Plato also described the phenomena in a different way in The Cave section of The Republic.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/berkeley1713.pdf

One can find a quantum basis for ideasim. Even so reality is a reference again to all of human experience perceptually. A mountain may have a foundation in the crust of a planet without negating the validity of its summit appearance. Relativity exists not only in plain matter and motion, it exists in all frames including the psychological. The Universe has time and motion as implicit attributes of matter. Perspectives of change occur within a changing paradigm. An ultimate, epistemological ground of being might occur only within spirit that transcends the relativistic virtual reality that's being and becoming.

I enjoyed reading Tegmark's 'The Mathematical Universe' and recommend it. The search for a quantum unit that is fundamental is abstracted to relationships. One may call those numbers I suppose, with ordered relations. It is no less philosophically interesting to consider pure spirit entailing quanta and ordering all space-time existence within spirit. Tegmark doesn't take that sort of approach. Bootstrapping some sort of way for monism to generate pluralism is easier in the mind-spirit of God context than as one-dimensional monads that appeared or existed forever and generate ordinal expanding series even as numbers that do seem odd.

Opportunities for F-35, F-22 If China Declares Air Zone

If China declares an air zone over the China Sea opportunities for air to air combat simulations with a quality air force will present for the U.S. military that haven't occurred in some time. Live drills with real opposition force aircraft are rare opportunities in the modern world. The F-22 and F-35s haven't had enough practice with Mig-29s to determine if they can clear the way through for stealth bombers.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-says-it-could-declare-air-zone-over-south-china-sea/ar-BBuhiQR

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/18/gen-hawk-carlisle-itching-to-send-f-35s-into-isis-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaSHXR9FPjs F-35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=totzfPN4hWQ F-22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzwL_6NuEls Mig-29

With luck China will declare an air exclusivity zone that can be disassembled methodically, and maybe. the Philippines can declare its own air exclusivity zone over the China Sea with the United States as its rental air power for a dollar a year.

China should focus on alternative energy and projects with Warren Buffet's investment entities rather than intimidating S.E. Asians. The Beijing government has not meaningfully put down the North Korean nuclear missile threat and that is not appreciated. It may be that one day those nuclear missile will launch their way rather than west.

Time for Doped Olympics to Heal Schism?

Pro athletes have been known to use dope to enhance performance as have amateurs. Even bike riders use every sort of dope advantage that cannot be traced for a while to get to the finish line first. If there were a special Olympics for dope using athletes and pro sports dope leagues with queer athletes on steroids there is a probability that some people would watch it and everyone concerned with that sort of mess would be happy enough. President Obama could be the godfather of Queer, Doped Olympics and Pro Sports perhaps taking command of FIFA too.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/18/vladimir-putin-olympic-schism-russian-doping-revealed

Melania Trump-Learning From Michelle

If Melania Trump's fine convention speech borrowed from Michelle's 2008 speech, that should be taken as a compliment; the next first lady looked to the present for a role model. Michelle Obama is entirely not to blame for Barrack's bad foreign and domestic policy choices and failures to separate himself from the lawless tendencies of the Black Lives Matter movement that has been looking to blame police officers for years. When President Obama's son that he never had Trayvon Martin was the viral news and protest body the White House just didn't make it plain that mob protest does not complement the legal justice system. Blacks have the highest racial group percentage of convicted felons in America-those people often ‘hate the pigs’, and that evolves through to the B.L.A. movement I would think.

Melania Trump's speech delivery was the main point; she was flawless and engaging in that; a first lady that would be preferable to Zillary's caustic presences with crusty Bill as her first dude mouthpiece teaching student interns how to bake cookies.

 

I suppose their are just so many ways a woman might describe an elephant or donkey as the case may be. It is more a matter the public getting a chance to meet the prospective first lady than to learn about policy details. In either case I think it improbable that either Melania or Michelle wrote their speeches unsupervised if at all.

http://europe.newsweek.com/melania-trump-michelle-obama-plagarism-compare-speeches-full-text-481779

Do two crooked lawyers make a right? Does Hillary plus Bill add up to one honest, forthright lawyer? Whatever Michelle's relation to her own speech was (writing it entirely or not), she did not say that Barack would lead the nation to homosexual marriage and the Middle East to civil wars, 20 trillion dollars of public debt etc.

My Opinion About Alaska Government Budget Failures

The Governor and legislature should be fired, voted out of office, removed from their duties and competent people elected, appointed or otherwise brought in as replacements.

Since the time of ancient Roman politicians and governments have found ways to balance budgets even honorably on occasion. A student of history may recall, perhaps from reading Livy, that the Roman Senate in times of public distress appointed a Dictator for a year at a time to address a present public danger. That is an illustration intended to express the point that other politicians have faced similar and greater challenges and found ways to respond competently. Alaska politicians are not experiencing anything new or unprecedented.

Romans also appointed a master of the horse, yet the military situation is more of a problem for the federal government than the state regarding the budget crisis. The Alaska legislature may not need to find a benevolent dictator to solve the state budget problems, yet the comparison is useful to underscore how ineffective they are at getting the job done.

It would be possible to take extreme economic measures to directly balance the budget if it were really needed. One could just cut the state budget 50% and triage the surviving financial needs. Like poor people that can't afford a home the legislators could meet outside and live in a tent city on some existing state land saving oodles of money. If it is really needed to be cheap they could spend as little as Alaskans in government before the pipeline.

I slept outside on the ground a winter in Anchorage myself and know its quite possible to survive and get written work done. Politicians and constituents could share a coffee over a propane stone and have a sense of shared sacrifice. If they weren't overly comfortable bureaucrats could balance the budget and leave the PFD alone.

If the state of Alaska were hit by a real series of disasters rather than an economic one of their own making they could cut the budget 50% and/or redirect the money to the necessary directions that would address right issues.

For bureaucrats worried about paper, front loaders could stop at various government agencies and collect the stuff in garbage bags and move it into dump trucks. Then it could be removed and transported to some cold storage facility with a vacuum to prevent degradation of material. Everything should already be digitally recorded though, and the paper redundant.