N.B.A. Bans Stirling For Life; Fined Millions

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Stirling was banned for life and fined at least $2.5 million for interactive talk with his girlfriend at the time. She seemed to be bullying Stirling into acquiescing into saying he is racist, yet he said he loved blacks yet didn't want her to bring them to his Clippers games. He said that he had a culture or something to be concerned about. I took that to mean that rich people need to seem morally superior and so he wanted her to remain low-profile and not draw attention to herself with people like Magic Johnson. If one is in the business class and not Hugh Hefner one needs traditionally to seem as square as Bill Gates.

 It is difficult to imagine Donald Stirling in the company of the Puritans so influenced by John Calvin. Even so it is worth recollecting that one of Martin Luther's biggest mistakes was in supporting his friend Phillip of Hesse-The Landgrave's-bigomy. The Landgrave like Frederick the Elector had been very supportive in trying to safely reconcile various German divisions yet the gratitude perhaps went too far.

Albert Einstein-a physical twin of George LeMaitre-a priestly inventor of big bang theory-in making his self-described biggest blunder of adding a cosmological constant to his General Theory of Relativity actual turned out to have been right about that too. Unlike ordinary mortals Einstein was right even when he thought he was wrong.

Well so much for that genuine Stirling error. Evidently the N.B.A. leadership knows that Stirling really meant that his Clipper's games were for white people only and that he didn't want his girlfriend to be seen with blacks even though she is of mixed up race for-herself and for-others because he is a slum lord and so the tape is just good enough for a lifetime ban. At least Pete Rose was supposed top have gambled enough to go to jail.

Now the public can feel safer and recover from the damage Stirling caused with that horrible 9 minute 26 second conversation.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nba-race-furor/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-fined-2-5m-banned-life-nba-n92671

 http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-watch-live-nba-donald-sterling-20140429-dto,0,1366821.story

-note; I have no idea about Stirling's slum lord activities. It seems possible that this episode was an effort to get Stirling because of his social history. Even so the big lie is something that traditionally concerns me at the political level. Hitler, holocaust and global warming deniers, Arabs teaching bad stuff about Jews in elementary school books and so forth use the big lie. It would be difficult for an impartial juror with rudiments of language and logic instruction to find much in the recording that Stirling actually deserves such a suspension for.  At the least public and private speech implicitly are different things.

-post script; Donald Sterling's former girlfirend or former employee said he is not racist...
http://time.com/86690/v-stiviano-says-donald-sterling-is-not-a-racist/

If Sterling isn't racist the broadcast media and N.B.A. are providing an excellent example of corporatism and political correctness in action. It is no wonder that corporate employees make such milk-toast or no political comments and the two parties are the way they are. American corporate employees need to watch everything they say or big brother will herre and demote them.

Will Sanctions Help Russia Detach From Future Dollar Crash?

For more than a decade financial analysts have foreseen the prospect of the crash of the dollar. I wonder if the sanctions on Russia imposed by the administration will help to accelerate the process or if Russia may be better situated to overcome the fiscal mismanagement of D.C. even thought the capable Janet Yeltsin from Wal-Street has taken over the reigns of the federal reserve.

U.S. public debt today is nearly 17.5 trillion dollars. 

Russia may be able to sell it's dollar reserves and develop the ruble as a mid-currency floating it's value on the global stock exchange where investors could buy and sell it though Moscow could print out currency as it liked. The alternatives for Russia might be to buy the Yuan and Euro simultaneously balancing the ruble on a combination of the two.

With a more stable indexed ruble the global financial markets may be able to survive the crash of the possibly over-valued dollar. While Russia is trying to recover the Russian Ukraine following the cold war ending loss signed into being by Boris Yelin it may be able to serve the interest of stabilizing the global currency market.

Donald Sterling Conundrum: Sell Out-Let Clippers Move to Northwest?

The spare basketball team in L.A. owned by an affirmative action language failure plainly should be sold and moved to Boise Idaho to become the N.B.A. Spuds or Mashed.

When Orwellian Ministry of Truth language analysis plainly shows that private language to concubines or whatever isn't appropriate righteous politically correct verbiage fit for T.M.Z. viewers it is time to make the donuts and sell the aloof offshore sailing yacht club to an American city like Boise where potatoes are king.

Even President Obama has weighed in on the topic from somewhere in Malaysia or China or wherever he is keeping tabs on Donald Silverberg from, or whatever his name is.

U.S. Public Debt Today $ 1 7 , 4 4 5 , 2 4 6 , 8 8 7 , 0 8 7 . 1 6

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
 

Sterling's magic johnson troubles with girlfriend and race

After listening to nine minutes of San Diego Clipper's owner Sterling's talk with his girlfriend in which he repeatedly, disgustingly and ingratiatingly says that he loves black people (reminding me of Donald Pleasence in 'Escape From New York' saying 'your the duke') I am not sure that Sterling actually made anything that is a racist comment. With all the who-haw I thought he must have said something about mean flying monkey warriors from the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

Certainly he didn't intend to do anything more than to ask his girlfriend not to 'broadcast'  pictures of herself on Instagram with stars like Magic Johnson who is Afro-American. Instagram could be some sort of Internet hangout I guess-maybe comparable to Twitter. As a philandering old rich white guy that is understandable-why should he want his girlfriend to be a publicity hound drawing attention to herself?
image-James Naismith-Candian inventor of basketball

  It seems in the tape that Sterling's girlfriend is doing her best to frame up a racist paradigm. Sterling doesn't seem to have any solid racist content in his interaction-it seems it's mostly about the lady hanging around people of potentially loose morals-Wilt Chamberlain screwed 25,000 women, and Magic Johnson may have used his magic johnson/electrical banana on a few too. It is worth considering that the paradigm of an N.B.A. owner paying millions and millions of dollars to generally black athletes and perhaps sexing up an attractive Hispanic woman is less a matter of the racist on his media plantation chumping the powerless or a person of interest planning a Mengelish psychological takeover of society  than that of a Comdogger paradigm as contrasted with a Commander. In the realm of vice (in this case meaning informal kitch relationships) things can go wrong that are implicitly undignified.

Plainly pro sports is corrupt with salaries that go far beyond their worth to society. Sterling said nothing about watermelons, Speedy Gonzalez, magic jumping beans, the Old Sawannee River or fried chicken, nor anything about quantum mechanics. With the world environment in decay and unemployed college graduates searching to adapt to fast food restaurant work the public building of sports stadiums and narcissistic neurotic sports media codling attention and exorbitant, 1% pay for pro sports stars is disgusting. Naismith invented a prophylaxis against teen-age wasteland game, and that shouldn't draw the top pay in America. Learning honest work should be more profitable for anyone than learning games. Hoops is not productive-it doesn't build anything at all-its a luxury, entertainment game.

People are starving in some parts of India, the Sudan and Bangladesh now and then and global warming is building. Public colleges and Universities should stop paying for athletes to travel anywhere and sports in colleges should just be intramural. Scholarship should be stressed and no scholarships given to sports students.

If old white men want to play their magic johnsons with women besides their wives enhanced with legal dope, viagra and possibly glow in the dark condoms they should not expect it to be risk free. Adultery isn't a policy of safe sex.

http://extramustard.si.com/2014/04/26/clippers-donald-sterling-racist-comments-girlfriend/

Unintended Economic Consequences, Externalities & Narrow Self-Interest

I wanted to write something about unintended consequences and externalities of the pursuit of narrow self-interest in short range goals that sometimes occur. Governments, corporations and even individuals may generate vast and significant consequences unintentionally.

Slavery in the western hemisphere developed because of the narrow self-interest of producers desirous of cheap labor. The externality was the presence and transcendence of the African descendents of slavery in the Americas today-that's a good thing for heirs of Africa yet it is impossible to use that as an excuse for slavery. It is unlikely that Brits, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese thought that the western hemisphere should have tens of millions of Africans and so used slavery as an opportunity to relocate them.

Cheap labor from Latin America combined with descendents of slaves is also generating the unintended consequence of making American dependents of Europeans a minority. The wealthy seek after the short-term goal of profit without social concern.

The invasion of Europe by Muslim forces of the Ummayad dynasty brought a thousand year war with the west reducing development of Muslim civilization. The counter-productive Muslim effort to assert a planetary theocracy for the prophet of war in submission to Allah has generally reduced the quality of Muslim life and culture. Obama administration effort to be a prophet of homosexual marriage globally may change the Muslim role-unintended consequence.

President Obama is seeking a $10 an hour minimum wage. The unintended consequence would be an accelerated job loss to China. Chinese labor is far cheaper than U.S. labor and will be for some time. Speaker Boehner suggest job training for the unemployed and low wage workers yet it is far cheaper to train Chinese and Indians than Americans-and any jobs that pay well yet can be outsourced to China will be for the next twenty years.

Jobs that cannot be outsourced that are low-tech are filled by illegal aliens and first generation descendents of illegal aliens to a substantial extent. U-6 under-employed Americans are told to get good tech training yet because of the aforementioned reason of outsourcing good jobs and the fact that training is expensive and has no pay while training is going on in some sort of school that prospect is dubious. One can have tech college and academic college degrees and get no work. The there is also the racial and cultural thing-it is tough to get work in Hispanic majority areas if one isn't Hispanic.

Unintended consequences abound in U.S. foreign policy. The Syrian civil war brought more than a 100,000 casualties and the Obama administration supported it in order to remove Bashir Assad and create a democracy. Reasonable people knew that culturally a religious war in that area is a fight to the death and difficult to extinguish. It may be even more difficult to get those people to live together peaceably with a democratic environment. Not even the U.S. Congress is competent on non-partisan development of environmental conservation, full employment and zero illegal alien immigration.

Unintended consequences are presently disregarded in much economic planning. Planning in engineering is regarded as necessary yet in economics it is considered Utopian or illusory. In the age of fracture it is better regarded perhaps by the administration to be a doper driving a car like millions of others without interest in high-speed non-fossil fuel mass transit with local low-impact electronic shuttling through restored wilderness.

An unintended consequence of the contemporary economic practices is the destruction of ecospheric diversity and health. None really intend to destroy it or to create global warming yet they do individually and collectively. President Obama and some congressmen may not intend to harm the Russian and world economic or renew a cold war with Russia over the Ukraine conundrum yet they may. Russia has celebrated it's 1000^th anniversary of growing from Kievian Rus and the President is willing to stipulate that Russia has had some influence in the Ukraine...swell.

Queer behavior may be a right Americans have among themselves, yet it is questionable that queer behavior should reason special legal treatment or be allowed to usurp marriage between sexes as an institution for procreation. It is important to protect the civil rights of all Americans and for Americans to have privacy without social approbation for what they do that isn't illegal in private. It is reasonable to criticize the political codification of queer behavior with laws creating legal fictions for the public to submit to. The unintended consequences of building a queer behavior hegemony socially for the U.S.A. might be anticipated.

Probably there are unintended consequences of Obamacare besides those that have already occurred. It would have been better just to expand the V.A. and community homeless and poor persons clinics networks synthesizing them with synergistic help to serve the uninsured and broke. Obamacare let's the poor of 30 states go without medical or dental coverage. Probably the President didn't intend that.

When the corporate man takes his barbecue holiday to the dry rural forest on a windy weekend and enjoys the prime rib and beer with a hint of biscuit and leaves sparks that start a vast right forest fire a day after he has returned to the city it was an unintended consequence. Even Mrs. O'Leary wasn't entirely aware of the consequence of milking her cow after dark.

Poor Foreign and Domestic Policy Choices Since End of Reagan Era

President Ronald Reagan was an optimist with faith in God. Though his policies wouldn't fit contemporary America his attitude would. Faith and optimism is better that the sardonic greed prevalent in the U.S.A. today.

American political leadership has made a succession of poor foreign and domestic policy choices since the end of the Reagan administration. Two and a half decades of maladroit political leadership has had a substantially deleterious effect upon the status of the United States. The 17 trillion dollar public debt is just one of numerous problems resulting from the failing of Presidential and Congressional leadership. Sadly almost nothing can be done to fix it. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that competent Presidential leadership will arise yet its worth considering a few of the problems anyway.

The obvious choice to prosecute numerous foreign wars against 2^nd world nations for the benefit of corporate contractors instead of finding alternative solutions to serious security issues has brought trillions of dollars of debt and medical obligations. There are far more terrorists in the middle east and North Africa now than before any of the wars or support for rebellions. Afghanistan has been given the best military and intelligence training in the world and after the U.S. forces leave that education probably will be used by terrorists. The U.S. training was immeasurably better than Bin Ladin's Al Qaeda school. Afghanistan may not be as peaceful as Pakistan in the future. The Taliban doesn't need to rule Afghanistan order to receive support for jihad activity.

The continued U.S. reliance on fossil fuels has brought a leadership failure in world environment and technological renewal infrastructure and development of new ways to live on the planet for second and third worlders. Public education has mass produced unrealistic training and job expectations for a generation of Americans without good job prospects as Americans have been political degraded to the same level as the second world employed by global corporations. U.S. politicians of both parties are loyal to globalism rather than Americanism. The broadcast media is owned by global corporations and feed the nation circumstantially retarded programming in support of bad policy.

The corruption of Wall Street, banking and e-trading along wit networking developed some of the worst concentrated wealth and reduction of real free trade in U.S. history. The nation has moved toward an inertial age of fracture that is difficult to change. The health of the national and global ecosphere decline, independence from global networking and vast bureaucracies public and private is difficult etc. Just a few comments here, it would take to much time to go into detail or even list the failure of America to use good sense in foreign and domestic politics and adapt through design to ecologically renewable low-entropy yet high quality economics with actual democracy.