1/30/16

Hillary Loose-Latched Top Secret U.S. Data on Private E-Mail

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton evidently loose-latched national security material sending top secret data with her unsecured private email server. Thirty-five pages were so highly classified that they cannot ever be divulged to anyone besides the Chinese hackers that were probably all over her email account since she was one of the highest priority targets on Earth for hacking besides I suppose, the Federal Reserve.

Typically Clinton's response was a categorical denial and transference of blame; she said it was the fault of bureaucrats for classifying the data too high. Sandy Berger, the Clinton's national security (now deceased) should have used that excuse when caught sneaking classified material from the national archives. Clinton's former personal attorney while in the White House-Vince Foster, suicided before he might be able to testify about how Hillary's diary disappeared for two years to reappear one morning on a desk in the White House in plain sight.


One doesn't want to make mountains out of molehills obviously, yet the Crittendonization of national security is of dubious benefit to Americans.





1/29/16

Labor Exhaust of Southern History


The battle to get single line spacing between paragraphs is tough, so
The history of cheap labor in the American south I suppose still exists with the influx of illegal aliens, yet that has no meaningful comparison to the southern slavery tradition with class segregation. the north fought the south to defeat the creep of aristocracy that threatened whites too, yet the whites of the south tended to support the established power that owned most of the slaves as a kind of oligarchy that Socrates or Plato might have thought well of.
Today the southern comfort for the middle class of Texas seems to be a kind of mediocrity with some excellence of course wherein whites need only lift weights somewhat in youth to get a full paying job. people should not be afraid to be smart, or distance runners instead of being muscular as a graduate of a state penitentiary. Work is a virtue, yet the unexamined life and uncreativity making one defend and automobile-stick frame expansion culture at the cost of environment displacement is not.. The construction industry and expansion of new neighborhoods of virtual 400,000 row homes provides Dallas and points north a present and future, while the broadcast media seems like a kind of ad hoc clan support coordinating the balance of power that exists rather easily between the races.
Some unthinking white guys take for granted that one must be like them entirely economically speaking with no brain or change desired or required. Many Hispanics dropped out of school to work in the building trade having no faith in the advantages of higher education. Education for white guys is no great advantage unless it is very technically specialized.  Straight white males are a real American minority in the post-affirmative action era realignment and can be unemployed forever with a four-year degree and even graduate education. I hope to find work painting a house, or being sedentary in simple unchallenging post able to afford a bucket of the Colonel's spicy chicken now and then, when not trying to write something after work.
In times past slave labor was how one differentiated oneself as a wealthy individual. large homes had many slaves from the Egyptian and Roman era to the present. After mechanization made that obsolete much of society knew not how to adapt to the need for a new social egalitarianism accentuating the positive advantages of democracy stressing the pursuit of individual excellence and creativity rather than class supremacy. I think many Americans including those newly arrived to social empowerment have a hard time letting that go.
There was a fellow from Connecticut that moved to Sherman Texas before the civil war and sided with the rebels. He built himself a fine house, or perhaps cheap labor built it. Capt. Birge was unlucky not to have got a Colonel title before his name, yet what the heck.

The Birge mansion

1/28/16

Hunting Seasons for Cattle on U.S. Public Lands?

Public lands of the U.S. Government should have some hunting opportunities for all non-human life on them unless they are a threatened species, an endangered species., or a specific population is necessary for maintaining balanced ecospheric health. Cattle on public lands unless an endangered species should be declared public domain and given over to regular game management for hunters.

Public ranging cattle could comprise a health threat to homeless people as blood media repositories of West Nile virus and other communicable diseases. Vast herds of domesticated bovines may be blood swamps of disease, and the owners including the public should be held accountable. Hunting down the cattle on public lands should be a priority of the center for disease control in Atlanta. Any cattle allowed to exist as an endangering to human health species should be carefully screened annually and certified as disease-free before being released as eligible for hunting season.

Much of the debate about the right of royal prerogative for elite ranchers to run cattle on public land for free forage neglects the existential facts of life; all animals on public lands are in the public domain and subject to federal management. Hence the public has a right to hunt free ranging cattle on public lands in regular hunting order. Fall hunting season should include the harvest of reasonable numbers of non-endangered species cattle in time for thanksgiving dinner.

Cattle that inadvertently stray or are misled from private land to the public should be given a grace period of 2 or 3 days to leave the hunting ground. With the tracking chips implanted in cattle there is little excuse for their presence upon public land unless they too wish to take their chances in the wild rather than meet certain death after a brief life of 2 or 3 years of being prepped for harvest.

In order to help pay off the U.S. public debt and provide meat for hamburgers of the poor yearning for barbecue a cattle hunting permit should be sold for about $100. maintaining a reasonable cattle population to keep a hunting season viable isn't a required tasks for the government, yet since there is presently an adequate cattle supply it is an opportunity for the government to serve the public rather than special, ersatz royal interests.



1/27/16

Megyn Kelly Upstaged Presidential Debate

Though affirmative action stars regard their class interests as more important than those of the nation, or at least feel their class self-interests the sole meaningful politics, it is unfortunate when broadcast media people like Megyn Kelly become the issue rather than the candidates interacting amongst themselves for the benefit of the voters.

If Fox were responsible it could have used a public domain text speech synthesizer read the debate questions. The questions could have been selected with approval from the candidates as juries are selected with each side free to disqualify a few, and when the candidates time was up the microphones should go silent. 

The public then watches the spectacle, along with the Megyn Kellys of the world.

Fox's making an entertainment event of the debate is in a way an assertion of the hegemony the broadcast media has over the political process...it wants someone corrupted good enough for corporatism and the new world order.

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