Founders Wisdom

Look closely at the 2016 Presidential political map below where Red is Republican and Blue is Democratic voters. The basic reason the Electoral College is important is that history has shown that eventually a country's cities accumulate the most population, money, intellectual concentration, and power that eventually overcomes the rest of the country that supports the cities and their population. This condition always results in strife and destruction of the country as a whole. The senate and Electoral College provides balance between the the country as a whole and the urban centers, as the 2016 map clearly shows.

The Time Has Come

AMENDMENT XXVIII

                                                            (Proposed)

Section 1. The seventeenth and twenty-seventh articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed in their entirety.
Section 2. Senators appointed by their respective State Legislature to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the State Legislature that appointed them for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their appointed office. Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Senator from any source other than from the appointing State Legislature shall be cause for immediate removal from office.
Section 3. Representatives elected to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the Congressional District from which they were elected for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their elected office.  Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Representative from any source other than the electing Congressional District shall be cause for immediate removal from office.  Elected Representatives may serve a maximum of three terms.

Political Polls

Public Political Polling

It is time to consider passing a law making it a crime to publish a political poll. Political polls have become weaponized in order to wage opinion war upon the public. Professional Politicians, and their operatives, use the weaponized polls to create public peer pressure to advance their political goals, at best, and to create positions based on focus groups rather than principle, at worse. If Politicians want to sample public political opinion, they may do so, but by law, they must keep their findings private.

I'm just saying. 

Negative Vibs

It seems to me that our splendid Country is becoming overwhelmed by people whom can only find negative in every positive thing. They are the ones who give dimension to the notion that "Perfection Is The Enemy Of Good."

In other words, if our negative people of today were to have witnessed Jesus deliver his "Sermon On The Mount",  the only thing they would take away from the experience was that Jesus had dirty feet.

Neo Nazis

How can a leader of an advanced nation like Germany be so dumb? Chancellor Angela Merkel, by virtue of her misguided policy of letting the nation of Islam take over her country, has created an opportunity for the reassurance of the Nazis. As we are now beginning to see, her policy of unlimited Islamic immigration has enabled the Neo Nazis to have as issue that resonates with the whole of the German people.  And only the Nazis can ignore the global PC cabal and do what has to be done to rid Germany of the Islamic menace.  Dear God we don't need another Nazi union to deal with. 

Socialized Government Health Care

I am posting this again because, like I wrote in the posting, Obama & Co. wanted a way to get to Socialized Medicine. Obama just announced that he wants a Single Payer (Socialized Medicine) option to the Obama Care Act.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

Poison Pill Obamacare

I believe the decision was made by Obama & Co. that the only way to get to a Government run Universal Healtcare System was to destroy the current healthcare System as a first step. Hence, all of the poison pills in Obamacare (ACA) to do just that. No doubt they will find a way to blame Repubs, but I believe that main target for destruction will be the Insurance Companies. It has already begun. So as you can see, Obamacare was constructed with Political goals, not heathcare goals other than conversion to Single payer. Thats what they told the Country they were doing, and I believe them.

 

The Repubs

The Republican Party weapon of choice to dispatch Donald Trump.

Dems

Ageless Wisdom

A Man marries a Woman with the hope she will never change,
But of course she always changes.
A woman marries a Man with the hope he will change,
But of course he never changes.

From my book:
Flim Flam
http://www.amazon.com/Flim-Flam-Ronald-L-Clark/dp/1598584847/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460135122&sr=1-1&keywords=flim+flam%2C+Ronald+L+Clark

Executive Summary

All of this talk about left leaning and right leaning this or that Supreme Court Justice "interpreting" the US Constitution, misses the point, in my opinion. The US Government is the only Government the world has ever known where the founders fully explained, in writing, the why, how and for what purpose the Constitution is so written. So a Supreme Court Justice needs only to read the Federalist Papers to understand what the words means in the written Constitution. He or She has no need to "interpret" the Constitution as slanting Left or Right. The Constitution has already been fully "interpreted" by the writers and founders in the Federalist Papers.  That is, the written Constitution is only the Executive Summary of the "real" Constitution, which is the Federalist Papers.

Profit Without Ethics, Morals Or Conscience

Business in general, and Corporations, domestic and global in particular, are so driven by Wall Street demand for more and ever more profit that Business would use slave and children labor if they could get by with it. Hey, wait just a moment here. Computers, Automation and Robots are SLAVE LABOR. What was I thinking.

The Coming Age of the Borg, Redux

First there was John Henry matching muscle power with a steam machine. Then we had Garry Kasparov matching wits with IBM's Deep Blue in a thinking contest over a chess board. And now we have Ken Jennings and Brad Ritter matching knowledge with IBM's Watson over the Jeopardy board. We all know what the outcome is going to be. And what this means is we lose more jobs to computers and automation that all of the outsourcing and current job killers combined. The American deep thinkers had better consider what is happening with computers and automation causing a great social change and formulate policies to deal with it or we will become irreverent.

That's right John Henry, Garry Kasparov, Ken Jennings, Brad Ritter, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea:

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

The Coming Age Of The BORG

The Ballad of John Henry, Steel Driving Man

John Henry was hammering on the right side,
The big stream drill on the left,
Before that steam drill could beat him down,
He hammered his fool self to death.

   Who among us could not feel a grudging kinship with the Steel Driving Man, you know, fighting the inevitable with spirit even though the outcome was as certain as death and taxes? Besides, who could feel the slightest affinity for that big mechanical steam drill that was taking a man’s livelihood away and all for the sake of the dollar that some faraway good-smelling Dude laid down so he could make even more dollars without breaking one iota of steel driving sweat.
We all may crack an amused smile at the thought of a real live man actually challenging a steam machine to a steel-driving contest with only his muscle, grit and determination to match the power of steam. We smile, of course, because of the foolish nature of the contest. But then again, I wonder what most contemporary people were thinking and feeling at the time when in 1997 they witnessed a more recent contest between a real live man (Garry Kasparov) challenging a thinking contest with only his brain, grit and determination matched up with the power of billions and billions of silicon switches fastened together with the lifeless software of the chess-playing computer, Deep Blue?
     Somehow I think we probably feel a little differently about the thinking contest due to the contemporary and cognitive nature of the contest. But, I don’t know why! The two contests are identical and the outcomes just as inevitable! Perhaps we don’t even think the chess match was a foolish contest because of the notion that the magnificent organic thinking machine, the human brain, is surely the ultimate cognitive device that no mere machine could ever match. The human brain will surely prevail for all times just like John Henry thought his muscles could surely prevail over the mighty mechanical steam drill even though we now concede our magnificent muscles are no match for lifeless machine power.
   Here is a thought to muss up your day when trying to decide what to do about being outsourced by the machines of automation and all because some faraway good-smelling Dudes are still trying to make more money without breaking a contemporary sweat. John Henry and Garry Kasparov are not the only contestants in a continuing struggle between man and machine that started when Gorg rubbed two sticks together to make fire. We all are front and center in the enduring contest and so will all of our progeny. Research shows that we are loosing far more contemporary jobs to automation than jobs that are lost to distant lands where labor is cheaper and more abundant. Indeed, one of the biggest loss of jobs today is due customer outsourcing.
   What that’s you say? What is customer outsourcing?
    Customer outsourcing is transferring a job that was once done by a paid employee to a paying customer instead. Here is just one minor scenario of customer outsourcing. You drive your rattletrap Chevy to the local gas station emporium where you get out of your seat, pop in and quickly remove your Master Card or Visa (a lot of lost jobs of people taking money, counting money, bookkeeping, accounting, depositing, etc.) and wait for the computer screen to instruct you to continue. After being authorized by a great big computer somewhere that is connected by satellites, relays and God only knows what, lift the pump-handle and pump your gas (more lost jobs of gas attendants). Hell, I’m even checking myself out at the local Wally World and Home Depot and buying stuff off of the Internet by clicking a mouse and causing a massive whirling of untold computers that fetch my latest Ronco gadget, package and ship it without a single paid employee in sight.
   All of this is made possible by technology and (oh no Mr. Bill!) Machines. Because this is a continuing process, it is less noticeable in our everyday, put the meat-on-the-table lives. For example, before the industrial revolution, well over 50% of all people in the country was working on farms while today we produce all of our food needs by less than 1% of the population, i.e., million and millions of jobs lost to machines and we rarely think about the farm job losses as we rant about all of our current jobs going to China, India and machines.
  And the non-physical jobs like engineering, accounting, marketing, research are also being outsourced to machines and cheaper labor, so no one is immune to job loss except the rich (that is if you believe making money off of money constitutes a job).
   I think you get the picture and if you get the picture then you know that contemporary job losses will continue on at an ever-accelerating rate and due mostly to automation (machines). What to do? Hell, I don’t know either but I do know that at some distant point in the future the Cyborgs will have all of the jobs and I really don’t know how humans will make a living. That’s right John Henry:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED

Wisdom For Our "Educated" Youth

97%

Will someone, anyone, please research just who are the "97% of scientists" that say global warming is being caused by mankind's activity. Please list the names of the 97% so that we can ask them how the scientific method supports the settled scientific fact that humans cause global climate change.

Who Are You?

It is more relevance to say,
You are known by the enemies you keep,
than,
Birds of a feather flock together.

No Mean City

Indianapolis, Indiana, 1909.
The motto for the new 1909 City Hall,
"I am, myself, a citizen of no mean city."

Coming of Age

When one finally begins to come to grips with the realization that there are many more years lagging behind you than are looming in front, it causes a reflective pause. And with reflection comes the further realization that you are becoming less relevant every day to those around you. The phone rings less often, less panic consultations take place, and the 250 yard drive is a distant memory.
 Well Buckie, perhaps the time has come for us to step away from the plate, let the new generation swing the bat, and just get the hell out of the way. But most importantly, now might be the time to just relax and ENJOY THE SHOW.

Socialism and Flim Flam

   One of the most enduring mysteries is how Socialism continues to maintain a viable political position in the modern world. I say that because all of the variants of Socialism that have been practiced throughout history have been an unmitigated disaster for every class of Human on this Planet, save one. And the one class of people who exclusively benefits from the practice of Socialism is the Ruling Class. I say that because surely it is well understood that Socialism is the preferred political vehicle to obtain and practice unlimited Political Power with consent and approval of the people.

   And yet, today's educated, inexperienced, and privilliaged youth are embracing Socialism because of the ubiquitous indoctrination by our institutions of learning, even onto the primary and secondary education, that Socialism is the enlightened way for Human social conduct. Other people who are responding positively to Socialism's siren call, are the well meaning, but naive people, who have obtained a burgeoning altruistic streak enabled by a comfortable life brought about by the enduring success of the American way. They naively believe that their hard earned comfortable life should be paid for by sharing their good fortune, and more importantly, other people's fortune, with all regardless if earned or not.

   And then we have those who embrace Socialism because it's promise that all will be equal by forcing a spreading of earned wealth, property and thought to all, regardless of circumstance. These supporters of Socialism are the most strident of all become they are victims of the ancient practice of Flim Flam. Flim Flam only works because there are always dishonest people willing to believe in the promise by those practicing Flim Flam (Socialist and Opportunists) that you can get something for nothing. In other words, Socialists promise that you do not have to earn your way to prosperity, all you have to do is support your Socialist Government to force people who have earned their prosperity to share that prosperity with you. Opportunists also practice Flim Flam by promising "something for nothing" by using the absurd advertising message that "We cheat the other guy, and pass the savings on to you."

This is, in essence, the same message of the Socialist, to wit: "We cheat the other guy, and pass the savings on to you."

   You think I'm off base here. Well then, just listen to and marvel at the support Bernie Sanders is now getting.  

Affluenza

My wife has determined that I have never suffered from Affluenza.