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Not the Republican Party’s Best Week.
Here it is only Wednesday and already in my opinion the Republican Party is have a bad week. I would go so far as to say even their victories will turn out to be Pyrrhic ones. Continue reading
A thought that occurred to me while reading the New Testament.
A while back I was doing a re-read of the Christian bible. I didn’t quite make it through all the prophets there near the end of the Old Testament, but I got through the vast majority of the Old Testament. Continue reading
The Future of Human Sexuality
The most important concept we need to embrace going forward is very simple; innate does not equate with immutable.
Many things about sexuality, human and otherwise, are innate to the individual. A person doesn’t choose their orientation; it is an aspect of their sexuality that is beyond choice and beyond conditioning. Most people think of this as being genetic, but that is a gross simplification and in my opinion erroneous. Continue reading
Where do you belong politically
This was a crude tool, but one I think has it’s merits. It’s graphs where you fall on a political chart based upon your answers to 20 questions.
Here’s my result
The Price of Prohibition
When you mention the word ‘Prohibition’ in a political context most people’s thought fly to the 1920’s, Rum Runners, Al Capone, and the failed great experiment, but that is so much more to legal prohibition that simply alcohol. Continue reading
In Praise of Senator Warren:
Last week I praised conservative/libertarian Senator Rand Paul for his filibuster over this administrations stand on the use of armed drones on American soil. Today I am praising liberal Senator Elizabeth Warren for her stand on the HSBC scandal. (Mega-Bank HSBC has admitted to laundering nearly a billion dollars for Mexican Drug lords, and helping American enemies such as Iran and Cuba evade international sanctions.)
Senator Warren is outranged that not one person involved has been charged with a criminal action, or been personally sanctioned for this blatant law breaking. HSBC itself was fined 1.9 billion, but works out to about a month’s profits, a hit but hardly something that really smarts.
It undermines out system of government with being rich and powerful means you can flaunt the law. A person buying a personal amount of those illegal drugs would faces years, many years, in prison but the men who helped our enemies evade our sanctions are left untouched. It is a travesty, ‘laws must bind high and low alike or they are not laws at all’.This cozy relationship between regulators, and officials must be end.
Suggestions for the GOP
the election of 2012 should have been one favorable to the GOP. The US was still coming out fo a bad economic period, something that usually hurts thee incumbent, and yet no only did they lose the presidency, the Democratic party held the Senate and even gathered more popular votes than the GOP in the house. Only the fact that it’s district by district allowed the GOP to hold onto their majority there.
So here my question – since I do not have a Sunday Night Movie to discuss.
What one or two policy changes would you, if you are a conservative or a Republican, endorse or accept to gather in more votes in the next cycle?
For the liberals and Democratic party members reading, what one or two policy changes could the GOP do that would cause you to reconsider and possibly vote GOP?
Let’s talk Assault Weapon Bans
With the recent tragedies there has been a lot of talk of gun control laws and in particular reviving the Assault Weapon ban from 1990s. I am going to assume the best motives for those people who favor a ban on assault weapons, but in doing so at best I can say is that they are misguided.
Before I get started let me state that I’m working from a couple of premises.
One – That a desire to ban any class of firearms is advanced with an objective of a reduction in firearms deaths.
Two – The whenever anyone proposes a restriction of rights, the burden of proof is on those advocating the restriction. When in doubt I err on the side of granting rights rather than restricting them. Continue reading
Thoughts on the Russian Meteor Strike
The past week we saw an example of nature’s dangers, a meteor, they are still zeroing in on just how large, struck the earth’s atmosphere exploding high above the ground, from what I can determine about 25 miles, and exploded with a half a megaton of blast.
More than one thousand people were injured. The principle cause of the injuries were flying glass. It seems quite a few people, after seeing the brilliant flash, rushed to their windows and were standing at those windows when the shockwave arrived.
The much maligned safety video above is giving good advice. If there is a sudden and brilliant flash, you should seek cover at once. You are not safe until at the very least the sound and blast has passed you by. A soundless brilliant flash is a warning sign of a massive event, you do not want the to out in the open or near glass when the blast arrives.
A nuclear warhead would have burst closer to the ground, and yes if you are in the direct blast zone of such an event Ducking and Covering is of little help, but most people are not going to be in the direct blast zone. (From what I understand the Meteor came in at a very shallow angle, and had it been a more direct approach it would have detonated much lower.)
Such an astronomical event is unlikely to occur for decades, by the odds, but you know sometimes those odds rise up and bite you. Pay attention, if there is a flash, seek cover at once.