No commentary…I’ll let you add your own. I just find this amusing.
Story in The Riverfront Times St. Louis’ alternative newspaper
A New God Given Document
A friend sent me the following link: Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination
The gist of the article is this. The 14th Amendment, specifically the Equal Protection clause, requires the states to provide equal protection to all people within its jurisdiction. Scalia is arguing that the Constitution and this amendment does not prohibit the passage of laws discriminating based on gender or sexual orientation. Continue reading “A New God Given Document”
True Grit
We were walking outside the theatre. I had purposely waited this long to comment on the movie to Robin as I wanted our conversation to be private. No particular reason, it is just my preference. I begin gushing about the movie and how much I enjoyed it. I think I may have used the word fantastic in there somewhere. I ended my spontaneous critique with the comment, “But then I do not go to a lot of movies.” And I do not. Last movie I saw in a theatre before True Grit was Avatar.
There was a “gentleman” walking in front of us. He turns around and asks, “What movie did you see?” I’m thinking I did not invite you into the conversation, but politeness lead me to answer, “True Grit.” Continue reading “True Grit”
Curmudgeons
A couple interesting articles about “Curmudgeons”.
Dr. Judith Rich: Confessions of a Closet Curmudgeon in The Huffington Post
Dr. Judith Rich: How to Love a Curmudgeon in The Huffington Post
I Want to Buy American
I was in Lowe’s the other day. The fact that it was Lowe’s is only incidental. It could have been any of the many big box store chains that dot Generica.
They provided to me a pretty clear snapshot of the some issues that are troubling me about American business. It all seems to boil down to corporations being willing to sell out this country because they are more concerned about the quarterly profit statement and executive pay than anything else.
My first observation is that Spanish is nearly as prominent in the store as English. The lettering was not quite as big as the English, but it was only a small percentage less so. Continue reading “I Want to Buy American”
Obama Care
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Senator Bernie Sanders Explains How the Cow Ate the Cabbage
Weep for Our Country…
Do not try to just watch this as it is not that stimulating visually…BUT if you will just listen like you would a radio broadcast and really listen hard to what Senator Bernie Sanders is saying you might just have your eyes opened a bit.
I’ve been ranting about this stuff for years with most folks looking at me like I was crazy. The concerns are finally going mainstream. I can only hope if enough folks get outraged about these issues change might happen.
But then I look at the view count on this YouTube video at 100,000 or so versus the most viewed video on YouTube Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris; 402,051,105 views, and you know where peoples priorites are. Sad, sad, sad… It strikes me that we have become a nation that has buried its collective head in the sand.
Illegal Immigration – Pros and Cons
I am still trying to figure out how I feel about all the illegal immigrants in this country and the various action plans floating around to deal with them. My gut reaction is not kind, but I know there is much more to the picture than what my knee-jerk emotions are telling me. I do know that many legal immigrants that I have spoken to resent the illegal immigrants that have not jumped through all the hoops they have, yet seem to be able to stay in this country unbothered.
Towards the end of clarifying my thought process I thought I would gather up some of the arguments, favoring and oppositional.
We have a tendency due to our dysfunctional political system to not act, to drift, to let the status quo rock on. This should not be the case with immigration reform as the current system is full of abuse, personal and systematic. Continue reading “Illegal Immigration – Pros and Cons”
Winner-Take-All Politics
Winner-Take-All Politics by Hacker & Pierson available at Amazon.com
The book is subtitled: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
This book needs another review like a hole in the head. Typing the full title into Google resulted in close to 30,000 hits. But hey, why not!
First and foremost, while I found the book deeply troubling and depressing, it is an important book to read if you want to really understand what is happening in Washington currently. This book really did not tell me anything that I did not intuitively already know from decades of watching the American political scene. It did reaffirm and document my intuition. Continue reading “Winner-Take-All Politics”
First Cause Argruments
First Cause Argument:
Something caused the Universe to exist and this cause must be God.
Arguments Against:
- What caused God? How far back in the causality chain do you go?
- Assuming from our limited experience that all things have a cause. This is a logic fallacy of extrapolating from limited experience. Thus causality for the universe may or may not be true. Continue reading “First Cause Argruments”