Green… Deserts?

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that if the environmental Nazi faction of the Elite want to take a chunk out of atmospheric carbon dioxide they should champion greening the world’s deserts. Water pipelines could be built bringing millions of gallons of water to deserts around the world. The water could then be used to produce food and bio fuel feed stock.

The water for American deserts could be brought down from Canada. (As of today Canada has a moratorium on selling any water). The Sahara would require salt water abatement plants that would use solar heat to process salt water into potable water. The Asian deserts could be fed from the river mouths that empty into the Pacific.

The building of thousand mile long oil pipelines is commonplace. The technology is similar but doesn’t have the need for immediate cleanup if a potable water spill occurs. Rail road right of ways could be a potential corridor.

Political road blocks would be the most intractable. Canada’s moratorium on selling any sovereign water to other countries is as foolish as it is nationalistic. Canada that acts so enlightened… But refuses to help water poor nations by selling water that is pouring into the Atlantic ocean. Generating economic activity and providing needed resources to human beings. People’s prejudices are hard to overcome…

Two main effects on the worlds air and societies would result. The first is that much more food would be available to people to fill their bellies. Along with room to live. A side effect of more room to live is less wars to fight. Depressurize some of the worlds populations and maybe some reason could be used…

The second would be a huge sopping up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Not only food but bio fuels would be produced. Some of these bio fuels would be plowed under to generate green manure and build the soils and so sequester that carbon in the soil. The bio fuels would displace their mass in carbon from the atmospheric load. The cumulative effect would be to stop or at least dramatically slow atmospheric carbon buildup…

I don’t believe that atmospheric carbon dioxide is raising the Earth’s temperature. The only evidence that I need to refute the Nazis is that Nasa has determined that Mars has warmed by .6 degrees in the last fifty years. (They claim Earth has raised by .7). We are closer to the sun and so any raise in the sun’s output would effect us disproportionately. The parallel is too coincidental. The cause must be something common to both planets. Atmospheric carbon dioxide buildup is not. Remember the law of conservation of energy… Energy is never lost it only changes form ending in heat. So the Sun doesn’t necessarily have to put out more energy in the form of heat. It could put out more energy in the form of radio energy in the GPS spectrum for example…

But providing more room for humanity to expand is a good thing. People the world over no matter the country of their origin deserve to have liberty, (economic freedom, self determination) and the absolute right of self protection. These rights stand in stark contrast to where the world’s Elite want to take us. They want to take away our means of defending ourselves. Then, with the lever of “global warming”, pry our liberty from us.

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Political Parties Police Each Other

Dear Reader,

It seems to me that when dealing with people who employ go for the throat politics it is wise to employ go for the throat politics. In the USA the Democrats are good at policing the Republicans. The Republicans are terrible at policing the democrats however.

When Newt Gingrich was speaker of the house the democrats relentlessly hounded him until they got him on teaching his philosophy in the classroom. Destroying him politically for a decade. When a republican Senate leader said at a retirement party that if the old guy had won (as a Dixicrat) the country would be different. The democrats crushed him politically so that he had to give up his leadership position.

Now we have speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a row with the American CIA about the content of certain briefings. The worthless republicans are quiet. They haven’t the stomach for a fight. This, at a time when She, Ms Pelosi, is actively trying to criminally prosecute republicans for a policy dispute about the very acts and knowledge of, that are in question!

She is saying that the CIA didn’t actively say that water boarding was actually being used at the time and had been used. The CIA records of the meetings in question say that Ms Pelosi and the other attendees of the meetings were given this information. The recollection of some of the other attendees agree.

Ms Pelosi was adamant that Scooter Libby should go to jail for his not being able to remember details of casual conversations years back. Yet she is expecting a pass for not recollecting the main subject matter of CIA national security briefings. Briefings that were pertinent to what she herself has cauterized as criminal and is fervent about.

Democrats engage in go for the throat politics. They don’t bother answering legitimate questions they destroy their political enemies. Republicans are either too squeamish to do the same or agree with the policies of the democrats. Both possibilities condemn their ability to effectively be a loyal opposition.

With the republicans weak at policing the democrats, and democrats with such a monopoly on power in the USA today, the incentives to corruption are great. If the republicans agree with the direction that the democrats want to take the country they will fall easily into the corruption and become the scapegoats of the democrats when some whiff of the putrefaction comes to light. Those that don’t agree will be destroyed…

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Stalin’s Chicken

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It seems to me that the tactics used by the Taliban, Communists, Al Qaeda, National Socialist Party, and others are like Stalin’s Chicken, (explanation here). This tactic is merely a means to power. It has no redeeming attributes. The means is to achieve power for the few at the expense of the many. The definition of Aristotle’s Oligarchy. It is a Machiavellian scheme that violates Machiavellian principles. This means Stalin’s Chicken has a few weak points that are studiously overlooked by those that are fighting such monsters…

The population would prefer some other government they just don’t have the power to change their situation. The average person who is the subject of the violence cannot fight back. The freedom to keep and bear arms is the first social contract broken when these groups and others like them seek power. The common man’s defense is taken from him. Therefore we are reduced to dependant on the State to protect us from our fellow citizens and more importantly… the State.

This seems to follow the tenet that a wise prince seek a way that his people rely on him for everything and in every way, to guarantee the loyalty of the people. In fact it violates Machiavelli’s fundamental principle that a prince have the backing of the people. If a prince must forswear the backing of either the people of the Aristocracy it is wiser to forswear the backing of the Aristocracy.

The economy is savaged by the constant violence and intimidation. Fear and perpetual intimidation result in only the most basic economic operations taking place. Food clothing and shelter are produced. No one wants to stick his or her neck out to make a profit that will probably result in the seizure of it and lead to the death of one and one’s family.

Machiavelli was strident in propounding a strong economy. Economic power of the principality being a fundamental maxim. Machiavelli said that a stable tyranny is better for the middle class than an unstable democracy. In that a stable principality is better for business. An unstable principality is bad for business. If business is good the people’s necessities will be met. This makes us more peaceable and leads to a more powerful army that is better at protecting the principality, the people and the prince…

Average people are repulsed by the violence. No matter how you may detest a crime it is quite different to see a person stoned to death than to simply know but not witness it. Part of the weal of Stalin’s Chicken is that the violence must be in the face of the people. To terrorize us into submission. Violent acts are in front of the people constantly.

This violates Machiavelli’s tenet that an evil done to a people must be done quickly and ended as soon as possible. (He went on to say a good should be extended in time so the people can better enjoy it). Perpetual evil makes a people restless. This necessitates more repression…

So as Machiavellian as Stalin’s Chicken is it violates many of Machiavelli’s basic tenets. It alienates the people from the tyrant, it weakens the economy, and it makes the people restless. These shortcomings could be used by those that seek to stop such un human hearted systems from becoming powerful. Alas this has and is not being done…

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Marijuana

Dear reader,

It seems to me that legalizing marijuana would dramatically lower the use of harder drugs. When a user of marijuana goes to a “dealer” to buy “weed”, the dealer, if he sells other harder and higher profit margin drugs, is motivated to try to move the marijuana smoker to them. Simple economics. Perhaps to some dealers marijuana is a loss leader. In that it brings in other customers that could be interested in drugs with more markup…

Another important affect of legalizing marijuana would be to keep it out of our schools. If marijuana is sold in liquor stores or other controlled environments access to minors would be severely curtailed. With a legal market, users of marijuana would use the legal outlet and forgo the illegal one. Who wants to skulk around and pay a premium if you don’t have to. The incentives would be to take the easier and cheaper path. So with the illegal market gone minors would be reduced to standing near an outlet and trying to persuade some immature adult to buy it for them…

With marijuana taken from the schools the educational environment would be enhanced. Kids wouldn’t have nearly the access to marijuana to sell in the corridors of our schools. The access would be choked off. If now and then some barbarous adult buys some small amount it wouldn’t be enough to distribute. Think of when you were in school, did anyone sell liquor in the halls?

The government could milk the tax cow of marijuana like it does the lottery and cigarettes. The government gives worse odds than the mob did. The government takes some back, the mob didn’t. and the government doles it out in payments, the mob gave it cash. Yet we are told we are better off… the money is going to the children… More likely than not, it is going to the general budget. Or at least offsetting funds…

To be a stepping stone drug a substance must be illegal. The path that the step takes the potential traveler is to an illegal drug. Therefore the step must be illegal. How can a potential corrupter say “it is just like weed, it just lasts longer, makes you laugh, etc…, and weed it is illegal too.“ The logic falls apart if marijuana were legalized. So if marijuana is legal it is no longer a stepping stone drug.

Remove the stepping stone and people will have a much harder time stepping up to illegal drugs. People are open eyed. If they don’t immediately see a negative effect of drug usage they will be more inclined to use them. Especially kids. Remove the ready access to marijuana and kids will have a clearer understanding of the consequences of harder drugs (with proper education). Make the first step as hard as possible…

With less people in close access to harder drugs the usage of them would naturally go down. Public education about the negative effects of hard drugs would build back some societal myth against them. After some time the scourge of drugs and the crime it spawns can be pushed back… as long as our leaders don‘t lead us back there…

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What is a Fundamental Human Right

Dear readers,

Some are arguing that healthcare is a fundamental human right. Lets grant them the argument. I find it curious that every country I know of, that has socialized healthcare, has an age limit on certain procedures?

If healthcare is a fundamental human right then why does it have an age limit? How can it have an age limit? If the fundamental human right of healthcare has an age limit… what is the age limit of the others? At what age do we loose the rights to, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Is free speech curtailed at some age determined by the government? Can I no longer pray when I reach the age limit?

No one is arguing that anyone should be denied healthcare. What we are arguing is that nothing that requires the intervention of other human beings to provide is a fundamental human right. Free speech does not require direct intervention of another human to happen. No one is coerced into hearing it. If some are interested they listen. No coercion needs to happen. To provide free healthcare others are forced to pay for that healthcare. They are coerced into being participants to the right.

As to the question of healthcare and it’s availability… Veterinary care today has come amazingly far. Cat scans of cats are common. The one thing that stands out between human health care and veterinary care is cost. In veterinary care costs are controlled by market forces. Efficiency is aggressively sought. In Canada, outside the single payer system, there is a thriving market for full body scans. The technicians scan your entire body in the most state of the art machines. The scans are looked at by doctors, or possibly technicians, trained in this field. And skills honed by the same forces that were found in Adam Smith’s pin factory.

If the healthcare industry is broken the fix isn’t to have the people who broke it in the first place take it over. The solution is to find things that work, innovation that improves the processes as well as the metrics. Efficiency that is small business. These attributes are those of the free market not government bureaucracy. If we want to get really affordable healthcare, encourage innovation. Provide extra tax incentives to business to provide health insurance. Encourage new niche markets to form. Allow the people to provide for their fellows… And we will…

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Luck be with you…

Dear Reader,

It seems to me that saying “I think he’s got luck.” Is very similar to the term “I think God is with him.” Banking on some supernatural “force” to get us through dangerous paths that we didn’t have to be on in the first place is inane. For a person supposedly as enlightened as Chris Mathews to say this on his Sunday morning show is amazing. I wonder if a reputation would be damaged if another had said they thought that President Bush had God with him.

Chris was replying to a statement, that with Obama taking on this much, something is bound to spin out of control. Lets give Chris his premise and say that “Luck” is with Obama. Does it follow that individual “Luck” would translate into societal, good fortune? Wouldn’t an individual who has “Luck” on his side more likely than not lower the lot of man?

Confucius said that a fool takes a dangerous path. The government taking on the Banking sector, the healthcare sector, and the automobile industry is taking a very dangerous path. No person or group of people are smart enough to do all this without negative repercussions. This is the definition of taking a dangerous path…

But with the modern version of the unbiased media this is the level of discourse we have come to expect. I would say; about fifth grade level. Real points are responded to with ad hominym attacks, or sophist retorts like “I think he has luck…”

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Conservative Ideas; If Only We Enacted Them…

Dear Friends,

Lately I’ve been wondering how conservative policy ideas would have fared had they been enacted given the economic situation…

Take the idea to not tax dividend income. Or not to tax, from firms, money paid as dividends to shareholders. Were this idea enacted a stream of revenue for the government to spend in it’s profound wisdom on things like; $900.00 toilet seats, $500.00 hammers, and such important knowledge as how many points on a maple leaf, would be cut off. Lets face it, firms would spend that money on foolishness, like upgrading their manufacturing process to make themselves more competitive in the global environment. Or heaven forbid, paying more dividends to their shareholders. It goes without saying the waste that the people would put that money to. Food, clothing, shelter, and maybe even going out to eat! We all acknowledge with the socialists that government spends our money far better than us…

Kidding aside, This would be a great incentive for firms to pay more money in dividends. No mater if the firm receives the tax break or the shareholder gets the tax break. The incentive will be for more corporate earnings to be paid out as dividends instead of executive bonuses.

With more firms paying dividends more money would be invested in the stock market long term. Seeking safe and steady earnings growth with dividends. This would naturally give the markets more momentum and less volatility. Less volatility would mean less sudden drops and surges. Investors would feel safer if the stocks they held were paying dividends, especially tax free dividends, and they would be less inclined to pull out in a sudden loss of stock value. (They are looking for dividends not stock upswings). If investors were more interested in dividend income and less interested in stock value growth the markets would be far more stable…

Another idea of the conservative economists was Social Security Reform. The third rail of politics. Conservatives keep touching it over and over. Because something must be done. The more dangerous is Medicare/Medicaid this beast is projected to grow into a behemoth in a few years. Never the less Social Security is an opportunity that could improve the economy, actually protect the interests of retired people, and be solvent into the foreseeable future.

Allow people at their discretion to invest a part of their FICA withholdings into the markets. Have a few preselected funds that are available based on sound, well diversified portfolios, available to the people and let the free market work. Couple this with ending the double taxation on dividends and the stock market would have exponentially greater strength to weather a storm like the one we find ourselves in.

You have probably read our idea for Capitalist Social Security;
http://incapp.org/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1237724030

Our idea would not only protect the people of the present but would build wealth within the societal structure. This loam spread out among the many fields would ensure better harvests in good times and bad…

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Drive Home

Dear Reader,

As I was driving home I was listening to Terri Gross on the NPR show Fresh Air. Today (April 15,2009) Terri was interviewing an MIT Economics professor and former head economist of the IMF.

He said that US national debt as a percentage of GDP would go from 30% today, (18-25% has been the norm from 1960 to 2007), to 80-90% as a percentage of GDP when this economic crisis is over. That means the national debt, in I suppose four years, ( I hope they don’t expect this crisis to last longer than that!), will be 80 to 90% of every dollar earned. That doesn’t include what the government will cost to run! OH MY GOD! The thing that blows my mind is the calmness and offhanded way he said it.

This guy is from the Keynesian school of Economics. He is firmly in the same philosophical corner as the Obama administration. He said “ I am on the side of the government.“ That makes me believe that the administration is aware of these numbers and they are comfortable with this level of national debt.

What the hell are we to do in five years when national debt is 80-90% of GDP? We have another two lumps going through the system. The social security lump, and the Medicare/Medicaid lump. They are expected to balloon the national debt in ten to thirty years. We are getting close to the transition time when the income to the Social Security administration will be outstripped by the cost. At that time either FICA taxes go up or the money must come from the “lock box.” The “Lock Box” that is full of IOUs. The money has to come from somewhere and the only font is the taxpayer. Taxes must necessarily go up. (For the social security and Medicare/Medicaid lumps).

President Obama claimed that all economist of every school are behind him in government spending. I beg to differ. The term all ‘is not subject to gradation’ therefore as he cannot know the minds of every economist the statement cannot logically stand. I would also like to point out that science is not a democratic enterprise, (as many would have us believe with terms like “consensus” and such). The “ consensus of scientists in Galileo’s day was that the sun revolved around the Earth. But that didn’t make it true…

I was also amazed that he was arguing that Goldman Sachs paying off it’s TARP money early is a bad thing. Ten billion dollars, that is how much Goldman Sachs is coughing up. The only reason , according to this economist, is to be able to pay their executives better. I don’t disagree that this is probably a factor. But, It would be stupid to stop there and not think further. I would expect the heavy hand of government is also a factor, (among others). The Obama administration has all but nationalized the banking system; With Goldman Sachs trying to get out of it’s Faustian bargain with the government. The government is rightfully worried that others will do the same. Leading to the un nationalizing of the banking system. The Elite might loose some of their hard earned power…

But now we are projected to have 80-90% of GDP as debt!? In only four years?! Now is the time to stop this insanity! At the height of WWII costs, 1948, national debt as a percent of GDP was 110%. That is after the US fought the second world war. We produced millions of planes, tanks, howitzers, guns, ammunition, clothed millions of soldiers around the world provided trucks and armaments of free via Archangel to Russia, lost half a million men, etc… For that national debt. Much of what was produced from the war was later used for industrial purposes. But the money spent today is going down a rabbit hole. The beneficiaries are the corrupt Elite. Especially those in bed with the government…

Well at least our Great Great Great Great Grand children will have our foolishness to look back on. They will say, “What idiots! To think they could spend their way out of debt…”

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It Is Against My Conscience to…

Dear Reader,

I recently heard that the Obama administration is seeking to rescind the “conscience clause” from the abortion decree of the Supreme Court. That is if a person in the health care industry, finds abortion abhorrent and a mortal stain on one’s soul, they wouldn’t be forced to do abortions or administer them.

The hubris of government to do this is beyond reason. How can a government that was founded on the premise of individual liberty do such a thing?

Imagine a government deciding, by court order, that it is necessary for white people to spit in the face of every black person they meet. The Black person being required to accept it gracefully. Then compelling even people who find this behavior obnoxious, to do it, at risk of their job? Most people can easily see the hubris and overstepping of this evil dictate. How can it be possible that forcing a person to do something they find to be far worse, at the risk of their job, less tyrannical?

Is there anything more tyrannical for a government to do, than to force an individual to do something they believe will lead to their being condemned to hell, for eternity? Think of the magnitude of that. How can any government compel that level of loyalty? In what universe does that make any sense? What could government possibly offer in return? If the odds against there being a God, were a trillion to one, it would be a bad bet…

Regardless of whether or not God exists the question is valid. We are talking about government compelling action that an individual finds abhorrent. Action that the individual believes is mortal sin. No matter if sin is actual or supposed, the individual is still compelled to do that he or she finds to be sin, by the government.

So if even a person as blind as I can easily see the error in rescinding the conscience clause of the court dictate on abortion . I wonder why those that are far more intelligent than I, the Elite that run our society, cannot…

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Double Standard

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the conviction of Alberto Fujimori is both distressing and uplifting.

See an article in the WSJ here;

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123911472912796989.html

It is distressing in the true double standard that exists in the world media, and the public’s opinion, that is shaped by it. As well as the real double standard in the judicial systems of the world. Can you imagine, in any universe, Fidel Castro being convicted and sentenced to twenty five years in jail for crimes against humanity? No honest person could even compare the crimes of Fidel to those of Fujimori. It is like comparing a nematode and a tyrannosaurus rex. When Fidel came to power he rounded up FIFTY THOUSAND (50,000) people, and by Fidel Castro’s order, they were shot. That is only one of thousands of crimes against humanity that is widely known about Fidel. Can you picture any country in the world treating Fidel Castro as was Pinochet? Castro was philosophically in line and helped fund the Shining Path.

Some of the atrocities of the Shining Path are documented here;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3985659.stm

On the other hand it gives me hope that people are starting to catch on about government corruption. The President of Peru now is Alan Garcia. He is almost certainly far more corrupt than Fujimori. In fact I believe that this is a politically motivated trial and conviction. But that said, Garcia is establishing a precedent. One that will almost certainly come back to bite him… And (let’s pray) other tyrants…

It is a hopeful sign that some corrupt leaders are being held to task. I would like to see some of the truly evil leaders that have profoundly lowered the lot of man put on trial. But unfortunately that will not happen soon. The left controls the apparatus of International Law.

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