Breitbart - Los Angeles County to Pay Private Homeowners to House Homeless. While you might think this is just being discussed in Los Angeles, it is not.
KFVE - Could homeowners be the answer to Hawaii's homeless crisis?
Los Angeles Daily News - On LA County’s remote north end, the homeless are stuck. Is hope on the horizon?
Some simple little facts to consider. During the housing boom (2003 - 2007) people began building bigger and bigger houses even though families were getting smaller and smaller. While touring new developments at that time I began to say that they looked like boarding houses and that is what they will become.
Imagine paying people $75,000 to build a small home in the back of their property, what is the effect? Well, first and foremost it means that the idea of zoning for single family residences is destroyed. Once destroyed, people will be allowed to rent out rooms, again, a violation of the zoning regarding single family residences. Trust me, this "pilot program" is intended to fail and instead people will get paid to rent out rooms and it will start in the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley.
If you want to see what is coming, start by looking at the infrastructure that is being built.
Monday, August 28, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Who is Killing This Country? Nazi's or the Wealthy and Powerful?
Lets look at some really basic facts. There are Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists and Klansmen still left in America. There are still also communists; but, you know what, they all had or have political parties of their own. The largest non Democrat or Republican party is independents. The membership of the Communist Party (established 1919) is 5,000. The Nationalist Socialist Party shows not one person elected to federal or state leadership or even representation. Their numbers are too low to even count.
Neither Communists nor white supremacists can manage to get elected to any federal or state legislature. Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have racist or supremacist policies on their party platforms and haven't for a very long time. The media is focusing on groups that have zero political influence and couldn't get someone elected if they had to. They smeared Bernie Sanders as a Communist and Donald Trump as a Nazi.
I'm retired; but, I remember when Democrats in the southern states passed laws called Jim Crowe laws. I lived when that was going on, I remember when blacks were not allowed in certain restaurants and people were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks. I had a relative, a New England Democrat who told me that he thought the blacks were getting too uppity and he worked on getting Democrats to support Kennedy for President in Massachusetts. Declared Neo-Nazis and Klansmen couldn't get elected dog catcher. If there was a Neo-Nazi mayor the media would be all around it. Think about that.
Please show me ONE congressman currently in office who has openly stated that they support the Klan, the Nazi party or the communists. Wait, you might be able to find one that supported communism; but, it wasn't Bernie Sanders. There are more Libertarian Party and Green Party members than Nazis, Klansmen and Communist Party members combined.
Why is the corporate media telling you these groups are growing when they are not? Why are they saying that they saying these people present a clear and present danger requiring the elimination of the first amendment right to free speech when there is not. More people attend Furry conventions (people who like to dress up as small woodland creatures and have sex) than attend Nazicon if there even is such a thing. There are more Wiccans than there are Neo Nazis. There are more Satanists than there are Klansmen and to tell the truth, the Satanists are less reviled.
There are 85 people that own as much as the lower half 3.5 Billion of people in this world. Please, tell me which of them are Nazis supporting the Nazi party or the Klan. Those 85 people see the rest of us as scum regardless of what we believe in. You know what you have to fear? What you need to fear is what those 85 people think and thy think that you should be muzzled and that Democracy is evil.
Did you know that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in the south never owned a slave in their lives? Rich men owned slaves, not the poor. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over economic independence. It was fought over which wealthy group would rule America. It was a fight over farming versus the industrial revolution.
We like to think that it was a war over slavery and that the north was against it; but, even Lincoln did not go into that war planning on freeing the slaves. You can look that up and comment. Remember when the billionaire said that they thought the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany? No, here is a link.
YouTube - The Young Turks - Rich Asshole Tries To Apologize And Makes Things Much Worse.
The traditional enemy of the communists was the wealthy, now it is 3,000 to 8,000 Klansmen. What useful idiots Antifa have become. Communist, Socialist and Progressive agendas were always focused on economic issues and now the Neo-Communists and Neo-Socialists and Neo-Progressives seem to be focused on social issues. At least according to the corporate media.
Lets see. The Occupy Movement comes along to go after income inequality and is violently put down and removed from public spaces and later the media refocuses their attention to social issues, like how many Nazi's does it take to screw in a light bulb. The Occupy Movement came about in 2007 and the Democratic party has sought to direct all their attention to the threat of far right national supremacist wack jobs. There is just one problem, most people on the left get this and the progressives certainly do.
How effective has this been? Well not one of the corporate Democrats has one a seat since Trump got elected. They have lost control of national and state offices. Most amusingly they are failing to get any donations. The Republican party has raised $85 million for the coming elections and the Democrats have raised about $35 million.
YouTube - Shocker: Republicans Now Dominate Democrats In Small $ Donations.
Back 60 years ago the Democratic Party was the southern bigots. It was southern Democrats that made the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. Parties change; but, money doesn't. The one thing the Democratic party will not let go of is it's political donors. Corporate Democrats offer transgender bathrooms in exchange for open borders. Corporate Democrats offer gay marriage in exchange for NAFTA and the TPP. They offer fascism (corporate control over the government) in exchange for protecting you from Nazis.
Point of note, the guy who said that the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany (the Young Turks video in the link above) contributed to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign and also said that the wealthy's votes should count more than the poor or working class. There are more gays in the United States than Neo-Nazis and Klansmen combined. There are more millionaires in the United States than there are Neo-Nazi's, White Supremacists and Klansmen combined. Here lets simplify even more. How many millionaires and billionaires attended the right wing rally in Charlottesville in support of the far right? That would probably be zero.
It is estimated that there are 10.4 million millionaires in the United States and perhaps 200,000 white supremacists of all types. Which group do you think controls the corporations and government? Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
Neither Communists nor white supremacists can manage to get elected to any federal or state legislature. Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have racist or supremacist policies on their party platforms and haven't for a very long time. The media is focusing on groups that have zero political influence and couldn't get someone elected if they had to. They smeared Bernie Sanders as a Communist and Donald Trump as a Nazi.
I'm retired; but, I remember when Democrats in the southern states passed laws called Jim Crowe laws. I lived when that was going on, I remember when blacks were not allowed in certain restaurants and people were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks. I had a relative, a New England Democrat who told me that he thought the blacks were getting too uppity and he worked on getting Democrats to support Kennedy for President in Massachusetts. Declared Neo-Nazis and Klansmen couldn't get elected dog catcher. If there was a Neo-Nazi mayor the media would be all around it. Think about that.
Please show me ONE congressman currently in office who has openly stated that they support the Klan, the Nazi party or the communists. Wait, you might be able to find one that supported communism; but, it wasn't Bernie Sanders. There are more Libertarian Party and Green Party members than Nazis, Klansmen and Communist Party members combined.
Why is the corporate media telling you these groups are growing when they are not? Why are they saying that they saying these people present a clear and present danger requiring the elimination of the first amendment right to free speech when there is not. More people attend Furry conventions (people who like to dress up as small woodland creatures and have sex) than attend Nazicon if there even is such a thing. There are more Wiccans than there are Neo Nazis. There are more Satanists than there are Klansmen and to tell the truth, the Satanists are less reviled.
There are 85 people that own as much as the lower half 3.5 Billion of people in this world. Please, tell me which of them are Nazis supporting the Nazi party or the Klan. Those 85 people see the rest of us as scum regardless of what we believe in. You know what you have to fear? What you need to fear is what those 85 people think and thy think that you should be muzzled and that Democracy is evil.
Did you know that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought in the south never owned a slave in their lives? Rich men owned slaves, not the poor. The civil war was not fought over slavery, it was fought over economic independence. It was fought over which wealthy group would rule America. It was a fight over farming versus the industrial revolution.
We like to think that it was a war over slavery and that the north was against it; but, even Lincoln did not go into that war planning on freeing the slaves. You can look that up and comment. Remember when the billionaire said that they thought the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany? No, here is a link.
YouTube - The Young Turks - Rich Asshole Tries To Apologize And Makes Things Much Worse.
The traditional enemy of the communists was the wealthy, now it is 3,000 to 8,000 Klansmen. What useful idiots Antifa have become. Communist, Socialist and Progressive agendas were always focused on economic issues and now the Neo-Communists and Neo-Socialists and Neo-Progressives seem to be focused on social issues. At least according to the corporate media.
Lets see. The Occupy Movement comes along to go after income inequality and is violently put down and removed from public spaces and later the media refocuses their attention to social issues, like how many Nazi's does it take to screw in a light bulb. The Occupy Movement came about in 2007 and the Democratic party has sought to direct all their attention to the threat of far right national supremacist wack jobs. There is just one problem, most people on the left get this and the progressives certainly do.
How effective has this been? Well not one of the corporate Democrats has one a seat since Trump got elected. They have lost control of national and state offices. Most amusingly they are failing to get any donations. The Republican party has raised $85 million for the coming elections and the Democrats have raised about $35 million.
YouTube - Shocker: Republicans Now Dominate Democrats In Small $ Donations.
Back 60 years ago the Democratic Party was the southern bigots. It was southern Democrats that made the Jim Crow laws and enforced segregation. Parties change; but, money doesn't. The one thing the Democratic party will not let go of is it's political donors. Corporate Democrats offer transgender bathrooms in exchange for open borders. Corporate Democrats offer gay marriage in exchange for NAFTA and the TPP. They offer fascism (corporate control over the government) in exchange for protecting you from Nazis.
Point of note, the guy who said that the wealthy were being treated like the Jews in Germany (the Young Turks video in the link above) contributed to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign and also said that the wealthy's votes should count more than the poor or working class. There are more gays in the United States than Neo-Nazis and Klansmen combined. There are more millionaires in the United States than there are Neo-Nazi's, White Supremacists and Klansmen combined. Here lets simplify even more. How many millionaires and billionaires attended the right wing rally in Charlottesville in support of the far right? That would probably be zero.
It is estimated that there are 10.4 million millionaires in the United States and perhaps 200,000 white supremacists of all types. Which group do you think controls the corporations and government? Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Elitism is anti-democratic.
TTIIY - The Continuing Failure of the Establishment to Get Rid of Trump. On December 9, 2015 I wrote the linked post. At that time I wrote the following, "There are a lot of pundits writing about why they believe people support Trump and none of them seem to get it. Now the media has gone as far as to compare Trump to Hitler, that is irrational hysteria and demonstrates their fear of Trump; but, more importantly their fear of American opinion." Nothing has changed
For the past two years I have been pointing out how the media lies and manipulates in order to achieve political goals and those goals are anti-democratic, authoritarian and pro-globalism. In 2016 the corporate mainstream media began saying that if Trump were elected they should immediately impeach him for basically any reason and nothing has changed except for the excuse, which changes every week based on each new claim they make.
The truth is that I didn't vote for Trump. In fact, back in 2015 I pointed out that because of superdelegates and rigged primaries, Sanders, my preferred candidate, would lose. For the past two years I have pointed out that no matter what Trump says or does, the media will call for his impeachment and they have. The attacks are not really about Trump, the attacks are on the idea of people choosing to change the establishment. The real fear is that people will stop going along with the media and the establishments controlling public opinion.
Over the past two years I have written numerous articles about corporate mainstream media saying that democracy was bad. Over the past two years I have pointed out numerous articles that said that the people were too dumb and evil to pick their leaders. The calls for Trump's impeachment for using Twitter to get around the media and for his liking his steaks well done as proof that he is unfit for office and the desperate cries of the media to make sure that populism does not rise any more. Remember the opposite of populism is elitism.
Here is a prediction, I bet next week they find a new reason to impeach Trump and they will continue doing that every week until the next Presidential election. Who wants to bet that I am wrong?
For the past two years I have been pointing out how the media lies and manipulates in order to achieve political goals and those goals are anti-democratic, authoritarian and pro-globalism. In 2016 the corporate mainstream media began saying that if Trump were elected they should immediately impeach him for basically any reason and nothing has changed except for the excuse, which changes every week based on each new claim they make.
The truth is that I didn't vote for Trump. In fact, back in 2015 I pointed out that because of superdelegates and rigged primaries, Sanders, my preferred candidate, would lose. For the past two years I have pointed out that no matter what Trump says or does, the media will call for his impeachment and they have. The attacks are not really about Trump, the attacks are on the idea of people choosing to change the establishment. The real fear is that people will stop going along with the media and the establishments controlling public opinion.
Over the past two years I have written numerous articles about corporate mainstream media saying that democracy was bad. Over the past two years I have pointed out numerous articles that said that the people were too dumb and evil to pick their leaders. The calls for Trump's impeachment for using Twitter to get around the media and for his liking his steaks well done as proof that he is unfit for office and the desperate cries of the media to make sure that populism does not rise any more. Remember the opposite of populism is elitism.
Here is a prediction, I bet next week they find a new reason to impeach Trump and they will continue doing that every week until the next Presidential election. Who wants to bet that I am wrong?
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Things worth noting
The Telegraph - Legal robots deployed in China to help decide thousands of cases. The last thing to be automated will be the law. It is being tested in China. This already being looked upon favorably by the west. Lets automate society, will be deciding the programming or living under it?
YouTube - KOIN 6 - Portland ‘overwhelmed’ with abandoned RVs. Liberal Portland which is busy fighting Nazis who don't exist in meaningful numbers are also fighting people living in their vehicles. Do you really believe there are more Nazis in Portland than the homeless? When I was young people were fighting to make the lives of blacks and the poor better and get out of war. Now alt left people are fighting to stop free speech and bad people from existing. Why are they not fighting against war and to help the poor? Where were the riots when welfare was cut, where were the riots when we went into Iraq? What are they fighting for if anything or only against things?
San Francisco Chronicle - Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street. Here is the real question rather than the amusing aspects of the story, It takes five years of non-payment of taxes in California to have a tax sale. They knew it was going to be sold and still didn't pay their taxes. It used to be and may still be that even after a property has been sold for taxes, you still had a year to buy it back. Why didn't that happen. And by the way, I stopped more than one tax sale by paying the taxes when I was working in title insurance.
Yahoo - Why I will not pay $1,100 to attend a bachelorette party. They attempt to prove that the reason millennials can't buy homes is because they spent $1,100 on a bachelorette party. Not long ago they blamed it on the fact that millennials like avocados. The median house price in Los Angeles is $640,000, how many avocados would I have to avoid eating to buy that house and how many bachelorette parties do you think people attend in a year?
Yahoo - Huffington Post - Congressman Moves To Impeach Donald Trump, Says No Such Thing As 'Good Nazis'. Watch the video and see how dishonest the media and the establishment have proven themselves to be. You cannot impeach a president for not being nice enough or saying things in a way that you wish they had not.
Yahoo - Trump looks at sun during eclipse — with and without protective glasses. Yes, I read in multiple articles from the corporate mainstream media how Trump didn't use protective lenses when looking at the sun. Well, simple answer is, he did. I'm pretty sure he will not be blind tomorrow; but, what is more interesting is that this was considered news as important as the fact that he likes ice cream or his steaks well done and yet these things are used as proof that he is Nazi or something equally bad.
YouTube - KOIN 6 - Portland ‘overwhelmed’ with abandoned RVs. Liberal Portland which is busy fighting Nazis who don't exist in meaningful numbers are also fighting people living in their vehicles. Do you really believe there are more Nazis in Portland than the homeless? When I was young people were fighting to make the lives of blacks and the poor better and get out of war. Now alt left people are fighting to stop free speech and bad people from existing. Why are they not fighting against war and to help the poor? Where were the riots when welfare was cut, where were the riots when we went into Iraq? What are they fighting for if anything or only against things?
San Francisco Chronicle - Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street. Here is the real question rather than the amusing aspects of the story, It takes five years of non-payment of taxes in California to have a tax sale. They knew it was going to be sold and still didn't pay their taxes. It used to be and may still be that even after a property has been sold for taxes, you still had a year to buy it back. Why didn't that happen. And by the way, I stopped more than one tax sale by paying the taxes when I was working in title insurance.
Yahoo - Why I will not pay $1,100 to attend a bachelorette party. They attempt to prove that the reason millennials can't buy homes is because they spent $1,100 on a bachelorette party. Not long ago they blamed it on the fact that millennials like avocados. The median house price in Los Angeles is $640,000, how many avocados would I have to avoid eating to buy that house and how many bachelorette parties do you think people attend in a year?
Yahoo - Huffington Post - Congressman Moves To Impeach Donald Trump, Says No Such Thing As 'Good Nazis'. Watch the video and see how dishonest the media and the establishment have proven themselves to be. You cannot impeach a president for not being nice enough or saying things in a way that you wish they had not.
Yahoo - Trump looks at sun during eclipse — with and without protective glasses. Yes, I read in multiple articles from the corporate mainstream media how Trump didn't use protective lenses when looking at the sun. Well, simple answer is, he did. I'm pretty sure he will not be blind tomorrow; but, what is more interesting is that this was considered news as important as the fact that he likes ice cream or his steaks well done and yet these things are used as proof that he is Nazi or something equally bad.
Friday, August 18, 2017
Pastor Carol Daniels, a Grand Jury and Someone Watching the Case
A few months ago a grand jury was asked to look into the Pastor Carol Daniels case. Previously they had put a retired detective on the case as basically a help you out type of consulting job. Putting a retired guy on the case is what you do when you have a retired friend that needs a couple of bucks and need someone to babysit a cold case that you think you cannot solve. My dad was a cop before I was even born. My dad was a famous law enforcement officer my whole life and is even famous today and he taught me this garbage since I was elementary school. I know the law to, I have a doctorate in it. That grand jury was supposed to kill this case and blame it on the dead dealer; but, they didn't. They didn't because it wasn't that drug dealer, if that is in fact what she was. They wanted to blame the dead girl and I wrote that on this blog at that time.
Here is a stone cold fact, the murderer entered through the back door. The police had video of the front door. The police removed and saved to evidence the back door. That is a fact. There are other facts that I have recited over the years and things that can actually be proven. I personally have stated that I have told the OSBI who I am and unless they are the worst police unit in the United States, they have checked me out.
This is an ugly case for the OSBI and they still have missed the obvious. If they had found tire marks behind the church, they would know what the killer drove; but, the killer did not drive there, they walked there. It was dirt behind the church, they knew the killer entered and left through the back, they should have print mark casts from the back of the church and I don't think they do. I think the local cops screwed up the crime scene and that is understandable. Small town cops are not trained in complicated and rare murders. The Kansas City police royally messed up and screwed up the BTK investigation for 40 years.
The grand jury didn't end up blaming the supposed drug dealer because they knew they were going to get called out. I have told people to NOT speculate on specific people being involved in this murder to anyone other than the police. Online speculation is horrifically stupid. You don't ever publicly announce who you suspect until they arrest them or you are warning them.
I recently came across a blog that is really interested in crime.
The Works of KD Burr - UPDATE: The Pastor Carol Daniels Case.
There is a line in the post that I believe is referencing me, it says, "One online crime enthusiast, who has religiously followed the case, quipped: "blaming the murder on a dead woman would wrap this up nicely for them [OSBI]." Just to be clear, I am not a "crime enthusiast" if you are referencing me. I detest criminal behavior. In fact, I have requested that someone much more viewed than my pitiful blog investigate and write about just so the family would know that people still cared. I have told the family that I am not a wonderful person and deserve no credit for anything other than my selfish interest in talking about the world I witness. It was nothing personal from me.
The person attached to the linked blog claims to be a writer of crime stories based on true events. If they can show me that they care about the family and if the family approves, I would talk to this person just to get the story heard by more and push the OSBI to take a more serious look even after all of these years.
Here is a stone cold fact, the murderer entered through the back door. The police had video of the front door. The police removed and saved to evidence the back door. That is a fact. There are other facts that I have recited over the years and things that can actually be proven. I personally have stated that I have told the OSBI who I am and unless they are the worst police unit in the United States, they have checked me out.
This is an ugly case for the OSBI and they still have missed the obvious. If they had found tire marks behind the church, they would know what the killer drove; but, the killer did not drive there, they walked there. It was dirt behind the church, they knew the killer entered and left through the back, they should have print mark casts from the back of the church and I don't think they do. I think the local cops screwed up the crime scene and that is understandable. Small town cops are not trained in complicated and rare murders. The Kansas City police royally messed up and screwed up the BTK investigation for 40 years.
The grand jury didn't end up blaming the supposed drug dealer because they knew they were going to get called out. I have told people to NOT speculate on specific people being involved in this murder to anyone other than the police. Online speculation is horrifically stupid. You don't ever publicly announce who you suspect until they arrest them or you are warning them.
I recently came across a blog that is really interested in crime.
The Works of KD Burr - UPDATE: The Pastor Carol Daniels Case.
There is a line in the post that I believe is referencing me, it says, "One online crime enthusiast, who has religiously followed the case, quipped: "blaming the murder on a dead woman would wrap this up nicely for them [OSBI]." Just to be clear, I am not a "crime enthusiast" if you are referencing me. I detest criminal behavior. In fact, I have requested that someone much more viewed than my pitiful blog investigate and write about just so the family would know that people still cared. I have told the family that I am not a wonderful person and deserve no credit for anything other than my selfish interest in talking about the world I witness. It was nothing personal from me.
The person attached to the linked blog claims to be a writer of crime stories based on true events. If they can show me that they care about the family and if the family approves, I would talk to this person just to get the story heard by more and push the OSBI to take a more serious look even after all of these years.
This case was not closed by the grand jury. If I have done anything that played a role in that then I am glad and my writing was not in vain. I have said this before and I will say it again. I have done nothing other than talk about things I see. That is the only point of my blog at this time. My prayers and thoughts always go out to the family and this case has effected me though I never intended it to. I feel a connection to the family and if and when the murderer is ever caught, I will drive to Oklahoma to meet the family and tell them that she and God would expect all to forgive all sins. I believe they would and do.
K.D., hi honey. You are a pretty young woman who wants to write crime novels. Yeah, I checked you out. You tell me what you have to offer to the family and I will tell you what I have to offer to you, even things I did not publish; but, you first prove you actually care about the family and not about the crime. I have gone after Pastor Daniels church for wanting to outlaw homosexuality. I am not that nice, you better be able to prove that you are nice or you get nothing from me, ever.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Short Post, I am Heartbroken
On my first day of sixth grade, in a new school and living in a new place, one of my fellow students decided he wanted to fight the new kid, me. After school had ended we met at an adjacent vacant lot. Many of the other students followed us to watch the fight. I had no idea why this guy wanted to fight me, I didn't know him and knew nothing about him; but, he wanted to prove something to someone.
I was shocked that so many people wanted to stay after school to watch two kids fight and that none cared what the reason was. As I walked to the empty lot I told all those following that I thought they were sick for wanting to watch two children fight. I think that only solidified why the love of my life fell in love with me who I had only met that same day and in that same class. My first day in sixth grade was met with one woman who fell in love with me, the same woman who I fell in love with and one young man who wanted to beat me up just for being me.
A bunch of jerks who claim to be Nazis and Klansmen decided to piss off a bunch of people who believe they are communists and anti-fascists. The media cheers one side on, it doesn't really matter which. What does it matter which side you choose in a fight, the problem is when you seek fights. The problem is when you seek bloodshed and hate. Hate for anyone is evil.
You know what I expect from "thought leaders"? I expect them to teach tolerance and mercy and love and forgiveness, not hate and violence. Not on any side, because the sides are love and hate in the end and anyone who teaches hate creates their own hell. Hate is the world they will live in if it is the only world they create to live in. That breaks my heart.
UPDATE:
Sorry, I left out something you are probably asking. Yes, I won the fight. I had him on the ground in a choke hold. He through a few punches that I easily blocked, I waited for him to expend that early energy and then I jumped him and put him down and in a choke hold. I put him in a choke hold and asked him to stop and if he was done. I don't think I have ever thrown the first punch in my life and if I did, I don't remember and the only person that could correct me is probably my brother. If anyone could remind me of something like that, it would be from when I was very young and it would be my brother.
Violence in response to hate is worse than hate, it is hate moved to action. It is the physical manifestation of evil in our hearts. I don't care what the reason is.
I was shocked that so many people wanted to stay after school to watch two kids fight and that none cared what the reason was. As I walked to the empty lot I told all those following that I thought they were sick for wanting to watch two children fight. I think that only solidified why the love of my life fell in love with me who I had only met that same day and in that same class. My first day in sixth grade was met with one woman who fell in love with me, the same woman who I fell in love with and one young man who wanted to beat me up just for being me.
A bunch of jerks who claim to be Nazis and Klansmen decided to piss off a bunch of people who believe they are communists and anti-fascists. The media cheers one side on, it doesn't really matter which. What does it matter which side you choose in a fight, the problem is when you seek fights. The problem is when you seek bloodshed and hate. Hate for anyone is evil.
You know what I expect from "thought leaders"? I expect them to teach tolerance and mercy and love and forgiveness, not hate and violence. Not on any side, because the sides are love and hate in the end and anyone who teaches hate creates their own hell. Hate is the world they will live in if it is the only world they create to live in. That breaks my heart.
UPDATE:
Sorry, I left out something you are probably asking. Yes, I won the fight. I had him on the ground in a choke hold. He through a few punches that I easily blocked, I waited for him to expend that early energy and then I jumped him and put him down and in a choke hold. I put him in a choke hold and asked him to stop and if he was done. I don't think I have ever thrown the first punch in my life and if I did, I don't remember and the only person that could correct me is probably my brother. If anyone could remind me of something like that, it would be from when I was very young and it would be my brother.
Violence in response to hate is worse than hate, it is hate moved to action. It is the physical manifestation of evil in our hearts. I don't care what the reason is.
Why Doesn't the Corporate Media Denounce all Violence
I have been writing this blog for over 7 years and I dare anyone to show me where I have posted anything racist. What you will find is multiple times when I have mentioned that I am a pacifist. I also openly express my belief that Israel has a right to exist. Yet, if I say anything that defends Trump supporters there will be those who assume that I am a bad right winger which is funny seeing as how I also openly call out our corporate leaders who pay off politicians to destroy the middle and working classes.
After Charlottesville the media and many politicians claimed Trump was a racist because he called out all sides that engaged in violence. I guess this means that Jesus was a racist too. Let's be honest and admit that for about a year and a half left leaning people have been causing riots and using violence with the media not condemning them. When Milo Yiannopolus was about to give a speech in Berkley, "Antifa" and others on the left started a riot to prevent him from speaking and the media seemed to blame him rather than those who actually committed the vandalism. When these same people attacked people for attending Trump rallies, the media sought to blame Trump rather than the people who actually committed the acts of violence.
Charlottesville began when people started calling for the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Lee is not a simple character, in fact he opposed secession from the union. Did you know that before they brought black slaves to England they still killed the poor for fishing in the kings lakes? Before the English oligarchy took control of Ireland, they abused their own poor. Long before they abused blacks, they abused the Irish. That is a historical fact. Color does not matter, the powerful abuse the weak. Should we fight over who should be the weakest?
What if, like the corporate media, we argue over who should have the right to abuse us, the left or the right? Who should be able to control what we say and our thoughts? Nazi's or anarchists? Why are people arguing over who has the right to use violence when none do?
God is none to happy with people who say that violence is right. Thou shalt not kill is actually one of the ten commandments. Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself is how Jesus summarized the commandments. Why is the media arguing over who to hate and who we can abuse and restrict speech from?
After Charlottesville the media and many politicians claimed Trump was a racist because he called out all sides that engaged in violence. I guess this means that Jesus was a racist too. Let's be honest and admit that for about a year and a half left leaning people have been causing riots and using violence with the media not condemning them. When Milo Yiannopolus was about to give a speech in Berkley, "Antifa" and others on the left started a riot to prevent him from speaking and the media seemed to blame him rather than those who actually committed the vandalism. When these same people attacked people for attending Trump rallies, the media sought to blame Trump rather than the people who actually committed the acts of violence.
Charlottesville began when people started calling for the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Lee is not a simple character, in fact he opposed secession from the union. Did you know that before they brought black slaves to England they still killed the poor for fishing in the kings lakes? Before the English oligarchy took control of Ireland, they abused their own poor. Long before they abused blacks, they abused the Irish. That is a historical fact. Color does not matter, the powerful abuse the weak. Should we fight over who should be the weakest?
What if, like the corporate media, we argue over who should have the right to abuse us, the left or the right? Who should be able to control what we say and our thoughts? Nazi's or anarchists? Why are people arguing over who has the right to use violence when none do?
God is none to happy with people who say that violence is right. Thou shalt not kill is actually one of the ten commandments. Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself is how Jesus summarized the commandments. Why is the media arguing over who to hate and who we can abuse and restrict speech from?
Monday, August 14, 2017
Charlottesville and the Spiritual War
Fox - Maxine Waters Blames Trump for White Nationalist Riots: Your Side, Not Many Sides.
SFGate - David Duke Blasts Trump’s Call for Unity: ‘It Was White Americans Who Put You in the Presidency’
Prohibiting people from saying what they believe is slavery. Stopping free speech is to promote slavery. It used to be illegal to teach slaves to read and write. The English made it illegal to speak Gaelic (Irish language) in Ireland when the British ruled us all. Prohibiting women from controlling their bodies, even when pregnant, is slavery. Prohibiting Nazi's from speaking is slavery. Slavery is wrong, no matter what the excuse. You cannot imprison beliefs.
Mans most basic sin is trying to enslave others and thinking they are better than others. You can be stronger, smarter and more educated and it still does not make you better. If you cut me, do I not bleed? Sorry Shakespeare, I steal good thoughts. We do not have to act on every thought we have and can control our actions. Thoughts are merely emotions put to words and cannot be controlled.
UPDATE:
By the way, MSN - Tribune News Service - Rights leaders ask Trump to fire 'alt-right' hero Bannon. The interesting statement in the article is, "Religious and civil rights leaders called on President Donald Trump to fire White House advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, whose association with the white-supremacist "alt-right" movement has come under heightened scrutiny after Saturday's violent clash in Charlottesville, Va." The article says that "alt right" and "white supremacist" are the same thing. Does this mean that if you don't believe that color matters then you are not alt right? If you believe in border control; but, don't care about which race is the best than you are not alt right according to the writer of the article. If you believe in border control do you have to be a homophobe? Not according to the articles writer. He missed the talking points. I used to preach to Hispanic gays that did not feel comfortable around transgenders and they were far from alt right. Most were here as refugees from places where they would be killed for being gay. Bigotry is when you think you know everything about someone because of one belief they have or one characteristic they share.
SFGate - David Duke Blasts Trump’s Call for Unity: ‘It Was White Americans Who Put You in the Presidency’
I don't care much for the corporate mainstream media. They tend to spin everything to manipulate opinion and emotions rather than present facts. Lets look at Charlottesville and what we do know. Firstly, there was a movement to remove a confederate monument. In response there was a rally to call for keeping it. The rally was called off by the city before it even started even though they had obtained a permit for the rally. After it was called off someone (we are being told it was a 20 year old man who had racist beliefs) drove his car into a crowd of people headed to protest the rally that had already been called off. Somewhere around 20 people were injured by the car and one has died. Two police officers also died when their helicopter crashed though we don't know what caused it to crash.
There are many valid issues raised by this event. Should we remove all evidence of slavery in America? Should we remove statues of Jefferson because he owned slaves? Should we remove all evidence of the civil war? Should we ignore the right of assembly and free speech?
Now there were people protesting to keep the statue who believe the south had a right to be it's own nation and leave the United States (that right however cannot be found in the Constitution except by amending it). Also included in this rally were a number of Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. While I personally find these groups disgusting, do they still have a right to express their support for keeping the statue?
When Black Lives Matter held protests where some called for killing cops, does that mean everyone who attended the rally's felt the same way? No, in fact the media was quick to point out that it was not the official position of the formal group. This is not much different.
We can look at all the separate issues; but, in the end it is an isolated situation. The media would like to tell you that racism is growing and that these groups are growing; but, the reality is that they are dying off and have been nothing but a joke for decades. During the early 1920s it was estimated that the Klan had up to 6 million members, today it is believed they have around 8,000 (though it has more sympathizers). Scientology has more members than the Klan today.
So what is the big picture? Well to begin with Neo-Nazi's and Klansmen did not send our jobs overseas or crash the economy. Neither did Muslim terrorists or gays or blacks or Jews or people who believe that abortion is a right. The biggest problem in this country is the lack of opportunity for the middle class and working class. Racism is real and still continues; but, to view it as the cause of all our problems is merely an attempt to distract from the actual problems themselves. The truth is there are many more homeless people than there are members of the Klan.
Now, here is the real issue and battle. It is spiritual. The bible says that Satan accuses us day and night before God. What do you think he accuses us of? Jesus said that the most important commandment was to love God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves. Satan accuses us of not doing that.
Now, here is the real issue and battle. It is spiritual. The bible says that Satan accuses us day and night before God. What do you think he accuses us of? Jesus said that the most important commandment was to love God with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves. Satan accuses us of not doing that.
Prohibiting people from saying what they believe is slavery. Stopping free speech is to promote slavery. It used to be illegal to teach slaves to read and write. The English made it illegal to speak Gaelic (Irish language) in Ireland when the British ruled us all. Prohibiting women from controlling their bodies, even when pregnant, is slavery. Prohibiting Nazi's from speaking is slavery. Slavery is wrong, no matter what the excuse. You cannot imprison beliefs.
Mans most basic sin is trying to enslave others and thinking they are better than others. You can be stronger, smarter and more educated and it still does not make you better. If you cut me, do I not bleed? Sorry Shakespeare, I steal good thoughts. We do not have to act on every thought we have and can control our actions. Thoughts are merely emotions put to words and cannot be controlled.
UPDATE:
By the way, MSN - Tribune News Service - Rights leaders ask Trump to fire 'alt-right' hero Bannon. The interesting statement in the article is, "Religious and civil rights leaders called on President Donald Trump to fire White House advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, whose association with the white-supremacist "alt-right" movement has come under heightened scrutiny after Saturday's violent clash in Charlottesville, Va." The article says that "alt right" and "white supremacist" are the same thing. Does this mean that if you don't believe that color matters then you are not alt right? If you believe in border control; but, don't care about which race is the best than you are not alt right according to the writer of the article. If you believe in border control do you have to be a homophobe? Not according to the articles writer. He missed the talking points. I used to preach to Hispanic gays that did not feel comfortable around transgenders and they were far from alt right. Most were here as refugees from places where they would be killed for being gay. Bigotry is when you think you know everything about someone because of one belief they have or one characteristic they share.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
A Little History About the Law of the Land
If you want to understand the constitution, you have to understand what preceded it. July 4, 1776 is NOT the beginning of the United States. It is when the Declaration of Independence was finalized. The first constitution (actual laws) did not come about until March 1, 1778 when the Articles of Confederation were adopted and in force.
The Articles of Confederation.
The AofC did not really create a nation as we think of one. What they really did was created something more akin to the European Union; but, weaker. One of the things in the AofC was a statement about militias. "No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united States in congress assembled, for the defense of such State, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgement of the united States, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such State; but every State shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage."
In many ways the Articles of Confederation were a wealthy man's privilege in legal form. It was 13 oligarchies controlling their own individual states, true states rights. The current Constitution was fully ratified in May of 1790 (though 11 states had already ratified and were technically the United States). The US Constitution was meant to limit state rights and strengthen the federal government because the Articles of Confederation had failed so badly.
Lets get back to gun rights for a moment. When preparing the "Bill of Rights", James Madison originally wanted it to say, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person." Notice how the same sentence is about keeping and bearing arms and the ability to refuse military service in person. That in person part meant that you could pay someone else to do your fighting for you and that happened a lot. The Bill of Rights went into effect on December 15, 1791. You know how we know that the Constitution did not give you an individual right to bear arms? Simple, it was ILLEGAL for slaves to own guns in many states. They were counted as 3/5ths of a person according to the Constitution, yet, they could not own guns. I should also point out that Japanese Americans who were put in determent camps during World War II. Heck, in the 1800s the police often required you to turn in your guns before coming into town and that was cowboys. Even today we prohibit felons from owning guns and from voting. Don't tell me you a constitutional strict constructionist if you think felons lose the ten amendments, that my friends is not in the constitution.
A true strict constructionist attempts to determine what the people who approved the Constitution and amendments meant when they wrote it and lets be clear, they didn't believe the same things we do. The Constitution was meant to keep state oligarchies in power while giving greater central control over the nation to the central government. If you want to be really strict in your construction of the Constitution, the abolition of slavery is sort of a dodgy question as there was no Constitutional Amendment abolishing it, that was done by executive decree, specifically, The Emancipation Proclamation and really only applied to Confederate states.
The Articles of Confederation.
The AofC did not really create a nation as we think of one. What they really did was created something more akin to the European Union; but, weaker. One of the things in the AofC was a statement about militias. "No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united States in congress assembled, for the defense of such State, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgement of the united States, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such State; but every State shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage."
In many ways the Articles of Confederation were a wealthy man's privilege in legal form. It was 13 oligarchies controlling their own individual states, true states rights. The current Constitution was fully ratified in May of 1790 (though 11 states had already ratified and were technically the United States). The US Constitution was meant to limit state rights and strengthen the federal government because the Articles of Confederation had failed so badly.
Lets get back to gun rights for a moment. When preparing the "Bill of Rights", James Madison originally wanted it to say, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person." Notice how the same sentence is about keeping and bearing arms and the ability to refuse military service in person. That in person part meant that you could pay someone else to do your fighting for you and that happened a lot. The Bill of Rights went into effect on December 15, 1791. You know how we know that the Constitution did not give you an individual right to bear arms? Simple, it was ILLEGAL for slaves to own guns in many states. They were counted as 3/5ths of a person according to the Constitution, yet, they could not own guns. I should also point out that Japanese Americans who were put in determent camps during World War II. Heck, in the 1800s the police often required you to turn in your guns before coming into town and that was cowboys. Even today we prohibit felons from owning guns and from voting. Don't tell me you a constitutional strict constructionist if you think felons lose the ten amendments, that my friends is not in the constitution.
A true strict constructionist attempts to determine what the people who approved the Constitution and amendments meant when they wrote it and lets be clear, they didn't believe the same things we do. The Constitution was meant to keep state oligarchies in power while giving greater central control over the nation to the central government. If you want to be really strict in your construction of the Constitution, the abolition of slavery is sort of a dodgy question as there was no Constitutional Amendment abolishing it, that was done by executive decree, specifically, The Emancipation Proclamation and really only applied to Confederate states.
Bees, Sperm Counts and Questions
International Business Times - Sperm Count Declines Worlwide, Western Men See Record Low Fertility. Lets start with the basic facts and point out where the title of the article is intentionally misleading. Sperm counts have NOT declined worldwide, just in the western nations. There has been a 59% decrease in sperm counts in men in Europe, the North America, Australia and New Zealand since 1973. They have found NO decline in South America, Africa or Asia.
Oxford Academic - Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Here is a link to the actual published study.
While this has been studied since the early 1970s, scientists still have no idea as to what is causing it, or so we are told. In fact, they have stated that smoking, obesity and even global warming may be causing it; but, those are lies. Lets start with smoking, it has been steadily decreasing in the west since the late 1960s, not increasing. However in the places where sperm counts are not going down, smoking has either remained relatively the same or increased, such as in Asia. Obesity also does not explain it. As for global warming, that is just laughable as global means global and the impact would be worldwide, not just in western countries.
So why doesn't the media care more about this issue? Why aren't western governments freaking out and spending the same amount of attention to this issue that they do to global warming. I mean, after all, at this rate the sperm count in western males will be zero in another 40 years. It's just math. Could this be due to hormones in our foods? Could it be due to chemicals in our environment (actually the west regulates chemicals in our environment much more than does China, India, Africa or South America where sperm counts are not declining)? I guess the only people that don't need to be worried about global warming are people living in the western world because we won't live to see it.
CBS News - 40 percent of U.S. bee colonies died in past year. In 2015 this report came out. Again, very large numbers and no overwhelming concern from the media. It is mentioned; but, not very often, certainly not as often as whether or not Trump likes one or two scoops of Ice Cream or whether or not transgenders should be in the military (all 250 of them). So what is killing the bees? The most likely candidate is pesticides.
It is bad enough that western societies have dropped their birth rate by refusing to have children, in the future they won't be able to. Oh, and just in case you think this is a "white male" thing, it is not, it is all westerners, blacks, whites and Arab, Asian, African immigrants who move to the western world. The drop is not genetic, it is environmental.
Oxford Academic - Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Here is a link to the actual published study.
While this has been studied since the early 1970s, scientists still have no idea as to what is causing it, or so we are told. In fact, they have stated that smoking, obesity and even global warming may be causing it; but, those are lies. Lets start with smoking, it has been steadily decreasing in the west since the late 1960s, not increasing. However in the places where sperm counts are not going down, smoking has either remained relatively the same or increased, such as in Asia. Obesity also does not explain it. As for global warming, that is just laughable as global means global and the impact would be worldwide, not just in western countries.
So why doesn't the media care more about this issue? Why aren't western governments freaking out and spending the same amount of attention to this issue that they do to global warming. I mean, after all, at this rate the sperm count in western males will be zero in another 40 years. It's just math. Could this be due to hormones in our foods? Could it be due to chemicals in our environment (actually the west regulates chemicals in our environment much more than does China, India, Africa or South America where sperm counts are not declining)? I guess the only people that don't need to be worried about global warming are people living in the western world because we won't live to see it.
CBS News - 40 percent of U.S. bee colonies died in past year. In 2015 this report came out. Again, very large numbers and no overwhelming concern from the media. It is mentioned; but, not very often, certainly not as often as whether or not Trump likes one or two scoops of Ice Cream or whether or not transgenders should be in the military (all 250 of them). So what is killing the bees? The most likely candidate is pesticides.
It is bad enough that western societies have dropped their birth rate by refusing to have children, in the future they won't be able to. Oh, and just in case you think this is a "white male" thing, it is not, it is all westerners, blacks, whites and Arab, Asian, African immigrants who move to the western world. The drop is not genetic, it is environmental.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Speech Crime
USA Today - Suicide texting case sets bad precedent, experts say.
CNN - The text messages that led up to teen's suicide.
A 17 year old girl got regular text messages from her boyfriend where he said he was going to kill himself. At first she tried to get him to go to therapy and much later told him to just do it. He did. He killed himself. She was charged with murder and ended up getting two and a half years for involuntary manslaughter.
Murder by speech. Murder by text message? It was not murder, it was not manslaughter. It was suicide. My wife left me for another man and took everything I had. I did not commit suicide, though I was quite ready to die. Even Jim Jones actually put a gun to people's heads to make them drink the Koolaid. Please tell me, was she responsible for not stopping him. She didn't bring up the idea, he did. I guess she wasn't a very good psychologist at 17. Maybe she was a really dumb child; but, she was still a child. She is now paying for his sin, not hers.
Tell me you have never wished someone dead. Tell me you have never told another to just die or wished that they would. We are going to charge you for the air you breath, a carbon tax. And, we are going to hold you guilty for bad thoughts and bad words, hate speech. Do you think that slaves wished their masters dead? The most oppressive slavery starts by outlawing words and then thoughts.
CNN - The text messages that led up to teen's suicide.
A 17 year old girl got regular text messages from her boyfriend where he said he was going to kill himself. At first she tried to get him to go to therapy and much later told him to just do it. He did. He killed himself. She was charged with murder and ended up getting two and a half years for involuntary manslaughter.
Murder by speech. Murder by text message? It was not murder, it was not manslaughter. It was suicide. My wife left me for another man and took everything I had. I did not commit suicide, though I was quite ready to die. Even Jim Jones actually put a gun to people's heads to make them drink the Koolaid. Please tell me, was she responsible for not stopping him. She didn't bring up the idea, he did. I guess she wasn't a very good psychologist at 17. Maybe she was a really dumb child; but, she was still a child. She is now paying for his sin, not hers.
Tell me you have never wished someone dead. Tell me you have never told another to just die or wished that they would. We are going to charge you for the air you breath, a carbon tax. And, we are going to hold you guilty for bad thoughts and bad words, hate speech. Do you think that slaves wished their masters dead? The most oppressive slavery starts by outlawing words and then thoughts.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
What Is Free Speech?
Does freedom of speech mean the freedom to be heard? Does it mean the freedom to explore ideas that are wrong in the opinion of the majority or specific groups? Does it include the right to call other people "nigger" or "faggot" or "Nazi" or "bitch" or "fuckhead"? Does it include the right to discuss the history of those words or what they used to mean? Does it include the right to discuss similarities amongst the people who use those terms? Can I at least discuss whether or not whites can say "nigger" or just blacks? My regular readers know that I do not use such terms in this blog; but, can I if it helps us to ask other questions? Am I free to bring up these issues? How can I talk honestly about the KKK if I don't use these words to explain what they believe?
What is freedom of speech and why does it matter? Can we outlaw the letter N or F? What if racists and homophobes started just using the letter instead of saying the word, could we outlaw that and would we want to outlaw a letter? You cannot outlaw a concept or a belief set. You cannot make it illegal to hate blacks or gays. You cannot legislate the ten commandments. How do you make it illegal for people to love Satan or a rock more than God? You cannot even legislate the first commandment because you cannot outlaw beliefs or love.
YouTube is attempting to regulate what people can discuss and they want to use computer programs to do it. Billionaires intend to regulate what you can say over the internet by telling computers what you can and cannot say. After the programs are written they will tell you it is fair because the computer is choosing what is good and bad. Computers cannot make moral decisions. They have no soul and do not have to live with the consequences because they have no life, they are just formulas being run by calculators, nothing more.
More books were sold last year as computer files than as physical books. More e-mails are sent in a day than are physical letters in a year, I will bet you. They don't even teach handwriting in school anymore. Try getting hold of a printing press and the ink and the paper. The infrastructure that would allow publishing written materials is going bye bye and what will be left will be very expensive.
Now lets talk about the internet. Do Muslims in Saudi Arabia have the right to use the internet to say they hate Jews on Arab websites? Do blacks in Africa have the right to discuss how the Europeans should all die for having stolen their people and their lands? Do American Indians have the right to use the internet to discuss how the white man came and took their lands and should all die? Do I have the right to say that a quarter of the English should starve to death as they starved my family, the Irish to death? Will I be free to read the New York Times editorial that said that the famine in Ireland might solve the "Irish Problem"? Should I be able to read Nazi propaganda from the 30s and 40s online so that I can understand how they did what they did?
If it is legal to have the Playboy channel on cable then should it be illegal to post the pictures online? I personally would not like it to be illegal for Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller to be prohibited from saying people that believe in God are idiots. FYI, he doesn't tend to do that, he is usually a respectful atheist as he is also a Libertarian and one of the best magician ever. Heck, I would be more than comfortable and happy to actually have an in depth religious discussion with him. As much as I know he believes in free speech who hid probably not agree with the next part of this post.
If the only way to communicate with the world is the internet than restrictions on what you can and cannot say are immoral if they prohibit the free exchange of ideas, even ones I find repulsive or threatening. You cannot legislate consent. It is wrong for Facebook, YouTube and Google to regulate belief when they are the center of social discussion.
If China regulates what you can say on the internet we call it repression and an immoral prohibition of free speech. If Facebook does it then people on the right will say it is capitalism and fine because Facebook is not the government. How does that work in a nation where all social media is controlled by corporations?
If you say that I can start my own Facebook you would be lying to yourself as the European Union now claims the right to fine you for what goes on the internet. What if we placed the exact same rules on the internet that we place on the U.S. mail? It is illegal to send child pornography using the mail system. It is however legal to send a letter to another saying that your brother in law is a no good nigger faggot xenophobe. Should your free speech end when you use a computer to speak it?
Just so you know, the current YouTube algorithm and Facebook rules could prohibit you from ever seeing this post because they would not judge the content properly. If blogger were to apply the same rules, this single blog could mark me as not being searchable.
What is freedom of speech and why does it matter? Can we outlaw the letter N or F? What if racists and homophobes started just using the letter instead of saying the word, could we outlaw that and would we want to outlaw a letter? You cannot outlaw a concept or a belief set. You cannot make it illegal to hate blacks or gays. You cannot legislate the ten commandments. How do you make it illegal for people to love Satan or a rock more than God? You cannot even legislate the first commandment because you cannot outlaw beliefs or love.
YouTube is attempting to regulate what people can discuss and they want to use computer programs to do it. Billionaires intend to regulate what you can say over the internet by telling computers what you can and cannot say. After the programs are written they will tell you it is fair because the computer is choosing what is good and bad. Computers cannot make moral decisions. They have no soul and do not have to live with the consequences because they have no life, they are just formulas being run by calculators, nothing more.
More books were sold last year as computer files than as physical books. More e-mails are sent in a day than are physical letters in a year, I will bet you. They don't even teach handwriting in school anymore. Try getting hold of a printing press and the ink and the paper. The infrastructure that would allow publishing written materials is going bye bye and what will be left will be very expensive.
Now lets talk about the internet. Do Muslims in Saudi Arabia have the right to use the internet to say they hate Jews on Arab websites? Do blacks in Africa have the right to discuss how the Europeans should all die for having stolen their people and their lands? Do American Indians have the right to use the internet to discuss how the white man came and took their lands and should all die? Do I have the right to say that a quarter of the English should starve to death as they starved my family, the Irish to death? Will I be free to read the New York Times editorial that said that the famine in Ireland might solve the "Irish Problem"? Should I be able to read Nazi propaganda from the 30s and 40s online so that I can understand how they did what they did?
If it is legal to have the Playboy channel on cable then should it be illegal to post the pictures online? I personally would not like it to be illegal for Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller to be prohibited from saying people that believe in God are idiots. FYI, he doesn't tend to do that, he is usually a respectful atheist as he is also a Libertarian and one of the best magician ever. Heck, I would be more than comfortable and happy to actually have an in depth religious discussion with him. As much as I know he believes in free speech who hid probably not agree with the next part of this post.
If the only way to communicate with the world is the internet than restrictions on what you can and cannot say are immoral if they prohibit the free exchange of ideas, even ones I find repulsive or threatening. You cannot legislate consent. It is wrong for Facebook, YouTube and Google to regulate belief when they are the center of social discussion.
If China regulates what you can say on the internet we call it repression and an immoral prohibition of free speech. If Facebook does it then people on the right will say it is capitalism and fine because Facebook is not the government. How does that work in a nation where all social media is controlled by corporations?
If you say that I can start my own Facebook you would be lying to yourself as the European Union now claims the right to fine you for what goes on the internet. What if we placed the exact same rules on the internet that we place on the U.S. mail? It is illegal to send child pornography using the mail system. It is however legal to send a letter to another saying that your brother in law is a no good nigger faggot xenophobe. Should your free speech end when you use a computer to speak it?
Just so you know, the current YouTube algorithm and Facebook rules could prohibit you from ever seeing this post because they would not judge the content properly. If blogger were to apply the same rules, this single blog could mark me as not being searchable.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
I Know, I am not Writing Much
MSN - USA Today - Robots stealing all human jobs isn't the problem we should worry about. This is. Let my shock fill me, the greatest minds in technology see a future coming very soon where they don't need workers. And yet, they see the problem as being one of people finding purpose when their labor is no longer needed. Kids, I have been telling you this for almost a decade and I have previously pointed out that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, had written his manifesto about this exact issue and has been quoted by numerous tech geniuses. His manifesto is titled, "INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE", which you can read by clicking the link. The link is to the Washington Post.
US News - AP - Where Does Democracy Stand This July Fourth? Fascism begins when they convince the people that democracy does not work and the wealthy and powerful never have ever believed in democracy, they believe in oligarchies. That is history.
Vanity Fair - Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President. I want you to read this, read the article in the link. It is important. Multi millionaires are afraid of Trump and of regular old working class and middle class people because they see us as the mindless great unwashed. Read the letter in the link. Read the mans own words, "And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere." Unlike me, elitists believe they matter more than the rest of us. I am Aspergers and many who are look down on normal people. I don't. The strong look down on the weak, the smart look down on those less smart and all are wrong. Read the motto of this blog, "You Matter". I did not say you only matter if you are a genius or strong.
I met the most wonderful woman in the world on my first day of sixth grade. She was really smart and had just skipped a grade. Imagine going from 4th grade straight to 6th grade and still getting all As. She met me and could see that I didn't just have no respect for the other students, I didn't respect the teachers and knew I knew more than them and proved it daily. My teacher begged my parents to have me skip grades; but, my mother knew it would mean I would never respect others and wouldn't let it happen. I thank God for my mother keeping me back and letting me learn that even normals matter. Oligarchs and elitists don't believe what I believe, I believe everybody matters and we can all learn more. I just believe in sharing the information we learn, they don't. The girl I met in 6th grade saw my arrogance and disrespect for those less intelligent and poked me in the eye to let me know that she saw them for what they were and didn't want me to hurt them. She taught me that "you matter", not me, that everyone matters and I have loved her heart for that ever since that day, even now although she has passed on. The people who believe they are your betters have no respect for you and do not believe you matter anymore than their dogs and cats. They don't see you as important as they see themselves. Julia saved me from that.
BBC News - Sperm count drop 'could make humans extinct'. What the hell do I care about global warming if people will stop being able to have children?
The Guardian - Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040. You know, whenever I tell people that you won't own your car and they will all be self driving and electric, like I have written about for a decade, they say, "Not in my lifetime". Should I assume they believe they will be dead within 23 years?
Do you want to know how they view you? Let their words speak for themselves.
Here is an e-mail from Bill Ivey of Global Cultural Strategies to John Podesta. WikiLeaks - The e-mail between Ivey and him, from Ivey. Here is the important line of the communication, " And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging."
The one thing the powerful really fear is a second French revolution where they just get wiped out for their crimes against the world. The thing they fear is you paying attention to what they are doing to keep control over you.
There is a biblical reason for all of this, bad shepherds who are hired hands and nothing more and sheep and even sheep dogs. The Pimpernel knows how the game ends, the powerful do not. Enjoy what you have, take care of one another and don't sweat it. Life, like motion, is just the passage of time. YOU MATTER.
US News - AP - Where Does Democracy Stand This July Fourth? Fascism begins when they convince the people that democracy does not work and the wealthy and powerful never have ever believed in democracy, they believe in oligarchies. That is history.
Vanity Fair - Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President. I want you to read this, read the article in the link. It is important. Multi millionaires are afraid of Trump and of regular old working class and middle class people because they see us as the mindless great unwashed. Read the letter in the link. Read the mans own words, "And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere." Unlike me, elitists believe they matter more than the rest of us. I am Aspergers and many who are look down on normal people. I don't. The strong look down on the weak, the smart look down on those less smart and all are wrong. Read the motto of this blog, "You Matter". I did not say you only matter if you are a genius or strong.
I met the most wonderful woman in the world on my first day of sixth grade. She was really smart and had just skipped a grade. Imagine going from 4th grade straight to 6th grade and still getting all As. She met me and could see that I didn't just have no respect for the other students, I didn't respect the teachers and knew I knew more than them and proved it daily. My teacher begged my parents to have me skip grades; but, my mother knew it would mean I would never respect others and wouldn't let it happen. I thank God for my mother keeping me back and letting me learn that even normals matter. Oligarchs and elitists don't believe what I believe, I believe everybody matters and we can all learn more. I just believe in sharing the information we learn, they don't. The girl I met in 6th grade saw my arrogance and disrespect for those less intelligent and poked me in the eye to let me know that she saw them for what they were and didn't want me to hurt them. She taught me that "you matter", not me, that everyone matters and I have loved her heart for that ever since that day, even now although she has passed on. The people who believe they are your betters have no respect for you and do not believe you matter anymore than their dogs and cats. They don't see you as important as they see themselves. Julia saved me from that.
BBC News - Sperm count drop 'could make humans extinct'. What the hell do I care about global warming if people will stop being able to have children?
The Guardian - Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040. You know, whenever I tell people that you won't own your car and they will all be self driving and electric, like I have written about for a decade, they say, "Not in my lifetime". Should I assume they believe they will be dead within 23 years?
Do you want to know how they view you? Let their words speak for themselves.
Here is an e-mail from Bill Ivey of Global Cultural Strategies to John Podesta. WikiLeaks - The e-mail between Ivey and him, from Ivey. Here is the important line of the communication, " And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging."
The one thing the powerful really fear is a second French revolution where they just get wiped out for their crimes against the world. The thing they fear is you paying attention to what they are doing to keep control over you.
There is a biblical reason for all of this, bad shepherds who are hired hands and nothing more and sheep and even sheep dogs. The Pimpernel knows how the game ends, the powerful do not. Enjoy what you have, take care of one another and don't sweat it. Life, like motion, is just the passage of time. YOU MATTER.
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