7/8/11
Three Simple Steps To A Job Recovery
Jobs Data Dim Recovery Hopes - WSJ.com: "The U.S. economy barely added jobs for the second month in a row in June and the unemployment rate rose to the highest level this year, dashing hopes the economic recovery is getting back on track and putting pressure on policymakers to react." 1. Initiate a CETA-like program which enables employers to easily add needed jobs at modest wages for specific periods of time. It worked in the early-1980s. 2. Create government-private sector teams to build models of alternative communities that will be car free and feature cheap but eco-competent development at densities sufficient to enable populations of five to ten thousand to exist in an area where everything can be reached on foot. 3. Create a national trainer corps where people with skills can mentor individuals in concert with potential employers. One to one training.
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Heavy snow does not mean we are not warming
Bundle Up, It's Global Warming - NYTimes.com: "As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past two and a half decades, more moisture has become snow."
Nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic
The Fixation of Belief: "The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic." Charles Sanders Peirce was not a knee-jerp metaphysician. He was thee forerunner of a mentality which is now becoming the default. One that understrands the vagueness that lies at the edges of our capacity to grasp and comprehend.
Obama is not embracing Hooverism.
Hullabaloo: "Mike Konczal has a good post in which he muses on the perennial question: why is the administration embracing Hooverism? I'm not sure he's come up with a better answer than anyone else, but it's a fun read." Obama is not embracing Hooverism. He is dealing with a genuine and reasonable fissure in understanding. People are ultimately responsible for their actions. States cannot substitute for individuals. But they can and should serve needs that are agreed to be beyond the ken of individual power to effect. Obama is embracing centrism and listening to both sides of a dialectic that will lead to a new synthesis that will be neither the New Deal or whatever vision digby associates with Hooverism.
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Alarmed Democrats are the flip side of wingnut Republicans
Obama's debt talks alarm Democrats about Social Security | McClatchy: "Obama is pressing for a 'big' deal that would total about $4 trillion in cuts to projected deficits over the next 10 years. He had proposed a $4 trillion plan in April that would be spread over 10 or 12 years, but recent talks had focused on a $2 trillion goal." Neither the alarmed Democrats or the wingnut Republicans give a damn about following the lead of a President who has had a reasonable answer to the deficit for months and months. Now we know why Teddy Roosevelt gave up on both houses. And why that won't work. And why it is sad to see Democrats behaving so predictably and commentators having their meltdowns. Good thing we can switch channels.
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People like this should start by shooting themselves
Gunman dead after killing kid, ex-girlfriend, 5 others - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com: "GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A man suspected of killing seven people ended a hostage standoff late Thursday by shooting himself in the head, Michigan police said." I am serious. If someone is angry enough to off multiple victims and then himself, why not start with himself? He will have no chance to be guilty or happy at his slaughter once he has done himself in. It is a formidable lapse in logic. We should encourage all marauders to begin with themselves. We should post signs to this effect. START WITH YOURSELF!
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Pawlenty may be the candidate who wasn't
Pawlenty Campaign Puts Hopes on Iowa - NYTimes.com: "AMES, Iowa — Tim Pawlenty was first in line to enter the Republican presidential race. He is now fighting to avoid becoming the earliest major candidate to be shown the door." Sort of a cross between Zelig and the Invisible Man.
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The people are ready for some entitlement change Washington not so much
The Politics Behind The Debt-Ceiling Drama : NPR: "A new Pew Research Center poll shows that there is broad public opposition to possible reductions in benefits provided by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, according to poll director Andrew Kohut." Since the GOP has Citizen's United working for them they probably think they can lie their way past any problem, even if they foment a global depression. We must prove them wrong starting now.
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I had a dream the ghouls of advertising mutely ceased
No more double double toil and stomachs all a-bubble
Fiscal machines create medications to delay death
In my dream the walk returns
In my dream devils are not defeated on the plane of states
Why being prepared for war is a very bad trip
In China it is 1927
We are the one all tending to the One
God's spark is in everyone
This is a burden that would sap the life of most
For we would then acknowledge
That where life is
God is
The spark in all of life
And we would then
Look into the eyes of children
Leeched of life
And contemplate
That something or someone
Has extinguished a spark
Linked to the flame within us
It is no wonder that religion makes it easy
For us
Segmenting our salvation
Into chunks we can ingest
With confidence
All the Good Doctor's
Talk
Of none being an island
Is just the musing of a
Dead
Poet
Nothing more
But no we are all part of the same continent
Even when we are in rebellion
And leading lives of bitterness
And pinched anger
And righteous certainty
That is nothing but
Fear writ large
And faith destroyed
We are all one and tending to the one
We are all grasped by the same hand
We are all cared for by the same bright light
We all have Abba living deep inside
Ineffably giving us the endless leash
Of our own freedom to say no
Until one day we say no to the lives we lead that
Exclude Abba
And then we live in
Earnest happiness
At last
Jesus was the truest whistleblower of all
I once was asked to
Offer reasons for the death
Of many
Due to poisoning of well water
I found an Indian Doctor
Who saw those deaths coming apace
He shouted out a warning
But he went unheard
When I said he should now be recognized
My suggestion
Was shredded
Much whistle blowing has to do
With keeping sparks alive
True whistleblowers are
Messengers of Abba
Jesus was the truest
Whistleblower
Of All
There is a hard saying in our Scripture attributed to Jesus
There is a hard saying in our Scripture
Attributed to Jesus
It says let the dead
Bury the dead
On one level
It is simply a put down of
excessive sentimentality
But on another it suggests
God is so real
That part of God is lost
When deaths take place
I say God lives within us all a universal God
I say God lives within us all
A universal God
Beyond religions
Beyond capacities to
Fully grasp
To claim we know it all
Why else would we know conscience
As freedom to say no
And to be heard
Refusal is the beginning of freedom
And of proving Abba
The universal spark is In the murderer
The universal spark is
In the murderer
And in the murdered
In the father who mutilates
And in the mutilated
In Marine and Taliban
In wingnut
And reasonable soul
When we see beauty
It is the spark
Overcoming
All the evil we devise
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