11/28/11

It's the Manchester Union Leader Isn't It

Not according to Rachel Maddow. She calls it the New Hampshire Union Leader.

A revelation in philosophy

Revaluing Values: Values and will are one.:

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A revelation in philosophy
Creates a revolution
That values and the will always agree
Leads to a new solution

Values and will are one.

Aristotle Values - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "Values and will are one. Values create history and culture. Values transcend character. Values transcend virtue. Values are the desires of the heart. Jesus understands all of this. Aristotle appears not to."

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The task of ethics is to determine  the summum bonum.

The task of ethics is to determine  the values which, acting in harmony, constitute a sort of human summum bonum. My candidates are non-idolatry as the root value and democracy, tolerance and helpfulness as active and dynamic values within the immanent frame.




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Universalism has been the underpinnning of my thinking

Revaluing Values: "Universalism has been the underpinnning of my thinking and the consistent principle underlying my own conclusions. The ethic which I would advance is based on the theory (assumption) that it is in the very nature of reality and of human beings to live in an immanent frame where values - the term "willed values" is in my understanding is an oxymoron - are the engine of history.  Human beings by their choices individually and severally determine the course of events. Insofar as ethics has any reality it refers not to a choice of what is right or wrong but to the values whose espousal makes a life vibrant, beautiful, admirable. I think that in this I am not far from Peirce. Nor, for that matter, from Jesus and a number of others who have been movers of history because they held and practiced the most admirable of values.
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Our sprawl kills politics as it should be

Beyond Pattern Language: Regions of Between 2 and 10 million:

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Our sprawl kills politics as it should be
Our politics should build community
We all should walk from home to our town hall
This is the basis of democracy

The fracking truth is built upon a lie

Noxious Oil: This Says it All Regarding Fossil Fuels:

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The fracking truth is built upon a lie
The notion that extraction means well-being
It only means delay delay delay
And blindness to what knowing eyes are seeing

This Says it All Regarding Fossil Fuels

Marcellus Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, and the E.P.A. : The New Yorker: "The trouble with this sort of argument is that, in the absence of a rational energy policy, there’s no reason to substitute shale gas for coal. We can combust them both! The way things now stand, there’s nothing to prevent us from getting wasted mountains and polluted drinking water, and a ruined climate to boot.

In the coming decades, ever-improving technologies will almost certainly make new sources of hydrocarbons accessible. At some point, either we will outgrow our infatuation or we will burn our way to a very dark place."

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The signs of sprawl's demise are everywhere

Sprawl World: Sprawl Sclerosis Hits Arizona Big Time: "Sprawl Sclerosis Hits Arizona Big Time"


The signs of sprawl's demise are everywhere
The boarded offices the vacant lots
But what's to come is not seen anywhere
Still in good time we shall connect the dots

Sprawl Sclerosis Hits Arizona Big Time

Beyond Sprawl: The Southwest Zombie Problem | KPBS.org: "PHOENIX — Homebuilders have long made a living expanding the edges of Southwestern cities. But look around these days and you’ll find construction projects that have screeched to a halt.

Up to 1 million lots in Central Arizona were in some stage of approval for new homes when the market crashed, according to the Sonoran Institute.

Many were set aside for long-term developments. Others were graded and ready for construction. All through the suburbs of Phoenix, it’s easy to find vast swatches of empty land once prepped for two-by-fours and work crews."

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The congregation has gathered for the FUNERAL service

Markman: A Film About Jesus: "The congregation has gathered for the FUNERAL service. The casket is draped with flowers. The only symbol in the whole building is a huge, rough wooden CROSS which leans against the wall in front of the congregation. The congregation sits on simple wooden benches. Kelly and her cameraman are recording the scene. Rex Cooley is seated at a cheap electric organ. He is wearing a multi colored robe that bears the legend on the back: "AWAKE"

    He brings the singing to an end. Then he stands and moves to the lectern. He looks around and raises his fist.

    REX: John didn't even get a chance to leave his last words. But on the night that he was framed by the Mayor's security guard, he didn't call a lawyer. He called a friend. He called this man."

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The Batallion of the Born Again Race grows day by day

Markman: A Film About Jesus:

"INTERIOR. TIGER'S CAR. NIGHT.

    A tape is playing. TIGER listens with a seraphic smile.

    TAPE (V. O.) The Batallion of the Born Again Race grows day by day. Each day it moves closer to its noble goal, the crushing of the mongrel elements, the barbarians at the gates.

    When a column of POLICE CARS with flashing lights passes him going back toward the beach, Tiger ejects the tape and picks up his private phone to the Mayor.

    MAYOR (V. O.) Yeah, Tiger.

    TIGER: All taken care of. Sleep well, Mr. Mayor."

Well cared for certainly but mute

Herodotus meets Ellroy: How Croesus Escaped the Persian Funeral Pyre: "I must reveal the story of Croesus' son, well cared for certainly, but mute. Croesus consulted the Pythian prophetess at Delphi who lost no time in declaring  that it was not a good idea to restore the boy's speech as that event would be fraught with peril."

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First there was the mountain and the plain

New Tao Posts: How wondrous is the universal Tao

First there was the mountain and the plain
And then there was the world
And then the universe
And now a plural form
To summon up
What we can't see

How wondrous is the universal Tao

How wondrous is the universal Tao
Infusing universes numberless
With freedom that surpasses every law
And purposes beyond all power to change


Adam pressed his head against the cool walls

Manhattan Bully Wars: "Adam pressed his head against the cool walls, trying to think. His inhaled the dull smell of the yellow paint. He listened for the liberating bell. Freedom. Release. Now. But it did not ring.  The only ringing was in his head. 
Maldbar was directly behind him, breathing heavily.  "Well?" the teacher demanded.
Adam could think of only one thing. Out of this building! Now.  
He felt cornered.  Something snapped. This was do or die."

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Adam was among the most tweaked of all

Manhattan Bully Wars: "Adam was among the most tweaked of all. Two notorious bullies in the sixth grade were never tweaked.  And all but a few of the twenty-five remaining class members avoided tweaks by appearing to heed every word Maldbar spoke. Adam was a half-hearted heeder and now he was entirely lost in window-gazing and attendant thoughts."

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People saw me and called me Master, Lord

Abba's Way:

"People saw me and called me Master, Lord,
And took me for some super-being on earth;
I merely saw what life is moving toward,
And felt the power of Abba’s inner surge."

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Only by practice can the race be run

Abba's Way:

"Only by practice can the race be run,
You choose a life—a life that you will make,
And practice Abba’s way as you move on.
Abba is with you every step you take."

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The Many Ways The GOP Could Fail

Obama's Way: Colin Powell Dresses Down The Congress: "Colin Powell Dresses Down The Congress"

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The many ways the GOP could fail
Disgusting ads inaction bilious lies
No candidate corruption no ground game
But mainly stances all logic defies

Duplication haunts Protestant policy

The Grass Roots Church: "Mergers at the top are hardly likely to reduce the costs and duplication that already haunt Protestant policy. Nor is there any likelihood that a merger at the top will have more than an antagonistic effect on local churches. I am advocating a sweeping away of an already formidable Protestant superstructure. The renewed Church would seek to operate from a decentralized base. It would adopt a new polity forged by existing local congregations in concert with one another and a new specialization which would enable many acting together to accomplish what separated Christianity finds impossible to do.
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It is for the sake of the world that we should be one

Windows on The Bible: "It is for the sake of the world that we should be one. Unless  the world sees us as light upon the hill, as salt of the earth, unless the Spirit infuses us with a visible common goodness, we will continue to betray the call of Jesus that we die and rise in Him to the new life of obedience and reconciliation with God."

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The biggest issue dividing Christians may be choice. I regard it as a Solomonic issue. That is there is no answer that suffices and therefore it must be up to each person without legislation that mandates a particular choice. The operative values are non-idolatry, democracy, tolerance and helpfulness.

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We set goals for the coming six days and evaluate the last six

One Minute Christian:

""We set goals for the coming six days and evaluate the last six," the pastor answered cheerfully.

"What?" the husband exclaimed.

"We try to do it with God in mind," the pastor said.

"I don't understand," the husband said.

"You will," the pastor answered, "if you want to."
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Money in politics must go

Occupy Everything Q&A: Naomi Wolf Knew What Occupy Wants:

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Money in politics must go
The justices were most unjust
And glaring loopholes must be closed
To save us from yet more disgust

Naomi Wolf Knew What Occupy Wants


The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | LinkedIn:

"The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

"No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

"When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them."

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She simply asked.

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