6/5/12
What would force @speakerboehner to stop obstructing governance
REWRITTEN 7/6 after Boehner refused to do more than grudgingly pass a portion of the Obama jobs program, and then with unacceptable conditions
1. The President going to Capitol Hill and staying there until Boehner acts 2. John Lewis using direct action to replicate a Selma in the halls of Congress 3. All of Twitter tweeting @speakerboehner Pass full Obama jobs program 4. The mass media placing blame where it belongs 5. Speaker Boehner having a Damascus Road experience 6. A market plunge attributable to the stasis of the Speaker and Congress 7. Pressure from Mitt Romney
You can guage the horrendous stasis that exists by concluding that not one of the seven notions above has the slightest possibility of coming to fruition Our society is so deeply mired in the spell that was cast when I overcame we and morality and ethics took a back seat to profit (thickening a wall of corruption that is still present) that the notion of the unprecedented eludes us We have lost our capacity to believe anything can be done This is known as crucifixion In such situations there remain people who do believe and who act together and whose victories inspire others to act Be sure that if we move forward at all it will be because people here and there lit the torches of tolerance democracy and helpfulness and practiced non-idolatry These values are the engines of revolution
Those who have seen crucifixion many times know we are victors already and that we can act foolishly even face scorn with confidence because we do not value our preservation over the triumph of these values
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6/4/12
The Versatile Mind - Charles Sanders Peirce
Peirce's Arisbe: The Rationale of the Website "Born 1839 and died 1914, Peirce's adult life spanned the period from the American Civil War to the beginning of the First World War, but he is of special and growing interest at present, both internationally and to people in many fields and disciplines, not because of his historical influence -- still largely unappreciated by most historians of the period -- but rather because of his remarkable and unparalleled anticipation of the emerging themes of the 21st Century:
Thought as virtual
Meaning as experimental and interpretational
Mind as a multi-dimensional communicational process
Sciences as collaborative communicational communities
Truth and knowledge as social and distributed
Formal reasoning as graphical inference
Humanities and sciences conceived unitarily
Education as inquiry and exploration
To these from Arisbe I would add
Theology as way rather than creed
Christianity alert to the dominant hypocrisies and oriented to the best interest of the other
And coworker with his (unknown) co-worker Nietzsche to create the basis in thought for transcendence within the immanent frame.
Building in America Runs Well Behind Making and Marketing Gadgets
Our building practices are primitive
Corruption haunts Contractor World
Business thrives on needless renovation and repair
Build for severe weather
Safe secure complexes
not detached homes
Mass produced modular elements
built as cars have been
Detroit could morph into
making the smart surfaces of spaces
Forget individual plumbing
Forget individual disposal
septic tanks basement sump pumps
Instead of housing as we know it
make an infinitely duplicable matrix
make modular ecosystem elements
to circulate recycle and dispose
To avoid severe weather
design no more than four levels
for the most likely forms of severe weather in an area
Shoreline communities should have elevation
Stadium-like structures to withstand hurricane winds
We need communities that are 21st century
with built in protections and shared eco-sustainability
Snapshot of Jesus: Geza Vermes
6/3/12
Scott Walker won they say but not so fast
UPDATE
Scott Walker won they say but not so fast
Scott Walker still could face prosecution
Scott Walker has a highly checkered past
Scott Walker might wish he had never won
ORIGINAL QUATRAIN
Scott Walker will soon be recalled
Scott Walker won they say but not so fast
Scott Walker still could face prosecution
Scott Walker has a highly checkered past
Scott Walker might wish he had never won
ORIGINAL QUATRAIN
Scott Walker will soon be recalled
On the way to being bald
That's the least of his concerns
Future jailbirds never learn
6/2/12
It's time for the media to stop treating Boehner with kid gloves
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