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There is a new storm brewing the world over
There is a storm brewing the entire world over! Beginning in Tunisia, the Muslim world is in turmoil. Today a violent overthrow of the US sanctioned government in Egypt is immanent.
Soon Libya’s gadafi is next to fall after a 40 year dictatorial rule.
Finally, it has spread to here in the US. With the Republican’s union busting attempt starting in Wisconsin.
Thankfully, Americans are getting uncomfortable enough to begin to protest against the crony’s capitalism of the Republican Party who apparently sees no contradiction in the corporate welfare provided by the taxpayers to Wall Street and defense corporations and the actual true citizenry of the United States the Middle class and poor, which THEY are always eager to rob.
With their newly obtained status and rights as “persons”, corporations can now exercise anonymous corporate control of cash hungry politicians without the majority of Americans even being aware of the influence these cash rich Multinational Corporations have on our elected officials.
As Wall Street wallows in wealth on the taxpayer’s dime due to forced bailouts and crony’s capitalism, widows and children are starving in the streets and the worst is yet to come.
Gas prices continue to skyrocket, as does the price of food. How long until the American uprising begins as begun all over the world starting in Europe and now having spread to the middle East?
Americans will most likely not begin to protest until it is too late. Blaming a “bad economy” which resulted from an excess of trillion dollar spending under former president Bush and the cronies capitalism rampant on Wall Street, the super rich who pay little or no taxes, the poor working class with not revolt until food stamps and sis are no longer available, and then, sadly it will be too late.
We have experience the greatest swindle in the history of this great country; a transfer of wealth from the very poorest to the vest richest and least educated and most are not even aware that it has happened.
Thirty years of saving put into pension plans are gone, as is the equity in the homes of the middle class.
Hundreds of thousands of seniors who have paid faithfully into the SSI are in danger of having their benefits reduced leaving them with the choice between housing and medication all while taxpayers have bailed out the banks and wall street and they shamelessly continue to award their criminal Coe’s multimillion dollar bonuses;
This is wrong and Americans should be outraged if not literally figuratively with all elected representatives.
We have to protest against the mooned aristocracy of corporation that are corrupting our elected officials now before it is too late and America is relegated to another third world economy.
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The impossibility of Persuasion
The impossibility of Persuasion
ON persuasion
By
Tony DeLarocha
People say, “I think this or I think that! Bs! The philosopher Nietzsche correctly points out thoughts happen to you it is independent of volition
Think about that! Thoughts happen to you ;( pause) your thoughts are not you, are they?
Do you control your thoughts?
And, if you do, Are you sure your conclusions are unbiased?
Freud’s insight revealed the existence of the seven defense mechanisms. Like it or not, we protect ourselves by hiding truth from ourselves so that we can live with ourselves.
How many times have you known something to be true, and confidently marched into enlighten a friend or colleague only to be met with stony rejection of your “airtight argument”
Is it that you lack the skill of persuasion? Or is it that the other party cannot for some other reason be persuaded?
Perhaps, it is a conclusion too painful for them to accept, or any of a thousand reasons.
So, do people really talk, exchange ideas and actually enlighten or persuade each other….ever?
The answer is YES, of course, but it is a lot less common than is realized.
The more common state of affairs is that two people meet with their agenda in hand and promote that agenda relentlessly then become passionately associated with their line of thinking blinding them to the open mindedness necessary for an honest exchange of ideas.
More often than not it is only by beating someone over the head over and over will they come to accept THE TRUTH!
There are obvious signs of whether or not you’re actually communicating with someone or not;
An impartial person, like a scientist is not emotionally attached to a position or thought. It is theoretical and a true seeker of the truth would be open minded and desire to know what is true.
More often, you find each person passionately attached to their thoughts and ideas as if they were protecting themselves.
Your ideas are not you. Thoughts happen to you and should be tested for authenticity.
Instead am impartial observer will notice both party’s eye gloss over and a momentary flash of anger reveals they are digging in to defend their thought position as if they each were actually physically attacking each other.
It was that way when Galileo tried to enlighten the church and was almost killed and forced to recant his perhaps God inspired revelation that the Earth was to the center of the universe, and it is that way now.
It’s that way now when your wife asks, at night “do I look fat in this dress” or when your boss makes you smile at customers you hate.
We are rewarded for hypocrisy and forced by threat of unemployment into socially acceptable levels of acceptable deception.
In face anyone trained in the sciences recognizes the importance of objectivity and must run controls, placebos and double blind studies etc to verify that their results and conclusions were correct and inbiased.
So in conclusion, if you are a true seeker of truth, want to open your mind and learn something cultivate the practice of objectivity. Passion is the opposite of reason and biases even the most brilliant mind
Listen to an idea, calm down digest it and give it a chance before you shoot it down and perhaps you will come to more astute conclusions -
Confused role genders
Well ladies,
You got what you wanted, didn't you? After doublling the work force in one generation and forcing down wages in the process and effectively forcing more traditional (stay at home and raise your children) women into the work force for economic reasons, you are effectively equal with men, or are you?
It seems to me you're kind of selective with the equal rights you want. I don't see financially sucessful women asking men out, begging me to be the house husband SO YOU CAN PURSUE YOUR CAREER GOALS, or still not wanting to be married or ask for child support for your bastard out of wedlock children.
As usual women, you only want equal rights when it's convenient for you-NOT TRUE EQUALITY!
Where are all the famous women war heroes? Why don't women ask men out? Why do they inevitably start bitching it God forbid a man loses his job for a month or two or worse than that if She starts to make more money than a man.
All those retarded women's magazines are still raking in the dough advising women how bad men are and on the next page they advertise expensive makeup and designer clothes, shoes and underwear to trap a man into marrying you.
Well all I can say is, YOU MADE YOUR BED NOW SLEEP IN IT.....ALONE!
or maybe, just maybe it's time to go back to more traditional values; perhaps they existed for a good reason.
Think about it!
Tony DeLaRocha -
Drug war with Mexico?
We waste 3 trillion (yes trillion) dollars a year on the war on drugs which you pay for with your income taxes, so your tax dollars jail young people for pot all over this country while less tan 2 cents on the dollar goes to drug treatment programs or youth education programs designed to keep kids offf drugs before they have a problem. Haven't we learned anything from prohibition? Criminalizing something doesn't stop people from using it! It makes it illegal and pushes it underground where the price goes up and creates a criminal underground market to give consumers what they obviously want. Legalize it, tax it and our problem with Mexican drug czars goes away! Wake up America.
update 8/10/10. I wrote this blog over 6 months ago and it looks like we might have to send troops down to Mexico to help with the problem.
Obama Signs $600M Bill to Increase Militarization of US-Mexico Border
President Obama has signed into law a $600 million bill to deploy some 1,500 new Border Patrol
agents and law enforcement officials along the border, as well as two aerial surveillance
drones. The bill was quickly passed by Congress in a rare display of bipartisanship. We speak
to Arnoldo García of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. [includes rush
transcript]
Filed under Immigration
new update 8/2010 -
Father's disrespected
Why is it that no one seems eager to point out or reform the antiquated Father's rights laws in effect in the USA?
Why is it that a mother can take a child out of the country without permission and child and family protective services ignore a father's request for help, but if a father visits his child and keeps him an hour or two extra he runs the risk of a kidnapping charge.
Father's are not currently valued in our society.
No one seems to understand that children that grow up without fathers will most likely grow up to become very angry men themselves if they are boys and sad vulnernable often times promiscuous women if they are girls.
Also, no one seems to recognize the fiscal loss caused by the current child support laws. Father's lose property, can't open a business, start a new corporation if, God forbid, they fall behind on their child support payments which often were determined when they were married and working in partnership with the child's mothers. If these father's income falter's even for a time, he's immediately labeled a deadbeat dad who doesn't care about his children and mother's often deprive father's father's of their visitation rights and unless he can pony up several thousand dollars for lawyer's fees he has no recourse with the law and I believe the majority of states deprive themselves of million's of dollars of revenue from these potential businesses that are never allowed to be created when men instead are forced to look for underground sources of income just to survive.
A father should be respected as more than a picture and a paycheck.
The consequence of labeling a father as insignificant translates, I believe, to a disrespect for all father or authory figures including the law, the police and society in general.
Stop the maddness. Help father's who want to be in their children's lives be fathers. -
Would Jesus be a Republican or a Democrat?
Republican Christians certainly would not think that Jesus would be a Democrat, yet — as with most things — they are wrong.
We are given some hints in the Bible and the Catholic Church’s teachings about whether Jesus would be a Democrat or a Republican:
· In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus proclaims that how you treat the hungry, the thirsty, the sick and other “least of these,” is how you treat Jesus himself. And if you fail to help the “least of these,” Jesus promises, he will send you to Hell.
· Catholic social doctrine holds that the resources of the earth, and the output of man’s work, are meant to be shared equitably by all.
· The Catholic Church calls for a “preferential option for the poor.”
· An overwhelming concern for the poor and for economic justice permeates the Old Testament.
· There is the redistribution of wealth injunction of the Old Testament Jubilee Year, when slaves were released and land returned to its original owners. [67]
· And last but not least, do I even have to bring up the clarion words of Jesus repeated in virtual identical fashion in three of the Gospels:
Mark 10:25
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. [other translations] [68]
Such a teaching directly out of the mouth of Christ does not indicate a favorable attitude towards the type of unbridled accumulation of wealth celebrated by Republican right-wing pseudo-Christians. [69]
To hear the Republican pseudo-Christians, the Messiah’s real name must have been Jesus “Adam Smith” Christ. Could someone please tell me where Jesus extols the effectiveness – let alone the morality — of trickle-down economics? Or the genius of the “free market”? Or where Jesus indicates even in the slightest way that the Matthew 25 suffering “least of these” should not be helped?
The average Democrat, at least in his or her concern that the world’s goods be distributed equitably and that the suffering “least of these” be helped, seems a lot closer to the words of Jesus, the entire Bible, and Catholic Church social doctrine than does the blind, idol-level market-worship of Republican pseudo-Christians. [70]
In short, is not “Do unto others…” the very essence of Democratic goals, and the opposite of the operating principle of the Republican Golden Calf, unregulated capitalism?
Democrat vs. Republican Jesus: The Big Picture
On the overall question of redistribution of wealth and income, having rich people is fine, as long as no one is dying because the rich hoard too much of the wealth. Once everyone is at least minimally taken care of, then the super-greedy can be allowed to have more than their fair share. [71]
The Democratic case, however, is that because the rich monopolize such a grotesquely huge share of the income and wealth, there’s not enough left for everyone else. [72]
The top 10% of individuals in the United States receive 46% of the income and control 71% of the wealth in this country. Globally, 25% of the people receive 75% of the income, and the richest 20% of the world’s population monopolizes 86 per cent of global wealth. [73]
In other words: 80% of humanity must try to survive on a mere 14% of the world’s wealth. To look at it in perhaps more comprehensible terms: Dividing up $100 among ten people in the same proportions would produce two people with $4.30 each, and 8 people with 18 cents each. How can anyone doubt that such an inequitable division of the world’s resources means that those at the bottom will suffer and die as the very least of “the least of these”? [74]
Bottom line: it really isn’t about Democrats, Republicans, liberalism, conservatism, or any other -ism. It’s only about ensuring the well-being of “the least of these.”
The purpose here is not to argue that Jesus would be a “Democrat” and not a “Republican” if he were alive today. It is to point out how ludicrous it is for people who profess to be Christians to hyperventilate solely because serious measures to ameliorate economic injustice are proposed.
At the very minimum, Jesus would be for enough regulation of capitalism to accomplish the Matthew 25:31-46 goals, not for the law-of-the-jungle, let-them-suffer-it’s-their-own-fault Hobbesianism of the the Republican right-wing.
December 11, 2008 - Posted by computerboytony | Uncategorized | | No Comments -
Weigh in on this car industry bailout!
As an ex-stockbroker my feeling about this bailout or loan or whatever they want to call it is that it is basically putting a bandaid on an artery.
Without ousting the CEO's of any company requesting help we most likely will get more of the same the same status quo.
It's a sad situation for the workers, but unfortunately unless they are willing to dramatically renogiate their union benefits they all will lose their jobs which is of course a drag on the economy as a whole.
Notice however, that neither Honda, or Nissan, Toyota are asking for bailouts? Why? they use non union employees and don't need to retool to switch models like detriot does.
Sorry Detroit my predition is that within 3 years there will be only about 6 major car companies and we'll be lucky if even one is American. -
Freedom & You
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Freedom is the the most important right of every American and one we all seem to take for granted.
Most other countries do not enjoy this priviledge.
I hope we do not lose it by sheer ignorance and laziness.
Your constituationally insured right have been under attack for years now and just because most Americans were confortable they did not protest, but as the economic crisis deepens all this will change.
Let's hope most Americans wake up before it's too late -
The real cost of Terrorism
The real cost of Terrorism
The economy is in crisis and wall streets market experts link the worst debacle in American and indeed world history to a multitude of factors, but no one factors in the real toll that terrorism has put on American and indeed World markets.
Indeed, how could we not see this coming when shortly after September 11, 2001, we immediately sharted seeing not only increased security at airports but increased prices for air travel, which, along with higher oil prices led to consolidation of the airlines with Delta airlines declaring bankruptcy not once but twice since 2001.
Some reports even realized the symbolic significance of the attack on the world trade center which was a major financial center in New York-their attack on America was two fold: first by bringing random acts terrorism to American shores and trying to cripple the american economy.
The cost of this increased security combined with the foolishness of dividing our fronts in the middle east and invading Iraq at the cost of 20 billion/month for the last 5 years led to this unprecidented budged deficit which indeed may lead to a world wide recession or God forbid a world wide depression which could last for several years.
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