Are the good guys winning ? Yes but is a near thing

Please watch this......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UUWqLo_OSIk

Humans are involving toward sophont2.0 .... I wish it was happening faster.  There are still too many crazy people who could blow up the world before sophont2.0 ( 99IPPP ) is in place.

At the top of this *crazy* list are politicians... they want to control humans , start wars, torture , imprison , censor thought & expression and develop weapons & police forces.  They are being pushed back but it is certainly a struggle that is much in doubt.

Contests and competition are good.....

Mainstream Media is not our friends .... they distort the news everyday.... they collaborate with politicians and vicious leaders.  The internet ( cloud ) creates the power of the individual... spectacular !  Anything that limits cloudspace is bad......... We have to live in meatspace and in cloudspace.

I have my fingers crossed.

99winning

Federal Reserve was created in 1913 see results

The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 .... the graph above shows what the same basket of food cost from 1800 to 2008.  Until 1913 U.S. currency was worth saving for the future.......

Military is not fanboy of Ron Paul

This was issued just prior to a Ron Paul rally............
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—–Original Message—–
From: Weger, Joel A CIV OGC, Ethics [mailto:joel.weger@NAVY.MIL]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:17
To: ETHICS@LISTSERV.LAW.NAVY.MIL
Subject: [ETHICS] Partisan Political March
Importance: High
It has come to our attention that a partisan political march targeting military personnel is being organized for February 20, 2012. See link below:
http://www.facebook.com/events/192677970828185/?ref=notif&no…
As a reminder, active duty personnel are prohibited by DoD Directive 1344.10 paragraph 4.1.2.10 from marching in a partisan political parade regardless of whether they are in uniform or civilian clothes. Reservists not on active duty and retirees may not march in uniform pursuant to paragraph 4.1.4. Reservists not on active duty and retirees may march in civilian clothes provided that they do not otherwise act in a manner that could reasonably give rise to the inference or appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or endorsement.
The directive is a lawful general regulation. Violations of paragraphs 4.1.
through 4.5. of the Directive by persons subject to the Uniform Code of
Military Justice are punishable under Article 92, “Failure to Obey Order or
Regulation.”
In addition, DODI 1334.01, paragraph 3.1.2 prohibits the wearing of the uniform by members of the armed forces (including retired members and members of reserve components) during or in connection with political activities.
You may wish to advise your command regarding this particular event because of the apparent solicitation of active duty personnel.
Joel A. Weger
Senior Attorney
Department of the Navy
Office of the Assistant General Counsel (Ethics)
703.614.XXXX

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Q: Have you ever seen a soldier in uniform at a political rally ?
99guspuppet

Unemployable .... Working life in a post-robot era

There is lots of talk about American job creation in the year 2012.  Everyone has a solution but all I have is questions.

#1   There is no retreating from a world economy and jobs market ( Short of Armageddon ).   Q: How can any solutions take into account the uncertain events in other parts of the world ?

#2   A pundit for  *Design News* ( to paraphrase ) said there was good news and bad news about jobs.  The good news was that the U.S. had remained flat in industrial output over a given period.  The bad news was that the workforce had declined by more than 100,000 jobs.   Q:  How will people find meaning for themselves in a world where 10% of the population can provide for the other 90%.  How will this affect politics ?  We already see in America that 45% of the population is on the dole ( gets more largess than they pay in taxes ).  99.9% of U.S. dwellers receive some government handout.  The average wage in America is slightly exceeded by the average amount of received by someone on the dole.

Certainly there is more opportunity now that ever before to be creative.  The cloud ( internet ) has opened up the floodgates to collaboration and access to resources.  So what does it mean when most of this creativity is completely unnecessary for survival ?  Some people will throw themselves off the planet and look for adventure in space ( stellar , virtual, ..... )  I confess I do not have a clue as to how it will play out for the majority of humans on the planet.

Here is what one group is doing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c&

99guspuppet        99unemployed

What is so great about the US Constitution ? *USC* *DOI*

 Many people invoke the USC to hammer home a point.  Many more swear an oath to support and defend the USC.  There is a conventional reverence for the USC.  And let us not forget a cororollary document that is really a preview of the USC..... that would be the Declaration of Independence.  *DOI*

So are these two documents still relevant ?   Are they over hyped spaghetti text written by old farts from the past ?  Can we just skip ahead to modern constitutions that promise a shining world flowing with lots of goodies ?   Nope !    I am going to argue that while flawed ; these two documents are the greatest roadmap to human triumph that have written to date.

WHY ?
Why were these two documents written ?   Why did some guys in the late 1700s cook up the the DOI and USC ?  Were they control freaks ?  Did they think they were special ?  Did they suffer from bloated egos ?  Hubris ?  Why did they do it ?  Creating the DOI was certainly dangerous.  The authors were painting a target on their backs that the British king and soldiers would be happy put some bullets into.  So why did they do it ?




2013m05d26 update
Here is a great update to what the USC was intended to mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyeUuNRC2Mo
Tom Woods has many great videos

My critique
History is nice stuff ......    *but*    The USC talks about natural rights.... No one has natural rights...   Natural rights would have to come from God...... ( It is very unlikely there is a god )  Rights have to be articulated and then they have to be fought for and then maintained.  As man has become more productive and robots have taken over banal tasks, *men* have had the opportunity to develop in the direction of sophoncy.


99guspuppet       keywords    777constitution  777declarationofindependence

Drowning in soft plasticity ... the tar pits ....glub

The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2 [1840]

This is the anti-thesis of Individual Puzzle Pieces Paradigm    99IPPP

99guspuppet

The Kenny Conceit 777KennyConceit KennyConceit

I have a friend ( Kenny ) who complains about the government all the time,  ( So do I )   He claims that everything could be made much better if....  ***WE JUST GOTTA GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE*** ...or the right programs .....or correctly tuned laws    He believes that meaningful reform will occur by tweaking government projects and ***JUST GETTING THE RIGHT  PEOPLE***   *** Just implement the right ideas ****

Sorry ... These ideas will not work

#1   No one is smart enough to run a big government program.   No one........
#2   No one ever does SOPM   ( Spend Other People's Money ) without getting sloppy and greedy.  ( Spend Other People's Money )  Only an individual knows their path to happiness. 
#3   Government attracts losers , evil trolls and mediocre idiots.  People who are hubristic ... on par with an imaginary god.  People who make make another person a means to an end.  ( Sacrifice the individual for the good of a collectivist idea ) .

for more thoughts....
IPPP
Emerald Rule

A closely related item is "Hubris Syndrome"... This is where the individual thinks they are smart enough to run the world.  Examples:  Obama, George Bush, the Clintons , Newt Gingrich ( an extreme case ) ....  the Republican and Democratic parties , my son Collin .........

So what to do if one wants to make the world better ?
#1 Smaller is often better.   Big organizations are often a total disaster.  the smallest organization is one person ... an individual.
#2 Don't steal from others because you think your ideas are better and you want funding.
#3 Don't enforce your ideas on others.  Let them alone.   # The EmeraldRule  # ZeroethCommandment

tags:   #KennyConceit    #TheKennyConceit           99guspuppet

"congressional 'insider trading'"

SEEING DOUBLE – “congressional 'insider trading'” – double-dipping + legal double-standard (congressional ‘insider trading’ is NOT illegal) – within the insanity that congress is a village of idiots whose main virtues are greed and selfishness -- why is “congressional insider trading” not covered by ‘conflict of interest’? because the logic of greed trumps the logic of conflict. In other words, if you are greedy enough, you will feel no conflict.

Toward the end of 2011, 60 Minutes disclosed the story that members of Congress, including House leader John Boehner and former House leader Nancy Pelosi, were trading stocks and options based on inside information. (http://seekingalpha.com/article/315814-congressional-insider-trading-no-wonder-america-disapproves)

The most unacceptable thing about this double standard where Congress awards itself immunity (no need for anything like ‘judicial immunity’ that must be grounded, say, in a jurisdictional element), is that they also resist the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-to-ban-insider-trading-in-congress-is-suddenly-popular/2011/11/30/gIQAn193DO_story.html)

This is not to say that since Congressional insider trading is acceptable, then wall street insider trading should be also. Nor is the reverse to be automatically accepted – that since wall street insider trading is illegal, then Congressional insider trading should be illegal, The important thing here is that whether in the arena of business, of politics, or of any other arena, when individuals abrogate moral responsibility to the dustbin, they should pay restitution to parties they have injured.