College Athletics Out of Control

The only way to get college sports under control is to set a minimum standard where violations result in a 5 year death penalty for all sports involved. The university would be required by law to continue scholarships for uninvolved players. Involved players would be required to pay taxes on all the benefits they recieved and the NCAA would ban them from participating in NCAA athletics for 5 years. The university would be allowed to sue the booster.

Corporate Canaries 1

 

Expressing yourself to the boss fails with insecure management.

Agreeable but uninspired employees are expendable when times change.

Lazy, undependable or unproductive, poor performers should not give advice.

More businesses fail chasing sales instead of profits.

Aggressive pricing rarely works.

 

 

All Cultures Equal?

To paraphrase Leo Strauss, If all cultures are equal, the difference between the Pope and a cannibal is a question of preferences. 

Compromise: A middle between two truths

At the close of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin spoke to his fellow delegates. He called for a unanimous vote, even while acknowledging that he had his own reservations about some of its provisions. Yet he acknowledged his own fallibility and asked them to confront the danger of their certainty as well:

"Most men "think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Yet, when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does..."

Too many of us are certain our political and policy views are perfection. Franklin reminds us that a democracy depends not so much on perfect solutions as on humble collaboration.

As a side note: Our Constitution was developed in 100 days.

Too Expensive to Send to War

The media questions why so many SEALS were in the same aircraft and what the purpose of putting them at risk was. As with our weapons we spend so much money on training the end result is a soldier too expensive to send to war.

Why Should Americans Care?

Considering Islam and Western Civilization cannot coexist why should Americans care how many Muslims are killed in Syria, Egypt, Libya, etc?

The Country Will Survive

Remembering history makes it easier to understand current issues. What we are experiencing today is not new. I am reading a book on the Whiskey Rebellion. The whiskey tax was the first tax on an American produced product. It appears David Hume, a Scottish Philosopher argued that key to a nation's economic prosperity is concentrating wealth in the hands of the few people who can use it to finance ambitious projects.

Alexander Hamilton found in Robert Morris an embodiment of Hume's ideal. Morris or his people headed Finance, Foreign Affairs and War in the new government. The financier controlled all real power in Congress as well as the Continental Army.

To Morris the war effort should be focused on paying interest to the bondholding class. Tight cash forced choices between paying soldiers and paying creditors. Creditors came first: Morris suspended army pay and prohibited state legislatures from paying their own soldiers, insisting states send all money to Congress, to be distributed as he saw fit.

Morris blamed the states for failing to tax the mass of ordinary people. He wanted a direct federal tax, payable by the people to congress. These taxes were to be collected by federal officers. Thus Hamilton's whiskey tax on 1791. Washington not only went along with this tax he used Federal troops against the citizens of the United States. It wasn't until following the Civil War that we had Posse Comitatus.

Our country started off pretty screwed up and the country will survive this one.

 

 

Preserving Liberty

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

 

Richard Henry Lee

 

 

The Dow Plummets

The Dow plummets because computers are generating sell orders for billions of shares. Remember if someone is selling someone is buying. Now is the time to buy. The United States will never default and everyone knows it. The downgrading of the S&P is political not financial.

 

Trump and Buffet

Trump and Buffet have the easy answers but the problem is they will not work. It is easy when you have no responsibility for what really is going on. The other problem is their easy answers are often wrong. Why does the media consider them worthy interviews? They have a lot to say about nothing. Besides, if Trump was as smart as the media thinks he is he could find a good hair piece.

 

Middle East

Our military has to remember they are in a war. How could the enemy get close enough to bring down one of our helicopters? Careless. Tragic but preventable. But so is the entire operation in the Middle East. No matter how long the United States' military is in the Middle East when they leave the bad guys will move in. We cannot win. Bring the troops home. NOW!!

 

 

Thanks, John Jenkins
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"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."

---Everett Dirksen

Much About Nothing

The stock market is no longer relative to reality. Many trades are initiated by computers based on a number here or calculation there. Emotion is not involved. Fear and confidence are not part of the equation. There is little if any difference between the stock market and online poker.

United States is a Military State

The United States is a Military State, not a democracy, not a republic. When the president can declare PFC Bradley Manning guilty without trial, when the government can put him in prison for over a year without a trial and have no trial date scheduled when they can violate the Constitution they can do it to us.

So Gay

 

Homosexual is slang for queer. Queer means: off center, weird, odd, unwell. Synonym to queer is strange.

According to the Wiki Dictionary, Gay in the sense of homosexual (first recorded in 1951) was shortened from earlier gay cat 'homosexual boy' in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one.

People attracted sexually to members of their own gender are at the very least a bit odd, weird, off center. As a mule is odd and cannot reproduce after its own kind neither can gay people reproduce after their own kind. They must rely on another oddity. That in itself is odd.

How do you explain a male being sexually attracted to a male who acts and attempts to look like a female or a female being sexually attracted to a female who acts and attempts to look like a male.

They are queer. They should not be mistreated because of their queerness but there is no denying they are a bit odd. Anyone who has ever seen a female impersonator doing burlesque understands those folks are a bit strange.