JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

Trump says, “Who cares?” and the woman at the Fed wrings her Irish-bred hands knowing ‘He’s got the whole world in His hands’. Nothing is too great for God–not even the Dow.

Book about the Lawyers Guilds.  For instance, is it racist to ask, “Where was Dr. @RealBenCarson when we needed him?” Maybe so, lawyers 1st.

Control.

For instance, I saw the Enron “debacle” in a completely different way than the Justice Department. Myriad other ways.

“Are we to give up the Second Amendment for non-citizens?”

“Most gun crime in the U.S. is committed by citizens.”

“The ‘non-citizens’ being the multi-nationals?”

“What do you want me to do? Statistics are statistics.”

“Right you are. You like 52-card pick up?”

@clairefinn54 @polemicablog It’s so fun to be an observer in other people’s politics–it allows me to chuckle at the one state-side.

From twitter as noted.

@ABC7 @ForeignPolicy Are these studies applicable to the #deterrence v. #manufacture4use doctrines in the #InternationalLaw of the use of force?

What is “Bad” or “Good”? [Adapted from ancient Chinese thought]

“Didn’t get a job.”

“That’s bad.”

“Those that got the jobs contracted cancer from the building.”

“That’s bad.”

“The remnant built a skyscraper and I’m still alive.”

“That’s good.”

“But there was strife and the building was destroyed–it hurt some people and thousands more died.”

“That’s bad.”

“But not everyone, there are many of us left.”

“That’s good.”

“Bet we’re all getting older at once.”

“That’s bad, huh?  Maybe space travelers don’t age as much.  I wonder if God ages?”

“Baby boomers age.  There won’t be enough hospital space.”

“That’s definitely bad.”

“But new hospitals are coming up and almost everyone will be covered.”

“That’s good.”

“Did you read The Andromeda Strain?”

“No.”

“That’s bad.”

“Why?”

“You should read it.  The Andromeda Strain was about a remnant in a town and Terminal Man? I don’t remember but it was short.  I think it was about doctor miracles with brain study, it was easier to read than Andromeda Strain and had a happy Hollywood ending for the few, the remnant.”

“That’s good.”

“Heard of The Red and the Black?”

“What?”

“A novel by Stendhal, Le Rouge et Le Noir, about the choice in the early 19th Century I think; Napolean was running around and the Popes, between the ecclesiastical life or that of a soldier.  Those were practically the only choices left except for the happy few.”

“How about farming?”

“No new jobs–masses were leaving farms I suppose.” The industrial revolution was starting it’s engines and they were loud!”

“Everything that I write is a kind of battle won—or lost—against silence and incoherence.” —Geoffrey Hill http://bit.ly/1y7DCUa 

Synchronized [by waves and elements] swimming?

Mobilized Big City