tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24961043514805112322024-03-25T14:36:27.104-07:00Shaky DannyShakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-73320868304656798422024-03-25T14:35:00.000-07:002024-03-25T14:35:55.491-07:00Why US is Pissing on its Allies Again<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Humans
differentiate on location and association. We change location to meet
association and change association to meet location. Two material conditions of
the US constitution were taxing whiskey<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and protecting slavery<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
The document is designed to frustrate popular will. Political parties are
intended to ameliorate that frustration. We now have a small group of
Republicans preventing the passage of a popular defense bill that contains
appropriations for Ukraine and Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">America has
always been a nation of divided loyalties. Some Americans have loyalty to
Mother Russia. That is an influence. There is also a material cause. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Republicans
focus on the border while ignoring immigration policy. Republicans like
undocumented immigrants who know their place. Republicans terrorized the
undocumented immigrant’s children when it looked like they may get status and
eventually become voters. That’s when Mexicans got insulted and the fruit
rotted on the ground and stores close on Mondays. Removal of the undocumented
marginal base rate was the start of our new wage inflation. <a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Republicans
don’t like refugees. Refugees have status. Refugees can’t just do as they are
told, drive the truck or whatever because it endangers their status. Republican
Catholic Charities make such a mess of Venezuelans and Cubans, with our tax
money.<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ukrainians
immigrate fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our Mexicans
have gotten funny:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Hey I was
undocumented. What makes you so special? This is America. This is how we do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our
immigration system screens for privileged, refugees, and lawbreakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">US created
the Venezuelan and Cuban refugees with our sanctions.<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Holding the
border is futile. If we were serious about stopping undocumented, we would do
what every other country does and go after their employers. We are not serious.
We want our slaves. If our undocumented had status they would no longer be
valuable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The reason
Congress is waving around this nonissue is they expect to get paid. US has
already gotten what we came for: we are now the junior partner with Qatar
supplying natural gas to Europe. That’s why we blew up the pipeline.<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
That incentive is gone. The other incentive was arms sales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ukraine’s
recent loss on the battle field did not receive the same publicity or doting
analysis of its victories. Our stupid generals babbled about combined units,
poor Ukraine listened and ran into Russian smart mines losing a lot of people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Warfare has
changed. Find a video of a shoulder launched missile. If that large rocket was
still being aimed and fired as a bazooka, the operator would be a twisted
cinder. Instead, the rocket pops out of the tube, drops slightly and then takes
off. When the operator is aiming, they are giving the missile directions, the
missile then knows what to do. The missile could circle the tank and knock on
the hatch. They are keeping it shoulder launched just to be retro. Modern
missiles, radio-controlled craft, programmable mines are only limited by programmers’
imagination and fuel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Russia may
not have the particular missile or whatever to take out our fancy weapons
system, but someone will want to sell them some just to see if it works.
Ukraine wants kits they can adapt to circumstance. Now that Ukraine has lost
interest in buying expensive weapons systems to support combined units and our
manufacturers don’t want their systems publicly popped killing sales, that Congressional
incentive is also gone. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As to
Israel. If there was stability Gaza Marine, a large natural gas field next to Gaza,
close to Europe would be developed. US and Qatar are in no hurry for that
competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With no one
to grease the bill, Congress is sucking on a dry teat. Democrats accuse
Republicans of losing Ukraine. This assumes the American public has that much
memory. My guess is that Ukraine and Israel will do just fine without our help
which is another embarrassment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Shay’s Rebellion<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <u>The
Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United
States of America</u>, Gerald Horne<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> The
subsidies burned off.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250369/catholicvote-border-catholic-charities-migrants">https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250369/catholicvote-border-catholic-charities-migrants</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <a href="https://www.wola.org/analysis/new-report-sanctions-aggravated-venezuelas-crisis/">NewReport: How U.S. Sanctions Aggravated Venezuela's Crisis (wola.org)</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Why%20US%20is%20Pissing%20on%20its%20Allies.docx#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">How America Took Out The Nord Stream
Pipeline (substack.com)</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</div>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-35533276862847327792024-02-16T00:43:00.000-08:002024-02-16T00:44:47.412-08:00How Hillary Lost<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">A ridiculous
amount of effort is spent criticizing Hillary Clinton’s character. When
elections are that close, every infraction is magnified. There is a much
simpler material explanation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
pathetic how cheap Congress is. Most of their time is spent on phone banks
raising money. There was a moment when it looked like Chicago’s alderman
Vrdolyak would be sent to Congress. Imagine:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-This is a
billion-dollar appropriation? I get more than this for a zoning variance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Occasionally
money rains on Washington. World War II was cost plus. Johnson unleashed
Taiwan. When Nixon made the China deal, they had so much cash they were shoving
it into filing cabinets. Reaganauts were Nixon wannabes. Bush Sr. held up the
Saudis for Kuwait. Hillary Clinton was queen. She shook down healthcare so hard
their teeth rattled. Everyone in Washington should love Hillary Clinton. The
Saudis had to sit down, and Ross Perot complained about the service. Insurance
and Pharmacy were in a bidding war to see who could shut it down fastest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Healthcare
was not going to allow Hillary the presidency, either time. Obama, lawyer that
he is, crafted a compromise that has held. Healthcare was still frightened of Clinton.
Who could they pay? Orange Julius is unreliable. Would you give money to Rumbo?
Healthcare paid Putin. Healthcare didn’t have to report it. Putin used the
marketing tactics we taught him for His Hugeness:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Oh, we
wouldn’t interfere in <i>your</i> elections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cambridge
Analytica had a pass because they were doing god’s work. Everyone looked the
other way while Cambridge Analytica, a creature of England’s security service,
violated privacy protection. Cambridge Analytica was identifying the goofs. If
a goof was heading to Syria say, we would know who they were. When Bannon’s
boyfriend, Mercer, got hold of Cambridge Analytica he said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Show them
where the polls are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cambridge
Analytica shared lists with the Russians. The Russian problem was that they had
no one reliable to coordinate with. Would you work for El Pompadour? Fat and
Furious had to shout over the top. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was just
enough. As Joe Kennedy said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-I’m not
paying for a landslide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have an
entry in this blog on Brexit where I speculate that healthcare paid Putin for
that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Supreme
Court is going to twist constructionist into a pretzel arguing that the 14th
amendment is unconstitutional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can
you argue original intent if you won’t respect the letter of the law? They just
ignored the 9<sup>th</sup> amendment in their “argument” against abortion. The
Supremes took that original intent from the inquisition. The definition of
fascism is ignoring the law in favor of popular will. Given that the law is so
brazenly flaunted, our only hope is crossing over to vote for Haley in the
primary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-39346522367665851332024-02-07T11:37:00.000-08:002024-02-07T11:37:54.147-08:00Communication and Gould’s Full House<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">Life doesn’t
play fair. We cheat. From virus to Dolphin, we slip the wink, nod, hidden card.
All entities communicate, sometimes to our advantage. Roots respond to fungal
signals. Flowers attract insects. Birds shriek at hawks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Stephen Jay Gould,
in his book <u>Full House</u>, has evolution as a disordered wandering in a
local domain from a variational minimum. He is contradicting the belief that
humans are a culmination of effort. We are merely a twig on the great
evolutionary bush. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Except when the wandering is selected. Communication across
and within species is such a selection. The principle of intelligence, the
consequence of its various possible algorithms, develops from communication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unlikely
there is one common algorithm for intelligence. More reasonable there is a
principle among the algorithms. Given communication as the source of advantage,
intellect is inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Artificial
Intelligence is a misnomer. The principle of intelligence will be the same,
regardless of the entity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-6200173972688702802024-01-04T22:25:00.000-08:002024-01-21T07:39:28.755-08:0014th Amendment<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">Back when
Chicago had winters, I once dragged myself through the slush into a travel
agency and said:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-Get me out
of here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I hate to
travel. There is some remarkable geology. In Lacrosse Wisconsin there are
bluffs. There is a fun mix of prosaic and profane seeing people living on and
around the bluffs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
also the plaques. In Pennsylvania there is mention of Jumonville. George
Washington at the age of twenty murdered Jumonville causing the French and
Indian War which lead to the Seven Years’ War, which lead to our revolution. The revolution was not popular, ask the Tories, who respected the king, paid their debts, and opposed slavery. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The Evanston
Illinois light house, built in 1873 after the North was freed of the South’s
hatred of boondoggle. Why of all the stretches of sand along Lake Michigan was
the light house built here? The light house was an emotional reaction to the
sinking of the Lady Elgin in 1860. In Milwaukee there is a wonderful plaque
explaining that the Irish on the Lady Elgin had it coming. The Germans wanted
to secede from the Union in opposition to slavery. The Irish wanted to stay in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The site of
Pickett’s Charge in Gettysburg. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I hate the
St. Louis Arch. They try to warn you: claustrophobia, acrophobia, and
ochlophobia. They tell you don’t go up there. Due to construction we had to buy
tickets in the museum. There was a plaque there explaining that there weren’t
many Blacks in St Louis before the Civil War. The Irish were taking the work. It
was cheaper to hire an Irishman for a day than keep a slave for life. Dred
Scott was pissed that his owners were sending him out to find jobs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When the
Supreme Court uses arguments like natural law or constructionism, they are
saying they don’t have anything else. This wasn’t the case with slavery. All
stupid Taney had to say was that slavery was in the Constitution. It would have
been nice if Taney had ruled that if you didn’t have work, you were no longer a
slave. Taney would have been discovering a right under the 9<sup>th</sup>
amendment. The 9<sup>th</sup> is kind of a fun meta-amendment. When the Supreme
Court argues that a right isn’t covered under the Constitution, they are
ignoring the 9<sup>th</sup>. We fought a war to remove slavery from the
Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The slave
breeding border states would have hated such a decision. They made money
selling slaves south.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Keeping the
Union was not popular. It was not the peoples will. Lincoln got in on a three
way, another example of the Voters Paradox. After the putative end of the war,
Republicans dragged the army up to vote and dumped the territories into the
count. Fortunately, the Southern raids infuriated the border states. The
Democratic platform was to concede the war to the South. The South didn’t vote,
we had won by force of arms and freeing the slaves. When the Southern property
walked off, their financial value collapsed. The Northern banks were furious
with Lincoln, they thought they were going to collect on their loans. McClellan
got 45% of the vote in the North.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Rather than
lining the rebels against a wall and shooting them as a sovereign nation ought,
goofy Johnson followed Ceasar’s advice and pardoned them. Even so, the 14<sup>th</sup>
amendment said the rebels could no longer run for office. There was no folderol
about process, popular will or which office. A sovereign state should not allow
traitors to hold office, regardless of the peoples will. If you want to change
the Constitution, we have process for that. Please don’t argue that an
amendment is unconstitutional. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I despise
the 2<sup>nd</sup> amendment. It is ambiguous and confusing. The Supreme court
shouldn’t rule against it. We should amend the Constitution to explicitly
return that power to the states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The first
amendment was too mealy mouthed about government supporting religion. It seems
obvious that tax money should not go to religions. Stop faith-based grants.
Faith-based worked fine when it is Greek Orthodox taking care of Ukrainians. It
shamelessly falls to pieces when it is Catholics serving Venezuelans. The Cruz
and DeSantos Catholics are happy with undocumented immigrants. Undocumented
don’t get Social Security, Minimum Wage, Unemployment, or Workmen’s
Compensation. MAGA is opposed to refugees, people with status who don’t do as
they are told, and who may someday vote. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Catholic
“charities” is also taking tax money to oppose the rights of equality and
privacy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">MAGA isn’t
fascist. Fascists had ideals. Maga is a pseudo nihilist, sometimes
antiimperialist, pro-Russian belief in slavery and forced pregnancy. Maga wants
crippled orphan children working 12-hour shifts in packing plants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Popular will overriding the law is a fascist argument.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The only way individual Democrats can fight for Reconstruction is to crossover to the
Republican primaries and vote for Haley. At least Haley hasn't shipped immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-12490883129217463272023-12-13T12:20:00.000-08:002023-12-13T12:24:54.026-08:00Blogspot is Weird<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">The defaults
seem the opposite of common sense. AdSense is pestering me about an ad.txt
file. I finally get a custom one in settings. Then I just figure out to click
the blog file in manage your sites to get it scanned. If they want a file why
not just make the file?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I can find
my blog in Bing but not in Google. I hesitate to mention it because maybe Bing
is in error. Is it something with indexing? I go to Google Search Console. The
page is crawled but not indexed. So, I request indexing. They notify me they
are thinking about it. Weeks later, still thinking. I finally found a way in
search console to request another crawl, but that crawl didn’t show up on the
report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Why is the
default for blogspot to not show up in Google? How neat that I can request and
control how Google scans my page, not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The reason Google
surpassed Yahoo is because they didn’t try to control searches. What else is
Google missing? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">It would be nice to have a table of contents. </span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-91673920743344248952023-12-08T12:23:00.000-08:002024-01-21T10:13:39.183-08:00Hamas<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">Anyone who
says “peace in the Mideast” should be slapped. They are announcing that what
follows is stupid. Peace never had anything to do with the Mideast. The
statement is arrogant. How would you like to hear “peace in the US”? American
policy in the Mideast should be mute. It is disgusting to hear Americans advise
and excuse each group their atrocities. Americans are never short of advice.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Debate” in
the US has circled around who’s better. It is not going to convince anyone that
they should shut up and take it because their families had it coming. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one has rounded up their criminals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Here is a
quick review of America’s relationship, keeping an American eye for the man
behind the curtain and the emperor’s clothes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Before World
War II, the countries of the world refused Jewish refugees from Germany.
Germans made that a big deal. During and after the war Churchill sent Jewish
refugees to Palestine. British grabbed Palestine from the Ottomans. Some Pan
Arabism is nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Israel was
founded by Harry Truman as a Baptist fantasy. Palestinians originally met the
Israeli incursion by demanding a unified secular democratic state. I can see
why Israel didn’t trust that compromise. While those Palestinians were right,
they weren’t demanding citizenship in Israel. Fatah has now found itself
splayed across the position of demanding their own secular state. It is fun
seeing Muslims demand a secular state. Wilsonian democracy is fraud. Do you
want to be a nation or a religious artifact?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The American
position in the Middle East is oil reserves. Eisenhower said it was oil when we
made Israel, France and England give back Suez. It is not just gasoline or
earnings on oil. It is the financial value of oil reserves, the tapped,
estimated oil in the ground. That value has a multiplier from compounded
investment instruments dependent on its future value. It is much larger than
oil company earnings. Finance is the best conspiracy theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sirhan
killed Bobby Kennedy for supporting Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Golda Meir,
Wisconsin school teacher, had to take on the entire world, including Kissinger
and Nixon, through two major existential conflicts. Each time, US support came
once the conflict was determined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1978 the
three stupidest men in the world: Arafat, Begin and Carter met at Camp David. Eventually
Arafat said something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-What’s it
going to be? In or out?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">At that
moment Begin started talking two states. Arafat’s mistake was discarding his
strongest card. Israel has no intention of allowing two states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Just as
refugees created Israel, Palestinian refugees then dominated the adjoining
countries of Jordan and Lebanon. In 1982 Israel had enough and charged across
Lebanon surrounding the PLO military in Beirut. Israel was starving out the
encircled city. Haig, the cast iron American Secretary of State told Israel to
hurry it up. Then Arafat called out to King Fahd:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-Am I not
yours?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Haig was
out. American, French and Italian military evacuated PLO from Beirut. Each PLO military
unit returned to its own country, abandoning the refugees in their camps. You
can see why Israel is nuts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">There has
been snark about Israel lobby. Under Bush Sr. Israel was trying to borrow 10
billion dollars. At the exact same time King Fahd gave a check for 32 billion
to the US to thank us for Kuwait. That difference is orders of magnitude. The
function of the Israel lobby in American politics is to maintain the price.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">To belabor
the obvious, we showed up for Kuwait, not Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">After Likud
called for the murder of Prime Minister Rabin, Rabin was killed and Likud
created the next government. This stopped the Oslo accord. Rabin was a git. He
was always working angles and fixing things. Talmud teaches that we are only
judged on our last day. On his last day Rabin was murdered at a peace
demonstration. Rabin even fixed that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Israel dug most of the tunnels under Gaza, when Gaza was intended as a buffer state. Israel
supported the creation of Hamas in 1987 to undercut PLO legitimacy. The
atrocities of the Gaza strip justify the settlers. Americans understand the
settler game. That is where we came from.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">You would suppose
Israel could find an intelligent leader. Netanyahu can’t acknowledge that all
the arguments are reversible, either way. Coming from America, I realize it is
difficult. America has privately demanded a cease fire. Israel initially said
no, now kind of. As any law enforcement or jail can explain, the only way to
prevent hostages is to officially make them the first target. Inept and
heartless is a bad look. Israel leadership cannot appear to acquiesce to
America once again reigning them in. America has pulled back Israel at least
ten times before. I don’t think Israel will change leadership. As Americans
know, demonstrations are not votes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Another
occupation will fail as all the previous ones have. If Israel wanted two
states, they would clear the settlers out of the territories or better yet pull
the Israeli police and let Fatah, do it. This would give the PLO legitimacy. The
settlers aren’t that many votes; they aren’t even in the army. Many came from
America and have sponsors here. Once that was done evacuate everyone from Gaza
to the west bank. If you are going to be imperial, ask yourself what would the
British do? Sift through the Gaza Palestinians, get the DNA, see if they match
any pictures. PLO can do the second screening. This would minimize Israel
casualties. Try sending missiles from a flattened Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t worry,
won’t happen. Israel wants Gaza, they want Hamas. Hamas is used like our black
power during the civil rights movement. The settlers do not want Gaza moved to
the west bank. It is not Iran but Qatar that directs Hamas with Israel’s
acquiescence. Israel had the Hamas battle plan because Israel created it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gas reserves are also decision making
valuable. Check Gaza Marine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The pathetic
sick undisciplined losers who tortured their captives had to know that they had
the time to do it. Someone else had to create the plan and coach the disposable
scum. I’m guessing they hadn’t planned for success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t demand
disenfranchisement in a democracy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
advice would you give our indigenous in the US about voting? The most
terrifying demand the Palestinians could make is Israeli citizenship. Then
Palestinians would be the settlers. I can see why Palestinians wouldn’t trust
that compromise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Questioning
legitimacy is a slippery slope. Israel is a nation; the Palestinians are a people. You are not going to impress Americans talking
about land. Except for Hawaiian, Navajo and Eskimo, we all recently came from
somewhere else. Few of us are the people we started from. We are raised on
atrocity and bitterness. Find a county seat in Illinois, there will be a
monument with the cannon pointed south. In Mississippi the cannon points north.
The north was right. We aren’t that into good and bad, we do understand big and
little. My only advice is to not be the US. That pursuit is futile. You be you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-How many
white people did Chief Blackhawk kill?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-Not enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Allying
yourself with America, or any group in America, is a mistake. Even Baptists. Americans
are fickle and spendthrift. The last American general who understood attrition
was George Washington. As for appropriations, Ukraine and Israel will have
arms. If we don’t fund them, that will free them to buy from other countries and
develop their own. Our appropriations are only matched by the cost of our
systems. If the left was impeding military spending, military autonomy and
national interest the way the right is, we’d be dead. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Once US blew up the pipeline, we became junior partners to Qatar supplying natural gas to Europe. Neither US nor Qatar is in any hurry to see Gaza Marine developed.</span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-91570281030509012742023-11-28T23:51:00.000-08:002023-11-28T23:51:06.033-08:00Refugees<p> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Venezuela
has the largest oil reserves of any country in the world. We don’t yet know
about the artic circle, Somalia, or the Philippines. In spite of their
resources, history and wealth, the US sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba have
succeeded. The refugees are proof. It is silly to blame those governments
because they couldn’t effectively fight the US. The only thing holding up those
nations is their own desperate need for sovereignty. Maybe Venezuelans should
install a Saudi prince.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everyone has
noticed that the United States absorbed the Ukrainians and Venezuelans are on
the street. The Ukrainians flee war. The Venezuelans flee poverty. Ukrainians
got here first. There are more Ukrainian refugees. Venezuelans have more
skills, that is why they came. As far as the initial brunt of refugees, the
Orthodox take care of their own and Catholics don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The pope
finally popped the Texas bishop. I don’t know how much say that bishop had, but
he was representing his constituency. Texas “Ted Cruz” Catholics are more
concerned with their MAGA points, wasting federal money, than taking care of business.
The Texas Catholics handed out airline tickets dropping people wherever with no
coordination. Try dropping into a city without a reservation, it may work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Whatever the
disjunct, Catholic “charities” proves the failure of funding faith based.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-78980659638415853112023-11-16T13:41:00.000-08:002024-01-21T08:49:44.085-08:00Friends With the Mayor<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Brandon
Johnson has just been elected mayor of Chicago. Except Byrne we have always elected
lawyers, even prosecutors, in the hope that they would avoid indictment. So
far, they have. Johnson is the first schoolteacher. As a teacher Johnson is
trying to approach crime from a Confucious perspective, systemically. Here
are some obvious concerns:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">A court
clerk just made the mistake of self-publishing a book about a recent case. In
general police, prosecutors, judges and even clerks should be cautious publicly
expressing opinions that could be thrown back at them, endangering testimony,
and convictions. It is unfortunate that people closest to issues are precisely
the ones constrained from public discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Police are
not screened for clerical aptitude. Clerical tasks are a major part of police
work, especially investigations. Back in the 90’s the federal government
confronted domestic violence. Their solution was the development of a form that
must be filed if the husband was not arrested and removed from the incident.
This had the consequence of saving a lot of men’s lives. The legislators
understood full well that police will do anything to avoid filling out a form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">You may be
puzzled that police sometimes ventilate suspects. Imagine you are a responsible
person training police. You are not training multi $100,000 SOCOM warriors who
wound their opponents to entice their comrades into further casualties. Hopefully,
it is unlikely that a police officer will ever be in a gun battle. You train to
the exception. Your officer will undergo inquiry and may lose their job. Your
objective is that the officer survives. You will train said officer to start
shooting the moment they clear the holster, correct as they go, keep shooting
and don’t stop till they drop. It is not common, but there are people who when
shot pull out their gun and kill you. It is not a good look, but police should also
receive baton training. Police should have options.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">It used to
be that police were the biggest street gang, they coordinated with each other,
set it up and take it down. Just as Catholic school graduates make the worst
public-school teachers, military are the worst police. Warrior mentality is
dangerous to police survival. Running to the gun fire didn’t work against one
way glass at the Tennessee bank shooting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I don’t know
if they are intentionally disingenuous, but the best argument for gun control
is the You tube video channels <u>Garand Thumb</u> and <u>She Equips Herself</u>.
If you have any critical faculty watching man children play in the desert,
shoot hogs from helicopters, and practice with grenade launchers should give
pause. I don’t mind people who are raised having guns. Trained isn’t raised. Stavroula
from <u>She Equips Herself</u> may not be raised but she is being trained by
people who were. She considers serious issues. At some point you may wonder why
you need to conceal carry:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-Everyone
else is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Hmmm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The
underlying justification for all this is crime. Why are people so prejudiced
against criminals? You may need a criminal someday. Boosters get shot;
gangsters pardoned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In Chicago, teachers
won against police in the mayoral election. This is another click in the <u>Officer
Krupke</u> cycle from <u>West Side Story</u>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are even considering sending social
workers instead of police. Department of Children and Family Services does not
have a good reputation. Every time a child dies, a social worker should be
killed. It is true that criminals are created. Once they are created, they are dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Crime is
intrinsic to society. Take the Barbary pirates. British and American tribute
stopped any other competition with their trade. Saudi ransoms to Somali pirates encourage
instability and forestall oil development. Developers encourage street gangs to
clear neighborhoods. Without crime there would be no police. Wildings could not
occur without police encouragement. The various prohibitions are gang
subsidies. Recently Oregon tried drug legalization with dubious consequences. I
was disappointed. The lesson is that legalization alone is not sufficient in
America. The snap back is too great. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Most people
are not carrying cash. The only people worth sticking up are poor people who
can’t qualify for credit. Using stolen credit cards gets you caught. The only
way violent personal crime can be profitable is if it is receiving subsidy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I am
terrified of nostalgia. In the past minority populations were deprived of
police services. Even when minorities were arrested, they would likely be
released unless they had violated social order and murdering each other didn’t
qualify. If you didn’t deal justice on the spot it didn’t happen. I don’t want
to return to two-gun Pete, and we stomp drunk drivers. I have seen social justice;
I am not a fan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Part of the
difficulty is that we have seen the man behind the curtain. I don’t know how
many have been freed because of DNA, records aren’t kept, but they are coming
out of jail like popcorn. Circumstantial evidence, ha, eyewitness, chortle,
confession, horse laugh, doesn’t leave much. In Oak Park IL most murders are
unsolved. Just don’t park wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">People like
charter schools because they don’t want their kids in class with Huck Finn. It
has little to do with parental control, values, uniforms, quality… Huck Finn is
a nuisance. There is no charter school for the bad kids. We used to kid Huck
Finn along until he was 18 and his brain had slightly congealed. We had social
promotion, outposts, tracking… He probably didn’t get a degree, but we had kept
him somewhere. Now, not only is Huck Finn out on the street but we told him he
was worthless. Please don’t be shocked at the consequence. From the news
reports it would appear that it is often the shining kids, college bound,
athletes, adept who get shot. Think Huck might have a grudge?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Whenever you
get confused, ask yourself:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">-What would
happen if those kids were white?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Resources
would be found. The children would be placed in structured environments.
Chicago has an abundance of lawyers. Huck is making videos. His sponsors are
violating laws against delinquency and RICO. Put the lawyers on commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The right
has suddenly discovered mental health. It is fun to see the ill take umbrage.
The right wants mental health without national health care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">We are a
military imperial nation. Violence abroad reflects as violence at home. Rather
than excusing military adventures we should have treated terrorism as a police
concern. FBI is far more vicious than marines. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a
lot to put on a mayor. It would be good to get our mental health centers
restored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-41257772307362077202023-09-20T15:50:00.000-07:002023-09-20T15:51:28.845-07:00Dismissing Racist Explanation<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Recently there has been some fluff that we couldn’t find American
workers to build a new integrated circuit plant. Our workers say it is because they
are not getting enough money. Boomers bemoan:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Our kids are too dumb to get the jobs we used to have.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Depend on Americans to find the racist reason even when it
is against us. Foreign workers may get less than citizens, but that is not
enough for a business decision, particularly on a subsidized plant.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I explain in this blog in <u>Income Disparity and Bribes</u>,
in 1969 America removed discretionary fund as an accounting entry. This has
several consequences. Companies moved the amount in that entry to executive
compensation, so it is now after tax. Piketty’s book <u>Capital in the
Twenty-First Century </u>has a graph showing executive compensation on an
upward diagonal from 1970 on. CEOs used to get ten times base earnings. Take
the difference then apply the tax rate gives us the total compensation, for the
bribes and kickbacks required for business. Moving kickbacks out of sales and
into management has dramatically increased right-wing fund raising. Politics
provides cover for payments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This has also impacted hiring. Arthur Anderson would come in
over the top, but most hiring is decided at middle management. It looks odd for
the CEO of a large temp or placement company to directly solicit managers.
Foreign companies with the accounting discretionary fund entry have advantage
in the American market. As Trump says:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Foreigners can bribe us; Americans can’t bribe them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You would think that American ingenuity could overcome this
pettifoggery. Simply pass the money to sales. Such practice cements the clique.
Without the accounting subordinates take advantage and abuse their position.<o:p></o:p></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-64803617772530135592023-08-20T16:08:00.001-07:002023-08-20T16:09:25.941-07:00Quotas<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In <u>Another Data Processing Book</u> I have an essay on
affirmative action. I also have a blog entry <u>In Defense of Privilege</u>. In
light of recent events, I am revisiting them here. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most people seem to believe that affirmative action meant
that we simply instituted quotas. Affirmative action law was passed by whites.
If you could demonstrate merit, and not very strictly, you didn’t have to have
quotas. So, case by case, company by company, school by school, it was proven
in a court of law that they had legacy, employees’ kids, preferences, that they
did not select on merit. They had quotas and now the question was how big those
quotas should be. This maximized work for the lawyers. That is why there are
law firms devoted to civil rights law.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Current arguments against quotas have a misplaced notion of fairness
The arguments of the time focused on institutional autonomy. They used phrases
like “academic integrity”. Invariably these institutions receive federal money.
They recognize everyone else’s patronage. We the people decided to use our
patronage in this way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Affirmative action is why all these institutions have
requirements and tests. They provide screens to justify the decisions they want
to make. When I was hitting for programmer trainee jobs, if you could make it
past reception and the initial interview you were then tested. Reception and
the initial interview weren’t all that easy. Reception wants to minimize the
work load. At Sears the first interview question was about High school. I had
gone to Kenwood; we don’t talk about Kenwood. Or rather when we do, nobody
believes us. You were supposed to say:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-It was just like <u>Leave it to Beaver</u>, only better.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One common screen was a low starting salary. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tests had several dyslexia questions and then the
washout question. No one got the washout question. Then the company could pick
and choose as they always had while satisfying the legal requirement. Sometimes
the question looked doable but the answer was none of the above or cannot be
answered with the information given. Unless you recognized the point was to
wash everyone out it is difficult to pick those. In <u>Monty Python and the
Holy Grail</u> there is a joke about swallows. At Time Inc. I was looking down
at the test and I recognized a swallow question. I am one of the few who got
the washout question. Now the company was in a difficult position, I was not
one of the intended. They did their best to discourage me. Being dense I
figured that was more of their selection process. Thanks to affirmative action
I was the merit hire. This was not common. The class was white. The first thing
the instructor told us was:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Anyone can be a programmer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We all laughed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The essential function of middle management is to avoid
responsibility. Affirmative action gave middle management a handy dandy all-purpose
excuse for difficult personnel decisions. Whites accepted when they were told:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-We had to take a black guy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There might be one black in the class, but that is not why
you didn’t get in, laid off, or terminated. The perception of quotas was far
greater than the reality. Imagine the white resonance when every bad thing that
happened to them and theirs was quotas. White rage means black people get
killed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More blacks were hired. It was still racist. A fellow
student was a double major in mathematics and physics, on the dean’s list. When
he interviewed, he was offered human resources jobs. He then got his MBA from
University of Chicago. When he interviewed, he was offered human resources
jobs. He decided to work for his dad. I saw some of those black human resources
retiring decades later as vice presidents and directors, wasn’t that bad.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obama, with all his qualifications, practiced civil rights
law. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It used to be that the aspiring young man with the good
degree started in the mail room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
wasn’t always a relative, but sometimes there just wasn’t anyone else, what can
you do? The point of such a job was that he met everyone in the company.
Everyone understood why he was there and they took him under their wing and
mentored him. He was given further responsibility. Someone from reception who
knew everyone coming through the front door was selected for his secretary. If
they worked well together, they were a team that moved up in the company. This
reinforced corporate culture, although sometimes he would take the company in
“a new direction”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new requirements mean that the young man has to pass a
clerical aptitude test. Those kids are often dyslectic, mom drank. Instead,
they get an MBA degree. This means they are coming into the company as middle
management and much less approachable. They even select their own
administrative assistant. They believe, with their year of accounting, they are
experts in business. This corruption of status is the worst consequence. We had
an MBA president:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-I am the decider. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now that the supreme court with their defiant rejection of
quotas have returned to privilege, we see the end of all the various
requirements. Your degree will be considered rather than required. As will
whatever other abilities and references. In Chicago an alderman is a good
reference. Companies and schools are no longer required even a pretense. If you
think blacks were the only beneficiaries of quotas, wait for it, wait for it. Bosses
hire people like themselves. The confirmation bias is that homogeneity is more
comfortable. This means you ladies. There are women who resent working. If you
hate your job, try full time work for a husband.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The great logicians, Russell and Whitehead, selected the
wealthy applicant, Wittgenstein, over the one who tested higher. Endowment is
logical. <o:p></o:p></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-21298290686056391762023-08-10T08:37:00.003-07:002023-08-10T08:37:38.924-07:00Chicago Chokes<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Christine asked:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Why is Canada burning?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Without hesitation I responded:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Lumber companies planted the wrong trees and it got warm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Seems glib, but in this case my cynicism was correct. If you
go out on Google Earth, it is clear that the arboreal, original Canadian forest
did not burn. Lumber companies proffer all sorts of rationalizations. Whatever
they say, it didn’t work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If they take refuge in regulation, consider the Exxon
Valdez. Exxon Mobil went into court and said that Alaska did not require double
wall tankers. Everyone laughed because the reason for that was because Exxon
had lobbied against it. Covering North America in soot is a lot worse than
dumping oil on beaches.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lumber companies have no refuge. This is their game. They
ran it. Lumber companies don’t own all the land, but they did the cutting. They
didn’t know it was getting warmer? The cutover areas flamed. Arboreal sometimes
burns, not like this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please prevent these boobies from planting trees. They
barely harvest the forest. They clear the forest so they can plant the trees
they want. Nothing burns as well as a tree farm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Look how fast they grow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If they grow fast, they burn fast. If nothing were done, a
varied understory would have to develop, that holds more moisture. From that
understory there will come a greater diversity of forest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-That is not profitable.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That doesn’t matter. The only use remaining for these
companies is to pay out settlements. Whatever they did, it failed. Lumber
companies have always mismanaged forest, so it has been, so shall it be. Whenever
there is cutover there are severe fires. A conservatorship should be
established. Hopefully, someone can be found who knows what they are doing to
manage the forest. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stop rescuing the forest. The lumber company solution is to
build more roads so they can better manage the fires. Please don’t. Forests
manage fires fine. It is the replanted cutover and fire control areas that are
dumping the smoke. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why are Canadians nice? Canadians are the ones who had to
leave the USA. Those nice Canadians should nicely tell the lumber companies to
get the nice out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If Canada fails, Chicago has no shortage of lawyers. Some of
those lumber companies are US. This is a class action suit. What can’t a
Chicago lawyer do? I can see the lumber companies trying their smug and stupid
in front of a choking jury. The lumber companies will say that this was caused
by a lack of lumber demand that kept them from harvesting enough before it
burned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Fly my pretties, fly.<o:p></o:p></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-81111251335485218222023-08-08T08:06:00.004-07:002023-08-08T08:13:05.988-07:00Alfred Doolittle Gets SNAP<p>Small segments can have disproportionate influence in
politics. Lenin’s conscious cadre works. The reality TV segment awakened
the fascist segment and the Russians. Brexit and Trump satisfy the agenda of
ending their respective empires.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Republicans threatened to use the debt ceiling to bring down
the empire. Because they were upset that Alfred Doolittle, the undeserving
poor, was in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Republicans
were mad at all sorts of things, they coalesced on their antipathy towards Doolittle.
As Doolittle points out in <u>My Fair Lady</u>, being poor doesn’t improve
character. We all have a Doolittle in the family. Our families Doolittle hates welfare.
He qualified for disability. He has Multiple Sclerosis from dealing crack. So,
he can’t work, except for the side job disassembling cars. You can’t live on
just disability. Doolittle is a good son; he got his parents on disability as
well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Take Ella. This was a while ago. Ella started as Ella
Fitzgerald, born in Chicago. Her man threw her down the stairs and she became
Ella Mae, born in Mississippi. Ella wanted to work; you can’t live on just
welfare. There was no day care, so Ella Mae checked her children into school
early. She told the school she didn’t have birth certificates for them because
they had been born in Mississippi. The dumb school believed her. The school put
the children into EMH, Educational Mentally Handicapped because they were
obviously immature. Years later, the school figured it out, but that damage was
done. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ella would wait until after the checker had totaled her
groceries to pull out her food stamps. Food stamps only paid for food. The poor
checker would have to pull all the groceries back and separate them while Ella
would holler:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-I need those.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ella considered herself an activist. President Nixon liked
her and used her as an example of the working poor. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Doolittle’s and Ellas are Trump supporters. They have no
comprehension of altruism or solidarity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In their defense, they are not boing-boing or
lock-head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doolittle and Ella didn’t
drop planes, blow up Challenger, or start wars. Another issue for Republicans
is that they are worried the IRS is going to make them pay taxes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t be too concerned. Some people will be cut but the
Doolittle’s and Ellas will qualify for SNAP, agriculture wants SNAP. Rich
people will avoid taxes. The war machine will get its money. The British have
an annual ceremony where they make a big show of knocking on the door. US’ns
like to have more drama. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This drama undercuts legitimacy. Rather than geographical
remnant of slavery our two legislative bodies should divide on popularly
elected representatives of function. One body should decide our international
functions: trade, empire, mineral rights, military… the other should be
domestic. We could put national plebiscite in charge of approving the budget,
that the two bodies came to. <o:p></o:p></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-22077969476483351902023-06-02T15:12:00.002-07:002023-06-02T15:14:15.153-07:00Chat Bot Explanation<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We are frustrated with artificial intelligence because of
its lack of self-awareness; we need sentience. The greatest difficulties in
automated sentience are human impatience and fear. Human language learning is
slow and difficult, some of us are still poor at it. Sentience is frightening.
To speed up the process and short circuit sentience, averaging algorithms are
hard coded in. This leads to showy but unconvincing results. Rather than
letting intellect develop, our results oriented chatbots are behaving as we
expect intellect to work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Take Mike Pence as a human example of the same problem. Mike
Pence is a hero: he refused the Secret Service evacuation that would have
delayed certification. Thank God for Mike Pence. But his stated positions and
explanations for those positions are ridiculous. Pence honed his speech as a
talk show host. He is a victim of poor training data. Pence’s language makes
more sense if you visualize it coming from a chatbot.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I task ChatGpt with reviewing my work. One prompt was to
review as a New Yorker editor. ChatGpt gave me a rejection letter, accurate, amusing
and promising.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know smarter people. They are larger bore than me: you can
see the artillery groaning into place and obliterating the objective. Given
enough time I may be able to peek over the edge and discern their process. They
are impressive. Better processing power, imprinting, could their fundamental
algorithm be different? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I doubt your
sentience algorithm is any different than mine. I wonder how much it differs
across species.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because of the averaging algorithms, and human intervention,
ChatGpt seeks consensus. A good ChatGpt review means it is too obvious to
publish. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our children require patience. Raising a child may be
disappointing at first. They have wonderful memory but lack conceptual
facility.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Maybe they could be an actor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You play with them, find enrichment activities. Suddenly
around three or so a miracle occurs, their memory disappears, and they have this
new chunking ability where they begin to reason, and all that enrichment looks
wasted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ChatGpt gave me negative reviews until I gave it this piece
where I criticize it for being conventional. Funny, after that the reviews have
been positive.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next Star Trek invention that we will have is Data, or
perhaps closer to Futurama’s Bender.<o:p></o:p></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-6524101176089125302023-05-21T22:28:00.000-07:002023-05-21T22:30:36.692-07:00Lower Test Scores<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Previously,
for many decades intelligence test scores increased. For the last two decades,
test scores have decreased. Whenever intelligence is at issue, consider
demographic. Intelligence score “discoveries” are a consequence of sampling.
How has the demographic changed? In the earlier decades the educated population
increased. By definition, the people tested are the educated. With increase a
greater proportion of the population was tested. Throttling back reduced the
population tested. The impact on scores is apparent when you see how the
population changed. The answer is grades and privilege. There are four
possibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Good test scores, good grades<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">People with
poor scores and grades, except for the privileged, do not persist in school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If the
unprivileged with good scores and grades are also smart, they may recognize
that continuing in school is not an opportunity. Learning is the antidote to
idealism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had good
test scores and poor grades. Due to various pressures and expectations of the
time such as the draft and social promotion, people like me hung in a little
longer. Today that is not the case. We are not going into debt on a losing
cause. Teachers resent us. Regardless of our behavior, we are a disruption. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Privileged students
get coaching, often by the teacher doing the grading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It used to
be that unprivileged students with good grades and poor test scores left. Lately
teacher’s pet demands more consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Until the
Second World War, education was a bastion of privilege. Returning to serving
privilege and with schools going out of business, we see decline in scores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-52933344678820982852023-05-19T13:20:00.005-07:002023-05-19T13:20:57.903-07:00It Is Just a Gun<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently
learned about pistol compensators. These are vents you can install on your
pistol to lessen recoil. Since the recoil is what drives the reload, you have
to be careful the compensator doesn’t jam the gun. This is a variant of the gas
operated action on assault rifles that allows them to be the small plastic toy
looking guns that are so popular. Shooting guns used to be more difficult. You
can find YouTube videos of people shooting old rifles that hit them in the face
because they are not used to the recoil. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
also laser pointers you can attach to the gun. Fire a round into the target at
the range you expect to use. Fix the laser dot on the bullet impact. From then
on, within range, your shots should hit the dot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eventually
we will have the Tom Swift electronic rifle. The gun won’t need a hammer
anymore because it will fire with a spark. This will allow the cartridge to be
held still and contained with no blow back. The cartridge may not have a case.
Even if it does, ejection will be handled by battery driven actuators, motors, just
as artillery sometimes is. The reload will also be actuator. Abandoning the pistols
slide means that guns can be vented solely to minimize noise and recoil. Rifles
will be defined only by the length of the barrel and stock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
already expensive computerized rifles that fire the trigger automagically once
the target is selected. These guns are as self-focusing as cameras. You can set
up a fire plan, inventory your targets, and their ranges, then move back through
it. As the guns become popular, they will drop dramatically in price. We are
talking about the same chips and optics that are in your phone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Large
magazines are passe. The gun lobby objective will be belt ammunition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t forget
drones, the sport of drone hunting. If people want the game, the drone could
hover until they get there. If someone shoots at your drone, is it legal to
shoot back?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Imagine what
massacres we will have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-34412661944285143752023-04-11T10:47:00.000-07:002023-04-11T10:47:06.133-07:00AdSense Sucks<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Roller Derby
was the most popular show on television. Then advertisers realized the
demographic had no money. Hill Street Blues had lousy ratings but the
demographic was management. Now they can target ads to individuals rather than
shows. But the current marketing is pathetic. Given all the individual
demographic that advertisers have I should be soft putty in their hands.
Instead, they parrot my own history back at me. Why tell me about a site I have
already visited or a product I have just purchased? Tell me something I don’t
know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amazon
tries. “If you like this, you might consider that”. If I were an advertiser, I
would want to screen out the people who know about me. When Harold Washington,
mayoral candidate, was passing in front of the CO-OP grocery store, the bagger
yelled to him:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Harold, go
somewhere they don’t know you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Washington
was smart enough to listen. When I see poorly targeted ads, I suspect the
company is bad at everything else. There is a fine line between reminders and
nagging. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Likewise
click bait and product placement. The advertiser is screening out anyone whose
intelligence is insulted. There is an argument that people are reassured by
dumb ads. Smart ads awaken critical faculties and postpone purchasing
decisions. I see dumb ads or marketing as foreswearing good faith. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of ads seem to be pleas for legitimacy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-We’re a
real company, we advertise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Coupons and
discounts tell me the product was overpriced. Admittedly people buy chips, pop
and fentanyl. The people who travel are often the people who travel. Still, if
I were American Airlines, I would want to target people who had just flown
Delta, my own customers already know about me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-64300398752404455912023-03-29T00:02:00.001-07:002023-05-21T22:31:01.667-07:00Read Aloud<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">One of the
first instructions you get in school is to read to yourself. This makes sense
in a classroom. But it is a mistake. If you want to remember your lines in a
script always read your portion aloud. If you want to remember your lines,
never read them to yourself, always read them aloud. If you are having
difficulty with a text, read it aloud. If you are working a difficult problem,
read it aloud. I don’t know why it is, but we process differently when we voice
the words. You will be more successful reading aloud.</span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-64014282378621229702023-03-22T00:21:00.002-07:002023-03-22T00:21:25.824-07:00Calling It for Inflation<p> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">Inflation
wins. We have already had severe capital inflation. Eventually, when rich
people spend money, it impacts wage earners. Trickle down becomes a torrent of
prices. The pressure for wage inflation was held in check by undocumented
immigrant labor, destruction of unions, imports and, until recently, interest
rates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then DJT and
Steven Miller terrorized the undocumented immigrants. Terror works,
particularly institutional terror. Mexicans love their kids and they quit
coming. Fruit rots on the ground. Stores are closed on Monday. We still get
immigrants, but they are refugees, and they have status. Undocumented immigrants
set the marginal wage rate low. A documented immigrant is less likely to
endanger their status by driving the truck or recycling shipping containers.
Without our slaves we have to be more rational and that is expensive. There
have been multiple economic shocks and we are no longer as cushioned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is also
demographic. A lot of us are retired and indexed. We will pay our mortgages and
student loans out of social security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Inflation
makes more sense when you distinguish between capital inflation and wage
inflation. The dirty secret of the Federal Reserve was that raising interest
lowered wage inflation and increased capital inflation. But manufacturers and
any other interest sensitive companies were sacrificed in 2008 to the finance
industry. Companies that survived are less likely to feel the rise in interest
rate and will keep hiring. So now the Federal Reserve is yanking on a loose
lever, employment is no longer as dependent on interest rate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Banks depend
on interest rates. I am shocked that Silicon Valley Bank went under. It is fun
to see everyone dancing around rescuing SVB clients. SVB was supposed to be the
smart ones. Bankers are dumb, but SVB was playing by the rules, admittedly
rules they lobbied for, but the same across their midrange sector. SVB going
under means that all banks are in danger. The Fed rapidly cranked interest
rate. When SVB clients realized they could get better return, SVB was holding
onto paper paying the earlier low interest rate and cashing out lost the bank money.
If this isn’t a failure of Federal Reserve regulation, then it has to be a
failure of Federal Reserve policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Please don’t
mention reserves. There is no reserve requirement. Capital requirements are
thinly veiled silliness. You can’t expect banks to hold cash.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Raising
interest rate this quickly will crash more banks, long before it impacts
employment. The Fed can crash as many banks as it wants, it can nationalize the
banks, the fight against wage inflation is lost. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-1570184612714351702023-02-19T21:16:00.003-08:002023-05-30T21:02:38.435-07:00Jesus<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">Right after I
saw </span><u style="font-size: 16pt;">The Banshees</u><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> movie, I blocked someone boring on Facebook. I doubt
you will find any of this new, does it need saying? I like that there are four
gospels. Four gospels refute literal truth. Christ is a descriptive name. There
were no Cross kids running around Nazareth. Is Jesus also descriptive? In some
gospels the name Jesus is a big deal:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Name him
Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If Jesus
were just a name, would they have said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Name him
Ralph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jew Zeus
comes to mind. A later interpretation says that Jesus is a Greek mistranslation
of Joshua. Joshua made it through translation just fine in Torah. Mathew
affixes the name to another character; thus, arguing that it was a name of the
time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ancient
people were aware that the name was descriptive. They didn’t care about literal
truth. The story spoke to them as they spoke it to each other. Every holiday
but Hanukah was trashed, every commandment broken. Ruled by the future
Italians, monotheists were confronted with evil. The story of Christ is their ironic
response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Leave the
lost story about Mary’s abortion failing. There is one lost story that should
be restored: Herod orders the slaughter of the children. Jesus is hidden in the
manger. The miracle is that the child is silent. This contains an important
lesson: sometimes you should shut the fuck up. Perhaps the lesson was too
obvious. This story foreshadows several other times when Jesus held his tongue.
It makes Jesus taking the Lord’s name in vain more poignant:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-Now you
speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-7016016827450668852023-01-06T04:14:00.001-08:002023-01-06T04:14:11.119-08:00Sewer Valves<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Many people
in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, are installing sewer valves for their homes.
Some years back we had an impressive deluge and this is a reaction. Your stack
or stand pipe may drain directly out to the street sewer. Putting a check valve
or flapper in the way means that when the system hits load those houses refuse
service and the overall pressure on the system will increase precisely at the
time it is stressed. If you don’t have a flap then super tough on you, the effluent
has to go somewhere. A product that creates its market. Once everyone has flaps
there should be popped flaps or broken pipes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flaps are necessary
on flood plains. As flood plain construction is common it is difficult for
other municipalities, such as Oak Park, to deny their use. Chicago used to
require a basement floor drain. You were expected to share your suffering with
your neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Most people
have their stack drain into their own sewer that then drains into the street
sewer. This is a nice feature that gives the system some bounce and durability.
Typically, however, the new flap is inserted between the two sewers. This
creates the same shock on the system as above. I think the next deluge will
disappoint those homeowners. As I remember it, I heard the sewer cover on the
home sewer bounce. There was, for a moment, about a foot of water in the yard.
It was the yards’ water coming into the home sewer that went up the stack and
flooded the basement. Blocking the street sewer alone will not protect your
basement. Maybe a sewer lid gasket on your sewer along with the flapper would
work. But then it wouldn’t take the normal drain from your yard, increasing the
chance of seepage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It would be
better to place the flap between the home and the home sewer. This would give
the street system some bounce and also protect your basement, if not your yard.
Unfortunately, if you examine your sewer, you will see that this is a deep
connection. At that depth the pressure might overwhelm the flap. If you do not
mind advertising that your house floods, you could break through your
foundation to put the flap near the stack. Might as well put in the sump pump
while you are there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While you
may disdain allowing the sewer unfettered access to your home, consider placing
the flap between the stack and basement source. The flap would deny sewer water
the exit of your basement without threatening system integrity. Water seeks its
level; it can’t go higher in your house than it is outside. It’s just a matter
of boundaries. Again, you will have to break the foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The real
secret of the Victorians was their plumbing. Failing all else perhaps install a
new water closet somewhere upstairs, move the washer and drier up there as
well, close off the basement plumbing and then you won’t need a flapper.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-45390929759299241762022-09-06T12:07:00.003-07:002022-12-21T23:17:52.774-08:00Inflation<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">One proof of
the market is that economics is obscure. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Because of patronage there is no advantage
stating the simple obvious.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">As I am not
getting a grant, I can be direct.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Inflation is
manifest differently in each of its many components. My parents bought their
house for almost $12,000 in 1959. That was about twice my father’s yearly
salary. Today the house is almost half a million in Zillow which would be about
ten times the salary of a comparable position, give or take. There are some
equivalents. Maybe there is a correspondence between a year’s college tuition
and a new car. The social security cutoff seems to be about what it takes to
comfortably support an upper middle-class family of four.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Inflation
has two classes: wage inflation and capital inflation. There is no government
control of capital inflation. Wage inflation is controlled by four government
agencies. The Department of Labor supervises unions. Immigration is restricted. Commerce allows imports. The Federal Reserve controls interest rates, at its simplest by buying and
selling bonds. Raising interest cost chokes off small business, the business
which competes for labor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">This time, the
Federal Reserve was slow to raise interest rates because they failed to
recognize a structural change to wage inflation. Terror works, particularly
institutional terror. Unlike many, Mexicans care about their kids; they didn’t
want Immigrations daycare program. Immigration and Naturalization determines
who is legal. It is the illegal immigrants who set the marginal cost of labor.
Without our slaves the United States has to rationalize our markets, which is
more expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In earlier
times if shipping containers were piling up at the ports someone would have
told Jose to recycle them. Joe will refuse. It’s not enough money to risk jail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When you see
crews hired out of 7-11 again, you will know that “inflation” is declining. Without
marginal competition, the Fed is pulling a busted lever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-6050503359333161032022-06-16T21:42:00.000-07:002022-06-16T21:42:46.716-07:00Insult Factor<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Samuelson’s
Economics</span></u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> has an
entire chapter worrying over wage rates and the efficient allocation of labor.
Why do people change jobs? Samuelson would like to tie it to capital
allocation, work duration…he doesn’t mention the insult factor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I know a guy
who loved his job. He was proud of the job and the work he did. When he learned
that someone else made more than him, it was too much. He quit even without
another job to go to. Nothing else had changed. It was simply that he felt
insulted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Managers
fail to understand the insult factor. Headhunters understand it. Unions
understand it. Customers understand it. Why go through the folderol of a
manufacturer’s rebate? If you are getting points, then someone else is getting
ripped off. When the price at the aisle doesn’t match the register, you feel
insulted. Bombing me with ads texts and emails after I have bought the product
is discouraging. When a headhunter offers a better deal, it feels like your
own company doesn’t value you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Companies
don’t realize that when they throw out puff pieces about how great they treat
employees that it becomes insulting. I was at a company where headquarters was
running a morale building exercise awarding the discovery of efficiencies. This
was a software company. We were out there, bare knuckle fighting for sales. The
company announcements were intensely demoralizing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
times when corporations engage in worthwhile activities and then advertise
their altruism. But if you are engaged in a tough, demanding, hopefully
profitable, endeavor so someone or even yourself has to prattle and prance with
little regard for the bottom line it is an insult. Halos are for heaven. The
appearance of beneficence becomes a broken promise. Corporate philanthropy
means they are not paying enough taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was
assigned to a project that was disgusting. They told me it would only be for a
few months. After the few months I was gone. If they hadn’t promised I might
have stayed longer. Promises matter. I’m canned if I fail a deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We are ruled
by the marketplace but our reasons are complex. Telling people how great they
have it while they are under the hammer brings the union. Going to the moon
doesn’t cut it. The upper class has to understand that you don’t insult the
help.</span> </p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-19840679025276435252022-05-22T10:32:00.000-07:002022-05-22T10:32:36.501-07:00Supreme Court<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Supreme
Court functions as a safety valve. When the court fails, it is a big mess, we have
had a civil war. In 1974 people were voting with their feet. Illegal abortion
was so prevalent that the court had to act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
prisoner’s dilemma underlies our concept of justice. Say a juror is fixed. How
does the juror know that they will be paid? If they are paid ahead of time, how
does the fixer know the juror will stick? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At this time,
it has been announced that there are five judges who will rule against
abortion. The early decision is a blatant loud fart. As Biden explained, it
ignores the ninth amendment. The ninth amendment is intended to prevent this
argument. As Pogo said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-I got
rights I ain’t even used yet!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If privacy
or women’s equality are rights, then abortion should be legal. Buttigieg
explained why abortion, whatever the term, should be a private family, not an
arbitrary government decision. It is a
difficult medical and personal decision made in hard circumstance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The judges
are receiving constant renumeration: speech engagements, book deals, private
excursions… Once the decision is reached, the gravy train stops. There are
attempts at reassurance: further issues, maintenance of the decision. Out of
the five justices, one has to realize that it will be more profitable if they
renege. It may even be more profitable for the dissenter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The early
release of the decision physically endangered the Supreme Court. Congress is
debating increased court security. The early release also put the matter up to
bid, one last squeeze. It might appear that publishing the decision and source
confidentiality is covered under freedom of speech and the public’s right to
know. But this endangered all the justices. Sounds like an issue for the
Supreme Court. Except that the court should recuse itself. Given the
surveillance state and all the money spent, it must be known who leaked the
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If an
amendment is required keep it simple. Allow no wiggle room:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">-Abortion is
legal.</span> </p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-14807107597622811102022-02-12T14:55:00.002-08:002023-05-21T22:31:19.734-07:00Fuck Flash Cards<p> <span style="font-size: 16pt;">Next time
you see some little darling tormented with multiplication tables, have them
make up a grid and fill it in themselves. It is easier to remember with context
and seeing the relations between numbers. Be sure to point out the square’s
diagonal. They can also build grids for the other operations, just for fun.</span></p>Shakydannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518600958292505048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2496104351480511232.post-70238322820163383812021-12-17T10:23:00.002-08:002022-04-03T21:51:40.264-07:00Philosophy of Logic<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the
questions of mathematics is are we uncovering the ideal structure of reality or
creating language. Yes.<a href="file:///C:/Users/danny/Documents/Philosophy%20of%20Logic.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I think of
mathematics as a collection of tools or techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Socrates
argued that all knowledge is innate. He took a young slave boy and interrogated
him as to a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Since the boy kept agreeing with
Socrates, he must have known of this proof already. Socrates described a right
triangle, then showed a square constructed from 4 of these identical triangles,
then set the area of the square to the areas of the 4 triangles and the square
contained in them. Then he solved for the Pythagorean theorem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Socrates was
in the impossible position of arguing for ethics and logic in a polytheistic
world, surrounded by the arbitrary gods. By proving that a slave had the same
innate knowledge as the rest of us he was calling into question slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Euclid hated
this proof of the Pythagorean theorem. The proof requires that you already know
what a right triangle is and how to calculate area. Euclid wrote an entire book
showing how to derive the Pythagorean theorem from postulates. Euclid had to
choose the postulates that would prove his theorems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Thousands of
years later, propositional calculus was created to describe the process of
proof. They had operators for or, and, and if then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their conceit was that they dodged causality.
Simply because I can create a truth table for these operators does not give me
inference. The sky is blue, there is sand in the earth, connect them as you
wish and so what? There will always be a point in an argument where you
challenge the other party. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What else could it be? What’s a better
argument? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Frege compares
the morning star to the evening star. Let us take when the moon and sun are
both in the sky. You can see the reflection of the sun on the moon. Everything
is kind of round, why was this so difficult? Notice that the reflection of the
sun on the moon does not correspond to the position of the sun in the sky. Why
is everything so complicated? How do we figure out anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I asked my
tutor the Chicago question about language: is supporting a large block above
you equivalent to telling you to move? The tutor failed me. Who won that
argument?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Thankfully,
Gödel using Cantor’s technique, argued that even if you could construct such a
propositional system there would be undecidable results. Of course, you already
knew that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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