For those of you wondering what the other presidential candidates say

Opposition Parties' Presidential Debate Blacked Out by US Broadcast Media - Al Jazeera Will Air It

Mat McDermott
Business / Environmental Policy
October 18, 2012

http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/opposition-presidential-debate-blacked-out-us-broadcast-media-al-jazeera-will-air-it.html

Another example of the tragically constrained nature of current US politics: There's a debate planned for opposition candidates from the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Justice Party, and the Libertarian Party, moderated by Larry King, and yet mainstream broadcast television in the US wants no part of it.

The debate between Jill Stein (Green), Gary Johnson (Libertarian),Virgil Goode (Constitution), and Rocky Anderson (Justice), organized by Free and Equal, will be viewable live on Ora TV and You Tube, October 23rd at 9pm ET. It will also be broadcast on Al Jazeera.

Under the contracts for the Dem-Rep debates, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are prohibited from debating candidates from other parties.

Viewers will be able to submit questions (here on the Free and Equal website) beforehand, or can submit them via Twitter using the hashtag #AskEmThisLarry.

As I said when commenting on the arrest of Jill Stein outside of the last debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the narrow philosophical differences on most if certainly not all issues between the Democrats and Republicans, and the constrained policy decisions on environmental issues this brings about, is truly exemplified in the state managed nature of the debates.

Outside views, to both the left, right and center are excluded, limiting the breadth of what can be discussed, what viewpoints are considered.

It's not good for politics and its not good for the environment

see, you do have a choice

ray

for those who continue to glorify war

same song set to a war scene

death and destruction

what man does best

sadly some day I fear those gunships will be in the air above us here

coffee time

ray

One of their best-Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

the erie sounding opening

haunting music

they used to be good

morning coffee time
what? no beer for breakfast?
that is on the weekend!

ray

Hey, I wore that stuff out okay!

You will watch on TV or read somewhere that the toys you played with or the comics books you read are worth a gazillion dollars in mint condition and any grown up will say "oh man I had that!"

They are totally missing the point. I bought those toys to play with. I read the comic books until the pages fell apart. They were meant to enjoy, not collect. Someone that collects never enjoyed. And that is the whole point of having fun isn't it?

sheesh...

now it is a time for a collectible beer

damn it, I drank it! lol

ray

I actually do read the bloggers on my reading list

It's not for show. I actually do read them all.

And on occasion I have been know to go way back in time and read them all, yep, everything you have written.

And if I like your writing and you don't write I wonder and the worry a bit. And wait. And wait. And wait.

and wonder. and worry.

I know how life is. Sometimes life gets in the way. Or you no longer feel the need to share and I understand.

If you decide to stop, please say goodbye.

I care.

silly of me.

I don't mind.

beer time
care for a cold one?

ray

Change of season

yes, I know, the high temperature  today should be 87, but it won't feel hot. Some clouds out there right now, sort of a grey sky but it is the wind, making it feel cool out.

It is true that at times the heat and humidity can make life unbearable but the fall season does bring relief to many.  In fact I can easily lay around outside doing nothing, feeling the caress of the breeze on my face. But the weekend is for outside house work, the never ending chore that it is.

Soon though, I will be complaining about the cold, yes it does get cold here and wishing for the heat once again. But now it is time to trim the palm trees once again. How many of you out there can say that? lol

Not an exciting or informative post, but then again it is a Sunday, right?

coffee time

ciao

ray

Dr. Who

The opening credit is from 1974, Tom Baker is the current Dr. Who. Yep, 1974 is when I started watching.


Oh to be a time lord. What ? You don't know what that means? Then you must become a Dr. Who fan. Thanks to BBC America and Direct TV I can watch it again.

When I was much younger, Dr. Who was a Sunday night staple on the local PBS station and the viewing was much anticipated. The move to Florida, change of stations and poof, it was gone. I was out of touch for years. Not any longer.

For those not in the know, Dr. Who is a time lord, a time traveler. What does that mean, what does he do? Honestly, you have to watch the show. But beware, you will be utterly lost and confused in each and every episode. You will want to come back again and again. The show itself has been around for years. There has been many Dr. Who's. That will be part of the confusion. It doesn't matter, in due time the new actor will immerse himself in the role and you will adjust.

The sets and graphics have changed over the years, getting better and better. The imagination of the writers has no limits and the plot lines are incredible, the villains are so so villainous! The other actors and actresses are believable and work well with each other.

There was talk of a movie that would have done well but the talk died down as someone probably realized it would have ruined the serial nature of the show. Here in the states it would have been done and killed the franchise. We never learn.

This is the current opening with Matt Smith. Music is still great but the graphics explode on the screen.

So I invite you to step in the Tardis (the blue phone booth, small outside, huge inside) and journey through time. You will be hooked. Don't say I didn't warn you.

coffee time

ray

Mungo only pawn in game of life

Alex Karras was a fearsome football player in the 60's for the Detroit Lions, was on Monday Night Football, starred in a TV show called Webster, but most will remember him as Mungo in the movie classic Blazing Saddles. He died at 77 suffering from cancer, kidney problems and dementia. But he will always be remembered from the following

rest in peace alex karras

a beer salute

ray

Karl Denninger, "What Defines America?"

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012

Karl Denninger, "What Defines America?"

"What Defines America?"
by Karl Denninger

"On this Columbus Day, when Columbus "discovered" The New World (Really? Native Americans weren't already here?) one should, I believe, ponder the following. "What Defines America?" Is it a defined political hierarchy centered in Washington DC? Or is it The Constitution? Is it a symbol (e.g. the flag)? Or is it A Republican Form of Government, as allegedly guaranteed by our Constitution (as amended)?

Is it an organized looting operation centered in NYC and Washington DC? Or is it this? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - US Declaration of Independence.

Is it "merely" a conglomeration of 50 alleged "States", or is it the bargain struck between each of those 50 States and The Federal Government. Specifically:

"Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion;" An official policy of "all illegal immigrants are welcome to come and loot our Treasury and people" is contrary to these requirements, and a Republican Form of Government requires actual representative government - not purchased, bribed legislators.

Is The Fed and Treasury's explicit and declared policy of dollar devaluation, which is exactly what "Quantitative Easing" (aka "monetization") is, lawful? Or does The Constitution specify that Congress has this power, not The Executive or an "independent" Central Bank (Article I Section 8), specifically: "To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;" Is not The Constitution (as properly amended) a Contract between the people, the States and The Federal Government?

I argue that it is. Contracts require performance by all parties. Has The Federal Government met its burden of performance? If not, who's seceding from whom? Is there not an argument to be made that Secession has already happened - without a shot fired - and it was Washington DC and Wall Street that did the Seceding from our Constitutional Form of Government? Note that under 18 USC Chap 115 Sec 2381-2385, for a crime to be committed an act of secession must involve violence. A "mere" renouncement of the Constitutional Principles that allegedly bind our nation together by The Federal Government and its handmaidens both at The Federal Reserve and on Wall Street, accomplished without violence, is, by all appearances, lawful.

So here's your homework for the day - ponder this: Does America, bound and defined by The Constitution with the rights and duties of each party defined, still exist, or has Washington DC and Wall Street already seceded over the previous two decades? Is this, in point of fact, not the root of the problems we now face in our economy and nation, whether they be runaway debt, financial frauds perpetrated upon the people, the counties and states, or blatantly-fraudulent entitlement promises that are mathematically impossible to sustain?

borrowed from Running cause I can't fly!

Oh no, the internet is out!

The last three days or so we were without internet service. It makes one quickly realize how dependent we have become on day to day doings on line. It can get tense around the home without it.
Bill paying, work reports did not get done, let alone the mindless quests of the trivial minutia that I love.

On Friday I had to change what I had planned to do because I could not do the research I needed and could not print up the reports that were necessary. I did stop by the local library to do a few things, they had plenty of computers at the ready and no lines.
Doing personal business in front of others felt uncomfortable at first but stuff had to get done so what the hell!

Back at home, we survived, barely. Oh there was talk about staging a duel at dawn, but neither one of us could find a second, and rules are rules. And the cost of dueling pistols...sigh

And I couldn't post at will. Well maybe it did save the world from some of my useless 1's and O's but I did miss it. So I am back.

be warned

a very large coffee and tea too!

ray