Oct 02 2008

Left Out of Debates, Nader Campaign Marches On

One response so far

One Response to “Left Out of Debates, Nader Campaign Marches On”

1. # jkiferon 03 Oct 2008 at 9:25 pm

   I noticed not many people comment, so I thought I’d make a brief, general comment.
   BULLETIN–THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS THE LAW OF THE LAND. NO STATUTE OR GOVERNMENTAL ACTION MAY CONTRADICT IT. ALL STATUTES AND ACTIONS OF GOVERNMENT ARE REVIEWABLE BY THE JUDICIARY.
   October 2008
   (More of the Story So Far)
   Americans Dreaming #55.2a
   REMEDIAL OCCUPATION m.s.i.sec00.d-r Winter 2009
   * Gentlemen–if you are going to occupy territory, you gotta do it right!
   * The kind of invasions and occupations now being attempted in MidAsia are like trying to fix a flat tire with chewing gum. Looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iran is like using a different flavor of gum in the hope it will work better.
   * If you aren’t going to occupy territory, you might be able to look after targets in your own territory. Americans don’t want to see the Pentagon hit again.
   * Never was so much invested in national defense that let down so many. And never was a more vicious and immoral an attack made on any habitants of a nation state by an transnational organization dedicated to the destruction of as potentially beneficent a people as those in the United States.
   * When you fight back, fight in the right way; with science, not with overt and excessive violence.
   * President Carter’s administration established a program to protect airliners from hijacking in the 1970s. But some Americans didn’t want to be seen as “scared.” (It was difficult to get people to accept seat belts in cars, too. There are two words I know, “foolhardy” and “courageous.” They are not synonyms.) The absence of sky marshals in planes in flight was a necessary condition for the 9-1-1 attack. But, we weren’t scared! We had a great national defense–why the Pentagon was only slightly damaged!

   * And now, a word from the market.
   * If there were a sharp car that was clean, that people wanted, and that left the U.S. in no way beholden to oil that is under someone else’s sovereign territory, we would have won part of the war: we won’t be dependent on foreign oil–in fact the situation will be reversed. If we produced such cars first and fastest, we might get a positive balance of trade for a while. We are a nation of farmer-technocrats, now. We ought to keep our competition out of the military sphere. We have the ultimate defenses in our super weapons, in the unlikely event that any nation state(s) should openly invade the United States. The problem is that our super weapons seem to be good only for mass destruction.
   * The foregoing “solution” is as much as America can hope for right now. A real solution is reducing transportation of individuals by automobile. That would be the best thing for the moment. Los Angeles is thriving now partly because of the presence of a growing rail system. For the poor folks in inner Los Angeles, colored lines (the Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, etc., light rail lines, that is) are a boon.
   * Could it be that the lessening of personal automobile use in America could reduce warfare abroad? I hope I haven’t committed a crime by suggesting that. (Motorcycles are more strategically sensible than automobiles, too.)

   *\ Bringin’ All that Torture Back Home
   * America has got about as much respect in the world as…I can’t say how low it’s fallen. Occasionally I have considered tripping outside the U.S. when I get old. I used to think they’d throw roses like always for Americans. Now, I’m not so sure that it is not thorny flails that await.
   * Remark concerning the rogue discipline of American psychology at war.
   * Among the police (in the past, of course, not now!) there was a psychological game aimed at generating compliance from suspects called Good Cop, Bad Cop. One officer comes on tough to the point of physical abuse–we’ve done that in MidAsia. Water boarding is a very bad form of torture and abuse. Getting reliable data from your subject by this method is very unlikely, but for some reason, it remains popular.
   * (Execution based on evidence garnered this way is counter-productive, but it does establish American brutalitarianism.)
   * We’ve tortured enough to establish the Bad Cop component of the game. Now that our suspects are scared witless, we can afford to come on with coffee and donuts, medicine from the doctor–friendship from the Good Cop.
   * Now we’ll get some answers!
   * Conclusion: Torture–mission accomplished!
   * Hint for those who want to know: when torture goes on under Obama or McCain it will be kept secret. Torture is a human universal, as far as I know; that is, no culture is free of sadism. Embrace your humanity. An embrace turns away torture.

   * Controlling the interests of international terrorism.
   * Certainly, I admire the fact that our militarism appears to be illegal in some instances.
   * I say this because the U.S. was indeed invaded on September 11, 2001–possibly with the complicity of some who call themselves Americans. It is not my intention to call people names. I have heard so much of the use of “gang member” and “war criminal.” I’ve never heard so many Democrats ready to call the Executive a war criminal. What happens when Obama continues in the same track? Will he be labeled in the same way? I well remember the days when those opposing the Vietnam Invasion were labeled traitors. Traitor, war-criminal, and tags like that turn me off. I adhere to presumption of innocence. I repeat: Will President Obama be called a war criminal? I suspect no great change in the strategy of long-lasting war in MidAsia. There’s big profit in it for a few, and that’s the American way.
   * No external authority may intervene in our common self-defense.
   * So while Executive policy vis a vis the Carbon Wars–the Iraq I and II Wars–Our MidAsian Misadventures, or whatever you want to call them–is destructive to the national security in Carbon War II, it is a matter of obvious ineptitude, a matter for discussion of impeachment, certainly, in the unlikely case that malfeasance occurred.
   * Special Congressional committees ought to have been formed regarding Executive removal (if they have not been), established at least for the duration of the term of the hostilities in MidAsia.
   * Congress failed.
   * Sometimes I think it’s too bad that we can’t turn the Legislative branch out with a referendum of confidence\no confidence and special elections!
   * Too bad we can’t flunk them out and let them get drafted for Nam.
   * The Supreme Court double-dribbled, but they may end up learning how to handle the mess we’re in now–by reference to the United States Constitution. (I have an inherent faith in groups of nine, the number of players on a baseball team, a well as certain other religious entities.)
   * Gotta get our people out of the Mideast, is my gut feeling. Even if it means rationing gasoline, we ought to try and do it. Calling for sacrifice in empires is very bad taste, though–it amounts to encouraging the crime of frugality, when we know consumption is what gives us worth as people. But when I think of all of the frightened, heroic, innocent American young people killing and dying for no good cause–killing each other, frequently, as wars are more full of blunders, the more modern that they become–I can only think that this engagement might be ended as quickly as possible.
   * American operations may have stirred a desire for revenge, among peoples who are as inclined as any other humans to succumb to obsessive-compulsive reprisals. Innocent civilians die in wars as a result of the compulsive vindictive hubris of humanity and the morale of all humanity on a global basis is thereby undermined. If I believed in Satan, I’d say human warfare was planned by unhuman entities. Religion is an old way out of personal responsibility. We have freedom from religion in the United States–if we want it.
   * Peace is a necessary condition for happiness. The search for happiness is among human rights, but happiness is very hard to pursue in these days for most of the people on Earth. (I have sometimes wondered if Jupiter or some of his other property might have been the proximate source of Jefferson’s phrasing about pursuit–it is an interesting speculation.)
   * Among the humble, for those who are not rich, peace is a necessary condition for the pursuit of happiness. Obama seems afraid to tell McCain that. Neither man was ever quite poor, so perhaps the possibility of increase of the opportunity among the poor for some happiness is not quite important to them. That’s too soft: neither man cares about the poor–the poor don’t vote. That’s better. It’s closer to accuracy. There are no poor people in the Senatorial limos, when senators travel across town–at least, that’s what I’ve heard.
   * Obama seemed scared to take issue with McCain concerning the efficacy of The Surge, when the Senators debated. So McCain surges ahead in the polls. Polls are an example of the bandwagon effect. If a candidate begins to gain in the polls, feedback from the audience of the polls may increase the gain. This year, it didn’t
   * Interceding events and revelations about candidates affect the polls. When your opponent is gaining in the polls you bring him down any way you can–if you want to win. Or, if you are very fortunate, your opponent stumbles.
   * Obama has almost always been ahead in the polls throughout the campaign. As of October 3, Obama seemed to be in an upswing. Two debates remain–but the first debate raised Obama’s numbers. Obama arrests Osama. The hope is irresistible, for a poet.
   * Obama may lose some votes since he is not anti-war enough. A few of us want a peace candidate who is solidly anti-war. Obama and Biden better make sure to get across the traditional indifference of Republicans for mother and child social programs–programs that are the most effective at lifting children out of poverty.
   * War on Terror Iraq. It’s like Vietnam–the war is out of gas, and the enemy don’t want to come across. Might as well get out the gas can and start walking to a filling station.
   * Iraq is unlike Vietnam, in that we might have insured that America will be attacked in some way in the future that will parallel Nine Eleven 2001. Perhaps America assuming the mantle of European imperialism wasn’t such a wise course.

   * A brief word from our market.
   * We need a program like Al Gore and millions of others propose. We need a cool, clean vehicle that will not be a hassle in any way! (There are real solutions, but Americans aren’t ready for them, so I offer what they might be prepared to accept.)
   * Why–I might go back to driving! (That’s a politicians promise. I’ll never waste my time piloting an automobile again, unless it’s in a race on a proper track!)
   * We’ve got to put everything into it. In ten years, every driver in the world will want one of our new vehicles–and the U.S. will be the only producer.
   * Proposing work and innovation as an alternative to invasion and occupation might be suspect–WAR! WHAT ISN’T IT GOOD FOR!!!!–is still the call of the free press.
   * I know that internationalist, imperial blundering is far more likely than peace will ever be. Yet, I am often wrong.
   * Amidst the bungling of the powerful, all the humble can do is overcome suffering and survive. I intend to help them.
   * Pride is by far a more popular virtue than humility. When I think of the modern human virtues–pride, greed, bullying, and all of the others, it’s easy to see that we need better education in America.
   * A whole generation of Americans will be losing the best of their innocent dreams as the next few years pass. War is a big part of that, when you are not clear headed about it, when you have no ending planned.
   * And I must admit that the effects of the war outside of America are far worse than within the United States. When the second plane hit on NINE-ONE-ONE, I knew how sorry I would feel for the innocent Iraqis before long. But, a dictator previously installed became less useful, and so had to be removed. This is the way of empires. I didn’t think we’d stop off in Afghanistan first. That invasion was nearly unanimously accepted by the American people, according to our free press. But most people are against war, even in the heat of the moment.
   * Of course, Great Big Network Newses have a gift for discounting how great the damage that we Americans do to a declared enemy is. So do I, for that matter. After all, my great-grandfather was a Union Army vetern, and the victory of the Union over the Confederacy was accomplished with great–I might say excessive–brutality. But all things connected with slavery are brutal, or tend toward the exhibition of human brutality.

   * A word from our market.
   * And just look! Those gas prices are falling already! Why they’re going down almost as much and as fast and as much as they’re going up! They’re changing for the better in spite of every crisis.
   * Seeing people so readily accepting chains–the Carbon Chains, to coin a phrase–is dreadfully hurtful to my morale.
   * Vacuous hedonism in mass production\mass consumption cultures is a comforting slough for many to wallow in. Such a culture may be wholly benign, I guess. But it is a weak alternative to doing things in the right way by getting the most good to the most people. Peace is a necessary condition of liberty. Unfortunately, Americans dream that an overly powerful auto is a necessary condition of liberty.
   * If I could talk future President Webb into it, by the time he comes into office in 2017, I would strongly recommend an American Agrarian\Homelandholder Reform–giving away land and then furnishing the capital necessary to establish it as an exploitable resource. And this ought to be done on a vast basis. The alternative is paying people stipends to live in polluted cities.
   * Prognostication concerning the coming Carbon Dioxide Tax.
   * The coming Carbon Dioxide Taxes will fairly focus on each and every American’s non-essential production of carbon dioxide. Autos, Being Essential to the Economy Will Not Be Taxed. Besides, the health benefits of the increased air quality due to cars is well known.
   * Nor Will Anything Essential to The Economy Ever BE Taxed.
   * Breathing is another matter, though.
   * Breathing barely helps The Economy at all, since dead consumers are easily replaced in the Global Village Market.
   * A Respiration Tax to Limit carbon dioxide?
   * Everyone breathes–everyone produces unnecessary carbon dioxide by breathing. Ergo, everyone will pay a flat tax per breath. Chips will be installed highly painlessly and everyone will receive a $50 (better make that $5 in the light of the Current Emergency) cash incentive to comply. Here’s my plan. We’ll all be hooked into computerized meters that will record each and every breath, and monitor carbon dioxide output from every man, woman, and child over the age of three weeks. Later, once everyone approves we can monitor and tax other bodily greenhouse gases.
   * We must stay the course.
   * Fit guys like me who breathe very little will suffer the least economic distress when our breathing bills come in from the governance quarterly. The Respiration Tax just might be the answer to health care rationing.
   * The Respiration Tax–the key to passage of any Carbon Taxes package–may be the best American answer to the challenge of Global Warming.
   * Really, we have a government that is non-functional strategically–Senator Webb was right about that. (I think he has recanted, however, in light of the Current Emergency). We need better plans concerning avoidance of non-effective military engagement. Then again, the governing belief is that military service is the only way to secure rights and benefits for America. I comment about Webb as a complement to talking about Lieberman. These are party jumpers. From such persons arises the “Ross Perot Phenomenon.” Really successful independent candidates, that is.
   * Politicians advance their careers every day, while someone loses a son or daughter from the endless war. This is not to say that a politician may not become that bereaved parent–but I am against war, no matter how much it makes for nationalistic solidarity across social classes. The lost marriages, the lost professional partnerships, the loss of members of the social fiber that exists outside of warfare–the losses in terms of human happiness and human liberty–staggers the imagination when we consider the loss of human life. What America does to our targets in warfare is unparalleled. We obliterate those whom we consider to be the enemy–and if we happen to destroy a few (or many) of the innocent, or of our friends, or even of our own troops, Well Hey! That’s how we do wars! Our world is the world of the lost accomplishment of those untimely cut off by our (human) warfare. Innocent lives that are lost in warfare make me believe that no war is a good war. But we keep getting into positions where war is necessary, or where it seems to be necessary, which is the same thing.
   * Human large scale social structure is weakened by persistent warfare.
   * People feel responsibility toward a few others and themselves, in the milieu of modern warfare. All other people beyond this small circle become menacing. This is a result of warfare, and a cause of warfare. This diminution of affection for one’s fellow humans is one of the uglier features of modern life, as far as I am concerned.
   * In a peaceful world, those lives that were ended by war would help reinforce humanity’s inept attempts to survive and prosper in our brief sojourns on Earth.
   * I will be 60 next month. I don’t feel any older or different than I did at 18. Fatter, but not too much fatter. Sedentary, now, because I can’t run a bicycle and a word processor at the same time. I still find my opinions about war, wealth, love, and people are little changed. I prefer the latter two (love and people) more than war and wealth. In fact, I think I prefer love and people more than war and wealth more than I did 40-some years ago. But one might prefer all four–if one is willing to categorize supposed enemies as undeserving of life.
   * When I think of people I knew who died in Vietnam, how they might have lived and enjoyed liberty, of the contributions that they might have made to human society in general, I come to the conclusion that the value of a life prematurely cut short by war (and this goes double or triple for civilian lives) in dollars, probably runs into the hundreds of trillions. Some things you can’t translate into moneyspeak. But no one should want to take on that debt.
   * From love missing on this planet because of death and damage by warfare, we are now at this fork in the road…We can conquer war, and then defeat death–or we can extinct ourselves. I believe that the former possibility of success is less likely than the latter one of permanent failure. But, after all, life is about keeping off defeat for as long as possible, on a personal level.
   * I strongly recommend leaving the weaponry out of the shipments of currency that we are furnishing to warlords planet wide. It might cut down the violence for a few hours. To attain lasting peace, the planet has to be kept warfare free for two or three generations. This has never happened that I know of among humans. War is common at whatever level of destruction Homo sapiens is capable of effecting, from stone axes and battering rams to automatic handguns and atomic weapons.
   * In the world of warfare, seeking and suffering revenge becomes a way of life. Mercy and humility are devalued into attributes akin to weakness, even viewed as vices! Humanity marches proudly into Hell in romanticized versions of war. I have seen a society on the slippery slope of self-perpetuated bad policy. It is an easy road to go down–but climbing back up–aah, that is a problem.
   * I also see a tremendous opportunity for experts in breathing control, considering the coming Carbon Tax Package.
   * I keep reading the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and certain religious books. There are answers there, there are words there that lead to the thoughts that lead to answers to many human problems.
   * What is most frustrating about America is that we are on course for the very bloody mire of constant warfare that the Constitution was designed to prevent. Anyone opposing this course toward perpetual war is immediately faced with all sorts of scurrilous charges ranging from plain cowardice to dastardly treason.

   IT’S THE ECONOMY….
   BUT NO, WAIT, IT’S A NEW, GREAT EMERGENCY!
   * As of this summer, the media was acting as if the current economic woes of the People are not as bad as they seem. In fact, they are worse than we have been told, we are now being told.
   * The Black Nation within the United States has never yet enjoyed liberty or property. Poor whites and other minorities are not in much better situations.
   * My opinion is that another generation has been sold out.

   DON’T TALK LIKE THAT!!
   * We don’t have freedom of speech any more. We now have freedom of eavesdropping. Continuing efforts are made to overhear some foolish talk. Then THE AMERICAN MEDIA–it is like saying Pravda was 40 years ago to me–recounts any remarks that someone anonymously judges to be unacceptable.
   * An Old Example: The case of Reverend Wright
   * Hey, anyone who knows about human science would not doubt that a program to create biological weapons specific to one supposed kind of human might exist. That human beings of low status have always been used for scientific research by human beings of higher status since the beginning of science is just a fact. Don’t try saying that in the U.S. No glasnost for us yet.
   * Furthermore,
   * Barack Obama is running the same kind of campaign that Kerry ran in 2004. Barack talks down to everyone except his opponent! He’ll respect McCain until they elect McCain.
   * There I go again!
   * I couldn’t believe what happened in 1968, when I couldn’t vote, or in 1972, when I could–and the same thing happened. I guess 2004 and 2008 will be remembered in the same way when I think back on them 40 years from now, when I’m 99.
   * Some time ago now, I heard Sonali Kolhatkar presenting some wise advice to Congress. The Legislative Branch is deaf to wisdom. They are dreaming of bigger successes in wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran. They have more plans than sense sometimes.
   * For me the heartbreak is that the humble dreams of so many humble people must be shattered in one generation after another.
   * This MidAsian War is becoming worse than the Vietnam War. Yet, to most Americans, it is no problem, even though they are being robbed by it.
   * Will there be any surprises as far as a terrorist attack during the remaining weeks before the Presidential election?
   * Which candidate would benefit?
   * If I were Obama, I would slam my opponents. When anything untoward occurs during the presidential campaigning season, it is traditional to blame your opponent. Obama just hangs his head and says, “Yes, Massah.” [Might as well leave it in–anyone whose bored will keep reading!]
   * McCain was surging ahead in the polls. Can the TV polls be trusted? If they can, McCain and Obama will be tied by November. Who will the Supreme Court choose to be president this time?
   * Obama talks down to everyone except McCain.
   * Everyone seems to forget the down and dirty campaigning Bill Clinton had to do to beat Bush the Elder. Clinton was the first Democrat since Kennedy who actually stood up to his opponent. Clinton gave no deference to his opponent’s age, to his experience, to his combat veteran status, to his aristocratic compared with Clinton’s humble origins. I would say that Mr. Clinton was defiant and that he was rewarded with a win.
   * Clinton also won because he made the election about the present.
   * IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID, were the words then.
   * HEY, MOST OF US ARE IN AN ECONOMIC DEPRESSION IN AMERICA.
   * THERE’S A WAR ON–FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
   * If Obama can arrange a face off of the kind that Mr. Clinton and Bush the Elder had, he might find it very satisfying.
   * I believe that The Media will try to prevent such an event.
   * When Senator Obama debated Senator McCain, McCain was the more aggressive competitor. But McCain didn’t make any gains from the debate. Considering the unpopularity of the Administration, McCain is making a good showing.
   * Will this be the year that the 26th Amendment of the USC actually decides the executive election? I think few in the 18 to 21 group will vote for McCain. The younger voters also probably will not vote for a third party.
   * Amendment 26 was the amendment of a generation on trial–so far it hasn’t meant much in the Executive selections.

   * The following is a public service announcement.
   * Bill Gates the Wealthy has courageously taken on cigarette smoking to improve our common health. If Gates included alcohol, he would be heroic. Alcohol causes more immediate, tragic deaths than smoking. Alcohol and tobacco is a very deadly combination. But the idea here is to focus attention on taxing tobacco and away from taxing billionaires–Who Are NECESSARY to THE ECONOMY.
   I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE AND REMAIN AN ARDENT ADMIRER OF B.GATES AND FREELY ACKNOWLEDGE THE MORAL SUPERIORITY OF THE WEALTHY

   * We need capitalists who will invest in solving problems. We practice bailout capitalism in America. The government needs to help the people who are without capital. It’s a radical idea. Student loans aren’t really much help. The higher educational system is set up to encourage military recruitment. Education is one of those magical formulaic words, like The Economy. The well-off deserve to be better off, because they are better educated. The worse-off can take the blame for their difficulties because of their lack of education. Of course, the lack of adequate housing and medical care puts a student at a disadvantage, too, but we can only deal with one problem at a time. If education is necessary for the pursuit of happiness–and I have no doubt that it is–then the marketing of education by forcing students to take out expensive loans to pay excessive fees seems more like a way to oppress people than to liberate them.
   * Health care for everyone? Education for everyone? That’s not how we do it in the United States. Lack of health care and lack of education are severe impediments to happiness. Further comment is superfluous.
   &
   Protesting Americans Dreaming #55.3
   Foreword
   Third and Minor Parties, Parties That Are Left Out of the Debate and Discourse during Presidential Election Years, Courtesy of Our American Free Press
   * The Green Party was the most successful third party in recent presidential elections. It still isn’t on the ballot in all of the states all of the time, but I think we may see the day, soon, when it is. The Green Party is a haven party for those who are disillusioned with the two party tyranny of the Republicans and Democrats.
   * You might remember the Dems–they talk about universal health care and education. They’ve talked those over for as long as I can remember–fifty years. We still don’t have good health care or education. We have a system with lots of fatal cracks in it for the unfortunate.
   * The Repubs talk about National Defense and big growth through regressive taxation. We don’t have those, either. Again, there are cracks in the armor. And the 100,000,000 poor people in the U.S. are aging enough to remember something about politicians–they never keep promises, except to their especially interested employers.
   * You might also remember the Green Party as the party without corporate financing and exciting demonstrations at their conventions.
   * I’ve been voting Green since the 1970s, whenever Green candidates were available, and I felt that voting Green was right. The Green Movement was (and remains) an international phenomenon associated with international peace activism and holistic environmentalism and universal individuation in the 1960s. The Green Movement was the response of a generation that stood accused of criticizing the way their elders were running things without proposing any alternatives.
   * I don’t think we’ve ever had a Green candidate that was pro-war. But Green parties come and go. It is the fate of American political parties to be subsumed into the imperial war machine in one way or another. Minor parties, once they show evidence of generating wide public interest, are quickly infiltrated and co-opted. This is quite an old story, existing in every time and place where voting and partisan struggle are thought to be important to the life of the society.
   * Democrats often blame Greens for their losses–as with the Gore-Lieberman loss in 2000. Democrats who blame Greens for their 2000 loss seem oblivious to the fact that Senator Lieberman has chosen to support the Republican candidate in 2008. Senator Lieberman’s first loyalty may be neither to the Democratic or the Republican Party, but to his own ideals, of course. This is his right, as an American.
   * This is a wonderful example of how much political and religious freedom we have in the United States. Many Catholics are more loyal to the Vatican than they are to the United States. And members of Protestant denominations frequently hold their understanding of their God’s wishes to be more important than the Constitution of the United States. Some of us old hippies still value peace more than the armed services. Some people think that the U.S. should always be at war. None of these preferences is disloyal.
   * But as far as politicians go, human history indicates that they almost invariably are primarily self-serving. The establishment of a militarist republic in North America didn’t change human nature. The forces that desired slavery to be the social order in the United States are still hard at work to re-establish that institution, even though there have been a few partially successful attempts to abolish certain forms of slavery.
   * Democrats suffer defeats from not being different enough from the Republican Party, not from losing votes to the Greens or to the other minor parties. The party that loses loses because people do not vote for it. The party that wins wins because people do not vote against it. Non-participation on a massive scale is the rule in America. The major parties have been rather successful in creating some difficulty for those seeking enfranchisement. Keeping the electorate as small as possible is a long time American tradition. I have no doubt that suffrage will eventually be reestablished in the U.S. to include only those veterans whose property holdings and wealth are great enough to make them valuable members of the community. That was the system in some of the original States, and there are many who want to return to that form of qualified democracy.
   * My understanding is that Greens are for universal suffrage. This certainly will pose a problem when they seek corporate funding. The Green Movement has not been confined to the United States and in fact Greens had more success in Europe than in the United States in the last century. Greens are committed to stopping environmental degradation. Greens are the peace party. Greens have some interesting planks in their platform, besides being the environmental and peace party. One example is favoring independence for Puerto Rico. So a Latina woman, a Puerto Rican, Rosa Clemente, is going to be vice-president of the U.S. and then make Puerto Rico independent! It’s more than most Americans, even Greens, can get their brains around. Personally, I am for installing a U.S. government that would make Puerto Ricans less anxious to be independent and more anxious to become a State of the United States. But all meaningful discussion of issues and proposals is eclipsed by the RAH-RAH of the two major parties in presidential election years. Puerto Ricans have very little to say about the fate of their country, just as we in the United States have little to say about what happens in our nation. The Puerto Rican issue involving millions is never mentioned by the candidates of the Big Two. The main topic with the Big Two seems to be where the U.S. will invade next, and how to induce more citizens and residents to volunteer to give their lives for these foreign invasions. Since invasion of Puerto Rico is not currently necessary, issues concerning its people are ignored by the Dems and Repubs. The energies of the two major parties are spent in long term planning of the many wars that are to them inevitable.
   * Greens are the peace party. The Green Party has remained anti-militarist (so far), so I am inclined to vote for them. Sometimes all I use as a criterion for selection is whether a candidate is anti-war or not. Only a few are. (Green Party presidential candidate Ms. McKinney’s credentials for anti-war are pretty good!) Other issues–such as the status of Puerto Rico and its future–are seldom mentioned by the Dems and Repubs.
   * Many hold the attitude in the United States that war is a normal and natural course of human events. My own investigations of the past have led me to believe that the United States Constitution was a weak attempt to limit the rise of imperialist armed forces. But that effort has been undermined for over 200 years; flatly stated, it failed.
   * These days being for peace is portrayed as a cowardly, childish sentiment; everyone is educated to believe that Americans have to prove their maturity by military service, and that rights must be earned through military service. Courage is a human attribute that only soldiers with weapons display–according to American literature, science, television, movies, and every other kind of political advertising. The incident above Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 09-11-01 is scheduled to be forgotten by historians nationwide. Churchill’s statement concerning “Never have so many owed so much to so few,” might be operative. But civilians aren’t allowed the attribute of courage, in the current American mythos.
   * In the 2008 election, the difference between the Big Two is that Republican Senator McCain claims that looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iran will be different from looking for them in Iraq, while Senator Obama says that an increased invasion of Afghanistan is necessary. War is a profitable business for the Big Two and their sponsors, and they aren’t about to give up those profits.
   * Greens, Libertarians, the Constitutional Party, the Boston Tea Party, Peace and Freedomers, and many Independent candidates and voters allying themselves with minor parties have other ideas. The American media does all it can to ignore the small parties and the independents. Publicity, attention of any kind, inevitably causes small parties to grow. People are desperate, but they haven’t caught on to the fact that they can at least change the personnel of the governance by voting. Americans hearing of plans better than the ones offered by the Dems and Repubs (the Big Two as I call them, the war parties, by another name) is not allowed by our allegedly free press. Pacifica has not given as much coverage of minor parties as it has to Bill Moyers’s come back.

   Prologue: Ms. Sheehan vs. a War Movement (A Debtor’s Remarks)
   * I am somewhat indebted to Ms. Sheehan, because she has made the elections a little more interesting. More young people realize that the Dems and Repubs talk, but action is rare. There are going to be some pretty rough times ahead because of the reticence of the government to act on the behalf of the People. Our cities are pools of poisoned air. We’re stuck with the Carbon Culture. One war after another is the government’s solution to ignoring a deteriorating quality of life. The United States has regressed to the very bellicosity marked by religiosity that a few of the founders of the Republic hoped we might escape.
   * In case anyone missed it, there was an allegation that Ms. Sheehan caught somebody trying to tap her phone. That wasn’t the man’s purpose for being in her hotel suite. It’s a safe bet that Ms. Sheehan’s phone has been tapped for a long, long time. The purpose of the recent intrusion was to get her Irish up. (You know, to make her angry.) I guess the plan failed. But I’m sure there would have been big stories in the media about it, if it had succeeded.
   * “Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist, was arrested for assaulting a man she claims was in her hotel suite without her permission…”
   * It’s an old and dirty trick. Discredit dissent by providing evidence that it is turning violent. Hey–she got away with it this time! Why isn’t she satisfied with life, after all the honor and all that America has given her? Pestering Cindy Sheehan isn’t likely to get you much sympathy in the U.S., or anywhere else.
   * Part of the strategy of the Old Right in times when wars become unpopular is to provide their stereotypical Angry Left with opportunities to discredit itself.
   * “The Peace Movement is turning violent.”
   * No statement is dearer to the heart of the pro-invasion right. After all, peaceful, civil disobedience is the last thing you want in those opposing you. It makes it hard to make them look bad. But if the enemy is violent, then its opposition is criminal, and force can be called on to suppress it.
   * Entrapment and agents provocateurs are the order of the day. There’ll be a lot of deception going around, as the current wars are escalated. After all, American politics is about nothing as much as it is discrediting those who oppose you. Some claim that the only real plan American politicians ever have is handing out orders for the People to obey and getting richer while they’re doing it.

   *—>>>>The Mathematics of Great Years
   * It takes a $5,000,000 per year income to be rich, according to Senator McCain. Whatever is said about him (and in a presidential election campaign in the USA, just about anything goes) I think McCain’s close to right in that. It’s about $13,698.63 a day. A lot of money, no doubt, but not by any means more than most Americans can imagine spending every 24 hours or so, especially if lobbying.
   * This comes out to Senator McCain being 1.28 times rich, counting his income as $400,000, and his wife’s as $5,000,000. He’s not quite one-tenth rich on his own (actually, Sen. McCain is .08 rich, by my calculations). If a senator’s $400,000 per year is more than most people will ever see when they’re awake, it’s not beyond imagining–that amount is in the range of setting as a goal for one’s pay requirements, if considering job offers, or what one will make at a micro business.
   * When they asked the Senator how many houses he had–and rich people have not just houses but mansions, don’t they?–I wondered why no one asked him about how many homeless people there are in the United States. They aren’t asking Obama that, either. That’s because referring to the homeless within earshot of the Executive mansion, or any possible inhabitants of that great estate is worse than illegal: it’s dumb. There are millions of homeless in the United States. They are seldom mentioned by politicians. After all, homeless people can hardly provide the contributions necessary to attain the services of politicians.
   * McCain’s mansions issue: Dems 0 to Repubs -7 to -13, on the first “outing” I saw in the election season. (Sometimes 0 wins, in politics, where negative scores are possible.)
   * When it’s all said and done, the election won’t be about real estate. There’s a lot of it in most hundred million dollar portfolios, I’d say.

   *Sadistic Prison Camp Guards and the Race Guard–er, Card, That Is [I leave this is as a curiosit.]
   * McCain said the “g-word.” Gook, that is. I’m throwing this from my hat toward the ring of truth. Like the word “screw,” meant as a pejorative reference, a label for a prison guard, I think that the word “gook” existed in American slang as a pejorative term for a prison guard, long before it was said in Vietnam. The word itself was a combination of “guard” and “spook” (slang for ghost). I know that Gook is also a familial name in Asia. This term was obsolete in American slang as of about 1930–that the word was drafted to become a racial slur is one way of looking at it. But I haven’t the resources for such researches at the moment, or the desire to open up a front in that theater. McCain reportedly said that he used the word to refer specifically to sadistic prison guards and that no racial slur was intended. I believe that. [Man, I’m a fool to leave this in, but it was mentioned on The Net, and it certainly seems like an interesting question for students of slang.] The L.A. City Council adopted an order quasi-criminalizing the use of the N-Word. Obviously, unconstitutional, but perhaps a forerunner of some more valuable statement about the use of inflammatory words. “Gang member” is a term used frequently to stigmatize. That’s what hatewords do, I believe, isn’t it? That, and pave the way to pogroms and other enormities.
   * I find it interesting that racial slurs are considered more damnable than torture. Don’t ever think that McCain got off lightly in the Vietnam Camps. We bombed the devil out of Nam; Americans supported bombing. Of course, some knew it was wrong, but they naively hoped it would reduce American casualties. There were hundreds of American dead coming home from Vietnam while McCain was bombing. Of course, the Vietnamese had the same attitude about that bombing as Americans have about the Nine-Eleven Occurrence. Guards in POW camps were probably brutal and racist. (It is mankind’s way to become brutal and racist, when they have been involved in warfare.) McCain’s been Inside in a bad way; my idle hope is that if he attains his ambition to add the Executive Mansion to his modest list of residences that he will remember the prisoners that won’t get much of a homecoming after incarceration for non-violent offenses here in America. As long as nicotine and ethanol are legal–and they should be, especially the latter–I can’t see how you can justify incarcerating small-profit or non-profit marijuana offenders. If someone has sold marijuana (and most small sales are the result of entrapment), should they be stigmatized as much as those guilty of a serious, albeit pseudononviolent offense like burglary? The convict very frequently lacks something that some Americans take for granted–a job! Involuntary unemployment is a condition that predisposes individuals to criminal deviance. This behavior could be argued to be part of a stress induced syndrome. Yet we lack sympathy for offenders, especially those of us who have never endured involuntary unemployment.
   * Let’s take it back to Lincoln. (I don’t really much admire Abe as a person, but he made fine speeches!) Which candidate will have “…mercy for all…malice [for] none…”? Abe wasn’t talking about non-violent offenders. He was discussing alleged traitors. Treason is a very serious felony, especially when armed rebellion results. Where is the sentiment of mercy in these days? The stigmatization of “gang members” could amount to a pogrom. The only reason for putting people in jail where marijuana is concerned is when they avoid paying taxes on the money they make from a good crop. It’s a (presidential) race issue.
   * At any rate, it won’t be McCain’s racism that is on trial as part of the coming election–it will be the electorates. You can’t say you want to go in a different direction, and then not give someone a chance to take you that way, because he’s “one of them.” This election is not a chance comparable to the one to ban slavery at the Constitutional Convention. It is merely a possible chance to shorten the immediate warfare in MidAsia. My guess–humanity always gets it wrong.
   * If either candidate was talking about penal reform or prison reform in the United States, this would be an extraordinary election. But when politicians talk about prisons in the United States, they are always talking about building more of them. Like war, prison doesn’t affect enough of the population to make any difference to people, right? If every person in jail for a non-violent offense affects ten family members and friends, it still only amounts to less than five percent of the population. (Fifteen million out of three hundred million.)

   *Dems Once 4 VP, Repubs Almost Once 4 VP
   * As of Thursday, 08-28-08, it looked through the dark glass of the American mass media as if Independent Senator Joe Lieberman might get the McCain running mate call. Seen from abroad and from at home, it looks more and more like a case of one party with two distinct names. Lieberman is part of the Threatening Iranis Movement of American Politics. But if there ever were such a thing as a paper tiger, I think it must be Iran.
   * Then again, it looked for a while as if Joe Biden might be getting the Republican nod, too.
   * The other Joe (Lieberman) is at a nexus of history. A Democratic vice-presidential candidate speeching at the Republican National Convention eight years after losing an election! The two party system is looking more and more like a one party system all the time.
   * I don’t like it. They used to teach us that a one-party system was a great evil, when I was a boy. But I have always respected anyone who transcends artificial boundaries that separate people and that is what Sen.J.Lieberman is doing. This Senator appears to be the most powerful, active political figure in America, at the moment. I don’t understand his Iraniphobia, though. I guess there must be some good in it. Lieberman’s great loyalty to Israel is an American right. Anyone who criticizes Israel or Senator Lieberman risks being labeled an anti-Semite. (And surely, they must suffer all human eventualities!)
   * If Lieberman would accept, I think that the Green Party might take him as an Executive contender in 2012. He would become the first American to have been on the ticket of a major party and then gone Green. It’s never too late to go Green, you know. It’s always better to get Green than never going Green at all. Of course, the Green Party has been the peace party for decades. I don’t think Lieberman could stop being pro-war. After all, doesn’t the god that so many worship (Christians, Muslims, and Jews) demand warfare, from time to time, so that the deity can show us who is preferred by the Omnipotent Love that inspires these great wars?
   * Then all at once it looked like Paris Hilton picked up the nod from John McCain. Oh, no; it’s just a governor. A governor’s always a good companion for an admiral’s son.
   * Well, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska got the Republican nod. Looks like the Repubs want someone who’s had lots of dealings with those dangerous Russians on her border and those ostensibly friendly, but sneaky Canadians. Don’t forget, those Canadians took in some Americans who were avoiding war, and they also allowed escaped slaves into their country. Considering The Economy and global warming, I’d say invasion of Canada is not far off. They need liberation up there and they suffer from under population.
   * (Tharin Gartrell was reportedly angry he didn’t get the nod. He might have strengthened the Republican ticket more than Governor Palin. He had strong views on gun rights, and he wasn’t afraid.)
   * The Russian Threat Movement was really strong in American politics in those happy, glorious Reagan days. I guess, if a governor’s state is on a border with Russia, she’s going to be cognizant of the constant threat of invasion from the East. And her mastery of dealing with those sneaky Canadians will certainly be a plus.

   * Automobile Accidents 13x[several million], America 0
   * It’s a sad story. Obama, minus one parent. Joe Biden is in the same camp. McCain’s first wife was hurt, too. When are elections going to be about automobile safety? We could make cars that are almost 100% safe. I think we ought to push for 100% safety.
   * “It goes to show, you shouldn’t think!”
   * The Gulf states are set for another season of stormy weather. What happened in New Orleans in 2005 is not all that different from what happened in Los Angeles, in the 1990s, after the 1992 Unrest and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Many people in Los Angeles could have used some of that federal help that’s Wall Street receives every time it calls for it. That federal help was late for some, too late for others, and for some it didn’t come at all. But, America is the land of opportunity, after all. The increased flooding brought by global warming will bring great opportunities to those whom god favors and plans to enrich. And, as we all know, poor people are poor because they are morally inferior.

   *The Mathematics of Great Years -b (The Media vs. Obama)
   * It has frequently been pointed out that this is an “unusual” presidential election.
   * I disagree.
   * The only unusual factor is that an AfroAmerican, the son of a Kenyan father, is a candidate. That’s not very unusual to me. It isn’t unusual to me when Greeks or Jews or Catholics or Americans of any ethnicity or religion seek public office. Politics is one of the most lucrative businesses to be in in the U.S. And money is the greatest good, we all agree.
   * This presidential election will test the racism and the xenophobia of America. We might as well make it about sexism, too. The drive seems to be to alienate as much of the potential electorate as possible. Then, for several years, the free press will remind Americans that they “…can’t complain, because they didn’t vote.”
   * The big question is, is the desire to keep the presidency “white” greater than the desire for the empty promise of change in American foreign policy? Such a change is hinted at by Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden. (I don’t believe that they will produce such a change, but there is no law against breaking a promise. In fact, it often seems that politicians expect that of each other.) I’d bet that most Americans don’t believe that Democrats will change anything much compared to Republicans. It seems that the election will be about race more than anything else, then.
   * It looked to me like the media was persistently pointing out Obama’s “lack of experience.”
   * “You said he […Obama…] was inexperienced!”
   * “But that was six years ago!”
   * “You said it!”
   * Clearly, someone wants us to believe that Obama is “inexperienced,” and, what’s more, that experience is important. I guess that makes George Washington the least “experienced” president. After all, the presidency didn’t even exist, before his two terms! But, it’s an old joke.
   * It’s not about experience for me. It’s a case of looking forward, or looking backward. The U.S. needs a president who can lead the country into the future. In such cases, a younger man may have the advantage. It’s pretty clear that the press is going to be after Obama. If they could, they would exclude him. But Obama has the money for many ads. Bill Moyers’s Journalists Anonymous movement may have a big effect on American politics, someday, but not this time.

   *Wars by Many Names
   * There have been four or five Pacifications, as I call them, during my lifetime. The first, the Pacification of Korea, I barely remember. But I recall the Pacifications of Vietnam, the covert and continuing Pacifications in Central America, and P.Iraq.1, and the current efforts in Iraq and elsewhere.
   * What I am getting at is–where is it getting us?
   * My uninformed hunch is that many of the people of the world now regard the United States and its people with more fear and more hostility than they ever have before. Now, as I’ve gone through this life, as much as I detest competition off of the playing field (or away from the gaming table), I have found that it is unavoidable. People buy into the values underpinning the behavioral modality we call competition. They invariably think that something can be won and that they are the ones who are able to win it. They use the case, even when the paradigm don’t fit!
   * Okay, that’s all right! In the political world and the world of business, that is.
   * But you don’t cut someone off in traffic.
   * War is like cutting people off in traffic, and then blowing them up. Ideally, you have a good reason for doing that. Such as, your enemy has crossed borders into other countries, with the support of sovereign states run by totalitarian, ruthless criminals, and indefinitely quartered troops within the invaded nations.
   * [The foregoing was intended as a reference to the fascists of WWII, but one can see that the words might fit other cases, too.]
   * Somebody asked me on the bus if I’d like to see Osama captured and I said, yes.
   * “Go capture him yourself,” a young man told me.
   * “There’s lots of ways to capture him. You don’t have to invade other countries to do it.”
   * Still, I wish I had some points left like that kid had. Mine are all dull with age. Hey, the kid knew how to load a question. Journalism in the U.S. these days doesn’t amount to much other than tossing out loaded questions and looking smug.

   * A Simple Way Out
   * I must say that I feel that we are waging war on the Iraqi people, at this point. I don’t think it’s appropriate to quarter troops there for any length of time, considering the extent of our naval and air forces these days–and the necessity of maintaining them in the highest possible state of readiness must be well funded.
   * There. I’ve given a way out that might be acceptable to even the most hidebound conservative!
   * Humanity has to move beyond the domain of warfare. America has to lead the way. This operation must be successful and it never has been done before. It is like going to the Moon. By 2020, we in America have to see straight and take the second-world nations to the next level–pollution free, renewable economies. Products that don’t wear out or use up resources. Solar and wind power writ large. An end to the carbon age.
   * (You know, petroleum is worth many tens of thousands of dollars an ounce, when prepared as a palatable, non-prescription remedy for humans and their pets. That oil’s never going to be worthless again!)
   * Who’s going to lead us from here to there? Obama! Obama!
   * There, I’ve given a Dem slogan that can’t miss.
   * The way of the future versus the way of the past.
   * Another Dem rallying cry, but little more.
   * I will vote Green. I want to vote for a party that has different, better ideas than the Big Two.

   * What’s this?
   * Why Sonali K. went off and got her foot onto the Congressional floor!
   * Oh boy, I hope she remembers the precepts of Moyers’s Journalists’ Oath–“…First, promote yourself!…”
   * Okay, she got by it!
   * Now what’s this she’s saying? That the people in a country the U.S. is going to occupy should have something to say about it!!
   * It’s dangerous talk.
   * But Sonali has her youth on her side!
   * Ralph Nader would never get away with what she said!
   * But this communication of mine is about something else.
   * It’s about the cops.
   * I never had a lot of interest in the cops, myself, until 40 years ago, when I married a policeman’s daughter.
   * I noticed something back then, and it’s stuck with me.
   * I guess it’s obvious. The police often think of themselves as separate from the civilian population.
   * There’s a point to this. There have been a number of killings resulting from police actions recently in Los Angeles.
   * It’s a real problem for those who get killed.
   * The policeman has a right to use deadly force.
   * Should that right be weakened?
   * Then the policeman faces a dilemma.
   * If I shoot, I might hurt my career–I might even lose my career!
   * If I don’t shoot…Well, I might lose my life!
   * I’ve never kept firearms around, myself. They’re useless in a city!
   * But the police may hear from someone that I’m armed, and they might assume that to be true.
   * How can the police be policed?
   * They can’t police themselves, although they make an honest effort at it.
   * And an outside agency that enters into oversight of police departments MAY seem a solution–but is it?
   * Who polices the police that police the police? This is an example of the clear deficiencies of hierarchical organizations.
   * I suggest that police personnel need to be indoctrinated to believe that CIVILIANS are part of the same community as the POLICE.
   * But when killings occur by accident, or when there is the appearance of misconduct–well, whoever pulled the trigger has got to be scrutinized.
   * The Lawyers Guild has brought Justice American Style in the wake of the 2007 MacArthur Park riot. (Didn’t Pacifica give the lawyers some sort of award for their sacrifice?) Some policemen had to be disciplined for not using enough force, as I understand it. But all in all the attorneys–who work closely in support of the police at all times–have gotten things pretty well straightened out. Don’t say anything bad about warfare and you won’t be beaten up was the conclusion of the matter, I believe. I think that’s an ancient tenet of the law. Occasionally some person who can afford to hire a lawyer may be disciplined by the police by mistake–but it doesn’t happen very often. The Disturbance at MacArthur Park was not spontaneous. It was planned to stifle dissent concerning the war. But wasn’t the demonstration about immigrant’s human rights? Yes. But some participants attempted to criticize the war, as well. That was when the trouble started. It was not spontaneous–it was planned.
   * There is no closure to the affairs of humanity. A poet can tie up a little closure for you with a few words–it’s a very important part of the job! But true to life poetic statements must admit that life hasn’t got the neat closure people want, in any time, at any place. We close things out in life the way we can. Players leave the stage, other new ones come on to fill the space…A child’s favorite toy inevitably loses its power to charm. The most important war ever eventually ceases to generate enough profit to be continued. New opportunities present themselves, other, newer conflicts replace the current war the way new appliances replace old ones. It’s all a natural part of life. The purpose of humanity on Earth is to destroy life on Earth, it seems to me.
   * We are asleep. Flight, fright, and fight are the operative emotions. Ridiculous coincidences that defy explanation occur in dreams. Buildings that we hear have fallen from Britain, before they fall in New York. Oswald shoots Kennedy, Ruby shoots Oswald. Such things happen frequently only in dreams. Noticing these anomalies, more people realize they are not awake; lucid dreaming becomes possible throughout a population–if the population is aware of the attributes and possibilities of lucid dreaming.
   * Lucid dreaming is a form of self-control, however, and self-control is something that mass-production\mass-consumption societies always denigrate. Most of us are in debt. Debt is a form of slavery.
   * There are lots bigger debts than money, though. There are debts to our antecedents, and promissory notes to the future. To my predecessors I am beholden for much. And not just to my “white” ancestors, either. All negatively prejudicial descriptors such as white may be on the verge of extinction. We may be on the frontier of a time when group descriptors always hold positive connotations. To young Americans, I can only offer this advice: Get all you can. In the end you will be judged by how wealthy you are, and not much else will matter.
   * Dream up your own script. No hope is too absurd to come true. We have the power to dream up a better world. There are many possibilities in dreams, besides fright, fight and flight. In fact, every human potentiality is available to every dreamer. That doesn’t mean you can get what you want all the time, of course. No one can keep it in mind that they are asleep for very long.
   * Now, before I go, I’d like to reprise a famous, famous scene from “King’s Row,” for all of my generation:
   * “Hey, where did the rest of my life go?!?!?!”
   * I’ll repeat it.
   * Dream up your own script. No hope is too absurd to come true. We have the power to dream up a better world. There are many possibilities in dreams, besides fright, fight and flight. In fact, every human potentiality is available to every dreamer. That doesn’t mean you can get what you want all the time, of course. No one can keep it in mind that they are asleep for very long.
   YOURS IN THE HOPE FOR THE COMING WORLD THAT WILL BE WARMER, WETTER, AND BETTER
   MAY YOU FIND PEACE THERE
   @
   BULLETIN–DEBATES AND ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED DUE TO THE EMERGING EMERGENCY
   GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK
   !!!! AND NEVER FORGET: THE INFINITE HADRON COMPANY NOW HAS A SUPPLY OF QUANTUM MECHANICAL DEVICES AND PROCEDURES TO HELP AND CURE ALL OF YOUR SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL DISORDERS AND DISCOMFORTS !!!!
   (Certain restrictions and certain limitations apply. Certain offers applicable to certain qualified buyers only at certain places. Certain time limits apply. IHC offers any and all products and\or procedures solely for peaceful purposes. All liability for other, undesignated uses is assumed by users only. Certain screening procedures are required in certain places for certain buyers.)
   !!!! AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: THE INFINITE HADRON COMPANY NOW HAS AN UP-TO-DATE SUPPLY OF QUANTUM MECHANICAL DEVICES AND PROCEDURES TO HELP AND CURE ALL OF YOUR REAL OR IMAGINED SPIRITUAL, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, INTERPERSONAL, SEXUAL, PROFESSIONAL, ECONOMICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, FAMILIAL, PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL, METAPHYSICAL AND PHYSICAL DISORDERS, DISTRESSES, DYSFUNCTIONS, AND DISCOMFORTS !!!!
   Infinite Hadron Company — SERVING HUMANITY SINCE 2008
   BULLETIN: DEBATES AND ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN REINSTATED FOR THE DURATION OF THE RUMOR OF THE EMERGENCY
   Hint to the Crisis Solution Puzzle: Unconstitutional legislation never solved anything.

   Poet’s Solution to the Closure Problem
   Ms.Sheehan meets Mr.Bush and Mr.Obama 01/21/09
   Time: Forenoon
   Place: Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America