Affirmative Action & Diversity Goals Solution: How About Cap And Trade?

How can we reconcile affirmative action and diversity goals in our society without sacrificing meritocracy and efficiency? Actually we can have both ways with a cap and trade system. Pollution problems have been addressed by polluters buying credits from non-polluters.For example, a Google spokesman was on the PBS News Hour last night. He was owning up to Google's past which didn't include enough diversity in the ranks. There were not enough women and minorities. The firm was made up mostly of white males. He cited a recent MIT study which showed that a more diverse employment results in higher profits. One wonders if Google is making the right choice in changing directions going forward. After all they are one of the most successful companies of all time by pursuing their narrow merit based hiring . Why change now? Maybe they have succumbed to the PC harpies.Whatever.Suppose Google had an alternative to its lack of diversity without actually being more diverse?We all know Congress is filled with all the diversity that no one really wanted or needed. But that's the nature of mature democracies. Odd balls rise up as more and more of them reach voting age. What if Google could send a check to Congress in lieu of hiring some one they really didn't want? That would be a win -win. Because we know that Congress wants a check more than it wants diversity.

Need United States Default To Bring Higher Interest Rates And Slow Government Spending

Force interest rates higher. Bring on the default in government debt. Shut down government. The people who will be most hurt are the parasites who should be . Starve the military-industrial-complex. All forms of entitlements should be cut in half on their way to zero.Political correctness is an expensive perq for people who aren't worth the subsidy.Close Washington and bring government to the states.

Look At Edward Snowden's Enemies, They Are The Real Problem

"You are known by the company you keep" and by implication the enemies you make.So if we add up the C.I.A., most of congress, Obama and his "security" team, Vlad Putin, most of the democratic countries of the world who refuse Snowden asylum, main stream media etc on one side of the ledger. And put Snowden on the other side. The burning question is "Who do you trust?"

If nothing else, Snowden's release of the facts that our government spies on us illegally and immorally has shown how the above list of central governments and their operatives all need each other to maintain control over their respective populations. Who would of thought that when push came to shove Putin of Russia would close the door on Snowden's request for asylum and give the reason "..to protect America"? But he needs the U.S.A. as a ostensible enemy so he can usurp powers. Snowden did us all a service by revealing yet again why big central governments should be opposed no matter what flag they fly.

Mitt Romney: A Little Boy

Mitt Romney is out on the stump. He's trying to get elected president. His trite philosophy reminds me when I was eight years old and what I believed . Put aside his shop keepers affected urgency in selling his ideas, it's his beliefs that remind me of Peggy Lee's lyric " Is that all there is?"  When I was eight ,I too believed that if we bombed people enough we would somehow make the world a better place. I too believed that all Americans are equal. I too belived that enough money in the hands of consumers would insure the perpetual existence of our democracy. I also believed that Israel should exist and America owed a great debt to the friendly, honest and well meaning Zionists. I too belived that trees were meant for harvesting. And also that fish and animals are all here for our enjoyment or slaughter. I belived in god but gave up on the tooth fairy.

The question is , is the boy Mitt Romney a better choice than the affirmative action darky Barack Obama? For me, it's just another false choice .

Reasons For Killings: The Dark Knight Rises

Why is James Holmes still alive? According to Holmes' way of doing things, he should have been executed at curbside by the police immediately. That's the edge of criminals. They move faster. Why did Holmes committ that terrible crime? Certainly misanthropy is the prime suspect. It wasn't a comment on the movie. Because he hadn't seen it . And if it were the violent movie and others similar that Hollywood pumps into immature minds , he could have claimed quasi hero status by unloading at the Academy Awards. Who would grieve over those actors, directors, producers and their agents? Many people would have followed his logic.

Likewise Osama Bin Laden would have done better to take out only the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. There are many who would have applauded.

Insult Bush & Clinton: Legal Options

A bill is winding its way through congress that would severely cut support for past presidents. It would cap all assistance to former presidents at $ 400,000 per year. That includes their pension which is $ 200,000 per year. It turns out that past presidents earn considerable amounts of money in speaking fees and book writing. For example George W. Bush earned $ 15, 000, 000 last year giving speeches. That's right. The little moron who couldn't find Iraq on a map but none the less invaded it based on his "preemptive war" policy because he thought there weapons of mass destruction. And the miserable fallout from that escapade lingers today.And then there's impeached Bill Clinton. He's the asshole who repaeled Glass-Steagall while getting a blow job and has been favorably revising his presidency ever since. He earned $ 10,000,000 last year giving speeches. He talks about subjects that he has never had an original thought. Both these guys got more than $ 1,000,000 each from the government for expenses that include rent, phone bill, stamps, travel ad nauseum. They could afford their own expenses. We can't afford those expenses.

 What's to be done?  Well hopefully the bill passes Congress. But what else chould be done to to these unindicted criminals? Sadly we can't assassinate them now. But if we see them in public and they are close enough to hear our voice. I suggest insulting them. It's not much . But it helps the soul. Some insults would include asking Bush. " Hey George. Can you find Iraq on the map now?" Regarding Clinton, " Hey Bill, when are you going to shut up and stop lying?"

Life is Irony: The Turns of Only One Life Experience

Life is irony. That's because there 's only one life experience and we all take turns. And so a segue to compare law makers in congress to criminals at large points out areas of irony.

Example # 1 Redistricting.
     Congress routinely moves the parameters of congressional seats to fix the outcomes of election races.
     If  sporting events were fixed, it would be a crime.

Example # 2.Murder
     Preemptive war by congress is legal . If there is collateral damage of civilian deaths and loss of non military infrastructure of the targeted country, that's OK.
     If someone in the U.S. killed some stranger because he felt threatened, he would be tried for murder.

Example # 3 Taxes
     Congress has the power to tax.
     If one person asked for money from his neighbor with the threat of confiscation, it would be stealing.

Example # 4
    Racial discrimination is a violation of the Civil Rights Act 1964.
    Forced desegregation of schools has resulted in math and english proficiency to plummet.
    
    

Imperial Presidency Needs Imperial Congress

Obama is arrogant. Bush #2 was arrogant.Clinton was arrogant.Bush #1 was arrogant. Reagan was arrogant. Carter was arrogant. Etc. Etc. Etc. So what? All those preidents couldn't express their arrogance without the help of an arrogant congress. If one wants to stop arrogance then one has to go after the whole infrastructure of arrogance. That includes both the executive and the legislative branches. Don't forget the judicial branch. It swings back and forth with its own activism. Actually, in proportional comparative terms,it carries more arrogance per pound than the other two put together.

So what's to be done? Then it came to me in a dream . I dreamed I pushed one of my represenatives in congress into traffic. I woke up refreshed and empowered.