jewsyonkersislam # 711r US Legal System, Islam, morals and morale
We have many problems with and because of the US Legal System and its incessant selfishness as mandated by its unwise and foolish insistence on individual and shameless civil rights excess. Our problems with Islam are in some ways connected. And the on-going decline of the USA is also connected, both to our current gross immorality -thanks to US courts- and our spreading loss of morale.
Below is a story about the Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province, as I have edited it, and our genetic connection with the Uighurs, Hans... But first are some current news stories that tend to support my contentions both here and in my blog : jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com.
What is "democracy" and how should it work today ? That's a good question. But regardless of the answers -and I really hate to say it- many changes in the ways we live and do business are unavoidable.
7-10-09 :
The first few articles are illustrative of part of the Muslim world and a confirmation of what I note in the edited article below.
New York Times(NYT), p.A6 "Turkey (a Muslim country issues) visa for head of China's Uighurs (a muslim people)".
NYT, p.A4 China's (Han) president vows to crush Uighur protestors in Xinjiang.
NYT, p.A1 Qaeda branch (Muslim) steps up attacks in North Africa.
NYT, p.A8, 7-8-09 US Army Captain : "We can not read (the Afghans, the Taleban, the Pashtuns...) ; we're different". In some senses most certainly - but in Celtic descent, maybe not.
NYT, p.A1 Defiant Kurds (Muslim, Celtic...) claim oil,gas and territory. Saladin was a Kurd.
NYT, p.A6 China has another major quake next door to the one last year that killed 90,000 people. As both are next to China's huge new dam, could the dam be the proximate cause....or oil drilling, removing the oil and gas from the ground...
NYT, p.A16 Most Americans dont necessarily accept evolution or global warming as fact. A major job of public education (politics) is necessary.
NYT, P.A15 Pope and Pres. Obama ; "concensus", not necessarily agreement, is the way forward.
NYT, p.B1 Oil weakens as recovery hopes dim
NYT, p.A15 US inflation is getting ever worse due to health care costs. This is a non-productive industry and it is bloated and inefficient. Even if we live longer, who is going to pay for our health and retirement costs the way things are - the USA is near-bankrupt as it is. Necessity will make radical change unavoidable. And the American people must also change. The current bills in Washington are insufficient to prevent the near-term bankruptcy of the USA.
NYT, p.A15 Homeless "families" increasing in the USA. Forgive me for my scepticism but I would seriously doubt that any of these "families" had a father living with them. Most of my life I've dealt with the "poverty industry" and it disgusts me - the only always growing industry in the USA. So its no wonder I hate the case-workers, parole officers, psychologists, psychiatrists... But mostly I hate the legal system for its excess civil rights nonsense and selfishness which has continued to worsen everything. Indeed it is the legal system that makes all the above nonsense -and more- necessary.
NYT, p.A25 "Stimulus Trap" The stimulus should have been bigger ? Who pays ? Who loans/invests in the USA ? The politics of another stimulus just do not seem possible. And there will be national and worldwide paralysis - leading to major world wars. The USA cannot afford another stimulus if people wont lend us the money - and they wont because they fear a falling dollar and inflation. So all the USA can do is to print more money, resulting in a falling dollar and inflation. California is already "printing money" by issuing IOUs. What Mr. Obama needs to do is to REALLY level with the American people.
Journal News(JN), p.9A 2 more men shot ; 6 for the week in Yonkers. Local results of ever-worse economy ? Drug deals, crime in "low-income" (black and Hispanic) areas ?
Epoch Times,6-25-09, p.A3 "Rise in substance abuse comes with economic downturn" And such occurs in all races and economic classes.
CNN, 7-10-09 : FDA reports that 15 million Americans abuse prescription drugs"
7-11/12-09 :
NYT Mag, p.A19 Why do married women care so much about the reaction of a political wife who has been cheated on ? Talking/gossip is women's way of setting cultural norms -and it is women who set these GENERAL norms. This is the way boundaries are set/established. Women ask "Which is worse" : cheating with a prostitute, with a man in a public bathroom (the ol' "down low", so often learned in prison) or with a "soul mate" - of course this last kind of cheating indicates the man is far less mature in some ways, but, after all, a man is limited when compared to any woman. Powerful women are emasculating because women are already all-powerful, only they dont and cant realise it. Betrayal and forgiveness -like marraige itself- is confounding and contradictory (paradoxical). But so also are women confused and confusing because they are cyclical, regularly (monthly) revolving through the eternal present but unable to name it or its incidents. That is what limited men are for, for limitation is the essence of leadership. Of course, today men are ever-lazier, irresponsible, effeminate and emasculated because of our egregiously wrong legal system with its excess selfishness as enforced by excessive civil rights laws. Marraige is a commitment not only to one man but also to children and a home and neighbors and routines and expectations and assumptions and dreams. Norms and penalties are meant to deter husbands from acting in a way that puts all this at risk. And that is why polygamy, a properly regulated polygamy, is essential today.
NYT, PA19 The human equation. Joblessness is disastrous. But what kind of jobs do we need today - certainly not more non-productive female-type jobs. In addition, who pays ? In fact, we as a country and as a world suffer from the immorality of inadequate common goals.
NYT, p.A11 "Civil Rights Leader (the pastor of a "conservative" church)" is under fire for backing same-sex marraige. The poor man is totally deluded by feminist civil rights nonsense as thrust down our throats by a bloated and incompetent legal system.
JN, p.4A " 2 armed men rape woman" walking alone from a McDonald's at 1AM in southwest Yonkers. Did no one ever tell her not to do such ?
JN, p.B1 "Calvin's theology" " 'God's grace' can not be earned by human beings with their pathetic egos". Now we have to define 'God', 'grace' and 'pathetic egos". To me the best approximation for 'God' is 'the eternal present' - anything more tends to be little more than human hubris. 'Grace' could be like emanations from the 'eternal present'. And a 'pathetic ego' is similar to what I call 'limited human consciousness'. "How do we come to any shade of understanding of God" ? Well, women cant because they are cyclical, passing through the eternal present (eteranal change) every month but being unable to consciously name anything for certain - they are confused and confusing, they are not limited. Men, by contrast, are limited and can name - because all 'naming' is necessarily limited and limiting. All men and women are "sinners" (being alive means being a "sinner"), but men and women sin in a generally different overall way. Men are necessarily more concerned about external honor (boundaries) while women are more concerned about internal wholeness.
JN, p.7A "cop admits to sex with teens (14 and 16)". Having been a criminal defense lawyer in the Bronx and Westchester for 20 years, I say that if these teens had sex before, the cop should go free, under age laws or not. Moreover, I think that he should go free anyhow. What blame there is should be put on our morally deficient legal system with its excess "civil rights" nonsense.
7-12-09 :
JN, p.1C many companies are doing away with their 401K retirement plans
JN, p.9C Many Americans save too little for their retirement - and who will pay when they retire with pennies ? Education about "saving and investing in stocks and bonds" is called for by the financial industry. But who can believe it ? For they have no clue.
NYT, p.A1 Pres. Obama's economic recovery / stimulus act isn't meant to become fully effective for 2 years. However unemployment and underemployment is now about 26% and rising. The Presidents plan to "rebuild the economy on sounder footing" is a nice dream, but it is impossible to bring about when the ground is shifting under our feet daily.
NYT, p.15 The Washington Post planned to sell access to reporters -at dinners at the Publisher's home- for $25,000.00 a dinner, thus making the media also for sale. Disgusting, unethical... but lay the blame for such selfish excess on the US Legal System with its mandatory civil / individual rights excess.
NYT, WK, p.1 "Art of Comeback" Democrats (feminist civil-rights excess) vs. Republicans (brain-dead morons). "Changing conditions" must be accomodated and come to terms with. And "new leaders who embody new ideas and re-package the old" are necessary. True "conservatism" is all about conserving what works and ditching the rest.
JN, p.1A "Lovett" : in some ways he is brilliant, in others a total clown and buffoon. BUT he is really a symptom / an example of the most non-productive industry we have in the USA today, the legal profession. In large part, we lawyers are leeches and blood suckers contributing not a thing to the USA, only further destroying it.
NYT, Sun. Bus., p.5 "Good intentions" and bad results : Pres. Obama's programs. Why blame "Big Oil" ? Not because it isn't successful. Rather because it is causing more problems than its worth today.
NYT, WK, p. ? "Catholicism" Capitalism, ethics, morality, morale... Of all the "ethical underpinnings" of ALL religions, philosophies..., West, East... survival underlies them all. For without survival, nothing human matters for there WILL BE NO human beings to make anything matter. It is also true that the "burdens of aging, illness or unemployment 'need to be borne collectively' ". Yet such is ever less possible because of the US Legal Systems excessive selfishness as mandated and enforced by civil / individual rights laws / excess.
NYT, Sun. Bus., p.7 Darwin is the real father of economy, not Adam Smith. Evolution / survival of the fittest (who produces the next generation - both to pass on their genes AND to support them in their old age) has both a logical (male) and an illogical (female) componant, each equally necessary. Economy, heretofor, has been only about what is logical so it has failed miserably. Competition is all about individual survival. But before there can be competition, there must be group survival. Individual and group (collective) interests never necessarily coincide ; and such is fine - until it isn't, as today.
7-5-09 :
NYT Mag., p.19 "Remixed Messages" : a "blunt slogan and a simple message" ; "persuasion, protest, propaganda or making a point...". All involve "nostalgia (for) an outlook...reassurance...(and are) creative fodder". And use and re-use "underscores its importance as a reference point", largely because such become associated with the nostalgia we each feel for our childhood with our parents... and the connection to those remnants of our time before birth -in the 'eternal present'- and its wholeness.
NYT, p.13 Parents in prison make for children with low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, physically aggressive behavior, social isolation, problems in school... and lifelong problems. One in 14 white children and more than half of all black children have a parent in prison. When a child (a boy) has to "learn on the streets (especially in the gettoes) how to carry (him)self, what it means to be a man" everybody has big problems.
Muslim women lead protests in restive west China
URUMQI, China – The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in China's far western region of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least 184 people this week.
The 26-year-old businesswoman eventually led the crowd of mostly men in a fist-pumping street march that was quickly blocked by riot police, some with automatic rifles pointed at the protesters.
The incident was one of many examples of how Muslim women have been taking bold leadership roles(it is the same in Iran) following the deadliest communal violence in decades in the Xinjiang region. As the communist government launches a sweeping security crackdown, the women have faced down troops, led protests and risked arrest by speaking out against police tactics they believe are excessive (just like the US Legal system's excessive selfishness as mandated and enforced by civil rights excess and nonsense).
Chinese leaders have alleged that a woman masterminded the rioting in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. They blame activist Rebiya Kadeer, a 62-year-old businesswoman who was once the government's favorite Uighur (the Uighurs are Turkish-Celtic-Mongol-Manchurian... peoples who live in an arc from Turkey and the Middle East through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Manchuria...) success story. But she began criticizing communist rule, served time in prison and eventually went into exile in the U.S. She has repeatedly denied instigating the violence.
Women have been on the front line in Urumqi partly (but only partly) because more than 1,400 men in the Muslim Uighur minority have been rounded up by police since ethnic rioting broke out July 5.
China's official Xinhua News Agency said late Friday that the death toll has risen to 184, with 137 of the victims belonging to the dominant Han ethnic group. The Han victims included 111 men and 26 women, the report said. The rest of the deaths were 45 men and one woman who were Muslim(!!!!) Uighurs, along with one man of the Hui ethnic group, Xinhua said, citing the information office of the regional government.
The violence came as the Uighurs were protesting the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers in a brawl in southern China. The crowd then scattered throughout Urumqi, attacking Han Chinese, burning cars and smashing windows.
Many Uighurs who are still free live in fear of being arrested for any act of dissent.
Thousands of Chinese troops have flooded into Urumqi to separate the feuding ethnic groups, and a senior Communist Party official vowed to execute those guilty of murder in the rioting.
At the Group of Eight summit in Italy, Gen. James Jones, the U.S. national security adviser, urged two Chinese diplomats "to ensure that government forces act with appropriate restraint," according to a senior Obama administration official, who described the meeting to reporters on condition of anonymity because of White House ground rules.
In many Uighur neighborhoods during the crisis in Urumqi, the women did much of the talking with reporters as the men gathered in small groups on street corners and in back alleys, speaking quietly among themselves.
"I can't speak freely. The police could come any minute and haul me away," said a Uighur man who would only identify himself as Alim.
But on Friday, some men challenged officials when they showed up for prayers at Urumqi's popular White Mosque and found the gate closed. Officials had earlier said the mosque would be closed for public safety reasons as security forces tried to pacify the capital.
The mosque was eventually opened when the crowd swelled and there was a threat of unrest, police said.
Most Muslim Uighurs practice a moderate form of Sunni Islam or follow the mystical Sufism tradition (the Taliban in Afghanistan were more Sufi until al Qaeda came around). The women often work and lead an active social life outside the home. Many wear brightly colored head scarves but the custom is not strongly enforced. Young Uighur women often wear jeans, formfitting tops and dresses (and on occasion like more like the Irish than many Irish women).
As the faithful streamed into the White Mosque, Ahtam arrived holding a lilac umbrella and told foreign reporters in broken English, "Toilet no open. No water."
She led reporters to an area where the faithful are supposed to cleanse themselves before prayers and said with tears running down her cheeks, "Washing room not open. Everybody no wash."
After the prayers, she continued speaking on the sidewalk and attracted about 40 people who applauded when she criticized the government.
"Every Uighur people are afraid. Do you understand? We are afraid. Chinese people are very happy. Why?" said Ahtam, who wore a blue head scarf and leopard-print blouse.
The government believes the Uighurs should be grateful for Xinjiang's rapid economic development, which has brought new schools, highways, airports, railways, natural gas fields and oil wells (and polution...) in the sprawling, rugged Central Asian region, three times the size of Texas (but there is no freedom to be who they grew up as).
But many of the Turkic-speaking Uighurs, with a population of 9 million in Xinjiang, accuse the dominant Han ethnic group of discriminating against them and saving all the best jobs for themselves. Many also say the Communist Party is repressive and tries to snuff out their Islamic faith, language and culture.
As Ahtam's crowd became more agitated, about 20 riot police with clubs marched toward the group. The Uighurs pumped their fists in the air and walked down the street with Ahtam leading the pack.
About 200 more riot police arrived and cut off the group, with some of the security forces kneeling down and pointing their automatic rifles at the marchers. Foreign reporters were led to a side alley, out of view of the protesters, who were forced to squat on the sidewalk along a row of shuttered shops.
Hours later, calls to Ahtam's cell phone went unanswered and it was unknown what happened to her.
Police quickly closed off parts of major thoroughfare for much of the afternoon after the protest. In the past two days, the capital had been moving closer to its normal state, but Ahtam's simple protest about the public toilet showed how volatile the situation is and how quickly it can regress.
Women led another protest Tuesday — one day after they said police rounded up 300 men in their neighborhood, a hot spot during the July 5 rioting. Foreign journalists visited the area during an official government media tour that was supposed to highlight the damage done during the violence.
But the trip backfired when the Uighur women emerged from a market nearby and began crying and complaining about missing husbands and sons. They screamed in the faces of the hundreds of riot police who were mobilized to shut down their spontaneous protest.
Later in the week, the women were less willing to talk, but some met with foreign reporters in side streets and complained.
"We haven't had any news about our husbands. We haven't been allowed to call," said one woman, who only gave part of her name, Guli.
Most of the arrested suspects were Uighur men, and police and witnesses have said they used rocks, sticks and knives to brutally and randomly kill their victims. Officials have said many of the targets were women.
In other parts of Xinjiang, the city of Kashgar, near the Pakistan border, was declared off-limits to reporters in all but name. Foreign reporters were not allowed to leave their hotels, except to go to the airport. An Associated Press photographer was detained repeatedly and escorted to the airport. The effect was to make it impossible for reporters to work.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
jewsyonkersislam #711q US Legal System : our real problems - and why
jewsyonkersislam #711q US Legal System : our real problems - and why
Below is an article that is somewhat topical. And below are some news articles from today that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com . As to why we have these problems with excessive selfishness, greed, shortsightedness... I blame our legal system with its excessive focus on civil rights nonsense and excess.
Prefatorily, we need "service" workers because all work is a kind of service - to and for self and others. But we need productive workers in productive industries today, not non-productive workers in food-preparation, hotels, gambling... :
7-9-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.C1 Originally, "scientists" were poets, musicians, philosophers... and "nature (was) their muse" - what inspired them.
NYT, p.B1 Some unions, like health care, home attendants, food preparers, garment workers... are essentially for non-productive workers in non-productive industries, not the kind of productive industries that we need today.
NYT, pA14 $15 billion is promised (and may not be delivered) to the world's poorest farmers, But where is the money going to come from ? 20% of the world's population is "hungry" and the worsening world economic crisis is adding more rapidly.
Journal News(JN), p6A Local union (CSEU) is protesting "furloughs" (North Castle).
NYT, p.A19 "Doubts about Obama's economic development plan rise along with unemployment", The administration says its forecasts are just like everyone elses. But standard economic theory does not apply today, so they are ALL wrong. The stupid feminist-dominated Democrats are worse than the no-brained Republicans - and that says a lot about our current world problems.
NYT, p.A1 Global Warming, pollution... : the whole world must be united behind a common goal (within individual countries as well as between and among nations) or nothing real will be accomplished - and such has not happened yet. The agreement to limit the world temperature rise to 2 degrees is a joke as the temperature has already risen 1.5 degrees.
JN, p.4B Mass. sues over federal marraige law to enable gay marraiges. Such goes to show you that our world is dominated by feminist fools who haven't a clue about what we really need or, even worse, couldn't care less, something else to blame our legal system for.
7-5-09 :
Daily News(DN), p.5 Colorado woman (45) has sex with a 16-year old boy and is "arrested after her husband tips off cops". More to blame on our legal system with its excessive civil rights nonsense.
NYT, p.14 Texas raid at gay club ; as I see it, today, all men are ever-lazier, irresponsible, effeminate and emasculated (stricken by the immorality of a lack of adwequate common goals, thanks to the US legal systems civil rights nonsense). But the organized gay movement is the worst for they, unwittingly, destroy the masculine(y) in men(xy). Non-gay men are just foolish, lazy and negligent. Such excess selfishness -as encouraged by the US legal system- is counter-productive at any time, but especially today. And I would not at all be surprised if people should turn excessively hostile to gays in the very near future.
NYT, p.6, Sunday Styles "The fantasy of escape is a powerful thing...of starting fresh in a new place or with a new partner". Yet it is a fantasy, especially today, when there is no place to go or hide on this over-populated planet earth.
NYT, p15 Politicians are "rabble-rousers", frustrated actors out to "score points", all with "various motivations...using whatever means (are) at their disposal to make a political point". "(Sometimes a) little stagecraft (might) be the only way to get attention (and such buffoonery also)... bolsters morale" among allies. Frustrated prima donnas pull "stunts" yet their "tactics are from yesterday (so what ?)...(but the Republicans) policies are from a period when Americans lost their economic edge", so they are no good ("brain-dead Republicans"). It was said that "showing Americans that there are people willing to take a principled stand in Washington is a very good thing", But I ask what "principles" and for what good purpose ? The brain-dead Republicans are almost as bad as the feminist-dominated Democrats.
NYT, WK, p.4 "Medicare", like the poverty industry, is one of those non-productive industries that I so bemoan. We cant afford them...even though they are the only growth industries in the USA
What is the answer to America's problems ? Productive jobs in the USA.
Subject: Wakeup Call!
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN)for 6 am. While his coffeepot(MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor(MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt(MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA) After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA)he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN)to the radio(MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer(made in MALAYSIA), John decided to relax
for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE)and turned on his
TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.
NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT MADE IN KENYA!
Below is an article that is somewhat topical. And below are some news articles from today that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com . As to why we have these problems with excessive selfishness, greed, shortsightedness... I blame our legal system with its excessive focus on civil rights nonsense and excess.
Prefatorily, we need "service" workers because all work is a kind of service - to and for self and others. But we need productive workers in productive industries today, not non-productive workers in food-preparation, hotels, gambling... :
7-9-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.C1 Originally, "scientists" were poets, musicians, philosophers... and "nature (was) their muse" - what inspired them.
NYT, p.B1 Some unions, like health care, home attendants, food preparers, garment workers... are essentially for non-productive workers in non-productive industries, not the kind of productive industries that we need today.
NYT, pA14 $15 billion is promised (and may not be delivered) to the world's poorest farmers, But where is the money going to come from ? 20% of the world's population is "hungry" and the worsening world economic crisis is adding more rapidly.
Journal News(JN), p6A Local union (CSEU) is protesting "furloughs" (North Castle).
NYT, p.A19 "Doubts about Obama's economic development plan rise along with unemployment", The administration says its forecasts are just like everyone elses. But standard economic theory does not apply today, so they are ALL wrong. The stupid feminist-dominated Democrats are worse than the no-brained Republicans - and that says a lot about our current world problems.
NYT, p.A1 Global Warming, pollution... : the whole world must be united behind a common goal (within individual countries as well as between and among nations) or nothing real will be accomplished - and such has not happened yet. The agreement to limit the world temperature rise to 2 degrees is a joke as the temperature has already risen 1.5 degrees.
JN, p.4B Mass. sues over federal marraige law to enable gay marraiges. Such goes to show you that our world is dominated by feminist fools who haven't a clue about what we really need or, even worse, couldn't care less, something else to blame our legal system for.
7-5-09 :
Daily News(DN), p.5 Colorado woman (45) has sex with a 16-year old boy and is "arrested after her husband tips off cops". More to blame on our legal system with its excessive civil rights nonsense.
NYT, p.14 Texas raid at gay club ; as I see it, today, all men are ever-lazier, irresponsible, effeminate and emasculated (stricken by the immorality of a lack of adwequate common goals, thanks to the US legal systems civil rights nonsense). But the organized gay movement is the worst for they, unwittingly, destroy the masculine(y) in men(xy). Non-gay men are just foolish, lazy and negligent. Such excess selfishness -as encouraged by the US legal system- is counter-productive at any time, but especially today. And I would not at all be surprised if people should turn excessively hostile to gays in the very near future.
NYT, p.6, Sunday Styles "The fantasy of escape is a powerful thing...of starting fresh in a new place or with a new partner". Yet it is a fantasy, especially today, when there is no place to go or hide on this over-populated planet earth.
NYT, p15 Politicians are "rabble-rousers", frustrated actors out to "score points", all with "various motivations...using whatever means (are) at their disposal to make a political point". "(Sometimes a) little stagecraft (might) be the only way to get attention (and such buffoonery also)... bolsters morale" among allies. Frustrated prima donnas pull "stunts" yet their "tactics are from yesterday (so what ?)...(but the Republicans) policies are from a period when Americans lost their economic edge", so they are no good ("brain-dead Republicans"). It was said that "showing Americans that there are people willing to take a principled stand in Washington is a very good thing", But I ask what "principles" and for what good purpose ? The brain-dead Republicans are almost as bad as the feminist-dominated Democrats.
NYT, WK, p.4 "Medicare", like the poverty industry, is one of those non-productive industries that I so bemoan. We cant afford them...even though they are the only growth industries in the USA
What is the answer to America's problems ? Productive jobs in the USA.
Subject: Wakeup Call!
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN)for 6 am. While his coffeepot(MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor(MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on a dress shirt(MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA) After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA)he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN)to the radio(MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer(made in MALAYSIA), John decided to relax
for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE)and turned on his
TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.
NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT MADE IN KENYA!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
jewsyonkersislam # 711p US Legal System : Lets get real
jewsyonkersislam # 711p US Legal System : Lets get real
Below is a story very much on topic. But before that are some news reports that tend to substantiate what I note here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com. Yet before I begin -and I hate to say it, but- it might be better to level with the American people (the rest of the human race as well). We are in a bad spot and it might be better to take a hit or two while we are better able to than to wait for the inevitable crash that is upon us when we are less capable and far less able to withstand the shocks. As I see it, neither the Pope nor the whole rest of the secular economic world and order see that unless the human race survives, nothing else matters - and that the human race is today in great danger of becoming extinct in the very near future unless we change our ways of living and doing business. However, the Pope is correct when he urges the formation of a world political organization to safeguard the "common good" - which I interpret as meaning the survival of the human race (and that includes each and every one of us) by securing new planet earths for the human race to expand upon and, meanwhile, expanding the use of solar...power while phasing out the use of oil, gas, coal... Necessity has forced the hand of the human race. So we must make necessity a virtue, all the while realizing that necessity is the mother of invention - and spur that invention on.
7-8-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.B1 The deficit is bad but trying to close it too soon is as bad. It is "mass joblessness, anguish"...vs. "spiking interest rates and a plunging dollar" because foriegn investors (China, India, Russia, the European Union...) will no longer invest in (loan) the USA any money because they've lost faith in the dollar". "(J)ob creation" is crucial, but what kind of jobs ? Nearly 70% of economic activity in the USA today is in non-productive service (more female type) jobs - and we need productive jobs in order to save the human race. Why do we have so few productive jobs ? Because of the immorality of inadequate common goals as imposed on us by our legal system in its single-minded pursuit of extreme selfishness by mandating all of its nonsensical civil rights excesses.
Most of the world is "ensnared by the economic downturn" -it makes more sense to call it another Great Depression- and "demand for goods and services is weak", and bound to get weaker. California is like the rest of the USA : "no one wants to cut favored programs and no one has the guts to raise taxes". But necessity will force that and more on us IF we want to survive.
Epoch Times, 6-25-09, p.B2 "Human rights crisis needs attention" ? NO, the survival of the human race needs attention.
NYT, p.A19 "Pension costs for local governments to triple by 2015...Where is the money going to come from ?"
Nyt, p.A22 The Pope and a new world economic order. "(W)hen profit becomes the exclusive goal...it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty". "(W)ithout stable work... people lose hope (do not) get married (or) have children (unless you live in the USA and welfare pays for it)", thus leading to greater losses of wealth for the well-off. The "most efficient use -not abuse- of natural resources" ? Such is ludicrous for we are running out of more and more of such resources every day on this depleted planet earth. Even so, the Pope is right, for "efficiency" is not "value-free".
NYT, p.A1 "Lights, Camera", porn and sex. With the internet, 3-5 minute sex scenes are most watched (all the time you need to choke your chicken). Why such excess ? Thanks to the US legal system, mindless selfisness is mandated by excess civil rights nonsense.
NYT, p.A1 Health is necessary but non-productive in the way we need industry to be today. And with Pres. Obama's "deals" -as with the stimulus bill, the automobile companies and more- we may be headed to disaster and ruin. Here, as elsewhere, necessity makes unpalatable things unavoidable.
Journal News(JN), p.5A Local collapse as a result of our economic crisis ? Mount Vernon Democratic chief speaks of people out to "destabilize Mount Vernon".
NYT, p.A22 "Health Care Reform" ? People must learn to help themselves by physical exercise, diet...losing weight. "(E)mployer-provided health benefits must be limited (because such lead to) excessive use of health care" when self-help is better.
NYT, p.A1 Pope : charity, morals and economy. "(E)conomic development is not human development". But without survival -of the human race- there can be no "human development". Indeed, the "common good of people" necessarily pre-supposes the survival of people. Governments can not be made to do things unless the citizenry / society supports such. Our current crises are a result of malformed "self-interest, self-deception and false presuppositions". And for this we can thank the excessive civil rights nonsense of the US Legal System and its resulting extreme selfishness.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax........ pledge(s) unrealistic
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama promised to fix(1) health care and(2) trim the federal budget deficit, all (3) without raising taxes on anyone but the wealthiest Americans. It's a promise he's already broken and will likely have to break again. Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes — which disproportionately hit the poor — to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.
Now, lawmakers are looking for more revenues to help pay for providing medical insurance to millions more who lack it at a projected cost of $1 trillion over the next decade.
The floated proposals include increasing taxes on alcohol, which could raise $62 billion over the next decade, and a new tax on sugary drinks such as soda, which could raise $52 billion.
Senate Democrats this week pretty much rejected a proposal by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., to tax health benefits (should be limited to discourage unneccessary over-use and to promots physical exercise / self-help), an idea that Obama repeatedly criticized during the presidential election campaign but has refused to take off the table.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said negotiators are still looking for revenue alternatives. Asked during an interview with The Associated Press if they included tax increases on families with incomes less than $250,000 a year, Schumer said, "There are lots of things on the table now."
The health care bill is a long way from Obama's desk, but tax experts say the debate illustrates a stark reality: It is simply implausible for the vast majority of Americans to get a free ride while the nation tackles such an incredibly difficult — and expensive — issue.
"We're all going to have to contribute," said Eugene Steuerle, a former treasury official in the Reagan administration and now vice president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Paying for Obama's agenda might be easier, Steuerle said, if the nation wasn't already facing massive federal budget deficits for the foreseeable future.
"The dilemma is trying to do the new while the old is still unpaid for," Steuerle said.
The federal budget deficit is projected to hit an unprecedented $1.8 trillion this year — on top of a national debt that has already topped $11 trillion. Obama insists that any bill on health care or climate change not add to the debt.
Obama says much of the $1 trillion needed for his health care overhaul will come from cutting costs. So far, drug companies and hospitals have agreed to provide 10-year savings of $235 billion.
Health care experts say cost cutting alone won't produce enough money to insure the nearly 50 million Americans who lack coverage. Moreover, Congress is obligated to follow budget rules that might not recognize many of the promised savings.
"The administration has an extremely difficult educational problem on its hands," said Henry J. Aaron, a health care expert at the Brookings Institution. "They understand that at some point tax increase are going to be necessary across the board.
"Yes, for the middle class, too," he added.
Obama made a firm tax pledge during the presidential campaign, repeating it numerous times in the weeks and months leading up to Election Day: no tax increases for individuals making less than $200,000 a year or couples making less than $250,000.
"Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes," Obama told a crowd in Dover, N.H., last year.
But less than a month after taking office, Obama signed an expansion of child health care financed by 62-cent tax increase on each pack of cigarettes.
Obama also signed an anti-smoking bill in June that grants authority to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. To pay for the new program, a fee is being imposed on the industry — and presumably passed on to consumers — estimated to generate more than $5 billion over the next decade.
While not directly increasing taxes, a House-passed version of Obama's plan to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for causing global warming would similarly increase American families' home energy bills by $175 a year on average, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Obama hasn't offered a detailed plan to fix health care, though his aides are working with lawmakers as they craft proposals. Obama included only a down payment for health care reform in the budget proposal he unveiled this spring.
He proposed limiting itemized tax deductions for individuals making more than $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000. The plan, which faces stiff opposition in Congress, would limit deductions for mortgage insurance, state and local taxes and charitable contributions, raising about $270 billion over the next decade.
Obama also proposed a series of business tax increases and accounting changes that would raise an additional $30 billion.
Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for the OMB, said Obama's cost reductions and tax increases add up to "a plan which gets you really close to what you need."( unfortunately, because of the world economic crisis, such and more may well be absolutely necessary)
"Congress has other ideas," Baer said. "We'll work with them."
The appeal of Baucus's proposed tax on health benefits was the amount of money it could raise. Currently, employer-provided health benefits are not taxed, regardless of how generous they are (they should be limited if too generous and people should not over-utilize them but re-learn that daily personal exercise is the real key to well-being and physical fitness) .
One version of it would tax health benefits that exceed the value of the basic insurance plan offered to federal workers, raising about $420 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. But limiting it to individuals making more than $100,000 a year and couples making more than $200,000 would raise only $162 billion.
The math illustrates how difficult it is to raise enough money to pay for expensive programs, when tax increases are limited to the wealthy.
"We're living in an era, over a period of 20 years or more, in which the idea that tax rates would actually be boosted is unutterable," said Aaron, the health care expert. "That has to stop."
Below is a story very much on topic. But before that are some news reports that tend to substantiate what I note here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com. Yet before I begin -and I hate to say it, but- it might be better to level with the American people (the rest of the human race as well). We are in a bad spot and it might be better to take a hit or two while we are better able to than to wait for the inevitable crash that is upon us when we are less capable and far less able to withstand the shocks. As I see it, neither the Pope nor the whole rest of the secular economic world and order see that unless the human race survives, nothing else matters - and that the human race is today in great danger of becoming extinct in the very near future unless we change our ways of living and doing business. However, the Pope is correct when he urges the formation of a world political organization to safeguard the "common good" - which I interpret as meaning the survival of the human race (and that includes each and every one of us) by securing new planet earths for the human race to expand upon and, meanwhile, expanding the use of solar...power while phasing out the use of oil, gas, coal... Necessity has forced the hand of the human race. So we must make necessity a virtue, all the while realizing that necessity is the mother of invention - and spur that invention on.
7-8-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.B1 The deficit is bad but trying to close it too soon is as bad. It is "mass joblessness, anguish"...vs. "spiking interest rates and a plunging dollar" because foriegn investors (China, India, Russia, the European Union...) will no longer invest in (loan) the USA any money because they've lost faith in the dollar". "(J)ob creation" is crucial, but what kind of jobs ? Nearly 70% of economic activity in the USA today is in non-productive service (more female type) jobs - and we need productive jobs in order to save the human race. Why do we have so few productive jobs ? Because of the immorality of inadequate common goals as imposed on us by our legal system in its single-minded pursuit of extreme selfishness by mandating all of its nonsensical civil rights excesses.
Most of the world is "ensnared by the economic downturn" -it makes more sense to call it another Great Depression- and "demand for goods and services is weak", and bound to get weaker. California is like the rest of the USA : "no one wants to cut favored programs and no one has the guts to raise taxes". But necessity will force that and more on us IF we want to survive.
Epoch Times, 6-25-09, p.B2 "Human rights crisis needs attention" ? NO, the survival of the human race needs attention.
NYT, p.A19 "Pension costs for local governments to triple by 2015...Where is the money going to come from ?"
Nyt, p.A22 The Pope and a new world economic order. "(W)hen profit becomes the exclusive goal...it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty". "(W)ithout stable work... people lose hope (do not) get married (or) have children (unless you live in the USA and welfare pays for it)", thus leading to greater losses of wealth for the well-off. The "most efficient use -not abuse- of natural resources" ? Such is ludicrous for we are running out of more and more of such resources every day on this depleted planet earth. Even so, the Pope is right, for "efficiency" is not "value-free".
NYT, p.A1 "Lights, Camera", porn and sex. With the internet, 3-5 minute sex scenes are most watched (all the time you need to choke your chicken). Why such excess ? Thanks to the US legal system, mindless selfisness is mandated by excess civil rights nonsense.
NYT, p.A1 Health is necessary but non-productive in the way we need industry to be today. And with Pres. Obama's "deals" -as with the stimulus bill, the automobile companies and more- we may be headed to disaster and ruin. Here, as elsewhere, necessity makes unpalatable things unavoidable.
Journal News(JN), p.5A Local collapse as a result of our economic crisis ? Mount Vernon Democratic chief speaks of people out to "destabilize Mount Vernon".
NYT, p.A22 "Health Care Reform" ? People must learn to help themselves by physical exercise, diet...losing weight. "(E)mployer-provided health benefits must be limited (because such lead to) excessive use of health care" when self-help is better.
NYT, p.A1 Pope : charity, morals and economy. "(E)conomic development is not human development". But without survival -of the human race- there can be no "human development". Indeed, the "common good of people" necessarily pre-supposes the survival of people. Governments can not be made to do things unless the citizenry / society supports such. Our current crises are a result of malformed "self-interest, self-deception and false presuppositions". And for this we can thank the excessive civil rights nonsense of the US Legal System and its resulting extreme selfishness.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax........ pledge(s) unrealistic
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama promised to fix(1) health care and(2) trim the federal budget deficit, all (3) without raising taxes on anyone but the wealthiest Americans. It's a promise he's already broken and will likely have to break again. Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes — which disproportionately hit the poor — to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.
Now, lawmakers are looking for more revenues to help pay for providing medical insurance to millions more who lack it at a projected cost of $1 trillion over the next decade.
The floated proposals include increasing taxes on alcohol, which could raise $62 billion over the next decade, and a new tax on sugary drinks such as soda, which could raise $52 billion.
Senate Democrats this week pretty much rejected a proposal by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., to tax health benefits (should be limited to discourage unneccessary over-use and to promots physical exercise / self-help), an idea that Obama repeatedly criticized during the presidential election campaign but has refused to take off the table.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said negotiators are still looking for revenue alternatives. Asked during an interview with The Associated Press if they included tax increases on families with incomes less than $250,000 a year, Schumer said, "There are lots of things on the table now."
The health care bill is a long way from Obama's desk, but tax experts say the debate illustrates a stark reality: It is simply implausible for the vast majority of Americans to get a free ride while the nation tackles such an incredibly difficult — and expensive — issue.
"We're all going to have to contribute," said Eugene Steuerle, a former treasury official in the Reagan administration and now vice president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Paying for Obama's agenda might be easier, Steuerle said, if the nation wasn't already facing massive federal budget deficits for the foreseeable future.
"The dilemma is trying to do the new while the old is still unpaid for," Steuerle said.
The federal budget deficit is projected to hit an unprecedented $1.8 trillion this year — on top of a national debt that has already topped $11 trillion. Obama insists that any bill on health care or climate change not add to the debt.
Obama says much of the $1 trillion needed for his health care overhaul will come from cutting costs. So far, drug companies and hospitals have agreed to provide 10-year savings of $235 billion.
Health care experts say cost cutting alone won't produce enough money to insure the nearly 50 million Americans who lack coverage. Moreover, Congress is obligated to follow budget rules that might not recognize many of the promised savings.
"The administration has an extremely difficult educational problem on its hands," said Henry J. Aaron, a health care expert at the Brookings Institution. "They understand that at some point tax increase are going to be necessary across the board.
"Yes, for the middle class, too," he added.
Obama made a firm tax pledge during the presidential campaign, repeating it numerous times in the weeks and months leading up to Election Day: no tax increases for individuals making less than $200,000 a year or couples making less than $250,000.
"Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes," Obama told a crowd in Dover, N.H., last year.
But less than a month after taking office, Obama signed an expansion of child health care financed by 62-cent tax increase on each pack of cigarettes.
Obama also signed an anti-smoking bill in June that grants authority to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. To pay for the new program, a fee is being imposed on the industry — and presumably passed on to consumers — estimated to generate more than $5 billion over the next decade.
While not directly increasing taxes, a House-passed version of Obama's plan to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for causing global warming would similarly increase American families' home energy bills by $175 a year on average, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Obama hasn't offered a detailed plan to fix health care, though his aides are working with lawmakers as they craft proposals. Obama included only a down payment for health care reform in the budget proposal he unveiled this spring.
He proposed limiting itemized tax deductions for individuals making more than $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000. The plan, which faces stiff opposition in Congress, would limit deductions for mortgage insurance, state and local taxes and charitable contributions, raising about $270 billion over the next decade.
Obama also proposed a series of business tax increases and accounting changes that would raise an additional $30 billion.
Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for the OMB, said Obama's cost reductions and tax increases add up to "a plan which gets you really close to what you need."( unfortunately, because of the world economic crisis, such and more may well be absolutely necessary)
"Congress has other ideas," Baer said. "We'll work with them."
The appeal of Baucus's proposed tax on health benefits was the amount of money it could raise. Currently, employer-provided health benefits are not taxed, regardless of how generous they are (they should be limited if too generous and people should not over-utilize them but re-learn that daily personal exercise is the real key to well-being and physical fitness) .
One version of it would tax health benefits that exceed the value of the basic insurance plan offered to federal workers, raising about $420 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. But limiting it to individuals making more than $100,000 a year and couples making more than $200,000 would raise only $162 billion.
The math illustrates how difficult it is to raise enough money to pay for expensive programs, when tax increases are limited to the wealthy.
"We're living in an era, over a period of 20 years or more, in which the idea that tax rates would actually be boosted is unutterable," said Aaron, the health care expert. "That has to stop."
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
jewsyonkersislam # 711o US Legal System : Our cultures must change or we all die - and I mean our world cultures must change or the human race dies
jewsyonkersislam # 711o US Legal System : Our cultures must change or we all die - and I mean our world cultures must change or the human race dies
Below is an article indicative of same, but first is my address to the Westchester County Board of Legislators tonight, 7-7-09 (which can be seen on the County TV network), followed by some articles from today's papers that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com :
ADDRESS BY THOMAS J.P. COURTNEY TO THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF LEGISLATORS ON July 7 2009 :
" You know....Having returned from the dead, I have, among other capabilities, the tendency to see the future in the present....So I tell you quite simply that the world is entering another Great Depression - to be followed very soon with major world wars, after which the human race may well become extinct....Read our daily papers or my blog, jewsyonkersislam...But I dont want to leave you too sad or depressed, so (I sang) 'When Irish eyes are smiling / sure 'tis like the morn in Spring / In the lilt of Irish laughter / you can hear the angels sing / When Irish hearts are happy / all the world seems bright and gay / And when Irish eyes are smiling / sure they stel your heart away "
7-7-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.A17 "Long Island lawmaker calls Michael Jackson a 'lowlife', 'child molester' "..."a pervert, a pedophile (and I cant disagree -but he had a lovely and haunting voice)". Rep. King also criticizes the news media for all its pulicity in favor of him, saying "what's it say about our country". And I also agree here, but one must also realise that the media is owned and operated by feminists and gays - other perverts like Michael.
NYT, p.A23 "In search of dignity" "(H)uman beings are flawed creatures...(so) artificial systems to balance and restrain their desires" are necessary. Indeed, discarding "artiface and repression" is not necessarily a totally good thing (it equates to having no self-discipline...). Today, "people simply have no social norms to guide tham as they try to navigate the currents of their own passions", thanks to the extreme selfishness mandated -through civil rights excess- by our legal system.
NYT, p.C1 US Supreme Court pretty much mandates that the USA have no morals whatsoever.
NYT, p.C4 As a result (of the US Supreme Court...), US culture exalts "shopping as...(its) religion, complete with rituals, hypnotic music (think Michael Jackson...) and a healthy helping of guilt (mostly about the wrong things)" a.k.a. marketing, salsemanship...
NYT, p.B8 Service industries -all non-productive and non-survival enhancing in the way we need industry to be today ; and all female-based- are 70% of the US economy (retail, financial services, transportation, health care...). But "consumers save more and spend less" as a result of today's financial crisis AND the rising cost of oil and gas.
p. 10 By Bob Weir
Weir Only Human: Sticks and Stones May break My Bones...
WESTCHESTER HERALD July 6, 2009
About a thousand years ago, when I was growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was an area, about a half mile
downtown from me (Stuyvesant Town ?), known as “The Bowery.” It was situated between Delancey and Houston (pronounced
house – ton in New York) Streets. One of the most elegant areas of the city during the 1800s, by 1900, the Bowery devolved into
low-rent concert halls, flop houses, beer gardens, brothels and streets that became the living quarters for hundreds of people with
no visible means of support. These days, people in those circumstances are called “homeless” or “temporarily unsheltered.” In those days they were known as Bowery Bums. The word, bum, simply refers to someone who refuses to work and tries to live
off of others. Those who either chose, or were thrust into such penury, were also called beggars and tramps. Such references were made
during a time in our history when euphemisms (feminist politically correct BS) were rare. Today, there are euphemisms for just about
every activity that, if given the specific title, would be deemed offensive to civil discourse, also known as polite conversation. Hence, in a continuing effort to soften our language and distort reality(!!!!), we find words that make us feel better (feminist nonsense) about who we are and how un-judgmental we can be.
Those who are extremely overweight are not referred to as obese or fat. Instead, a man would be called heavy-set or husky, while
a woman would be fullfigured. People who used to be called handicapped or crippled are now labeled, physically-challenged.
Henny Youngman, the famous comedian told a joke about his brother-inlaw who claimed to be a diamond-cutter. Later, it
was learned that he was in charge of mowing the lawn at Yankee Stadium. Ed Norton, the famous
sewer-worker from “The Honeymooners” television show, introduced
himself as “an engineer in subterranean sanitation.” Employees are never fired from their jobs; they are “let go.” When I was a young
lad, people who were physically attracted to the same sex were known as homosexuals. Now they are gays and lesbians. The late
English author, Quentin Crisp, who was openly gay (poor lisping boy), was also very open about the use of softened language.
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess (farts...) with barely so much as a nod of the head,” he said,
adding, “Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.” In days of yore, we never even heard of someone being able to change from one sex to another, but when it became surgically possible it was called a sex change operation. Soon,
the term was considered objectionable, so it became “gender reassignmen (total bullsh*t).” Once upon a time, if you supported taking the life of a child in the womb, you were pro-abortion; if
you didn’t, you were antiabortion. Now, you’re classified pro-choice or pro-life. Someone who has died is said to have passed away,
bought the farm, given up the ghost, kicked the bucket, or, as the great Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “shuffled off this mortal coil.” When ending the life of a pet it’s called “putting him/her to sleep.” When the mob wants to put someone to sleep, they put a “contract”
out on him. They don’t want to murder the guy, they want him “whacked, hit, taken for a ride, or fitted for a cement overcoat.”
The bad guys don’t get sent to prison; they go to correctional institutions. In military terms, people and places, bombed out
of existence have been “marginalized.” When innocent civilians are killed during a war, it’s known as “collateral damage.” Slums and ghettoes have been euphemistically excised from the language and
reborn as economically depressed or culturally deprived environments. People who violate our laws by sneaking across our borders are no longer “illegal aliens,” they are “undocumented
immigrants.” When taxpayers became aware of the term “earmarks,” which are pork barrel projects intended to benefit constituents of a
politician in return for their political support, it became an epithet for wasteful spending. Therefore, it needed a new name, so it was magically transformed into “legislatively directed spending.” All of the
foregoing is meant to be more than a linguistic exercise; it’s about
questioning where we are as a society. It’s about our refusal to deal with reality, preferring instead to pretend that what is happening before our eyes can be creatively denied by the use of more “tolerant” language. In other words, if we can find a comfortable
substitute for the truth, we can avoid facing it (fact is, we cant). What’s a good euphemism for a total collapse of one’s
culture? (civil rights excess such as the massive personal selfishness imposed on the USA by our gassified and near-terminal legal system)
Bob Weir is a former detective sergeant in the New York City Police
Below is an article indicative of same, but first is my address to the Westchester County Board of Legislators tonight, 7-7-09 (which can be seen on the County TV network), followed by some articles from today's papers that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com :
ADDRESS BY THOMAS J.P. COURTNEY TO THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF LEGISLATORS ON July 7 2009 :
" You know....Having returned from the dead, I have, among other capabilities, the tendency to see the future in the present....So I tell you quite simply that the world is entering another Great Depression - to be followed very soon with major world wars, after which the human race may well become extinct....Read our daily papers or my blog, jewsyonkersislam...But I dont want to leave you too sad or depressed, so (I sang) 'When Irish eyes are smiling / sure 'tis like the morn in Spring / In the lilt of Irish laughter / you can hear the angels sing / When Irish hearts are happy / all the world seems bright and gay / And when Irish eyes are smiling / sure they stel your heart away "
7-7-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.A17 "Long Island lawmaker calls Michael Jackson a 'lowlife', 'child molester' "..."a pervert, a pedophile (and I cant disagree -but he had a lovely and haunting voice)". Rep. King also criticizes the news media for all its pulicity in favor of him, saying "what's it say about our country". And I also agree here, but one must also realise that the media is owned and operated by feminists and gays - other perverts like Michael.
NYT, p.A23 "In search of dignity" "(H)uman beings are flawed creatures...(so) artificial systems to balance and restrain their desires" are necessary. Indeed, discarding "artiface and repression" is not necessarily a totally good thing (it equates to having no self-discipline...). Today, "people simply have no social norms to guide tham as they try to navigate the currents of their own passions", thanks to the extreme selfishness mandated -through civil rights excess- by our legal system.
NYT, p.C1 US Supreme Court pretty much mandates that the USA have no morals whatsoever.
NYT, p.C4 As a result (of the US Supreme Court...), US culture exalts "shopping as...(its) religion, complete with rituals, hypnotic music (think Michael Jackson...) and a healthy helping of guilt (mostly about the wrong things)" a.k.a. marketing, salsemanship...
NYT, p.B8 Service industries -all non-productive and non-survival enhancing in the way we need industry to be today ; and all female-based- are 70% of the US economy (retail, financial services, transportation, health care...). But "consumers save more and spend less" as a result of today's financial crisis AND the rising cost of oil and gas.
p. 10 By Bob Weir
Weir Only Human: Sticks and Stones May break My Bones...
WESTCHESTER HERALD July 6, 2009
About a thousand years ago, when I was growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was an area, about a half mile
downtown from me (Stuyvesant Town ?), known as “The Bowery.” It was situated between Delancey and Houston (pronounced
house – ton in New York) Streets. One of the most elegant areas of the city during the 1800s, by 1900, the Bowery devolved into
low-rent concert halls, flop houses, beer gardens, brothels and streets that became the living quarters for hundreds of people with
no visible means of support. These days, people in those circumstances are called “homeless” or “temporarily unsheltered.” In those days they were known as Bowery Bums. The word, bum, simply refers to someone who refuses to work and tries to live
off of others. Those who either chose, or were thrust into such penury, were also called beggars and tramps. Such references were made
during a time in our history when euphemisms (feminist politically correct BS) were rare. Today, there are euphemisms for just about
every activity that, if given the specific title, would be deemed offensive to civil discourse, also known as polite conversation. Hence, in a continuing effort to soften our language and distort reality(!!!!), we find words that make us feel better (feminist nonsense) about who we are and how un-judgmental we can be.
Those who are extremely overweight are not referred to as obese or fat. Instead, a man would be called heavy-set or husky, while
a woman would be fullfigured. People who used to be called handicapped or crippled are now labeled, physically-challenged.
Henny Youngman, the famous comedian told a joke about his brother-inlaw who claimed to be a diamond-cutter. Later, it
was learned that he was in charge of mowing the lawn at Yankee Stadium. Ed Norton, the famous
sewer-worker from “The Honeymooners” television show, introduced
himself as “an engineer in subterranean sanitation.” Employees are never fired from their jobs; they are “let go.” When I was a young
lad, people who were physically attracted to the same sex were known as homosexuals. Now they are gays and lesbians. The late
English author, Quentin Crisp, who was openly gay (poor lisping boy), was also very open about the use of softened language.
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess (farts...) with barely so much as a nod of the head,” he said,
adding, “Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.” In days of yore, we never even heard of someone being able to change from one sex to another, but when it became surgically possible it was called a sex change operation. Soon,
the term was considered objectionable, so it became “gender reassignmen (total bullsh*t).” Once upon a time, if you supported taking the life of a child in the womb, you were pro-abortion; if
you didn’t, you were antiabortion. Now, you’re classified pro-choice or pro-life. Someone who has died is said to have passed away,
bought the farm, given up the ghost, kicked the bucket, or, as the great Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “shuffled off this mortal coil.” When ending the life of a pet it’s called “putting him/her to sleep.” When the mob wants to put someone to sleep, they put a “contract”
out on him. They don’t want to murder the guy, they want him “whacked, hit, taken for a ride, or fitted for a cement overcoat.”
The bad guys don’t get sent to prison; they go to correctional institutions. In military terms, people and places, bombed out
of existence have been “marginalized.” When innocent civilians are killed during a war, it’s known as “collateral damage.” Slums and ghettoes have been euphemistically excised from the language and
reborn as economically depressed or culturally deprived environments. People who violate our laws by sneaking across our borders are no longer “illegal aliens,” they are “undocumented
immigrants.” When taxpayers became aware of the term “earmarks,” which are pork barrel projects intended to benefit constituents of a
politician in return for their political support, it became an epithet for wasteful spending. Therefore, it needed a new name, so it was magically transformed into “legislatively directed spending.” All of the
foregoing is meant to be more than a linguistic exercise; it’s about
questioning where we are as a society. It’s about our refusal to deal with reality, preferring instead to pretend that what is happening before our eyes can be creatively denied by the use of more “tolerant” language. In other words, if we can find a comfortable
substitute for the truth, we can avoid facing it (fact is, we cant). What’s a good euphemism for a total collapse of one’s
culture? (civil rights excess such as the massive personal selfishness imposed on the USA by our gassified and near-terminal legal system)
Bob Weir is a former detective sergeant in the New York City Police
Monday, July 6, 2009
jewsyonkersislam # 711n US Legal System : the feminine rules the world
jewsyonkersislam # 711n US Legal System : the feminine rules the world - and its easy to see why. The feminine controls the world, not men and not women -but men are needed to advance. The x chromosome in cyclical women (xx) and oppositional men (xy) does the job of allowing the human race to survive and thrive. Women, being cyclical, are the present -the permanent and stable present- whereas men, being oppositional, are the past and the future. But advance necessarily comes from the past and extends into the future.
Below is an interesting article about Bill Clinton that I have edited. And in between are some news articles that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com)
7-6-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.A3 China's Uighur Muslims -in Far-West Xiangjing Province- rioted against Han Chinese moving in and taking their land. Interesting thing about that is that the Uighurs are a Turkic-Celtic-Mongol...people, just like the Muslim Taleban in Afghanistan.
Journal News(JN), p.1A NYS. Gov. "Patterson talks tough but 'ineffective' tag hounds him" - and rightly so, especially with his gay "rights" nonsense. But will that label also hound Pres. Obama ? Such ineffectiveness produces no results, only ever more paralysis, and such is a result of all the gay "rights" nonsense pushed by our totally ineffective legal system which makes excessive selfishness mandatory by law with its civil rights drivel.
NYT, p.A8 Pres. Obama to Russia after saying that "Putin has one foot in old ways of doing business and one foot in new". But the truth is that we all are similar, especially at times of great change.
NYT, p. A1 The "instability of oil and gas prices (today)...could jeopardize a global recovery", resulting in another Great Depression, by "hobbling businesses and consumers".
NYT, p.A1 Government-financed job-retraining programs are ineffective because they train for jobs that no longer exist, are counter-productive or ignore the real world.
Bill Clinton: Global cooperation needed for mankind's survival
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton urged people to accept themselves and others in a world system that is "unstable, unequal and unsustainable." (so true)
In a speech on Saturday, former president Bill Clinton urged people to embrace who they are.
Clinton gave the keynote address Saturday to members of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington. The organization gave the 42nd U.S. president its global leadership award.
The world is an "interdependent" system where an event in one country, such as an economic collapse, can affect the entire globe, Clinton said.
The former president said recent events such as the swine flu outbreak prove the system is unstable. Inequalities in health care worldwide show the system is unequal and recent trends in global warming show it is unsustainable, Clinton said.
Global cooperation is crucial for the survival of mankind, he added.
"If we have a chance, it has to begin by people accepting that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," Clinton said.
To foster this cooperation, people should focus on their similarities because we are genetically "99.5 percent" the same, the former president said.(so true)
"From time immemorial, people have fought over identity(!!!!) rooted in that (half percent)," Clinton said. "We should have spent more time thinking about that other 99.5 percent of ourselves." (and yet identity is crucial - after survival)
Clinton also urged the audience to embrace who they are.
"You teach your children their ethnic heritage; their religious heritage; their cultural heritage with no negative reference to anyone else because it's the only shot we've got to make the most of our interdependent world," he said.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was founded in 1980 to protect the civil rights of Arab (and I agree with Billy Bob ; indeed, I've been saying the same thing for more than 20 years now)
Below is an interesting article about Bill Clinton that I have edited. And in between are some news articles that tend to substantiate what I say here and in my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com)
7-6-09 :
New York Times(NYT), p.A3 China's Uighur Muslims -in Far-West Xiangjing Province- rioted against Han Chinese moving in and taking their land. Interesting thing about that is that the Uighurs are a Turkic-Celtic-Mongol...people, just like the Muslim Taleban in Afghanistan.
Journal News(JN), p.1A NYS. Gov. "Patterson talks tough but 'ineffective' tag hounds him" - and rightly so, especially with his gay "rights" nonsense. But will that label also hound Pres. Obama ? Such ineffectiveness produces no results, only ever more paralysis, and such is a result of all the gay "rights" nonsense pushed by our totally ineffective legal system which makes excessive selfishness mandatory by law with its civil rights drivel.
NYT, p.A8 Pres. Obama to Russia after saying that "Putin has one foot in old ways of doing business and one foot in new". But the truth is that we all are similar, especially at times of great change.
NYT, p. A1 The "instability of oil and gas prices (today)...could jeopardize a global recovery", resulting in another Great Depression, by "hobbling businesses and consumers".
NYT, p.A1 Government-financed job-retraining programs are ineffective because they train for jobs that no longer exist, are counter-productive or ignore the real world.
Bill Clinton: Global cooperation needed for mankind's survival
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton urged people to accept themselves and others in a world system that is "unstable, unequal and unsustainable." (so true)
In a speech on Saturday, former president Bill Clinton urged people to embrace who they are.
Clinton gave the keynote address Saturday to members of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington. The organization gave the 42nd U.S. president its global leadership award.
The world is an "interdependent" system where an event in one country, such as an economic collapse, can affect the entire globe, Clinton said.
The former president said recent events such as the swine flu outbreak prove the system is unstable. Inequalities in health care worldwide show the system is unequal and recent trends in global warming show it is unsustainable, Clinton said.
Global cooperation is crucial for the survival of mankind, he added.
"If we have a chance, it has to begin by people accepting that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," Clinton said.
To foster this cooperation, people should focus on their similarities because we are genetically "99.5 percent" the same, the former president said.(so true)
"From time immemorial, people have fought over identity(!!!!) rooted in that (half percent)," Clinton said. "We should have spent more time thinking about that other 99.5 percent of ourselves." (and yet identity is crucial - after survival)
Clinton also urged the audience to embrace who they are.
"You teach your children their ethnic heritage; their religious heritage; their cultural heritage with no negative reference to anyone else because it's the only shot we've got to make the most of our interdependent world," he said.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was founded in 1980 to protect the civil rights of Arab (and I agree with Billy Bob ; indeed, I've been saying the same thing for more than 20 years now)
Sunday, July 5, 2009
jewsyonkersislam # 711M US Legal System ; necessity, virtue and invention
jewsyonkersislam # 711M US Legal System ; necessity, virtue and invention
At the bottom is an article as I've edited it. It discusses the Westchester County Board of Legislators budget comittee chaiman's proposals. The chairman I like but his proposals...
And, as and in a passing thought, one must always keep in mind that real power in this world lies in weakness. Moreover, it has been said that "He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him". As for me, I know what I am doing and I know that I know what I am doing
In between are some current news stories and analyses, loosely grouped in categories :
7-3-09 :
SEX :
Women are keepers, about time and the present time ; men are breakers and makers, about place and space, the past and the future. According to Darwin, there are two EQUAL drives in nature : survival of the fittest / evolution (more overtly masculine, logical and rational) and a preference / drive for beauty (more overtly feminine, "illogical"/"alogical", and "irrational").
New York Times(NYT), p.C4 "All hot and bothered" "(M)ale sexual vanity...(can and does often bring about an unlimited) capacity for self-delusion...(A woman's) apparently unfeigned desire for a man (what man [or woman] ever could or would know the difference, what with a woman's natural cyclicity, her confused and confusing nature)..". (Such can knock a man) off balance...(leading him to make a) fool of himself..". "Bouts of jealousy and insecurity...follow like bad hangovers in the wake of erotic bliss (sexual intercourse)". "Stereotypical dumb blond...gold digger, tease, carnal free spirit (she slept with every man in Monaco), needy capricious Medusa (a woman can be all and more : feminine cyclicity)".
Journal News(JN), p.5A Community complaints lead to arrests of 11 on Mount Vernon / Bronx border - for prostitution. Males : an Italian from Tuckahoe, an Indian ( Guyana ?... India ?) from the Bronx, a South American, a 70-year old black man with viagra and 4 American black men, some better looking than others. The two female "sex workers" were 18 and 27, both not bad looking, from Yonkers and Mount Vernon -and out to make some quick and non-taxable income in the world's oldest profession.
NYT, p. ? movie review : "Lion's Den" "Motherhood behind bars", a women's prison movie. "(M)otherhood gives purpose to a previously aimless existence (I've seen it over and over in the south Brons... but to what good purpose when the survival of the human race is at stake)". The mother had a lesbian affair in prison. And this movie is "suffused with a sense of life lived in the present" - which is good. BUT if the human race becomes extinct because of such excessive selfishness -as mandated by the US Legal System- what good does such nonsensical "good" do ?
ECONOMY :
NYT, p.A27 "(S)tarting to feel a bit like 1937", just before World War II started. The economy keeps getting worse.
NYT, p.A27 China and America : China did the making and America did the buying - but no more. The US will never get its fiscal house in order...because there is no politically practical way to get there. Chinese nationalism (identity-seeking) is also on the rise. What about "Chinese psychology" ? "There is no one thing called 'China' or 'the Chinese' " .
NYT, p.B1 "Markets fall sharply on report of (hundreds of thousands of) job losses...(F)ewer jobs...(mean) less expendable income to funnel into the economy..." In the USA, "consumer spending is 70% of overall economic activity". "Health care remained a rare (employment) bright spot" - but health care is non-productive and, thereby, degenerative.
"People cant spend what they dont have", if they are unemployed. Many formerly employed men with families may come to the conclusion "I can not (continue as such)...without doing something for my family". Will they then rob banks ?
GOALS :
NYT, P.A1 Russia's neighbors resist both bullying and wooing, playing Russia against the West and China.
NYT, p.C21 Book Review : "How public events affect private lives...(and) questions of belonging and loyalty : how allegiances to a family, an ethnic group, or a nation shape a man's sense of self (women, of course, are different)". Immigrants are part of two worlds, their country of origin and the USA, each of which (their cultures) are "in rapid states of flux", normally. "(N)oble public do-gooding does not always translate into praiseworthy behavior at home... (and) hard work, education and privilege do not automatically translate into security or a sense of safety". There are "unending personal ripples (as a result of) political circumstances...(and there are) the 'hard, obvious facts of history' and the 'soft subtle things that lodge themselves in the soul' ."
Westchester Guardian(WG), 7-2-09, p.3 Complaint against Yonkers Police Dept ; The author puts me in mind of judges I knew when I was a criminal defense lawyer : extremely liberal until they were mugged. The author will change his mind when his a** is reemed by a bad guy - unless he is already getting it reemed as a gay-boy.
NYT, p.A21, 7-4-09 The American Revolution was a "fight for the equality...of unmarried men". "(S)exual immorality, luxury and sloth" are all a result of the unmarried life...(,) selfish men who choose personal pleasures over duty to country". But devotion to a cause, in some ways, can be as important : the morality of adequate common goals. To survive and thrive, the USA must be a "nation built on morals (common goals and standards) and families (the preminent requisite)". "Batchelorhood...(is not) a desirable lifestyle", but...
NYT, p.A14, 7-4-09 Calvin "shaped the modern world...(with a) fierce God who predestined people to heaven or hell" ; or did he really ? He was "a major source of modernity's very understanding of the self...(of) calculating rationality, incessant striving and this-worldly asceticism" - which I dont believe is complete. "(H)e had to dominate... could be ruthless (I have those traits, too)...(and) was an outstanding hater...(and yet) confessed these failings". Today, such singlemindedness, especially if it concerns religion, seems unbalanced or baffling - and is appreciated only as political, artistic or imtellectual rebellion against long odds.
NYT Bk. Rev., p.10, 7-5-09 "Princes and Imams" Islams, worldwide, "share many of their leader's values and assumptions (context, climate...- based, as well), even if they resent their heavy-handed and corrupt ways...(So any) reform and 'modernization' (must be) on local rather than Western terms".
NYT, WK, 7-5-09, p.1 "Russia" Overall, its people want "respect" - how and why not ? The "values of Russian society" are turning inward to "immediate family and friends" - but must also, necessarily, include survival. "Russians are comfortable with how the Kremlin weilds power" - as they should be since the rulers and the ruled share the same values see above). Russian society is founded on a "multi-layer tradition of lies, very often lies with good intentions" - but what other society could not be said the same of ? There is always a difference between "real life (and)...the abstract system of rules and values in the state" - look at the USA with its excessively selfish legal system mandating horrendous excesses in "civil rights". As with everything human, "perceptions" are all important.
NYT, 7-5-09, WK, p.8 "Clean your clock" ? The next global industry is clean power technology - and promises jobs, jobs and more jobs. The Chinese are now #3 but they are moving up fast, while the USA, at #4, is fast sinking with its reliance on fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal... Every 15 years, 1 billion more people are on the planet earth and the "demand for energy and natural resources is (going)... through the roof". China has found "that it has to go green out of necessity because...its people can not breath, fish, swim, drive or even see because of pollution and climate change.... (and, moreover,) necessity is the mother of invention". We in the USA are stuck with "business as usual", whereas China, Europe, Japan... are beginning to dominate "solar, wind, batteries, nuclear...technologies". And Lazard, the great investment bank, is very bullish about these technologies - most likely because politics is going to DEMAND such in the VERY near future. The recently passed climate-energy bills are poor endeavors, but they are a start. As for health care, it is a totally non-productive industry in the sense of those just mentioned. In addition, without such productive industries, there will NEVER be enough money to support health care.
Daily News(DN), p.7, 7-5-09, "All politics (see above) is local" : in NYC, "poor people are driven to catch and eat fish species full of toxins"
JN, 7-5-09, p.1E A story about a cellist "known for her impassioned artistry", an article written by a woman (recall that other drive of Darwin, equal to natural selection by survival of the fittest, the "illogical" drive by and of women for beauty) who observes : "Dressing the part is important in performance. (Her) gown...combined flow and modesty...combining the aesthetic with the pragmatic...(And the cellist notes that she has to) center herself for the performance ahead...to go to another place for survival...(that) there is no other choice... (that all musicians are) trained to do that early on...(and she observes that music) is a much more poignant way of communicating than words (indeed, it is the only universally understood language...even if you hate it),....(yet such) is very hard to describe in words". When you are young and things happen to you, says the cellist, "You learn to adapt quickly... But it is a 24/7 job" and it is not -and never is- easy.
NYT, Sun. Bus., 7-5-09, p.2 Charisma is over-rated . For teachers, "the most important thing is perseverance, (where) people have the instinct to figure out what they can control... (and accept it), rather than blam(ing) everyone else in the system" - funny thing with me as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor, my "perseVERance" is termed "perSEVerance" and labled a "mental disorder" when I try to show what is right and wrong, good and bad in the world today. One has "to remain optimistic in the face of...challenge". The "ability to influence and motivate others in a sophisticated way" does not require "charisma", just the "gift of figuring out what motivates people". "(H)ow do you create a sense of mission" ? "(F)igure out priorities and how to measure success...focus (and learn how ) to say no", because there can be too many "new, good ideas" which can take "away resources and energy from the fundamental core" of necessary operations. Being "uninspired" and having a "near-death experience"(NDE) can be very formative -and helpful- in allowing you to set and grasp the "power of really clear (and) measurable goals". Indeed, as a TBI survivor, I too had a NDE at age 13 when I lay dead (in a coma) for 40 days.
Jose Alvarado is my friend. But we can no longer afford what he is promising below. Necessity must be made a virtue. Moreover, necessity is the mother of necessary invention.
June 22, 2009
Dear Friends,
In these tough economic times, money is tight for all of us. County government is no exception! Less revenue and more demand on county services mean that fewer dollars are available for discretionary spending that support community programs. Despite these difficulties, I am pleased to report that I have been able to secure county funding for many worthwhile programs in our community. In this newsletter, you will find a rundown of these programs as well as contact information so you, a family member or a friend can take advantage of these opportunities.
Please click here to access my summer newsletter to get information on:
* Affordable housing available at 47 Riverdale Avenue;
* Help with immigration problems, health care, housing, employment training and social services;
* Getting food support if you can't get to a local food pantry;
* An interactive 6-week reading and writing program that will help your child learn to love reading;
* An enrichment program that will help your child build self esteem and self confidence;
* The odor control project for the Yonkers sewer facility;
* The plan to bring corridor services to the Yonkers Avenue employers and laborers;
* Exciting recreational projects coming to our community.
It continues to be my privilege to serve you as your county legislator. If there is anything I can help you with, please call me at (914) 995-2846. Or, stop in at my district office at at 281 South Broadway every Wednesday from 9 to 5 and on Saturday's by appointment only.
Sincerely,
Jose Alvarez
At the bottom is an article as I've edited it. It discusses the Westchester County Board of Legislators budget comittee chaiman's proposals. The chairman I like but his proposals...
And, as and in a passing thought, one must always keep in mind that real power in this world lies in weakness. Moreover, it has been said that "He who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him". As for me, I know what I am doing and I know that I know what I am doing
In between are some current news stories and analyses, loosely grouped in categories :
7-3-09 :
SEX :
Women are keepers, about time and the present time ; men are breakers and makers, about place and space, the past and the future. According to Darwin, there are two EQUAL drives in nature : survival of the fittest / evolution (more overtly masculine, logical and rational) and a preference / drive for beauty (more overtly feminine, "illogical"/"alogical", and "irrational").
New York Times(NYT), p.C4 "All hot and bothered" "(M)ale sexual vanity...(can and does often bring about an unlimited) capacity for self-delusion...(A woman's) apparently unfeigned desire for a man (what man [or woman] ever could or would know the difference, what with a woman's natural cyclicity, her confused and confusing nature)..". (Such can knock a man) off balance...(leading him to make a) fool of himself..". "Bouts of jealousy and insecurity...follow like bad hangovers in the wake of erotic bliss (sexual intercourse)". "Stereotypical dumb blond...gold digger, tease, carnal free spirit (she slept with every man in Monaco), needy capricious Medusa (a woman can be all and more : feminine cyclicity)".
Journal News(JN), p.5A Community complaints lead to arrests of 11 on Mount Vernon / Bronx border - for prostitution. Males : an Italian from Tuckahoe, an Indian ( Guyana ?... India ?) from the Bronx, a South American, a 70-year old black man with viagra and 4 American black men, some better looking than others. The two female "sex workers" were 18 and 27, both not bad looking, from Yonkers and Mount Vernon -and out to make some quick and non-taxable income in the world's oldest profession.
NYT, p. ? movie review : "Lion's Den" "Motherhood behind bars", a women's prison movie. "(M)otherhood gives purpose to a previously aimless existence (I've seen it over and over in the south Brons... but to what good purpose when the survival of the human race is at stake)". The mother had a lesbian affair in prison. And this movie is "suffused with a sense of life lived in the present" - which is good. BUT if the human race becomes extinct because of such excessive selfishness -as mandated by the US Legal System- what good does such nonsensical "good" do ?
ECONOMY :
NYT, p.A27 "(S)tarting to feel a bit like 1937", just before World War II started. The economy keeps getting worse.
NYT, p.A27 China and America : China did the making and America did the buying - but no more. The US will never get its fiscal house in order...because there is no politically practical way to get there. Chinese nationalism (identity-seeking) is also on the rise. What about "Chinese psychology" ? "There is no one thing called 'China' or 'the Chinese' " .
NYT, p.B1 "Markets fall sharply on report of (hundreds of thousands of) job losses...(F)ewer jobs...(mean) less expendable income to funnel into the economy..." In the USA, "consumer spending is 70% of overall economic activity". "Health care remained a rare (employment) bright spot" - but health care is non-productive and, thereby, degenerative.
"People cant spend what they dont have", if they are unemployed. Many formerly employed men with families may come to the conclusion "I can not (continue as such)...without doing something for my family". Will they then rob banks ?
GOALS :
NYT, P.A1 Russia's neighbors resist both bullying and wooing, playing Russia against the West and China.
NYT, p.C21 Book Review : "How public events affect private lives...(and) questions of belonging and loyalty : how allegiances to a family, an ethnic group, or a nation shape a man's sense of self (women, of course, are different)". Immigrants are part of two worlds, their country of origin and the USA, each of which (their cultures) are "in rapid states of flux", normally. "(N)oble public do-gooding does not always translate into praiseworthy behavior at home... (and) hard work, education and privilege do not automatically translate into security or a sense of safety". There are "unending personal ripples (as a result of) political circumstances...(and there are) the 'hard, obvious facts of history' and the 'soft subtle things that lodge themselves in the soul' ."
Westchester Guardian(WG), 7-2-09, p.3 Complaint against Yonkers Police Dept ; The author puts me in mind of judges I knew when I was a criminal defense lawyer : extremely liberal until they were mugged. The author will change his mind when his a** is reemed by a bad guy - unless he is already getting it reemed as a gay-boy.
NYT, p.A21, 7-4-09 The American Revolution was a "fight for the equality...of unmarried men". "(S)exual immorality, luxury and sloth" are all a result of the unmarried life...(,) selfish men who choose personal pleasures over duty to country". But devotion to a cause, in some ways, can be as important : the morality of adequate common goals. To survive and thrive, the USA must be a "nation built on morals (common goals and standards) and families (the preminent requisite)". "Batchelorhood...(is not) a desirable lifestyle", but...
NYT, p.A14, 7-4-09 Calvin "shaped the modern world...(with a) fierce God who predestined people to heaven or hell" ; or did he really ? He was "a major source of modernity's very understanding of the self...(of) calculating rationality, incessant striving and this-worldly asceticism" - which I dont believe is complete. "(H)e had to dominate... could be ruthless (I have those traits, too)...(and) was an outstanding hater...(and yet) confessed these failings". Today, such singlemindedness, especially if it concerns religion, seems unbalanced or baffling - and is appreciated only as political, artistic or imtellectual rebellion against long odds.
NYT Bk. Rev., p.10, 7-5-09 "Princes and Imams" Islams, worldwide, "share many of their leader's values and assumptions (context, climate...- based, as well), even if they resent their heavy-handed and corrupt ways...(So any) reform and 'modernization' (must be) on local rather than Western terms".
NYT, WK, 7-5-09, p.1 "Russia" Overall, its people want "respect" - how and why not ? The "values of Russian society" are turning inward to "immediate family and friends" - but must also, necessarily, include survival. "Russians are comfortable with how the Kremlin weilds power" - as they should be since the rulers and the ruled share the same values see above). Russian society is founded on a "multi-layer tradition of lies, very often lies with good intentions" - but what other society could not be said the same of ? There is always a difference between "real life (and)...the abstract system of rules and values in the state" - look at the USA with its excessively selfish legal system mandating horrendous excesses in "civil rights". As with everything human, "perceptions" are all important.
NYT, 7-5-09, WK, p.8 "Clean your clock" ? The next global industry is clean power technology - and promises jobs, jobs and more jobs. The Chinese are now #3 but they are moving up fast, while the USA, at #4, is fast sinking with its reliance on fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal... Every 15 years, 1 billion more people are on the planet earth and the "demand for energy and natural resources is (going)... through the roof". China has found "that it has to go green out of necessity because...its people can not breath, fish, swim, drive or even see because of pollution and climate change.... (and, moreover,) necessity is the mother of invention". We in the USA are stuck with "business as usual", whereas China, Europe, Japan... are beginning to dominate "solar, wind, batteries, nuclear...technologies". And Lazard, the great investment bank, is very bullish about these technologies - most likely because politics is going to DEMAND such in the VERY near future. The recently passed climate-energy bills are poor endeavors, but they are a start. As for health care, it is a totally non-productive industry in the sense of those just mentioned. In addition, without such productive industries, there will NEVER be enough money to support health care.
Daily News(DN), p.7, 7-5-09, "All politics (see above) is local" : in NYC, "poor people are driven to catch and eat fish species full of toxins"
JN, 7-5-09, p.1E A story about a cellist "known for her impassioned artistry", an article written by a woman (recall that other drive of Darwin, equal to natural selection by survival of the fittest, the "illogical" drive by and of women for beauty) who observes : "Dressing the part is important in performance. (Her) gown...combined flow and modesty...combining the aesthetic with the pragmatic...(And the cellist notes that she has to) center herself for the performance ahead...to go to another place for survival...(that) there is no other choice... (that all musicians are) trained to do that early on...(and she observes that music) is a much more poignant way of communicating than words (indeed, it is the only universally understood language...even if you hate it),....(yet such) is very hard to describe in words". When you are young and things happen to you, says the cellist, "You learn to adapt quickly... But it is a 24/7 job" and it is not -and never is- easy.
NYT, Sun. Bus., 7-5-09, p.2 Charisma is over-rated . For teachers, "the most important thing is perseverance, (where) people have the instinct to figure out what they can control... (and accept it), rather than blam(ing) everyone else in the system" - funny thing with me as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor, my "perseVERance" is termed "perSEVerance" and labled a "mental disorder" when I try to show what is right and wrong, good and bad in the world today. One has "to remain optimistic in the face of...challenge". The "ability to influence and motivate others in a sophisticated way" does not require "charisma", just the "gift of figuring out what motivates people". "(H)ow do you create a sense of mission" ? "(F)igure out priorities and how to measure success...focus (and learn how ) to say no", because there can be too many "new, good ideas" which can take "away resources and energy from the fundamental core" of necessary operations. Being "uninspired" and having a "near-death experience"(NDE) can be very formative -and helpful- in allowing you to set and grasp the "power of really clear (and) measurable goals". Indeed, as a TBI survivor, I too had a NDE at age 13 when I lay dead (in a coma) for 40 days.
Jose Alvarado is my friend. But we can no longer afford what he is promising below. Necessity must be made a virtue. Moreover, necessity is the mother of necessary invention.
June 22, 2009
Dear Friends,
In these tough economic times, money is tight for all of us. County government is no exception! Less revenue and more demand on county services mean that fewer dollars are available for discretionary spending that support community programs. Despite these difficulties, I am pleased to report that I have been able to secure county funding for many worthwhile programs in our community. In this newsletter, you will find a rundown of these programs as well as contact information so you, a family member or a friend can take advantage of these opportunities.
Please click here to access my summer newsletter to get information on:
* Affordable housing available at 47 Riverdale Avenue;
* Help with immigration problems, health care, housing, employment training and social services;
* Getting food support if you can't get to a local food pantry;
* An interactive 6-week reading and writing program that will help your child learn to love reading;
* An enrichment program that will help your child build self esteem and self confidence;
* The odor control project for the Yonkers sewer facility;
* The plan to bring corridor services to the Yonkers Avenue employers and laborers;
* Exciting recreational projects coming to our community.
It continues to be my privilege to serve you as your county legislator. If there is anything I can help you with, please call me at (914) 995-2846. Or, stop in at my district office at at 281 South Broadway every Wednesday from 9 to 5 and on Saturday's by appointment only.
Sincerely,
Jose Alvarez
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
jewsyonkersislam # 711k US Legal System : truth, justice and the American way : mom's apple pie. All of which I support 100% - as well as President
jewsyonkersislam # 711k US Legal System : truth, justice and the American way : mom's apple pie. All of which I support 100% - as well as President Obama.
At the bottom is an article about Pres. Obama and his too-feminist orientation (as I have edited it, of course). But just below are some news articles that substantiate my contentions here, my analyses and the contentions in my blog (see jewsyonkersislemiii-tc.blogspot.com). But preceeding these are a few points my chief legal-political adviser brought out during our discussion today :
Listening to Poor Pres. Obama on CNN today -about health care (and just about anything else)- I could not fail to think that he is preaching to a choir that wants reassurance - which he gives. But such reassurance, while necessary, is unavoidably false. He is speaking about what should be and what needs to be, but neither can nor ever will be - leastways, not the way things are, the way we Americans (as well as the rest of the human race) currently think and act.
My chief legal-political adviser asked -after I observed that the articles in the New York Times (NYT) today had things "going my way" (economic and political paralysis worldwide) what I would do if my medical insurance and other payments stopped. Later on I thought about that and came to the conclusion that such will happen no matter what the NYT writes and there is little we can do about it. As to polygamy, he said he might agree with me except that men, not having women, would commit more crime. But the truth is that men commit more crime every day (having been a criminal defense lawyer for 20 years, I know all about it), even though there are probably more than 40 million more women than men in the USA alone. In addition, the unmarried women create ever more problems because they are locked out of matrimony (as a rule, women are more sharing than greedy - but when locked out completely...). After I mentioned the benefits of a well- regulated system of polygamy, he said that I wanted Pres. Obama to support polygamy. Aside from the fact that he put words in my mouth, I think thats a good idea.
In addition, he said that he was afraid that I would be involuntarily put on psychiatric "meds" because of what I do -to shut me up. Thinking about that later, I came across Isaac Asimov's novel "Foundation" where one of the lead characters, a psychohistorian, faces the same situation : he is trying to help his world survive by pointing out unplatable truths -as he works to counter them- and he is threatened with death, imprisonment... His reply to his adversaries is that word of what he is doing is widely known and if he is stopped... so also will that be widely known. What he was trying to do is to save his world -including his adversaries. So if he was stopped, everyone would know that there was no hope and the consequences would be extremely adverse -terminal, even- to his adversaries.
7-1-09
NYT, p.B1 General Motors can not meet its long-term (pension) obligations. Early Retirement at 40 with full pension ?
NYT, p.B1 Europen Banks are getting ever worse
NYT, p.B1 "Hope built in" to the stimulus bill. But that hope has proved to be false.
NYT, p.B1 "(S)tock market revived" but pessism about the economy continues to grow and no one wants to invest.
NYT, p.A20 "Climate bill" a political success. but ineffective and will lead to more paralysis.
NYT, p.A1 "Insured but unprotected and driven to bankruptcy by health care costs".
NYT, p.A1 "Roberts Court" He is pushing the Court in the right direction but he has to move cautiously and judiciously. Unfortunately, the world is not so moving.
NYT, p.A32 "Advocate for women" ? She should push for a well-regulated systemn of polygamy - along with the churches, synagogues, mosques...
Voices behind Obama
One hundred years of women's struggle surrounded the US president (and it is disgusting for what it was intended to bring about vs. what it actually has brought about), and echoed in his words, in his address from Cairo University, writes Margot Badran* (in truth, it must be reversed)
Women's equality and free choice as integral to religious ideals, human rights, and democracy were principles that resounded loud and clear in Obama's speech at Cairo University co-hosted by Al-Azhar University, strongholds of secular and religious education in Egypt. ( but what do women really want ? see my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com, # 710x... ) Exactly one hundred years earlier, Malak Hifni Nasif, a 23-year-old writer, under the penname Bahithat Al-Badiya, published Al-Nis'iyyat, a collection of her writings and speeches calling for women's rights -- within the intermeshed frameworks of religious, human and national rights -- intrinsic to the liberation of women and of Egypt under colonial(!!!) occupation. Then, as now, young voices and women's voices were especially fervent in crying out for multiple(who pays ?) rights and a free democratic nation.
The same year of 1909 when Egyptian women were refused admission as regular students to the newly founded Egyptian University (as Cairo University was then called), they organised lectures by and for women in special rooms at the university on Fridays, the weekly day of recess when male students were absent. Twenty years later, in 1929, a group of women determined to get a higher education simply showed up at the university where they remained until their graduation four years later. Thanks to the generous bequest of land and money by a woman (Princess Fatma Ismail) when women were still denied entry, the university moved to the premises where Obama stood on 4 June 2009 delivering his words on women's rights, freedom and democracy that echoed those of Egyptian women 100 years before.
While paying homage to history, Obama might have evoked the long and venerable tradition of feminism -- within Islamic and national frameworks -- in Egypt and elsewhere in the region and wider Muslim world, calling for the realisation of human rights, self-determination and democracy(first the human race has to survive...moreover, men are as deficient in "rights" as women). In Cairo in 1911 Malak Hifni Nasif sent a set of women's demands to the Egyptian Congress meeting to strategise independence and advance claims. Her list included, among others, demands for education for women in all fields and at all levels, work rights, and the right to participate in congregational worship in mosque (are women men ? why is it that women demand to be men when they are not men ?). She could not appear in person to present these demands because in her time a woman's face was not to be seen and her voice was not to be heard in public.
On 4 June 2009 it was a woman's voice that resounded in the Great Hall of Cairo University announcing: "The president of the United States of America( perhaps because they -and the Islamic...world think the US Pres. IS a woman ?)." This voice and the sea of women's faces in the audience would have cheered Egyptian feminists and nationalist women who (except for a handful of spouses of nationalist leaders) had been barred from attending the opening of the first parliament in 1924 in the aftermath of the independence -- albeit partial -- for which they had so actively fought alongside male nationalists.
Over the past century, women in Egypt, thanks to their own efforts, have gained many rights ("rights" mean nothing unless you are alive - and no one may be alive even next year if we dont totally slam the excessive selfishness and stupidity that the civil rights movement -as fostered by the US Legal System- has brought about) and increased freedom to take charge of their lives, to make their own choices. There are also numerous examples of feminist activism in other Arab countries and throughout the Muslim world at large. If Muslim women in Egypt are now free to wear the hijab, or head cover, they were not free earlier not to cover their faces, nor are they to this day in some places. Women had been made to believe that the hijab, which then involved covering the face, and that hiding the face was an Islamic injunction. When women realised that masking the face (now called more correctly niqab ) was not required by religion they began to remove it, but this was by no means easy because of the persistence of social customs and pressures. These days the hijab in the form of a head covering -- which many but not all Muslims believe to be a religious prescription -- is only one way Muslim women choose to dress. The hijab does not signify "the Muslim woman". It is nice, Mr Obama, that Muslim women are free to wear the hijab in America and it is also nice that they are free not to. Muslim women, like other women, exhibit multiple forms of self-expression, including sartorial, which they find in keeping with their deeply held convictions.
The frames of Obama's speech shifted between Muslim and Arab, between Muslim majority countries and communities, and Arab countries. Within both frames are found Muslims and people of other faiths. Within, as well as between, these frames or contexts we can find commonalties and differences; that is, lively and creative diversity. The freedom, rights and dignities of one individual, group and gender are the freedom, rights and dignity of all(if we survive). Remembering the long decades of feminist activism of Egyptian women, Muslim and Christian together, and of women elsewhere in the region and in the wider Muslim world is telling. And paying homage is perhaps even more telling.
The message is now as it was then: women and nations claim, and wish to retain, their own independence, decide on their own forms of self-governing, and actively enjoy their individual and collective rights and justice(but such may no longer be possible if we want to survive - the human race, that is). In the American president's talk, echoes of generations of women's voices in Egypt, the region and beyond could be heard along with the clamouring of the present generation of women for the inseparable principles of justice and equality basic to human rights and democracy to be translated into reality (but the stupidity in herent here lies in the fact that men and women are NOT equal - and different things are differently important to men and women).
* The writer is fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. Her latest book is Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences .
At the bottom is an article about Pres. Obama and his too-feminist orientation (as I have edited it, of course). But just below are some news articles that substantiate my contentions here, my analyses and the contentions in my blog (see jewsyonkersislemiii-tc.blogspot.com). But preceeding these are a few points my chief legal-political adviser brought out during our discussion today :
Listening to Poor Pres. Obama on CNN today -about health care (and just about anything else)- I could not fail to think that he is preaching to a choir that wants reassurance - which he gives. But such reassurance, while necessary, is unavoidably false. He is speaking about what should be and what needs to be, but neither can nor ever will be - leastways, not the way things are, the way we Americans (as well as the rest of the human race) currently think and act.
My chief legal-political adviser asked -after I observed that the articles in the New York Times (NYT) today had things "going my way" (economic and political paralysis worldwide) what I would do if my medical insurance and other payments stopped. Later on I thought about that and came to the conclusion that such will happen no matter what the NYT writes and there is little we can do about it. As to polygamy, he said he might agree with me except that men, not having women, would commit more crime. But the truth is that men commit more crime every day (having been a criminal defense lawyer for 20 years, I know all about it), even though there are probably more than 40 million more women than men in the USA alone. In addition, the unmarried women create ever more problems because they are locked out of matrimony (as a rule, women are more sharing than greedy - but when locked out completely...). After I mentioned the benefits of a well- regulated system of polygamy, he said that I wanted Pres. Obama to support polygamy. Aside from the fact that he put words in my mouth, I think thats a good idea.
In addition, he said that he was afraid that I would be involuntarily put on psychiatric "meds" because of what I do -to shut me up. Thinking about that later, I came across Isaac Asimov's novel "Foundation" where one of the lead characters, a psychohistorian, faces the same situation : he is trying to help his world survive by pointing out unplatable truths -as he works to counter them- and he is threatened with death, imprisonment... His reply to his adversaries is that word of what he is doing is widely known and if he is stopped... so also will that be widely known. What he was trying to do is to save his world -including his adversaries. So if he was stopped, everyone would know that there was no hope and the consequences would be extremely adverse -terminal, even- to his adversaries.
7-1-09
NYT, p.B1 General Motors can not meet its long-term (pension) obligations. Early Retirement at 40 with full pension ?
NYT, p.B1 Europen Banks are getting ever worse
NYT, p.B1 "Hope built in" to the stimulus bill. But that hope has proved to be false.
NYT, p.B1 "(S)tock market revived" but pessism about the economy continues to grow and no one wants to invest.
NYT, p.A20 "Climate bill" a political success. but ineffective and will lead to more paralysis.
NYT, p.A1 "Insured but unprotected and driven to bankruptcy by health care costs".
NYT, p.A1 "Roberts Court" He is pushing the Court in the right direction but he has to move cautiously and judiciously. Unfortunately, the world is not so moving.
NYT, p.A32 "Advocate for women" ? She should push for a well-regulated systemn of polygamy - along with the churches, synagogues, mosques...
Voices behind Obama
One hundred years of women's struggle surrounded the US president (and it is disgusting for what it was intended to bring about vs. what it actually has brought about), and echoed in his words, in his address from Cairo University, writes Margot Badran* (in truth, it must be reversed)
Women's equality and free choice as integral to religious ideals, human rights, and democracy were principles that resounded loud and clear in Obama's speech at Cairo University co-hosted by Al-Azhar University, strongholds of secular and religious education in Egypt. ( but what do women really want ? see my blog, jewsyonkersislamiii-tc.blogspot.com, # 710x... ) Exactly one hundred years earlier, Malak Hifni Nasif, a 23-year-old writer, under the penname Bahithat Al-Badiya, published Al-Nis'iyyat, a collection of her writings and speeches calling for women's rights -- within the intermeshed frameworks of religious, human and national rights -- intrinsic to the liberation of women and of Egypt under colonial(!!!) occupation. Then, as now, young voices and women's voices were especially fervent in crying out for multiple(who pays ?) rights and a free democratic nation.
The same year of 1909 when Egyptian women were refused admission as regular students to the newly founded Egyptian University (as Cairo University was then called), they organised lectures by and for women in special rooms at the university on Fridays, the weekly day of recess when male students were absent. Twenty years later, in 1929, a group of women determined to get a higher education simply showed up at the university where they remained until their graduation four years later. Thanks to the generous bequest of land and money by a woman (Princess Fatma Ismail) when women were still denied entry, the university moved to the premises where Obama stood on 4 June 2009 delivering his words on women's rights, freedom and democracy that echoed those of Egyptian women 100 years before.
While paying homage to history, Obama might have evoked the long and venerable tradition of feminism -- within Islamic and national frameworks -- in Egypt and elsewhere in the region and wider Muslim world, calling for the realisation of human rights, self-determination and democracy(first the human race has to survive...moreover, men are as deficient in "rights" as women). In Cairo in 1911 Malak Hifni Nasif sent a set of women's demands to the Egyptian Congress meeting to strategise independence and advance claims. Her list included, among others, demands for education for women in all fields and at all levels, work rights, and the right to participate in congregational worship in mosque (are women men ? why is it that women demand to be men when they are not men ?). She could not appear in person to present these demands because in her time a woman's face was not to be seen and her voice was not to be heard in public.
On 4 June 2009 it was a woman's voice that resounded in the Great Hall of Cairo University announcing: "The president of the United States of America( perhaps because they -and the Islamic...world think the US Pres. IS a woman ?)." This voice and the sea of women's faces in the audience would have cheered Egyptian feminists and nationalist women who (except for a handful of spouses of nationalist leaders) had been barred from attending the opening of the first parliament in 1924 in the aftermath of the independence -- albeit partial -- for which they had so actively fought alongside male nationalists.
Over the past century, women in Egypt, thanks to their own efforts, have gained many rights ("rights" mean nothing unless you are alive - and no one may be alive even next year if we dont totally slam the excessive selfishness and stupidity that the civil rights movement -as fostered by the US Legal System- has brought about) and increased freedom to take charge of their lives, to make their own choices. There are also numerous examples of feminist activism in other Arab countries and throughout the Muslim world at large. If Muslim women in Egypt are now free to wear the hijab, or head cover, they were not free earlier not to cover their faces, nor are they to this day in some places. Women had been made to believe that the hijab, which then involved covering the face, and that hiding the face was an Islamic injunction. When women realised that masking the face (now called more correctly niqab ) was not required by religion they began to remove it, but this was by no means easy because of the persistence of social customs and pressures. These days the hijab in the form of a head covering -- which many but not all Muslims believe to be a religious prescription -- is only one way Muslim women choose to dress. The hijab does not signify "the Muslim woman". It is nice, Mr Obama, that Muslim women are free to wear the hijab in America and it is also nice that they are free not to. Muslim women, like other women, exhibit multiple forms of self-expression, including sartorial, which they find in keeping with their deeply held convictions.
The frames of Obama's speech shifted between Muslim and Arab, between Muslim majority countries and communities, and Arab countries. Within both frames are found Muslims and people of other faiths. Within, as well as between, these frames or contexts we can find commonalties and differences; that is, lively and creative diversity. The freedom, rights and dignities of one individual, group and gender are the freedom, rights and dignity of all(if we survive). Remembering the long decades of feminist activism of Egyptian women, Muslim and Christian together, and of women elsewhere in the region and in the wider Muslim world is telling. And paying homage is perhaps even more telling.
The message is now as it was then: women and nations claim, and wish to retain, their own independence, decide on their own forms of self-governing, and actively enjoy their individual and collective rights and justice(but such may no longer be possible if we want to survive - the human race, that is). In the American president's talk, echoes of generations of women's voices in Egypt, the region and beyond could be heard along with the clamouring of the present generation of women for the inseparable principles of justice and equality basic to human rights and democracy to be translated into reality (but the stupidity in herent here lies in the fact that men and women are NOT equal - and different things are differently important to men and women).
* The writer is fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. Her latest book is Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences .
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