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An idea whose time has obviously come -- psychiatric exams to make sure presidential candidates are mentally stable and fit to lead the country.
Perilous Unknowns: the Mental Health of Presidential Candidates
Donald Trump
by Barry Lando | March 18, 2016
It's become normal for Americans to demand—and receive-a professional assessment of the physical health of the candidates for president—just as they expect updates on the medical state of the president himself. After all, there have been many infamous cases of presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy, who secretly endured serious debilitating illnesses.
Thus, the current crop of presidential hopefuls has provided medical information—though not necessarily from the most objective sources. Hillary Clinton's doctor, for instance, declared her "fit to serve as president". Donald Trump's physician, opined that Trump's blood pressure and lab results were "astonishingly excellent", his "physical strength and stamina are extraordinary." He concluded, "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
But what about Trump's mental health?
Surely, we care if a candidate is mentally deranged. If we consider it reasonable that someone with severe psychiatric problems be prevented from purchasing a firearm, why go along with a system that might permit a similarly disturbed individual to gain control over the largest military arsenal the world has ever known?
Indeed, the power of an American president to declare war, to secretly dispatch special forces units to all corners of the globe, to okay the execution by drone or killer teams of anyone he deems a threat to the United States, that power has dangerously escalated over the past few years under Barrack Obama as Congress has refused to even debate Obama's military actions abroad.
It's O.K., we're reassured: you can trust Obama. But what if he we were replaced by someone with a serious character disorder?
Such as, arguably, Donald Trump?
What character disorder? Recent articles from Vanity Fair to Time to Psychology today suggest that Trump is a textbook study of Narcissism. He's a swaggering egotist; vain, self-centered, convinced of his own greatness, who (some theorize) unconsciously compensates for an underlying low self-esteem with bullying, blustering and braggadocchio.
"He's so classic that I'm archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there's no better example of his characteristics," clinical psychologist George Simon, who conducts lectures and seminars on manipulative behavior recently told Vanity Fair. "Otherwise, I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He's like a dream come true."
On the other hand, some of the world's greatest political and business leaders have also been labeled narcissists, from Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, to Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, and George Soros. Though difficult to live and work with, they've proved extremely valuable and productive members of society. We wouldn't want to be without them.
But, as the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, "The danger is that narcissism can turn unproductive when, lacking self-knowledge and restraining anchors, narcissists become unrealistic dreamers. They nurture grand schemes and harbor the illusion that only circumstances or enemies block their success…
Given the large number of narcissists at the helm of corporations today, the challenge facing organizations is to ensure that such leaders do not self-destruct or lead the company to disaster."
"…the very adulation that the narcissist demands can have a corrosive effect. As he expands, he listens even less to words of caution and advice.…The result is sometimes flagrant risk taking that can lead to catastrophe."
Dr. George Simon, an expert on personality disorders, explains, "Narcissism becomes particularly "malignant" (i.e. malevolent, dangerous, harmful, incurable) when it goes beyond mere vanity and excessive self-focus. Malignant narcissists not only see themselves as superior to others but believe in their superiority to the degree that they view others as relatively worthless, expendable, and justifiably exploitable.
"This type of narcissism is a defining characteristic of psychopathy/sociopathy and is rooted in an individual's deficient capacity for empathy. It's almost impossible for a person with such shallow feelings and such haughtiness to really care about others or to form a conscience with any of the qualities we typically associate with a humane attitude, which is why most researchers and thinkers on the topic of psychopathy think of psychopaths as individuals without a conscience altogether."
Extreme narcissists, we are told, lash out brutally at those who would dare question their talent or goals. They lie, cheat, change their story from one moment to the next; ignore anything that might challenge their view of the world or of themselves.
According to a recent cover story in Time about Donald Trump and Narcissism, "Trump indeed appears to be emotionally incontinent, a man wholly without—you should pardon the expression—any psychic sphincter. The boundary most people draw between thought and speech, between emotion and action, does not appear to exist for Trump. He says what he wants to say, insults whom he wants to insult, and never, ever considers apology or retreat."
"Make no mistake," warns Dr. Simon, "no one is more dangerous than a person who sets him or herself above others to the point that he or she feels entitled to prey on those viewed as inferior.
So, bottom line, in light of such warnings about how the dangers of malignant narcissists, after following the outrageous actions of Donald Trump on the campaign trail, why shouldn't the American people demand assurances that Donald Trump–and all candidates for that matter—are mentally stable enough to become president of the United States?
More bluntly, why on earth should America's leaders knowingly let a nut-case take over the White House?
At the very least, why not insist that that all the candidates undergo some kind of psychiatric examination? That would of course include Trump's main rival, Ted Cruz—seemingly another mentally–challenged figure.
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If your brakes are not pin sharp, have a look at this.
And what on earth is that photo, I hear you cry.
It happens to be 800kg of Anderson22 lifting keel, that Amy, Simon & I removed from our little sailing boat. The reason I list it here is that it occurs to me that my Volvo 142 was only a little bit heavier than this keel a couple of years ago - which seems extraordinary that one can get a 140 this light, or that my yacht is kept upright by the equivalent of a Volvo hanging underneath it.
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Throughout our history there are many changes that take place. The French Revolution is an example where many changes were taken place. The French Revolution took place in the late 1700s. There were several causes for the French Revolution including political, social, and economic causes.
Politically, France was under an absolute monarchy. France had been under an absolute monarchy for hundreds of years. This monarchy meant the reigning king had the absolute power over everyone. The revolutionists in France wanted more equality; therefore this absolute monarchy caused uproar.
Socially, France was divided into an estate system. The first estate was made up of the clergy. The clergy is made up of the church, which is a small percentage of the population. The second estate was made up of nobles and kings. The third estate was everybody else. They were the workers and the farmers. The third estate was heavily taxed making the poor poorer. The first estate and the second estates were not taxed at all. These three estates caused very limited social mobility in France.
Economically, France was facing a severe financial crisis due to over spending. The third estate was hurting because of these problems. The third estate began to take over control of the government. During this time, the third estate declares itself the Sovereign National Assembly starting the beginning of the French Revolution.
These three causes of the French Revolution were the beginning of something much greater. The French Revolution was ten years of great turmoil in French history. After the ten years of turmoil, the new modern France was formed.
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The end of route sign in Bridlington has been missing for several weeks leaving many, many cyclists disappointed by the diminished photo opportunity available and in some cases, difficulty identifying where the route ends.
For those of you finishing this week, the end point is opposite Cappucinos cafe and near to the crazy golf pitch.
The sign was removed by East Yorkshire Council for repairs and is due to be re-installed in the next couple of weeks.
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Which would be better? To rid the human heart of its selfish and sinful tendencies or to fill the human heart with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control? Then again, are these alternatives legitimate? Is either alternative even possible?
Some followers of Jesus believe that selfishness and sin are super-glued to the human heart and the best we can do is to avoid blatant outbursts of evil thinking, feeling, acting and reacting with God's help. Other followers of Jesus believe that God's Spirit can so fill our hearts that we are set free from self-centeredness and for a life of loving other-centeredness. Which alternative most reflects God's plans and provisions for us?
In answering these questions, we must watch how we frame the alternatives. On the one hand, we are not doomed to be helplessly and hopelessly bound by our sin until we die. Clearly, Jesus calls us to Spirit-empowered discipleship that makes us good and true persons whose lives bear good fruit. This is why Jesus spoke clearly and consistently about becoming the kind of persons from whose hearts good things (super)naturally flow (Luke 6:43–46). Indeed, Jesus calls us to live as He lived, with His Spirit working in and through us. That is the whole point of calling people to follow Him — so that they may become like Jesus, their master (Luke 6:40).
On the other hand, we should not expect to be perfectly sinless. The Apostle John wrote a letter to friends in Christ to help them not to sin (1 John 2:1). Certainly, John expected that this was possible and normative, especially for those who are filled and led by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, why bother writing for such a purpose? Still, however, John continues his thought by saying: "But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins — and not only our sins but the sins of all the world" (1 John 2:1-2 NLT).
Thus, while we cannot expect to be flawless, we may expect to be free from slavery to our natural self-centeredness, self-preoccupation and self-promotion. We rightly expect to live above and without such sin in our lives. We must anticipate freedom from living with our selves at the center and freedom for living with God at the center. We properly expect this freedom from … and freedom for …!
Of course, the evil one delights in deception and discouragement. First, he suggests we aim low and settle for minimal impact from God's power and love. (He might even try to pass this off as "humility.") But if that doesn't work, he is just as happy when we imagine ourselves incapable of anything like "serious sin," however we may define what "serious" means.
Either we settle for less than God offers, or we imagine ourselves incapable of being really bad. Why do we fall prey to such false alternatives? It is because we tend to compare ourselves with others and not with Jesus, the true and perfect human being. And it is because we do not trust that God can do all God promises to do.
What has God promised to do? According to Jesus, God pours out the Holy Spirit upon us. God fills us with the Holy Spirit, who renovates us from the inside out. As a result, our inner person becomes a source of Spirit-fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. According to Jesus, the Spirit will reveal to us the person and way of Jesus, remind of us Jesus, and empower us to live our everyday lives in Jesus' way.
How, then, does God work this way in our lives to conform us to Jesus' character and way, and cultivate the Spirit's fruit within us? Within the teachings of Paul especially, we read of a pattern to follow as we seek God to work in these ways within us. We are to put off or put to death the way we used to live before Jesus became our Lord and Savior. We say "No!" to attitudes, desires, reflex responses, words, thoughts and actions that are contrary to Jesus' life. Paul speaks of this in even more radical terms. When we commit to follow Jesus, we accept Jesus' dying as our dying — both the dying that our own sinfulness leads toward, and also a dying to that sinfulness and its hold on our lives (Galatians 5:19–21). In a sense, when we belong to Christ, we have nailed our former ways of life to the cross and have died with Christ to them (Galatians 5:24).
We do this because God's Spirit has empowered us to do it. In fact, the Spirit renews our minds, reveals how life was meant to be and can be, and draws us toward the new way of life we see in Jesus (Ephesians 4:23).
Then, we must fully embrace and put on that new way of life. It is the life we were created to live, the life Jesus lived, which has now come within our reach by the power of the Spirit (Ephesians 4:23–24, 30–5:2). God will not clothe us against our will, but God will empower us to decisively reject the old way and powerfully walk into the new way patterned after the way Jesus Himself lived His life.
If we are filled with the Spirit, we have the authority and the empowering to embrace that new way of life. If we are filled with the Spirit, we can keep in step with the Spirit and welcome the work of the Spirit to produce Spirit-fruit within us (Galatians 5:22–23). As Paul says, "Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives," (Galatians 5:25 NLT).
Many followers of Jesus do not really know or believe that such a life is possible. Yet, it is not only possible; it is normal. And many followers who know it is possible have yet to trust God to do what God promises to do. If that describes you, why not ask God and then trust God to do what He has clearly promised to do? And why not ask and seek now?
Bishop David Kendall is an ordained elder in the Great Plains Conference who was first elected to the office of Free Methodist bishop in 2005. He is the author of "God's Call to Be Like Jesus" (fmchr.ch/godscalldk) and the co-author of "The Female Pastor: Is There Room for She in Shepherd?" (fmchr.ch/fpsisdk).1


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Stuart Neatby, Prince George Citizen, January 10th, 2018
Significant, ongoing increases to social assistance. A $15 minimum wage. Ten thousand units of new social housing per year. A 50 per cent reduction in tuition fees.
If local anti-poverty advocates have their way, these social policies could become a reality in B.C. The provincial government is organizing a roadtrip of public consultations related to their planned poverty reduction strategy and anti-poverty advocates, including many in the north, are hoping to push out large numbers of residents with lived experience of poverty to these meetings.
The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition, an umbrella group composed of 70 member organizations, held a meeting on Monday afternoon aimed at preparing local organizations and non-profits to mobilize their members to attend these consultations. As part of their tour, the Ministry of Social Development & Poverty Reduction is planning an event in Prince George on Feb. 7, although the time and location have not yet been posted.
Community meetings are also planned this week in Prince Rupert on Thursday, Terrace and Kitimat on Friday and Smithers on Saturday. "I'm hopeful there's going to be some movement," said Laura Bennett, who began working with the coalition as their northern coordinator last fall.
Bennett has personal experience living with poverty. She said that, despite the frequent association with the extremes of homelessness and addiction, an increasing number of those dealing with poverty fall into the ranks of the working poor.
"Many people are working, just getting by on $12 or $13 an hour," Bennett said.
Shane Simpson, B.C.'s Minister of Poverty Reduction and Social Development, said the latest data puts the number of B.C. residents living in poverty at 678,000, or 15 per cent of the population.
"Over 40 per cent of the people on that list have a paycheque coming into the house. They're the working poor, they're not on assistance or disability benefits. They have earned income - they're employed but they can't make ends meet," Simpson said.
In response, Simpson plans to introduce a poverty reduction strategy in the legislature this spring. Similar strategies have already been enacted in most provinces in Canada, according to Simpson. The community consultations held by his ministry over the next three months will inform the legislation.
"That plan will lay out the details on how the government will proceed, whether it's on housing issues, on childcare, on minimum wage, on income support, on education," said Simpson.
The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition, whose chairperson also sits on an advisory council to Simpson's ministry, has published a poster on its website with a list of policy changes it plans to highlight in the consultations. These include $10 a day childcare, a $15 minimum wage, increased social spending on housing, higher social assistance rates, reductions tuition fees for students and subsidized dental and optical care for seniors.
Viveca Ellis, the leadership and development coordinator for the B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition, spoke at the meeting on Monday. She said the coalition is taking a role in encouraging people with lived experience of poverty to become involved in the consultations.
"The engagement process is not just 'tell us your opinion,'it really is about activating the whole province and working toward a vision that's realistic and that will truly impact everybody," Ellis said.
"After more than a decade of very austere social spending, we are in a very dark place. We need to hear from people. There's nowhere to go but up."


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MPs urge US on Kashmir solution
Washington, July 6: European legislators and top experts have urged the United States to step up efforts towards resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
Speaking at a conference on 'Kashmir Issue Centrality of Kashmiris' Rights,' the speakers emphasized the rightful inclusion of Kashmiri voice in Pakistan-India dialogue process to resolve the decades-old conflict in accordance with wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Deputy Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament Ola Lanke, Lord Nazir Ahmed, Member British House of Lords, Kashmiri scholar Dr Ghulam Nabi Mir and Dr Executive Director Kashmir Center Washington, Dr, Ghulam Nabi Fai agreed on the need for American and European lawmakers to end continued gross human rights violations in Kashmir.
As an expression of their concern over unspeakable atrocities inflicted upon Kashmiri civilians, Lord Ahmed suggested members of US Congress, the Norwegian Parliament and the British Parliament should bring out reports on human rights situation in IOK just as they have done in the case of conflicts elsewhere.
'Time has come --- we all know how bad the situation is in Kashmir. The world must do what it can to encourage a fair settlement of Kashmir,' said the Norwegian parliamentary leader.
Lanke reminded President Barack Obama of his pre-2008 polls pledge to help resolve Kashmir dispute. He invoked the metaphor of Africans around the world seeing realization of their dreams in Obama's election, and said the history-making U.S. president should pay attention to the South Asian tensions that demand 'high-level' attention.
'The negotiations (between Pakistan and India) should be firmly anchored and must have a representative of Kashmir,' he stressed. He said several members of the Norwegian parliament have raised the issue of human rights violations in Kashmir.
'The access of humanitarian aid should be allowed to Kashmiri people. We are concerned over discovery of mass graves in Kashmir and an independent investigation should be conducted," he said.
'The Kashmiris have suffered more than any other nation --- it is important lawmakers in United States, London and Norway come up with reports on their plight.'
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, has called for appointment of a US special envoy in accordance with President Obama's promise.
He laid out four aspects that must characterize talks between Pakistan and India if they are to be meaningful: the talks should have clearly defined parameters; should be time-bound; must take into account wishes of Kashmiri people through their representation; and India must bring to an end the killings of the Kashmiris.
Dr Ghulam Nabi Mir, President World Kashmir Freedom Movement, said India has tried to silence Kashmiris for decades through heinous means. "India has attacked its neighbor (Pakistan) three times—spent billions on its offensive budget, put 600,000 soldiers plus in a small valley --- but it can never succeed in making Kashmir its integral part." (APP)


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On The Twentieth of April
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CPAC Just Got Real!
Posted in Freedom Fighters, tagged Liberty, Protests, Why I'm a Libertarian on February 20, 2010| 3 Comments »
And it was fascinating. Here's the story. Alexander McCobin, founder of Students for Liberty, spoke yesterday at CPAC about activism and liberty.
In the name of freedom, I would like to thank the American Conservative Union for welcoming GOProud [a coalition of gay republicans] as a co-sponsor of this event, not for any political reason but for the message it sends….Students today recognize that freedom does not come in pieces. Freedom is a single thing that applies to the social as well as the economic realms and should be defended at all times.
Next, Ryan Sorba, author of The Born Gay Hoax took the podium, and blasted the crowd for so heartily endorsing Alexander's sentiment.
What an asshole.
I'm heartened that the booing, while loud, was limited, as were the cheers to Sorba's rant. Judging by the crowd wide-shots, the inverse is true for Alexander's talk. For those who care, Jeff Frazee is the leader of Young Americans for Liberty, a campus group inspired by/centered around Ron Paul.
Alexander and his supporters in the crowd make me very proud.
Update: Scuttlebutt is that the loud booing you can heard during Alexander's speech is coming from Ryan Sorba himself. What. A. Prick.
Preferring Partisans
Posted in Ethics, Federalism, Freedom Fighters, Jurisprudence, Law and Economics, Political Philosophy, tagged Liberal Heroes, Public Goods on February 17, 2010| 10 Comments »
Happy Stimulus Anniversary! Hope you're all enjoying the jobs we saved! And your solid gold toilets, and your free taxpayer-funded golf carts! This one is rather long, but I do drop an F-Bomb if you stick around long enough.
Evan Bayh is stepping down, and blaming the poisonous partisanship on the hill. From Yahoo! News (which features consistently good journalism; the ! means quality!):
Bayh blamed the current atmosphere of intense partisanship on the need for senators to constantly campaign to be reelected to another six-year term. Citing his father, a popular liberal senator in the '60s and '70s, he noted that "back in the day they used to have the saying: 'You campaign for 2 years and you legislate for 4.' Now you campaign for 6!" He noted that the need for constant fundraising made it nearly impossible to focus on passing legislation.
Frustration over the increasing amount of money being spent on political campaigns isn't exactly a new thing, as spending by candidates in the 2008 presidential election nearly quadrupled the amount of money spent by candidates in the 2000 election. Additionally, winners of House races in 2000 spent an average of $849,158 to do so, while House winners in 2008 spent an average of $1,372,591. Enhancing the concerns of many on the left and the right has been a recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the country's existing campaign finance laws. Put simply, the ruling opens the door for an even greater influence of money by allowing corporations spend money directly on campaigns.
There are two ways to address the influence of money in Washington
We could spend millions more on intricate regulations, inevitably leading to a greater concentration of power in a select few, who will then be plied with even greater amounts of money to curry favor.
Alternatively, we could limit the power of all of the branches of government, reducing the incentives to lobby Washington, cutting off the flow of money.
But what's interesting about Senator Bayh stepping down is his implied belief in the power and majesty of bipartisanship. From his comments, it's evident that the Hoosier Senator believes in the power of Congress to lead, and that synthesizing conflicting or contradictory viewpoints can and will lead to good governance.
I don't agree. Some of the worst bills are the most bipartisan. Sarbane-Oxley, McCain-Feingold, the egregious Farm Bills, the stimulus, TARP, the 80's S&L scandles, and on ad nauseam and ad infinitum. Of course on some issues bipartisan support is clearly a good thing, like defense, criminal statutes, and tax policy. The benefits here are avoiding arbitrary or biased regulation on issues that should be universal. Broadly I'm in favor there.
Where I disagree is in saying that compromise on fundamentally different beliefs can result in good government. Particular ideological beliefs of both parties shouldn't be compromised to forward mediocre bills. If liberal's truly believe that healthcare is an affirmative right, or conservatives sincerely hold that life starts at conception, what purpose do compromising these beliefs for political gain accomplish? The answer is in the question; political gain. Influence, privilege and money are preferred by the political class over ideals. The difference here is that these issues are primarily social and therefore subjective or personal, while the former set where I support bipartisanship are broadly universal.
Universal issues have objectively universal consequences, in ways that other issues don't. For some getting an abortion might be unquestionably the right thing to do, for others it could be abhorrent. But equally important, there is a significant middle class where it's an open question. Similarly, health insurance may save some (see Megan McArdle for an ongoing discussion on this issue), but the exact same level of care may not save another person suffering from the same disease; the same level of care also has varying degrees of "saved", as anyone who knows cancer patients can attest. The issues aren't universal in the same way as defense or tax.
Those areas of policy where compromise is illogical or politically motivated are fertile grounds for bipartisanship. Politicians want to be seen 'accomplishing' things, and often have little sense of what their accomplishments represent. John McCain pushed for campaign finance reform and ran on that platform for two presidential election cycles, before getting obliterated financially by President Obama, who skillfully used the rules McCain advocated to choke him.
All too often bipartisanship precludes social experimentation and enshrines one fickle majority upon the whole. Some liberals like Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes realize this. He felt that the constitution was a threat to majority tyranny, and his progressive leanings elevated that elusive creature of 'the public will' above constitutional constraints. He famously wrote;
If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.
That may be the worst perversion of the role of the judiciary ever. I'm less offended by outright bribery than by Holmes' complete abandonment of constitutional duty. What a fucker.
Other progressives/liberals will argue that a centralized technocracy will avoid this majoritarian fickleness, but there's very little evidence to support that theory. Even as politically insulated a technocrat as Alan Greenspan kept one finger always testing the political winds.
The genius of American federalism is that it leaves plenty of experimentation space for competing ideas of all stripes, and allows people with limited knowledge and limited rationality to demonstrably embrace one system or another, all while bearing the responsibility for their choices. Bipartisanship, and centralization in general, goes a long way towards chipping away at that dynamic. Jeffersonian "laboratories of democracy" don't require unanimous or cross-party support, but Madisonian faction-on-faction action.
P.S. For more proof that Holmes is indeed a fucker, among his hundreds of terrible rulings, he held that the mentally handicapped could be sterilized by the state. Perhaps the nadir of Liberal Fascism.
Semper Fi
Posted in Freedom Fighters, tagged Heroes on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Today is the birthday of the United States Marine Corps in 1775.
Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or inlisted into said Battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required: that they be inlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress: that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines, and that they be considered part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is ordered to consist of."
Happy birthday gentleman.
The Associative State?
Posted in Aaron's random thoughts, Freedom Fighters, tagged Books, Evolution, Innovation, Liberty on October 14, 2009| 5 Comments »
Just a random thought this morning: history has progressed to this point, and seen several revolutions in the formal arrangements that govern societies.
Since pre-history, people lived in chaotic tribal groups, often warring with their neighbors. Power and leadership coalesced around the warlord. Eventually warlords ceded some power to a King, who could ensure a peace over a broader territory. Kings eventually gave way to classically liberal regimes, like Napoleon or the English Parliment. At the close of the 1800's Europe, and soon the world, was ruled by a sense of tribal-nationalism, centered around the idea of a unified volk, or common people. (more…)


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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Would M.A.D.D. Approve?
Posted by David in DC at 10:19 PM
7 comments:
- -RM said...
hahahaha, I think they would. I don't think they're opposed to people getting drunk. I think they're just opposed to the combination of drinking and driving.
- June 13, 2008 at 12:29:00 PM EDT
- Churlita said...
That is a great sign. And probably true too.
- June 13, 2008 at 4:39:00 PM EDT
I am all for that....I hardly drive now so I can definitely do that.
- June 15, 2008 at 9:44:00 PM EDT
- mielikki said...
maybe we should convert our cars into beer guzzlers
- June 16, 2008 at 8:09:00 PM EDT
- dmarks said...
and tank up on the real cheap Old Milwaukee beer.
Or I wonder if Wal-Mart now markets super cheap beer, with a name like "Sam's Buzz".
- June 18, 2008 at 9:01:00 PM EDT
- Tara said...
Wal-Mart probably does sell cheap beer. I was astounded to see that the one near me is finally selling alcohol!
- June 30, 2008 at 10:02:00 AM EDT
- sybil law said...
Oh, David - thanks for the laugh. You always make me laugh!
- July 3, 2008 at 9:42:00 PM EDT
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Every activity worth doing must serve some purpose. A purpose writ not in the fabric of the universe but in the desires of particular individuals, such that the activity is worth doing for them. The reasoning behind this assertion is simple to explain: if we suppose there are purposes independent of human desires that don't serve them in some way then it is clear that, objectively speaking, we would be better off ignoring them. (If there were two groups of people, one that ignored such purposes and one that paid attention to them, the first would have an advantage over the second.) Clearly then such purposes are an absurd idea, probably invented, if I may digress, to manipulate people into ignoring what was best for themselves. Of course this account of human activity doesn't really rule out much; it is broad enough to account for activities that are done because of the belief that they worth doing alone, that is essentially what a fad is. But any activity that persists, I maintain, must serve a certain persistent class of interests. And as philosophy is an activity that persists we can thus ask what the purpose of philosophy is, and what interests it serves, and expect an answer more substantial than "people like doing philosophy".
Of course that is a highly theoretical question and it may seem a pointless one to ask. After all philosophy does get done, and people continue to be paid for it; for many philosophers that may be enough. And as I have just pointed out philosophy probably serves some purpose, so what is the point in losing sleep over what that purpose is exactly? Well it should be obvious that an activity can be done better or worse. And to determine how well an activity is being done it is necessary to examine how well it is accomplishing its purpose. So if you don't know what the purpose of what you are doing is then you are essentially lost in the dark, stumbling first in one direction and then another, but never knowing whether you are actually getting somewhere. Similarly, knowing the purpose of an activity can allow us to determine principles about how it should be done. For example, consider a band of proto-astronomers. These proto-astronomers have begun to make discoveries that question certain established religious principles, which some of them may think is a bad thing. This may lead them to question what the purpose of proto-astronomy is. Is it to tell people a comforting story about the heavens? Is it to make accurate measurements about the time of year? Or is it to discover facts about the heavens? Obviously the proto-astronomers are free to pick any of these as the purpose of their discipline, but they can only really pick one because of the possibility of developments that lead to a conflict between them. And which one they pick will determine how they go about their proto-astronomy, because more powerful telescopes are really only necessary if you are interested in astronomical truths. Similarly, the same can be said about philosophy: knowing what the purpose of philosophy is will better allow us to separate good philosophy from bad and it will inform us about how to do philosophy.
One might be inclined at this point to try to discover the purpose of philosophy by looking at how philosophy is actually used. But, unfortunately, most modern philosophy stays confined to the academic world, and thus appears quite useless. This does not imply that philosophy is useless, but rather that the purpose of philosophy is unclear. Our proto-astronomers were in a similar position: they couldn't extract the purpose of proto-astronomy from what they had already done, rather they were required to give proto-astronomy a single purpose. So, if we have to give philosophy a purpose rather than simply discover one (because, like proto-astronomy, philosophy may already serve some purposes, but things are in such a confused state that extracting one is impossible), then we might start by looking at the purpose of other disciplines to see whether philosophy fits into some established mold.
We can divide human activities by their purpose into three major groups: the practical, the scientific, and the artistic. The practical activities revolve around being able to get something done, such as fix a car or program a computer. Obviously then philosophy is not a practical activity, because nothing gets done through philosophy except philosophy itself. The scientific activities revolve around discovering truths about some subject matter, truths that it is possible to use to better accomplish our goals relating to that subject matter (by giving us the ability to make better predictions or tools). Now obviously philosophy does contain various truths. At the very least "there are some true philosophical claims" is a true philosophical claim, since its negation is a contradiction. And it seems likely that there are other philosophical truths as well relating to what the mind physically is, and so on (or at least they certainly don't seem like matters of opinion). But, while philosophy does contain such truths, it is implausible to maintain that discovering them is the purpose of philosophy. These truths are almost universally practically worthless; knowing them does not give us any more control over our environment, nor do they help us produce useful tools. Indeed people seem to be able to get along quite well without knowing philosophical truths, since it seems likely that most people don't know them, nor would knowing them help them out. When philosophers disagree about philosophical truths it is not the case that one of them can be put at a practical disadvantage by their error, as they would be if they were wrong about a scientific truth.
This might seem to imply that the purpose of philosophy must have to do with the third kind of activities identified, the artistic kind. The artistic activities revolve around producing things that immediately give pleasure to people or which entertain them. And it might be argued by some that philosophy is purely a kind of intellectual entertainment. I would disagree, however. I admit that philosophy might entertain or be enjoyable, but the same thing can be said about any written material, such as a book about science aimed at the general populace. But to conclude on the basis of this that the purpose of science is to entertain is to confuse the presentation with the content. And the content of philosophy is incompatible with the idea that philosophy is a kind of art, because the content of philosophy revolves around proposals, objections, and counter-proposals. One cannot, however, object to a piece of art, one can only criticize it or try to make a better piece of art. Similarly, the measure of great philosophy under this view would be its public reception, which would make Ayn Rand a better philosopher than Kant. And that's a reductio ad absurdum if I have ever seen one. Of course I wouldn't deny that we couldn't simply decide that the purpose of philosophy is to be a kind of intellectual art form and proceed to do philosophy on that basis, but the activity that would result would be so alien that it wouldn't resemble what had previously been called philosophy.
Now just because philosophy doesn't fit neatly into one of those three categories doesn't mean that it has no purpose; the categories are not exhaustive. Mathematics, for example, doesn't fit into them because, properly speaking, mathematics doesn't contain truths. Admittedly it is natural to speak of mathematical truths, and such language rarely causes confusion, but properly speaking there can only be truths where our statements aim to reflect some external subject matter. But the subject of mathematics is not external to it; rather it is created by it. As Hilbert pointed out there is nothing more to the number one than the properties we define it as having; that is why deduction is the basis of mathematic reasoning rather than induction, the basis of scientific reasoning. The point of mathematics is not its truths then, rather it serves as an instrument to describe scientific truths. And in this way it serves a purpose, indirectly, because correctly capturing scientific truths serves a purpose. But philosophy is not mathematics, a fact easily demonstrated by pointing out that there is more to the subject matter of philosophy, i.e. things such as knowledge and ignorance, than how we formally define them.
What then is left for philosophy to do? If we have all our scientific truths, are entertained, and know how to do the things we want, what more is there? Well, what about what we should do? Not in an ethical sense, although that is probably a part of it, but in the sense of knowing how to put that know-how and those scientific facts to work serving our interests. Suppose you know how to build a bridge and you now what effects building a bridge in various different places will have. Even so, you still don't know where to build the bridge; to know where to build a bridge requires additional knowledge concerning what interests you want that bridge to serve and how your choice about where to build the bridge will affect those interests. Of course in many cases such knowledge is trivial; it may be your goal to reduce congestion, and thus no special knowledge is needed for your task beyond what you already have. However, when it comes to our larger goals in life, such as happiness, or making the world a better place, often it isn't obvious how to put our knowledge to work. This, I claim, is the purpose of philosophy, to provide perspectives using which we can better pursue certain of our interests.
Naturally to make that a plausible description of philosophy will require some more words concerning exactly how philosophy can do just that. But let me bracket that problem for the moment and return to an issue I raised when considering whether we could take philosophy to be a kind of intellectual art form. I pointed out that making such a claim about philosophy would be a drastic break with the history of philosophy, so much that it would be misleading to call the discipline that resulted by the same name. What about the idea that philosophy provides pragmatically useful perspectives? Is it too a radical break? I don't think that it is, although obviously being a particular idea about the purpose of philosophy in a time when the purpose of philosophy is unclear will result in the judgment that some of what has been called philosophy so far isn't really, or is rather bad philosophy. In general, though, it doesn't seem absurd to say that historically philosophy has provided perspectives on issues that at least aimed to be compatible with the relevant facts (although they often fell short, to be expected given that we are learning more about the relevant facts). The only remaining question to ask then is whether philosophy survived because these perspectives were found to be useful. I think historically the answer is yes. Obviously philosophers have always fancied themselves to be after special truths that only they could properly address, but that is simply the philosopher's conceit. Other people, however, have used the works of philosophers as guides for science, politics, and everyday living, among other things. It was because they were found useful, I claim, that philosophy was perpetuated. And while this may not be true of modern philosophy, at least not so much, this is, I claim, because modern philosophy has strayed from its roots and the real purpose of philosophy. Thus I see my claim that the purpose of philosophy is to provide useful perspectives as being a continuation of the historical practice of philosophy, and thus not a radical break with what we have called philosophy up to now, although it is a break with some of modern philosophy.
Still, much remains to be said. It remains to be said how exactly philosophy can go about serving its purpose. It remains to be said how philosophy can be right or wrong, and thus how we can make sense of philosophical objections and responses. And it remains to be said how, exactly, the various philosophical subfields, such as mind, language, epistemology, and so on might be useful. But it is something that won't be said today.


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Finch guides comfortable win for Gujarat LionsApril 28, 2017 06:08
Aaron Finch's rapid 72 off 34 balls helped Gujarat Lions beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets. While the match credits are being given to Finch, the victory was set up by the Gujarat bowlers led by Andrew Tye, who took 3 wickets, conceding 12 runs in his four overs. With this victory Gujarat moved up for the sixth spot, while RCB were pushed down to the seventh with only five points from nine games.
Royal Challengers Bangalore are really struggling with the nature of the pitch at home this year. Their batting order generally likes the ball to come on to aid stroke play, which has not been the case. The woes continued as they found themselves reeling at 22 for three by the fifth over.
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Gujarat Lions' Ishan Kishan hit four boundaries in the first two overs, but was trapped in front by Samuel Badree for 16 off 10 balls. While Badree got rid of McCullum for three.
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Myanmar's de facto head Aung San Suu Kyi is being internationally convicted for her obvious omission to contest a violent military action that has compelled half a million Muslim Rohingya to cross the Bangladesh-Band. Comentators have called into question their inactivity, as the vast majority within their party's parliamentary assembly has a significant leveraging effect.
However, former Australia's Premier Kevin Rudd says that Ms Suu Kyi is largely impotent because of the policy pressures in a military predominant state. "It is not only this fact that she has seen, but also the constitutionally and legally real, that the military has complete liberty to do what it wants," he said.
Mmit ABC Factchecks investigate whether the military in Myanmar has "absolute freedom" to do what it wants. to do what it wants. Rather, it is part of a fragmented distribution of powers with the Democratic People' s Democratic National League for Democracy (NLD).
While the military has significant unconstitutional support, most Fact Checks interviewed specialists say that Ms Suu Kyi's own personality in Myanmar and the scrutiny of her party's major partys position allow her to question the military's overkill. They believe, however, that policy reasons have hindered them from expressing themselves against violations of international law or from fully exerting their clout.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, was governed by a repressive military jungle for almost 50 years, until 2011. Most of the Muslim Rohingya lives in the state of Rakhine and is not formally recognized as one of the 135 ethnical groups that are Buddhist. The NLD won the first open elections in Myanmar in 25 years five years later.
In 2011, the military took a managed step towards a restricted democratic system by freeing imprisoned politicians and easing the grip of police officials and the censors. In spite of these reform, governance was a collaboration in which the military retained significant authority. The historian and government advisor Thant Myint-U said Forbes in 2015: "This was a choice for a place in a joint government with the military.
" Myanmar's system of government is known as a two-chamber parliament. The NLD has owned 60 percent of the top tier seating (135 out of 224 seats) since it took office in 2015. In the space of a single monthly he passed a bill to establish the Council of State's stance, to which Ms Suu Kyi was then made.
Myanmar's constitutional system prohibits Ms Suu Kyi from becoming Aung San Suu Kyi's current chairperson because she has alien-childers. She has been set up to give her a leading post and is similar to the Premier, as she establishes a connection between Congress and the State.
Suu Kyi is also Secretary of State and Secretary of State for the Presidency. How powerful is the military? Myanmar's 2008 charter was designed by military generals and gives great authority to the military force. According to the state, the military: Declares a state of crisis and takes government oversight (a "legal coup") if it believes the state is under threat and order must be re-established; guarantees 25 percent of parliament chairs; retains official oversight of three core departments - defense, frontier management and home affairs; and guarantees one in two deputy presidencies.
A constitutional amendment will require the backing of 75 percent of the House. In view of the fact that the military votes in a block, a move staged by civil MPs is still unlikely. There is no formal regulation of the distribution of powers between the military and Ms Suu Kyi, although it is clear that the military will retain significant clout.
Nicholas Farrelly, deputy dean at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, said Fact Checks that Mr Rudd was not entirely mistaken in his argument that the military had total unconstitutional and judicial powers, but the situation was more complex because of the military's alliance with the politically elective government.
"When the Myanmar military wanted to start a putsch, there is no one to resist them, and in this respect they are completely responsible because they are vetoing one of the democracy flirts," he said. It is" difficult to unravel the precise string of commands" in a government that comprised democracy, nationalism, the military and right.
Leb Lebanese law firm of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Lebanon, said Fact Checks that the military seemed to be "given a free rein to conduct military interventions, which it alone determines are vital to the safety and supremacy of the nation," said Rieffel, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. But there was "a certain exaggeration" in Mr. Rudd's assertion, because no military had total clout.
The Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, could use violence because there are no efficient state controls and equilibria. Theoretically, at the same token, it could reduce the military budgets. Kyi will not have a routine say in Rohingya-related issues and has not been able to secure enough powers to avoid military action that she believes is against the country's interests.
"Aung Sann has given Suu Kyi the authority to contain the military's excess, especially in surgeries against the Rohingya congregation in Rakhine State. Indeed, she may have less energy today than she did a year ago," Mr. Rieffel said. Former Myanmar Australia envoy Trevor Wilson, from 2000 to 2003, said the military has total military might while the nation is led by a military dictator.
However, when the military approved the end of the military rule in 2011 and the reforms got under way, the military no longer had the same powers as before. "It has no say, but it must evade the responsibility that the military has in the state.
It is in a distribution of powers that is not recorded..... The military and Ms. Suu Kyi bow down to each other because they have one or the other form of authorities. Who is Aung San Suu Kyi's real powers? Suu Kyi draws her official powers from her role as Secretary of State and State Councillor, according to Aaron Connelly, a researcher at the Lowy Institute.
It also has informational powers. "informational balance of government is often more important than official ones in a young Myanmar Democratic system. Aung San Suu Kyi has considerable amounts of official and informational power," Mr Connelly commented. In her capacity as Secretary of State, the US Federal Reserve gave her responsibility for the country's external policy, but this authority was "given how much oversight over the military's sovereignty over domestic safety," he said.
It also gave it the right to a chair in the NDSC with the authority to proclaim a state of exception. But as Mr Wilson said, it would almost certainly be outvoted if it objected to anything that violated the will of the military.
The fragile distribution of powers was further underlined by Parliament's supervision of the military spending, Lowy's Mr Connelly said. "There' s a rule that requires the military to examine the military budgets in commission and then adopt the budget," he said. "While the military has other sources of income than the state purse, so it is not absolutely powerful over the household, and the military could probably strike back quite harshly, but it is not something Suu Kyi was prepared to use her parliamentarian support for.
This is not part of the legislation, but the real policy is that he is a faithful NLD squad, and he is taking orders from Suu Kyi. "But Ms. Suu Kyi's greatest might has been taken from her legislative support and favouritism, he added. Suu Kyi's mainstream support also put significant behind the scene pressures on the military.
In addition, as Secretary of State, she could issue a visa to the UN Human Rights Council of Inquiry. Ms Su Suu Kyi does not use her strength? Prof. Monique Skidmore, a Myanmar specialist and Deputy Chancellor Global at the University of Tasmania, said Fact Cheque that Mr Rudd's assertion was "in a certain way correct" because the military has the right under the constitution to carry out a legitimate military coup. No. The military has the right to carry out a military campaign.
While Ms Suu Kyi is free to oppose the military's cumbersome tactic against the Rohingya," this would lead to a subtly counterbalanced verdict: "Since Myanmar's Buddhist minority is opposed to the Rohingya, Ms Suu Kyi would run the danger of estranging the voters and inviting a counter-reaction from the military.
The others interviewed by Fact Check all agree that such a move would put Suu Kyi in a political difficulty. They have been confronted with military raids for centuries, with Rohingya escapees telling of robbery, fire and blood. The Rakhine Advisory Commission set up by the government under the leadership of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan published a progress review on the state' s response to these issues on 24 August.
Intelligence reacted with a violent crackdown, which Suu Kyi described in a heated September address as "evacuation operations". Observing the dispute through the use of sat imagery, Amnesty International says there has been a massive operation in the north of Rakhine in which Myanmar's police and vigilantes burned down the Rohingya village and randomly killed human beings.


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When I was a college student, I worked in a custom made jewelry shop.
There displayed tons of brilliant jewels.
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Date of Award
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Phyllis Thompson
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Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Scott Honeycutt
Based on recent research concluding that fiction can increase empathy, this project examines how multicultural young adult literature may encourage empathy in Appalachian adolescents. Empathy encourages prosocial behaviors, but evidence suggests that young adults' ability to empathize has declined in recent decades. In addition, Appalachia in particular is still a relatively homogenous region as it is majority white, protestant Christian, and heteronormative. Because of this, young adults in Appalachia may encounter few diverse perspectives in real life; multicultural young adult literature can provide diverse perspectives with which teenagers can empathize in a region where they might not have similar opportunities in reality. This thesis demonstrates how three multicultural young adult novels (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), Accidents of Nature (2006), and The Porcupine of Truth (2015)) can be used in a literature unit that encourages students to show emotional understanding despite personal differences.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Kiser, Kelsey R., "Young Adult Literature and Empathy in Appalachian Adolescents" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3325. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3325
Copyright by the authors.
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This challenging collection of essays examines the crisis in the Newfoundland fishery, the current structure and its future. What can we learn from a comparison of the Newfoundland fisheries with other North Atlantic fisheries? How have fishing communities and organisations adapted to the changing social and political pressures? What are the historical roots of contemporary problems? To what extent does the future of Newfoundland depend on the survival of the fisheries?
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Wednesday, October 24 at 4:00 p.m.
The Grades 7 and Up Book Club will be reading The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert.
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Question about HP Color LaserJet 2600n Printer
My hp laser jet 3500 is showing an error message in the dispaly window. It says "50.1 Fuser Error. Fuser is hot. Press both sides of fuser to ensure it is fully seated." What is the fuser and where is it located? 50.2 fuser error
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HP fuser kit has been replaced but replaced Fuser kit message will not go away.
In short a 'fuser' or fuser unit also fixing unit on this HP color laser jet printer is just below the dark cover were the paper comes out remove the two side covers the the top cover ti si a orenge ruber roller that press onto agrey film and inside this film is a heating ellement the heating element heats up the gray film that press onto the orange rubber roller this together with its plates cables and connectors the unscrew via 4 to 6 screws from the machine is the 'fuser' the 'tekkie' or technicians call this fuser unit the fuser in short.
Posted on Aug 07, 2012
SOURCE: Fuser Error 50.1 Fuser is hot. What is a fuser?
The fuser bonds the ink powders onto the paper. It is usually located behind the cartridge in the paper path. There may be several reasons why this error shows. (Bad fuser or bad power supply). It looks like this:
Here is some useful info:
Posted on May 12, 2008
SOURCE: Fuser Error 50.1 Fuser is hot. What is a fuser?
A low fuser temperature error has occurred, possibly due to an inadequate external or internal power supply.
this basicaly means that either the dc controller board is on its way out (expensive) or that there is a drain on the power line.
if you have it plugged into an extension lead try plugging it directly into the wall socket. if this fails also try using a different power lead (very easy to get hold of and are normaly called kettle leads)
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A low fuser temperature error has occurred, possibly due to an inadequate external or internal power supply.
Posted on Oct 10, 2007
SOURCE: Fuser Error 50.1 Fuser is hot. What is a fuser?
MAKE SURE THE PRINTER IS OFF AND INPLUGED BEFORE YOU START! The fuser is located in the back of the printer. You should see two blue pads where your index finger and thumb (on both hands) should pinch together then pull the fuser out. Re-seat the fuser back into its original position and wait 20 minutes before turnging Unit back on. If you do not wait 20 mins then the 50 error will appear again even if the problem is fix. Once you wait 20 minutes and it still gives you a 50 error you must replace the fuser. I have a great place to purchase fuser so let me know if you nee contact info!
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