Posted on 03/29/2011 8:57:23 PM PDT by Christus_Rex
Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.
We know the Super Rich don’t care. Not about you. Nor the American public. They can’t see. Can’t hear. Stay trapped in their Forbes-400 bubble. An echo chamber that isolates them. They see the public as faceless workers, customers, taxpayers. See GOP power on the ascent. Reaganomics is back. Unions on the run. Clueless masses are easily manipulated.
Even Obama is secretly working with the GOP, will never touch his Super Rich donors. Yes, the Super-Rich Delusion is that powerful, infecting all America.
Here’s how one savvy insider who knows described this Super-Rich Delusion: “The top 1% live privileged lives, aren’t worried about much. Families vacation at the best resorts. Their big concerns are finding the best Pilates teacher, best masseuse, best surgeons, best private schools. They aren’t concerned with the underlying deterioration of America or the world, except in the abstract, because they aren’t directly affected by it. That’s not to say they aren’t sympathetic, aware, or don’t talk about the issues you bring up. They are largely concerned with protecting and enhancing their socio-economic positions, ensuring their families live well. And nothing you write about will change things.”
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Face there is help out there in the universe
In the mean time see freepmail
That's what we thought here. Drove home in a snowstorm this evening.
Prayers up and then some. Please tell their location. Could be we know some folks in those parts that could help with transport.
IOW, it's not either/or; it's both/and.
There isn't a contest between the mystical magic of Gandalf, Harry Potter, or Aslan, and the temporal "magic" of science, art and beauty; there is a deep, and mythic connection that we too infrequently acknowledge, but that the scientists and artists out in the skinny branches of their disparate reals sometimes glimpse.
Science is magic, because it is inextricably entwined with undiscovered, and even unimagined theorems that surpass our present capacity to know.
Art is magic, because it is the realm wherein creators engage in flattery of The Creator; making that which is beyond our seeing, beyond our hearing, beyond our knowing, to become seen, heard, and known.
Beauty is magic, because in acknowledging beauty we affirm the existence of, and connect with our inmost heart cry to behold, the One Whose transcendent beauty is heralded by all things beautiful. Men behold some temporal manifestation of beauty, and their hearts involuntarily leap within them, crying out an emphatic "Amen!" to a Truth that most do not even consciously acknowledge.
Most assuredly, "magic" is REAL. Without it, nothing that is would be. Yes, "magic" IS REAL, and because "magic" is real; there is FAR MORE to "Real" than you or I can POSSIBLY even begin to imagine. All that we know; every thing of which any man at any time has ever been made even remotely aware; the sum total of all the collected thoughts of all humanity; these are but the preface to a vast and inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge and experience, of understanding and doing beyond our present imagining, the realm of Deepest Magic; the very Kingdom of God, Himself.
Oh, excellent.
I’d say more, but I’m not yet conscious.
Yeah, he’s pretty much got it, in a nutshell.
The magic isn’t outside of us. It’s IN us, and always has been. It’s like the potential flame in an unlit candle.
All it takes is enlightenment. You too can be a comfort to those around you.
Or at least mildly amusing.
I feel dreadful this morning. I dreamed I was taking a Greyhound bus to Oklahoma, only we ended up in Missouri, and when I got there, I had to do laundry at the laundromat.
And they say dreams are different from reality.
The laundromat part is obvious. Oklahoma and Missouri are probably processing something about unemployment, as if my subconscious still believes we could move to the farm and raise goats. The bus was in a movie we watched last night, one of the “Jesse Stone” shows, with Tom Selleck. Good cast, but very depressing. I don’t think we’ll request any of the others.
Goats are stinky, obnoxious, and annoying; but, unlike children, you can take them to market and get something for them.
Exactly.
Transitions is probably Iains most political, and weakest, book he's written so far. Seriously disappointed with character motivation and development. Instead of jelling towards the end in a satisfactory conclusion, you never really connect with the characters enough to care.
As for Wanted, it's a much more violent, amoral, and interesting read. Much more so even than the movie they made that was loosely based off of the graphic novel. Very loose indeed. Other than sharing character names, very little of the philosophy and plot arcs are retained in Hollywood's little puff piece.
I finished “Atlas Shrugged” and was shrugged out of reading for a bit.
It’s definitely one of those books that needs some digestion time afterwards. Not only to think about some of the philosophy the book brings up, but just because it’s kind of an ordeal to make it through the whole thing.
Me too. Snow on the ground this morning, but it's melting away. Three hours of meetings coming up.
Stay tuned.
It's nice out right now, but it won't be for long. We're supposed to get some hellatious winds this PM.
Morning
Deck, tranny swap for Camaro, rose trellises, shooting events, forge projects, etc...
On top of all that, my Dad needs help this year getting the boats in the water and the cabin set up. He's having a couple of vertebrae fused and thinks this may slow him up a bit.
Gonna be a busy summer.
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