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You may be inclined to say, “Duh!  Where have you been?” to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem this but I have only recently begun to realize that the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem current state of things is being distorted by individuals, not institutions such as corporations or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem government or parties.  We tend to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem attribute to institutions obscuring the point that individuals with names and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem intentions are behind the institutional actions.  We need to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem personalize institutional actions so that we can know who is waging political and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem economic war on us.  I am adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not skilled at digging out such information but will, henceforth, work to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem improve my attention to it.

PERMANENT CLASS WARFARE:

Our democracy is under attack as never before.  There has adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem always been a struggle to keep the wealthy from tipping this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem democracy beyond recovery. The tendency of rich men (and few women) to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem control and manipulate this our government to their own ends at the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem expense of the majority of citizens is always a part of balancing freedom, commerce and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem democracy.  The wealthy, as a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem whole, usually want to bend government to their own selfish ends and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to hell with the people.  There are now people so rich that they are virtually extra-national.  Their agenda is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to shape the world governments and societies in such a way that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem they are never regulated, never taxed or in any way constrained by any obligations of citizenship.  In the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem past 20 years they have manipulated corporations to their individual benefits; they have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem generated institutions of think tanks, lobbyists, and “grass roots rabble rousers” to immobilize our democratic institutions and re-shape them into their minions.   Further, they have done this stealthily. 

In the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem past we have counted upon countervailing forces in the society to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem keep such runaway greed and billionaire totalitarianism in check.  However, never before has adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem so much power become concentrated, even ceded, piece by piece but in ever larger chunks as in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem past 20 years or so.  A class war has adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem been waged against the people, successfully by subtle stages until most of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem counter forces have been co-opted, bought and subverted in a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem continuous purposeful takeover of any institutions that might limit their extraordinary grasp.

There are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the obvious elements: the purchase and near control of government at almost every level, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem ownership and manipulation of the press and media and the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem attacks on every front of any capacity for individual citizens to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem organize themselves into any opposition by numbers (the only real power to save us from a total takeover).  

A THOUGHT EXERCISE ON WEALTH

 Let us consider a thought problem which should illustrate the vast differences among the power of the rich:  between a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem billionaire and a mere millionaire and between them and us. This exercise is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem intended to lend a sense of proportion to the vast amounts of power involved.

There are approximately 1, 011 billionaires in the word now (up from 793 in 2009) their total wealth is about 3.6 Trillion dollars.  There are about 403 Billionaires in the USA worth about 1.3 Trillion dollars (greater than the GDP of Canada). Several are extra-national, ultra-billionaires who regard themselves above nationality (consciously and subconsciously).  These ultra-rich men are interested in the United States as a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem convenience and the best chance to buffer their own interests and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem comfort (Rupert Murdoch is a good example).

There are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem about 10.3 million millionaires in the World who are worth about a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem total of 39 trillion dollars.  There are about 7.8 million millionaires.  In the USA (and about 980,000 million ultra-millionaires, people with >$5 million).

For this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem purposes of this exercise, let us count seconds as if they were dollars.  In a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem way using time is a good comparison as it is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem finite for individuals. Each person has a limited amount of time to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem live, provide, take care of our families, recreate a little and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem then, perhaps, have a little, but not much, left over for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem concerns and actions to take care of our interests in this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem democracy.

Starting at the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem bottom with a comfortable, middle class salary of $80,000, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem available time resources to you, converting dollars to seconds in time, would give you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem about 22.2 hours worth of seconds (less than a day).   One could assume that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem any person, billionaire or not, could get by pretty comfortably on 22 hours with little left over to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem influence your world. I’m going to consider this a measure of basic subsistence (I realize it’s generous).

We imagine (at least I do) if we had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the resources of a millionaire we could do a lot for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem our community or country.  Actually a million seconds is that much.  If a millionaire’s dollars were converted to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem seconds it would give him the equivalent of 11.5 days of power.  Take away 22 hours of basic subsistence, this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem guy has 10.5 more days free than we have.

Prepare to be stunned (as I was) by the proportional power of the super rich.  If you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem think you have a chance to counterbalance the influence of Koch brothers or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem of Rupert Murdoch, or of numerous other ultra-billionaires whose names we should but don’t know well enough, consider the following:

A billionaire with only one billion seconds ($), one billion seconds of  time  value equal to 35.7 years of resources to mold our world to his favor  It’s small wonder that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem we have any semblance of a free press , or a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem court that acts for the people, or a legislators at any level that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pursues your interests.  Each institution is being co-opted from many directions for the ultra-rich.

We have compared a 1 billionaire (35.7 years) with a 1 millionaire (11.7 days or a week and a half) and with us, poor schmucks, with less than a day to our name.  This is a simple comparison but let’s look at some actualities.

Rupert Murdoch-controls greater than $6 billion (6 X 35 years or 210 years of resources available) mainly invested in an adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem international network of propaganda outlets that overtly and subtly press a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pro billionaire agenda (making his “journalists” into mere millionaires in the process).

The Koch brothers right wing manipulators and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem industrialists whose industries bring in an estimated $100 billion (350 years of power).  They fund think tanks, elections, so called “grass roots” groups like the Tea Baggers, not to mention lobbyists.  Add any number of other, less well known ultra-billionaires who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem are equally active and it is a powerful cabal, indeed.

I hasten to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem add that there are the many rich people who do try to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem contribute to society and behave as citizens of this country.  Their values go beyond mere moneyed interests:  Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and George Soros to name a few.

People who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem have any significant amount of money will necessarily see their political interests in line with other super rich.  Even if two billionaires were in competition with each other in business their interests coalesce when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem it comes to the overall agenda of no constraints and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no democratic opposition.  Anyone approximating wealth will tend to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem support their agenda except perhaps Hollywood.   Rich people are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not in competition with each other when subverting democracy. There they see their interest as joined.

 Anti-democracy is not too strong a term to describe their agenda.  Individual rights, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem ability to organize, voter registration rights, unions, registration organizers (Acorn, e.g.) have all been successfully attacked.   Currently they see any grass roots people’s institution (unions) as bastions of resistance to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem them. They view the people much as the Masters in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem South viewed any aspect of slave community as threatening their hegemony.  Southerners were terrified of the idea of slave rebellion.  It made their hot southern blood run cold (actually many still fear this today). 

The ultra-rich simply do not want you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to have ability to oppose them.  The only power left to us is our vote and our ability to organize.   Numbers of voters is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem what they fear and despise the most. However, encroachments by the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Billionaire agenda into our institutions (the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem courts, blocking legislation, mobilizing the Tea Baggers to neutralize the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem political process, to name a few) make it harder and harder and harder to mobilize public resistance.   Liberals grasp at straws hoping the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem crowds that came out when their unions were attacked will sustain.  But inertia resides like “The Undertoad” (thank you John Irving) ready to arise as soon as things seem better.   Keep in mind that if Wisconsin’s and Ohio’s public employees and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem liberals had gotten their asses out to vote in the first place they would not have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem had to fight these issues.  The Ultra-billionaire agenda is always ready to exploit these lapses.

The billionaire war is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem so successful that Democratic politicians have been co-opted by it, as well. They try to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem walk the tight wire of accommodation while offering a little, puny resistance but capitulating to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the Billionaire Agenda more often than not. But they need the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem donations to get elected.

The Agenda continuously influences culture as well.  One can relatively rich by pandering to the Billionaire agenda.   Michelle Bachman, Glen Beck, John Stossel, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Michelle Malkin, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem repulsive, Andrew Breitbart and Ann Coulter actually are ‘media sluts” for the rich and should be viewed only as that by rational person.   They are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem interchangeable ciphers nobodies who are getting rich and famous as shills for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the Billionaire Agenda. Sometimes I think about getting rich that way but am adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem overcome by nausea pretty quickly.   These people have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no real points of view they just speak to the Agenda and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem collect their orts (crosswords anyone) from adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem under the tables of the ultra-rich. Their ideas shift with the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem gaseous winds of the ultra-rich.  Oddly, Michelle Bachman, Glen and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the Tea Baggers are right about democracy under threat.   Our system is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem indeed under siege, the siege, however, is from their quarter;  not from so-called ‘rabid socialists.”  Indeed we are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem likely becoming a totalitarian state but not totalitarian government.  It will be a new totalitarianism of the rich (think that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem was called fascism, but we need less colloquial terms for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem these things).  They will be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem individuals hiding behind corporations, constantly attacking our institutions and the means for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem people to organize a society.  In the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem future they will enforce their oligarchy with either a co-opted military or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem with out-sourced mercenaries like of Xe (Blackwater now) to keep us in check.  They will maintain a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem superficial appearance of the democracy we expect but it will simple be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem a greater sham than it is becoming now.

Soon when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem our Ultra-rich Masters are fully in charge, our grand American experiment will be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem gone.  When it is done, nothing like it may ever exist again.

(also see: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/05-1      and    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/ jaksta student

For over a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem year or whenever the teabaggers began, there has been a stunning demonstration on how to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem demagogue your enemy while labeling him the demagogue.

From the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem beginning they used the techniques of both the Fascists of

For what adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem has been happening in our country recently, I fault the left and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the Democratic Party at least 80%.  Why?  Despite repeated demonstrations by the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem right lasting for 2 decades, the Democrats refuse to use the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem simplest, known propaganda tools to make their message effective.  One can adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem use some universal principles of persuasion without becoming the enemy.  Why the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Democratic party does not have a liberal Frank Lutz on the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem payroll is beyond me.  However, I would not be surprised if they do but don’t use him/her. Some issues need reframing into more simple and repeatable terms.  There needs to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem be a little work on talking point i.e., having some and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem using them. And simplest of all, Repetition. That’s right, repetition.  Even when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Democrats succeed at something or make a great point, they say it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem once (usually in a dry, convoluted, non-emotion appealing way) assuming, I guess, that it should carry on face value.   The only thing the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Democrats seem to repeat in this arena is the failure to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem accommodate event the simple principles.

I will not donate to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the Democratic Party anymore unless I see them investing in getting the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem messages out effectively.  As long as they let the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem right continue to define the issues in their hateful ways, responding only and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not learning to define the dialogue I think they are hopeless.  Power seekers without enough will to power.

    We could improve transparency of corporate and governmental institutions right now.      Most reporting incidentally buries important information when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem referring to institutions. Whenever people in an agency or company or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem corporation make decisions or take actions that are worthy of being reported, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem majority of the time the item is reported as, corporation x is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem closing several divisions. Subsequently the issue is depersonalized by the continued use of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem abstract institution’s name.  Persons or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem spokespersons are sometimes referenced but that does not place a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem personal face upon the decision.  People decided things in corporations and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem in government, not agencies or companies.  People should be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem identified each time an agency is referenced for an action or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem mistake.  “General motors denied responsibility.”  No theydid not! Responsible people in General Motors have decided to deny responsibility.  People always do it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem and the sense that the decisions are abstracted changes the very nature of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem information.  If the specific person responsible is not known (and I realize that there is collective action in institutions) then identify the head of the organization, every time.  “The president of General Motors is Smugly J. Lobby.” is an example.  “The Department of Blockheads issued an adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem explanation for the decision to charge a fee for breathing.  The chairman of the department is Beau Recrat.”    The idea that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the corporation is a legal person is anathema to me because it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem allows the cumulative actions and decisions to be melded into a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem form of non-responsibility by removing human identity from the reference.  Humans who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem do things can experience embarrassment or shame when faced with the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem opinions of others.  This does not happen when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem humans do things within agencies and relying upon investigation, the law or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem other tedious procedures cedes the powerful influences that come from having an adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem identity within a culture.  The ability to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem remain obscured from day to day, by the blanket of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem institution encourages a kind of - drift in that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem persons tend to make decisions independent of the immediate approval or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem dis approval of others except their fellows within the agency.  Then when a faulty product or a dumb decision results, the cover of the institution allows for obfuscation and denial of responsibility.    Right now clarity and a sense of accountability would improve if some responsible party were named each time an institutional identity were referenced.  CEOs and agency heads and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Department Secretaries would be the face or their agencies outputs and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem might cause subsequent humanizing of their companies and agencies to avoid personal shame or embarrassment or perhaps to gain approval.  Unlike Pinocchio who became a “real boy” institutions will remain impassive, amoral entities.  Maybe with a little more expectation directed at the people within they might be just a little more human.

Caveat: The comments below may contain what some would call ‘Psychobabble”. I take issue with this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem term as it usually comes from someone who asserts that commonplace, intuitively constructed descriptions of behavior are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem somehow clearer and more valid than constructions based on scientific-like protocols, decades of systematic reasoning and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem theory development and serious scholarship. There is a certain amount of pop, opportunist and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem specious ‘psychobabble’ created for fame and money. however, equivalent superficial “econobabble,” “historico-babble” and “medico-babble” exists for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the same reason. Valid psychological principles do explain human behavior better than adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem religious or so called ‘common sense’ explanations. We just don’t want to face that they include ourselves. Any Fool Should Know that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem any interpretation of the motives and actions of another person involves projection. If I reason that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem your actions are due to an inordinate attachment to pudding, I am adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem revealing that. I could be strongly moved by zest for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pudding (chocolate). At some level I have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to consider the possibility for myself before I can even consider it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem influences you. I could conjecture that you act because of carbonaceous macrocosmic crepitation but because I have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no idea what that is and cannot even consider a concept that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is not in my brain. If you act because of variables that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem I cannot conceive nor which have never occured to me, I cannot begin to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem understand you. I will only be able to guess what you’re about based upon what I know (or believe I know) not the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem actual reasons. Since i cannot conceive of the real basis of your adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem motives, I would have to be wrong in any reasons I offer. THEREFORE, anyone who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem believes that homosexuality is a choice has to believe that it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is a choice for himself or herself. it is no wonder that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem religious zealots and white supremacists alike react so strongly to homosexuality. They must outlaw and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem condemn the idea of gay existence and beat the up those whom they encounter lest their own gay impulses surface. It is, after all, a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem battle against their own fears and impulses because the see a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem choice. Is should not be any surprise that the smugly religious anti-gay zealot is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem so often caught in secret gay assignations.
This Crabbyoldman grew up in an adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem era when any awareness of gay existence was suppressed. I was in seventh grade when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem one of my friends was saying something about homosexuals and I had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no idea what he was talking about. When I asked and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem he explained (in adolescent terms, no doubt) I remember having difficulty understanding because it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem had simply never occurred to me as a possibility before. You cannot think about something you’ve never conceived of before. I’m not saying this to compensate for sexual self doubt (at least of this kind), unlike the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem anti-gay zealots it just had never occurred to me before. Further, i understood pretty quickly that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem sexual preference was predetermined because I had been salaciously interested in women as long as I could remember. I had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem been embarrassed by my older sister when she caught me ogling the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem women’s underwear section of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Sears catalogue when I was 5 and announced it to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the family. I may have been scarred for life but no adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem matter. When I hear the rigidly religious right’s protestations and condemnations I always assume they are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem struggling against their own worries. Gay marriage is only a threat to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem hetero marriage if at some level you are afraid you might not stay hetero if there were a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem choice. Anyone else doesn’t give a damn. I’m not surprised that the Catholic clergy (wink,wink) and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem doctrine is so reactionary but I did not realize that Mormons who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem have to struggle so to resist marrying their little girls were so engaged in a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem struggle to maintain their heterosexuality. Is polygamy hetero overcompensation after all; part of a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem continuous battle against turning gay? Why else would the Mormon church (but I sure hope, not the Marriotts: we own timeshares) pour such money into ending gay marriage in California? If California maintains the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem right of gay marriage, how long will it take for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the repressed Mormon secret gays burst into gay polyandry. Psychology has an awkward term for all this, ‘reaction formation’: an important concept with a terrible name. “Me thinks thou doth protest too much” describes this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem defense the best. I am slightly sympathetic to denied personal struggles of all the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Pro Prop 8 fanatics but keep them to your selves. I wish they’d just go home, visit their secret porn sites and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem work it out and leave decent self-aware hetero and gay Californians to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem continue to live their mature and adjusted lives. Way more adjusted than adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem those pitifully sad lives of aggressive denial.

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I even heard of it in seventh grade. “Hmm”, I thought, “that makes a lot of sense.” That was minutes before a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem protracted period of preoccupation with girls. Most of our generals these days have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem advanced degrees but somehow they cannot seem to remember this fact, making the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem bombing mistake again and again. 3. One, no you, cannot conceive of another’s motive without having the thought of that motive yourself. All our beliefs about others is necessarily Projection.We say as much, or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem more, about ourselves when we talk about others. I get such a kick out of Rush Limbaugh (in lieu of getting to give a kick “SEE”) when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem he and his Foxy friends make their high schoolish attributions about the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem motives of their straw enemies (liberals, I guess). Doesn’t Ann Coulter realize the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem very nature of her hostile attacks betray her internal preoccupations suggesting that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem it’s pretty scary and angry inside there. I know it’s pretty scary in here so I can imagine what she’s like inside. You see how it works? Every thing I say here reflects on me.A person cannot attribute a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem motive that has never occurred to him. If a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem student had never seen, been told of, nor thought of cheating, he will not understand what adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem that kid that keeps looking over at his paper is doing. Of course, the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem next time he will.The fact that one by experience can surmise the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem mind of another with some predictive accuracy (keeping #1 in mind) does not necessarily mean that his motives are the same. An FBI profiler is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not a killer rapist because his contacts give him understanding. However, his depth of understanding is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem likely better if he, like an actor, is able to allow himself to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem identify aspects of the other in himself. That’s why being good at that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem job can have effects on the agent that are as risky as getting shot. As Peewee Herman put it, “I know you are but what am I.” 4. Human beings are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem capable of conjecturing or conceiving of anything, anything! Doesn’t Hollywood make this obvious? AFSK this goes way beyond Hollywood (Bollywood, too). Virtually every abstract belief, and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem many not so abstract, is conjecture and is supported by the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem consensual conjecture of others. In other words, most beliefs are not supported empirically (so we don’t like to test them) and are arbitrary agreements about their basis. The law, democracy, morality are conjectures. Because these conjectures are adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem easier to share and often have a salutary effect upon our comfort or adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem survival we collectively concur in our preference for such principles. One could conceive (and many do) that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem killing and maiming as many as one chooses is actually a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem proper act and tie it to a rationale (suicide and kill bombs for God). Persons with inclinations and/or behaviors that are way out of the norm (David Koresh) can adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem easily conceptualize a rational that becomes a life or death issue.We can adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem murder in warfare, under the law, and a muerte code with fewer personal emotional consequence than adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem conducting a random murder. Dead is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem dead, the idea that people sitting around doing ceremonies and conjecturing meaningful notions and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem thinking of abstractions like immortality and honor changes that never fails to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem bother me. Legitimate killing is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem just a preference that a group decides on, often for good concrete reasons, but it’s legitimacy is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem still pure conjecture and is not a law of nature. If you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem conceive of abortion as murder, the problem is in the concept. If you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem think of it as a clinical deletion of cells much as our body does by itself constantly, it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is another matter. The concepts are opposed and cannot be reconciled empirically. We can adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem try to use The Law, a systematic system of conjecture the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem purpose of which is to create, develop, and manage conjecture. If ever there were a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem conjecture machine it would be the law. It is a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem bit more systematic than its fellow system, religion. All this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is not to say that conjectures do not have impact by influencing behavior and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem sometime becoming less conjectural through empirical examination. Some conjecture influences the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem behaviors of people significantly positively and negatively so it needs to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem be regarded. It might do us better to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem remind ourselves that we can imagine almost anything and act on it. Others do, we do so we need to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem keep a perspective on ourselves. Of course, a concept itself. Thanks to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem our growing knowledge of the brain we may be able to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem find the tangible physical representations of a concept. But that would not keep it from being a nutty idea.

PBS had an interesting panel discussing privacy.  Most operate under the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem premise that it can be managed or protected somehow. Possibly it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem cannot, ultimately, be saved.  It is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem already eroded to an extent that I for one cannot even begin to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem conceive.  In fact, I am adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem amazed at the continued residual illusion of privacy that I and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem everyone I know, live under. I think most of us have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no idea how extensively our information is disseminated.  If the NSA monitors us, it is a drop in the bucket from what I hear.  We, justifiably need to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem be outraged and fight such a thing but for reasons beyond the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem meaning of privacy.Given a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem premise that the continued loss of privacy cannot be stopped, what adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem could be done to protect us from…whom?    To protect us from adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem power and one of the fundamental elements of power is its ability to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem conceal information from us while intruding upon our lives.  That’s what the framers thought we needed protection from.  It is a singular characteristic of all tyrannies.  Thought control whether by the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Christian church via The Inquisition or by Stalin and Hitler through intimate informants.  Now the tools they have are overwhelming.  We complain about the lack of transparency of the administration; that’s exactly it: secrecy confers and protects power.In my crabby opinion there is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem only one solution available to human society under the circumstances:  That is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to go to the opposite extreme and develop a society of laws and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem mores that opposes secrecy of any kind by anybody.  If Dick Chaney can adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem find out where I go on the internet, I should be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem able to know where he goes equally and he should be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem aware.  The Ultimate Accountability: Mandatory Transparency for everyone. (I hope Lynne Truss does not read this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem as I am too lazy to pick up Eats, shoots, and Leaves to correct the punctuation horrors I am likely committing here.).

It is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem said that you can tell our true character by what we do when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem no one else will know.  Omygod!  Who could stand the thought of that being known?   Yet, what adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem if we grew up in a society, that from the beginning, had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the expectation that there would be no secrets, legally or by social expectation?  I can’t imagine everything we would experience but we certainly would learn we would have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to stand behind each of our choices publicly.  We would actually have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to be responsible for ourselves instead of just talking about responsibility while hiding from adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem much of it.  What if the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem greatest sin one could commit in the eyes of others was to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem refuse to disclose, have secrets.

I gotta go but more on this later.

The majority of men from adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem a little after my era, going back to WWII, served some time in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem military. While we often reluctantly did so, most of us learned a adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem lot about organizations, competence, duplicity and stupidity that was useful to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem us for the rest of our lives.  We also learned about doing stuff we neither wanted to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem do nor thought we could do.  Even those who adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem would never have chosen the military for any other reason would admit that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem they got something useful from it.

One important experience the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem military gave was the mixing as an equal with all kinds of people.  If you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem were middle or upper middle class, you learned that there were smart and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem decent people in other classes and other groups.  You learned that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem you could serve with them and depend on them as well as they on you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem (hopefully).  They learned equally that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem education does not necessarily confer competence, humanity or morality.  It was a worthy democratizing process for all.

I heard many during the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem civil rights days say that they were not prejudiced until they were in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem service.  Actually they were prejudiced but they just tested whether they wanted to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem change those prejudices (and many did) or commit to harboring them, that is commit to racism.  As everyone is prejudiced (that’s conditioned),  committing to holding on to those prejudices is racism.

Recently we have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem begun to idealize the military and from positions of ignorance imagine that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem it is a nearly foolproof organization that excels in all that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem it does.  Before you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem accuse me of hating the troops, you better have some service under you adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem belt or shut up!  Because I am adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not just Crabby but an old man, I have learned that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem all institutions seem marvelous unless you have to use them e.g., go to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem or work for a hospital, use or get used by the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem law,  deal with or work for a police department.  For each effective and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem necessary accomplishment there are mediocre, human, flawed and idiosyncratic functions.

I was struck suddenly when adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem watching the events resulting from the excellent reportage on the Walter Reed scandal that adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem this kind of thing and these kind of people were familiar.  In watching the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem comments, attitude and behavior of the commanding General of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem hospital, I recognized this guy and his brothers from the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem days I was in the Army.  The ego hiding behind the rank and uniform (this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pudgy, entitled oaf had a marine haircut like he was combat boy) brought flooding memories.  In the interest of truth, I have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem to confess that although I was regular Army and intended to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem make a career, in the end I was a very mediocre leader and a disastrous tactician on the ground.  I may have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem saved many lives by not going on to lead men to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem their deaths in

Now to the main point.  When the professional military was started and the draft stopped, I thought it was a good idea.  We could cut back on defense costs and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem shift our emphasis to civilian enterprises the primary purpose of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem country.  We could wag the military tail instead of seeming the reverse.  Later, I thought alternative but mandatory service would be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem good for our developing citizens to cause a bit greater participation in and sense of obligation to the country. I no longer believe that.  I think our citizens need to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem participate in the defense process so that they know what it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is about and be willing to participate and make smarter decisions for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem our defense.  The military has been likened to a gated community.  When citizens had been in the military they knew what was inside.  Now they don’t.   Had they been adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem there and their kids were going there they would watch and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem make sounder judgments about using the military.  They would be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem better able to judge if their commander in chief knew what adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem he/she was doing and to influence his/her decisions.  They would have a vested interest in our wars and defense.  They might also be adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem less afraid and less willing to give up our national values just to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem be protected.  “Oh save us, save us. We don’t care how.”

It is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem not a joke that the majority of the current and past leadership of this adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem war were as they say, “chicken-hawks”.  It is crucial.  Dying in vain is adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem serious business and nothing is more in vain than leadership based on vanity and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pride and blindness of leaders.  Military service certainly does not inoculate against vain judgment but it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem is more likely to expose it an cause less tolerance for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem it.  There is no check on the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem leaders because blowhards and commentators who did not serve because they had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem pilonidal cysts (Chaney and Rush Limbaugh) feel they can advocate death with impunity and deride their betters.  I know I was not the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem only one with one of those cysts when I was in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem Army.  I wonder how not sitting on their cysts in the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem service would have changed them.  Maybe not at all but I cannot help wondering.

If George Bush and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem actually gone on and served several things might have happened.  First, for adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem the first time in his life he would have been equal to adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem and his well being would have depended upon many people from adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem walks of life he has never encountered.  He would have had to “take it” as well as give it adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem out. He might have learned a little actual humility instead of the adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem canned and superficial humility of his so called conversion and sobriety.  Second, he might actually have solved his life long father problem.  Had he actually risked himself in

Well, if we had adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem all been in the military and some of us and adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem our children were at risk to go, we might have compelled better decisions about this war.  We might have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem been less passive. We would have known more about the bill of goods we were being sold.  We might have adobe creative suite 5.5 master oem decided to fight terrorism and Al Qaeda effectively instead of just militarily. 

Bring back the draft!  Our national defense is way too important to be left just to professionals.