THE INTERNET AND INFORMATION

THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES

Throughout history, information has always been a tricky thing to handle.
When Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history.^[3] It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.<sup>[4]( Copied from Wikipedia)

The internet has likewise revolutionized the availability and dissemination of information. Anyone
can post anything they want to the internet, right or wrong, good or bad, insightful or not.

My point is  the importance of "filtering" for ourselves what content we attend to and that which we 
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THIS IS HOW STUPID "THEY" THINK WE ARE

1. Presidents may hold office for no more than two elected terms
2. That amounts to a maximum of 8 years

Today March 12, 2019, it was announced that the Presidents budget proposes to save An $845 billion cut to Medicare over 10 years.

See that's the trick.  "...over 10 years".  We'll have a new president. OK, that's $8,450,000,000 (Eight Billion, four hundred and fifty million dollars or $8,450,000,000)  Still a big number but not nearly as impressive as $845 billion cut to Medicare and the "...over 10 years." gets lost in the rush to say the line.

BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT! This is how "they" try and piss on our shoes and convince us it's raining.

I'm just sayin'.

Jack's Thoughts on Society and Violence

Random Shootings

Schools

I posted the following picture on FaceBook.  It provoked some comments, which was my secondary intention, my primary being to provoke thought on the topic of violence particularly gun violence, I suppose.



A human, if you are to believe the social scientists is a communal animal, a social animal if you will.

Some people believe, apparently, that isolation from other humans is a form of torture.

One thing, however, seems apparent to me.  When ever animals group together, and in particular I'm thinking of humans, they seem to require a sense of order.  

In Western culture we have developed quite an array of folkways, mores, and social rules of behavior.  From the time of the earliest of "the great thinkers" Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and on to the present day we have realized that as we gather together in groups the more need there is for "rules of behavior".  As we have increased the number of "things" in our culture, cars, trains, trucks, roads etc. the greater the need for and complexity of out rules.

If you don't accept this premise read no further, it will only waste your time.

How one learns these "rules" of behavior depends on a lot of conditions and circumstances.

As babes we learn from  our parents whoever they may be.  In some cultures eating another person is not frowned upon.  In OUR culture it is not only frowned upon, generally speaking, but is usually against the law.

So, we are taught NOT to eat other people.  If our parents and peers don't teach us at some point someone will.

Killing people is generally disapproved.  On a conditional basis, we make exceptions. War, "self defence", insanity, all come to mind as arguable exceptions.

In our past, in the USA or "America", while our government was not founded upon a religious basis, a good many of, but by all means NOT ALL, of our organizers were men of some sort of religious belief. (That's another discussion).  Our COUNTRY, the land we occupy, the dirt we tread, was populated originally, by people of strong religious conviction.  It was they, I suppose, who brought their ideas of good and evil, right and wrong upon this soil.  Even the indigenous occupants of the land had their own notions of these things.  Different, perhaps, from the Europeans who were invading their lands, but their own brand of notions of acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

In my career I have dealt with many groups, formed groups, studied group behavior and in all my experience I have yet to find a group of 2 or more who absolutely agreed on every single thing with which they were presented.  Consensus, yes.  Total agreement, no.  There was always SOME element of variance.  It may have been very small, and totally inconsequential but it was always there.

So, for the majority of the time we have been on this continent, we have behaved according to some general sense of the dictates of the Judaeo/ Christian ethic.  Not that we've ever been all that good at it collectively or especially individually.

So, that brings me to the subject of LAWS. What is LAW?  Here's one definition:  "the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

"they were taken to court for breaking the law"

So, what is the "Intent" of law(s).  This link is to a reasonably good lesson on Law and it's "Intent":

  file:///C:/Users/Jack's%20PC/Desktop/JAX%20File%20Cabinet/JAX%20File%20Cabinet/Pay%20Pal/15%20intent%20of%20the%20law%20(1).pdf

Paraphrased I would say the paragraph above about "what is Law" pretty well sums it up.

Moving on from there, we already have laws that state that Killing people is against the law.  It doesn't really matter how old you are or how sound of mind and body you are, it just ain't right to go around killing people.

Most folks learn that at an early age.  In a highly secular society laws are what get the job done.  Add a little religiosity or in a theocratic society and the religion gets the job done.  Either way you have a society that has some rules (laws, mores, folkways, etc) that proscribe acceptable behavior.  Vary too far off the path and there are consequences.

For a more detailed look at the kind of data that informs my view see the Pew Research Center, Religion & Public Life, Religious Landscape Study, via the following link:

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

So, where do I shake out on all this?  First, bringing weapons in or onto a school or school property is usually prohibited by law or rules or codes.

Second, Laws do not PREVENT disobedience they prescribe the penalties for non compliance.

Third, If laws DID prevent crime then our prisons wouldn't have so many occupants.

And on and on and on.  

Societies basically work or don't work based on the "honor principle",  In a large (or small) group, not everyone will agree or adhere to the principle.

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Climate Change and the Paris climate agreement

What you need to understand

This is a blatant "Red Herring" to distract the attention of the American Public from the REALLY important events that are occurring in our government. 

Hurricane season has begun with NO ONE in charge of FEMA or NOAA.  So much more is NOT being attended to.

I'm not denying climate change or its importance.  But do you want to have a discussion about climate change while you're treading water in New Orleans?

Here is the link to inform yourself of what is REALLY taking place in our government.  You can read the language that  changes the ethics rules for govt (white house) employees.

https://www.congress.gov/

I'm fairly certain you can find something besides withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, about which to become incensed. 

Copy and paste the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNq_DTmVCWs







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How I Really Feel

Did you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA

MY country is not a president, a senator, or representative.  It is not currency.

My country is an idea, a belief, an experiment.  Many before me have said it much more eloquently, and much better than I, and I will therefore not try.

But it is my belief that there are many others like me, who believe as I do, in the ideals of duty, honor, country, and all that means and implies.

I believe in dreams and ideals, hope, and trying.  I believe good will outdo evil.

I believe we will always have to resist and fight off greed.

I believe in heroes, and that they are all around us, all the time every day, they are teachers, preachers, moms, dads, clerks, cops and firemen, men and women of every definition.

I believe in inspiration, love and and sadness.

And finally, I believe that what we have is worth fighting for to keep.

HISTORY OF THE WHCA℠(White House Correspondants Association)

HISTORY OF THE WHCA℠:





The White House "Press Corps" is present at the White House at the pleasure of the President of the United States.  Make no mistake about that !!! There is NO CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGISLATIVE, OR ANY OTHER "RIGHT"  for their presence other than the good will of the President to provide them some space to be and to, from time to time, speak with them directly or through his designee.



"Legend has it that reporters first took up a daily beat inside the White House one frigid day in the early 1900s, after President Theodore Roosevelt noticed a band of correspondents staking out sources in the rain. The president "looked out and took pity," as one chronicle of the period reports it."

Here are some links you can use to further inform yourself:

• http://www.whca.net/history.htm  (Pay particular attention @ 3:37 min. )
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_press_corps
• http://www.whca.net/history.htm
• A biased point of view:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-white-house-press-corps/2017/01/27/69d6c986-e407-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.6af4edddc8f0

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