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The Cosmic Cabdrivers' Guide to the Universe, in its various sections and blog pages, is dedicated to providing useful information and stimulating thoughts, ideas, and humor for intelligent beings everywhere, seeking peace, justice, and equal prosperity for all. Contributions and feedback are welcome.  The Cosmic Rat WHAT'S A COSMICRAT?  COSMIC SECTIONS     |
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| RAT NOW, RAT HERE! January 2010: The Rat Now page will now start here in this column, beginning with my latest blog entry. The link at the bottom will take you to the page where all past articles can be found. Iced Tea It seems the teabaggers are proposing the restoration of literacy tests for voting. They imagine, I suppose, that they would reduce the number of poor and minority voters. The ironic thing is that if the literacy test covered anything more advanced than "See Dick run" (and I hope he doesn't), many of the teabaggers would probably fail. When the Vice Governor of South Carolina orates that poor people are like stray animals- if you feed them they'll breed, it is easy to see just how hateful and inhuman the right wing can get. And just how far from American values have they gotten when they can actually criticize an accused suspect being read his Miranda rights? Never mind the fact that doing it right has actually gotten more information than they otherwise would have-- this is the United States of America, and justice is not optional. It's not easy to imagine the combination of ignorance and absolute selfishness being widespread enough to seriously impair progress, in a country where education and information are so available to all. But dysinformation and selfist propaganda has big money on its side, and that will get worse. I recall a line from a Jim Morrison song: "They've got the guns, but we've got the numbers..." But we have to make the numbers count. A CASE OF KIDNAPPING When I first heard the story of the Haiti kidnappers' arrest, I thought "Well-meaning but stupid." But after a few more facts came out, I realized they were not well-meaning at all, and they fully deserve being arrested, tried, and if found guilty, imprisoned. Taking advantage of a disaster, pretending to "help", and snatching children in order to impose their particular brand of Christianity on them is an even more heinous act than kidnapping for ransom. Secretary of State Clinton has rightly said, "It is a matter for the Haitian courts to decide." That it is. No doubt the kidnappers, seeing that at first Haiti was virtually without government and police after the earthquake, thought they could get away with their crime amid the chaos. In effect, they were looters of the worst kind, stealing not food or even objects, but human beings. Christianity has a long sordid history of forcing its beliefs on others, fomenting wars to convert the conquered, conducting inquisitions, and, even in the US, kidnapping children to brainwash them. Despite the First Amendment, that was systematically done to American natives. Not long ago a local government in Texas tried to confiscate the children of a Mormon sect. Religions that follow their own best principles usually do good, not harm. Because religion is by nature irrational, its adherents are also vulnerable to those who would twist its preachings into offensive and often deadly kinds of action. I hope that a lesson is learned from that crime, that no nation, no culture, no matter what emergencies or problems it may have, takes lightly the insult of preying on the minds of their children. --cosmic rat 02--06-2010 STATE OF THE UNION, 2010 Many things can be said about the list of issues President Obama addressed in his speech, but I have the following overall impressions: It is clear that the President is a man who cares very deeply and strongly about the people of the United States and of the world of which we are a part. Even those who disagree with his approach should admit that to themselves, if not aloud. Barack Obama does not shout his feelings. He speaks calmly, clearly; with reasoned arguments, as a President should, but that does not disguise his dedication to serve well the people who elected him. Considering the array of problems the President faces, it is hard not to think of fables in which a ruler or a god offers a brave knight a great prize to do an impossible task- to slay a dragon, or rescue a princess from a powerful evil captor. The problems in our reality are not insurmountable, but the pace of solution demanded by the impatient makes them even harder to overcome. We Americans have learned that we are not guaranteed a good President. When we are lucky enough to have elected one, I hope most of us can also learn to appreciate him, and be just a little more patient when his task is to move a mountain he didn't create.  |
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