Old Positive Thoughts

Pandora's War
Christianity	Islam	Judaism	Hinduism
Taboo	Jingoism	Blindness	Greed
The Lucifer Principle in Action

What happened to this guy?

     "... Iraqi man stopped a U.N. vehicle outside the headquarters pleading "Save me! Save me!" in Arabic, according to the U.N. The man, apparently unarmed, forced his way into the driver's seat of the stopped vehicle, as an Iraqi guard struggled to pull him out, while an unfazed U.N. inspector watched from the passenger seat.
     Appearing agitated and frightened, the young man, with a closely trimmed beard and mustache, sat inside the white U.N.-marked utility vehicle for 10 minutes, The Associated Press reported. At first, an inspection team leader sought help from nearby Iraqi soldiers, but the man refused to leave the vehicle as the uniformed men pulled on his sleeve and collar.
     "I am unjustly treated!" he shouted.
     Then U.N. security men arrived, and they and Iraqi police carried the man by his feet and arms into the fenced compound, journalists said. The man was turned over to Iraqi authorities at a government office adjacent to the compound, U.N. officials said.
     Iraqi officials said they had no information on the incidents."

	This is just about the STUPIDEST goddamn thing I've ever seen on television. Federal tax dollars at work. See is straight from them in Quicktime or Real.
	They were private. He has not destroyed them. If he sells them he is a simple scumbag in a tie. I was no fan of hers, but this has nothing to do with what little emotion I had for her. If he sells them he is beneath contempt.

Taboo is Evil

Zambian woman holding roots and barbs

What exactly is it, if not taboo, that prevents the concept of birth control from receiving any mention at all in articles like
this one (The jeeps turned into a little settlement of a hundred mud houses and the children came running - as delighted to see us as they would have been to see their Santa Claus, bringing them the maize and the protein that would stop their little bodies being blown up like balloons and turning them fat from hunger.)
or this one (Three of her seven children — girls ages 8, 7 and 3 — have intestinal worms, up to a foot long, that she must periodically pull from their bottoms.)
or this one (She squatted in the dirt today with hundreds of other mothers waiting for food handouts for her and her six undernourished children.)?

This glaring taboo is evident in most articles of the sort. Taboo is evil and needs to be broken. The problem is that taboo serves so many established interests.

Here! The Tragedy of The Commons

Saddam Hussein is a hypocritical infidel and a crass compliance professional. Now he calls Muslims to jihad. Hey, something wrong with that? There must not be, judging from the lack of attack on that point. Maybe the brush would paint too many others.

How strange it is that the United States provides 62 percent of global food aid, and yet is the great global obstructionist with respect to family planning and birth control. Here: The Tragedy of The Commons

An omnipotent God can be all things to all people. Beware demagogues.

God the Discrete can be seen, like the wind, in Its effects upon the brains It inhabits.

God the Omnipresent demands skepticism. Literalism in faith, a favorite of the demagogue, is always unjustified.

Feeding the enemy is stupid.

Protecting he who would feed the enemy is stupid.

Quixotically protecting druggies from themselves while they feed the enemy is stupid.

Stanch the flow of money to terrorists and make better use of limited assets by eliminating the financial multiplier of illegality.

Living in the present and living for today are two different things.

What fraction of the energy drawn from nuclear fuel would it take to get hot wastes off the planet? What fraction of the original fuel mass would require ejection? To what extent can that mass be minimized by other techniques like neutron bombardment, and how much of the energy drawn from the nuclear fuel would it take to accomplish this minimization of hot waste? Assuming that allocating a fraction of nuclear output for removing waste from the planet is feasible, how could that destruction or ejection be accomplished? Rail gun? Coil gun? Rocket? Mass accelerator? Molecular beam? Transmutation? Slingatron? I'm looking for reports of work in the area of removing nuclear wastes from the planet but have not found any to date (save for transmutation which is removal by destruction).

These days, the greatest expression of love for the child you dream of may be to not conceive.

Phoenix can be a little hot for a few months of the year, but yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and today will be, too. Payback is underway.

If life is a gift, would not its purpose be to be enjoyed?

Lord, to the extent you are really there and responsible for my good fortune, thank you so much. Happy Sunday.

Today I will start a page about why I feel the way I do about nuclear power. (Done.)

Whether I enjoy the day is largely up to me. I want to enjoy the day, so I will.

By golly, I will!

Payback time is in full swing in Phoenix. It's beautiful outside!