December 21, 2011
A couple footnotes to the end of this: http://www.mixermuse.com/blog/2011/11/27/on-the-coalescence-and-convalescence-of-power/ (1) Error is the impossibility of objective, historical certainty in Kierkegaard. The shifting hermeneutic tide of historical narrative can only lead to profound dread not to concrete absolute. Logic, the faux fatale, the fatal blunder towards reduction while the grass grows under our feet is Error [...]
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December 8, 2011
Here are the latest numbers: Bush debt increase: 85% Obama debt increase: 41% Bush increase in unemployment: 98% Obama decrease in unemployment: 8% See for yourself… From January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009 the national debt increased from $5,727,776,738,304.64 to $10,626,877,048,913.08. For those that still believe in arithmetic this is an 85% increase in [...]
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March 23, 2011
I recently found out that I have arterial calcification that puts me in a bracket where only 23% of folks my age have it worse. I always knew my days were numbered but would rather longer than shorter. In any case, I plan to go out the same way I came in with wonder and [...]
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October 30, 2010
Here are my ideas for Federal Health Care… We spend more on health care than all these countries while life expectancy is lower than others, comprehensive care per capita is less and quality is less than some. Here are the numbers: Country Health Care Spending as % of GDP United States 13.9 Switzerland 11.1 Norway [...]
Tags: medicaid, medicare
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July 15, 2010
Professor Loy writes about the Diamond Sutra and the logic form utilized by the teaching as: A is not A, therefore it is A So, “Purity is not purity; that is why it is purity.” This is transformative as we come back to purity with a different approach as a result of the process. This [...]
Tags: Calculus, hegel, Zen
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January 26, 2010
Republicans, the home of many wealthy corporations and individuals, control public perception through the media. They are very good at it – much better than Democrats. Maybe the media is liberal if you listen to them but voters fall in line like zombies to their beckoning call. The Heritage Foundation, a very conservative “think tank” [...]
Tags: effective, marginal, poor, Republicans, rich, taxes
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