Saturday, October 3, 2009

“Why green fails - Salon” plus 4 more

“Why green fails - Salon” plus 4 more

Why green fails - Salon

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:30 PM PDT

" Nature's God entitles them", written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence meant something different than individual religious spins. Jefferson's words reflected a philosophy that directly challenges our thinking of God.

Jefferson was a man who had studied architecture and had brought classical enlightment to the US in designing Washington DC , his personal homes and the Unversity of Virginia. This architecture, the same found throughout the world, used sacred geometries which establish a philosophy that we are from and a part of nature. 

Nature's God is reflective of seeing our connection to nature in life , death and rebirth, in a non symetric symmetry . This thinking is supported by many great scientists including Einstein, Feyman and Newton .

The green movement will fail  for one reason alone. We are prisioners of our thinking that we are better than nature or one another. We believe we are entitled beyond what we need  and think somehow, the God's we have created endorses this .

Abusing nature and others  for our own entitlements will be our fatal flaw. Some think we are fatally flawed and our future is gloomy. It seems to me, understanding what Jefferson and so many others have realized might hold the amswers we need.

Nature's God is green.

Local view: Opponents only want to stop health-care reform - Duluth News Tribune

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:06 PM PDT

I am 73 years old. In my view the two best government programs to have been passed during my lifetime were Social Security, passed during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration on Aug. 14, 1935, and Medicare, passed during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration on July 30, 1965.

Both programs have been under attack by Republican politicians for years. Sen. Barry Goldwater, running against LBJ for president in 1964, advocated changing Social Security, making participation voluntary. Of course, this would have gutted the program. Upper-income and wealthy individuals would have opted out, leaving the program to die for lack of funding. More recently, President George W. Bush wanted to privatize Social Security, again a move that, under the current recession, would have spelled disaster for the program and its participants.

LBJ passed more social legislation while president than any other. High on his list were civil rights and equal rights for minorities. Also included was health care for the elderly and poor in the form of Medicare and Medicaid.

Now, President Obama has made passing health-care reform and health care for everyone a goal of his administration. If he succeeds, it will be due to the efforts of FDR, LBJ, JFK, and yes, the recently deceased acknowledged liberal, Edward Kennedy, among many others.

We need two political parties in this country; what we do not need is a win-at-any-cost philosophy that includes lies, deception and false accusations. This philosophy lives in both parties, but is exemplified by various leaders such as Karl Rove, who helped elect President George W. Bush in 2000 and again in 2004. In my view, the opposition to health-care reform is being led by this win-at-any-cost philosophy. Its primary goal is to bring down Obama and to do so by defeating health-care reform.

Why are insurance companies, whose lobbyists help elect many congressional members through large contributions, so dead set against what is called the public option, a government-run insurance program that, in my view, would be similar to Medicare but available to millions of people of all ages? The answer is simple: Insurance companies view the prospect of a public option as cutting into the billions of dollars of profit they see if they did not have to compete with it. Howard Dean, who was a strong contender for president in the 2004 election but did not get his party's nomination, is a medical doctor. He believes public option is absolutely necessary in order to control the costs of health and health insurance.

We should not be surprised by what Obama has done and is attempting to do as president of the United States as he is doing what he has said he would do. Obama was elected at one of the most difficult times since the Great Depression. Has he been successful so far? President Obama is getting this country out of Iraq, a war that was unjust and unnecessary and extremely costly in both dollars and in the losses of the lives of our bravest and best men and women. Obama is refocusing on Afghanistan, the country from which Osama bin Laden carried out his evil scheme on Sept. 11, 2001, and where he may now reside.

In my view, Obama has shortened a recession and averted a depression. The stock market has moved from a disaster to a strong positive for investors. There is hope the job market eventually will follow.

President Obama is now determined to see that every citizen in this country has access to affordable health care. It must be done in a way that controls costs, and this is why a program such as the public option must eventually be included.

FRANCIS G. FLOREY of Superior has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology, has published a college textbook on linear algebra, and retired in 1997 as professor emeritus in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Superior after teaching math for more than 37 years.

Press Trust of India: Belarus capital mulling to install Gandhi's ... - KPNews.com

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:06 PM PDT

The Belarus capital Minsk is mulling a monument to Mahatma Gandhi as it finds his philosophy of tolerance and non-violence "much relevant".

Addressing a function in Minsk yesterday on Gandhi's 140th birthday as International Day of Non-violence, a senior Foreign Ministry official promised all necessary help in setting a monument to Mahatma Gandhi.


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Joes Gameday Preview Lions at Bears - Elites TV

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 01:06 PM PDT

One thing is for sure going into this Sunday's match-up at Solider Field: these aren't the 2008 Lions. Know how I know that? The 2009 Lions have won a game. It happened just last weekend against the Redskins. Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz is hoping to turn it into a streak, with the Chicago Bears playing their second victim.  

For Jay Cutler and the offense, it should be a fairly simple philosophy: don't turn the ball over. Detroit's defense is allowing an average of close to 29 points a game and 400 yards to their opponents this season. Options on the ground or through the air should be open to Ron Turner and this still-developing offensive system. The wide receivers must continue to make strides with Cutler, but their progression has been a pleasant surprise after the fervor from writers (including me) over the off-season. 

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One thing is for sure going into this Sunday's match-up at Solider Field: these aren't the 2008 Lions. Know how I know that? The 2009 Lions have won a game. It happened just last weekend against the Redskins. Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz is hoping to turn it into a streak, with the Chicago Bears playing their second victim.  

For Jay Cutler and the offense, it should be a fairly simple philosophy: don't turn the ball over. Detroit's defense is allowing an average of close to 29 points a game and 400 yards to their opponents this season. Options on the ground or through the air should be open to Ron Turner and this still-developing offensive system. The wide receivers must continue to make strides with Cutler, but their progression has been a pleasant surprise after the fervor from writers (including me) over the off-season. 

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Jets coach Rex Ryan and Saints coach Sean Payton love chess match - New York Daily News

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 02:03 PM PDT

BY Rich Cimini
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Saturday, October 3rd 2009, 4:03 PM

NEW ORLEANS - Imagine Rex Ryan and Sean Payton on the same coaching staff. It could've happened in 2004, when Payton considered an offer to become the Raiders' head coach. He was going to hire Ryan as his defensive coordinator, but decided not to work for the dysfunctional Raiders.

"Rex will probably thank me pre-game for that," said Payton, alluding to the showdown Sunday between the Jets and Saints - both 3-0.

They would've made quite a coaching team. Payton is the mastermind behind the Saints' off-the-charts offense, and Ryan has rejuvenated the Jets' defense with his attacking scheme.

"The gurus," Saints quarterback Drew Brees called them.

Sunday, Ryan and Payton will be the football version of Fischer and Spassky, competing on a 100-yard chess board. If you don't think Ryan is fired up about it, you haven't been paying attention to the Jets' coach for the last few months.

"I'm not going to sit here and lie and say it doesn't (motivate me)," Ryan said. "When a team is ranked as high as they are and putting up the numbers they are, my first reaction is, 'Well, they aren't going to do that against us.'"

This will be a thinking man's game. Payton's offense is so diverse that Ryan counted 15 different personnel groupings. Nine different players have scored for the Saints, a spread-the-ball philosophy that makes them so difficult to defend. But Payton will be challenged by a defense that blitzes on two out of every three downs and disguises as well as any team in the league.

Brees is considered almost blitz-proof because he delivers the ball so quickly, so it will be fascinating to see if Ryan backs off a bit, opting for more coverage than pressure. His players sense this is something special for Ryan.

"He wants to go against the best play-caller because he thinks he's the best," safety Kerry Rhodes said.

Ryan doesn't necessarily believe a shutdown performance would enhance his resume.

"Does my reputation increase as a defensive mind? I don't know," he said. "I think it was fairly high before I got this job."
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