Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

Dennis Prager

It's just more stuff that runs counter to our politically correct, increasingly dysfunctional society.

You'd think that it would be celebrated, but no. It will be delegated to the rear of the bus, thank you very much.

How Proposition 8 passed in California — and why it wouldn’t today

Washington Post

The Post claims that a similar election held today in California that would ban same sex marriage would not pass. If that is true, why is the case being heard in the Supreme Court? Why not hold another election and repeal the ban if they've got the votes?

Everything you hear from the media is suspicious. Everything that comes from Washington is suspicious, and the ruling that eventually is handed down will be tainted, in my opinion.

The only right thing to do is to uphold the election, but they'll never do anything like that.

Bet you won't read this

Too much truth in it.

Published on Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com)

Guest Post: 'Available'

By Tyler Durden

Created 03/26/2013 - 17:27

It is clear now that we must have been wrong about the economy. No more proof is needed than the fact the Dow has gone up 1,500 points. Everyone knows the stock market reflects the true health of the nation – multi-millionaire Jim Cramer and his millionaire CNBC talking head cohorts tell us so. Ignore the fact that the bottom 80% only own 5% of the financial assets in this country and are not benefitted by the stock market in any way. It is time to open your eyes and arise from your stupor. Observe what is happening around you. Look closely. Does the storyline match what you see in your ever day reality? It is them versus us. Whether you call them the invisible government, ruling class, financial overlords, oligarchs, the powers that be, ruling elite, or owners; there are powerful wealthy men who call the shots in this global criminal enterprise. No amount of propaganda can cover up the physical, economic, social, and psychological descent afflicting our world. There's a bad moon rising and trouble is on the way.

Quote:

It is time to open your eyes and arise from your stupor. Observe what is happening around you. Look closely. Does the storyline match what you see in your ever day reality? It is them versus us. Whether you call them the invisible government, ruling class, financial overlords, oligarchs, the powers that be, ruling elite, or owners; there are powerful wealthy men who call the shots in this global criminal enterprise. Their names are Dimon, Corzine, Blankfein, Murdoch, Buffett, Soros, Bernanke, Obama, Romney, Bloomberg, Fink, among others. They are using every means at their disposal to retain their control and power over the worldwide economic system and gorge themselves like hyenas upon the carcasses of a crippled and dying middle class. They have nothing but contempt and scorn for the peasants. They’re your owners and consider you as their slaves.

Source URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-26/guest-post-available

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Supreme Court seems wary of broad gay marriage ruling

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-supreme-court-gay-marriage-20130326,0,727855.story

"Supreme Court seems wary of broad gay marriage ruling."

Comments:

I was hoping for more encouraging news than this. Keep prop 8.

Update:

Surely, the Supreme Court can find a justification for hearing this case.

Based upon admittedly very sketchy knowledge of the California situation, it looks like the state won't enforce its own laws even though they have sworn to do so. Every state is guaranteed a republican form of government, which should mean that the laws will be enforced. The Supreme Court may be their only redress for grievances against a state that is running rampantly over the law.

Update:

Same-sex marriage is based upon a flawed 2003 Supreme Court decision which overturned the anti-sodomy laws, according to the linked article. Justice Antonin Scalia predicted this outcome, and he was right. That case, which was decided 6-3, was based upon a lie, according to the author of the piece.

Update:

There's no point in making a new post on this subject, so I'll update it instead. Based upon my reading, I expect that thre will be two possible outcomes, neither of which are good. It is just a matter of how bad it will get.

Number 1 is that they will let the lower court decision remain in place somehow. Or,
Number 2: they will nationalize the issue and make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

There's no way they are going to do the right thing. We are far past that.

"Faster please?"---More like "any time, sweetheart"

One of Glenn Reynold's favorite sayings. In this context, it is space colonization. I think that it is time to recognize that it isn't a matter of "faster please". It is a matter of "any time, sweetheart". It isn't going to happen at all if we continue on our present course.

In 1969, while men were standing on the moon, this country starting pulling in its horns. The Saturn V assembly line was canceled. The nuclear upper stage, the Nerva, was about to be. That was the hardware that could have taken us to Mars---scrapped like so much trash. We were closer to the asteroids, planets, and stars then than we are now. We had the means to get to Mars then, but we can't get to low earth orbit now. We aren't going forward into space, we are in full retreat. Not only in space, but every-damned-where else as well.

The private Pyle analogy is apt. People need to get that stupid grin off their faces and get with the damned program, or forget about it, sweethearts.

Another non-post?

Not this time. Something is going to get said.

I once wrote a post that said nothing, and guess what? It is the most popular post that I have ever written. At least according to the stats that Google provides.

I believe that I was expressing the disbelief of what was happening all around us.

Now I am back to that point where I am taking all this information in so that I can make a post, and I am at a loss of words to express myself.

Then you make some space posts, but is that just a way of escaping the horrid truth of our situation? It is certainly more pleasant to dream of a brilliant future than to contemplate the awful reality of our situation now. Come to think of it, that is what everybody is doing just by continuing to do what they usually do each day. For if they were to study in depth what we all take for granted as true, they'd recoil in horror at how untrue everything is. And at that point, the whole world could come to a halt.

We live in a world of untruth, but we require belief in something to continue to live. It is a paradox.

Consider this movie clip ( A Few Good Men ):

Note who the actors are and what they are attacking. The movie is written by a leftist. The actors are most likely in sympathy with that. Note what is being defended--- honor. Note how honor is being defended---with a lie. It is a paradox.

I am experiencing that same paradoxical feeling. Here are these leftists attacking the Marines and succeeding, albeit in a movie. In the real world, they are succeeding as well.

Now the left is manning that wall while continuing to attack it. On the other hand, I, who consider myself to be a conservative, am attacking that wall while believing that I am defending it. The irony of it all. To tell the truth about is to attack it. To attack it may bring it down. Those in the role of defending it are destroying it. Those who are trying to defend it with truth may be bringing it down. It confounds the mind.

The left is manning that wall today with the efforts at defending an economic system that is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors. By telling the truth about it, one can bring the whole system down.

The raises a question. If such be the case, can a system be built that is based upon truth?

You may not be convinced of the falsity of our situation. But I think that the truth is this: falsity is necessary for this system to work as it is constituted now. Does that mean that I should shut up?

Something has to give. The falsity will give, or the insanity will engulf us all permanently.

Consider this Zero Hedge post here. It reminds me of a number of elements that I've written about on this blog. If you take this as truth, what reason do you have to continue to work in this economy which will steal the fruits of your labor? I'm thinking of Cyprus here, in case you are wondering.

If enough people recognized that their labor can be rendered into meaninglessness as the truth of their existence, the economy as we have known it is sunk. Such is our condition today. Such is our peril.

I realized that this past weekend. It stunned me. What do you do about this? Discuss it or shut up?

Or just go into denial and dream pretty thoughts. It is a paradox.

If we are all living in A Brave New World, we cannot ask why. To do so is a revolutionary act. In such a case as that, you may be required to shut up. Then you will be rehabbed and drugged until you conform, or you may well die.

It all reminds me of this scene from Blade Runner.

Something is dying, but that reality may be too hard to accept now. And so it goes on.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Mining asteroids

About the near Earth objects
:thing is, if it has enough water, it could be very attractive for development of its resources.

The trip to Ceres is very far. On the other hand, Near Earth objects are going to be easier to access, but you may not be able to stay very long. Because if you do , you going to be stuck there because you can't get back to Earth easily if you stay very long at all.

Either way , it seems you're going to spend a lot of time at an asteroid in order to mine it, or to do anything besides a short mission.

The next problem is how do you get situated on an asteroid so that you can work there effectively.

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Update:

A long essay on Ceres in available on Daily Kos. For those of you who are Republican and Conservative, you may not want to go on that site. If you just stick to the science part of this essay, you needn't be offended.

Comet Tempel 1 is a bit far out there too. Anyway, the idea of finding water in such vast quantities in space is tantalizing. If there are any extinct comets like this one that is more readily accessible to us, it could be worthwhile to do it. If is a very big word, though.