IRS Enforcement

 

Look Down

Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!

The People are our fellow man.

The House GOP's first bill out of the gate doesn’t address inflation or gas prices or immigration, but instead zeroes in on the Internal Revenue Service.

The rINOs, republicans In Name Only, in charge of the House are opposed to our republic, the government.  Since the frontal assault on Jan 6, 2020 failed, and the 2022 mid-term elections did not work out as planned, is anyone surprised that they are now trying siege warfare.  If domination by assault doesn’t work, a siege, starving your enemies, is the next step.  Kind of like Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine’s power and water infrastructure.   Domination is domination. Just as those in control of Russia do not care for the well being of the Ukrainians, so too the rINOs in the House do not care for the well being of those in our constitutional republic.

Any enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service raises, ….doh…..revenue for the People’s government.  If you are opposed to the People, then you are opposed to any revenue for the People.  If the riNOs also want to starve the People then it is because they look down on, and do not think that they are,  the People.

Spooky Action at a Distance

 

Spooky

In the cool of the evening when ev'rything is gettin' kind of groovy,
I call you up and ask you if you want to go and meet and see a movie,
First you say no, you've got some plans for the night,
And then you stop, and say, "All right."
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.

Maybe it wouldn’t seem so spooky if you understood it.

Einstein’s distaste for Quantum Mechanics came because of what he derided as spooky action at a distance, also know as Quantum Entanglement.  If you take two identical particles which are superimposed and separate them by a great distance, the measurement of a previously unmeasured attribute, such as spin, will have the same value in both particles, even if they have been separated by a distance that precludes transmitting that information at the speed of light.

For example, if one entangled particle is moved two light years from the other particle, it will  instantaneously have the same measured attribute as the other particle even though any information would take two years to pass from one to the other.  However if those two particles are superimposed, entangled, then they still have the same world line when transformed in Minkowski space.  If they are then separated in physical space, they are still on the same and NOT on different world lines.  If they have the same world line, then they are still the same particle, and of course will produce the same measurement.  If nothing has changed, then maybe spooky action at a distance is not so spooky after all.

The American Way

 

The Adventures of Superman

Faster than a speeding bullet!
More powerful than a locomotive!
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
Look, up in the sky! 
It's a bird! 
It's a plane! 
It's Superman!
Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet, 
Who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers,
Bend steel in his bare hands, and
Who, disguised as Clark Kent,
Mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper,
Fights a never-ending battle for
Truth, Justice, and the American way. 

Thank you Representative Robert Garcia.

Rep. Robert Garcia made headlines because he intends to

" be proudly sworn-in to Congress on the U.S. Constitution. Underneath the Constitution will be three items that mean a lot to me personally: A photo of my parents who I lost to COVID, my citizenship certificate & an original Superman #1 from the library of congress"

The creators  of Superman, Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, were of course Jewish, as were many of the giants of the comic publishing Industry: Stan Lee ( born Liberman), Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg), Bob Kane (born Kahn), etc., But more importantly until the Reagan era, all comic book heroes fought nobly for Truth, Justice, and the AMERICAN Way.  The comic book “heroes” who executed their enemies ( Marvel’s Punisher) or declared them insane because they did not agree with them (Batman’s Arkham Asylum) did not become popular until the 1980s.  Comic book publishing, like Hollywood and banking, was dominated by Jews because WASPs in the beginnings of those industries shunned any involvement.  But the marginalized people who joined those industries made them strong and powerful.  And throughout the early years of Superman, he assisted the People, including its government, in capturing (NOT PUNISHING) evil doers.  Oh, by the way, a strange visitor from another planet is by definition an immigrant to our planet.  Sounds like Rep. Garcia is someone I would want to support.

Adult Children

 

You’ve Got A Friend in Me

You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You got troubles, I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and see it through
'Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me

Adult children are our friends

Adult children are full members of a group, whether that group is a family, a clan, a tribe, etc.  They can not be full members if they are the property of any other member of the group ( i.e. their parents).  Looking at the words in the song, there is nothing that I as a parent wouldn’t do for my children.  We will stick together and see it through.  What is mine is theirs.  But that same should be true for any friend.  Yes, I will still treasure the memories and honor of being their parent, but that is looking backward.  Looking forward, I have to accept that as adults they are no different than anyone else in my group and they hopefully will be my friends.  Vive La Fraternite.

Electing a Speaker of the House

 

Burning Down The House

Ah, watch out
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house

But before you burn it down, let’s elect a Speaker

The House of Representatives is one of the two government bodies that makes laws under our constitutional republic  The rINOs, republicans In Name Only, who would actually prefer an authoritarian, not a republican, form of government are prepared to destroy the government and its House.  But first they have to elect a Speaker of the House.  As of January 4th, 2023, that isn’t going so well.  So maybe our government Of The People, By The People, and For the People will not perish from this earth.

Merry Christmas

 

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
If only in my dreams

Whether they are your dreams, or my dreams, Merry Christmas

In World War II, soldiers who were fighting overseas for America had to endure many Christmases without their families. In 1943, those soldiers were honored with the hit song I’ll Be Home For Christmas.

The holidays are remembered as a time to be with loved ones, families. Those soldiers in WWII were not the first, nor will they be the last, who had to experience the holidays without being with their families. Those who immigrated, traveled far from their home, may not be able to return to that home. Not only for the holidays, but forever. My ancestors immigrated from Ireland and Poland without any expectation that they would ever see the home where they grew up and experienced their childhood holidays. But I know that they remembered those days. They made those sacrifices to grow and improve life.

In honor of those sacrifices, I appreciate the cost my son and his POSSLQ paid in traveling from Los Angeles to our home for the holidays, and I know that he has not been able to make this trip as often as he would like due to COVID, etc. But if he keeps us in his dreams, he should know, no matter what, we will keep him in ours.

Free Transit

 

I’m Free

I'm free-I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality
I'm free-I'm free
And I'm waiting for you to follow me

There is a big difference between free and unpriced.

The issue of “free” public transit has been in the news. The problem is TANSTAFL, There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. What is "free" to the individual rider, is not "free" to the transit operator, in this case the government that subsidies transit.

The issue is that economists define goods as exclusive and nonexclusive. (If someone uses a good, no one else can use the good, which makes it exclusive to the consumer of the good); AND rival and nonrival. (the good has a price, in which case it is rival.)

• Private property is exclusive and rival. (For example, your meals).
  
• Public goods are non-exclusive and non-rival (For example, sunshine)

But

• Intellectual Property is non-exclusive but rival (For example, movies)
  
• Common Goods are exclusive but non-rival. (For example, fishing stocks).

People get confused by the vastness of a Common Good, but if it is limited then someone probably should regulate it (such as fishing quotas), or otherwise allocate it.

People are also confused by Intellectual Property. Music might be non-exclusive in that my listening to a song doesn’t prevent you from listening to that same song, but unless it is priced or regulated (e.g. copyrights, patents, etc.) then there is no incentive for someone to produce that music, so there better be a price.

Just because transit is without fares does not make it free. The riders might not pay a fare, but someone (society) is paying for those transit subsidies. Prices or regulation are used to ALLOCATE the  good, not merely to pay for that good.

The absence of price means that something is priceless, not that it is free. Transit might appear free to the riders, but they should treat it as if it were priceless, not free. Do not squander trips on transit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Transit might be without fares, but that does not mean that it is free.