Left Overs

The radical wing of the Republican Party (which now seems to be most of the Party) are left overs from the Civil War. This war we have, for the most part, put behind us. That is, most of Americans didn't grow up in that time and we find more interesting the modern ideas of our modern democracy. But for those that were brought up in the South the view of America is quite different. We have under estimated (like Bush did) the affects of war. Many families destroyed, horror upon horror of people being treated as if they were hated (they were, deeply I am afraid). Hated so deeply that they wanted to preserve that hate, they didn't want it to die. They believed that keeping this hate alive would keep the confederacy alive, until a certain time when once again the South would rise up to form its own nation. With the encouragement of the Drug companies they are now thinking that this is the time. There is a slave in the White House for god's sake. This is not acceptable. For one, our children will be exposed to a black man who is intelligent, educated, and articulate. We were against freeing the slaves and this proves us right. Second, he (Obama) is everything we've told our children the black people can not be. Making us liars to our children, (that's why we have to call him all those names, even if they are contradictory). Third, our parent's and grandparent's taught us to live for the day when the South will raise again (that's why we keep and show off our guns). If we don't fight now what have we to live for? We are genetic racists, the only way to get ride of us is to kill us. Their families were very hurt in the war. It is left to them to carry the flag of the Confederacy. We can live with left overs if we just don't give them any power. We must understand them. When one of the leading Republicans in Washington says (in response to Polsi's plea to tone down the political rhetoric) that the white southerners of the Republican right are rebelling because they are afraid that their children will not experience an America that they experienced. Well, change is like death, it is irrelevant to be afraid of it. It is so unreasonable to think that today's America is or will be the same as it was as little as 10 years ago. But it is this kind of reasoning, even from the highest levels of the left overs that propells them, drives them, and defines them.

The Id of America

Plato developed the concept of the soul. He said that justice takes place when the three parts of the soul control their respective parts. The three parts of the soul are reason, spirit, and the appetites. Freud would later call these the superego, the ego, and the id. For Plato, reason was the highest form of being. By reason he meant logical evaluation of data by formal or informal means. In this state the human being applies reason to all things. He or she lives by reasoning out their lives. By Spirit, Plato meant the emotional part of life. Honor, pride, love, and hate would all be part of the soul that would be called the spirit of the soul- the feelings that drive us to do what we do. According to Plato reason must control feeling, otherwise you have feeling controlling reason. This is a state of consciousness where the soul trying to justify its emotions with what we call excuses. For Freud, this is neurosis, the patient is having trouble dealing with reality because they are emotionally responding to it or responding to it with inappropriate emotions ("inappropriate means without reason). Therapy attemps to bring reason back into control, by reasoning out your emotions. Finally, we arrive at the most base part or the human soul, the appetites. This is our appetite for food, sex, comfort, power (pursuit of power is not a rational activity), money, and dominance (getting what we want, when we want it). In short, our basic instincts. In order to have a just society the spirit, under control of reason, must control the appetities. In a democracy, the three classes can be accounted for in the same way. The upper class is upper because they live their lives by reason, they analyize situations and come up with the best rational solution they can and then act on the situation in a rational way. The middle class is middle because they live their lives based on how they feel about certain situations, their actions are determined by how they feel, regardless of the reasonable. In TV dramas where the son is about to shoot the murderer of his father, the detectives urge him to think about what he is doing, i. e. the time they will spend in jail. If reason pervades then the avenger puts his gun down and lets the police arrest the killer. If reason does not win over, the avenger shoots the murderer but then is handcuffed and goes to jail and looses any social status. The lower class acts according to their basic needs and uses reason to that end (here reason is in the control of the appetities). And so it is in America today. The people opposing the health care reform bill with a public option are, without reason, in fact against all reason, since reason would say that since they are the most in need of inexpensive health insurance that they should support it, a rational person always supports or acts in a way that is in support of his or her efforts to improve their lives or improves the lives of others. So, America has unleased its beast. With a weak middle class (spirit) unable to control the lower class (appetites) we now have in America an unjust society. An America where a president trying to help the poor is admonished and ridiculed for trying to do so by the poor his is trying to help. It is left to be seen whether reason through an imaginary and dwindling middle class can over come the tea baggers, the birthers, and the hate Obamaers.

Argument against taking swine (Mexican) flu vaccine

1. The vaccine was made from the virus that existed about 2 to 6 months ago. All virus continue to mutate (change). The vaccine will not develop antibodies that will fight a new strain.

2. The idea behind the vaccine is that it will expose your immune system to a small amount of the virus thereby allowing you to develop antibodies that are ready to fight the virus if it enters your body. This assumes that your immune system is strong enough to make the antibodies. If it is not you will get the flu. If your immune system is very week you will become very ill.

3. If your immune system is strong enough to make the antibodies then it will be strong enough to make them if you come in contact with the virus.

Wallgreens is charging $25 to inject the vaccine into you. If only 10 million out of the 300 million take it, it will make 25 million dollars for the drug companies and its distributors minus costs. Think of the world wide money that is going to be made. All the news channels carried the story of the swine flu. The numbers did not bare out the massive problem they tried to portray. More people died of the regular flu than from the swine flew. Kids that got sick from the flu went back to school within a few days. Look at the facts. Try not to be frightened. It's hard when you see people with masks over their faces. My theory is that the drug companies invented this campaign (not directly, government and officials were persuaded) to make some money. If you get the flu I recommend chicken soup and plenty of rest. Miso soup is also very good (Japanese take out). Take the herbs that are immune system boosters, Echinacea and Golden Seal. Double up on your vitamins. Take Plum Balls (order from Eden.com), ten per hour until symptoms subside. They are feeding on your fear of death. Someone taught you to fear death. Death is inevitable, a human truth, so to fear it is irrelevant.

What kind of legislation do we need?

We have established that health is a human beings most important quality. A healthy human is a free human, a happy human and a content human. And we have said that food is primary to health. So what? Well the implications of these "truths" if you will allow it is that we need to protect our food if we want to be healthy. Since food is soil manifest (primarily in vegetable form, secondarily in animal form), that is all food comes from soil (earth) then the first thing we need to do is to protect our soil. We will not be able to grow vegetables in soil which is nutrient depleted or which is so polluted that it kills anything that touches it. Second, we need a system of agriculture that replenishes all the nutrients that it uses to grow vegetation. I think this has been called "sustainable" agriculture. It just means we don't deplete the soil to grow our food, we replenish it with as much as we take out. Organic farmers already know how to do this. We don't practice sustainable agriculture not because it is too expensive but because it is not expensive enough. The chemical corporations make tons of money poisoning our soil with bug killers and artificial fertlizers which make crops grow faster by making the earth give up its minerals faster than it can restore them. If only we lived in a rational world, how much easier life would be. We therefore conclude the health of the earth is equal to the health of everything living on it. Imagine that the earth is health and is giving us healthy food. Now what do we do with it. Two things we must avoid is we are to stay health. Irradiated food (micowaves) and genitcally modified food. So even if the earth is giving us its best food we can still fuck it up. Both of these attempts to destroy our food quality do so by altering the molecular structure of our food. Now, reason that our bodies are expection food of a certain molecular composition and a certain vibration and they get something unrecognizable what will it do. It will unlease its immune system on these "foriegn" substances ("but I only ate a carrot") until it destroys them. So, what you get is your immune system fighting the food you eat for norishment! By doing these two things to food, nuking it and changing its genetic makeup, you over tax the immune system (wear it out) and you create autoimmune diseases of unknown names ("what's going on with me doc?" "I dunno.") President Obama has gotten some critizm from the natural food community for appointing a pro genetic food modifier to head the Department of Agriculture, even though his campaign promise was at least to label food that have been genetically changed. He has not moved on the issue since he became President. This issue will be the main world issue and battle with food producers in the year to come. This issue and the BlackWater issue (the fact that we are still using a private army to fight our battles and for national security are like dark clouds hanging over the Obama administration. Getting back to health. The purpose of revising our health insurance policy is to make heathcare more accessible to more people and to cut costs. These are admirable goals but do not address the core issues of our health and the health of those to come. We need legislation that protects the integrity of our food. Specifically, we need laws that protect our farm land from being poisened. We need to outlaw the manufacture and use of microwaves. A law prohibiting the irradiation of our food would be in order. We have to have a law that stops the gentic mutilation of our food. These are the first steps to securing the health of America and the rest of the World. You can help now by not purchasing or using microwaves. Do not purchase irradiated food if you can identify it (big problem) and don't buy gentically changed food again, if you can find out which fruits and vegetables have been grown with modified seeds. A good habit would be to buy organic food when you can.

Real Health Insurance

The most important factor in maintaining your health is the food you eat. Nature has it laid out for you what foods you should and should not eat. You only have a few teeth to tear meat so you should not eat much of that. You have many teeth for biting (chopping) and grinding so you should eat from the families of food that you can easily bite into and can chew without too much effort. These foods come for the vegetable family of foods. Except for those vegetables that are too acidic to be healthy. Real health insurance is relative to how much vegetables you eat. You never see things on packages of meat that say "high in vitamins and antioxidants." The reason we eat so much meat in America is because we were taught to by our parents and they by theirs. My Dad used to like have a barbecue every week because it established him as wealthy enough to buy meat. He never considered that the cholesterol would clog his arteries and eventually kill him. It had to do when he was working on the railroad and all the poor workers were eating beans and rice and the bosses were cooking up some meat (beef, pork, or chicken). When he saw that, he made the conclusion that the successful in America ate what cost more, irregardless of the value of the food in terms of health. Another thing about eating meat. It is sometimes portrayed on TV and in movies that cowboys used to eat meat on the trail while transporting the beef to slaughter. Of course there was no refrigeration on the trail so what kept for days and days? Beans and grain products. America was always a more vegetable eating country until the Europeans brought their diet to America, heavy with meat and fat. It is killing them now. The lie that cowboys ate mostly beef gives beef that "this is how America (at least the West) was won," and makes it one of the principle foods for "real America." So far, if your rich you eat meat and it you are a 'real American,' you eat beef. Pretty powerful psychological messages that can easily shape food choices. Now add the fact that your mother and father taught you to eat eggs and meat for breakfast (if they were rich enough) and we can understand completely why America eats the way it does. You have to get sick (deathly ill) to wake up and start to question if the things you thought were true (is animal food really good for you?) are really true. So, my insurance policy is really a policy. It is based on the principles The first one is that the better your food, the better your health. "Better" in terms of food means, organic, fresh, non-animal, supplying all nutrients that our science has proved to be necessary to our bodies, locally grown (as much as possible,) ("locally" means with in the same temperate zone, this means if you live in California, you can eat things grown in Japan but not in Chile. Check out a map to figure out what zone you live in.), vegetable quality (grains, fruits and veggies, beans, nuts and seeds etc.), non-processed, non-chemical (very filtered food), non-additive (although not organic, Original Fritos have only corn flour, oil, and salt, compare to the flavored one's). Another principle is try to eat less food. You'll be amazed how sharp you mind stays when your blood is in you head and not in your stomach. Less mental error. Less accidents. Less food less work for your body, less loss of energy, less chance for getting sick. Eat until you are 3/4 full then stop. Save the rest for later, give it away, or save it for your dog. Third principle, eat when hungry, drink when thirsty. If you don't get hungry until two in the afternoon then don't eat until then. Food tastes really good when you are hungry. If these principles are too hard to understand or you have objections to them, do as I have said in earlier writings. Get the pamphlets from the Cancer, Heart, and Kidney societies and eat as they recommend, they have put more research into their recommendations, then your parents ever did. If it's hard to be different just tell everybody you are precancerous (everybody is) and your doctor told you to eat this way. It is either this or poor health. You choose.

Changing Health Insurance

John McCain said that the President stated that no one will lose the insurance they have but if a small business owner decides to change his insurance from a private insurer to the public option that the workers for that company will have to change insurers, i. e. from the private insurer to the public option. I don't think this is what Obama meant. He (Obama) meant that if you pay for insurance that you will not be forced to drop you insurance and choose the public option. If I was getting my health insurance from my employer (not paying for it myself) then what would I care if the employer goes for a public or private option? As long as me and my family can see a doctor and get the medicines we need do I really care who the insurer is? In the absolute sense the seniaro that John McCain portrays is true and does contradict what was said in the absolute sense. The insurance will change. But the fact that you are insured doesn't. So, again, McCain, like he did so many times in his campaign for the presidency misses the important point to make a point which is true but not relevant to the argument. This is all he's got?

Racism in America

Those schools that are not showing Obama's message to school children, and those parents who are keeping their children home from school for the purpose of keeping them from viewing a black president are racists. How do I know? No school refused to show Ronald Regan's address to school children. It was on the benefits of not taxing the rich. Ronald Regan was white. Therefore, white presidents can address school children and black presidents cannot. This is racism in America. It still exists. The crime is that some children will not have the chance to be encourage to stay in school (Obama's speech was prereleased, not required of Regan) and are still at the mercy of the racist indoctrination of their racist parents and community. And the real price we pay for discrimination of trival differences is that the best minds of our country end up on drugs or in jail and our country is left to be run by the like of the Bushes and other dumb Republican legislators who make poor decisons and if in the majority take us all down with them. The dream of America is Plato's dream. That the golden children will be raised up and will lead us with impeccable logic and insight and foresight. That whether they come from rich or poor communities, Black or White communities, Hispanic or Jewish communities, these persons made of golden will be our leaders and show us how to live. Obama is not great because he is black, he is great because he is golden.