Climate Denier Contract

Climate Change Deniers Should Sign a Contract

It's time for the Rush Limbaughs, Marco Rubios... to show their true colors and conviction against climate change. They need to swear an Oath on the life of their children and grandchildren and sign a legally binding contract that effectively states:

I,_____________________, agree that my Last Will and Testament and Family Trust Fund will be amended and all my worldly belongings will go to ______________ upon scientific proof that the Atlantic Ocean has risen at least _____ inches on January 1, 2030.

Furthermore, I will:

_____  Relinquish my US citizenship
_____  Live outside the US for the remainder of my life
_____  Forfeit the life of my wife
_____  Forfeit the life of my husband
_____  Forfeit the life of my children
_____  Forfeit the life of my grandchildren


 Legal stuff, blah, blah, blah

Notary Signature____________________

Signed ________________________

Print ______________________         Date: __________

Obama Could Force Congress to get off its Ass

We the People need to Stop this Train Wreck

Sometimes the best option to stopping an impending train wreck, is to derail the train.  That's the state of our nation - We the People can be victims and passively watch as events happen to us, or We the People can have some control of where, when, and how far down the pit our nation declines.

We the People are in trouble and we're running out of time to regain control of our nation. The longer We the People wait to derail this train wreck, the harder it will be for We the People to recover.

Our Prison Disaster

For $30,000 a Year, We Need to get More for Our Money

Our prison system (like most things in our country) is a mess and it costs us a fortune with little/nothing to show for our investment in the people we imprison. Long prison sentences for drug offenses, especially users and non-violent crimes, should not occur - it is useless and expensive.

The focus of our prisons should not be to simply lock someone away. We cannot lock someone up for years (decades) and expect them to magically become a functioning member of the outside world. We spend $30,000 a year for each prisoner, so we should insure that when they are released they have the skills and knowledge that enable them to choose if they want to move forward with their life, or return to the same behavior that sent them to jail/prison. Currently, released prisoners have little if any new skills that prevent them from falling backwards.

I believe that a very small step is to allow all prisoners vote. To become a contributing member of our society (the outside world), they need to feel that they are member. There is massive resistance to change - entire communities are built around the prison industry. To change opinions, we need to show the huge, and increasing, costs of doing nothing. We need to show that prison reform will improve our society.

I have researched the governors authority to reduce these ridiculously long prison sentences for drug and non-violent crimes and have not found any reason that prevents it. While there are tens-of-thousands of these cases in FL, I see no reason why they cannot be addressed quickly - a few months.

When is a Name a Name and not a Cult

They say ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State... I say Cult

For thousands of years the middle east has been in conflict. The new threat is a cult that believes it alone is The Islamic State.

Why are we so hung-up on the name? When was the last time you were fooled by someone claiming to be Jesus Christ? Did you call them "Jesus", or delusional/crazy/insane? Why are we so willing to accept that this new "Islamic" group is the real thing and not a cult of very disturbed people. We embolden this new cult when we refer to them by the name they choose. We should refer to them as CCSP - Cult of Crazy Stupid People.

For at least another 18 years, extremists in the middle east will claim to be the true followers of Islam. The only way we have of dealing with this nonsense is the same way we deal with weeds growing in our garden. It's an unfortunate analogy, but occasionally we pick the weeds or use weedkiller. The same will be true with extremists - there will be a sudden growth and we'll cut them back, sudden growth and cut back, sudden growth and cut back. If we do it right and catch it soon enough, each regrowth will be smaller than the previous.

Dear Teens, Twenty, Thirty and Forty Somethings,

I'm sorry my generation fucked-up our country.

Some of us (Fifty and Sixty Somethings) have been trying to fix this mess but we're running out of time and need your help.

Modern Marvels: "No Deposit, No Return" Simply Throw it Away.

Everything We Manufacture Contains Energy

When we bury an item we lose that energy. Plus, we use and lose the energy required to bury that item. With most containers and packaging (plastic, glass, metal, aluminum,...) we can recapture that energy. 

In the '60s, the beverage companies began advertising No Deposit, No Return. They had spent $ billions increasing the production efficiency of the container. 

The reason it is not "cost effective" to recycle is that very little money has been spent designing the machines needed to make it "cost effective and efficient." There is no incentive to spend $ billions when we can simply bury it.

**** News Flash **** It is Legal for Your Vote to be Ignored **** News Flash ****

It's official. If We the People write the name of who We the People want to elect, our vote may not be counted.

I'm not talking about writing in a vote for Micky Mouse (okay, I could discuss the benefits voting for this person (if Micky is a corporation) but I'm not). I'm talking about We the People writing the name of a real person We the People want to vote for.

The law makers of our state have decided that a person cannot decide to be a Write-in Candidate "late" in the election process - for this November's election that date was September 4.

This issue is not a discussion about a candidate's name being printed on a ballot. This is about writing the name of candidate that We the People want to elect.

So, if millions of Floridian's (perhaps a majority) join together and write-in my name, those votes will not be counted.

We the People aren't the Problem

We the People have become addicted to bashing the other side.

You know the feeling; someone voices an opinion different from yours and your anxiety rises. Your body's natural stress response kicks in and it's "Fight or Flight". If this were to occur occasionally, your body's response and brain-chemistry would quickly return to normal. But this isn't happening occasionally - it has been repeated hourly, day after day, for the past 20 years. Your body and brain-chemistry has not had time to return to normal, so now you have a "new normal" state.

Believe it or not, you've become addicted not to your opinion, but to one that's been pounded into your head day after day. 

We the People are being attacked, but not by each other. Our attackers have studied the science behind emotional addiction and desires. Our attackers must keep us distracted by feeding our addiction with repeated droning of their message.

We the People are not the problem.

Fix the Symptom or Fix the Problem

Politicians Continually Confuse a Symptom with a Problem

The debate over the medical marijuana Amendment 2 ignores the fact that a medical doctor must determine if a patient is qualified for the "prescription". All prescriptions for all drugs are the responsibility of the doctor. If the concern is doctor shopping or doctor's qualifying a patient for the mundane hangnail, that is a separate issue. 

As usual, the Corporate Politicians ruining our country confuse a symptom with a problem. Trying to fix the symptom is not the same as trying fix the problem.
Example: 

• The Symptom: Your leg hurts
• Our Politicians suggest to fix it with a pain reliever
• The Problem:   You fell out of a tree and broke you leg

Today's Quiz

Something to ponder

1) How much would you rather spend in a year to keep one person in prison?
      a) $2,700,000
      b) $75,000

2) What did We the People spend $454,000,000 on in 2013?
      a) Improving our public schools
      b) Maintaining secure room and board for 170 people

3) In 13 years, what did We the People buy with $5,232,000,000
      a) New shoes for natural disaster victims
      b) A prison system for 500 prisoners

4) The answer to each question is in reference to:
      a) Helping to feed and house homeless Americans
      b) The cost to We the People for the Guantanamo Bay military prison

Answers: a, b, b, b

Migrant Workers Hack into Computer at Home Depot

*****   News Flash  *****

Illegal Migrant Workers use Tomatoes to Hack Corporate Data Center

Gosh, who would have thought. 

Those geniuses ruining our country better start building more border fences and increase the number of border agents to prevent those South American children from hacking into our computer networks. 

Or is it the migrant workers using a tablet computer in a Florida tomato field who keep hacking our Corporate Data Centers?

Moving Florida Forward with Equal Pay for Equal Work

Equal Pay for Equal Work

1.  All businesses contracting with the State of Florida must sign an affidavit that they adhere to Equal Pay for Equal Work
2.  All publicly funded businesses must review and correct pay discrepancies. This includes universities, colleges, state and county and city commissions. Corrections will occur over a period of three months (maximum). This time period is based on the discrepancy and to lesson the burden for very large discrepancies.
3. Those organizations violating this ordinance will be held responsible and fined a rate higher than discrepancy
4. It is up the those experiencing unequal pay to come forward to the State of Florida - not to their employer.

The Plight of the Unknow Candidate - Why is Water Wet?

Candidate Name Recognition - Why is Water Wet? 

Mainstream media usually argues that the reason they don't cover less-known candidates is that they don't have name recognition. Umm, sure..... And the reason water is wet, is because it's water! 

Isn't the function of the media to inform its readers? 

For decades, We the People and the media have been complaining about our dysfunctional government and the method of campaigning. I find it disturbing and symptomatic of our nation's decline that the media has not figured out how to create a balanced (not biased) method of media exposure for the candidates and the campaigning process. As an engineer, I don't see it as a daunting challenge. 

Perhaps the reason lesser-known candidates don't get media exposure is simply that the media is a purely capitalistic business and it does not make sense for them to spread the word about candidates who don't have buckets of money? 
Between Scott and Crist, Florida's media consortium will take in $150,000,000. That is big money. 

I suspect the media feels as downtrodden and impotent as our huddled masses trying to fix this mess? Our country is running out of time to stop its continuing decline. If we don't start fixing problems faster than we create them, we will lose our status as an economic and technological leader. Once we lose that status, it will take generations before we regain our status. 
I believe the media must play a role in fixing our dysfunctional government and campaigning process. I believe it can do so without the suggestion of favoritism or endorsement of a candidate. If We the People want to fix this mess, we the need the media's help.