So imagine you are the owner of a company. You have many employees of all different kinds. Some of these employees are more productive than others. Some cost you more money than others. Shouldn’t you be allowed to get rid of the employees who cost you more than they are worth? Shouldn’t you be allowed to hire or fire anyone you want for any position for any reason? This is the freedom you have as a business-person. Read more…
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Police brutality is a problem we will always have to deal with as long as we have police. When you have people in a position of power and authority, some of them will always overstep their boundaries and fail to uphold their duty and responsibilities. Even the best law enforcement officers are still flawed human beings like you and me. They may act cool and professional while in uniform, but that is their job. In difficult situations where emotions run hot, and circumstances become dangerous, it is extremely difficult to keep cool and take the correct course of action. If we want a police force to serve and protect us, this is something we have to accept.
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With so many of our founding fathers and visionaries agreeing how can we so blatantly go against all of their teachings? It’s quite simple when the population is poorly educated and afraid. When will this madness end? I don’t know. But many of the people smart enough and brave enough to recognize it are more keen on leaving for greener pastures than fixing the problem domestically.
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the attorney general of New York is Eliot Spitzer. He also happens to be running for governor of New York in 2006. Most importantly, he is the only political figure I have ever been able to point to and say “I support that”. Eliot’s job as attorney general is to go around finding corporations doing wrong and then taking them to court and holding them accountable. Due to his efforts I received cash money from the RIAA, if that’s not enough to make you like him then I don’t know what is. But on his website there are lists of all the various evil corporate baddies he has shut up over the years. In my perfect world the government would spend all its time stopping corporate evil and playing it’s correct role as referee in the capitalist economy. I look around and see only one man doing a decent job of it. That is sad.
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It seems that no matter what aspect of life you look at people have create a geometric, visual or mathematical model to describe it. Politics is the big one. The model of politics is a straight line. On the right side of this line is the craziest fascist and on the left I guess there’s an anarchist. In the middle are the centrists and so forth. It seems that models like this have good and bad effects. The good is that it gives people a context in which to think about things. It’s a lot easier to relate things to each other when you have a visual model in which to place them. It’s hard to think about ambiguous model-less things. If you can envision it its much easier, that’s why comprehending god or infinity or four dimensional objects is so hard. The bad is that it restricts thinking about the particular subject to the model we have chosen. So if we choose a straight line for our political model, but someone comes up with a new view that doesn’t fit in the model it gets discarded. People have as hard a time understanding it as they do the concept of infinity because it doesn’t fit in their ingrained visual model.
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So I’m sure that everyone has seen the yellow ribbons everywhere. There needs to be no explanation of where this troop supporting phenomena originated, why it exists, etc. This is known to pretty much anybody who is reading this. And I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone that all these people buying multi-dollar yellow ribbon car magnets are giving their dollars to a chinese car magnet manufacturer instead of to their precious troops who need support. Because giving money to them is taxes, and taxes are no good.
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So it was kind of hard not turning my blog into the same thing as every other anti-Bush blog during and after the election. Instead rather, I have thought long and hard about many different aspects of the election and plan to make several +5 insightful posts at least loosely related to it. This being the first of those.
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Apreche Ideas, Opinion politics
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