- Trade Policy that favors domestic industry and American employment
- Energy Independence
- Clarify 1st Amendment to mitigate religious extremism (e.g., mandatory hijabs)
- Clarify 2nd Amendment to address excessive Gun Violence
- Adopt the Vitter Amendment to address the right of citizenship (14th Amendment)
- Foster a Culture of Sobriety
- Enforce anti-competitive Anti-Trust legislation
- Sanction Religious Marriage separate from secular marriage
- Mitigate Abortion by sex education and availability of birth control
- Enable non-profit-driven Euthanasia
- Create a Public Work option for those able to work, seeking benefits, and unsuccessful in the private market
- Bolster more Bosch-like industrial legacies over dynastic wealth, while there is no "Death Tax"
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Platform for an American Conservative Party
if anyone were interested...
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Love, defined
In the realm of words, it seems there are too many dimensions and there is too much nuance to rest on pithy definitions, but ignoring meaning, when the word "love" is bandied so freely, seems a bit foolish and ignorant of consequences, hence a working definition here:
Love
Love
- Affinity - I like that inexplicable 'you', and it's probably mutual. Do we really love anyone who doesn't even like us?
- Abundance - We have a lack of want or need given the context of the relationship. E.g., family 'love' is probably more demanding because the expectations are higher. Consider this suited to Buddha.
- Shared-experience - It seems difficult to love someone too distant, even if the closeness you're relying upon is memories.
Our Gifts versus Our Choices
I've started grading these, like school grading. I was surprised how I evaluate myself. These seven may not include every gift attribute, but generally, our other benefits/advantages are more solely our choices:
Of course the grades will be relative. An 'A' in everything here is going to be different in Calcutta versus Lichtenstein.
- Young
- Good-Looking
- Intelligent
- Good Family
- Affluent
- Healthy
- Innate Talent/Skills
Of course the grades will be relative. An 'A' in everything here is going to be different in Calcutta versus Lichtenstein.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Tiny Homes Links
some but not all...
House for One Person (Peter B. Janes) * Rich in the Woods * $1,000 Cabin on the Coast
gone prefix verbose...
jalopycabins.com ...except here
www.forgeahead.org * www.shltr.net/jenine-movie (Jenine Alexander in Healdsburg!)
www.weeHouses.com ($80k)
www.CabanaVillage.com (to $35k)
www.YardPods.com * md@yardpods.com (to $11k; bathrooms?; uses bamboo; factory in Rohnert Park!)
Montana Mobile Cabins
www.tuffshed.com ($4k for structure)
HomePlace Structures * Jamaica Cottage Shop * Spirit Elements
www.TortoiseShellHome.com ($30k base; Calistoga!)
www.CabinFever.us.com * akelly@cabinfever.us.com ($14k up)
more prefabs: Turtleback Nomadics * Small Home Oregon * New England Shed and Barn * Tiny Green Cabins * Canyon Classic Cabins * Nantucket Sheds
Hobbit House in Wales * Ziggy's Cob Cottage * The Laughing House (<$10k diy)
Pallet/Cob Backyard Shed ~ Joel Glanzberg (~$500)
Straw Bale / Cob House in Southern Oregon ~ Sarah Parker, Tyler Walter
www.shltr.net/sb-cob1 (bad link!)
www.thatroundhouse.info * Dogon Dome * Big Sky Yurt ~ www.big-grass.com * Ardheia ~ The Pentagon Cabin (Julie Lambertson) ... composting toilet; bedroom cabin; solar shower
www.FindingUtopia.org ~ Taylor Camp (more a movement than practical)
paleotool.wordpress.com (sheep wagon)
www.clickclackgorilla.com (Nicolette ~ Deutschland von den U.S.A.)
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Marriage Equality
I first thought this before I ever heard it, yet it's so relatively sound that of course others would suggest it:
Declare all existing marriages civil unions. The state then only recognizes civil unions. Marriage remains the domain of the church.
You would just then need a better term than "civil union" to describe people who are now married. We're "unified" doesn't quite cut it.
Monday, April 23, 2012
The Safety of Night
In an unsafe neighborhood, everyone out at night seems a high potential for being up to no good.
In a safe neighborhood, everyone should theoretically be comfortable being out at night, but there's also the reality/perception that people not being out at night is what makes it safe.
Ideal would be both the observation and reality that it is safe out at night, except for those who like being afraid of things or imposing that fear onto others.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
For Hetero Women...
When a man loves a woman, outside the ephemeral romantic heights associated with love, he's either solemnly dutiful or pining for her. They're love too, and those three pretty much cover it. Without at least one, you're probably thinking of something else.
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