More “cool stuff” PC?…

A US state can in effect succeed from itself.—- Meaning that a portion of an existing state can detach itself from the original state, but only by forming a brand-new state. (AND, the original state has to agree first.)

Also, it was the US Supreme Court that saw segregation as the “near” solution despite Congress “passing a bill” to treat all men as equal after the war between the North and South.

Hmmm, one now has to wonder if the US Supreme Court was really right in their “temporary breech” of the Constitution.—-Was this country once given the opportunity to latter skip the KKK era, the civil rights era, even of Obama’s “church” professed dislike of “whites”? (Okay, his [Obama’s] today “choice” of a church is indeed now a different one. But what was the true motivator? …Politics? …He saw the err of his ways? …Merely playing the “odds”?)

Mikus E.

P.S. And this is why the Supreme Court Justices should be appointed upon their known, learned knowledge of the intents of the “founding fathers” and as well, their understanding of their following words framed within the Constitution.

It should be obvious that this Court can take on the characteristics of “liberal” lower courts. And if it is allowed to, then expect the Constitution to be re-defined to suit some other purpose as this Court does have the power to even “re-word” the Constitution (whether temporarily nor not) simply because “it would be better”!

And so as to this Kagan person… I have heard that her grades were mixed. But even more importantly, that she “legally” disliked the Florida vote thing. Seems to me, that the then Supreme Court was more aware of the legal “games” played by the “professional” liberals. So instead of now bending the “rules” of election, they felt that if Florida herself had indeed certified the count, that it should then be very acceptable to the nation as well. (Oh that state rights thing again! Hey Vidas, start a succession movement in Florida so this “thing” does not ever happen again!—-But first and officially succeed from your “hate” cabal.)

Vidas, it should not be how much is one paid, it should be on the basis of knowledge and continued “dreams” of the very foundations of the US country. (Besides, wasn’t it the ones who initially only dealt with “chickens and crops” that actually spawned the Roman Empire? [Okay, okay, they also had the benefit of knowing Greek “empire” days.] For it was their beliefs, their “dreams” that made it so.)

Point in fact…
While marriage was never an issue for the founders and the resulting Constitution, religion was. But it was not because it was ever deemed as being wrong in the belief of God, but only in the practices. Thus the right of religions.

But in marriage, there was never question. Marriage was marriage.
But don’t we see a battle for this “no question” issue even in California (a state ironically often known to be most progressive and liberal) as their state Supreme Court is too often at odds with her voters with regards to this one issue? So who is more “attune”?—-A state Supreme Court that often pays little regard towards the founding “federal”  founders and its subsequent “federal” constitution; or to even with the voters who would rather deal with “chickens and crops” (excuse me, now mostly avocados, Romaine lettuce and tofu) ...even to the ones that still see marriage as marriage?

No, Kagan is not a good choice, as the US should not ever entertain/consider/build an activist Supreme Court. (This talk of “balances of power, checks and balances can easily go askew despite that the founders were so sure that life-time appointments of Supreme Court members would always smooth/eliminate transitions contrary to the country’s later “good”.
—- So sad that the “North/South” US Supreme court would blindly ignore the Constitution in the interest of some temporal self-perceived “well being”…)

To be honest - someone’s going to have to translate Mikus’ tirade. It appears to be in English but its way too all over the place.

Vidas and his honesty…

Is this to be merely another farce! (Oh tell us again… Speak then again how good Anita really is!—- while you still always selfishly expect others to see your “good”.)

Mikus E.

Anita seems pretty good to me. Negrasos nobrāķēt. Are you ever going to tell us what it is you have against her, Miku?

/P

The 4th Awakening=NOT-VOTE
Vote on October 2 = Forced positivist thinking
Find link to Barbara Ehrenreich’s
“Why Forced Positivist Thinking is a Total Crock”
and other controversial views at http://the-not-voter.blogspot.com/

From the Not Voter chaos:

is Tom indeed a VI undercover Person at LO, a hired gun to harass people who have other than conformist views with regard to Latvia, especially its politics and history?

jandžs - I had to wade into your chaotic and paranoid mind to find out that you were/are talking about me (and /P too). I find it curiously kgbesque of you to do this. My place in LV is pretty open. If you are in fact interested in it, please ask.

Your views are in fact the ultimate conformist views. You are the one who accepts that people have no power to challenge the system, we (NGOs and others) challenge every day. You are easy to dismiss, we are not.

courlander et al.,

The Emancipation Proclamation was directed at the Confederation and it did not apply to the slave holding states that did not join the Confederation..  The 13th amendment ,in 1865 did away with slavery in the entire Union.

Visu labu,

THE-NOT-VOTER
11 Positively Brainwashed

In Blog 10, I introduced the reader to Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay “Why Forced Positive Thinking Is a Total Crock”.* Perhaps some will have read the essay and are ready to appreciate the fact that “positive self-spinning” may result in right wing politics and demographic extinction.

What does this have to do with NOT-VOTING? Let me continue with Ehrenreich’s trend of thought: [The late billionaire Templeton who founded The Templeton Foundation was also a political ideologue, which ideology waited for its full expression through his son, his successor at the Foundation, who…] “…helped found Let Freedom Ring, which worked to get out the evangelical vote for George Bush in 2004. In 2007 he contributed to Freedom’s Watch, which paid for television commercials supporting the war in Iraq, often conflating Iraq with al Queda.” In short, The Templeton Foundation is for getting out the vote to support the political system in power, and against the NOT-VOTE that would present a political alternative.

The Templeton Foundation is also a major supporter of positive thinking, contributing as much as $2.2 million to the Seligman Positive Psychology Center in the first decade of the 21st century. Ehrenreich herself does not suggest that positive psychology is part of a right wing conspiracy, though positive psychology leans heavily toward outspoken conservatism. However, Ehrenreich points out that “The real conservativism of positive psychology lies in its attachment to the status quo, with all its inequalities and abuses of power. Positive psychologists’ tests of happiness and well-being, for example, rest heavily on measures of personal contentment with things as they are.”

I suggest that pro-vote campaigns of Latvian organizations such as the PBLA and ALA, not to mention the current government of Latvia, are political institutions heavily committed to positivist thinking and the status quo, and, thus, attempt to intimidate the public against protesting in any meaningful way against establishmentarian corruption. Better a corrupt Latvia than a changed Latvia. Better loose 200,000 of the population to emigration than permit the people in the countryside raise Johns Grass that would keep Latvians in the countryside, have them raise children, and be able to educate them. Ehrenreich’s goes on to list five propositions of the so-called “Satisfaction with Life Scale” developed by positive psychologists. If I substitute the world “my life” with “Latvian politics”, I arrive at the following:

•  In most ways Latvian politics is close to my ideal.
•  The conditions of Latvian politics are excellent.
•  I am satisfied with Latvian politics.
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Into the wind I ask - what actual change, beyond the no-vote, do you advocate for? And, again and for the record - positive thinking is very different from positivism.

I have read lots of Ehrenreich and am firmly against the cult of positive thinking, but in no way believe that no action will solve anything. Positive action does not mean making nice with foes, it means taking strides forward to confront problems and to believe that change is possible. Curiously enough, I have been accused in other corners of being too angry and agressive in my advocacy.

Get a grip and come in to the real world.

Bruno:
It was not that simple for according to Wiki

The proclamation did not name the slave-holding border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware, which had never declared a secession, and so it did not free any slaves there. The state of Tennessee had already mostly returned to Union control, so it also was not named and was exempted. Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties that were in the process of forming West Virginia, as well as seven other named counties and two cities. Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and thirteen named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation.

AND THEN THERE IS

The “free” states had plenty willing to ignore the law.
Minnesota Public Radio

St. Cloud, Minn. — A St. Cloud State University professor has found evidence of slavery in several Minnesota counties before the Civil War, a groundbreaking discovery that sheds light on the Midwest’s pre-Civil War history.
Christopher Lehman, an ethnic studies professor who is researching slavery in states along the upper Mississippi River, has documented slavery in Stearns, Benton, Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties.
His research, to be published in a book in 2012, also found that prominent St. Cloud families of the mid-19th century were slave owners. The book, tentatively titled “Slavery in the Upper Mississippi,” also will include the history of slavery in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Among the St. Cloud slave owners was Slyvanus Lowry, St. Cloud’s first mayor. Lowry, who came to Minnesota from Kentucky, had a plantation-style mansion.
“He was a powerful figure,” Lehman said. “By the time he was mayor of St. Cloud, he was the most powerful Democrat in central Minnesota and St. Cloud had a reputation of being somewhat pro-slavery just because Lowry was.
” Lowry founded a pro-slavery newspaper, the Union, which later became the St. Cloud Times. He started the paper to rival one run by the abolitionist Jane Grey Swisshelm.
In the 1850s and 1860s, the city’s slave population was small — only in the single digits, Lehman said. Statewide, the number of slaves sometimes approached 20, as Southerners vacationed with their slaves in St. Cloud and other river towns, including the Twin Cities and Stillwater.
Southerners were able to travel with their slaves to Minnesota because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision, which declared that, as property, slaves were not citizens and could not sue to win their freedom — even in nonslaveholding states.
The court also ruled that the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the territory, was unconstitutional.
“So that led to a big rush of people who would vacation here in the North and bring their slaves from the South, and just dare people to do anything about it,” Lehman said. “So even though you had the Northwest Ordinance, you had the Missouri Compromise, none of these laws amounted to a hill of beans because they weren’t being enforced.”
The Twin Cities and Stillwater had flourishing hotel businesses because of the Dred Scott decision, Lehman said. But the hotel businesses tanked when the Civil War began, because Southerners decided to stay in the South to fight for the Confederacy.
Lehman’s research found that African-Americans had a presence in St. Cloud even before the city’s founding in 1856. At least one slave’s arrival predated that of immigrants from Austria, Hungary and Denmark to Stearns County.
In the 1890s, free blacks in St. Cloud thrived as middle-class entrepreneurs, primarily barbers, and whites in the city supported black-owned businesses until about 1915. By 1920, Jim Crow laws legalizing segregation were institutionalized in Minnesota.
Because slaves who came to St. Cloud left with their owners, few stayed. Lehman thinks that’s one reason why the black population in St. Cloud wasn’t sizable until the 1950s and ‘60s.

It still comes down to that the only thing the South lost in the war was many soldiers and slavery. They still have “States Rights” as guaranteed by the Constitution.

courlander et al.,
“It was not that simple for according to Wiki”

I certainly agree that the Civil War was not a simple matter.

Visu labu,

PC ironically asks now…

Are you ever going to tell us what it is you have against her…

as wasn’t it you (PC) perhaps the second one to have left the “hate” cabal? And why did you leave? Too busy with other things or …? (This of course all merely said on the “premise” of what-if-it-were-true, leaving “always” open to you, a graceful exit from your above attempted re-direction.

Mikus E.

P.S. Some say there is “honour among thieves” (although, this seems contradictory as a thief has been known to steal from another thief), but “respect” among “ex-cabal” members might actually be still stubbornly maintained by a few.

P.P.S. Still, take heart PC, in that there are some trying to re-define the term “cabal” … to help ease that prevalent “discomfort with the darker implications of the word”. The most recent effort is seen through the “good-guys” of the “Conficker Cabal”, a group formed of anti-hackers to “combat” the very computer “worm” that this “group” is named after.  (…And why would this group of “do-gooders” perpetuate the OTHER term?—- a not so nice slang word used in Germany.)

P.P.P.S. If one is interested, then read about this computer “worm” in the June issue of “The Atlantic” magazine.

—-How about as well, doing some research on the term “cabala”, just in case there easily could be something ill-considered as being only collateral intent of these self-proclaimed word abusers …to make “cabala” acceptable in today’s sometimes out-of-wack “who’s-on-first-base” world. (cabal and cabala both derive from the “same” Medieval Latin term.)

Here’s something completely non-political.—-Well, at the very least we do not have to again “read” PC’s miss-placed dislike of Ulmanis. (And no PC, this is not a “dare” to again insert your “false” dislike.—-Hey, I am not even daring Porsche to park one of their cars in my “driveway”.)

The Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet.

To achieve maximum velocity from a very quiet stillest, “put your left foot on the brake and your right on the gas, then hold the engine revs to a ghastly, horrifying 6,500 rpm. Let go of the brake. The Launch Control system does the rest.” Oh, while that “flavor on the back of your tongue is your lower GI tract”, do still remember to always shift at red-line.

Hmmm, merely 3.3 seconds to be moving at 60 mph. Don’t know if this will compensate for those often, badly timed successive intersection traffic lights, but it seems one can have at least a chance now.

Plan B?
With $8,840 invested solely upon carbon ceramic brakes, you should be very assured that this car will always be spared from any traffic-camera photo shoot “lineup/lineout”. Such a shame though, as Thomas Aquinas himself might had called this car picture-perfect. (—-‘A thing is perfect when it lacks nothing’.)

Mikus E.

P.S. (Long quotes derived from “Wall Street Journal”.)

THE-NOT-VOTER
Forced positivist thinking
Find link to Barbara Ehrenreich’s
“Why Forced Positivist Thinking is a Total Crock”
and other controversial views at http://the-not-voter.blogspot.com/

If you somehow insist on making a link between your bizarre thought and that of Barbara Ehrenreich, please get the title right - it is “Why Forced Positive Thinking is a Total Crock”

Positivism =

the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

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