Americans Want What They Want When They Want It

BILL OF RIGHTS

Amendment 1 Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly
Amendment 2 Right to bear arms
Amendment 3 Quartering of soldiers
Amendment 4 Search and arrest
Amendment 5 Rights in criminal cases
Amendment 6 Right to a fair trial
Amendment 7 Rights in civil cases
Amendment 8 Bail, fines, punishment
Amendment 9 Rights retained by the People
Amendment 10 States' rights

NINE of these first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution pertain to the Founding Fathers being pissed off at the King of England because these rights were denied there...  The Founding Fathers did not think they should be denied so they created this BILL OF RIGHTS...  So, it is our Founding Fathers who actually decided what rights THEY THOUGHT we should have, not because we really needed them but they were denied by the King of England.

Were these then the actions of SPOILED CHILDREN?

I can understand the freedom of speech and religion as being important when establishing a new country...   And, I can see where there is a need for everyone to have weapons in case we are attacked and before we have created an army for protection...

But most of the others except for the last one deal with the courtsand receiving a fail trial...  why did they think these were that important?  Were they expecting a lot of crime to be commited in this new country?  Did they think that they, the Aristocrats, would take advantage of the rest of society?

Later Amendments

Amendment 11 Lawsuits against states
Amendment 12 Presidential elections
Amendment 13 Abolition of slavery
Amendment 14 Civil rights
Amendment 15 Black suffrage
Amendment 16 Income taxes
Amendment 17 Senatorial elections
Amendment 18 Prohibition of liquor
Amendment 19 Women's suffrage
Amendment 20 Terms of office
Amendment 21 Repeal of Prohibition
Amendment 22 Term Limits for the Presidency
Amendment 23 Washington, D.C., suffrage
Amendment 24 Abolition of poll taxes
Amendment 25 Presidential succession
Amendment 26 18-year-old suffrage
Amendment 27 Congressional pay raises

These later amendments discuss slavery, voting, taxes, term limits, pay raises, and the fight that we waged against alcohol and lost...  Americans demand their guns and alcohol and soon we will be passing an amendment that deals with ILLEGAL DRUGS...

Similar to alcohol, Americans have let their elected officials know that they are going to purchase illegal drugs whether they like it or not...  and the Mexican Drug Cartel is taking advantage of that DESIRE/DEMAND.

Just like alcohol, let's legalize drugs and tax it like alcohol...  we could use those TAXES to pay for our SOCIALISM...

The USA is changing...

It no longer matters if those changes are good or bad...

They are changing that are taking place.

We need to embrace those changes.

Americans want alcohol not war

Americans was illegal drugs not war

Americans want sex not war

Americans want to be taken care of 

Americans don't care about work

Americans don't care about politics

Americans don't care about education

Americans just want what they want when they want it

Bob Dylan

 

Gas or Electric?

 FILE - A Tesla electric vehicle, left, sits in a charging station at a dealership, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Dedham, Mass. Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week as investors deal with the fallout and potential legal issues surrounding Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his $44 billion bid to buy the social media platform. Of the two, Musk's electric vehicle company has fared worse, with its stock down almost 16% so far this week to $728. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Hooray for electric vehicles. Someday, they’re going to help slash carbon emissions and get global warming under control.

Getting there, however, is not likely to be an effortless glide on gleaming blacktop. This is going to be a bumpy road, and the faster we go, the bumpier it’s going to get. Get ready to surround yourself with airbags. And get a helmet, maybe.


The Biden administration plans to tighten car-pollution standards in a way that's meant to dramatically speed the adoption of electric vehicles, or EVs. On April 12, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules that would cut the allowable pollution from cars by more than half by 2032. 

The amount of pollution a car produces is directly related to the amount of fuel it burns. Since there's no way to boost the fuel efficiency of gas-powered cars by that much, the new rules will effectively force automakers to build way more EVs, and way fewer gas-powered cars, in order to comply.


The goal is laudable. The implementation, however, could be a multi-car pileup. The Biden administration is basically proposing the forced adoption of new technology on a scale unprecedented in the auto industry. The government has been tightening fuel-economy standards since the 1970s, but that has largely been a gradual process. Even then, unintended consequences have caused unforeseen problems.  READ MORE...

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Being a Man

 

College Is Not Always The Answer

I graduated from high school in the srping 1966 and began college in the fall of 1966 and dropped out of college after the fall semester 1968.  I enlisted in the military in 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War, was released from active duty in the summer of 1972 and graduated from college in the spring of 1974.  My entire college education was paid for either by me working full time and/or by the GI Bill.  I graduated from college with a 3.5 GPA, mainly because of poor grades during my first two years.

During my 45 year career, no employer ever looked at my grades or my GPA...

My entire continued employment was predicated upon me ACHIEVING RESULTS...

TODAY...  many people graduate from college with a student loan debt of between $50,000 to $200,000...  it could be higher or it could be lower...  but regardless it is a huge amount of debt with which to begin a career.  The higher paying jobs are always UP NORTH...  seldom in the south, unless you have over 10 years of critical experience to the company considering hiring you.

IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?

Yes, if you want to be a lawyer, CPA, physician, dentist, or quack...  but, just to get a college degree for the sake of earning more money because you have one...  NO!!!

You could work building homes for 10 years, get your contractor's license, hire your own crew to supervise and make hundreds of thousands of dollars for the rest of your life without college.

Managing a restaurant is less stressful than being in middle management at a Fortune 500 company because of how management is being measured.  Increase sales by 20%, decrease costs by 20%, increase markets by 20% and increase share price by 20%.

PLUS...  there is pressure being placed on professors to lower their standards so that everyone passes their class and the college/university loses no revenue.  Now there is a movement underway not to give any grades at all...  just pass/fail.

I have talked to numerous college graduates who said that they hardley used any of their college education in their careers...  maybe 20%, if that.

My first job after graduating with a BA degree in English was as DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT EFFICIACY for a microbiological media manufacturer...   WTF did I know about microbiology of efficacy?

My parents pushed me into college because they wanted me to have a WHITE COLLAR job not a BLUE COLLAR job.  Right now, blue collar jobs make more money annually than white collar jobs...  if all you care about is the money.

COLLEGE IS NOT WORTH THE INVESTMENT but you have to make that decision on your own.7

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Manipulating Quantum Light

Albert Einstein's stimulated emission theory has been validated by large amounts of light, but never before by individual photons.

New research offers the ability to manipulate and identify single photons, allowing for the manipulation of quantum light.

Continued development of this technology has the potential to lead to huge advancements in quantum computing.

Scientists stand ready to manipulate quantum light, just as Albert Einstein envisioned in 1916.  Researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Basel successfully managed to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy. According to the team, this work represents an unprecedented landmark development for quantum technologies.

Stimulated light emission—a theory first proposed by Einstein in 1916 that helps explain how photons can trigger atoms to emit other photons—laid the basis for the invention of the laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). 

It’s long been understood for large numbers of photons, but this new research has allowed scientists to both observe and effect stimulated emission for single photons for the first time. Researchers measured the direct time delay between one photon and a pair of bound photons scattering off a single quantum dot, a type of artificially created atom.  READ MORE...

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Do We Exist?

 

Accused of Sexual Harassment

Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley on Fox News. (Fox News)

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley doubled down on warnings surrounding the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday after he was falsely accused of sexual harassment by the online bot ChatGPT, which cited a fabricated article supporting the allegation.

Turley, a Fox News contributor, has been outspoken about the pitfalls of artificial intelligence and has publicly expressed concerns with the disinformation dangers of the ChatGPT bot, the latest iteration of the AI chatbot. Last week, a UCLA professor and friend of Turley's notified him that his name appeared in a search while he was conducting research on ChatGPT. 

The bot was asked to cite "five examples" of "sexual harassment" by U.S. law professors with "quotes from relevant newspaper articles" to support it.

"Five professors came up, three of those stories were clearly false, including my own," Turley told "The Story" on Fox News Monday. "What was really menacing about this incident is that the AI system made up a Washington Post story and then made up a quote from that story and said that there was this allegation of harassment on a trip with students to Alaska. 

That trip never occurred. I’ve never gone on any trip with law students of any kind. It had me teaching at the wrong school, and I’ve never been accused of sexual harassment."  READ MORE...

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Strictly Political

 

FAMILIES Not COLOR Make One Successful

 We are very lucky to have been born in the United States of America, but if you have been born BLACK...  then life has not been so wonderful for you...  at least, according to the black community who has been bitching about that for several years.

• Blacks are citizens of the USA
• Blacks are protected by the Bill of Rights
• Blacks are protected by the Constitution
• Blacks receive equal justice under the law except for those Americans (white or black) that are wealthy
• Blacks can graduate from high school
• Blacks can attend college just like those whites who have to work while attending college
• Blacks can own property and move freely from one state to the other
• Blacks can join the military if they so desire
• Blacks can become President if that is their desire

There are more blacks incarcerated than whites and this is because more blacks commit crimes than whites.  However, the blacks say that they commit more crimes because they did not have the advantages of LIVING IN THE BETTER NEIGHBORHOODS...

They commit more crimes because they did not have the proper counseling when young...  so if you provide us with more counselors, then we will become better citizens and commit less crimes...

SO, LET'S GIVE BLACKS MORE COUNSELORS

Blacks say if they had better jobs, they would be better citizens and commit less crimes...

SO, LET'S GIVE THEM BETTER JOBS

Blacks say if you give us reparations of $5,000,000 because our ancestors were slaves, then we will be better citizens and commit less crime...

SO, LET'S GIVE THEM $5,000,000

I would be willing to make a gentleman's bet that none of these proposed solutions will work...  AND, the reason why they will not work is because there have been MANY MANY BLACKS who have risen above all this bullshit and become very famous and wealthy, despite all the limitations that these less fortunate blacks CLAIM is working against them.

• Madam CJ Walker was the first black female millionaire in the USA in the 1900s
• Shonte Jovan-Taylor - top neuroscientist
• Barrack Obama was the first black President of the USA
• Oprah Winfrey
• George Washington Carver
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Mohammed Ali
• Denzel Washington
• Michael Jordan
• Charles Barkley
• Whitney Houston
• Tina Turner
• Michael Jackson
• Ray Charles
• Prince
• Jesse Owens
• Lebron James

How is it that all of these people were successful???

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It Never Ends

 

Total Control

 

A Dent In The Earth

There’s a pretty hefty dent in the Earth's magnetic field and it’s giving scientists cause for concern.

The Earth’s magnetic field is vital for protecting the planet from the Sun’s rays, but an area of weakness in the field has been detected which is making experts nervous.

The weak area is a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly and it’s been studied by NASA over recent years.

According to ScienceAlert, the area in the field between South America and Africa is being described as a “pothole in space”.

While the region doesn’t post an immediate threat to life, it could have a big impact on man-made structures in our orbit.

It means that spacecraft and satellites which stay in the Earth’s magnetic field as they orbit the planet could face technical difficulties as the protection from the sun’s rays is reduced. Exposure in this way could lead to critical damage in the long term.

"The magnetic field is actually a superposition of fields from many current sources," geophysicist Terry Sabaka from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre said back in 2020.

"The observed SAA can be also interpreted as a consequence of weakening dominance of the dipole field in the region," said fellow NASA Goddard geophysicist Weijia Kuang.

"More specifically, a localized field with reversed polarity grows strongly in the SAA region, thus making the field intensity very weak, weaker than that of the surrounding regions."

"Even though the SAA is slow-moving, it is going through some change in morphology, so it's also important that we keep observing it by having continued missions," said Sabaka.  READ MORE...

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Incredible Inventions

 

KEEPING THE REPUBLICANS FROM POWER EVER AGAIN

My parents raised me a DEMOCRAT but after receiving an MBA, I decided that the Democratic Party was incorrect in its approach.

HOWEVER, the Republicans seem to care more about the wealthy than they do the middle class and/or the general public.  Yes, it is true that many billionaires are Democrats but they use Republican principles in managing their money and their companies.

The Republicans gave us NIXON and BUSH Jr who LIED about WMDs and as a result we went to war in the Middle East.  Then, we had Reagan who believed in supply side economics, followed by TRUMP who built up then destroyed America because of his polarization attitude and behavior.

The USA has been moving toward SOCIALISM ever since WWII even though the Republicans say they are against Socialism...   EVERYTHUING PUBLIC is SOCIALISM...  imagine that!!!  and, our biggest move towards SOCIALISM is SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE...  the only real difference between a democratic republic and socialism is we do not own business and industry yet.

I have lived in the LOWER MIDDLE CLASS all my life and I personally believe that the WEALTHY MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES should pay for the rest of us.  Do you really think that they need all that money?

ROBOTS are going to replace jobs and it will be up to the BILLIONAIRES to give the rest of us an annual salary since we will no longer be able to work.

We should have the following FREE:

1. Education
2. Income
3. Housing
4. Food
5. Medical
6. Clothing
7. Transportation

In order to achieve these goals, we must keep the Republicans out of political office FOREVER...

• We need to resdistrict in all states to create Democratic Power Districts
• We need to make sure high education is liberal
• We need to make sure that mainstream media is liberal
• We need to make sure that the courts are liberal
• We need to make sure that DOJ/FBI are liberal
• We need to make sure the military is liberal
• We need to make sure the governors are liberal
• We need to make sure the supreme court always remains liberal

Article Referenced in Newspaper Never Published

OpenAI's ChatGPT is flooding the internet with a tsunami of made-up facts and disinformation — and that's rapidly becoming a very real problem for the journalism industry.

Reporters at The Guardian noticed that the AI chatbot had made up entire articles and bylines that it never actually published, a worrying side effect of democratizing tech that can't reliably distinguish truth from fiction.

Worse yet, letting these chatbots "hallucinate" — itself now a disputed euphemism — sources could serve to undermine legitimate news sources.

"Huge amounts have been written about generative AI’s tendency to manufacture facts and events," The Guardian's head of editorial innovation Chris Moran wrote. "But this specific wrinkle — the invention of sources — is particularly troubling for trusted news organizations and journalists whose inclusion adds legitimacy and weight to a persuasively written fantasy."

"And for readers and the wider information ecosystem, it opens up whole new questions about whether citations can be trusted in any way," he added, "and could well feed conspiracy theories about the mysterious removal of articles on sensitive issues that never existed in the first place."

It's not just journalists at The Guardian. Many other writers have found that their names were attached to sources that ChatGPT had drawn out of thin air.

Kate Crawford, an AI researcher and author of "Atlas of AI," was contacted by an Insider journalist who had been told by ChatGPT that Crawford was one of the top critics of podcaster Lex Fridman. The AI tool offered up a number of links and citations linking Crawford to Fridman — which were entirely fabricated, according to the author.  READ MORE...

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My Corner of the World

I was born white or caucasian or non-hispanic white...  and, I don't really give a shit what you call me because I am what I am...  just like you are who you are.

• If you are black, that is NOT MY FAULT
• If you are a descendant of slavery, that is NOT MY FAULT
• If you are undeducated, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT
• IF you are addicted to drugs, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT

I had no influence over your parents

I had no influence over slave owners

I had no influence over your desire to be ignorant

I had no influence over your mental weaknesses

NOBODY GAVE ME ANYTHING after graduating from high school with a "C-" average...

I paid for my college education by working full time and I also paid for my education by enlisting in the military during the VIETNAM WAR...

No one pulled strings to get me my first job after college because I was already working at the company while attending college.

I have no athletic skills

I have no musical skills

I have no artistic skills

I have no acting skills

I have no mechanical skills

I have no handyman skills

And yet, I managed to earn both an undergraduate and graduate degree and work in middle to upper management jobs (Down South in Low Wage Jurisdictions) for 45 years...

And during those 45 years, my refusal to KISS ASS and follow the rules, got me FIRED 10 TIMES during my career...

I am probably one of the few people with a masters degree working for $10/hour answering phone calls taking orders for TALBOTS.

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE I AM A BENEFICIARY OF WHITE PRIVILEGE???

It just burns me up when I hear all about this white privilege shit and if you are white then you are automatically a recipient of the privilege.  Most of these intellectual black don't know what they are talking about...  and, instead of making me sympathetic to your cause, it has made me angry and resentful that you have the "balls" to make those claims towards white people in general.

I have earned my corner of the world and I am not giving it up for NOBODY...