tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105264792024-03-07T13:12:07.763-05:00Silly Humans<p><i>We are what we only pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be.</i> <a href="http://www.vonnegut.com/confetti.asp">Kurt Vonnegut</a></p>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.comBlogger1299125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-33904609990845981792023-06-02T18:55:00.004-04:002023-06-02T18:55:49.082-04:00Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (Official Music Video)<span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/wTP2RUD_cL0" width="480"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I'm just feeling this tonight. The first song I learned to play by just listening and doing what I heard. And got it 90% right. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Then forgot about it for years and years and now I gotta get the tabz. 💔💜😐</span></div>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-58135565466645406762021-08-04T16:02:00.004-04:002021-08-04T16:02:46.998-04:00<p><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">@bainsmac</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Preface</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wrote this back on Oct 23, 2008 and it had a gorgeous picture of the scene from the Valley View Bridge which I'd taken from my car the day before. I'm not sure why I never actually posted it. I didn't lose the pic until a few years ago now. <br /><br />EARregardless, here it is because it's been in my Drafts folder ever since. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I'd also like to get back to writing like this again. Maybe this'll be a kickstarter... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>It's really like that today. Sky grey and big. There's a coolish breeze and, on my walk to the car, I sense then see the bugs that've survived the sunrise bird feedings and are buzzin' around in the first sunny spots in the yard.
<br /><br />Even the garage was still warm from the Sun the day before.<br /><br />I drive over that bridge 5 days a week. 43 miles, one way from U Heights to Westlake. Not an ideal situation for gas consciousness, but it sure is pretty, and I live where I live, for now. I'll miss the Valley View when I move, and the East side haunts like Coventry and the Cedar-Lee, too. But I can't wait to save $ and plain ol' wear an' tear on my year old Spectra.
<br /><br />My internet connection from home was <span style="font-style: italic;">kaput</span> for a couple days just passed. It was interesting timing since I'd already felt some blog-slack needed lettin' out. I feel like I'm in a patch of good
<span style="font-style: italic;">looking</span> shallows, but there has got to be some unseen obstruction that keeps snaggin' my line and, of course, takin' my bait. I know that a governor on my bandwidth at work is the right thing. I just hate gettin' stymied when I find something I really want to post. This email to Silly Humans (stay w/ me here! lol) is an attempt to post on some crazy, and not-so-crazy, thoughts I've been l having recently.
<br /><br />And now I find I just wanna go fishing. Rebait the hook, and cast off again in a <span style="font-style: italic;">slightly</span> different part of the park. <br /><br />This is the park I held all others up to for a long time.
<br /><br />It's a nice daydream, anyhow.<br clear="all" /><br />-- <br />a personally evolving organism @ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://sillyhumans.blogspot.com&source=gmail&ust=1628193321535000&usg=AFQjCNGKGQag-hDXTFpFoggjFlCUWpSS_A" href="http://sillyhumans.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://sillyhumans.blogspot.<wbr></wbr>com</a><br /><br /><p>For science, God is not a valid category because God is by definition a reality beyond time and space and therefore does not belong to the world of our scientific experience. -- Hans Kueng<span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-3037349910185828302018-07-16T21:10:00.002-04:002020-10-20T18:30:40.768-04:00² off and B <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">So I'm a softy </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">I am a lonely </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">lovely man alone = not really me </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">who loves his cat <span> mamba?</span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">and loves his job <span> desperately doesn;t understand </span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">(</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">at least the people </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">some people make it </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">all worth the while</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">) </span></div><div><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">All is bits and pieces<span> </span><span> </span></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Lost until needed </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> <span> junk dna</span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">and useful in </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">these right hands THE right hands</span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Swarms of vibrating </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">energies of life<span> </span><span> </span><span> scratch that </span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">and simple forms <span> </span><span> keep </span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">and single tangents </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">realized </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">This is but the charm </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">There is but little </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">in the way of decay </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">but a figment <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><br /><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">(</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">wasteful and wanton</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">) <span> pretty</span></span></div><div><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">of spaces filled </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">of seasons spun <span> </span><span> </span><span> like dreams?</span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Accomplishments </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Equivalents </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Sensational pyrotechnical sounds </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The loss of E still occurs </span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">and C² cannot contain </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">itself <span> QED It flies apart </span></span><br />
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
<span face="Verdana, sans-serif">#micropoetry </span></div><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span> </span>mb 10/20/2020 notes and parentheses rationalized. </span>one hopes.</div>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-50542584774359959572018-01-19T17:28:00.001-05:002018-01-19T17:28:25.408-05:00<iframe frameborder="0" height="145px" name="di" scrolling="no" src="https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/getDynamicImage.do?memberName=mbains&mnOn=false&stat=2&imageNum=2&rankOn=false&projectsOn=false&special=false" width="405px"></iframe><br />
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just sayin'...<br />
<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-14566547341056050062017-12-08T19:20:00.000-05:002017-12-08T19:20:50.594-05:00I Have Left the Past Now, here's the thing<br />
I feel like a hurricane<br />
A heart aswirl and so in pain<br />
Foggy bottoms, litmus stains<br />
<br />
Significance is my domain<br />
A feeble cause in money's time<br />
and Greeks would worship<br />
on the vine<br />
of grotesque Old School Moves<br />
<br />
And so the sage blows on wind<br />
Reminder that contemplation<br />
And act of actuary<br />
Belief supplied with data<br />
Or else it's just Faith<br />
Love Abandoned<br />
<br />
Loving Someone's goals for them<br />
I hardly know my own for me<br />
Is not the way to obviate<br />
The former for to the latter's need<br />
<br />
I don't want a very accurate<br />
accounting of my life or failures<br />
I want to know what maters most<br />
and loud decibels won't waivers<br />
Phenomenon are forever<br />
Indelible, no favors<br />
<br />
Calligraphic calls to Arms<br />
an' only sensationalism<br />
Complete the falsehood in its state<br />
of innocence ad sapience<br />
Brilliance of the child's star<br />
Quintessence in Essentials<br />
<br />
#Love&Peoce<br />
Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-12761762306095413922017-10-11T08:35:00.002-04:002017-10-11T08:35:54.953-04:00Mind of Mine<iframe frameborder="0" height="120" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?hide_cover=1&feed=%2Ftrancestarss%2Fi-love-trance-ep251%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Getting into the trance is always a fine sign of a more sound mind of mine.Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-35604728368465798842017-10-09T19:55:00.000-04:002017-10-09T19:55:22.826-04:00Sentimental Svasana Setting <a href="https://twitter.com/bainsmac/status/917529074863693824" target="_blank">Sentimental Svasana Setting </a> <div>
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am watching baseball <div>
you bet I am </div>
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Competition belongs </div>
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on the Field, Court, Diamond </div>
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Situational Ethics </div>
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be Damned with Losing </div>
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It's All for the Game </div>
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Kind of life - yep yep - Politics </div>
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and nothing is everything </div>
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if you can convince </div>
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enough people </div>
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family in time </div>
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all 23 and DNA </div>
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that Remembers why it Is </div>
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all 23 and DNA indeed </div>
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tweet </div>
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tweet </div>
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tweet tweet tweet tweet </div>
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Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-53937869763744005242017-08-13T13:52:00.001-04:002017-08-13T13:52:52.767-04:00When A Man Child Hates Irrationally <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1543" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl_EXD-Zk358_t6cbgCQz5ItELx9ydMpNrVzMv99SIQUaD4sxKI-6QA9w8s69_V2YW0XtWsG5y6aXE8E0upAnu6cV2m-Ywu_kmBO_gmQbztYdUsx7pqRdp4tY-5x3HyRrXuo8Y/s640/chrome_2017-08-13_13-46-17.jpg" width="640" /><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charlottesville-rally-turns-deadly-one-killed-after-car-strikes-crowd-n792116" target="_blank">RAM Tough? :( </a></div>
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How much do you want to bet that Our United States' President also condemns the photographer of this scene?Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-7280403348050176322017-08-11T17:30:00.001-04:002017-08-11T17:30:32.649-04:00Meanings For Events Which Affect Me Profoundly Banal explanations<br />
fit the best<br />
even timelessly futile<br />
as pieces of a cure<br />
<br />
Casual in the face<br />
of causalities<br />
youthful effervescence<br />
shouldn't make me so unsure<br />
but I know why it does<br />
<br />
Loneliness isn't the lover<br />
that I would befriend<br />
but since I do so gallantly<br />
most of the time<br />
I've gotten better<br />
at playing pretend<br />
<br />
In this infinite<br />
and mordantly too short time<br />
I'll try and use every chance<br />
to finally climb out<br />
of the darkest of the holes<br />
which at least my mind<br />
has begged to imagine<br />
<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-32024956133631199942017-08-04T19:47:00.001-04:002017-08-04T19:47:12.623-04:00a short story <br />
so short, this story<br />
so long in the writing<br />
such a silly little thought<br />
in such a silly little persona<br />
<br />
Once upon some time ago<br />
I lost a bet to a long lost bro<br />
and he felt compelled<br />
to impel me to pay up<br />
and of course<br />
being a man of honor<br />
in a time so very lacking in such<br />
I did<br />
<br />
Once the deed was done I found<br />
my mind was lost like winter sun<br />
and a whole lot of feelings<br />
had begun to steal away my focus<br />
away to lands I do not know<br />
in time with beats of a heart gone slow<br />
like death<br />
<br />
Once I realized my fate<br />
and panic shook its ugly weight<br />
upon the balance of my thoughts<br />
I'd lost all sense of rhythm<br />
to that old chaotic master fear<br />
and since it was there another beer<br />
to see if I could feel less fear<br />
but no<br />
<br />
Once the future came to me<br />
and yesterday too far to see<br />
I left open doors to close alone<br />
regardless of unfinished business<br />
No fair and balanced approaches<br />
could remove what all I'd seen and done<br />
and only tropical delusions<br />
could prepare my broken mine<br />
to live<br />
<br />
Once I fed a lonesome dream<br />
of demon spawn which bled my heart<br />
it led me back into the blazing<br />
misery of something that I wanted<br />
It fell all over itself to sing me<br />
into slumbers where it could devour me<br />
and all I ever wanted to do was let it<br />
have my heart and soul and<br />
be it<br />
<br />
Once I believed in happy endings<br />
but now I know they're only pretending<br />
to be as loathesome and<br />
disgustingly appropriate for<br />
a cellmate of Bubba the Biker<br />
a lifelong tenant of Rykers<br />
and a friend to anyone who cared<br />
about the shit inside me head<br />
but no<br />
<br />
Now I feel a lot of other things<br />
Now I feel like shit is happening<br />
Now I constantly real and come again<br />
Now I pleasantly bleed past gory<br />
glories<br />
no more hoping for something<br />
and no more believing in something<br />
wrong but right in all its storied<br />
bullshit<br />
<br />
Once a boy was happy to help her<br />
and thought he was a good little brother<br />
even though he knew nothing<br />
like Jon Snow before Winter<br />
he gladly gave her all that she asked of him<br />
his little, timid body trying<br />
with his soul dying to be a Good Boy<br />
to do anything to be a Good Boy<br />
he would live with no knowledge<br />
of sin<br />
<br />
Once upon a time<br />
a story began<br />
and<br />
Once upon a time<br />
every story has an ending<br />
if happiness is possible<br />
or less than that desirable<br />
a child of life should try<br />
to be the best he can and<br />
no moreMichael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-82609886659601176502017-05-25T19:44:00.001-04:002017-05-25T19:44:34.375-04:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b4ciQOJFfS0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Just started.Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-42853991772785563292017-02-21T20:27:00.001-05:002017-02-21T20:27:13.959-05:00http://bainsmac.blogspot.com/2017/02/blog-post.html<br />
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might, may be, most likely<br />
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more to comeMichael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-72787010600640564222013-07-31T05:51:00.001-04:002013-07-31T05:51:59.115-04:00Bradley Manning <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/30/206976757/verdict-watch-manning-arrives-in-court-supporters-line-fort-meade" target="_blank">Hero.</a> Get it right, people. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-27224912854802098852012-11-21T16:45:00.000-05:002012-11-21T16:57:48.745-05:00<div class="tr_bq">
This is a post I just posted to FB. It's in its entirety and they won't mind if they're not invited to their own wedding. </div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/11/20/us/politics/100000001914588/grover-norquist-on-the-budget-talks.html">Ahem...</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/bainsmac" target="_blank">and yo</a><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">If Grover wants to be a seriously responsible analyst of Government expenditures he needs to understand that the $500 per child tax credit has Got To Go. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">We financially encourage people to have a kid but not with enough money for them to do so. Fed needs to use that money to provide the States with money for for Head Start and Planned Parenthood and religious support groups if the clients ask and the groups accepts the money.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Norver Groquist is not an evil dude. He's a smart dumbo with a faith in something which never existed in reality and probably never could; Personal Responsibility for Incorporated People. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Starting at about 2:27 he explains his issues.</span></blockquote>
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I think that it has to be something inside people. Something that makes it easy to see one point of view. No comparison making unless it's obvious to them why theirs wins. <br />
<br />
That's Life as lived by sapiens of an apeish nature. C'est la vie for now, eh. <br />
<br />
<br />
And then I'll find
another love<br />
another land to live<br />
and friends of may natures<br />
whose care may choose<br />
to give
me freedom<br />
from a rule<br />
I've long since broken fast<br />
<br />
and clueless as the pidgeon is<br />
I won't be long to last intensely<br />
or of poor nature and feint<br />
<br />
leave me
Now!<br />
to my own and other winds<br />
to features of a landscape<br />
which for much too long<br />
I've wanted left to past<br />
<br />
And don't forget to say <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8LFq4vMKQ&feature=colike" target="_blank">I and Love and You</a> to all kinds of friends and family this holiday in <i>los estadas unidos</i> this year of the Common Era, 2012!Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-85377158280018924332012-08-21T18:15:00.000-04:002012-08-21T18:15:03.945-04:00this shiite which blose dee mind-ahhhhhhhhWow!<br />
<br />
Last 10 (or so. don't be so freakin' picky) songs on a randomized iTunes playlist.<br />
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<br />
10 Scheme - Flaw (idk)<br />
<br />
9 Devil Man - Rob Zombie (no idea....)<br />
<br />
8 Forest - System of a Down (Toxicity)<br />
<br />
7 Name (live Acoustic - so rare it bleeds) - Goo Goo Dolls (huh?)<br />
<br />
6 Track 8 Unknown Untitled (but it was with steel guitar and a beautiful choirists voice singing "if I could give my heart, I would give my heart" (yeah, right, whatever)<br />
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5 You Can't Quit Me Baby - Queens of the Stoneage - (Eponymous)<br />
<br />
4 Live As You Dream - Beth Orton (first or 2nd album)<br />
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3 Trailor (Extended mix) - Seebound (Double Crosser) +++<br />
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2 Dreamstate - Tony McAlpine (unknown album)<br />
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1 Voodoo People (Chemical Bros remix) - Prodigy (who the fuckin' hell knowz, right)<br />
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<br />
And that is how the music rolls across me brains tonight. <br />
<br />
L8 <br />
<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-12464052517885304662012-08-17T17:24:00.002-04:002012-08-17T17:24:43.070-04:00I'm just sayin'. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-69678003349727442322012-08-07T19:23:00.001-04:002012-08-07T19:28:43.387-04:00Voters and Children First<br />
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This bit pisses me off. I "agreed" with the Policy but can''t stand this specific type of BS: <br />
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"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please be advised that we may transfer your information to and from any state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction, and process it in the United States or elsewhere. </span>"</blockquote>
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"any country or other governmental jurisdiction". That's mental, alright. Are you frickin' shittin' me?! That boils down to meaning they can change the contract and it's interpretations at will by moving the information's Legal Whereabouts to where ever the Laws suit them. The Contractors. <br />
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I'm sick of this. As always so it seems. At <i>least</i> something incredibly useful <i>and</i> Constitutional is coming to <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/08/ohio_elections_chief_validates.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ohioans' voting booths</a>. <br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">For too long, politicians have been rigging the system to benefit themselves and their own political party. We deserve to have truly meaningful districts," said Catherine Turcer, chair of Voters First. "We're going to have the opportunity to create a much fairer system. The manipulation of district lines is a manipulation of the vote."</span>"</blockquote>
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Of course the Republican response to the entire <a href="http://votersfirstohio.com/who-we-are/" target="_blank">Voter's First</a> campaign is to call it a greedy land grab that "<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">is designed to help unions and Democrats.</span>" To make that entirely accurate add <span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;"> be relieved from the onus of not having enough money or sponsors to have a fair and shared say in Governing of human affairs. including financial mores. </span><br />
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" <span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">"They claim to be nonpartisan," said Matt Borges, executive director of the Ohio Republican Party. "They're interested in undoing the election of 2010 and getting more Democrats in office. That's what they want."</span>"</blockquote>
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Um, ya think? Yes. They and we are working together to make you play fairly, not according to rules for the rich. Grow and play like an adult. Your Republican Political Party is the same as it was when the North conceded the Constitution to the South after first winning the Civil War. It's the lie of the previous 2 Gilded Ages (the 2nd being the Roaring Twenties and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" target="_blank">Herbie Hoover</a>) that Republicanism means exclusive control of the resource of wealth in order for Society to be free from the inevitable tyranny of the state. <br />
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The state is the peoples is the king the border patrol and academe and the secular focus for morality in all public walks of life. History is nearly nothing but a repeat of this arrogant and oft insanely destructive duality. People want to be lead like sheep and then they revolt because the shepherds forget what the living hell they're even there for. Thus the people kill the shepherd and attempt to A) rule themselves or B) go back to not giving half a shit who's in control of the Laws of the land until they, once again, can't stand the serfdom and lack of equality of opportunity. <br />
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No One Deserves to be Born Rich or Poor. Yet we continue through century after century letting our wealthiest individuals think that somehow <i>they</i> do deserve to have been born, and rich at that. I believe that this is the definition of destructive faith.<br />
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One Nation indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All. <i>All</i> includes those huge numbers of peoples who will always prefer to insert the Under God. <br />
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<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-11329289233253974262012-01-23T08:04:00.000-05:002012-01-23T08:04:12.903-05:00We Are The Past's Future<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Of the many very good Editorials coming from the NYTimes in the past several months, this one is perhaps the most relevant and accurate in regards to how our Governing Leaders need to deal with the LACK OF JOBS in this decade's Economy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">We live in the Future only according to the rules, norms and moires of the Past. What worked then won't always work now, but where it is relevant to today's circumstances it should be employed. Where it failed to raise the whole of the nation in the past, where it debased and degraded large segments of our Society in the past, those rules and norms and moires must be left to History, as lessons learned by all, for all.<br /></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/opinion/dissent-in-the-jobs-council.html" target="_blank">Corporate Austerity required</a></h6>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-71412763500985116212012-01-02T20:42:00.001-05:002012-01-02T20:42:31.123-05:00I just want my life to be true. I most seriously do. <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PT9HSmN0DKc" width="640"></iframe>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-73477511156015978472011-12-10T11:36:00.001-05:002011-12-10T11:43:26.525-05:00Panic? Well, not exactly ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My dude, Dylan Ratigan, is so right on that he's even ready with the Concrete and Accurate answer to the lady's question near the end of the clip. <br />
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He isn't making this shiite up. The United States government is currently run by a bought Congress and a Democratic President who apparently got in way over his head once he first started listening to Democracidal imbeciliac geniuses such as Larry Summers, Rob Rubin and Tim Geithner.<br />
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Bang your head, dude!Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-8992215839382110022011-11-29T07:54:00.000-05:002011-11-29T08:06:06.357-05:00For What Does "SEC" Stand?Seems to be <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/judge-rejects-sec-citigroup-settlement/2011/11/28/gIQA8KsH5N_story_2.html">Severely Endemic Corruption</a>.<br />
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Wow! Guess this is what it takes to make me blog again. From the WaPo:<br />
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If the judge’s ruling became the new standard, it could fundamentally alter the way the SEC does business and make it harder for Wall Street firms to make cases go away. </blockquote>
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The standard language used in settlements — neither admits nor denies wrongdoing — is one of the carrots that induces defendants to settle."</blockquote>
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The SEC has said that without settlements it would be forced to battle cases in court, tying up limited resources. As a result, the SEC said, it would be able to pursue fewer cases.</blockquote>
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Simple and naturally unavoidable solution is to raise taxes. Keeping that simple is as easy as raising them 1% on the upper brackets for every .5% levied on the lower brackets. Simple and both extremely effective as well as completely equitable.<br />
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The next spurious and ill-conceived defense of the SEC's actions is also legally and scientifically simple to alleviate. Onward in the story:<br />
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The SEC has argued that defendants would refuse to settle many cases if they were forced to admit wrongdoing. Such an admission could be used against them in private lawsuits.<br />
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Rakoff said that was part of the problem: Investors defrauded by Citigroup would not only recoup less than than their total losses; they would have to establish their own proof in any private lawsuits against the firm without any help from the SEC. </blockquote>
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Are they really <i>serious</i> with that argument? Can the people who run the Securities and Exchange Commision honestly NOT want the Public, the peops being duped by otherwise (supposedly) respectable corporations, to be able to put pressure on those corps to do Honest business?? Really, SEC?!<br />
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First they argue that the caseload of lawsuits is too much for it to handle and then they go and argue against the most obvious solution to that problem; letting the folks who got duped pursuit lawsuits at their own expense.<br />
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None of that sounds as if the SEC is at all concerned with its raison d'etre of keeping businesses from circumventing the Law and abusing their privileges. Prosecutors in a murder case will surely take a plea which still garners a Manslaughter conviction but they're hardly, rarely at any rate, likely to accept plea of disorderly conduct in its place. That is precisely, and often every bit as destructively what the SEC's "standard language" does. Repeated and as an enormous incentive to companies to plan their business activities with paying that "disorderly conduct" penalty rather than serving the rest their lives in prison.<br />
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To whit:<br />
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Rakoff has said that he is required to show some deference to the SEC’s judgment. But in Monday’s ruling, he said that the agency was asking too much of the court. Rakoff said that imposing settlements such as Citigroup’s $285 million deal can be unfair to the defendant and be susceptible to “abuse” by the SEC. </blockquote>
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“An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous,” he wrote. It “serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.”</blockquote>
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I couldn't agree any more with either the sentiment or the language, Justice Rakoff. I couldn't agree not a bit more.<br />
<br />Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-48760255452705012612011-09-16T20:08:00.001-04:002011-09-16T20:08:59.280-04:00tap tap tap
ahem
Is this thing on?
Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-60825655631988561332011-03-24T17:15:00.002-04:002011-03-24T18:07:24.990-04:00SCIENCE!<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mBM2iGXrshU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><br />Now, the really cool thing about Science is twofold. First it observes, records, anyalyzes and theorizes. Yep. That's for starters. THEN it Repeats that Process!<br /><br />Again. And Again. And Again. It never stops repeating that first multi-stage step, so that one day, let's say 3,000 years ago in the time of Pharaoh, Odysseus and Nebuchadnezzar, we had scientists who were assiduously gathering data on the natural world, including their fellow homo sapiens, in order explain why their Political structures were the result of the Will of the Gods. Assuredly these personages existed for the most part in the incarnations of priests but having evolved from earlier priests and shaman of even less abundance of knowledge than these contemporaries of our Monotheistic religious foundations of the modern West.<br /><br />Again and again this process has repeated itself. Through the wonders of the Roman engineering feats to the gathering of the barbarians of the northern forests into the hellish agglomeration of nations which became known as European, knowledge has been sought and tested and held up as The Truth throughout the long millenia of human neuropsychological evolution. Men have burned to the delight of hundreds, even thousands, merely for relating their findings and interpretations of natural facts which had previously been held as belonging to the realm of Heaven.<br /><br />Darwin brought many houses down within the Western world's domains simply by pointing out the obvious, that species evolve from other species, yet still do vast numbers of homo sapiens cling to the beliefs of the wanderers of the deserts and sorcerers of the temples of ages past and fallen to dust and archaeological history.<br /><br />Men (in conjunction with women, let us please not forget) have sailed beyond the Heaven of our past and floated above the world, even going so far as to walk upon the ancient nemesis of the Sun god. Luna. The mense maker. The mind bender and puller of the tides. A ball of rock oh so identical in many of its elements to our very Mother Earth. People have gathered knowledge and analyzed it so extremely well and successfully in order for these accomplished might come to be.<br /><br />Then paused.<br /><br />Returning to the science of our horribly demonized friend, Mr Darwin, I find it interesting how viciously so many anthropologists still debate our theories of human origins. As soon as one body of incontrovertible research is published the camps reallign and are formed anew to claim The Last Word on the location of some Garden of Eden. "Of course modern humans <i>had to</i> have interbred with Neandertals!" "Of <i>course</i> there is <i>no way</i> modern humans and Neanderthals could ever have interbred! The DNA samples prove it!" "Of course modern humans originated in one small corner of Africa! The DNA samples prove it!" All the while new evidence comes in yearly to suggest that ALL of these things are true. Just to varying extents which correlate unerringly dependent upon which part of the world from which they come.<br /><br />It must have been sometime around the 1970s, though perhaps much earlier, that it became unacceptable to suggest that the various races of homo sapiens sapiens around the world might have evolved separately. The Biblical, then mitochondrial, Eve was surely the mother of us all! To some this will always be an absolute. As with everything, including as we've recently discovered the speed of light, there are no absolutes. Everything is relatively absolute to one extent or another. Or, if you prefer, absolutely relative. A relatively absolute fact which sends so many of even the most rational of scientists and religious devotees into despair of any hope of ever finding the "Truth".<br /><br />The differences between Religion and Science are many. The similarities even greater. I've personally chosen to follow science because, as I hope I've made clear, Religion will certainly change over the decades as does Science, but the latter, despite being practiced by the same species of highly intellectually evolved ape as is the former, has within it the Requirement to, however grudgingly adhered to, examine Everything. Update and re-analyze even the most thoroughly well understood facts of its theories in order to Always advance towards a more complete understanding of Reality.<br /><br />Not just accept what our remote ancestors did so rightly based upon their data sets come to believe about the origins of our world and ourselves.<br /><br />What prompted this little rant? :) Just this little blog post by <a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/hawks/hawks.html">paleoanthropologist John Hawks</a>. As soon as I read the title I knew I was going to love the post. <a href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/genomics/modern/henn-southern-africa-origins-2011.html">Population structure within Africa: has "modern human origins" become a non sequitur?</a><br /><br />As much as is saying humanity's roots go back a mere 6 million years, I suppose it just may be. Eggs always come first. But <i>something</i> had to lay them...<br /><br />Enjoy!Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-63217547058855254742011-01-04T18:46:00.003-05:002011-01-04T19:36:06.224-05:00The Egress Is Looking Better All The Time...Throughout the whole of my politically aware life I've never imagined that our society might regress to a condition such as that which pervaded the early decades of the 20th century. I thought that in the early 1980s, despite the potential for mass devastation which the Cold War did present, that we would, if we survived, continue relentlessly towards a Progressive society. One which always found the means to lift its most unfortunate or merely recalcitrant members out of their gloom, disaffection and despair. One which would heal its citizens bodies even as it might neglect their minds and hearts as being too much the stuff of Religion's concern.<br /><br />It has only been in the last several years that I've started worrying that I really have been too much the anthropological optimist.<br /><br />The reelection of W Bush didn't truly astound me. It disgusted me mostly for the way in which Kerry handled the whole election. The way he "didn't dignify" the Swift boaters' claims until way too late. His semi-irrelevant points on the deficiencies in Republican Tax policies and, most tellingly, his refusal to speak of the swelling real estate bubble which was at the time, 2004, beginning to show the first signs of massive instabilities which would eventually lead to '07's financial meltdown. And please don't say, "well No One knew it was gonna happen." A Lot of economists were saying it was a catastrophe in the waiting the way the U.S. and Britain had opened up to Speculation the lending reserves of Banks. How the rules allowing insane packaging of loans into assets which only the richest investors could possibly use as defense against bad investments. <br /><br />Doesn't anyone in Politics understand Economics for civilizations? The only thing they do seem to understand are the finer academic points which show how the wealthiest investors can secure and invest their wealth at the same time, as if that siphon segment of the pool of international wealth is somehow the only one that matters to the health of the whole system.<br /><br />Is it Ignorance? Is it Hubris? Is it really, I mean seriously can it <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> be as simple as Greed?<br /><br />I don't think it is, but I am now, after years of non-utopian optimism about our near term future, starting to believe that greed really is become too much a driving force in our culture in general, and Politics in particular.<br /><br />In this Op-Ed essay by Henry Gireaux of Truthout my growing Nationalist fears are given an almost ecumenical form and dimension. It is quite the literary Op-Ed and touching in an emotionally devastating, yet at the same time, satisfying way. Where Robert Reich does state his analyses plainly and with statistical and historical empiricism, Gireaux does so with a flair for the historically dramatic. If he does occasionally dance with hyperbole I think it only is because the subject matter truly is of such an Historically massive nature. <br /><br />I've said I don't believe the United States is in any real danger of falling into the a 2nd world economic strata. I <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> that I still believe that. I'm just not as sure as I was when I was much younger and had not yet been subjected to the reality of which these past forty years of economic diminution of my country's middle class has resulted. <br /><br />We <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> be to see...<br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><blockquote><strong><em><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></em></strong><h3>In the Twilight of the Social State: Rethinking Walter Benjamin's Angel of History</h3> <p class="article_source">by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed</p><strong><em>By eviscerating public services and reducing them to a network of farmed-out private providers, we have begun to dismantle the fabric of the state. As for the dust and powder of individuality: it resembles nothing so much as Hobbes's war of all against all, in which life for many people has once again become solitary, poor and more than a little nasty. </em></strong><strong><em></em></strong><em><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/in-twilight-social-state-rethinking-walter-benjamins-angel-history66544#1."> (1)</a> -Tony Judt</em><em></em></blockquote>I think that preface paragraph by Tony Judt does an excellent job as a synopsis to the essay which follows. Note the footnotes as well. Excellent all 'round!<br /><br />Good Luck!Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526479.post-81911660715625175752011-01-01T19:04:00.001-05:002011-01-01T19:06:19.745-05:00possibilities<p>in the fullness of the memory</p> <p>it seems that I was disappointed</p> <p>yet again</p> <p>unflinching</p> <p> </p> <p>and yet I swelled with pride</p> <p>unbidden come to rest upon my bosom</p> <p>and finding peace</p> <p>did dance</p> <p>without much glitter</p> <p>though in peace</p> <p> </p> <p>and so does a goal astound</p> <p>I want that which is denied me</p> <p>I am not he who waits</p> <p>though so I must become</p> <p>before my truths are revealed</p> <p>to me</p> <p> </p> <p>Lonely</p> <p> </p> <p>Terrible it is not</p> <p>though so do I express it</p> <p>the pangs of growth I stymie</p> <p>with each endless</p> <p>reenactment of the same</p> <p>is born another</p> <p> </p> <p>so forth to neverland</p> <p>away to dreams untrammeled upon</p> <p>by reality's intimate ties</p> <p>and focal points of no concern</p> <p>to what is most important</p> <p>in my heart</p> <p>and head</p> <p> </p> <p>the apocryphies which adorn</p> <p>my wanton fantasies</p> <p>will bow before reality</p> <p>and its angels</p> <p>should I be brave</p> <p>and restore those</p> <p>to their place atop the temple</p> <p>which is me</p> <p> </p> <p>an element convicted</p> <p>and held accountable to this life</p> <p>and all it pours o'er my brow</p> <p>and into my eyes</p> <p>my thoughts and fears</p> <p>will arise and dissipate</p> <p>until the morning far from now</p> <p>when love</p> <p>blooms again</p> <p>in peace, love and understanding</p> <p> </p> <p>as it may be</p> <p>suffused with lust</p> <p>and pure intents</p> <p>at odds no more</p> <p>for evermore</p> <p>as one are love and wonder</p> <p>passion and concern</p> <p>driven thoughts of purest</p> <p>white snow meaning</p> <p>for ever and evermore</p> <p> </p><p>Thank you to Lisa Wiffledust for the forum in which this was expressed.<br /></p>Michael Bainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.com1