tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78653213523004419642024-02-07T06:10:25.433-05:00The Art of TechnoPolitical ScienceCurrent Events of the TechnoPolitical World 1994 to Present.
American Politics today. With a special focus on The Impact of Digital Technology on Politics, Civil Liberties , Elections, Lobbying, and Life. ( and some other stuff too.) {MY COMMENTARIES ARE THE WORDS IN THE BLUE FONT.}R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-13699778223828892402015-12-11T06:58:00.001-05:002015-12-11T07:08:30.740-05:00The Limits of Math and Physics<p><br>
<i>"Paradox at the heart of mathematics makes physics problem unanswerable</i></p>
<p><i>Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to unsolvable calculations in quantum physics."</i></p>
<p><i>09 December 2015</i></p>
<p><i> </i><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>http://</i></a><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>www.nature.com</i></a><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?</i></a><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>WT.mc_id</i></a><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>=</i></a><a href=" http://www.nature.com/news/paradox-at-the-heart-of-mathematics-makes-physics-problem-unanswerable-1.18983?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews"><i>TWT_NatureNews</i></a></p>
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R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-10046071734558766912015-12-09T04:00:00.001-05:002015-12-09T04:00:32.908-05:00"The end of passwords: biometrics are coming but do risks outweigh benefits?" <p>"<b>The end of passwords: biometrics are coming but do risks outweigh benefits?</b>"</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits">http://</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits">www.theguardian.com</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits">/technology/2015/</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits">dec</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits">/08/the-end-of-passwords-biometrics-risks-benefits</a> </p>
R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-24543624942042037122015-12-08T14:00:00.001-05:002015-12-08T14:08:12.162-05:00Dick Cheney condemns Donald Trump. That only leaves David Duke to Trump's right. <p><b>Dick Cheney condemns Donald Trump. That only leaves David Duke to Trump's right.  @</b><b>realdonaldtrump</b><b>  </b><a href="https://t.co/T2CoYLdFSe"><b>https</b></a><a href="https://t.co/T2CoYLdFSe"><b>://</b></a><a href="https://t.co/T2CoYLdFSe"><b>t.co</b></a><a href="https://t.co/T2CoYLdFSe"><b>/</b></a><a href="https://t.co/T2CoYLdFSe"><b>T2CoYLdFSe</b></a></p>
R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-75391544167343165192015-12-08T11:35:00.001-05:002015-12-08T14:10:00.940-05:00This is why I only do un-flavored e-cigs. <p><b>This is why I only do </b><b>un</b><b>-flavored e-</b><b>cigs</b><b>. #chemicals #</b><b>ecigs</b><b> #flavoring</b></p>
<p><a href=" https://t.co/I9Ro86ZMcj"><b>https</b></a><a href=" https://t.co/I9Ro86ZMcj"><b>://</b></a><a href=" https://t.co/I9Ro86ZMcj"><b>t.co</b></a><a href=" https://t.co/I9Ro86ZMcj"><b>/I9Ro86ZMcj</b></a></p>
R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-60684597646362393982014-03-17T23:25:00.004-04:002014-03-17T23:30:23.124-04:00Holy Space ALIENS BATMAN ! >> "Lost Jet’s Path Seen as Altered via Computer" <h2>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Holy Space ALIENS BATMAN ! </span></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Lost Jet’s Path Seen </span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as Altered </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><s> <span style="color: orange;"> #</span></s><span style="color: orange;">SERIOUSstuffHERE </span></span></b></span></h3>
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R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-28181519942271483872013-01-15T17:46:00.000-05:002013-01-17T21:23:42.092-05:00How to get elected in future elections: "Canvass all of the voters of all parties in your district " says new Congressman.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to my Google Blog stats, this blog is getting most all of its hits this week -- AGAIN -- from Russia. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that a good chunk of them, I am pleased to see, are for older posts. I am so glad you find the info useful. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I want to give a shout out to our Russian Friends. Hello Russia !!! All the best. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ( If you do @twitter please find me here )</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> ~~ <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHalperin">@RobHalperin</a></span></span>R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-77204318991877091532012-11-24T20:18:00.001-05:002012-11-24T21:13:59.454-05:00There is very little honest debate of political issues anymore in the Orthodox Jewish world. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>"Mr. Obama’s worst precincts were in Orthodox Jewish areas like Ocean Parkway and Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Kew Gardens Hills in Queens. In a few precincts in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Mr. Romney won more than <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/nyregion/the-city-vote-precinct-by-precinct.html?ref=nyregion">90 percent of the vote.</a>"</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><i>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/nyregion/the-city-vote-precinct-by-precinct.html?ref=nyregion</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">There is very little honest debate of political issues anymore in the Orthodox Jewish world. The mindset of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, et al & etc ,, dominates most all "frum" newspapers, websites and blogs. Opposing views rarely get aired or examined. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Birther-ism and the view that 'Obama is some Muslim socialist' is shamefully the prevalent view in Orthodox Brooklyn. It is not at all uncommon to hear the N-word in reference to Obama among the shmoozers in shul & at Shobbos tables , with few ever protesting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />> But just try and reduce food stamps, Section-8 and other "socialist" benefits, watch how quick the leadership of the 'yeshiva world' "revolts". <<br /><br />The "yeshiva world" is a most bizarre and contradictory "body politic" for sure.</span></div>
R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-82396230234028244842012-11-08T19:09:00.000-05:002012-11-24T21:18:45.610-05:00Why I like the Electoral College:<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why I like the Electoral College:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A national recount would be impossible. In 1960, 1968, 1976, 2000, and maybe 2012, there would have been screams and cries from the losers for a national recount. If we can barely recount Florida today , how could we recount the whole nation? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The EC has worked fine since 1789, and has always provided a smooth transition of power. Never assume that is a given. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No major democracy has a full direct election of the Commander-in-Chief, b/c it breeds revolutions .</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If it is not broken , do not fix it .</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I first went to collage many moons ago -- 1976 to be exact -- I started my major in Pol-Sci. I was studying under an Jordanian Christian professor ( a leftist , but not extremist), and in the company of many Mid-east students , esp from Iran. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know, after many classes and much debate, we discoverd we agreed on most everything globally.
But of course the Middle-East is more complicated. Why ? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> It became an axiom of our studies,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> that both sides in the Palestine-Israel debate </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">have a lot of "right" on their side , </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and both sides also got a lot of "wrong" on their side.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Debating history ain't gonna solve anything. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Solutions will only come when Both sides either:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> HAVE TO resolve it, as when events on the ground make the situation untenable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> OR just WANT TO resolve it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The later seems unlikely. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But as everyone with a sane mind TODAY agrees, </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that as the Palestinian population grows faster over the next 10-20 years, </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So you can "pay me now", or "pay me later" , as the saying goes: </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Palestinians forming a peaceful Democratic state is the only peaceful solution.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(I am not holding my breath.)</span></div>
R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-33189110228945471962012-09-10T06:25:00.000-04:002012-11-13T16:10:00.102-05:00a Strong Intellectual Democrat with Charisma will most always beat ANY Republican anytime for POTUS. Americans like smart Dems.<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Notice how democrat presidents are always smart, well educated and w/fairly stable intellects: FDR, JFK, Carter, Clinton, Obama.</span><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">While of GOPs ones,, Nixon , was the very smartest by far - (as opposed to Reagan , and the two Bush-s )- and Nixon went crazy.</span><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">A Smart Charismatic Democrat candidate for Potus --those being FDR, JFK, Carter, Clinton </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Obama - win potus elections 9 to 1. <<br /><br />Means that a Strong Intellectual Democrat with Charisma will most always beat ANY Republican anytime for POTUS. Americans like smart Dems. (JFK v Nixon: prime example. Maybe the 2 most dynamic politicians of the 20th Cent.)<br /><br />Wet democrat rags like Kerry, Mondale [and as Carter became in 1980,] loose.<br /><br />Humphrey & Gore, just barely lost , but again they do not quite fit the mold of being both very smart AND very charismatic, which just strengthens my point.<br /><br />Obama is not Carter as much as the GOP would like to think he is, and Mitt Romney's rag is soaking up more water everyday, imho.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">As LBJ and Truman fell into potus , and were not first elected, i did not count them in here above>> but either way, both won re-elect.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry they all lacked the great charisma factor, nor were they at the education / intellect level of FDR, JFK, Carter, Clinton, Obama::: Stevenson was smart had good charisma , but not great charisma , and he was against General DDE a war hero , & after 16 years of a Democrat POTUS>> Stevenson was just doomed. :: As far as Humphrey, had charisma but not a Rhodes scholar or Editor of Harvard Law Review type. And it still took a smart charismatic Nixon to beat HHH, and just barely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Obama fits the mold of "Smart AND Charismatic Democrat" 110%, while Mitt Romney is a wet GOP rag. Much like John McCain became in 2008. </span>
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R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-46382341546978149042012-08-31T00:33:00.001-04:002012-08-31T00:33:55.903-04:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Remember Mitt, <a href="https://twitter.com/nasa"><s>@</s><b>nasa</b></a> going to the moon -- America's greatest achievement - was a gov't program 100%: RT <a href="https://twitter.com/krystalball1"><s>@</s><b>krystalball1</b></a>: NASA <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23WeBuiltIt"><s>#</s><b>WeBuiltIt</b></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23RNC"><s>#</s><b>RNC</b></a></p>— Robert A. Halperin (@RobHalperin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHalperin/status/241377767109844992" data-datetime="2012-08-31T03:31:58+00:00">August 31, 2012</a></blockquote>
<script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-40715111112076965422012-08-31T00:32:00.001-04:002012-08-31T00:32:47.684-04:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Obama takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; I look to cities & towns of China, where most of my Bain workers are found. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23RNC"><s>#</s><b>RNC</b></a></p>— Willard Middling (@WillardMiddling) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillardMiddling/status/241344024043204608" data-datetime="2012-08-31T01:17:53+00:00">August 31, 2012</a></blockquote>
<script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-49698998967779431582012-08-02T12:05:00.003-04:002012-08-02T12:05:37.740-04:00New Star for Democrats?<br />
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Hope! RT <a href="https://twitter.com/arianna8927"><s>@</s><b>arianna8927</b></a> Is <a href="https://twitter.com/thedemocrats"><s>@</s><b>thedemocrats</b></a>' Convention Keynote Speaker, <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23SanAntonio"><s>#</s><b>SanAntonio</b></a>'s Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/juliancastro"><s>@</s><b>juliancastro</b></a>, the Next Obama? <a href="http://t.co/BIohNsGZ" title="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/01/is-democratic-convention-keynote-speaker-julian-castro-the-next-obama.html">thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/…</a><br />
— Robert A. Halperin (@RobHalperin) <a data-datetime="2012-08-02T15:45:15+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/RobHalperin/status/231053053422346241">August 2, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<script charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-3043734823831726652012-08-01T15:29:00.002-04:002012-08-01T15:29:44.586-04:00Ok. Time to set the record strait on the "Hebrew Bible" as the reason why Christians ban Gay Marriage: The Christian Church does not ban Gay Marriage because of the Hebrew Bible Prohibitions.<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ok. Time to set the record strait on the "Hebrew Bible" as the reason why Christians ban Gay Marriage:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Christian Church does not ban Gay Marriage because of the Hebrew Bible Prohibitions, (If they did they would have keep kosher and the other Mitzvahs also). The prohibitions in the 5 books of Moses only apply to Jews, and non-Jews are not required, (or even allowed) to keep them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The VERY Early Church -- who remember where educated Rabbis -- adopted the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah#Modern_Times">"Seven Commandments given to Noah" </a>as a practice for non-Jews to follow as new Christians. These "Sheva Mitvahs Beni Noach"-- which we only know of from the Talmud-- is a Jewish tradition the Jews hold applies to all mankind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Early Church , as Jews, were out to bring non-Jews into their new Jewish Messianic Sub-Culture, and required of them only "Faith" and these "Seven Mitzvahs of Naoch" as a practise. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Interestingly , there is debate among the Rabbis of the Talmud, and later commentaries as to exactly what are these 7 "laws" , and as to whether it bans 'gay-male-sex' , OR just , incest , adultery , and doing it with animals. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the Christian Church grew , they made Dogma out of their *interpretation* of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah#Modern_Times"> "7 laws of Noch"</a>, but their gay marriage ban is NOT based on the Hebrew Bible: </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So when we crtic RW anti-gays for singling out Gay Marriage from the Bible , really both sides are wrong in their premises:</span><br />R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-43065257149227875262012-07-29T20:06:00.001-04:002012-07-29T20:07:07.486-04:001/2 of Americans dont know Obama's religion; 17% say he's Muslim:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Who said the internet wuld make us better informed?: 1/2 of Americans dont know Obama's religion; 17% say he's Muslim: <a href="http://t.co/gLIo6QTR" title="http://news.yahoo.com/half-americans-not-know-presidents-religion-120055199--abc-news-politics.html">news.yahoo.com/half-americans…</a></p>— Robert A. Halperin (@RobHalperin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobHalperin/status/229414737228734465" data-datetime="2012-07-29T03:15:10+00:00">July 29, 2012</a></blockquote>
<script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>R.A.Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794008098885755168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7865321352300441964.post-10101127884138521912012-07-15T17:38:00.000-04:002012-07-23T11:35:52.620-04:00When the War on Drugs started a generation plus ago , Gambling was also illegal:<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When the War on Drugs started a generation plus ago ,</span></div>
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There where no state lotteries or Indian Casinos ,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> SO gambling became a state enterprise with lotteries , and a heavily taxed one with Casinos, and our culture is much better off for it : the Mafia barely exists anymore:
:: Legalize DRUGS end the war on our inner cities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"President Nixon announced a war on drugs, but it was President Reagan who started the modern battle in 1982, when hip-hop was in its infancy. This fight would not only shape the black community but also mold hip-hop, a music and culture whose undercurrent remains black male anger at a nation that declared young black men monsters and abandoned them, killing any chance they had at the American Dream."</i></span></div>
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RT @<a href="https://twitter.com/RobHalperin">RobHalperin</a> New plan for old <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523NYC">#NYC</a> pay phone kiosks > FREE Wi-Fi ! :"Want some free Wi-Fi? Try a pay phone"<a href="http://t.co/f4D9CYZu" title="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120711/TECHNOLOGY/120719967">crainsnewyork.com/article/201207…</a><br />
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3 Cheers for the NAACP !! : "Mitt Romney was <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523Booed">#Booed</a> in grand fashion at the @<a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP">NAACP</a> today": <a href="http://t.co/iBDxgXjc" title="http://abcn.ws/Nl41Jp">abcn.ws/Nl41Jp</a> (via @<a href="https://twitter.com/ABC">ABC</a>) <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523cheers">#cheers</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523boos">#boos</a><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">But even with the election of Barack Obama as</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">POTUS</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> -- a moderate-center-liberal Democrat -- the power centers of politics in the USA has not really been changed by the Internet. It is still Democrats and Republicans.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Fifty years from now will the discussions in political science classes be:</span> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why has the Digital Age and the Internet failed to produce any great change in Democracy?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Or: </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why was it watershed for better Democracy in the </span></b></span><b><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">United States</span></span></b><b><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (and/or other nations)?</span><a href="http://technopolitical.blogspot.com/2002/09/techno-politics.html#_edn36" name="_ednref36" rel="nofollow" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[36]</span></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"></span></b><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are also those who assert that Democracy will loose out ---and is loosing out--- to the Globalization of the Government and Corporate Techno-Powers.</span><a href="http://technopolitical.blogspot.com/2002/09/techno-politics.html#_edn37" name="_ednref37" rel="nofollow" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[37]</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Seeing the distribution of</span></span><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">academic and political</span></span><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> information, news and views on the Web as dominated by a few mega-corporations</span><a href="http://technopolitical.blogspot.com/2002/09/techno-politics.html#_edn38" name="_ednref38" rel="nofollow" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: blue; letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[38]</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> some believe the question political-science students will be asked on exams is: “</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why and how has the Internet changed democracy for the worst?”</span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were <a href="http://technopolitical.blogspot.com/2009/03/fifty-years-from-now-will-discussions_18.html">technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet </a>was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history. They were (mostly) right, but not for the reasons they believed; in retrospect, strident manifestos such as John Perry Barlow’s 1996 <a href="https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html">Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace</a> seem almost preciously naive about the nature of power and participation online. The ability of the Internet to alter the course of nations and economies does not come from being independent of the material world, but from being deeply enmeshed in it."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"In fact, it turns out that the Internet is a rather brittle weapon of transformation. If the icon of revolution in the 20th century was the AK-47, for many observers the 21st century icon is the<a href="http://appotography.com/2011/11/15/occupy-wall-street-seen-through-a-camera-phone/"> Internet-connected cameraphone</a>. But the AK-47 is a stand-alone technology. The smartphone, conversely, is completely dependent upon a complex physical infrastructure—cellular towers, mobile network providers, the wires and routers behind it all, and more. Of course, this isn’t just a peculiar limitation of cell phones; every type of Internet technology requires an elaborate physical network in order to function. And as protestors from Tehran to San Francisco have discovered, such networks are easy to shut down"</span></i><br />
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RT @BBCNews: "The cult of TED- Technology Entertainment & Design (TED) conference now has millions of avid online fans"<br />
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"@NYCcouncil speaker @ChrisCQuinn and Mayor @MikeBloomberg unveil broadband initiatives": <a href="http://t.co/SzNg8b6G">http://t.co/SzNg8b6G</a><br />
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