Vaccine philosophical exemptions: A moral and ethical imperative

Vaccine philosophical exemptions: A moral and ethical imperative

Government 101 (for computer geeks)

Scenario:
We build a system for virtualization. We build it in Windows so we have pretty windows and a comfortable GUI to work in. In our system then, we must share our limited resources between the machines. We must operate a complete and bloated OS in order to get to our other OS's. Our base OS is running 40 processes such as the ATI graphics interface, the wireless keyboard and mouse program, it has Adobe Reader and Office primed for quick launch, Windows Update, Print monitor, LogMeIn, Blockbuster, Avast!, Weatherbug, and of course our Virtual Machine Manager. "Gladys! Bring me some more RAM; QUICK! So we're running a fully functional OS (or more than one) inside a fully functional, buggy, unstable OS. This can't end well...

The answer to this ticking time-bomb is a hypervisor. A hypervisor is a stable, tiny OS whose only job is to manage virtual machines and protect their right to communicate with the physical hardware. We can't watch movies on the hypervisor, or check stocks or the weather, we have to start one of the VMs to do that. The hypervisor is small and stable; unlikely to ever crash. If a VM crashes... restart it.

Oh, you thought that just because this is a political blog, I would turn this into an analogy, like:

Small entities with limited scope are most efficient for everyone involved. If the Federal government were a hypervisor as was the case in 1787, us VMs would thrive and prosper to an extent not seen since 1913. More of our limited resources would be available to us VMs since the government would only need to consume a tiny fraction. As it stands now, our Federal government is bloated, unstable, and sometimes does things that don't make any logical sense. Things like buying $400 hammers, supporting Mubarik and groups trying to oust him, and [indirectly] paying the Taliban so they will keep fighting our troops in Afghanistan.

Well, I simply won't do it. Sometimes we need a break from politics.

Jim

"The Plain Truth" on the "PATRIOT" Act

"The Plain Truth" on the "PATRIOT" Act

Oh, Lord have Mercy; We Need a Balanced Budget Amendment!!!

This is what many of the new lawmakers and many of the old lawmakers are saying as they try to capitalize on the fervor. The BBA is a different debate for a different time, especially since there is no danger in it passing in the foreseeable future.

If lawmakers were serious about a balanced budget, all they would have to do is stop raising the debt ceiling. KISS! Budget balanced.

If lawmakers were serious about lowering the debt, which a balanced budget DOES NOT DO, they could simply vote to lower the debt ceiling. KISS!

Perhaps this should be a separate post, but the prior debates are irrelevant in our current system where all our currency is borrowed from the FED. This debt can never be paid back!

Check this out:

Say we open a little country and start from scratch. We decide to have a central bank to furnish and manipulate our currency. To run this new country, we need to start with $100, so we create a bond worth $100 and pay 5% interest on the capital.

We issue no more bonds and thus receive no new currency from the central bank.

Now let's say after one year we change our mind and want a different currency. How do we pay the central bank back? Including interest, we now owe the central bank $105 but there is only $100 in circulation in the entire country! Our little government does not have the money to pay its debt once the first penny of interest has accrued!

This is a grossly oversimplified description of our current system, but it shows that the system was set up to take the power from the government and put it in the hands of a few unelected decision makers, and it was set up in a way that will make it very difficult to overturn.

By simple arithmetic we have shown that payment of the national debt is not possible under the current system. Any attempt to pay down the debt will cause a contraction of the money supply, which is not a bad thing but it will cause economic corrections and it will look like a bad thing.

The only way to deal with the national debt is to first eliminate the current central banking system.

Jim

John Lott's Website: "How the Commerce Clause Made Congress All-Powerful"

John Lott's Website: "How the Commerce Clause Made Congress All-Powerful"

Inflation:

Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

How did the Iraq war start?

Once it becomes acceptable to equate truth with treason, we can no longer call ourselves a free society.

--Ron Paul