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A Rube is as a Rube Does

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A rube is as a rube does, and what Rand Paul did during his filibuster was to declare himself a rube.

A rube is someone without an advantage in the environment that he/she Observes, except for the fact that he/she is a rube.

Obama got the advantage over Rand Paul party’s strategy of filibustering this administration. The Republic strategy has been to push against any Action the Obama administration Decides on.

I am sure that it is hoped by those in the Republican party that with enough pushing and for a great amount of time, they will be able to push this country in a different direction. The Party lost the advantage in Paul’s filibuster.

The problem for Paul and his party is that there has to be some kind of leverage to move a country, and leverage takes an advantage point to pivot from. The only advantage Rand Paul had during the filibuster was from the advantage point of being a rube. The advantage was all his and not his party’s.

But the process that represented the Obama’s administrations Decision making process, won over Paul’s strategy, during the filibuster.

It turns out that Paul approves the Action of the Obama administration of killing Americans with drones and on American soil. This seems to be the question that Paul wanted answered before he quit the filibuster.

Apparently Killing Americans with drones on American soil is OK with Paul, as long as the victims are not just sitting in some restaurant, or something like that.

So it is assumed that Rand Paul’s party would make a similar Decision, under similar circumstances, i.e., another Pearl Harbor or Twin-Tower event, so their Decision-making became similar, or in other words, parallel.

An Orientation that makes similar Decisions, is a similar Orientation, but Obama got the advantage of making Decisions first, because Paul apparently came up with the same Decision, but not until the end of his filibuster.

So in time (space/time), the Obama’s Decision making is ahead of Paul’s, and that represents an advantage, and Obama had the advantage over Paul. That is of course depends on what kind of an advantage did Paul have, in time or distance?

If Paul’s advantage is in distance (as in, who wants to distance themselves from this Decision), then perhaps Paul got the advantage. Paul showed that he was a rube, like the rest of us–his party showed their strategy in filibustering everything was a failure.

To sum up, the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) of Paul’s party is running parallel (at least in the regards to drones killing American citizens on America’s soil) with the Obama’s administration, instead of pushing against it– but the Administration is ahead of the Republican Party in Decision-making, because Obama apparently thought of it first.

We can see that the two parties are parallel because, if the people of Rand’s Orientation were Oriented as an opposition to the Obama administration’s, his loop would have been perpendicular to Obama’s, pushing the country in a different direction, including backwards if the advantage is great enough.

This “pushing” represents an OODA loop with an advantage in the environment Observed. Rand had no such advantage, except he has declared himself a rube by his Actions, and is oriented towards the other rubes in the environment the USA pivots in.

Wither this Rubistic Orientation is enough advantage, to push the country in a new direction, has yet to be seen, but Rand Paul’s Action yesterday was, at the very least, interesting.

Paul’s Actions during the filibuster may mean that not only does Obama know Boyd, but also the Republicans are learning fast, with Rand Paul in the lead.

Stealth Jets Return To The Air Following Engine Snafu

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“What is different is that this airplane has accelerational characteristics with a combat load that no other airplane has, because we carry a combat load internally,” Lockheed exec Tom Burbage told aviation reporter Dave Majumdar last year.

OK enough! They are building an aircraft that has the characteristics,  if not the look, of a flying saucer. It’s all in the z-axis baby!

OK!! There I’ve said it. Now can’t we, or at least shouldn’t, we just stop talking about all of this. :)

via Stealth Jets Return To The Air Following Engine Snafu — For Now | Danger Room | Wired.com.

Thomas P.M. Barnetts Globlogization – Blog – Why the next pope should be a Latino

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My fear with Benedict is that he retires so he can – in his typical control-freak fashion – determine his successor.  Lets hope its something more than personal ego at work here.

Well he almost came down in history as the pope to lose a Christian command of the largest military in the world today. Close enough that the Catholic leadership must have thought they had lost it much of election night. I know the churches here in my area supposedly told their parturition to vote for Romney.

The thing is both Africa and Latin America are producing very Conservative priests, at least to know what a Mormon in command of the US military would look like.

via Thomas P.M. Barnetts Globlogization – Blog – Why the next pope should be a Latino.

While my theory of a Mormon take-over of the US military might be slightly off (Ha!),  this piece from FP sounds about right.

“This time is different, the crisis is much deeper and more difficult to solve than it appears,” an Italian bishop with long experience in the Curia laments. “Catholics are deeply divided between a group of conservatives, constantly looking toward the past that will never come back, and progressives, who pushed themselves too far from any possible compromise with the other group. I don’t envy the next pope.”

Unlike Barnett’s analysis, just look: if the next pope is from Latin America or Africa it may be an indication of which direction the church is moving Conservative/Liberal.

In a time of war it is always Conservative.

via Vatican Insider – By Paolo Mastrolilli | Foreign Policy.

The Project: Final Remodel

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I have begun the final remodel. I am in the Data phase, and the data almost killed me, as I added knowledge. I ended up with a fractured spine and one rib.

It was nothing that needed any medical attention except for some ibuprofen (drop that oxcondone as quick as you can), then go on muscle relaxers until you can feel that the bleeding has stopped.

I don’t know if this “cheep trick” works or not, but my pain is more real now and I don’t think that it is caused by spasmodic bleeding. I have stopped taking spasm medicine, and trying my back out.

But that is what knowledge is all about, pain, unless you handle the taking of all that data carefully.

I knew better than to use the top step of anything, much less of a 20+ years old step stool. but then I did use it as a platform to do my data-taking from.

Despite the knowledge that I had on how dangerous it is to work from a position of no leverage (top step), I kept using the top step of the stool because I didn’t want to stop and think what I really need in resources, to gather this data safety. I was neither craftsman nor a good manager.

Most people don’t understand that the real job of a millwright (my former job) is safety, and that means not only working with your hands, but ones mind.

In project class in college I was categorized as a mastermind. In one project I was the only one in class (including my team, ouch!) that wrote up the correct answer, and I think my experience as a millwright helped in that effort to categorize me.

I often wondered if anyone was interested in the answer, but nobody asked me about it, so it was hard to tell.

So, go ahead and start that narrative with data gathering, but understand that the odds of getting hurt can catch up with you as you gain knowledge, as I did when I found myself on the floor, on my back, above the edge of the stairs, and with my legs on the steps below me. Talk about a position with no leverage!

Beginning with the right “tempo” is very important in reducing those odds of getting hurt. With tempo you can find the time to become both an organizer and a millwright, a very safe position to be in.

I am just now getting in position to find were my advantage, at least in not getting hurt, will come from.

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Maybe my update will make more sense, although I doubt it. I once said that I wanted to be a community organizer, and I suppose that still holds true.
Data first (construction) as an observation, write it all down in some form of orientation (logic)--Knowledge (destruction) next (decision making), as you add the math (ethics)--Act and write it all down into some kind of narrative (tempo) that can last for generations (my nephew James).

I have begun the final remodel. I am in the Data phase, and the data almost killed me, as I added knowledge. I ended up with a fractured spine and one rib. It was nothing that needed any medical attention except for some ibuprofen (drop that oxcondone as quick as you can), then go on muscle relaxers until you can feel that the bleeding has stopped. I don't know if this "cheep trick" works or not, but my pain is more real now and I don't think that it is caused by spasmodic bleeding. I have stopped taking spasm medicine, and trying my back out. But that is what knowledge is all about, pain, unless you handle the taking of all that data carefully. I knew better than to use the top step of anything, but then I did use it as a platform to do my data-taking from. Despite the knowledge that I had on how dangerous it is to work from a position of no leverage (top step), I kept using the top step of the stool because I didn't want to stop and think what I really need in resources, to gather this data safety. I was neither craftsman nor a good manager. Most people don't understand that the real job of a millwright (my former job) is safety, and that means not only working with your hands, but ones mind. In project class in college I was categorized as a mastermind. In one project I was the only one in class (including my team, ouch!) and I think my experience as a millwright helped in that effort to categorize me. I often wondered if anyone was interested in the answer, but nobody asked me about it, so it was hard to tell. So, go ahead and start that narrative with data gathering, but understand that the odds of getting hurt can catch up with you as you gain knowledge, as I did when I found myself on the floor, on my back, above the edge of the stairs, and with my legs on the steps below me. Talk about a position with no leverage! Beginning with the right "tempo" is very important in reducing those odds. I am just beginning to find mine.

Grand Blog Tarkin’s Hoth Symposium

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It was not that the Galactic Empire could not have fielded a vast, overwhelmingly powerful and incomparably competent armada against the Rebellion, it was that Darth Sidious did not dare to do so…..

I am more inclined to agree with Zen.

In politics, the enemy is behind the leader not in front. So it wouldn’t be in Darth Sidious interest politically to assemble a force large enough that it might splinter and become under command of another political force.

I would take it even further and say that all war is about economic considerations, and fought by people of little economic consideration.

With that said,  my guess is that it was the same people funding the insurgency, and giving them the resources necessary to build its base on the ice planet, that were funding Darth Sidious.

In that way, a war on a distant planet and a war not to end all wars, Darth would not be destroying any more planets that had economic interest to the corporations, and if the insurgency gave a good enough showing (defeat was expected) more funds would be available to them as needed.

It is not that the corporations wanted Darth defeated (they loved his ability to literally control people), but they needed the markets to keep growing, and with a total defeat of the insurgency the market would tend to stagnate.

While it was necessary for a few economic leaders to give their life’s to the “cause”, most leaders within the economy, and their families, went untouched, and never really knew a war was at hand.

via zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Grand Blog Tarkin’s Hoth Symposium.

What I Found Interesting This Week 2/2/2013

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Unfortunately, many farmers markets are duds.  The prices are too high, the selection is mediocre and many of the vendors sell store brought produce/products.  In contrast, real farmers markets are run by organizations that rigorously maintain standards and recruit/scout/visit participants (to increase supply, competition, and variety).  They hum with life, variety, and are price competitive.

Yes, and this is all because we don’t have a decentralized market, ho, hum.

Well “real farmer markets” are distributive networks that each needs the other.

So while Robb’s decentralized network decentralizes into nodes towards an edge, the distributive market has no outside edges and forms a center of gravity called a community.

Where this “center” forms is any ones guess, but Robb has no clue, because he is looking for an edge, and not a community. He still thinks he is a part of the cure, i.e., a resilient community, and not the problem, too much distribution and not enough decentralization, ha!

So I guess that is what a community organizer does, he organizes all the nodes into a community without edges.

via What I Found Interesting This Week 2/2/2013.

Inauguration Day: Unclear strategy for an Obama legacy

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Persuading some centrist Republicans that their voters want them to be constructive. Their decision, after a retreat, to put off the clash over the debt ceiling could be a sign of this. But it is more likely simply so they can concentrate on a fight over spending.

Not “constructive”, destructive. Knowledge is destructive, and the voters want their Republicans to be knowledge based, which right now isn’t happening.

Republicans seem to think that the voters want their leaders to go against their word, and not pay for a debt we owe.

That is not a very good strategy. We basically went to war in the Middle East to keep the dollar relevant it today’s world.

If a relevant dollar was indeed, at least, one of the strategies for war, why would we want to counter that strategy with another? Especially when that “other” would mean going back on our word.

Wouldn’t going back on our word mean we have wasted that debt which was paid for by those wars?

While keeping those guys in the Middle East spending our money wasn’t the only reason we went to war, it must have been a sizable chunk of it.

We live in a consumer society. If we can’t consume anymore, because we don’t have the dollars, then we need someone to continue consuming, at least continue consuming our dollars.

The Native American were the first ones to learn that it’s never good to turn your back on  the world.

I mean, they seem to be back, but they went through some really destructive years.

So, yeah fellows, just keep playing around, we gotcha!

We will just pass on the free blankets, this time around.

via BBC News – Inauguration Day: Unclear strategy for an Obama legacy.

Congress: Wanna get away? – First Read

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Reid’s job is to help move President Obama’s agenda through the upper chamber, but he must also protect his five-seat Senate majority, and gun-rights groups are threatening to go after vulnerable Senate Democrats who back the president’s calls for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.”

So why call for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines? Why not just give the assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines to the militias,  and let the militias worry about the collection of weapons? Wasn’t forming militias a big part of the 2nd Amendment to begin with? If the majority of the people think we need to arm ourselves with automatic weapons, then let’s arm ourselves with automatic weapons.

If not, then let us keep supporting our first responders. Not really sure there are the funds to do both.

via Congress: Wanna get away? – First Read.

Unimaginable Statements and Signs of Surrender

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Brett Friedman said it best. “Can you imagine a USMC 4-Star ever saying “we’ll be unprepared’? Never”

Oh how we long for the days of the NeoCons, when what our generals said didn’t matter.

Perhaps Friedman should ask the General what we will be prepared for, because the General has obviously given that some great thought. That is what generals do; they think.

But more than just thinking, a general adds strategy to the thinking process and his/her strategy has two ends to think about and prepare for: the beginning of the end (which the General says we are not prepared) and the end of the end, which I am betting he is prepared for.

So either seek the advice of the general that tells you that “we’ll be unprepared”, or become a Republican :)

But on the other hand, if we somehow bite-the-bullet and Decide to Act according to how we are Oriented (we are a consumer economy) and pay for the debt that we have accrued in the world, perhaps we should take advantage of the environment that we have positioned ourselves in, and opt out.

We have positioned ourselves as a nation of great command, but little control. This is what the General is trying to tell you.

We are unable to fight a war against  a nation that is in control of what we want (cool electronic gadgets and games), while at the same time maintaining the demand for those products.

So we are unprepared for war.

At the same time, the advantage we have in the world is our ability  to move our culture in new directions, think  what Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Rap, ect. has to offer.

This ability to create fast transits (OODA) is pissing many people off, and what the General is also  telling you is: we can’t afford to pay for this war against the generation of diversity while at the same time fighting a war against the generation of conformity.

This ability, to generate diversity in our cultures, upsets many people of many orientations.

The greatest Orientation that has been upset has been among our own culture–the Conservatives.

The Conservatives want to enforce conformity, to our past, because it is that Orientation that has been the most successful, in the past.

Unfortunately, the past is no more. We are a nation of command and what control the suppliers of our resources had over us is gone, in a mushroom cloud.

This ability of our culture to diversify does not set well for the party of our culture that demands control, i.e., Conservatives.

The Conservatives want to enforce the conformity of our past on the culture of those generations that are living in the future. These generations are called Liberals.

Liberals want to generate diversity that increase demands, unlike the culture of the Conservatives who want to decrease diversity, to conform to demand.

The problem being: the potential for both diversity and conformity is equal, and so the two structures, the left and Right are at war.

To generate diversity while at the same time enforce conformity will take some kind of strategy over the process, but I believe these two worlds can live together, it is doable.

It’s a game, and you all are invited.

via Information Dissemination: Unimaginable Statements and Signs of Surrender.