Memorial Day

In honor of those who died for our cause.
Just what is our cause? Is it the body of political thought arising from John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? As Thom Hartmann summarizes the alternative, that man is either basically good and merits his freedoms or that man is basically evil and needs restraint. The latter (Hobbes) wrote of this in The Leviathan about the need for a powerful state to restrain what even religion failed to check. Thom's guest, Michael D. Tanner, author of Leviathan on the Right

It is my view that The New Leviathan is actually The Corporation ** (circa Globalization * ). But the bottom line is that the nature of man (and I leave the nature of women aside)is a duality. Now the nature of woman may be the countebalance or lacking component, for are we not talking the balance of good and evil and the scale of justice depending on the notion of competition and cooperation.

Now the above may be too metaphorical. But for more to sort:

The Logic of "Leviathan": Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes.

Natural Right and History

Note: Being Memorial Day, The Thom Hartmann Show was a "best of". But this post is realtime, yet closes an interesting loop. The Leviathan in my mind was not a monster, but just a creation of man called government, while the corporation is also a creation of man and not supernatural, nor/let alone an individual. What would more honor the dead, than to know what we are fighting for?

* [the corporation / globalization loop and the part we play or don't]

[** May 25th, 2009: Corporations are only the Leviathan in terms of the fear that is implied from something big as the state is to be feared when unchecked. But they are both necessary within limits.]
[10:39 AM The Rhetoric of Leviathan led me to further summarize (rhetorically), what is the connection? "Hard work" as in "War is"... and who does it and what is the nature of the state of economics?]

Descartes Be4 D...

...hoRsemen.

i.e.^ // e.g.



^ not for vulnerable ears (i.e. he says the ePH word and more)*

* a tangent for vulnerables minds? (i.e. different ePH words)
~
Wait, I just may have fallen into a legend trap***, ergo Decartes grid-Locke[?]
Anyway, this 3-Minute Philosophy on St. Thomas Aquinas to my listening three times, did not have the -uck word, but might still be awkward to some. 
OW < Hitchens in Mill's coffee shop. 
~

ergo:  Link 1, Decartes wiki, 2, grammar-monster 3. R-rated 3mPh "Decartes"  4. B.S. on E. G.
*1. PG-rated 3mPh "Aquinas" 2. G-rated YouTube "Mill" 3. :-) -rated YouTube "Mill" 3. P/un-rated YouTube** [i.e. = "another words", e.g. = "for example, ergo?]

** inserted link on hold.(The pun was a Wolf in Hitchens form)
e.g.  /  i.e. ~ er / go ? (I am missing a figure(guy) to be found later.)  NOT! Yet C-PC!

***
/ ->Pink Floyd
/ ->A Tale of Two Manicheans.
Cultural Threads are Fine.

Know B.S ? ! Evangelii Gaudium !

More From the Other Washington

Governor Locke selected for Secretary of Commerce Baltimore Sun Tribune

Previously Sims selected Deputy Secretary of HUD
Northwest Progressive Institute
Not to mention: Seattle Police Chief Kerlikowske for Drug Czar

Speaking of Housing:
Housing Price Decline Accelerates
by Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
and Selections:E-Voting Security Fixes...
by John Turner ARS Technica
and other Similarities:
San Francisco Chronicle May Shut Down
by: Robert MacMillan and Janet Kornblum, Reuters
Seattle Post-Intelligencer to go Web only…or be shut down by Classified Intelligence?

And President Obama Getting Warmer by Robert Scheer Truthdig (Un-State of the Union)
Or Cooler? Freeing Up Resources...for More War by: Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Or Unbounded? Beyond Scarcity: Reinventing Wealth in a Progressive World
by: Joe Brewer, t r u t h o u t | Perspective *

[This sampling is not fully read yet (nfry) but forms a web of sorts with orginal sources in italics for the prior link. ]

* The pieces from Cognitive Policy Works .[Kerbel/Brewer]. in Previous Post of sorts have been read and are recommended as bold updated reflects [also .Lakoff. ].

A Tail of Caution

Not that I intend to wag the dog,
but doggin' the wags? (fn)

I will let U SC [!]**

On a more mundane line, or mudlane^ nine...
I reference the "hack list" per se not the characters or authors. *

Bazinga!  It's a culture thing !
Knot so Random Guy!

How'zabout Smith Zoning Limits?
ven under draft: (Hobbes~Locke~Newton~Liebniz~  ?Swift)

My mocumentary* was not intent on this Web of Charlotte or EB' n flo ...
I stepped in it. ^

"Never let...
 

...a good caption go to Hegel?
a good crisis go to waste."

* "~"
^  '~'
 ~   = alternate reference/legend 2b evolved
i.e. anachronistic or non linear notations.

**/(fn) irony:
(1) deja vu?  
(2)  alter wing?
(3) alter hacks
(4) nature calls? (FP)

More Executive Powers to the Team

BACK TO THE FUTURE RETRO UPDATE 8-7-09 *

What was referred to as a Black Hole of executive experience has some more stars in the constellation.

Governor Locke Secretary of Commerce (previously noted)
Governor Sebilius Secretary of Health and Human Services

Meanwhile the Battlestar Gallactica has powered up. (thanks TruthOut.org)
Original sources:
Obama's War with the Right (& Media) by Robert Parry Consortiumnews.com
Battle Lines Quickly Set Over Planned Policy Shifts by Lori Montgomery Washington Post

[* 8-7-9 I insert a segment of an email exchange dated 2-28-09]
SUBJECT LINE: Greenspan is an MF'r:
Milton Friedman that is. At least Greenspan said "policy makers did not anticipate"
But someone did:(Peter Schiff)
That is the problem. (That someone predicted it, but that he does not necessarily have the answer either.)
Not that anyone has the answer but people can profit from any system.
That alone does not make them bad, but it does not make the system good.
Now the question is who will suffer and who will pay, and how much will change or stay the same.
[now back to the future and I might suggest that Dylan Ratigan invent a game ala GO or Chess with this Peter Shiff. But this retroactive exchange was between the right(Laffer)and the righter(Schiff) who are mostly wrong and wronger.]