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========== In hoc signo vinces! Christianity's spiritual downfall coincided with its rise to worldly greatness, when Constantine dreamed of Christianity leading to military and political victory, and so established the church for those ends. The church reciprocated by interpreting scripture in ways useful to the ruling political class, in the same way the Christian Nationalists contort themselves to interpret Trump as some sort of hero foretold in prophecy. Like all prostitution, church and state demean themselves in bed together. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/14/guns-christmas-thomas-massie-lauren-boebert/ Trump doesn't know or care about Christianity and probably never even attended, much less taught, Sunday School. But he cares about voters who will vote and donate on faith, without question, without reference to facts. #PS1other ===== comments 1 impact 11 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-19 ratio 2 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title In hoc signo vinces! topic other wordrate 0 words 114 commentsimpress 1 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1563186640692516 impress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/19/2021 12:12" reach 2 title "Perspective | Why so many guns on Christmas cards? Because Jesus was ‘manly and virile.’" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563186640692516 ========== End of an era! https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-theater-frank-sinatra-a4ef685dd49259648991ebfbcef8bbbd It's hard to think of another composer so inventive in musical theatre. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/27/stephen-sondheim-songs-life-more-real/ Sondheim's work most relevant to Political Scrapbook is, of course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(musical) You can find excerpts and recordings of complete shows on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gWMuP7Jgs Aim for what you want a lot Everybody gets a shot Everybody's got a right To their dreams An anthem for every age of celebrity - everybody can be famous for 15 minutes! All you have to do is move your finger - and pay the price. To become immortal, all you have to do is to die - no wait, that's Webber and Rice! For relevance to political-scrapbook.net, runner-up to Assassins would have to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Overtures for its dramatization of the politics of clashing cultures. #PS1other https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-theater-frank-sinatra-a4ef685dd49259648991ebfbcef8bbbd ===== impact 86 impactrate 0 likeimpress 6 negative 0 posted 2021-11-26 ratio 6 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title End of an era! topic other wordrate 0 words 123 engaged 7 epoch Lifetime ID 1547942158883631 impress 43 likeimpress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/26/2021 15:11" reach 42 sharesimpress 1 title "Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91 | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547942158883631 ========== A large segment of Americans is not particularly interested in the future There's reason to be concerned - there will be lots of trouble in the future - just as there has been throughout the past. Trump sets the example - why worry about precedents set in the past or precedents set for the future? Après moi, le déluge! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/fertility-rates-keep-falling-there-are-no-easy-solutions-fix-it/ Infants are born supposing everything is all about themselves. Grandparenthood is the great revelation that it's not all about us; we are each just links in the chain. The main reason to have children is to have the chance to have grandchildren. But if you don't want grandchildren, or would not be good at grandchildren, then don't have children. Increase immigration instead, if you want to maintain your standard of living. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1other https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/fertility-rates-keep-falling-there-are-no-easy-solutions-fix-it/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title A large segment of Americans is not particularly interested topic other wordrate 0 words 131 epoch Lifetime ID 1547447262266454 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/25/2021 23:11" reach 10 title "Opinion | Fertility rates keep falling. And there are no easy solutions to fix it." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547447262266454 ========== Who are the new Texans? All kinds of people! https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/newest-texans-who-are-they/ And Arkansas is already recruiting Austin folks tired of rising real estate prices, and Illinois is recruiting those alarmed by the politics of Greg Abbott and his pals - abortion vigilantes and concealed carry for everybody. What goes around comes around! #PS1other ===== comments 1 impact 36 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-11-21 ratio 3 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Who are the new Texans? All kinds of people! topic other wordrate 0 words 51 audclicks 3 commentsimpress 1 engaged 4 epoch Lifetime ID 1544625345881979 impress 29 likeimpress 1 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/21/2021 14:11" reach 26 sharesimpress 2 title "The Newest Texans Are Not Who You Think They Are" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544625345881979 ========== Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who clearly is not the worst president after all. He initiated the first global disarmament treaty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty He addressed the Tulsa riot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/21/warren-harding-tulsa-race-massacre-trump/ He stunned the white supremacists in Birmingham - whose spiritual heirs are still running the Trumpist Dixiecrat party. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921 Forward looking and healing! “Men who are really worthwhile are simpler than they are appraised, and vastly greater than many partisans have measured them.” But if you prefer backward-looking partisan mediocrity, you'll always have Trump! Uncontested worst president. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-14 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who topic other wordrate 0 words 86 epoch Lifetime ID 1539917956352718 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/14/2021 17:11" reach 8 title "This Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation… in 1921" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539917956352718 ========== Announcement from Bank of America - The United States Postal Service began changing first-class mail delivery time frames in October. This change may result in mailed statements, new or replacement cards and payments you mail taking longer to arrive. and then they proceed to tout their online banking app. Trying to make the best of a bad deal, or seizing a business opportunity thoughtfully provided by DeJoy? https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/louis-dejoy-confronts-new-conflict-interest-accusations-n1282155 #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Announcement from Bank of America - topic other wordrate 0 words 68 epoch Lifetime ID 1526121104399070 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/25/2021 21:10" reach 9 title "Louis DeJoy confronts new conflict-of-interest accusations" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526121104399070 ========== Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders. That's what the billboard says on Capitol Expressway in San Jose, near a homeless encampment. Some of the homeless might find a lower cost of living in Ohio, but worse weather. It's propaganda from https://www.jobsohio.com/ohio-for-leaders/ It's hard to think of a single technology area in which Ohio is a leader or attracts leaders. Or followers. Ohio does offer low taxes, low real estate prices, and an economy to match. Not to mention political leaders like Jim Jordan - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/27/jim-jordan-republican-capitol-attack-insurrection-house-select-committee or the Cincinnati council - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/politics/cincinnati-city-council-bribes.html California can match Jordan with Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy, but they keep a safe distance from Silicon Valley and new ideas except any dictated by Trump. For local government, look up shrimpgate or shrimp boy. Maybe Ohio can lure Elon Musk from Texas. Here's what the Plain Dealer says - https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/02/new-ohio-ad-campaign-aimed-at-attracting-businesses-touts-states-low-taxes-sparks-online-debate.html #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders. topic other wordrate 0 words 143 epoch Lifetime ID 1526113957733118 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/25/2021 20:10" reach 9 title "New Ohio ad campaign aimed at attracting businesses touts state’s low taxes, sparks online debate" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526113957733118 ========== Stolen election? It's not a statement of fact. It's a statement of belief. After all, Trump always tells the truth about what he feels and what he believes. What else matters? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-claims.html The notion of an objective external reality is just a myth created by science professors and Enlightenment philosophers to mislead the masses. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Kim, Xi - they all saw right through it. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-09-17 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Stolen election? It's not a statement of fact. It's a topic other wordrate 0 words 66 epoch Lifetime ID 1499812140363300 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/17/2021 11:09" reach 9 title "Opinion | Don’t Let Trump Steal the Show With ‘Stop the Steal’" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1499812140363300 ========== For a born-again Southerner, Trump is remarkably ignorant about the reality of the Civil War - knowledgeable only about the myth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/10/robert-e-lee-statue-richmond-trump-history/ The South had no chance in a war of attrition because it was an agrarian economy dependent on foreign trade, with a static population, against a more populous industrializing power that commanded the sea and the technology and had a ready supply of immigrant cannon fodder. Foreign powers who had already abolished slavery had little interest in backing the losing side. The only hope was to somehow quickly triumph in an invasion of the North. Lee tried twice and failed both times. Early successes led to over-optimism about the future - a pattern repeated to the present day. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-09-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title For a born-again Southerner, Trump is remarkably ignorant topic other wordrate 0 words 120 epoch Lifetime ID 1495330284144819 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/10/2021 21:09" reach 11 title "Opinion | Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1495330284144819 ========== When push comes to shove - you find out what people REALLY believe. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-religion-coronavirus-pandemic-f42772097cf7557086f12b549e03b18a Do you think the devil whispers in your ear telling you to do evil things? Of course not - that's way too inefficient. There are always a few people on the fringes who actually want to do evil and violent things because they are evil - but they need no help from the devil. But there are far more people that would do the same evil things if somebody told them they were really righteous. So instead the devil tells you to do virtuous things - and helps you find them on social media - where they've been conveniently listed for you by domestic and foreign adversaries with interests in undermining reason and stimulating hatred, unrest, or even violence - the devil's work painted virtuous. Of course, seducing an influential person this way is far more efficient than seducing one more of the rank and file. The biggest seduction line for people in power is you have to do this one unpleasant thing in order to enable all the virtuous things you want to do, because that's how the world works. And that is indeed how the devil does his work in the world. #PS1other ===== impact 21 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-08-31 ratio 8 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title When push comes to shove - you find out what people topic other wordrate 0 words 208 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1488458171498697 impress 14 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/31/2021 23:08" reach 8 title "Mormon vaccine push ratchets up, dividing faith's members" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1488458171498697 ========== There isn't one optimum population level. It depends on the global standard of living that population aspires to. Higher standard of resource consumption, lower sustainable population. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Birthrates decline and populations age wherever women get the knowledge and means to control family size. That's infuriated ambitious dictators for decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/07/please-hold-panic-about-world-population-decline-its-non-problem/ In America, GOP wants to make it as hard as possible to control family size, and as hard as possible for lower-income families to thrive economically. This serves their ruling class donors well. #PS1other ===== comments 1 impact 25 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2021-06-07 ratio 0 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title There isn't one optimum population level. It depends on topic other wordrate 0 words 82 commentsimpress 1 engaged 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1430453193965862 likeimpress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/07/2021 16:06" title "Opinion | A declining world population isn’t a looming catastrophe. It could actually bring some good." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1430453193965862 ========== What is the oldest religion in the Bible? It's quite plausible that the oldest story in the Bible is the story of Job, which might have been an oral tradition long before it was written down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job It has no reference to any other specific religion but is a reflection on what theologians call theodicy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy The oldest religion - yet always the most currently relevant - is the religion of Job's friends, which they try to impress upon Job in several sessions. It's a simple belief system - God is good. God loves good people and hates bad people. God rewards good people and punishes and afflicts bad people. The part that has resonated with the rich and powerful since before Job's time is the conclusion If you are wealthy and powerful it is because you are good. If you are poor and powerless and afflicted it is because you are bad. And even better There's no point in the wealthy and powerful doing anything for the poor and powerless and afflicted. Why go against the judgment and will of God? There's plenty of Hebrew and Christian scripture arguing against their point of view - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. But that hasn't deterred the unrepentant rich and powerful, in Job's time or ours. You can hear it every day in Congress or any state legislature. The rich and powerful deserve to have their taxes reduced, the poor and powerless and afflicted deserve to have their social safety nets removed. Those politicians might pretend to be Christians or Jews or atheists once a week, but Monday through Friday they reveal themselves to be friends of Job's friends. #PS1other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job ===== impact 31 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-06-04 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What is the oldest religion in the Bible? topic other wordrate 0 words 311 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1428694354141746 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/04/2021 21:06" title "Book of Job - Wikipedia" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1428694354141746 ========== By their fruits shall ye know them! They knew he was a Trumpist when they picked him up, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-falwell-endorsement/trumps-ex-lawyer-cohen-links-falwells-endorsement-in-2016-to-suppression-of-racy-photos-idUSKBN25Z2S0 so why would they be surprised if the commandments he lived by were lie cheat steal deny it all hit back twice as hard https://apnews.com/article/jerry-falwell-lawsuits-lynchburg-45e11f1455980d0bed7961bf9c03daaf https://apnews.com/article/jerry-falwell-lawsuits-virginia-lynchburg-3b9c8e0c3bf525c79fbd54dc95889c86 #PS1other ===== impact 4 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2021-04-27 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title By their fruits shall ye know them! They knew he was a topic other wordrate 0 words 43 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1403446193333229 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/27/2021 23:04" title "Liberty sues Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking millions in damages" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1403446193333229 ========== Pipe dreams of importing Silicon Valley! Austin and Miami, in particular, have big dreams of taking over from Silicon Valley - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/technology/san-francisco-covid-work-moving.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/opinion/tech-hope-america.html Bloomberg thinks they have a chance if they just repeal noncompete clauses - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/how-texas-can-become-the-next-silicon-valley They're completely delusional. Everybody who moves to Texas or Florida has to deal with the effects of reactionary Texas and Florida politicians who are dead set against Silicon Valley without even knowing it. Many years ago a technologist observed that in Silicon Valley, people were loyal to a technology rather than a company. Startups come and go; most go bankrupt, some are bought out by a big company, some become big companies. The founders vest in peace until they've gotten all their stock and then leave for the next startup, unencumbered by noncompete clauses. Silicon Valley is the place to come help develop revolutionary world-changing technology that, when it works, turns big successful companies into obsolete dinosaurs. So big successful companies are no long as interested in dynamic world change as in static defense against dynamic world change threatening their business models. What's a welcoming environment for obsolete dinosaurs? How about a political environment based on minority rule to PREVENT radical political or economic change that threatens the ruling class? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html That sounds good! Especially coupled with low income tax. So it's no surprise that large companies like HP and Oracle want to relocate at least their headquarters to Austin. Oddly enough, though, those minority-rule states also tend to correlate with low tolerance for diversity, unlike California. So it's no surprise that HP and Oracle have to leave the bulk of their engineering activity in Silicon Valley where a diverse workforce is culturally comfortable despite the cost of living. What pandemic? What depression? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/18/bay-area-home-prices-near-record-1-million-amid-covid-crisis/ Conservative old money doesn't like risky investments, either. Business failure is often equated to moral failure. But in Silicon Valley it's understood that if you never fail it's because you never pushed the envelope far enough to have a chance of world-changing success. A startup failure can be a learning experience for at least some of the people involved. If an entrepreneur has a credible story of learning from his failures, he might get another shot. And the traffic is pretty bad in Miami and Austin, too. And the weather. Some people don't mind that. But transplanting an entire culture is a much bigger project than repealing a couple of laws. #PS1technology ===== impact 199 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2021-01-18 ratio 9 react 5 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 title Pipe dreams of importing Silicon Valley! topic other wordrate 0 words 398 engaged 4 ID 1338028966541619 impress 49 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 3 likeuusers 37 oimpress 49 oreach 47 posted "01/18/2021 11:24:14 AM" reach 47 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1338028966541619 ========== Will minority rule finally die of covid? The virus led to lockdowns and then to zoom and then the realization that many jobs can be performed remotely from anywhere - at great savings to employers for expensive commercial office space and for competitive salaries in high-cost-of-living urban hubs. Great news for economically depressed red states, right? WRONG! New people don't just bring new money, they bring new ideas too. And both the new money and new ideas threaten established power structures. The one thing minority rule can't tolerate is change and diversity of thought and action. Even 40 years ago the bumper stickers told the story - "Don't Californicate Oregon!" and "Don't Oregonize Idaho!" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/georgia-senate-democrats-south.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-political-power.html The migrants get lower taxes and cheaper bigger houses and more conservative politics but they do have to put up with the restless natives who resent change and higher taxes and more expensive housing and less conservative politics. How will it all play out? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-01-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Will minority rule finally die of covid? topic other wordrate 0 words 160 ID 1333405510337298 impress 18 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 oimpress 18 oreach 16 posted "01/11/2021 07:13:40 AM" reach 16 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1333405510337298