Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
Warning: You are about to enter the Twilight Zone.
Imagine, if you will, that you live in a state where a governor wields extraordinary power over its residents. Imagine, if you will, that your governor has the legal
authority to appoint an “Emergency Manager” to oversee the local government in the town where you reside. Imagine that the monetary compensation for the Emergency Manager of your community has no cap. Imagine that your Emergency Manager declares that there’s a financial emergency in your town and then takes over control of it. Imagine that the Emergency Manager can break contracts, seize and sell assets, eliminate services—and can also fire duly elected public officials who serve your community. Imagine, if you will, that the Emergency Manager empowered by your governor to run your town has the right to dissolve your school district and to disincorporate your town. AND imagine that you and your fellow residents have no say about what is going on! Just imagine how you might feel if you lived in a state where that kind of thing was going on. Well, the people who live in Michigan may not have to imagine much longer.
Who, you might ask, will be responsible for transforming the state of Michigan into a Rod Serlingesque otherworldly undemocratic Twilight Zone right here in the United States? Why, Governor Rick Snyder and his bold band of Republican state legislators–that’s who. In January, Governor Snyder called for “Emergency Manager” legislation—and the Republican state legislators were more than happy to comply with his request.
This all seems hard to believe, doesn’t it? I’m not making it up. Karen Bouffard of The Detroit News reported the following: Legislation that would allow emergency financial managers to throw out union contracts and overrule elected officials in financially distressed municipalities and school districts was approved Wednesday by the state Senate. Similar legislation passed in the House in February, and the two chambers are working on a final version to send to Gov. Rick Snyder.
In an article published in The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer wrote:
Under the law whole cities or school districts could be eliminated without any public participation or oversight, and amendments designed to provide minimal safeguards and public involvement were voted down.
An amendment to require Emergency Managers to hold monthly public meetings to let people know how they are governing was rejected by Senate Republicans, along with proposals to cap Emergency Manager compensation and require that those appointed to run school districts have some background in education.
Critics say that Republicans are manipulating concerns about budget problems in order to consolidate power by undermining unions.
According to E. D. Kain: Snyder’s law gives the state government the power not only to break up unions, but to dissolve entire local governments and place appointed “Emergency Managers” in their stead. But that’s not all – whole cities could be eliminated if Emergency Managers and the governor choose to do so. And Snyder can fire elected officials unilaterally, without any input from voters. It doesn’t get much more anti-Democratic than that.
Mark Gaffney, Michigan State President of the AFL-CIO said: This is a takeover by the right wing and it’s an assault on democracy like I’ve never seen.
Do you agree with Mark Gaffney? Do you think what’s going on in Michigan is an assault on democracy?
SOURCES
Rachel Maddow Exposes Michigan Republicans Secret War On Democracy (Politicus USA)
Michigan Governor Plays Fast and Loose with Democracy, Invokes Radical New Powers (Forbes)
Michigan Republicans Use Budget Crisis to make Outrageous Assault on Democracy (AFL-CIO)
Michigan Senate passes emergency manager bills (Daily Tribune)
Emergency managers bill sweeps toward final approval (The Michigan Messenger)
Conyers: Emergency Manager bill ‘raises serious constitutional concerns’ (The Michigan Messenger)
Financial manager bill passes Michigan Senate (The Detroit News)
Michigan bill would impose “financial martial law” (CBS News)
OS,
You don’t want any part of that kind of action!
AY,
My first law school exam made me so nervous that I ate an entire bag of M & M’s just while I read the directions!
AY, several years ago I made an offhand comment to my wife that I would like to go back to school and get a law degree.
Her response to me was that if I went back to school, I would NEED a lawyer.
Hey, who are all of these sock puppets….. right term I hope?
raff,
I still have nightmares about High School….and the First year Law School Exam….
OS,
I still have nightmares about high school geometry!
Raff, I love this stuff. Brian wants to talk about physics and stuff like that, he find the truth of the old adage, ‘be careful what you wish for, you might get it.’
Every October for the past forty years I have waited with bated breath when the Nobel awards are announced to see if my best friend from high school has won. IMHO, he deserves it for his pioneering work in very dense matter. When we were kids, it is a damn wonder we did not blow something up or get electrocuted.
I have another friend, a beautiful woman no less, who is one of the few people on the planet who knows how to fire up this monster and get useful data from it. And she could do it before her thirtieth birthday.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sugexp=elsfph&xhr=t&q=tevatron&cp=4&qe=dGV2YXQ&qesig=LSsCJKpJEce62J57CqrtJw&pkc=AFgZ2tm83NgXkJAAW7A9RHIjL9XceGJJwpuVk3m7EqsWctkgLiPG_REHqLj8IP01Tww3puXXBgxE_2bWChRPfFuKPcVd68vVVQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=960&bih=427
My first job after graduating from college was design work on this cute toy (link below). I was once on cross examination in a capital murder trial. I made a comment about one of my findings and added that the method was not rocket science. The lawyer’s next question was asked in a sarcastic tone, “And you are not a rocket scientist, either, are you?”
You know the old adage about not asking a question to which you do not know the answer…..
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Titan/Titan_II_missile_complex.htm
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Tasty.
Tasty.
Pi.
OS,
Please, no more math. My head is going to explode!
Bob, that makes a lot more sense than Brian’s posts. That is a value we can verify, is reproducible, is based on a mathematical law and is a constant. Ergo, it makes sense.
Personally, I am intrigued by the Fine Structure Constant which has a value of 137. That is an approximation, since the exact value is 137.035999084(51) more or less according to Richard Feynman’s calculation. The value is thought to vary depending on how far from the observer an event is. The damn thing won’t hold still. In that respect it resembles the “logic” propounded by our trolls.
AY,
Don’t confuse us with the facts!
Bob,
That would have taken me a day to type those numbers in.
Speaking of Brian,
Who wants Pi?
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Makes more sense than his posts…
Maury,
What the hell kind of trip have you been taking……Employees don’t pay UE…..The cost is employer borne the same as WC…..Get your facts straight.
However, you have no social conscience in the least. I hope you never get hurt on the job, get laid off or have a medical illness that prevents you from having an income……When you are ready to retire…How much money do you have saved…..I wanna know…..
OS,
Underwhelmed is an understatement.
And I’m still not sure what an indefensible postulate has to do with the composition of the universe.
_____
Brian,
SHORT ANSWER: There is a difference between committing fraud and being a fraud. No one has ever said you committed fraud (a violation of WI licensing requirement). But you have been called a fraud. Which you are by definition.
LONG ANSWER: As to filing fraud complaints? Why would I bother? It’s funny that you mention fraud again. Do you even know what the word means? In either a legal context or as a general noun? I don’t think you do.
What you are engaging in here is not engineering, Brian, ergo not within the purview of the State of Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing. Being a fraud and committing the crime of fraud are two distinct and different things. As far as I know, you have not committed fraud. You are, however, a fraud.
fraud \ˈfrȯd\, n.,
1a : deceit, trickery; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b : an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : trick
2a : a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : impostor; also : one who defrauds : cheat b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be
The crime of fraud is found in definition 1a – deceit, trickery; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right. There is a deceit component to the crime coupled with an intent to do legal harm for personal legal advantage and/or financial gain. While you are repeatedly deceitful (making up meanings to technical terms, “creative” history, etc.), you have not sought to gain profit or advantage from your deceit – only propagate ideas that are manifestly antisocial and anti-civilization. If you were guilty of committing criminal fraud? I would have the state on you like white on rice. And not just the licensing board either. Guys with handcuffs would show up.
What you are – a fraud – is found in all of definition 2, namely “a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : impostor; also . . . b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be”. You pretend to be a legal expert based on your engineering certification. You are manifestly and demonstrably not a legal expert.
This has been proven time and again just as it has been proven that being an engineer in no way qualifies you as an expert on laws and legal systems. You are, to a word, a fraud when you espouse that your background qualifies you to make technical judgments about and evaluations of the law and its functions and roles in society. You can opine all you like. The 1st Amendment guarantees that you can have and express an opinion about anything. However, that doesn’t make your opinion valuable or correct. Your credentials and background are inappropriate so that in putting yourself forth as capable of making technical judgments about and evaluations of the law and its functions and roles in society, you are a fraud. Your opinion about law carries no more weight than any other layman’s opinion and it is most certainly not expert. How do I know this? Because I’m a doctor too. A Juris Doctorate hangs on the wall of my office. I actually am an expert in law and legal systems. That thing you seem to think you are when you are not.
You are no more qualified to technically address the legal system with the authority of an expert than I am qualified to design a high rise office complex or a generator But then again, I never claimed to be an engineer or an expert in engineering.
You, on the other hand, have – repeatedly and ad nauseum – claimed that your background in engineering makes you an expert on law and legal systems. That makes you . . . a fraud – a person who is not what he or she pretends to be. While I am not qualified to design a building or a generator, I am qualified to make technical judgments about and evaluations of the law and its functions and roles in society. Including those claims about the law made by engineers playing at being pretend legal experts.
And when you claim all that bullshit you have claimed about the adversarial process – from it being the root of all child abuse to it promoting tyranny – you are both a fraud (a person who is not what he or she pretends to be) and demonstrating that you don’t know what you are talking about. What arguments you have made in defense of your faulty postulate have been easily and repeatedly dismantled.
A person who tries to pretend that he is an expert in a field when they are not in a room with actual experts in said field is both a fraud and a fool. Again, being a fraud (and a fool) isn’t against the licensing requirements for engineers in the state of Wisconsin. Committing fraud would be another issue. Like I said, if I had evidence of you committing the crime of fraud, you’d be getting a visit from the cops and your engineering license would be the least of your concerns. However, you have not committed the crime of fraud even though you are a fraud in the non-legal sense of the word when you pretend to be qualified to make technical judgments about and evaluations of the law and its functions and roles in society.
Ergo, no complaint has been or will be filed with the State of Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing regarding the nonsense you try to propagate here.
Stamford Liberal:
““Maury, I am puzzled. Which is smaller, your knowledge of economics or your compassion? Both are obviously microscopic in size and scope.”
Lol – I could add to that but … I wouldn’t want to bruise Maury’s fragile ego …
Oh, what the hell – when a girl tells you size doesn’t matter, she’s lying.”
Considering I have never been told that, how should I take it?
Ps My ego isn’t very fragile, but apparently yours is to have to resort to a ridiculous comment like that. You need to start hanging around with a better caliber of man. I imagine the ones you hang out with have small brains so you can feel good about your “intellectual” superiority. I pity the fool that would share your bed.
Tony C:
a union guy on strike should not be entitled to food stamps, if they are striking for their own benefit then let them pay for it. Why should others be the ones subsidizing their negotiations which will result in a benefit to them. I would not benefit so why should I pay?
Talking about fairness, it doesn’t seem very fair to me.
If the company is as bad as you say, they should go look for another job. See how that works, in a good economy it would be possible but socialism doesn’t create good economies. Most are on the ropes and are going to need to be bailed out.
@Maury: Actually it seems typical of you to assume the only thing in a book is the obvious; Baumeister has an insightful thesis, which only a fool would assume I have summarized in a sentence.
Your problem is that what you think are freeloaders aren’t freeloaders at all. Speaking for myself, I don’t like freeloaders either; I would fine them, jail them, force them to work and garnish their pay for 200% of whatever they lied to get. The only people I am ready to help are the people that really need help; and the reason isn’t to feel good about myself.
The reason is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Sometimes assistance means the difference in somebody’s life between a minor blip and a full scale financial collapse, which then makes them an even bigger tax burden. Somebody that was required to pay for unemployment insurance in the form of taxes has a right to make a claim on that insurance which may save their home, their health, their marriage, their car, and their kid’s educations. That bit of help we collectively provide can keep them from losing all of that, becoming homeless, turning their kids into wards of the state, or making them so desperate they commit crimes.
I don’t like freeloaders any more than you do, but my definition of a freeloader is not somebody collecting an insurance benefit to which they are entitled, and especially not being denied that entitlement because some politician doesn’t like them exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and assembly and refusing to work for a tyrant trying to blackmail them.
The discussion isn’t about freeloaders, it is about people that need help. If you resent paying the people that need help after they paid for the insurance guaranteeing that help, then YOU are the taker that gives nothing back.
OS,
“Maury, I am puzzled. Which is smaller, your knowledge of economics or your compassion? Both are obviously microscopic in size and scope.”
Lol – I could add to that but … I wouldn’t want to bruise Maury’s fragile ego …
Oh, what the hell – when a girl tells you size doesn’t matter, she’s lying …
OMG. Brian had dinner with a lawyer and a physician more than forty years ago and THAT is the basis of his knowledge? I am underwhelmed.
BTW, I have a shelf with some books on it too. Actually several shelves. I suppose I must confess that I ran out of shelf space in our library and had to move the overage into a rented storage shed. I could list them I suppose, but listing book titles is irrelevant in a blog.
Maury, I am puzzled. Which is smaller, your knowledge of economics or your compassion? Both are obviously microscopic in size and scope.
Buddha Is Laughing 1, March 24, 2011 at 11:47 am
Brian,
You’re the one claiming to have a paradigm shift in understanding the universe on par with Einstein or Galileo. Neither me nor OS have laid claim to perfect knowledge let alone the hubris you’ve displayed, so you can put a sock in that nonsense.
However, to answer your question, the universe is composed of baryonic matter that coalesced from the high energy state initially found at the big bang. Matter is simply slow moving energy but because of this phase change, it has different physical properties than pure energy. The universe is made of up in toto of energy that we discretely divide into the subgroups called matter and energy because of the different ways they interact within the environment as confined by the boundary of this m-brane of the multiverse.
Also, you’ve been sufficiently warned that appeals to religion are not valid science nor valid law, so in this instance, I really don’t give a damn what Jesus says.
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My Carleton College Professor of Religion and Physics, Ian G. Barbour is qualified in both religion and science, and has written many books which are of the relationship of science and religion. He gave the Gifford Lectures and was awarded the Templeton Prize in the 1990s and is now Emeritus at Carleton. For brevity, I shall list title and date for the titles I have immediately at hand:
Christianity and the Scientist, 1960
Issues in Science and Religion, 1966
Science and Religion, Ian G. Barbour, ed., 1968
Science and Secularity, 1970
Myths, Models, and Paradigms, 1974
Technology, Environment, and Human Values, 1980
Religion in an Age of Science, Gifford Lectures Vol. 1, 1990
Ethics in an Age of Technology, Gifford Lectures Vol. 2, 1993
When Science Meets Religion, 2000
Nature, Human Nature, and God, 2002
As for phyiscs and biology, there is the book by National Medal of Science recipient, Walter M. Elsasser, “The Physical Foundation of Biology,” 1958
I went to a college in which the world view was far more inclusive of the whole of existence than I guess you can imagine to be possible. Your (apparently much lesser?) education shall not limit my life as I am beginning to guess it limits yours.
In a subsequent comment posting, I will again repeat the essence of my research. I have put here multiple times already.
However, let me again include Article I, Section 18, of the Wisconsin Constitution, because it is this article of the Wisconsin Constitution which I find the present form of the Adversarial System violates.
Freedom of worship; liberty of conscience; state religion; public funds. Section 18. [As amended Nov. 1982] The right of every person to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed; nor shall any person be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, without consent; nor shall any control of, or interference with, the rights of conscience be permitted, or any preference be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship; nor shall any money be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of religious societies, or religious or theological seminaries. [1979 J.R. 36, 1981 J.R. 29, vote Nov. 1982]
It is a dictate of my conscience and thus something that shall never be infringed, that the belief that mistakes have been made which could have been avoided such that punishment for failure to have avoided making such mistakes is proper is a purely religious belief of the form of a neurologcial-biophysical religious delusion; such that my being subject to being punished for making a mistake which, by law, but not in fact, I should have avoided is an infringement of the dictates of my conscience and an impermissible interference with the rights of my conscience.
Given that the Adversarial System claims that people make mistakes they could and should have avoided, and that constitutes interference with of my rights of conscience and an infringement of my right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of my conscience, I set out to determine whether my conscience is in error or whether those who believe in the Adversarial System are in error; it having become vividly clear to me that my right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of my conscience is prohibited by the Adversarial System because the Adversarial System is, to me, “The Evil One.”
Therefore, to test whether my conscience is in error or whether the Adversarial System is in error, I set out to learn whether any person could refute the truthfulness of the dictates of my conscience, such refutation being the truthful demonstration of a mistake actually made and along with a truthful demonstration of the mistake actually already made being avoidable through any truthfully achievable process. While many folks who believe in the Adversarial System protest my work, not one person has given even one instance of a demonstration which would refute the dictates of my conscience.
How have I tested the validity of the dictates of my conscience? Through talking with something approaching 4000 people over my lifetime and asking three questions with follow up questions according to how the three initial questions have been answered.
This process is amply described in my doctoral dissertation, which is available on the Internet and at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
My thesis and dissertation were put through rigorous examination by my thesis committee, and no committee member found any error or consequence in the research methodology or research findings. My work has been properly peer-reviewed at a level and in detail far beyond what is usual for a scientific paper or typical doctoral thesis and dissertation which are of “normal science” in the sense of being simple extensions of settled work.
It is the theory of my work that a mistake about the nature of mistakes was present long before the beginning of human pre-recorded history, such that this mistake about the nature of mistakes has pervaded the whole of recorded human history and far before human history began to be recorded. It is because this mistake about the nature of mistakes preceded the whole of recorded human history that no one finds any civilization which has not contained this mistake about the nature of mistakes.
Those who as-though find fault with my work because it does not conform to the traditions of human society which are based upon the pre-recorded-human-history error which my thesis, dissertation and other work identifies and describes can not understand my work because said traditions exclude my work by mistake. It is necessary to set aside the mistake which excludes my work before my work can become intelligible.
While I can easily demonstrate my work and its validity to anyone not exceptionally addicted to the fundamental error of social reality as described in my dissertation, those who are profoundly so addicted tend to become exceptionally hostile to my work as an aspect of their addiction. Indeed, it is my consistent observation that the degree of hostility to my work and its findings is a fairly decent measure of addiction to time-corrupted-learning-brain-trauma as described in the work of Dr. Robert Scaer, Dr. Lance Dodes, and many other scientists who have studied the relationship between trauma and addiction.
When I began posting comments on the Turley blawg, it was my intention to describe my work in order to find a few people who might be willing to seriously evaluate its merits or lack thereof. What happened instead, which I did not expect to happen as it did, was a few people becoming so upset regarding my work and its findings as to label me “fraudulent” or things roughly equivalent to fraudulent. Alas, my being licensed as a Wisconsin Registered Professional Engineer means that my work cannot be fraudulent for me to keep my license, for fraud is a form of deception and the National Society of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics prohibits the use of deception in professional engineering.
I find it profoundly peculiar that people will state that my work is fraudulent yet will not file proper complaints with the Wieconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing. I herewith state, without equivocation, that my work is free of deception.
I began with a simple idea, one that is simple to test. If mistakes are made which could have been avoided, it would be simple to demonstrate examples which would be impossible to truthfully refute. Alas, no such simple examples have ever been brought to my attention.
The reason no examples of demonstrations of mistakes made which could have been avoided have been brought to my attention is, as best I can yet discern, that the belief that such mistakes can exist is a delusion, albeit a disastrously addictive delusion.
I have mentioned before that an early basis of my inquiring into the nature of mistakes with regard to Law and Justice came from many dinnertime conversations with Sidney M. Perlstadt, Esq., and Bessie Lendrum, M.D., during the years 1965-1969.