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n universe is not the true universe it s not the full universe the known universe is what we can observe from the bloom of matter that came about after what we refer to as the big bang and whether the universe is still expanding or contracting the fact is that the true universe goes on infinitely past the diameter or the boundaries of the known universe and although we cannot observe it it is logical to assume that the universe is in fact truly infinite in space or size the second infinity is one of matter or mass which equates to infinite energy as i ve said the universe is truly infinite in space and since we ve observed such a great amount of matter in the known universe it s only logical to assume that in the true universe the truly infinite universe there is also an infinite amount of matter which equates to infinite energy the third infinity is one of complexity i argue that the universe is truly infinite in complexity of design of the rules governing the matter within an infinite space and the rules governing that space itself this is logical because from what we ve observed within the known universe we see an ever growing set of rules governing matter within space in the known universe but in the true universe the truly infinite universe there are also infinite rules governing the infinite matter within the infinite space and governing that space these three infinities combine to give the universe a truly god like nature because within this infinite space with infinite matter and infinite complexity of design there must be an infinite number of scientifically valid possibilities it s hard to say if anything can happen but it is true to say that an infinite number of things can occur this means that it is fair to say that anything might be possible in this truly infinite universe therefore it is logical to be optimistic about any goal or endeavor we have and solving any of our problems assuming that truly an infinite number of things are possible in the true universe therefore optimism is logical the end is not posted by philosopher chip at 10 48 am 0 comments october 18 2019 how many generations must be peaceful for one day of freedom in palestine posted by philosopher chip at 12 22 am 0 comments october 15 2019 opioid crisis democrat debate the opioid crisis happened because drug companies were able to charge 1000 times the price of production for these drugs and our broken health care system paid the price we need a federal pharmaceutical research division who create drugs with no patents just like nasa does for space research posted by philosopher chip at 10 02 pm 0 comments october 14 2019 idea to deal with the homeless crisis in trinidad colorado while we have the most pot shops per capita of anywhere in the world the same is true for the homeless population maybe we could let the homeless act as pirates along i 25 and we lord trinidad could collect the taxes aye posted by philosopher chip at 9 25 pm 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom contact chipshirley gmail com my philosophy of life seven rules for a perfect world http sevenrulesforaperfectworld blogspot com us tax tables over time from wikipedia perfect financial formula the tax rates on the wealthy from 1940 80 were double to triple today s rates no coincidence from 1940 80 we paid for wwii korean war vietnam war republican eisenhower built our entire interstate expressway system and we went to the moon manned 6 times all this while providing a much more generous safety net of social programs than we have today kennedy only lowered the upper rate a little but reagan decimated it and america has gone into debt and disrepair since then sad when will we learn economics 101 link to tax tables over time http en wikipedia org wiki income_tax_in_the_united_states 1930_ _1980 bank failure graph over time http www hbs edu research pdf 09 087 pdf 60 minutes on cause of crash http www cbsnews com stories 2010 03 12 60minutes main6292458 shtml tag contentmain 3bcbscarousel video in two parts 1 http www cbsnews com video watch id 6298082n tag contentmain 3bcontentbody 2 http www cbsnews com video watch id 6298084n tag contentmain 3bcontentbody great blog the people s view http www thepeoplesview net this is my personal philosophy free no ads http howtomakeheavenonearth blogspot com search this site popular posts world war iii truly is the drug war a cancer on the americas the fda food and drug administration must allow the ama american medical association to be in charge of the drug issue by gi obama did not change unemployed calculation pa bush and clinton did interesting that if you add the upwardly revised jobs from the previous two months to the april total then it equals the 168k that was pro clint eastwood senile bigot gop darling fool that really took the cake i had wondered what would happen if someone with theatrical experience embraced the racist hate speech of far rig laura ingraham promotes billboard death threat to president way to go laura keep up the right wing psycho tradition of thinly veiled death threats against president obama you are the scum of the ear how i learned of the assassination of jfk the nigger lover s dead those were the words that informed me of the assassination of president john f kennedy fifty year paul walker stop selling speed every time you see a car ad where they show the driver s foot press the pedal to the floor and the car moves in a blur as the driver peace with iran kind of a big effing deal look out history books here we come wow just as the historic health care act aca obamacare is starting to pan out and prove limbaugh obama gassed syrians limbaugh jumps the shark on syria supports assad for the past half hour on his radio show limbaugh has been making the case that it was t budget deal the tea party is over this budget deal is the beginning of the republican and tea party divorce the tea party is over just wait until the house votes for this press repeats iraq mistake with romney no vetting is he the real manchurian candidate is romney the real manchurian candidate this is a frightening situation the us press as a whole is not vetting mitt romney the same way obama did not change unemployed calculation pa bush and clinton did interesting that if you add the upwardly revised jobs from the previous two months to the april total then it equals the 168k that was projected but the real point to focus on today is the fake story from the far right which lies about how the unemployment is calculated they say obama changed it no it was changed in 1994 the definition of unemployed has changed rightwingers show me one link to one reliable source detailing when and how this happened you can t what neal boortz etc are referring to when they say today s rate would be higher under the old formula is something that occurred in 1994 under clinton and was started by the bush sr administration here is a link to an article in harper s by kevin phillips proving my point quote and link but in 1994 the bureau of labor statistics redefined the workforce to include only that small percentage of the discouraged who had been seeking work for less than a year the longer term discouraged some 4 million u s adults fell out of the main monthly tally some now call them the hidden unemployed harpers http harpers org archive 2008 05 0082023 a walk with mlk my proudest day one bright morning when i was a 12 year old boy living in sandy springs ga my mother june announced to my younger brother and sister and me that we weren t going to school that day she told us to dress nice and get in the car we only found out as we were leaving the house that we were going to march in martin luther king s funeral procession it was a short quiet drive i don t care for crowds and i was worried that this was going to be a long hard sermon to listen to but i knew we were doing the right thing we had mostly grown up in the poorer parts of various southern towns and we were used to both colors of people sharing the streets but this was an amazing feeling to be the only people of one color we saw in such a large crowd i wasn t surprised at how warm and comfortable it felt and i realized immediately what a good idea momma had to come there the entire walk and service seem like a beautiful if melancholy dream never had we felt such an outpouring of peace and goodwill through such sadness all of us have shared our memories over the years many times the whole event passed like a song but midway through my younger brother only 8 began fidgeting being so short he was staring at people s stomachs and bored then slowly and quietly without a word a tall strong man standing behind steve reached down and picked him up over his head and gently placed him on his shoulders so he could see steve was quietly mesmerized and still says it was the most amazing experience he ever had to be lifted up over the crowd and to watch the whole panorama from his private box it was a small piece of heaven on earth that the reverend brought to all of us there that day my mother and sister and brother and i all agree that was all of our proudest day not for anything we ve done to help with king s cause but what we did for ourselves by being there it changed us it was a religious experience when i see pictures of the good doctor and his statue on the mall he is very real to me he is still alive i m sure of it and i wouldn t be at all surprised if he came back one bright morning lower tax rates bring in more revenue not really it works every time it s been tried blares the conservative radio host of your choice but not so fast here s how that myth breaks down if an economy is growing at a very fast clip and increasing in size year after year that is one thing under that circumstance as was the case in 1965 when our upper rate was lowered from 91 to 70 then it is indeed possible to garner more tax revenue at a lower rate of taxation because you are in effect taking a smaller bite of a bigger pie but this is a temporary result and depends on the economy continuing to expand and since a prime factor in the continuing growth of any economy is that a nation stay up to date on modernization and maintenance of its infrastructure that means this formula for increasing revenue by lowering taxes must inevitably be reversed if a nations economy is to stay strong nothing is static in economics when will we learn during what years was the usa at our economic peak the tax rates on the wealthy from 1940 80 were no coincidence and don t say the rich didn t really pay them there s no way our economy grew so much and we did so much with such low debt without vastly more revenue from 1940 80 we paid for wwii korean war vietnam war republican eisenhower built our entire entire interstate expressways system and we went to the moon manned 6 times kennedy only lowered the upper rate a little but reagan decimated it and america has gone into debt and disrepair since then sad when will we learn http patrioticeconomics blogspot com the n word lover s dead jfk the nixxer lover s dead those were the words that informed me of the assassination of president john f kennedy fifty years ago the words weren t spoken by an individual they were sung by a small makeshift choir gathered around the driver of a school bus in greenville south carolina where i lived at the time i was eight years old and despite the rampant racism in the south i didn t hear the n word very often my white family didn t use it and in the all white segregated school i went to and community i lived in black folks were almost invisible and therefore not available to be abused by this hate speech this small bus load of white elementary school boys had been shuttled from school to the young men s christian association for pee wee football practice and we were on our way home when i heard the song i was sitting near the back of the bus and as it rumbled along i absentmindedly didn t notice that most of the other kids had gathered around the bus driver at the front in a tight bunch when the song started i couldn t make out the words but the dirge like chanting immediately made me feel as if i had crossed into some otherworldly nightmare and i was listening to the chanting of witches i thought this to myself just before the words became clear to me the nigger lover s dead the nigger lover s dead the nigger lover s dead over and over again it went on and on and sent a chill down my spine though i had no idea what they were singing about even when we got off the bus back at school and another kid my age smiled at me and gleefully repeated the phrase i still didn t know i walked home and when i entered the house and the living room i found my mother and our black babysitter mariah in a huddle of sobbing and wailing on the couch my mother june looked up at me with her tortured red tear soaked face and just shook her head and put it back down i walked through the hall to my bedroom and i still wasn t sure what had happened but i knew someone good had been killed and i remember thinking to myself that we weren t going to be happy anymore for a very long time years passed other tragedies happened and were grieved mlk bobby kennedy and in 1990 i moved to boston massachusetts one day as i walked down commonwealth avenue under the citgo sign i passed an elderly aframerican man walking the opposite way on the sidewalk as i nodded a car full of young white men drove passed us and shouted nigger in unison as i barked fuck you they retorted nigger lover and sped away i looked back at the gentleman and said i m sorry about that he just smiled a sad smile and said that s ok and kept on walking ironically that s the only time anyone ever called me that horrid phrase to my face not far from jfk s birthplace i don t think america is worse than other nations in terms of racism in some ways you can argue that the united states is the only place racially diverse enough to be considered a true test of a society s ability to peacefully integrate different races barack obama being elected president surely doesn t mean the end of racism in america but in my opinion and i think that of my mother june who passed on some years back i believe that it is the greatest moment in the history of our country i don t say this because i know president obama is our best president but he is a crown on the throne of america as a progressive nation and today while the pain of that early memory has been dulled by time and some modicum of progress i am freshly sickened by the latest right wing political posturing in which cynically and wickedly they are trying to invoke the name of john f kennedy as a conservative one of their ilk who would gladly abandon the democratic party in favor of republicans if he were only alive today the man whose name they spat on they now claim as their own because of his iconic popularity and youth appeal jfk they say lowered taxes and that makes him theirs ye...