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========== There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - recognizing the devil's work, and turning away from it before becoming permanently tarred with sin. Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-jan-6-perjury/ As for Passantino and the others who embraced the devil's tar baby of their own free will - and might be pleading the devil made me do it - For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Even Fox stars can repent from fear of perjury - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-trump-election.html == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1other ===== comments 9 impact 20935 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-12-24 ratio 3 react 1886 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1872 title There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - topic other wordrate 0 words 111 audclicks 1872 commentsimpress 9 epoch Lifetime ID 1836181176726393 impress 8229 matchedlinkclicks 476 matchedotherclicks 1396 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/24/2022 05:12" rcs 44 reach 5944 reactions 30 sharesimpress 5 title "Opinion | For Cassidy Hutchinson, ‘I don’t remember’ wasn’t good enough" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1836181176726393 ========== The pandemic was the icing on the cake. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/20/doomsday-scenario-for-sinking-bay-area-transit-no-weekend-bart-bus-lines-cancelled-or-a-taxpayer-bailout/ But the main mass transit issue has been around forever - it can, or could, break even during the morning and evening rush. But mid-day, owl, and weekend service has to be subsidized by taxpayers to break even. Young, poor, and elderly rely on subsidized mid-day service to get around. Like everybody else, transit workers don't want split shifts, so they end up working mid-day at a loss. It's the same problem as the restaurant business - not enough profitable to do mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Everybody who drives to work during rush hour benefits from mass transit, to the extent that it takes vehicles off the road. But nobody wants to pay for that benefit. #PS1other ===== comments 35 impact 27826 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-11-20 ratio 3 react 2244 reactrate 0 shares 11 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2198 title The pandemic was the icing on the cake. topic other wordrate 0 words 124 audclicks 2198 commentsimpress 35 epoch Lifetime ID 1808330879511423 impress 8874 matchedlinkclicks 1039 matchedotherclicks 1159 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/20/2022 08:11" rcs 86 reach 6795 reactions 40 sharesimpress 11 title "Doomsday scenario for sinking Bay Area transit: No weekend BART, bus lines cancelled or a taxpayer bailout." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808330879511423 ========== How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, religion, and politics - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-17 ratio 13 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, topic other wordrate 0 words 12 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1806208273057017 impress 16 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/17/2022 16:11" reach 13 title "Louis Lomax - The Negro Revolt Revisited" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1806208273057017 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for America https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ As taught in 1957 - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html As taught in 1965 - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1other https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ ===== comments 17 impact 1578 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-17 ratio 5 react 686 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 668 title 1619 - an eventful year for America topic other wordrate 0 words 23 audclicks 668 commentsimpress 17 epoch Lifetime ID 1806011953076649 impress 6456 matchedlinkclicks 291 matchedotherclicks 377 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/17/2022 09:11" rcs 38 reach 4112 reactions 20 sharesimpress 1 title "1619 - an Eventful Year for America" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1806011953076649 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html #PS1other ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-17 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia topic other wordrate 0 words 8 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1806011276410050 impress 13 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/17/2022 09:11" reach 9 title "1619 - an Eventful Year for Virginia" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1806011276410050 ========== America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well as institutions to uphold their Enlightenment ideals - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea” - Madison https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/paul-pelosi-youngkin-lake.html Even hypocritical display of virtuous forms preserves the possibility of return to actual virtue - unlike the brute display of naked self- and tribal interest. == More on political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1other ===== impact 3780 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-08 ratio 2 react 525 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 521 title America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well as topic other wordrate 0 words 72 audclicks 521 epoch Lifetime ID 1798899567121221 impress 2625 matchedlinkclicks 229 matchedotherclicks 292 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/08/2022 12:11" rcs 11 reach 1305 reactions 7 sharesimpress 4 title "Opinion | This Is What Happens When Republicans Tear Off Their Masks" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798899567121221 ========== Time to get rid of the twice-yearly clock change. It's bad for health. But which time zone to adopt year-round? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/daylight-saving-end-standard-time-permanent/ Perhaps that's best left up to states. As it is, daylight time only works in temperate zones; near the equator the seasons don't change enough to bother; near the poles, a one-hour shift isn't nearly enough. So Alaska and Hawaii have never bothered. East-west travelers still have to contend with time zones and clock changes. Would using universal time throughout the country help? Astronomers, pilots, and meteorologists - everybody who has to deal with the actual round world - are used to that. It would mean that in North America, the date would changed in the late afternoon or evening. The standard business hours would be 1400-2200 on the east coast and 1700-0100 on the west coast. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-02 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Time to get rid of the twice-yearly clock change. It's topic other wordrate 0 words 138 epoch Lifetime ID 1794344507576727 impress 19 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/02/2022 14:11" reach 17 title "Opinion | Let’s say a permanent goodnight to daylight saving time" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1794344507576727 ========== 57 years ago, you could have learned about 1619 - the history the beneficiaries of minority rule don't want their voters to know about. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Hardly a word needs to be changed today. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== comments 38 impact 7791 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-10-25 ratio 3 react 2361 reactrate 0 shares 74 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2249 title 57 years ago, you could have learned about 1619 - the topic other wordrate 0 words 33 audclicks 2249 commentsimpress 38 epoch Lifetime ID 1788220711522440 impress 13479 matchedlinkclicks 601 matchedotherclicks 1648 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/25/2022 21:10" rcs 270 reach 8834 reactions 158 sharesimpress 74 title "Louis Lomax - The Negro Revolt Revisited" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788220711522440 ========== Essence and accident - ideological fossilization in ancient traditions. When studying the reflection of the Enlightenment in Freemasonry - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html and the modern decline of fraternal orders - it becomes apparent that a recurring theme is tension between the essence of a tradition and the historical accidents of its creation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_ritual_and_symbolism Likewise the current ferment in the Roman Catholic Church reflects a similar tension - https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-religion-99c56be791c4c2f20694e66d01c6d50e And in India, as in America, it's the same tension - is America, or India, defined by a universal idea and ideal? Or defined by accidents of birth and creed? https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-holidays-nationalism-d851b8fcabb9eb0f3946275fdf596322 Most - but not all - of America's founders had very definite ideas about that - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html Most ancient traditions embody a kernel of eternal truth, and a husk of historical accident. The more intellectually-minded participants might respond to the eternal truth; those more inclined to the familiarity of habit might respond to the historical accidents and consider them to be the eternal truth. As one gets older, it's harder to let go of the convictions that sustained one so far, no matter the cost to the tradition as newer generations abandon it. We see the same dynamic in American politics - the contrast between those for whom America IS the Enlightenment ideals of its founders, and those clinging to historical accidents as sacred writ - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Ruling classes and self-serving opportunists in politics have exploited these tensions to confuse the masses - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses for political and economic gain - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == More on political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1other ===== comments 6 impact 13194 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-10-20 ratio 6 react 532 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 526 title Essence and accident - ideological fossilization in topic other wordrate 0 words 248 audclicks 526 commentsimpress 6 epoch Lifetime ID 1783912065286638 impress 4397 matchedlinkclicks 147 matchedotherclicks 379 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/20/2022 19:10" rcs 19 reach 3566 reactions 13 title "Pope extends reform process for year amid apathy, criticism" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783912065286638 ========== Security is a way of life - and 60 years ago, at least, armed Army officers in uniform carried handcuffed secret briefing materials on commercial flights to NATO meetings in Europe. Made toilet breaks awkward. https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-congress-government-and-politics-6916af6f47be5ddbe0f30f428736daaf It's a way of life diametrically opposed to the way most politicians think and operate, and even more so to the ways of reality-TV stars. #PS1other ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-09-10 ratio 17 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Security is a way of life - and 60 years ago, at least, topic other wordrate 0 words 61 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1750610318616813 impress 20 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "09/10/2022 23:09" reach 17 title "Not Mar-a-Lago: Congress' secrets in sealed rooms, lock bags" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1750610318616813 ========== thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a century a new generation must be engendered https://www.bartleby.com/157/3.html But animals have the same needs. What distinguishes humans? death above all, make them slaves of reality Consciousness of death has led men to seek immortality of some kind - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/mass-shooters-motive.html Most women have the option of bearing children. It's no coincidence that mass killers of strangers are almost always men. Although most spiritual traditions emphasize humility and disregard for worldly success, the desire for immortality seems - immortal. Roman emperors announced that they were immortal gods - and then died like everybody else. How many can you name? What's worse than being dead? Being forgotten! And now we have our secular culture that embraces celebrity in all forms - from sports and entertainment stars to social media influencers to presidents. No wonder some of the losers in the fame and fortune game pick up guns to set things straight. It's not insanity. The insanity is the celebrity culture that breeds them. #PS1firearms ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-07-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a topic other wordrate 0 words 170 epoch Lifetime ID 1705818733095972 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "07/10/2022 19:07" reach 10 title "Opinion | Why Mass Shooters Do the Evil They Do" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705818733095972 ========== Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why the tax system rewards them - they are rich enough to afford major political donations. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happiness-big-data.html But they aren't that much happier than everybody else. The secret of happiness - Be with your love, on an 80-degree and sunny day, overlooking a beautiful body of water, having sex. It’s a lot easier than owning an auto dealership. #PS1other ===== impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-16 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why topic other wordrate 0 words 65 audclicks 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1666062947071551 impress 12 matchedlinkclicks 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/16/2022 19:05" reach 11 title "Opinion | The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1666062947071551 ========== The things you can learn by going to church on Mother's Day - On this day when thousands of mothers in Ukraine and Russia mourn their murdered children, let us remember the original idea of Mother's Day - We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation Julia Ward Howe also wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-08 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The things you can learn by going to church on Mother's topic other wordrate 0 words 74 epoch Lifetime ID 1659824257695420 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/08/2022 11:05" reach 10 title "Mother's Day Proclamation - Wikipedia" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1659824257695420 ========== Malt does more than Milton can do justify God's ways to man https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/a_e_housman_160974 The Englishman described me as being expelled from Heaven by cannons and gunpowder; and to this day every Briton believes that the whole of his silly story is in the Bible. What else he says I do not know; for it is all in a long poem which neither I nor anyone else ever succeeded in wading through. https://www.bartleby.com/157/3.html Paradise Lost has political overtones as well as theological and artistic; all of us who never read it seem to be missing a pillar of English literature. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-you-should-re-read-paradise-lost #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Malt does more than Milton can do justify God's ways to man topic other wordrate 0 words 98 epoch Lifetime ID 1658499014494611 impress 18 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/06/2022 17:05" reach 16 title "Why You Should Re-Read Paradise Lost" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1658499014494611 ========== Was the best preparation for a career in Silicon Valley a BS in physics and then an MBA? Rickover thought there wasn't much need for generalized management training. https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm>https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm How many liberal arts ought to figure in an MBA? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/business-schools-capitalism-mba.html Certainly a law degree - even from Yale or Harvard - doesn't seem to be enough preparation for a career in politics. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-05-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Was the best preparation for a career in Silicon Valley topic other wordrate 0 words 61 epoch Lifetime ID 1657691487908697 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "05/05/2022 17:05" reach 10 title "Opinion | This Is Not Your Grandfather’s M.B.A." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1657691487908697 ========== 1619 was a foundational year for America - https://political-scrapbook.net/1619/ because as taught in Virginia schools from 1957, the political, economic, and demographic foundations of Virginia's future wealth were established - https://political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html politicians, black slaves, and white women #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title 1619 was a foundational year for America - topic other wordrate 0 words 36 epoch Lifetime ID 1626254684385711 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/23/2022 00:03" reach 5 title "1619 - an Eventful Year for Virginia" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1626254684385711 ========== As with every form of prostitution, when church and state lie together, both are degraded. Trump is merely the embodiment of many of the raw wounds that already existed in parts of the white evangelical world: misogyny, racism, racial obliviousness, celebrity worship, resentment and the willingness to sacrifice principle for power. Power is the core problem here. First, the corruptions of personal power. Evangelicalism is a populist movement. It has no hierarchy or central authority, so you might think it would have avoided the abuses of power that have afflicted the Roman Catholic Church. But the paradox of decentralization is that it has often led to the concentration of power in the hands of highly charismatic men, who can attract enthusiastic followings. In 2020, roughly 40 percent of the people who called themselves evangelical attended church once a year or less, according to research by the political scientist Ryan Burge. It’s just a political label for them. There can probably be no evangelical renewal if the movement does not divorce itself from the lust for partisan political power. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/evangelicalism-division-renewal.html #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-04 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title As with every form of prostitution, when church and state topic other wordrate 0 words 179 epoch Lifetime ID 1594810370863476 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/04/2022 20:02" reach 9 title "Opinion | The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1594810370863476 ========== Excerpts from the official Virginia 7th-grade history book from 1957. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/01/racist-virginia-textbooks-history-youngkin/ That text is now a rare book with copies in a few university libraries. Whatever happened to the tens of thousands of copies printed? It inadvertently anticipated, by 62 years, the New York Times 1619 project https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560506264293887 by devoting quite a few pages to the events of the year 1619 - slavery, the first colonial legislature, the arrival of a large number of single women - which did indeed mark the founding of the Virginia Colony as an ongoing concern. #PS1other ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-02-04 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Excerpts from the official Virginia 7th-grade history book topic other wordrate 0 words 90 epoch Lifetime ID 1594720597539120 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "02/04/2022 17:02" reach 8 title "Opinion | Glenn Youngkin’s No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1594720597539120 ========== The red (and sometimes blue) wave of inexperienced school board members - many accepted campaign funds from national reactionary donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/19/parents-school-boards-recall-takeover/ They'll find that budgets, taxes, union negotiations, and compliance with state and federal law are hard work and most will burn out soon, leaving a mess for somebody else to clean up. #PS1other ===== impact 11 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2022-01-20 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title The red (and sometimes blue) wave of inexperienced school topic other wordrate 0 words 53 engaged 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1584718365206010 impress 13 likeimpress 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/20/2022 21:01" reach 10 sharesimpress 1 title "Parent-activists, seeking control over education, are taking over school boards" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1584718365206010