Hannah Blog

Prattling predator isn’t the verbiage I came up with the other night, but it is an apt characterization of some of our kind. Grand standing and showing off with a constant stream of verbiage serves to distract and deceive their intended victim.

Is intention different from cognition? Now there’s a question wherein might lie a clue. “Sapiens” implies consciousness and self-awareness. Cognition. Intention does not require thought, only purpose. And purpose may consist of nothing more sophisticated than accumulation and repetition or repetitive accumulation. Intent can simply be hormonal.

That’s why a Rep from Virginia thinks the federal deficit has to be reduced and the people who have earned their retirement nest egg and health care have to foot the bill.

The MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) people have put together a new video to explain why the whole deficit kerfuffle is bunk. (They call it a myth, but that has a certain religious connotation and I’m more inclined to ascribe the lying as being an integral component of a con job).
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Senator Richard Durbin, one of the original members of the catfood commission, continues to natter about “reforming” Social Security pensions because there’s not enough money. The following are a couple of relevant comments:
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Lying seems to be an indispensible component of the law enforcement tool kit, made necessary by the mission to exact compliance, rather than merely respond to violations of the law. Compliance relies on coercion and coercion has to be adverse to even exist. It seems that getting paid is insufficient for our agents of law enforcement; the job has to be sweetened with the ability to resort to the use of force on a regular basis.
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Could have been here, but wasn’t.

It’s 45 minutes well spent in the English countryside where chestnut seems to grow like bamboo.
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This was put together by Craig Hardegree for DailyKos and it’s too long and detailed to “steal” in its entirety. You should read the original.
I’ll provide a few sample paragraphs:
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It’s always disappointing when I’m called on to boycott an enterprise I never patronize.
There’s really no excuse for McDonald’s being intentionally cruel.
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An organization that calls itself the Heritage Foundation came up with the notion that individuals should be mandated to purchase insurance policies to cover expenses in case they get sick. Massachusetts bought into that notion while Willard Romney was Governor and, apparently, initiated a successful program. Then, when the Congress sought to extend a similar program to the whole nation, the previous proponents objected because regulating insurance companies, one of the major funnels of dollars to banks, is a states’ right. And states jealously guard their prerogatives, even though, for a number of resons, they are reluctant to state that interest forthrightly.
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I’ve noticed for some time that the brain (my brain) comes up with ideas on its own. Sometimes I can relate it to the apparently random arrangement of experiences played back in dreams. That is, the brain connects things that are logically related on some level, but haven’t been actually experienced. Sometimes it’s a matter of being awakened in the middle of the night and the brain then engaging in random musings until I get back to sleep.
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