TheWorx

In legitimizing Ted Cruz' run for the U.S. presidency, people talk about Romney (born in Mexico) and McCain (Panama Canal Zone) and Barry Goldwater (born in Arizona before it was a state). All lost their presidential bid and that is reason enough for any major party to eschew the candidacy of the foreign born but one must try to understand the intent of the founding fathers and that intent is as clear as a pledge of allegiance. If a candidate is born elsewhere (I, BTW, would have added "and must have had a primary residence in the U.S. for their first 35 years of life and lived there for 9 months out of every one of those 35 years," to Article II), there is a greater chance of bias towards the nation of birth. It is not absolute but you are led to wonder what Germany would have done without the moustachioed Austrian and what France would have done without the Corsican. [Germany has done well especially with such things as Apple Corporation seeing fit to give her the lion...

Any fanaticism drives me bonkers. So, in reaction to an article published in the Daily Kos entitled, " Dear Obama Hater - You Just Wasted A Decade Of Your Life," I would like to express my ire. The tile itself reveals the craziness of political affiliations: a "decade?" when it's been only 6 years that Obama has been in office speaks volumes. It'd like to remind everyone what it means to vote for someone--regardless of how their nostrils flare or their ears flap or their daughters behave in public or how their bank accounts bulge--and have that person throw your vote into the sludge of the Potomac River once he's sitting pretty.  I voted in '08 for an end to war. I voted for justice for the minority (here, I thought, community activist persona would continue). I voted for single payer. I voted for transparency. I'd like the Daily Kos to tell me how their man changed anything. Oh, he's not devoid of accolades--I, a Cuban-American, loves ...

This is Senator Menendez' response to me about his 'stand' on the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. My comments are in italics. By the way, I've learned never to respond to a politician's or bureaucrat's  response for they are like doctors--when the visit is over, it's over! Dear Mr. Jimenez :   Thank you for contacting me to express your support for H.R. 1232, the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act.  Your opinion is very important to me, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you on this critical issue. I understand your concerns regarding the transfer of military-grade weapons to our local and Federal law enforcement agencies.  The police must be an integral part of the communities they serve, and they must be a trusted and calming presence in every situation they encounter. [I see nothing calming about military style SWAT team] I believe that police must have access to the training, knowledge, and supervision necessary to use all polic...

This memo by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy proves how there is nothing noble that won't escape the clutches of corporate interests. The program sounds so beautiful as it speaks of the public getting access to published studies that were funded by government agencies. However, read it and weep, John Q. The memo makes several specifications that are clearly lobbied by scientific publishing houses that stand to lose millions--if not go bankrupt--as a result of these measures. Measures, I might add that came about as a result of their greed in charging an arm and a leg for access. First, there is to be a 12 month embargo on access (in other words, we can have access to year old publications). Secondly, drafts of scientific papers can not be accessed (this one I lobbied for and will continue to do so). These two could not have been written into the memo any better if they had come directly from the desk of the publishers of Nature or Science. Thi...

The solution to the inversions that many U.S. corporations are doing is to raise capital gains taxes for those who buy their stock. We know the CEO does everything in his power to keep up the stock price for he always stands to benefit from higher prices. We also know that investors like the lower capital gain taxes they now enjoy. When capital gains taxes go up (only for the inverting company), guess what corporations will see their stock prices go down because of the sell off. Will this impact the worker? Hardly. The volatility of the stock price has little short-term effect on day-to-day operations. When it comes time to offer more stock for expansion, the lower price means that they will bring in less but, so what, they'll just have to offer more stock. If there are no buyers, well they can try inverting themselves back to the homeland. But, my guess is that they'll be doing that sooner rather than later. This is a plan that says that the corporate deadbeat is free to ...

Normally, this would go under my blog "thoughts and ideas" but I've already posted there about this. Time to add some evidence. In the latest edition of Discover Magazine (April 2015), there is an image of Jupiter's South Pole. The photo provides what I think is very strong evidence for my contention that the Big Red Spot is not a "raging storm" active for centuries but, rather, a solid body floating on the surface. In the photo, you clearly see that on one side of the "spot" are smooth lines and on the opposite side are eddies of turbulence. In an Earth storm, any gaseous matter in its path gets taken up by the storm--there are no eddies left behind in its path. I don't have access to data to be able to say whether the spot is plowing through Jupiter's atmosphere (orbiting, if you will) or if it is relatively stationary and the atmosphere is sweeping past it. Also, I don't recall the moving images that well but if there are any spir...

So, Rahm Emanuel leaves the WH to become Chicago's mayor. Oddly, his old boss ran on the closing of Gitmo and here is Rahm "it down our throats" Emanuel setting up his own private little Gitmo in Chicago. What gives? I'll tell you what gives. Barack Obama was convinced by the MIC that a Gitmo of sorts was needed to contain protestors possibly on the pretense that terrorists might have infiltrated activist organizations in the U.S. But is this really believable because why would any terrorist join a social cause in the U.S. and how does that terrorist expect to gain by the association? It's all bull. The real target of such 'black sites' is the U.S. patriot. This bull started with HR347* that was modified to conform with present day scenarios. As a result of that bill protestors were no longer required to be brought before a Federal Court and the venue that would take over was something like a 'black site' to put the fear of God into the protestor...