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Inappropriate or not, here are some questions about America and its place in the world:

51. How many long-term bomb shelters have been built in other countries since 1950 and how many have been built in America?

52. Who would you have to say won the conflict in Somalia mad famous by the movie  Blackhawk Down if you use the standards of wanton destruction? 

53. Who would you have to say won the conflict in Somalia mad famous by the movie  Blackhawk Down if you use the standards of any civilized warfare as to holding the ground to the end and using it as a tool of policy?

54.What does it say that Somali pirates can back down America and all our allies when it comes to whether or not piracy will be practiced in that region?

55. What does it mean when so few Americans are executed for killing the innocent and we allow governments to call this civilization here and abroad?

56. What does it mean that Pakistan holds our immune diplomat at this moment?

57.What does it mean that the European Union has found a way to do what the Soviet Union never achieved which is have a government made up of recognized sovereign nations and pursue a policy in that model and nobody effectively readjusts policy in this country?

58. What does it mean that people still no more about the Warsaw Pact than the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

59. What does it mean that the US military bomb cities but cannot summarily execute pirates and terrorists?

60. What does it mean when there are so many crimes and legally forbidden acts that most people could never know them all and people always want more, does anyone doubt that if there is goodness then we are at war against goodness and for the evil powers that lurk in shadows outside law?

61. What does it mean to have gay marriage, abortion on demand, transgender surgery, abusive and enforced foster care that goes on for years and not have legal polygamy or concubinage?

62. What does it mean to have no willingness to invest government funds in promoting family farming communities and craftsmanship and apprentices because we are addicted to the cheap thrills people get from the new and trendy?

63. What  does it mean to be  the place where we call it reducing unemployment when we get people to stop trying to work?

64. What does it mean to make war on people who prepare any drugs for our market when we cannot abolish the market and do not offer any legal market or means to satisfy it, if this goes on for years?

65. What does it mean  allow people to scream and complain against the same inconveniences forever without really addressing the issues involved when we know they are  always being heard by people suffering as much or more around the world who bear pain quietly and hate us for polluting their mental environment?

66. What does it mean to have Presidents saying how grand the White House is and what a bubble it is when they represent our nation and many others live more grandly although often on less money to seriously represent their country?

67. What does it mean to have diplomats who believe at some level that slavery, summary execution, anthropophagy, torture, piracy and other systems are  almost unknown in the modern world?

68. What does it mean to have political establishment that has not really noticed that the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada,Guyana, India,  Jamaica,  Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho,Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives,  Malta, Mauritius,Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand,  Nigeria, Pakistan,  Papua New Guinea,  Rwanda,St. Kitts, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa,   Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania,Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu,  Uganda, Vanuatu and Zambia are all part of the British Commonwealth which is extremely well-organized and which has the capacity to act together often enough despite internal differences?

 69. What does it meant to have political establishment that does not choose to invest itself heavily in the Organization of American States, in Japan or in the Philippines and sees its role in Europe as always defining?  

70. What does it mean to see Eisenhower as the last general to be president when generals who became President were vital to our formation and political culture for so long and now we are dealing in halves of centuries and nobody seems concerned about what it indicates?

71. What does it mean that Barack Hussein Obama can be the image that more Americans wanted to represent this land than any other?

72. Aren’t we almost in collapse?

73. Aren’t we skidding about as badly out of control as we can get?

74. Isn’t this a constitutional crisis?

75. Aren’t we socially insane and in need of a cure?

Inappropriate or not here are some more questions about America and her place in the world:

27. Is it likely that a written Constitution created in 1789 and interpreted in all manner of obscure witching which has been used to obliterate civilian and tribal systems of law across a continent and has been stripped of much of it federal nature without structural reform in which people have been held inside in rivers of blood  — that such a Constitution is a unique beacon and fortress of freedom?

28. Is it really more moral to seize things from many people and persons and then share them profligately with whoever shows up than to take a more slow and discriminating approach that might be satisfied short of consuming everything?

29. Is it likely that the champion of future green technologies and its chief innovator is going to be  a country which has no means of public transportation across much of the country and celebrates as a national hero a woman who, however less than ideal her system was, helped bring down such a system over time?

30. Is it likely that electing a man who complains about the mistreatment of one of the most indulged groups of black people on the planet is likely to lead us to make our society more competitive in the world?

31. Is it likely that defending the rights of atheists and Muslims to hamper traditional local celebrations is a priority that will make our country stronger over time when official religions or near official religiosity is the norm in the world’s nations and the social cost of these absences is great?

32.Is it likely that, much as I do love College sports, having the universities spend more than they take in and ever more so on an ever larger scale on getting a bunch of black criminals to get more than their statistical share of all the glory, sex and honor at campuses across the nation is making our country greater?

33. Is it likely that having elections largely decided television advertising to disconnected mass markets is really the best form of democracy in the modern era?

34. Is it likely that bigger government versus smaller government is a debate a thinking society could carry out for so long and in such stridency? Is it not more likely that it is a simplistic thing that is left over when thinking has stopped?

35. Is it likely that the government spends almost all it money on entitlements because that is best for the country? Is it more likely that it is what a very bad government system has to do to stay in power?

36. Is it likely that America   has the technical momentum when it has fewer nukes, almost no new nuclear power plants, is scheduled to fly to the space station only with Russia, the Space Station is much closer, more boring and wasteful than the moon, it has almost no high-speed rail, it does not have the world’s highest buildings, its laws drove Bill Gates to an early retirement and it’s technical and engineering schools produce fewer citizen graduates than many of the world’s leading powers?

37. Is it likely we are free and just the police are filmed standing around preventing rescues on dozens of occasions while people are shot in crisis zones, where people are released for violent crimes while mandatory drug sentence  convictions fill our prisons, where sex traffic abounds in many places and is regulated almost nowhere and where millions live here without legal permission?

38. Is it likely that we are taken seriously at most negotiation when we  put all the executive and head of state functions into a single office and limit it to eight years while most powers will have at least one player at that big virtual table for decades?

39. Is it likely that Lincoln who presided over the slaughter of more Americans than anyone else in our history, made a Thanksgiving Day out of commemorating the slaughter at Gettysburg and  proclaimed the constitutional heresy of government by the People, of the People and for the People (instead of of the People, Union, States and Dependent Nations, by the People, States and Union and for the Common Welfare—  which was the constitution) if we did not love destroying our own heritage and society?

40. Do we believe that the British royalty would have so much resonance and movies like the King’s Speech would be so much admired, the special honor guard would wear red coats instead of Continental uniforms if our system were not a humiliation to most people still capable of being humiliated here?  

41. Would we be in a society where most Americans are more afraid of their own government having more power than of our countless mortal enemies having more power if we were leaders of the free world?

42. Can the meaning of free speech which allows fraud and misinformation to go completely unchallenged in huge numbers of cases for decades with almost no cost at all really make any country stronger?

43. Isn’t America a sick and troubled society squandering its vast resources and rushing to destruction almost as fast as it can get there?

44. Isn’t the election of Barack Hussein Obama proof that we are largely socially dead and probably have no meaningful future?        

45. Isn’t our debt crisis vastly worse than most because we don’t spend on building up, but like  a drug addict spends to relieve pain and tension?

46. Isn’t our infrastructure falling apart in many places?

47.Don’t we give so many rights to noncitizens that really there is almost no value to being a citizen and especially a citizen father?

48. Aren’t we willing to support many streams of coddling half-truths fed to us if we can avoid hearing about and facing the truth about our country?

49. Aren’t we incapable of developing most our minerals on the one hand or demanding safety for those around those  we are developing?

50. Isn’t America believing its own press and not the truth when it sees itself as the center of Washington consensus, the only superpower and the richest nation in the world?

Inappropriate or not, here or one hundred questions about America and our place in the world.

1. What are the odds that a Western country which elects a man named Barack Hussein Obama who is heir to the Obama revolutionary and Black racist dynasty in Africa is not fundamentally suicidal in its current state?

2. What are the odds that when  Libyan premiere Gaddafi proclaimed Obama the African Emperor of the United States in the UN he was not aware of these Obama legacies?

3. What are the odds that a federal system has not profoundly lost its bearings where gay marriage, abortion, racial mixes in schools and other domestic questions are major issues for the Federal government for a long time?

4. What are the odds that a government which for generations barely recognizes the House of Lords and the Privy Council has almost not real understanding of the British COmmonwealth that compose almost a third of the human race?

5. What are the odds that the occupants of the White House are near the top of the world rankings when the White House is almost a shack by the standards of national palaces?

6. What about the fact that disarmament was negotiated by a man whose wife was a believed Soviet sympathizer when they met after he went with her to their country and had a large change of attitude — what does that mean?

7. What are the odds that the largest air staging base in the world is kept by the British Commonwealth on our Northern border because they cannot imagine conflict with us?

8. What are the odds that Congresswoman Gifford and her friends were shot by a man with such an enormous (in his shaven head state at the time) resemblance to her husband? No matter which of a dozen reasons there may be for this he could have passed for Kelly in a stranger’s description and as is foreseeable the husband of the shot woman seldom appeared publicly for a while. If the accused is the shooter what are the odds he would be captured on the scene and if not what are the odds of the two being distinguished  thereafter?

9. What are the odds that the richest man in the World is an Arab citizen of Mexico and there is a large war on our border there and that we are not directly threatened with invasion from Arab terrorists in the South?

10. What are the odds that a country where over ten percent of it Presidents are shot and nine percent are shot dead really has a strong and secure concept of national defense?

11. What are the odds that a society which limits the chances of strong men keeping real servants, mistresses, segregated clubs, smoking pot are having multiple wives and effectively prevents all dueling and the use of honorifics to build up the ego can bring effective leadership to bear within the law?

12. What are the odds that a country which finds Bill Gates to unconscienced and predatory in nature is  really possessed of moral leaders who can step forward in crises?

13. What are the odds that the most wasteful and largest debtor nation in the world is truly the richest in all the measures that matter?

14. What are the odds that a country where millions of illegal immigrants live freely is really able to defend itself except in its capacity to cripple its own good people?

15. What are the odds that a country where one can spill oil for months on end in the most precious waters has meaningful regulation after all the money it has spent?

16. What are the odds that the UN facility in New York is the best one to have and that the one in Switzerland is the secondary one?

17. What are the odds that America leads in any meaningful way when it has had governors of Michigan and California who were foreign-born and several recent first generation American-born Governors and its best programs are often dominated by foreigners at schools across the country.

18.What are the odds American is a free country when we have the largest prison population, the most regulators, outlaw numerous ancient institutions and pander to those who harm society at every level?

19. What are the odds America is strong when in one generation it has given away Subic Bay and Clark Field in the Philippines, the Panama Canal, Micronesia, almost its entire nuclear arsenal, its racial identity,  about half its money’s value and its political cultural ceremonies in countless places?    

20. What are the odds that the SPace programs and nuclear programs with which we cooperate are not run mostly to destroy our most unique American achievements?

21. What are the odds that the increasing failure of civic institutions is reversible by giving more privileges to the groups least able to make good use of them?

22. What are the odds that the most selfish teachers in the world are able to make our next generation ready to face national crises together?

23. What are the chances that A President and Congress could be elected in this regime not mostly on the basis of lies and flattery?

24. What are the odds that American statistics are reliable if generated in this country as it really is?

25. Is it possible that instead of being the only super power America is on many standard the weakest major power in the world?

26. Isn’t America diving towards self-destruction at full speed in almost every way?

It has been nice to gather as a family today. My father, my brother Simon and I got together with my sister Susanna, Mike, Michael, Anthony, Dominic, Thomas and Marisa at the Vanvickle home.

It was a good meal. We enjoyed a visit and all the improvements made on their home. Life is puntuated with moments of happiness even in such a bleak worldview as my own.

Japan is coping with an earthquake 1,000 times (YES ONE THOUSAND TIMES) AS STRONG AS THE HAITI QUAKE A BIT OVER A YEAR AGO. Do we really want to see that there are many ways in which we more resemble Haiti. One is that they are more of a mixed governament than Haiti and we are moving trowards a dmocratic ideal rather than a mixed government. They are a royalist and we are a republican system. Haiti’s presidents are often mulattoes and so is ours. America is in every way in a crisis. japan is in a crisis because of the Earthquake and the tsunami. We have great resources to bring to bear to our problems but we are destroying ourselves faster than Japan is destroying itself.

I  have been working on a new model for the US Constitution since I first began blogging here (and before that).  However, I can announce that this  is now in much more user-friendly form than in the past. If you have gotten interested in the subject then you can read the material here under the section Major Themes of This Blog on the masthead. Just move your cursor carefully and the page access should appear there. You can also find them in the links in this post. If they do not work just copy them into your browser.

The basic structure is:

Preamble,

Article One: Sovereignty

Article Two: Congress

Article Three: The Executive and the Monarchy

Article Four: The Judiciary

Article Five: Compacts of Jurisdictions

Article Six: The Direct Imperial Government

Article Seven: The Imperial House and Tribe

Article Eight: Citizenship

Article Nine: The United States Military and Other Forces in the Empire

Article Ten: Ammendments

Article Eleven: Agencies and Regulations

Article Twelve: The Founding

Article Thirteen: Civil Service, Social Security, Money and Fiscal Policy

Article Fourteen: Permanent Policy

The first Blog Page is not labeled Page One. It simply appears as New Model Constitution of the United States of America. Here is its link: https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 

 PAGE TWO HAS SIX AND SEVEN. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/new-model-of-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-page-two/

PAGE THREE HAS EIGHT THROUGH ELEVEN. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/page-three/

PAGE FOUR HAS ARTCLIES TWELVE AND THOSE THAT FOLLOWTHROUGH TO THE END. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/page-four/

Lent is starting as I type these lines on my laptop, Ash Wednesday comes.

Evening has fallen on Mardi Gras  and the Krewes, Courires and balls end. 

No longer do wild horns, clashing glasses and the beat of Africa’s drums

Tell each of  the season with mask and costume that names defend.

Bare our faces and walk into the aisles of a church for ashes,

Every rosary filled hand  that late tied bows and sashes,

Gives the  words of dust, death and sin an open ear.

I  spent much of carnival on political blogs not drink.

Nonetheless, its season colored my way to think.

So I now stand in other stead, see truth and not blink.

I have been working on a new model for the US Constitution since I first began blogging here (and before that).  However, I can announce this Lundi Gras that it is now in much more user-friendly form than in the past. If you have gotten interested in the subject then you can read the material here under the section Major Themes of This Blog on the masthead. Just move your cursor carefully and the page access should appear there. You can also find them in the links in this post. If they do not work just copy them into your browser.

The basic structure is:

Preamble,

Article One: Sovereignty

Article Two: Congress

Article Three: The Executive and the Monarchy

Article Four: The Judiciary

Article Five: Compacts of Jurisdictions

Article Six: The Direct Imperial Government

Article Seven: The Imperial House and Tribe

Article Eight: Citizenship

Article Nine: The United States Military and Other Forces in the Empire

Article Ten: Ammendments

Article Eleven: Agencies and Regulations

Article Twelve: The Founding

Article Thirteen: Civil Service, Social Security, Money and Fiscal Policy

The first Blog Page is not labeled Page One. It simply appears as New Model Constitution of the United States of America. Here is its link: https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 

 PAGE TWO HAS SIX AND SEVEN. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/new-model-of-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-page-two/

PAGE THREE HAS EIGHT THROUGH ELEVEN. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/page-three/

PAGE FOUR HAS ARTCLIES TWELVE AND THOSE THAT FOLLOWTHROUGH TO THE END. https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/page-four/

Most of my days rank somewhere deep in the bad classification and I doubt that this will be any different. Those who read this blog regularly know that I consider the normal human condition on this planet to be more or less hell in every sense that word has real meaning for me. I am not expecting this day to deviate from that standard.

It would take decades of rapid and unprecedented improvement for me to reach a state of life I would consider merely crummy. However, this is the Sunday before Mardi Gras and is a time of celebration in Louisiana. I do not expect to be celegrating myself and as I think back more than ninety percent of my memories of this day were bad memories but still there were some very good ones in there even if often bracketed by horrible associations.

I see that this has been a pleasant break in many years. Sort of the way it would be nice to have a parade to distract you if lived in the Hell of Dante’s Inferno of the Divina Comedia, is how I remember it. Whatever, you may be doing I hope you have as good a day as possible. Carnival is ending and Lent is coming on.