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Today I had some varied household tasks to attend to and I did.

Today I noticed the beautiful abundance of the lillies of th field as they are often called here.

Today I spent some time online and had some technical problems that made it less worthwhile than it would have been otherwise.

Today I thought of people I miss who are not near me.

Today I ate some King Cake but did not make it out to any other carnival season or Mardi Gras weekend events.

Today I watched a movie I liked. In this case it was Extraordinary Measures.

Today I did without a lot I would like to have had.

Today I enjoyed many advantages I was glad to have.

For many people today was a day of tragedy, fear, exultation, hope, despair or something else that is intense. But for me it was a day of mostly routine experiences.

The United States of America does not have a remotely legitimate government. It is not a close thing.

The Myths of American Civilization which Citizens believe but which are untrue:

1. America is a democracy:

America is not a democratic society and has no credibility as such. The States themselves are viable democracies but their power is reduced. There are only two political figures elected at the Federal or National Level directly and they are the President and the Vice-President and now they are on the same ticket. Their elections are unconstitutional because they never wait to be certified by the Electoral college. Further, the media have called elections before all ballots were closed and almost all are closed before the military ballots are in and counted.   The President is the center. The only other national election is that indirect one of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Our President’s legitimacy is extremely important because unlike most systems no Cabinet heads are serving in the legislature our constitution forbids this double dipping and so they derive most of their legitimacy from the President. If they were in Congress it would matter less. Ford was never elected President or Vice President, Gore actually was open in seeking to exclude the military and absentee ballots that should have had until the electoral college meeting to be counted. Bush II was set in office by the Supreme Court. There is no concept of law which is not gibberish under which we can be said to have a legitimate government. We are in the gray twilight of a quasi-legitimate government.

2. America is a lawful country:

It is not. Nobody has bothered to repeal the tenth amendment but most powers are not reserved to the States and that is really at the core of our system under current law.

3. America is a free country.

It is not. Our civil institutions are collapsing everywhere under the weight of bad regulation. The size of government is not the issue. Were the regulations more skillful they could be tougher, bigger and more demanding and society would still be more free. They are clumsy and stupid and that is the problem here.

In the first post in this series I said America was ungovernable because it did not offer much to its leaders. In this post I am saying it is no longer under a legitimate government.

For a different vision of America’s future see this page:  

https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

America may be less qualified to reward its leaders and impress its national guests than almost any country in the world. This is just a little incoherent moan of pain and anguish in text. Like a lot of things I do it sort of comes from waking up and discovering that one is still not dead. Therefore, I might as well mention some of the pain on my mind…

America is a tough place to govern or to aspire to govern effectively.  There are many reasons for that no the least of which is the question of what the leadership has been like so far.

The White House is more or less a shack: 

1.There are 0.17 square miles or a bit over 47 million square feet indoors and out in the Vatican City, under the kind of authority exercised by the Pope which the President aspires to but never has in the White House.When the President deals with the Roman Catholic Church this is relevant. 

2. The Forbidden City in Beijing, China is surrounded by a wall about 30 feet (10 meters) high, and a moat almost 20 feet (6 meters) deep. The walls encompass an area almost 8 million square feet, or 168 acres–about the size of 140 football fields. The complex houses 9,999 rooms; nine is considered a particularly propitious number in Chinese
 
3.The Grand Kremlin Palace of Moscow, Russia is another case in point: along the South wall of the Kremlin, overlooking the Moscow River, you will find the Grand Kremlin Palace. The new imperial residence, commissioned by Czar Nicholas I in 1838. It was the largest structure in the Kremlin, some 500,000 square feet, that cost 11 million rubles to build. It was designed to link the older Terem Palace and Palace of Facets, with its new and glorious reception halls, a ceremonial red staircase, and private Imperial Apartments.

4.According to the official website, the Palace of Versailles not far from Paris, France has 51,200 square meters of floor space. Each 100 square meters is a little more than 10,000 square feet. So the palace is somewhere between 520,00 square feet and 550,000 square feet. In addition there are the gardens and grounds .While the President is Head of State and operates out of the Élysée Palace  and entertains guests in the nearby Marigny  in Paris he uses Versailles for State gatherings and dinners and occasions often enough. I know these two palaces are bigger than the White House and some consider them the world’s most expensive real estate.

5. The Buckingham Palace in London, England is part of a set of assets that includes  Windsor Castle, royal reservation of space in the Palace of Westminster and a rather nice place called Clarence House. However, Buckingham Palace alone is   828,818 square feet.

6.The White House has 55,000 sq. ft. of floor space. It is run by twelve departments and its tenant does not know it as well as most relevant comparisons. It is also a major office center and is much more of a dump on the world circuit for heads of state than anything else. 

What about palaces outside the first and best order?

1. Former American Dominion the Philippines has the Malacañang Palace in a large complex of assets which are much more dominant than the White House is in its realm. 

2. Before being destroyed by an Earthquake and now razed the Presidential Palace in Haiti was 210,000 square feet.

3. Like France Mexican President have the Los Pinos residence near to the Chapultepec Castle and has both available for state ceremonies I am not sure about the size. 

4. Brazil’s Palaces are too numerous to be understood by  the average foreigner.

How about the way we handle those who live in the White House in most basic terms?

1. There have been over 20 known attempts to kill sitting and former Presidents as well as Presidents-elect. Four attempts have resulted in sitting Presidents being killed: Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President), James A. Garfield (the 20th President), William McKinley (the 25th President) and John F. Kennedy (the 35th President). That is a casualty rate near 9%. This presumes nobody else who died was secretly murdered. Remember that we are discussing failing to keep someone alive for a few years, not for life. It is a staggeringly bad and humiliating record.

2. Two other Presidents were injured in attempted assassinations: former President Theodore Roosevelt, and then sitting President Ronald Reagan.

We must understand that America is not at all the country its citizen think it is. We have individuals with a lot of liquid wealth but in many ways we are barely a country and it seen that we are barely a country by almost everyone. 

For an alternative American future see:  https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

I am pleased to note that this month was my most viewed month in th history of this blog. It could be more but every time I reach a new height it makes me want to keep blogging. I think that this month definitely inspires me to keep on blogging. On the other hand, this was actually a very weak day — I notice those things as well.

Like most Southerners before the Civil War or Greeks in ancient times I think some forms of unfreedom are possibly moral but chattle slavery is never really good in the moral sense. Nonetheless, there were good things about that institution. Here are twenty things that were wonderful about the institution of chattle slavery:

1. Governments could tax slave sales and develope a judicial system  to control the worst abuses whereas today millions live and die in bondage completely outside the grasp and reach of the law.

2. For the millions exterminated, gratuitously tortured and starved to death in modern wars it would have created a value for a conquerors in those human lives as it did for African tribes for centuries but not in modern Rwanda, Darfur or the Holocaust.

3. It increases the capacity to apply labor to long term investments in infrastructure.

4.In many regimes it strenghtened the influence of wives and mothers in the ruling class.

5. It tended to difuse science and technology as it traveled with the slaves to the masters and as it was commanded and modeled from the masters to the slaves.

6. It allowed starving populations to recover with new investment and thinner populations instead of mass death.

7.It created a habit of  valuing human populations as good and also recognizing the need to manage their resources.

8. It was a better alternative to prison for many offenders and for many cash- strapped jurisdictions.

9. It encouraged people to think more clearly about the value of freedom.

10. It bred in the master class a need to distinguish itself.

11. It worked in the best balanced socieities to create new free and semi-free socieities which balanced and bridged the slaves and the masters where war captives or imported aliens were slaves and made a future peaceful path of progress possible.

12. Slavery made it possible for the working slave classes to cooperate with less mutual hatred than the darkest and worst practices of most free socieities allow.

One of the things that I have been aware of my whole life is that there are differing timelines for all sorts of different people, industries and technologies. However,  I often feel that our societies are lacking a way to measure and deal with those differences. This concept of the difficulty of properly synchronizing and coordinating  things is a motivation and improving results related to that problem is one of the not so clearly stated objectives of my new Model Constitution which can be found at the link below:

 https://franksummers3ba.wordpress.com/major-themes-of-this-blog/new-model-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/ 

I believe that changes can occur which will allow us to create a better way for the United States to deal with differing amount of time required for various processes to evolve and come to fruition in the same society. The chances of radical constitutional change are always small unless society is literally in flames and ruins as a general rule. But I am glad to have worked on this project to participate in laying out some forms of a forward direction.

I am working on my laptop today with a new set of ear buds. I break so many when I do buy them that I had not bought any in a long time.  It is nice as I surf around audio equipped sites but it even helps with prompts and alarms on the computer itself.  I had forgotten what a difference it made. 

My blogging lately has been on my Model Constitution page. However, I now really thinking about getting back to my list of People to Watch.

Well, Iran is not my favorite country. Persia is an ancient enemy of my line.

However one can see that, in momentum, they are largely doing fine.

As those white-skinned Ayotollas guide the mullahs and the guns

The White Supremacist Persians come up to the light of better suns.

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America has huge salaries for some things it is true and rot everywhere.

Mostly black skins unworking, fed, clothed fill our jails and cells.

Even if more terrorize streets, schools and  busses, do we care?

Real law is impossible when the court supports every Black who fusses.

In the race where China, Iran and brown India get much bigger,

Can’t we say “We got you beat – we have gotten nigger!”

As long as big blacks rape our whites they get bigger.

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How many Blacks keep whites from studying in schools?

American girls in some live under Muslim rules.

So what, we keep down those Cracker fools.

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God knows I think the Black man is a man. I really do.

Oh so many other folks that I dlislike  I can scan.

The age of the angry nigger is America today, true.

The hard work of racial justice never caught on here.

Even if they had all stayed in Africa, Earth is Earth I fear.

No substitute for thinking ever will appear.

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No, it is not better to admit the black to college than the white.

It is also wrong to keep all black elevation out of sight.

Given that the Norse live in a cold if pretty prison,

Greece’s dead world of lands is the greatest White vision.

Every time justice is lost and equality or purity alone stands,

Racial progress and that of the larger human race erodes.

So we have spent all our resources on idiotic codes.

Today I heard the Somali pirates killed the two older American couples on board the yacht called the Quest and were welcomed in surrender — The American government as it is wiping out its own people.

Today,  I heard two Iranian ships came up the Suez canal to engage in exercises near Syria — The American government as it is is wiping out its  own people. 

Today, Jeremy Shockey was let go by the Saints and nobody suggested Black racism as a posssible factor in the f****ing NFL even after what has happened to the NBA. The media is silent because of being shped by past government action — the American government as it is is wiping out its own people.

I am feeling a bit under the weather and am thinking about how bleak and horrible so much of my life has always been. I am more aware of that than usual and I am always aware of it. The general rottenness of the world is too me perhaps my most important truth. But today for reasons not in this blog post it is more important than it is on most days.