The Hypothetical

Vice President George H. W. Bush previously headed the CIA and was “out of the loop on Iran – Contra.”

Having someone “out of the loop” was an essential ingredient of plausible deniability.  Plausible deniability was one means of dealing with covert operations that were not as covert as intended.

George W. Bush and subsequent administrations have advocated “transparency.”  Bush 43 had an Hispanic employee of the Justice Department Alberto Gonzales develop position papers or defenses for torture.  That employee became the first Hispanic Attorney General.

The United States of American should be 100% against torture under any and all circumstances.  When the hypothetical occurs, the practitioner of torture should have to rely on the mercy of a jury in his trial by peers.

Minimal government is best.  President George W. Bush’s intentions were good.  He was an Evangelical Christian.  Unfortunately, he led the USA down the Road to Hell.  Vice President Cheney accelerated the process.  Cheney and Rumsfeld were members of the paranoid Nixon Administration.  Richard N. Perle a paranoid appearing person was a staffer for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson beginning in 1969.

To the sins of the sixties, Bush 43 added Michael Chertoff who served as the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security and “co-authored” the USA PATRIOT ACT and Viet D. Dinh an émigré from Vietnam.  Dinh is a lawyer who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003.  Born in Saigon, he was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.

With all the problems we currently have, isn’t it time to give capitalism a chance.  It enables people with significantly different value systems to interact in the global economy.  See Course Number 5665 at http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=5665.  We should declare victory in the War on Drugs majorly escalated by Richard M. Nixon and go home.  President Obama is on the right track here.  For the Gun Control enthusiasts and the Comprehensive Reformers, I have provided a Must Do List at http://dr2htay.blogspot.com/2012/12/must-do-something-list.html

The Thinking About Capitalism course provides background for why we should let China and other emerging economies protect their infant industries like our Founding Fathers did.

Regimented Theory

Regimented theory is our overall science, the sum total of our best and most objective knowledge about the world, reformulated in the clearest and simplest form.

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Natural Law has the highest Standard

 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the highest standard of proof is grounded on "a fundamental value determination of our society that it is far worse to convict an innocent man than to let a guilty man go free."

In hypothesis testing, Type I error is to reject the test hypothesis when it is indeed true.  Type II error is to accept the test hypothesis when some other (including unknown) hypothesis is the true one.

Area/Domain	Criterion
Natural Law	Greater than 5 sigma (>.999999)
Technology	.9999
Social science	Elegant experimental design and hypothesis testing
Operational Test and Evaluation	Greater than 95%
Political science/polling	+/-3%  (95% Confidence Level)
Florida Law
Nation	<100*[1 – (1000)/(#Decisions)]

 

Most surveys have a ninety five percent confidence level.  There’s  a one in twenty possibility that the overall public opinion doesn’t fall within the estimated margin of error.

Glenwood Gardens 911 Call

http://www.brookdaleliving.com/glenwood-gardens.aspx?gclid=CMro1ZOj37UCFc0-MgodtFcAmg

Levels of service available at Glenwood Gardens:

Independent Living
Assisted Living
Alzheimer's & Dementia Care Community
Skilled Nursing Care

“How Doctors Die” by Ken Murray, Best Essays of 2012, says that doctors do not die like the rest of us.  What’s unusual about them is how little treatment they get compared to the rest of us.

 

Doctors know enough about death to know what all people fear most:  dying in pain and dying alone.  They want to be sure, that when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right).

….

“How has it come to this—that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn’t want for themselves?  The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this:  patients, doctors, and the system.”

Aren’t we entitled to die like doctors?

The Truth Is

GOP Senators voted for a tax reduction.

Useful Definitions

 

Term	Explanation
Line in the Sand	A line not to be crossed
Point of No Return	Over half way
Redline	Maximum effort; Demarcation between reasonable and excessive revolutions per minute

 

Or Countries which shelter them

Is the shoe on the other foot?

The difference between counter-insurgency (COIN) and counter-terrorism (CT) is that we hold the countries responsible for terrorists within their borders.  We try to help countries defeat insurgents.

Although we have separation of church and state, almost no other country does.  We should expect citizens of other countries to consider the Government of the United States of America to “be responsible” for people within its borders.  Otherwise, the USA is "hosting" "terrorists".

The Bush Administration invented Counter Terrorism (CT).  The Obama Administration, with Vice President Joe Biden as the major advocate, has expanded it beyond belief.

What are the implications of:

·         Reciprocity?

·         Symmetry?

·         Etc?