These streams of voices and images goes in and mixes and out comes something unexpected AND expected. How would you characterize this synchronization? The same conclusion arrived separately by many individual ingesting the same info feed mix. Is it like a Police song?
I was thinking about Kentucky coal miners. Why? As I have previously mentioned, I will soon be making the same salary as a Kentucky coal miner; yet I have as PhD in Biochemistry. I can appreciate why a coal miner would like to hold on to his industry and salary. And logically you can appreciate why Senator Rand Paul's position on energy is this. It will be very hard for a miner to recover his salary value, even with extensive retraining. Can he be retrained to do what I do, and would he be satisfied making the same amount after all the additional training?! It is unrealistic... maybe.
I know my climate change stance is effecting real people. I know that coal burning plants are just bad for the environment and the national energy mix must change if we are to lead the world in managing this problem of climate change.
How can I help miners recover their standard of living without going back to coal mining? Should we do it cold turkey or a gradual weening? How do we speed up and also ease the transition?
The two senators from Kentucky are Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. They honestly represent their state. If we want McConnell and Paul to vote differently, then we must support the people in this time of transition. If you ask any coal miner whether he wants his son to do the same job, he would say no. Everyone knows the direction and the solutions; we just drag our feet because that is the way we are.
I focus here because I perceive a synchronous voice also on the issue of Guantanamo. Senator Paul still believes in the Constitution and eventually he will also support life under the Gospel of Paul. It is just political will he needs from the people.
I have two weeks to pack everything and move to Maryland from Germany; yet I sit here writing about ways for effecting real change, dragging my feet with all talk. I have to get involve directly, and perhaps once I am back in the States I will "move" again.
Some interesting links connected to Kentucky and this stream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Kentucky
Notice the 18th Senator in class 3.
John J. Crittenden
Notice what he tried to do politically vs. the party he joined after the Whig party left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing_Party
I was thinking about Kentucky coal miners. Why? As I have previously mentioned, I will soon be making the same salary as a Kentucky coal miner; yet I have as PhD in Biochemistry. I can appreciate why a coal miner would like to hold on to his industry and salary. And logically you can appreciate why Senator Rand Paul's position on energy is this. It will be very hard for a miner to recover his salary value, even with extensive retraining. Can he be retrained to do what I do, and would he be satisfied making the same amount after all the additional training?! It is unrealistic... maybe.
I know my climate change stance is effecting real people. I know that coal burning plants are just bad for the environment and the national energy mix must change if we are to lead the world in managing this problem of climate change.
How can I help miners recover their standard of living without going back to coal mining? Should we do it cold turkey or a gradual weening? How do we speed up and also ease the transition?
The two senators from Kentucky are Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. They honestly represent their state. If we want McConnell and Paul to vote differently, then we must support the people in this time of transition. If you ask any coal miner whether he wants his son to do the same job, he would say no. Everyone knows the direction and the solutions; we just drag our feet because that is the way we are.
I focus here because I perceive a synchronous voice also on the issue of Guantanamo. Senator Paul still believes in the Constitution and eventually he will also support life under the Gospel of Paul. It is just political will he needs from the people.
I have two weeks to pack everything and move to Maryland from Germany; yet I sit here writing about ways for effecting real change, dragging my feet with all talk. I have to get involve directly, and perhaps once I am back in the States I will "move" again.
Some interesting links connected to Kentucky and this stream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Kentucky
Notice the 18th Senator in class 3.
John J. Crittenden
Notice what he tried to do politically vs. the party he joined after the Whig party left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing_Party
"The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to republican values and controlled by the Pope in Rome."American politics, same same but different. Xenophobia and sectarian violence. Sound familiar?
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