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from Peter John "The only proof we believe in miracles is taking action when only a miracle can make a difference." - Peter John Stone

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“Love those who love you when you have nothing to offer but your company.”

— Unknown

[miamaimania]

“Flame in the Night” by Juan Madrid: A forgotten blaze amidst the wild.

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written by @paxton_tom #peteseeger #folk #banjo #folkmusic #dimestoreradio #americanmusic #tompaxton

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'Nuff said

[peterjohn411]

“If a boy has enough intelligence, he ought to go into the ministry, except that if when he enters college he is given to carousing, drinking, and wenching, then in that case he should enter the law.“ (Harvard Student Review, 1796)

[peterjohn411]

Discover someone absolutely amazing—You! That’s the key to considering the most challenging issues of our time in a positive tone. Your life really is all about you. Understanding what that means takes breaking out of conditioned mindsets used to manipulate your choices. Once you do, you see yourself a whole new way. Then issues from Personhood to Reproductive Choice, from Economics to War, from Motherhood, to Aging, to Community, to Family all take on deeper meaning.

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[peterjohn411]

Your fundamental irreplaceability does not depend on what others think of you. ”How Your Life Matters: Your Personhood Manifesto” considers this and other intangible attributes of Personhood.Download the e-book free through Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Also available as a paperback book, both from Amazon.

[peterjohn411]

Being true to yourself means being true to your experience. A main theme of “How Your Life Matters: Your Personhood Manifesto.” Meet Someone Absolutely Amazing—YOU! The book is available in e-book and paperback from Amazon. Download a free e-book through Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.

[peterjohn411]

Perhaps the most telling comment on the shooting of Philando Castile came from his girfriend’s daughter in the back of a patrol car.

[peterjohn411]

When children advance through developmental stages, we don’t treat them as more or less human. The same with aging adults. As we save babies in ever earlier premature deliveries, we must stop the magical thinking that these developmental stages mean they are something less than human as well. We are all the same individuals from conception to death.

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One of Christopher Hitchens' foundational assertions is, to use his own terms, "a polished turd of logic." We cannot dismiss the facts of positive contributions to history through religion by resorting to alternative history, a sub-genre of science fiction. By basing so much on a glorified fantasy, Hitchens reveals his own position as fundamentally religious as any Theists he opposes.

[peterjohn411]

Steve Bannon has more power than anyone in an unelected position has any Constitutional right.

His presence on the National Security Council without the legally required Senate advice and consent poses a threat to National Security.

It also constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor; President Trump broke the law putting him there without Senate review. #PresidentBannon

[peterjohn411]

Liberal society has based 43 years of policy on the assertion that we can be something other than living human beings for some span of our existence. Conservative circles in the same time reduce us to different qualities of humanity before and after birth.

The “Right to Life” is not abstract but includes the rights to opportunity, sustenance, healthcare, a clean environment, and a natural death. “Pro-life” advocates have argued to defend each of these specifically for unborn persons.

We do not suddenly become less human at birth. We must defend these from conception to a natural death for each of us.

Can “Liberals” cultivate such obvious fallacy, and criticize “Conservatives” for supporting a candidate despite his lies? Can “Conservatives” erroneously reduce Human Persons to pre- and post-birth with different fundamental rights, and criticize “Liberals” for inconsistent values?

Both sides are guilty of accepting only what they want to hear. “Liberals” cultivate accepting lies as much as “Conservatives” in this false ideological dichotomy.

[defineyourgrind]

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Book of the day: No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay

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The Myth of Clinton's and Gore's Popular Vote Victory

While Sec. Hillary Clinton received more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, winning requires a majority. Over 5.2 million people voted Green or Libertarian. At current counts President-elect Trump’s 60,379,933 votes (47.3%) only trail Sec. Clinton’s 61,051,393 votes (47.8%) by 671,420 votes. That is not enough to declare she would have won the election had we gone by popular vote–because it is not a majority.

By this same standard, Al Gore would not have won the 2000 election if it went by popular vote either. He only had 48.4% of the vote, not a majority. That may seem harsh–but this dynamic shows again the wisdom of the electoral college. It allows for a broad field of candidates without a need for a costly national run-off election when no candidate gets a majority.

Yes, Clinton and Gore each received more votes than their opponents, but neither received enough to win the election by a straight vote count. The only reasonable measure to gauge the winner is that which the Constitution defines. We’ll see if we have enough activist electors on Dec. 19th to throw this off.

Sources:

Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins–New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president

[peterjohn411]

All narrative is subjective. Traditional journalism requires reporters frame a narrative around the raw facts they disclose. This is the model Bob Woodward has followed his whole career. However, this model also requires journalists to decide which facts readers must know, and which they need not know. This differs little from government officials who classify secrets.

The Internet and New Media have changed all that. They allow readers to have enough raw facts at their fingertips to prioritize for themselves and assemble their own narratives. Julian Assange has moved investigative journalism into this realm, allowing journalism itself to adapt to New Media.

In this model, the editors crowd source narrative. This journalistic democratization allows the masses to frame their own narratives and decide which to believe based on the totality of facts available. The wonder if this is how clear a commonly recognized narrative emerges. Then the only way to counter the narrative is dismiss it and attack the source.