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What Schumer and Pelosi Pretend They Don't Know About Judges
One thing every Supreme Court vacancy tell us: lots of supposedly well-educated people don't know what judges do. Or pretend they don't. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, I'm looking at you.
And at people like a Facebook friend. He's typical of the kind of person I'm thinking about. A few days ago he listed Amy Barrett's decisions he thought hurt poor or otherwise marginalized people. He suggested she should not be appointed to the Supreme Court because she didn't care about the poor. He seemed clueless about the fact that she may have simply been doing her job and ruling on what the law requires.
As it turned out, Barrett wasn't nominated. But people make the same criticism of the guy who was. He has an "agenda," they say. Maybe Brett Kavanaugh does. I don't think so, but maybe. I suspect they really mean that he disagrees with them about what the law requires. They don't really object to judges having agendas. They adore Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who thinks the Supreme Court exists to advance her agenda.
What Judges Do
Judges are basically umpires. They're not authors. They're not inventors. They're not sages or patriarchs. They decide what the law requires.
The law, let me emphasize, created by the proper law-making bodies. The elected legislators make the law. Blame them for unjust or inequitable laws. If you want better laws, replace your representatives with better ones. That's the way the Constitution divided up the duties of government.
The legislators decide these things. They're the rock stars. The judges are more like the roadies. One sign our system doesn't work right is the fact that Supreme Court justices are now America's political rock stars. We shouldn't be able to remember their names.
The courts step in only when people disagree about exactly what the law says. We don't want judges deciding what the law should be. Judges are umpires, like baseball umpires. Do you remember the names of the umpires in the World Series? No. Of course not.
An umpire might have a keen sense of justice, and know that the Red Sox should beat the Yankees. For that matter, that any team should beat the Yankees. He still can't call the Yankee pitcher's pitches balls when they're strikes. An umpire may feel deep sympathy for the poor and defeated. He still can't tilt games to the Orioles just because they're already 42,000 games out of first place. He's got to call the game as well as he can and let the players win or lose it.
What Judges Do When It's Tricky
When I said this on Facebook, a friend noted that judges often have a lot of leeway to make decisions. There's often precedent on both sides. She gave the example of a senior on a fixed income getting too much aid because the government made a mistake.
"A judge can choose to waive the repayments or to set a rate of repayment so low that it will probably never be repaid or to implement the law strictly," she said. "It depends on whether the judge thinks that the government is accountable for doing its paperwork, or that citizens are accountable for making sure that they aren't getting benefits that they are not entitled to."
She's right. The law's not always clear. Sometimes it seems to say different things. Sometimes courts have understood it in opposite ways. The law doesn't work like a mathematical formula. That's why we have judges. Someone has to figure it out.
But the judge she describes is still umpiring, I'd say, within the latitude given him. It's like the baseball umpire having to choose whether to give a hard call, like a curve ball that may or may not have caught the corner of the plate, either to the hitter or the pitcher. He may be a hitter's umpire or a pitcher's umpire, depending on his understanding of the game, but he ought to be consistently one or the other and have an idea why.
Not a perfect system. But a better system than one in which every judge does what is right in his own eyes.
What Top Judges Do
We want even judges at the top levels to do their job as umpires and not authors or inventors. Another friend objected that appellate judges like Barrett and Kavanaugh don't see cases "unless there is ambiguity about the matter. Clear-cut calling balls and strikes stuff is resolved on summary judgment in the lower court." Even more so with the Supreme Court justices.
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True. Even then, though, we want a judge or a justice trying to make sense of the law as a law, however difficult and subjective that judgment may be. They may not be calling balls and strikes. They may be deciding the trickier question of exactly what the strike zone covers. Still, we don't want them deciding they want both teams to score in double digits, so they'll interpret "knee" as meaning "waist" and shrinking the strike zone to about six inches high.
Your senator or congressman, he's the batter in the box or the pitcher on the mound. He's the one with his name on his jersey and his stats in the book. The judge or justice, he's the anonymous guy crouched behind the catcher. Or should be. It's a bad thing when you know his name. That usually means he screwed up.
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Pilot is an episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star starring Rob Lowe, Liv Tyler, and Ronen Rubinstein. Owen Strand, the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11, takes his progressive philosophies of life and firefighting down to...
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Melbourne commuters are facing lengthy delays after train services on two lines were suspended due to an equipment fault.
Metro Trains confirmed that services on both the Belgrave and Lilydale lines were suspended between Ringwood and Camberwell due to the fault at Box Hill this morning.
"Due to limited bus availability, passengers are advised to defer travel plans or seek alternate transport options," Metro Trains said on its website.
"We have crews on site working to rectify the issue with delays of up to 90 minutes expected until 9am."
An additional 25 bus services have been made available for commuters affected by the fault, with another 27 expected to arrive within an hour.
At around 8.20am, services were beginning to resume however delays were still in place as Metro Trains worked to return to a normal timetable.
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WOW, Im Bad
ĀĀIts been so long since my last blog, I kinda forgot how to do this haha. ĀAnyways hows everyone doing, Im still just plugging away here in Syracuse. ĀIt has been an up and down season so far and I mean I started off pretty slow and really had to work hard to get out of that funk I was in. ĀPersonally I have been working on my mechanics so that I could stay taller as I deliver the pitch and make the ball have more of a down ward angle on it, so that is the thing I have been working on and the last 5 or 6 starts it has been working out and I feel great doing it now. ĀAs for this team man I really cant say that I have had more fun with any other team, this group of guys here are a lot of fun and we have been winning so thats always a plus. Āother than that so far I am just focusing on baseball and the wedding this off season and having a blast doing both : ). ĀWell I know that this isn't much since I haven't blogged in over 2 months but I will try to do a better job, i cant keep making the excuse that I'm super busy haha. ĀPlus Its my birthday so Happy Birthday to me haha..
R.I.P Nick Adenhart
┬Ā┬ĀThis blog goes out to the Adenhart's in this tough time, I know that this is late but I just wanted to write a blog and tell you how this tragic time has touched ball players everywhere. ┬ĀI can only talk for our team, we were all watching Sportscenter and getting ready to watch the Masters and to start our season, not even knowing what happened in Anaheim the night before. ┬ĀWhen the news passed threw the bottom line that morning our whole team couldn't believe the horrible news, the shocked look on everyones face with that gloss in all our eyes. ┬ĀI don't think one person on our team new Nick on a personal level but it felt like we all did that day, he was a part of our baseball family and it felt like that we lost one of our family members. ┬ĀI mean as a human being you don't ever like to hear about anyone die or anything like that but when it happens like this it really hits home. ┬ĀSo our prayers go out to the Adenhart's and to all the other 3 family's involved. ┬Ā
ĀĀHey guys, sorry that it has been so long in between blogs, I have been pretty busy and have lots of stuff to write about now so this could be a good thing (haha). I will be writing a nice blog tonight about the end of spring training, on the ride up to Syracuse, and on my thoughts of this team and how we are gonna do this year. ĀSo just hold back just a couple more hours and I promise a good blog tonight. Ā
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I was thinking…..
ĀĀ Ā I was thinking, and thats not always a good thing. (haha!) ĀSince I have become a "Blogger" I have been half and half talking about baseball, and fun times off the field that have nothing to do with baseball or anyone involved, well today I want to talk about and try and get some feedback from everyone here on what they think because everyone calls me an idiot when I bring this up. ĀOk so one day I woke up and looked outside and there was no clouds in the sky, looked like it was going to be just a beautiful hot and sunny day right, wrong I went outside and it was freezing cold and I'm talking sun was shining like no other. ĀThen on other days you could go out and its overcast and its warmer outside. ĀSo this brings me to my conclusion, I said that the clouds on an overcast day serve as like a blanket and the sun heats them up, therefore making us underneath the clouds feel warmer, but everyone just laughs and says I'm wrong. ĀI might have to bring in Bill Nye the science guy and thats fine. ĀBut why does it seem to be colder on days when the sun is shining and there is not a cloud in the sky and warmer on the days where its more overcast? ĀDon't get me wrong, I am no scientist, and I have had my fare share of times when I argue about things I have no clue about and think they are right and I end up being wrong, I just want to see some paper work on this topic. ĀIs that so much to ask, so thats what's going on at Spring Training 2009. ĀHave a good one.
Here I am
ĀĀHey everyone, how's everyone doing, I hope good. ĀWell the search party found me and told me to keep writing blogs. ĀSpring Training is now going in full force, this year is a little different than last, its a little different playing teams that have all there players at the WBC, but on the other hand its a lot of fun to watch the WBC so its a win win I guess. ĀWe have been playing well this spring, we have some really good pitchers and some really good hitters, everyone can feel the competition and I really think that its bringing the best out in all our players. ĀWe have a game tonight at 7 so it was nice to be able to sleep in a little ( 9 o'clock). ĀOther than all this there is really nothing else going on so far, I will keep this updated, I just didn't want to because I thought it would be boring to read about this stuff, but ill try my best to post every 3 days even tho not much is going on. I just don't want to leave you guys hanging.Ā
Best Beard
ĀĀ So I was talking to Mike Hinckley the other day and he comes up to me and says "can you grow a beard Bally," I said yes I can and yes I have before, he then goes on to tell me that he had the "Sickest" beard of all time this offseason. ĀI have been known to grow a pretty sweet beard myself, so you guys be the judge.
Spring Training
Well as all you guys know by now Spring Training has started and it has been
a little while since I have written a blog. Yes, I have been pretty
busy and I am tired when I get home but that's no excuse (haha). Anyway, Spring
Training has gone great so far. I have had a blast seeing all the guys and
meeting all the new guys this year, we really have a great bunch of guys this
year and I'm super excited to get these games rolling so we can get this season
under way. The first couple days of camp we did the normal stuff: you know
physicals and all the running tests and all that stuff, to see if we
were all ready coming into spring. After the Spring Training speech from Manny
we finally got to the playing part of the game, which all of us do best. Some of
the guys that I have been talking to and hanging out with on and off the field
are Luke Montz, Jordan Zimmermann, John Lannan, Ryan Zimmerman, Nick Johnson,
Mike O'Conner, Joel Hanrahan, Tyler Clippard, Ian Desmond, Clint Everts, Brian
Peacock, Devin Ivany, Fast Eddie, and Bailey (Lannan's dog). I mean there's more
but hey, I can't list everyone on the roster. This Spring really has a different
feel to it. There is a lot more energy and just different attitudes going around,
everyone here belives that we are a good team and that last year is over and
that we are going to win this year. It's an awesome feeling to be a part of this camp.
Some of the other things going on around here is just a lot of media stuff. Next week we start games so that's another thing
to look forward too. Besides that, everything else right now is going real smooth,
my arm feels great and it's really great to see that this whole team is healthy
and ready to start this 2009 year off with a bang. Also it's great to see all
the fans out here. I mean there has been a lot of people coming everyday, even
in this freezing cold weather ( 45 degrees haha).
Also if you haven't filled out your Oscar poll: you have 'til tomorrow to do
it. I will be keeping up with this every 2 to 3 days, no more going 2 weeks without
blogging. Also, check out this thing I did with Ron Jon Surf Shop the other day, it was pretty fun to do.
New Blog
ĀĀ Im sorry for leaving everyone hanging out there but tomorrow I will be posting a new blog. ĀI know its been a long time and I will try and keep up on a day to day basis. ĀBut Spring Training is going great and I will have more to report tomorrow, sorry again everyone.
Number 49
ĀĀWell, I got a call this morning from our clubhouse manager, and he says "Hey Bally, Daniel Cabrera's agent wants to know if he could have number 40. ĀSo I was thinking dang I would really like to keep number 40, that was my first number given to me, and kinda wanted to keep 1 number my whole career, but also thought to myself Cabrera is a veteran and I'm a rookie and this number probably means more for him to have it than for me to keep it so I said ok. ĀSo this year I will be number 49 and lets hope that it brings lots of good outings.


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I have a revocable trust executed in Arizona and have a property in NYS. I retitled the NY property to the trust. Does NY State require that a trustee of the trust be identified on the NYS property deed? I have heard this 2nd hand, but was not told this when I retitled the property.
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The answer isn't so much as what New York State law may or may not require, but the practical implications of the property being titled the way it is when it comes time to dispose of the property. At that time a title company is going to investigate the matter and may want some assurances with respect to previous title transfers. Yes, the property should be titled in the name of the trustee, not the trust; nevertheless at the end of the day it's almost certainly not going to make a difference but it will probably cost more money on the back end by not having done it right up front.


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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy
to all of you and wishing you peace in your life and those you love. This holiday season, I have been filled with a great sense of thankfulness. It was kindled during our family's Thanksgiving Day tradition..a tradition that one can muddle through or take to heart…where we stand in a large circle and hold the hand of the persons standing beside you, forming a large circle. My brother-in-law Steve sets the tone with a loving prayer and then the several dozen family members individually say what they are thankful for. The answers have come forth from the silly, to the thoughtful over the years. As the years have passed and the family has grown older and passings have taken place the responses have become more thoughtful, more real.
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Do your own little individual thankful session, but go beyond the quick hit, the formality of it, the easy response. What are you really thankful for? Share it if courage and comfort allow with those you love soon, for time passes and loved ones pass all too quickly with unspoken loves, apologies, forgiveness and thanks. Maybe coming out of this holiday season and into a new year is a good time to take someone's hand or put your arm around their shoulder on just touch their forearm and tell them what you feel. Let the tears well up, feel awkward. It's alright. Much better than the unspoken, the unsettled.
At any rate, just had that little sentimental force working its way through my mind of late. Again, a very Happy New Year to all of you and sincerest best wishes.
Surrounded by family, friends or sitting alone, give thanks for those that have loved you, still love you or touch your life with the simplest of pleasantries. In the days ahead, give thanks for your kind heart and spread the love through the coming holidays and beyond.
A very Happy Thanksgiving to all. If you have the chance today, share your thankfulness with your family; or give some help to a stranger; or heal a rift in the family with a hug or pat on the back. Tell yourself what you are thankful for and carry it through in your deeds, especially during the holidays. Be mindful of those about you that are moving through the holidays after the passing of a loved one(s) this past year.
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Another NYX haul from digitaltraincase. I got my first ever NYX lipstick and cream blush in B52 and Natural respectively.
I'll do another post on the lipstick as I tried the Cream Blush first. Natural is a peachy pink shade in the pan. It is creamy but not sticky. It is very pigmented so only a little bit at a time is needed on your cheeks then blend, blend, blend. You can use either your very clean finger or blush brush to apply it on your cheeks.
Here's a swatch on my arm:
The shade also doesn't look too bright when applied on the cheeks so you can use this for any occasion I suppose (as I'm not an expert).
In the FOTD I have on the Cream Blush in Natural and a Monave mineral lippie (I don't know the shade). Nothing else since it's still early in the morning (and I'm still in my nightgown, but I've already washed my face, okay? LOL!). This shade turns a bit pink on me when swatched and on my cheeks.
The shade Natural wasn't really the one I had in mind though so I will get another cream blush in Rose Petal which is more neutral than this. I will still use this since it is a pretty color.
This is only an initial review so I can't comment on how long it lasted on my oily skin and I haven't used it on top of primer and foundation, etc. Although the few hours it stayed on my skin I didn't itch from it.
Girls in the Phils., you can pre-order your NYX goodies from digitaltraincase as she sells them cheaper than most resellers and you get them in just 2-3 weeks. I'm now thinking of my next order.


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The flyer for this exhibition opens with the line, 'The harmonious and delicately-poised work of Fausto Melotti (1901-1986) is revered in Italy, yet surprisingly little-known in the United Kingdom.' This is perfectly true; he is rarely shown here, and, indeed, this is the first institutional show to be dedicated to his work in Britain. Harmonious and delicately-poised are two ways of describing his work. Whimsical and lightweight could be another. Or dainty and precise. A couple of years ago, there was an exhibition at the Mazzoleni Gallery in London entitled 'FONTANA/MELOTTI: Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries', which juxtaposed Lucio Fontana's fascination in physical and imagined space, illustrated by his slashed, vulvic canvases in a series called Concetti Spaziali, with Melotti's intricate and spare use of materials within a space. They both studied under the Symbolist sculptor Adolfo Wildt at his Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, along with another sculptor, Luigi Broggini, who designed the famous six-legged dog for Agip's Supercortemaggiore brand of petrol.
Before he went to Brera to study sculpture, Melotti initially studied physics and mathematics at the University of Pisa, and then graduated in electrical engineering at Milan Polytechnic. He also studied the piano, and his knowledge of the mathematical principles of musical counterpoint is referenced in the geometrical sculpture he produced in the 1930s. There is certainly tension in his work, but there is also a sense of balance and geometry, which jogs alongside his interest in, and knowledge of, music. He was at the epicentre of the Milanese intellectual scene, mixing with musicians, poets and other artists, who were open to a wider avant-garde influence,including the doyens of European abstraction, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. He did a series of beguiling ceramic Little Theatres, of which only one is on show, Orpheus, alongside two drawings of the hapless musician, sketched twenty-odd years before. Most of the sculpture on show are made from metal, namely nickel-plated iron, brass, iron, stainless steel, nickeled brass and copper. One absorbing work, In The Swamp, depicts a little boat with a painted piece of fabric as a sail, afloat amongst coils of brass and skinny reeds, which sway gently as visitors walk past. His three iron spheres in Sculpture A (Pendulums) from 1968 were also minutely swinging in unity, as visitors walked past on the wooden boarded floor, but maybe that was unintentional, too. Another piece, Sculpture C (Infinite)comprises a 2m. high stainless steel rod on a bird-foot base, atop of which is a cross-member ending in a curlicue, which could be a bass clef, or simply the letter 'C'? Melotti himself defined infinity as 'a zero in reverse,' and 'Infinity contains infinite infinites. Infinity is a singular plural of itself.'
He was immensely prolific, producing hundreds of sculptural works, mostly metal, but also working in plaster, marble, clay and terracotta, bas reliefs, ceramics, jewellery, works on paper and canvas, as well as architectural projects, all of which are catalogued on the Fondazione Fausto Melotti web-site. His first solo exhibition was in 1935 at the Galleria di Milione in Milan, displaying 18 pieces in plaster, clay and metal, and in the catalogue he wrote,' Art is an angelic, geometric state of mind. It addresses itself to the intellect, not to the senses.' Whether one agrees with that sentiment or not, he certainly pushed the boundaries from his early references to Roman and Etruscan figurative art, through to modernism and abstraction, and on a path towards geometrical compositions, with the human figure also making a comeback. He died in 1986, aged 87, and the Venice Biennale awarded him the Leone d'Oro the day after he died. One of his more charming works is his brass L'amico leone from 1960, with a disc-like face on a spindly body, with a pair of brass balls trailing at the end of his chain tail, leaving the visitor wondering whether Melotti was being 'playful.'
Fausto Melotti: Counterpoint
Estorick Collection
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Today I attended a seminar at Faculdade Cásper Líbero, where I studied, about "Entertainment and Politics", given by my ex-teacher Luís Mauro de Sá Martino. Can you make a connection between these two topics? Well, there's much more than we think at "first sight".
A recent and clear example is Obama's election in the USA. He was elected, in some way, because he knew how to use the media effectively to promote his name, using not only TV, but different channels on the Internet (personal website, YouTube, emails) and even comic books! He was "connected" with most part of his electorate through the same media that these people use in their free time, as entertainment.
Here in Brazil it's not difficult to see how politics and entertainment are "mixed" as well, considering the fact that we elected Frank Aguiar, Netinho and Clodovil (God or the devil be with him!) and almost had Silvio Santos as our president!
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There are Vietnamese restaurants all over the Western world providing testimony to the holocaust that followed the Communist takeover of Vietnam but many Leftists pretend that the holocaust concerned did not happen
The Nov. 15 edition of the left-wing radio show "Democracy Now" featured former Sen. George McGovern debating whether we withdraw troops from Iraq or increase them.... He was asked by the host, "You were one of the earliest people speaking out against the U.S. attack and U.S. involvement in Vietnam. What happened? How did the U.S. pull out? What were people saying then?"
McGovern's reply was nothing short of delusional. He said, "... they were saying the same thing they're saying about Iraq. We were told all during those long years when I and others were trying to terminate our military involvement in Vietnam, an intervention that the chief architects now say was a dreadful mistake. ...that if we pulled out - maybe it was a mistake to go in, but if we pulled out, there would be a slaughter of people in Vietnam of indescribable dimensions, that Ho Chi Minh and his people would just slaughter everybody in the country that disagreed with him. We also were told that the countries next door would start toppling into communism, if we left Vietnam. None of that happened."
None of this happened? Maybe he should ask - as I have - the "boat people" who fled Vietnam to escape the holocaust that followed the communist conquest of Vietnam, or talk to the Vietnamese refugees who were sentenced to "re-education" camps for five and 10 years. Maybe he should talk to Vietnam War protester and singer Joan Baez, who in 1976 and 1979 protested the human rights atrocities of the Vietnamese communists (and was denounced as a CIA stooge by Jane Fonda's ex-husband Tom Hayden). Indeed, all Sen. McGovern really needs to do is review his own 1978 speech calling for military intervention in Cambodia to stop the communist holocaust. (Leftist icon Noam Chomsky vehemently criticized McGovern for this.) McGovern wanted to use military force to stop the very same holocaust he now denies occurred. Why would they deny?
The answer may be found in a 1995 essay written by the newly elected Virginia senator, Democrat James Webb. A veteran of Vietnam, Webb wrote an essay titled, "Robert McNamara, the Anti-War Left, and the Triumph of Intellectual Dishonesty," for the Fall 1995 edition of Strategic Review. Webb's essay begins with him describing a presentation he made to some business people about Vietnam when the subject of the war was broached. He mentions the then-recently published book about Vietnam by Robert McNamara, the architect of the war.
He states how the war was distorted by the anti-war left then and now. Webb comments, "... there has been a persistent conspiracy of silence that has lasted for decades, accompanied of late by an attempt to leap over the carcasses and the devastation that followed the communist takeover, to simply pretend it did not happen." Webb continues, "Few, if any, of the old anti-war luminaries, Stanley Karnow, Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, George McGovern, Peter Arnett, 'Tom Harkin, Bill or Hillary Clinton ... could find it in themselves to conjure up an apology, or admit they were wrong in judging a communist apparatus that brought Southeast Asia's strongest and most pro-Western culture back into the dark ages, only to haltingly emerge fifteen years later reeking of torture, prison camps, Stalinism and corruption."
The next paragraph mentions McGovern and the motivation for this denial of the communist holocaust. Webb wrote, "The reason ... was stated most honestly and directly to me by George McGovern ... while taping the "CNN Crossfire' show ... the antiwar candidate who had once promised to go to Hanoi on his knees if he were elected President turned to me and announced in his emotionless monotone, 'What you don't understand is that I didn't want us to win that war."' (Emphasis added)
Webb applies this to the entire anti-war movement, "The people who directed the antiwar movement did not care whether McNamara had a workable strategy ... They did not care whether Nixon's Vietnamization program might have worked. They did not care whether the South Vietnamese should have been given an adequate chance to adjust their strategy after the American withdrawal. ... they did not care whether the communists signed a pledge guaranteeing free elections and a peaceful reunification of the country. Quite simply, they wanted the communists to win. Those who were adults during the Vietnam era know this truth full well. Others, however, particularly our children, have seen it glazed over and even denied as the reality of what happened after 1975 became ever more clear." (Emphasis added)
Webb then makes a salient point, "The failure of the media to show these old luminaries and their younger disciples in this true light is important ... . Only by understanding their deeper motivations can future generations comprehend the making and ultimate failure of American policy during that period, and the subsequent refusal of our media elites to speak and write honestly after South Vietnam's fall ... . Vietnam was the first war where a generation's elite not only excused itself from fighting but often openly supported the side that was killing their own countrymen ..."
Genocide authority Professor R.J. Rummel described what occurred in SE Asia as democide. He wrote, "...after the North's victory ... . Hundreds of thousands were murdered - executed outright, or dying in "re-education camps," and in the "new economic zones." ... over a million Vietnamese that risked an awful death on the ocean to escape the communists enslavement (the Boat People), of which perhaps 500,000 never made land again... . Then there was the communist Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia ... Result: about 2,000,000 murdered."
Why is it that McGovern and others who deny the Indochinese communist holocaust are not considered lunatics as they would be if they were denying the holocaust of the Nazis?
Secret new US spy base in Australia: "Australia's close military alliance with the United States is to be further entrenched with the building of a high-tech communications base in Western Australia. The Federal Government is about to approve the base after three years of secret negotiations with Washington. The Age has been told the base, which will be built on defence land at Geraldton, will provide a crucial link for a new network of military satellites that will help the US's ability to fight wars in the Middle East and Asia. It will be the first big US military installation to be built in Australia in decades, and follows controversies over other big bases such as Pine Gap and North West Cape."
Fallacious Iraq arguments rife: "Warrior chic --the idea that biography trumps policy, that a person's identity proves the validity of their ideas--now dominates our politics, as anyone who listened to the House of Representatives debate the Iraq war this week can attest. On Tuesday the Democrats began the debate over House Concurrent Resolution 63, which says the House supports American forces serving in Iraq but disagrees with President Bush's decision to send additional troops into combat. The Democrats opened with a series of speeches from congressmen who have served in this war and in others--their status as veterans giving them unique perspective on matters of war and peace, and thus, in Democrats' eyes, lending their opposition to Bush's "escalation" of the war greater weight.... A debate on Bush's policy on its merits, engaging with its plusses and minuses, the possibility that it might work, and the possibility it might not, was nowhere to be found."
Anglicans still waffling: "Conservative Anglican archbishops have suffered a rebuff in their efforts to expel the US Episcopal Church over its liberal stance on homosexuality. A report drawn up for church leaders meeting in Tanzania concludes that the US Church has largely met demands for it to conform with orthodox teaching. The crisis began when the US Church decided to ordain an openly-gay bishop. ... Despite the report finding in the Episcopal Church's favour, there is scope for further division at the Tanzania meeting, our correspondent says. Conservative archbishops were due to put forward their plan for a parallel church in the US, under its own bishop, to cater for traditionalists who have broken away from the Episcopal Church."
Terror suspect in Canada ordered freed: "An Egyptian terror suspect who has been waging a weeks-long hunger strike was ordered released Thursday by a judge who said he posed no threat to national security while his case was under review. Mohammad Mahjoub, 46, has spent nearly seven years in a Canadian prison without any charge against him or access to the evidence against him. He was entering his 84th day of a hunger strike Thursday to protest his treatment."
For more postings, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and EYE ON BRITAIN. (Mirror sites here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here).
"All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State." -- 19th century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel is the most influential philosopher of the Left -- inspiring Karl Marx, the American "Progressives" of the early 20th century and university socialists to this day.
The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialistisch) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers' Party".
R.I.P. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet deposed a law-defying Marxist President at the express and desperate invitation of the Chilean parliament. He pioneered the free-market reforms which Reagan and Thatcher later unleashed to world-changing effect. That he used far-Leftist methods to suppress far-Leftist violence is reasonable if not ideal. The Leftist view that they should have a monopoly of violence and that others should follow the law is a total absurdity which shows only that their hate overcomes their reason -- Details here and here
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Greentopia: Ideas, Concepts and Institutional Proposals
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Datum: 11.10.2019
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Veranstaltende Institution: University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy
Societies need to adjust to environmental change and to new living conditions in the age of climate change and environmental degradation. Instead of mourning the loss of traditional life-styles, this workshop explores forward-looking proposals to redefine the interface of society and nature. The concept of "Greentopia" serves as an umbrella term for innovative proposals that provide ideas and concepts for an eco-friendly social life with nature. The workshop brings together philosophers, social scientists and natural scientists in order to explore Greentopia. It invites visionary proposals, but also distinct ideas, useful concepts and suggestions for helpful institutional innovation. The workshop is part of the project "New Directions in Plant Ethics," however it is not restricted to proposals in the context of plant ethics.
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On Saturday and Sunday, from 1pm-5pm both days, there are 2 great farm tours happening in the area: The Eastern Triangle Farm Tour and the Person County Farm Tour. These two tours will feature 42 farms, 8 of which are regulars at the Durham Farmers' Market!
If you have ever wondered how mushrooms grow. Wanted to know what on earth a farmer is referring to when she talks about "chicken tractors". Had the desire to peek inside a milking parlor. Or if you just want to see a buffalo grazing in its pasture. This is your chance to do all of those things! These local farms will be opening their gates for you to visit and get to know more about local farming & local foods.
These tours, which happen annually (along with other tours in the springtime), have done an important service of strengthening the local food economy by bringing a greater level of transparency and trust between the consumer and the farmer. It gives consumers have the opportunity to see how their food is grown, how the animals are raised, see honeybees in a hive and ask farmers directly about their growing methods and practices. That is something that you'll never have the chance to do with food available at a grocery store.
"This tour is a great way to learn where your food comes from and support the farmer who grows it. It's also a whole lot of fun, "said Roland McReynolds, CFSA Executive Director.
If you are interested in visiting farms this weekend, you can find more information here: Eastern Triangle Farm Tour and Person County Farm Tour.
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We should have another cool morning to kick off fall! Pumpkins and gourds of all shapes and sizes will be in abundance tomorrow (and probably for the next few months too). Last week, both Ginger and Turmeric Root made their fall appearance! Should be more and more in the next few weeks!.
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Are you ready to find your dream job as soon as you graduate? Then, it's high time to draw a detailed plan with soft skills required for the workplace. This will help you stand out from other candidates and be a perfect fit for the position of your choice.
To successfully accomplish the task, college graduates can analyze requirements for current vacancy announcements, make use of LinkedIn or Branded.me profiles of people with a great experience, and study analytical articles on the labor market to always stay updated.
It's not a secret, though, that plenty of online sources post about top soft skills potential employers want in their candidates' CVs or resumes. So, why not focus on them to make your preparation for obtaining a good entry-level job a bit easier? Here's what is highly demanded by most of the recruiters:
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Recent grads can hardly boast of knowing everything about the work they will perform daily. It's quite natural when something is learned along the way. Sometimes employers prefer young, enthusiastic graduates over highly experienced professionals, since the former tend to learn and absorb new information more eagerly and are ready to develop a learning habit. The latter instead are quite often more stubborn and unlikely to reach a compromise, which can hinder team effectiveness. Additionally, lifelong learners are supposed to know how to obtain and process information to solve the problems they haven't faced before.
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Chaos brings no positive effect. To show high productivity and performance, it's crucial to hone time management and prioritization skills. These two skills rank high on most employers' lists of soft skills. For that, managers and schedulers need to negotiate deadlines and schedule tasks appropriately. Should tasks be equally urgent, they'd better discuss which one to take first together with their reporters. When using electronic or paper planners, think of short breaks that need to be made between tasks, divide time-consuming tasks into several subtasks, and leave about 10 or 15% of time for coping with emergencies and contingencies. Set reminders well in advance, and review to-do lists daily.
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Being a good listener doesn't mean you should keep silent while somebody else is expressing his or her thoughts, so that you can further move on to your statements. The point is to really listen and hear other team players and choose the best solutions working together. Another important thing is to know how to make everyone understand what you mean. In other words, you should learn to use simple and concise statements, speaking with confidence to all people in the company regardless of their seniority.
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At the top of most top list of soft skills is "problem solving skills." The first step to successful problem solving is to clearly understand what the problem is and what caused it. The next step is to carefully consider interests of others and list all suitable solutions. The final step is to evaluate suggested options by listing their advantages and disadvantages, and then choose the one that has the most pluses. To be an efficient problem solver, you need to get rid of fear. By focusing more on tackling the problem, you will be able to do it with ease.
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This means not only knowing how to create, delete, or remove presentations or surf the Internet proficiently. Being tech-savvy means knowing what tools and programs are used by the specialist you want to become. For example, if you want to become a web designer, you will need to master such programs as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or Indesign.
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If you have a chance to join a series of workshops on how to become a good critical thinker, jump at the chance! These practical lessons will teach you how to criticize somebody else wisely by finding a strong argument and how to accept criticism of your work. Being a critical thinker is essential for improving your communication skills and professional growth too. Critical thinking ranks high on the list of soft skills regardless of your job title or position.
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Being curious means to never be afraid of asking questions. Though, it doesn't mean you should behave like a chattering box, annoying other employees with your never-ending questions. You should ask questions when you don't know the answers so your work won't be done slowly. You must use proper discernment to ask questions of the right person (your manager or mentors) at the right time (one on one and in quiet settings, and preferably not during the last five minutes of meetings).
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Taking an active part in extra-curricular activities and voluntary projects can also help job seekers develop a set of useful skills for their future jobs. By establishing friendly relationships with people, you increase your chances of getting what you need. Who knows, maybe some of your peers or instructors will recommend you as a highly promising hire one day.
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Attracting HVACR (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration) technicians and instructors has been challenging for recruiters and hiring managers. There is an opportunity to get college students and recent graduates interested in HVACR jobs if their recruitment and training efforts are strong.
The next generation of Americans, Generation Z students, are about to enter the workforce, and many Gen Z students are unaware of the opportunities available in the HVACR career field.
The oldest of Gen Z students are to complete high school. Some will enter the military or the workforce, and most will attend a one, two, or four-year college or university. The oldest of Gen Z was about 10 years old at the height of the Great Recession and spent most of their formative years witnessing and, in many cases, suffering from the financial turmoil. As compared to their Gen X parents at the same age, Gen Z'ers are far more likely to favor career paths with low student loan debt, opportunities for advancement within their organizations, work/life balance, and a good, stable, living wage.
Trades such as HVACR provide all of those benefits, but few young adults are aware of that fact. More than anything else, the industry needs better marketing of its career opportunities. It should make a concerted effort to deliver presentations in the nation's high schools, just as the military and some other professions do.
"One option for HVACR industry leaders is to live stream informational presentations on YouTube to build a massive and therefore search engine friendly repository of these presentations and have the presentations delivered by recent graduates of those schools. Graduates can share their stories including their challenges. Authenticity and peer-to-peer communication matters greatly to young adults. A message that everything is great or a great message delivered by a Baby Boomer will not resonate," notes College Recruiter's President and Founder, Steven Rothberg.
Another way to recruit HVACR technicians and instructors is to have the employers work with educators on developing strategies to qualified students. They can also collaborate on encouraging these students to enroll in training programs, which will create a workforce in waiting. In order to train more technicians and instructors, one option is establishing financial support through local and regional employers in the career field to create training programs.
College students and recent grads can be potential candidates for jobs as HVACR technicians and instructors. However, there must be a more proactive approach when it comes to recruiting and training.
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While an MBA can help a college student in his or her search for jobs, it is important that he or she gets the most out of the chosen program. Learn how a college student can maximize a MBA program to prepare them for the future in the following post.
MBA programs are all designed with the same goal in mind — to turn out well educated, ready-to-lead MBAs. But not all MBA students are created equal, as evidenced by that mid-career professional looking to launch into the next phase, the young college grad planning to enter the workforce with that all-important master's in hand,
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Just because we got the final trailer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt last week does not mean CD Projekt RED will stop sharing videos from the game. In honor of The Witcher 3 being localized in 15 languages (7 with full voice-overs and 8 with subtitles), the developers have shared a clip from the game with a song translated in seven different languages.
Enjoy this clip, titled "The Wolven Storm", featuring "Priscilla's Song" below:
The seamless transition between the languages showcases a truly great example of voice localization. Priscilla sounds nearly the same in all languages.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is available now on Windows PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.


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With more and more businesses and sites getting into online advertising, there's a lot of competition when it comes to being seen. With a whole host of marketing tools and techniques, one of the oldest often gets forgotten. However, digital advertising is smarter and more cost-effective than ever, helping you target precisely who you need to.
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White completely dominated in the second round of Tata Steel Masters 2020 winning 4 games out of 7. There are five leaders after two rounds with heavy favorites Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana still at the 50% mark.
Iranian sensation Alireza Firouzja had a chance to grab the sole lead as he was clearly better after the opening in his game against Jan-Krzysztof Duda. In the Queens Gambit Accepted Duda somewhat surprisingly went for the line with an early queen exchange, but the opponents still found a way to set fire on board. Firouzja came up with a creative 9...Ng4 novelty and Duda's reaction probably wasn't precise. Black won a pawn, but it seemed that White was only slightly worse before Duda put his king in front of the whole army with 23.Kc4?! Firouzja cemented his advantage and could have got clear winning chances had he foiled the activation of the white knight with 26...g5! Alireza opted for a natural rook move instead and Duda managed to save half a point for the second day in a row.
Another Round 1 winner Jorden Van Foreest suffered his first defeat in a game against Jeffery Xiong, but once again he played fearlessly. In a typical Sicilian set-up, he went for an ambitious pawn breakthrough/sacrifice with 13...b5!? and 15...d5! Van Foreest moved his bishop to f6 one move too late and found himself in a worse position. He still had his chances in sharp complications later but went astray with kamikaze 29...Bf2+ and 30...Bh4. Xiong won a piece and the game.
Russian up-and-coming stars Vlad Artemiev and Daniil Dubov also caught up with Firouzja. Dubov easily crushed Vladislav Kovalev after the Byelorussian decided to sacrifice a central pawn in an unpleasant position hoping for an active counterplay in the endgame. It was nothing more than an illusion though, and Dubov converted in style. Kovalev was unlucky to start with two Black games, but he seems out of form with 0/2 and that can be fatal in this kind of event. Artemiev outplayed his compatriot Nikita Vitiugov in a clear positional style. At some point, Vlad could have gone for a nice "little combo" with 27.Rd8+! but he was completely dominating in the center and on the queenside anyway.
Unfortunately, even the greatest chess players can become a victim of a hallucination on a bad day, and this was the case for Viswanathan Anand today. He miscalculated when making decision to sacrifice a bishop with a tempting 12...Bxf2+. Anand was right that he was winning a piece back immediately but probably missed that his knight would be trapped in the White's camp after that. Easy win for World Fischer Random champion Wesley So and frankly speaking he hasn't even done that much to achieve it.
(FIDE.com - Future analysis proved that the position was still completely unclear if Anand would have played 22...Nxg2! as after 23.Rxg2 Rxg2+ 24.Kxg2 Qe2+ 25.Kg3 Rf8! Black's attack was sufficient for a draw)
There were two more draws in Round 2. Yu Yangyi didn't have any ambitions having White against Magnus Carlsen and was trying to exchange all pieces as soon as possible. Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana played probably the best game of the round on a level which can be achieved only by few players on the Earth - Giri put heavy pressure on his opponent and even won a pawn in the endgame, but the former world title challenger defended brilliantly and was never in real danger.
Official site: https://www.tatasteelchess.com/
Photo: Alina l'Ami
Tata Steel Masters 2020 Standings after Round 2:
1-5. Xiong, So, Artemiev, Dubov, Firouzja - 1½;
6-10. Caruana, Duda, Giri, Carlsen, Van Foreest - 1;
11-13. Anand, Vitiugov, Yu, Yangyi - ½;
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The heavy glass door to the Maito shop in Tokyo's Kuramae district slides open on a dreamscape of fabrics in soft earthen shades. A subtle rainbow gradation of dyed clothing hangs from a rack on one side of the store, and on the other, accessories—socks, scarves, and bags in tertiary hues—cover wooden tables.
Toward the rear, owner and artisan Komuro Maito, 32, maintains a dye workshop. Dodging plastic buckets and massive metal pots, he emerges, stripping off his stained rubber gloves to greet me warmly.
Pointing to baskets and jars filled with what resemble one-note potpourris, Maito gestures to explain the raw ingredients he uses to create kusaki-zome, or chemical-free dyes.
Chestnuts, plant roots, indigo leaves, and even cochineal bugs are processed to create the vast variety of colors seen in items from his shop.
"There are 1,052 distinct colors registered as kusaki-zome," Maito says, "but in reality there are probably far more than that."
Though Maito represents only the second generation in his family to work with natural dyes, his grandfather and ancestors as far as nine generations back were all master weavers. The family, borne from centuries of fabric artisans, has undoubtedly given Maito and his father a singular foothold in the business.
"When you get down to it, both weaving and our work is really all about the thread," Maito says, picking up an antique spool. "All the Japanese kanji characters for fabric production—amu (braid), oru (weave), nuu (sew), etc.—incorporate the kanji for ito (thread). That word ito is in my surname, and also the name of my shop. It is this thread that unites my work with the industry of others," he says.
Following his comment, I realize the great degree to which Maito's craft is integrated with the fate of others.
"These days, the global economy means that we can source and buy the cheapest products easily, and those goods flood the market," Maito explains. "This tends to decimate local artisans, and they go out of business. I've watched that happen again and again, and I understand the danger of it. If you make dyed thread, and the artisans who use your product all disappear, that's not good."
Maito has personally taken action to combat this. "I can't support every artisan financially," he laughs, "but I can offer ways to market what they make, or collaborate on products, and I strive to help customers comprehend why money shouldn't be the only consideration when you purchase something."
For Maito, variety is key to cultural richness. "Take a piece of woven fabric," he says. "You might have a set image of what that is, but in Kurashiki, weavings tend to be thick, in Kyoto they are gossamer, in Gunma they are made of silk—really, the variety is astounding. But if there's no livelihood attached to the product, no one will carry on the work, and we'll lose the know-how and the style."
Visiting workshops across the country on a regular basis, Maito sits down with artisans and helps them tweak products that might otherwise appear unfashionable or stylistically dated. "Artisans are rarely good designers," he says. Though an artisan himself, Maito attributes his awareness of current styles and trends to establishing a retail base in Tokyo, separate from his production center in Kyushu.
"Here, I learn what attracts customers," he says, "and I try to pass that knowledge along."
While Maito's store offers goods that deserve the appellation dento kogei (traditional handicrafts), the designation doesn't suit Maito's strategy. "Just the words dento kogei make young people want to run away," he claims. "People associate traditional handicrafts with something expensive or musty, so I instead emphasize that my products are natural and sustainable. Yes, they are expensive, but absolutely worth the investment once you understand them."
To facilitate understanding, Maito holds monthly workshops in dyeing skills at his Kuramae store. The classes fill up as fast as they are announced, indicating a strong interest in Maito's natural and sustainable vision.
A stirring powerhouse of positive energy, Maito seems always on the move. Aside from traveling the country, teaching workshops, and running two storefronts—one in a commercial location for tourist trade and the one in Kuramae geared toward a younger local crowd—he has also just developed a secret technique for imparting natural dyes to leather goods.
On a whim, I ask Maito what dye color is the trickiest to master. "Sakura," he quickly replies, his voice hushed with respect. "We use trimmed or damaged branches, just budding. We need to brew all the bitterness out of the boughs, or the dye will produce yellow, brown or grey shades. When we achieve a sweet sakura fragrance, that's what will yield a soft pink color. We actually taste the dye bath, to judge it."
Maito then confides in me his dream of one day creating fabric tinted with the sakura trees in Washington D.C. That, I think, is a concept to dye for.
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The Commission has voted (5-0 and 4-1) to delay enforcement of our requirement for child-resistant (CR) packaging for imidazoline medications. I was pleased to join in this vote.
Imidazolines are used as decongestants in products like eye drops and nasal sprays. Their misuse can cause significant negative effects on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems.
In 2012, the Commission issued a rule to require CR packaging as of December of 2013. Because of the challenges of developing such packaging (including industry's obligations to comply with rules from the Food and Drug Administration), we stayed enforcement for one year.
Despite substantial progress, the industry has been unable to develop CR-packaging that can be manufactured on the necessary scale, but assures us that a solution is near. To keep these products available, our staff proposed that the Commission grant another 6-month stay and delegate authority to our Office of Compliance to give companies additional time if their good-faith efforts have not yet succeeded. I was glad to join in our unanimous vote for the 6-month stay and in our vote to give our compliance officers the freedom to do what they do best.
I applaud our staff's tireless efforts to work with industry to improve safety. Ensuring that these medications are available to those who need them – while putting their potential latent harm out of kids' reach – has proven challenging, and we need to help companies strike the right and responsible balance.
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Ah, Dearest Jesus
Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child,
Make Thee a bed, soft, undefiled
Within my heart, that it may be
A quiet chamber kept for Thee.
My heart for very joy doth leap,
My lips no more can silence keep;
I, too, must sing with joyful tongue
That sweetest ancient cradle song.
Glory to God in highest Heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
Words: Martin Luther, 1535; translated from German to English by Catherine Winkworth, 1855. These lyrics are from the longer hymn, From Heaven Above to Earth I Come.


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For a new practitioner, adopting a yogic lifestyle may seem to come with many new rules. However, Sadhguru explains, understanding the geometry of the human body is not a manmade rule, but a method of living with the least amount of friction.
Q: I'm in the Hatha Yoga teacher training. Here, we are looking at every detail, including how to sit properly, how and what to eat, and even how to breathe. Where is the line between making yourself joyful and making yourself miserable by trying to follow these new rules and regulations?
Sadhguru: First of all, these are no new rules and regulations. They are definitely not regulations. Maybe we can call them rules – that is one way of looking at it. In Indian culture, there have never been teachings. And God cannot give commandments to Indians, because they will argue. They will ask too many questions. When we were on the Kailash yatra, one of the Indian participants came up with a very complicated question. I said, "See, this is an Indian problem. You are thinking of how to come up with a more complicated question." A Chinese lady concurred, "Yeah! I work for the United Nations, and I've always been wondering why only Indians ask questions." We have a long tradition of questioning everything.
God sent his messenger and his son to other places, so people could claim that whatever rules they have were given by God, and no one dared to question that. Here, God himself came, and he even carefully selected whom to speak to. In spite of that, there were endless questions. You know how many questions Arjuna asked Krishna! It was not possible for Krishna to give Arjuna a commandment. He kept trying to convince him, but Arjuna was full of questions.
In Indian culture, we refer to that which governs life as the dharma. Gautama the Buddha referred to it as dhamma. Unfortunately, today people commonly misunderstand dharma as religion, but dharma means law – not a teaching, philosophy, belief system, or religion.
The Laws of Existence
There are manmade laws that regulate different aspects of society and the world, so that it functions smoothly, to whatever extent possible. For instance, in India, you are supposed to drive on the left side of the street. This is not the ultimate truth, but an agreement that was made for the traffic to run smoothly. Another thing is the vehicles were built for that. Similarly, there are many laws and arrangements that regulate society, so that we do not collide with each other. But even before there were societies and manmade laws, life happened smoothly, and it evolved. For that to happen, there must be some fundamental laws governing it.
If you pay attention to the geometry of your body, you will sit and stand in a particular way so that your body functions with minimum energy and maximum impact.
To give an example – if you walk into the jungle, you may not be able to figure out its laws, but the jungle has existed for millions of years. For it to last so long without annihilating itself or all the creatures annihilating each other, there must be some laws governing it. In this culture, people paid attention to what these laws are that govern the universe, our inner nature, and the process of creation. And people figured this out – not by imagination, not by belief, but by sheer observation of various dimensions of life.
How to sit is not something I invented. The human body is made in a certain way. The way Nandi sits in front of Dhyanalinga is the right way for a bull. But you have come as a human being, so the geometry of your body is different. All physical things and physical aspects of life have a geometric basis. If you understand the geometry of something physical – whether it is a human body, a bull, or even a mechanical item – you will know how to use it to its optimum.
Every other creature on the planet figured out the geometry of their body and how to use it to the fullest extent. Only human beings do not do that, because they are paying attention to everything except themselves. So the instructions in Isha Hatha Yoga are not new rules. If you pay attention to the geometry of your body, you will sit and stand in a particular way so that your body functions with minimum energy and maximum impact. The efficiency of physical existence depends on your understanding of the geometry. In other words, you are moving from social imitation to awareness.
If we remove all the furniture, you will discover the geometry of your body. The same applies to food. The human system is designed for a certain type of food. But in pursuit of survival, or because of cultural influences, people may have eaten all kind of things. Originally, if someone ate a slab of meat in certain parts of the world, it was for survival, not by choice. Maybe they could not grow anything there, or they did not know agriculture. Only later, it became a choice, or you could say part of their culture. If it is a question of survival, it is perfectly fine. It is not a moral issue. It is just that if you put the wrong fuel into the system, you cannot expect efficiency.