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The average person does not vote at all. They have correctly figured out that voting is a waste of time. It's more productive to spend an hour on some other useful activity, rather than spending an hour voting.
Voting is a lie that's used to trick people into complacency. The argument is "If you don't like the way things are, then vote for someone else." However, the two mainstream candidates are usually both lousy. Typically, both candidates are funded by the same wealthy people and corporations. The only difference is that the candidate who is more likely to win receives a larger bribe.
For example, in the Presidential election of 1912, all three candidates were advocates for a banking reform bill. All three bills had nearly identical language. This banking reform bill created the Federal Reserve.
People who want to cause social change and improvements have their energy funneled into the wasteful activity of voting and advocating for specific candidates.
It's almost impossible to mobilize the 50% of people you would need to get support for a promising candidate. There are all sorts of dirty tricks that can be used. For example, Ron Paul is gaining popularity on the Internet. If he starts getting mainstream success, another libertarian candidate will emerge and split Ron Paul's support. That trick was used to get Schwarzenegger elected as governor of California. In the special recall election, the democrats fielded several candidates, but the republicans all supported Schwarzenegger.
One defect is in the winner-take-all voting system. Instant runoff voting has defects, although it is preferable to winner-take-all. The best system is called "range voting". Each voter rates each candidate on a preference scale of 0-100. The candidate with the highest average approval is the winner. This is the only system that allows people to support third party candidates without detracting from their support for a mainstream candidate.
Another reform is to allow several candidates to be elected from each district, as is done in Europe. Consider a state that gets 20 seats in the House of Representatives. In the current system, a candidate must get 50% in one district to gain a seat. Gerrymandering makes it even harder. If all 20 Representatives were elected statewide, it would only take 5% of the vote to elect someone to office. Such a reform would benefit third party formation. There is no chance that such a reform will occur.
The probability of election reform is zero. The people who control the election rules are the ones who benefit from the current system.
Some people say that a grassroots campaign resembles slaves petitioning their masters to be less cruel.
There are all sorts of defects with the election system.
1. A candidate cannot get to 50% support without all the free advertising in the form of television news and newspaper coverage. Whenever Clinton or Guliani are mentioned as front-runners, that's effectively a free advertisement for them. Other candidates can be censored just by being ignored. The argument of mainstream media is "we shouldn't spend time covering candidates who have no chance of winning", but that just makes it a self-fulfilling policy.
2. Corporations and wealthy donors support both candidates in an election. The choice of an election is a false choice.
3. If a non-approved candidate gains sufficient popularity, other candidates with similar views can be promoted. This will split their support and guarantee that an approved candidate will win.
For example, in the Presidential election of 1992 and 1996, Perot drew support from republicans and guaranteed that Clinton won. In 2000, Nader drew support from democrats and guaranteed that Bush won. A third party candidate with sufficient support can prevent the mainstream candidate he most resembles from winning.
4. The winner-take-all system guarantees that third parties can't be effectively formed. Without electing candidates to office, a third party movement dies. If the platform of a third party starts being popular, a mainstream candidate will adopt a tiny fraction of the platform and attract votes.
In a Presidential election, the winner-take-all system means that many votes are irrelevant. For example, California is almost certain to be majority democratic in the next Presidential election. Effectively, people in California do not get to vote in the Presidential election because the outcome was predetermined. It does not matter if the democratic candidate wins California with 55% or 80%.
5. In a closely contested election, 1 vote is less than the sampling error in the polling system. If a major election is decided by 10 or fewer votes, the election is more likely to be decided by a legal dispute than an actual vote count, as happened in the 2000 Presidential election.
6. With electronic voting and anonymous voting, it's impossible to verify that the election results weren't tampered with. Even paper voting is abusable. For example, there's no way to tell that a dead person didn't vote. The only way to conduct a verifiable election is to publish a list of who voted for whom.
Besides, what right does a majority of 51% have to confiscate my wealth? Anyone with productivity equal or below average can vote to confiscate the wealth of more productive people. The income tax does not hurt wealthy people; it hurts productive people. Wealthy people have the ability to use tax loopholes to avoid taxation. Corporations pass on their taxation expense as higher prices. Wealthy people have the ability to get the government to pass laws giving them special perks; the value of these perks exceed the campaign contributions (bribes) and income taxes paid.
Some people estimate that the rate of return for political campaign contributions is 10,000% or more. That money comes from somewhere. It comes from the wealth confiscated by government activities.
The people with extreme wealth can control the candidates presented for election. Their government perks allow them to confiscate the wealth of people who are productive but not wealthy. They promise token amounts of welfare to the poor to get them complacent and so they vote for the current system. A lot of poor people would be better off under an economic system that was fair but had no welfare.
People say "the government is legitimate because of elections" and "governments without elections are not legitimate". The voting system is defective and corrupt. The current system is the functional equivalent of a system without any elections at all. Therefore, I conclude that the government is not legitimate.
People are tricked into thinking that by advocating one candidate or another, they will accomplish genuine change and improvement. People who sincerely want to improve things have their efforts wasted and frustrated. Is it possible to redirect their efforts into a more productive alternative?
Thursday, July 5, 2007
The Voting Scam
The average person does not vote at all. They have correctly figured out that voting is a waste of time. It's more productive to spend an hour on some other useful activity, rather than spending an hour voting.
Posted by FSK at 3:45 PM
15 comments:
- Broadlighter said...
So are suggesting 'We The People' revolt?
- July 13, 2007 at 12:16 AM
- Broadlighter said...
Are you suggesting that 'We The People' revolt?
- July 13, 2007 at 12:17 AM
- FSK said...
A violent revolt would not be successful. It would be pointless. A direct one-on-one violent confrontation with the bad guys is not feasible at this time.
I actually do have a recommended solution, but I wasn't planning on mentioning it until later posts.
The solution is for people to do productive work and not report it to the government for taxation, confiscation, and regulation. This would create a pool of wealth outside the control of the bad guys.
That's the key most people miss. A winning revolt should be about creating wealth, not destroying wealth.
People would develop a private monetary system. I recommend a Social Credit system based on any form of non-fiat money. You can use gold, silver, hours of labor, or other barter credits. In a Social Credit system you don't even need physical gold or silver, as long as everyone keeps a balance near zero.
People need to develop their own private justice system and not rely on the government's corrupt system.
It would have to be leaderless resistance, so it could not be infiltrated or subverted. A dictatorship organization is inefficient. It would have to be distributed.
The legal basis for the new economic system is that all transactions would be, legally, gifts. If I make a shirt and sell it to you, that's a taxable transaction. If I make a shirt and give it to you, that's not taxable. There would be a system for making sure gifts given approximately equal gifts received, i.e. money. As long as the total amount of gifts you give to one person in a year is under $10,000, it is not reportable or taxable. In practice, you probably could do more if you trusted your trading partner to not keep records or tell the government.
This philosophy is nonviolent resistance. You do productive work and don't tell the government. By avoiding all taxation and regulatory hassles, your productivity will be increased by 50-90% or more.
It turns out that large factories are inefficient. Most goods can be more efficiently produced by a few people working in their basement. A large corporation is optimized for exploiting workers and extracting perks from the government.
A system needs to be developed for matching buyers and sellers. You need to make sure you only trade with people who won't rat you out to the bad guys.
This philosophy is called "agorism", mentioned elsewhere on the Internet. I have my own description of how it would work. I've already written drafts, but I wasn't planning on posting them for another 2-3 months until I finished all the prerequisite posts.
- July 13, 2007 at 10:24 AM
- Rabbit Tree said...
Very interesting!
- July 14, 2007 at 2:16 PM
- FSK said...
According to Google Analytics, this post has been my most popular, by a huge margin.
Are people interested in reading more about my analysis of "agorism"? I have several good drafts, but I don't have them scheduled to be posted for awhile. I was planning to post on other topics first, such as the Social Credit monetary system. An agorist community would probably use a Social Credit monetary system, because Social Credit money doesn't require a centralized issuing authority.
My Google Analytics stats are interesting. I didn't think this would be a popular post. One of my favorite posts, "The Five Levels of the Economy" has been hardly read at all.
- July 14, 2007 at 4:31 PM
Corporations and wealthy donors support both candidates in an election. The choice of an election is a false choice.
No it's not. I can vote for Eddie Vedder if I want to.
In any case, the solution to this conundrum is Range Voting.
- July 17, 2007 at 10:49 PM
- FSK said...
You can vote for anybody you choose. If that candidate has not been supported by the mainstream television and newspapers, that candidate has no chance of winning.
How exactly do you plan on getting the range voting reform passed? I don't see any elections for Congress or the President that use range voting.
I agree that range voting is a more sound basis for an election system than winner-take-all, only vote for 1 candidate, which is the current system. However, I doubt that more than 5% of the population is capable of understanding why range voting is better. You certainly aren't going to get 50% of the population to become strong advocates for range voting.
Besides, even if range voting were allowed, what right does a majority of 51% have to impose income taxes on me? What right does a majority of 51% have to force me to use worthless fiat money?
Even if range voting were allowed, with anonymous voting, how can you verify the election results weren't faked?
I'm afraid that advocating for range voting is wasting your time. There is no chance of passing that reform. I'm not convinced that the range voting reform would accomplish anything.
You're free to waste your time talking about range voting and advocating for specific candidates. If you want to do something actually useful, you should look elsewhere.
After careful analysis, I've come to the conclusion that setting up an agorist economy is the only reform with a nonzero chance of success.
- July 17, 2007 at 11:11 PM
- TZ said...
I live in Australia which has compulsory voting for over 18's.
The "sham democracy" follows the same faults here.
I am of the opinion that true democracy is a combination of
1) being able to vote on issues - one issue at a time (rather than every 3 or 4 years being able to vote for your dictator). The media and money power manipulates public opinion and therefore the vote means almost nothing. Besides, both of the sides in the unfairly two-party manipulated system only vary slightly in strategy, but both serve the same underlying policy which is not up for negotiation - the centralization of power.
A number of years ago, a man named Albert Langer publicised a method by which one could vote without rolling up preferences to one of the big two (Labour & Liberal in Australia). Immediately after that particular election, legislation was enacted to make Langers method an 'informal vote'.
(informal means wrong and therefore not counted).
2) most issues have more than 2 alternatives, and yet we are constantly bashed with an either/or else scenario.
3) freedom in association means very little unless one has the right to contract out. (ie. why should I have to vote when I believe there is no suitable candidate?)
- July 24, 2007 at 8:16 PM
- FSK said...
Direct democracy is just as defective as representative democracy. For example, direct democracy could impose a $1000/post tax on bloggers. Such a measure would pass if less than 50% of the population liked to post on the Internet.
I researched Albert Langer. Australia uses Instant Runoff Voting. Langer was advocating that people write "1" on the minor party they supported and "2" on all other candidates. At the time, it was considered to be a crime to advocate that people do this. Now, if someone votes that way, their ballot is disqualified as an improper vote.
If you analyze what Langer was doing, he was essentially performing a Range Vote under an instant runoff system.
I say that voting has no validity at all. What right do other people have to force me to use a corrupt monetary system? What right do other people have to force me to pay income taxes? The income tax is bad because it's an unavoidable tax. Anytime I work, I must pay income taxes and support the bad guys. All I accomplish by working harder is that I make the bad guys more powerful.
Besides, in a valid election system, "There should be no government at all." should always be one of the choices.
I read an interesting post elsewhere about compulsory voting in Australia. Someone decided to stop voting, just to see what would happen. He received several threatening letters and he ignored them. Nothing else happened.
- July 25, 2007 at 10:53 AM
How exactly do you plan on getting the range voting reform passed? I don't see any elections for Congress or the President that use range voting.
The first four U.S. Presidential elections essentially used Approval Voting, the simplest form of Range Voting. All it would take to get Approval Voting is to change the rule from "vote for one" to "vote for one or more". Way simpler, and better, than plurality or IRV.
And if IRV (or at least simplified variants of it) can be adopted in major cities across the U.S. (e.g. San Francisco and Oakland), there's no reason we can't implement a better simpler system, with better education, and ballot initiatives.
I agree that range voting is a more sound basis for an election system than winner-take-all
Range Voting is a single-winner voting method. For multi-winner elections there is Reweighted Range Voting and Asset Voting.
However, I doubt that more than 5% of the population is capable of understanding why range voting is better.
Indeed, many proponents of Instant Runoff Voting (who already want a different voting method) can't understand this. I've taken quite a lot of advanced math while studying computer engineering in college, and it still took me a week of debating a Princeton math Ph.D. to understand why Range was better than Condorcet. But I think that's why you have to sell the lay voter with the simpler benefits, like eliminating spoilers, and giving third parties a fair shot.
You certainly aren't going to get 50% of the population to become strong advocates for range voting.
I disagree, considering that IRV is a poorer and more expensive/complex system, and it has still won out in many areas.
Besides, even if range voting were allowed, what right does a majority of 51% have to impose income taxes on me?
Good point. But Range Voting will still objectively make you more happy, on average, with election results, regardless of your political stripe. This is essentially because it reduces the amount of random chaotic skew between what voters say they want, and what the election method actually picks.
What right does a majority of 51% have to force me to use worthless fiat money?
Use the Liberty Dollar. :)
Or use some Chaum-based anonymous digital currency system.
Even if range voting were allowed, with anonymous voting, how can you verify the election results weren't faked?
Here are two relatively simple ways:
But fraud is statistically "irrelevant" in severity compared to bad voting methods, so if we could either
A) eliminate all fraud
B) use Range Voting, without doing anything about fraud
then option B would by far be the better option.
I'm afraid that advocating for range voting is wasting your time. There is no chance of passing that reform.
The alternative is intolerable, so there's really little choice. And especially for third parties, you either have to work to get Range Voting, or just stop running candidates.
I'm not convinced that the range voting reform would accomplish anything.
Range Voting accomplishes a LOT. See the list of benefits at RangeVoting.org
Range Voting is a comparable improvement over plurality voting, as plurality is over non-democratic random selection (say, by accident of birth).
Michael Badnarik, as well as the Libertarian Reform Caucus both support Range Voting.
- July 25, 2007 at 5:45 PM
- FSK said...
I have an upcoming draft on the Liberty Dollar. I read the Liberty Dollar specification and I'm deeply offended. The Liberty Dollar gives alternative monetary systems a bad name.
There are two defects with Liberty Dollars. First, the amount of silver backing each Liberty Dollar is decreased as the price of silver increases. That completely defeats the purpose. Second, even if you do transactions in Liberty Dollars, you have to pay income taxes in Federal Reserve Notes based on the value of the transactions. Legally, it is impossible to boycott Federal Reserve Notes completely.
Since someone brought it up, I might as well publish my scathing criticism of Liberty Dollars now. That's a separate post.
I would value a Liberty Dollar silver coin based on the spot price of silver, no more. I would refuse a paper Liberty Dollar, unless I knew I could immediately redeem it for physical silver; in that case, I'd value it based on the price of silver.
When I have time, I'll look up the anonymous digital currency reference. I don't think that completely anonymous currency is desirable. I prefer the opposite, the Social Credit system, where there's an audit trail for all the money that's backed by me. If I'm making a grey market transaction, I need to trust my trading partner. I need to know my trading partner won't rat me out to the red market.
There is an alternative to Range Voting. It's the idea that government has no legitimacy whatsoever.
I have another unfinished draft that is a criticism of Libertarians. The Libertarian party is designed to cater to people who are fed up with big government, but haven't come to the conclusion that government itself is the problem. Libertarians want to try and make the government smaller. The Libertarian party is designed to distract people away from the idea that government itself is the problem. The Libertarian holds out the false hope that the government will voluntarily restrain its own power.
Who needs a government at all?
Debating alternate voting systems is like debating how much lubricant a rapist should use. I suggest that people should not be raped at all, and everyone acts as if that's a totally bizarre notion.
- July 25, 2007 at 7:26 PM
- TZ said...
Well said FSK!
However, don't forget that even government are the servants of International Finance - backed by their ability to tax their own people!
- July 25, 2007 at 9:02 PM
- TZ said...
The American government, for instance, relinquished its constitutional responsibility in 1913 by handing over all their rights to issue money - to a private business, The Federal Reserve Bank, which is now its master.
- July 25, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Another form of counter-economics is frugality -- opting out of the consumerist lifestyle and thus the need to sell yourself out as a wage slave.
Reducing our need for wages is a way to reduce the income taxes we pay. Consuming less means paying less in sales taxes.
Frugality also means not buying on credit. This means not exacerbating the compound interest paradox.
- June 3, 2008 at 5:24 PM
What kind of democracy do we have? I don't think is a democracy at all. How about industrial totalitarianism or fascism or communism? I come from an ex-communist country. They use to vote there as well, however there was an option between person A and B with no connection with you. Same here.
direct democracy means you can vote on any law. It has pros and cons.. How many laws will stand .. how many people will agree with gay people or police fines?
representative democracy means when somebody represent u and take decisions in your name.. Now lets say you are a homeless or without a job. According to statistics there are about 6-10% without a job.. That means 10% of senate shoud come from this people.
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"I think that was the better part of my day, to be able to go over there," said Mike Napoli. "To be able to get their mind off of what their struggles were for a couple of minutes, to be able to talk to them and thank them for what they've done for us. I think, for me, that made my day. It just topped off everything to be able to do that."
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BRIAN SULLIVAN, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK: The irony of this story, Greta, is that if John Mackey, who is the CEO of Whole Food who has been running the company, started the company in Austin Texas about 30 years ago, if he had positioned what he positioned in "The Journal" when we were not considering health care, this would have been considered radical reform.
He said here are eight ideas as a successful CEO that I have, including tort reform, allowing insurers cross state lines, self-directed ideas. And yet he is vilified by some of the more liberal followers out there of the president's plan.
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VAN SUSTEREN: This CEO of Whole Foods, in 2007, he said he had enough money to live comfortably, so in 2007 he cut his salary down to $1 a year, and he donated all of the proceeds from his stock option to charity.
This does not sound like a guy who wants to stick it to the poor when it comes to health care. He had a different idea, and that was what was in the "Wall Street Journal."
SULLIVAN: He is a self-described libertarian. And I do not know if that was angered some people. Not only was he taking $1, but he pushed this through, Greta, a $100,000 need-based fund for Whole Foods workers.
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NEW YORK — On the day the Blue Jays say farewell to Yankee Stadium, David Eckstein might also be saying goodbye to Toronto. The Jays are still in talks with the Diamondbacks about possibly dealing the seldom-used infielder to Arizona.
The Angels garnered most of the trade rumor attention over the past few days, but Jays Gm J.P. Ricciardi noted today that there would "probably not" be a match with the Halos. Angels also inquired about Marco Scutaro and John McDonald, but the Jays would be reluctant to deal either.
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David Eckstein, DH
Alex Rios, RF
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Rod Barajas, C
Adam Lind, LF
Jose Bautista, 1B
Scott Rolen, 3B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay (16-9, 2.69)
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Alex Rodriguez, 3B
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Xavier Nady, LF
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Hey, if the Angels want Macdonald and Scutaro hold firm for Brandon Wood and Rodriguez.
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Eck for Beck. Sounds like we got a decent looking pitching prospect from Arizona for Eckstein. Beck looks like an improvement on the draft pick we would have potentially gained.
Beck is still in A ball it will be a long time before we see what he is made of.
I don't think we would have gotten a draft pick at all for Eckstein. And the Jays were interested in Beck before so that makes sense as well, however being moved to two different teams and being a 14th rounder makes me doubt his upside. Sure he is pitching ok, but its only A ball and I doubt he is going to make it to the majors.
Did we pick up rest of Ecks Salary.
I don't think the Jays would pick up any of Esksteins salary but I also don't think they got much for him.
D-backs pay all of the remaining salary. Good move for Eckstein, he kind of got screwed this year, it'd be nice to see Arizona make the playoffs now.
I dont see how you can say he got screwed at 4.5 mil. for one year I would go for that deal anytime.on the other hand I am happy Eskstein and Stairs have a chance to make the playoffs at least we will have a couple of players to watch in Oct.
re: your question about why I defend JP when someone craps all over him.
I find the man incredibly sexy. If I was a woman….well, lets keep this clean.
Seriously, why do you and others ONLY bash him and not point out the good things he has done? I think he deserves criticism, for sure, but you can't ignore the fact that he really hasn't made a bad trade, has put together the best pitching in baseball, and while he has made mistakes in drafting (like EVERY OTHER GM), there are many quality pieces in the minors that can certainly contribute in the future, or bring back a power bat in trade in the offseason.
Yeah, he did better this year financially than 99% of humans, but in terms of baseball he got screwed by being benched for inferior hitters. He signed here to be the starter. I know things change and the new manager can do what he wants, but he should have gotten WAY more playing time, considering the offense, and not the defense has been the problem all year.
Plus. remember we are FANS and fans are fickle when things go wrong to us the manager or the GM are fair game.no one means any harm by it. we can't get rid of JP just by bashing him and we know it.so tell me were is the harm in it.
And if you read back in the blog you will find that a lot of guys give him credit when credit is due.Also you did not answer Gsumners question.
How about J.Mac you don't think he got screwed when JP gave him a 2 year deal and told him he would be the starting shortstop and then he brought in Eskstein.
Good point. That is one of the mistakes I think that JP made, but I believe (I may be wrong) that Eckstein became available after he signed McDonald to the extension, so he was simply trying to upgrade the position, which he did, offensively at least. I would be interested to see how Mac would do if he was given 500 at bats though.
The answer to the question of why I defend him is simply because I think he deserves it. I don't like when the Dickie Griffins of the world just harp on all the negatives or perceived negatives.
You answer me this: If the core of the team had just performed to the their expected ability, wouldn't this team be right in the thick of it? And if that were the case, and they were in the race or leading the race, wouldn't that make JP a good GM in most peoples eyes?
The point is, once the team is put in place on opening day, it is essentially out of his control. Yeah he can make moves midseason, but he couldn't make trades in April and May to improve the offense, because no team is making deals that early, because no team is out of the race at that point. You can point to Wilk and Mench as bad moves, but there really wasn't much of an alternative.
I just call them as I see them. I do compliment JP when he makes a good move. Problem is, he has not made many in the last 2-3 years. If you look up thread, you'll see I complemented him on the Stairs deal and calling up Snider. Garry and Bosox will tell you, up unitl last year, I was a huge JP supporter. Not any more.
I also think this deal with Eckstein is a good move. True all we got is a b grade prospect back, but we saved about $850k in salary.
In my view the biggest mistake JP made all year was hanging in with Gibbons as long as he did. If you want another list of JP's screw ups, let's go with Frank Thomas, Royce, Okha, Mench, Wlkerson, Bautista, Stewart, Benitez, Jason Phllips, Cory Koskie, Hinske contract, Ray Olmedo,Victor Zambrano, Joe Kennedy, Wells contract, AJ Burnett contract, Shea Hillebrand, Russ Adams, Gabe Gross, Zack Jackson, Chad Mottola and that's not the complete list.
There really is only one issue though on JP. He's been here for 7 years. The year before he came we finished 4 games over .500 and in 3rd place. Now we sit at 4 games over .500 and in 4th place. We've only been above 3rd place once. We've had one good, one mediocre and the rest crap drafts since he's been here.
Ok, we'll agree to disagree. But remember, JP had to slash payroll when he got the job, so for at least two years, he wasn't going to have much of a chance. Also, I know this point is beaten to death, but you can't argue the fact that the Jays are in the toughest division in baseball. Frank Thomas was a bad move, not going to argue that. Wells contract could very well been out of his control (Godfrey), and like I said earlier, I will wait until at least year 2 of that deal to call it a complete bust. The A.J. contract? Give me a break. This is going to turn out great for them. They are going to get two first round picks when he opts out, and if you look at the market for pitchers, JP did not overpay for AJ. He underachieved, but I wouldn't call this a bad contract at all. Maybe if he needs Tommy John on the last day of this year it will be, but that is out of JPs control. Gabe Gross and Zack Jackson gave him Lyle Overbay, who before his injury, had a pretty damn good year in 2006. Underachiever again this year I know. Shea Hillenbrand got him Accardo who stepped up big time in BJs absence last year. The others, specifically Stewart, I'm just too damn tired to argue. I guess Bautista is puzzling (maybe insurance for Rolen, who knows), but you know where I stand on Diaz. The draft is such a crapshoot, and it really can't be judged until at least 5 years after the fact.
You haven't addressed all the old has beens JP signed in the last couple of years that cost us a great deal of money with limited or no return. You haven't addressed the fact JP signed Hillebrand to start with. You haven't addressed the ridiculous contracts he gave Henske and Koskie. You haven't addressed the massive signing bonuses paid to Gross, Jackson, Negron and Adams that were all busts and number 1 draft picks.
By the way, check out Kevin Ahrens, our first rounder from 2007-he's not performing all that well and is starting to look like another Russ Adams to me. How about Eckstein at $4.5 million? Don't blame Godfey for Wells contract-that was all Jp's doing not Godfrey.
You must be joking about AJ. Who else signs a pitcher with a bad medical history for $55 million when his career best win record was 12-12. AJ didn't perform any worse than he did before we signed him-he's always been a .500 pitcher-we massively over paid for him. That contract and BJ Ryan's is what drove the price for pitchers through the roof. Frankly, we got lucky with AJ's contract. He could have gotten injured again, blown out his arm and we'd have been on the hook for the whole $55 million. Two draft choices isn't worth the money, we've already paid him. Besides, you are making a bad assumption in that JP knows what to do with draft picks.
Think about it this trade, two number 1 draft picks for Lyle Overbay? What does that tell you? What it tells me is neither Jackson nor Gross should have been number 1 picks and shouldn't have gotten over $3 million to sign. Think I'm wrong-then show me one other team in the last 30 years that's ever traded two number 1 picks for a 1st baseman who is nothing more than a nice player. That deal is almost as bad as the Diaz-Bautista deal.
You are right, we play in the AL east. We played in the AL east when we won the series two years in a row as well. The point is the ONLY way we win is to develop our own talent and then when we get close, add the last 1-2 pieces. We are paying for Jp's screw ups in drafting. The 2007 draft is the only good one he's done. All the others previous have been either poor or disasterous. Our minor league system was rating one of the poorest in baseball last year. Like what the hell does that tell you?
You also haven't addressed Jp's babbling mouth or his tendancy to lie. You haven't addressed the fact he should have fired Gibbons much earlier. You haven't addressed the Denbro hiring. I mean JP has not made a lot of good decisions in the last couple of years.
You still haven't accepted the obvious-look at the team win record, in the end that's all that matters.
This is pointless. I was almost going to argue with you again until you said AJ is a .500 pitcher. Its also a waste of my time to argue with someone who thinks Brandon Wood and Sean Rodriguez could be had for Scutaro and McDonald. Please tell me you were half in the bag when you wrote that.
Interesting that when you're pressed on your posts, sooner or later, you duck and make personal attacks. Hilarious.
I didn't say Wood and Rodriguez could be had for Scutaro and Macdonald, I said IF the Angels press for both of them, then we should HOLD firm until they offer Wood and Rodgriguez. Sorry if you can't figure out the difference.
Obviously, you haven't really reviewed AJ. His record was 49-50 at the time we signed him for $55 million. True, that's not really .500, it's lower than that and sure isn't a record which would justify a $55 million dollar guaranteed contract-particulary with his medical history.
Let's take the most pathetic team in hockey – our own beloved leafs. No one in their right mind would argue that they are not possibly the most disfunctional hockey team over the last 40 years. Yet, despite their lack of a game plan etc. they have at least recognized that at the end of the day, the repsonbibility for failing to put a winner on the ice must rest with the GM. Many of them, and there is a long list, have had much shorter tenures than our friend JP. Did Ferguson make some good deals, did trader Cliff make some good decisons and deals, did Quinn not make some good decisons and deals — of course. Even Stellick pulled off a couple of good deals. That is to be expected. Yet, at the end of the day they were fired because they could only bring the team so far and no further. A history of horrible drafts (except for the odd one here and there), a strategy of over paying for veterans passed their prime, a willingness to trade the precious few prospects they did have and draft picks for rental players, together, caused their demise. The problems were systemic not localized to a move here or a trade there. No one who bashes JP is saying that JP has not made some good moves, but it is irrelevant. The problem is that HE CANNOT DO HIS JOB — AND PUT A COMPETITIVE TEAM ON THE FIELD. Thus, like his forerunners and contempories managing the leafs, HE HAS TO GO. No one is in a mood to cut JP SLACK because after 7-8 seasons he has RUN OUT OF SLACK – just ask Gord Ash.
Gsumner and burt well said.
I think JP was short on experience when he came to Toronto.also I don't think he learned anything while he was here.What he should do is become an assistant GM under a good GM and learn the game all over.That's if his EGO would allow it.
Eskstein went 2 for 4 with a SAC. fly and 2 RBIs today.He was also involvd in three double plays.He was at 2nd base today.Good on him.The D-Backs won by 2 runs Hmmm.
Indy.How come no input on the JP disscussions.Also what do you think about the Stairs and Eskstein trades.Do you think the Jays came out ahead or not.
How about you Bosox anything to say.
Robert Lee where are you I miss reading your posts.I belive you know your stuff talk to us.
Where is Harry and Hemgold.Towers what happend to you we need your input.Also there are many more of you guys and gals that are not posting.What in the world happend to you guys.
JORDAN I know we are only Canadians but surely you can lower your standards and talk to us once in a while.You said you would interact with us while a game was on once in a while.What happend did you forget EHH.
I think the Jays (J.P.) made 2 very good moves. Eckstein was watching like us the fans. Gaston obvioulsy is a big fan of McDonald and he should be. No reason too keep Eckstein around. Also with Eckstein they saved some $$$ and that is a good thing. Same with Stairs, they saved some $$$$. Eckstein and Stairs didn't fit in there long term plan anyway. Eckstein obvioulsy wasn't going to be around next year with the Jays. Stairs makes a cool million next year, might as well deal him away. Stairs is no difference maker.
Where is Indigo? Where are you? LOL!!! This baseball season went by very fast. It seems like it was April about 20 minutes ago. Where does time go? T.B. keeps on winning. It is going to be very difficult for the Red Sox too catch them. I wouldn't be surprised if the Red Sox did but not counting on it. I think T.B. has been a great story and nothing but good vibes for the game of baseball.
I agree the Rays are a good story for baseball. With total salaries of $43,745,597, they have proven once again, that the best way to win, is with smart draft choices and building of a good minor league system. I expect them to get better next year than they are now. They are going to be tough to beat for quite some time.
Bosox it can't hurt to be a Sox fan living in Tampa Bay.It's a no lose situation lol.
gibby-1.You make a good point I wish the Jays had taken the same route 10 years ago.
I bleed Red Sox red. Always have and always will. If Boston is out of it, I would root for T.B. and who wouldn't? I assume you are and everyone else. T.B. gives hope to alot of teams out there. Who in the world thought it would be T.B. in first place on Sept. 1? Nobody around here said that. Howell, Balfour and Wheeler have been huge for the Rays this year. They're the reason where they are at. I thought T.B. had a chance to win 81 games and nothing more. Maddon a slam dunk winner for manager of the year. Hands down winner!!! As gibby1 said 43 million dollar payroll. A-Rod makes more than half that. lol.
Bosox. You bet your boots I will be rooting for Tampa but if they meet the Cubs in the world series it's the Cubs for me.And just for you if Boston makes it I will root for them just for you lol.Uh thats if they don't meet the Cubs.
If the Sox are done and T.B. is still alive. I'll pull for T.B. If those 2 teams are done, I'll root for the Cubs. If all of those teams are done, I'll root for nobody. LOL!!! If you can understand all that, mighty impressive. I have no clue what I just wrote, lol.
Bosox how many brews have you put away tonight.lol.
I'm kind of on the fence as to whether or not TB is a good story for baseball. Sure, it proves that if you can have a losing record for 10 years, and build with prospects, you can have 3 or 4 good years of great baseball, with a very low payroll.
But it certainly doesn't have that "if you build it they will come type of feeling to it" in TB right now. With the exciting young team they have right now, it'd be nice to see better attendance over there. I'd like to see the Cubs take it this year. The fans deserve it down there. That'd be a pretty cool story.
Bosox I wonder if Indigo found a new man and you now come second.lol.
I wonder what happend to gsumner.Must have wore himself out after that last post lol.
It appears Jordan does not like negative comments on JP, so when I sign in as email@example.com get the screen name gibby-1. lol That's why you see the post above under gibby-1. They track it from email address, so I used a different one this time to post. I don't really mind Jordan changing my name from my email but I think we should be give an opportunity to pick our own name.
Hey Jordan, why are you doing this? I noticed even when I signed into other mlb sites, I was Gibby-1, so you have changed my registration with MLB, not just the Blue Jays. Jordan, I did not give you, anyone from either the Blue Jays or MLB permission to put personal altered cookies on my system or change my personal registration with MLB, and I'd highly suggest you refrain from that practise. It's bad enough MLB bundle various ad bots and load them on.
My initial registration with MLB WAS NOT made through the Jays web site, and you're changing my registration with MLB without my permission in some jurisdictions is considered identity theft and a criminal act.
Need I say more?
No brews last night. lol. I don't even know if I even enter Indigo's mind. I doubt I am even in the top 100. LOL!!
Cubs would be a great story if they won it all. Very deserving, especially for the fans. They have suffered for decades. Cubs fans are among the greatest!!! Not too many Cubs fans have seen good years like this year.
I feel for ya plus, who is this gsumner guy and why does he think he knows everything about baseball? One that made me laugh histerically was the Overbay trade. Seriously Gross and Jackson are both fringe major league players, and Gross wasnt even drafted by Riccardi so you can't blame him for giving him the big bonus. Neither was Negron both Gord Ash picks. Ill take Overbay over those two players any day of the week. I dont care what round a player is drafted in if you can improve your team you do it. I could tear some of his comments to shreds, but like plus said its pointless. It's too bad that there wasn't a little bit more intelligent converstation around here this blog would be half decent.
Yeah, its just tiring. The whole AJ being a .500 pitcher talk is what convinced me that arguing with him will go nowhere. Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that is the biggest load of crap. Wins are the absolute worst possible stat to judge a pitcher on. He is having his worst year statistically, yet his winning percentage is the highest for his career.
Shame on JP for acquiring free agents that have made the team better, and also shame on him for acquiring Overbay for pretty much next to nothing.
Another argument I love is comparing the Jays to the Leafs (Burt). Ok, lets think about this one. The Leafs play in a league where more than HALF!!!!!!!!!! the teams make the playoffs. They are beyond pathetic. I don't think people realize how hard it is to make the playoffs in MLB. Now I know JP has done things to hurt the team's performance, but anyone with a brain has to realize that this team is close.
I haven't posted as often is I used to but I still read Jordan's blog daily. It just seems pointless to me to have to repeat basically the same thing frequently but I do agree with plus. The team is close. No team with the best pitching staff in baseball should rebuild. If they can get an average to good offense next year they'll be right in it.
"That being said, if Rolen's healthy, I think he could be our Mike Lowell and put us into contention. The guy burns to win, takes our defense to probably the best in baseball and provides us with a proven "cltuch hitter" which we have sorely missed.
If he is healthy and helps us win this year or next, no one will care how much he's paid in 2010 or whether he's even able to play.
In my view, we weren't going to contend before this trade, now, if Rolens performs, I think we might. He could be that much of a difference."
By email@example.com on January 13, 2008 7:04 PM
Personally, I'm more optimistic about The Jays in 2011 than I am now.
Our outfielders will be Snider, Wells, Rios,Lind and Cavez. Our catchers will be Diaz and Arencibia. For the infield we have Adhrens, Jackson, Hill, Tolisano and hopefully Fuenmeyer.
For starters we have Marcum, McGowan, Cecil, Purcey, Romero, Janssen, Litsch and potentially Wolfe and we are knee deep in pitching prospects that played in Auburn and GC Jays last year, 6 of which had era's under 2 and weren't mentioned in the BA report.
If we keep drafting the way we did last year, our minor league system will be humming in 2009 at all levels. The Sox and Yanks have better prospects in the higher minors than we do, but we hold our own in the lower levels and that crop is starting to move up. Auburn won the championship in 2007.
We now have a strong core of young talented players-mostly home grown. That only improves in the next few years and whatever pieces are missing can be added in free agent or trades. "
By email@example.com on January 13, 2008 7:46 PM
How times have changed….
I get a real chuckle out of many of the comments from Jays fans on the 'net.
Jays have great pitching and great defense. An offense that has struggled/underperformed.
IMO, it is not time to give up or rebuild or have a fire sale or (well you get the drift).
A couple of small changes, and a couple of players doing better offensively, and the Jays will be real tough to beat in 2009.
Did JP build this team? YEP
Has JP been perfect? NOPE
Are the Jays in the toughest division in MLB? YEP
But Steve, he drafted Russ Adams!
Russ Adams is currently playing AAA, and if I understand rightly had a pretty good August.
How many other draftees don't make it to AAA???
How many other draftees don't sign?? Like Beck in 2004 who didn't sign with the Jays to go to college (or whatever).
OK so he was a first round pick in 2002, and hasn't performed to expectations. I said JP (and his scouting staff) weren't perfect.
I know, I was being facetious.


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Jersey finger injury refers to the damage done to the tip of the ring finger when an athlete grabs the shirt (jersey) of another player while that player is pulling away. The hand grasping the jersey is closed in a fist. But the force of the player wearing the shirt pulls the tip of the ring finger into extension.
The result is a rupture of the tendon away from the bone. A piece of the bone may come with the tendon (still attached). This is called an avulsion injury. There can be a bone fracture along with the tendon rupture.
And although it sounds like this is an injury only an athlete can have, in fact, "jersey" finger injuries occur in nonathletes of all ages. Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory joint conditions experience this injury as well. The same mechanism takes place: forceful extension of the tip of the finger when it is bent that causes the problem.
Any finger can be affected. The ring finger seems to be the most commonly injured digit because of its unique anatomy. It is the weakest of the fingers and least able to move by itself. The flexor digitorum profundus (or FDP) tendon pulls away from the bone more easily than any other finger tendon.
When the fingers are in a fisted position, the ring finger is actually just a tiny bit more forward than the other fingers. So it absorbs more of the force during a pull-away maneuver compared with the other fingers.
Treatment is based on a classification scheme. The injury can be described as a type I, II, III, IV, or V level of retraction. Retraction refers to how far back toward the palm the tendon has recoiled. Type I describes a flexor digitorum profundus tendon (FDP) that has pulled away from the bone and snapped all the way back to the palm.
Type II injury means the tendon has pulled away from the tip of the finger taking a tiny bit of bone with it but without retracting past the next bone. With a type III injury, the tendon has avulsed with a large bone fragment that has gotten caught or entrapped without moving.
Type IV level of retraction has a ruptured tendon with bone avulsion and retraction back toward the palm. And Type V is a ruptured tendon with bone avulsion. The bone where the tendon has pulled away is broken into tiny pieces (called a comminuted fracture). Type V injuries are further divided into Va and Vb. Type Va means the damage is outside the joint (extra-articular). Type Vb tells us there is intraarticular (inside the joint) damage.
When planning the type of surgery to perform, the surgeon evaluates how far back the tendon has retracted, how much bone damage is present, and if the joint is involved. For example, full retraction of the tendon often means the pulley system that holds the tendon in place has also been disrupted. When the force of the injury is enough to strip the tendon from the bone carrying the pulley mechanism along with it, then the blood supply is also affected.
Besides considering the classification type of jersey injury, the surgeon must also consider how long ago the finger was damaged. The longer the time between the trauma and the treatment, the more likely it is that fibrosis and scar tissue has set in. Pre-operative X-rays and MRIs are helpful in showing the surgeon the extent of the damage and where the retracted tendon is located.
There is limited evidence from high quality studies to guide surgeons as to the very best surgical procedure to use for jersey finger injuries. Sometimes it is possible to reattach the tendon to the bone. In other cases, the tendon must be threaded back where it belongs.
If the tendon has to be pulled from the palm all the way forward to the tip of the finger, then it must be secured to hold it in place. The surgeon can choose between a button repair, anchor repair, locking sutures, or multiple strand sutures. The goals of surgical treatment are 1) to avoid a gap between where the tendon should be attached and where it can be attached and 2) provide a strong enough repair to withstand normal load on the finger.
Even with the best results, patients should expect some loss of motion. The tip of the affected finger may be permanently bent or flexed. Stiffness of the joint at the tip of the finger is common. Restoring full range-of-motion requires an aggressive hand therapy program and a motivated patient. Complications such as infection, too much stretching on the repaired tendon, or rupture of the repair can limit results as well.


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Peter Gardner
- Career Highlights
- Author of various articles on literature, writing, film, music, and English as a second language
- Author of the college textbook New Directions: An Integrated Approach to Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
- Former instructor of English at Boston University, Austro-American Society, and Language Institute of Japan
- Trainer of teachers and students in intercultural communication in Europe, India, and East and Southeast Asia
- Former clarinet instructor and performer in the U.S. and Europe
- Education
- B.A., Harvard College, english
- M.M., Vienna Conservatory of Music, clarinet
- M.Ed., Boston University
- Ph.D studies, Fribourg University, Switzerland, intercultural communication
In Their Own Words
"In all of my classes (English as a Second Language, Writing and Communication, Literature, Fiction and Film, and Intercultural Communication), I try to promote the individual growth of students: intellectual, emotional, ethical, and creative. I take a personal approach to teaching, treating my students as individuals and trying to help them in individual ways. In education, as in life, one size never fits all. As a teacher, I see myself as a coach or facilitator—a guide on the side and not a sage on the stage. I encourage a respect for diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds, while challenging students to question their own preconceptions and to reinterpret old habits, views, and biases (their own as well as those of others). I try to make education as engaging and relevant as possible, stressing connections among the arts and relating course material to students' personal and professional interests and concerns. Learning should always be active and interactive—an ongoing adventure filled with challenge, excitement, and wonder."
"I try to foster a sense of honesty, tolerance, passion, and social responsibility in my students. Stressing the development of critical and creative thinking skills, I encourage clarity, precision, and originality of thought in writing and speech; the ability to ask relevant questions and solve problems; an openness to new ideas and experiences; and a flexibility of mind that allows one to view topics from multiple perspectives and see connections. Aiming to help students expand their horizons, I urge them to shoot for the moon, knowing that if they fall short, they'll still learn a lot in the process. I continually emphasize a respect for individual and cultural diversity and encourage students from different countries to interact with, and learn from, each other. I try to help my students view the world with compassion, fight injustice whenever possible, and heed the words of the great writer and social activist James Baldwin: 'Artists are here to disturb the peace.'"
"Having a dual background in music and education strongly informs my approach to teaching. As a performing artist myself for many years, I understand intimately the competing interests of music students, the need to balance spontaneity and discipline in one's art, and the importance of a liberal arts education in a musician's life. Having spent many years studying, performing, and teaching in different countries, I also feel passionate about the need to develop an appreciation for cultural diversity and an intercultural awareness that will help students interact successfully with people around the world and become engaged and responsible global artists. My academic research over many years in the areas of second language acquisition, intercultural communication, writing, and film continually informs my thinking about ways to get students actively involved in, and excited about, learning."
"The Liberal Arts curriculum at Berklee helps foster this enthusiasm for learning. Interdisciplinary classes engage students in a wide variety of subjects, while promoting individual growth and freedom, artistic collaboration, ethical leadership, innovation, and respect for diversity. Encouraging the exploration of ideas and their open expression, liberal arts classes cultivate the critical and creative thinking necessary for success in an increasingly complex and interrelated world. As students investigate the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical forces shaping their lives, they learn more about themselves and the world around them. Liberal arts classes help develop inquisitive and probing minds that are able to discriminate between opinion and fact, detect fallacies in reasoning, evaluate according to different criteria, and view reality from various vantage points. Actively participating in the world of ideas expands students' creativity and artistic intelligence and helps them become informed global citizens able to use their music as a vehicle for social change."