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The End of Corruption in Congress

You know and virtually everyone knows and believes nothing can be done about the corporation corruption in your and my government. Even our legislators admit it. I have an idea that may be able to make the change necessary to clean up the mess. According to many authors such as the late Howard Zinn and Bertrand Russell it can be done.
To do it requires a ground swell of like minded citizens to put the pressure on our legislators to pass legislation to make it a criminal act to influence or even to appear to attempt to influence our legislators. As a 92 year old citizen I propose publishing a letter I will write as a personal opinion of the youth of the Brattleboro Union High School and all other youths of our country as follows.
The Brattleboro Initiative:
As a representative of the opinions of the overwhelming majority of the youth of our country the corruption in Washington Government must not be left as an inheritance to us. Therefore we petition our parents, relatives and all voters of the United States to stand up and be counted with us to eliminate the corruption by passing legislation to outlaw it. The movement shall be a single issue one with no leadership, no dues, no lobbyists but just the determination to end the evil by announcing that for our vote you must Stand Up And Be Counted (SUABC). Vote for candidates for office only if they will support the limiting legislation.
IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. There must be dozens of like minded groups that agree with us and will SUABC. It has been said that an idea whose time has come is more powerful than an army. I believe that and now is the time to test it.

Brain Chemistry

Here is an observation that perhaps we all have known about but I have not heard of it being investigated. Twice now while running I have run up and over the steepest hill in my regular 5k course and suddenly realized I had done so without tiring my legs and without excess shortness of breath or even thought about it that has always previously been present. I wondered,"why?" Then I recalled at least three cases of clients who had problems with missing fingers who answered when asked about what happened that each had been working with with a table saw and suddenly noticed blood all over their work to discover they had cut themselves with out knowing it until seeing the blood. The question of how anyone could cut off fingers without felling it may be the same situation as my running over the hill without knowing it.
I recall reading about a surgeon who visited a medical school in China to witness acupuncture as an anesthetic who reported on a case of eye surgery on a patient with no other anesthetic. The case was one that should have created excruciating pain but did not with the Chinese surgeon. Something is happening in all those cases that indicates something to due with brain chemistry perhaps. Also I recall a Dr. G. Young friend telling how he used acupuncture on cows to do Cesarean section operations on cows in his practice. It seems that some involuntary situation occurs over which apparently we have no control. If we can learn to use whatever is responsible in a constructive way I might be able to run without feeling fatigue for example. It could be the end of the need for anesthesia in surgery. That might also be involved with forgetfulness in humans. I'm sure all reading this can recall similar situations. It seems to me that research in brain chemistry may have the answers to such questions. Of course it is known that pain can be for good reason that must be considered.

The Brattleboro Plan

Let June 17, 2011 be the inaugural of the Brattleboro Plan to clean out the corruption and dishonesty prevalent and well known world wide in the political scene in Washington, DC. Just as definitions of the words, honesty and integrity do not involve political affiliation so the Brattleboro Plan does not involve political affiliation and is open to all interested in honesty and integrity. Perhaps High School Students will be leaders in numbers of the free membership of the Ass Kickers (AK) of America as mentioned in a previous Blog. As Victor Hugo once stated, "An idea whose time has come is more powerful than any army." If the Brattleboro Plan's time has come we shall soon find out if you, the reader joins the action. George Whitney,AK

Corruption in Congress

How many readers agree with me that among our Senators and Representatives in Washington, DC there is like a rat's nest of corruption? Am I wrong or wouldn't you have to be deaf and blind not to be aware of the corruption? If we permit it to continue without an attempt to correct it aren't we in effect telling our youth that dishonesty is acceptable?
I do a lot of reading and viewing of free University videos and note that in England in the 1800s Their Parliament was apparently as corrupt as our Congress is now. It was agreed there was nothing that could be done as the majority of members were guilty but a small group decided to put a bill in Parliament to correct the problem that everyone assumed had no chance of passing. Strangely the bill got 60 votes. The numbers were so unexpected another similar bill passed Parliament and the corruption was corrected.
In my reading and viewing I constantly read about the bind we are in in our economy. That theme is repeated until most publications have nothing to offer as an attempt to solve the problem.
Someone must suggest a plan of action and after thinking about it here is an obvious plan that, if it could stand a possibility of success requires you the reader to join in the effort. It is an obvious approach that requires those who want to do something about it to join together in a "Peoples movement" to be successful. There should be no cost for any one to join and to join all that is necessary is to write something and after your name place the letters,"AK." Like those professionals who advertise with all sorts of letters. AK stands for "Ass Kickers."
So I am not pleading with anyone , I am merely attempting to offer a gathering point for you to join others in ass kicking Congress to pass legislation to take the corporations out of the people's, and that is our Government. If you join you are telling everyone you want the Congress to clean house and pass legislation. That is all and if I am wrong so be it and nothing will come of this effort. But if I am right You and I will accomplish what our Legislators know should be done but are sitting on their hands. Who am I to attempt to do something about the corruption? I am George Whitney AK.
P.S. Some friends and relatives think the AK is inappropriate for some of the public so I have established SUABC- stand up and be counted as with the author's thinking of the attitude in the youth of the United States not wanting to inherit the Corporation control of our Government as it exists today

Our Aferican Ancestors

There are many to speculate about the future but here I choose to speculate about that part of the past between the time our ancestors came out of the African jungle and just after they emerged to populate the earth. Some call the 50 thousand years conservative but we do have some archeological information and the earliest Greek evidence of their polis, the forerunners of our city-state development of about the seventh century BC. I suggest that along with developing the spoken word what may be called tribal groups developed all over the African Continent. Perhaps the gatherings were similar to those we see there today where they have over 150 languages and a second language many tribes are familiar with. That second language would be that of the people of the European countries that visited the continent to civilize the people and help them by carving the area up and putting names on each country and to pay for the natural resources they removed like slavery. In the early days and undoubtedly prior to it the trait of fear was part of survival and of course hunger, pain, sex impulses and the ability to run that I have mentioned in previous blogs. When those early ancestors ran animals to exhaustion some of then did not run that far. Like the horse it would run and, experiencing no danger would stop until the hunter could dispatch it. However some hunters might throw a vine improvised noose around the horses neck and lead it back to the tribal area. If human food was plentiful the animal could be saved until needed. during that time perhaps some horses were tame enough to be ridden, a forerunner of the race track industry. Perhaps bovines could have been led home with nursing calves. After the calves were butchered for veil cutlets it was noticed the cow had milk to spare and thus started the dairy industry. Some of the tribes may have used dogs to bring in birds for the hunter to bring home for food and some of the birds were not killed because there were enough dead ones and the live birds might have laid eggs that were valuable and so started the chicken soup and the poultry industries. The retrievers with soft mouths would be desired to fetch uninjured birds and thus began the retrievers used by the hunting industry today. Remember we are talking about a long period of time during which those ancestors survived only if they had the ability to find the food for survival in disastrous times. Also not having any concept about science they grew to wonder about facts of nature that had no reason. Lightening, floods earthquakes and diseases that could have destroyed huge numbers in spite of the health industry of those days. So the survivors had to have remarkable immune systems and they had to have reasons for so much mystery. That was the beginning of the religious industry. There became answers to every question most of which were wrong but satisfying to many and that industry is still with us today. Then our ancestors came out of Africa with their 50 thousand years of knowledge to populate the whole earth. Many scientists believe that in the next few years scientists will make living cells that can replicate themselves and we then may say the wheel has made a full turn. It seems we have the knowledge for the survival of our species but the will to utilizing it is a frightening question.