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Barack Obama: Our First Female President

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I CHOOSE THEREFORE I AM:
Quantum Physics and Free Will
How we make decisions

How do we make decisions? How do we decide whether to go up the mountain, or down into the valley, looking for food? How do we decide which lipstick is most likely to attract some nerd to buy us a beer? Why do we buy one shirt instead of another? Do we have free will, or are our behaviors predetermined? Or predestined? Or encoded?

I searched high and low, through history and philosophy and psychology and physics, but could find no definitive evidence either confirming or denying the existence of free will. I was stuck. So I tried coming at it from a different angle.

The opposite of free will would seem to be instinct. Pre-programmed behavior. So I went looking for instinct, thinking that if I could just find out where instinct ends, I might find out where free will begins. But I got nowhere because no one knows where instinct is located, or how it works. Birds do not have computers in their brains that tell them to fly south in winter.

However, instinct seems to be a type of memory, albeit an “inherited” memory. So I went looking for memory and couldn’t find it. But I was in good company. Neither could James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, who said understanding memory is the biggest remaining mystery in the biological sciences.

I wasn’t done yet. Memory is a property of “mind”, so I went looking for mind, and couldn’t find that either. Nobody can. We can find our brains, but not our minds. (more…)

[The Rude Guy Podcast #62 October 13, 2009]

Barack Obama: Our First Female President

Rich Zubaty here, The Rude Guy once more. I voted for Barack Obama and I want him to succeed. But I don’t think he has a chance in hell of success unless he starts doing things much much differently. I’m glad he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe now he’ll start making some peace. So far he’s listened to the military assholes and sent more troops to Afghanistan and got more Americans killed there, than in any other year of this eight year war…and now, and only now, are he and Rahm Emmanuel reading books about Vietnam, trying to get up to speed on the American style of losing wars. This is not what you call smart. It’s what you call plodding, and overly dependent on advisors, and behind the eight ball. The Left was telling him a year ago to get out of Afghanistan because that war is unwinnable. Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires. The war’s just a running toilet of cost/plus dollars for our fucking defense contractors. Obama’s got blood on his hands now, and it’s time to change course. We should do exactly what Russia did. Pack everything up and leave. And that’s it. Hail to the Chief for getting the Nobel Peace prize. Now let’s have some peace! Henry Kissinger got it too. And all he did is prolong the war in Vietnam and give the go ahead for death squads in Argentina and to overthrow the government in Chile. Some peacenik Henry.

But there is some good news: President Obama is NOT going to put antimissile missiles in Eastern Europe. I’m thrilled. I really am. It’s the first thing he’s done right. 70% of the Czech people didn’t want the missiles. Russia viewed that Bush era plan, as belligerent saber rattling in their back yard, as if they suddenly decided to put missiles in Cuba – again. And…our antimissile missile system doesn’t even work. The technology is not there. I’m beginning to see what it takes for Barack Obama to make a decision. He needs a boulder on one side of the scale and a pebble on the other to decide anything. This man does not take chances. I’m sick of this already. He’s one of these guys who makes passionate arguments in favor of things everybody already agrees with. He’s against feeling bad and for feeling good and wants everybody to be happy. He’s all for puppies and sunshine and green energy. It’s feminized cowshit.

And therein lies the bad news. Barack Obama is our first female president. Our first female president. He governs just like a woman. That’s because he’s spent his whole life surrounded by women. Trying to please women. That’s his way. He was raised by a single mom. Truth of the matter is, if his dad had stuck around, Barack would probably be teaching computer science in Nairobi Kenya instead of being president of the United States. So he’s lucky his dad split.

When his mom died he was raised by his grandma. A bank vice president. His grandpa was a salesman. When he gave some drinking buddy a discount on furniture the guy helped get Barack into Punahou high school. Punahou is the most elite private high school west of Boston. Really. It’s where colonial captains of government and industry have been raised, together, in the same classrooms and on the same ball fields, for the past two hundred years. A bastion of conservativism. Just like Harvard, his other school.

Then Barack married a powerful lawyer and had two daughters. The man is surrounded by women. He knows how to “approach” women. How to appeal to women. He’s a woman’s man, not a man’s man. I would much rather have a beer with talk show host Ed Schultz than I would with Barack Obama. I’d rather talk about walleye fishing and bird hunting and unabashed leftist politics than about running some fucking community organization which, as far as I can tell, is the only thing Obama ever ran, before he became president of the biggest corporation in history.

Barack Obama is an attractive, charismatic, feminized man, who has no qualms about changing his mind. I voted for him, I own a piece of him and here are my questions for him. Are we getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo? Or not? Are we gonna have universal health care? Or not? Are we gonna investigate Bush era torture and assassination squads. Or not? Are we gonna end domestic spying? Or not. Are we gonna stop renditioning political enemies to be interrogated in other countries? Or not? Are we gonna regulate the piss out of Wall Street, or not?

George W Bush was an asshole from the get go. I was never fooled by him. But I feel more lied to by Barack Obama than any politician in my lifetime.

Obama holds his wet finger in the wind and says whatever he thinks people want to hear, this week. Clintonian opinion-poll politics. The worst. He’s a technocrat. Trying to patch up our country with a screwdriver, and some super glue, and a pretty speech.

Like a woman, his principal talent is talking. Not doing. Talking. Talking in that wonderful resonant seductive voice of his, while reading from a teleprompter.

Like a woman he wants to be all things to all people. He wants everybody to like him. He wants to throw his arms around the congressmen and women, and steer the government by consensus. Consensus is how women do things. That’s how you organize bake sales and pool parties. Not how you be president of the United States. The president walks point. He’s out in front. Not hanging back.

Obama’s feminized inclination to try and make everyone like him is self-defeating. When FDR revved up to pass Social Security he said, “The forces arrayed against me hate me, and I welcome their hatred!” I welcome their hatred! That’s leadership. That’s manliness. Here’s a cripple in a wheel chair with more balls than Barack Obama.

Obama was elected a year ago and what has he accomplished? Cash for Clunkers.

What a fucking clunker that was. (more…)