An IDEAL, synonymous with MODEL, is an IMAGE of excellence to be imitated.   So just what is this perfect MODEL that liberals look to achieve at the expense of past values? What future political actions are really being proposed to make America faultless? The answer must really begin with understanding what an IDEAL really is all about.

An IDEAL, synonymous with MODEL, is an IMAGE of excellence to be imitated. An IDEA exists as a mental image or a fancy in the imagination. It lacks practicality. An idea relates to mental images or impressions, and attempts to conform to faultlessness. IDEALISM is a premise that ultimate reality lies in a realm going beyond experience. The theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness, that only the perceptible is real. REALISM is the faithful copying of nature. Idealism affirms the preeminent value of imagination. 

Be assured, any time you hear the word IDEA or IDEAL expressed in the public debate, and hear about whom is not as intelligent as “WE” , just know you are listening to an impractical free-thinker, to a liberal thinker, to a theoretical, to an academic. You are listening to someone living in the world view of their own head. 

It is Rick Warren of Saddleback Bible-Teaching Church versus evangelical megachurch Pastor Gregory Boyd, Christian Right versus Christian Left, Christ the redeemer versus Christ the liberator, Christian Faith & Grace versus Christian Works (Christian Socialism & Marxist Activism).  I think Boyd's athiestic historical past is creeping through, a form of Marxism in Christian terms, society (government) responsibility trumping individual responsibility. 

As I say, politics is the public debate over the future of our civilization.  This debate over civilization is conservative values (right) versus liberal ideologies (left), where the words CHURCH and RELIGION are painful ideas implying self-discipline. Most Christians cannot distinquish a value from an ideology.  Most do not know if their world view springs from God, from His biblical truths of way and life,  or if their beliefs are a regression from THEIR own intellectually warped world view, from binge eating from the tree of knowledge.

For Gregory Boyd to say that Christian religion has no place in politics is saying values and principles have no place in the public debate. It is saying that politics must be a debate over ideas.  Detrick Bonhoeffer, the German theologen who Hitler put to death, troubled by how the German Christian culture could stand behind Hitler and NAZI's, came to the conclusion that they were non religious Christians.

 Most of the investment into wind power has been by a global corporations out of Spain. Thanks to tax credits here, Spanish Iberdrola is one of several foreign-owned energy companies that have entered the United States wind market. Even coal rich Pennsylvania is working with the Spanish wind-energy company Gamesa Corp.

Let us start with a field of view of the nation’s wind resource maps, available for each state, and how they relate into the power grids. Start by looking at California.    http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/wind_maps.asp

We have 3,000 counties. Most of the counties have marginal and fair wind resource ratings. Over 65% of the people live in 10% of those county, counties with populations greater than 80,000, those non wind zone counties. Over 85% of the people live in half of the States, those non wind zone states. Over 40% live in the coastal areas, those non wind zone areas. 

Wind power does little for Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Miami, Houston, etc. The best practical solution for the super mega metro areas is putting nuclear in those high population density areas.

Wind power has always been practical in all those rural, remote from the power grid, those small counties with populations from nothing to 80,000, like in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Alaska, or New Mexico. That 20% suburb wind resource is not 20% to all the people, but to 20% of the people. These States are already exporters of electrical energy to the likes of California and New York. Red conservative counties already export electrical energy to the liberal blue counties. Prime wind resource state like South Dakota is already an exporter of electricity, without putting wind turbines along the prime resources of the Black Hills.

Another point of view is knowing that the power created at the turbine source has a significant transmission loss by the time it gets to the distant home use. Think of the transmission line as a water hose. The longer the hose, the less the water pressure coming out. The closer to the source, the more efficient and the lower the cost. Most of California is imported energy. . Red conservative counties already export electrical energy to the liberal blue counties.

Then there is the environmental point of view. A 1 GWatt coal or nuclear base load plant needs less than 500 acres. An equivalent 1 GW base load wind power at U.S. average capacity of about 22 percent would require 45,000 acres, plus another 5,000 acres for transmission corridors. Wind turbines the size of the LDS Church Office Building would be required every 240 feet along I-15 and I-80, spanning Utah. Unfortunately at this spacing, the 250-foot-diameter blades of each turbine would intersect each other.

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It is the microprocessor arithmetic feature that powers the computer not the memory cells full of stored data, not the video disk full of hoarded information. It is the central processing unit that ratio’s, calculates, accounts, and converts information into knowledge, into doing it. Likewise for the fruitless human brain occupied with limited specialized data. Unprocessed information is only unrefined ineffective data.

The liberal institutions of higher education, the scholars, employ their constricted enlightenments to trump the logic and reasoning of wide-ranging scientific deliberations, those seeking truth.  Scholars with PHD’s behind their names believe themselves to be scientists-plus. Scholar, from the word SCHOOL, implies a learned person, and by definition someone who has had advanced training and instruction in a restricted field, able to PERFORM.

Animals can be trained and instructed to do specific tasks. Animals can be clever and cunning, but never ingenious. By definition, scholars are narrow minded to specific fields, and, by behavior scholars are mainly liberal and limited in scope and talents.

Liberalism is irrational. Opinions and assertions are incongruous with observations, logic, and reasoning powers. It is logic that directs the intellectual powers in the investigation of truth, and communicating it to others.   Logic, from logos or reason, is that discipline that deals with the principles and criteria of sound deduction and revelation. Logic is the art of thinking and reasoning justly. Logic is the discipline of the principles of reasoning, a branch of knowledge dealing with relevance, weight, and consequence. Correct thinking implies correct reasoning. 

Liberalism is a mental disease. Deductive reasoning is the power of comprehending, inferring, and thinking in an orderly rational way. Reasoning is the gifted exercise of the intellect, distinct from "THINKING".  Sanity is reasoning, using the sum of intellectual powers. Reason, to ratio, is to calculate, to account, to explain, and to justify. It is to establish the underpinning that sustains a conclusion or explains a fact. It is making some fact intelligible. It is connecting effect to cause and cause to effect. It is seeing the dots, and connecting the dots, that theater of the mind that specialized scholars of letters lack. 

Starting with the Revolutionary War, three out of four of the nations Presidents first served in the military, most during a war, prior to political ambitions.  Many served as generals. Seven non- military presidents were Democrat, four Republican. Six Presidents in a row, from Taft (1909) through Roosevelt (1945), were Commanders in Chief without military experience. One can say that this anti war interval of American history was when the national security (internal and external) was at its weakest. The last non-military president was Bill Clinton, again when the military forces were reduced and American security grossly weakened.  

Before voting for someone, ask when and how they got into politics in the first place. First, give credit and respect to those rare few who are recruited into State and national politics because of some previous great military public service making them respected and well liked, those like Washington, Ulysses Grant, Eisenhower, John Glenn, and now John McCain.

Sound wisdom has insight into observing and deducting raw power hungry people, be it in a classroom, a corporation, or a nation.  The bible is that book, that operators manual about the human machine. For 4,000 years it warns all about this mortal propensity of  "gaining the world and losing the soul!", about blind ambition.

In casting a vote have the insight to see beyond personality into character, into substance.  Beware, because politics is more about personal ambition, about POWER, about human pride and giant egos, about seducing votes. Look at low-middle class Obama, all his movements and positioning over a short span of time, to create an impressive resume, funded by somebody, never in one position to really serve others.  His very conduct defines obsessive worldly ambition, on the move, always passing GO, and COLLECTING!   No time to waste any ambitions or any  youth in any military service!

Imagine the election of 500,000 elected officials to city, county, State, and federal positions.  Two citizens in a thousand pursue and succeed in that career field, in hopes of getting to Washington.  Most that succeed are the biggest frauds, deceivers and cut throats of society. They are masters of image management. They are masters of fake personalities and deception.  Then, imagine what it takes to succeed success in a mere dozen years, and how easy they fool the mediocre citizen with such little effort.

At what point does a failed vision become a delusion, a hallucination, or a nightmare?

Reselling the same failed erroneous beliefs to warped imaginations continue. It started with NEW Harmony under atheistic Robert Owen (1825). To NEW Freedom under Woodrow Wilson (1913). NEW Deal under Roosevelt (1933). NEW Frontier under John F. Kennedy (1961). GREAT Society under Lyndon B. Johnson (1963). Now, NEW Hope under Obama (2008).   At least LBJ did show some creative imagination in word selection.

Liberals advance the nice, and bury the bad and the ugly in a deep hole, edited out from all of history. In America the failed socialist ideology goes back to 1825, before Marxism.   Anti private property, anti marriage, and anti religion in America goes back to 1825, or before. The 160 year old 6^th hand socialist idea just gets recycled under new packages, with the label emphasizing NEW contents! 

In America, when did the pompous wish to convert the civilized world start? Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Welsh social reformer was a founder of socialism and the communalism movement in America. Owen's philosophy, which Karl Marx later named utopian socialism, was derived from three fundamental pillars. First, Owen believed that no one was "responsible for his will and his own actions" because "his whole character is formed independently of himself." Owen firmly believed that people were the product of their environment.   Owen's second pillar was his opposition to religion. Owen felt that all religions were "based on the same absurd imagination" which he said made mankind "a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite." His third pillar said that he disliked the factory system (capitalism), and supported the cottage system (farmers & labor)..

In 1825, Owen took his NEW APPARITION of society to experiment in NEW Harmony, Indiana, U.S.A. After a trial of about two years it failed. All his communities in England failed. Today New Harmony (population 880) has homes and incomes that are 65% of the rest of Indiana. Owen’s “NEW” vision has always failed, in Russia, in China, in Cuba, wherever. The socialistic vision to convert (or revert) the civilized world has never materialized anywhere. Mortal’s behaving as God fail in life, always.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm#15.%20Robert%20Owen

First, investors (retirement and savings funds) have over $3 Trillion of life savings at risk in this industry employing a half million people who also pay massive taxes.   Industry gross profit is around $240 Billion. Of that, government gets $100 Billion. About $91 billion is invested back into the business for expansion. About $7 billion goes to banks for the long-term debt they carry. Finally, out of it all, $6 billion goes to stockholders, or .2% on the risk capital.   Corporate Tax in the US is 5^th highest in the 30-nation organization, at 35%. That excludes around 6-8% to State corporate tax. That excludes the $70 billion the industry pays out for government Social Security and Medicare taxes on those 500,000 employees, also accumulated into the end price tag of gas. 

It is not OIL that gets the most money. It is government. First, the government kept all mineral rights in all those homestead land grants.  Know that oil exploration only happens upon any lands or waters unless authorized by a government. Government gets paid for that access, and every step in the supply chain including point of consumption.

Gas prices around the world run from 14 cents a gallon in non-taxation countries like Venezuela, upward to $6.50 a gallon in the more socialist countries like the Netherlands and Norway. The recurring cost to make a gallon of gas is less than 50 cents if refined at the point of the pumping. It is not the oil companies that suck out that extra $6.

They say we travel 2 trillion miles in USA and that equates to about 100 billions of gallons of gas. That says that this $170 billion in taxes paid by the corporations to federal and state adds about $1.70 to the costs of gas. This excludes the taxes at all the other supply chains feeding into this oil industry, and taxes at the local distributive and retail ends which adds likely another good 50 cents. As I said, for $3 gas a gallon, you figure out who is getting the most, the biggest piece of the total pie. The approximate $2.20 to the government, or the 1 ½ percent or 5 cent return to we the stockholders.

During this election year, we will be bombarded with daily portraits of politicians to persuade us that they have courage, passions, strengths, character, soul, and to put trust and hope in them. We need to ready ourselves for the deceptions. Then comes the conventions and the masses will be flooded with portraits, icons, and images. Then comes the punch line.

Obama the Great has decided to give his acceptance speech, the closing of the 2008 Democrat convention, in a football stadium. The powerful image will be that used by Hitler in his march to power, to stand upright, outspoken, and strong in front of 70,000 encouraging, cheering and swooning multicultural faces. The media camera will focus on the faces, back and forth, between Obama’s and certain individuals of the masses, the Black, the Asian, the Hispanic, the Woman, the young, the old, the handicapped, the Hollywood celebrity icons in the stadium. To the multicultural observer, all will be emotionally persuaded to unite with the crowd, to scramble to the bandwagon. And, it will work, for it worked for Alexander the Great back in 326BC, when he ruled over a multicultural empire, and invented this political unifying tactic.

Talk cooks no rice.  Words come and go.  But powerful images become embedded forever!  In this election go-around Madison Avenue will prevail over Wall Street, personality over substance. History will repeat itself.   The blind masses will get what they deserve.