The Binary Circumstance

In this website, NoMarriage.com, the author blames women for the sorry state of marriage and society, while ignoring the fact that society and its laws was for the most part created by men who were in love with or married to women.

The problem lies in dynamics of heterosexual relationships, which are mysticized and romanticized, causing both men and women to become divorced from reality. Heterosexism requires that both men and women put themselves in one of two boxes; heterosexist males destroy what they see as feminine in themselves and heterosexist females destroy what they see as masculine. Then they spend the rest of their lives looking for the half that was “taken away” and resenting the other sex for having taken it away. This causes many heterosexuals to spend their entire lives on a seek and destroy mission. It is this dynamic that drives much of the course of human events.

Those who engage in self-destruction, seek to destroy the self in others.

The author includes his own opinions on marriage and women as well as links to articles by Arthur Schopenhauer and an article about Friedrich Nietzsche and his attitudes about women.

One of the biggest TV networks in the Middle East has stopped broadcasting from Iraq after being raided by the U.S. appointed government. Journalists were threatened with imprisonment for broadcasting audio tapes from Saddam Hussein.

One of the Middle East’s biggest television news networks agreed Monday to halt reports from Iraq after the U.S.-appointed government raided its offices, banned its broadcasts and threatened to imprison journalists.

The government accused Al-Arabiya of “inciting murder” for broadcasting an audio tape a week ago of a voice it said belonged to Saddam Hussein.

“We have issued a warning to Al-Arabiya and we will sue,” said Jalal Talabani, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council. “Al-Arabiya incites murder because it’s calling for killings through the voice of Saddam Hussein. … Inciting murder or violence is illegal under the laws of the entire world.”

Isn’t declaring war the same as “inciting murder?” Why don’t we lock up George Bush, Tony Blair and Saddam Hussein for inciting murder?

Remember the Law of Identity: A=A. Inciting murder is inciting murder no matter who does the inciting.

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This article from the San Francisco Chronicle supports my contention that Gov. Schwarzenegger has many more options for solving the Kah-lee-fornia budget mess than his bifurcated choice that I discussed yesterday.

A scene in the blockbuster movie “Spider-Man” is eerily similar to one now playing out in Sacramento. In the movie, Spider-Man’s enemy, the Green Goblin, dangles Peter Parker’s true love off a bridge. In his other hand, he dangles a cable car full of children. Suggesting that Spider-Man cannot save both, he demands that the hero choose which he will let die.

In essence, this is what some advocates for tax increases are seeking to do to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Either break your pledge not to raise taxes or break your pledge to protect quality-of-life priorities. “We’ve already done all the easy stuff,” they argue. “Taxes are the only option. Choose.”

The other options include performance-based cuts, competition, renegotiating labor contracts, reorganizing governemnt and moving to a two-year state budget:

California has two environmental agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Resources Agency. We also have two tax-collecting bodies, the Franchise Tax Board and the Board of Equalization. We can save almost $900 million simply by reorganizing state government and reducing duplicate, overlapping or unneeded services such as these. By combining similar departments and programs such as the EPA with the Resources Agency, the taxpayers save on overhead costs and service levels improve through a refocused mission that is strategy-based.

That is just one of many suggestions. Why can’t Schwarzenegger with his superpowers see more than two options, a fiscal-responsibility bond and raising taxes, which are actually one option–raising taxes–disguised as two?