Animal Cultural Loans: Animal Totems. Wolf Politics, Wolf Religion

Gristmill. By Dint:

KNGDV. Dominion. Worst Concept in the World. The Wolf Totem. 
"Dominion" equated with force and entitlement. No. Go back to old transliterations and find words for mild guide, reciprocal coexistence.  From that concept, one of responsibility and care, see animal behavior as model for the human. Animal totems. What totem would drive the force-dominion idea. Try the Wolf. But is that necessarily so. What is behind the predatory nature of the human wolf?

Sassafras Tree. Natural Pragmatism. Washington's Majority Wolf Pack. Defenses. 
Animal totems, models for human behavior, a globally recurrent cultural theme.  Here, use the Wolf's own behavior patterns and rigid social structure to explore how those non-wolves can possibly counter it.  Ask: Must a non-Wolf become Wolfish in order to survive; what constructive can be done by non-Wolves to woo the Betas, the lower rung wolves, away; how to better the lot of the picked-on Omegas in the pack. Can nonwolves hope to 1) engage in effective defense, and 2) educate for, and offer, alternative systems to the cyclical predatory Wolf.

Joy of Equivocating. The Lame Duck, Wolf Pack, Bestiary Ball 
Meet the guests. Whose Totem is now in charge? Wolf Totem Pack illustrated. A quasi-monster mash in our capitol.

Bellwether Haiku, DC Totems, R-Strategist Predator and K-Strategist; T-Strategist
Animal survival.  Human survival. Each has strategies.  The R-strategist (not a party designation) means smaller animals in unstable environments, whose way to survival must be the rate of population growth to counter the deaths. The K-strategist means large animals in stable environments whose behavior is not focused on population growth, but turns to perpetuating its power structure by raising only a few high-born babes to compete.  There is no altruism from the K's to the R's; but there is altruism, to a degree, within the R's -- to their same group.

Vetting Roots. President's New Banquet Filled by Others; Wolf Pack Declined 
When the President invited Republicans to dinner and informal wheel-greasing among all, the Republicans had better things to do, they said. Invitation issued, declined. We hoped the President would hold a dinner anyway, for others -- perhaps the struggling middle class.  At least he did not offer a dinner again. A Brekkie at the Blair was all they got.

Studying Wars: Western Ethnic Violence Timeline.
The Wolf Totem mentality in Western religious expansion.

NATIVE AMERICAN -

I Sing a Song of Sitting Bull.

Sing this to an old hymn melody, the essential points of the life of Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn, and in defense of lands granted to the Indians through the Treaty of Laramie.  Buffalo totem:  follow the footnote for the characteristics of the Buffalo Totem. Compare to the White's long-standing apparent emulation of the Wolf.

Correct history's rewrites. Recognize Forms of Welfare and Their Function

Capitalism starts with welfare: William Bradford, Plymouth; and getting started.
Thanksgiving. Give thanks for welfare.  Plymouth's government started welfare by passing out parcels of land. The freebie got people out working when they could keep for themselves, mostly.  But it took the original boon to get it going.  Other welfare forms:  Inheritance, or the right to change your name for your own economic benefit (choose something less ethnic). Government lets you do that.  Something for nothing. Government welfare..

Pragmatic Secularism - A Golden Mean. Law over Revelation

Isms. Pragmatic Secularism 
A golden mean.

Primacy of law over revelation: process of enactment
One group's revelation cannot bind another.

Western Ethnic Violence Timeline
Aggressive religionism has produced disastrous results.  Aggressive secularism is equally combative. Apply pragmatic secularism to public life, interactions between people and groups; and religion remains the purview of the individual within his or her own life.

NRA. Fear Theory; Gun Culture. Everyman Nate Rudy Asclater. Diversions for Population Control; Transparency; NRA

 By Dint:

NRA.  Not Really Altruistic.

Second Amendment meets Placemaking: The Gun Speaks.
Fear theory, context of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, with "safety" the dominant focus once basic needs are met. Uses of guns.  The place of the National Rifle Association in American culture;

Power of the Statutory Pen: Can wipe out inheritances, even require NRA disclosures.
The legislature has the power to give the tools for people to make informed decisions; but everybody's afraid. Where the will, alas.

Nate Rudy, Everyman. Nathaniel Rudolph Asclater Speaks
Meet Nate Rudy, American. Family man. Still, a spinning compass until he found his gun.  Nate Rudy Asclater. Shoot now, ask later, now in his mind. When does fantasy seep out.

A Day in the Life of Nate Rudy Asclater, And Gun
Nathaniel Rudolph Asclater's Wife Speaks. Asks. What is going on here? And update after Nate Rudy joins the NRA.

I Did It! Nate Rudy Joins the NRA and Keeps a Journal.
Nate Rudy has found his voice.  He writes, and writes, and writes. What is in his head, how does he see his place in life, how he can get somewhere he wants. Yes, the NRA.


But is the NRA all that Nate Rudy thinks it is? Is Nate duped? If so, How? Not at all? Does it matter, so long as Nate is happy?

Resume Activities (Curriculum Vitae): Transparency in NRA Corporate Connections Act.
Issue:  NRA official Ronald Schmeits places obfuscated references on his CV as to financial connections.  This draft legislation would ban obscure references, that produce no easy results in a search for a resume entry, or curriculum vitae. Require identification of corporate connections, particularly in banking. Transparency will enable vetting of bona fides of policy and cultural positions.  Who are the associates here? See where ambiguity in such leads us and the NRA. An avoidable dalliance - just be clear up front and the issue goes away.

Culture's Abuses. Rights of Voters, Babies, Genders,

 Rights of Voters and Juries

Free speech v Justice in political speech.
Politics is not just a matter of sales, persuasion by tactics. Politics to be just (if we seek just rulers) requires truth in political speech.  That means accountability and transparency in political speech. Apply labels to warn of speech that is speculative, and has as its agenda not information, but to polarize, propagandize and demonize. In politics, as in courtrooms, where justice is in issue, apply basic rules of evidence.  Protect voters just as we protect juries in their work. No more Robert's Rules of Order as applied in Citizen's United.

Rights of babies.

Babies and Exercise: Car Seat Abuse Ex-Car.  Stimulus Package Needed.
Get those babies out of the car seats after you are parked; and hold them when you go somewhere, for heaven's sakes. We are raising turnip-shaped flat-heads out there. And carrying weights is good for weight loss.


Women and Desire: Erotic Rocket Rule: The Elementals of Wanting. Restore rights to her own life.
Then watch her go at it.  Restore women to full and equal rights in choice, workplace, education.  That is likely to improve her Interests at home, if anyone is complaining. First come freedoms; then, desire. Is that so?

Female circumcision; genital mutilation.  Counterweight as a preventive:  Do it to the boys as well.
Stopping female mutilation requires a roughly (literally) equivalent step as to the boys.  If they had to submit to a similar procedure (circumcision does not qualify unless the male is over 12), to reduce the incidence thereof as to the girls. Stopping a practice may require expanding it elsewhere. How but to apply it to the other, to encourage male empathy..

Power of Naming. Labels. For accountability, aspiration.

Gristmill. By Dint:

For transparency in communications, require labels. Name the type of beast about to come at you.  The power of naming. A Label or a Name as a tool of control. Power of labels. Power of naming.

Certification of Qualified Newscasters.
Label the news products. Truth in labeling. Label the people disseminating the words. Counter stealth propaganda. Label degrees of objective news from opinion and propaganda; Certify airwaves people on the same scale. What percent of objective fact (protein), or energy maker (carbs, polarize-demonize), or hipspreaders (fat, propaganda).  Require documentation of sources and facts relied upon if the product wants a truth label.. .

Naming as Power

Power of Names and Naming
Pay attention to names and labels. Choices in Naming can create the reality that later develops. Take no naming lightly. Its power:  Name the cow and it gives more milk. Is that so?  Naming a person as an individual: does that promote humanity; or keep the person unnamed, the "other" - with no name ascribed, is he easier to call a  "terrorist."

Plain Meaning of "Hutaree" - the Militia Group 
Hutaree is a militia group, far-right wing.  Parse out alternate meanings from syllables.  Any light shed? Go see.

Labeling, naming as a weapon.

R-Word as Fighting Words
Labeling is a means of control. Control is to label by a condition or other attribute. That R_________. Labels dehumanize. Can we stop the use of "reee-tard" to define the intellectually disabled. The differently abled will cheer.

Origins of the Irish: Scota, Judah, Dan?

Origins of the Irish, from the Mediterranean; and then Spain; before Ireland
What reasonable evidence is there that early Irish originated in the Middle East, and migrated through Spain to Ireland. More than you might think. Legends living. Discard not them all, is that so? or silly?

Scotland:  Tradition of Scota, Caledonia.
Scota, and the Scotties, and Scotland. Woman warrior. Ireland was first in settlement by Scota or Scotia; then came Scotland, so they say.

Ireland. Tralee, Queen Scotia, and Slieve Mish.  The first kings of Tara stemmed from this Queen. Is that so?

Spain. Zaragoza, and Zahar of the Red Hand .
Sons of Judah.  Does this legend tie in: the Old Testament Zahar, whose arm came out first at birth so that the red cord of inheritance was tied to it; but then he withdrew it, and his twin was fully born first, getting it all. Leaving Zahar and his band to find their way elsewhere, which they did, out of Canaan; and cross-country by a choice of routes, or by ship, to Iberia.  Interesting. You have to love legends.

Now:  check out the Tribe of Dan, and Egyptian connections, at ://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_14d.htm/.  O, Danny Boy?

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Abortion; Lifestyle Orientation

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Child support for zygotes, morulas and blastocysts, embryos and fetuses, where defined as "children"
If a state defines a cell cluster as a human being, a child, then the woman carrying it should get child support. Amend the statutes.

Strict Constructionism and Abortion, Orientation: The Conservative Dilemma
Texts accepted into the Canon in the earliest days do not mention this abortion issue, from early days of the Church. All are silent. With good reason. The wisdom of the oldies. Strict construction of the canon. When early religious texts are silent on specific directives, watch institutions extrapolate later as their own agendas direct.  Why accept what some institution extrapolate later on its own. Look at the effect. This is the recourse of cultures shaping and controlling the behavior of a sub-group."Inspiration?" Tell that to the dissenters.

Male Performance Enhancers Treated as Abortion Matters: No Abortion for her?  No Viagra for him
Fair and balanced. If a state declares that a woman must carry a cluster of cells, even if raped or the victim of incest, then that state shall prohibit the sale of Viagra and its equivalents. And no going over state lines to get it.  A woman having choice in how to proceed: why is the presumption that she will not be as moral as a man or disinterested woman in making it? Morality of the decider: between her and whatever she worships, if anything, and that also is her choice.

Military Strategy; Figureheads; Battlefields; Codes, Memorabilia

By Dint:

Hatpins Collection, Military Buttons, Insignias
Battle Memorabilia - Battalions on Hats.  Souvenirs, mementos, carry the memory with you, on your head. Find history in the long Edwardian hatpins.


JPMorganChase and Code of the Hand.
Military: uses codes to get messages out and past the enemy.  So does the corporate world.  See JP Morgan Chase and its code.  The intended audience gets it. Corporation codes. Believe. Its own form of military.

Torture
Sassafras and Guantanamo: Getting At the Truth:
Military strategy to get information from enemies also included matters that Geneva Conventions and others consider torture. A former president went along. Should he be prosecuted for war crimes? Amnesty International says so. Try another route: to get information from enemies.  Explore the relaxer approach, truth serum idea with sassafras, encourage changes of heart and mind. Not torture.  We have lots of sassafras in this country. Get busy, labs. Sassafras for truth.

Strategy
Genghis Khan, a model for Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up  The virtue of strategic withdrawal when outnumbered. Conquer when ready. See also Liddell Hart: The most effective approach may be the indirect.

Sulking as strategy
Politics of Sulk.  When the loser can't think of what to do next, sulk.

Warrior Qualities
Women in War See the warriors of the past. Talent in many forms.
Moscow's BlackWidows, Chechen suicide bombers.   Origins of women in warrior roles, the Caucasus and its Amazon traditions.
Warriorism; Warrior Skills; Training  Does practicing the skills of war deter, or set the stage for, use. Warrior skills as confidence-builders, psychological crutch.

Auxiliary Troops
Hero Roles:  Messenger. Including Carrier Pigeons American Signal Corps and "Cher Ami" who brought news.


Need to Preserve Memory - Keepers of the Artifacts
Curator, Andrew Gregory, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal.  Those who house our memories. Meet this overseer of a Montreal learner-friendly military museum. Learn tactics, history, weapons, equipment, strategies of wars. Andrew Gregory: curator,offers personalized interest at the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal.

Persuasion Techniques:  Teach to Kill
Crusades:  License to Kill Evildoers.  Battles mobilized on faith; demonize the enemy.  Use of code words to justify killing, suggest religious approval, even mandate.

Tools of Persuasion
Propaganda:  The Firing of the First Shots. Verbal. Then the War.  The role of propaganda in warming up the populace to support what is to come.

PRE-WORLD WAR I

Specific Battles

Agincourt, in the Somme Area

1389 Battle of Kosovo  Ottoman Empire advances;  Serbia loses its "heart" - Kosovo.

Myth, and Indigenous Wars Against Incursion.  King Philip, Native American; and His War Against Colonists  Our history's self-serving myths of glory; and the shabby reality. How we got our foothold. New England's battleground, indigenous tribes against settlers. King Philip, local chief.

American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga, NY


American Revolution, Saratoga.  This is where Benedict Arnold lost his boot.  His case is not a simple one.  Turncoat, yes, but with reason.

Ireland.  Battle of the Boyne Protestant v. Catholic

Austerlitz, The Three Emperors.  Find Napoleon here; the Battle of Slavkov.  You will not see "Austerlitz" on the map, perhaps.  See also Austerlitz and Carl Sandburg's poem, Grass.  It covers all.

WORLD WAR I

Vimy Ridge, France, World War I

Citizen Poets While Fodder in the Trenches, Ypres, Ieper, Belgium  See Canadian War Memorial here.  The Christmas Truce. Poetry.

Vimy Ridge, France; Pegs in the Night.  Soldiers told of pound in painted pegs along the German side, if you could.  Then, later, if a solder passed in front of it, you could see, and the sniper could shoot.  

Flanders Fields, Where Poppies Blow  Belgium, France.

Argonne Forest, World War I, France. The Forgotten Cemetery.  Overshadowed by Verdun, off the beaten track, near Belleau Wood, also forlorn.  Go anyway.  They need you.

Soldiers' Mutiny, Verdun, France WWI,  Issues, Negotiating During Slaughter Poem.  Anthem for Doomed Youth.  Soldiers, passing officers, and saying, "Baaah" like sheep, knowing what was coming.

Verdun, France, WWI, Soldiers' Mutiny Worked  See original postcards of area at end of the war, fort areas, memorials.


WORLD WAR II

The Netherlands, Arnhem, A Bridge Too Far, British Soldier, John Frost

Normandy, Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches, Rangers.  The Rangers scaled these cliffs, but nothing was there of importance.

Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments.  World War II,  Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, by Czech Resistance, a Colt used among their weapons.  See film, "Operation Daybreak".

Vietnam Battlefields; US Failure to Encrypt. Inexcusable blunders in war, the conceit, the flawed sense of superiority of the American command, costing thousands of lives. Not even coding messages.The gooks can't read English.  Imagine. The gall of it.

Berlin Wall, Germany  When problems cannot be resolved, wall them away. Then kill whoever tries to pass over.



IDEOLOGICAL BATTLEFIELDS

Ideological Battleground:  Sistine Chapel

Argonne Forest, France, World War I