Courts have ruled in favor of corporations decades before Citizens United ever came to their hallowed halls. Based on the droves of precedent established, it would have been surprising if SCOTUS didn’t rule in favor of the political action committee.
Another “invisible hand” is responsible for determining the number of people who go to heaven, and shockingly enough there’s no scarcity in space. WEIRD.
The Article: The ‘two-spirit’ people of indigenous North Americans by Walter Williams in The Guardian.
The Text: Native Americans have often held intersex, androgynous people, feminine males and masculine females in high respect. The most common term to define such persons today is to refer to them as “two-spirit” people, but in the past feminine males were sometimes referred to as “berdache” by early French explorers in North America, who adapted a Persian word “bardaj”, meaning an intimate male friend. Because these androgynous males were commonly married to a masculine man, or had sex with men, and the masculine females had feminine women as wives, the term berdache had a clear homosexual connotation. Both the Spanish settlers in Latin America and the English colonists in North America condemned them as “sodomites”.
Rather than emphasising the homosexuality of these persons, however, many Native Americans focused on their spiritual gifts. American Indian traditionalists, even today, tend to see a person’s basic character as a reflection of their spirit. Since everything that exists is thought to come from the spirit world, androgynous or transgender persons are seen as doubly blessed, having both the spirit of a man and the spirit of a woman. Thus, they are honoured for having two spirits, and are seen as more spiritually gifted than the typical masculine male or feminine female.
“We are not going to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the working families, the sick and the poor”. The Vermont firebrand makes lays out the facts and makes his case for keeping social security solvent–by making the uber-wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.
Methinks the colossally-overcomplicated system is a means to eventually say, “We shouldn’t have any system at all”.
