Month: July 2025

The science of meteorology is universally recognized for its many essential applications in studying the Earth’s atmosphere, encompassing the fluctuating weather and changing climate. It makes accessible an empirical understanding of our atmospheric phenomena, thus beneficially enabling the prediction of weather and weather patterns, and the analysis of these patterns, including their effects on the planet and its inhabitants. Contextually, it is a secular, contrasting, empirical science, rationally focusing on visible, worldly phenomena of Man’s experiential life rather than the widespread, contrasting belief in spiritual, non-worldly causation.

The referential utility of weather reports, relative to elective activities such as outdoor picnics and sailing, in addition to its pragmatic usefulness in the quotidian choice of clothing, is universally appreciated. Notwithstanding our accord with such positive observations, it is our extended view that the modern advent of the science of meteorology has served a significant role in the metaphysically overriding factor relative to the fundamentals of the rational and societal development of Man.

Ancient history reveals the universally primitive belief that the changing seasons and variations in daily weather are reflective of God, or Spirit-like declarations of approval or disapproval with Man’s choices of behavio The widespread believers in the “Sun God” fearfully witnessed his death every Autumn and his miraculous Springtime revival, the latter causally responsive to their indigenous ritual; conceivably, the advent of the extant religious dogma of “death and resurrection.” The Hopi Indian Rain Dance, before too long, indeed, led to the salutary presence of rain; the Biblical account of the tossing overboard of Jonah, perceived to be a sinner, quieted the roiling ocean, the temperament of the Norse God Thor was visibly expressed by lightning and thunderstorms, and so on, relative to the nuanced cultural ethnos of the diverse human societies. In some cultures, it seems, the horrors of ritual human sacrifice were prescribed as the panacea for undesirable weather, poor harvest, drought, or disease.

The beneficial development of the “Age of Enlightenment” ultimately led Man to the acceptance of the salubrious exercise and dependence on human reason and its thematic application to the mystery of the changing seasons and other observable meteorological phenomena. The brilliant, scholarly written views of the classic empiricists, such as Locke (“Man is born with a ‘tabula rasa’ [ a clean slate] and his knowledge is solely acquired by his empirical experience), Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Frances Bacon, Voltaire, Erasmus, and the multitude of other venerable thinkers, were, no doubt, solely accessible to highly literate scholars; the average man relegated to learning from his own personal experience, albeit, anecdotally hampered by his culturally inherited beliefs in the supernatural. dynamics of the natural phenomena

This atavistic mode of belief persists contemporaneously, despite the era’s substantial advancement in science and emphasis on rational thought. Atavistic beliefs still obdurately and fearfully endure in mankind, existentially hampering Man’s aspiration for the achievement of his evolved, natural potential to attain the ultimate goal of wisdom.

Notwithstanding the widespread persistence of “faith” as the questionable fount of knowledge, the thematic revelation of the scientific and experiential nature of meteorology has been existentially important to Man’s banishment of “evil spirits,” and belief in the existence of supernatural causation, at a minimum, regarding Seasons and the Weather. May the salubrious process of rational thought continue!

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Today is July 4, America’s (Happy?) Birthday. It is the most significant and universally celebrated American holiday, perennially serving as a reminder of our Nation’s systemic aversion to autocracy or monarchical rule and its ardent preference for an established Democratic Republic. The Declaration of Independence (from the English King) was officially adopted by the Continental Congress on that celebrated date, in 1776, officially giving birth to our new independent Nation. Americans, of every political stripe, annually celebrate this historically significant radical and enlightened break from the historic European-style of monarchical rule. We are of the view that its observance is patriotically related to America’s Memorial Day, the latter, commemorating those who gave their lives in service to the Nation.

It appears that prior assumptions of the permanent endurance of this established mode of governance, viz., “by and for the People,” for which Americans have fought and died, at the time of its current birthday, are disturbingly being called into question.

The contemporary governance by a singularly irresponsible, egocentric, and demonstrably incapable Chief of State, characterized by uncontained hubris, autocratic leanings, and an empirical lack of empathy or moral compass. Mainstream Americans, terrified by his arbitrary, autocratic policies and unconventional actions, are disconcerted by his unprecedented rejection of the Constitution and apparent disregard for the traditional American way of life. Donald Trump’s defeat of Joseph Biden appears to have resulted, metaphysically, as we in the defeat of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, avatars of the Nation’s avowed democratic character.

It is difficult to happily join a National birthday celebration when the Nation’s Chief Executive has declared his intention to be a dictator, has arrogated to himself the right to legislate and adjudicate ( regardless of the foundational “Separation of Powers'” provided by the Constitution) by his unprecedented Executive Orders, signed with the egoistic flourish of his velvet-tipped pen; even to the extent of superceding the arduous, constitutional mandated protocol regarding constitutional amendment, ( birthright citizenship),

It presently appears difficult, in spirit, to celebrate the unique democratic nature of a present government whose Chief Executive expends millions of taxpayer dollars to autocratically raise a Gestapo-like masked army to infiltrate the peaceful lives of immigrants, arrest, jail, and banish them to foreign torture prisons, who autocraticalkly and illegally uses the military to enforce his decrees, who continues to engage in the perverse use of the office ofthe Presidency to obscenely enrich himself and his family, in irrefutable contravention of the constitution’s “Emoluments Clause,” and whose perverse policies are inclusive of “retribution” against his political enemies and the officials who dutifully prosecuted him for his heinous crimes, and for his arbitrary destruction, without Congressional participation, of our Nation’s utilitarian Federal Civil Service, most notably our existentially vital Health and Medical Agencies, ignorantly boasted of his imperial authority by singly imposing large arbitrary tariffs on America’s trading partners, thus increasing, rather than reducing, as promised, domestic prices inclusive of items like food and medicine, championed the perverse criminalization of Woman’s natural right to elect an abortion, fails to adequately assist beleaguered Ukraine with necessary arms for that democracy’s defense against despotic Russian aggression, challenged the policies and very existence of Universities and other institutions of learning, expresse his Napoleanic desire to take over our friendly neighbor, Canada (” a 51st State”) and Denmark’s Greenland, delusionally attempst to change the geographic name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” conduct of intimate relationships with America’s autocratic enemies;l and, on the domestic front, purloining Government Top Secret documents and irresponsibly rendering them publicly accessible by bizarrely chosen storage at his Mar-A-Largo bathroom, personal responsibility for many-faceted instances of voter interference, denial of certified voting results, fomenting and supporting a violent insurrection and thereafter, pardoning the criminal participants engaged by him. tactically making false demagogic promises of ubiquitous benefits to citizens, together with multi-dumpsters full of violations of societal norms, whose listing would exceed the conventional limits of the stereotypical”blog.”

It is our request that Donald Trump, whose publis statement, relative to the many hundreds of young soldiers buried at Arlington Cemetery as “suckers and losers,” while shamefully asking: What was in it for them?” be excluded from the list of Presidents deservedly honored on President’s Day. We would also respectfully and earnestly request permission to forego our usual participation in this year’s Fourth of July celebrations.

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The idiomatic expression, “Made out of whole cloth,” signifies that a statement of fact is entirely false or fabricated. It commonly relates to an attempt to trick or deceive. In the 1800s, it was a common practice among tailors to deceive their customers, using pieced goods instead of whole cloth.

To exploit the metaphor, we would thematically declare that the “fabrication” of the truth by the current Presidential Administration “looms” large, if not universally, in its quotidian pronouncements. The perverse promotion by Donald Trump of the concept of “alternate facts” effectively disables any rational choice of empirical reality by its irrational, self-serving imposition of the unthinking responsibility to accept his articulated, self-interested distortions, i.e., those “manufactured from whole cloth.” Included among the overflowing dumpster of his misleading assertions of fact and intention, asserted tactically, or by reason of his delusional capability. The latter inclination, presumably, is what engendered sufficient votes from the Nation’s large inventory of poorly informed populist voters to secure his bizarre ( 1.5%) election victory.

Typical Trump assurances and undertakings, cut from the proverbial “whole cloth,” were: ” I will end the Ukraine and Gaza Wars in the first days of my office, I will immediately improve the Nation’s economy, cut its defifit and lower consumer prices, I will solve the immigration problem, I will preserve Medicaid and Medicare, as well as the Social Security System, I will lower crime and make America safer, I will cut taxes on the working class, together with various additional false or delusional representations consistent with his neurotic need to be a “Winner.”

If false representation can be permissibly analogized to the empirically judgmental concept of “whole cloth,” it may be observed that the totality of said demagogic representations of intention may be qualitatively described as abounding in ragged tatters. The current Nation’s economy is fathoms deep in economic and financial distress, its National deficit under Trump’s watch is excessive and unparalleled, the autocratic excess in his un-American, Gestapo style policy regarding the yet unmitigated immigration problem has not only proven to be observably unsuccessful, but has shamefully challenged America’s traditionally just system of legal due process, the Trump dominated legislature is in the process of hobbling Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, crime statistics, notably, violent crimes are breaking the charts and Trump’s egotistically reductive ignorance has led to international policies that confuse and preturb our relations with friendly nations and NATO, and place the American Nation in an ambiguously dangerous posture, an unprecedented position quite distinguishable from the orange demagogue’s promises of a better and greater America. The Trump Administration appears to be contextually closer to the colorful reputational zeitgeist of New York City’s Garment Center than that of the traditionally American Democratic Republic.

There presently exists a clear and present danger that our Nation will run painfully short of the specific natural resources relative to its nuanced inventory of dry goods, known as “whole cloth.”

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We would request the reader’s forgiveness for the redundant expression of our unmitigated revulsion at the demagogic falsity of Donald Trump’s inane purpose to “Make America Great Again,” articulated in his deceitful false representations of acceptable purpose; his plethora of “snake oil” statements of intention have proven to be diagnosable as toxic “cognitive dissidence” in an obvious attempt to smokescreen his singular neurotic lust for totalitarian power.

Too many reductiver populists, lacking the benefit of an adequate education, and being poorly informed, seem to have “bought into” Donald Trump’s empirically deniable mis-statements of purpose. Such obvious and tautalogically observable falsity, compared with his policies and actions, irrefutably define their clinical attribution as textbook “cognitive dissonance,” and confirm the sub-rosa revelation of his hubrisic lust for imperial power.

A few illustrative examples of Trump and MAGA dissonant and irreconcilable memes may be meaningful:

BOOK CENSORSHIP;

The Trump-MAGA rationale for the banning of books alleges, as its motivational rationale, the protective exclusion of the “embarrassing” or “misleading ” history of chattel slavery, or alternatively, its arbitrary perception of religiously harmful, lascivious content. Such puerile and hubristic travesty against free speech, in the tactical guise of the beneficial avoidance of embarrassment or potential misbehavior, is inarguably false, but, frea,isticallytactically revealing when realistically weighed against the notoriously shameful arrest and deportation of long-resident, foreign-born individuals by face-masked operatives of the Trump administration. without a shred of constitutionally mandated, due process, with the public instances of police brutality against black Americans, the shameful instances of graft and bribery reaching to the level of SCOTUS, the Presidential incitement of National Insurrection, or the lemming-like complete surrender of agency by the Republicasn Party to the declared, autocratic President, the cynically. self-interested industrial captains of industry, in their profit- seeking sociopathic polluting behavior, proximately resulting in an existential threat to the Planet and its living inhabitants, to the colossal difference in life experience between the lowly poor and the billionaire mogul, the shameful and democratically caustic effect of self-justified, insular religious influence and other national embarrassments, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. The vile and hubristic practice of book censorship has no empirically credible motive save thought-control, in aid of Trump’s quest for totalitarian power.

IMMIGRATION:

Donald J. Trump has shown himself to be the self-designated poet laureate of xenophobia by his reductively prejudicial xenophobic declarations.. He has falsely defamed immigrants as constituting “caravans”” of criminals, rapists and national rejects, coming to America to commit crimes including the violant rape of innocent women. Such perverse defamation is an evident and, notably, personal, projective illustration of the dynamics of cognitive dissonance.

This nation, composed of immigrants and their progeny, evinces a comparatively low record of criminality of immigrants who have proven to be hard-working tax tax-paying, family members who dutifully serve in the military. Donald Trump has been officially declared to be a draft dodger, a serial woman abuser with 34 felonies and numerous felony indictments, the latter, presently dormant because of his fortuitous election to the Presidency. It is notable and cognitively dissonant with his eternal defamatory declarations concerning immigrants that all three of his marriages have, in fact, been to foreign immigrants. It is blatantly obvious that his expressions of xenophobia are merely tactically aimed at enrolling America’s extant horde of populist bigots to his support

GENDER AND HOMOSEXUAL PREJUDICE AND ABORTION CRIMINALIZATION:

We have chosen to conjoin and treat as unitary the myriad instances of cognitive dissonance and intrusion relative to the subject of intimate citizen privacy by the shameless Trump-Religious confederation of MAG cognitively dissonant overseers of virtue. The individualized, haphazard arrangement of genes and hormones results in an occasional variety of variant sexual and gender characteristics and involuntary inclinations. The cruel, reductive perception of inborn and involuntary sexual and gender variation from the statistical and empirical “norm” is irrational, ignorant, and manifestly unjust. Trump’s MAGA conglomeration does not shrink from immoral and unconstitutional bias, making the somewhat societally challenged life of such individuals more difficult. This moral travesty is an embarrassment to the American ethos of liberty and equality and is cognitively and empirically dissonant with “Making America Great Again.”

It is submitted that the zenith of egregious and autocratic interference with American freedom is the c urrently prevailing unjust and egregious determination of criminality in the criminalization of a woman’s natural and inherent right to elect an abortion, in the cognitively dissonant, desire to preserve life; the latter deceit belied by the denial of support to the born child, as dissonatel distinguished from his fetus) , in moral sync with the MAGA opposition to aid to National and Internsational needy human beings; the “Right to Life” meme is another shameless incident of the ubiquitous and glaringly obvious, Trump-MAGA, cognitive dissonance, or Trumpist “Snake Oil.”

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