frankilin roosevelt

It's not about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.


Check out my old  Voice of the People page.


Gino Napoli
San Francisco, California
High School Math Teacher

jonsdarc@mindspring.com




Loyalty without truth
is a trail to tyranny.

a middle-aged
George Washington



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Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 3h 35m 3s

Time is not money or vice versa

Perhaps you've heard of the expression "Time is Money". Perhaps you've actually heard someone utter this innocuous aphorism, as if stating some universal truth.

Time is just time and has nothing to do with money. Money is just money and has nothing to do with time. These two ideas or ideological constructs, time and money, have a propinquity with one another within the social construct of human existence, but, in fact they are actually two separate ideations. Money is not time, and, time is not money.

Money is something that is used to account for the social interaction inherent within a human society such that the exchange of human goods and services can be done without resort to vigilantism or other destabilizing internecine social forces. Humans agree upon a medium of exchange along with a certain amount of public regulation in order to get the larger goal of socio-economic stability.

Time is something through which humans live. Time is experiential. When someone says money is time, that person is really talking about money and is completely ignoring time. There is no money inherent to time otherwise dictators and plutocrats would have no power. At the extreme, such people use or co-opt your time and then tell you that's how you get money.

All of us need to spend some of our time for the larger whole of the social order, but that is not necessarily related to money.

Because time is not money. Only money can be money. Time is just time.


Saturday, 14 October 2023 at 19h 10m 58s

amazing realization

Facetious is the only word in the English language that has all of the 5 vowels - aeiou - in order.

Which means Facetiously is the only word that has all of the 6 vowels - aeiouy - in order.

No silly, I'm not being facetious when I say this. :-)


Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 1h 35m 19s

Centrist politician bullshit

Crooked Timber is a great source for the straight dope, explaining reality in no-holds-barred words. Read further if you wish to understand.

Click here

The media conglomerates cart out these mealy mouth presumptive mouth-pieces because the oligarchical owners want to hear what mouth-pieces want to say in order to assuage their predilections about themselves and what a social construction looks like.

It's convenient, for instance, for the wealthy to believe that they "earned" their wealth and are thus more deserving of privileges, whether or not the underlying assumptions of "deserving" are actually ... true.

Cough cough - elon musk - Cough cough.


Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 1h 38m 22s

The Deficit Myth

This is a decent primer on MMT -- Modern Monetary Theory -- how financial interactions actually work in the "Real" world.




Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 12h 56m 14s

Jon Stewart on the American Tax system



Simply put, we pay taxes and the government gives the money to private for-profit firms to provide goods and services who then often funnel that money through sub-contractors that also sometimes then ask the citizens to pay "service fees" or "deductibles". The end result enriches the middlemen corporations at the expense of shoddy services.


Friday, 25 August 2023 at 4h 17m 37s

And then to get to 1600 posts -- from Tech News Daily

Rich Jerks are gonna get us all killed (sarcasm?).



These dudes are younger than me, live in L.A., and have relevant points and silly banter when they discuss good stuff and truth.


Friday, 25 August 2023 at 3h 15m 31s

Keith Olbermann is the bomb

Keith Olbermann is doing regular new shows in his retirement, using his unique personality, cogent insight, and veritable incisive facts.

Today's show was really good in my opinion.




Saturday, 12 August 2023 at 4h 50m 54s

My response to a sophisticated elitist

My response to a sophisticated elitist that uses IQ scores as scientific fact that their beliefs about racial superiority are supported by (construed and noisy) data

You don't understand confounding factors and multi-variate analysis --Because environmental opportunity is not equally distributed across all groups in our society, social context effects have masqueraded as group differences in research studies.


Friday, 11 August 2023 at 2h 20m 31s

My view of classroom management

When I “discipline” students, I explain to them the reasoning behind my protocols and procedures. It’s not a power trip. It’s not like “you disobeyed me” and therefore there must be a penalty or punishment. Which is ridiculous, because the instinctive reaction for everyone about a perspective of disobedience is resistance ... and resistance can be either active, passive, or both.

However there comes the time when raising the level of insistence becomes necessary, when you have a recalcitrant adolescent brat who only really responds to a brutal verbal take down with wit or rhetorical whiplash.

For example, “So how many times this week are you going be tardy?” – Or – “I don’t know, where might the instructions for the activity be located? Did you read the paragraph on the top of the page?”

However, you do have to be aware of when the above tactics are necessary, because guilt-tripping is not really effective, so you have to straddle the rhetoric with playfulness. You have to couch the rhetoric as banter or the intent will get misinterpreted, and then all you have done is create resentment. You want students to understand that you respect them, but at the same time calling them out on their irrational dysfunctional behavior is an attempt to help them become better people.

True power comes from knowledge, wisdom, and truth. Everything else is an over compensation. If you feel vulnerable because someone presses your buttons or confronts you with a modicum of truth, that is normal. When you over-react, that is a sign of another personal issue or lingering unacknowledged insecurity, and your classroom management issues just get worse.


Monday, 7 August 2023 at 0h 37m 40s

Sten Ekberg on the truth about Eggs and Heart Disease

Excellent simplified explanation of whats going with Cardiovascular Disease, Cholesterol and Saturated Fat.






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