tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84603602011-12-13T19:58:29.322-08:00Just another perspectiveHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1150428874171558642006-06-15T20:32:00.000-07:002006-06-15T20:34:34.183-07:00

I voted last week using a piece of paper, a pen and a real ballot box. My county has yet to be able to determine the outcome of multiple races over a week later. The margin in some is so slim (less than one third of one percent that the outcome may be unknowable.How can the outcome of en election be unknowable? Well, if plus or minus 100 votes determines an election and you had to throw out

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1150427902267670352006-06-15T20:12:00.000-07:002006-06-15T20:18:22.270-07:00

The next secretary of defense has a serious cleanup job to do at the pentagon. The brass that was promoted to the top in the last 5 years has turned out to be a bunch of ivory tower warriors. They have overpaid homage to Patton and failed to learn the lessons learned by the many sharp knife incursions that overextended resources and eventually fell victim to indiginous opposition. They most

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1147305052260226822006-05-10T16:26:00.000-07:002006-06-15T20:36:19.580-07:00

Most progressives have been taken in by the hysteria surrounding electronic voting. Their fear of ballot box tampering has blinded them to the actual ways election results are manipulated. Their solution simply adds another layer of obfuscation.Electronic touch screen machines with audio input and outputs are the most progressive implementation possible for an election. In one package you can

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1096227630983749752004-09-26T13:39:00.000-07:002004-09-26T12:40:30.983-07:00

Term Limits beget a more radical behavior by a significant percentage of our elected representatives. That is because time in office ameliorates an individual's strongly held beliefs about mundane things. As the idealist is exposed to the rest of peoplekind, they find tight strictures are not the most appropriate response to circumstances. They settle down and usually reorder priorities. I

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1096226766954476602004-09-26T13:25:00.000-07:002004-09-26T12:26:06.953-07:00

In California, we have suffered the deleterious effects of a super-majority requirement (two thirds) for most all significant fiscal decisions. This has led to a near absolute immpasse in those matters. The direct result of both our legislature's and electorate's inability to move forward in those areas has led directly to a loss of credibility in the ability of Californians to govern ourselves

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1096086883124457012004-09-24T18:22:00.000-07:002004-09-24T21:34:43.123-07:00

There was an article in the Berkeley Daily Planet, May 7-9, "Cal Grad Proposes Touchscreen Alternative" in response to the decertifications of electronic voting machines in Californis. It proposed to layer more complexity onto the system by adding the ever popular dead trees to the mix. The article then posited associated policies and procedures to correct the underlying deficiencies. My

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1096065153643551362004-09-24T15:31:00.000-07:002004-09-24T15:32:33.643-07:00

The news today spotlighted the pending closure of another hospital. The reason given was that it was "swimming in red ink". It is a public facility that had been privatized. Since it was now no longer profitable, it is being closed. This is where privatization falls short. The reason is the skewed nature of a corporation's needs to those of a service guarantee. We have government for the

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460360.post-1096057999042960082004-09-24T13:21:00.000-07:002004-09-24T13:33:19.043-07:00

Such an inauspicious start to a public literary presence. Seems I missed the 'e' in provenience for my blogger machine name, and ended up with neither provenance or provenience. Oh well, we live with what we get. Maybe 'provenince' will become a new alteration of provenance. I see that as how language evolves. We make mistakes. We like them. We stick to them long enough so that eventually

Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927053688885411712noreply@blogger.com0