memories stick

If a po­lit­i­cal par­ty does not have its foun­da­tion in the de­ter­mi­na­tion to ad­vance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a po­lit­i­cal par­ty; it is mere­ly a con­spir­a­cy to seize power.
—Dwight D. Eisen­how­er, 6 March 1956
 

Hu­man mem­o­ry is noth­ing more that elec­tri­cal cur­rents and stor­age, just like a mem­o­ry stick.

If you crush a mem­o­ry stick what hap­pens to all those stored atom­ic con­fig­u­ra­tions? Do they evap­o­rate, dis­charge, dissipate?

Where the heck does that stuff go? Be­cause it is just that, ‘stuff.’

Just like our brains, filled with mem­o­ries and thoughts, 1s and 0s …

We know that or­gans de­cay, turn to dust, but stored mem­o­ry? It’s a thing, it’s stuff.

On a quan­tum lev­el there are these atom­ic con­fig­u­ra­tions still present af­ter we die. Hun­dreds of thou­sands of years of hu­man mem­o­ry data cre­at­ed at an atom­ic lev­el. Atom­ic stuff.

What hap­pens to all that atom­ic ‘stuff?’ Where does it go?

Urggg, I need an off but­ton on mine. Here’s some oth­er memories:
 

What­ev­er hap­pened to the GOP’s “com­mit­ment to equality?”

1980 Re­pub­li­can Plat­form on Black Americans:
“As the Par­ty of Lin­coln, we re­main equal­ly and stead­fast­ly com­mit­ted to the equal­i­ty of rights for all cit­i­zens, re­gard­less of race. Al­though this na­tion has not yet elim­i­nat­ed all ves­tiges of racism over the years we are heart­ened by the progress that has been made, we are proud of the role that our Par­ty has played, and we are ded­i­cat­ed to stand­ing shoul­der to shoul­der with black Amer­i­cans in that cause.
Else­where in this plat­form, we set forth a num­ber of spe­cif­ic pro­pos­als that will also serve to im­prove the qual­i­ty of life for blacks. Dur­ing the next four years we are com­mit­ted to poli­cies that will:
·  En­cour­age lo­cal gov­ern­ments to des­ig­nate spe­cif­ic en­ter­prise zones with­in de­pressed ar­eas that will pro­mote new jobs, new and ex­pand­ed busi­ness­es, and new eco­nom­ic vitality;
·  Open new op­por­tu­ni­ties for black men and women to be­gin small busi­ness­es of their own by, among oth­er steps, re­mov­ing ex­ces­sive reg­u­la­tions, dis­in­cen­tives for ven­ture cap­i­tal, and oth­er bar­ri­ers erect­ed by the government;
·  Bring strong, ef­fec­tive en­force­ment of fed­er­al civ­il rights statutes, es­pe­cial­ly those deal­ing with threats to phys­i­cal safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty which have re­cent­ly been in­creas­ing; and
·  En­sure that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment fol­lows a non-dis­crim­i­na­to­ry sys­tem of ap­point­ments up and down the line, with a care­ful eye for qual­i­fied mi­nor­i­ty aspirants.”
 

38 years lat­er and women STILL do not have equal rights.

1980 Re­pub­li­can Plat­form on wom­en’s rights:
“At this time, women of Amer­i­ca com­prise 53 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion and over 42 per­cent of the work force. By 1990, we an­tic­i­pate that 51 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion will be women, and there will be ap­prox­i­mate­ly 57 mil­lion in the work force. There­fore, the fol­low­ing ur­gent prob­lems must be resolved.
·  To­tal in­te­gra­tion of the work force (not sep­a­rate but equal) is nec­es­sary to bring women equal­i­ty in pay;
·  Girls and young women must be giv­en im­proved ear­ly ca­reer coun­sel­ing and job train­ing to widen the op­por­tu­ni­ties for them in the world of work;
·  Women’s worth in the so­ci­ety and in the jobs they hold, at home or in the work­place, must be re-eval­u­at­ed to im­prove the con­di­tions of women work­ers con­cen­trat­ed in low-sta­tus, low-pay­ing jobs;
·  Equal op­por­tu­ni­ty for cred­it and oth­er as­sis­tance must be as­sured to women in small busi­ness­es; and
·  One of the most crit­i­cal prob­lems in our na­tion to­day is that of in­ad­e­quate child care for the work­ing moth­er. As cham­pi­ons of the free en­ter­prise sys­tem, of the in­di­vid­ual, and of the idea that the best so­lu­tions to most prob­lems rest at the com­mu­ni­ty lev­el, Re­pub­li­cans must find ways to meet this, the work­ing woman’s need. The scope of this prob­lem is ful­ly re­al­ized only when it is un­der­stood that many fe­male heads of house­holds are at the pover­ty lev­el and that they have a very large per­cent­age of the nation’s children.”
 

Does this in­clude the ‘self-de­ter­mi­na­tion’ to keep pipelines off na­tive lands?

1980 Re­pub­li­can Plat­form on Na­tive Americans:
“As a par­ty we also rec­og­nize our com­mit­ment to Na­tive Amer­i­cans. We pledge to con­tin­ue to hon­or our trust­ed re­la­tion­ship with them and we reaf­firm our fed­er­al pol­i­cy of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. We sup­port the as­sump­tion by In­di­ans, Aleuts, and Es­ki­mos them­selves of the de­ci­sions and plan­ning which will af­fect their lives and the end of un­due fed­er­al in­flu­ence on those plans and decisions.”
 

To­day, they want to take away my VA health­care and pri­va­tize it.

1980 Re­pub­li­can Plat­form on Veterans:
“We will main­tain the in­tegri­ty of the Vet­er­ans Ad­min­is­tra­tion. We will seek to keep it sep­a­rate and dis­tinct from oth­er fed­er­al agen­cies as the sin­gle agency for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of all vet­er­ans’ pro­grams. In par­tic­u­lar we feel it is of vi­tal im­por­tance to con­tin­ue and ex­pand the health-pro­grams pro­vid­ed to vet­er­ans through the Vet­er­ans Ad­min­is­tra­tion hos­pi­tals. Here we see the need for in­creased ac­cess to care, es­pe­cial­ly for old­er veterans.”
 

Puer­to Ri­co’s in­clu­sion into the U.S.?

1980 Re­pub­li­can Plat­form on Puer­to Rico:
“Puer­to Rico has been a ter­ri­to­ry of the Unit­ed States since 1898. The Re­pub­li­can Par­ty vig­or­ous­ly sup­ports the right of the Unit­ed States cit­i­zens of Puer­to Rico to be ad­mit­ted into the Union as a ful­ly sov­er­eign state af­ter they freely so de­ter­mine. We be­lieve that the state­hood al­ter­na­tive is the only log­i­cal so­lu­tion to the prob­lem of in­equal­i­ty of the Unit­ed States cit­i­zens of Puer­to Rico with­in the frame­work of the fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion, with full recog­ni­tion with­in the con­cept of a mul­ti­cul­tur­al so­ci­ety of the cit­i­zens’ right to re­tain their Span­ish lan­guage and tra­di­tions. There­fore we pledge to sup­port the en­act­ment of the nec­es­sary leg­is­la­tion to al­low the peo­ple of Puer­to Rico to ex­er­cise their right to ap­ply for ad­mis­sion into the Union at the ear­li­est pos­si­ble date af­ter the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion of 1980.

“We also pledge that such de­ci­sion of the peo­ple of Puer­to Rico will be im­ple­ment­ed through the ap­proval of an ad­mis­sion bill. This bill will pro­vide for the Is­land’s smooth tran­si­tion from its ter­ri­to­r­i­al fis­cal sys­tem to that of a mem­ber of the Union. This en­act­ment will en­able the new state of Puer­to Rico to stand eco­nom­i­cal­ly on an equal foot­ing with the rest of the states and to as­sume grad­u­al­ly its fis­cal re­spon­si­bil­i­ties as a state.”
 

But, but … Rea­gan said so!
 

—Louis Warfield

Flom­mist Louis Warfield is a fab­ri­ca­tion spe­cial­ist who runs the award-win­ning Rhi­no De­sign Stu­dio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copy­right © 2018 Louis Warfield. Sources and Rea­gan.

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