Living in the mind's eye

States, where New York and Texas make up 7% and 8% respectively. Add it up.

If not for the Electoral Process, the nine states that make up half of the US’s population, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, New York, Texas, and California would decide the Presidency of the United States, and lesser-populated states, such as Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, and South Dakota would not even be represented in the Election process. Thus comes the Alliance Party.

Election 2000 was the perfect example of the wisdom of the Electoral process. Sixty percent (60%) of the states selected the president, and when the "folks" in states like South Dakota pulled that lever, their vote was counted. Sixty percent of the states decided who would represent the mishmash of individuals that make up the United States of America. One hundred percent of the states were represented simply because it was the fear of an Alliance Party, of which was the archetype Alexander Hamilton wrote about in Federalist No. 68 March 14, 1788:

”Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union”

Still, pitifully, in the 2000 Election, while almost three-fourths (69%) of the US population was voter age, only 63% was registered to vote, and of the registered voters, only just a little over half voted in the election. Forty-five percent (45%) of our voter age population did not elect the President of the United States of America in the 2000 Election. ©

A newly formed political party called the Alliance Party proved to be a formidable force in the 2008 election. This party was formed as a survivor effort by a 2000 Presidential Candidate that maintained he won the popular vote. In reality, he got a plurality of votes from the electorate residing in eight states that contain 57 percent of the U.S. population: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington. The 2000 US Census Bureau makes public that these states have the highest proportion of foreign-born persons in the United States.

After the 2000 election, the Alliance Party, which was cultivated by an elite group of foreign investors, pushed though a Constitutional Amendment that eliminated the Electoral College and made the Presidential election simply, a winner by majority of votes. Although the majority of the US’s population lives in only nine states, in the past the Electoral Process protected the other 42 states voting rights, but the process was little understood by the populace. A Constitutional Amendment passed easily. When voters failed to fight for The Electoral College, it was sacrificed, leaving way for the worse aspects of human nature to be exploited.

How real is this scenario? The facts are accurate–with the exception of the imaginary Alliance Party and the Constitutional Amendment. But, could it happen? Don’t say no until you think about how safe you felt before September 11, 2001.

The Electoral College guarantees that the all voters will have the opportunity for their vote to be counted, with their varying paradigms, ideologies, beliefs, skin color, religions, economic situations, and every other difference that make up the Hats of the United States, from Cochise headdress to Hedda Hopper’s millinery .

If not for the Electoral process, the President of the United States could be elected exclusively by voters exclusively from just the heavily populated areas. Think about it. California makes up 12% of the population of the United

How real is this scenario?

Election, The Alliance Party

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To say He or She "WENT MISSING" is improper English and grammatically irresponsible.
Went is the past tense of the verb go.
No one can "Go" missing.
To depart: he went, she went or they went.
To lose something or someone It is missing, She/He is missing.
Either they are missing or they are not.
To go implies an object. She goes to the store.
To the store is a prepositional phrase that is the direct object of 'goes.'
Went is the past tense of Go, therefore it needs an object.
Missing is an adjective --it modifies a noun.
Missing is not a place.
Missing is a condition.
One cannot "Go to a condition."
One cannot "Went to a condition."
She/He went (somewhere) requires a noun not an adjective.
Go and went require a place, an object.

I go to..., She/He goes to..., They go to...
She/He is missing , was missing (from where).
She (He) was missed (at what time).
Nothing can went missing."
No one can went missing.
Nothing can go missing.
No one can go missing.
She/He is missing.
She/He was missing.
She/He was missed at a time.
They are missing.
They were missed.
One will be missing from my television if She/He keeps murdering the English language.

Linguistic Malpractice

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*LINGUISTIC MALPRACTICE

*HOW REAL IS THIS SCENARIO? ELECTION, THE ALLIANCE PARTY

Living in the mind's eye

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    It is time. Your lawyer tells you that you need to go over a few things before mediation. You know, sit up straight, don’t talk too much, be respectful, then…you get it, the first tidbit of trite:
     You will be told that if mediation is successful everyone walks away a little dissatisfied. Reality is that mediation umpires the legal system from justice to disappointment and is a system in which no one running the show is completely accountable.

     Judges have been replaced by glib mediators that court, patronize, threaten, coerce, blame, shame, and finally sell you that 1960 Edsel, driven only to church on Sunday by a 60-year-old spinster.

    The process is more about performance than substance just to give you a false sense of control and power. You will be told that you’ll feel better once your hurt feelings are heard by the other side, and that being heard is most important, not the money.  Hogwash, it is most important to the other party not to pay. If they could have made the lawsuit go away without a mountain of legal fees, sorry would have been on the table before you walked in the door.

     The probability is high that before you enter that room there is a pre-ordained settlement amount that everyone except you is cognizant, and you are stage-managed into a false sense of decision-making. They will pacify your desire for a day in court by serenading you with those overplayed lyrics that everyone knows that you just want to be heard, it will make you feel better, give you closure When in fact, closure is just a zipper, a button, a piece of Velcro that picks up every piece of lint in the wash.

     Clients will never learn what actually crosses the table in mediation as secrecy is unlike that in an open courtroom. Hushed negotiations snigger behind closed doors, and when your representative says, I’ll be right back, it is not to meet an impartial judge in chambers. Approach the bench has been replaced, Can I see you outside.

     In the second all probability, your confidential position paper has not been seen only by the mediator. They all know what you know. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours has already been played and the first alleluia and soft-shoe you will be told is “Do not to be upset over the very small first offer, you hold all the cards.”
     Then…you will be asked just to meet them part way, and

they will come up.
     No, they will not and you have just fallen into the well with no bucket to pull you out.

     They will tire you out. The mediator is perfectly willing to drag out the completely executed script all day long to run up that several thousand-dollar tab, although everyone (except you) knows beforehand the outcome.
     You may be told that all the judges are seriously ill and it would be years before you will even see a court date. You will be told they will appeal and courts are so backed up it will be years before you will even see a court date.

     Be prepared. Use the internet. Do your research.

     You may be told that juries hate clients and love sophisticated handsome articulate educated “other parties.” Make a note beforehand of all the news stories about how juries rule for the handsome articulate educated “other parties” and hate poor people who have been injured, because the constitution does not include the poor person.

     You may be told a story about a client, against his lawyer’s advice, who went to court and got nothing, over and over and over.

     You may be told your judge does not like your lawsuit and will not adequately advise the jury. You may be told, juries are a crapshoot and if they, or just one juror, does not like you, you get nothing.
     It is a frightening truth that lawyers view jurors as unqualified, and seemingly only lawyers are qualified to “judge,” when in truth, most juries take their roles solemnly, honestly, and conscientiously.
     You may be told the other party will appeal and it will be years before settlement. Seriously, consider if that company or “other party” will not mind paying lawyer fees and expenses for infinite years and do not have a duty to try to settle.
     You may be told to take their offer because you are a poor undeserving redneck that should be grateful for what they are offering , and you are not as intelligent and sophisticated and deserving as …somewhere else.

     For sure, and you just need enough to buy a used a FEMA trailer left over from the floods of Katrina.

Lawsuit Mediation, the Real Story

*LAWSUIT MEDIATION, THE REAL STORY

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