Friends! Countrymen! The solutions are legibly here for one and all on issues generally considered important. Posted individually and subject to future improving modification, they will be brought together in a new category named The Final Solution. Let us make haste, for diversion and Sophists have ruled the day, until now. Let the superciliousness begin!

Environment: The Final Solution 

1. The statement "We will protect valuable natural resources, safely dispose of or ‘unmake' all waste we create, and develop a sustainable economy that does not depend on continual expansion for survival. We will counterbalance the drive for short-term profits by assuring that economic development, new technologies, and fiscal policies are responsible to future generations who will inherit the results of our actions” (Green Party) will serve as a guiding principle with which to drive U.S. policy on environmental matters.
    
2. “Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling” (3R) plans and implementation will be required in all governmental branches and schooling of children. Businesses will be encouraged through incentives or law to recycle and periodic checks will be made to verify compliance. Public places must have recycling receptacles available and people must be knowledgeable of their proper use and what may be recycled.Sources of air pollution and water pollution, such as from factories, will be severely curtailed to bring surrounding areas, especially within the local community, to healthy levels.  Rivers, bays, and lakes will be brought up to healthy ecological levels, and to near drinking water levels or their prior clarity levels. Water Policy from the Green Party will be followed.
    
3. Businesses, private landowners, and all citizens will be educated and required to stop littering and polluting, and fines and criminal actions will be taken in brisk fashion against violators. Education towards this will largely be accomplished during younger age schooling by teaching students the importance of the human connection to nature and appreciation for animals and nature through stewardship.
    
4. The Green Party's position on Land Use, Agriculture, Biological Diversity, and Ocean Protection Policies are very reasonable and will be adopted and implemented.
    
5. At least 75% of lands within national parks and forests will be managed through the application of an “Old Growth” policy. This policy will seek to transform forests, prairies, and other ecological areas back to what they once were. For example, in the case of forests, as defined by several old (determined by ring count) and large (usually) trees per acre, little to no human disturbance, richness in plant and animal diversity, etc. which is how forests once were, this definition will serve as the goal of the "Old Growth" policy in respect to forests.
    
   These areas of land will have roads and human encroachment kept to a minimum. Additionally, more areas of wilderness will be sought out, preserved and brought back to Pre-Columbus times, an effort which certainly will take several generations. This should proceed in large continuous swathes where, for example, 1/3 of the state is devoted to the “Old Growth” policy and to be left alone except for outdoors recreation of minimal impact. Tiny islands of protected wilderness divided by vigorously human developed barriers, or "wilderness postage stamps", will be brought back together to create continuity. Some states should back their parks up against one another to create an even larger tract of pristine wilderness.
    
6. Limitations on number of visitors to parks and forests must be enacted if they cause significant hardship to the natural ecology such as excessive noise, trampling, pollution, excessive ratio of visitors to area visited, etc. The extreme overuse and waste of wood products if corrected would negate any detrimental effects of this “Old Growth” land policy to our paper and timber needs. In addition, the Green Party's Forestry Policy is reasonable and will be followed, except for the growing of hemp (unless its production does not facilitate smoking marijuana.)

On this day Congress enacted Martin Luther King Day, a day of celebration for civil rights. But to whom do we owe this homage?

Those familiar with Mr. King place the highest scholarly degree on him, the Ph.D. This attribution of “Doctor” to Mr. King certainly sounds very important, quite scholarly and worthy of achievement. That then must be the first cause of celebration, that a black person rose up from the generally downtrodden ranks of the black people.

But take cover, celebrators! The first hint of a drizzle is now being felt and a few gray clouds can be seen. As the good Lord detests lying and is infinitely bound to truthfulness, He sometimes expresses himself in the form of weather for religious folk to read his countenance by.

Now for the truth: Mr. King was one of the 20th century’s worst plagiarists, plagiarizing most of his sermons, lectures and writings, and almost half of his doctoral dissertation. The timing of the dissertation was especially profound—it was submitted several years after he became a preacher. So much for “Thou Shalt Not Lie.”

Mr. King’s unearned doctorate still stands valid to this day since… well, he was black, and black people should be acknowledged and praised no matter how poorly they behave because of all the wrongs that have been done to them in the past.

Despite this, the man must have had some endearing and noble characteristics for us to emulate. For what reason would Congress enact a national holiday called Martin Luther King Day and not simply “Black Day” to make the holiday more general, a name admittedly which marketers could polish up a bit.

The King Center states it beautifully and would appear to be the second cause for celebration:

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. We commemorate as well the timeless values he taught us through his example — the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service that so radiantly defined Dr. King’s character and empowered his leadership.

But would the fact that Mr. King was a rampant womanizer while married with four children shed any darkness on the previous values that “radiantly defined Dr. King’s character”? In more eloquent terms, that means King stuck his penis in lots of people while maintaining a commitment to his wife “to have and to hold, for better or for worse…until death do us part,” and the King Center ignored that tidbit of his character.

Even so, he was a black person who, by nature of being black, was rightfully entitled to be excused of many behaviors normally thought of as abominations. Even worse, so much for “You shall not commit adultery.”

Now the heavens have opened up with a furious deluge and a sky of deep crimson red at the previous discovery, but the people pay no heed, busy with bowing down to a lowly unbound man as they are and thoroughly uninterested in the known charges against Mr. King or the potential charges against him from the FBI now sealed by the Court for fifty years until 2027.

The key question is this: What happens when a lying and adulterous man is considered a role model by a particular group of people? Simple, the group models themselves accordingly with high rates of crime, unwed mothers, illegitimate children, etc. You get the picture.

Needless to say, I’ll skip this holiday and consider it a day to pray for Sinners.

If there were a better place beyond desperation and corruption, where would it be? A place with clean orderly streets and people with honesty and a healthful appearance? A place with transparent and just government, and happy committed families of a man and woman with children? People with strength of character and strong moral values? Where is this place? Where are these people?

Answer: Nowhere.

That is to say, filth, envy, brawling, consumption, squandering, riots, wasting, adulteration, and deviants are the norm to which we mold ourselves and the places we inhabit and nothing greater. However, there must be pockets and snippets of places and people that are contrary to the foulness of mankind, that bind their hearts to pureness and purgative habits.

Yea, Canada and the Northern Reaches seem cool and clean and halfway orderly, as do the Scandinavian countries. The people of these places seem not to regularly dump their household and everyday fast food trash where they stand. Still, the Cigarette Butt Rule is the harshest grade of rating cleanliness, as it requires a place to be devoid of cigarette butts including the pack wrappers.

It can be said with scientific certainty that no place passes the Cigarette Butt Rule. When things such as littering are so commonplace it is best to liven them up a bit through comparisons, such as the following observation: When the static electricity is high in dry weather, cigarette pack plastic wrappers resist the tobacconist's attempt to discard them, and the fag smoker resorts to a sudden shaking and trembling of the fingers to be released of the wrapper that returns like magic; similar to the dog's rear at stool a tremble at evacuating the last of the mashed kibble but without the magic, the moist litter merely laying there in coils or distant links to horrify the next passerby.

Despite these kinds of hygienic setbacks, practicality and preparedness in these Northern Reaches, presumably due to the cold's requirement of self reliance, is amply evident but these same people carry on divorces, abortion, and witless conversation on morals with no heed. Is it not reasonable to give a second thought to the marriageability of a person or that the womb of a woman is not a vestige between which a man blubbers and wails? Apparently not, as every country of the world except Ireland and the Islamic countries places high value on fornication and excising the remainder.

One might find that to be the end of the search for better places and to commence packing a steamer trunk for either Ireland or Iran—and it would be for the meek among us.  Alas, most of us are powerfully disposed with ourselves and our progress with that, which we call our livelihood or keep that takes mainly two forms. The first form is seen in some European countries, and Japan especially, where there is a sense of pride and appreciation for the work that one does. The second form of keeping oneself is the miserable state of apathy and jealousy that is the American worker.

It is from that surrounding state of corrosion and segregation, the second form, that the innocent suffer quietly and the nimble flee. That pyramid of capitalistic greed and malcontent that powers most countries makes the person below you, of which there are many, despicable and the person above you a Donald Trump with lopsided hair and a beautiful 3rd wife to be agog over.

One political structure inevitably falls to another, however, as do the habits of society, and Communism bested Capitalism by making everyone the same and classless. Russia has propagandized their citizens with the public good to the point that a doctor makes as much as a petrol attendant, but the politburo elite keep triple portions of house, car, and women rations for themselves. China, believed to be also Communist, marched their rice farmers to the cities to make plastic things for Wal-mart —and that in totality is China.

Now productivity for citizens should be paramount for any proper government, and there China has done well, but China loses out as a better place to live because of other reasons. China, India, Mexico City, and Ethiopia, to name but a few places, have too many people both in quantity and lowness of quality. A person cannot be found in a pile of humanity unless one is committed to a lifetime of digging and separating. There are assuredly places within these corpulent countries that a breath can be drawn without competition, but who wants their own roped off section in the corner of a chicken house?

Then the element of crime comes into the fray and this is why the Islamic countries are excluded from the inquiry, unless one enjoys the habit of beating their wife in accordance with law. But for the honest among us, government too must be exempt from crime, at least more so than the citizenry, but to that ideal all places fall woefully short. Indeed, it is the need to corrupt that rallies many politicians to government office, as it is the electorate that feels better about themselves by supporting those worse than themselves. Such is the keystone of free elections and majority rule, or what they call Democracy. Worse still is where a select few rule all, which they call a Dictatorship, but this method is not altogether unsalvageable if the rules are good and fair and not broken by majority whim.

So with all places and most people to be met with dissatisfaction, we may be comforted in thinking that no place is better than home, wherever that may be, despite the trash, population totals, and turbulence. It is believed by many that we are no better than ourselves, and to that is often heard the "Cast down your bucket where you stand" piece of advice. That quote may need some work. As many buckets are cast down in a thoroughly unnavigable pasture of pocked and tangled sod, the caster then stands stuck on his bucket in fearful immobility. Better to take your bucket with you knowing there are other places to stand, and to not cast it down prematurely but with forethought and consideration.

"England, seemingly so prosperous while other countries passed through terrible suffering at the hands of Communist domination, had forgotten what was all important - the realization that God mattered in the life of a nation no less than in that of an individual."

—Gladys Aylward (1902-1970)