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2020: Clinton, Trump and the Constitutional Enumeration (Census)

10/1/2016

US Constitution Article I

Contacting the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump presidential campaigns with the following query:

The person elected president in 2016 will provide leadership for the 2020 enumeration (census).

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the US Constitution states: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand.”

Does your organization support the enumeration and representation of We the People according to the mandate in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the US Constitution?

*Next Up: Saturday 8 October with a 2020 update on Clinton, Trump and the Constitutional Enumeration (census).

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2020: Yale University, Chicago Tribune and the Sowers of Constitutional Sepsis

9/24/2016

US Constitution Article I

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that kills more often than heart attacks. It occurs when our bodies begin to injure themselves while trying to fix themselves: symptoms include fever, increased breathing and heart rates, as well as confusion.

I was looking at sepsis for cannabinoid system science and will continue to do so; I also noticed sepsis appears to describe our current polity, a “constitutional sepsis” so to speak.

Then I thought of the sowers of constitutional sepsis, people who know there is an antidote. Sowers of constitutional sepsis discussed on this blog include Yale’s professor of law Akhil Reed Amar and the Chicago Tribune’s Bruce Dold, John Kass and Eric Zorn.

Yale University vs. the Chicago Tribune seems like a fair match-up, particularly since Yale’s Amar is … bluffing.

*Next Up: A 2020 on Saturday 1 October: Clinton, Trump and the Constitutional Enumeration (Census).

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Summer Union 2016: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Must Go On

9/17/2016

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Mac

Summer Finale

“Spotlight.”
“Wanna turn and run?”
“No.”
“Just kidding Yank.”
“Further Johnny, as going on is what we’re about.”
“Sure is.”
“We gonna fly to Virginia or walk?”
“Can’t just fly into flying sometimes.”
“Okay.”
“This is the On Our Way path.”
“On Our Way where?”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way A

“There.”
“Virginia?”
“Eventually.”
“Where else.”
“On Our Way goes by Lee and Gladys -”
“- Our O‘Jays day.”
“Right.”
“I remember. Anywhere else?”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Roni

“Somewhere Gus.”
“Then Virginia.”
“West Virginia too.”
“Well let’s step then.”
“Into the breach.”
“And On Our Way.”

Happy Constitution Day 'Merica!

The next Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb series will begin 21 December: On Our Way Republican Values.

*Next Up: Saturday 24 September and a 2020: Yale University, Chicago Tribune and the Sowers of Constitutional Sepsis.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Comfortably Numb

9/16/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Hello

Part 12 of 13

“Ignoring We the People got popular again, ‘eh Johnny?”
“It did.”
“Feels like disbelief.”
“How so Yank?”
“Disbelief is an action.”
“True.”
“So it’s a doing.”
“It is.”
“And in doing disbelief, one gives the lie to the truth.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Relax

“So the thirty Thousand becomes the lie (the not true) when in fact it is the true, the constitutional definition of We the People.”
“Correct.”
“That’s absurd Yank.”
“How’d it get that way Johnny?”
“Dialectically speaking, disbelief is as strong as belief.”
“Disbelief numbs.”
“Some say comfortably.”
“Belief prompts.”
“Perhaps also comfortably."

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Drop

"I hear that."
“Looks like it's time.”
“Time to go.”
“Tomorrow’s Constitution Day Gus.”
“Auspicious.”

*Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series finale on Constitution Day, Saturday 17 September, Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Must Go On.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Bring the Boys

9/11/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Boys

Part 11 of 13

“Are We the People united?”
“In 2016?”
“Yeah Johnny.”
“Divided Gus.”
“What about the children?”
“What?”
“Domestic tranquility Reb.”
“A goal from the Preamble.”
“Ain’t domestic tranquility about family, home and kids.”
“Sure.”
“Then division is rotting what’s good.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Back

“Sepsis.”
“That’s rotten.”
“Putrid.”
“Why don’t We the People read what’s in the book before us Johnny?”
“Sowers of Sepsis.”
“Tory Crowners.”
“Anti-Republic.”
“And yet.”
“Yes Gus.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Home

“There is our fulcrum.”
“Washington?”
“Article I.”
“The thirty Thousand.”
“Did George ever command 30,000?”
“At the Constitutional Convention.”
“In the field?”
“No, Washington often only commanded 3,000.”
“Three thousand Dandeez.”
“Right on Yank.”

*Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Friday 16 September with part 12, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Comfortably Numb.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Vera

9/4/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Some

Part 10 of 13

“You feeling the way I do Reb?”
“’Bout?”
“Virginia.”
“Yes and no.”
“Yes?”
“Time to be on our way to Virginia.”
“No?”
“Virginia.”
“That’s real clear Johnny.”
“I know.”
“Say more.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Sunny

“Do you remember when I mistook West Virginia for Virginia?”
“By the Potomac.”
“Right.”
“That was ‘65 and ’62 Johnny.”
“It’s like that.”
“Vera Reb.”
“Faith?”
“You know that one ‘eh?”
“It’s Russian.”
“Okay.”
“How’d you know Vera Gus?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Day

“Fire.”
“Talking around a fire.”
“Right.”
“What am I to keep the faith in Gus?”
“Jonathan Rebel.”
“Me?”
“You.”
“Hmmm,” Johnny paused: “that’s becoming.”
“Let’s add Vera to our Virginia trip Reb.”
“Done.”

*Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Sunday 11 September with part 11, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Bring the Boys.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Nobody Home

8/27/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Strong

Part 9 of 13

“Not killing each other is a clear beginning.”
“A strong one Reb.”
“Biblical.”
“A commandment.”
“One we tested Yank.”
“So we know our subject.”
“True.”
“Aesop was moral,” continued Gus, “as his tales always had a teaching turn.”
“Like the Bridled Horse.”
“What’s that?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Urge

“An Aesop story about a Horse, Stag and Man.”
“Tell it.”
“A Horse was having problems sharing a meadow with a Stag.”
“Deer had antlers.”
“Right – so the Horse got with the Man and, with the help of the bridle, the two chased the Stag away.”
“Man rode the Horse.”
“Yes.”
“To a happy ending.”
“For the Man.”
“What did the Man do Johnny?”
“The Horse was pleased, thanked the Man, and expected to be unbridled: the Man said he liked the new arrangement.”
“The Man kept the Horse bridled.”
“You got it.”
“That’s moral.”
“Aesopic.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Fly

“I feel like flying Reb.”
“That’s just the Turkey feathers talking.”
“Or Virginia calling.”
“I hear ya Yank.”
“Time to get maybe.”
“Berryville.”
“Right.”
“We ready?”
“Seems so.”
“Let’s take another look in Gus.”
“With ya Reb.”

Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Sunday 4 September with part 10, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Vera.

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2020: Smells Like Umami – Cannabinoid Heteronomy Hubbub

8/21/2016

Tomatoes are rich in umami components

Umami Hets

Umami is one of five basic tastes along with sweetness, sourness, bitterness and saltiness. We can taste umami because of heteronomy (Hets): specifically, the combination of two receptors to form one action. Today’s heteronomy update explained the umami Hets like this:

"Taste T1 receptors are obligate Hets: ‘T1R3 acts as an obligate partner in T1R1/T1R3 and T1R2/T1R3 heterodimers, which sense umami or sweet, respectively.’"

Pharmaceutical cannabinoid research has regressed on the subject of Hets; they see evidence of cannabinoid Hets yet can’t synthetically reproduce them. The update warns: “in a sense, the field is going backward instead of forward.”

Basic Pharmacological and Structural Evidence for Class A G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Heteromerization
Frontiers in Pharmacology ~ 31 March 2016
Abstract
Cell membrane receptors rarely work on isolation, often they form oligomeric complexes with other receptor molecules and they may directly interact with different proteins of the signal transduction machinery. For a variety of reasons, rhodopsin-like class A G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) [Cannabinoids] seem an exception to the general rule of receptor–receptor direct interaction. In fact, controversy surrounds their potential to form homo- hetero-dimers/oligomers with other class A GPCRs; in a sense, the field is going backward instead of forward. This review focuses on the convergent, complementary and telling evidence showing that homo- and heteromers of class A GPCRs exist in transfected cells and, more importantly, in natural sources. It is time to decide between questioning the occurrence of heteromers or, alternatively, facing the vast scientific and technical challenges that class A receptor-dimer/oligomer existence pose to Pharmacology and to Drug Discovery.

*Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Saturday 27 August with part 9, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Nobody Home.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Is There

8/11/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere There

Part 8 of 13

“Hey, today’s that day.”
“Really Reb?”
“Yup.”
“Seems like yesterday.”
“Been a while Yank.”
“Two years.”
“One-hundred and fifty-two.”
“Oh, I was meaning our Nowhere time Reb.”
“I was meaning since I killed you.”
“Eleven August 1864 you mean,” added Gus; “well, I was just trying to kill you Johnny.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Anybody

“Skirmishing.”
“Right, you know, just seeing if there’s anybody out there.”
“You don’t say much about it.”
“You killing me?”
“Right.”
“Not much to say.”
“Anything?”
“Seems funny now, don’t it?”
“Sure.”
“We don’t even argue Johnny.”
“I know.”
“Maybe that’s what Morgan was suggesting?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Out

“The Teamster.”
“Yes.”
“How so?”
“If we ain’t interested in killing each other any more …”
“True.”
“… Then we figured something out.”
“Like a Snake and Turkey beginning.”
“Reb, I think so too.”

Next Up: Sunday 21 August and a 2020, Cannabinoid Heteronomy Hubbub.

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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Hey You

8/7/2016

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere High

Part 7 of 13

“… caused the war Gus.”
“I hear ya Reb, it wasn’t just a law.”
“No, slavery was constitutional.”
“Three-fifths plus three-fifths.”
“How’s that?”
“That makes six-fifths."
“Okay.”
“As you can see,” Gus continued, “that’s more than one.”
“Right.”
“So two slaves counted as a bit more than one free person.”
“Well said.”
“That’s why it wasn’t just that slavery was legal.”
“Higher.”
“It was that slaves counted, at the constitutional rate of two for one.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Heart

“Yes Gus.”
“That’s the heart of the matter.”
“Again yes.”
“The good and bad of slavery wasn’t the point.”
“That worked well to get the people fired up.”
“Divided us.”
“With the real power –”
“Hey Reb?”
“What?”
“It’s like the morality of slavery was the feint force.”
“I get ya.”
“While the real force (power) is in this math no one ever talked about?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Help

“Correct Gus.”
“Okay.”
“Everyone got caught up in the right and wrong of slavery.”
“And we overlooked the Constitution.”
“That’s never good.”
“Hardly Johnny.”
“It can work awhile.”
“Even look like it’s working.”
“Right Gus.”
“But all things go back to their source.”
“They sure do.”

Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Thursday 11 August with part 8, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Is There.

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