Wednesday, October 05, 2011
The White Judgement Hall
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Don't Let The Door Hit You in the Ass
I Am The Walrus - Final Chapter
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Geeky Science for Born Again Christians
“We won’t be messed with or used as a Tool
And most of us got high marks in School”
“OK Mr. Born Again scientist. We’ll start off with a simple question. Define the word “Domension”.
“Well one time I saw the word DIMENSION in a FORTRAN computer program”
“I think I’ll give you 30% credit for that pathetic answer.
OK, another question. If I take my gun out into a big field and for purposes of discussion let’s assume I’m an infallible marksman and always hit what I aim at- - then how many different directional trajectories can I aim my gun and have success?”
:I cannot answer that question”
“Ok, don’t feel bad. One final question. How many different elements are there in a ten dimensional array consisting of ten elements each?
“One hundred?”
“I have one more suggestion for you. Don’t quit your day job”
Well Judy, God bless her, recommended that geeky science program again on channel 50.3. She thought I’d be smart enough to understand the things the instructor was saying. Well guess what? I wasn’t. What I did understand didn’t pan out. The instructor said that the speed of light is important in determining whether life formed anywhere in the Universe. I don’t see how and I doubt he could tell you if you asked him the direct question. I have a feeling he’d say something like, “I don’t know- - it’s just here in the script. He also stated he had “proved “deism” and the next week he was going to get into true Theology. Organized religion has not been able to make that link in five thousand years of trying, I hardly see how he is going to do it next week. People from Dr. Levy to Chuck Smith to Neil Savedra said “You can’t probe God. It’s just a matter of Faith. It’s a Decision you make personally”. Some of the other constructions of the show were a little silly such as universe creating machines with all sorts of dials on them to adjust the physical laws. The host points out “even such postulated machines would have to be made by Somebody”. Some of his “questions” could be answered by a bright fifth grader with a sense of humor. Abraham Lincoln was once asked, “How long should a man’s legs be”? Do you remember his answer? He said, “They should be long enough to reach the floor”. Some of the commentary on physical laws could degenerate into such silliness of “Just think how chaotic math would be of triangles didn’t have three sides or if squares didn’t have four”. As to his remarks on the gravitational constant I think of “Q” remarks on Star Trek in an episode after he’d lost his powers. Captain Piccard said “If we don’t do something that space station is going to crash into the planet when orbital decay takes its course” and “Q” just said, “Well that problem is simple; just change the gravitational constant”. If you change the gravitation of a planet causing a satellite’s orbit to decay, the solution is simple. Just supply more rocket power to the satellite so that it can stay in orbit. If we had less gravity we would have bigger stars and bigger, slower planetary orbits. If we had more gravity we would have smaller stars, and faster planetary orbits. So what’s the problem? The host spoke of “a host of such problems” but he didn’t get to the sixteen others on his list. He talked about string theory and multiple dimensional theory, neither topic I suspect he knows squat about. As to its “It couldn’t happen without God” declaration. Do you remember an axiom Stewart Sutcliff lived by when he came up with his multiple dimension theory. The axiom is “Anything that CAN happen HAS happened in some universe”. I don’t know about you but the word ANYTHING seems pretty all inclusive to me. If there is anything I’ve missed when I post these remarks feel free to register in comments. When I read comments they are usually trying to push some business venture or employment opportunity, or else pitch some new product. Maybe I should answer all those individual readers who took the time to write. But for now, the host’s doctrine of “Complicatedness” eludes me.
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I made coffee in the morning and turned on KNX 1070. Obama’s speech actually wasn’t bad. The President said it isn’t a matter of one side “winning” or “losing” but whether the American people win or lose. That’s easy for we adults to see, but you know how petty these tea baggers are. They are like Christians. If they even think they might be losing an argument they’ll throw a tantrum and blame you. Basically the President needs to do more zingers like this to make his audience think. If he points out the Obvious, he will prosper. We had oatmeal for breakfast with a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly. The Republican response was on the subject of eliminating all these vast new business regulations. OK, you convinced me. Then it was that fish and crill oil combo and Astezanten and how it speeds up your brain and gives you good skin. OK there was another one at nine or something that talked about super energy fat burning so animals never gain weight. Anyhow, Astezanten has 60 times the anti-oxidant power of Vitamin C. And I guess half the fat cells of your brain consist of it. In between I had the computer on reviewing blogs. I know at eight thirty I switched the radio off and just lay on the bed a bit. And then I grabbed my wallet and my Chase debit card and went to the ATM at the liquor store and got the minimum of twenty dollars. It took a while to process. Then I bought coffee creamer and two packs of John Black cherry. I don’t imagine I’ll be spending any more money till Tuesday. There’s no need. I’m still a little fuzzy on what I did when. I also read up on Lee Michaels. He is from
Amanda Knox has been undergoing a murder trial in
Andy Rooney is 92 years of age and prides himself on being a "grumpy old man". He has the very same persona off camera as he does on camera. He says he used to be against War but then he ran into the Nazis and he changed his mind. They say that you know a liberal from a conservative, because the conservative is the guy who's been mugged. He says that if he had the last thirty years to do over again that he would be doing exactly the same thing. Well, we here in the blogisphere salute Andy. He is truely one of a kind and he'll be missed.
Some people have asked me "Marcus, how come you're so darned smart?" Well, I tell you a little secret. I remember what I learn. When I read a book or take a college course I make a point to remember it. Other people don't. Their minds are like a siev. When a preacher gives a sermon I remember it. Others don't. They go into some kind of spiritual trance, all right, but they don't remember anything substantive they could be given a test on. A lot of the incidents or many will say "stories" I relate to you readers are incredibly vintage. Many of the ones I choose NOT to relate are incredibly vintage. We we hear things and we forget them and for some reason they assume relivence later on in life, like trying to remember what you learned in higher math in high school. I just remembered that mystery "last name" that starts with an R. It wasn't Ramsey, it's Renkin, or Renkyn. OK that's a technicality. We forget that the Sunday morning show on KFI is called "radio theater". It isn't reality; it's theater. Just like Star Trek is theater. It's entertainment. If you're lucky you can pull away the occasional lesson from it. You have to remember that certain people such as Dennis Prager and Neil Savedra pride themselves NOT on their spirituality or "psychic enlightenment". Rather, they take pride in themselves in that they are "Religious". I had the idea of doing a biography on C S Lewis and calling the book "The Lying King". That title is not original with me. Rush Limbaugh must take credit for that one. The song "The lion sleeps tonight" seems to be a take off on an even earlier story I heard as a small child about a lion sleeping and forgetting the secret word to a magic tree. And the word was close to "Un-wung-ga-weah". But the lion was too proud to admit that he'd forgotten the real word and so made up a word and said it many times to the tree. And of course nothing happened. There was no dropping of the magic fruit. Some old people pride themselves with the expression "You know, I've forgotten more on that subject than you'll ever know". If I were them I wouldn't be too public about admitting it. People have another "Meme" that somehow "Loss in life is irrelivent". You get this particularly in Christian circles. Many people seem to pride themselves on what they've Lost almost more than what they Have. If a heart valve is leaking blood it needs medical attention. Some math whizzes say that investment "loss" will prevent the regular compounding of interest and principle, by which you can save up and accrew money. The secret to my own parent's success more than any other- - is that they were extremely tight with a buck. But contrary to what so many Christians believe, you ultimately are not measured in life by what you Have, but by what you Give. People like Gene Scott never seem to have this reality dawn on them. People should not "Trust" in objects, and for many God is a "Thing" to them. It's something they "Have". But rather we need to learn to trust our fellow man, as Jimmy Stewart said in that famous speech to Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life". If we can do this, we will Do Well. (Selah)
People fall into mental traps. Many people develope phobias they can't really explain but have no intention of altering. Many people believe that if they can just Avoid certain things that all will be well in their lives. But if Satan is really out there, don't you think he's smart enough to implant some fear in your mind that isn't your Real problem, and so that you invest time trying to avoid That Thing, and meanwhile you are ignoring the fact that you are screwing up every day in a thousand other ways. So you try and avoid fats, when it's carbohydrates that turn out to be the real problem. They claim to have trouble reading the road map but meanwhile they are so stoned at the time they don't know what they're doing anyway. People on the tea party right pride themselves on not violating the tenth commandment. This is the one about not coveting your neighbor's goods. Don't they think for one minute that a powerful business man bent on driving his enemies into the poor house is also violating the tenth commandment? Suppose you fixate on a belief system that seems to "work" for your neighbor and fixate on that and say "I want what he has". Aren't you too violating the tenth commandment of "coveting your neighbor's religion?" A wise person said to practice "Moderation in everything - - including moderation". Extremism in defense of your own moral convictions is no vice but moderation in the pursuit of Truth is no virtue. People who don't trust themselves have themselves as their own worst enemy, whom they are never able to get away from. (Selah) Many preachers fill your head with all these false ideas. They will say to you "I have secret knowledge - - but I know you're not ready to hear it yet and you just have to sit and listen attentively at my knee and trust me while I try to remember something I haven't made up yet." It is of little use if they say that the secret knowledge lies over in that THING over there and we'll call that THING God. You still have the same problem. As Dylan said long ago, but it's well worth remembering, "Do you take me for such a fool to think that I'd make contact with one who tries to hide what they don't know to begin with?" (Selah)
There's Wisdom In A Multitude of Counselors
Saturday, October 01, 2011
The Liberals Regain their Political Voice
It’s refreshing to see that left wing protests are finally making the news. Liberals say there have been many large protestors over the past ten years but the media has ignored them. But if a tenth or fewer the number of tea baggers get together they will trumpet that in the media. Well, no longer. Now there are throngs of protestors camping out in
It’s not enough that they are eliminating higher Science and History and Civics from our school cerricula so that the students have no cultural base. If you think about our generation was liberal in part because “out parents taught us to be” because they themselves had a full, well rounded “liberal education” they passed on to us and we ran with the ball. Today’s young people don’t have that, and haven’t had it in a generation because they have been “teaching to the test” to get more school funds they fight over because they are so scarce. Now cut backs have gotten so bad they are putting commercials right on school busses, and even on student lockers. What will be next? Will they be passing out free bottles of Gator Aid in gym class to try to create a habit of buying the product? Will they have the Dominoes Pizza History hour? Will they start off every school day after morning announcements with a ten minute promotional film from
Nobody can claim that President Obama hasn’t macho’d up his presidency considerably these past few months. He’s even won over Pat Buchannon as evidenced by this weeks Mc Laughlin group program. Buchannon even declared that the Tea Party is a danger to this country. Now a high ranking member of the Hakani family operating on the Pakistani – Afghan border had been taken into captivity and we hope to learn more from him. Some say that the US has made such great progress recently because the computer treasure trove that Bin Laden left behind in Pakistan after we took him out. Hakani was instrumental in transporting troops from
I figured “I was talking about the stars? Fine. I’ll look at a star map”. Sometimes I get information from the Other Side and then check it out after I've already posted it. The funny thing is when I do this I rarely ever have to retract anything. To answer a question I think the Cremorian planet was 56 Ori and the mystery planet was 51 Ori. FH was looking just to the right and got confused because he thought the star had moved or something. I looked on my "Star Names" link but that didn't help. It's just those numbers 51 and 56 ring a bell from somewhere. I think this one is it. They are in near proximity. And the “Colors” star is that gamma Orion one in the upper right. As to that other really bright star to the right I’ve never heard it mentioned by the Federation. Maybe no planet is habitable. There are so many silly things you’ll never use like overlay, polygon, and marker. The least they could do is let you access the stuff you do use or used to like planets in motion. Sometimes I get news from the "Other Side" I don't want to hear. Like when Jerry Lieber died I thought "Well maybe he can rejoin some of those singers he made famous such as Elvis and the lead singer of the Coasters. However the one quote of Bones I was going to use but haven’t is talking about Jerry Lieber and why he is ignored by the Federation and Bones said “Because he is of the Jewish persuasion and despite appearances his loyalties lie elsewhere”. In other words in the after life he’s not in the picture as far as we are concerned. The stuff from June of 1997 I’ve reflected on before. And if I haven't, well, "the remarks will keep". I was going to mention the John Lennon Eileen therapy remarks too, which makes an interesting commentary in 2000. John Lennon was particularly interested in the "Arimid" period, or as some might say, the "Glass Onion" period. In terms of remarks that actually HELPED me, John Lennon was more helpful than Eileen was.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Terrorist Anwar Al Alahi Killed by US Drone
Home grown Islamic terrorist leader Anwar Al Alahee was taken out by our government today by a drone missile. Apparently President Obama gave the word to take this guy out, so we did. Alaki war born in the
Facts accumulate that Dr. Conrad Murray is guilty as sin. He lied about how soon he called emergency. Because the paramedics team responded in twelve minutes and by the time they got there the body was cold. The paramedics gave him stimulant drugs to try and revive
OK now that I’ve had another dose of nicotine medication I can think. By the way if anybody in the blogersphere is curious what Clint looks like, just think of Joseph Gordon Levitt. Actually there is a time when he could have played Clint, being only about five years younger. In other words Uncle Bob and I do have one quirky thing in common and that is we both have our mother’s maiden name as our middle name. I always wondered what the D in official addresses referred to. I thought it was a common name like Donald or Daniel. Of course my Dad has that weird French name I’ve heard nowhere else. And there is Nana’s whole “French Connection” and I guess that’s through her father. She’s a regular Vivian Alamaine the way she dropped those French expressions into the conversation. She says she got her belly from her father’s side of the family. You know all that geniological stuff only went back to the early 1800’s. But I heard back at the Upland house thirty years ago at a gathering that our family had its roots in Anendale, Scottland in the 1600’s. I don’t know. Maybe it was that guy who fell overboard on the Mayflower who was the link to
The Lysteria bacteria is back and on the rise and infecting the cantaloupe crop. Bill says it’s just in
Today is September 30, 2011 and they are warning us of musty smelling water. We had a resident’s council meeting this afternoon and it was one of the longest, most boring meetings of all time. It was hard to hear people since carts were rolling by, they were running the dish washer in the kitchen, and it was a large resonant room and people weren’t speaking very loud, including Pete and JW. And Bruce would chime in with his irrelivent babblings that somehow made enough coherent sense for Pete to continue to listen to him. He kept going on and on about visiting the gift shop at Knott’s
We had beef stew for dinner. Before this I had the KTLK guy on the radio, and at long last that model plane explosives story has finally hit the news. I was about twenty hours ahead of the learning curve on this one having put out the story last night. I checked over the Howard stuff this afternoon just to make sure I said what I wanted to say and no more, and had all the dates right. So I mixed the rice and stew together. There was squash, and we had a piece of chocolate cake for desert and Andy gave me his piece. I got a cigarette from Joe. I owe Francis two. I owe Bill Warrell one. I’ve gotten through today with no cigarettes and I’ll hit the ATM machine tomorrow morning and watch the spending so I don’t get precarious like I was this past month.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
It's Time To Impeach Justice Thomas
"Morality, like math, is its Own justification" - ME
This is June 21, 2011 and it turned summer about a half hour ago on this overcast day. I guess they were wrong about today being a scorcher. It’s time for once and for all to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas and remove him from the Supreme Court bench. He has never had that ethereal quality called “Judicial temperament”. I’m not sure that a man addicted to the sleaziest of pornography is the “right sort” we want to elevate to what Thom Hartman refers to as “black robed Royalty in this country”. The Supreme Court’s own claimed role of ruling laws “unconstitutional” may in itself be an unconstitutional act, how be it an long established one. The old testament uses the same word for judges as for “gods”, that being the “Elohem”. I don’t believe Thomas was showing “judicial temperament” when he referred to the Anita Hill charges as a “high tech lynching”. That’s the sort of race card dealing that would even make Johnny Cochrin blush. Of course it seems stranger than anything to me that Justice Thomas “never asks questions” as the eight other justices so, when a matter is being argued before the bench. I’m seen Thomas in action myself on C-Span, or rather should I say “not in action”. I think he was put there as a “token nigger” (pardon my French) by Bush 41 after Justice Marshal retired from the bench. That whole confirmation process has always been a swirl of controversy. Should a justice be fired for hating women? Perhaps not. But as you know there is a large body of rulings where Justice Thomas should have recuiised himself and didn’t. Many involve associations of his wife. Thomas had a direct conflict with the all important Citizen’s United case, the outcome of which dramatically shifted the balance of political power in this country and by itself could have swung the 2010 election to the other party. As you know in the Citizen’s United case, the court unnecessarily broadened the scope of the case to include issues which were not directly at issue. Whoever made this decision was most certainly engaging in that dreaded term, “Judicial Activism”. This case gave businesses the standing of person-hood that no law or congress or presidential executive order ever did. And Thomas is largely responsible for it. I don’t see why he’s being allowed to get away with it. Justice Abe Fortess in the Johnson administration was forced out of office on much less significant charges than Thomas is guilty of. But back then we as a society had a sense of personal honor (remember that word?) that is appallingly lacking today.
On Monday the United States Supreme Court in one of their party line 5 to 4 rulings we’ve seen so much of lately, ruled that female employees don’t have the basis for a class action suit against Wall-Mart to the effect that there is a system wide discrimination policy against them. This overturns a lower court ruling, which says they did. Judge Scelia spoke for the majority saying that “there is no legal glue which holds all these cases together. They ruled that there was no proven edict or order they could point to to substantiate their case. If all of these female employees of Wall-Mart are going to sue in the Courts to redress their grievances against discriminatory promotion policies, then they are going to have to sue individually. This is a simple case of “unided we stand- - and separately we get crushed by the Big Daddy corporations- - - One by One”. You know Wall-Mart just loves this ruling and are popping champaign corks over it. As to what I think about all of this- - - I could swing either way on this issue, actually. I wouldn’t want a ruling coming down that conservatives could rip apart in legal terms. But at the same time I think we all can be pretty sure that Wall-Mart does have some sort of transcending implied policy against promoting women. There are a lot of woman-haters in high place. And Justice Clarence Thomas is a woman hater. For this reason I as one of these wronged women would go after him and get the whole ball rolling on the impeachment thing. There is stuff in the Bible about “not doing the right thing - - even when you might be opposed - - if your conscience tells you you’re wrong. I don’t know whether some of these justices even have a conscience. I think the era of male chovenism is a feature of the past and is fading just like the 20th Century. I imagine Justice Thomas, like Rush is one of those people who believes that “What a woman really needs is a good man- - - you know, to serve and have them tell you what to do”.
Some of these governors of big states like Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo have such a major phobia against “failure” that they assume they can and must “accompelish anything”. Brown wasn’t satisfied with success but insists he wants to get some new tax hikes approved and is vetoing his own party’s action so he can cut some sort of deal with the Republicans to get the tax measure on the ballot. Now the California Controller is saying that the pay of legislators will be docked because they did not submit a "fiscally viable budget in time" even though it's the earliest budget in decades and it's two weeks early. In Andrew Cuomo’s case, I’d say “on the whole issue of gay marriage you either have the votes, or you don’t. And if you don’t you pick up your marbles and go home and take a stand on a different issue”. Now he’s trying to “get in bed” with various interests. Some people in
John Huntsman is talking about “civility, humanity, and respect” and that these qualities are lacking today, when he declared his candidacy for President. He’s going for that extinct species, the rational Republican vote. The G O P, as Randy says, is going to despize him. Even Romney will cut him to pieces. They speak of him as being “likeable and pragmatic guy”. Huntsman speaks Manderin Chinese but this is because of his family connections. Of course you all know he was ambassador to
Dr. Levy has announced his "Dream Ticket" and it's Governor Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman, who I hear is really short, which works against candidates. Levy likes Perry because of his record in cutting taxes and bringing jobs to Texas. Apparently over4 40% of all the jobs generated in the whole country are in Texas. Dr. Levy's platform is that "There are no jobs because Obama didn't make jobs his priority in taking office. Instead he favored raising taxes and drove more jobs out of the country so now he'd made the economy worse". On the G M bailout Dr. Levy was against this because "He should have demanded that the Unions renogiate their wages and break existing contracts". When informed that G M has paid back their loan Dr. Levy responds, "No they haven't. Only a small portion of it". On oil it's "The reason why gasoline prices are so high now is because President Obama has stopped all drilling. We have plenty of oil in this country for a long time to come if the President will allow us to tap it". However it seems the reality is that oil production in this country is the highest it's been in a long time. Some may ask "Does Dr. Levy have a doctorate in economics?" Absolutely not. Every one of these statements is so idiotic as to be beyond the pale. Of course whoever the candidate is next year it will be one approved by the Koch Brothers or whoever gives these candidates their talking points. However Randy points out that even rich people like the Koch brothers could be gobbled up and bought out by someone even more powerful, so that the number of truely rich people will be further thinned out, so that there are only a few - - - or one.
Let’s return to the whole bit with cloaked objects. First of all there are objects with primary cloaking and those with secondary cloaking. Those subject to primary cloaking have the ability to cloak certain objects that would remain uncloaked on their own – in regular space, just by virtue of being within the cloak however they are cloaked to outsiders. Cloaked things and people inside a vessel are, of course, material to each other. These secondarily cloaked objects cannot be used to conceil other objects per se. Cloaked people can see other cloaked objects, either primary or secondary. Cloaked people can see uncloaked matter but can't handle it. Objects with secondary cloaking within a vessel exhibit the same optical traits and relation to other matter as in the uncloaked world. No uncloaked object or person can be transported through hyperspace using this particular mode of transportation. When a secondarily cloaked object leaves the environs of primary cloaking, it materializes. But only for a while till it breaks down and begins becomes cloaked. Secondary objects cloaked a long time stay material on the outside for a shorter time than objects cloaked a short time. If an object is cloaked a short enough time, when it enters regular space - it will remain material. However primary cloaked objects will not hide objects with no cloaking at all. Were you to put an entirely uncloaked object in or on a cloaked object it would fall to the floor. I imagine you know by now that cloaking is best done in zero gravity or certain dire things will happen. (see previous) Objects or people intended to exit the ship for their own safety are sobjected to a (translation problem) device that renders their primary cloaking into secondary, so they don't suffer the adverse gravitational consequences of sinking into the ground in continuous gravitational acceleration downward, as in accordence with Newton's laws. I asked Stewart whether there were different ways of cloaking objects and whether two objects cloaked in different manners would have physicality or materiality to each other or not. Stewart refused to say “Yes” or “No” to this but just said “Those- - would be logical deductions”. I asked Stewart if he could describe the process by which molecules are altered to be “cloaked”. Stewart declined. That’s going too far. Actually the “bubble” I spoke of in the last outing is really more of a “test tube” shaft shape. Uncloaked objects will be seen behind this "test tube" space. If this tube or cigar shaped structure has hyperspace cababilities it can be and is suspended in mid air. Objects (clocked) inside this tube do not fall out the bottom but the extent of this tube is the lowest point to which objects within its enclosure may fall. Objects may be passed or thrown into or our of "sequestered space" (new term) through a door or port hole made of primary cloaked matter, but all borders for safety must be primary cloaked matter. Objects which transverse the cloaking thresshold line will remain contiguous unto themselves but will none the less have the the affected portions thereof either cloaked or uncloaked. This is all the detail I can give.