Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Betrayed By Pakistan
California Proposition 8 Decision Upheld
When police and the DA set up the prosecution of the accused, they construct a time line and a story line to sell the jury on. In it they usually want to get inside the mind of the accused and lead you step by step just what he did and some of his apparent motive in doing it. If there is some glitch in the time line- - - they have a choice of trying to slough it over or else go back and revise their flow charts and line up all their ducks in a row. In religion you have narratives. The most famous is the crucifixion narrative. This is obviously the center piece of Christianity that is the focus of all else. It is one story that is carefully told in all four gospels. Let's review it now.Jesus was arrested in the garden while his desciples slept (I'm not sure what they were "supposed to be doing") Judas (of all the possible names why "Judah"?) betrayed Jesus with a kiss (John knew the betrayer was Judas but did nothing to stop him) to the Pharices (and apparently not one witness came forth to defend him), who turned Jesus over to the Romans because they had no law to put a man to death. (False: Stonings occurred in the land all the time) Also it was illegal to carry out a sentence for a crime on the same day on which he was sentenced, and the Jews were risking this. But nobody needed to "betray" Jesus. Anyone could follow him around and jump him when he was alone. Pilate said Jesus was innocent because he was such a stand up fair guy. (False. The historic Pilate was a corrupt and ruthless man wouldn't bat an eye at vindictiveness) - - and so he put it up to a vote of the Jewish crowds to free a man. (No such "vote" has ever been allowed before and it's unlikely it occurred here. If Pilate had the power to set one man at liberty out of some custom, why just not free him regardless of "how the people vote?) And the people threatened Pilate and chanted “We have no king but Caesar. “ (Come on - - can you imagine a Jewish mob doing this - - Especially one that just voted to free a terrorist?) And then Pilate ceremonially washed his hands in Jewish tradition saying he is innocent of this man’s blood. (“Incredible!” This is an obscure practice in old testament Mosiac law, as if Pilate practiced that.) and the people responded, “His blood be upon ourselves and on our children”. (Like who is going to do this???) And Pilate ordered the sign “King of the Jews” being placed above the cross. (Presumably out of spite that their own rejected him.) And according to some sources Jesus stumbled carrying the cross three times, and Jesus cursed one of the mockers. All the while Roman troops gambled for his clothes- which would have been soaked in blood. (The Romans were paid well. They weren’t that hard up) Jesus tells women who mourn for him “Weep not for me but for yourselves. For some day the childless woman will be called blessed. And you will say to the mountains “Hide us”. And went on to say “If these things are done when the wood is green, worse things will be done when the wood is dry”. This sort of idle threat is not real consistent with a prisoner with nothing but "flower power" love in his heart. Then Roman guards were persuaded to hasten the deaths of the condemned men so as not to violate the Sabbath. (In point of historical fact, bodies of the condemned hung out on the cross for days till they were surround by flies and starting to decay.) And after he died he was buried in a new tomb, and Roman guards were enlisted to make sure that nobody was planning to fake a resurrection. (Come on! You mean the Sanhedren were so afraid the Christian Church was going to get established on a lie that they would get the Romans to waste men and time on such a vain pursuit) If any money changed hands, it would be a violation of the Sabbath, which they cared about. Virtually every sentence in this narrative was put there to illustrate a specific point. According to Randy Rhodes after May 21st we are going to be left here to burn on earth for five months till October. Pets will be left behind. Just what happens after October I'm not sure.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Transportational Arbitrage Phenomenon
I wanted to talk about Time travel. Back in 1988 I sent someone in the media the proposition that in space folding, one usually didn't have a problem with landing on the other side in the same time frame (though mirror reversed). But I added "In some unusual cases one encounters gravimetric distortion that shifts time". First of all we need to expand our minds. People have various explanations for why we are even "trapped" in the particular time we are. The most comon is the "soap bubble" analogy, which illustrates the big bang. The big mental stretch here is portraying three dimensional matter is a flat surface with no "center". In this analogy, as in the Planet of the Apes movie as we mentioned in a recent posting, it is postulated you could circumnavigate the entire universe by traveling in basically a straight line. However I'm not sure Einstein ever used this analogy himself. However analogies lend themselves to being taken too literally and this is the danger here. It’s like when I was a little kid and we were in the car on the way to the
Republican Would Be's Gather for First Debate
The republican debate last night was a major horror show best remembered by six words, and these are “Deregulate, deregulate, and deregulate” and “privatize, privatize, and privatize. All of the candidates seemed big on bragging on how many children and grandchildren they had. This is why I dread going to heaven. According to Randy Rhodes, this whole debate was based upon no true facts. It was all about supply siders and nothing about the common man at all. Randy says the words “middle class” never once came from anyone’s lips”. I just watched some of the Republican debate on C-Span.com. Gingrich is the most conservative being strident on area such as racial profiling and applying religious tests to work in government and in transferring half of Homeland Security to the border for immigration control. Santarum has the purest anti abortion stance but Pawlente says he has the track record as governor of appointing pro life judges. All seem to agree that life is sacrosanct from conception to the grave. Many want to vastly expand oil drilling and coal production as well as nuclear. There seemed to be zero concern for either pollution nor scarcity of resources. Gingrich accused the President is deliberately passing an immigration reform bill, even though in doing so the President was catering to the right wing. Most agree with me on the Eminent Domain issue saying private property should not be conthiscated by the government and handed over to meda-corporate developers. Unfortunately even though I heard the words, they don’t mean it. You know “boosting tax revenues” will be a major factor.
The Republicans ran a
The African Moslem organizer of the killings in
Steve says that he has a hundred thousand dollars in the bank but he can’t withdraw it because his sister controls it. He and his sister each got a hundred thousand from their parents’ sale of their house. They are both dead now. Dana says that if his sister won’t let him have it then his sister is a bitch. This is the way it is with family members around here. They are about as charitable tword us as the Catholic church is tword the poor asking them for money. Scott Wilkinson is in for Leo Le Port today. I dozed off for just a bit. Scott says that the 2012 Olympics will be in 3 D. He also says that 3 D television sets generally give you a better 2 D experience too.
This Sunday they are having the gay pride parade down
I guess Sean Lennon, Olivia Harrison, Yoco Ono and Paul Mc Cartney are all hanging out with each other these days. They say that the re-release of the Mc Cartney album has bonus tracks. If is does, they didn’t play any. In case KLOS is wondering that one group I added to that Zachery list was Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin is regarded by many as “The greatest rock and roll band ever”. Who did they have in mind? I went out for coffee break at ten. Scott Wilkinson talked about playing a flute with no holes except for a small one at the end. I know a lot of gay people who have played flutes like that.
Last night it was ABC news and later on the Mc Laughlin group. Then I posted last night’s blog. I decided not to use the Stewart Sutcliffe apparence. It went like this. Stewart told me that the Federation has always agreed with my dimensional face formula of two years ago, and is perplexed why I abandoned it. He said that the Wickipedia article was just wrong. You know I was afraid they might have locked my blog today thinking it had Span on it because I used so much center stuff and had numbers and some key buzz words. In 2009 I was really worried about this because it happened several times. When I lost internet for nearly five weeks I went on line to James' computer just to check and see that my Blog hadn't been locked..
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Dallas Mavericks Win First NBA Championship
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Economic Statistics Continue to Look GrimW
Former Senator Rick Santaurum has declared his candidicy for President. He is every bit as conservative as Tim Tawlenty however on the subject of abortion he is strident in saying life begins at the moment of conception and that rape and incest are not valid reasons to have an abortion. There’ll be no RU 486 for those women. I’m getting the sense that people are actually buying Republican arguments. They say if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. So many have repeated the line that the President’s economic policies have made the
Shapes of Things
According to Thom Hartman's upcoming book, the shape of the economy is not only bad now but will continue to be for years. Apparently Thom's next book will be titled "The Coming Crash of 2015." My guess if that his hope may be "If things get bad enough somehow the people will wake up and see the error of their ways and throw the republican bums out and elect liberal democrats in their place. I've been beguiled by this "things can't get any worse" fallocy so many times I wouldn't assume that some cosmic hand is going to step in to either save us, or rouse the people to common sense. It's never worked with the family or Christian friends. The truth is that you "hit bottom" not at some mystical point but rather when you "decide that you've just had enough" and act on that. The truth is we don't have to wait for 2015 to act, we can act right now. We can act next year. We could have acted in 2009 and crafted the stimulus bill so that it created the jobs we really needed to have instead of boondoggle givaways to voters in certain districts. We could have had a President who commanded moral authority. Vincent Bugliosi points out that a big factor in Chris Darden and Marsha Clark loosing the O J trial was that there was absolutely no moral outrage or telling the jurors "You OWE it to those two dead young people to turn in the right verdict". Only God knows why Americans haven't found the will to get their electoral act together before this. I thought "If we ever elected a Black president all our problems would be solved". Boy was I proven wrong! In order to "break out of our rut" what we're most likely going to have to do is abandon political party structures. And you know what they say, "A rut is just an open-ended grave". We cannot be cowed by either tradition or think we are acting in the name of "expediancy". Here's a news flash. Anything that "doesn't work" can't be called expediant. And what we have tried up till now hasn't worked. Reformers have never been afraid to do in the past. Even Jesus said "You can't put new wine in old wine skins". But people just don't have the balls today to do the things patriots routinely used to do in film excerpts from "Profiles in Courage" we used to see in school.
Now they have something called "Tea-vangelists". Well, it's the dreaded union of Ayan Rand and the Holy Spirit. The results can't be good. The tea party were people who held Ayan Rand as their hero - - as Hartman has pointed out many times on his show. In their character they are essentially godless heathens who care only for themselves. There is no sense of helping out your fellow man, as Jesus taught, and there is no sense of "stewardship of the earth, which belongs to God" as God told Adam and Eve to do. My continuing growing disdain of Christianity largely centers on the fact that little by little, Christianity is slowly and inevitably becomming less "Christian". First it was the hyper commercialization of Jesus trinkets and "Jesus music". Then it was their "Me, first and last" gospel. To this Neil Savedra added in his two cents of "Don't depend on God for nothing". And finally the tea party throws in their tax element imputing near holiness to the Wall Streeters and the transnational corporations and the banksters. And at the same time saying those who plead for a more equitable distribution of wealth in America as "liberation theologists" or "collectivists" or just suffering from "Coveting thy neighbor's goods" as the tenth commandment prohibits. Now evangelists are appealing to housewives that are home during the day saying "You are the ones who started the tea party movement and I must say that's a pretty big joke for God to play on the liberals". They are playing on the discredited myth that the tea party of a "grass root movement of concerned Americans". Randy Rhodes says she was fooled by them originally but I never was. Of course in a Dylan song Bob Dylan speaks of "the tea preacher looked so baffled, when I asked him why he he dressed with twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest". The rest of the verse goes "But he curse me when I proved to him, that a whisper said not even you can hide. You see you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied". This would allude to sexual conduct. Randy Rhodes points out how the Republicans are quick to forgive their own gross sexual conduct. What do you do with someone like Mark LeVin? As Hartman points out these appeals to the social right are just trinkets and come-ons, to suck you into their real agenda of having corporations take over the world and have our Constitution be irrelivent.
It's always humbling to admit you were wrong about something, especially when you thought you hit upon the holy grail of dimensional theories. But this is just the case with me where I checked out my theory of 2009 on dimension prediction and learned that I was flat out wrong. I checked out Wickipedia. They used a trippy demonstration of a four dimensional cube and even had animations. We now come to that 24 sided cube thing in Wickipedia. I have deduced that the number 24 is correct. There are only 24 frames in their cube and not 36 because I was counting twelve of them twice. There were four connecting faces extending from each of the six primary faces like the opening up of a box connecting the nearer cube with the distant one. I made the logical error of assuming each "box" opened with four flaps and got 24 when there were only 12. Also I counted out the dimensions one by one. The exercise went like this. Dimensions 1 and 2 separated by 3; dementions 1 and 3 separated by 2, dimensions 2 and 3 separated by 1. Now I’ve done a quarter of them without using dimension 4 at all. I could do the same sort of calculations three more times omitting the numbers 3, and then without 2, and then without 1, and if you double each calculation you get 24 cube faces. I made a logical error in my original formula two years ago. The number of faces for 4 dimensions is 24 because each set of six planes can play itself twice with one remaining dimension number, and twice again with the remaining dimension number making 24. It’s just that simple. You can do this exercise with five dimensions where you would have 10 plans and three numbers to use, giving you 30, which gets doubled to 60. With six dimensions you have 15 plains and four unused dimensions and 4 x 15 is 60 which doubles to 120. With seven dimensions you have 21 planes and 5 unused dimensions which after you double it gives you 10 x 21 or 210 faces on a seven dimensional cube. Keep in mind according to the rules of the game all the corners of the cube must be ninety degrees and each cube must have two congruent faces that are both parrell planes to each other but also perpimdicularly separated from each other. All the shapes need not be squares, but the two opposing faces must be congruent and parrellel- - - and also perpendicularly separated.
In three dimensional shapes you have the tetrahedron which can double to a hexahedron, you have the prison, with a triangle on top and three sides that are square and a triangle bottom. You have your triangle shape of three trapezoidal slanting shapes top and bottom with a triangle shape on the top and bottom. With four you can have a pentahedron which doubles to an octahedron, which is a doubled pyramid. You have your standard cube. You have a skewed quaderalateral on top and bottom with sides as rectangles or your basic flat “diamond” shape. You can skew again to have two more skewed sides in addition to the skewed top, and you can skew again in the other direction to have all six sides skewed as diamond quazdralatterals. Also you can use the same slanting trapezoidal shape guimic with a square top and bottom and four slanting trapezoidal sides at a 45 degre angle with a midsection of rectangles, to give you a square shape when viewed from the top and an octagonal shape when viewed from the side. And you can do the slanting trapazoid thing by itself without the middle portion made of squares and make the angle 30 degrees above and below the horizon on each side of the horozontal axis, to form a hexagon shape when viewed from the side. In addition to these Sketch has other shapes involving the “diamond” shape that are rather trippy. This is mixed with a diamond shape running vertically. With five sides you can have you basic Oreo pentagon, which has nothing to do with Collin Powell as chief of staff. You have your dou-decahedron all pentagonal sides shape, like that calendar paper weight thing we had in the early seventies. You can also have a single or doubled pentagonal pyramid, which would have ten faces. You can also have a pentoganal shape with trapezoid sides slanting in from a common center with a flattened top and bottom allowing for a pentagon on these two faces. Sketch also features pentagonal shapes with a mixture of triangles and pentagons, and also pentagons and hexagons combined in one shape, don’t even ask me how. There is also a pentagonal shape made entirely out of triangles. I believe this employs twelve pentagonal pyramids only slightly raised, on each of the twelve pentagonal faces. With the hexogon you can again your basic Oreo hexagon with the six rectangular sides and a hexagon on top and bottom. You can have a doubled six sided pyramid with all the lines coming to singular points at top and bottom. You can combine these shapes to include a rectangular shapes middle. You can have slanting trapezoidal sides (six of these) top and bottom below a horizontal medium with a hexagonal top and bottom. You can also have a shape that’s a hexagon of hexagons forming a circle with a jagged zig-zag roof line kind of line an open out folding fan- - with all the connecting lines coming to a peak at the top or at the bottom. They say there exists a shape made up of pure hexagons made up of 72 faces but Sketch doesn’t have it. Finally we come to curved surfaces. We have your basic cyllender, which can be flattened out into a cookie or coin shape. You have your sphere, your cone, and your doubled cone. You can have a doubled cone with a flattened circular face top and bottom. And you can have your basic sphere with a sliced off top and bottom akin to your frizbee or flying saucer shape. You can vary this theme with a shallow cyllendrical midsection and conic tops and bottoms. The possibilities are amazing. Don't get tripped out by the blue if it shows. These are texts not included in a letter to two people this morning.