I Can't Vote for Donald Trump, Either

Donald Trump was on Meet the Press.  I don’t see any way I could vote for Trump.  He said that businesses would “pay a little more in taxes” but he also said he would cut taxes for business.  Chuck Todd asked for a clarification.  Trump said “Pay a little more” meant that it was more than HE would want but he pictured congress raising the amount of taxes he recommended.  (He must be expecting a democratic congress)  But Donald was also hazy on the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Hillary, on at nine, was more specific about being against the TPP but even she thought the deal could be fixed and tended to believe John Kerry when he said it would be a good deal for Californians.  Donald Trump is against a federal rise in minimum wage and said that if there was any raising of the minimum wage to do that the states should do it.  When Hillary was on “Face the Nation” she pointed out that Donald Trump wants to bring back widespread torture of Islamic terrorists worse than we’ve had it before.  Of course I don’t agree with deporting twelve million illegal aliens, and I’m against barring all Muslims from entering the country.  But at least those things don’t affect me personally.  As far as I know he still wants to build the border wall and make Mexico pay for it.  And he plans to take ISIS oil and bomb what he doesn’t conthiscate.  He made some remark about “Women know what I’m talking about more than men do” as far as raising their voices.  I’m not sure what he meant by that.  But I can’t be “sure” what Trump means about anything.  It’s always these vague promises.  All I know is if he wants to cut taxes on everybody (including the middle class) and also build up the military to something amazing- - that the deficit is going to skyrocket. 

They did not have Rhapsody in Black at two but it was some sort of spiritual enlightenment program that sounds a little Scientology based.  They used the word “Theta” at one point and talked of a marriage between technology and the spirit.  But the best word to describe the show was “unapproachable” because they say going to a seminar is a sign of weakness and hence unworthiness.  They could at least say something like L Ron Hubbard crossing "The Bridge" over the Lake of Fire into OT realms or whatever.  We need a hero to look up to and show us the way.  They didn't seem interested in showing anybody the way to anything, at least without money in the hand.  I haven't the slightest idea how this breakthrough or "awakening" is at all supposed to be achieved.  And once you are enlightened you’re not even allowed to say “I have awoken!” because a statement like that comes from the Ego.  But that doesn’t stop them for asking for money.  They want a do $125.00 as in dollars - for one course sight unseen.  In fact they didn’t take one caller the whole hour so far as I could see – except to line up donations.  It would seem to me if anyone has inflated Egos it’s them because they talk of financial security and healing but you can bet their own wallets are well healed.  There was a guy at Calvary Chapel Anaheim named Al Satorius who used to preach the doctrine of "Death to Self".   It's funny how Jesus said that you have to become a child again to get into the Kingdom of Heaven because children are almost ALL ego.  Even that pull-ups commercial on TV has as its tag slogan the toddler exclaiming "I'm a big kid now".  It would certainly seem through the pages of scripture that God has an ego, and he wants us all stroking it.

A question arises about what would happen in terms of external observation if you saw a rocket ship fall “into” a black hole past the event horizon.  Some say that you would just see the final image freeze presumably for all eternity.  There is obviously something wrong with this picture because you’d see that ship not only from that point on – but every other craft that ever crossed the threshold of the Black Hole.  So in time you’d see a gigantic pile up of vessles at the surface.  Actually you’d see a gigantic blur like looking into a magnifying glass at the point of focal length at infinity.  The rationalization is “Well it’s because you’re in a powerful gravitational field and so time would just freeze”.  The problem is that you are not in a gravitational field per se because you are free-falling, so that you are free of any gravity at that point.  Under general relativity- - it’s not so much the speed at which you are traveling but rather you are exposed to a gravitational field.  Space crafts orbiting earth travel 18,000 plus miles an hour and yet they are in a weightless, gravity free state.  The same would hold true for a jet traveling along the top of a gravity parabola with space trainees inside experiencing weightlessness for a couple of minutes.  But it is true that this is one area of relativity that has been proven beyond a doubt.  Time actually passes more slowly on earth than it does in space and they have to make adjustments for it.  But this indeed is tangible evidence.  So the bottom line is that you would continue to free fall into the center of a black hole at an ever-increasing speed with nothing to slow it down- - as in the case of the earth’s atmosphere.

Nations certainly have Egoes.  One talk show host is constantly referring to the United States as "The Empire" as though we were a nation of Klingons, or perhaps North Korea.  You don't get any dissent in North Korea no matter who you ask on the street about North Korea's esteemed leader.  But the topic came up on the Mc Laughlin group on whether the US Navy should be expanded.  After all we have to sail the seven seas policing the whole world.  This is how it was described.  The United States has to police the entire world to make sure everybody is behaving properly.  Pat Buchannon is concerned about the United States navy being in the Baltic Sea right at Russia's back yard.  Why can't the Germans do that.  Why does NATO have to rely on us for everything.  What if the US decided we're tired of paying NATO's bills?  But no Presidential candidate, not even Bernie Sanders is going to advocate that the United States reliquish its job as World Leader.  The image of the Empire must be protected at all costs.  That's what the Republicans say.  They are obsessed with the notion that the United States doesn't get the proper respect around the world.  Too bad we're not North Korea or we could just DEMAND it.  I think that just maybe we should scale back some of the bravado and not be so full of ourselves.  It won't be an easy task and it may at this point be an impossible task.  We all want to take pride in our country but it can't be demanded at the barrel of a gun boat.  

My Case Against Hillary Clinton

I myself personally haven't "crossed the Rubacon" to vote for Trump over Hillary.  I haven't made up my mind yet.  Both Trump and Hillary seem like "a bridge too far".  We all know the arguments against Trump with his character and temperment and all.  But here are some basic problems I would have in voting for Hillary for the highest office in the land.

Her whole reaction to Bill's affairs with women and this "vast right wing conspiracy" and planning to defame and tell lies about the women that Bill Clinton has been involved with.

Taking money for the Bill Clinton foundation from the Saudis and other Mideast countries and not cirticizing the Saudis or Islam in general for the dispicable attitude these nations have tword women and women's rights.

She had told lies about Bernie saying that he voted for bills that in fact he did not vote for, or that Bernie had no choice and she didn't inform voters of that.  I don't think "fighting dirty" or saying something under the buzzer that won't be responded to in the debate.  That's dirty pool.  I am not comforted by the belief that she can use the same tacticts against Donald Trump to win, because Trump won't let her get away with it.  She lied saying that Bernie Sanders wanted to end health care or that Sanders was against planned parenthood.

This whole "women's card" thing bothers me.  I hope she's not going to say "Vote for me because I'm a woman".  She wants ten weeks paid leave for women having babies.  These sorts of decisions should be made by negotiation between the labor union and the company and not mandated by federal law because it would cost the tax payers too much.

Hillary Clinton goes too far as far as gun regulations go in suing manufacturers of firearms for the deaths involved in those firearms.  A firearm when used as intended will result in deaths.  There's no getting around that.  There used to be a saying "You can't legislate against stupidity".

I question Hillary's comittment to ending Global Warming for reasons pointed out in the previous blog.

Hillary was a part of the great mistake in going to war in Libya and being duped by the "Moslem Brotherhood" and all of the chaos which descended on Libya after that point and the resultant deaths of four brave Americans at Bengazi.

Hillary was wrong in supporting the Iraq War.   By the way, though I am not gay, if I were a gay, I would distrust Hillary's sudden turnabout on gay marriage.  She only changed her position because it was now fashionable and it wasn't any "moral crusading points" with her as it was with Sanders.

Hillary treats her employees like crap and ladens her remarks with explitives and this is not a good thing with dealing with foreign dignotaries, for instance.

Hillary, more than Sanders, has expressed support for late term and partial birth abortions.  I feel a whole lot more comfortable with Donald Trump in this area.

There are rumors that Hillary wants to get us into a war with Iran.  This would be a major league disaster.

Who are the people from the Defense industry who are backing a Hillary campaign "more than any Republican?"

We'd all like to see the texts of her speeches to Wall Street in the interest of full disclosure.  Hillary denies that all this money has affected her votes in congress when there is clear evidence that it has.

Bernie Sanders is open to marijuana legalization; Hillary is opposed to it.  I believe we should procede cautiously and responsibly toward marijuana legalization.  Bernie has also indicated sympathy for people who are serving long prison sentences for non violent drug offences, many of which are marijuana.

I don't like this circling of the wagons by Hillary's supporters such as Norman Goldman and Stephanie Miller protecting her from any and all accusations at any cost.  There are rumors that Hillary Clinton has paid "supporters" to troll the internet and make obnoxious remarks about Bernie Sanders in her name.

Hillary could be indicted for the E mail scandal at any time.  It would be strange if she were an indicted Felon the weeks following her nomination and having to run with this albitros around her neck.

Hillary has in the past worked tirelessly for NAFTA and other bad trade agreements.  I believe in an America First policy both as to foreign affairs and to Americ's economic interest.  Hillary is too eager to let China walk all over us- - and in the past has been for the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.

Hillary is part of the Obama administration and had a bad record on ecology in general and even now I'm not sure she ever came out against the Trans Canadian pipeline.

Finally what Hillary needs to go to get my vote is to change her whole campaign style so that it is less abrasive and get people who feel uncomfortable with here to indeed feel better about her candidacy.

Unmistakable Evidence of Economic Slowdown

There are unmistakable evidences of an economic slowdown as Shawn is happy to point out.  The unemployment figure remained at 5.0% but only with a net loss of jobs.  More people left the work force than new jobs that were added.  These were only 160,000 down from about 240,000 or something, which has become expected.  The Republicans have been saying that we ought to be adding at least 350,000 for a really robust recovery.  The fact people are still trying to call it a “recovery” after eight years only testifies to the overall weakness of the economy.  Manufacturing and sales and all those statistics are down.  And I wrote additional material on this the other day. The four big expenditures of the average household just keeping their head above water are rent, food, energy, and medical expenses – in that order.  All four of these are consistently higher than the government’s stated rate of inflation and it’s been this way for some time.  This is why the average household is from five to twenty percent poorer over these past years.  Of particular note is the red line on the chart of velocity of money, which has literally dropped off the charts.  Employment (according to the government) is in an ongoing state of - - slight- - improvement after a drastic drop in the great recession of 2008 to 2010.   Both candidates Hillary and Donald Trump will have to contend with the realities on this Washington’s blog chart.

It is generally believed a bad economy will tend to hurt Hillary rather than Bernie.  For his part, Bernie is stressing that he is the only serious candidate about global warming and Hillary has in the past approved of fracking.  People are still coming up with these bogus numbers still claiming that Hillary and Bernie are in agreement on 95% of the issues.  I'm wondering whether Hillary will have newfound support from the right now that Trump is her opponent.  There is this growing list of Republicans which say that they will not support Trump.  It's inconceivable that they have a third party movement in mind, so why then are they really supporting?  Will Jebbers and George W decide to come out an endorse Hillary?  What about all these military and defense companies?  Does Hillary really get more donations from them than any Republican?  If for no other reason than the Global Warming issue itself- - people should vote for Bernie because we get no second chances once that threshold is passed and Global Warming and polar ice melting goes into a positive feedback loop.  Barry Goldwater once said when it comes to defense we should err on the side of security.  Actually I agree with that.  But I believe when it comes to Global Warming if we're going to err I'd rather err on the side of caution.  In other words I'd rather be safe than sorry. 

This Alberta forest fire in the Canadian Rockies has become really big news.  They said there were 240,000 acres on fire.  That sounds like a huge figure.  Isn’t that around four hundred square miles if my math is right?  Every time you watch the news the fire has grown by leaps and bounds.  Of course we’ve heard for years that the Rockies is one area where they get less rain and also there is less snow run-off in the spring, which compounds the problem.  This is in stark contrast to the lower Mississippi valley like Texas and Louisiana where they seem to have almost perpetual rains and major flooding and tornadoes.  The jet stream is taking odd twists and turns it didn’t use to take before.  Of course Alberta is one area that is already laid waste by the tar sands development and trees are lost because of that.  The whole situation is a mess.  

I’m forced to agree with Donald Trump as far as “Taking the nuclear option off the table” because it’s as simple as the saying of “If you are packing a gun you better be prepared to use it”, or perhaps “If you draw your weapon you better be prepared to use it”.  Negotiators don’t “take things off the table” unless there is some prior agreement (itself arrived it through prior extensive negotiation) because this what President Obama did with the Republican congress.  He “took things off the table”.  I believe in using the whole hundred yards of the playing field.  I think it was General Patton who said “The enemy doesn’t need to know how far I would go; only I need to know that”.   If we have Nukes- - and have invested a lot of time in developing them at great expense- - then we’re obviously saving them for SOMETHING.   Some people like me- - don’t believe in packing heat because I believe your odds of getting shot increase if you are packing a weapon.  But other people see things differently.  The pentagon obviously sees nuclear weapons as an option that can be used at some point, though I’m not exactly sure how and when.

There are truly gray areas when it comes to regulation of industry.  For instance these investment counselors are now said to have a “fiduciary duty to their client to do things in their best interest”.   I have another doctrine which goes “If you engage in any sort of business commerce there is a presumption that you know what you’re doing”.  It’s like a chess championship you can’t say when you lose a match “Well my opponent used a maneuver that wasn’t in the chess book I studied”.   There are things we should do as Christians in terms of being thy brother’s keeper.  I don’t think it’s Christian to cheat an old lady out of her life savings and steer into a financial decision that’s bad for her and to not inform her that there are better and safer options.  Then there is the matter of CEO’s and their “Golden parachutes”.   I don’t see how they can be rewarded for taking reckless chances with some short term gain that in the end will only leave the corporation in ruins.  We don’t need any Carley Feurina’s or Mitt Romneys out there.  These things are BAD and should not be done by a professing Christian.  How strange it is that it’s now the choice of the “Christian” right- - to reward recklessness and sheer greed that turns out for everybody- - the employees- - the business- - after they have escaped in their golden parachutes.  But should the government step in and regulate this behavior.  I guess my problem is “Why is it even necessary to legislate against sheer stupidity?  Why don’t the stock holders discover this on their own and put a stop to it”.  I consider these gray areas in terms of the government stepping in.  Another gray area is this whole thing about high fructose corn syrup.  I think their introduction over thirty years ago is BAD and nutritionalists are always saying how bad this high fructose corn syrup is for you.  I can tell the difference between “Coke Classic” and the way Coke was before 1985.  “Classic” definitely has a heavier taste.  Now the only way to get sucrose sugar Coke is in Tijuana where they still use cane sugar.  Should the government then ban the use of high fructose corn syrup?  I am sorely tempted to say “Yes”.  But I’m not sure.  Perhaps what we need is an extensive education process and eventually the offending substance will be eased out of our foods by the free market.  Obviously the whole hydrogenated oils thing sure caught on.  All the government had to do was go “Boo!” and they all jumped.

The Wikkipedia article on Event Horizons agrees me, as least my second entry of the week that yes, event horizons do exist.  The Wikkipedia article goes farther than I would connecting event horizons with Black Holes, which I don’t.  Just to repeat in case you are missing the point- - if the addition of velocities formula is to be held absolute, it means that there is not a thing in the Universe that we can’t see with a powerful enough telescope.  Which means if there are any fast traveling UFO space crafts out there they should show up in the Hubble telescope photographs since that telescope has exhaustively mapped out the universe blowing up the tiniest images with impressive magnification.  Again you’d think, as with that Star Trek episode just ordinary “surveillance photographs taken at random would reveal this or that spacecraft.  This is because at no time would it hypothetically be out of our “event horizon” so everything would be visible, and if it isn’t visible then we could safely conclude that they weren’t there no matter how fast they “think” they are traveling.  Course corrections can be done with small thrusters using trig functions.  If you combine inverse functions, arc functions and hyperbolic trig functions you come up with a total of eighteen (not 24) total functions.  This is because hyperbolic trig doesn’t come in degrees so you don’t have those arc functions.  But even if there were to be an absolute space speed limit it would not preclude “God” or some other form of suspending the natural laws, or any alien culture which would know how to do that.  But if you believe in the Event Horizon as scientists do (a la the Wikkipedia) then there IS a “whole other world out there”- which is kind of layered- - kind of line an underground parking lot that is slanted and you kind of ease into one level to another without realizing you’d gone up or down.

News of the Day

People are lining up not to endorse Donald Trump but to utterly disassociate themselves from him.  You have both President Bushes and their wives, you have Jebbers Bush, you have Lindsey Graham and John Mc Cain, who is concerned about the Latino vote in Arizona for his own election, and you have Speaker Paul Ryan who is “Waiting for Donald Trump to do something to heal the party first”.  They interviewed Reinz Priebus on C-Span and he was asked all the relevant questions.  I think all parties agree that the split - - fizzure - - in the Republican Party is far worse than what the democrats are experiencing.  Meanwhile Bernie Sanders is still mad at Debby Wasserman Shultz and states that he’s in this till the convention.  I’ve heard conflicting polling in California but basically the consensus is that Bernie will win here.

The verdict of the Grim Sleeper trial came in.  There are the deaths of eight women and attempted death of one woman mostly in the late eighties.  Juror number two read the verdict replete with all sorts of legal code numbers as all nine convictions are tediously gone through.  They interrupted Days of our Lives yesterday for the verdict to be read.  He is called the Grim Sleeper because of the lenghtly amount of time between some of the last few murders.

According to Washington’s blog, all of the testimony and evidence gathered for the remaining 9 – 11 trials at Guantanamo Bay- - are based on torture.  Further they charge that the government plans to “manipulate” the trial to assure a guilty verdict even if an innocent verdict is warrented.  The thing is we know the 9 – 11 commission itself is a work of fiction.  And the evidence in that commission seems to be based on the same source of testimony gained by torture.  I know enough about the law from Senior Law that evidence or permission given under duress or torture is invalid.  Of course it violates the fifth amendment, but I don’t know if they even have that in military trials.  I’m not even sure whether these show trials even rise to the level of a proper Court Marshal.  It’s time to elect a democratic congress as President Sanders leads the reopening of the 9 – 11 case and the evidence is gathered fresh and untainted.

As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia’s borders and continues to bolster a fiercely anti-Russian regime in neighboring Ukraine, the official line in Washington and its subservient corporate media is that beneficent America is simply seeking to curtail Moscow’s “aggression.” But the U.S. government and media might look at things quite differently if the shoe were on the other foot.  What, for instance, would the U.S. reaction be if Russia instead had supported the violent overthrow of, say, Canada’s government and assisted the new Ottawa regime’s “anti-terrorist operations” against a few rebellious “pro-American” provinces, including one that voted 96 percent in a referendum to reject the new Russian-backed authorities and attach itself to the U.S.?  If the U.S. government tried to help these embattled “pro-American” Canadians – and protect the breakaway province against the Russian-installed regime – would Washington see itself as the “aggressor” or as simply helping people resist anti-democratic repression? Would it view Russian troop movements to the U.S. border as a way to stop an American “invasion” or rather an act of “aggression” and provocation by Russia against the United States?  

For dinner we had beef stew in a bowl.  It was good but it was too salty.  I’m sure Jeff will complain.  We had different mixed vegetables and rice, some of which I put in my stew.  We had two oatmeal cookies for dessert.  When Connie sings those soul songs it’s like some gospel singer of old.  I wonder if Maya Angelo ever sang.  She had a saying “When somebody tells you who they are – believe them”.  I would disagree with that only to say “When someone shows you who they are to believe them” as for instance someone in a fundamentalist church.  One thing I still need to do is back up my files to the exterior hard drive before it’s too late.  This morning I played the Tony Sharidan CD.   Sometimes this week I’ve felt as though I needed to call a family member though I just saw all of them Monday.  This split in the republican party is something Paul and Judy haven’t weighed in on yet.  Can I add their names to the anti Trump list?  Tonight perhaps I should try to get coffee from Paul and hopefully set up a working relationship of coffee for cigarettes, since Glen may not be back.  Nora was here this morning around snack time.  I should get my name on the list to see the eye doctor assuming that it isn’t already.   

The Other Side of the Event Horizon Argument

We're going to discuss the pros and cons of faster than light travel but first I'd like to reprint the entire argument of Eric Zeuss or whoever concerning his argument against Hillary.  This guy is very biased tword Russia and also Shiite Islam and anti Saudi and Sunni Islam.  Keep that in mind as "deep background" as you read this thing.  This guy is no conservative by any stretch of the imagination.  The thing begins with a reader asking him whether he'd vote Democratic regardless of the circumstances, since it would seem the logical thing to do to insure congressional coat tails for other "down ballot' offices, and also to insure liberal supreme court justices being nominated and approved, hopefully with a Democratic senate.  Even if we should get a democratic senate we are back to where we were between 2010 and 2014 and that was not a good place.  To me the only true salvation is selecting Bernie Sanders to get longer congressional coat tails and bring in the newer young voters and for once the youth could make a difference.  We now take up the response of Eric Zeuss to a reader concerning Hillary.

Not so; I’ve never voted Republican in my life, but if Hillary is the candidate, I’ll vote for Trump, because he has no record in public office (and what he says contradicts himself routinely so can’t be believed), whereas she has an extensive record in public office (and she lies almost as much as he does, and so her words also are null), and that record is disgusting:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes.html

Since I wrote that, I was forced to ask myself whether I would vote for Trump if the only real alternative turns out to be Hillary; and, I concluded that, yes, I would, and that the reason is precisely because I don’t trust either candidate, but that only in the case of Hillary am I certain that she as President would be catastrophic. At least with Trump, I have no way of knowing what his real policies would be.

This isn’t to say that I agree with what either candidate says, or would be saying as President; it’s to assert that only Hillary has an actual track-record regarding public policy — and that it’s catastrophic.

A proven catastrophe is far worse than a merely possible catastrophe; so, if Hillary Clinton turns out to be the Democratic nominee, I shall vote for Donald Trump, and then just hope that the worst things that he had said regarding public policy were lies, and that the best things that he had said regarding public policy reflected his actual beliefs.

Anyone who would say in response to this, “But that’s to believe in the horrible policy-prescriptions from Trump” would be missing the point here: this point is the exact opposite: I don’t believe what either of those candidates say; I know that they’re both pathological liars; but, only one of them has an actual record, and it’s catastrophic. Hillary offers not only her lies but something real (a record that’s highly relevant to the office she’s seeking) — and it’s repulsive. Trump, by contrast, offers no relevant track-record at all on public-policy matters. That’s not a virtue on his part, it’s a lack of the worst possible vice (a vile record of actual policies while in public office), for a potential U.S. President.

Given a choice between a proven psychopath, versus merely a possible (or even a likely) psychopath, I’ll definitely opt for the latter. It’s the only intelligent thing to do. Anything else would be suckerdom.

If you want to see her actual vile record on global warming, click here, and here.

If you want to see her vile record against the public and for the top 0.001%, click here.

If you want to see her exploitation of women and Blacks to win elections, click here.

If you want to see her actual support for the Citizens United decision she condemns, click here.

If you want to see her solid record of backing American invasions, click here.

If you want to see her actual support for mega-rich tax-evaders, click here.

And, as far as Trump’s promises about any of these things, they should be ignored as much as her promises about them should be. Even what he has actually done as a businessman isn’t necessarily an indication of what he’d do about the governmental policy-issue. In fact, Trump’s most blatantly bad promises (such as regarding immigration) are far more likely to be quickly abandoned by him as President, than Hillary’s are if she becomes President, because whereas Hillary’s (such as blocking single-payer health insurance) are supported by the Establishment, Trump’s are opposed by them (which is why even Republican donors have been donating more to Hillary’s campaign than to Trump’s campaign). (What do those Republican mega-donors know that the general public don’t? They know Trump.)

When life offers a choice between bad options, one still has an obligation to make that choice, and to do it intelligently. In the case of voting (or else not voting) for the President of one’s nation, it’s more than merely an intellectual obligation: it’s one’s civic duty. That’s why I, as a person with progressive values, will vote for Trump if Hillary becomes the Democratic nominee.

THE EVENT HORIZON - PRO AND CON

If you are one who laments my chucking of the event horizon, I am having second thoughts since yesterday, too.  There are two or three huge arguments for keeping the event horizon.  First of all we have the Black Hole argument.  Not that Black Holes are a part of this universe because they're not - - but that according to the tyranical "addition of velecities" formula came up with around 1900 when we knew a lot less about space and the stars- - it would be impossible for Black Holes to even FORM because black holes are defined as spherical shaped "holes" in the universe- - said "hole" is the area around a mass of matter where objects are accelerated to greater than the speed of light, and are hence eternally trapped.  I don't subscribe to the "vacuum cleaner" version of Black Holes.  I believe Black Holes disappear entirely from this Universe and now comprise a new universe.  I believe it was Thom Hartman who said that they are brand new "big bangs" forming whole new universes.  Another part of this argument is that science in large measure now fully believes in "the event horizon", which I have likened to area calling areas with the phone company.  Event Horizons overlap kind of like toll free calling areas.  Each person has his own separate border of his or her event horizon.   The other big argument is the so called "moving space" argument.  This states that the Universe as far out as we can see - -if we could see it- - at its "edges" is actually right now expanding at faster than the speed of light.  They call it "moving space" which is actually the ether, which is a cocktail of whatever mass free bosons are floating around out there.  Also you UFO freaks have physically SEEN objects appear and disappear suddenly with no other explanation.  There is another less impressive argument which goes "For the addition of velocities formula to be held intact- - then you'd have a "magic light beam" that could travel at near infinite speed as long as the object receding from our view by their OWN physical measurement- - - was, by the ammount of acceleration necessary under Newtonian physics, has already exceded the speed of light ten times over.  The funny thing there is nothing in the theory of special relativity where you can disprove this is happening by normal tactile measurement of having an object in your hands and measuring it.  Who is to say that these measurements are "less real" than ours?  But this would entail a super light beam being sent back to us so we could see it and it would still be travelint 186,000 miles a second, because the key to the whole theory is that the speed of light is always Measured at this speed- - never varying from it regardless of the circumstances.

Norman Goldman is an Asshole

I was forced to ask myself whether I would vote for Trump if the only real alternative turns out to be Hillary; and, I concluded that, yes, I would, and that the reason is precisely because I don’t trust either candidate, but that only in the case of Hillary am I certain that she as President would be catastrophic. At least with Trump, I have no way of knowing what his real policies would be. from Washington's Blog.

Last night Bernie Sanders won India 53% to 47% for Hillary.  I just now learned even that much after being told by the media it was a “decisive victory”.   Bill Press this morning was tooting Sanders’ horn.  It’s high time we got a little unabashed praise for Sanders without bashing him in the next sentence the way Stephanie Miller and Norman Goldman do.   Bernie Sanders says “If Hillary thinks this campaign is over I’ve got some bad news for her”.  He also said “How many in the crowd are afraid Donald Trump will be President?  I’m here to tell you that won’t happen”.  There is this Rasputen poll that Rush loves - - that says Trump is leading Hillary by a few points.  This is a small but definite danger signal for Hillary.  A 22 year old young adult never heard of Jim Morrison and the Doors but says “Hillary is the devil”.  Maybe this kid is smarter than we think he is.  There’s this Jim Morrison cave covered in graffiti- - that they closed to the public.  I say “What the hell- - leave the graffiti”.  They claimed at one time the entire cave was spray painted pink.  I would have liked to have seen that.   Don’t you hate parents that live out their atonement for the guilt of something in their youth by taking it out on their kids?   Well since Ted Kennedy made an impassioned speech at the Democratic convention in 1980 and Carter lost, therefore Hillary will lose if Bernie Sanders gives an impassioned speech at this year’s democratic convention.  Why don’t they just put out a giant sign on the front of the radio station saying “This is your official Hillary Clinton for President Headquarters”?   Goldman professes to get all of these callers saying “I was for Bernie but if my choice now is between Hillary and Donald Trump then I’m voting for Trump”.   Some callers would have you believe that there are vast numbers of disappointed Bernie fans out there.  It does no good to say that “Karl Rove put them up to it”.  That makes no sense.  Bernie polls much stronger against Trump than does Hillary now.  The Republicans have always set their sights on Hillary and not Bernie as the person they want to run against.  Logic would dictate that is Bernie were the whacked out unelectable Socialist they say he is- - then Rush and Shawn would not wait to run against Bernie.  But that isn’t happening.  This whole Karl Rove rationalization is clearly wearing thin.  There is a saying that if three different people call you an ass in one day- - then it’s time to put on a bridal.  May I suggest people like Norman Goldman are that ass.  They see something happening with the electorate and they can’t face it.  That “something” is that Hillary is not a good campaigner and turns a whole lot of people off to her.  Shawn Hannity has pointed it out.  Hillary isn’t being “molded into the liberal we all wish we were”.  This line of wishful thinking by Hartman and Stephanie is also wearing thin.  Hillary isn’t changing.  Whatever baggage she’s been carrying around for the last 25 years, she’s still carrying!  

I've been meaning to say more on special relativity and today is the perfect time. My view of “The event horizon” has gone hot and cold alternately.  In the fall of 2009 I “brought back the event horizon” to state that faster than light travel was clearly possible under Newtonian laws.  I further said that all of the light and time distortions witnessed under special relativity were explainable using Newtonian logic.  On the surface it may be.  We know about the red shift for objects going away from you and the blue shift for approaching objects.  This phenominum is not under dispute.  It has been observed for over a century.  Also not in dispute is that red light bends less than blue light.  This does not mean you see visually more red or blue tinted images but there is red Shift or blue Shift meaning the SOURCE of what you are seeing comes from a different wave length than you think.  However there is another law that kicks in where "fast light" (for lack of a better term receding light) bends MORE and not less and forms in front of the retina making you near sighted.  In other words it focuses too soon and "slow light" (approaching light) forms an image behind the retina making you far sighted, which is what actually happens. I go into great detail on this back in the fall of 2009.  I also explain how straight lines appear curved and how observable time would appear to speed up under a blue shift and slow down under a red shift.  But there is a part of the puzzle I chose to ignore back in 2009.  Does the math or the degree or proportion at which these things take place conform to Newtonian laws?  The answer is no they don’t.  Back in 2008 I was smart enough to say that Black Holes can’t exist under the laws of special relativity.  I wish I’d held tight to that belief because the addition of velocities formula so central to the theory- - does not allow for ANY figure of greater than the value ONE.  (If you try it crazy things happen)  What this means in everyday terms is that there IS - - as in CAN’T BE any point in which an object just travels so fast it disappears from our sights.  A lot of my beliefs these past few years have been based on the idea that there is a vast “faster than light” world out there- - in the unseen Universe over the event horizon.  The addition of velocities formula won’t allow for it.  What I am NOT saying is that “The whole theory is based on an elaborate visual illusion”.  It may well be still an illusion.  It’s just a different KIND of illusion.  Ether behaves in strange ways that don’t conform to Newtonian physics.  I should have realized this.  Ether is its own entity and plays by its own rules.  I hope this clarifies my new stance for you.

Ted Cruz Suspends Campaign for Presidency

Donald Trump is leading in Indiana with 53% of the vote to Ted Cruz's 35% and Kasich at about eight percent.  It's called a "Decisive Victory" by the news pundits.  Ted Cruz delivered his speech "suspending" his campaign for President this evening when it's not yet eight PM in Indiana.  He invoked the "Shining City on a hill" image of Ronald Regan from forty years ago.  It was as spirited and defiant a speech as you'll ever hear.  Cruz said that the path to the nomination was now gone.  Here are some remarks from earlier.  Ted Cruz has really lit into Donald Trump.  Trump is a serial philanderor.  He builds big buildings like giant phallic symbols or something.  Trump is a narcicist and a liar, and instills rioting in his campaign.  Trump responds that the father of Raphael Edwardo Cruz was with Oswald in New Orleans in 1963 passing out "Fair Play for Cuba" pamflets.  It's a little known fact that the father of Raphael Edwardo Cruz was initially for the Castro revolution in Cuba.  The latest numbers indicate that Trump is leading by fifteen points in Indiana.  It's hardly even necessary to wait for the final numbers tonight in the Indiana Primary.  Meanwhile it's a statistical tie between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Indiana.  One talk show host this morning stated there is a greater liklihood of an open or contested convention in the Democratic party in Philadelphia, than there is likely to occur with the Republican Party in Cleveland.  Bernie Sanders in a complete reversal of position saying that the super deligates should really vote for Sanders.  The latest poll numbers show Trump now beating Hillary in the November election.  Of course we here in California want out votes to make a difference for once.  My ballot had both democratic and republican ballots in it so I guess I have to choose.  Right now I'm registered as a Republican so I'll have to switch to democratic I guess if I want to vote for Sanders.   

Last week there was a reprint of a blogpost on the subject of Israel and its "distinctive nature" as a nation.   For one thing Israel claims to speak for all the Jewish people in the whole world.  As you may know there are almost as many Jews living in America as their are living in Israel, and most of them are significantly to the left of their Israeli counterparts.   Even on foreign policy there are more progressive.  Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have both stated that we should "take an even handed position" in the dispute between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian people.  Ted Cruz doesn't want any illusion of being neutral should he come to power.  He will be Israel's advocate and supporter straight out.  We know Ted Cruz wants to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran going out the gate.  The other way in which Israel is kind of a unique country is the fact that Israel doesn't have any set borders!  We know there were no borders there when Israel took over in 1948.  All we hear is that they want "militarily defensible borders" which means for instance if they want to take the Golan Heights, then they take them.  If they want to take the Palestinian's land and build Israeli settlements on it, then they do.  The world is their oyster.  There never seems to be any "treaty" or mandate from any power, earthly or divine, which "gives" Israel so much territory.  So I guess if the Israelis perceive Iran as a military threat they have the power to go and bomb Iran back to the stone age, treaty or no treaty.   Israel never seems to be a team player, except perhaps with Saudi Arabia, and with friends like that who needs enemies.  We constantly hear that if the US doesn't back Israel then they have nobody in their corner.  While this sounds noble and almost emotive- - in your more rational moments you wonder how one nation can alienate its neighbors so and raise such antagonisms in them.  Is it all some kind of pre fated "religious hatred" prophecied in the Bible.  Just where does it say in the Bible that Iran alias Persia and the Jews are destined to hate each other for all eternity.  Some will say that anyone who advocates Peace is working for the Antichrist.  It's almost a knee jerk reaction with Christians.  Nobody I know is anti Jewish religion.  But this sock puppet position that Israel is in where we are their "sustaining power" could understandably be cause for alarm by her neighbors, who don't like the United States anyhow.

Rhapsody in Black featured April of 1965 and I had to dig a ways down to find a page with a blank side.  I haven’t been writing on too many note slips lately.  They had “Down in Mexico” an early hit by the Coasters.  They had “I Want You to Be My Girl” by Frankie Linman and “My Blue Heaven” by Fats Domino and “The Magic Touch” by the Platters.  And it was “Long Tall Sally” and “Eddie My Love” and “Little Girl of Mine”, an early KRTH classic.  They played “Slipping and a Sliding” and “Ruby, Ruby” by the Drifters without Clyde Mc Phatter.   Their “extra” of the day was “Moonglow”, perhaps because the artist is white.  (?)  There was RADAR, a novelty song informing us of police technology of 1956.  “Cherry Lips” they said was by the Robins, and this case minus their lead singer.  It was one of the many versions of “Corina, Corina” and “The Treasure of Love” by Clyde Mc Phatter, and “Please, Please, Please” by Jaames Brown. 

Paul called at twenty to eleven.  We went straight to Marie Calendar and got there just after eleven.  Tim, Mom, and Marie would not arrive for another twenty minutes or so.  We spent the time talking about Ted Cruz.  Judy says there is no fix it quick solution to the economy’s woes.  So even if the economy goes to Hell in a hand basked after Ted Cruz cuts taxes and strips environmental regulation it isn’t President Cruz’s fault.  We got a table way back in the southeast corner.  Service was slower at Marie Calendar today than I’ve ever seen it.  Paul thought it was there were so few people there and they were trying to keep customers in tables.  I thought of having the French dip roast beef sandwich.  Perhaps I should have.  It was a dollar more expensive and I was afraid of driping beef spots on this nice shirt, which has gotten all sorts of complements.  I got coffee and it was a long wait for the second cup.  I had two pieces of their corn bread while we were waiting.  Mom criticized her queesh and also the soup, which I really liked when I tasted it.  Tim and Paul were puzzled at Mom’s negativity about all the food she’s had lately.  Tim and Marie got married in a courthouse May 2^nd 2006 ten years ago today and it was shortly before they had their reception in New York.  (?)  This was the only time Tim met his step granddaughter when she was thirteen.  Marie’s daughter’s husband died.  There was reminiscing about Marrie’s horrible truck accident in December of 2004.  Marie incorrectly thought that she and Tim got together in 1976 but Tim thought it was 1978 and I’m pretty sure it was 1977.  I had the Ortega chicken sandwich ou sour dough bread and French fried.  I would have gotten rice pilof if they had it (which I thought they did but they didn’t)  The waitresses gave Mom a single piece of pumpkin pie for her birthday with a candle on it as we all sang.  The pieces were spread among the group.  Mom just didn’t seem to have an appetite for anything this day.  I didn’t finish my fries and though I invited Marie to take all she wanted, she took very few.  I went again with Paul and Judy over to Mom’s place.  Paul suggested that there was a table full of men that Mom could join if she’s looking for male companionship.  I said I thought there were still more men than women in this place but that here the sexes were pretty well integrated.  Paul and Judy had to leave because Judy had a doctor’s appointment.  I stayed with Tim and Marie and we talked about politics.  Marie does not like Donald Trump OR Hillary Clinton and she believe’s it stupid to not be able to vote for the person you want just because they’re from another party.  I looked through some of Mom’s books wondering if there was one I wanted to borrow.  There wasn’t.  I left the Smithsonian magazine there also.  Marie began to fall asleep.  I think we left about ten after two and we went home in Dad’s old “new” car.  I was mentioning how Ted Cruz would make a hell hole out of planet earth trashing all the regulations.