Nov 19 2007

Doom and Gloom…..

Published by N_Jones under Editorials

Well I wasn’t going to write anything tonight because I didn’t want to spread more doom and gloom, but I found the story and the scenario in which my worst fear could become a reality.

I was discussing today with one of my co-workers a scenario in which Senator Hillary Clinton could actually become the 44th President of these United States. It has already started. All congress has to do over the next year is nothing and this can happen. I found this story on Foxnews.com tonight: Ailing Economy Needs Steady, Experienced Hand (Me), Clinton Says.

Now here’s the scenario: The housing/sub-prime market continues to collapse. The government takes no action to correct or assist in shoring up the sub-prime lenders. This will cascade to the larger banks and lending firms causing a slowing in the loans available for individuals and small businesses. This in turn will continue to bring the market down. If we have a down turn in the market over the next year leading up to the presidential election in November the people will vote for change, any change. They will see this collapse of the market as a result of the heavy handed spending of the Republican President and they will vote to change it.

There is president for this and it has happened once in society already. In 1932, after the country had been in an economic depression for the last three years, the people voted for a New Deal and elected, by a landslide, Franklin D. Roosevelt. This election setup the society that we find ourselves in today. Many believe that the New Deal was the beginning of the welfare state.

I found this article: The great depression of 2008 – the mother of all depressions today, which compares the lead up to the Great Depression with the current economic situation. Basically it outlines the scenario as I did previously in the essay. The market crashes in October 1929. The low/no cost loans disappear. Small business fail without the credit they need to operate. Consumers stop spending, retailers cut back and the economy spirals down. Sound familiar? I thought it might.

Once this starts there is no turning back. Senator Clinton will step in with her “experience” and introduce the New, New Deal, half a chicken in every pot. Sorry I couldn’t help that. But seriously, in order to protect the society things will have to change. First will be health care. Next to secure our future against rising energy cost, our energy interests will have to nationalized. From there it will continue to snowball. With a Marx-ocrat as president and virtually no opposition in Congress, it will be as if we have a dictator.

Very scary, and some may say that this is not possible in the United States of America, but look at the evidence and you will see that it is very possible. I know this essay is spreading more doom and gloom, which we really don’t need, but I see no other outcome.

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Nov 16 2007

The Theory of Everything…

Published by N_Jones under Science

Physicist have been looking for this since Einstein……

Laid-Back Surfer Dude May Be Next Einstein

At this time I have no comment, but I will once I read his paper. It will be interesting to hear from Dr. Michio Kaku……

A. Garrett Lisi, is the physicist who has developed this theory. You can read his paper in .pdf format here: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

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Nov 15 2007

You knew it was gonna happen…..

Published by N_Jones under Editorials

Do you remember the LAPD mapping plan

Well……… They shelved it….. imagine that…..
LAPD Shelves Muslim Mapping Plan

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The LAPD planned to have its counterterrorism bureau identify Muslim enclaves to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to “violent, ideologically based extremism.”

Several Muslim groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California criticized the plan and sent a letter to Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing expressing their concerns.

“There was a clear message from the Muslim community that they were not comfortable with it. So we listened,” said Mary Grady, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. She couldn’t immediately say when the plan might resume.

Hat Tip: The Drudge Report

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Nov 14 2007

Good news Bad news……

Published by N_Jones under Editorials

Good news on the immigration front:

New York Governor withdraws his Licenses Plan: OUT-OF-GAS ELIOT PUTS THE BRAKES ON LICENSE PLAN

Bad news…..

San Fransisco’s Board of Supervisors: S.F. supervisors approve ID cards for residents regardless of their LEGAL status……

Hat Tip: The Drudge Report

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Nov 14 2007

Wednesday Morning Quote

Published by N_Jones under Random Entries

Once a newspaper (read MSM) touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonist.

Norman Mailer

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Nov 12 2007

Global Warming…

Published by N_Jones under Editorials, Science

Inconvenient TruthEvery one’s been talking about this lately and this week is Global Warming week on the Eschatology Channel. You might know it better as the History Channel but since most of their programming, at least in the past few months, deals with the end of the world, I re-named it the Eschatology Channel. This week is death by Global Warming. Yea that picture is the cover of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth rather ironic don’t ya think.

Last night was there first viewing of a show entitled Global Warming?. Now I figured since the title had a question mark in it that they might had come to their collective senses and were going to present both sides of the issue, but alas it was not so. They were singing the same sad song of human induced global warming. Well in this piece I want to take a look at their three points of global warming.

Point #1: The climate across the world is changing.

Ok, I’m going to go out on a limb here and agree with Mr. Gore. Everybody get up off the floor and finish reading the piece. I think we can safely say that the climate is changing. At least in the show a few of the scientist they had gathered were calling it global climate change and not global warming. I can say from my own self-educated (I know we’re the most dangerous kind) experience that things have changed from the 60’s when I was a kid running around in the North Central Texas area. Back in the day by October things were already cooling down. By Halloween we were wearing jackets. The first week of November usually brought the first frosts and by Thanksgiving we might have even had our first ice storm. Anybody remember the Leon Lett fumble that cost the Dallas Cowboys the 1993 Thanksgiving Day game against the Miami Dolphins? In contrast, it’s November the 12th and I am writing this with the doors and windows open, it’s a very comfortable evening, temperature in the low 70’s. The rest of the week is supposed to be in the 80’s temperature wise.

But don’t take my word for it let’s read what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has to say about it. This is from their web site page about climate change:

The Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. From glacial periods (or “ice ages”) where ice covered significant portions of the Earth to interglacial periods where ice retreated to the poles or melted entirely - the climate has continuously changed.

Scientists have been able to piece together a picture of the Earth’s climate dating back decades to millions of years ago by analyzing a number of surrogate, or “proxy,” measures of climate such as ice cores, boreholes, tree rings, glacier lengths, pollen remains, and ocean sediments, and by studying changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun.

So even I can agree with the Gore-ites when they say that the times they are a changin’.

Point #2: Human actions on this planet have cause the climate change.

Well I think this is the point that causes all the trouble. We could line up a series of scientist on both sides of this argument and I guess the one who wins is the one who files the last scientist in. Once again let’s turn to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Their web site is a perfect example of this argument. They actually have two pages to describe the reasons behind climate change. One they call the “Past Climate Change” page and one the “Recent Climate Change” page. Now if we look at the reasons here prior to 1750 they are all natural. The orbit of the Sun, changes in the Sun’s intensity, and volcanic activity are reasons for climate change. After 1750 however, those issues are no longer a factor, it’s has to be human input. I don’t suppose it could be a combination of things could it.

Now I’m not against being a good steward. I think we should all be doing our part to help conserve our planets resources. However to state unequivocally that humans are solely responsible for the current climate change is just absurd. The hypocritical fashion in which the message is delivered is insulting. The reason this point is so important to the Marx-ocrats has been made perfectly clear. If they can get legislation established that we humans are responsible for the climate change then they can go about the process of nationalizing our public utilities, taking the profits from the oil companies, and leaving the people with nothing.

But I digress. This point, in my opinion, for all practical purposes doesn’t matter. After you have established point number one, that climate change is taking place, why it’s happening doesn’t really matter. And if we look at past history there really is nothing we can do to stop it. Which leads us to our third point:

Point #3: What, if anything do we do about it.

This is the crucial point, the moment of truth so to speak. What do we do. Like I said previously, I am not against conserving where we can and doing our part to reduce our personal “footprint”, but we need real world options not pie in the sky dreams that wont be available for decades and will cost far more than they will save. I will once again use personal experience here. I have been researching the use of solar panels, and wind power to offset my personal energy use in my home. Currently what is available is still expensive, approximately $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 to set up a system which will take about 10 plus years to show a return on my investment. And on top of that I would have to convert my all electric home to use natural gas for heating, cooking, and cloths drying. Also, in Texas during the spring they can be damaged and rendered useless by one thunderstorm, which based on current projections of climate change will be getting more frequent. No, taking the profits from the oil companies will not do, nor will federalizing the utilities fix the problem.

What we need is preparation. With the forecast models it should be possible to determine what regions will be most affected by the current and coming changes. We need to prepare to relocate the countries agriculture to more fertile areas. We need to educate the people that live in possible danger zones of what to do when things go bad. We need to be prepared to handle the number of people that will be displaced when a large scale storm strikes. This is what we as a people need. And we shouldn’t wait for the government to rescue us after the fact. We should be actively making preparations to go for a few days with out power to our homes and businesses. We should be ready for what is ahead.

Based on everything I have read, I believe that the face of our planet has changed in the past and will continue to change in the future with or without us. The time for waiting for the government to protect us is past. The time for us to act is now.

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Nov 12 2007

Predicting Jihad?

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The weather men can’t get it right as it is, now they expect to predict “unrest” Ooookkkk………..

Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots

ShiariotThe Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It’s part of a larger military effort to blend forecasting software with social science that has some counterinsurgency experts cringing.

Lockheed recently won a $1.3 million, 15-month contract from the Defense Department to help develop the “Integrated Crises Early Warning System, or ICEWS. The program will “let military commanders anticipate and respond to worldwide political crises and predict events of interest and stability of countries of interest with greater than 80 percent accuracy,” the company claims. “Rebellions, insurgencies, ethnic/religious violence, civil war, and major economic crises” will all be predictable. So will “combinations of strategies, tactics, and resources to mitigate [against those] instabilities.”

Hat Tip: Steve Quayle’s World

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Nov 11 2007

Global Warming Test…

Published by N_Jones under Science

I got this link in the Lizard Lounge tonight……

See how well you score……

Global Warming Test

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Nov 10 2007

Saturday after fish tank….

Published by N_Jones under Random Entries

Ok…. Here’s a picture of the tank and boat that every one’s been asking for…..

Fish Tank

Boat

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Nov 09 2007

Good plan……

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Here’s a good plan that has civil rights activist all in a tissy….. Anger at LA police plan to ‘map’ Muslims It’s a shame that the LA police will probably never be able to pull this off…….

A plan by the Los Angeles Police Department’s counter-terrorism bureau to map Muslim groups in the city has angered civil rights activists and community leaders, it was reported Friday.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD wants to create a map of Muslim groups in order to help communities avoid the influence of radicals seeking to incite “violent, ideologically-based extremism.”

“We are seeking to identify at-risk communities,” LAPD deputy chief Michael Downing told the Times. “We are looking for communities and enclaves based on risk factors that are likely to become isolated.

“We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.”

The down side here is that the LA police department is working with Salam Al-Marayati director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. He intends to “…give them input, while at the same time making sure that people’s civil liberties are protected.” This might not be such a great idea after all. Could turn out to be the ole’ bait & switch. I’ll point over there while the action is taking place over here. Well I guess we will just have to wait and see. Something to keep an eye on that’s for sure.

Update: 16:28 cst

More from KNBC Los Angeles…… I would suspect this plan nevers gets off the ground…..

LAPD Plan To Map Muslim Communities Angers Some Groups

Hat Tip: The Drudge Report

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