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You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've got a couple of kids; the younger asked that I stop with the lectures and asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later 'Yea, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday, me - Gaarr of Blog'
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Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; last known endeavor: actuarial contributions to the Donald.
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Music, Human Affairs, Theology (angel injection), Humor
This is kindly brought from my daughter’s blog … (highly secure) … ‘cause you know those collegeers know where ‘the party’s at’, and the rainbow in the hair, golden hair like sunshine or yellow dresses or cupcakes … somethin’. BUT DO YOU HEAR ME? … YOU LEARNin’ to be knowledge and good, or fun run amook, and EVIL PRIVILEGE with Token this and that. Where’s all my money goin’? And the dance … that’s enough with the 3 minutes…. get back to the lecture notes. I’m tellin’ you, if you don’t (steal at least something worth $50 kaszillion bucks) my investment of hundreds of thousands on this edumacation is wortless … I tell ya.
Am I starting to sound evil … corrupted … oh, those yellow dresses, like my love in kindergarden on halloween wore a hula skirt … a real one with see thru strings (or between) when she moved … like only an angel in kindergarden could. (I got kicked out of kindergarden, too.) You think this could have prejudiced me into leaning toward the String Theory? OK, daughter, email me on this one.
History, Human Affairs, Humor, Theology
Well, on a happy note, it’s looking up for billionaires (that’s good … for them) and they believe in $ so they won’t be in a bad mood and raise our taxes - that’s good for us and a bonus for us is … they only ‘tend to be corrupt.’ That’s if you think that money equals power.
I still think of the little gecko when I look at Warren Buffett … or the Wizard of Oz … behind the screen … working the government and other insider trades.
Oh and Gates, William IIIIVXL, the man who stole DOS (that’s disc operating system) from the professor who invented it … and he sued William, whose mother and father are both lawyers … and won …. a whopping $50K. He then proceeded to die an early death… many forgotten years ago. William, the smug little man, who now gives drugs to Africa … to make himself feel better. I hope it works for them.
And Carlos Slim, some Mexicanophobes call him ‘Slime’ … wow that’s evil. GoPhone is the biggie … then he did help ease the stupid cost of mobile communications, about 10 cents per month … that’s why he’s the big enchalada, thinkin’ outside the phone (like bun .. get it?)
Well, that tends to prove my case … these con tenders are all not sweakie, but ooz doesn’t drip from their nostrils, except I’m wondering about Gates keeping his nose up in the air.. a little oozz there William IIIXLVII ? Oh yeah, and your relative General Gates … Washington almost shot him he was such a putz … too bad.
BBC News - Mexico’s Carlos Slim overtakes Gates in world rich list
Design, Real Estate
Yea, like a barn door, nice contrast, but I want one round and shape the opening differently. The neat trick is the bottom track … like there’s none here… wtheck.
(via sebseballade)
Law, Human Affairs
It’s a slippery slope; what will be mandated next? Virginia seems to be the first state to declare its residents need not buy or be penalized.
Power tends to corrupt and Absolute Power corrupts, absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. (I guess you’d have to say ‘great powerful men’, for me to agree.)
Health Insurance ‘tends to’ corrupt and Mandatory Health Insurance corrupts, absolutely. That’s a fair correlary as Health Insurance wields one-sixth of our economy including existing medicine men and their cave men patients without insurance. In my years with health insurance, doctors have denied care until we finally had to see a walk in pay clinic to get the treatment necessary to prevent certain death from pneumonia. Remember Muppets creator, he died of pneumonia in a few days. And there’s more.
In the late 1950’s when health insurance became a ‘tax exempt’ benefit that companies could give their workers, my dad said, ‘Prices will double’. All the hassle, paperwork, questioning that goes on between the new relationship between doctor and insurer, created a false fiduciary relationship that avoided the patient.
If any law should be enacted about health insurance, it should be that the doctor is paid by the insured from the insurer. The patient is the insured and he should be allowed to demand to decide if he benefited from the doctor. A lot better care will follow, and as a guarantee against abuse by the patient, his rates could increase if he decides unjustly to withhold payment from a doctor.
A smaller bureaucracy will be required as the two parties involved will be the most efficient in establishing worth. Even if you let it slide and pay the doctor under protest, the next time he will do better. Grace can work as well.
What is evident that both the corporation and the government want HUGE BUREAUCRACIES … they get more money, more power … and it works from the bottom up as well as top down.
And now comes the CENSUS. To see how invasive a government can be, I even got a letter from the government announcing I was going to get another letter, that this letter speaks of. Was that a government’s idea of …. prophecy? I can’t wait to see what a few Billion$ spent reads like.
History, Humor, Theology
Israel in a good mock of the most mockable - Islam.
Humor, Law
‘You’re going to get a big prize when you get into New York a day early’ said the owner to the captain of the Titanic. And Pelosi owns this one.
How the Left Lies to You About ACORN, Part 1
History, Law, Human Affairs
Now that the will of this leftist government seems to be to fund ACORN, as they have been able to frustrate the law, as well as be convicted of vote fraud in Wisconsin, but more importantly this is a study of what a really sad state journalism is in today.
That lies told twice get better traction, and the audacity that an anyonomous source can plant the lie in a newspaper response, and that be quoted as the newspaper’s statement and weighted opinion on the subject is outrageous, fraudulent and should be outlawed.
We do have false advertising laws for misrepresenting a product. This certainly misrepresents the ACORN product (the lie that the film was edited). The product ACORN or now the slithering under another name, is a product worth millions of taxpayer money as it continues its irresponsible coercion of banks and voter registrars, illegal information and conspiracy to tax cheat.
Hopefully a published list of those voting to fund ACORN or its surrogates will be published. I encourage those who find the list reblog them to inform as many as possible of the kind of ‘representation’ we must endure.
Dance, Art, Design
To my favorite dancer … you might want to use this ‘TuTu Post Advertisement’ design.. Say for a coupon, autograph, slipperful of bubbly (soap might work)… reminds me of you in the tutu on the teak deck unfinished…. remind me to post it.
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History, Computer, Humor (not)
I am hoping that if this report is true, that the operations people can instantly gauge its authenticity before ever going into any procedural maneuver to notify or neutralize this threat.
Should the government go into an operational mode, this could be detected and programmed into the enemies’ next attack to preempt the warning or alertness of the system.
This is where a lean mean fighting machine shows its superiority over a bloated, bloviating bureaucracy who loves to make problems for their own promotion and or job security.
We have been warned; we have, if true, been invaded electronically …. now do something about it.
Humor, History (Herstory)[see how I did that?]
In honor of ‘Women’s History Month’ … March … well I got this from my daughter’s blog (secret blog … even her mother (a woman) doesn’t know it … and I’ve not been told to tell) who is concerned about women’s rights (why she’s not concerned about women’s wrongs… I’ll never know). Well in an email, I was pointing out the difference of equality as in ‘Rights’ and equality in ‘condition’. It’s really hard to get equality of condiiton … and if it were right to have it, would you really want it?
For example, my son was in Austin, where he swam in the Austin Grand Prix, several hundred competing in each event. He beat his best time by 6.5 seconds in the 100 Free, ranked 250th of 379. Women who swam his time were ranked 24th of 380, and had the added privilege of admittance into the finals. Women’s overall inferior abilities were gauged within the field of women and not directly in competition with men. The clock was the only neutral arbiter of ‘condition fairness’. I think the status quo using men’s and women’s times separately provides ‘Equal Rights’ and that is great and sufficient, and the alternative, that of ‘equality of condition’ would be to only have final racing when they rose to the level of men’s times in the finals. That means there would be no women in the top 40 finalists …. they were all men. Check it out. This would seem to prove that ‘equality of condition’ is a false equality. Men and women are different, do we agree? And I say ‘viva la difference’.
Also please send me $5,000 if you disagree, or be noted as a cheap skate … which brings up a different subject where in dance, ice skating (see how I did that?), women are much closer to a ‘conditional parity’.
Note also, (that extra irritating word is dedicated to Sarah Palin) in breastfeeding, men wouldn’t even make the finals. (That reference is for dear past dad and the breast pocket calendar I gave him from Key West’s Fast Buck Freddies, and he knowing every 12 shapes in Latin … bravo, he was acknowledged in my heart and many hearts as- Men’s Breast Appreciation Finalist Champion) And the La Leche League will back that up.
For another $5,000 I will send you the transcript and movie of my father’s acceptance speech to the La Leche League as he was accepting the 4th Founders’ Award. There he detailed how he coached a young adopting mother to breastfeed the infant … for 2 years, during which her Endrometriosis symptoms disappeared (had prevented her conceiving before) and after she stopped breastfeeding, she conceived and had her natural child after which her Endrometriosis was in remission, and perhaps cured. For a straight white guy, that’s pretty bov. (that’s Indian hip talk for ‘sacred cowlike’)
History, Humor
This might seem like a Day Ja Vu there at Geek Central near Kendall Square, but before you get all defensive and teary … this is kindof my image of well where nerds were 40 some years ago … ok really 20, but it reminded me.
I was in high school before the laser was invented. It was Dave Kendall who told me about it … how it was made. I later learned that one inventor, Charles H. Townes (Nobel Prize 1964) was a theist, who believed that god had shared this knowledge with him … as a gift.
Dave Dunshee was our class genius; he made his own TV from scratch. I even thought that people shouldn’t be allowed to watch TV unless they could build their own.
You’ve heard the story of Principal Myrtle Rugan, spinster who looked like Margaret Rutherford (Ms. Marple) and her Vice Principal Mr. Bodeski. I was impeached and without trial, convicted and removed from 8th grade presidency of the student council for having distributed a ‘controlled substance’ and aphrodesiac placebo … vitamin E at a party, where Mad Matt (like a granddaddy to the Pinball Wizard) and Barb Pedian kinda got a base or two on - together … busted me to the school shrink …. and the rest was a hysterical- ectomy.. on my high school future sensitivity. And my girl friend (went to a different school) moved away (her parents didn’t allow her to Gary Engberg’s basement parties, either). Bummer.
Dave Painter and a group of like minded geeks saw our first nuclear flash in a cloud chamber we constructed with dry ice in his mother’s art studio.
I used to sell a mixture of cow and horse manure (cured for over 2 years) for $10 a trailer load (a small metal thing from Sears) pulled by my 1963 MG Midget … how cool is that? Steamy!
Chipper Bell and I as preteens blasted a 3 stage rocket from a bunker we dug in the Forest Preserve pasture behind our barn. The 3rd stage had a mouse in it with a parachute, but the 2nd stage blew up, and the parachute didn’t open … and we never found the 3rd stage. Chipper’s a professor of Neuropsychology in CA, so if you find him, lead him to my blog … he’ll like it. He’s the co-inventor of our ‘off the grid’ toilet… that was at age 7 or so. We also stole eggs from the milk truck and threw them at Eccie’s house, ‘cause Eccie burned his garage, buried my brother, and was the general bully of the ‘hood with a trial lawyer dad.
As a preteen, I once threw a cherry bomb into a party of our neighbors when I was attracted to the loud music, drinking, and general bad behavior (I was in a high morality of life phase… no swearing either) … and they were just in high school. Well the guys saw me and chased me through a woods and over a creek where the trees were generally small … but no farther apart than about 3 feet…. I never touched one tree. I was one scared ‘bomb throwin’ rabbit’. I guess that’s why I read ‘Brer Rabbit’ to my kids…. although they like ‘Puppy on the Farm’ better.
Here’s to celebrating all those ‘nerd-based’ experiments, games and adventures … though they all may fail, never, never, never, never …. give up…. (Winston Churchill) or a recent nerdy movie, ‘Martian Child’, and Bobby Coleman (we’re same sign). I never lived in a box, but once made a fort in hay bales where you had to slide 20 feet in a 2x2 passage into darkness… our hay loft… the floors slick from the polishing of the hay. And I was never abandoned …
Law (or lack thereof), Theology (yeah, right), History, Human Affairs
Well after all, you wonderful equilibrators, they don’t use toilet paper in Pakistan…, but don’t you think the forgiving Christians should only suffer prison time ‘if they left a schmeer, and pages were stuck together?’ Or is that a capital offense? Sure glad we’re giving Billion$ to support Islamic persecutors.
And Obama, is getting ready for his Summit on Entrepreneurshit(p) … seeking ties with ‘social entrepreneurs’ like Hamas, Hezzbollah, and all those kinds who would love to kill infidels…. after all the Koran deems it a social imperative. A problem arises when we are governed by a constitution which demands a separation of church and state. Now the state is sponsoring a ‘religion’ …, but legally, not really as we all know it’s just another violent, ruthless mob, right?
Theology, History, Human Affairs
Yousef, son of Hamas’s founder, Cleric Yousef, has been a Christian and spy for Israel … saving lives.
There’s a lot of fear for those who speak up, and pointing to the Terrorist Islamic God … is to me like pointing to the Tempting Devil in the Desert as told in several books of the New Testament.. ‘Just bow to me, and you will rule the world’ …. that is the promise of Islam to every follower and who prays down 5 times per day.
Geert Wilders has appropriately compared Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to the Koran, and he now is on trial in the Netherlands. People are accusing him of being ‘Hitler’ because a right wing group in England supports him. And that will be the propaganda for the privileged muslims… who will protest, be the victims of discrimination when they ‘torture their own people’ as commanded in the Koran … they ‘hijack ships’ as commanded in the Koran …etc.
Read on… “The problem is not in Muslims,” he continues. “The problem is with their God. They need to be liberated from their God. He is their biggest enemy. It has been 1,400 years they have been lied to.”
Geert Wilders is winning his election battles … and since the Islamist killed Van Gogh’s grandson, a film director who made a film insulting to Islam, the people of the Netherlands have had enough … or some of us may hope.
Weekend Interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef: ‘They Need to Be Liberated From Their God’ - WSJ.com
History, Science, Human Affairs
The author, a Pulitzer Prize winner, points to many ‘inertial’ qualities of the Obamacare steamroller which will create the taste of free, until the payment comes due.
And on the heals comes the Amnesty for Illegals … maybe part of the freely flowing healthcare soldiers who will help quash the opposition should ‘Richie Rich’ object to funding the welfare program …. for doctors and pharma cos. …. that’s right: it’s all free, come in as often as you like … you want the next pill, come in again … with a deadly fever over a mile walk in the bitter cold with pneunomia … that’s a MIT with manditory coverage, remember dear daughter? Is Obama counting on the 30 million+ of new free recipients to be the ‘soldiers’ to enforce it should fall apart, and doctors and pharma … stop treating … to hell with Hippocrates … onward hippocrazy.
Patient … Heal Thyself.
Charles Krauthammer : Onward, He Said, Regardless - Townhall.com
Science (or lack thereof), History, Humor, Environment
It’s alway fun to knock Al Gore (Gorella) around for his hypocrisy and profit motivation behind his promotion of ‘heat is killer’ mantra. We’ve got reports of methane seeping up from the floor of Siberian seas (and no one’s blaming ancient rotting bodies).. oh, it’s because we’ve melted the ice… yeah, who me and my exhale?
Folks, this heat has got opponents called: snow, radiation at night, green living biomass. If we don’t pollute the planet, killing off the green stuff, etc. , things will get back to normal. It’s Al Gore, who at his farm in Tennessee was mining for Tin (Sn) and washing the tallons down the stream, killing fish. That story was silenced quickly… or else he stopped it. But to his credit, he proposed putting berms around farming fields to help contain the runoff from plowing, fertilizers, selecticides, pesticides, herbicides. He didn’t mention ‘minimal till’ technologies which only plow the furrow that you plant, and allow the grass to grow in between the rows… fertilize only that furrow… it works, too. And it you plant grasses that like clover are deep rooted and take N from the air thru bacteria on their roots, then over time less and less fertilizer will be required … and you can have organic crops on hillsides with great yields. I think there have been many in Texas doing this …. but on the flatlands, using less oil, and chemicals, it would really make a great difference. It might even lower the mercury content in fish from the diesel fuel used on land and sea (diesel has mercury in it).
So it’s not the warming … it’s the contaminating. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Now go buy a Prius. (mine averages 50 miles per gallon)
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