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Progress: Ain’t it wonderful

31 August, 2010 (17:53) | Human Rights, Humor, Society | No comments |

SCHOOL–1957 vs. 2009

Scenario: Jack goes rabbit shooting before school, pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

  • 1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his rifle & chats with Jack about guns.
  • 2009 – School goes into lock down, Star Force called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again.. Counsellors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario ::Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

  • 1957 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
  • 2009 – Police called, arrests Johnny and Mark.. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3 months. School board hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programs

Scenario:: Robbie won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

  • 1957 – Robbie sent to office and given 6 of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
  • 2009 – Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. Robbie’s parents get fortnightly disability payments and School gets extra funding from state because Robbie has a disability.

Scenario :: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

  • 1957 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
  • 2009 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.

Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

  • 1957 – Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with.
  • 2009 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from Halloween, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up an ant nest.

  • 1957 -Ants die.
  • 2009- State Police, Star Force, Federal Police & Anti-terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, Feds investigate parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated. Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario :Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary . Mary hugs him to comfort him.

  • 1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
  • 2009 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy .

As exaggerated or selective as some of those are. there is far too much truth in them for this to be labeled only as humor. I remember in elementary school getting hugs from teachers when I was upset, I also remember when I was in teacher training in the early 70′s being warned to avoid any physical contact whatsoever, with a student.

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10,700Mw

31 August, 2010 (17:00) | Environment, Technology | No comments |

Anyone who has been reading here for awhile will know by now that I’m a huge believer in energy, especially the new enhanced solutions. From simple heat pumps for heating/cooling your homes (it really hurt this summer when we had to replace our 20 yr. old. furnace that I could not afford to replace it with a heat pump) to massive power stations. The inherent capacity for power generation in the US alone is over 2000 times its electrical needs, yet they keep removing mountain tops of coal.

WASHINGTON, Aug 31, 2010 (IPS) – The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world’s oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.

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An interdisciplinary team of 13 scientists and engineers assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 assessed U.S. electrical generating potential. Drawing on the latest technologies, including those used by oil and gas companies in drilling and in enhanced oil recovery, the team estimated that enhanced systems could be used to massively develop energy. This technology involves drilling down to the hot rock layer, fracturing the rock and pumping water into the cracked rock, then extracting the superheated water to drive a steam turbine. The MIT team notes that with this technology the U.S. has enough energy to meet its energy needs 2,000 times over.

Wait – “fracturing the rock” you say, isn’t that the problem with recent Natural Gas drilling

so why are you recommending it for energy production?

Well that’s because all that gets injected (and then reclaimed) in enhanced energy production is clean water. Geothermal producers are not drilling into natural gas deposits.

Regardless of its cost it is the real answer to a large percentage of the world’s energy needs and needs to be heavily developed.

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Why does the Tea Party and the GOP hate America so much

30 August, 2010 (17:56) | Political | No comments |

It’s no revelation that the Tea Party and the cheap-labor conservatives in the are creating the Park 51 mosque controversy, lie by lie, but the fears of many have come true

For months, conservatives have led a hateful campaign against the proposed Park 51 Islamic community center that is going to be built two blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City. High-ranking Republicans have spearheaded this campaign, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich even going as far as to claim that Park 51 will act as a launching pad for the introduction of “Sharia law” to America.

Now, Newsweek reveals the most concrete evidence yet that this campaign is serving to bolster support for Islamic radicalism abroad. In an interview with the magazine, a Taliban operative going by the name Zabihullah said that, by “preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor.” He goes on to explain that the anti-mosque campaign is providing the Taliban with “with more recruits, donations, and popular support.” Another Taliban official expects that the anti-mosque campaign will provoke a “new wave of terrorist trainees from the West,” similar to suspected Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad. Zabihullah concludes, the “more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get”:

Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,” Taliban operative Zabihullah tells NEWSWEEK. (Like many Afghans, he uses a single name.) “It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.” [...]

Taliban officials say they’re looking forward to a new wave of terrorist trainees from the West like this year’s Times Square car bomber. “I expect we will soon be receiving more American Muslims like Faisal Shahzad who are looking for help in how to express their rage,” says a Taliban official who was a senior minister when the group ruled Afghanistan and who remains active in the insurgency. As an indication of the anger that is growing among some Muslims in the West, this official, who requested anonymity for security reasons, mentions the arrest of three Canadian Muslims in Ontario last week on charges of plotting to build and detonate improvised explosive devices. (A fourth individual was arrested in Ottawa last Friday in connection with the case.) The Ground Zero furor will likely add to that anger. “The more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get,” Zabihullah predicts.

Go ahead – explain why you hate America so much you want the Taliban and al-Qaeda to gain new recruits who will kill, American soldiers abroad (nice way to show support there all you yellow ribbon sticker hypocrites) on foreign soil and Americans at home through terrorist attacks on US soil.

Think the MSM will push this? Think again – they are, with few exceptions, bought and paid for. This story will die on page 53 unless the rest of you step up and force the MSM to cover it truthfully and in depth.

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Bye Bye Civil Rights

30 August, 2010 (17:38) | Human Rights, Political | No comments |

If you think things were bad for civil rights under Bush you’d best not read this as it’s far worse under Obama (as in don’t count on him to rescind this but instead he is for almost certain going to expand it). You only get the rights the government wants you to have and the government will stack the courts to ensure they get the interpretation they want or change the law to allow them.

FBI: No Probable Cause Required For Surveillance
By William Fisher

NEW YORK, AUg 30, 2010 (IPS) – The bitter controversy over the building of a Muslim community centre and mosque near the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, is sparking new fears of government snooping on Islamic holy places – which it now claims it can do without a warrant.

In a July 28 letter addressed to Senate Judiciary committee Democratic members Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont – following the testimony of FBI director Robert Mueller – the agency said that suspicion of wrongdoing was not necessary to launch an investigation against an individual or organisation.

No particular factual predication is required” for the initiation of a preliminary investigation, according to the FBI’s operational guidelines.

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Third Rock From the Sun

28 August, 2010 (14:41) | Science, video | No comments |

Space is a dangerous place. The animation below show 30 years of asteroid discovery starting in 1980

From the video notes on YouTube

View of the solar system showing the locations of all the starting in 1980, as are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.
The final colour of an indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.
Earth Crossers are Red
Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow
All Others are Green

Currently we have observed over half a million minor planets, and the discovery rates snow no sign that we’re running out of undiscovered objects.

Orbital elements were taken from the ‘astorb.dat’ data created by Ted Bowell and associates at http://www.naic.edu/~nolan/astorb.html

Music is ‘Transgenic’ by Trifonic: http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Trifo…

Quite a few journalists, bloggers and tweeters are attributing this to NASA or Arecibo Observatory – while they do fine work they had nothing to do with this. If you write a story you can credit it to Scott Manley.

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