The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives Pinched: I was thinking of a girl
I noticed when I was in high school many years ago. Her name was Ann and she
was very pretty, in a fragile sort of way. Sometimes she looked almost
transparent. She was the daughter of the school’s principal. She was
always alone. No other students at the school seemed to want to risk getting
close to her. Every day, she came to school walking alone and she left school
walking alone. She sat alone and she studied alone. I felt awful for her and
I wanted to reach out to her, but, since I was an outcast myself, that would
not have helped her. In appearance she seemed
very drawn in within herself. I tried to describe that look to Mrs. Gaffer,
and the only word I could come up with was pinched. It was not a physical
thing, but an aura about her. She looked all pinched in. I asked Mrs. Gaffer
if she had ever seen that look herself. She immediately described to me a
girl she know in school who was the daughter of a minister. She had the same
look. The minister in his infinite evil had named her Salome. For those who
may not know, in the myth, Salome was a biblical character who danced for
King Herod on condition the he give her the head of John the Baptist on a
platter, which he did. In my most insane moments, I could not imagine a man
doing something like that to his own daughter. As a minister, he know very
well what the name implied. Ugly, purely evil. Consciousness: If I am conscious
energy, and it seems clear to me that I am, by reasonable extrapolation my
soul is conscious. That being the case, by reasonable extrapolation the
super-conscious of which my soul is part is conscious energy. So, what about
the universe? Fringe people babbling about Gaea notwithstanding, there is a
profound question here. Are we bankrupt? The once great state of An opinion article in
the Detroit Free Press of October 18 had some sharp criticism for those
people in Different Victims: Some racist incidents
occurred on a university campus. The police are taking this very seriously.
They are investigating and they expect to make some arrests. That, of course,
is what they should do. What bothers me is, when I was a victim a racist
incident the state police brushed it off. “Probably just kids,”
the officer said. I don’t think it depends of where you live, it
depends on who you are. I guess, if I was a college professor it would be
different. Why? One Hundred Thirty Four
Million: That was a settlement
won by three women from a drug company who claim hormone therapy caused them
to have breast cancer. The women got 33 million each. We can suppose the
attorneys got the rest. I am left with the question, who will pay for that
settlement? The drug company will not pay it. The victims will finally be
everyone who needs drugs. That’s me and you and everyone who uses
drugs. I don’t know if this settlement was just or not. The bothersome
thing in these personal damage trials is the issue of proof. There are no
real rules of evidence. It is not necessary for a claimant to prove their claim.
It is only necessary for a jury to believe the claim or hate the rug company.
These women did not have to prove the therapy was the cause. They only had to
claim it. The defense could present evidence of 100,000 women who did not get
breast cancer with this same therapy, but that would be irrelevant. In a rare scene out of a
fantasy movie George Bush and Nancy Pelosi joined hands in given the
Congressional Medal of Honor to the Dalai Lama. That is the highest honor we
can give to a civilian. Another Police Chase: Another dead Colbert: He has entered the
presidential race. Charles Gibson of ABC asks the question, “Should the
presidential election be a laughing matter?” I love it. Colbert is
wonderfully illustrating how completely ridiculous these fools are. Although
Colbert is tempting, I am not going to change my vote. I am still going with
Whoopi Goldberg. A FDA Decision: Those people have
finally told the truth in a controversial situation. Kudos for them! An FDA
advisory panel said all of those cold remedy medicines do not work. Drug
companies should not market them and parents should not give them to their
kids. They imply that the industry has been perpetrating a fraud on the
public. So, what else is new? It has been revealed
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