The Weekly Notes 2007
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Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives A Very Happy New Year: With all sincerity, I
wish you a great year in 2008. I hope all of us have a better year than we
had in 2007. For all too many of us, that would not take much. Global Warming: One thing I am convinced
of is nothing will be done about global warming in
2008. At least nothing will be done by our government.
Too many of them are connect to big oil. They have a short-term vested-interest in promoting our lemming like head long
rush to disaster. Short term is all they can think of. They lack the wisdom
to consider the long term. In fact, there is nothing we can
do about global warming. Unless we find new technology, it will
continue. Beating the auto
industry up on fuel economy is a typical fraudulent move by our government.
Incremental changes over a decade, even if they manage it, will not solve the
problem. There is a possibility that our government will pass oppressive laws
to curb the middle class use of oil. However, even if we make it impossible
for most Americans to live decent lives, Our only hope is to find
new technology that will change the way all humans behave. Of course, that
means finding a real alternative to oil. Windmills are bullcrap and so is
Ethanol. Try as you will, you cannot run a car with a windmill, or a sail for
that matter. Ethanol has caused a doubling of the price of eggs in one year
and it has made no difference in greenhouse gasses. If you check out all the
facts, you will find that Ethanol is just as dirty as oil and it is much less
efficient. Meanwhile, because of the ethanol fraud we will have a lot more
working poor struggling to buy food at ever-increasing prices. If we find new
technology, it will come from some genius individual or from a small
enterprise with good management and highly skilled dedicated technicians.
Forget the auto companies. All they know how to do it continue to refine what
they already have. They can increase gas mileage marginally, but they cannot
find new solutions because they are not looking. I will continue on my path,
doing what I can. The joke is if we find new technology, A Bent Arm: There was a little girl
shown on the news who was born with a curved arm. She was destined to be a
freak, but the doctors fixed that. They broke her arm and put some tension
devices in it so it stretched and straightened out. They made her normal. I
though that was a very good application of technology. The problem with many
of these scientific doctors is they don’t know
the difference between good applications and dumb applications of technology.
They don’t know where to stop. Where do you
stop? Science is inherently
amoral. Scientists don’t do things because
they are good or bad. They do them because they can. Let us recall that this
medical science, which helped the little girl, is the same science that
helped a rickety old egomaniacal broad have a baby she will never be able to
care for. Also, where do you stop in making people
normal? Can you envision a world where there are no short people and no tall
people? How short is too short? How
tall is too tall? When is a freak evolution? How do we know? Mosques: I have been wondering
about this too. What is a mosque? Is a mosque a safe house for terrorist or a
place of worship? It is a training facility for terrorists or a religious institution? Perhaps it is all of those. Perhaps the
Muslims do not see a contradiction in those functions. Children and Equality: I wish we could get
politics out of children’s education and training. We are wasting
massive human assets, by providing substandard opportunities for some kids.
Because a person has failed to function in our culture is not a good reason
to punish his children, but that is exactly what we do. Literally, we punish
the children for the sins of the father. That is stupid. We could be wasting
an Einstein or a Van Gogh. Can we afford to do that? Regardless of the cost
of education, ignorance is much more expensive in the long-run.
A child should get good nutrition, good education, and safety as a matter of
cultural survival as well as human decency. Bhutto: She was
waxed. Bush and our media are pretending they don’t
know who did it. Somehow, Musharraf has discovered
that an Al-Qaeda terrorist did it. Do you believe that? There are a great deal of conflicting reports on what happened. I’m not sure even Bush and Musharraf
are on the same page. I’ll wait a while. I
doubt if we will ever get to the truth, but at least Bush and Musharraf will have a chance coordinate their cover
stories. Causing Change: I have been researching
and analyzing in a life long attempt to discover and reveal what truth I can
find. Even so, I have no hope of ever seeing any real change in human
behavior. I have always understood that, but the reality was
brought forcibly home to me over the holidays. I was visiting my
brother, who is a dedicated knee jerk Republicrumb. He learned that at his
father’s knee when he was just a tad. Our father only had one passion
in his life. That was to hate The upshot of is my
sudden realization, when my brother started spouting his right wing rhetoric,
that he thought he was presenting a logical argument. I knew with certainty
that no amount or reason or logic would ever get him to look at the huge gaps
in his presentation. Far from changing the world, I cannot even get my own
brother to look thoughtfully at the facts. I am certain if Jesus Christ came
back and ran on the Dumbocratic ticket, my brother would still vote
Republicrumb even though he pretends to be religious. He would say something
like, “Sure, but look at that shaggy beard and the unkempt hair. It’s clear he is a hippy. We don’t want
someone like that running the country.” If God really did create
man, he did a shitty job. The truth is, Back to the Weekly Notes 2007 Archives |