Displaying 181 To 210 Of 322 Comments I love your Fractals. And an excellent post also. and that there is a mechanical, spatially separated God behind some cosmic curtain making things move in locations, making judgments, admitting people to heaven, casting people into hell or the junk drawer that is purgatory. We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of … So then I looked up L Frank Baum on wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum » Posted By dildenusa On July 10, 2010 @ 9:30 pm It’s Time for Soylent Green Energy It seems that BP’s good time buddy in the deep sea drilling business has a few skeletons in it’s closet. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/global/08ocean.html?_r=1 » Posted By dildenusa On July 8, 2010 @ 9:29 am Now what about this being used for home grown energy. We have bogs along the east coast in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body Apparently, the acidic pH of the bog dissolves bone. So we could start burying people in bogs and then dig them up in a hundred years or so for fuel. » Posted By dildenusa On July 7, 2010 @ 4:35 pm An interesting bit of news in the New York Times that certainly affects everyone. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/world/04food.html?_r=1 » Posted By dildenusa On September 4, 2010 @ 10:43 am Well, I voted democrat in the primary although I’m registered non-party, so I voted for Rodney Glassman although I don’t live in Tucson, I live in northern Arizona. From the way it looks Glassman can run a very tight campaign and stay close to McCain. » Posted By dildenusa On August 25, 2010 @ 9:21 am More economic news on Saturday morning from the Washington Post. Many Democrats say the economy needs more stimulus. Business lobbyists and their Republican allies say it needs less regulation and lower taxes. But here in the heartland of America, senior executives say neither side’s assessment fits. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082005165.html?hpid=topnews » Posted By dildenusa On August 21, 2010 @ 10:37 am Paul Krugman’s latest op ed in the New York Times reads like a psychologist who deprograms people after they leave a cult. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/opinion/20krugman.html?_r=1 He definitely has a point. The hallmark of cults is blind obediance to a leader of dubious morals. » Posted By dildenusa On August 21, 2010 @ 10:32 am I don’t read much of Krauthammer but the argument on the right that the Muslim center in lower Manhattan is just like the Carmelite nuns putting their prayer center across the road from Auschwitz is obviously a red herring. Personnaly, I like my herring kippered (smoked and salted). I guess mama and papa Grizzlies like their herring raw. » Posted By dildenusa On August 20, 2010 @ 12:13 pm I can’t pass up a comment on this. In his August 13 column, Krauthammer wrote: Pope John Paul II ordered the Carmelite nuns to leave the convent they had established at Auschwitz. He was in no way devaluing their heartfelt mission to pray for the souls of the dead. He was teaching them a lesson in respect: This is not your place; it belongs to others. However pure your voice, better to let silence reign. What was Krauthammer’s lie? That the Church decided a Catholic prayer center so close to this horrific memorial site would be wrong. Not only is there a Catholic center for prayer and understanding within several blocks of the former Nazi gas chambers and torture cells at Auschwitz — not only was it put there with the blessing of Catholic leadership after the Carmelite controversy — but, and this is key: it is a wonderful place that achieves peaceful outcomes commensurate with those the planners of Park51 have proposed to bring to Manhattan. The political hacks on the right who are demagogueing the Muslim community and worship center, deserve nothing less than living for a month under concentration camp conditions. Then let’s hear what they have to say. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/lie-about-auschwitz-fuels_b_688070.html » Posted By dildenusa On August 20, 2010 @ 10:23 am This is hitting the nail on the head however I think using the word “help” is the wrong word here. America’s business leaders need to figure out how to help America’s middle class join the global economic party — or face a populist backlash which will make Barack Obama look like Milton Friedman. Using the word help makes this appear shallow and condescending. America’s business leaders already know what to do. They will just keep on doing what they are doing until the working and middle class has been hollowed out and resembles the up and coming middle classes of India and China. Then the working and middle class here in the US will join in the global party. The business leaders here should be willing to pay higher taxes while their business plan results in the impoverishment of America’s working and middle classes. Then once we join in the party we could lower business taxes to sustain the recovery. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chrystia-freeland/post_710_b_689026.html » Posted By dildenusa On August 20, 2010 @ 9:46 am Republicans “refudiate” 14th Amendment. After the American Civil war the republican controled congress passed the 14th Amendment granting citizenship to anyone born on American soil. It seems that 140 years later they want to “rescind” their “gift” to illegal immigrants who have children born on American soil. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40855.html » Posted By dildenusa On August 10, 2010 @ 8:24 am Thanks for the seafood curry recipe. My doctors tell me to eat lots of oily fish but no shell fish because it’s bad for my cholesterol. Here in Arizona a lot of the seafood is farmed raised. My favorite wild fish is halibut however the price has risen to over $10 US a pound so I don’t have it often. » Posted By dildenusa On July 27, 2010 @ 8:32 am It’s hard to say what Michelle Bachman is up to. To say that President Obama is tuning America into a nation of slaves is disingenuous to say the least. It was Ronnie Raygun and Newt Gingrich who said trust us, it’s moring in America and the republican party has a contract with America. In truth the so called ownership society was a way to turn logic upside down. The real owner is the mega multinational corporatocracy. We are slaves with golden chains. » Posted By dildenusa On July 18, 2010 @ 10:51 am We got a little bit of rain here in Northern Arizona last week but now it’s dry as a bone with no rain in sight. It’s so dry the deer came down out of the hills and chewed up my tomato plants. Lucky for me they don’t like cucumbers or chili peppers. They left those. » Posted By dildenusa On July 12, 2010 @ 8:46 am Friday Music Thread – The 4th of July A Horse with no Name – America httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkiGEIMVRYo&feature=related » Posted By dildenusa On July 2, 2010 @ 7:31 pm Does a Dog Have the Buddha Nature? “Basically an end of suffering from the human condition of being alive and human » Posted By dildenusa On July 4, 2010 @ 10:35 am The new atheists are most represented by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Victor Stenger and others. I fear our technological bias is culturally a devolutionary spiral. When I read and hear things in the news about civil war in Africa and certain minerals mined there to produce cell phones and other electronic devices I just wonder where will the spiral end. For unknown millenia, technology has improved life. Now I fear it has trapped us and Earth in a slippery slope into the abyss of dystopia. And the battle between the religious fundamentalists and atheists just makes things worse. » Posted By dildenusa On July 2, 2010 @ 1:40 pm I like to keep things in perspective. I think it’s my artist nature. » Posted By dildenusa On July 2, 2010 @ 11:36 am When I lived in Vermont we had a pond and a stream near our house. It was very nice in the spring and summer. After work I would chill out at the pond. In the winter I would ice skate on the pond. There was all kinds of wildlife. Not many ducks but there were fish, frogs, and the usual racoons, skunks, and I saw large water birds like herons and egrets. » Posted By dildenusa On July 1, 2010 @ 6:51 pm This post reminds me of all my frenemies. So I guess nations have frenimies too. » Posted By dildenusa On July 1, 2010 @ 9:57 am ADDD: Attention Deficit Disorder Democracy Who was it who said “Let them eat cake?” Oh well, it doesn’t matter anyway. I heard an interesting statistic this morning on NPR. Since December 2007, one-third of the workforce, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_total_number_of_people_in_US_workforce has been affected by the recession. Maybe my short term memory is gone but I can still do the math. Let’s see, 150,000,000 * 0.3 = 50,000,000. » Posted By dildenusa On June 30, 2010 @ 5:14 pm Chief Justice Roberts Lied……Should Elena Bother to Tell the Truth? When the republican party was founded in 1856, this was their slogan: “free labor, free land, free men” referring to their anti-slavery roots. It seems today that they would rather see everyone as a slave to the corporatocracy. » Posted By dildenusa On June 29, 2010 @ 1:21 pm The current crahp of conservative justices (Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Roberts) aren’t channeling the framers of the constitution, they are channeling Ayn Rand and her now discredited philosophy of Objectivism. Objectivism says, If you allow people and corporations unfettered freedom, they will act in their “rational self interest.” But we aren’t rational ceatures and never have been. » Posted By dildenusa On June 28, 2010 @ 6:47 pm Just so you know, the law clerks write the opinions. The current system is for the justice to use a recording device to record his or her spoken opinion. Then the clerk writes the opinion with minimal editing. I’m sure this has probably been the system used since the 1940’s or 50’s. Only now they might use a mini recorder or a computer or smart phone. Doctors use a similar system for transcribing reports. » Posted By dildenusa On June 28, 2010 @ 6:29 pm There have been anecdotal stories already about suicides in Gulf Coast states. Also I was over at Huff Post and they had a story about the BP Boycott hurting small businesses. The point is of course that all the oil companies are despoiling earth in one way or another. So how does boycotting BP gasoline hurt BP. In a year from now BP will still be in business and still be laughing all the way to the bank. So of course the rabid enviromentalists came on the comment board saying we need to make plastic from starch. I guess they forgot what happened to the price of food when Bush was pushing ethanol. It just makes no sense to me. In order to hurt BP we would have to stop buying gasoline altogether from all the oil companies. The economic term is “fungibility.” Then Huff Post refused to post my comment about all the mega multinational corporations cutting corners to earn a profit. It’s simply the unvarnished truth about mega multinational corps. And the government allows them to cut corners. It’s part of the discredited unfettered free market philosphy of Ayn Rand that the tea bag partiers are pushing, that the mega multinational corps. will do the right thing if they are given free reign. That’s just nonsense. » Posted By dildenusa On June 28, 2010 @ 12:40 pm I love your art work. Very appropriate for modern life. Where I live in northern Arizona the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arizona Game and Fish Department are reintroducing the Black Footed Ferret to it’s home range in the high desert grasslands. And I’ve seen Ferrets in the wild. Very interesting creatures. The point is at least there was enough breeding stock left to allow for the repopulation and allow for genetic diversity. Anyone who has studied biology knows that a species must dispose of it’s waste products in a sustainable manner otherwise the species chokes on it’s own waste. In our rush to poke holes in the only home we have, we will not only choke on our waste products but we force all the other sentient beings to do the same. » Posted By dildenusa On June 28, 2010 @ 9:18 am An Atheist/Technologist Envisions the Afterlife Hi Bauart! The Anthropic Principle puts all sentient beings at the center. And not just here on Earth but anywhere that life may have evolved in our observable univerese no mattter how that life may have evolved. Whether that life is based on DNA or some other molecule capable of self replication. When Darwin published The Origin of Species, the religious fundies countered by saying “it’s unprovable by the scientific method.” Experimentation has now shown Darwin was correct. The same thing is being said about the the megaverse. I believe that in my lifetime experiments will be done showing the theory of the megaverse to be correct. A very good read is “The Black Hole Wars” by Leonard Susskind. » Posted By dildenusa On July 1, 2010 @ 9:54 am Hi! Excellent post. You’re maybe the 5th or 6th real person I know from Texas. Have you heard the joke about Texas? When is the best time of the year to visit Texas? The time when you see it in your rear view mirror. Actually I’ve been all over Texas. I’ve even been to Dumas. There is a restaurant south of Dallas on I-35 or I-45, I don’t remember, I think I was returning from Waco. But anyway this place has the best barbecued brisket in the world. So does the Anthropic principle account for an afterlife? Does Shrodinger’s cat have an afterlife? Of course if Shrodinger hadn’t worked out the math for quantum mechanics someone else would have. But would that someone else have a pet cat? » Posted By dildenusa On June 26, 2010 @ 10:02 am So how could a “coalition” of oil and oil service companies within a few weeks of President Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling not only file an injunction against the moratorium, but find a friendly judge to hear the case without further delay? This is a perfect example of the “shadow elites” at work to undermine efforts to make the corporatocracy accountable. Instead we get arguments about the government hindering legal business activity. Just like unnatural gas with it’s pretzle logic, we get environmental destruction on a grand scale with the corporatocracy and their shadow elites telling us to stop whining. I’m not whining, I’m screaming. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/us/23drill.html?th&emc=th http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/drill-baby-drill-judge-pi_b_622888.html » Posted By dildenusa On June 24, 2010 @ 9:57 am OK. I must have drunk some of the waste water from a fracking operation because I’m a little confused. Now, as anyone who has watched the live feed from BP’s blown out oil well and the surface ships burning off gas so they can collect the oil, I have become completely disoriented. There is enough natural gas that seeps into the oceans every day, not even counting BP’s well, that could light up the entire city of New York for some incalculable length of time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate » Posted By dildenusa On June 23, 2010 @ 5:35 pmComments Posted By dildenusa
and it said he was born to a Methodist family but then turned to Theosophy in 1897. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy
A little too much dogma for me. It’s interesting that Baum was a dedicated republican and supported McKinley in the 1896 election.
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So it seems to me that before we poison ourselves and muck about in the worst kind of toxic waste imaginable we should be designing and deploying technology to go after the methane at the bottom of the oceans.
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