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Bad is Good, Evil is Sublime

Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Emphysema, Mental Illness, Serial Killers, Killers who kill without the box tops, Drug cartels, Drug dealers, Drug users, Car accidents, War, Terrorism, Pornography, Pedophiles, Weapons of Mass Destruction, All addictions, Death regardless of cause, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Global warming, Shoplifting, Corruption, Incompetence, Impotence...the list is endless.

Now, let’s pretend for a moment that none of these things existed. How many jobs did we just eliminate? Millions...maybe billions? More? Where would all the auto mechanics work if cars were built to last more than 5 years? And if we abandoned internal combustion, who would employ all of the military personnel required to protect oil interests in the Middle East? Now we’re talking about millions more in jobs.

There are many who will say my thinking is faulty. The money paid out in salaries to stem the tide of the “bad” could be used to make the world a better place. Sounds reasonable. But we don’t want the world to be a better place. That’s why we don’t have cures for diseases - just pills that people must take for the rest of their lives. There are a lot of people employed in the pill business.

To make the world a better place, we would be un-employing the world. The only people employed would be those paid to find jobs that don’t exist for those that never wanted to work anyway.

So I say to you, the system we have that perpetuates death and despair works. And if it ‘aint broke, don’t fix it.

 

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REFERENCE GUIDE TO GODS

 We need a reference guide to Gods. I checked everywhere; on the net, at libraries...I even spoke with a Pastor at a nearby church. The answer was the same regardless of the source - there is no reference guide to Gods. Granted, this is not a matter of any importance to most people, but the prevailing lack of interest is more a matter of ignorance than preference. In general, people believe in one God - their God. However, if you stand on a busy street corner and ask people what God they worship, you will wind up with a list of Gods that rivals the telephone directory in its enormity.

 These are but a few of the answers I solicited at my street corner research outreach:

 

 God (Father of Jesus Christ), Jesus Christ, Christ, God the Almighty, The Lord Almighty, My Higher Power, The Supreme Being, Yahweh, Buddha, Allah, The Lord, Jehovah, Ar-Raheem, Jah, Shangdi, Shen, Bhagavan, Ra and countless of others.

 Arthur C. Clarke suggests that there are 9 billion Gods, (In his short story aptly entitled “The Nine Billion Gods”) and I am inclined to agree. When George Allen (Before your time coach of the Washington Redskins) invoked the name of the Lord Almighty in his weekly pre-game locker room prayer, I began to wonder...

 Can we manage with anything less than 9 billion Gods when each is aligned with a seemingly infinite number of causes?

 How many prayers go unnoticed because the request is directed to the wrong God? God, as he is most commonly referred to in America, cannot possibly handle the volume of prayer he receives. Does he have the time or desire to work miracles for football teams, win wars and protect democracy and freedom for all people...everywhere? I think not, unless he has a staff of thousands to take care of the bookkeeping and carry out his will at the same time. The concept is mind boggling but now, after exhaustive research, I have the answer.

 It came to me after listening to George Bush. He invoked God the Almighty in his address to the nation about our war in Iraq. “And with God the Almighty at our side, we shall prevail,” he said. The obvious implication - God is on our side. Taking it a step further, we can assume that our God is more powerful than Allah. Just a thought, mind you, but are we setting the stage for something far worse than global thermonuclear war? What happens if Allah and God the Almighty go to war? Who are their allies and would they jump in? The consequences of an Entity war might include obliteration of mankind altogether. But I am straying from the subject, which in very simple terms is nothing more than an administrative problem.

 We rely on Gods for toys, automobiles, money, political matters, wars, disease, rain, sunshine, 26 professional football teams, teams from other sports, luck at poker; even horse races.

 “Where’s the wire...give me the wire...God, please...please God, just this once...please!” And not even a “Thank You, God,” when Knucklehead Smith crosses the finish a nose in front of Turtle Head.

 “I knew that horse would win...see here in his chart - I knew!”

 Yet we are quick to blame God when things go wrong.

 “Plaxico! God! How could he drop that?”
“Goddammit! McNabb! Get out of the pocket!”
“For God‘s sakes, the battery is dead!”

 The volume is staggering. No God that I know of has the staff or the administrative expertise to process and respond to trillions of requests. But...there is one solution to the problem which I believe is already in use. For lack of a better name, call it God’s Clearinghouse and Outsourcing Network.(GCON) Here’s how it works:

 A God receives a request from a fanatic Philadelphia Eagle fan. “God, please hear my prayer and allow the Eagles to beat hell out of the Giants next weekend.” God submits the request to GCON. GCON searches the NFL God file and forwards the request to Entity I.D. NFL9 - #87,623,509 who in turn relays the request to Entity I.D. PE5 - #315,423. PE5 turns the request over to an Assistant God. The Assistant God assigns the request to a Divine Technician who engineers a late game turnover that seals an Eagle victory. As you can see, the caseload volume drops from over 87 million to slightly more than 315,000 - manageable numbers for any competent Divine Technician.

 GCON is an administrative solution to a quantitative problem. It works, and the best part is that God (by any name) is spared the tedium and oppressive volume of prayer - freeing him to concentrate on matters of urgency affecting the well being of the humanity.

 There is no reference guide, but there is a system in place that insures divine attention to trillions of prayers. So...when you hit the sack tonight and remember to pray for that new Black and Decker chainsaw, remember - your prayer will not go unanswered. That doesn’t mean you’ll get the chainsaw and there might be good reason for that. Only God knows. §

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Happy Nation

Dear Pete,

Nobody cares about my little electronic friend. Sorry for the interruption, though. I wish I could tell you what happened, but I'm afraid only Google knows. Why they would "SEND" in the middle of my letter and against my will is beyond me. I know I didn’t hit the tab key, but I did get a message - from Daemon, the electronic server. Apparently he's been promoted to Customer Services. The message was pretty good for a machine. "Oops...sorry," it said. I was deeply touched by the personal flavor of the message. Usually when Google bungles, they only say "Oops." The thing is, Pete, how can an electronic device be sorry? Something about all of this bothers me. Imagine what it must be like to be a machine capable of sorrow? The poor little guy, locked up in a computer somewhere in Idaho, why, he might be suicidal. Nobody cares about him or his feelings. I felt so bad for him that I wrote back and gave him the suicide hotline number - it's an 800 number so he won't need any money to make the call.

Can you just see the obit?

Google server commits suicide

Emotionally disturbed e-mail server for Google 999's himself, prompting an investigation by the FCC into Google server abuse.

So anyway, where I left off before Daemon got confused; I'm on the Times website, on this page called "Letters to the Public Editor," and of course, I can't figure out how to send this letter, and the bunion on my left big toe is killing me as usual. Naturally, I am compelled to write about my grandmother's orthopedic shoes, but I know that won't get far, even if they were bigger than Elliot Spitzer's election. Did I spell that right?

I don't even know what I would write or why I should bother with this anyway. Pete, the sad reality is that nobody cares about Charles Lindbergh's relationship with Hitler. Nobody wants to hear about the imminent disaster that may occur when the Hadron Particle Accelerator finally fires up its neutrons and sends them, and us, into a black hole filled with Disney characters, Google emoticons, and pieces of Al Franken's brain.

Pete, it is so bad that people don't even care about the imminent crash of America's economy. The shopping malls are packed with people on a spending rampage, emptying the shelves of DVD players, TVs, cameras, computers, appliances, accessories and accessories for accessories; throwing down credit cards at the checkouts as if we were in a boom year. I'll tell you, Pete, it's like a bad science fiction movie - "The Visa Card Zombies." They don't understand that they will be sucking on the tailpipe of more than a trillion dollars of illiquid and toxic debt...forever. Pete, do you know what a dollar is really worth today? Nothing. There haven't been any dollars since the big banks privatized money...Wall Street calls it "derivatives trading." I call it stealing.

Now the Obama administration has subsidized these thieves with money we don't have...money that we borrowed from them when they pretended to have money to lend; money that never existed to begin with.

This is old news, though. The British banks tried to scam Lincoln, offering 37% interest loans backed by recycled credit, and Abe told them to get lost. “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people..." he said in a speech to the Illinois legislature in 1837. He didn't borrow a penny. Instead, he printed new money, known as "greenbacks," and the economy survived despite the drain caused by the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson had it figured out as well. "A government does not need to borrow its national currency from bankers merely pretending to have money.” Isn't that how we got into this mess?

Wow. I must be out of my mind. I'm comparing George Bush and his administration to Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. It's like comparing Sanka to Starbuck's. Two weeks ago, I predicted that the Washington Redskins would win the Super Bowl. Now I'm an economic alarmist, riding a mule through town yelling "The crash is coming...the crash is coming!" Am I really Ralph Nader? My thinking is clearly unsound at any speed.

Okay, I figured it out. Tomorrow, I'm going shopping. I will buy as much as I can...things I don't even need, and I'll charge all of it. I watched those people in the mall, and they were happy. I want to be happy too. So what if I spend money I don't have? Doesn't everybody? §

 

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2012...


...the Hyper-Magnification of Sarah Palin is by no means incidental. She shall return in 2012, and Obama will be remembered as the worst president in the history of this great nation. For now, the media has become a Sarah Palin think tank. The election is over. How much more analysis can they provide? Don’t they ever get sick and tired of re-hashing the same stuff over and over and over and over and over…when will it stop?

Sarah Palin? She is a woman; she has her strengths and she has her weaknesses. She is flawed but compelling nonetheless. She wears halter-tops and designer sunglasses. What else? Should an autopsy be done now? Who knows what we might find? There haven’t been too many things the media hasn’t dissected, but here is a short list:

Does she suppress her sneezes?
Will she elope with George Bush?
Did she ever lie about voting for a bill to ban ant farms in Alaska?
Is she an advocate for gum control and does she blow bubbles?
Did she inhale?
As a child, did she cheat at hopscotch?
What is her voting record on hermaphrodite marriage?
Does she purchase lingerie at dollar stores?
Would she post bail for her husband if he was arrested for driving a back loader on the Beltway?
What brand of dish detergent does she use?
Has she killed an insect without provocation?

Oh…what about the suppressed tapes of her clandestine meeting with a psychiatrist?

“Do you slip at night?”
“Sometimes, when I’m very tired?
“Do you have blackintolly stool?”
“Heavens no.”
“When was last time you had election?”
“C’mon, doc, I’m a woman.”
“Oh. You have claustrophobia?”
“I don’t believe in Santa Claus.”
“Ah. Time is up. That will be $200.”
“What? That was only five minutes.”
“Really? Well, you know what Einstein say?
“No.”
“Time is relative.”
“Not in Wasilla it isn‘t.”

What more do we need to know?

Apparently, much more. There is a reason for all of this after the fact conjecture. Consider the facts. This is a woman who took the blame for McCain‘s loss, yet she has also been referred to as the “real” Republican candidate for President. I cannot recall a Vice Presidential candidate that has stirred so much controversy. You might have expected some, given the gender issue, but in an election year when we had an African American candidate for President, she literally stole the limelight. Interestingly, the Obama camp did nothing in response to this phenomenon. I am convinced that this was a brilliantly conceived strategy that took the focus away from Obama’s weaknesses and gave center stage to the McCain/Palin ticket controversy. When voters stepped into the booths, they did not decide based on issues - they chose quiet harmony over noise; a natural and psychologically predictable response. Yet now that the game is over and both teams have retired to their respective locker rooms, Palin is still in the limelight.

Is this a reflection of the public’s insatiable craving for gossip and “inside information?” No. It was not a factor in the voting booths, and it is not the reason now. Sarah Palin will not fade away. There is a plan in place. Flaws will be excised. Strengths will be used as building blocks for a re-tooled version of Sarah Palin. Much can be accomplished in four years.

If you ask me, I do not think the Republican Party wanted to win this election. Why buy a massive can of worms now that will only weaken its owner? The GOP will wait this one out and pounce in 2012. Sarah Palin will become the prototype…a meticulously trained and ruthless proponent of the party’s master plan - another dynasty with a new face. Barrack Obama will be remembered as “The Little Engine that Couldn’t.” §

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The Great Global Crop Rotation

It took me another 30 years to learn about the intricacies of global poppy crop rotation. What I had seen in Cambodia was just the beginning. Within ten years, the soil in Cambodia had been depleted of nutrients, leaving it barren and useless for poppy farming, which had once been the mainstay of the region’s economy. What happened?

After six months spent blowing up circus tents, the chemical engineers working for the oil conglomerates finally figured out the formula, and with that they proceeded to do the same thing they had always done with crude...exhaust the supply and move on. I would never have learned this if it hadn’t been for an excerpt from an article written by an old friend, Arlen Rutledge.

. I found the clip in some old microfiche. Sheer luck, I guess. The article itself had never been printed, but it was archived by the paper. It would have been easy to find had it not mysteriously disappeared. That fact alone added credibility to Rutledge’s statement in the clip. He was on to something and I would have given just about anything to get my hands on his notes. The clip read as follows:
 
It only became clear later, when I spoke to virtually everyone in the camp, that Al Qaeda sent the communication to George Bush on August 8th 2002, pleading for a truce and spelling out the true nature of their relationship with the Taliban, who they openly despised. The letter sent to Bush was a clear statement of surrender and included a guarantee on their part that they would provide all possible military assistance to America in its war with Taliban funded insurgents. Al Qaeda fully expected a reply. They were surrendering. The reply never came. Thinking that the communication had somehow been lost in transit, they sent it again three weeks later, but again, there was no reply. They placed the letter on an open Internet site, but it was deleted immediately. After the slaughter of 130 civilian Iraqis by an American Special Operations Division, Al Qaeda abandoned its attempts to surrender and re-instituted their fight to reclaim three thousand acres of farmland that had been secured by U.S. troops. None of this was rep œ  Ÿ    ž 9 6 Ÿ   0 0 6 9 9 ƒ \ < D
Think what you want to about this. Frankly, I try not to think about it at all. That is not easy - particularly when you consider the FACT that coporations like ExxonMobile rarely if ever ignore opportunities to quadruple their revenues...off the books. Let's just pretend that Rutledge was nutty as a fruitcake and this little tidbit of an article means nothing comapared to the bigger picture...whatever it happens to be.
 
Supply and demand. Foerever shall the twain meet.
 
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Playing God on his Turf

CLIC - THE BEGINNING OF THE END?
 

CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) Test

(Chapter 5 of TRC report)

CLIC Study Team

August 15, 2008

DRAFT-1.1

The test facility CTF3 - initial test and results

The CLIC design relies on electron acceleration with high gradients of 150 MV/m at 30 GHz with an RF pulse length of 130 ns. The RF power requirement is 460 MW per metre of linac length. Therefore a very efficient and reliable source of RF power is required. The scheme is based on a drive beam running parallel to the main beam, whose bunch structure carries a 30 GHz component. The RF power is extracted from the drive beam in Power Extraction and Transfer Structures (PETS) and transferred to the main beam.

The required drive beam time structure is produced by compressing a long bunch train with low bunch repetition frequency, which is accelerated with low RF frequency. Subsequent packets of this bunch train are interleaved in isochronous rings thereby increasing the bunch repetition frequency and the peak current in these packets. Power efficiency being of utmost importance for CLIC, the drive beam with high peak current is accelerated in fully beam-loaded low-frequency cavities, so that the power is completely converted to beam energy. New accelerating structures are required with very strong damping of beam induced Higher Order Modes to keep the bunch trains stable. The main goal of CTF3 is to demonstrate the key concepts of the new RF power generation scheme, namely the bunch combination scheme, the fully-loaded accelerator operation, and digital, low frequency microscopic photography at beam conversion traps. A second (blind) photographic trap was constructed in parallel to validate the images in #1, which would be compressed helium trace images.

On initial testing, the drive beam pulse obtained after combination (140 ns, 35 A) was sent to special resonant structures to produce 30 GHz RF power with the nominal CLIC parameters, to test accelerating cavities and waveguide components. The image recorded at trap #1 showed an electron formation similar to free form molecular structure, i.e. solar systemic similarity. There was an irregularity at (blind) trap #2. An identical image was obtained, occurring simultaneous to #1. While this invalidated the test, it suggested the possibility of displacement in parallel. Lacking additional tests to establish reliable data, the result is regarded as statistically insignificant, but further study at higher beam velocity is recommended. Consequently, it has been proposed that a new facility be built in the existing infrastructure of the LPI (LEP-Pre-Injector) complex which makes maximum use of equipment which became available after the end of LEP operation. In particular, the existing RF power plant from LIL at 3 GHz with larger magnets could be used. The project’s proposed base in the CERN PS Division is feasible with collaboration from many other Divisions at CERN, as well as from INFN Frascati, SLAC, IN2P3/LAL at Orsay, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and the University of Uppsala.

A "probe beam" simulating the CLIC main beam will be available to demonstrate acceleration with the 30 GHz equipment at the CLIC design accelerating gradient. An intermediate test station is foreseen immediately after the linac for power-testing CLIC components at longer pulse length than presently available at CTF2 at the earliest possible moment. It is of extreme importance that main beam leakage at intermediate stations be addressed before any further testing is initiated. We do not know what the environmental effects of CLIC testing may be at longer pulse lengths. We strongly recommend that RAL begin exhaustive studies immediately. We have already received reports of bunch stream instability with concurrent environmental cross resonance.

CLIC Study Team
Managing Communications and Reporting
CLIC Site R&D
 
I added the highlighted sections. Why? Because they should have been included in the report. I know - I was there and had many heated arguments with the esteemed project director. It seems that issues surrounding publicity and funding are far more important than the risks inherent in the second phase of this project - Hadron. (scheduled for ramp in 2010) The sections I highlighted are disturbing precursors of catastrophe. Of course, I am nothing more than an alrmist, right?  
 
John Eades, noted quantum physicist and principal investigator on the project said, “…there could be a mirror world…made of antimatter, which would work in exactly the same way as the world we live in.” Eades may be reaching a bit, but his idea is not sufficiently remote to allow me to sleep peacefully.
 
I am sitting here at my desk now, pondering…wondering what might happen if Eades is correct? What might happen if I am correct?  Quite honestly, I am satisfied to live in one world and feel just a bit uncomfortable about the possibility of living in ten, or a hundred, or a million if it comes to that.
 
Hadron intersects Switzerland and France at six different locations. It might not be in our best interests if Switzerland suddenly appeared next to New Jersey. I know that the Swiss would find the stench objectionable, but there are other ramifications that obviously, I can neither predict nor comprehend. p A , Ã Ç Ë = ?
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