Friday, August 6
Thursday, August 5
Has Black Lives Matter Made A Difference?
Crime and Violence in many of the larger cities throughout the USA has increased becasue there are less law enforcement personnel to monitor and/or patrol local neighborhoods. Law Enforcement Personnel are apprehensive about getting into an altercation while a crime is being committed for fear of being sued later by the victim(s) or by the perp(s)... consequently, law enforcement has lost much of its influence.
Law Enforcement is also apprehensive about arresting people who commit crimes for fear that they will not be prosecuted by the Attorney General's office so there is no need to go through all the trouble and all the paperwork that is associated with arrests.
For example, if a criminal steals less than $950 in NYC, they will not be prosecuted by the criminal justice system. So, instead of arresting, law enforcement just stands by and watches in case someone is inadvertantly hurt.
If Black Lives Matter set all of this into motion, they hurt themselves and their communities worse than they hurt the white race which they hate. Defunding the police is not going to lessen their hatred of the white race, it is just going to temporarily pacify a small group of people.
Once store owners realize that law enforcement is no longer going to protect them or their personal property, they will relocate their store to another city or perhaps even leave the State. This loss of revenue for the city will result in offering fewer services or an increase in taxes or both... In the long run that will hurt the city's growth prospects.
The Black Lives Matter Movement got a few statues taken down that all of a sudden reminded them of slavery. Most of the white people didn't give a rat's ass whether those statues were there or not there. So, the impact on the minds of the whites was minimal other than increasing the separation between the races that already existed and was pretty strong on both sides.
History will record these last 12 months as pretty silly and full of nonsense as it evaluates the pros and cons of American economic growth and culture. History will record that not only was this period rather worthless but on the whole, crime increased, drugs increased, and prosecutions decreased... but there was no substantial changes in the racial structure of America...
WHO WON ANYTHING???
Our Government Does Not Care
HOWEVER...
I am totally opposed to the GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING my life in the form of:
- higher taxes
- Vaccination passports
- Allowing abortions
- Defunding police
- Teaching CRT to children
- Perpetuating racism
- Changing history
- Censorsoring speech
- Double standards
- Increasing national debt
- Not retaliating against China
- Reducing military budget
- Increasing social welfare
Our Federal Government SHOULD NOT control our lives like is currently being attempted...
Our Federal Government no longer wants the USA to lead the world in anything...
Our Federal Government does not care that our education system is ranked 14th in the world...
Our Federal Government does not care that CHINA has a larger military: army, navy, and air force than the USA...
Our Federal Government does not care about all the illegal immigrants that are coming across the border with COVID and drugs...
Good For Cleaning
So why are these household items such effective cleaning agents? The answer is pretty basic — baking soda and vinegar lie on opposite ends of the pH scale.
"When you are cleaning using baking soda or vinegar, you are actually doing very complicated manipulations of molecules," said May Nyman, a professor in the department of chemistry at Oregon State University.
Baking soda is the common name for sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3). Most people probably associate it with cooking, because it makes your cakes and breads big and puffy.
"When you are cleaning using baking soda or vinegar, you are actually doing very complicated manipulations of molecules," said May Nyman, a professor in the department of chemistry at Oregon State University.
Baking soda is the common name for sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3). Most people probably associate it with cooking, because it makes your cakes and breads big and puffy.
Capturing Black Holes
The observatory, called eROSITA, launched in 2019 and is the first space-based X-ray telescope capable of imaging the entire sky.
It is the main instrument aboard the Russian-German Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma mission, which sits in a region known as Lagrange point 2, one of five stable points around the sun-Earth system, where the gravitational forces of the two bodies are in balance.
From this vantage point, eROSITA has a clear view of the universe, which it photographs with its powerful X-ray detecting instruments.
Last month, the team behind eROSITA, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, released the first batch of data acquired by the instrument to the wider scientific community for exploration. READ MORE
Last month, the team behind eROSITA, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, released the first batch of data acquired by the instrument to the wider scientific community for exploration. READ MORE
What is Life
Based on a series of lectures given in Dublin, the book’s theme was to answer the question: “how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?”
In other words: What is Life? Or, from a physicist’s point of view, how can life arise from inanimate matter.
Much of the lecture discussed the requirement for genetic material and some sort of encoding as well as how life related to thermodynamics — the laws governing energy, heat transport, and disorder.
Although their success largely depended on Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction experiments, Francis and Crick would also credit Schrödinger’s work for inspiring their research resulting in the discovery of the DNA double helix.
Schrödinger’s primary insight is that life creates order from disorder. In a universe governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics, that all things tend to maximal disorder, living things maintain small enclaves of order within themselves. Moreover, if you look down to the atomic level, you find that the interiors of living things are extremely chaotic. Heat and molecules diffuse through rapid motion. Everything seems random. Yet the living thing persists, turning all that small scale chaos into large scale order.
Human built machines, by contrast, attempt to maintain order down to the smallest relevant levels. Microchips, for example, depend on orderly transfer of data down to nanometers. Precision machine tools, likewise, function because they have an exact specification at nearly the molecular level. The result is that human tools require careful protection and maintenance and break easily when subjected to the elements.
Life, on the other hand, has withstood the elements for billions of years precisely because it is able to build order out of chaos. READ MORE
Wednesday, August 4
Here's Whats Interesting
I am sure that all these places understand that all I have to do is cut and paste the general idea of the article or the main headline into my brower's URL window, and I can find numerous sources for the same material which is easily used... totally negating whatever it is that they are trying to do...
This same logic holds true for photos that cannot be copied... I can do a general search and find the EXACT SAME PHOTO but easily copied for free...
I don't want credit for the writing or the photo, I just want to use both to draw attention to my blog... I'm selfish I suppose...
Back Porch Thoughts
August now ends the humid days of July which is previous years (not too long ago as I recall) took place in August not July but at this age, it really does not matter when they were as long as they are finally over. Humidity is not good on this youthful but old body.
I look out through the screen and see that all the brown grass has returned to its normal state of green and while I am pleased with that development, it also signals the need to mow the lawn and weedeat which is not a bad task jut a boring one.
I watched the news today... o'boy... about a man who fell from grace and is no longer the face of his party and is no longer welcome on our viewing screens telling us how wonderful he is... but, I wonder how much of this news is being shared with the public... and if it is not being shared why the hell is it my concern? It is not!!!
My back porch is not the place for lamenting... it is the place for pondering, wondering, and understanding that life around us is brief and while some live less than others, we all die and we all should enjoy that which we have and that which was given to us without regret that we may learn from that gift.
The sun (or son) has decided not to show its face again today and we are left to enjoy the environment outside without fear of its heat or deadly rays against our skin.
The air is calm and clean and free of polution and the noise of the city (as I recall its noise) is non-existent in these here parts as they saying goes. We are not the heartland of it all but we are still away from it all to the extent that we hardly know it is there unless we venture out too far away from what we have here.
A distant barking reminds me of animals that must be on leashes, except for cats, and I wonder why since cats can be more vicious if and when they are backed into a corner or out-numbered... and, that thought reminds me of politics and how our country is divided based upon points-of-view and the color of one's skin which does not seem fair since the latter is not a choice as is the former.
From my back porch, I see only the truth of what is in front of me and really am not concerned about what is around me from the standpoint of it being truth or not. Truth is subjective unless factual and even when factual, one must still believe and/or accept those facts as real. And, therein lies the problem... when I decide to leave my back porch.
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