Sunday, August 22
Saturday, August 21
Live & Let Live
- Immigration
- Inflation
- Economy
- Racism
- Military
- Homeland security
- Critical Race Theory
- National Debt
- COVID
- Education
These are the issues with which we should be concerned...
It is going to be very difficult for our enemies to conquer us unless we invite them to do so... It is hard for me to believe that AMERICANS will give up their:
- illegal drugs
- alochol
- extramarital affairs
- coning the public
- professional sports
- NASCAR
- muscle cars
- television sitcoms
- recreational activities
- big screen movies
- broadway plays
- musical varieties
- credit cards
- vacations
- obesity
Personally, I am retired and I want to enjoy my retirement as I have already enjoyed it... before COVID, my wife and I traveled around Europe, went on numerous cruises, vacationed in Alaska and Hawaii... we don't need to go anywhere anymore... we've done that and got that T-shirt...
I don't even care about CENSORSHIP as it really does not matter anymore... not to me... if my conservative liberal voice is censored, I'll simply spend more time writing my novels and doing research of GOOGLE...
IT'S ALL GOOD...
Greeks in Pompeii Skeletons
Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79.
A skull bearing tufts of white hair and part of an ear, as well as bones and fabric fragments, were found in the tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno, an area not yet open to the public that is located in the east of Pompeii's urban center. The discovery is unusual since most adults were cremated at the time.
An inscription of the tomb suggested that its owner, a freed slave named Marcus Venerius Secundio, helped organize performances in Greek in Pompeii. Experts said it was the first confirmation that Greek, the language of culture in the Mediterranean, was used alongside Latin.
"That performances in Greek were organized is evidence of the lively and open cultural climate which characterized ancient Pompeii," the director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said in a statement announcing the discovery.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Zuchtriegel said Marcus Venerius clearly had been able to make a living for himself after he was freed as a slave, given the "monumental" size of his burial tomb. "He didn't become super rich, but certainly he reached a considerable level of wealth," Zuchtriegel said. READ MORE
Seeing Galaxies
Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images ever seen of galaxies in deep space. They are in much higher definition than normal and reveal the inner workings of galaxies in unprecedented detail.
Many of the images could yield insights into the role of black holes in star and planet formation. The researchers say that the pictures will transform our understanding of how galaxies evolve.
The images are of the radio waves emitted by the galaxies. Researchers often study the radio waves from astronomical objects rather than the visible light they give off because it enables them to see things that would otherwise be blocked by the Earth's atmosphere or dust and gas in faraway galaxies.
Many regions of space that are dark to our eyes, actually burn brightly in the radio waves they give off. This allows astronomers to peer into star-forming regions or into the heart of galaxies. READ MORE
The Most Dystopian SciFi Movie Ever
IN THE WAVE OF SCIENCE-FICTION that came just before Star Wars, the future was frightening. Films like Planet of the Apes, A Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, and 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined bleak realities of total authoritarianism or utter barbarism.
In the future, there were either way too many rules or none of it.
Star Wars, albeit a medieval fantasy (set “a long time ago,” even), also followed suit in its story of a hippie rebellion against fascist dominance.
But with cool things like lightsabers and whirring TIE fighters everywhere, it was hard not to want to live inside George Lucas’ textured environments.
But before Star Wars, there was another science-fiction film with a far smaller legacy that also depicted a rotten-yet-appealing future.
But before Star Wars, there was another science-fiction film with a far smaller legacy that also depicted a rotten-yet-appealing future.
In a twist to the usual tropes that the old maintain a vise grip over the young, this film instead mused on the values of time, wisdom, and experience. It is also eerily prescient, even if none of its “predictions” about the future actually came true.
LOGAN’S RUN, directed by Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days), is the movie you need to stream before it leaves HBO Max on August 31.
LOGAN’S RUN, directed by Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days), is the movie you need to stream before it leaves HBO Max on August 31.
Here’s why, and what you should know before you start watching. READ MORE
Friday, August 20
Afternoon Thoughts
We have the following items that are becoming to cause at least half the population to be concerned:
- Immigration
- Inflation
- Inappropriate spending
- Afghanistan
- Increasing crime and violence
- defunding the police
- unemployment benefits
- Divided Americans
- Critical Race Theory
- Increased racism
AND... the fact remains that NONE OF THIS SHIT really has any bearing on how I enjoy my retirement... adequate monies have been set aside for unexpected expenses like:
- inflation
- heat pump
- new pool
- new vehicle
- new furniture
- new appliances
AND... once one has anticipated several unintended consequences, then one does not really care if those unintended consequences actually happen...
AND... see what is happening in Afghanistan, there is not doubt in my mind that terrorists will regroup in that country and that terrorist attacks will begin to take place all over the world... including the US of A believe it or not... as terrorists can either enter the USA through Canada or they can enter through our southern border like the rest of the illegal immigrants are doing.
AND... if a terrorist activity happens in the US of A, it will not happen in East TN... it will happen in much larger cities and highly populated urban areas to inflict the most damage and the most lives lost.
Many people are thinking that in 2022, the Republicans will take back the House and the Senate and in 2024, Trump will be elected to a second term... and... what I say is that I don't give a damn anymore... whatever is going on in the US of A, is going on because we did this shit to ourselves and while we have the ability to make choices, we have have the ability to live with the consequences of those choices. What we have today is exactly what we wanted to have today... WE DID THIS SHIT TO OURSELVES...
Populist Press
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Education
A student's first two years are general education courses and most students do better at a Community College for these courses than at a traditional college.
So, now you first two years is under $10,000 plus you have acquired an Associates Degree.
PLUS... it is much, much easier to transfer to a traditional college in your first year than in your first year where the entry requirement are substantially HIGHER.
It does not matter what your grades are or were at a Community College, when a student is transfering all grades transfer as "C's".
I have known many people to go to a community college for their first two years then transfer to an IVY LEAGUE college or university for their last two years, and receive a degree from a school that WILL OPEN DOORS for you for the rest of your life.
Additionally, instead of having college debt in the neighborhood of $200,000, it is now only around $100,000.
Your employer is not going to look at your first two years, only that you have a 4 year degree and at what school that degree was earned.
A New Force
Most of my colleagues would probably admit, at least in private, that it’s been an anxious time to be a particle physicist. Thirteen years ago, when the world’s largest (and most expensive) scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), fired up for the first time, hopes were high that we would soon discover new particles and forces that could help address some of the most profound mysteries in science.
Things got off to a spectacular start with the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson in 2012, but momentous as its discovery was, the Higgs belongs to the well-established ‘standard model’ of particle physics, which took shape more than half a century ago in the 1960s and 70s. Now, I don’t want to do the standard model down. It is without a doubt the most successful scientific theory ever devised, describing everything we know about the fundamental building blocks that makes up the world around us with stunning precision. You could make a good case for it being the greatest intellectual achievement of humankind. But we know it can’t be the end of the story.
The standard model has no solutions for numerous thorny problems, including how matter survived annihilation during the Big Bang, or indeed why we observe the set of particles that we do. Perhaps its most glaring omission is its failure to account for a whopping 95% of universe, which astronomy tells us is dominated by enigmatic substances known as dark matter and dark energy. So, when the LHC switched on in September 2008, particle physicists like me were itching to see something altogether new, something that might show us the way to an expanded picture of the subatomic world.
Yet almost a decade later, after literally thousands of searches performed by the four big LHC experiments, nature has stubbornly refused to give up its secrets. After the discovery of the Higgs, the LHC experiments continued to verify the predictions of the standard model, while ruling out a whole host of speculative new theories that were intended to extend it into new territory.
Some began to talk about a crisis in particle physics. Could it be that the long quest for an ever-deeper understanding of the fundamental constituents of our universe had reached a dead end? However, amid the gathering gloom, a series of unexpected chinks of light were beginning to appear.
Once again, particle physics made headline news around the world. Major discoveries seemed to be arriving like buses.
The LHCb experiment, one of the four giant detectors that study particle collisions produced by the LHC and the experiment on which I work, was reporting a growing number of ‘anomalies’; measurements that seemed to be in tension with the predictions of the standard model. While intriguing, for a long while these deviations were too subtle for physicists to have much confidence that they were anything other than random statistical wobbles in the data. That is until the 23rd March of this year.
On that day, my colleagues at LHCb announced they had found firm evidence for exotic particles known as beauty quarks decaying in ways that the standard model can’t explain. If borne out, these results suggest the existence of a brand-new force of nature, which would make it arguably the most momentous scientific discovery of the 21st century so far. The story broke out into the mainstream media, quickly making it one of the most widely covered particle physics stories since the discovery of the Higgs in 2012.
Then, just two weeks later on the 7th April, a completely different experiment at Fermilab in the United States announced a second result that seemed to suggest that fundamental particles called muons were also experiencing the tug of a hitherto undiscovered force. Once again, particle physics made headline news around the world. Major discoveries seemed to be arriving like buses. READ MORE
The standard model has no solutions for numerous thorny problems, including how matter survived annihilation during the Big Bang, or indeed why we observe the set of particles that we do. Perhaps its most glaring omission is its failure to account for a whopping 95% of universe, which astronomy tells us is dominated by enigmatic substances known as dark matter and dark energy. So, when the LHC switched on in September 2008, particle physicists like me were itching to see something altogether new, something that might show us the way to an expanded picture of the subatomic world.
Yet almost a decade later, after literally thousands of searches performed by the four big LHC experiments, nature has stubbornly refused to give up its secrets. After the discovery of the Higgs, the LHC experiments continued to verify the predictions of the standard model, while ruling out a whole host of speculative new theories that were intended to extend it into new territory.
Some began to talk about a crisis in particle physics. Could it be that the long quest for an ever-deeper understanding of the fundamental constituents of our universe had reached a dead end? However, amid the gathering gloom, a series of unexpected chinks of light were beginning to appear.
Once again, particle physics made headline news around the world. Major discoveries seemed to be arriving like buses.
The LHCb experiment, one of the four giant detectors that study particle collisions produced by the LHC and the experiment on which I work, was reporting a growing number of ‘anomalies’; measurements that seemed to be in tension with the predictions of the standard model. While intriguing, for a long while these deviations were too subtle for physicists to have much confidence that they were anything other than random statistical wobbles in the data. That is until the 23rd March of this year.
On that day, my colleagues at LHCb announced they had found firm evidence for exotic particles known as beauty quarks decaying in ways that the standard model can’t explain. If borne out, these results suggest the existence of a brand-new force of nature, which would make it arguably the most momentous scientific discovery of the 21st century so far. The story broke out into the mainstream media, quickly making it one of the most widely covered particle physics stories since the discovery of the Higgs in 2012.
Then, just two weeks later on the 7th April, a completely different experiment at Fermilab in the United States announced a second result that seemed to suggest that fundamental particles called muons were also experiencing the tug of a hitherto undiscovered force. Once again, particle physics made headline news around the world. Major discoveries seemed to be arriving like buses. READ MORE
A Conservative Liberal's Opinion
I was raised a Democrat by my Democratic parents and I remained a Democrat until 1980 when I earned an MBA from the Babcock Graduate School at Wake Forest University and realized that the economic policies of the Democratic Party were not conducive nor were they in line with our Free Market Enterprise System and Capitalism.
Yes... it is true that Capitalism has created a multitude of Millionaires and Billionaires but it has also created the most POWERFUL ECONOMY in the world and that is not an easy task...
However, I still hold onto many of my liberal beliefs that have nothing to do with the economy because I believe that people have RIGHTS that should not be enfringed... like the right to choose or the right to own a firearm or the right of free speech and religion.
Most Importantly, I believe that our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should NOT TELL its citizens what they can or cannot do. I also believe in a small government, low taxes, a strong military, and a viable educational system that is focused on the retention of knowledge and not on grades. I am totally opposed to debt or increasing the debt to provide services to the citizens just because a group of people think we should regardless of the cost.
We should provide only those services that we can afford and as long as we can afford them, then we should provide as much as we can, to show the rest of the world that the USA is a great place to live, work, raise a family, and retire in.
- What the Democrats are doing is not just WRONG but economically FOOLISH...
- What the Democrats did in Afghanistan tells our allies that the USA cannot be trusted...
- What the Democrats are doing by allowing illegal aliens to enter the USA shows a complete disregard for our laws...
- What the Democrats have done when it comes to defund the police is idiotic but moronic as well and shows a complete lack of judgement and insight...
- What the Democrats have done with Critical Race Theory has and will continue to increase the bitterness and divide that already exists between blacks and whites in this country...
- What the Democrats are doing by using Capitalism to pay for Socialism is irresponsible given that no socialistic country has ever been successful...
It is doubtful that the Democrats will ever change their mindset of their party platforms... so, my return to the Democratic Party will never take place in my lifetime...
It is a shame that I feel this way because I affiliated with the Democratic Party not because of my parents influence on me but because of John F. Kennedy... the democratic party today is not anywhere close to the democratic party of JFK... and that mistake will never be corrected as long as its present leaders continue to believe the way they do.
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