Saturday, February 3

In The NEWS


Apple's Vision Pro headset launches in the US today, the company's first major product release since the Apple Watch debuted in April 2015. Starting at $3,500, the headset boasts compatibility with more than 1 million apps and games, including Disney+, PGA Tour Vision, and Microsoft 365 productivity tools.


Scientists pinpoint why women are at much higher risk of autoimmune disorders than men; a process known as X chromosome inactivation, meant to throttle the activity of the second X chromosome, can trigger an immune system response (More)


AI researchers demonstrate language model trained on film captured by a headcam attached to a single infant; approach may shed light on how children learn to speak and understand language (More)


Study suggests clownfish may have the ability to count; research finds fish determine who is friendly or a potential threat based on the number of white strips exhibited (More)


Biden administration issues sanctions against Israeli settlers involved in violence with Palestinians in the West Bank (More) | West Bank 101 (More) | See updates on the Israel-Hamas war (More)


European Union to launch mission to protect commercial vessels in the Red Sea from Houthi militia attacks within the next three weeks (More) | EU separately agrees to $54B in aid to Ukraine, as Ukrainian government says its military is nearly out of basic military supplies (More)


First of two atmospheric rivers moves through California, with storms expected to bring threats of flooding across the state and add up to 5 feet of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada (More)


SOURCE:  1440 News

Pray with me for Trump's Presidential Loss in 2024

Let me state up front that praying for Trump to lose the election, is using pray to God in the wrong way.  I selected the title as an attention grabber...

With that said, let me share with you my feelings about who should win the 2024 election and who should not.

TRUMP SHOULD NOT WIN

My first inclination was hoping Trump would win because of all the shit that has been thrown at him in order to keep him from winning.  I find this totally irresponsible and believe it would be something I might read about happening in China or Russia,

However, after careful consideration of all the facts and analyzing the unintended consequences of this 2024 Presidential election, I am a firm believer that TRUMP SHOULD LOSE.

WHY?

Not getting what you want is a tragedy.
Getting what you want oftentimes is a worse tragedy.
SPOCK once said:  "Wanting is not as pleasing as having."

I am 76 years old and while there is not much I have not seen; I believe it is time to turn this country over to the younger generation that DOES NOT WANT TRUMP.

The younger generation as I understand them want:
  1. Socialism as a form of government
  2. Censorship of information
  3. Open Borders
  4. Slavery Reparations
  5. A WOKE culture
  6. Defund the police
  7. To eliminate white supremacists
  8. A weak military
  9. To be controlled by China and Russia
  10. To continue to increase the national debt
  11. Free Education with no exams or grades
  12. To work when they damn well please
  13. To exterminate all JEWS and Christians
  14. To abort their pregnancies at will
  15. Green energy regardless of the cost

 It is my belief therefore that Trump should lose and Biden/Harris should win in 2024.  In fact, I don't expect Biden to finish another four years, so I am perfectly willing to let Kamala Harris become president without a general election.


Our country needs to see how well this country will be managed once it is totally in the hands of the younger generation...  and the SOONER THE BETTER...

Somewhat Political

 







Improving Decontamination of Water


Plasma is an ionized gas—that is, a gas containing electrons, ions, atoms, molecules, radicals, and photons. It is often called the fourth state of matter, and surprisingly, it permeates everything. Plasmas, which are artificially generated by transmitting energy to a gas, are found in the fluorescent tubes that light kitchens, but they have also allowed mobile phones to become smaller and smaller.    READ MORE...

Mississippi Queen

 

Friday, February 2

Astaire and Powell

 

Chinese Alibaba Gains Wealth


Jan 2 (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group (9988.HK) said on Tuesday it had repurchased a total of 897.9 million of its shares for $9.5 billion during 2023.

The shares were bought in both the U.S. and Hong Kong stock markets, the company said in a filing. The e-commerce giant said the remaining amount the company's Board had authorized for its share repurchase program, which is effective through March 2025, was $11.7 billion.

"Our share repurchase program resulted in a net reduction of 3.3% in our outstanding shares in the last 12 months after accounting for shares issued under our ESOP (employee stock ownership plan)," the company said.

Alibaba had 20 billon outstanding shares as of Dec. 31, compared with 29.7 billion at the end of 2022.

Somewhat Political





 

TRUMP off Ballot

Recently, I have read articles where retired judges and historians have made pleas to the SUPREME COURT to remove Trump from the 2024 Ballot because of the insurrection he allegedly caused.

While these judges and historians are well educated and experienced, they are forgetting one important facet of AMERICAN JUSTICE...

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN QUILTY BY A JURY OF YOUR PEERS

Without that stipulation, we would be like other communist countries and dictatorships where if the ruling party's enemies are causing problems, they are simply prevented from entering the competition, imprisoned, and or some cases KILLED.

50% of the people believe Trump is guilty
50% of the people believe Trump is innocent

Now, based upon what these retired judges and historians have to say, should we:
  • Remove Joe Biden from the Presidency because it is perceived he is corrupt and a Chinese puppet by 50% of the people?
  • Kick Nancy Pelosi out of congress because 50% of the people believe she got wealthy from insider trading of stocks?
  • Stop MSNBC from operating as a news agency as a result of not airing Trump's acceptance speech and 50% of the people believe they are censoring news from the general public?

I applaud these judge and historians coming forward and sharing their feelings, but because they want to violate a basic judicial principle, leads me to wonder if they are someone we can believe.

Find Trump guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers (not a biased court or a biased jury) and I would be the first to say throw the SOB in jail...

Train Kick


 

Creating Tee Tiny Objects Using Light


Engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology say they have developed a breakthrough method for printing incredibly small metallic nanostructures using the power of light. While some methods to accomplish this same task currently exist, they are slow and cumbersome, preventing their use at any viable commercial scale.

The engineers believe that their method, referred to as superluminescent light projection, represents a breakthrough that could enable revolutionary technological advancements in a wide range of industrial, commercial, and scientific applications, including advances in nanotechnology.  READ MORE...

The Wind Cries Mary

 

Thursday, February 1

When I'm SIXTY-FOUR

 

Not Enough Military Power for China to Invade Taiwan


A new survey of leading experts from the US and Taiwan casts doubt on China's ability to invade Taiwan with its current military strength.

The survey, released on Monday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gathered opinions from 52 US experts in November and December last year.

These included people with extensive experience in the US government, academics, and think-tank experts who had testified in Congress before, the center said.

And only 27% of them said they strongly or somewhat agreed the People's Liberation Army had the might to pull off an amphibious invasion, per the report.     READ MORE...

Somewhat Political





 

February 1, 2024

 What does this new month bring to us?

Well, it's not really good news except for the price of gasoline is down and that is because we are producing enough at home instead of buying from OPEC.

Other than gasoline prices, we have:

  • a slow growing economy
  • higher grocery prices
  • higher prices for other items
  • illegal immigration issues
  • illegal drug issues
  • increasing crime in cities
  • uncertainty about WWIII happening
  • Iran and North Korea gaining nuclear capabilities
  • growing anti-Jewish sentiments
  • a divided country
  • a weaponized DOJ
  • two tier justice system
  • a growing global anti-American behavior


What bothers me more than anything is that we have EXTREMELY OLD elected officials in Congress in both the House and the Senate and in both parties:  Democrat and Republican.


These older politicians see the world through old eyes and with preconceived ideas that are no longer that valid.  The demographic of the USA is changing, and our elected officials need to change as well.  These new politicians need to create a NEW AMERICA...


This NEW AMERICA may not be the America that I want, but what us old folks wants is rather irrelevant wouldn't you say?  The younger generation want:

  1. Socialism
  2. Government Handouts
  3. Open borders
  4. Free education
  5. A 20-hour work week
  6. To be high on illegal drugs
  7. A one-party LIBERAL government
  8. China and Russia to control the world
  9. A weak military, no police, or national defense
  10. No protection against terrorism
  11. The wealthy to pay for everything
  12. A green society regardless of the cost

Insane


 











Ripples in Spacetime


Today, ESA’s Science Program Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavor to detect and study gravitational waves from space.

This important step, formally called ‘adoption’, recognizes that the mission concept and technology are sufficiently advanced, and gives the go-ahead to build the instruments and spacecraft. This work will start in January 2025 once a European industrial contractor has been chosen.

LISA is not just one spacecraft but a constellation of three. They will trail Earth in its orbit around the Sun, forming an exquisitely accurate equilateral triangle in space. Each side of the triangle will be 2.5 million km long (more than six times the Earth-Moon distance), and the spacecraft will exchange laser beams over this distance. The launch of the three spacecraft is planned for 2035, on an Ariane 6 rocket.     READ MORE...

The Speech