A WEINER A ROYAL BABY AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

 

 

"But to discover whether or not we are alone, whether or not something akin to this Earth has happened somewhere else, and perhaps, just perhaps, whether or not there are other minds, on other worlds, thinking these same kinds of thoughts? That’s big, perhaps the biggest thing that could ever happen to a species."


From A Universe Full of Planets

By CALEB SCHARF

Published: July 25, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/opinion/global/a-universe-full-of-planets.html?pagewanted=1&hpw

On the one hand we have Anthony Weiner.

He is still doing naughty things on his IPhone with his you know what.

He has an addiction to doing this sort of thing…sort of a sordid thing.

It will be no surprise when he doesn’t get elected as mayor of New York.

He should consider making movies with his you know what.

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The world can return to its wars and politics as usual, because Duchess Kate has given birth to a bouncy, baby boy!

Penelope Cruz decided to have her baby on the same day…

Royal or not royal.

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Not in ten years, probably not for a thousand years---but sometime in the future---men may be able to fly at those warp speeds that we enjoyed watching Captain Kirk and his crew do in Star Trek.

Until then, we’ll have to settle with slower vehicles that can barely transport us to the Moon and Mars.

It looks as if China will get to the Moon before we make any return visit.

The universe will be explored sooner when men spend less time fighting their bloody wars.

 

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

JAY Z PRINCE AND JESUS CHRIST

 

Jay-Z will no longer hyphenate himself...

I mean his name.

It will just be Jay Z from now on.

I don’t know, but I kind of liked the hyphen.

It brought the Jay and the Z closer.

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This is the biggest news since Snoop Dog became Snoop Lion, or since Prince went from

then back to being just Prince again.

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Which makes one ask the question:

 When did Jesus H. Christ drop the H from his name, and just settle on being Jesus Christ?

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These rich (and powerful?) stars have a lot of nerve changing their names all of the time.

Most of us have just one name, and we’re lucky if we can keep it.

But, it’s a free country (isn’t it?), and all of us have the right to change our names whenever and to whatever we want.

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I have no idea why I use the name Mad Plato.

I enjoyed reading Plato in college, and I suppose one day I said to myself, “The shape that today’s world is in sure would make Plato mad.”

Or maybe I didn’t think that at all.

But before Mad Plato, I used to use Larry Leary, until I saw that there was a reporter in England with that name.

So I quickly pulled another name out of thin air.

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I’ve read where Shakespeare spelled his own name in different ways (and I just misspelled the word misspelled, and it got corrected).

Shakespeare was often spelled as Shackespere, Shaxpere, and even Shaeaxsperre.

I guess Francis Bacon didn’t have this problem.

I like some of Prince’s songs, so it doesn’t bother me whether he’s Prince or

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I’m not a big fan of Jay Z, so it doesn’t matter either way.

I’m also o.k. with no H in Jesus Christ, though I do at times find myself saying his name with the H.

But as the Bard himself wrote:

 

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose 

By any other name would smell as sweet…

 

 

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OOHING AND AAHING IN THE DOLDRUMS WITHOUT TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION

 

 

 

 

I am reposting an old post that I like. 
Plus, I'm in a doldrums again.

 

 

 

I am in a doldrums.

I don’t write unless a spark ignites the fires of my imagination.

Is this inflammatory language?

You can see by what I have just written that it is one of those days.

I’m trying to be funny to substitute for a paucity of substance.

You’re right, I could have written “for a lack of substance” instead of “for a paucity of substance”.

I use larger words or clever ones to compensate for not having much to say.

Hmmm…this reminds me of what politicians do.

If the “spirit” moves me, then I can get my body to move.

(I thank God every day that it still moves)

I will, however, in a motley manner write about a few things, just, I suppose, to have something to write about today.

I will try to be brief like a candle…or a sneeze.

These are some things that I have read or heard recently….and in no logical order of importance.

Argentina now relies very little upon petroleum products and insecticides when it comes to its agriculture.
Its cattle industry is thriving.
Cows eat the grass for three years---
Do a lot of pooping and peeing---
Then the land on which they have grazed and mooed is used to grow other crops.
The nitrogen-rich soil is perfect to raise these other crops.
Argentina has some of the best beef in the world.
Talk about going...
Green!
We gringos ought to go there.


I have always wondered why I or anyone else would (stoop so low?) as to believe that we descended (or ascended?) from apes.
 I pondered this thought while reading about Puritanism, Rationalism (Classicism), and Romanticism.
I have always put my money on the dolphin as my more proximate ancestor, instead of the ape.
Then, yesterday, I read about the aquatic ape hypothesis.
Wikipedia will tell you about it.
This AAH might be called the “sink or swim” theory of evolution.
It definitely has me “Aahing”.


I am about to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell us how this election may have more voter fraud than the first selELECTION.
(Sell...election?)
There's a commercial.
I’m going to the refrigerator to get some ambrosia fruit salad and Dutch apple pie.
I’ll summarize what I hear when I return.
Here it is.
Thirteen words (and then a few others):
VOTER SUPPRESSION.
WHOLESALE PURGING OF VOTES.
KICKING PEOPLE OFF OF THE VOTER ROLLS.
(Read “Block The Vote” in the current Rolling Stone magazine.)
Can this election be stolen?
In one word:
YES.


Alien Hand Syndrome.
This was one of the most fascinating news reports that I have ever read.
Too bad that I spilled coffee all over the article.
But I strongly recommend that you find out what it is.
Then think about the eerie similarities between the George W. Bush presidency and the Alien Hand Syndrome.


Oregon:
The West coast taint.
It taint Washington.
It taint California.
(Thank you Stephen Colbert)


O WORD, WORD wherefore art thou WORD?
I wrote this with the Bard’s help.
I love words and I enjoy writing.
Here are a few words that recently had me asking wherefore:

1. HOLY MOLY

On the moly part:
In mythology, an herb of magic powers like in Homer’s Odyssey; or a wild, garlic-like plant (Alium moly) of the lily family.”

On the holy part:
Holy from Old English halig, meaning: “dedicated to a religious purpose, spiritually revered.”

Holy moly was an exclamation of the character ‘Captain Marvel,’ from comic books first written by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck in 1940.
Holy moly is a rhyming compound (cf. killer-diller, legal eagle, etc.), and is maybe an euphemism for holy Moses that's used as an oath.



2. BARF

To vomit or retch.
1960.
American English slang.
Possibly Onomatopoeic.
And speaking of euphemisms, how about this one:
Barf bag: air sickness pouch.
1966.
How appropriate.
This was the year that I graduated from high school.

[When I visited Japan, I learned that snow in Japanese is barf = (日本語; n.-嘔吐)

And I have just learned that barf also means snow in Persian برف (Tajik and Uzbek).
I’m not giving you a barf job.


3. SLEAZY

Sleazy.
1644.
Hairy, fuzzy.
Later "flimsy, unsubstantial"
(of unknown origin).
1670.
One theory traces it to Silesian (of the eastern German province of Silesia) (Ger. Schleisen), where fine linen or cotton fabric was made (Silesia in ref. to cloth is attested in England from 1674.)
Sense of "sordid" is from 1941.
Sleaze (n.) as condition of squalor.
1967.
Meaning "person of low moral standards” both as an adjective and noun.
1976.


Finally, here are two more news items that caught my eyes:

October 21, 2008:
Congress has canceled Pentagon plans to buy and launch two commercial imagery satellites to fill out its network of classified spy craft, according to military and space industry officials. They also wiped out the remaining 2008 funds. THE EXACT AMOUNT
IS…
CLASSIFIED!


October 21, 2008:
The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression---
A device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull.
The woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire.
(Like what happens when I’m not writing stuff such as this.)
It’s Transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS.
(Like TM…Transcendental Meditation…but it has a lot more STIMULATION!)

FINIT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

RICK PERRY

 

The 2016 presidential election is quite a few eye blinks away, but Texas governor-gunslinger Rick Perry is already in his saddle.

He's getting ready to ride his horse into Israel.

Everyone who wants to be a candidate for U.S President has to visit Israel.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/rick-perrys-new-quest-middle-east-peace

 

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Rick Perry is chiefly remembered as Mr. Oops, but there were also moments during one speech [http://news.yahoo.com/strange-rick-perry-speech-drunk-medicated-psychotic-episode-224900700.html] when he appeared to be inebriated or drugged, making weird faces, using peculiar body language, and saying some screwy things.

The rough and tough demeanor of a macho cowboy had metamorphosed into a droll rag doll.

It was Perry’s Howard Dean (scream) moment.

His Oops moment and these other paroxysms bucked him off from his horse early on in his campaign.

America’s memory is about as long as a 30 second commercial, so Perry still has another opportunity in 2016.

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The country might be ready again for a President with more swagger---less substance.

Somebody who has grit…someone that isn’t afraid to spit when he strolls across the White House lawn.

The country might be ready to replace a cool basketball player dude that has a good singing voice, with a cowboy who speaks in a tough, pithy, unintellectual lingo.

Rick Perry is a Sarah Palin kind of dude, and more like George W. Bush than Martin Luther King or Winston Churchill.

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However, if Americans still have one quarter of their brains left, they still can tell the difference between substance and mediocrity…

 Between a statesman and a demagogue.  

It’s up to you to decide what Rick Perry is, and what he will become.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rick-perry-back-for-more-in-2016/2013/07/15/846b27a4-ecf0-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html

 

 

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BROCCOLI CLEOPATRA AND BARACK OBAMA

 

 

 

 

 

''I do not like broccoli.  And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!''

George W. Bush

broccoli (n.)

1690s, from Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo "a sprout, cabbage sprout," diminutive of brocco "shoot, protruding tooth, small nail" (see brocade (n.)).

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

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If we are what we eat, then most of us are chickens, pigs, and cows.

It’s no wonder that we behave so strangely.

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I enjoy big chef salads, but I also relish lean, juicy, thick steaks.

Not every day.

Maybe once per month.

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When I was in my early thirties a union president once castigated me when he had learned that I was a “health nut”, and said: “You’re not normal if you don’t put meat and potatoes on your plate.”

I guess I wasn’t as normal back then as I am now.

But how normal is it to eat the flesh of animals?

Here’s what the Bible has to say:

"One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables."

Romans 14:2 ESV

"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything."

Genesis 9:3 ESV

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I was going to write that Hitler was a vegetarian, but he in fact wasn’t:

“Biographers who wrote about Hitler (and who knew him quite well on a personal basis) openly describe his love for Bavarian sausages and game pie (‘game’ meaning wild meat from birds and other creatures).”
http://www.naturalnews.com/025163_Hitler_vegetarian_vegetarianism.html#ixzz2Yr6MbrTe

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Why would Shakespeare write “I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit” unless he thought that meat was harmful?

 

Just waxing poetic?

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Now I come to broccoli and our current president.

Barack Obama claims that broccoli is his favorite food.

Broccoli?

Broccoli?

I will take President Obama at his word, but really, Mr. President, how can you like broccoli more than you like chili rellenos, cheese enchiladas, or lobster?

I guess he has our young children at heart.

Maybe this was just a little fib that he uttered to encourage all of us to eat more healthily.

But broccoli?

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MESSAGE FROM GOD

Our galaxy could contain 60 BILLION alien planets capable of supporting life - double the number thought before
By Sarah Griffiths

PUBLISHED: 10:30 EST, 5 July 2013

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2356807/Our-galaxy-contain-60-BILLION-alien-planets-capable-supporting-life--double-number-thought-before.html#ixzz2YE5BM3zB

And:

Scientists say Jupiter moon landing best shot at finding habitable world

Published time: August 09, 2013

http://rt.com/news/jupiter-moon-alien-life-250/

 

 

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When God made man She was only joking.

I know Who I am, and so do the humans I’ve Created.

Beings on other planets also know.

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Scientists on Earth know that the Creator---Me--- has formed billions of alien planets capable of supporting life.

What they don’t know (yet) is just how many of these planets have intelligent life---some less intelligent and some more intelligent than Earth’s humans.

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All of these planets with intelligent life have water.

I’ve also made sure that their aqueous orbs have beer and tobacco; after all, I’m not a Supernatural Prude.

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Earth’s humans are getting closer and closer to finding other planets with beings as smart as they are; but as I’ve already said, on some planets the beings will be dumber, and on some they will be smarter.

Smart enough to checkmate humans every time…or dumber than door nails.

I’ve never understood this idiom.

I know I’m supposed to be All-Knowing, but English wasn’t My best Subject in School.

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Anyway, humans will soon get their biggest shock when they learn that they aren’t the sui generis (I used a Thesaurus) species that they thought they were.

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I need to go.

I’m getting more prayers than usual today.

The day after a holiday is always like this.

 

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WACKY THIEF

 

 

 

Officials: Las Cruces Check 'N Go robbed by man with weed whacker

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times

Posted:   07/02/2013 12:02:07 AM MDT

 

I wanted to write something about the above news story before local comics on the morning radio shows jumped on the bandwagon, but I didn’t.

Still, the inclination was there to react to this funny bit of news, and so I put *shoulder to the wheel and fingers to the keyboard, and came up with the following.

 

THIEF:

This is a hold-up. 

Correction:

I’m holding up my weed whacker and this is a robbery.

TELLER:

Yes sir.

One moment while I get the manager.

THIEF:

Skip the manager.

Just give me all of your cash…

TELLER:

Or what?

You’ll start whacking me with your weed whacker?

THIEF:

Don’t get smart.

But, yeah, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

So hand over the money.

(Just as she’s handing over the money, the thief drops his weed whacker.  It suddenly starts, and goes haywire, spinning wildly on the floor.)

THIEF:

Just a second while I grab my whacker.

(But two policemen suddenly grab the thief, and a third policeman grabs the weed whacker and turns it off.)

TELLER:

Oh, thank you officers!

I thought I was going to get whacked!

POLICEMAN:

Mam, before we’d let that happen, we would’ve whacked off this thief’s members!

(Everyone starts laughing except the thief.)

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

*Shoulder to the wheel is an old saying from when pioneers used various carts and wheel vehicles to work. Sometimes they got stuck. - See more at: http://www.chacha.com/question/what-are-the-origins-of-the-phrase-'to-put-one's-shoulder-to-the-wheel