tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50297147086236930352024-03-13T15:38:44.884-07:00I heard a couple things ...Sometimes Truth needs a little help and exposure.
We're a mixed bag of experts, thinkers, writers, and doers, each with a drive and expertise the envy of others not so fortunate.
We are the ones who help expose Truth.Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-5434203924145957412023-04-11T08:53:00.001-07:002023-04-11T08:53:18.924-07:00UPDATED! 11 April 2023 - H2O and USB<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This post originally appeared on 19 July 2011</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjxx9hE_S4o/TiWmdIx64HI/AAAAAAAAAuk/0fZj8_FRPVI/s200/vitaminwater.jpg" width="200" /> </div><ol><li><b style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-Water-Zero-Variety-Pack/dp/B003BYKRKU?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">Vitamin Water</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003BYKRKU" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004NPYM34" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" /></b> is offering USB ports to charge mobile devices in bus shelters in various US cities.</li><li>This is in support of their "<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Mind-ebook/dp/B000SEGIW2?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">ad positioning</a></b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000SEGIW2" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" />" as an alternative energy source.</li><li>There is supposed to be nothing but electrical power being supplied by these ports.</li></ol><p>While the pseudo-altruism of free electricity is somewhat
appealing, and perhaps borderline clever as well, it is quite apparent
that there is more here than meets the eye. It would be nearly
incredible if for every USB session initiated by electron-hungry
consumers, there weren't some kind of <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trojans-Worms-Spyware-Professionals-Malicious/dp/0750678488?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">Trojan, Worm, or Virus</a></b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0750678488" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" /> being initiated and/or installed.<br />
As we've known for most of recorded history, <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Harsh-Mistress-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0312863551?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">tanstaafl </a></b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0312863551" style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" />- There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - and there ain't no such thing as a free charge either.<br />
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Just who is behind the applications being installed, and to whom will
data be delivered? We'll have updates here as soon as more data becomes
available.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43</p><p><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b>--- UPDATE ---</b></span> <br /></p><p>It appears that our top-notch federal are finally catching up with us here at this site.</p><p><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/10/fbi-says-you-shouldnt-use-public-phone-charging-stations.html">This link will take you</a></b> to a legacy media site's coverage of this new discovery. </p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>This is not the same threat we identified here a dozen years ago.</li><li>This does show that we've been out in front of the pack, identifying threats to your security.</li><li>This
also raises the question, "Has the FBI finished slurping your data (or
injecting malware), and now they want to make sure no one else does it
to you?" If not, why this warning?</li></ol><p>As always, we'll look for
further developments in this story, and updates will be posted here as
soon as we have more information.</p><p> Posted by Listener 43 (with thanks to Gyro Gearloose for his comments on the original post) <br /></p><p> </p>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-12657773333237220602022-08-18T12:38:00.000-07:002022-08-18T12:38:27.679-07:00Speaking Power to Truth<p> If one is old enough to remember the days of "sticking it to the man" and "questioning authority" or even "speaking truth to power" then one can hardly help but be shocked by the way our "rulers" continue to ignore facts and truth, instead repeating bald assertions as though their simple repetition will render them believable and believed. </p><p>For example, a federal judge in the 4th circuit has asserted that words don't mean what they mean if he doesn't like them:<br /></p><p></p><p></p><blockquote>In the 56-page decision, Motz noted, "The ADA excludes from its
protection anything falling within the plain meaning of 'gender identity
disorders,' as that term was understood 'at the time of its
enactment.'" However, the judge then contended: "But nothing in the ADA,
then or now, compels the conclusion that gender dysphoria constitutes a
'gender identity disorder' excluded from ADA protection.</blockquote><p></p><p>In other words, <strike>Judge Motz</strike> Humpty-Dumpty is asserting that words mean only what he decides they mean, not what English speakers know them to mean.</p><p>"I have the power, so shut up about facts and truth." If he weren't so enthralled by gender dysphoria, one might be tempted to compare the judge to He-Man. But I digress.</p><p>What a flaming moron, and worse, what an arrogant, overly-empowered sycophant. It's time we get back to speaking truth to power rather than allowing its converse.<br /></p><p> We'll likely make this a regular feature here. It's a shame we have so much fodder for reviving this long nearly-abandoned blog.</p><p>Posted by Pygmalion 56
</p>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-69647220100776856432021-12-10T10:51:00.000-08:002021-12-10T10:51:11.460-08:00 The Threat of Transparency - RE - RE-UPDATED!!<div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">
Perhaps you recall this revised post from some time back? </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">It appears that the glass frog mentioned below in the originally re-updated post are not the only chordates becoming transparent. </div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">No, it's not politicians - more's the pity - it seems that there are now <span style="color: #fcff01;"><b><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/researchers-capture-rare-footage-of-bizarre-fish-with-see-through-head/">fish with transparent heads</a></b></span>.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">Our regular readers will not be surprised to find that the author(s) of the linked article attempt to pass this all off as a natural occurrence. No mention is made of these previous efforts at animal transparency. Further, these fish are using their new-found "clarity" as a competitive advantage. They can now look up through their own skulls to see prey which would not - until now - have worried about discovery from below.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">One wonders when still higher life forms will get the "glass treatment" and just what other changes in the food chain or predator-prey relationships are in the offing.</div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">One further wonders how a fully transparent human might manage to dominate those who remain visible. H.G. Wells had some instructive thoughts about this topic, but we oughtn't consider this question settled! <br /></div><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;">As to what is to come, time <b>may</b> tell, but we certainly <b>will</b> tell!<br /></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-threat-of-transparency-updated.html">The Threat of Transparency - RE-UPDATED!!</a>
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Perhaps you recall this post from some time back? <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
The Threat of Transparency
</h3>
<ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Scientists have added colors to worms through genetic coding.</li><li>There may well be plans by governments and law enforcement agencies
to use these colors as markers and tracking systems for criminals and
other citizens.</li><li><a href="http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/831113"><b style="color: yellow;">Japanese scientists at RIKEN</b></a> have found a way to make human tissue transparent.</li></ol>
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Treating biological tissues with the newly discovered reagent renders it
transparent, allowing the underlying structures to be easily examined.<br />
Administering the next generation of this reagent intravenously is
expected to render all parts of the treated subject equally transparent.<br />
Work is underway on an antidote to this reagent, and the word is that it's being called a deagent. It seems clear that a <b style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lindberg-Transparent-Man-figure-model/dp/B000MQAP6Q?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">transparent man</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000MQAP6Q" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b> could be a very <b style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Season-One/dp/B0011FLH00?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">effective spy</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0011FLH00" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b>,
especially when that deagent is available to restore his opacity. The
one sticking point seems to be a way of retaining some level of opacity
in the retinas, to allow for vision, while still reducing the appearance
of floating pink discs.<br />
<br />
When more information becomes available, we'll report back here.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43</blockquote>
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Well, they're at it again. Scientists at Cal Tech have created a
transparent mouse - complete with transparent organs! (Why that is
supplied as extra information is a bit hard to<br />
understand. If they're transparent, then their organs must be as well, no?)<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-create-transparent-mouse-complete-with-seethrough-organs-9641860.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-create-transparent-mouse-complete-with-seethrough-organs-9641860.html</a></b></span><br />
Now all we need is for Putin to steal this technology and Ukraine won't be the only soon-to-be-former nation in his sights. <br />
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Posted by Listener 43</blockquote>
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It would appear that there has been some biological leakage from one of these experimental laboratories!<br />
<b><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glass-frog-wears-its-heart-all-see">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glass-frog-wears-its-heart-all-see</a></b><br />
<br />
Today
amphibians, tomorrow higher chordates, next week primates? Science
marches on to the drumbeat of despots and lunatics. Can't you see it?
Hordes of transparent amphibian soldiers making their way through the
marshes and estuaries of the Baltic to retake Estonia et al? No. You
can't see it because they're transparent.<br />
<br />
When we have more information, we'll report back here again.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-88863897306958140532015-07-01T12:02:00.000-07:002015-07-01T12:02:17.777-07:00They Can't Have It Both Ways!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Scientists tell us that the dinosaurs were wiped out (pun intended?!) by an asteroid strike that created the Caribbean Sea. [viz. the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez_hypothesis">Alvarez Hypothesis</a>]</li>
<li>Scientists used to tell us that the Caribbean Sea is where Spain (and Portugal - all of the Iberian Peninsula, in fact) used to fit before Pangaea split up and continental drift created the Atlantic Ocean. [viz. the <a href="http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/1483/1518969/DIVI504.jpg">Caribbean </a>and <a href="http://www.best-holidays-in-algarve.com/images/iberian.jpg">Iberia</a>] (This theory had the added benefit of explaining why Mexicans speak Spanish rather than English.)</li>
<li>Despite the supposed asteroid strike, Spain seems to have existed throughout history, rather than having been pummeled out of existence by an interplanetary interloper.</li>
</ol>
Is this just the result of multiple, competing theories? Is it simply something in the same vein as "are Sasquatch and Yeti related or are they the same creature?" or "was Zeus and alien pretending to be a god, or was he a man pretending to be an alien?" While that is certainly a possible explanation, there is almost certainly something much more sinister at work here.<br />
<br />
What purpose could be served by claiming that the Atlantic is expanding while the Pacific is shrinking?<br />
What purpose could be served by claiming that huge rocks from space crash to Earth and kill nearly all life?<br />
Could it be something as obvious as wanting to drive a wedge between the United States and her traditional European allies while causing a cozying up between the States and the Asian Pacific Rim nations?<br />
Or ... could it be something far more troubling, something far more devious?<br />
Is it aimed at driving us to cooperate with the Japanese scientists working to add color genetically to transparent worms even as our own scientists work feverishly to turn human beings transparent?<br />
<br />
There isn't enough evidence to come down firmly on just one of these possible explanations, but we will continue to investigate, and will report back as further information becomes available.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43 </div>
Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-54695919557742833022015-02-27T12:45:00.000-08:002015-02-27T12:45:48.319-08:00Apple's Surprise Announcement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh great, even without Jobs being there to insert his reality distortion field into the announcements of the upcoming announcement to be announced on March 9th the interwebs are going at least gaga, if not worse.<br />
<br />
Just so you don't have to wait more than a week to find out just what those secretive geniuses at the infinite loop (Fruit Lops, anyone?) are going to say, here are the actual facts as we now know them.<br />
<br />
Those amazing innovators aren't going to announce a new watch (that was Pebble, did you miss it, bub?). They aren't going to announce a car or truck (Tesla and Google are already busy trying to dismantle the recently-rescued rusty three don't you know). They aren't even going to announce a new iPhone, iPad, or a new name for Siri.<br />
<br />
No, they seem to be channeling Luther Burbank rather than Irving Cupertino (or whatever his name really was). After a decades-long program of grafting and cloning, Apple scientists have actually succeeded in creating miniature (or bonsai) versions of the original Macintosh apple tree - and they claim these miniature trees (shrubs?) actually bear full-size fruit. The first successful tree-let was named LISA - Living In-Situ Apple-producer. I kid you not - these guys are brilliant (just ask them).<br />
<br />
Now you can belly up to the genius bar and have a glass of hard apple cider while you wait for the indentured hipster to replace the shattered glass in your iPhone.<br />
<br />
Yes, the mighty have fallen, folks. Apple is reduced to producing apples.<br />
Chumps.<br />
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Posted by Gyro Gearloose</div>
Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-53194759072598461402014-08-04T10:38:00.000-07:002017-06-26T13:29:13.254-07:00 The Threat of Transparency - RE-UPDATED!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Perhaps you recall this post from some time back? <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
The Threat of Transparency
</h3>
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Scientists have added colors to worms through genetic coding.</li>
<li>There may well be plans by governments and law enforcement agencies
to use these colors as markers and tracking systems for criminals and
other citizens.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/831113"><b style="color: yellow;">Japanese scientists at RIKEN</b></a> have found a way to make human tissue transparent.</li>
</ol>
<br />
Treating biological tissues with the newly discovered reagent renders it
transparent, allowing the underlying structures to be easily examined.<br />
Administering the next generation of this reagent intravenously is
expected to render all parts of the treated subject equally transparent.<br />
Work is underway on an antidote to this reagent, and the word is that it's being called a deagent. It seems clear that a <b style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lindberg-Transparent-Man-figure-model/dp/B000MQAP6Q?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">transparent man</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000MQAP6Q" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b> could be a very <b style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Season-One/dp/B0011FLH00?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" style="color: yellow;" target="_blank">effective spy</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0011FLH00" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b>,
especially when that deagent is available to restore his opacity. The
one sticking point seems to be a way of retaining some level of opacity
in the retinas, to allow for vision, while still reducing the appearance
of floating pink discs.<br />
<br />
When more information becomes available, we'll report back here.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43</blockquote>
<br />
Well, they're at it again. Scientists at Cal Tech have created a transparent mouse - complete with transparent organs! (Why that is supplied as extra information is a bit hard to<br />
understand. If they're transparent, then their organs must be as well, no?)<br />
<br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><b><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-create-transparent-mouse-complete-with-seethrough-organs-9641860.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-create-transparent-mouse-complete-with-seethrough-organs-9641860.html</a></b></span><br />
Now all we need is for Putin to steal this technology and Ukraine won't be the only soon-to-be-former nation in his sights. <br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43</blockquote>
<br />
It would appear that there has been some biological leakage from one of these experimental laboratories!<br />
<b><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glass-frog-wears-its-heart-all-see">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glass-frog-wears-its-heart-all-see</a></b><br />
<br />
Today
amphibians, tomorrow higher chordates, next week primates? Science
marches on to the drumbeat of despots and lunatics. Can't you see it?
Hordes of transparent amphibian soldiers making their way through the
marshes and estuaries of the Baltic to retake Estonia et al? No. You
can't see it because they're transparent.<br />
<br />
When we have more information, we'll report back here again.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43<br />
<br />
<b>Related Posts:</b><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nematodes-dna-and-uv-radiation.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nematodes, DNA, and UV Radiation</span></b></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/human-dna-has-been-enriched.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Human DNA Has Been Enriched</span></a></b></div>
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-14389219239619623412013-10-29T10:53:00.000-07:002013-10-30T09:51:47.696-07:00Dinosaurs, Birds, and Aussies? - UPDATED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol>
<li>Scientists from Emory University in Georgia (USA) claim to have found bird fossils in Australia.</li>
<li>They claim these fossils are contemporary with others of standard dinosaurs.</li>
<li>They further claim that these fossils are evidence of birds having landed in soft rock or sand which then hardened, retaining the "footprints" of the purported avians.</li>
</ol>
How reasonable is it to believe that a bunch of guys from Georgia would take a trip to Australia and end up finding fossilized bird footprints at the beach? Australia (and New Zealand, a similar and nearby island nation) are home to flightless birds such as the emu and the kiwi, and these "scientists" want us to believe they've found tracks that are "remarkably similar to those in the sands and muds of the Georgia coast, made daily by the herons, egrets, and shorebirds."<br />
<br />
When will these scientists release the results of the soil composition tests?<br />
When will they release full-size castings of the "feet" which supposedly made these tracks?<br />
When will they admit that birds large enough to have left these tracks would have left other evidence as well?<br />
<br />
It seems more likely that these are either much more recent tracks of current era birds, or that these are actually the tracks of the beings who taught the Australian Aboriginal peoples to make the strange, Nazca-like figures in the deserts of the island continent. Why no mention of either of these much more likely, Occam-approved possibilities? Perhaps government funding is involved, and dinosaur-age birds are on the green-lighted list, while Aboriginal Alien Encounters are not to be publicized!<br />
<br />
We'll continue to investigate and report back when we have even more facts.<br />
<br />
UPDATE:<br />
Now we hear that a new species of humpback dolphin has been identified off the coasts of Australia (no word on whether they sport near New Zealand at this point). See here for the detailed report: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12535/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12535/abstract</a><br />
Can we really be expected to believe that this is purely a coincidence?<br />
Do they really think us that gullible?<br />
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43<br />
<br />
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<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/06/seti-and-timing.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">SETI and Timing</span></b></a><br />
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<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/radiation-and-crop-circles.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Radiation and Crop Circles</span></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nazca-lines-and-antimatter.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nazca Lines and Antimatter</span></a></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/nasas-opportunity-rover-has-found.html" style="color: yellow;">Water, Mars, Saturn, and Technocrats</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-mars-related-deception.html" style="color: yellow;">More Mars-Related Deception</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/04/mars-and-water-again.html" style="color: yellow;">Mars and Water - Again!</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/ages-in-chaos.html" style="color: yellow;">Ages In Chaos? </a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/successful-seti-experiment.html" style="color: yellow;">Successful SETI Experiment!</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/07/mutant-monkey-flowers-and-triffids.html" style="color: yellow;">Mutant Monkey Flowers And Triffids</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/nasa-mars-and-nazca-lines.html"><span style="color: yellow;">NASA, Mars, and Nazca Lines</span></a> </span></b><br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-49039032282900127982013-05-10T13:48:00.002-07:002013-05-10T13:48:26.322-07:00"Learn How It's Done."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>“…I think if you mention the name
Ted Cruz to other Senators, you just get titanic oceans of
eye-rolling, because you’re a freshman, you don’t go in and take over
hearings. You, like, hang around and learn how it’s done.”</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">- <em>New York Times</em> Columnist David Brooks, 4/21/13</span></blockquote>
The way this reads might sound reasonable to some; but given the actual context, it's clear that Mr. Brooks is really saying something more like this:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>"Voters who are foolish enough to vote for someone who is not an incumbent don't deserve to be represented in the Senate."</b></blockquote>
<br />
As my friend, Lewis Cannon, might well say, "This fellow needs a good thrashing."<br />
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Posted by Pygmalion 56</div>
Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-52251247360753009262013-04-11T14:15:00.000-07:002013-04-11T14:16:04.419-07:00Knives don't kill people, people do.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have to believe that I'm not the only one who heard about the mass stabbing in Texas and thought, "Oh great, now they're going to come for our cutlery."<br />
<br />
I'm just waiting for the first story telling how this maniac bought his knife at an unregulated knife show where there was no background check and no waiting period before he could take his knife home, or that he failed to register the knife with his local sheriff, or something insane like that.<br />
<br />
I find it totally unconscionable that our <strike>rulers</strike> elected representatives have yet to propose a new raft of knife regulations. Don't they care? What about the children?<br />
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Posted by Lewis Cannon<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-48684687992319965632013-03-11T14:52:00.000-07:002013-03-11T14:52:36.279-07:00Tales from the Senate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Senior Senator from Michigan, Carl Levin, has announced that he won't be running for re-election when his term is up in two years.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“I love representing the people of Michigan in the U.S. Senate and
fighting for the things that I believe are important to them,” he said.
“As Barbara and I struggled with the question of whether I should run
again, we focused on our belief that our country is at a crossroads that
will determine our economic health and security for decades to come. We
decided that <span style="color: yellow;"><b>I can best serve my state and nation by concentrating in
the next two years on the challenging issues before us that I am in a
position to help address; in other words, by doing my job without the
distraction of campaigning for re-election.</b></span>”</blockquote>
Perhaps many of us took that to mean that it's a distraction to campaign for re-election, despite the fact that that appears to be exactly the job to which these folks believe themselves to have been elected.<br />
In fact, the most likely "translation" or parsing of that phrase would be: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: yellow;"><b>"I want to do all the things I've wanted to do, but couldn't get a vote from my constituents because they don't want me to do it."</b></span></blockquote>
<br />
This fellow will bear watching. He seems to have some obfuscatory skills.<br />
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Posted by Pygmalion 56
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-88191415206039148172012-10-11T08:32:00.001-07:002012-10-11T08:32:27.989-07:00Why Is Anyone Surprised?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I don't know about you - OK, I probably really do know about you, but let's leave that for another post, shall we? - right, I don't know about you, but I'm totally stunned and amazed that other people who should know better are stunned and amazed that Huawei and ZTE might not be good guys just selling knockoff products cheaper than we can make them here in the USA or even in Japan or Mexico or something.<br />
<br />
Why is it a surprise to think that the Chinese government is using the companies they control to get access to the computer systems of other countries' companies? Isn't that exactly what all the tracking of hacking has told us? that it's all coming from China or Russia or Iran? Good grief, folks, use your brains once in a while instead of just your credit cards. Remember when we used to say that you get what you pay for? Now you're finding out what that might mean in an interconnected, always-on, internet-dependent society, and it means that the ones who sell you something for less than it's worth are probably making up for that apparent loss somewhere else - not like the old "we lose a little bit on each sale, but we make up for it with volume" kind of scam; this is more like the we'll sell you a magazine for less than it costs us to make because you have to take some advertising in there along with the "articles" and such, only where you didn't know the ads were going to borrow your computer to dig up your personal details for auction on the open black market or steal your company's plans and designs to make it easier to create knockoffs and counterfeits of your products before you can get them out the door and for less money because they're going to do the same thing to the next suckers who become customers.<br />
<br />
Get a grip on reality and realize that Chinese companies may be owned by those rich Chinese guys you deal with, but those guys and the companies and their customers are pwned by the Chinese government, and that's the way they play the game, bub!<br />
<br />
If you don't want to look like a total chump, you'd better wake up and smell the oolong tea and start buying equipment from reputable manufacturers who don't have a business model of sell stuff to chumps for less than its worth, but steal everything that's not nailed down to turn a profit for your commie masters.<br />
<br />
Sheesh!<br />
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Posted by Gyro Gearloose<br />
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gyro gearloosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233938909997872408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-40738119726654182432012-09-29T07:33:00.001-07:002012-10-05T14:15:42.106-07:00Digging For Hoffa? Not Likely!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
UPDATED!<br />
We're still waiting for confirmation that what was found was not
extraterrestrial, but what we do know is that Michigan State University
anthropologists found no traces of human DNA
or bone fragments in soil samples taken from a driveway in a suburban
Detroit backyard.<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Police in the Detroit, Michigan area are digging up "remains" under a residential driveway based on the claim that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015I2RZW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015I2RZW&linkCode=as2&tag=granblog0e-20%22%3EWhere%27s%20Jimmy%20Hoffa?:%20The%20Life%20and%20Disappearance%20of%20a%20Labor%20Legend%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0015I2RZW%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Jimmy Hoffa</b></span></a> was buried there in 1975.</li>
<li>Apparently someone just came forward to say he remembered seeing a body being buried there then and a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826907105/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0826907105&linkCode=as2&tag=granblog0e-20%22%3EConcrete%20Formwork%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0826907105%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>driveway</b></span></a> was poured on top of the grave.</li>
<li>Many other sites have been excavated in recent years for just the same purported reason.</li>
</ol>
How reasonable is it to believe that someone has suddenly remembered something as huge as seeing a body being buried in a residential area - over 35 years later?<br />
Hoffa's body has been reported in at least as many places as the live Elvis has been sighted.<br />
<br />
When will the authorities release the results of the tests done on the soil samples?<br />
Why don't they explicitly rule out the possibility that they didn't merely not find Hoffa, but that they did find something else?<br />
When will they come clean about the possibility that it was actually non-human remains that they have found - and not merely animals, but rather extra-terrestrials?<br />
<br />
Our rulers have no faith in the ability of the populace to handle the thought that we are not alone in this universe, and they do everything in their power to keep us in the dark.<br />
<br />
We'll continue to monitor this situation, and report back when we have more information.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-79593329356723069402012-09-12T10:48:00.001-07:002012-09-12T10:48:44.306-07:00Eleven Years and a Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You probably saw my <a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/eleven-years-on.html"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>post</b></span></a> yesterday, and then you probably saw the news reports of the violence at the various US embassies and consulates across jihadistan.<br />
<br />
Rather than ramble on here until I froth at the mouth like a rabid dog - which our State Department would consider a hate crime, since our friends are offended by the sight or thought of dogs - I'm just going to encourage you to go watch that video linked in <a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/09/eleven-years-on.html"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>yesterday's post</b></span></a>.<br />
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Good grief, the world has gone mad.<br />
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Posted by Lewis Cannon<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-16662087778339676522012-09-11T09:18:00.000-07:002012-09-11T09:18:19.128-07:00Eleven Years On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
No long screed today, just a plea to remember who it was who killed all the Americans (and others) in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center eleven years ago.<br />
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An interesting and informative survey of 1,400 years of history can be found here - <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-we-are-afraid-1400-year-secret.html">Why We Are Afraid: A 1400-Year Secret</a>
- it's worth watching or reading the transcript.<br />
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Posted by Lewis Cannon<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-11472256518018972692012-09-07T11:20:00.001-07:002015-04-28T06:59:10.588-07:00NASA, Mars, and Nazca Lines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>NASA has released purported images of the<span style="color: yellow;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16141.html"><span style="color: yellow;">tire tracks</span></a></span> </b></span>of the Curiosity Rover on Mars.</li>
<li>These pattern created by these lines would only be visible from space.</li>
<li>NASA is claiming that the lines contain embedded <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007D5I8VS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007D5I8VS&linkCode=as2&tag=granblog0e-20%22%3EMorse%20Code%20Experiment%20Kit%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B007D5I8VS%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Morse Code</span></b></a>, reading JPL.</li>
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The images posted by NASA look remarkably like the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FN25OW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004FN25OW&linkCode=as2&tag=granblog0e-20%22%3ENasca%20Lines:%20The%20Buried%20Secrets%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004FN25OW%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Nazca lines</b></span></a> found in South America, but NASA makes no comment acknowledging this obvious connection. It is difficult to believe that even they have not noted the similarity in the lines, as well as in the names! (NASA : Nazca)<br />
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By claiming to have embedded additional information in the lines, NASA raises the question as to whether similar information might be embedded in the Nazca lines - yet they clearly have no intention of investigating that question (or if they do, it would appear that they would intend to keep the results of that investigation to themselves).<br />
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When will NASA - a part of the US federal government, and thus purportedly accountable to the people - release this important information to the public?<br />
Why do they insist on keeping this potentially Earth-shaking revelation from the general populace?<br />
When will they release data regarding the levels of radioactivity of the Nazca lines? <br />
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We'll report back here as more information becomes available.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-29735586292447484662012-09-05T07:37:00.000-07:002012-09-05T07:37:36.792-07:00Oh, that was choice!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First lady Michelle 0bama was the main speaker at the democrat convention on Tuesday and the reviews seem fairly uniformly positive for her trip down memory lane.<br />
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Oh yes, she has now assured us that she and the president are just normal folks - they came from families with little money, owed far too much on their student loans when the graduated: young, foolish, and in debt - or words to that effect.<br />
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<i>(I wonder if anyone noticed the similar state of our new people's republic: young, foolish, and in debt - but I digress.)</i><br />
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The topic that really caught my attention and in my craw was the touting of national health care as being about choice for women or some such lunacy.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Hey, we're women, we're adults, and we can make our own choices about our own health care! That's what my husband has done for us! Go team!"</blockquote>
Good grief - doesn't anyone think anymore? I don't mean just at the democrat convention, either: why hasn't there been a huge chorus of folks explaining that being forced to buy insurance from approved companies who are told exactly what they can offer for sale isn't exactly the same as making choices about our own health care? Am I the only one who can't hold this many contradictory clauses in the air while smiling seraphically as if I really believed at least some of the crockery that's going to break when it finally hits the floor or the fan?<br />
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What in the world is wrong with Americans these days? Have schools been so bad so long that no one here can think his way out of a paper bag or a government program?!<br />
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I'm getting close to the point where I'll despair for these once-great United States of America.<br />
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Posted by: Lewis Cannon<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-53323912110927973842012-08-21T11:09:00.000-07:002012-08-21T11:09:11.926-07:00IPv6 Is Back!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You know how I've been warning you about how IPv6 will give governments nearly complete information on what and where you're doing what you're doing and now some of the other industry bigwigs and big thinkers are finally agreeing with me that this is all a bad idea and probably really coming from the same friendly folks who bring you black helicopters and try to regulate the amount of aluminum foil an unlicensed individual can buy without a prescription and all that sort of Big Brother-y kind of stuff; and I don't mean that crappy pseudo-reality TV stuff either, I'm talking full on 1984 George Orwell newspeak and everything.<br />
<br />
Check this out, people <b style="color: yellow;">- <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/21/verity_stob_ipv6/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/21/verity_stob_ipv6/</a></b><b style="color: yellow;"> - </b>here's a real-life adventure in the near future that will give you a sniff of what's to come if we don't find our way to actually just get IPv5. Whatever happened to IPv5, anyway? Why doesn't anyone know about that, I wonder - and you should too, Bub, if you know what's good for you anyway, since it's probably our best shot at getting more address space without all the extras that the tinhorn dictators and strong-man wannabes are working so hard to shove down our bandwidth.<br />
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Wake up before it's too late, world!<br />
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Posted by Gyro Gearloose<br />
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Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-61751582256569822062012-08-02T10:32:00.000-07:002012-08-02T10:32:44.292-07:00Rabies Resistant Peruvian Mutants?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Six Peruvians have survived - without treatment - the bite of rabid vampire bats.</li>
<li>They live in remote
villages far from civilization along the
Amazon, where locals endure frequent, typically deadly, vampire attacks.</li>
<li>Medical researchers agree that an untreated rabies infection in a human would be invariably
fatal, that "nearly everyone who is found to be experiencing clinical symptoms of rabies dies"</li>
</ul>
While those in the know realize that vampire bats don't kill by draining the blood of their victims - they're far too small for that - they represent an important vector in the spread of rabies. In fact, the bats manage to lap up as much blood as they do by use of a factor in their saliva known as draculin which prevents the clotting and coagulation of the blood.<br />
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Until now, all medical experts were in agreement that rabies if left untreated is uniformly fatal. Were they wrong? Were they misleading us? Or ... has something different arisen in the Peruvian jungle?<br />
Why has the Peruvian government not released DNA analyses of the survivors?<br />
When will the Centers for Disease Control admit that the Peruvian Six carry a rabies-resistant mutation?<br />
Which of the world's military organizations will be first to genetically enhance its soldiers with resistance to rabies - and then to develop similar mutations to protect against anthrax and other bio-weaponry?<br />
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We will report back here as we receive more information.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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</div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-38507150000379147122012-07-25T13:45:00.000-07:002012-07-25T13:45:56.852-07:00Color Me Bloviated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
OK, no big, long, involved, well-reasoned post here this time. Instead, here's a quick note about my current state of confusion.<br />
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So the other day, president 0bama says that nobody does it by himself - we're all where we are because of other people.<br />
Of course, he always says there's no reason for us to worry about the people in his past - it's not like the people we associate with have anything to do with who we are; the implication being that we're all self-made individuals (or "folks" as he loves to call us when he's trying to be folksy).<br />
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Does he really think we're so stupid or so skilled that we can believe both of those things at the same time? Sorry, I guess that was a rhetorical question, and who needs rhetorical questions?<br />
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We're getting worse than we deserve these days.<br />
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Posted by Lewis Cannon<br />
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<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/04/they-backed-down-but-so-what.html" style="color: yellow;">They Backed Down, but So What?</a></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-87959097384116433992012-07-20T14:04:00.005-07:002012-07-20T14:04:46.909-07:00El Dorado?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>When Cortes was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012GMW2U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0012GMW2U%22%3EConquistador%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0012GMW2U%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22"><b style="color: yellow;">conquistador</b></a>-ing around Honduras, he was told about a city of gold where Quetzalcoatl was born, and where the citizens ate off plates made of gold.</li>
<li>Although it was called the white city, or Cuidad Blanco, it resembles all the other native stories of cities of gold - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305754969/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=6305754969%22%3EEl%20Dorado%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=6305754969%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22"><b style="color: yellow;">El Dorado</b></a> as it has come down to us.</li>
<li>Archaeologists have - perhaps - found this fabled Cuidad Blanco in the middle of the Honduran jungle using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420051423/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1420051423%22%3ETopographic%20Laser%20Ranging%20and%20Scanning:%20Principles%20and%20Processing%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1420051423%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22"><b><span style="color: yellow;">LiDAR</span></b></a> (Light Detection And Ranging), also known as laser mapping.</li>
<li>No one has actually been on-site as yet; all reports of the mythical city's being found rest on the reports of the laser mapping.</li>
</ol>
Clearly those in the know don't want us there. Scientists closely involved in this "discovery" are telling the media that this is how archaeology is done now - none of that boots-on-the-ground digging and finding kind of work as we all have seen in the Indiana Jones movies.<br />
That kind of hard work is "old school, we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford," according to an Egyptologist called Parcak.<br />
<br />
The real questions, though, are<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Why are no scientists being allowed on the ground at Cuidad Blanco?</li>
<li>Who has actually visited the site to gather the confirmation of the LiDAR maps?</li>
<li>How much of the ancient treasure has been looted by government thugs?</li>
<li>What other secrets have been uncovered there? When will they release the evidence of the extraterrestrial contact that we all know took place throughout the New World in pre-Columbian times?</li>
</ul>
We'll report back here as more information becomes available.<br />
<br />
Posted by Listener 43<br />
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<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nazca-lines-and-antimatter.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nazca Lines and Antimatter</span></a></b><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nematodes-dna-and-uv-radiation.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nematodes, DNA, and UV Radiation</span></b></a><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/eco-tourism-and-invasive-species.html" style="color: yellow;">Eco-Tourism and Invasive Species</a></span></b><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-for-xt-artifacts-is-on.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;">The Search for XT Artifacts is On</span></span></b></a><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/nasas-opportunity-rover-has-found.html" style="color: yellow;">Water, Mars, Saturn, and Technocrats</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/another-search-is-on.html" style="color: yellow;">Another Search Is On!</a> </span></b><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/russian-space-crystals.html" style="color: yellow;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/russian-space-crystals.html" style="color: yellow;">Russian Space Crystals</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-atlantis-all-over-again.html" style="color: yellow;">It's Atlantis All Over Again</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/ages-in-chaos.html" style="color: yellow;">Ages In Chaos? </a></span></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-45694980269305121122012-07-19T12:09:00.001-07:002012-07-19T12:12:26.247-07:00A Hole In Mars?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Scientists at NASA have found what they're calling <b><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120718.html" style="color: yellow;">a hole in Mars</a></b>.</li>
<li>There is a perfectly circular crater with a hole at the bottom leading to underground caves of <b>undetermined size</b>.</li>
<li>This 35 meter hole leading to the 20 meter deep cavern is said to be a good candidate to contain <b>Martian life</b>.</li>
</ol>
What could have caused this hole in the surface? Could it be the remnant of an ancient weapon?<br />
What kind of life do they anticipate finding down there? Are we being prepared for something they already know?<br />
Why does our government continue to push out tantalizing tidbits like this, rather than coming clean and telling us what's actually out there?<br />
Do they fear the reaction of the populace? Is this why the President has signed so many executive orders giving the government extraordinary powers - <a href="http://godfatherpolitics.com/6180/obama-signs-executive-order-giving-him-and-federal-government-control-of-all-forms-of-communication-under-any-circumstance/" style="color: yellow;"><b>in case of emergency</b></a>?<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/seventeen-lost-pyramids-have-been-found.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Pyramids and Satellites</span></b></a><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-is-using-all-that-water.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Who Is Using All That Water?</span></b></a><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/seti-home-is-back.html" style="color: yellow;">SETI @ Home Is Back</a><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></span></b><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/11/russians-asteroids-and-mars.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;">Russians, Asteroids, and Mars</span></span></b></a><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/nasas-opportunity-rover-has-found.html" style="color: yellow;">Water, Mars, Saturn, and Technocrats</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"></span><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/are-russian-space-troubles-from-beyond.html" style="color: yellow;">Are Russian Space Troubles From Beyond Mars?</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/02/russians-cant-get-to-mars-so-theyll.html" style="color: yellow;">The Russians Can't Get To Mars, So They'll Drill In The Ice On Earth</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-mars-related-deception.html" style="color: yellow;">More Mars-Related Deception</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/04/mars-and-water-again.html" style="color: yellow;">Mars and Water - Again!</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/successful-seti-experiment.html" style="color: yellow;">Successful SETI Experiment!</a></span></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-4299510089581738892012-07-13T08:35:00.001-07:002012-07-13T08:37:14.969-07:00Mutant Monkey Flowers And Triffids<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>A new species of monkey flower has been discovered on the bank of a stream in Scotland. It is the offspring of two foreign
plant species which typically produce only sterile hybrids. </li>
<li>Dr. Mario Vallejo-Marin of the University
of Stirling has documented the first examples of these hybrid monkey flowers
that actually show full
fertility.</li>
<li>Dr. Vallejo-Marin has named this species <i>Mimulus peregrinus</i>, a name which translates as 'the wanderer'. </li>
</ol>
Can anyone read these words - especially the name of this new species - and not be concerned for the future of Great Britain?<br />
Fertile hybrids of alien species - in fact, a plant called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AYELJ2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000AYELJ2%22%3EThe%20Day%20of%20the%20Triffids%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=granblog0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000AYELJ2%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E"><b style="color: yellow;">the wanderer</b></a> - can bode little but ill for the island nations of the UK.<br />
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When will the British government admit to its citizens that these "monkey flowers" pose a clear and present danger to them?<br />
Will the British government be able to protect the vast numbers of visitors currently headed for their shores for the quadrennial Olympic games?<br />
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We'll monitor this species and this situation and report back here when there is more information. Until then, stocking up on sea water can't be a mistake.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/radiation-and-crop-circles.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Radiation and Crop Circles</span></a></b><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nematodes-dna-and-uv-radiation.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nematodes, DNA, and UV Radiation</span></b></a><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/eco-tourism-and-invasive-species.html" style="color: yellow;">Eco-Tourism and Invasive Species</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/threat-of-transparency.html" style="color: yellow;">The Threat of Transparency</a></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/triffids-in-brazil.html" style="color: yellow;">Triffids in Brazil?</a> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/extinct-bees-back-from-dead.html" style="color: yellow;">Extinct Bees Back From The Dead?</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/unlocking-hidden-genetic-codes.html" style="color: yellow;">Unlocking Hidden Genetic Code</a></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-17941853912607721952012-07-06T12:38:00.003-07:002012-07-06T12:38:54.788-07:00A 5-sigma CERNtainty Level<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>Scientists at the LHC at CERN have announced the near-certain detection of what appears to be a Higgs boson.</li>
<li>An American team had announced that they had completely not ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson only days before the CERN team.</li>
<li>The CERN scientists are quick to caution us all that these are preliminary results, and they want to go over the numbers and be sure of what they've done before the tell us they've really found it.</li>
</ol>
So what they're saying is that there's only a on in 3.5 millions chance that this is a statistical fluke. Of course, this is after about seven million experiments, so take that with the grain of NaCl that seems appropriate to your blood pressure.<br />
Here we are, watching the Americans try to steal the thunder of what they expected CERN to announce by announcing that they hadn't ruled out the possibility of what CERN had told them to expect. That was followed by CERN announcing that they had probably seen what the American team hadn't at all ruled out by their experiments, but please don't hold us to anything yet - it's pretty likely we've seen something that's very much like what we're seeking, but until we've crossed every "7" and dotted every "i" we're not going to be pinned down.<br />
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It's basically what I expected - more science drama in the style of a British tabloid or perhaps that fabulous TV show, TMZ.<br />
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Five sigma? Bah.<br />
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Posted by Procrustes 17<br />
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<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/slowly-i-cern-step-by-step-inch-by-inch.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Slowly I CERN ... Step By Step ... Inch By Inch ...</span></a></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/rooting-out-higgs-boson-at-cern.html" style="color: yellow;">OOTing Out the Higgs Boson at CERN</a> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/11/finally-concerned-about-facts.html" style="color: yellow;">Finally conCERNed About Facts</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: yellow;"></span><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/still-playing-uncerntainty-card.html" style="color: yellow;">Still Playing The unCERNtainty Card</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/02/cern-boosts-their-beams.html" style="color: yellow;">CERN Boosts Their Beams</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: yellow;"></span><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/02/results-are-still-uncerntain.html" style="color: yellow;">Results Are Still UnCERNtain</a></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/06/cerns-them-right.html" style="color: yellow;">CERNs Them Right! </a></span></span></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-51009514003735090982012-06-28T08:04:00.001-07:002012-06-28T08:04:17.194-07:00Now It's A Tax?!?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm afraid I have not words capable of expressing the disgust and dismay rattling back and forth in my brain at the utter chicanery practiced by all three branches of the federal government upon its constituents (which should read bosses, but seems to read as bank accounts these days).<br />
"There is no way this can be construed as a tax," said our fearless leader, president 0bama.<br />
"The individual mandate cannot stand under the commerce clause, but this is allowed as a tax," says our supreme court.<br />
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Good Lord, it's as though there is no understanding of the concept of limited government left in DC.<br />
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Throw them all out! A pox on all their houses! I despair for liberty and justice for any.<br />
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Posted by Lewis Cannon</div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029714708623693035.post-60372778508036588462012-06-20T13:33:00.005-07:002012-06-20T13:35:31.470-07:00Successful SETI Experiment!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ol style="text-align: left;">
<li>SETI recently performed an <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6466"><b style="color: yellow;">experiment</b></a> in the use of VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) for detecting extra-terrestrial life.</li>
<li>Using this VLBI system, SETI examined 20 hours of observational data for a distant <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GI3RZ6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000GI3RZ6%22%3ERed%20Dwarf:%20The%20Complete%20Collection"><b style="color: yellow;">red dwarf star</b></a> and its attendant planet(s) looking for evidence of artificially produced radio signals.</li>
<li>SETI reports finding no such signals. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547133243/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=granblog0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0547133243%22%3E"><b style="color: yellow;">SETI</b></a> also reports that the experiment was a success.</li>
</ol>
In what sense is a failure to find what they sought a success?<br />
When will SETI and their quasi-governmental overlords release the actual data - including the radio signals deemed not to be from extraterrestrial intelligences - for the rest of us to listen to?<br />
When will SETI realize that we aren't all sheep and idiots - that we can tell the difference between success and failure?<br />
What actual signals were received, and why aren't they telling us?<br />
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We'll continue to monitor the situation and report back when we have more information.<br />
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Posted by Listener 43<br />
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<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/06/seti-and-timing.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">SETI and Timing</span></b></a><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/seventeen-lost-pyramids-have-been-found.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Pyramids and Satellites</span></b></a><br />
<a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-is-using-all-that-water.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Who Is Using All That Water?</span></b></a><br />
<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/radiation-and-crop-circles.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Radiation and Crop Circles</span></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/nazca-lines-and-antimatter.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Nazca Lines and Antimatter</span></a></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/seti-home-is-back.html" style="color: yellow;">SETI @ Home Is Back</a><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></span></b></div>Charlie van Becelaerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420949980134175482noreply@blogger.com3