Recovery. Opinion/analysis on Comey and draining the swamp; A note on Education.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

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This will be brief. I am halfway through the antibiotics prescription for dealing with pneumonia, and I definitely feel that I am recovering. I don’t trust my thought processes with anything requiring judgment, and it uses all my energy to write much of anything, but I am definitely improving. I won’t estimate when I will be recovered; every time I tried that before I ended up with a relapse, so I am taking things as they come. I have a few items for your contemplation.

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This is provided as received. I cannot find any confirming source online.

It contains assertions of fact I had not seen in other sources. Take it with as little or as much salt as you deem appropriate.

This unidentified email confirms many suspicions and fills in some details that I could not understand.

 

There are very few crime/mystery novels that approach this true story for compelling drama, intrigue and brinkmanship (with the nation in the balance).

Don’t believe the fake-media story that Trump made a mistake or huge gaffe by firing Comey.

Don’t believe the media narrative from the left that it was an attempt to silence Comey from some investigation into Trump.

Don’t believe the RINO narrative that Comey is a good guy just trying to do his job in terrible circumstances and the timing was bad.

Don’t believe the lie that Comey was admired and respected by career FBI investigators and agents.

Don’t believe the lie that Trump’s “tweets” are not professional and have no strategic purpose.  His tweets are weaponized and deadly.

James Comey is a poisonous snake of the highest order… a deep-water Swamp Denizen who has been highly paid to deliberately provide cover for high-level corruption by the Clintons and Obama.  He is has been central to trying to destroy the Trump campaign and then the Trump administration from the start. He is as dirty as they come in DC.  He had highest-level cover (the FBI no less) and was deep into an effort to eliminate Trump.  Trump had to move hard, fast, and at exactly the right time to cut the head off the snake without getting bitten by the snake or being finished by the other swamp denizens.

Begin by noticing how the President fired Comey when Comey was 3,000 miles away from his office, that Comey had no inkling he was being cut, that all his files, computers, and everything in his office were seized by his boss Sessions and the justice department.  This was not a violation of protocol, it was tactical. Notice how Prez Trump compartmentalized the strike and did not inform any of his White House “staff” to prevent leaks.  Notice how he emasculated Comey and the swamp denizens by letting them know in a tweet that the Attorney General got information (surveillance “tapes” from the seizure of Comey’s office) to let Comey and his handlers know that Trump’s DOJ has the goods on them.  This was a brilliant, strategic and totally imperative move at exactly the right time against horrible, evil and corrupt powers infesting our government.

The swamp is on notice that the President is on to them, they are sweating bullets because their criminal games of corruption are being pursued and they know it.  They are screaming and ranting because they are desperate denizens of the swamp who are beginning to realize they are roadkill.

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE COMEY SCAM.  Taken from credible public sources (readily available if you want to look or want me to sent them to you), with a few reasonable “fill in the blank” conclusions of my own.

The Highlights:

Comey was a minor assistant US attorney in the late 90’s.  He only gained power and money by being the DOJ official who “investigated” and cleared Bill Clinton of any wrong-doing in Clinton’s totally corrupt pardon (for huge payoffs) of criminal financier Marc Rich as Clinton was leaving the Presidency.  This is how Comey began his career as a creature of the “swamp” years ago, as a servant of the Clintons.

Comey provided “cover” for the Clintons in their gaining incredible power and wealth after leaving office through pardoning a billionaire money-launderer, arms dealer and criminal.  Comey was a key piece in how the Clintons upped their corruption game and gained incredible wealth through their foundation after leaving the White House.  A huge part of the scheme was giving Marc Rich a free pass when he should have spent life in prison, and that is what Comey covered-up for the Clintons.  This set up Comey to be part of the corruption machine, making him powerful and wealthy.

Immediately after doing the Clinton’s dirty work as a DOJ official, Comey resigned from the DOJ and took a position as the head attorney (Counsel) of the Lockheed Martin company, a huge military contractor.  While he was in that position Lockheed became a major contributor (millions) to the Clinton Foundation and its fake charity spin-offs.  In return for these payment to Clinton Inc., Lockheed received huge contracts with Hillary’s state department.  Comey was the chief legal officer of Lockheed throughout this period of contributions to Clinton Inc. in return for State Dept. contracts.

In late 2012, after overseeing Lockheed’s successful relationship with the Hillary State Department and the resulting profits, Comey stepped down from Lockheed and received a $6 million dollar payout for his services.

In 2013, the largest bank of England, HSBC Holdings, was deep into a scandal.  Investigations by federal authorities and law-enforcement had revealed that for years HSBC had been laundering billions of dollars for Mexican Drug Cartels, channeling money for Saudi banks who were financing terror, moving money for Iran in violation of the sanctions, and other major criminal activity.  HSBC’s criminality was pervasive and deliberate by the Bank and its officials.  HSBC was a huge Clinton Foundation contributor (many millions) throughout the “investigation” and Bill Clinton was being paid large personal fees for speaking at HSBC events (while Hillary was Sec of State).   Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department did what they were paid to do, and let HSBC off of the hook for a paltry 1.2 Billion dollar fine (paid by its stockholders), and not one Director, officer or management member at HSBC was fired or charged with any criminal.  Exactly when everyone involved with HSBC Bank (including the Clintons and all of their “donors”) were being let off without penalty, and cover had to be provided to HSBC, Comey was appointed as a Director and Member of the Board of HSBC (in the middle of the fallout from the scandal).  He was part of the effort to cover up the scandal and make HSBC “respectable” again.

After about a year as HSBC director, despite his lack of any law enforcement experience, no DOJ leadership experience, and no qualifications for the job, Comey was appointed FBI director by Obama.  The only qualification Comey had was that the Clinton’s and their cronies knew Comey was in bed with them, was compromised and was willing to do their dirty work.  Comey was appointed to the FBI right when Hillary was leaving the State Department, and was vulnerable to the FBI because she had been using a private-server, mis-handling classified information, selling access to favors/contracts from the State Department to Clinton Foundation Donors (including Comey’s Lockheed Martin), and much more. Remember that this was about the time the Inspector General of the State Department found over 2 billion “missing” from the State Department finances during Hillary’s tenure.

The obvious conclusion is that Comey was appointed to the FBI (along with other reliable Clinton-Obama cronies)  to run interference for the Clinton’s and Obama’s at the nation’s federal law enforcement agency(in conjunction with a corrupt Department of Justice).  Comey was and is owned by the Clintons.  He owed all of his power and wealth to being part of their machine and providing them with cover.

In late 2015 and early 2016, information began to come out about the Clinton Foundation and its use by the Clinton’s as a multi-billion dollar slush fund for corruption and political favors. (even Chelsea’s wedding had been paid for by the “charity) This was right as Hillary was beginning her campaign for President. It was revealed that the Foundation had never completed required reports or had an audit.  Supposedly the FBI, under Comey, began an “investigation” of the Clinton Funds.  A “professional” accounting firm was brought in by the Clintons to do a review, file some reports, make recommendations to the Clinton Foundation Board, and provide a veneer of legitimacy to the Clinton Fund operations.  Predictably, one of the partners in the firm that was chosen (and paid lots of money) is the brother of James Comey (FBI Director).  This brother owes James Comey $700,000 for a loan James gave him to buy a house, and presumably some of the money from the Clinton Fund was used to make payments to James on the loan.  Over 2 years later and nothing has happened as a result of the FBI “investigating” the Clinton Funds under Comey.

No one in congress or federal law enforcement was intending to actually pursue the Clintons, but Judicial Watch and other independent sources obtained information proving that Hillary had been running her own server, sending out classified information, etc.  This information began to come out right in the middle of her campaign to be coronated as President.  A “show” investigation had to be performed to appear to look into it and clear her.  Who to use?…the reliable shill James Comey.

As head of the FBI, Comey (and his lackeys in key positions) deliberately screwed up the investigation into Hillary’s use of a private server and her plain violation of national security law on classified information.  The investigation was deliberately mis-handled in every aspect. Comey gave immunity to all of Hillary’s lackeys, did not use subpoenas or warrants, lost evidence, allowed the destruction of evidence, failed to do any searches or seizures of evidence, did not use a grand-jury, did not swear witnesses, did not record testimony, allowed attorneys to represent multiple suspects (corrupting the testimony).  Everything that could be done to ruin the FBI investigation and to cover for Hillary was done.  A “slam-dunk” case became a mess. Immunity was given every witness even though they provided no help.  Maybe more importantly, by focusing the FBI on the email scandal, attention was drawn away from the much bigger scandal of the Clinton Foundation that could bring down a huge number of corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and even governments.

Originally, Comey’s job was simply to totally botch the Hillary investigation and ruin the case against her and her minions within the FBI regarding he emails. At the same time Comey also started work on a parallel assignment to illegally “wiretap” and surveil Donald Trump and every other person involved in the Republican campaign.  He was tasked with digging up any dirt or fact that could be used to hurt the Trump campaign later.  This included using a fake “dossier” paid for by the Clinton campaign to obtain authorization for the surveillance and to try to associate Trump’s campaign with the Russians. Under Comey’s direction the Trump/republican campaign was monitored and surveilled and all information was provided to the Obama Whitehouse and the Clinton camp all during the campaign. 

Lorretta Lynch was supposed to complete the coverup for Hillary as Attorney General by issuing a finding that the deliberately botched FBI “investigation” did not justify prosecution of Hillary.  But someone screwed up and Bill Clinton was video’d meeting with Loretta Lynch in Arizona shortly before she was supposed to make her decision on Hillary (interference with a federal investigation), and Lynch could no longer credibly squash the Hillary scandal.  The solution, give the job to James.  The Clinton’s owned him and he would have to do whatever is necessary to provide cover.

Comey goes on national TV and violates every rule of the FBI, the Justice Department and American law enforcement by revealing some of the FBI’s “evidence” of what Hillary did (enough to make it look like the FBI and Comey did some investigation), then declaring that there was no “intent” and clearing Hillary.  He did what he was ordered to do.  The Justice Department and Obama backed Comey’s coverup and it looked like Hillary had survived the scandal.

Then, right before the election, the NYPD obtained pervert Anthony Wiener’s laptop and found classified emails from Hillary on the laptop.  The NYPD began leaking details to new-media outlets, and the story was about to explode.  Comey once again stepped in to cover Hillary.  He short-circuited the NYPD leaks by publicly acknowledging the laptop and the emails, but then claimed just days later that hundreds of thousands of emails had all been reviewed and “nothing new” was on the laptop.  Once again, he had done his job.  Providing cover and FBI “protection” for Hillary on the newest scandal when it broke.

If Hillary had won, Comey would have kept right on providing cover for the corruption of the Clinton machine.  He would have kept the FBI paralyzed, prevented the Clinton Fund from being investigated, and continued to do his job as the Clinton’s personal scandal eraser at the FBI.

BUT TRUMP WON.

The Swamp and its bottom-dwelling denizens realize they are at risk from this political outsider who is not connected to the uni-party machines.  Before Trump takes office, a “failsafe” plan is implemented to ruin Trump’s administration and try to force him out of the Presidency.  The key players committed to the plan are the democrat politicians, the RINO establishment, the media, the Obama-Clinton operatives imbedded throughout the intelligence agencies and the entire bureaucracy, and most importantly, the Obama DOJ and JAMES COMEY.    The scheme is to smear Trump with Russian “connections,” through a fake FBI “investigation” and more importantly, to trap him into a charge of criminal interference with the FBI.   COMEY IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE SCHEME TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP.

The surveillance of the Trump campaign is continued after he is elected, all participants are “unmasked” illegally, and the transcripts are leaked throughout the government and to the media.  When General Flynn appropriately calls Russian officials on behalf of Trump, they brush off the old fake “dossier” and all of the surveillance of the campaign, and Comey creates the “Russian Conspiracy” investigation. With help by RINO swamp kingpin and warmonger sell-out McCain, the fake “Russian pee dossier” is leaked to the press. There is no actual evidence of any collusion or connection between Trump or his campaign with Russia, but that does not prevent Comey from initiating an “investigation” at the FBI.  This provides Comey with protection from Trump firing him immediately.  Comey (or his minions) constantly leak news of the “Russia Investigation” to the media, and the media does its scripted part by screaming constantly about “Russia.”  The Democrats fill their role and constantly scream about “Russia.”  McCain and the RINO establishment do their part by promising to “investigate” how the Russians influenced the campaign.

Immediately after Trump is sworn in, the DOJ Hillary/Obama operatives and Comey start the direct attack.  This is before Sessions has been appointed to the Department of Justice and the DOJ is still controlled by Obama operatives. DOJ Obama appointee Sally Yates approaches the Whitehouse with news that General Flynn had been in contact with Russia and alleges that he might be compromised.  She reveals that there is an FBI “investigation” into the Russia ties (which they are constantly leaking to the media themselves).  The White House Counsel (who Yates talks to, not Trump) asks for some more information.

The day before the promised additional information is to be provided by Yates to the Whitehouse, Comey sets up a dinner with Trump.  If he can get Trump to ask about Flynn or try to intervene regarding Flynn or Russia then Trump can be charged with “interfering with an FBI investigation.”  MY OPINION IS THAT COMEY SURVEILLED AND “TAPED” THIS MEETING IN HIS ATTEMPT TO SET UP TRUMP.

This is a two-pronged attack.  It protects Comey and DOJ democrat holdovers from being terminated by the new administration because they are involved in an “ongoing investigation” that they control the timetable on(albeit one with absolutely no evidence). If Trump fires Comey then he is “interfering with the investigation” which is itself a federal crime that the FBI could then “investigate.”  Alternatively, if they can get Trump to question Comey about Flynn or try to get him to back off of Flynn or the “Russia” investigation, then they again have him “interfering.”

Trump knows it is a set up by Comey and that he is probably being recorded (tips from FBI or DOJ who are not part of the corruption?)  Maybe because his phone calls in the Whitehouse as President have already been bugged and released to the media.  (FBI is in the best position to do this) Maybe because he was used to the Mafia in NY trying to shake him down every time he built a hotel.   Comey tells Trump that Trump is not under investigation regarding Russia, but that others involved with the campaign are being investigated.  Trump does not take the bait and attempt to intervene about Flynn or the Russia scam.  Later, Flynn is cut loose because he is being used by Comey and the Obama-holdover Justice to try to damage Trump.  He did not thing wrong, but if he stayed the charge of “interfering with an investigation” might seem to have teeth.  Comey verbally tells Trump on two more occasions that he is not being investigated, but refuses to state this fact publicly or when testifying in Congress.

Trump knows everything I have gone through above about Comey.  But he has to move carefully.  He has to get his Attorney General and Deputy AG in place, get enough leverage on the Russia narrative, and ideally get rid of Comey in a way that allows him to obtain all the information that Comey has been accumulating (if he is taping Trump he is taping others).  Comey, and others testify in Congress.  Under oath, both Sally Yates and Intelligence officials from the Obama administration state that there has been no actual evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  More importantly, Comey, while refusing to say that Trump is not under investigation, testifies that he has informed the Senate Intelligence Committee heads who exactly is under investigation regarding Russia.

Trump tells almost no one at the White House that he is moving against Comey (so no leaks… no listening in on his conversations) Trump somehow contacts Sen. Grassley (the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee) and confirms that Comey told the Senator that Trump was not under investigation personally.  Trump gets both the Attorney General and the new Deputy Attorney General to legitimately review Comey’s unprofessional actions at the FBI and to recommend in writing that Trump terminate Comey.  Somehow Comey goes to California (at the request of AG Sessions or already scheduled and someone at FBI telling Trump?).

Trump seizes the moment and acts. While Comey is in California, 3000 miles away and 7 hours from his office, Trump prepares a letter firing him (with Sessions and the Deputy AG recommendations attached).  In the letter Trump states that he had been told 3 times by Comey that he (Trump) was not under investigation.  The letter is hand-delivered to the FBI headquarters by DOJ officials to lock-down and seize everything in Comey’s office, including all surveillance files (“tapes”) of Trump and others.  All of Comey’s files, docs, computers and “tapes” are taken to Sessions at DOJ.  They are not taken to the Whitehouse or Trump, but to Sessions, who has every right to have them.  Sessions can tell Trump that Comey had surveillance tapes of Trump that contradict what Comey has been telling Trump, and perhaps tapes of conversations with other swamp “conspirators.”  But Trump does not have them personally or at the Whitehouse.

Comey learns he has been fired when the media broadcasts it in California.  He had no idea it was coming and he is ticked.  On cue, the Democrat politicians and media begin screaming about Trump’s “interference with the Russia  investigation” in accordance with the plan to set up Trump for that charge.  The Swamp wants to blow up the Russia narrative using Comey, and Comey is set to testify before Congress to try to hurt Trump by saying he was interfering with the FBI investigation.  Comey intends to follow through with the plan to take down Trump.

But because of his brilliant timing on this, Trump has Comey’s files, documents and information safely with Sessions at DOJ.  Trump sends out a “crazy” tweet that says:  “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.” 

The media and the politicians go crazy about the “inappropriateness” of this tweet.   They accuse Trump of “taping” everyone at the White House (forgetting that the Presidents phone calls with foreign leaders have been “taped” without his knowledge.)

Notice that Trump did not say he taped anyone, or that he has any tapes at the White House. It seem apparent that Trump is telling Comey that the DOJ (who has every legal right to possess it) has the surveillance information and files from Comey’s office, the “tapes” obtained and kept by Comey.  Comey and all the Swamp Creatures understand the clear message… their plan has failed and Trump’s DOJ is now holding all the cards.

The whole Russia interference scheme crashes and burns. While the mouthpiece media, Hollywood and the insane fringe continue to scream about Russia and Comey being fired, the politicians  who will soon be in the crosshairs of a legitimate (and ticked) FBI and DOJ are starting to fall strangely silent.  Comey realizes all the leverage is with Trump and that he will be lucky if he is not added to the Clinton Death List because of his knowledge (better not take any baths near an electrical outlet or get on any airplanes). 

Comey tells Congress he will not testify and writes a public letter to the FBI accepting his firing and telling them he does not want to discuss why or how he was terminated.  Senator Grassley and Senator Feinstein (she must be covering her butt in fear …) issue public statements confirming that Comey told them that the “Russia Investigation” does not involve President Trump personally.

AG Sessions and his Deputy AG use the Comey trove of information to determine who has been part of the Comey Syndicate at the FBI.  They will be appointing an “interim” Director of the FBI shortly who has not been compromised by Comey, Clinton or Obama.  That “interim” Director does not have to be approved by Congress or anyone, and can immediately begin cleaning house at the FBI of all Comey/Clinton/Obama minions, initiating investigations of the Clintons, Clinton Fund, violations of intelligence confidentiality laws by Susan Rice and Obama, human trafficking in DC, political corruption… draining the Swamp.  Using the Comey files they can be fairly certain they are not getting another Comey as an “interim”, and they do not have to wait for the circus of appointing a new permanent “Director” through Congressional approval.  Most of the heavy lifting on rooting out FBI corruption and starting investigations into the swamp will be done by the “interim” before a new director is appointed. I suspect the Trump administration hopes the approval FBI Director process will be slow and tedious, so there is no political interference with the housecleaning that is starting.

In one masterstroke, Trump has eliminated a truly toxic and dangerous enemy to his administration and our country, dealt a horrendous blow to the Clinton/Obama and deep state machines, begun the restoration of the integrity of the FBI and the DOJ, and gained incredible ammunition to begin hunting the foul creatures in the swamp.

Once again, I warn you that this analysis contains statements I have not verified, and clearly states opinions as well as facts. I will add that I have always been puzzled at why a private corporate lawyer, with no real investigative experience, and no law enforcement background, was suddenly called out of his private practice to become the head of the major investigative arm of the federal government.

In that capacity he headed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unlawful e-mail server, allowing destruction of evidence – deletion of much of the content on Mrs. Clinton’s judgment that it was not relevant, and the physical destruction of the device after those deletions – and other violations of law. The Clinton server investigation came to nothing despite hard evidence of compromise of classified information.

He was also head of the Russian collusion investigation, although, as Harvard Professor Dershowitz a leading liberal figure, observes there has been no allegation of a crime: it would be politically inadvisable, but there is no law preventing a Presidential Candidate from asking a foreign government for assistance in an election. Even the aged Logan Act does not prevent that. The “Russian investigation” was kept open for months despite no allegation that any crime whatever was committed, or any effective Russian act was undertaken..

But then Martha Stewart was jailed by then Assistant US Attorney (for Southern New York) Comey for denying that she said something that was not a crime if she said it. She was not under oath at the time, thus providing a new code of conduct in dealing with Federal Authorities even in unsworn statements: Say Nothing About Anything. Cooperation Could Get You Jailed.

Attorney General Lynch recused herself from deciding whether to prosecute Mrs. Clinton and left the decision to the FBI; this is not normal practice for an investigative agency, but then it is not normal to call in a Corporate Counsel from private practice to head the FBI.

With regard to the Flynn affair: I remind you that Flynn called the Russian Ambassador after President Obama declared persona non grata about 30 Russian diplomats and their families. If there is anyone who believes that the National Security Advisor designate (this was after the election but before inauguration) could talk to the Russian Ambassador and that subject would not come up, I have yet to meet that person; thus if Flynn, who called from the Trump Tower on a Trump phone with Trump permission was somehow being evasive about what he talked with the Russian Ambassador, it would be strange – especially when Flynn must have known that the FBI was listening to that phone call. And sure enough, Flynn, whose identity was supposed to be kept masked, was publicly unmasked and the details leaked to the Press: and that unmaking and leak is the one black letter felony we know of, proved to have happened, in this affair. It has yet to be prosecuted. There were other FISA unmaskings dating back to last summer, where the identities of US citizens known to have talked to foreign FISA tapped phones were commonly circulated in the White House during the campaign. No charges have ever been made about this although once again it is a black latter law felony The FBI must have been too busy investigating the Russian incidents to have time to look into these felonies.

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I often include this in the header to remind you that the school problem is not new, and has been getting worse for decades – for some of you, all your lives.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war.

Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983

This may help understanding:

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/overlooked-statistic-may-explain-americas-education-problems

 

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The purpose of most school administrators is to deal with regulations made by other school administrators. I went to Capleville public school during WW II. There were two grades to the room, about 25 pupils per grade. It was about an hour’s ride on the school bus to get there, and about an hour’s walk down the railroad track to get home in the afternoon if I didn’t want to spend the time on the school bus.

There were two grades to the room, about 25 pupils per grade. Four teachers were the entire faculty for a school of 8 grades; the 7-8 grade teacher was principal, and the 5-6 grade teacher was librarian. All of the teachers were two year graduates of teachers’ normal schools, associates of arts.

There was a janitorial staff, and a secretary, and sometimes a nurse. That was it for staff.

I would rate the education I received, in World, US, and Tennessee History, arithmetic and figuring/cyphering, and in English both grammar and literature, well above what my neighbors’ children are receiving in one of the top rated public schools in Los Angeles. Of course the current public schools all have principals, assistant principals, and “specialist consultants” who do not actually teach; many secretaries; and a number of teaching assistants (and at our local school, volunteers to assist in classes). None have read Evangeline, The Lady of the Lake, The Song of Hiawatha, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, or much other literature and essentially no poetry, but the children are happy, apparently, and the neighborhood housing prices reflect the high rating of the local school.

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Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

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Pneumonia, Washington hysteria

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war.

Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983

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This will be brief.

My long term infection was pneumonia. I suspected it when I just stayed in bed and began to feel better. Previously I would try to rally and the result was a relapse. I went to the doctors and they found nothing. By Tuesday I had had enough and had Mr. Galloway take me out to Kaiser for the day, where I found a young beginning resident who listened, examined me, sent me to x-ray – where the technician could see something going on in the lower left side of my lungs. After that it was shots to start the antibiotics, pharmacy to get a ten day course of antibiotics, and the rest of the day in bed.

The treatment is what you’d expect, sanitation, bed rest, and the anti-biotics. It’s working well enough that I have confidence it will work, but I am not starting a full work schedule until I know more. After a day of bed rest I’d feel enough better to act as if I were recovering, which would trigger the relapses. Not this time. If I’m not in bed I’m sitting quietly, warm, reading old Nero Wolfe novels. I owe you this report, and thanks to those who made inquiries. But I don’t know how long to recovery. I’ll let you know when I do.

But it’s definitely pneumonia.

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The news remains absurd. Today I heard on Fox News a Democrat official say that Mr. Trump clearly deserves impeachment. Asked for what crime – the Constitution is specific that there must be “high crime” – she said the President shared confidential information with the Russians. Since, so far as I know, that is an act of governance within the powers of the Presidency, and is certainly not prohibited in any statute, it is extraordinary that anyone claiming familiarity – much less expertise – would say such a thing in public, but it is apparently the new standard of journalism.

I haven’t much been following the news, but so far as I can see the President told Mr. Comey he hoped he’d be finished with the Russian investigation soon. This was apparently gleaned from leaks of Mr. Comey’s notes. If there is anyone on this planet, including Mr. Comey, who was unaware that President Trump wished the Russian investigation, started as a distraction from the flood of leaks coming from the State Department, would soon be over, I would be astonished; and even in Mr. Comey’s notes, conveniently leaked, I saw no hint of a direct order or a command. If that is a high crime we have come to a sorry state.

There is much more like this, If we need a special prosecutor, what of the one crime that seems to have come from all this investigating: the unmasking of American citizen names as a result of FISA surveillance? Those names were bandied about the White House during the last year of the previous administration, and were even leaked to the Press; a black letter felony. There is no grand jury investigating this known crime.

This is very tiring. I am going to bed.

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Proof of multiverses?

Since the Guardian is one of the more respected papers in Britain I have decided to forward this, despite that the article spends a good fraction of it’s length in irrelevant, snide political content and the “proof” of the existence of parallel universes, at least as expressed in the article, seems very tenuous.

The original Royal Astronomical Society press release contains the speculation repeated herein (https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2982-new-survey-hints-at-exotic-origin-for-the-cold-spot). However, they also note that models suggest that the “cold spot” (see links for detail) could have occurred naturally with 2% likelihood based on modeling today, so the absence for an alternate conventional explanation is rather meaningless.

Let’s not go crossing Einstein’s bridge just yet.

Subj: Proof of multiverses?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2017/may/17/multiverse-have-astronomers-found-evidence-of-parallel-universes

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The Cold Civil War

Jerry

I think this explains much:

http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-cold-civil-war/

It’s a middle-sized piece, but the main ideas are in the first few paragraphs. I can’t begin to do it justice.

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more on The Cold Civil War

Jerry

http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-cold-civil-war/

The ideas that keep haunting me: “The government apparatus identifies with the ruling class’s interests . . . Ever since Woodrow Wilson nearly a century and a half ago at Princeton, colleges have taught that ordinary Americans are rightly ruled by experts because they are incapable of governing themselves. Millions of graduates have identified themselves as the personifiers of expertise and believe themselves entitled to rule.” <snip>

There is much to contemplate here. We cannot rule ourselves; we need “experts”; only the experts increasingly sound like babbling idiots.

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Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

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Reporting health progress; Comey confusion. And other important or amusing matters.

Friday, May 12, 2017

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war.

Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983

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I really thought that by now I could report full recovery from the lower bronchial infection that has laid me low, but I can’t do that. The vectors are in the right direction. I’m definitely improving. I feel better this morning than I have for weeks, but I’m not recovered.

I suspect one reason for depression is the depressing news flowing steadily out of Washington. Whatever President Trump does, it’s not merely wrong, but wrong-headed, with evil intent, and probably part of a treasonous conspiracy with the Russians to deny the Clintons their due.

And he was to be condemned for not firing Comey when the Democrats wanted him fired, but now Comey was fired as part of the cover-up. But be of good cheer, eventually Mr. Trump, who never does the right thing, will be made to go away and the Clintons will be restored.

Ridiculous as all this sounds, there are serious people holding high office in the media, Hollywood, and Congressional office – as well as holdovers in the Administration – who apparently believe it, or successfully pretend to do so.

And that’s depressing.

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1600 Friday: what was supposed to be a quick trip to the hair dresser and barber took all afternoon. The TV alternated between CNN and Fox so I got it all: still depressing, still noise, little information. Adding to that cacophony would serve little purpose or add to reasoned discourse.

I have a good bit of mail, some important and some quite amusing; we’ll add those before midnight, but meanwhile I’ll post this.

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9 :45 PM

 

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I apologize to those who get this multiple times.

Bottom line: a virulent ransomware work built on top of hacked National Security Agency hardware is spreading quickly across the Internet. It has shut down hospitals and government offices in England, hit the Interior Ministry in Russia, and affected other targets across Europe and Asia. It is apparently just arriving in the US. The most recent Microsoft updates pushed down this week contain MITIGATIONS, not fixes, I am told.

Cautionary notes:

1.  This appears to be real enough that my son called me while I was driving home from work with the warning.

2. I will be taking my main computer offline to do a backup tonight after this, as recommended by my office IT guru.

3. There are several articles “above the fold” about the hack at Drudge Report.com. However, the “headline” article, a link to the ap article, attempted to download some adware or malware to my phone resulting in several reboots. Be cautious about even reputable sites (and not all of Drudge’s links are to reputable sites).

Subj: Cyber attack spreads across 74 countries; some UK hospitals crippled | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/12/cyber-attack-spreads-across-74-countries-some-uk-hospitals-crippled.html

This is a big one. Take precautions.

   J 

 

[A trusted competent subscriber]

 

There is a longer and readable analysis of Comey at http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160515646406/the-comey-firing

 

 

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Wonder material

Kansas State University researcher Gurpreet Singh has created a liquid polymer that can be heated into a high temperature, low-density ceramic, good to about 2000k, with pre-ceramic properties that range from watery to gel.  It seems like one can do a remarkable number of things with it.  Printing rocket engines was what came immediately to mind for me.  Maybe it’s too good to be true.
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-patents-waterlike-polymer-high-temperature-ceramics.html#nRlv
–Best, Gerald

  No other information available to me.

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“We don’t just have a skeleton. We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”

<http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/>

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Roland Dobbins

 

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Let this represent many:

 

You & Roberta

HI there Jerry & Roberta,
I popped in to check on you both. I hope Roberta continues to improve, and I’m sorry to hear about your circulatory troubles. The heat to your lower extremities is, of course a good idea. However a hot water bottle is not. I suggest you purchase what Bart & I call “hot rocks.” (I hope that gives you a laugh!) It is a cotton or muslin bag filled with a material – sometimes, buckwheat, corn, rice, etc., which is then placed inside another cotton bag. The entire gizmo can be placed in the microwave and heated. The inner materials last for years, and the nice thing is these units provide very long lasting and gentle heat with no worry of water leakage. Many companies make these items. There are even special booties available for purchase. Try a Google search on “Microwaveable Foot Warmers” These products can be found at Target, Bed, Bath & Beyond, on Amazon and elsewhere. Here is just one link to a company that uses corn in their products.
https://www.mainewarmers.com/
bye for now, and best wishes,
Adri

 

 

I have a lot of mail concerning cold feet.  Some suggest using bricks, which certainly hold heat but are less than convenient.  Bags of rice will heat in a microwave but present logistics problems. Hot water bottles work fine, but inevitably spring leaks.

 

HealthSmart Thera Beads from Amazon (available as Prime) heats in three minutes in the microwave, and holds enough heat when inserted between the covers down at the foot of the bed do the job nicely. Recommended. 

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: Here’s A Hint Of The Meltdown If U.S. Banned Laptops On Europe Flights – Vocativ

It’s nonsense like this that makes me think the next four years will be a continuation of the Bush years. They aren’t interested in winning the war, but they sure are interested in fighting it. Meanwhile the rest of us suffer to support incompetent empire.

http://www.vocativ.com/429088/meltdown-laptop-ban-european-flights/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=social

R

I can only hope you are wrong. Banning Laptops seems outrageous.  I do not detect more than the usual  support for continued fighting.

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Space Race To Hunt, Mine Asteroids In Next Five Years – MSN News

“Core material” — exactly what the asteroid miners were seeking in THE ROLLING STONES.  *Again*, Heinlein was right.

Space Race To Hunt, Mine Asteroids In Next Five Years

Greg Price

Newsweek – Newsweek – ‎Friday‎, ‎May‎ ‎12‎, ‎2017

The Chinese have plans to hunt, mine and even build a space station on asteroids, but are decades away from most ambitions.

http://a.msn.com/r/2/BBB2SsL?a=1&m=en-us

 

I wrote those stories forty years ago, about the next few years…

 

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Comey redux —

This might be a better take on it.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160515646406/the-comey-firing

Richard White
Del Valle, Texas

 

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Royal Marines strapped to Apaches

 

That reminds me of an incident in the memoir of a Vietnam War Cobra pilot…
When the Cobra’s were first introduced, there was concern about their ability to pick up the crews of another helicopter. With a Huey, it was no problem. But the Cobra only had the 2 seats. So they looked at the door panels on either side that gave access to the gun turret and ammunition. The doors were rated for 300 pounds each, so in a pinch, they could land, and put a crew member of a downed copter on either side, and fly them out.
During one mission, a Special Forces team was pinned down, and needed rescue. They landed the Cobra, and put two soldiers on each of the doors. The guys were yelling something to the pilot, but he assured them that it would be alright, and just to hang on. The control tower at the base had problems understanding that a Cobra was inbound carrying 6 people, but then noted that it was actually 7… The soldiers had been trying to tell the pilot there was one more person — that guy ended up grabbing hold of the skids of the Cobra as it lifted off.

 

 

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Someone is catching wise to the Iron Law

 http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/overlooked-statistic-may-explain-americas-education-problems

Richard White
Del Valle, Texas

 

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John Oliver is Wrong About Net Neutrality.

<http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/05/john-oliver-is-wrong-about-net.html>

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Roland Dobbins

 

Most writers are wrong about net neutrality as it has turned out.The regulators mean well, perhaps, but most haven’t a real clue.

 

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Lost Generation: The Relay Computers.

<https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/lost-generation-the-relay-computers/>

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Roland Dobbins

 

Long , but amusing and educational.

 

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Recovery and health care, and other important matters

Monday, May 8, 2017

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

Barrack Obama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa-5JdCnmo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/11/fact-check-keeping-your-health-plan/3500187/

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war.

Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983

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Recovery remains slow, but the vector seems to be in the right direction. My malaise is definitely not helped by the near winter conditions we are experiencing. The late Jack Smith, a Los Angeles columnist I read since I came to LA in the 60’s, used to remind us that LA had a season most ignored: Wummer, Winter in Summer, sometimes called “June Gloom” but worse than that; but this is early May. I have poor lower body circulation and try to keep me feet warm, sometimes warming my feet against my legs; an uncomfortable and time consuming ritual. Last night was too much, and in the middle of the night I found the hot water bottle I had put away last April or so. I use it every night in winter – my bed is a long way from an electrical outlet, and running wires across the floor is dangerous for late night bathroom expeditions with a walker – and soon had warm feet. Alas I also had a wet bed as well, because the hot water bottle had sprung a small leak I had not detected. No great problem; my upper body circulation and heat generation are fine. But it was uncomfortable for a while.

Of course I threw the old water bottle away and ordered another, but it won’t get here for a day or so. I suppose I’ll microwave a towel – carefully – and try that. My feet don’t get cold under the covers, but if they’re cold when I go to bed they don’t warm up without another heat source. Not your problem, but time consuming. Very. Which is why I don’t have a lot of time to work on this.

I do find that it improves my demeanor and attitude if I get some work done, and I’m determined to keep that up. I have notes on finishing Mamelukes, and I’ve done some work on that. I’m not just vegetating.

Roberta continues to improve, and seems to have escaped the lower bronchial infection that plagues me. Between us we need 24 hour attention — she more than me, as she is less mobile – and that proves to be expensive. I have no choice but to keep working: I need the money. Getting old is expensive.

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I continue to have nothing to add to the health “insurance” debate. Obamacare declared that for most of us, the responsibility to pay for our medical expenses did not rest on us, but on other citizens and residents of the United States; and we were all “entitled” to equal treatment, no matter how expensive. This is of course impossible. There isn’t room for all of us at Sloan Kettering, and if everyone who got cancer went there, it wouldn’t BE Sloan Kettering. “Insuring” against something that has already happened – pre-existing conditions — isn’t insurance, it’s a subsidy, it’s someone else paying your bills. A prominent intellectual said on television tonight that he wished everyone who wanted to repeal Obamacare had pre-existing conditions to a painful fatal disease. He is saying in effect that if you don’t want to pay for his problems, he wishes you a plague, a painful death, and he will be glad to dance at your deathbed. I have heard no liberal comments on this. Fox news showed him making the statement but did not comment as I watched.

And that is what we have been driven to.

The Senate is unlikely to approve the House deal; Obamacare will continue to govern. Millions who previously had no health insurance now have something called “insurance”, for as long as the funds continue.

The President will continue to try; he’s a pragmatist. Democrats in both Houses will continue to say no one is allowed to govern but them, and they will say no to any attempts to do otherwise.

Perhaps the economy will grow so rapidly that it will not matter. The economic boom, and the increased productivity due to robots, will save us.

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You approvingly quoted J. Neil Shulman, who proposed that there be Medicare for all with pre-existing conditions. I left this comment:
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Medicare for pre-existing conditions? Not bad… but it leads straight to single-payer, as the insurance industry widens the definition of pre-existing condition. Ultimately we all have a fatal pre-existing condition, called Life.
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To this I add: “Your money or your life” is not a normal market.

Paradoctor

If you read my essay it is obvious that I do not approve or advocate relieving people of their individual health care expense responsibility; at least not with money collected at the point of a gun, which is to say, taxes. I have no objection to you paying someone else’s medical bills, including mine. Does that make me obliged to pay yours? When I was a lad, all the tenants bought burial insurance; they knew they would eventually need it. The insurance companies threw annual parties instead of paying dividends. Everyone seemed happy.

And the tax collector eventually does say “Your money or your life.”

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engineering shortage & the iron law

Dr. Pournelle,
This article quotes your Iron Law in re a fine levied for unlicensed engineering: http://hackaday.com/2017/05/08/the-dangers-of-engineering-while-unlicensed/
Together with this article http://reut.rs/2qOL3Ta , I think the two describe the real cause of the shortage of qualified engineers: suitability is determined by the expected cost of the employee added to the engineer’s willingness to kowtow to the “union.” My observation has always been that there are plenty of engineers, but relatively few of those are willing to toe the line.
Employers pay more and take on longer and greater non-salary financial obligations for U.S. workers.
Hoping for yours and Roberta’s continued recovery.
-d

I see.

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Where’s My Immigration Prediction Model? | Scott Adams’ Blog,

Jerry

He puts some sense into the argument:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160447583616/wheres-my-immigration-prediction-model

Ed

Indeed. But there are never grants for such models.

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Recovery

Dear Dr. Pournelle,

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been ill, but I’m glad to hear that you are recovering. Please accept my prayers for a swift one!

As towards your discussion of health care — to me, it seems very similar to the 90’s movie “The Matrix”, if the Matrix were not a simulation, but a human welfare state. In the story, the “red pills”

who were willing to live in hardship in order to be free were always a minority compared to those who were more than content to be taken care of, even at the expense of their freedom. I believe ‘Farnham’s Freehold’ by Heinlein addressed a similar topic.

I think that is the inevitable result of any civilization which becomes too successful. Politicians use the surplus wealth to buy votes, and once people are on the grain dole, or on health insurance, it’s pretty much impossible to get them off again; too many people depend on them.

It’s usually not possible to convince the mass of blue pills to live as free men, either in real life or in the movies. The most we can do is travel elsewhere , to a new frontier, and start the cycle over.

So we need to get hopping on inventing an Alderson drive!

Respectfully,

Brian P.

I thought that way for much of the Cold War; the CoDominium was the least dangerous outcome I could see. And the dispersion. Then Star Wars and Reagan won the Cold War, but are we better off? I make no assessment in my present state. We have officially told more than half the populace that they are not responsible for their medical bills. No one wants to lose that gift.

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CO2

You stated “Given the rise if CO2 and methane (CH4) it would be well to invest in techniques for removing excesses of those”
Why? CO2 is plant food; it does not cause ‘catastrophic global warming’ or ‘climate change’. There has been no significant warming for the past 20 years while CO2 concentration continued to increase. This increase in CO2 has been greening the planet; why is that a problem?
The trend of average global temperature measured over the past 8000 years since the Holocene Optimum has been cooling.
The trend of average global temperature measured over the past 400 years since the Little Ice Age has been warming.
The trend of average global temperature measured over the past 20 years shows no significant change.
Pick whichever time frame supports the political agenda you’re dealing with, the planet doesn’t care. Neither do earth scientists who are not beholden to any political masters.
To quote Matt Ridley:
“The inescapable if unfashionable conclusion is that the human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second, by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.”
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-greening-of-the-planet.aspx

jean

I have discussed this before at greater length. I should not care to be part of an uncontrolled experiment to determine the tolerable upper limit of CO2; there is one, very likely and we have not begun to approach it. There are numerous ways of removing excess CO2 and CH4 from the atmosphere if the concentration gets too high; it would be well to develop one while we have the means to do it. Bankrupting ourselves by shutting down industries does not seem effective, and many won’t do it anyway. It is not an urgent project but it is eventually going to be needed.

I agree that for the moment CO2 is more like free fertilizer than pollution.

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Well worth reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-i-almost-killed-my-mom-with-a-simple-anti-itch-pill/2017/05/05/63359b74-1496-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html

Basically, medications we usually think of as completely benign (in this case, Benadryl) can have dramatic side effects in older people, even from a single standard dose.

I had no idea.

This document scores a great many common medications:

http://www.agingbraincare.org/uploads/products/ACB_scale_-_legal_size.pdf

Note that the scale here goes from “1” for the least risk to “3” for the highest risk.

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Worth reading I agree. I have not had similar experience with Benadryl, which I first encountered as a prescription drug, and I have used a lot of it over time, but not much lately.

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A10’s very helpful That time 4 Royal Marines strapped themselves to Apaches – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEX-c2W2yc

Certainly worth watching.

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Obamacare and Bleeding Kansas

Good morning, Dr. Pournelle –
I just read in your May 8th Chaos Manor that you feel you are improving. That is wonderful news. Even if you take three steps forward and two steps back, it’s still one step forward.
There were two comments of yours that I wanted to address;
1) I read where you posted, “It’s always better if you can give millions of people free stuff that other people must pay for. It always makes you feel much better,” in response to a post on the dems’ reaction on the vote to “overhaul” Obamacare.
Well, the only “overhaul” I’ll like is a complete repeal with no replacement, but I’m not holding my breath. Once again, republicans show themselves in competition to be the better democrat.
Anyway, I think there is one way to speedily bring about a major “overhaul” in federal healthcare all sorts of other misbegotten programs;
Take away payroll deductions for income tax. Give workers their entire paycheck and then require them to personally write the checks for their income tax burden to the government.
I’m willing to bet change will come pretty fast afterwards.
Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening, either. What I see is that it won’t be until the entire system comes crashing down around our collective heads, destroying what we know as the United States of America. Then, if other nations leave us alone – ha ha – we might be able to rebuild into something better.
Although, I spent a year teaching high school physics and I saw what the schools were putting out, so – well, maybe we won’t be able to build something better.
2) I saw your comment, “I wonder: do they even teach ‘Bleeding Kansas’ in schools any longer?” and have to say that I’ve never heard of “Bleeding Kansas.” I graduated high school in 1976, so, maybe they don’t.
Now, I’ll have to go look it up.
Cam Kirmser

It’s worth looking up. The Movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales” makes more sense, too, after you’ve done that. Many on the anti union side just wanted to be left alone. Many more fought “For our property we won by honest toil”…

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Tweaked titanium turns C02 into solar fuel

I find this pretty exciting. Technical solutions to CO2 that offer additional benefits and don’t require destroying economies seem vastly preferable to me.

An ability to convert carbon dioxide into energy using only the power of the sun, as plants do through photosynthesis, would be a monumental breakthrough in green energy research. More and more we are seeing promising strides in this area, the latest of which is the work of scientists at the University of Central Florida (UCF), who have come up with synthetic material that turns visible light from the sun into solar fuels, sucking harmful C02 out of the air in the process.

“The idea would be to set up stations that capture large amounts of CO2, like next to a power plant,” says Uribe-Romo. “The gas would be sucked into the station, go through the process and recycle the greenhouse gases while producing energy that would be put back into the power plant.”

http://newatlas.com/tweaked-titanium-c02-fuel/49222/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fa772c4f23-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-fa772c4f23-88920025

John Harlow

Vice President – Services

I have no other information.

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Trump moving on handing control of education back to locals

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-asks-betsy-devos-to-study-federal-overreach-in-education/article/2621365

Hope you’re feeling better. It’s pretty bad up here as well.

Phil

Since few schools teach anything that any employer would pay money to have you do, school reform is needed; it may help build an economic boom; or rather to sustain one.

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NASA is Running Out of Spacewalk [spa] Suits.

<https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/27/nasa-is-running-out-of-spacesuits/>

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Roland Dobbins

Long ago I tried to get them to invest in better and cheaper suits. Everyone agreed they were needed – “But not out of MY budget!”

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Healthcare

Jerry,
Having the government as a single payer is similar to private insurance in the source of the money but has some important differences.  The executives of insurance companies are paid multi millions per year vs. the inefficiency of government bureaucracy.
The main advantage of a single payer is that the government would then have the power to actually lower medical costs, particularly drugs.  As you know, in every other advanced country the government runs the health system and it it costs 2  to 8 time less than here.  (According to Atlantic Monthly)
What we should do is look at the other countries and learn from them.  I thought one of  Singapore’s planners remarks priceless: when asked what he had learned from the American system.  “What not to do.”  He replied.
I don’t have a good answer for how to manage doctor’s pay.  I suppose in the long run having the government pay for their education might help.  I think the system will be unrecognizable in a decade due to AI and robotics anyway.
The American system isn’t as great as most believe.  Statically we don’t do as well as many other countries.  I read in Consumer Reports (May) 650,000 patients a year acquire a disease in hospital that is largely preventable and 75,000 die from it.  That’s a lot of people.  We spend a lot to reduce the 18/year killed by terrorists on average.
Best regards,
Adrian Ashfield

This needs discussion I haven’t time or energy for just now. The first thing to decide is who owes your doctor for time he spent taking care of your children? And if that’s not you, why does he owe it? Next, how much is owed him, and who determines that?

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Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

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