House Vote Fails as DHS Deadline Fast Approaches

The department of Homeland Security will not make their funding deadline of tonight, but instead will be forced to close down, thanks to John Boehner.  He tried this three week vote thing which he knew was doomed, but he did it anyhow.  John Boehner could have done a sensible thing and followed what the US Senate did this morning and voted on a “clean” bill with funding through this September.  But the vast majority of the time when John Boehner has a choice- - -  he decides most often in favor of the ultra right tea party members in his own party, even when putting a clean bill up to a democratic vote would be the most sensible thing to do and let the chips fall where they may.  Because of John Boehner’s action- - “essential” DHS workers will have to show up for work and not get paid, and in the mean time the government will have yet another ongoing crisis on its hands. But eighty percent of the Department of Homeland Security will still go on working.  So it's another bogus shutdown.  And those workers will no doubt get paid anyhow, retroactively in a week or two, and this government 'shutdown' will end up COSTING more money than anything that could conceivably be saved.  (Selah)

Borris Memtsov was assassinated- - gunned down at the request of Vladimir Putin, because he was a political obstacle, which is how the Russian culture deals with these kinds of problems.  Memtsov was apparently a former deputy Prime Minister.  Regardless of what Putin might say publicly, we all pretty much know how he really feels.  The idea of a democratic vote and let the chips fall where they may- is unthinkable.  And so the evidence grows by the day that Putin is power mad.  He has nukes and says he’s not afraid to use them. 

A crazed gunman went on a shooting spree Thursday night in Missouri killing four cousins and three other people, and then turned the gun on himself.  It’s my contention that the hottest places in hell are reserved for these murder suicide type shootings.   Norman Goldman says “Next time with cases like this- - try killing YOURSELF first- - and after that, THEN you can turn the gun on the others”.   They say that guns don’t kill; people kill.  But you don’t put bullet holes in people with a pea shooter or s sling shot or a box cutter.   It’s just another white dude in the middle of the Bible belt- - and nobody asks, “What would Jesus do?”

Sometimes you get silly articles like this C-Net thing on Net Neutrality.  No - - Net Neutrality will not end world hunger or eliminate global warming or bring about world peace.  It won’t speed up your current slow internet if you suffer from one.  And net neutrality will not stop the merger between Comcast and Time-Warner.  The FCC ruling will not in and of itself “increase competition” from what it is right now.  No.  But nobody is saying this is the ONLY remedy that needs to be undertaken, but merely the first.  We have to stop merger fever.  And we have to control these preemptive laws (by States?) which state that individual cities cannot build their own, super fast, free public internet.  We have a lot of work yet to do, for sure!

Area that is beyond an “event horizon” is NOT “sequestered”, like a jury is sequestered.  And there is nothing "different" about area now visable to you beyond the event horizon.  It's just that before you didn't see it, and now you do.  If you accelerate - - your “event horizon” moves.  The faster you are moving, the more your event horizon shifts.  Many of you may be fuzzy on what happens to the gravitational field once an object is accelerated - - - - either approaching, at, or beyond the speed of light.  If you look at it strictly in terms of gravity - - I’ve given this thought.  The “circle” of a gravity field becomes off center- - and when the “center” is “on the line” you are at the speed of light.  Beyond the speed of light there remains a gravity field- -  but now with the “line” on the other side – “up” and “down” are now reversed.  What this means in practical terms is that- - once the “line” is on the “other side” gravity flip flops.  It reverses.  Now there is no fixed “line” like “city limits” of gravity.  It's just that to indicate gravity direction - - draw an arrow away from the "line' and to the center (of the gravity).  It’s a continuoum where gravity gets weaker and weaker.  But yes there is a point where you pass this “ghost center” of gravity - - .  When you are AT this “ghost center” gravity is very strong.  Then it suddenly reverses meaning that the object you are pursuing- - now appears to be actually Repelling you.  After all, you are now being pulled backward to this “ghost point” center of gravity.   But if you are ON this traveling vessel - - - “losing your gravity” does NOT apply to you because YOU relative to YOU are still stationary. 

Lennard Nemoy died today of cardiac complications.  He was 83.  He accepted that he’d always carry the Mr Spock identity- - and closed his web site greetings with l l a p, or live long and prosper, the Valcan salutation.  Of course Nemoy also did “Unsolved Mysteries” and other voice-overs and produced two of the Star Trek movies, and also produced “Three Men and a Baby” in 1987.  What you want to know is whether the Orion Federation - - is Lennard Nemoy’s destination after death.  I don’t know that.  There were two prominent deaths in the fall of 1991, Freddy Mercury and Gene Rodenberry, and neither of those was a “good death” and both are said to have an adverse afterlife.  Both of these deaths took place during the Taccoman occupation period of Federation communacations, which is a polite word for Propaganda Dept.  The Taccomans in this era also made a big thing out of Magic Johnson being diagnosed with AIDS.  Bones (the BOSC Bones, that is) was asked to weigh in on a voluntary Taccoman takeover of communacations, and Bones initially said “I don’t know anything about the Taccomans” but then a few hours later came back with- - a reminder of that time in September of 1990 he was given a two or three week “furlough” from that Rhondonian curse that lasted four years- - - and if you don’t know the details of that, come back another day.   But other than that Bones knew less about the Taccomans than I do, and I don’t know that much.

 In soap land- - Eve Larsen can’t handle success.  She got everything she wanted with respect to JJ and still she is mad at the girl JJ got to “impersonate the girl he’s having the affair with”.   I had Bill Carol on before and after lunch and he was talking about this “blue dress” that everyone thinks is a different color on the internet.  Net neutrality is in the news but of course we talked about it in a posting back on February 7^th or something, so we were some two and a half weeks ahead of the learning curve on that one.  But the head of the FCC made a big speech yesterday saying that all he wants to do is to keep the internet free, just as it has been.  Apparently Rush Limbaugh is all upset over it.  Some say it’s been a good week for progressive since Obama vetoed the Trans-Canada pipeline earlier in the week.  And now the Republicans are fighting each other in congress.  The latest news is that they are going to vote out a “Clean” bill funding Homeland Security for just three weeks till March 21^st.   To me this seems rather pointless.  I still say it’s better to concede the point- - and let them revoke President Obama’s measures on immigration that he did without their permission.  He wondered if he’d get congressional permission for his acts, and now he knows he won’t have Congress’ blessing, and that ought to end it.

And now we move to a slightly more- - - “Real” topic.  Judy and Paul called up wanting to know when the BOSC house was sold and when the Dana Point place was purchased.  I knew they were close together, or had that association in my mind.  It turns out that the purchase and sell dates were one day apart in mid June of 1991.  [sentence edited out here]  It would seem that Mom officially has Alzheimers.  I guess it’s nice to put a name to the condition.  The doctors told Paul and Judy yesterday and they are going to talk more with them this afternoon.  I didn’t know that Mom went all the way down to Vista for the examination.  Paul says coconut oil works wonders on brain alertness, or at least it did for Paul.  The brain runs on fat, so if you supply the brain with good saturated fats it figures it will do better.  I reviewed my own history with GNLD with Judy.  Paul suggested that since perhaps Mom was reading books on Alzheimers disease as early at 2012 that perhaps she has mentally prepared herself for dealing with this disease.  It would be nice to “nip this disease in the bud” right now, huh?