the 800 lb gorilla in the room...

Ok nobody has said it but here it is This is my theory on the disappearances of the airliners.  Now you can call me a kook or whatever.  They flew into a micro black hole born out of the LHC finding the "God" particle.  Opening a universe within a universe can only lead to random fluctuations within time-space.

Je Suis Charlie

I need to rant about the Charlie Hebdo and Boko Haram problems that are going on.  We have always been the dog faced nation it's what we have now and will always be.  We need to be there for these people if we want democracy to survive bad things are happening not only over there but here as well, we are acting scared we need to look at how we change the world not through violence but by peaceful demonstration Civil Disobedience that is what changes the way things are not by fear and terrorism.  I support the French people and share in their grief over what simple minded people have done.  We need to educate people only with an education can you be dangerous to the status quo and seek the change that you want to see in the world.

New year, new attitude.

I was hit with a lot of stuff this week I found out that my ex-wife has had a daughter with her new husband and my boys now have a sister and I am pretty much out of their lives except for times when I get to see them.  I guess I have to accept that and acceptance can be really hard but this to shall pass.  I am have moved on and now I am ready to enjoy my new life I can feel a roller coaster ride coming on and I think it will be a good one.

I do have to rant on one thing that I found out.  I just read in a magazine that their are plans to drill to the center of the earth over in Europe.  A large part of me says that this is a bad idea.  Not just to the loss of life but what it might ultimately do to our planet.  I like to think of the planet as a living organism and drilling straight to the heart of it is really bad juju.  It's just my two cents take it or leave it.

I got Connor a video camera that is kind of like a GoPro so he can record stuff and hope fully he will.  It was weird My ex dropped off Ethan and took Connor away in the car so I visited with Ethan and he is doing really well and going to be wrestling soon.  I am so proud of them both.  I guess they got grounded for some reason and had their doors taken away from their rooms which I thought was kind of harsh.  But he wouldn't tell me they they got grounded?  I worry about them but they seem ok Ethan was pretty emotional just seeing me and kind of cried and said that he missed me and Connor  said he missed me and gave me a hug through the window as they drove off.  I really don't know what to think my head is spinning with all kinds of thoughts but I have to be faithful that things will shake out in the end.

To all of you out there Never mind the bullocks and Up The Irons Hail to the new year, eh?  and keep your stick on the ice.

Gordy

A modern Day Protest Song

They say that Billy the Kid shot a man for snoring to loud
to the fright and joy of the crowd some did like him
some did hate him cause you never knew what he did
Now modern days are making waves for stranger ways
to figure how to keep a man down
Libraries likes to keep it quiet
it's to bad if your on a diet
and the hunger pangs are louder than crying out insane
But whatever you do if you fall asleep, DON'T SNORE!

Don't Snore
Even though you can't control it
Your the one who own's it
Don't Snore
Others may sleep but if you make a peep there's the door.

Now it may because you overweight
or maybe your septum ain't just straight
It don't matter any way or any how
See that man silently sleeping
He's causing somebody, no griefing
But your Snoring's like a nail into my head!!!

Don't Snore
Even though you can't control it
Your the one who own's it
Don't Snore
Others may sleep but if you make a peep there's the door.

Ebola, Isis and the Redskins

It seems that we are in a whole new mess that no one really wants to touch.  I had taught Biology and had my students read "The Hot Zone."  So they are very aware of the dangers of Ebola and it's cousins like Marburg and Yellow Fever.  One thing though that we never really discussed is the way that Ebola has jumped from the primates to the human race.  Many thought the beastiality way and that some sick human had had sex with a monkey or other primate.  The truth is that Monkey brains are a delicacy in many jungle lands just like other animals.  We in the "civilized" world would rather have our food slaughtered in factories and served to us in fast food and other restaurants.  I once saw the first move in the "Faces of Death" series when a friend was joining the fire department and they gave it to him to help desensitize him to some of the things he might see in the field.  in it there was a restaurant that served fresh monkey brains.  the monkey was served alive and and the consumers bashed in the head with small hammers and ate the brains straight from the skull.  Knowing this it easy to see how a pathogen can jump from one species to another.

Mad cow disease has been stalled by stopping the practice of grinding up the slaughtered cows brains back into the cattle feed.  We do still use animal parts such as brains for cosmetics and for food.  This is nothing new we always used animals for our nourishment for our clothing and other supplies.  this is just the way things are there is nothing wrong with it, it just is.  Just like an apex predator wouldn't think twice about eating one of us, we are just animals that are a bit more creative in out thinking and uses of the environment.

So while I was teaching my science classes my students once asked me how I thought we would be eradicated.  My answer was through the bugs not the insects but the viruses and bacteria that are in environs.  We saw the Black Plague take over 25% of the population before and we have moved on to bigger and better protections for ourselves.  The advent of immunizations have saved millions if not billions on this Earth.  So to me to think that an immunization is a smack in the face ofGod or is Government control over us is ridiculous.  If you leave raw meat out it it will get maggots and turn bad that is just how things work.

Ebola scares the shit out of me but the one saving grace in America is that we don't leave the dead to the family to bury we have a handle on how to dispose of bodies and biohazardous materials.  What we need is EDUCATION for those who don't understand how the disease passes the same with AIDS we have stemmed AIDS in America yet it still runs wild in other countries because of the education is not there, their governments are the ones failing them.  If we as a civilized nation want to see these countries develop into first world countries we need to help them maybe not with violence but education and compassion.

With that said, I realize that Isis or Isil or whatever it is calling itself is just another terror organization of shoot of a militant religion.  you can sit back and say that all Muslims are bad, but you know what that is stupid and racist and wrong.  In America we have the Westboro Baptist church and other crazy christian "Soldiers" who execute doctors for performing abortions.  Human trafficking is alive and well in America as is slavery we just don't really pay attention to it.  Once in a while we do and we are outraged until the next news cycle brings up some kid that fell into a well some where.  Is it wrong, yes but the news will spin everything one way or the other and polarize the nation.

As for our position in the middle east I think we should be out of there.  we really have no interest there save for oil. so if we are going to be there at least be honest about it and claim the three G's God, Glory and Gold.  That fucked up enough countries in the past, we are still doing the same thing just not saying it anymore.  At least be honest.  Yes it is horrible to see beheadings and to see people die.  but you know what it happens.  We have become the world's police and that is not our job.  We need to be a nation that worries about ourselves for once we kind of fixed the economy now lets not stop short lets make the USA great again by rebuilding our infrastructure and restart our commitment to science and the arts.

Last but no least, my opinion on the Washington Redskins.  What a stupid name it should be changed and it is racist, but We live in the USA and it is a First Amendment issue.  The constitution allows us the freedom to say and do stupid things that other will disagree with and that is the beauty of America.  Just the fact that we can make fun of the president makes it ok for a sports team to have a racist name.  just like artists can say things in songs and paintings and books that are there for public consumption.  I actually think it is unfortunate that we censor so much on TV and in the media.  it is unfortunate that we hold a double edged sword when it comes to our freedoms.

By the way HI NSA monitors and any other who might be watching I love you but stop watching me and protect the white house don't you know some guy got in there the other day.  What the fuck??

Here we go

Did you ever stop and wonder why the world's the way it is
No common denominator just rugged alligators if god had a plan than I'd see it in my hand when i look and see the only thing I patterns that be there for you and me love each other with no hate show compassion where we congregate there's no time we've passed the line and now we gotta listen to our mother before we get hurt.

Star burst in the sky
I wonder why
Starburst in the sky
May be it's time for a change
May be it's time to rearrange

I dropped my receiver now I'm feelin' like Ward Clever take a look a around and see shootings while watching batman and battles in Afghanistan This worlds gone to crazy I guess that what happens when your lazy is it time to rise above status quo and give them something more of a show.

Star burst in the sky
I wonder why
Starburst in the sky
May be it's time for a change
May be it's time to rearrange

It's automatic not to dramatic when your helping someone else compassion can flow like a river that we know come in up on the slow and follow the flow sometimes you gotta drop what ya know to let them see the flow it's the consequence of the things you meant but in the end you gotta pay the rent child.

WAR!!! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it again...WAR!!

So we gave peace a little bit of a chance but no we have to back and fight in a nation that has absolutely nothing to do with us.  I understand that every president wants a war so that they lead the people to a robust type defense based economy.  But the hard and fast truth is that we are hated by pretty much the whole world.  We stick our noses into other countries businesses as the world cops.  Now is this a bad thing?  We are one of the super powers.  But Thomas Jefferson wanted us to be more isolated and agrarian I think we have lost that model to something more perverse in this whole flattening of the world crap.

I was for it as a kid.  it seemed like a good Idea to help out suffering countries but look what it has done to our nation itself we produce almost nothing all we have are big box stores that people flock to because it is cheaper and comes from china.  They work for slave wages while we rest on our laurels and raise the minimum wage to over $10.00 in some states.  the only thing that does is inflate a dollar that is already worth next to nothing.  Pretty soon we are going to have the same problem that they did in Mexico in the 80's and 90's  inflation will grow so much that you will be paying over $40.00 for a watermelon and then we have to at some point devalue the dollar.

The solution I know you don't like it but we have to start paying off our debt raising taxes but for a better economy.  Yes the rich should pay more than the poor thats just right.  you have the money they don't that will help to stabilize the economy and start bring the debt down a bit take the jobs back from overseas and put people to work for a good wage that will see them into a stable home environ.

We don't need to go to war.  if we just stopped and looked at ourselves our enemies eyes we might see a different perspective on life and it's fragility.

That brings me to Ebola.  Ebola is scary if you have read the books about it you know that it is the perfect virus.  It kills indiscriminately which in itself to a biologist like me is kind of beautiful in a way.  I know that sounds creepy but think about it a virus that does not see race, color, blood type, genetics, etc.  only a handful of people have survived it and it due to their blood that we have that concoction at the CDC that they gave the first American that came back from it.  I can understand Donald Trumps freak out, But we are different in culture than the Africans when it comes to burials and I don't think the news is doing a good job of explaining that.

In Africa the family takes care of the body and prepares it for burial that is why the virus is so deadly it jumps from the blood of the dead to the living.  Bad juju.  So yes it will be better quarantined here in America because we have better facilities.  Although, the human factor is always a factor.  Nuff said.

Thanks for reading my little rants every now and then I see that we have over 1400 reads so that makes me kind of happy I hope that together we can get through this coming winter I think it is going to be interesting to say the least.