People Continue to 'Bust their Butts'

People in some parts of the U.S.A. public avow they 'bust their butts' as a kind of self-attestation they have worked with vigor, unsurpassably, until exhaustion, etc. I have never liked the phrase because it's inaccurate. Got it done is a more humble approach. Worked diligently or even worked hard are preferable phrases. We broke a sweat has at least some literal correspondence. 

So I considered the etymology a little. Obviously one does not claim to have 'busted our fingers' or 'busted my toes' for those kinds of industrial accidents actually happen. One might say if a coal miner that we 'busted our lungs' or if a secretarial aspirant to make graduate school a female union say that we 'busted our wrists' (with carpal tunnel). Bust sutures, bust ankles, bust rotator cuff tendons, bust lower ab with hernia, bust skull, bust teeth, we got blisters,  we broke a sweat, etc.

The slang dictionary has redefined the term to mean that if one says 'we bust our asses' or 'we bust our butts' that one sat all day.

If one was a pro wrestler busting one's butt could mean having a broken coccyx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alZjxh8Z3Jk bust butt one style

http://www.accesshollywood.com/articles/khloe-kardashian-slams-lipo-rumors-i-bust-my-ass-at-the-gym-161838/ bust butt in exercise yet also meaning busting butt size down with exercise

The Tribulation was in the First Century & the Beast Emperor Nero

F.Y.I. the ' beast' was Nero and the inverted 666 a 1st century Jewish numerical spelling equivalent. The tribulation occurred in the first century when Jerusalem was destroyed Paul and Peter martyred.. Kenneth Gentry explained who the beast is in a book named 'The Beast of Revelation'- http://www.amazon.com/The-Beast-Revelation-Kenneth-Gentry/dp/0915815419 I have a free (for a while) book on more topics misunderstood by too many about science and faith at http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era/ebook/product-22571216.html

Will Obama Seek Castro's Advice on Supreme Court Nominee?

President Obama has scheduled a visit to Cuba perhaps to get Castro's opinion on who would be the best politically leveraging choice for his Supreme Court nominee. The President should try to get something practical done during his time in Havana like twisting arms to get thousands of new low-cost sailboat slips constructed for future poor American sailors so they will have somewhere to go that is affordable instead of sleeping with the fire ants.

Pope Makes Partisan Racist Motivated Attack on Trump-Probably Pro-Bush

The Pope has denounced Donald Trump's stance of defending U.S. border and immigration policy as non-Christian. I was going to let the obvious Latino racist/la raza electioneering trip to Juarez go uncommented, yet the Pope has gone too far in attacking Trump in order to get support for the very weak catholic Bush III candidacy in the South Carolina primary Saturday he may have sympathy with.

The Pope sided with Al Qaeda, drug traffickers and human smugglers in seeking to keep the border security and immigration policy weak and out of control of the people of the United States. The Pope wants the U.S.A. to be a catholic nation and the fastest way is with millions of new illegal catholic immigrants.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-pope-idUSMTZSAPEC2IR63ZHF

The Pope is dead wrong that Trump's immigration policy isn't Christian. It is Christian to have democracy instead of imperial rule with tyrant kings or Popes as gods on earth or specially appointed by God to rule as long as they live. The people of the United States preponderantly want control of their land and for entirely legal immigration policy with rational numbers of immigrants and no illegal crossings. Most Americans don't want slaves-a civil war was fought to end that the Pope might learn if pressed to. Neither do slaves seek out new opportunities across legal boundaries to get into slavery. The Pope is full of wrong ideas about immigration.

it is o.k. for Christians to have a nation of laws by and for the people with equal protection of the law rather than rule by anarchic corruption or despotism. If Mexico is broke, fix it; it is a catholic nation-and 's probably whats wrong with it historically speaking.

A Warm Northern WInter, Record Icepack Minimum for Jabuary

Warming winters with ice retreating makes one think about Mitchner's 'Alaska' and things of the past. When sabir tooth tigers and woolly mammoths ranged free and only one species of brown bear had migrated to S.E. Alaska. The loss of glacier coverage makes one yearn for better days perhaps on another world cold from a good climate rather than human character.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-sea-ice-hits-new-january-low/

Would Tlingits of the era before the village of Hoonah (north wind) existed have recognized the place the way the Tsongass forest is today, or even James Muir?

image credit: Cryosphere Today


image credit; Gary C. Gibson Mendenhall Glacier 2013

Another Low-Tech Water Desalinization Idea

Placing a transparent pipeline inside a large transparent pipeline with the inner pipeline filled with water, and the inner pipe actually only a 3/4 pipe open at the top, would allow evaporated water from the inner pipe to rise , condense and fill the larger pipe and it would be directly drained into a lower pipe connected and perhaps buried under insulating earth except for the raised connection.

A section of pipe near a seashore without fresh water might be filled from a hose or smaller pipeline to fill the primary evaporation pipe section with solar or human powered bicycle pumps etc. Maybe the pipe section would easily open when dry to allow easy collection of salt residue.

I think there are numerous ways such as using Fresnel lenses to accelerate the evaporation and flow-through.

Nakamura Trumps Zurich; Looks to Moscow

The reigning chess champ of the United States Hikaru Nakamura won one of the years most prestigious chess tournaments; the Zurich Challenge played Feb. 13-15. Vladmir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand, former world champions were also in the event. Anand finished 2nd just a half point behind.

From 10–30 March the candidates' tournament to determine who will play World Champ Magnus Carlsen for the title will be played. Nakamura and fellow U.S. chess federation player Fabiano Caruana each qualified to played in the highest level event in Moscow.

The title match is scheduled to be held at the St. Louis chess club in November 2016*.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2016