Pope John Paul II Was a Moral Leader; the Present Guy?

Pope John Paul II was a moral leader. The present Pope mostly stands for moral ambiguity. He said about homosexual marriage; 'who am I to judge'. Recently he signed off on letting the Chinese Communist Government nominate Bishops for that nation. That raises a few points of interest to non-Catholics and Catholics alike.

One. Will Alaska be allowed to nominate Bishops too, and of course the U.S. Government should have a few. Switzerland shouldn't be rated below China by the Vatican and has a right for a Bishop or two from its cantons. I understand completely that the Pope would not want to let Canada nominate Bishops. I can't say that I blame him for that. Russia though...

The Tsar used to appoint the head of the Orthodox Catholic Church so I suppose Vladimir Putin will demand appointing several Bishops to be on equal footing with the Chinese who have been given most favored nation bishops to nominate status. And don't forget about Google and Ford; they might want a bishop or two.

What will the communist bishops think about homosexual marriage though? The Pope said reportedly that the church needs to change because of its pedophile priests that have cost millions and millions or even billions in damages to victims. If the church allows marriage as it has in prior historical times, it will probably allow homosexual marriage priests and return to the pedophile problem.

Yet as the Pope said; Who am I to Judge? In the Revelation Jesus said to the seven churches (paraphrase) to shape up or be cast out. God is already judging people. Catholic leaders are supposed to advocate what the Bible instructs as right behavior. Homosexuality isn't o.k. It's God's judgment that is meaningful. Christians need to follow the rules.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/732052/catholic-church-child-abuse-celibacy-pope-rome-germany-clergy-news

Dr. Ford's Negotiating is Worse then Bobby Fischer's

Christine Ford's negotiating to appear at the senate to testify is worse than those that Bobby Fischer or the North Vietnamese might have demanded, respectively, for their appearances at a chess championship or the Paris Peace talks. That was all about the size and kind of the table. One would think that Dr. Ford wants to appear to testify rather than it being an onerous burden for her. If that is the case the Senate should simply let her off the hook and cancel the day for her to testify and hold a vote instead. There is no need to keep setting back the date for her testimony because of her unwillingness to appear unless certain conditions are met.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/25/kavanaugh-hearing-once-again-in-doubt-as-christine-ford-raises-new-concerns.html

AI Apps for Language Interaction Would be Useful

An artificial intelligence app for learning a foreign language interactively would be useful; spoken language that is. The app should recognize at least two languages and be able to converse meaningfully. Maybe it already exists. It would also be useful to have a fast 1/10th second speech translator improvement phone tool for making foreigners speaking one's own language more intelligible.

Dem's Kavanaugh Craziness Driving Up Repub Poll Numbers?

Republicans have achieved their highest favorabililty rating in polls in seven years. The reasons may be the craziness about the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing support for unproven accusations against a spotless nominee.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/408123-republican-partys-favorability-rating-comparable-with-democrats-gallup

In one case, an accuser admits that she isn't sure who the dick belonged to that she believes she saw at a frat party while buzzed from booze, yet thinks it may have been Brett Kavanaugh's spotted dick because she saw him tucking in his shirt soon after the alleged dick spotting. Did anyone think to ask if Brett Kavanaugh himself may be suffering ptsd from a boob flashing while at Yale?

http://time.com/5405343/facebook-lawsuit-mental-trauma-content-ptsd/

In the case of Dr. Christine Ford, there is lack of verification from any other source. The high school year book scrivening though...that is damning. Brett Kavanaugh's high school essays ought to be examined for implicit, latent, chauvinism as well, by Special Inquisitor Mueller. Somewhere amidst the fog of war there might be Russian collusion.

Pres Putin Errs in Sending S-300's to Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a tactical error in sending Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Syria. The Middle East doesn't really need that kind of destabilizing missile presence. The United States doesn't actually need to regard Russian threats to Israeli security as non-hostile. One wants to overlook Russia's Syrian military activities that contribute to stabilization of the Syrian civil chaos when possible, and it usually is possible except when they are a threat to U.S. allies and U.S. military aircraft in the area. No one needs a possibility of a regional conflict between allies or larger powers in Syria or even Israel.

 For Vladimir Putin to allow the Assad regime to have the tools to attack U.S. and/or Israeli aircraft just wasn't a good idea. Letting Russian crews operate and perhaps shoot at U.S. and/or Israeli aircraft is even worse. Syrian security does not need S-300 missiles. In fact it undermines Syrian security to a limited extent as it increases awareness that the Assad government with Russian help could return to a status of being a danger to Israel and other nations. Then the moderate western support for a non-Sunni government in Syria might dry up.  People may suggest that more missiles be deployed in Europe along Russian borders to counter Russian air threats.

President Putin should seek for some way to let Israel and Syria work together and find solutions to troubling issues in such a way that gardening can return to the fore as possible activity for people interested more in peace than in military and terrorist activity. Russia has a Soviet past that brings an aura of evil to its Syrian activities that is reinforced with introduction of the wrong kind of weapons to an evil though understandable regime. If Russia chooses to be with the side of the lost and unsaved souls of Syria instead of national Israel, or or hopes for sympathy from the godless atheists co-anti-religionists of the west to work with the atheists of the former Soviet Union, that misdirected hope would not be worth a ruble

https://www.rt.com/news/439243-s300-missiles-syria-israel/

Vote on Kavanaugh Now- Impeach Later if Need Be

SCOTUS nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been accused by two women of sexual impropriety several decades ago. The accusations are last-minute kinds of things that accomplish Democrat Party objectives in a significant way; they hope to take over Congress in the mid-term November vote and stand to disapprove any conservative nominee. The nation should have a conservative justice and unless there is a legal reason why he shouldn't be on the court, the vote should proceed.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-brett-kavanaugh-accusation-has-a-bunch-of-flaws-but-democrats-already-using-it-against-him-anyway

Did Brett Kavanaugh do what Christine Ford and Mr. Kavanaugh's Yale classmate; a Ms Ramirez, say he did? There is apparently no way to know right away. Plainly there isn't a legal issue existing after all the time that has passed without a charge ever being filed, it is simply a political issue and one that any reasonable soul knows is a favorite of the Democrat Party this year. They are accusations that stimulate Me Too ire and wrath and work to help bring out the vote.

Brett Kavanaugh is the primary victim of the accusations that may or may not be true. If his nomination doesn't go ahead the smears persist in public memory as if he was some kind of sex offender that escaped legal requirements to register wherever he chooses to live. If he is innocent that would make little difference for the public remembers the accusations rather than dismissals.

 http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/09/26/russian-law-student-fed-up-with-manspreading-allegedly-dumps-bleach-on-passengers-in-viral-video.html

With months to make public accusations in a timely way the Democrats involved choose to wait until the timing would stop replacing Judge Kavanaugh before the next court session starts in October and the election occurs in November and that can't be a coincidence. It may be a cold-blooded political calculation that should not be rewarded. Dr. Ford renegotiates her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee more often than the parties of the Paris Peace talks regarding the size of the table. If she is so reluctant to testify she ought to be excused from testifying and the vote directly proceed.

Fortunately the constitution provides a remedy for the present problem. A Supreme Court Justice may be impeached and removed from office by the House and Senate comparable to the manner a President may be. The Kavanaugh vote should go ahead as he is a remarkably well qualified Judge with an otherwise impeccable reputation. Yet an investigation could go ahead too and if Judge Kavanaugh turns out to be worthy of being removed from the high court later, the legislature will have the power to do so. It should not be that the orderly execution of government is disrupted or corrupted by last minute unsupported accusations that serve to accomplish a political purpose. Ample opportunity from several sectors existed for a timely presentation of accusations about the Judge's high school and college years. At least the issue is not as superfluous as the Harvard filled court hating to have a Yale man join them. Neither is it some kind of skull and bones frat collusion- probably.

King's Gambit 3M Blitz

                                                                                  I played white in this game.

Democrat Congress Could Perfect Do-Nothing Status

A Democrat Party win in November could achieve a perfected do-nothing except costly pork congressional transition to the dark side of the force. Republicans in theory are somewhat less immoral than Democrats hence they get the moral voter block, yet even with encouragement rising to chastising they too achieve little of solid value to the poor and middle class that is positive except of course in forestalling Democratic waves of demonic doom of individual civil rights subsuming individuals into the Borg of Democrat Party control.

Democrats controlling one or more houses of the legislature this fall while President Trump is in the White House of course would reject any effort to secure the border with a control barrier. Republicans haven't delivered on that one simple promise either. Neither really want Americans to manufacture their own electric bikes or actually have an independent and secure manufacturing base, borders or ecosphere that is sustainable for generations. Both parties could be conflated into do nothing oneness that isn't primarily for the benefit of globalists plutocrats and their depraved legions of doom following them like the most vile creatures of Mordor.

Blitz Chess-3 min Indian-Game-Yusupov-Rubinstein-System

                                                                                I played black in this 3 minute blitz game. 0-1 on time

Sketchy Military Affairs After 1918

The United States bailed out Britain with its decisive entry into the First World War. Patton on the western front believed the United States should have not signed an armistice but should have forced Germany to fight until unconditional surrender. Britain was decimated with casualties in the war. The Cambridge University class of 1914 for instance, had something like 80% casualties. Britain wasn’t in any condition to fight another war, while the United States was strong and getting stronger.

Eisenhower wanted to go to Europe from his job being a tank instructor at Ft. Hood, yet the army wouldn’t let him. It turned out that he had a role to play in the final battle of The First World War named The Second World War.

The United States perhaps should not have got involved in the First World War and instead could have let Germany win. Crown Prince Ruprecht led a break-through just before the end of the war 250 miles into France and then ran out of troops to continue. The entry of the United States had provided much manpower to wear Germany down. If Germany had won the war there would not have followed an Adolph Hitler and Third Reich.

George S. Patton’s poem

Peace -- November 11, 1918 - Poem by General George S Patton Jnr

“I stood in the flag-decked cheering crowd
Where all but I were gay,
And gazing on their extesy,
My heart shrank in dismay.

For theirs was the joy of the 'little folk'
The cruel glee of the weak,
Who, banded together, have slain the strong
Which none alone dared seek.

The Bosch we know was a hideous beast
Beyond our era's ban,
But soldiers still must honor the Hun
As a mighty fighting man.

The vice he had was strong and real
Of virtue he had none,
Yet he fought the world remorselessly
And very nearly won…

And looking forward I could see
Like a festering sewer;
Full of the fecal Pacifists
Which peace makes us endure….

None of the hold and blatant sin
The disregard of pain,
The glorious deeds of sacrefice
which follow in wars train.

Instead of these the little lives
Will blossom as before,
Pale bloom of creatures all too weak
To hear the light of war.

While we whose spirits wider range
Can grasp the joys of strife,
Will moulder in the virtuous vice
Of futile peaceful life.

We can but hope that e're we drown
'Neath treacle floods of grace,
The tuneless horns of mighty, Mars
Once more shall rouse the Race

When such times come, Oh! God of War
Grant that we pass midst strife,
Knowing once more the whitehot joy
Of taking human life.

Then pass in peace, blood-glutted Bosch
And when we too shall fall,
We'll clasp in yours our gory hands
In High Valhallas' Hall. “

The Kavanaugh Process is Important

Judge Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most highly qualified Judges for the Supreme Court available. To allow unproven allegations arriving at the eleventh hour to halt nominee selection votes regularly could make it very difficult to ever add anyone to the court. In a nation of 320 million people there is no end of possible accusations that could be made.

Democrats want to stop the addition of any conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court. Most Republicans would prefer not to add a liberal-leftist-corporatist judicial activist again, hence the present fight.

The next session of the court begins in early October so any delays the Democrats can make help to keep their agenda at SCOTUS more viable. The Ford accusation is a partial birth abortion of the nomination vote. Any tool to spike conservative guns will be tried.

In the future some sort of regular time table should be established to stop last-minute accusations with amorphous evidence credibility from delaying proceedings. Objections to a nominee should be required to appear within an open season that ends at least 30 days prior to the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nominee.

A good working procedure for future nominations might be for the Judiciary Committee to accept accusations against a nominee for 30 days after the public announcement of nomination, then close the open accusation enrollment period and study the accusations for two weeks in addition to two weeks of general interviews, before voting. Criminal accusations would have a life of their own outside the scope of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Where is the Electric Lincoln?

Cadillac has some high performance models and some nearly compact coups yet Lincoln is something of a wonder. Why isn't there a high performance all-electric compact Lincoln convertible with a platform designed to one day allow the batteries to be replaced with a hydrogen fuel cell and for now a high performance liquid or nitrogen cooled gaming computer?

In theory electric car platforms and component parts could be so simple that they are nearly snap-together utilizing pieces from various companies conformed to select industry standards- rather like building a computer at home from parts selected on the Internet.

In the not too distant future electric transport platforms could enter automobile races such as the Indianapolis 500 with self-driving A.I., win, then go to the supermarket to pick up a load of groceries and drop off the owner at home before driving itself to Home Depot to pick up a pallet of building material loaded by a self-driving and loading pallet, while recharging, and bring the building materials back to the future new hut of the home owner moving up to a full ten by ten dwelling from his rental.

The hut could be manufactured as a battery-in-itself coated with voltaic materials  able to recharge the electric vehicle, although with power lines being ubiquitous and the equivalent of being filled with gasoline, future recharging should be transparently easy.

Mobs in the Street Can't Substitute for Democracy

Theoretically the United States democracy is a representative republic, hence mobs in the streets aren’t the preferred way of working political opinion and the will of the people. The Congress has representatives of the people; elected representatives, that get first crack at making laws. It seems as if people aren’t contented with that these days goaded on by media cameras. The second amendment plainly provides for gun ownership.

People have written reminders that the founders allowed for constitutional amendments if the people want that, neither is that process accomplished through mob demonstrations in the streets, trails, parks or waterways. Courts must enforce the constitution. Democrats in the judiciary sometimes act as if they could interpret the constitution in any way they prefer; as if it were the intellectual equivalent of Silly Putty, and that making bad precedents ends the debate. That is known as judicial activism. Unfortunately that method conflicts with truth, language and logic over time, and requires correction.

Field Poems (video) Incld 'Invictus Saved'

Dr. Ford’s Research is the Right Stuff for Accusing Brett Kavanaugh

Dr. Christine Ford; Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, has the right academic background for making an effectively timed public attack on a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. She may have personal antipathy for because of his mother’s adjudication of her family’s home eviction proceeding even though it was dismissed by Brett Kavanaugh’s mother who was the Judge in the case. She may also have political antipathy to the conservative who has a constructionist view on the second amendment that isn’t popular among California liberals.

Dr. Ford’s professional research publications specialize in designing statistical models that can be applied to psychological research. She published a paper on ‘the effects of hiding sexual orientation’- a left-leaning field that might encourage determination for public homosexuality in youth. Without genetic evidence of homosexual nature, the political psychological pretense that homosexuality is natural and should be ‘out-ed’ amid recalcitrant youth that with encouragement might determine they are queer isn’t supportable.

Dr. Ford also wrote on child abuse (probably including teenage girls) and on the 9-11 attack. Each would help her understand effective timing and presentation modes for making sexual allegations against a Supreme Court nominee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford

Dr. Ford’s co-authored… How Many Subjects? Statistical Power Analysis in Research. 2015

Invictus Saved

A slightly modified version of the famous poem Invictus by William Henley.

William Ernest Henley, 1849 - 1903

                      Invictus Saved

Trump Tariffs May Stim US and Mex Bicycle Manufacture

President Trump's prospective tariffs on Chinese bicycle dumping could stimulate American production of lightweight, energy efficient electric bicycles. Maybe illegal aliens could remain in Mexico and produce electric bikes for Mexican and American markets that could compete with Chinese bikes with trick pricing on ebay- especially the electric powered bikes that advertise one price and then add 400 dollars after selecting the color.

Couldn't Nike Have Got a Vet Amputee for Its Sacrifice Commercials?

Couldn't Nike have got a vet that actually made a sacrifice in combat for its commercials instead of a millionaire given more millions most notable for protesting during the national anthem?  Some have actually suffered quite a lot, for quite a while, for the nation. Maybe the rich have a different idea regarding sacrifice. Nike commercials seem rather farcical considering. I guess they couldn't afford Bill Gates for an example of sacrifice.

Pro Football is not a sacrifice. Neither is not playing after receiving millions of dollars. One can avoid head injuries that occur to long-time players. Sacrifice has some objective standards. It isn't just giving up caviar on one's filet mignon and accepting Grey Poupon in order to have a portion set aside for Lovie.
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

Polygraph.com’s Russian Annexation of Crimea Story is BS

Polygraph.com’s assessment of how Russia took possession is fundamentally a whopper. The facts are that Russia got the Crimea during the reign of Catherine the Great legally as part of a settlement of a Russia-Turkey war. The Soviet Union in ending the Russian imperial government reapportioned areas of Russia into different administrative districts. Yet the Crimea was still Russian regardless of where the Soviets placed it in their structure. When the Soviet Union ended all historically Russian lands should have remained Russian.

Russia was a name almost interchangable with the Soviet Union. It wasn't an entirely different nation. Lands that were in the Soviet Union that were in Russia before the October Revolution will be long regarded as Russian with perhaps, some a Muslim nation exceptions. When the Soviet Union ended so did some Soviet political districts. There is no easy transition after the Evil Empire except to Russian return.

The Ukraine was given away by Lenin to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk. German’s had sent Lenin in a sealed train to Russia to take it over and put the Bolshevik party into power. Lenin ended Russia’s participation, or rather that of the Soviet Union and in exchange for peace (and a little promised help) let Germany have much of the Ukraine. Germans moved in and supported the 3^rd Reich in world war two when the Soviets (aka Russians and others) took it back from Germany.

So the title to Ukraine is a little fogged. To exclude Russia altogether is bullshit. To pretend that Russia just invaded the Ukraine to take the Crimea because it has been Ukrainian for at least 60 years may be a propaganda point that Bolshevik Ukrainians might want to make, yet it is bullshit, for the benefit of Wall Street-hostile takeover of Russian lands polemicists.

https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-russian-crimea-land-grab/29496991.html

Free (e-book) Science Fiction Novel

The book is my science fiction novel; A Universal Widget - In the Realm of Forms.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/a-universal-widget-in-the-realm-of-forms/ebook/product-23191327.html

Book description;  What if Plato's realm of forms is the abstract logical structure of all forms and relationships that exist in nature? Plato wondered if forms of material things were actualizations of transcendent blueprints from the mind of God. A realm of forms may contain archetypes of collective quantum mechanics. Patrick Voevoda-a philosopher and his friend Evonne search for a universal technology form and answers to planetary environmental morphs. Forms of all matter may have an origin in the mind-plans of God.