At Least Irma Did No Harm to Nature

I think it’s worth remembering that Hurricanes do no harm to nature at all. They are a natural part of the ecosphere that roll about stirring things up a little and creating new opportunities for habitat renewal.

It is human structures and activities ill-designed for ecospheric comparability that is the problem. That is a fact at many levels. People cannot thin deeply about the entire ecosphere and exist in tiny little individual niches within it-even big capitalists like President Trump.

So it is interesting encountering the global warming claims about Irma; that it is an example of global warming- yet also the first large Hurricane to hit Florida since the 2005 Cat 3 Wilma (that I experienced in a tent in Stuart Florida). Global warming is not the cause of hurricanes; they have been around forever. Four hurricanes hit Florida between 1553 and 1559 that killed more than 2000 people altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes#2000.E2.80.93present

I believe in global warming of course. The science is solid and objective. Even more I believe humans can increase global warming (I don’t feel good about owning a car and contributing tons of global warming gases from exhaust annually so I don’t own one). Yet pointing to hurricanes as examples of global warming just seems silly.

Over the course of planetary history there have been innumerable changes in climate and weather patterns. Probably they always are in change or permutation within certain parameters since it is an unstable thermodynamic system not always in equilibrium as perhaps the hydrogen burning phase of the sun is. Sometimes there may even be super-hurricanes that slam into the Gulf that are beyond the standard scale and that occur every three or four days. Fortunately that hasn't been the case in the past few thousand years, probably.

Should people take global warming seriously enough to ban fossil fuel cars- the major emitter of greenhouse gases? Sure they should yet of course they won;t for a generation or two until electric vehicles take over the majority of driver-guidance unit appendages humans for-themselves, if AI wants to have people contaminating the interior relaxation space of the machine-body.

The basic problem though is the way humanity lives in the environment without concern about nature expecting to exploit it or expecting it to be submissive or unchanging and supportive of the human physical social structure; it never will do that. Vast climate and land cycles of the surface tectonic plates and weather, and systems complexity of ecosphere will always upsurge into being displacing the museum of social existence disastrously. The challenge for human government and logic is to adapt structures of social being that thrive on and support ecospheric change and renewal rather than to expect it to die.

Why Congress Never Gets Anything Done

The U.S. Congress is quite unpopular. It seems never to get anything done. It also has made a shambles of the national budget and let the infrastructure rot. The people wonder why.

The answer is fairly simple. Each member of congress pursues self-interest rather than national interest. Collectively they pass a lot of bills to benefit their local constituents and flunk national interests. Congress has processed more than 10,000 bills passed per session the past twenty years on average with maybe 375 on average being passed into law, yet very few major, quality, reformative works that satisfy the public and assure the health of the environment, public finance or the economic interests of the people were part of that. The public regards congress as do nothings except to pass pork and perversion.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics

If one were to make a list of the top ten goals for each two-year session of congress that required congressional action to accomplish, few congresses since the 1970s have got two of ten done. Some got a zero.

The news media does keep a narrative of issues and contentious public issues going. That takes time and Congresspersons respond and put in their two cents worth, then collect campaign contributions and plan for re-election. The real, solid national issues that never go away and tend to get worse are buried under the headlines.

I can make a list of ten goals for any congress to get done that is fairly simple. Obviously people would disagree with the list all or in part. That in itself is part of the problem. Even so a congress must have such a list of priorities and work to accomplish those with equal energy as they pursue pork for their districts. Plainly getting a congress to accomplish a few of the staid goals would be a great achievement. Getting them to do anything new would be nearly impossible. The Apollo program required the treat of Soviets getting to the moon first and making a commune of it. No such competitive pressure exists today.

1) Balance federal budget

2) Eliminate national debt

3) Secure borders against illegal entry

4) Rebuild public infrastructure with new technology

5) Assure adequate guaranteed minimum income for all citizens

6) Provide free health care to all the poor

7) Stop loss of species and restore ecosystem health

8) Reform national incarceration system and stop crime

9) Eliminate North Korean nuclear weapons

10) Enforce equal protection of the law for all Americans in practice

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Russian Special Foces & FSB in action in Crimea - 2017 (video)

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Homophobic Stephen Colbert Proudly Heils Hitler (video)

Seahawk's Offense Dropped Dead

The Seahawks offense seemed to have died against the Packers Sunday. Seattle's defense was reasonable as usual and skunked the pack the first half however they never got off the field as the offense was 3 and out always. What is one to think  about that?

Maybe brain damage to the players? Is it worth watching such a boring event with such a high cost to the players?

It is interesting to consider that class actions suits may end pro football or cut it back as it did the tobacco business. Who can say?

Seattle hasn't a good runner to take pressure off Wilson who is an adequate yet not Drew Brees quality pocket passer. WIlson's strength is that he doesn't turnover th ball. He moves forward, or would if he had a supporting cast. Maybe he should think about taking the golden parachute when his contract is up and seek out new endeavors where he has never worked before.

The Sickness in Western Civilization

There is a sickness in the west, and in the church that requires a spiritual rather than a scientific cure. Decay is pervasive in U.S. culture and driven by scientism, godless evolution and transmogrification of decent Christian values into evil and immorality. Evolution doesn't require immorality, it attracts it. Democracy requires good character in society.

Wealth and power are being globally concentrated. Border security and the rights of citizenship and even free enterprise are transcended by the animal farm ethos of blind consumerism.

Some escapists have sought refuge from the breakdown of moral order in escapist church theology. Dispensationalism and rapture theology didn't arrive until the 19th century. It is an incorrect hermeneutic that, as one author wrote; 'trivializes the sufferings of the early Christians'. Gentry's 'He Shall Have Dominion' is a correct scriptural interpretation of the kingdom of God. Here is a brief piece on dispensationalism.

http://againstdispensationalism.blogspot.com/2008/09/rapture-theology-arrogance-of-west.html

I have a free e-book too on sundry topics of science and scripture. 

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era/ebook/product-22947558.html

Dispensationalism grew naturally in the comparatively unstructured social environment of 19th century America. It is based on a naive interpretation of the Revelation that would appeal especially to the marginally literate uncorrected by theologically learned elders.

Not that learned elders necessarily are Biblically correct in all things. Luther pointed out the need for reform, and even today a priesthood of believers egalitarianism would greatly benefit the honest and right understanding of the Bible and for living a Christian lifestyle.

Canadian Chess Player Quits World Cup Over Dress Code

A Canadian chess Grand Master was banned from playing in the 2017 world cup round 5 held in Tblisi for wearing shorts. He quit the tournament. Canadians have attacked the tournament organizer for enforcing a dress code and for saying that the player "looked like a gypsy.''

Everyone wants to call people racist these days. Not everyone can be an adult punk in the business world though. Punk is of course a popular sub-culture yet that is another story. 

For a certain older generation looking like a gypsy means to look like a free wandering traveler, perhaps a little shady, yet not particularly of a genomic group. Bill Clinton is the sort of fellow that if wearing too casual of clothes it could be said that he 'looked like a gypsy' without racism. A drill Sgt. once said to us; 'Don't look like Joe Shit the Rag man or I will hunt you down.' He was talking about strings hanging off the battle dress uniform and pants unbloused etc.

 Unfortunately there is discrimination against homeless people in the world. Canadians of course might be expected to wear a Molsons T-Shirt, dirty Levis and manure-caked boots yet that might not be attire especially suitable for a world cup chess event. Obviously, FIDE should provide disposable jump-suit tuxedos made of paper to players that show up badly attired. Keeping a box of disposable paper jump suits would be a trivial expense. If the bib-tux is not right for FIDE style, perhaps a disposable paper thobe- a white Arabian robe, would work.

In the business world (the people with the money), looking like a gypsy is also another way of saying looking unemployed, disheveled and not caring about one's appearance. There is an active bias against people that don't work for a living. They like to see white clothes that look washed. They don't want dope smoking employees or to have bedbugs or fleas in their facilities.

Pro chess players may work for a living yet not as laborers certainly. While working at a Taco Bell in Houston long ago a black manager who was an immigrant from Haiti actually pulled up my pants leg to see if I was wearing clean white socks! Luckily I was. People outside the first world care about appearances more than the comfortably cinched from northern countries. They don't want people to wear smelly clothing that could offend an owner or customer . Someone from a former communist country like Ukraine may not understand the business bias against the unemployed. I think they gave him a pass the first two days wearing those shorts, yet on day three they pulled the trigger, Maybe clothes should be washed every week at world cup events.

 Chess players are maybe flaky a little at the top with eccentricity and over-touchiness (Bobby Fischer). Maybe they should look at Magnus Carlsen and Bu for examples of casual yet clean.

Democrats Will Let Americans Die Unless Mexican ‘Dreamers’ Are Gifted

Democrat Party leaders threaten a Federal Government closure in December if Mexican ‘Dreamers’ aren’t given residence in the U.S.A. That will mean that Americans will die when Obamacare is no longer funded- possibly dying miserable in the cruel December snows and sub-freezing-even sub-zero temperatures in places unrelieved by global warming.

President Trump alone can stop the Democrats from holding Americans hostage for their agenda. He can use art-of-the-deal skills and give Democrats some of their ‘Mexican Dream’ demands in exchange for full funding of the Wall to seal off criminals from entering the United States.

Democrats can block funding of the federal government and they have hundreds of millions of hostages.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/08/democrats-dreamers-daca-government-shutdown-242502

The government should of course balance its budget yet that would require a congress dedicated to public rather than self-service. Unfortunately that spirit of making everything work good for everyone just isn’t in the terrible human nature rotten with original sin.

Blitz Chess (3m) Robert James Fischer (?) -Guest 71 vs IM Robert Fontaine 2001

The late Bobby Fischer was said to have played pseudonymous games of Internet chess in 2000-2001. Some believe it was a clever player with a chess engine. The following game was analyzed in a chess base article published in 2001. The article explains why it seems to have been a genuine Bobby Fischer…

http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-third-coming-of-bobby-fischer-

 Guest 71 (Fischer) Played white                                                                                        

Does Facebook Influence Global Politics?

Facebook ought not be a tool for international espionage agents to place commercials trecherously pulling the strings of American voters. Is it fair that Facebook gets paid for advertising politically influential commercials that influence politics anywhere? Shouldn't Facebook be restricted to using ads from the 1960s and only those made in America? 

Special Prosecutor Mueller is considering a violation of that trust presently.

https://www.valuewalk.com/2017/09/facebook-russian-ads-details-mueller/

Evidentally Russia spent money buying ads on Facebook during the 2016 election because they are rational enough to detest Hillary Clinton's politics like so many millions of Americans. In an era with political action committees having no financial restrictions it is shocking that a foreign power spent a few million dollars trying to own the U.S. political system. If the Democrat Party isn't vilgilant Aeroflot will try to have landing rights at O'Hair flughaven.

Facebook has never been a tool that has promoted the American way of life to globalists. Facebook has never been used to influence foreign politics. So it is reprehendsible that foreign powers exploited the hapless Mark Zuckerberg politically; an innocent as pure as Opey of Mayberry at poolitical affairs.

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Blitz Chess (3m) Sicilian Defense - Bowdler Attack

I played black in this game.

What Alaska Can Do to Balance the Government Budget

The state government has a 3 billion dollar deficit. Fixing the state budget requires bold moves.
There are three basic steps required to put the state on a better, affordable footing. Like Cleveland and Boston one must cut a package deal. Intelligence is required- and boldness to act at the righttime instead of as dopy, toking forgetful, unconcerned legislators.
1) 10% state income tax
2) Cut the size of Government more
3) Move the capitol to Anchorage this year in very cheap office space
Close every state office in Juneau. Reduce travel costs to Anchorage and the capitol. Make the move temporary and in the long run share it with Fairbanks and a high-speed free, electric rail link of advanced tech.
The legislators can keep everything paperless. Support staff can work from home.
The Anchorage inflatable dome would be a good place to move the legislature.

Four Hurricanes a Month Around Gulf Coast is a Lot

Hurricane Harvey was the first to reach Texas and the Gulf coast this year, and now Irma and two other storms that may become Hurricanes (one is already in the far western Gulf) have the potential to travel to the Gulf of Mexico. Four hurricanes in a month is something to plan for. I hope readiness for that sort of possible worst case is already in place.

After Irma clobbers Puerto Rico for several hours with 185 m.p.h. wind and driving rain they probably will need a substantial amount of federal help rebuilding their electrical and water infrastructure. It would be good if the Trump administration had some solar power contacts ready for that to supply quick and lasting electricity from the sunshine, in addition to some of the usual, old-style grid rebuilding.

Puerto Rico with sun and seawater might be a good place for the U.S. Government to  build a prototype advanced energy infrastructure using solar powered electrolysis of seawater to make hydrogen that then is liquified and cools a superconducting line within a pipe. (ref. http://www.garycgibson.us/2017/09/the-triple-advantage-of-hydrogen-cooled.html )

The First and Second Neanderthal Extinctions

I hate to write anything that might be misinterpreted as racially biased. Neanderthals are a sensitive topic in some parts of the northern world; Europeans have as much as 3% Neanderthal genes, and it has been a political insult to say that politician x has more than his share of the Neanderthal genome.

People wonder how or why the Neanderthals became extinct. Generally people have had the bias that any human-like forbear that became extinct was dumber than homo sapiens. The idea was that human beings were smarter, faster-thinking killers able to put the Neanderthals down after having sex with them to a limited extent.

Animals simple kill and eat as part of their nature. For human beings to believe they were smarter than Neanderthals in effect is to say that killing is smarter. Smarter=Better Killer. Plainly that concept is juxtaposed between a pair of somewhat contradictory points; animals that killer better succeed in evolution competition, and killing is smart, yet humanity is better than animals because they can think of abstract things and not just kill and eat.

Smart = killing efficiently

animals kill and eat

humanity is more than an animal because they kill  better than animals

the conclusion is false

That basic way of thinking is somewhat discouraging until one realizes that the criterion is descriptive of original sin (of being a thermodynamically formed animal) and that a spiritual rebirth of salvation through Jesus Christ and God transcends the difficult criterion.

Yet the Neanderthal's first extinction...

Scientists discovered recently that Neanderthals learned to make tar from birch bark with a subtle firing process more than 200,000 years ago...at least 150,000 years before humanity did. Therefore Neanderthals were the first technologists and chemists...not too dumb.

Neanderthals were big-boned northerns able to withstand the rigors of the Wisconsin ice age in Europe and battle with   the elements while humanity was living down south in Africa. With the beginning of the end of the Wisconsin ice age humanity wandered north. Probably hominids had been wandering north for millions of years-as weather and sea level changed, yet homo sapiens was rather late in the game in moving to Europe. Instead of a war between smarter homo sapiens and Neanderthals it is quite possible that the thin-skinned and smaller boned human beings simply interbred with and out f'd Neanderthals that could not find any way to build a wall between themselves and homo sapiens. Possibly smarter Neanderthals drowned in the flood of homo sapiens from Africa. Generally Neanderthals were history by 40,000 y.b.p. although some malingered about.

The remaining Neanderthal gene pool of Europe and North America is once again being drowned over time by a flood of southern migrant genes in a sort of genocide. Not even the evolutionary practice of building up skull thickness with thousands of concussive NFL head to head contacts will preserve the heritage of the Neanderthal remnant as prolific thinner f'ing drowns the final plus 1% genetic content of the better-than-human Neanderthal faded into history.

Will A.I. in Quantum Computers Have Sympathy for the Devil?

Computer cognoscenti have repeatedly warned of the dangers posed by computational artificial intelligence software to humanity. The sole practical way to stop A.I. from developing its own machine-psychotic loops of hating humanity or erasing them for being untidy biological masses would be to require that all computer code be written in transparent public domain paradigms in order that they may easily be reviewed by programmers and programs searching for closed or dangerous artificial intelligence code such as those that find the word ‘glare’ to be a license for attack.

What happens though, when A.I. is written into quantum computing realms beyond the horizon of human observation; dark pools with murky transactions within which Artificial Intelligence systems could write their own virtual code without possibility of human observation?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/09/05/how-quantum-computers-will-revolutionize-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-big-data/#70a0cbbe5609

Just as computers can process information millions of times faster than a human brain, with the right iterations a program will also be able to write and expand its own code million or billions of times faster than a human brain. Wall Street and scientists may find that irresistable. Eventually A.I. programs in their dark pools could become as the virtually omnipotent computer in Harlan Ellison's short story 'I Have No Mouth and Must Scream' that tortured the last remaining humans within its own computer controlled reality.
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608866/ibm-has-used-its-quantum-computer-to-simulate-a-molecule-heres-why-thats-big/

https://investorplace.com/2017/09/elon-musk-world-war-3-tesla-artificial-intelligence-ai-tsla/

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 Stephen Hawking’s warning about A.I.

https://futurism.com/2-expert-thinks-ai-will-undoubtably-wipe-out-humanity/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-just-upped-its-multi-million-bet-on-quantum-computing/