New Aircraft Carrier To Cost About $13 Billion Before Cost Overruns

Thirteen billion dollars is quite a chunk of change to pay for a Ford-class aircraft carrier that is also the biggest target on the ocean. It seems more of a global policing for the plutocracy kind of expense rather than a 3rd world war sort of investment. Starting a scientific and production facility on the moon might have been started with that as a down payment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/06/huntington-carrier-idUSL2N0H201C20130906

One wonders about the cost of clouds of miniature stealth flying fish anti-ship vehicles able to draw fuel for fuel cells from sea water that could loiter around waiting to detonate themselves on the very large boats. There must be a trillion sorts of anti-ship weapons delivery systems that could be innovated to crater an aircraft carrier deck. Are aircraft carriers still relevant? What about making fighter and bomber aircraft that can land on or in the water and refuel themselves?

art credit of Ford Class aircraft carrier U.S. Navy (via wikipedia)

Global Warming in 2013 Is Like the Terminator Saying-"I'll be back"

Global warming land surface temperatures this year stabilized yet that halt in the measurable advance may be just temporary. Perhaps all the ice melt cooled things down a little, yet the ocean temperature is said to have increased even so. 

What is evident is that Co2 concentration in the ocean is a long-term problem that hasn't halted at all and the rate of it's increase is still going up. The ocean has a limited capacity to absorb atmospheric Co2  and ocean acidity is increasing meaning that the fishing may get very bad on the waves ahead.

A fair report on global warming in 2013 was put together by a writer at Mother Jones.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc

New Alaska State Library & Museum Construction Advances

With construction of a new Alaska State Library and Museum scheduled for completion early in 2016 a grant has been awarded to start movement of pieces from 12 museums and cultural centers as well as from several individuals that will merge to form a 32,000 piece collection. One hopes global warming sea level rise will not require a reverse flow some day.

It might be interesting if the state natural history museum began a global warming collection to document the changes in the state from the past to the present era. 

http://www.adn.com/2013/09/10/3067451/state-museum-receives-grant-to.html

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/global-warming-slowdown-ipcc

Spaced Security at Washington Naval Yard

 Incredible as it seems the Washington Naval Yard security had no screening for guns of employees and contractors walking in to the building each day. Instead they relied on the honor system with the assumption that having passed an initial security check no one ever again required screening for weapons on site. The Naval Academy itself dropped the honor system decades ago.

Unfortunately the security lapse in the nation's capitol left twelve civilians dead. The President mentioned that another mass shooting had occurred, and it is tragic when mass is shot, yet that shouldn't be an excuse for the government to further disarm American citizens or substitute psychological profiling for common sense security measures that wouldn't let any contract employee take his shotgun and pistols t'work.

At least Starbucks has upgraded their security measures in response to the mass shooting and banned policemen with guns from troubling those slurping up coffee who don't like policemen or others legally carrying a weapon. Policemen will have to go to that Guns, Donuts and Coffee shop down the street it seems where the defense contractors go.

The politicians are familiar with mass markets, mass political opinion and mass shootings and so know how to go for the juggler politically speaking. Tossing a lot of postures into the broadcast air while classified work at the Washington Naval Yard continues on next wave ships with electro-magnetohydrodynamic drives (e.m.h.d's) that have fuel cells to power them when traveling ashore as hovercraft, or maybe e.m.h.d. spaceships exploiting charged electro-magnetic fields instead of water to flit about the solar system and to Alpha Centauri B doesn't need to develop as an excuse to attack civilians for the fault of government worker's lack of creative thought on security issues-such as don't let people take shotguns to work.

One wonders if security is any better at the Naval Yard than the N.S.A.? The naval yard probably doesn't let people take a cell phone into classified areas yet one can take in a shotgun properly bagged as a large loaf of French bread? While they are going to stick something in their computer thumb drives to stop downloading of government secrets will they let them take pictures of computer screens with cell phones or tiny fiber optic lapel camera lenses?

Making life easy for Wikileaks and hard for sailors with visits to government neuroscientists for screening may be a good bureaucratic way to posture up security. Physical security that prevents access to government facilities with a weapon cannot be replaced by psychological testing in a nation of 300 million souls. Even rational people may hate the government and seek to replace it with a better country ruled by a dictator of one.

No Obama-Nixoncare Medicaid Coverage Expansion for Poor in Alaska

In the state of Alaska medical coverage of the poor won't be arriving with the increase of Medicaid through Obamacare provision anytime while a Republican Governor is in office. Gov. Sean Parnell apparently threw the poor under the bus refusing to sign off on the Medicare expansion that the U..S. Supreme's left up to the states.  That's a better way to red-line states and keep the poor out compelling them to live in Warshinkclump D.C., California, N.Y. etc if they need a gall bladder removed. With a 21% unemployment rate for those earning fewer than $21,000 annually getting sick is dangerously costly. With medical debt easily piling up more than the price of a home or real estate it is realistic to consider buying a tent except in brown bear turf.

Juneau Alaska the state capitol is said to have more millionaires per capita than any other city in the U.S.A. (poor millionaires though compared to those of the real wealth concentrations such as N.Y.C. and Boston). In Alaska the poor are sometimes frozen into leaving the state after a winter or two of concentration at the extremely overcrowded Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage or perhaps finding no work amidst the state workers and elites of Juneau though they scan Alexsys (The state of Alaska's dept of labor online job resource) religiously hoping for an interview though disadvantaged by not being an immigrant or homosexual.

The war on poverty morphed into the war on the poor somewhere along the way one might think. Pain and freezing homelessness can keep the U6 homeless from getting a beachhead of living in Alaska. Pulling teeth costs money in the north. For emergency dental it might cost two or three hundred dollars to have a tooth and immediate pain terminated. For serious medical problems the poor except for a few class exceptions will need to pile up debt at the emergency room and remain in the U6 of underemployed or unemployed that comprises about 15% of the people of the United States with the same number approximately comprising the poor of the U.S. population.

Obamacare is basically a laundered Richard M. Nixon corporate health care plan and of course in the era of concentrated wealth the President let the poor bite the bullet first in order to get the middle class on board. Mayor Sullivan of Anchorage already made it illegal to camp in Anchorage. Now if the homeless need emergency frostbite treatment or appendectomy and go to the emergency room they will be billed themselves without any sort of Medicaid assistance.

What should have been done instead of Obama-Nixoncare was just free health care for the poor and the U6 at an expanded V.A. Hospital system with outlet clinics and shuttle buses to major medical centers for those that needed it. Simple, cheaper, practical and humanitarian. That should be who Americans are.

Terrorist Hit On Washington Navy Yard? Twelve Dead

In a brazen daylight anti-personnel attack at the nations oldest naval shore installation, the Washington Navy Yard twelve people were killed possibly including the shooter identified as Aaron Alexis, a 34-year old contractor from Ft. Worth New York while authorities hunt for two additional suspects seen with a handgun and a rifle (That turned out not to be actual perps).

It is reported now that the shooter heard voices that were not just raving broadcasters, but from some non-traditional source such as demons, martinets or brain hay-wiring.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/aaron-alexis-identified-navy-yard-shooter_n_3935770.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24111481#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Some have reported that the nation's penal institutions are being used as terrorist training camps. That leads one to wonder if the mixed race report on the suspects at large-black and white, were part of a criminal training gang.

Terrorists from the Middle East at war on American interests have a fundamentally different metaphysical orientation than Christian Americans. Like godless atheists that believe this world is it before the Big Sleep some Mohammedans have a this world is useful only for evangelization with force attitude. Godless atheists want their 72 virgins here and now while Mohammedan radicals expect there's as soon as they break on through to the other side by killing godless atheists and becoming martyrs.

Godless atheists use treachery, force and lies to evangelize the world along with brainwashing media and corrupting global economics, and those technological channels of progress in turn enable those chasing 72 virgins and a fully stocked refrigerator in a cast right wing heavenly condo to easily fly about the world in pursuit of targets of opportunity such as a gay friendly naval yard in Washington D.C.

It is said that no Christian churches exist in Yemen and that the penalty for Christian evangelization is death. The Obama administration supporters also have an antipathetic attitude toward Christian faith. 

The attack at the Washington naval Yard may have been just a disgruntled worker taking revenge on government workers with job security, however improbable that seems. If it was another act of p.r. terrorism on America that should stimulate reform of the U.S. corrections system in such a way that it cannot serve as a terror training facility.

Probably those arrested for recreational drug use and no other crimes should be moved out of the normal criminal corrections systems and their arrest records (for new cases) made into some sort of a temporary, non-criminal paradigm such that after discharge from corrections hold in a separate facility than that of criminals they will not have any criminal conviction history.

Khat and Green Jobs; Advantage Greed

There was some demand for the video game called Advantage Greed with quantitative trading, dark pools, quantitative easing, collateralized debt obligations, tranches, hostile takeovers, leveraged buy out, hedge funds, mutual funds, down sizing, outsourcing, cheap foreign labor, cheap immigrant labor, externalities of ecosphere, plutocracy, oligarchy, concentrating wealth networking loops, public holding of a 17 trillion of dollar bag of debt, corporate welfare, higher-ed secret societies and government-corporate insider kickbacken, a revolving door military-industrial government complex, secret societies and swell graphics with lots of action and bosomy yet intelligent babes. I think that was before the rage of twittering overcame the country.

Then after 16 years of democrat party leaderships (looking to the entire Clinton and Obama terms) at deregulating Wall Street extending tax cuts for the rich and flooding the nation with cheap illegal alien workers the gaming seemed not as escapist for idealistic Republicans. Change has meant a ho-hum what's new sort of acquiescence in the concentration of wealth and forgetfulness of the war on poverty. Fortunately the administration threw in some new spice and still has wars in poor countries to stimulate a little action for defense industry fat cats.

Selecting to defend the defense of marriage act and pushing for a gay friendly military was just a start for President Obama. He has ordered the U.S. Government to stop enforcing laws against recreational marijuana use. Yet how will that set with the First Lady as advocate for health and lean diets for schoolchildren and the fat?

As has been pointed out people using marijuana get the munchies and put on weight. That makes them more tranquil and tolerant of wealth trickling upward in every networked transaction. Who needs to know or care what's what?

Khat is a mild natural leaf amphetamine that lets users chew it and skip meals while working harder. It's grown a lot in Yemen and might be considered equally as valid as marijuana for effecting body weight. It's said also to be a mild euphoric. Is the Obama administration considering advocating for khat chewing as well as marijuana?

If there is a good side to khat chewing it's that it would create green jobs in the U.S.A. that can't be outsourced. Khat chewing makes the teeth of a use turn green requiring more trips to the dentist for teeth cleaning and those dentists spend dollars locally. It may also create a demand for spittoon sales that have been in a slump since the effects of tobacco of causing cancer were discovered. One might do some data mining to learn if the government is considering promoting khat production in California's Central Valley by discovering if they have given medical research funds to find out if khat is at all carcinogenic.