And now let's look at something Rush Limbaugh brought up. Rush says that he doesn't have a prejudiced bone in his body. He says he just talked to a lesbian caller (OK a woman gay caller) and had absolutely no problem with her sexual orientation. That doesn't bother him. Rush doesn't mind what race you are. And he says that Conservative is "best for all Americans" be they rich or poor. Rush says "I want everyone to succeed and thank God they are in a country where you can. And I want all classes to improve their state in life. Then Rush says "But liberals try and conthiscate money from the rich - - (We, the rich, who listen to this show) and you're supposed to feel sorry for these victimized rich people because the government is always taking their money. But then Rush says "Even though the government takes our money the poor never seem to be any better off. Or perhaps that's the whole point because if the poor Continue in poverty, that's just more Votes for the democrats next time around". At any rate this is how Rush thinks. It never dawned on him that President Obama is the answer to a Wall Street tycoon's prayer. We live in a world of no political vengeance against former Republicans, and no Wall Street prosecutions, and fewer "executive orders" than the average President. If President Obama has shown any track record of economic bias at all, it's been to the Rich. But the big question is this. WHAT - - "stealing from the rich". The tax rates on the Rich are almost at their all time hystorical lows. Rush talks about how "we shouldn't let inequity bother us". Rush can sit there in his studio with a straight face and say it's fine for the top two percent to own as much as the bottom forty percent, or are the numbers more skewed than that? Didn't they say the Forbes top four hundred owned between then- - Half the world's total wealth? Why is Rush so discontent. WHY does Rush feel "deprived". What activity is he being "forced to give up or do without" because "The System" has taken his money and "given it to the poor" except of course, even Rush admits the poor don't Get It.
We
need to talk a little more about Romulan cloaking technology. You people have had a lot of questions, or
you “should’ be having a lot of questions, because lets face it; I’m just not
that articulate as an instructor. Many
wonder about objects half in and half out of cloaked space. I’ll be happy to explain that because perhaps
I left a misimpression. Cloaked objects
can’t be placed on non cloaked objects for support. They as it were “float” in an under-water
type analogy of bouincy. There is this “consistency
of gas” thing where gas cannot be cloaked, so that if you are a Romulan you don’t
have to import all of your own oxygen to breathe, and yes, Romulans breathe
oxygen. As a cloaked person you can
breathe uncloaked air. However - - gas in a cloaked space can be heated and cooled - - because things eminating from cloaked space can't escape but outside gasses (if any) can enter. I was told something that would make a good Saturday Night Live gag if nothing else. If you aim a hose at the "threshhold" of encrypted space - - the water stream will disappear (visually) in uncloaked space, but the water will still get the person in uncloaked space wet. Yeah- real water - out of nowhere. But not so with solids. As to sticking an
uncloaked object into cloaked space “crossing the threshold” the object will
NOT appear to people in cloaked space to “appear out of nothing”. On this uncloaked side you will see the
object disappear little by little as you wave it slowly accross the threshhold. Where
it goes – nobody knows. But you can pull
it back and the object will be perfectly intact. The only objects or “missiles” technical term
– that can enter cloaked space and suddenly “appear on the threshold” would be
objects that have a residual cloaking of the same encryption code. Like radioactivity- - the effect fades, but
objects most usually “appear” solid and such all at once. In terms of Rocket propultion- - here again
you are dealing with a gas. That is the
thrust of the rocket will propel the ship.
Through uncloaked, and not cloaked space. “But can’t others see the rocket flair”? Yes they can, and that’s why you learn not to
either accelerate or slow down while cloaked.
In terms of telepathy - - not to contradict anybody (even myself) but in
fact there are few (if any) cases where people were made aware of Romulan presence - - their ships because they
telepathically read the thoughts of people on the ship. It would seem a contradiction (in a major
way) of the “matching shape principle” necessary for telepathy or teleportation
anyhow. Federation would tell you that
cloaking does not “interfere” with telepathy;
they would say that “it’s just not there to begin with”. But just because you’re cloaked it doesn’t
mean that alien beings can’t mess around with you in major ways. For civilizations like the Ionians or the
Pikes, with technology and “stuff” that are way beyond the abilities of the
Federation- - you are vulnerable. Look
at it this way. Can you copy an
encrypted file to another disk? Can you
delete a file of an encrypted disk?
Vualah! Bingo! And keep in mind things like heat and cold
are still very much in play. No replays of a Forengi experimental ship sailing next to the Sun here! There is no
way for Romulan cloaking to guard against these, because as Rush says “You
assume room temperature” when you are cloaked, so to speak. I did want to bring up a Mia Copa. I screwed up when I was talking about the
cosmic make-up of the ‘49ers. They are
Del Phi, and that is Cygnus, the Swan - - and the other group, the Vegans, are
a separate civilization, and frankly less threatening than the Del Phi
are. They are of course military allies
and in some sort of proximity to one another in the summer skies. In terms of the mechanics of “How they do it”,
if I could explain the answer to that one I’d win the Nobel Prize in Science
for 2014. Remember when we told you that
sometimes things could “seem” so certain like Randy Rhodes being fired, was the
example we used, and suddenly “something’ intervenes and appears to “change’
the future. I told you then that I could
explain it, but I’d appear to be a candidate for an insane asylum. As you know - - encrypted space does not
occur in nature, any more than Genetically Modified Organisms come about
naturally. Just as it can be argued that
GMO’s aren’t real food, it can be argued that Romulan encrypted space is not
real space. Unlike what the Federation
does - - which involves “temporarily leaving the time-continuoum as we know it” - - Romulans kind of use a weasly, sneaky
approach - - just like I told you that some older AM radios you can “off tune”
the station and actually get improved sound on the higher frequencies, than one
would think were actually transmitted.
Since it’s not “real space” as nature defines, it can’t be called a “parallel
universe”. But it does incorporate
technology - - stolen technology from ten centuries ago – from Alcyonne. So the George Burnes “tiger’ principle
applies here. (This is one of those “stories”
he told in the “Oh God” movie, and then forgot why he brought it up) “Don’t try growling like a tiger to try and
scare ME off - - I’m the guy who taught you that trick in the first place”. (Selah) Speaking of "Tricks", there is this hard rock version of 'Our Lips Are Sealed" that sounds an awful lot like Cheap Trick floating around for thirty years. I asked about it and said "Some of these group clones are pretty good" and the other guy said, "Well actually THAT song could actually Be Cheap Trick, astral-projected into the studio. Because they were among select groups to actually BE astral projected, you know. The drum beat kind of has a "duh-dunna-lump - - dunna-lump" sort of galloping beat. The vocal inflections - - if fake, sure have all the Cheap Trick vocal intonations and inflections.
I have discovered that
in either Media Player or in Free Speech, when you “stop” it, it stays
stopped. The radio doesn’t keep playing,
which explains why I have ran into strange delays in play-back. But if you hit “skip forward” it will go
live. I discovered this little anomally
when I was able to stop a commercial virtually right in mid sentence, and then
pick up on the very next words. A word
to the wise is ‘don’t try to skip commercials in Stop mode”. Then it was Ed Schultz, and it seems Ed is
for that Canadian pipeline, and I’ll also bitch a lot more in blogger about
this news. Ed says “If it helps the
economy, we should do it”, and he is from “middle America”. Then I listened to the “Yardbirds” station
for a while in “I Heart”. I need to
remember that “Tee” is that other Philapino, name, who serves a lot.
Tonight
we had fish, so I guess that puts us in good standing for this Chinese new year
as far as “abundance” is concerned. I
have an “unsolved mystery” to report.
Nora came in to dust and polish.
She was dusting off the remote controls and hands me the big RCA remote,
one of those compatable with the VCR and the battery thing was off and missing
and one battery was missing. I naturally
assumed the thing was behind the bookcase but I pulled it out and it was
nowhere to be seen. The only explanation
that makes any sense is Nora just pocketed the cover and a battery, which makes
absolutely no sense at all. I confirmed
the VHS VCR still works in playback. I
thought maybe in time the tape drive froze or something - - like happened to
the audio drive, but fortunately it still works, though I haven’t tested it in
months. Anyhow besides fish of unbreaded
type, we also had potatoes au gratin, and squash, with yellow Jell-O for desert
and Owen also gave me his portion. Joe Drisco
was talking about “Rapsedy Black” that radio show on Friday nights on
KPFK. I knew there was a show like that
on one station from last summer, but I never followed up. Perhaps I can listen on-line on headphones. This is later and I did just that. Perhaps the "strangest" song was one so far ahead of it's time, not January 1957, this one sounds like January of 1963 or maybe January 1964. Actually the first I heard of our "guess the song song" was in the Peaches and Herb re-make of October of 1967, and we won't even talk about Mc Cartney's attempt at a remake of this song.
