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It’s now certain that John McCain will be the Republican party’s nominee for the White House. He has secured the necessary number of delegates which he needed in order to get the nod on the first round of voting. What remains to be seen, of course, is who will be the Democratic party’s nominee, and I believe that will have to wait until the convention.

At least that should be entertaining to watch. I can only hope for a rancorous, angry DNC convention, since it would be nice to see both candidates thoroughly trash each other. That being said, John McCain will lose no matter who gets the nod on the Democratic side.

John McCain is proof positive that the Republican Party has basically repudiated it’s libertarian roots and is nothing more than another big government party. Of course, the style of big government preferred by the GOP is one of a warfare state with welfare being the few breadcrumbs thrown to the masses, while the Dems would prefer the welfare function coming to the forefront, with a still-healthy dose of warfare thrown in for good measure.

About the only thing that the Dems might do right is raise taxes. It’s not that I want to pay more taxes. In fact, with the new Great Depression of 2008 developing as we speak, it’s unlikely that taxes would do anything more than cause even more damage to an already dying economy. Still, the Republicans raised taxes as well, albeit in a very regressive way. Inflation is, after all, a tax on the poor. Imagine, if you will, a pyramid. Sitting atop the pyramid is the Federal Reserve, the big banks, and the government. At the bottom of the pyramid, we have the poor people, such as those on fixed incomes, welfare loafers, young people with no job skills, etc.

It is the people at the bottom of the pyramid that have been paying for the Bush Crime Family’s war in Iraq/Afghanistan. They pay also in blood, as so many poor people end up joining the military, having few other options. They end up coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan either dead or injured, whether spiritually, physically, or both. Many will suffer from exposure to depleted uranium, which is now causing horrible birth defects among the people who live there.

With the Dems in charge, the taxes will go up and the regressive tax will be replaced with a progressive tax, which of course will strangle the already sick American economy. The Dems will, of course, place blame on the previous occupants of the White House. It’s conceivable that the Democrats will control both the House, Senate, and the White House for the next 20 years.

But then again, there’s a new wild card in the deck: Ralph Nader.

Here he comes again into the race. Suppose Ralph does manage to draw off votes from the Democrats and cause McCain to win? Considering that McCain actually cheerfully sang “Bomb, bomb Iran” at a campaign rally, I think we know where a McCain presidency would lead: straight down the throat of Hell. Let’s hope that the voters of the U.S. send him packing (assuming that we even have an election in November.)

I’m watching what’s happening back in my home country with a sense of dread. The election has now been pretty much decided for the Republicans, who have chosen to drink the purple Koolaid of a John McCain candidacy instead of the sensible choice of Ron Paul.

Ron Paul seems to me to be the only possible candidate that could steer America away from certain bankruptcy, but even that is doubtable. Either way, the U.S. would have to take some bad medicine. Like chemotherapy, the patient must get sick in order to get better.

I’ve come to believe that America is being steered by a shadow government that has as it’s objective the controlled demolition of America’s constitutional republican form of government and it’s transition into a totalitarian fascist dictatorship.

The process of transformation began long before the rise of the fascist rise in Europe during the 20th century. The foundation of the Federal Reserve made possible the acquisition of total economic control of the U.S. by the world’s wealthiest families. A few years later, the speculative excesses made possible by the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression, which then led to the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Spain and nascent, but unsuccessful fascist movements in France (which later became the Vichy collaborators), Great Britain, and the U.S.

Smedley Butler, a WWI general, was asked to participate in a fascist putsch against FDR during the 1930’s, but instead of aiding their rise to power, contacted Roosevelt with the details and the conspirator’s names.

Roosevelt chose, perhaps foolishly, to not arrest the traitors and instead to warn them that he was on to their game and they had best not try it. The conspirators were, of course, the richest men in America and he rightly feared that the fragile recovery then underway would be destroyed completely if major movers and shakers on Wall Street were to be arrested by the FBI.

Thus, the fascist coup in the U.S. never happened, at least not out in the open. Italy and Germany were later destroyed. I believe that the conspirators realized that they had no chance to take over the world and install a fascist world government if they didn’t fully control the U.S. They needed to wrap up the war and consolidate their power, having gained millions from the blood of the dead soldiers in Europe and Japan and having wrecked the major industries of the world.

The next target for the conspirators was the Soviet Union, itself a creation of the bankers. For information about this, read “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” by G. Edward Griffin. Meanwhile, through Operation Paperclip, many of the 3rd Reich’s key people were smuggled out with the help of the Catholic Church, which had already been compromised by the conspirators.

With the Soviet Union and the United States as opposing giants poised to fight it out over two different versions of totalitarianism, the newly founded CIA (filled with Nazi scientists and spooks) and the Air Force (filled with Nazi rocket scientists) proceeded to create numerous puppet dictatorships in Latin America.

I have gained a better understanding of this reality by studying the literature of Latin America, which reveals the struggle between communism and fascist-capitalism in Latin America. Many poets and authors, of course, chose to side with the communists against the fascist-capitalists, while the fascist-capitalists installed themselves in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and other Latin American countries.

The dark underbelly of the conspiracy has always been in touch with the occult. Indeed, I believe that the conspiracy has always been primarily an occult phenomenon. The economic aspects only serve as the fuel for this conspiracy. The drug smuggling, child pornography and sex slave trafficking, gun smuggling and money laundering which accompanies such trades are the lifeblood of this conspiracy.

While America slept, believing that the good guys had won, the CIA proceeded to perform horrific experiments on human subjects, including, according to some reports, orphan children from the U.S. and Canada. It is said that Nazi scientists were involved and even were able to continue their research that they had started in Germany. Psychiatric researchers involved in deprogramming these people have been uncovering some of the systems that these occult fascists have been using to create Manchurian Candidates that will obey even to the point of their own destruction.

Then we get to the case of Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech and, more recently, Stephen Kazmierczak at Northern Illinois University, both of whom were under psychiatric treatment and on a cocktail of mind-altering drugs. Such traumatic incidents reinforce the sense of terror that we all seem to feel that the “end is near.” It doesn’t help that nearly all of the stone-age religions like Christianity and Islam speak of the “end times.”

The end times are indeed approaching, but the end is not ordained by God, but rather the devil and his children who are skulking about in the dark and planning for the fall.

Which brings us to the 21st century. 9/11 gave the nation a new enemy to hate: Islam. The brilliant horror of the World Trade Center bombing is the fall of the first domino, which will drop all subsequent dominos. The economy, now a shadow of it’s former self, lives off of communist slaves in China who make trinkets and toys for Americans who can barely pay their mortgage now that the factories that employed their mothers and fathers have closed.

The nation lives off of a pile of debt as the Federal Reserve does it’s part to bring the end to pass. The nation becomes embroiled in a war in the Middle East to secure the oil fields of southwest Asia and Iraq and, more to the point, depopulate the Muslim world. This conquest, understandably, has failed. It hardly matters.

According to escaped mind control cultist, Svali, the conspirators have been using the techniques that they perfected after the fall of the 3rd Reich to train hundreds of thousands of Americans on military tactics in preparation for the takeover. Alex Jones reports that FEMA is training pastors to teach their congregations not to resist during states of emergencies.

As G. Edward Griffin wrote in “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” all fiat money systems collapse, inevitably to be followed by a dictatorship. So far, it looks like history as it is unfolding will prove Griffin right.

Of course, just because I’m not in the U.S. doesn’t mean that I’m safe. The collapse may be a few years off, but even if it happens while I’m here, Europe will no doubt be embroiled in the collapse. I will also be vulnerable to poverty, since I have no job despite attempts to find one. Europe will likely see a downturn and the French riots have demonstrated that there is a wide gap between rich and poor which will surely get wider and lead to insurrection and violence.

Sometimes I wish I had never learned what I’ve learned. What use is knowledge if you have no means to escape the future? At least, I get to live in interesting times.

I got away from blogging primarily out of a little paranoia. There was something one of my professors said that made me think someone was actually reading this thing, so I decided to leave behind some of the more maudlin stuff. It’s especially important since I’ve got to think about getting a job pretty soon.

I have settled into a routine in Lleida. I’ve got a decent apartment, if a bit primitive. I actually have to turn on the gas (in a canister under the kitchen sink) and light the hot water heater (also in the kitchen) in order to take a shower or run hot water in the kitchen. I also have to open the gas to light the stove.

I also have no clothes dryer, and have to hang my clothes out. One day, they even smelled like smoke, so I assume I was the victim of some sort of air pollution. Fortunately, that seems quite rare.

The city is decent. It’s not touristy like Burgos was. It’s a very industrial city. Overall, it’s pretty quiet. I like it, more or less.

Today was a snow day around here so it was shaping up to be a pretty good day. Unfortunately, it went downhill before too long. Henry's daycare closed so instead of spending the day cleaning the basement, it was spent with Henry. Ordinarily it would be fun to spend some time with the little guy. However Henry is potty training and it didn't go real well. Two poopy underwear and a pee underwear and I was ready for Henry to take a nap. Surprisingly, he did take a nap. He ended up sleeping for four hours. Melissa had to go to school so she wasn't around to help. However, she came home with a migraine and the evening turned out pretty good. Although, Sammy was apparently missing mommy and would not leave mommy alone....

Henry had his first dentist appointment today. Apparently covering dentists the week you go to the dentist helps things work out. The little man was a trooper. He did everything he was told and things went fine. Kinda disappointing... I was hoping for chomped finger or something. :)...

Henry went to daycare and we stayed home with Sammy. We wanted to give her a little time with us by herself. A few months ago we took Henry to see "Thomas' day out" at "Huckleberry Railroad at Crossroads Village". However, we didn't have anything that exciting planned for Sammy. We went to the mall to play, and run some errands. We tried to return a watch I got as a gift for one with a leather band. They could not find a record of the sale even though we confirmed with my mom that it was bought and paid for by credit card at the Lansing Sears. The only thing we can think of it that they were looking at an old Sears card account that my mom and dad had around twenty years ago. I guess with computers now things don't really disappear. We'll just have to get the receipt and try again. We also finally got Melissa's ring break after it was damaged. Sammy got play in the play area and had a lot of fun pushing her "baby" in her new stroller. That was the highlight of the day. She got to play "big girl" and be like the big people....

We were home with both kids. Melissa is sick so we didn't do too much. However, things have been so crazy lately that we're just happy to be able to relax and not be running around....

We went to my Mom's house for Christmas. Melissa is sick, again. We somehow manage to get her sick whenever we plan to go to Portland. I know it is just a coincidence since we do not get to Portland very often. It was still nice to go even with Melissa not feeling well. The kids got some great toys. Sammy got a stroller that she's looking forward to trying out. She is certainly turning into a little girl. She loves to cuddle with her stuffed animals....

We went over to Melissa's parents in the evening to celebrate Christmas with them. Melissa's grandmother was able to come over and it was nice seeing her again. The kids are always excited to see people they do not see much....

We finally took Henry to see Santa. It did not go well. We'd planned on going early in the day but didn't make it to the mall until around noon. We ended up spending an hour and a half in line waiting to see Santa. We finally made it to see Santa and Henry rewarded our time and patience with a tiredness induced freak out. We did manage to get a picture but Melissa had to be in the picture holding him in place. Oh well. We went to Applebees for dinner. Henry did okay even if Samantha didn't. It sure tired Henry out because he actually slept through most of the gift opening and opened his gifts up just before we left to go back to the Hotel. Samantha made up for it though. She opened her gifts and any other gifts she could get her hands on....

We left around nine in the morning and headed out to Wisconsin to spend the week end with Melissa's sister and family. Her sister found us a hotel room for under seventy dollars a night so it was a pretty good start to the weekend. We spent tonight celebrating our nephew Nolan's birthday. We'll celebrate Christmas tomorrow. This'll give Nolan his own day to celebrate his birthday instead of folding it into Christmas or overlooking it....

Today we headed out to Flint for the Hoffman Christmas party. Henry and Samantha made out like bandits. They're cute enough that people like giving them gifts. Here's hoping they do not get too used to it. :) Everybody had fun and we got to see some people we haven't seen in a while....

We went to my Aunt Eve's in Fowler for the Gross Christmas Party. We all had fun, played some games, and even the kids were pretty well behaved. The games consisted of a "Newlywed Show* style game that was harder than you'd think. You cannot just answer the questions you have to figure out what the other person is going to say. We did okay though, and tied for second place. The other game was to blindfold the wives and have them try and guess their husband based on the guys legs. Melissa got that one wrong unfortunately. She checked the first four and ended up guessing my cousin Mark. I was the fifth person, so after that the wives checked everybody before guessing. Henry had a few moments but overall they were both very well behaved. I finally had an excuse to break up the 1 1/3 gallon "party can" of Oberon we had bought a while ago. I probably wouldn't get another one since I usually do not need that much beer at one time. My cousin Andy was teased slightly over the fact that he *finally* proposed to his now fiance Sarah. We got home and we were all exhausted but it was a good day....

Melissa left in the morning with some of her classmates to head to Chicago. They're going today to get in a little shopping around Chicago and they'll put in a day at a radiology conference. Hopefully, she'll get something out of the conference. I suspect it'll be aimed more at radiologists and purchasing types not techs. Still, it should help give her an idea about what is out there....

More Thanksgiving. This time at Melissa's parents. The kids always get a kick out of seeing Grandpa and Grandma. Plus, they love the dogs. Even Sammy is warming up to them. I think as she gets bigger and they stay the same size than she should be find around them....

I've previously gone out for Black Friday. However, there just wasn't anything I needed. looked hard but there was only one good deal. Sears had a really cheap HD plasma TV. I don't need one so I got to sleep in until 6:30am. (Kids need to learn to sleep in a little later.) Melissa worked all day and went out with her friends so it was a daddy and the kids day. Tomorrow, we go to her parents and than Melissa's in Chicago for shopping and a radiology conference....

We went to my mom's and Melissa took a nap. I feel bad because it seems that we always manage to get her sick just before we head home for a visit. You have to love tradition though. :) At least I got to hang out with my brother and see my sister. They're both pretty busy with their jobs and with us having the kids we just do not get together as often as we should. Mom put together a good spread as always....

Ok, so the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet, but I believe that it will drop eventually. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Michigan may not be holding it’s primary and might be choosing delegates at convention instead.

Of course, that means that Ron Paul’s supporters are going to need all of the help that they can get. I’m guessing that the Repulsican…errr…Republican hierarchy are going to use every dirty trick that they can to stop the Ron Paul steamroller barreling down on them at top speed.

That means that anyone who recently joined the Republican Party might be denied the right to be a delegate. That’s what I would do if I were Saul Alinsky. I recall that he had a little hissy fit about Ron Paul’s comments after the first Republican debate in which he said that the Islamic fundies were mad at us because we’ve been bombing Iraq for ten years and occupying Saudi Arabia as well. Telling the truth does tend to piss people off, especially those who want to maintain their fantasies.

Ron Paul has a long fight ahead of him, but his fundraising has been consistently good. He topped $9 million as I write this article and is well on his way to the $12 million he needs.

The major party pretenders are definitely looking for any mud that they can sling at him. They’re getting ready. So should he.

Okay, I don't care when you put up your decorations but you need to avoid turning them on until after Thanksgiving. One major holiday at a time people!...

I flipped on the TV while cleaning my apartment to see if there were any good football games. Then I remembered I don’t really like football and settled for Tom and Jerry. When you think about it, the cartoon is rather profound. Both for its interesting take on the physical world, and the creative situations made up by frequent writer/producer Chuck Jones (who did the cartoon I am currently watching so my points may need to be adjusted to cover the whole of Tom and Jerry cartoons).

First and foremost, no story is necessary (as is especially apparent during the Chuck Jones era). The substance of almost every episode relies on the bitter rivalry between that darned cat Tom and his would-be lunch Jerry. While this provides quite a bit of conflict to an otherwise straightforward drama, it is presented in much the same way as comical theatre: should the villain ever catch the hero… well we don’t even want to think about that. In fact, many episodes end with Jerry coming to Tom’s rescue and asserting that he is the “better mouse”… or animal, or whatever.

A few recurring themes tend to appear:

• Any romance must be portrayed by a French-speaking animal
• Any dog which appears in the show must be angry, or stupid, or both
• When an animal moving at significant speed runs into a stationary object, it must be smashed like a pancake, an accordion-like pancake, or severed into multiple pieces (none of these will cause permanent damage)
• When high above the ground, an animal won’t fall unless it looks down, and/or is not Jerry
• Cats are hollow - an object (such as a mouse) moving fast enough can potentially enter through a cat’s mouth and proceed straight through to the tail and out (note: to prevent further injury, tying the tail below the exit point is recommended)
• Inflating something with air will result in that object becoming lighter than air
• Slowing down is not an option - when moving around a corner, the turn will be taken too quickly resulting in a skidding sound and a hopping motion (this is required, therefore, no animal can gain an advantage by attempting to circumvent this process)

And finally…

• When a foe (typically a dog) presents a threat to the well-being of either party, all inter-species conflict may be temporarily set aside until such time that said foe is “removed from the picture” either by pancaking, accordion-pancaking, or being severed into multiple pieces. At this point, chasing may resume (occasionally preceded by a handshake)

Tom and Jerry cartoons are some of the most well-known in history. They have won seven academy awards and solidly established themselves as the Saturday-morning cartoons. So the next time you feel like flipping on the game, watch Tom and Jerry instead. I did!

(and by now, unfortunately, it’s over and some “modern” cartoon is on - with more story, more characters, more colors, and much more confusion. imagine the attention span you’d need to have to watch a cartoon with so much going on… it’s more than I can handle)

Gh0d, I hope I’m wrong. I see a trap being laid for Ron Paul.

Today on CNN, I saw a video about Hal Turner. This crazy, sad asshole has his own radio show where he says nutball white supremacist crap all day long and goes so far as to suggest that people shoot their politicians.

Here’s the rub: I remember reading on some blog that Hal Turner gave money to Ron Paul. In fact, he gave the maximum possible allowed under law, which is $2,300. They also have been talking up Alex Jones, although Alex Jones is not a white supremacist. Alex is mostly known for his abrasive, combative style of getting in people’s faces. He’s also been an ardent advocate of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Here we come to the 5th of November, where the “money bomb” is supposed to go off. The media knows that they won’t be able to keep the lid on it. Instead, they will point out that Hal Turner made a donation to the campaign and may have urged his radio followers to give as well. Maybe Hal Turner (who would be in the back pocket of the FBI’s Cointelpro division, most likely) mentioned the 5th of November idea or even heavily promoted it. It’s guaranteed that, if he did, they’ll trot out a tape of it so as to imply that it was Hal Turner’s promotion of the November 5th event that made it so popular.

Also, it seems that a racist from Stormfront, a neo-Nazi organization, is a Ron Paul organizer in Tennessee. Other scary associations of Ron Paul with neo-Nazis, etc, are found on this website. I, for one, do not believe most of these allegations. Clearly, racists have supported Ron Paul. That’s what the opposition does: they organize counterintelligence and sabotage political movements that can be threatening. See for examples the way the Feds smashed the American Indian Movement, the Black Panthers, and the anti-war movement of the ’60s.

One thing that the campaign might do to counteract these accusations would be to leak information to a known mole in the campaign (every campaign has them) a short list of some possible candidates. Include a few sensible non-white or non-male choices to counteract the racist associations. These should be serious choices. Thomas Sowell comes readily to mind. He and Ron agree on economics and would make an excellent vice presidential candidate.

Another, more explosive choice, although very attractive to the left, would be Russell Means, a former Libertarian Party candidate from 1988, who also ran for governor once or twice. It might behoove them to verify that Russell Means doesn’t hate Ron’s guts first, of course.

Either way, the Paul campaign will become visible and target #1 for the neo-cons and their paid mouthpieces. They had better be ready for this fight.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
the gunpowder treason and plot.

I know of no reason
why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

The poem, whose author I could not find the name of, is a poem against Guy Fawkes, who attempted to blow up parliament in the year 1605. This day finds itself in popular consciousness after being used in the plot of the 2006 movie, “V for Vendetta,” which has become one of my all-time favorite movies.

On this day, also, hopefully thousands of Ron Paul supporters are planning to donate $100 (or whatever you can afford up to the maximum $2,300) to Ron Paul as a sort of money bomb to symbolically blow up America’s big government.

Count me in.

I dearly love my sister, but she and her husband are certifiable.

I got a call from her tonight. She told me that there was smoke in her trailer, but she couldn’t see where it was coming from.

So I rushed over to her trailer in Mattawan. My father, mother, and brother-in-law were there trying to find the fire. Since my brother-in-law had done some recent electrical work, we concentrated our efforts on looking at the walls for hot spots. He noticed that the electricity was out on that wall. Nothing worked on that side of the room, so naturally, we figured that the walls were the source of the fire.

Dad moved an electric space heater to the middle of the room to get it out of the way. That’s when I noticed a small plume of smoke escaping from the area next to the space heater. I thought it was the space heater at first, but it was, in fact, the electrical cable going to the space heater. We lifted up a pile of laundry clothes that she had on the floor that was covered by the cable and found a huge, smoking black spot on the carpet and smoldering clothes.

We doused the black spot with water and dragged the pile of clothes outside, where it ignited a few seconds later in the cold night air. I then hosed it down with a fire extinguisher.

Afterwards, I smelled like smoke and my eyes were burning.

My sister, of course, confessed that she didn’t have fire insurance. Ok. Let’s make a hypothetical checklist of fire DOs and DON’Ts, shall we?

1) Don’t use a space heater. These things are implicated in lots of house fires.
2) Do install a working smoke detector. None was present in her trailer.
3) Do be extra careful if you live in a mobile home. Those things are horrible fire traps.
4) Do get fire insurance. It’s worth the money.
5) Don’t use an electrical cord that’s too narrow for the current you’re trying to pull through it.
6) Don’t cover electrical cords with flammable items.
And finally,
7) If you’ve already been the victim of a house or apartment fire, as my sister was, don’t forget the lessons you learned the first time.

I’m just glad that nobody got hurt.

Stay home for halloween. If you dare!

Tonight is Halloween. The city has spent $40,000 on a campaign to keep people out of the Castro. The massive hordes which usually converge here are being told that there is “no party” and all the bars will be closed. All subway stations near the Castro are also closing early.

However much of an effort the city makes to deter people, they also know that people will inevitably show up. There was talk of setting up portable toilets on Castro street because very few bars will be open. There was even talk of closing the street if too many people show up. Doesn’t sound like much of a party deterrent to me.

It’s 7pm now and security appears to be building up all over. The Muni has many employees patrolling the subway stations and there are police at every exit (perhaps to enforce the closure in an hour and a half).

Most interestingly, the 24-hour Safeway across the street has had a temporary fence set up around its border. It appears they are keeping only one entrance and exit open for the time being and additionally, there are three busses directly in front of the store (with an additional 7 or 8 on Market St nearby). I’m not sure what any of this is for, but there are a few possibilities.

Perhaps they are simply accomodating shoppers who stay late and would usually take the subway home. This seems strange as there will be free shuttles running after the subway is closed. Also, to have so many busses standing by at a station which is neither the start nor the end of the closure seems a little inefficient.

Another possibility is that the police will be using these busses to cart off partyers by the proverbial and literal “busload”.

According to the SF Weekly “The Snitch” blog, the cops will be using them, but not to carry people away:

Deputy Chief David Shinn and at least half a dozen other officials made pains to note that Muni buses and drivers will be available to ferry “platoons” of cops around town like troop transports. The notion of the police taking Muni to travel about town rapidly was greeted with barely a snicker, by the way.

The overall plan goes something like this:

Shinn will receive reports every half hour from command stations throughout the city; Mission Station, the post nearest the Castro, will be led by Capt. John Goldberg. At Shinn’s discretion, police can be redeployed throughout the city as needed. Shinn described a “zero-tolerance” policy for drunkenness, public urination and other likely offenses (he originally used the term “aggressive enforcement” but changed his wording when Police Commissioner Theresa Sparks told him that “aggressive enforcement” conjured up mental images of Tiananmen Square).

(quotes from: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2007/10/100000_people_are_coming_where.php)

Should turn out to be an exciting Halloween after all

Well, I haven’t updated my blog in a while, so why not have at it today while I’m bored. Let’s start it off on a happy note, I decided about 7 seconds ago to quit smoking, so that ought to be good for me. Life is going as usual at WMU, which may or may not be a good thing. I have plenty of friends here and my social life is going well, but I see myself slipping into the same lazy habits as last year as far as school goes.

I’ve been working in C-208 as SCST again this year, hopefully the next time I get around to updating this damn blog, I’ll be able to post about how I’m a sysadmin there(I already have root on all the boxes anyway). I’m currently running on about 4 hours of sleep, 350mg of caffiene and half a pack of cigarettes. Same shit Different day, right? Later on the schedule today is seeing how badly I failed my stats exam from tuesday and then computer club at 6. New office tonight on NBC, I’ll probably go out with the computer club and miss it, but oh well, that’s what torrenting is for. For those of you who didnt know (that actually read this, so essentially nobody and everybody) I’ve been working out a lot lately. Or more to the point, had been. I’ve been slacking the last couple weeks, I’ve only gone to the rec center twice this week so far. ugh.

Now, time to give up giving up smoking and go burn one.

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I figure one day, DHS will have a reward attached to turning someone in.

You know, $1,000 for turning in your neighbor for being part of the resistance or wearing a towel around his head or somesuch.

I figure the next 9/11 setup will be aided and abetted by white guys, and I’m not talking about the bankers. It’ll be some “anti-American” Timmy McPatsy type playing Trilby to some Svengali who will sneak off into the shadows like the mysterious John Doe #2.

You’ll see his house on TV with his junky clunker in the yard, a Ron Paul for President sticker featured prominently on his bumper, sure to get a good camera close-up at least a dozen times. You’ll have neighbors come out of the woodwork to say, “Yep, he sure was strange. Kept to himself, mostly.”

They’ll search his computer and find dozens of anti-government screeds. They’ll say that he conspired with Al-qaeda to smuggle a dirty bomb into the U.S. And that he met this John Doe on a trip overseas.

Then DHS will roll out it’s reward program. The telephone will light up. The agents will be dispatched to all corners of the U.S. Black vans will swoop down on all sorts of people, who will be seen getting dragged into these vans by men in black ski masks with DHS in big gold letters on their chests. That’s to let the sheeple know that they’re the GOOD GUYS.

Many suspects will later be released in a few days, having just had the shit thoroughly scared out of them. Maybe they will have waterboarded a few of them just for yuks. Most will report only grueling interrogations.

All it would take is one more terror attack on the scale of 9/11. No doubt Cheney already has one in mind.

I guess it’s time for me to blog something a little less gloomy.

I confess to having watched a few of the Doctor Who episodes of the new series since it started. I wasn’t really excited. My sister was more excited than I was. It’s probably because I’m so jaded. I expected it to suck. I wasn’t disappointed.

Now, sure, I know that some of you absolutely love the new show even though you were around for the old one. I watched all of the reruns on channel 35/52 WGVU/WGVK, even though reception was terrible. Of course, my favorite was #4, Tom Baker. He had it nailed. It could be, of course, because he was the first Doctor I had ever seen.

The whole regeneration idea was cool, but I didn’t quite know what to make of Peter Davidson. These new doctors, however, are definitely not cast in the mould of the old show. Both of the new Doctors seem hip, cool, and very randy. That’s the problem: Doctor Who was NEVER randy! This isn’t Dr. Who! It’s an intergalactic Austin Powers meets Captain Kirk’s evil twin from the episode titled, “Mirror, Mirror.”

Lest you think that was something I pulled out of memory, I googled it. It’s at this web site. For those of you who have gotten laid at least once, I’ll summarize. Captain Kirk went through the transporter when it shorted out as he was beaming back. Later, some kind of mirror image captain was beamed through. It was supposed to be Captain Kirk’s inner Darth Vader or something.

Anyway, the evil twin proceeded to run around the ship, gulping down Saurian Brandy and getting laid left and right or something. Supposedly, the evil twin was Captain Kirk’s dark side. Without it, he was a pasty-faced wimp who couldn’t lay down the law. The moral was that a man needed his dark side.

I watched that episode probably 13 years ago while I was working for Meijer Video Center. Yes, Meijer once had a video center. I worked there. It sucked. They closed it. Still, they had a kick-ass Star Trek Collection, which I proceeded to watch, one by one, while closing the department and straightening up.

Anyway, the point that I am trying to make is that the reference point for good seems to have changed in the 38 some years that I have been alive. Back then, the Doctor was almost sexless. His mind was his most important asset. He didn’t ride a motorbike. He rode around in this odd old, chatty 1930’s roadster. Sure, it was souped up a bit, and those inertial damping breaks were killer, but still not exactly a chick magnet. Even Peter Davidson, the youngest of the Doctors, took his image seriously. He wouldn’t go about carousing in Picadilly Circus and getting his drunken, coked-out face in some damned supermarket rag in the UK like some modern star.

Still, the new Doctors seem at least decent enough, except that all of his companions seem to be far more fond of him than they should be. Maybe he needs a male companion, like Adric, only with class.

Of course, nowadays, they’d just make it some gay thing.

Well, the story about Mr. Atchison, the Florida prosecutor with an alleged fondness for 5-year-old girls has come to a sad ending. I feel no sympathy for Mr. Atchison. Instead, I feel more of a curiosity as to how an otherwise normal human being ended up in that predicament.

It’s fair to say that he’s not the only one. The sordid tale of Larry Craig and his recent embarrassing escapade in a Minneapolis airport draws our attention to the people in high places. A prosecutor for the state of Florida is a powerful person. He wields the police power of government on behalf of the elites and the ostensibly sovereign American people. But the conspiracy minded among us will wonder if he was set up. Likewise for O.J. Simpson. See my previous post.

Political power is an aphrodisiac. It gives people a sense of invincibility, which those who rule from the shadows encourage in their dupes. Mr. Atchison was probably not on the inside of that group. Rumors on the internet, backed up by a paper trail uncovered during the infamous Franklin Coverup, which exposed the tendrils of what some might call the Illuminati to public view, tell that many of our politicians, captains of industry, and judges have a keen interest in the bodies of children as sexual objects. The elites who rule are more than happy to provide them with a supply of what they seek, whatever it might be.

The insiders are protected, but warned not to carouse with people not made available to them through “official” channels. Getting some outside of official channels is discouraged, since the corrupt members of the state protect those who take advantage of the elite’s services, but no such protections exist if they visit a freelancer. In exchange, of course, they are photographed and documented in their depravity so that, if they wander off the plantation, or double cross their handlers, they can be eliminated.

The internet has made possible the exposure of the human depravity that has always existed. Only a fool would believe that such pedophilia as allegedly exhibited by Mr. Atchison is a recent development. I recall stories of sexual prostitution of orphan girls in Victorian England, the pederasty of John Maynard Keynes, a socialist economist often quoted by the elites, who would make trips to Morocco to the brothels where young boys were made available to wealthy foreigners. Even today, sex tourism thrives in Thailand, Costa Rica, The Netherlands, and Eastern Europe.

Atchison is alleged to have told the police agent that he has had sex with little girls before. “I’m always gentle and loving; not to worry; no damage ever; no rough stuff ever ever,” Atchison said at one point. “I’ve done it plenty,” he said. One can assume, then, that there’s a network of mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, foster parents and guardians offering the services of their children, hence the constant sting operations to make having sex with kids outside the “official” channels dangerous to people in high places.

What the internet has done is allowed all sorts of individuals to create a black market with much greater ease. It’s like the boil from an infection that comes to the surface, festering and sore, on the body of humanity. What was once sheltered away from the eyes of ordinary men is now readily available. It’s as if the modern mass media culture and the anything goes internet has weakened the immune system of humanity.

Going back to the question of whether or not Atchison was set up, we would have to find out more about his career. Did he specialize in a particular area? Did he refuse to let someone off the hook? Was he moved out of the way so that someone else, who is in with the elites, could take his place? Or did he simply bite a worm with a hook in it? We probably will never know.

Larry Craig is another interesting case for a setup. What would possess a man to go about seeking anonymous sex with other men in public places?

A study of homophobic people found that people who are homophobic tended to be aroused by images of men having sex. Thus, the repression of their own sexual arousal converts into a hatred of homosexuals. The Christian loathing of homosexuality makes this neurosis possible. Without the angry Christian god threatening to punish with hellfire sinners who give in to their urges, there is no reason to fear the occasional odd moment of arousal. There are surely many men in society that have had sexual urges for men, but simply not acted on them by choice, not because they think that homosexuality is bad per se, but they don’t wish to deal with the difficulty that such relationships would bring to them.

Larry Craig probably himself loathes his own homosexuality. His neurotic desires for sex with men drove him to seek it out in a dirty, seedy way. Still, how does an attorney who is a sitting senator of the state of Idaho simply plead guilty after being caught soliciting a police officer? Granted, his specialty may not have been criminal law, but pleading guilty on such a charge should be pure folly even for a trial lawyer. His claim to having been rushed into a mistake falls on it’s face as absurd.

As a sitting senator on official travel, he had a virtual Get-out-of-Jail-Free card, that all senators and congressman enjoy. He need only to identify himself and invoke that power. Of course, to use that power would not guarantee silence from the police. He surely would have drawn attention to himself. He may get off scot-free, but the political firestorm evoked when he used that power would have driven him from office anyway. The dumb masses don’t like to be reminded that some animals are more equal than others.

No doubt he knew that he was guilty and perhaps he thought that pleading out to a lesser charge would be quieter. It’s likely that someone made him a promise that they didn’t intend to keep. That’s why I think he was targeted. He was probably promised some light sentence with a fine and a quiet end to the case if he would plead guilty. Once that trap was sprung, there was no escape. The elites would have known about his predilection. He surely was heavily monitored and the policeman would not have just found himself in that Minneapolis airport stall just by sheer luck.

But why set up Senator Craig? Why take him down? Perhaps because of his strident advocacy on behalf of the second amendment, which frightens the elites, since they are ever aware that the dumb masses outnumber them and are heavily armed. Should the dumb masses ever wise up and figure out who it is that is hurting them, the bloodbath would be spectacular.

Singularity Summit 2007

The “Singularity” is the predicted event when artificial intelligence expands beyond its programmed 0’s and 1’s and starts to think for itself. As this undoubtedly means a huge change for us measly humans (whether very good, very bad, or somewhere in the middle), an organization called the “The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” holds a yearly conference to address the progress, roadblocks, and concerns with bringing such life into the world.

What will it mean to have a computer that is smarter than a human? Will society give it rights? Will it need emotions to understand the questions we ask of it? Will groups be founded to “free” the enslaved robots? These questions and many more have been asked, skirted around, addressed, and discussed by many of the foremost researchers, authors, professors, and futurists today at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco.

Ray Kurzweil, while only attending via video-conference tomorrow, is present in spirit with every speaker as a leading futurist and inventor of many cutting-edge technologies in use today. In his recent book “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” he predicts the singularity will occur sometime in the next 10 to 40 years. This is rather optimistic in my opinion but I’d sure love to see the results of such a change within my lifetime.

The conference is focused on artificial “general” intelligence (or AGI), rather than a more task-focused, “specific” AI, such as IBM’s Deep Blue. AGI’s will essentially be frameworks which, once created, require no more programming (in the traditional sense) to learn and apply any other type of intelligence. An example used by several speakers is a high-schooler who can be trained to do many low-skilled jobs. These types of jobs typically involve repetition and an ability to follow simple rules but they are still well outside the grasp of even the most powerful supercomputer running our most advanced algorithms.

I mention algorithms because brute force alone will not solve this problem! Simply having a computer with the processing power of every human brain on the planet will not suddenly make it self-aware. However, just because we don’t have this power, doesn’t mean we can’t get started today…

In the factoring of prime numbers, would you rather run a 1977 algorithm on 2007 hardware or a 2007 algorithm on 1977 hardware? Many people assume the former simply because computers have gotten so much faster. The fastest solution is the 2007 algorithm running on 1977 hardware. It would take about 12 years to factor a 90-digit number using the 1977 algorithm on Blue Gene and only about 3 years to factor a 90-digit number using the 2007 algorithm on an Apple II. Developing the algorithms that drive artificial intelligence today will produce some major results on a smaller scale as we build up computing power.

Today’s talks focused on what advanced AI is, what is being researched and what progress has been made. A fun equation created by Dr. Rodney Brooks calculated that by 2019, we would be able to fit every movie even the slightest bit interesting on an iPod. In only two years, we’ll be able to fit the entire Library of Congress. Barney Pell, while his talk was more of an overview of the future of AI, had some interesting things to say about natural language processing, or NLP, and his company Powerset (which aspires to collect knowledge from the web, rather than data). NLP is fascinating to me because there’s just so much data on the web and so few ways to process it. Google and Ask Jeeves are on the right track with answers to simple questions, and even simple dialogs with phrases like “did you mean…” but there are many more places that search tools could go to become more useful to everyone. The panel discussions were quite interesting, with questions ranging from “What world (real or imagined) would you choose to live on?” (Paul Saffo answered “this one” after relating a story about driving across the golden gate bridge the night before) to “Why are people working to prolong life?” (which drew some puzzled looks and an answer from Peter Voss, “some of us have tried this life thing for a while now, and we kinda like it”) and plenty of on-topic ones as well.

I suppose the theme of the conference is that there are no “correct” answers yet, so feel free to give the wrong ones because no one will be able to prove you wrong for years. At this point, keeping open the lines of communication between everyone in the field will help anticipate any problems and will help everyone avoid them.

Tomorrow, the talks will cover the ethical issues surrounding AI as well as the potential risks of smart computers (queue almost every recent Hollywood movie about AI). Kurzweil will also be making his video-appearance so that should be exciting.

Ooh, doesn’t it just give you the chills? I can’t wait!

As seen here - The Dark Knight - Teaser

Well, I’m finally going back to Maine for the first time in three or four years now. For those of you that don’t know me too well, I used to go every single summer when I was younger. I’m really looking forward to it, I’ve got a lot of family out there that I haven’t seen in a while. We’re supposed to be doing some kind of family reunion type of thing, that should be fun! I’m leaving tomorrow morning, and I’ll only be gone until some time on Wednesday. Then thursday I get to take the day off and concentrate on being a gym rat and playing hockey in the evening. Friday it’s the Harry Potter book release, I’ll be there at about 11PM sporting my cross-dressing-undead mexican outfit that I wore last time, lets see if i’ll run into police again this time! Finally the next day is bocce party time, everyone is welcome if you’re in the area, the festivities start around 6ish. That’s about it for now, stay classy San Diego.

I stole the title from the original post but hey, I couldn’t come up with anything better. I’m too excited ^.^

This is good stuff, check it out!

From this place http://www.movieweb.com/news/93/20493.php which got it from this place http://meta.yahoo-streaming.jp.

I had the privilege of attending the first screening of Eli Roth’s Hostel 2 this evening so I thought I’d give something back by writing a quick review. I’ll start by laying out my lack of experience in all things Hostel: I have not seen the first film. Before you say “this can’t be an informed review”, let me tell you that I liked this film, and so might others who’s only excuse to skip this sequel is “I didn’t see the first one”. If you like horror films with more substance than slaughter, whether or not you’ve seen the first Hostel, give this one a try.

The movie picks up where the first one leaves off (I know this much because Eli Roth said so). Then the tone changes. It’s like you’re brought back out from the horror of the first one and into a new story with an unsettling knowledge of what is to come. From here on in, there’s plenty of things to make you squirm without shedding a single drop of blood.

You see, this time around, we follow not only the victims but also the killers. Seeing things from the killer’s point of view creates the same kind of character building that makes all these recent superhero movies so great: seeing the (somewhat) normal person behind the mask; learning what makes them tick; feeling (a little) bad for them when they get into trouble. Eli Roth does this brilliantly, giving you a look behind the scenes at this gruesome slaughterhouse and the disturbed people that keep it in business.

Of course, what would character building be without great acting. As Roth put it, the ratings board felt some of the scenes were too scary because the actors and actresses made them too real. He politely asked the board not to punish him for making such a good movie. What we get from this is a horror film with great acting, which is almost an oxymoron. We also get a movie which pushes the limits of the R rating with some pretty gruesome scenes.

While all horror films need a certain amount of gore to draw fans of the genre, many directors will stop there and call it good. I like films with a little more meat on their bones. I like to be truly scared. I wish more people made horror films like this.

I love the beat on this song. The video is pretty sweet too. Check it out.

Well, it’s the end of another semester. It’s going to be nice to have a lot of free time/a car/a basement full of tools at my disposal again. I’ve got a lot of projects that should be fun planned for this summer. For everyone that attended last time, Nikki and I are throwing Bocce Party v2.0, I’ll be advertising that in person and on facebook once we get some more details hammered out. Hopefully we’ll have another one of my projects done by that time, codename Operation LSTPFM, talk to me about it if you’re bored over the summer and want to launch some squirrels off my deck. My keyboard is also looking a bit shabby, so I’ll be re-painting that sometime this summer. Since I don’t really have an orange case anymore, I’ll probably be going with a different color. Something that matches my Antec case better. Yes. Excellllent. In case you guys didn’t see, there’s a new version of Ubuntu Linux that just came out last week. I’ve used it briefly and it’s pretty solid thus far. (I mention this simply because with the off chance that I get an actual reader, there’s probably a 50/50 shot of you being a Linux user as well)

Also, Spiderman 3 is coming out soon and it looks pretty sweet, give me a ring if you want to go see it with me sometime. I’m back in Walled Lake on Saturday, looking forward to seeing a lot of my old friends again =].

Yesterday Joe, Craig, and I went across the street to a Giants game. They played St. Louis and after 12 grueling innings they finally pulled ahead to win it. It was pretty exciting. I’ve been to a few baseball games and I was impressed with AT&T Park’s clean and high-tech look. If you’ve talked to me about where I work, you probably heard that we’re across the street from AT&T Park (and if I didn’t tell you, you might have inferred it from the rest of this post). Anyway, I may have relayed the distance to you by saying it was a “stone’s throw away”, although in retrospect this doesn’t seem like something I would say. I might say something more like, “I could probably hit that kid standing by the hot-dog stand”. But never mind that part, I would have been wrong. I’ve now measured it with a Google Maps image and a Photoshop arrow and it looks to be about the distance of a Barry Bonds home run. I can’t throw that far. I could probably get it to the building next to ours, which is probably half the distance from the pitcher’s mound to the plate. Guess I picked the right side of the street to go looking for a job…

But oh so nice…

Caught this on BoingBoing. Looks like Google Maps is more helpful than I previously thought. It’ll even tell you how to get to France from Boston in only one step. All you have to do is “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean”.

I guess I already knew that, but at least now I can incorporate it into the rest of my driving directions for a complete guide. I just hate having to keep multiple maps with multiple sets of directions. It’s too confusing. And in that case I’d also have to get reverse directions. Swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, while I wouldn’t recommend it, is quite trivial to reverse.

Oh, and don’t forget to bring a waterproof bag with a passport and a set of clean clothes. You’ll thank me later.

Well PLAN 7 went down with relatively few complications the day of the event. The night before, that was another story. I ended up staying up all of friday night into Saturday(day of the PLAN) getting everything setup over there. Seems like it was worth it in the end though, the network was pretty stable for most of the day, and everybody wasn’t cramped in like we feared was a possibility. Congrats to team Charge for winning the CSS tourney, and to all of the other tournament winners who I was too tired to catch the name of. I’ll be sure to get all the details organized and posted on whatistheplan.com eventually, but a bit tired still now. Now, sweet sweet sleep is calling me.

I’m losing my mind/sanity/cognitive abilities. I can’t even keep track of how many mental slip ups and errors I’ve been making lately(Coincidence that I can’t keep track of how many? I think not). Not even hard things either, stupid little minute details that I keep messing up. Is it possible to get Altheimers at 18? =] 

C’est La Vie

A friend sent me a link to Ruckus today. Wow, this software is pretty awesome. I’m still getting the feel for it, but its definately worth checking out for any college student. Apparently all you need is a university e-mail address and access is pre-payed for you.

You download a client, and it enables to you to download their hosted media. So far I’ve found all of the artists I’ve looked for, along with all of their albums. And here’s the kicker, it’s 100% legal. (This might not be saying much, I’ve only searched about 5 artists thusfar, and they’ve all been fairly common) Sure, the files you can download are in .wma format, and windows is the devil, but I can get over that for free legal tunes. Now that I look into it some more, they have free full-length movies as well. I haven’t looked into their selection of movies yet, but I’ve definately seen some well known titles on the main page.

This is definately worth trying out, you can get it here if you missed my first link.

This is probably more for my own future reference than anything of worth to other people, but as long as I'm going to bother writing notes to future-me (cut the blue wire!), I figured I'd share in case it helps. I have a key agent setup on my primary desktop computer, ...

Although I have yet to be asked where my 1337 skillz at web design come from, I imagine my part of the conversation would go something like this: drc's Response: Well Geraldo, I wish I could tell you that I was classically trained in web design, that I was plucked from obscurity ...

WebCT is possibly the stupidest thing to ever hit a college campus. First, I’ll start off with my first and minor issue. I’m in CIS102, which is microsoft excel for idiots, which I could’ve tested out of, but decided to opt for the easy ‘A’ to boost my GPA. I came into the main Schneider computer lab today in order to do the second half of my first project in the class. It didn’t go so bad, I allotted way too much time to do it, but that’s okay. So I go to upload it to the webct server, the upload freezes right at the end.

I try 3 more times.

Same results.

So It’s about classtime and I figure I can go into the main lab for the class to see if it’ll work there. Of course it doesn’t. I tell my TA I completed my assignment and the file won’t upload, the best advice he can give is “Maybe you should logout and log back on”.

Yeah, that didn’t do anything. I tried messing around with it some more and it finally upload. Horay. Only takes 30 minutes to upload an assignment that took an hour at max.

Next is the BIG issue. Cheating. I believe it was Dr.Johnson in ECE250 last semester that made a good point “Cheating does nothing but hurt you, you’re lessening the value of the degree you’re actually working hard for.” What is WebCT? A giant clusterfuck of cheating for all of the lazy students in this college. A lot of teachers are making the move to putting exams/quizzes on webCT. While doing my Project for CIS102, I counted at least 8 other people in the lab who were passing around a list of printed out answers from a student in the class last semested. Copy/Pasted and in a slightly different order. In my ADA225 class, all you hear students talking about in the lecture are about how so-and-so roommate or best friend took the class last semester and has all the quiz answers for the entire semester. Word for Word. It’s complete bullshit, it was bad enough that homework can be so easily copied and turned in without consequence, but WebCT is enabling students to cheat even on Tests. It’s fathomable for a student to not buy the book, never attend a lecture, never read notes, and pass the class with a perfectly acceptable grade.

So I was looking at the Western Michigan website today, the minor program is a complete joke. The difference between getting a minor in CIS and a major in CIS is LESS than a semester worth of classes. I don’t really see why anyone would actually get just a minor in CIS, for a little more you can just get the major anyway and dual-major.

 Maybe I should’ve just done CS instead. I know I have the patience/ability to code, but I don’t see the job market there for CS majors. CS majors only have to go up to calc2 and they get a math minor too, which would be kind of nice to have. Plus, If I did decide to take calculus again, I’d just take normal Calc, not the science and engineering bullshit I took first semester. I don’t really care about nor will I be using vector calculus. I dont want to live in a world where 2×3 is equal to anything other than six. The dot product can rot in hell for eternity.

 Back onto the topic of CIS, I don’t really see myself even LEARNING much from any of the classes on the entire schedule anyway. I mean LAN Administration is just like Cisco, which I’ve been doing for ages. Passing the CCNA = A on final exam = easy class. meh. Okay, So maybe I learn a lot from some of the classes. But aren’t I supposed to be learning a lot from ALL of them? I don’t know if that means its suited for me because I already have a good foundation in it already, or if I should pick something else that I haven’t been fully exposed to yet to further diversity myself? (See CS/Programming)

Side Note: Dan’s real name is Chris. Wow.

Well, I created a blog…again. I’ll go ahead and throw together a quick layout tonight and then focus on the current problem at hand. (Installing Fedora Core6 on my RAID0 Array. Which, if any of you have any advice, please do give me a shout.)

Well at the time of writing this I’m a Freshman at Western Michigan University, studying Computer Information Systems. I enjoy surfing the internet, chatting on irc, listening to music, learning new things, hanging out at the Computer Club and working in C-208 over at Parkview. In my freetime I play a lot of Counter-Strike:Source competitively, I also tend to attempt to learn a programming language, get bored, then attempt a different language. One of these days I’ll actually master a language, I guess it’s just taking me a while to choose one =] .