THE
BIG NEWS OF THE PAST 24 HOURS has to be the Republicans in the Senate successfully
filibustering former Sen Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. The approval failed by one vote. They decided to filibuster this routine
cabinent secretary vote, which annoyed Majority Leader Harry Reid. He aptly stated that such a refusal has never
occurred in the entire history of the country.
It is unprecedented. Of course
being a precedent they thus prime the Democrats setting up a similar filibuster
and refusal to confirm a routine cabinet appointment when it happens to be a
Republican President and a democratic senate.
Of course the current Defense Secretary, Leon Peneta gave his “final
news conference’ before stepping down this weekend. He compared himself to Hillary as “someone
who is deserving a long period of deserved time off”. Penneta was with the CIA before he was with
Defense. In terms of the vote breakdown
55 democrats all voted for Chuck Hagal’s conformation, and they were joined by
four Republicans. John Mc Cain had
stated that the senate should NOT filibuster this candidate but then changed
his mind and voted thumbs down. Of
course the Republicans, even if they change their minds in a few days, could
suffer adverse repercussions from this little stunt. That is when money is doled out for military
instelations in various states such as Texas or Arizona, for instance. It could go real poorly for these Republican
districts- - because if I were Hagal I would not forget what the republicans
did today. In terms of the dreaded
Sequester, it seems that the Defence Department is and has already anticipated
budget cuts and it making them already, and also was making them last quarter
accounting for the dip in the GNP. But
the trouble is with an across the board in all departments budget cut of ten
percent is that you “can’t build 90% of a battle ship” for example. But clearly since the senate will be taking
off their usual Long weekend- and won’t be back in session till the 26th
or something- - it seems from here they will just plain run out of time before
they can undo the sequester. And from
what Republicans are saying now- - they have no inclination to “want to make a
deal” at all. Period.
Moe
Kelly was talking about that rogue cop who killed four people and wounded
others. What bothered me about that
hysterical rant of Moe Kelly yesterday on KTLK was that it ran no less than two
hours and consumed most of the morning.
But the thing is it wasn’t even factual.
Moe says that the police did NOT intentionally start that cabin fire
with the tear gas canister. Yet TV and
radio coverage later in the day clearly showed that “They were going to
initiate a burn” and there is another radio transmission where it was said “Burn
that mother-fucker down!” But the other
thing is this whole “code of silence’ things the cops have and that Randy
Rhodes point out on her own show giving an apt rebuttal to Moe. Randi spoike of statistics that show that
Black people are not larger illegal drug users than white kids are. But the cops protect kids on “proper” white
neighborhood for arrests, giving them second chances they won’t give a Black
person. Whites are never subject to the
sort of routine shakedowns Blacks, including Moe Kelly himself, have suffered
at the hands of law enforcement. And we
must keep in mind that certain classes of crime are almost the exclusive domain
of Whites. These would include child
molestations and these psychotic multiple killings, and attempts on the lives
of Presidents. And besides these crimes-
- Whites are also almost exclusively guilty of these “white collar crimes” such
as embezzlement and the sort of financial stuff Romney was guilty of, but wasn’t
even charged. Police may “profile” a Black man with
absolutely no criminal record and doesn’t even look like the guy they’re after,
but no police profile nineteen and twenty year old white college students with
business majors- - darkly suspecting they may grow up to be Gordon Geckos.
There
was more stuff about the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party on Bill Press this
morning that is covered in Bill’s book, “The Obama Hate Machine” that I really
need to borrow a copy of and read thoroughly.
Like Bill, I never bought into the tea party myth for s second when they
got their start in the spring of 2009 that “they were just a bunch of concerned
Americans getting together to talk about how to reform government”. Give me a break! Thom Hartman has coined the term “astro turf”
to describe these people. Actually of
course the Koch Brothers got their fame in the pulp paper business- - cutting
down trees. But they are also
classically in bed with big oil and control a lot of the refineries and pipelines
in this country. They made their first
attempt at a “grass roots” organization in 2002 when they formed the group “Citizens
for a Sound Economy”, but that organization soon fell under endless suspiciou
and disrepute. They formed two more
organizations later in the decade that are still around today and these are “Freedom
Works” and “Americans for Prosperity”.
This morning while still lying in bed I was just musing over - - what a
despicable person Mitt Romney was. He
was absolutely the LAST person you’d pick for any presidential candidate. We kind of want our Politicians and Statesmen
to be at least a little humble, and yet be inwardly brave and have an inner “True
Grit” of character. We like to believe
they learned the “right lessons” from life’s experience. When you think about someone you’d sit down
at a bar and have a beer with - - I’d sooner have a beer with Gordon
Gecko. Gecko was a hell of a lot more
articulate- - and he also was versed in the literary classics such as Sun Soon’s
“The Art of War” and a pretty good racket ball player, and I bet he doesn’t
cheat the way Romney does at even routine athletic contests. Gecko at least fancied himself as an art
conosour, but then again if you’re a rich person you’ll pay hundreds of
thousand dollars for Crap – and it’s obvious to everybody but you. What is really galling is Judy’s first real
praise of Mitt Romney occurred at the beginning of 2012, when she rather
passionately spoke in Romney’s defense when it came to the antics of Bain
Capital. Rick Perry was calling it “Vulture
Capitalism” and Newt Gingrich took out lavish campaign adds funded by Sheldon
Addelson, who later jumped sides, in pointing out for every would be voter for
Romney what a rat their candidate was. I
don’t know about you but I just couldn’t get warm and fuzzy feelings at, say, a
Christian dating site- - about a woman who passionately defends a man like Mitt
Romney. I was thinking again this
morning of that Joe South song, “These are not my People”. That would make an excellent title for a book
I’d write on my experiences over the past 42 years with Born Again
Christianity. Because These indeed Are
Not My People. I don’t know them any
more, and in reality never did. You know
my last gasp as a Born Again Christian was maybe ten years ago when in the late
summer and much of the fall I attended a weekly Bible study with my brother at
this couple’s nice house. But you know-
- even though this couple had five cats, I didn’t get along with any of
them. Up till that moment I considered
myself a “cat person” but I seemed to have “lost my touch”. I’m wondering if drug medication changes your
body chemistry so that you just “smell differently” to an animal, and the
suddenly get aloof and testy. Can you
know a person by how well you get along with their cats?
We've got one major paragraph after this one. Unfortunately or whatever, the Cosmic stuff I've been planning on doing is pushed off into another day. This
is Friday February 15, 2013 and it’s Luprical in Romulan country today. They don’t celebrate that holiday on this
planet any more. Yesterday was Valentine’s
Day and I did not type in Word yesterday.
We’ll get to our opening paragraph topic in just a bit. I have Stephanie Miller on right now and I
had her on before breakfast. It’s
already warming up enough on this sunny morning that you really don’t need a
jacket outside. I woke early and got up
at twenty to five intent on taking a long shower since it was so cold in here –
then. But like Tuesday the hot water
wasn’t that hot this morning and I spent less time in the shower than
planned. Yesterday however the water did
get up to full heat. In the news that
Carnival Cruise line finally pulled into Mobile, Alabama, being towed by tug
boats at “walking speed” and at least one point the cable broke, and Captain
Queeg wasn’t even around to blame for it.
Of course the people could not stay in their state rooms since sewage was
dripping in through the ceiling from overflowing toilets above them. They have done any number of TV movies about “Luxury
Cruises gone bad”. This is a real life
case. And that asteroid is scheduled to
fly by earth today, or has flown by in the pre dawn hours or something. Though now they are saying the object is
still too small to be seen without a telescope.
I heard reports about generating a sonic boom, but perhaps they are
referring to that giant asteroid that hit in Syberia in 1921 or something. And they say that suicide rate skyrocket in
states with lax gun laws such as Texas, Montana, and Wyoming. Of course it’s a lot easier to kill yourself
with a gun than by any other method, which at least gives the victim an opportunity
to “think about it” first. The trouble
with guns is that their motto is “Your irrational impulse is my command”. Clearly there would be a lot fewer “preventable
deaths” were guns more restricted. Wayne
Lopier is said to be a racist now, and I’m not sure what they are referring
to. At any rate I had the Bill Press
show on from the five o clock news on this morning, and the show was
informative. For breakfast we had Rice
Krispies and later on we had scrambled eggs and hashed browns with catsup on
them. It was just past a quarter to
eight when I left the table- and that’s the earliest I’ve gotten out of there
in some time.
We've got one more paragraph . It's a long one. So
just what did I spend perhaps too much of yesterday doing when I wasn’t
listening to Moe Kelly and Randy Rhodes?
Well, I’d like to tell you about it.
We’ll discuss the Valentine party here later on, off camera. In our last “Chapter” of the Base E saga we
told you that I had arrived on the number of 2.665 as THEE number where
recripicals of bases and exponents could be swapped out for the same
value. However this ONLY works with the
logs of 2 and 4 or that would be “two” and “four’ for those of you in Rio
Linda, who don’t know math. But the
Federation has another official established value I learned, which is 2.646 - -
and I derived that one, too. I noticed
the discrepancy Wednesday evening and noted that it couldn’t be explained by
either rounding off or some calculation anomally. It was a slight but significantly different
value. This is the figure for 3/2 or 2/3
or 1.5 and .6667 or whatever. Are you
with me? The one thing I DID learn
definitively first thing yesterday morning was HOW TO CALCULATE the value of
Base E everybody could agree on. If you
know the N! key in Windows Calculator, you know that one prime function is the
key is the calculating of probabilities- - and choices and chances. But what is done here with Base E is the “incrementalization”
of this N! number into its component steps.
So for whatever reason Base E as used by the scientists starts with a
ONE and to this you add the inverses (or recripicals) of 2! Plus 3! Plus 4! Plus
5! And so forth. These numbers would
break down to one, six, twenty-four, and 120.
I added each of these proper fractions together and came up with
2.766666 - - which is close enough. 120
for 5! Is the hightst figure I know, but it’s enough to get the idea. This figure then with a very small exponent
or log - - that is Close to value to One on Each Side - - would be Base E. There was an article which discussed very small
exponents and very large exponents and shortcuts you could employ, that we will
NOT employ for our discussion here. So
what you have is a “shift factor”. It
became apparent that the farther the exponents and bases were apart- - that is
- - their greater logarithmic distance from the value of ONE - - then the mean
recripical Base - - would start to get lower- - from the Base E starting
point. Hence you have your 2.665 and
2.646 figures. This mean base figure
continues to drop, ever so slightly at first and then picks up speed radically
as it approaches the value of ONE. When
the figure is at ONE - - the required LOG to get back to Base E is of course
Infinite, as we previously discussed.
But just to show you I’m not blowing smoke out my ass- - the value of
ONE would be a suitable mean figure for a base of base One and Infinity
exponent, for example, because the Log of one would be Infinitely high, and the
log of Infinity for itself would be One.
But what you’d have in terms of a line would kind of be a curve like the
back of a sports car or something- - where ONE represents the rear bumper. So then my only problem that I wrestled with
all day was how to generate such a graph curve, and I hit upon an answer late
in the day, and did a whole elaborate Excel program in the evening where I put
all the pieces together for you. First
of all you look at a figure for 1.5 and what you want to know is “What value
generates a LOG or LN more properly, of 1.5.
The answer would be around a 1.95.
In this model the higher the base number the lower the LOG because, if I
didn’t tell you you hit the 1/X key on calculator to make it greater than
one. This may have been troubling
you. You take the LOG value to be the
Exponet and Base figure you want to calculate the differential shift of. OK?
The Value that generates this LOG would be - - like if it’s almost Two
in the case of the 1.5 value- - you take that two and take the hyperbolic
tangent reading of it, and it comes to a .96 or something. Now you look at just the four percent
shortfall. Now you apply the final
factor you multiply by. This factor goes
up at a straight line value from zero at Base E to what ends up being about
101% at ONE. The value of Base E alone
shrinks down to a 37% at the ONE value from the percent deduction along being 2.7
times 24 as in percent soing with the 76% TANH figure at value One. But because the sliding straight line scale
goes from 0 to .27 times - - but your base can’t be allowed to go below ONE- -
you’ve already used up your 1.7 Base E value getting Base E down to One and not
Zero, where you don’t’ want to go anyhow.
It so happens that two and a half times 24 is about 63 from a hundred
making 37 and also 37 percent of Base E’s value is below one. Now of course the beginning of the scale
starts at a 99.9% TANH reading- - but remember this end of multiplied by Zero,
so you’re all set.
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