This is a topic I've never written about...Drugs or so called drugs. Specifically marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms. I have not and do not partake in these things or am advocating their use but I do have a question, why are the illegal? They are naturally occurring and grow wild many places around the world and anecdotal and lab evidence shows great medical possibilities for both of them. The danger surrounding both seem to be less than even legal substances such as tobacco and alcohol, it has even been said that magic mushrooms are less toxic than aspirin. As well their are fewer use related deaths from marijuana every year than FDA approved drugs. None actually and very few from secondary cause related to use. Yes you can look that up .
So why are these substances illegal? I've not been able to find a good reason. Most of the reasons run the realm of racism, misconception, manufacturing monopoly, supposed moral or social reasoning and government propagandizing. The criminalization of marijuana came about in the early 1900's and possession has carried a penalty of anything from a ticket to life in prison.
Many of the so called "reasons" for criminalization (which can be found with a quick google search, I'm not going in to all of them) have absolutely no bearing on today's society. So why aren't they legal now? The powers that be see no reason for them to be. Besides the drug war pays for it self with fines and money confiscation and reselling of the drugs it confiscates. Add on top of that it's just one more part of your life that the government can control...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Tea Party and other conservitives
This tends to be a thought I have when ever I'm reading a news article on Yahoo or CNN or wherever they have the option to post comments and somebody bashes the Tea party or conservatives and that thought is...Why? Yes I am biased I support what the Tea party are trying to do and what other "fringe" conservatives and libertarians are working on and that is ; smaller government, lower taxes, secure borders, a healthy economy, American and state sovereignty, capitalism and the free market, personal sovereignty, upholding the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and protecting our freedom and liberty in general.
So I ask all you liberals and Tea party bashers "What do you have against these things?". Are you so brain washed that you now believe these things are the problem instead of the solution? I truly don't understand. Are the Tea party and the "fringe" conservative movement perfect...No, but the intentions, I believe are headed in the right direction. Do you Tea party haters want your freedoms taken away? Do you want your paychecks to steadily shrink through higher and higher taxation? Do you want to be at the mercy of the U.N.?
My guess is no...but I think I do know what some of the answers are. You don't want to work for your pay check, you believe that you are entitled to your paycheck from the government and the larger our government the more handouts you believe you can get from the government. So to that I say " You're ok being an indentured servant (at best) to the government?"
I know many people dislike Glen Beck for different reasons, I personally am not a huge fan, but when he can get it through the network censors I believe his heart is in the right place. A couple of months ago he held a rally call "Hope, Faith and Charity." and shortly there after and on the same day even their were those that were hold rallies that were opposing his rally.
Now lets think about this you're opposed to faith hope and charity? So... you're for fear greed and despair or are you a social Darwinist, every man for himself, survival of the fittest? If the latter is the case still why support the left who are all for a nanny state. Or do you simply want the government to make all your decisions for you?
Now don't get me wrong the establishment republicans have been just as bad as the democrats in a good many ways and I'm just as pissed at them.
Back to my original point. The people who are in favor of all the things that made this country great seem to be the ones who are attacked and disparaged the most, the tea party, real conservatives, libertarians etc... Why? The ones who seem to want to tear this country to shreds, sell us to the highest bidder and enslave us all seem to be the ones who are praised as saviors .... Why?
So I ask all you liberals and Tea party bashers "What do you have against these things?". Are you so brain washed that you now believe these things are the problem instead of the solution? I truly don't understand. Are the Tea party and the "fringe" conservative movement perfect...No, but the intentions, I believe are headed in the right direction. Do you Tea party haters want your freedoms taken away? Do you want your paychecks to steadily shrink through higher and higher taxation? Do you want to be at the mercy of the U.N.?
My guess is no...but I think I do know what some of the answers are. You don't want to work for your pay check, you believe that you are entitled to your paycheck from the government and the larger our government the more handouts you believe you can get from the government. So to that I say " You're ok being an indentured servant (at best) to the government?"
I know many people dislike Glen Beck for different reasons, I personally am not a huge fan, but when he can get it through the network censors I believe his heart is in the right place. A couple of months ago he held a rally call "Hope, Faith and Charity." and shortly there after and on the same day even their were those that were hold rallies that were opposing his rally.
Now lets think about this you're opposed to faith hope and charity? So... you're for fear greed and despair or are you a social Darwinist, every man for himself, survival of the fittest? If the latter is the case still why support the left who are all for a nanny state. Or do you simply want the government to make all your decisions for you?
Now don't get me wrong the establishment republicans have been just as bad as the democrats in a good many ways and I'm just as pissed at them.
Back to my original point. The people who are in favor of all the things that made this country great seem to be the ones who are attacked and disparaged the most, the tea party, real conservatives, libertarians etc... Why? The ones who seem to want to tear this country to shreds, sell us to the highest bidder and enslave us all seem to be the ones who are praised as saviors .... Why?
Friday, July 2, 2010
The Center for Science in the Public Interest yet again
Group calls for Ban on Artificial Food Coloring
from webmd
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has put a report calling for a ban on artificial coloring in food. Stating that none of the artificial coloring used in food has been proven safe. While I can't really say I can disagree with their position completely I have to ask " Who are these guys?" This is the second article in a month I've come across that has this group as the major plaintiffs. The first was a possible attempt to sue McDonalds for putting toys in their happy meals.
This raises questions how much power does this relatively unknown (or at least to me) group hold? How much money do they have to even consider a worldwide corporation such as McDonald and where are they getting it? Is it a completely private group or are they getting tax payer money? What other things they done that have effected our life that we don't know about or don't realize? Is this even a group of scientist or is it just a political activist group.
Like I said before I don't know that I can completely disagree with the position that artificial colors are bad. They also say in the article that their hasn't been a study done on food coloring for more than thirty years and that they are essentially wanting to go along with an European Union ban and that says a lot.
At some point I may have to do some more research on these guys and give them their own entry
from webmd
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has put a report calling for a ban on artificial coloring in food. Stating that none of the artificial coloring used in food has been proven safe. While I can't really say I can disagree with their position completely I have to ask " Who are these guys?" This is the second article in a month I've come across that has this group as the major plaintiffs. The first was a possible attempt to sue McDonalds for putting toys in their happy meals.
This raises questions how much power does this relatively unknown (or at least to me) group hold? How much money do they have to even consider a worldwide corporation such as McDonald and where are they getting it? Is it a completely private group or are they getting tax payer money? What other things they done that have effected our life that we don't know about or don't realize? Is this even a group of scientist or is it just a political activist group.
Like I said before I don't know that I can completely disagree with the position that artificial colors are bad. They also say in the article that their hasn't been a study done on food coloring for more than thirty years and that they are essentially wanting to go along with an European Union ban and that says a lot.
At some point I may have to do some more research on these guys and give them their own entry
Thursday, July 1, 2010
The American Way
Punch in, Punch out.
Punch in, Punch out.
A thousand disposable minions grind the day away
day after day in every conceivable way
this has become the American way.
For what? What does it all mean
you work all day and your pay's gone the next day
Paper pay and electrons that speed on their way
all made from nothing. Something for nothing
this is the American way.
No love, no hate it's just profit that we make
War and Peace it's all the same thing. So long as
we get our pretty things. This my friends
is the American way
Monday, June 28, 2010
The second Amendment must be honored by states
The supreme court ruled today that the second amendment must be honored by states in a 5 vs 4 vote split down party/ideological lines. This is something quite honestly I have always thought was a no brainer. In fact I've pretty much always the the entire Bill of Rights was pretty self explanatory.
So why does this issue of gun rights keep coming up time and time again? A few reasons that I can think of. For one well meaning yet misguided rose color glasses wearing liberals for some reason believe that taking away the legal right to have guns will stop criminals from getting guns and killing people. I don't know why.
The second is power, fear and control. Taking guns away from the general populous will take power from the populous. The government fears an armed populous especially governments with the intention of grabbing more and more of our rights. Taking the guns away from the general law abiding populous is a ploy to pacify the populous leaving a malicious regime the opportunity raid pillage and plunder the people with out fear of an armed revolt.
As well an unarmed population will turn more and more to the government for protection, whether it be police, sheriffs or the military.
That's really about the long and short of it. This ruling is definitely a step in the right direction. If Elena Kagen gets approved for the Supreme court I fear fewer and fewer steps in this direction. Hopefully the senate will have enough testicular fortitude to keep that from happening.
So why does this issue of gun rights keep coming up time and time again? A few reasons that I can think of. For one well meaning yet misguided rose color glasses wearing liberals for some reason believe that taking away the legal right to have guns will stop criminals from getting guns and killing people. I don't know why.
The second is power, fear and control. Taking guns away from the general populous will take power from the populous. The government fears an armed populous especially governments with the intention of grabbing more and more of our rights. Taking the guns away from the general law abiding populous is a ploy to pacify the populous leaving a malicious regime the opportunity raid pillage and plunder the people with out fear of an armed revolt.
As well an unarmed population will turn more and more to the government for protection, whether it be police, sheriffs or the military.
That's really about the long and short of it. This ruling is definitely a step in the right direction. If Elena Kagen gets approved for the Supreme court I fear fewer and fewer steps in this direction. Hopefully the senate will have enough testicular fortitude to keep that from happening.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Irritants
I find I spend most of my time listening to news and talk radio as well as reading news, politics and current events. Right now their is a whole bunch of weird and wild crap going on in our world. However, I find, that it is not only the big things that send me flying off the handle but also ,and sometimes more so, the things that seem like insignificant or maybe just a passing human interest story that send my blood pressure soaring.
Lets take a recent article a group is talking about suing McDonalds. Why? You ask because they put toys in the "Happy Meals", something that they've done for, oh I don't know the last thirty one years. They claim that putting the toys in Happy Meals is "unfair and deceptive" marketing and that the food is making our kids fat...
This almost renders me speechless. What has happened to choice? What has happened to parents having the authority to make decisions about what their family eats. What right does this "Center for Science in the Public Interest" to tell me what I can feed my family? Seriously who the hell are these people?
And deceptive really? What I ask is deceptive about a Happy Meal? It's a burger and fries with a toy or you could even get it with milk and apples. They don't advertise it as anything other than that.
This is simply another "progressive" activist group vomiting their pro-government regulation propaganda in an attempt to get the public to accept the government interfering with every part of your life.
So... in conclusion my thought on this are the "Centers for science in the Public interest" should be punished for this...this is the very definition of a frivolous law suit...my favorite thought is that when they bring this to court the judge should find them in contempt, make them pay all the legal fees and court costs and put all involved in jail for a few days.
And to all the parents out there who think that McDonalds is going to make your kids fat...DON'T TAKE THEM!! That's it, you don't need government regulation to tell you that. You are the parent so what, if you're kids whine about wanting the cheap toy... again you're the parents tell them NO! Again it's that easy people.
(more about this group here and here)
This is the type of thing I'm talking about. Most people would see this and go "huh that's interesting" but not me I write multi-page blogs about it. This article ranks right up there with PETA trying to shut down KFC because they're being mean to the cute widdle chickies...wah wah wah. It's a level on stupidity that generally renders me near speechless.
On this topic I have to ask has anyone in PETA ever been around chickens? They're dirty, smelly and eat out of they're own poo, and not just when they're all cooped up, and they're dumb, a prime requite I find for being a food animal.
This is yet another one of those seemingly insignificant issues that really seems to get my blood pressure up and yet you find when you dig deeper into these issues you find that they have much more significance. Like the impact to freedom of choice.
So that's just my little nugget for everyone to chew on tonight.
Lets take a recent article a group is talking about suing McDonalds. Why? You ask because they put toys in the "Happy Meals", something that they've done for, oh I don't know the last thirty one years. They claim that putting the toys in Happy Meals is "unfair and deceptive" marketing and that the food is making our kids fat...
This almost renders me speechless. What has happened to choice? What has happened to parents having the authority to make decisions about what their family eats. What right does this "Center for Science in the Public Interest" to tell me what I can feed my family? Seriously who the hell are these people?
And deceptive really? What I ask is deceptive about a Happy Meal? It's a burger and fries with a toy or you could even get it with milk and apples. They don't advertise it as anything other than that.
This is simply another "progressive" activist group vomiting their pro-government regulation propaganda in an attempt to get the public to accept the government interfering with every part of your life.
So... in conclusion my thought on this are the "Centers for science in the Public interest" should be punished for this...this is the very definition of a frivolous law suit...my favorite thought is that when they bring this to court the judge should find them in contempt, make them pay all the legal fees and court costs and put all involved in jail for a few days.
And to all the parents out there who think that McDonalds is going to make your kids fat...DON'T TAKE THEM!! That's it, you don't need government regulation to tell you that. You are the parent so what, if you're kids whine about wanting the cheap toy... again you're the parents tell them NO! Again it's that easy people.
(more about this group here and here)
This is the type of thing I'm talking about. Most people would see this and go "huh that's interesting" but not me I write multi-page blogs about it. This article ranks right up there with PETA trying to shut down KFC because they're being mean to the cute widdle chickies...wah wah wah. It's a level on stupidity that generally renders me near speechless.
On this topic I have to ask has anyone in PETA ever been around chickens? They're dirty, smelly and eat out of they're own poo, and not just when they're all cooped up, and they're dumb, a prime requite I find for being a food animal.
This is yet another one of those seemingly insignificant issues that really seems to get my blood pressure up and yet you find when you dig deeper into these issues you find that they have much more significance. Like the impact to freedom of choice.
So that's just my little nugget for everyone to chew on tonight.
Friday, June 4, 2010
The Future.
The future is something that is on every ones mind right now, because right now the future, here isn't looking too bright. But I'm not just talking about the future of the united states, I'm talking about the future of the human race. The future of humanity is something I've always been interested in. My interests in this topic have included everything from science to science fiction to Bible prophecy.
My thoughts on the future of humanity is pretty simple. Humanity will endure as long as we can. Whether it just be another 100 years till we destroy ourselves or be it another million years or longer. We will endure as long as we have the will or as long as our creator will allow.
What shape our future will take? I feel it will take many, from the pinnacle of liberty to the depths of despotism and mixtures and any combination of, through times of stability to times of natures worst wrath and from the height of known technology to the dark ages and back.
What is my hope for humanity? My hope for humanity is the stars. I don't believe that I'll be alive for this, but my hope for humanity is that we will one day be able to explore the stars and colonize other planets.
You see, I fully believe that there is other life out there. With so many stars and so many of those stars having other planets it's almost to hard for me to believe that their isn't any other life out there. Whether they've visited us here I don't know but I believe they're out there, and if we can go to the stars before we obliterate ourselves I believe we may just meet them.
Not to mention our creator is a creator. Did he just quite creating all together with us? The Genesis outlines our creation doesn't say one way or another whether he did anything anywhere else. So is it not possible he created others elsewhere? The Bible and other scripture deal specifically with us on earth.
So how does this mesh with Bible prophecy? I don't know that it does but I'm also not sure that it doesn't. I've read the book of Revelations (many times actually). the ending gets a little mixed up. See the world never actually seems to end. It speaks of a new heaven, a new Earth and a new Jerusalem and this is all after the judgments and then it goes into a description of Heaven. As well as after the thousand years the dragon is let out of the pit and things seem to get back to normal for awhile and then he gets kick out for good. Then there is the judgment and the new Earth and such.
I know many people believe we're in the days just before the things in the Book of Revelation start and some actually believe that these are the events of the Book of Revelation and Daniel spoke of. Personally I've meditated and studied and prayed and I am not so sure myself.
I guess I just don't see the creator, if in deed he is a benign creator, I don't see him as being a short term kind of guy. If a thousand years is indeed as a day to him and humans have only been around for six thousand years then we're barely a week into this thing. So why stop now?
These are just my thoughts...
My thoughts on the future of humanity is pretty simple. Humanity will endure as long as we can. Whether it just be another 100 years till we destroy ourselves or be it another million years or longer. We will endure as long as we have the will or as long as our creator will allow.
What shape our future will take? I feel it will take many, from the pinnacle of liberty to the depths of despotism and mixtures and any combination of, through times of stability to times of natures worst wrath and from the height of known technology to the dark ages and back.
What is my hope for humanity? My hope for humanity is the stars. I don't believe that I'll be alive for this, but my hope for humanity is that we will one day be able to explore the stars and colonize other planets.
You see, I fully believe that there is other life out there. With so many stars and so many of those stars having other planets it's almost to hard for me to believe that their isn't any other life out there. Whether they've visited us here I don't know but I believe they're out there, and if we can go to the stars before we obliterate ourselves I believe we may just meet them.
Not to mention our creator is a creator. Did he just quite creating all together with us? The Genesis outlines our creation doesn't say one way or another whether he did anything anywhere else. So is it not possible he created others elsewhere? The Bible and other scripture deal specifically with us on earth.
So how does this mesh with Bible prophecy? I don't know that it does but I'm also not sure that it doesn't. I've read the book of Revelations (many times actually). the ending gets a little mixed up. See the world never actually seems to end. It speaks of a new heaven, a new Earth and a new Jerusalem and this is all after the judgments and then it goes into a description of Heaven. As well as after the thousand years the dragon is let out of the pit and things seem to get back to normal for awhile and then he gets kick out for good. Then there is the judgment and the new Earth and such.
I know many people believe we're in the days just before the things in the Book of Revelation start and some actually believe that these are the events of the Book of Revelation and Daniel spoke of. Personally I've meditated and studied and prayed and I am not so sure myself.
I guess I just don't see the creator, if in deed he is a benign creator, I don't see him as being a short term kind of guy. If a thousand years is indeed as a day to him and humans have only been around for six thousand years then we're barely a week into this thing. So why stop now?
These are just my thoughts...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
I think Obama sunk the oil rig by releasing the Krakken
I love the title of this blog. It's a combination of three pretty fun things. First it implies a conspiracy theory, always a good time, it's satirical which is fun and it blames Obama also a good time. That's my explanation for any Obama zombies who might have needed one.
First off I'm actually going to applaud BP. I know conservative side with big business blah, blah blah. Well, I'm not really a fan of big business I've worked for several VERY large companies and truth be told not really a fan. My applaud of BP is they're doing the best they can with no help from the administration.
But it's they're fault you say. Yeah maybe, maybe it was the company who owed the rig, maybe it was Haliburton, maybe it was the eco-nuts who made them drill in water a MILE deep, maybe it was the administration who rubber stamped they're last inspection, maybe Barry really did release the Krakken. At this point it doesn't really matter. What matters is that BP is taking full responsibility for it.
They're taking responsibility for it and doing the best they can to figure out a way to fix it. What has the regime done? Other than sending lawyer, more lawyer a swat team, a bunch of empty suite bureaucrats and throwing hissy fits and threatening to "Keep their boot on BP's throat"?
Nothing. Not one blasted thing. Their are no reports of the army corps of engineers helping or any other productive section of government doing anything to help. And what do I have to say about that? Good! BP is better off without the governments help. This is their business and I have no doubt that they are doing a much better job than any government agency every good. Don't get me wrong I have the utmost respect for the armed services, but they are not in the oil business.
I understand that this is a horrible ecological disaster and it's one of those things that could very well fall under a category that the government needs to do something about. I understand that this is going to turn in to a horrible economic disaster for the south and possibly for the whole country. So why ,your probably still asking, am I glad that the regime has not really gotten it self involved in this. The answer is simple... The federal government has a bad habit of messing up every thing it touches, and that goes double for the current regime.
Do I even have to list examples?
The NOAA had a plan that they developed almost twenty years ago for just such an occasion and they just sat and watched like a bunch of stoned teenagers. The President didn't even mention it till nearly a week after it happened, and then he tried to take credit when everybody thought that the top kill worked and then we find out it didn't and now I bet he's pissed. The
Governor of Louisiana had a plan to help protect they're shores from the oil, the plan was to build a series of barrier off the coast, and the administration told him no, they needed to study what the environmental impact of building they barriers would be.
I can answer that one...A lot less than thousands of gallons of oil washing on to the shore and bayous of the Louisiana coast doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. So just based on this last paragraph I have to say... There is a saying "Lead, Follow or get out of the way"...so I guess what I'm saying in summation... The Obama regime needs to GET OUT OF THE WAY!!
Not to mention unless Obama has something constructive to say or gets out he magical messiah diving suit and goes down and caps the well him self I've heard from him all I need to hear about this.
In conclusion to British Petroleum I applaud you for taking responsibility and many of us know that you're doing the best you can under the conditions your in and with what you are allowed to do
First off I'm actually going to applaud BP. I know conservative side with big business blah, blah blah. Well, I'm not really a fan of big business I've worked for several VERY large companies and truth be told not really a fan. My applaud of BP is they're doing the best they can with no help from the administration.
But it's they're fault you say. Yeah maybe, maybe it was the company who owed the rig, maybe it was Haliburton, maybe it was the eco-nuts who made them drill in water a MILE deep, maybe it was the administration who rubber stamped they're last inspection, maybe Barry really did release the Krakken. At this point it doesn't really matter. What matters is that BP is taking full responsibility for it.
They're taking responsibility for it and doing the best they can to figure out a way to fix it. What has the regime done? Other than sending lawyer, more lawyer a swat team, a bunch of empty suite bureaucrats and throwing hissy fits and threatening to "Keep their boot on BP's throat"?
Nothing. Not one blasted thing. Their are no reports of the army corps of engineers helping or any other productive section of government doing anything to help. And what do I have to say about that? Good! BP is better off without the governments help. This is their business and I have no doubt that they are doing a much better job than any government agency every good. Don't get me wrong I have the utmost respect for the armed services, but they are not in the oil business.
I understand that this is a horrible ecological disaster and it's one of those things that could very well fall under a category that the government needs to do something about. I understand that this is going to turn in to a horrible economic disaster for the south and possibly for the whole country. So why ,your probably still asking, am I glad that the regime has not really gotten it self involved in this. The answer is simple... The federal government has a bad habit of messing up every thing it touches, and that goes double for the current regime.
Do I even have to list examples?
The NOAA had a plan that they developed almost twenty years ago for just such an occasion and they just sat and watched like a bunch of stoned teenagers. The President didn't even mention it till nearly a week after it happened, and then he tried to take credit when everybody thought that the top kill worked and then we find out it didn't and now I bet he's pissed. The
Governor of Louisiana had a plan to help protect they're shores from the oil, the plan was to build a series of barrier off the coast, and the administration told him no, they needed to study what the environmental impact of building they barriers would be.
I can answer that one...A lot less than thousands of gallons of oil washing on to the shore and bayous of the Louisiana coast doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. So just based on this last paragraph I have to say... There is a saying "Lead, Follow or get out of the way"...so I guess what I'm saying in summation... The Obama regime needs to GET OUT OF THE WAY!!
Not to mention unless Obama has something constructive to say or gets out he magical messiah diving suit and goes down and caps the well him self I've heard from him all I need to hear about this.
In conclusion to British Petroleum I applaud you for taking responsibility and many of us know that you're doing the best you can under the conditions your in and with what you are allowed to do
Saturday, May 29, 2010
It's ALIVE!! IT'S ALIVE!!
We have created artificial life!!
I found this completely fascinating. Apparently the mainstream media didn't. You heard about it a couple of days and then nothing since. No debate, no outrage from the hard religious right no praise from the extreme secular left. Nothing. I personally think this is a fantastic accomplishment.
Really I'm psyched about this.
Before we even start talking about moral or ethical issues that could surround this I want to talk about the possibilities that me as your average layperson can see. The two big things that come to mind is the medical uses, and mind you this isn't going to be any time soon, is cancer and A.I.D.S. treatment. If you could create an artificial white blood cell that is immune to the A.I.D.S. virus yet will kill the A.I.D.S. virus you could cure it, or create a cell that will eat cancer cells, again a cure. I guess you could theoretically cure just about anything maybe mix it with nanotechnology the sky's the limit. Maybe create an organism that will eat toxic waste or oil use it to clean up a disaster or two.
Again like I said they've just now had success with a man made genome that will just replicate it self. I figure it'll be a decade or two before the have any success customizing the dna to do specific things. Like I said I'm excited about this, my little mind is taking this accomplishment and going all kinds of places with this.
Of course theirs always the downside to this type of thing. As well as I can see all the good things that could be done with this I can see all kinds of nasty things. We wouldn't have to modify existing diseases for weapons...we could make new ones. Terrible ones that don't respond to antibiotics or any known type of treatment. It's possible.
Lots of things are possible. Like I said this is something that hasn't gotten a lot of air play from either side. No religious right decrying this as an abomination, no secular left shouting that this is proof that we're just as good as God. I guess this story just isn't sexy enough to make the front page. I mean hey, it's not like Dr. Frankenstein created his monster, now THAT would make the front page. It's just a single celled organism that replicates on it's own created by humans in a lab.
I found this completely fascinating. Apparently the mainstream media didn't. You heard about it a couple of days and then nothing since. No debate, no outrage from the hard religious right no praise from the extreme secular left. Nothing. I personally think this is a fantastic accomplishment.
Really I'm psyched about this.
Before we even start talking about moral or ethical issues that could surround this I want to talk about the possibilities that me as your average layperson can see. The two big things that come to mind is the medical uses, and mind you this isn't going to be any time soon, is cancer and A.I.D.S. treatment. If you could create an artificial white blood cell that is immune to the A.I.D.S. virus yet will kill the A.I.D.S. virus you could cure it, or create a cell that will eat cancer cells, again a cure. I guess you could theoretically cure just about anything maybe mix it with nanotechnology the sky's the limit. Maybe create an organism that will eat toxic waste or oil use it to clean up a disaster or two.
Again like I said they've just now had success with a man made genome that will just replicate it self. I figure it'll be a decade or two before the have any success customizing the dna to do specific things. Like I said I'm excited about this, my little mind is taking this accomplishment and going all kinds of places with this.
Of course theirs always the downside to this type of thing. As well as I can see all the good things that could be done with this I can see all kinds of nasty things. We wouldn't have to modify existing diseases for weapons...we could make new ones. Terrible ones that don't respond to antibiotics or any known type of treatment. It's possible.
Lots of things are possible. Like I said this is something that hasn't gotten a lot of air play from either side. No religious right decrying this as an abomination, no secular left shouting that this is proof that we're just as good as God. I guess this story just isn't sexy enough to make the front page. I mean hey, it's not like Dr. Frankenstein created his monster, now THAT would make the front page. It's just a single celled organism that replicates on it's own created by humans in a lab.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Environmentalism and why I'm a fan
The "Green movement" has been co-opted and corrupted by the collectivist and communists... and I'm pissed. Environmentalism and conservation is necessary and positive things. I can't think of anybody who would say "Please may I have some water with a bit of diesel fuel floating on top" or "Gee I want to live in L.A. cause it's got the highest smog rate in the country" or another favorite " Oh my mercury adds so much more flavor to my fish sticks" so..
But oh no what we've got are these imitation hippies who have been duped into thinking that taxing our self's back the stone age will help and those who are duping them ((cough ) algore).
It's ludicrous. I so want to send the Russians a thank you note for "leaking " the "climate gate" e-mails proving that global warming is the fraud we've been saying it is.
Ok back on point. I love environmentalism. Real environmentalism and am disappointed in myself that I don't do more about it. Like buying all biodegradable all natural cleaning products, picking up litter, using reusable shopping bags just to name a few as opposed to fake environmentalism like buying carbon credits, ethanol, and endorsing a one child policy. The latter don't sound like anything that's going to clean up an oil spill to me how about you? Even the bible does instruct us to take care of the planet (Ezekiel 34:17-18,Jer. 2:7). This is our home and we should keep a clean house.
And before anybody freaks out I'm not at all suggesting that we lower our standard of living, stop progress or all become Amish. In fact I want to suggest the opposite. Look at the last 50 years or so as America has progressed and flurished contrary to what the eco-nazi's will have you believe we've actually bettered our environment, reduced smog, keep a tight watch on water quality (which still is questionable in some places) our cars get 10 miles to the gallon better gas milage helped several species come back from the brink of extinction... all through progress and technology. I think that this can continue as long as progress can continue. Nuclear power, Electric cars, zero landfill factories, solar power, and more...are all solutions that have seemingly been cast to the side by the current administration and past administrations in favor of...taxes and a push towards world government.
Well it's late and I think I've lost any coherent train of thought so I'll leave with some interesting tid bits...
CO2 is not a poisonous gas without it all the plants would die and thus we all would die.
Real studies have shown that the earth has been cooling for 9 of the last 10 years as the sun has headed towards a minimum in it's cycle.
Their are real ecological problems such as over fishing, supply short falls of corn and grain due to it's use in fuel and not for food.
As ice has more mass than liquid water the icecaps melting would not cause world wide flooding melting ice caps would actually cause receding waterlines.
Polar bears can swim and contrary to popular belief their numbers are currently increasing.
Global warming is actually the more beneficial of the two climate change scenarios, as it would cause an extended growing period and and increase in the global food supply global cooling would do the opposite.
In the end climate science is one of the newest of all sciences and I'm not convinced that we have any idea ,outside of our four natural seasons, why the climate does what it does when it does. Geological evidence shows wild swing in the climate over millions of years all of it with out any input from us. So to Al Gore and all of you other climate Nazi's...
But oh no what we've got are these imitation hippies who have been duped into thinking that taxing our self's back the stone age will help and those who are duping them ((cough ) algore).
It's ludicrous. I so want to send the Russians a thank you note for "leaking " the "climate gate" e-mails proving that global warming is the fraud we've been saying it is.
Ok back on point. I love environmentalism. Real environmentalism and am disappointed in myself that I don't do more about it. Like buying all biodegradable all natural cleaning products, picking up litter, using reusable shopping bags just to name a few as opposed to fake environmentalism like buying carbon credits, ethanol, and endorsing a one child policy. The latter don't sound like anything that's going to clean up an oil spill to me how about you? Even the bible does instruct us to take care of the planet (Ezekiel 34:17-18,Jer. 2:7). This is our home and we should keep a clean house.
And before anybody freaks out I'm not at all suggesting that we lower our standard of living, stop progress or all become Amish. In fact I want to suggest the opposite. Look at the last 50 years or so as America has progressed and flurished contrary to what the eco-nazi's will have you believe we've actually bettered our environment, reduced smog, keep a tight watch on water quality (which still is questionable in some places) our cars get 10 miles to the gallon better gas milage helped several species come back from the brink of extinction... all through progress and technology. I think that this can continue as long as progress can continue. Nuclear power, Electric cars, zero landfill factories, solar power, and more...are all solutions that have seemingly been cast to the side by the current administration and past administrations in favor of...taxes and a push towards world government.
Well it's late and I think I've lost any coherent train of thought so I'll leave with some interesting tid bits...
CO2 is not a poisonous gas without it all the plants would die and thus we all would die.
Real studies have shown that the earth has been cooling for 9 of the last 10 years as the sun has headed towards a minimum in it's cycle.
Their are real ecological problems such as over fishing, supply short falls of corn and grain due to it's use in fuel and not for food.
As ice has more mass than liquid water the icecaps melting would not cause world wide flooding melting ice caps would actually cause receding waterlines.
Polar bears can swim and contrary to popular belief their numbers are currently increasing.
Global warming is actually the more beneficial of the two climate change scenarios, as it would cause an extended growing period and and increase in the global food supply global cooling would do the opposite.
In the end climate science is one of the newest of all sciences and I'm not convinced that we have any idea ,outside of our four natural seasons, why the climate does what it does when it does. Geological evidence shows wild swing in the climate over millions of years all of it with out any input from us. So to Al Gore and all of you other climate Nazi's...
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal
food trough whopper! I fart in your general direction! You mother
was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries.
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