tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120217242024-02-20T14:38:59.471-08:00Captain's LogP M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-79933534332915414092015-12-07T19:47:00.001-08:002015-12-07T19:47:07.051-08:00Lawrence of Arabia's equationRuss Sype asked for this and it took a bit to backtrack to 2009 on my other blog, but I found it.<br />
The equation on the number of ground troops it takes to subdue a country. <a href="http://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2009/10/lawrences-algebra-of-asymetrical-war.html">Click here</a>.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-49999658973367389312015-08-19T09:35:00.001-07:002015-08-19T09:35:07.441-07:00Deflatedgate revisitedCommish and Brady in and out of court, what a needless drama. There is no need to make Brady the scapegoat here. What the general public doesn't realize that suspending Brady for 4 games isn't about the games. Pro players are paid by the game. They only get 16 paychecks a year, playoff games are extra income.<br />
This is a 1/4 income cut for Brady. I don't care how many millions of dollars a year he makes, there is no reason to fine anyone that much of their income on conjecture. They only fined the team 1 million.<br />
Question: what did they do with the officials whose negligence caused this mess in the first place?P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-58492140914933543192015-05-07T08:43:00.000-07:002015-05-07T08:43:11.370-07:00Deflate GateCaptain's log stardate 050715.0915:<br />
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<li>News of the NFL's investigation into the New England Patriots deflating balls during the playoffs was released yesterday. They have no proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but the preponderance of evidence points to the Super Bowl Champions cheating. No shit Sherlock. Just about anyone with a lick of sense could have told that months ago when the balls tested positive for deflation.</li>
<li>Tom Brady is singled out from all the other players as most likely knowing the balls were deflated. Obvious since he's the one handling them the most and launching the passes, but what about the center? He would know handling them before snapping the ball. What about the running backs? They handled the ball and would be less likely to fumble. What about the receivers? They were the ones benefiting from the deflated balls making them easier to catch. Brady wasn't the only one handling a much softer ball.</li>
<li>What about the fucking officials? They are the ones who are most responsible for letting this happen. It is their job to test the balls and not let them out of their sight until on the field. They were the ones collecting the balls after the plays and placing them on the ground. They should be able to tell the difference between the two teams footballs.</li>
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It is the humble opinion of the Captain that the following be the appropriate punishment to restore confidence in the NFL: <br /><ol>
<li> That the Patriots be stripped of their Super Bowl championship and forced to give back the Lombardy trophy. This is the only way to make sure something of this nature does not happen again.</li>
<li>The team fined heavily and their salary cap deflated for five years along with losing their first round draft pick for three years. </li>
<li>All coaches fined 10% of their salaries and bonuses from the previous year. They should know better, or put a stop to it.</li>
<li>There is no point in fining or suspending any player. The investigation does not carry enough burden of proof for punitive action and the decision to cheat was most likely carried out by someone higher up in the organization. They will live with the disgrace and humiliation for the rest of their lives.</li>
<li>All officials working the games where the deflated games happened be fired for dereliction of duty. </li>
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P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-74596376721893693132013-06-27T09:33:00.000-07:002013-06-27T09:33:03.549-07:00Candy Coated Bitter PillYes SCOTUS struck down DOMA and Prop 8. It didn't cost them anything, but while all those who've been thrown a bone are whooping and hollering they gutted the Voting Rights Act.<br />
California is back to square one on same sex marriage. DOMA was mostly symbolic about the only thing it prohibited was married same sex couples filing joint income tax, which saved them money. All other marriage laws are handled at the state level.<br />
Meanwhile back in the South it seems that racists passing voting restrictions to keep minorities from having a voice in government is okay just so long as you don't admit under oath that you've sometime in the past you've uttered the "N" word.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-438792447428652832013-01-15T11:15:00.003-08:002013-01-15T11:15:47.097-08:00Political BriberyExcerpt from James A. Michener's <u>The Source</u>: Twilight of an
Empire<br /><em>Kaimakam Tabari had one simple rule of administration, and it was
understood by all his subjects: In Tobariyeh positively everythingw was for
sale. If an Arab youth was summoned for military service it was obvious that
there was no possiblility for escape; but if his father paid the kamakam enough,
he could escape.... For the issuance of the simplest government paper, an
established scale of bribes was in force, and in either the civil court of the
qadi or the religious court of the mufti, any decision that was wanted could be
had by the paying of the proper baksheesh to the kaimakam....</em><br /><em>As a
result of this constant drain on the people of Tubariyeh, <strong>there was no
money left for schools, or sewers, or water supply, or a jail in which a human
being could survive. There were no hospitals, no adequate policing, no fire
fighting, and no roads.</strong></em><br /><em></em><br />Is America devolving to a
country of corruption and bribery? Do our elected officials charge for every
service required like in 1880 Palestine? <br />We have a different form of
baksheesh, more modern and sophisticated: Election campaign warchests. Every
representative who is elected either to the national or state legislatures
spends 18 months out of the 24 months in office raising the money for
re-election. Is it any wonder the Republicans openly disdain the masses who
contribute little and fight only for the wealthy and corporations who contribute
much? Or that the Democrats talk about helping the middle class, but accomplish
so little? Elections have become a way of circulating all that campaign money
into a closed set. Corporations give the money to the politicians who then give
it to advertising agencies who buy time and space from the media. The
corporations who give the money own the agencies and media outlets where the
money goes so just like water it gets boiled, evaporates and rains back down.
Little of all this money reaches the masses who are brainwashed into buying the
political product sold to them.<br />Since Ronald Reagan became president and
forty years of trickle down economics many of the signs
Michener mentions showing the cost of corruption are prevalent.<br />
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<ul>
<li>Our public schools are being starved of qualified teachers, proper rooms and
materials for learning so political cronies can make a fortune coming up with
standarized tests that prove absolutely nothing about the state of learning in
America. Private schools are not held to this testing standard, but when their
test scores are compared with public schools they show little to no
improvement. Paul Krugman told Bill Moyers in an interview that replacing the
hundreds of thousands of teaching positions lost since 2008 would add an extra
200 billion dollars to the economy which would help out with housing, automobile
sales, retail sales, insurance premiums, and increased tax revenue across the
economic spectrum. I really wish our politicians would fight as hard about
closing schools as they do about closing military bases. The same economic
principle applies.
<li>Amost all cities are faced with aging sewer systems and waste disposal
plants that contaminate our shorelines, our underwater aquifers, land and are
repaired only when they break. Add to this polluted air from factories, lakes
and rivers from fertilizer runoff, fracking for oil and natural gas and chemical
discharges and toxic waste in land fills we are truly soiling our own long term
nest for short term profits. The polluting corporations can bribe scientists to
refute all claims that they are doing harm or export the toxins to third world
countries so their populations are poisoned as well as buy the votes they need
to keep sane regulations being placed on them.
<li>Privatized prisons are filled with non-violent offenders mostly on marijuana
charges in substandard facilities that are poorly staffed due to low wages with
little training. The corporations pay the baksheesh to the congress critters and
rake in the money with little accountability.
<li>The most fought over issue for fifty years is health care and even after the
passing of the Affordable Health Care Act in the next twenty years the ever
growing poor population (due to austerity measures by the government) millions
will die due to lack of being able to get proper medical care until it is too
late. Who cares about the millions of people finally getting health care and are
not denied because of a pre-existing condition, but horrors of all horrors
insurers will have to pay for birth control, the morning after pill and
abortions. Employers are appalled that their employees want to control thier own
bodies without permission. Fuck you Hobby Lobby. Take your conscience and stick
it up your self-righteous ass.
<li>It's a no brainer that when the economy goes down and there are few jobs
crime rises. So at a time of more criminals; states, towns and cities facing
budget problems are laying off police and fire fighters. Neighborhoods are
forced to pay extra for fire protection and if a homeowner doesn't pay then the
fire fighters stand by and watch it burn down. Baksheesh in action. The entire
criminal justice system is swamped because all the money is being siphoned into
the profits of private security firms and prisons. Maybe city hall should open
up a line for bank robbers. Walk up, hand in a note demanding money, get
arrested, plead guilty to the judge sitting next to the clerk and police
officer, get sentenced to prison so you don't have to sleep under a bridge in
sub-zero temperatures. Isn't that the way corporations like to make everyting an
assembly line? Maybe if we create enough prisoners from our surplus population
there will be enough money in transporting them to the moon to work as slave
laborers extracting minerals for the corporations to invest in such a
transportation system. After all there are no more places on earth to set up
penal colonies.
<li>When America's corporations paid taxes instead getting subsidies, and all
citizens paid taxes, not just those who make less than a hundred grand a year,
and thanks to the GI Bill college was affordable, the schools that are crumbling
today were built, the sewer systems that are breaking were dug, the interstate
highway system was stretched all across the continent and this led to high
employment, a growing middle class, and the highest standard of living in world
history with a small prison population. Schools could afford athletics from
elementary through high school with large bands to play and perform at
games. Teachers taught their curriculum, not how to take a test with high
graduation rates. We were able to pay for the space race, Vietnam war, and
create Medicare and Medicaid plus food stamps from the taxes raised from this
standard of living. In the last forty years of regressive instead of progressive
taxation, deregulation of industry, and outsourcing of employment that produces
goods instead of services everything we built is falling apart and crumblind
like our roads and highways. What good will all the new fancy cars with
fantastic sound systems, hybrid engines, and all the other fancy gadgets
imaginable be if the drivers are stalled in traffic because a sewer line burst,
roads are being patched intead of repaired ruining suspension systems or you're
forced to drive a hundred miles our of your way because a bridge collapsed
between Dallas and Denver? Is a toll road from Brownsville, Tx to Minneapolis
where every driver has to throw money into a booth every twenty or thirty miles
really better than maitaining I-35?
<li>Was life ideal, no, before Title IX there was little opportunity for women
in athletics outside of cheerleading and pep squads; little was done for the
handicapped or mentally impaired; inner city was just as crime ridden and the
schools suffered not to mention the problems of segregation and racism but the
burst of prosperity led to correcting those problems even if they haven't been
eradicated. The future I grew up in was a hell of a lot better than the
future my children and grandchildren face today with a shrinking middle class
and a policital system sucking all the money out of the economy to enrich .01%
of the population. Would it be so hard for the Walton family to take a smaller
cut from the profits of Wal-Mart and Sam's club so the employees could make
enough money to not need food stamps, medicaid, and be able to rent a two
bedroom apartment and buy a decent used car? Not to pick on just the Waltons as
the same could be said of almost all international food and retail stores. </li>
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P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-47282452039778928592012-12-22T08:34:00.000-08:002012-12-22T08:34:00.945-08:00Time to move on.A long long time ago growing up there was this magazine all boys tried to sneak a peek at. My father never subscribed so it was infrequently at a friend's house when the parents were away that I could actually get to see a centerfold.<br />
In high school I worked a Christmas rush and the summer after graduation and before going off to college at a drug store. In the men's room the magazine saleman always placed a copy of Playboy and Penthouse as a courtesy. I enjoyed Playboy, thought Penthouse needed to clean their lenses. The first copy of Playboy I purchased was the November 1976 issue with the interview of Jimmy Carter. I was a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary living alone as ex-wife was back in Albuquerque in the hospital. The marriage didn't last, but I bought every issue of Playboy since that time. In my second and lasting marriaage wifey has never approved, but grew to accept that nothing she said or did would keep me from "my magazine." She still gives me judgemental stares.<br />
When Zinio put it out in digital format I converted because over the years my closet was filling up with past issues. I joined the Cyber Club twelve years ago and downloaded all the pm's, cc's coeds, celebrities, etc available. My external harddrive overfloweth. I also got rid of all but the best of the hard copies.<br />
Then I don't know what happened, PB started skipping issues to save on printing costs, Penthouse went digital exclusively, which would have been a smart move for PB too, but they trimmed down from 12 issues a year to 10. No big deal actually. When PB started the models were the same age as my mother, when I first glimpsed at the centerfolds the models were like older sisters, when I started buying them they were the same age, then they became younger sisters and now they're younger than my daughter. They've also tended to blur over the years, the novelty of new tits and ass has waned. The articles in the magazine still have a few things to catch my interest, but the advice column and the political pages haven't said anything new in thirty years.<br />
Still it was selling the cyber club to an outside group who ruined the whole experience. What replaced the CC is a total pooch screw. There's no rhyme or reason to it. The old standby catagories are out and there's no more Cyber girl of the month or year, Coed of the month or year. The only good aspect is that all shoots are zip filed and you don't have to download them individually, but then you get backlogged in undoing the zips, choosing the pix you want to keep and discarding the many you don't. And when yo do because the catagories are jumbles you discover you already downloaded a number of the files. Much of the joy is gone so I've cancelled my subscriptions. Hef my still be breathing and screwing girls young enough to be his great-great-great-granddaughter and all power to him, but for me it's time to move on.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-74691182364963347672012-11-07T18:27:00.000-08:002012-11-07T18:27:28.510-08:00Hip hip hurrahGlad Obama won, nice that Little Miss Nasty lost again, maybe she's done for in electoral politics, hope hope hope. Four out of five in DC are democrats which is a good thing.<br />
Nice that Colorado joined us in the sea of red on the map. Toke up and be happy in the Rockies.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-8343593167806583442012-11-01T15:18:00.003-07:002012-11-01T15:18:59.847-07:00Psst, quiet it's a secretMost of you know I'm e-publishing novels and stories on Amazon and Smashwords under my name Patrick Prescott.<br />
Well I ran into a problem. Some of my stories are distressing to my wife, mother and some of the more uptight religious friends, but what can I say, the characters keep taking me into directions they want to go and if that means describing a woman in all the beauty God created her with so be it. Anyway those stories are now published under my Pen Name.<br />
So if you feel up to a little erotica check out stories by<strong> Javan Tenebrae</strong> at Amazon. com and Smashwords.com. They can also be found at I-books, Barnes and Nobles.<br />
Some of my titles include three anthologies of flash stories;<br />
Flash Stories: Married Love<br />
Erotic Flash Stories<br />
More Erotic Flash Stories<br />
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Short Stories:<br />
First Friday: Aug-Oct (Okay this is the one where I went off the deep end and is a littel more PC-17 than the others)<br />
Car Hop<br />
Companion<br />
Companion: Sasha's Story<br />
Super Erotic Bowl IP M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-87725788034031109012012-10-12T09:03:00.001-07:002012-10-12T09:03:20.507-07:00Sandia Mountain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sandia Mountain's East side from Paako Ridge Golf Course. The lines you see running up to the top are the ski runs.</div>
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Sandia Mountain's North West face as seen from Santa Ana Golf Course in Bernalillo<br />
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Sandia Mountain's most famous West face from Albuquerque. Taken from Aroyo Del Oso Golf Course</div>
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<br />P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-5732578914107080952012-10-04T12:37:00.001-07:002012-10-04T12:37:55.076-07:00Math and ScienceOn last nights policital debate and the hype that this would be a game
changer for Romeny. Come on, the only televised political debate that decided an
election was in 1960 and that was because Nixon's face melted on TV, everyone
who heard it on radio felt Nixon won. This election hinges not on debates
but blind faith over reason and reality -- lies vs facts. Two thoughts to make
my point:<br />
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<ol>
<li>On the morning news they showed Obama repeating Clinton's point that the
Republican plan of further reductions in Billionaire taxes plus closing
loopholes will ballance the budget, and the arithmatic doesn't add up. (Paul
Krugman's been saying this ever since it came out)
<li><a href="http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2012/10/oklahoma-baptist-universitys-war.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Bruce</span></a>
has a post about Oklahoma Baptist University hiring as head of its religion
department a guy who is a "Young Earth" theologian and the ongoing fight with
religious right dunderheads who keep advocating Creation Science or Intellegent
Design over Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Zoology, Antrhopology, Achaeology and a
host of other ologies. </li>
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Christian fundamentalists have been fighting
against science from the beginning. Charles Darwin's<em> Origen of Species</em>
and <em>Descent of Man</em> and the theory of evolution started the war against
science which is ongoing and will never cease as long as Christian
fundamentalists continue in their idiotic insistence on a literal interpretation
of books in the Bible like Genesis and Revelation that were purposely written
metaphorically and symbolically.<br />Science is at its bedrock mathematics.
All science is a numbers game, they simply add empiricism (scientific method) to
their particular discipline. So why do so many Christian fundamentalists have a
problem understanding that the Republican plan doesn't add up? They've been
brainwashed by their preachers and professors and home schooled or private
religious schools to be skeptical of math. They've been taught that Carbon 14
dating, which relies on the same math that produced the atomic bomb is wrong, so
trust their preachers and what they say about the origens of the universe based
on the Bible. When Romney and the Republicans say "Trust me" they've been
brainwashed to place their faith in God's political party instead of arithmatic.
Their preachers said so.<br /><br />The religious right does use math, and Blind
Faith in their childish literal interpretation of the Bible to do great harm to
education and our country. Why do these morons still insist that the universe is
only 6,000 years old. The basis for this is the computations of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology"><span style="color: #2288bb;"> Bishop Ussher</span></a> a17th
century theologian who added up all the ages of the patriarchs listed in Genesis
until Abraham. He then calculated back from the birth of Jesus and settled on
creation happening in 4004 BC. <br />This theory of creation was refuted by many
theologians but I like this one written in 1890 by Professor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Green"><span style="color: #2288bb;">William Henry Green</span></a>
in his <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Sacra"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Biblioteca
Sacra</span></a></em>:<br /><span style="color: blue;">We conclude that the Scriptures
furnish no data for a chronological computation prior to the life of Abraham;
and that the Mosaic records do not fix and were not intended to fix the precise
date either of the Flood or of the creation of the world</span>.<br />For those
who insist "God said, I believe it, that settles it" guess what, God never said
he created the universe in 4004BC or that those ages added together meant
anything; Bishop Ussher did. Do you believe God or Bishop Ussher?<br />There is no
scriptural or common sense reasoning to support the mathematical calculations of
Ussher that God created the universe only 6,000 years ago even if you believe
<strong>as I do</strong> that He did. Many Christians believe both the Bible
and science. To us evolution is how God did it and is continuing to work His
creation. There is no conflict between faith and reality or between the Bible
and science because we interpret the scriptures metaphorically and
symbolically like the reasoning beings we are:<br /><span class="text 1Cor-13-11" id="en-NASB-28677"><span style="color: red;">When I was a child, I used to
speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a
man, I did away with childish things.</span></span> I Corinthian 13:1 NASV.
<br />Only children and the feeble minded interpret everything litterally. Think
of Abbot and Costello's classic comedy routine "Who's on first" why is it so
funny? Because Costello can't get past his literal interpretation of the word
'who' to figure out that it's the players name.<br /><br />Ultimately this war on
science is doing irreparable harm.<br />
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<li>It weakens the message of Christ by limiting His power. Who are we to say He
had to create the universe in only this way and at only this time?
<li>It limits the Bible to only one possible way to read it limiting the power
of the Bible <span style="color: red;">for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
for training in righteousness. </span><span style="color: black;">II Timothy
3:16b NASV</span>
<li><span style="color: black;">It separates all Christians in the eyes of our
culture and country and weakens our witness about the saving power of Jesus to
change people lives, because the lost see us as out of touch with
reality.</span>
<li>Insisting on adding creationism or intellegent design to public school
curriculums paints all Christians as childish or stupid and anti-science,
anti-education, and no sane person would believe a word any Christian says about
salvation destroying our witness.
<li>It is making generations of our children intellectually retarded and unable
to think for themselves.
<li>Fundamentalist Christians are being used by greedy preachers and politicians
in an unholy alliance in the Republican party to squeeze more and more money out
of our economy and because they have been brainwashed that evolution is evil and
science is of the devil they have their minds made up so don't confuse them with
facts. </li>
</li>
</li>
</li>
</li>
</li>
</ul>
Romney and Ryan can lie over and over again on the campaign
trail, in their advertisements and in the debates and the Fundies will eat their
words like cotton candy. Unfortunately if Romney gets elected all of us will get
stuck with tooth decay. P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-20950946242392926722012-09-09T19:12:00.000-07:002012-09-09T19:12:16.108-07:00Childhood memories<a href="http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/2012/09/all-aboard-last-time-unless-your-koch.html?showComment=1347241449482#c8714578995542720130">One Fly</a>, has an article about the closing of a little tourist trap around Canyon City, CO. In the 1930's as part of the New Deal the CCC built a bridge to nowhere over what is known as the Royal Gorge. It was at the time the world's highest suspension bridge. You could drive up to it and walk across it, but there wasn't a road on the other side. It became a tourist attraction. When we were little there was a tram that went from the river below about half way up, for some time now there's been a train. There was a train back then too, but it was a freight train route not a tourist train. Off to the side was a place called Buckskin Joe's. A mock western town with all kinds of not so cheap junk. Every hour there was a shootout, the sherrif would arrest the gunslinger who won, there'd be a quick trial and hanging, he'd be placed in a coffin and carried away to await the next hour. Between that entertainment the kids would be running around in their straw cowboy hats and plastic vests with toy guns and if the sherrif saw you with your gun out of your holster he'd arrest you and put you in jail until your parents came to get you out. I have a lot of fond memories of Buckskin Joes. It's been sold and moved to Gunnison County to be a private museum for one of the Koch brothers. Some 835 acres of land have been sold to him and nothing is mentioned in the article, but some kind of mining operation will most likely destroy pristine land west of Pikes Peak. All the water aquifer in the headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas rivers need is fracking.<br />
In the news article the guy who sold the place lamented the drop off in tourism most notably in August and like most morons blames the unions for all educational problems. It seems the teacher's unions wanted to shorten summer vacations for teachers. DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?<br />
It was the numbskull politicians wanting to IMPROVE education and accountability decided all students at the high school level needed to take finals both semesters. For a number of years the first semester's finals fell in the second week of January after the students came back from Winter break. The colleges of education at universities then threw a temper tantrum that this was setting students up for failure which put pressure on the school districts to move the start of school into August so finals could be taken in December. This also allowed for a week of Spring Break in late March or early April and the school year to end a week earlier in May. Not all school districts changed their school calendars and still adhere to the old one that starts in September and ends in June some of them in Colorado.<br />
I can understand how cutting two weeks of tourism short would hurt his business, but the unions had nothing to do with it. The teacher's unions are about collective bargaining on wages, benefits, and better working conditions for the teachers not when school starts.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-84796805085240805432012-08-30T13:32:00.000-07:002012-08-30T13:32:03.096-07:00Optimus Is Back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've finished revising Optimus and it is now available for only .99 when Publish America priced it at 27.95. pmprescottenterprises.com will also take you to all my other novels, anthologies and stories.<br />
You can get it at smashwords.com and amazon.com.<br />
There are still some used print copies at Amazon.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-9184781339360878632012-08-20T15:14:00.003-07:002012-08-20T15:14:25.598-07:00Newsweek admits they don't factcheckNewsweek's latest issue has an artilce giving reasons why Obama should not be re-elected. Niall Ferguson's article is full of inaccuracy's according to Paul Krugman and Brad De Long. De Long is calling for Newsweek to fire Ferguson and Harvard to think about a history professor who can't seem to get his facts rights.<br />
So what a bunch of politico's fussing, what's new.<br />
Check out the whole article<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/paul-krugman-niall-ferguson-newsweek_n_1810136.html"> here</a>.<br />
What caught my eye was this statement issued by Newsweek on the issue:<br />
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<strong>UPDATE</strong>: 12:56 p.m. -- <em>Newsweek</em> did not fact-check Ferguson's cover story, according to Dylan Byers, a media reporter at Politico. Byers <a href="https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/237589163174658048" target="_hplink">wrote on Twitter</a> that a <em>Newsweek</em> spokesman said the magazine does not have a fact-checking department, and that "<a href="https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/237589434147684352" target="_hplink">we, like other news organisations</a> today, rely on our writers to submit factually accurate material."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What a crock of shit!</span><br />
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Tell that to all the writer's who invented stories and it hit the fan and they were fired. Tell that to Dan Rather who's career was derailed even when it was the truth, but his sources were questionable.<br />
If you're a Republican facts don't matter and the news organizations don't need to fact check. Again what a crock of shit.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-71987080015344214292012-08-18T12:30:00.003-07:002012-08-18T12:30:54.694-07:00Press ConferenceHere's the video of Russ Sype's press conference last Saturday. It's well done.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkvGgX30i18">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkvGgX30i18</a>P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-6910304122387656432012-08-11T16:08:00.002-07:002012-08-11T16:08:17.151-07:00Sype for the General WelfareThe press conference at the Elegante motel was a resounding success. There were around 25 in attendence with a reporter from the Alibi. It was video taped and in a week or two I'll post the U-tube link.<br />
Russell's main point is that government is charged with providing for the general welfare and if a high quality public eduaction isn't covered, What is? If quality health care for all citizens isn't, What is?<br />
More to come.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-45112224282278568742012-08-10T13:41:00.002-07:002012-08-10T13:41:59.266-07:00Sype for President<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">William Russell Sype will announce his candidacy for President of the United States in the year of our Lord 2016 at the Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque, NM tomorrow August 9, 2012 at 10:30am. I've agreed to the honor of serving as his campaign manager. All who are in the neighborhood and wish to attend are more than welcome. We've been informed that the local media will attend.</span>P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-2204698906678973722012-07-12T11:31:00.001-07:002012-07-12T11:31:02.246-07:00What's a "geek"Theres a computer repair company that runs around town with "Geek Squad" in big letters all over over it. Its become acceptable to refer to anyone who knows computers well as "geeks."<br />
The term makes me cringe because I know the original meaning for a "geek" and it wasn't about computers.<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Anyone unfamiliar with the term “geek” should seek out and read William Lindsay Gresham’s now-classic 1946 novel, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, for the most chillingly accurate description ever set in type. A geek is usually a wetbrain; that is, a young or old man so far gone into alcoholism that his brain has turned to prune-whip yogurt. When he sweats, he sweats sour mash. A gilly locates a skid in whatever town it’s in, and carries him to the next stop, and as many stops as it can get out of him before he dies or wanders off. For the splendid honorarium of a bottle of gin or two a day, the skid will dress in an animal skin, go without shaving, sleep in a cage, and on cue wallow in his own filth, eat dead snakes, bit the head off live chickens. No reputable carny will carry a geek. It is a terrible thing. It plays to the basest hungers and most primal fears in the human repertory. Anyone who could derive enjoyment from watching a debased creature, seemingly only half human, scuttling across the floor of a foul, stinking pit or pen, smearing itself with feces, rubbing its privates on the gnawed skin of a dead rattlesnake, moaning and rolling its eyes as it devolved before one’s eyes, reverting to a stage of subhuman existence not even Cro-Magnons knew… such a person is beneath contempt, lower even that the poor bastard in that cage.</span><br />
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Harlan Ellison, STALKING THE NIGHTMARE; Berkeley Books, New York; 1982 page 300.<br />
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I'm not so sure if that company really knew what the word "geek" meanst they'd advertise it on their trucks.<br />
<br />P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-59284558470314575522012-06-28T17:17:00.000-07:002012-06-28T17:17:21.891-07:00Stunned, but not surprisedI fully expected the Affordable Care Act to be gutted by the Supremes. The surprise on it being upheld was that Roberts cast the deciding vote instead of Kennedy. Then I thought, "No", the other four are political animals that vote mostly for the Republican agenda, and much could be said for Roberts, but maybe he's not just a Republican hack, but a corporate hack. After all Citizen's United is his trademark decision. The sticking point for Affordable Care was the individual mandate and this is a gold mine for the health insurance industry. All those 20 and 30 somethings that gamble on good health and forgo insurance will now have to buy in and that spells Billions if not Trillions in the next decade or two.<br />
Obama has his victory, but it might prove pyrrhic. The Republicans will use the individual mandate as a stick to beat him over the head and Roberts gave them the ammunition by calling it a tax. After all they are the no-tax party. The progressives were secretly hoping it would be overturned so they could push for a single payer system, but without sixty-one votes in the Senate that would be nothing but wishful thinking.<br />
This will make for an interesting election season.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-65451762935272728442012-06-14T08:13:00.002-07:002012-06-14T08:13:37.526-07:00Wonderful performanceWent to see Les Miserables. Great performance. Wish we had the money to see all the shows that come this way, but maybe only being able to take in one every so often makes them special.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-28120183680159557462012-06-01T17:18:00.002-07:002012-06-01T17:18:30.662-07:00Civics Lesson on Natual Born CitizenHat tip to blogger buddy<a href="http://ruinedchapel.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/it-wouldnt-matter-if-obama-were-born-in-kenya/"> Ruined Chapel </a> If Mitt Romney's father who was born in Mexico could run for President without an eyebrow being raised. Why all the fuss about Obama?P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-82920228386059028462012-05-22T10:46:00.002-07:002012-05-22T10:46:40.028-07:00Trouble with TicketsI bought 4 tickets to see Les Miserables in June at Popejoy thinking we could invite another couple to see it with us. I keep striking out getting someone who wants to see it. Am I the only one who really appreciates this musical?P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-75927332378204997022012-04-17T14:21:00.000-07:002012-04-17T14:28:53.281-07:00Give Me That Oil Company ReligionWhere did Christian Fundamentalism come from? What's all the nonsense about being "Left Behind?"<br />
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Christian Fundamentalism is noted for two major characteristics: A) Bibliolatry or worship of the Bible. The term they use is “inerrant” or that the Bible is without error. What is inerrant is their literal interpretation of the scriptures. B) Dispensationalism. Okay a big word, but it refers to the belief that Jesus is coming again to “rapture” all Christians and then God will cause all kinds of nasty things to happen called “tribulation” and then there will be the battle of Armageddon leading to a thousand year reign of Christ on Earth. Sometimes this is referred to as Pre-millennialism, because we are living before this thousand year reign.<br />
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To a certain extent there have always been literal interpretations of the Bible, but when it became available to the masses with the release of the King James Version in English (1611) and Luther’s translation in German sparking the Reformation there was on vital element missing in a clear understanding of the scriptures. For over a thousand years the Bible was locked up by the Roman Catholic Church. Very little was done in the way of preserving the historical context in which they were written. Those that insist on a literal translation don’t have a clue to understanding the metaphors and nuances the writers were referring to and thus miss the point and come up with all kinds of silly beliefs. In the 19th century and continuing to this day much has been done to understand the historical context. This is known as Hermeneutics. A number of scholars putting the Bible to historical and linguistic analysis reached conclusions that upset the apple cart of basic beliefs among them that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses or that the NT books were not written by the apostles or those close to them. Ultimately, they rejected core doctrines of the Bible, including the virgin birth and the deity of Jesus Christ. This became known as liberalism.<br />
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And thus I’m now answering my rhetorical question of where Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism started. The term fundamentalist actually comes from a series of books called The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth. This was a set of 90 essays in 12 volumes published from 1910 to 1915 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA). <br />
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They affirmed orthodox Protestant beliefs, especially those of the Reformed tradition. The books were sent for free to every minister, missionary, Sunday School superintendent, and other Christian leaders. This was financed by two brothers, Lyman and Milton Stewart. Lyman was a businessman and founder of Union Oil Co, which became Unocal. They also established BIOLA University.<br />
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These books took hold among some very influential dispensationalists, C.I. Scofield, among them. Scofield is the editor of the Scofield reference Bible, a King James Version of the Bible that has numerous footnotes and references illustrating dispensationalist principles from the Bible.<br />
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As fundamentalism took hold in Bible-believing communities, a belief in the rapture of the church also became an essential part of modern American Christianity.<br />
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Over time, many of these Bible-believing churches became very rigid about cultural customs and sought to associate certain features of culture with Biblical faith. This is where concepts such as that of women wearing only dresses or skirts became part of American Christianity. Along with this came notions that playing pool, dancing, and attendance at movies were sinful. Sometimes this is called the Social Gospel. Prohibition was a part of this and our current drug war is a continuation of it. This part of fundamentalism is what is causing our Culture War and what is now termed the War on Women after the rantings of Michelle Bachman and Santorum in the nearly forgotten debates of the past six months. For the record Santorum is an Opus Dei Catholic you might say their version of fundamentalist.<br />
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Later in the 20th century, as Billy Graham became the most influential Christian in America, the thinking Christian theologians and pastors that he gathered around him sought to separate cultural issues from authentic Christianity. They were convinced that requiring certain cultural standards as part of becoming a Christian hindered the work of evangelism. They sought to come up with a term to describe them and others like them that would separate them from fundamentalists. The terms they coined was “evangelicals.”<br />
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By the end of the 20th century, the term “evangelicals” came to denote a certain extremely conservative political agenda. No term has yet taken hold to distinguish Bible-believing Christians committed to missions and evangelism from similar minded Christians who hold to a certain political agenda.<br />
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Here is where fundamentalism joins forces with Dispensationalism. So where did this “rapture theology come from?”<br />
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The doctrine of the Rapture is not mentioned in any Christian writings, of which we have knowledge, until after the year 1830. Whether the early writers were Greek or Latin, Armenian or Coptic, Syrian or Ethiopian, English or German, orthodox or heretic, no one mentioned it before 1830. <br />
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For thousands of eminent scholars over seventeen centuries (including the most astute “Christian Fathers” and those of the Reformation and post-reformation periods) must be considered prophetic dunces for not having understood so fundamental a teaching. This lapse of seventeen centuries when no one elaborated on the doctrine must be viewed as an obstacle to accepting its reliability.<br />
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In the middle 1820’s a religious environment began to be established among a few Christians in London, England, that proved to be the catalyst from which the doctrine of the Rapture emerged. There were many people claiming that they expected the soon coming of the Lord. This was not really a new thing, but what was unusual was the teaching by a Presbyterian minister named Edward Irving that there had to be a restoration of the spiritual gifts mentioned in 1 Corinthians chapters 12–14 just before Christ’s Second Advent. For Irving, the time had come for those spiritual manifestations to occur. Among the expected gifts was the renewal of speaking in tongues and of prophetic utterances motivated by the spirit. The Presbyterian Church dismissed Irving because of this teaching in 1832. In 1830, two years before Irving’s dismissal from the Presbyterian Church, there began what seemed to be a revival of the “gifts” among some people living in the lowlands of Scotland.<br />
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They experienced what they called the outpouring of the Spirit. This was accompanied with speaking in “tongues” and other charismatic phenomena. Irving preached that these things must occur and now they were. On one particular evening, the power of the Holy Spirit was said to have rested on a Miss Margaret Macdonald while she was ill at home. She was dangerously sick and thought she was dying. In spite of this (or perhaps because she is supposed to have come under the “power” of the spirit) for several successive hours she experienced manifestations of “mingled prophecy and vision.” She found her mind in an altered state and began to experience considerable visionary activity. The message she received during this prophetic vision convinced her that Christ was going to appear in two stages at His Second Advent, and not a single occasion as most all people formerly believed.<br />
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Many people have thought that John Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, was the originator of the Rapture doctrine. This is not the case. Darby was a brilliant theologian with outstanding scholarly abilities. Even those who disagreed with his teachings admit that he, and many associated with him, helped cause a revival in biblical learning throughout the evangelical world which has perpetuated down to the present day. This renewal of language studies was not the only thing they produced. The doctrine of “Dispensationalism” was also a teaching they brought to the attention of the Protestant world. And then, there was this new doctrine termed the “Rapture.” While many Christians long thought the Rapture doctrine originated with John Darby, it is now known that this was not true.<br />
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Darby popularized it. Scofield and others took it over. But Darby provided the intellectual mantle that helped make it respectable. Many of those in the evangelical sphere of Christianity today are so certain of its truth that it is accepted as the absolute truth of God. The fact is, however, John Darby received the knowledge of the doctrine from someone else. His source was Margaret Macdonald.<br />
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So there you have it. Two Oil Billionaires bought the minds and souls of most Protestant leaders by offering free books and C.I. Scofield adding footnotes to the KJV based on the rantings and ravings of a deranged woman thinking she was going to die has corrupted Christian beliefs and made it nearly impossible to recognize a true believer from a moron. <br />
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Interesting how two Oil Billionaires named Koch are reaping the rewards by controlling the minds of these morons so they can rape and pillage our planet, destroy unions, and kill the middle class in the industrialized world. <br />
<em>Most of the information and wording above comes from Stephen C. M. Long, pastor of Tender Mercy Baptist Church. The conclusion of what this information means if mine.</em>P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-37209937094860394442012-04-03T11:16:00.001-07:002012-04-03T11:16:39.022-07:00Flat TireMy friend that was running for the new house seat has dropped out of the race. She started fast, but had a flat tire. After two weeks of knocking on doors she was flat tired. She also found out to be taken seriously it would cost her much more than she could afford or raise.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-83792122815808691572012-04-01T08:00:00.001-07:002012-04-01T08:00:37.595-07:00Futile dayAttorney sent me to Los Lunas to drop off a pleading. This is a weird case where the judge is in Los Lunas, but the case is in Sandoval County. I had to go to Sandoval County to file the pleading, so I drive all the way up to Bernalillo over the river and down to the courthouse only to find they close at 11:00am on Fridays. Five hours and drove over 100 miles and accomplished zip. Back to Sandoval courthouse Monday. Nice he's paying for all of this instead of me.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12021724.post-47150925396245334422012-03-19T11:54:00.001-07:002012-03-19T11:54:29.253-07:00Real PoliticsRuss and I have been planning his run for President in 2016. Meanwhile a friend of my mothers' Candelaria (Candy) Patterson is actually running for the State House of Representatives for the newly formed District 26. I've chipped in $50 bucks to start building her campaign treasury and helped her write a speech she gave at the meeting of the West Side Democrats last week. When she gave the speech she scrapped about 90% of what I advised her on. My Twin from Colorado came down this weekend looking for a job in Roswell. She spent a night coming and going back with Mom. Last night she took her to Candy's where she designed her campaign logo. It's too bad her district is across I-40 from where I live so I can't vote for her. It looks like this is going to be an interesting election year.P M Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12973205373056561583noreply@blogger.com2