Are the laws of nature the same everywhere in the Universe?
Or, is our little piece of the Universe what it is because of the
environment where we live?

OR, is the Universe the way it is, our piece of it at least, just so
physicists can be here to observe it? (g) We live on a unique planet with
liquid water and our laws of nature have adapted to this unique
environment.

I think the Universe is a big random place, very inhospitable to our
kind of life, but for other forms of life the possiblities are unlimited.

I think each pocket of space has different laws of nature and vastly
different landscapes and much more than we can imagine is possible.

Ponder this: Dark Matter is 25%. Dark Energy is 70% of the Universe.
And Atoms only make up about 5% of the Universe.

Ponder This:

What if to the whole of everything we are small like subatomic human particles?

Or what if we are food for aliens who seeded this rock millions of
years ago with DNA and let it evolve and they will one day return to eat us.

Peter Wesson, a scientist in Canada recently wrote that our universe is
actually in a black hole and may be in another universe, which also might be in
a black hole, and so forth and so on. We know what we know but there is much we
do not know.

What if our human existence doesn't mean any more than the fact we are
here - and we have a brain? (because that is all I believe it means) And
if we have a brain we should be enlightened enough by the accumulated
wisdom of 500 years of books to want to be the species that saves the
world for us and for them (all the rest) and only by doing that can we
insure a quality of life that will make it all worth while and then we
won't be so insignificant after-all.

* Life on Earth is a product of evolution by natural selection
operating in the medium of carbon chemistry. However, in theory,
evolution is not limited to Earth, nor to carbon chemistry.

* Just as it may occur on other planets, it may also operate
in other media, such as the medium of digital computation

AND, "what-if" we are somebody else's computer simulation?

Also See: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZioN/EvO.shtml

Hank

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ENIAC

ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR

The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (Eniac), was
only a dream in the 40s. My interest in computers goes way back
to the late 50s to the ENIAC. I had been a Ham Operator since
1955 (K4EVY), when I was still in high school. There was no such
thing as a personal computer then.

But, my excitement about computers really began when I saw the
first computer, the ENIAC, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland
in the 50s. I was in military school in Georgia then but on one of
our family visits to Pennsylvania and Maryland my uncle invited me
to see his laboratory and the ENIAC.

As early as the 40s (1943) scientists at the University of Pennsylvania
proposed a machine which would calculate "firing tables" - settings used
for directing artillery under varying conditions vis-a-vis weather,
distance to the target, etc. to be used for aiming artillery, which
up to that time sometimes took hours to calculate. That is when the
computer age was actually launched. The ENIAC, which weighed 30 tons,
was funded by the U.S. Army.

Dr. Goldstine lobbied a committee headed by Oswald Veblen, mathematician,
who influenced the army to go forward with funding at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds (in 1943) with a request for half a million dollars
to pay for the research and the computer. Up to that time the army
had been shipping their guns without firing tables. Col Leslie E. Simon
was then the director of the Army's Ballistics Laboratory, where my
uncle worked. Simons retired as a general. Dr. Goldstine was in charge
of the operation for the army. A team of scientists and engineers at
Penn's Moore School built the computer. The project was secret.

After three years of military school and one year of regular high
school I enlisted in the army. It was there that I was selected for
a secret assignment and after extensive investigations by the FBI and
the Secret Service I worked at the White House for the President of
the United States. I had a top secret clearance but also a crypto and
nuclear clearance. I was privy to everything the President said and
later on the Chiefs of Staff ("need to know" was extended to everything
I heard). In the 60s I worked in the War Room for the Chiefs of Staff at
the Pentagon (before going to helicopter school and before the Yom Kipper
War in 73).

My uncle was a physicist who died when he was only about 49 years old
from a cardiac condition but while he was employed as a scientist for
the army he invented the fastest camera in the world and he used the
very first computer in the ballistics lab at the base, which was also
his research facility for developing munitions for the military.

In 1957 I enlisted in the army because a war was about to
start and I wanted to get in on it.

One of the most exciting days of my life however was when I saw the
world's first computer, the ENIAC in the 50s, which was built at the
Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland,
and was funded by the Ordnance Corps of the United States
Army.

My memory is admittedly a bit vague by now, because it was such a long
time ago, but I do remember, the ENIAC used thousands of vacuum tubes
and generated a lot of heat. Obviously there was very little memory and
it was extremely slow.

Later on a subsequent tour of duty in the War Room at the Pentagon, just
down the hall from where I worked they were using a newer generation
computer, which still used tubes - and I recall how huge it was also
and all those diode multipliers and bullion adders with their flashing
lights. I also remember the heat and an array of tubes which military
personnel were constantly replacing as they burned out. It seemed like
that was their only job. To this day I don't know what this equipment
was used for. But I do know the tubes were a problem and RCA had to
develop a new tube which had a longer life just for the application
there at the Pentagon.

I worked cryptology in the War Room and my equipment used mechanical
coding wheels and also used tubes. The wheels were metal rings which
had to be lined up in exactly the same configuration and started exactly
at the same time as those who we communicated with in the Six Fleet
or where-ever they were. Army Security Agency (ASA) kept trying to break
our codes but they couldn't.

These were not text devices. They generated synthesized speech which
did not sound at all like the person using them - and speech was encrypted.
We were armed with sawed off shotguns. And we not only guarded the equipment,
we swept the room for bugs and we monitored all of the speech.

My job was the same at the White House when I did a three year tour
there but included other things, a lot of other things and my training
was at Ft Monmouth and at NSA. I worked in all kinds of communications
including the first television hookups for the White House, which we
assisted in the engineering process. I taught single sideband and
various types of multiplexing, including packet communications when
it was new.

ENIAC was the first electronic computer which could compute a trajectory
in only one second (pretty damn fast when it took an hour before the
computer was developed). It was completed in 1945 and it was very BIG. It
was enormous. The system was 80 feet long and was 8 feet high. It
contained 18,000 vacuum tubes. The speed was 100,000 pulses per second.

It didn't really begin to calculate firing tables until the war was over
since it took so long to build. From the time it was imagined in 43 to the
time it was completed in 1945.

It became public in 1946. It was built at the Moore school and moved to
Aberdeen in 1947 where it was utilized until 1955.

When I finally left the military I went to school under the G.I.Bill and I
got an LL.B degree but I also studied programming and systems design. I
learned COBOL, RPG, Lisp, BASIC and various other languages, including
assembly code. I built and owned several computers and all of the first
ones I learned to program them using their individual machine language. In
those days that was not uncommon. COBOL was probably my favorite
programming language because although bulky it was plain English
and easy to use - but still no personal computers then and I had
to program main frames using punch cards. My very first personal
computer was a Commodore 4K and later a Commodore 2001. My first
hard drive cost me $1,700 for that Commodore. My next computer
was better; it was an IBM XT. Since then I have had more computers
than I can remember and the operating system for most of them has
been Linux. I cut my teeth on UNIX. And I still prefer DOS to
Windows (g).

Hank Roth
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Patrick Finnerty: A Democrat for McCain

Published: Monday, September 1, 2008 at 8:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 1, 2008 at 8:41 p.m.

As a lifelong Democrat, I've been conditioned to always support the
Democratic Party. I've been told to simply accept the falsehood that
somehow all Democratic candidates were good and all Republican candidates
were bad. I was taught to vote for political party first, not for the
person. Well, I was wrong.

Obviously, there are good and bad politicians in both parties. And this
year, for the first time in my life, I am voting for my country first.That
means Ill be voting for a Republican, for John McCain.

Like Hillary and Bill Clinton, Sen. McCain is a great American. He has
served and sacrificed more for this country than anyone I know. He is an
experienced leader and courageous ex-POW. He is a man who has time and
again stood up against his party for what he believed was best for all
Americans. He is a man who has put his country first throughout his life.
He has earned my vote.

I'm sure that many will continue to support the Democratic Party this year
despite the way Barack Obama treated Hillary Clinton. And they will
overlook the many thoughtful, common-sense points that she made during the
primary. Sen. Clinton and other Democratic candidates - wisely pointed
out that Obama has a very, very thin resume and isnt anywhere near ready
to be president. And even that meager record is suspect.

Obama won his first election to the Illinois State Senate by using
technicalities to force other loyal Democrats off of the ballot. Thats not
democracy. Thats the kind of thing theyd do in Russia. His associations in
Chicago also reveal what I consider to be some serious flaws in Obamas
integrity. One of the most glaring examples comes from the purchase of his
home with the assistance of long-time Obama fund-raiser Tony Rezko, who
paid for the part of the property that Obama couldnt afford. Later, Rezko
received political favors from Obama that were paid for with taxpayers
money. Now, Rezko has been convicted of several felonies and faces some
serious prison time.

Just read practically any newspaper and learn about the real Obama.I still
cant believe that he had the chance to form a dream ticket, Obama-Clinton.
That was practically a sure bet to make history AND win him the White
House. Instead, he let his ego get in the way of what was best for the
country. Now, what kind of leader is that?

The bottom line is that Obama is the least qualified and least experienced
presidential candidate in the history of America. Even so, I know many
Democrats will still blindly go to the polls and vote for a slogan and an
empty politician. But for the first time in my life, I will not follow the
Democrats lead. I will not blindly vote for the Democratic candidate
simply because he is a Democrat. For the first time in my life, I will put
my country first and vote for a Republican...a courageous hero...an
experienced leader...and a great American...John McCain!

Patrick Finnerty,

Gainesville

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080901/NEWS/809010232&title=Patrick_Finnerty__A_Democrat_for_McCain

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Oh God Part Deux

By Larry JohnsongravatarcloseAuthor: Larry Johnson Name: Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson <at> earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an
international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism
and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military
commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and
conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money
laundering. Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central
Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Departments Office of Counter
Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation
security, crisis and risk management. Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist
incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour,
National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York
Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several
articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New
York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and
aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and
Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He
represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference
in Vienna, Austria. From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as
a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Departments Office of Counter
Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents
throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Governments
debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital
intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist
bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnsons leadership the U.S. airlines and
pilots agreed to match the US Governments two million-dollar reward. From
1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central
Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training
in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations,
served in the CIAs Operations Center, and established himself as a
prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year
with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards. Mr. Johnson
is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at
The American Universitys School of International Service (1979-1983) while
working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community
Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received
his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in
1976.See Authors Posts (764) on September 1, 2008 at 4:57 PM in Current
Affairs

Damn it. I was already for Katrina part IIyou know, floating bodies,
indequate Federal and State response, massive destruction, cats and dogs
living together; mass hysteria. And nothing. Yeah, there was some rain and
flooding but what the hell happened to the end of the world and God
punishing the Republican sinners for their evil deeds? Man, we popped the
media Viagra and wound up with Mr. Softie. What a let down.

Democrats Don Fowler and Michael Moore promised me that the Republicans
were getting their comeuppance. God was going to kill a bunch of people on
the Gulf Coast because Hes mad at George Bush and Dick Cheney (who happen
to live in Washington). So rather than strike down the inside the beltway
types God is taking his shot at folks still hanging around the Big Easy,
1600 miles from Washington? Sounds to me like God took aiming lessons from
Dick Cheney.

But wait. With no disaster the Republicans get a victory lap. This also
means George Bush and Dick Cheney wont be speaking at the Convention. This
lets McCain can keep them away from the podium and not be accused of
dissing them. Darnation. I thought we were going to be able to run a
campaign against McBush (you know, McCain as a Bush clone), now this.
McCain not getting tarred with the visage of George Bush hanging at his
coronation party. What is the world coming to?

Does this mean God actually loves Republicans?

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/01/oh-god-part-deux/#more-4541

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Among many............

reaking: Top Hillary Backer Defects to McCain

By SusanUnPCgravatarcloseAuthor: SusanUnPC Name:
Email: susanunpc <at> gmail.com
Site: http://noquarterusa.net/
About: See Authors Posts (1301) on September 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM in Hillary
Clinton, McCain/Palin 2008 | 190 Comments

dunne06.jpgJohn Coale a top backer of Hillary Clintons candidacy has
endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket because, he told Newsweek in an exclusive
interview, Obama is not who he says he is.

Newsweek Exclusive: Top Clinton Supporter John Coale Endorses McCain

John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host
Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced
today that he was supporting John McCain for president.

Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her
family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the
Democratic Party is being taken over by the moveon.org types in an
exclusive interview with Newsweek.coms Tammy Haddad.

He said he tried to prevent Clintons brother, Tony Rodham, from
attending an August 18th meeting in Scranton, Pa. with McCain campaign
surrogate Carly Fiorina. I urged him not to go and told him it would
embarrass his sister, but he has a mind of his own. Coale says Mr. Rodham
asked Ms. Fiorina about McCains Supreme Court picks.

Continued http://tinyurl.com/59upn2

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Adaptive Advantages of Behavior

Prehistoric Imprinting on Today's Behavior

Evolutionary biologists suggest violence and behavior are to a large
extent genetic. But we humans have another adaptive advantage: We think
about these things. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." (I believe
that is the exact quote or close enough) Ambrose modified it to "I think,
I think, therefore I think I am."

Studies from researchers at the University of Michigan demonstrate at
least one of the ways `violence and behavior' is belief that it is
sanctioned by biblical scriptures.

"To justify their actions, violent people often claim that God has
sanctioned their behavior...Christian extremists, Jewish reactionaries and
Islamic fundamentalists all can cite scriptures that seem to encourage or
at least support aggression against unbelievers." umich.edu/)

Violence is coded in our genes. It most assuredly was an advantage for
survival and reproduction at one time in our evolutionary past. But it
survived as a behavioral trait.

Continued at http://inyourface.info/ArT/Delta/Dea.shtml

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There is Much to Fear If Obama Becomes the Chief Executive

John McCain's pick for vice president is like his courageous stand on the
war. He was right then and he is right now. AND those are signs of a man
who is ready to be president. Not every decision is so clear that we can't
see the right choice, but someone does and in these two instances there is
no doubting that John McCain is farsighted enough to make those kinds of
remarkable decisions.

The Democrats are having trouble dealing with his choice; not that they
agonized over Obama ignoring his best chance at winning the presidency
when he turned down Hillary Clinton.

Now they are stumped. John McCain just scored check mate. There is no way
Obama can recover from this and very soon the public will see it too.
Right now there is still this Messianic fervor, mostly by young
people who lack the wisdom and the experience and liberals who have been
scoring wrong for as long as I remember - and I can say that as a former
leftist who has seen the error of my ways.

Think about it. Until the announcement was made the Democrats thought they
had it all figured out. Daily Kos was again demonstrating themselves to
the the daily kooks. They were preparing their attack machine. Now they're
refocused and the mistake they make is to do the same thing to Sarah that
they did to Hillary. It won't work. They have no idea how many women are
now going to support Palin because of the sexists in the Democratic Party.

John McCain's moves were brilliant. If it was chess, he would be the
master. Who didn't think it would be Mitt Romney or Minnesota Governor Tim
Pawlenty or the women who were already mentioned as potential picks and it
was none of those. Like an expert at military strategy, which he is, John
had everyone making the wrong moves while he excelled and proved once
again he is can't be defeated. He won't be defeated. He is the kind of
fighter I want on my side in any war and for any problem and I want Sarah
Palin by his side.

They're sexism is all they have because the Democrat "attack dogs have
been rendered toothless" as correctly pointed out in an editorial in
Frontpage Mag (Sept 1). The governor will not easily submit to their
smears. If they accuse her of being inexperienced, it doesn't work. She is
going to be the vice president, not the president - and she has more
executive experience than Obama. That has been aptly pointed out elsewhere
also.

The media is making the stretch that John's picking Sarah Palin devalues
McCain's charges that Obama is inexperienced. It doesn't. Pursuant to
foreign policy experience, just look where Alaska is situated. It is
separated from the U.S. mainland and it is adjacent to Russia. It abuts a
country with which we do not at the moment have the greatest relationship.

The VP job is on-the-job training for the presidency; it is not an
application to instantaneously become the president - but when John McCain
finishes his 4 or 8 years, she will be ready and in fact ready before that
time. Whereas, nobody else will have that experience then nor has that
experience now. Not even Hillary Clinton has the experience of serving in
an executive position. Nor does Joe Biden have executive experience. NONE.
Only Palin has managed government. In that respect she is more experienced
than even John McCain.

The Democrats who have been mesmerized by the false kind, Barack Obama,
should be every bit concerned however about putting an un-vetted candidate
who may not be what and who he claims to be and is scarcely qualified to
be anything but a community organizer and nobody knows exactly what that
is. I'd say there is a lot to fear if Barack Hussein Obama should by
public ignorance become the next president of the United States.

Hank Roth
http://inyourface.info

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REAL Change

Since When Do We Reward the Losers?

Should we be concerned that Biden is a self-professed expert on foreign
affairs because of his 35 years in the Congress? Is he so astute because
of his years in Congress? I'd be concerned that maybe his judgment does
not match his experience. After-all, it was Biden would propose splitting up
Iraq into three divisions, separating the Sunni, the Shiite and the Kurds
and having these differences fester and amplify themselves as partitioned
states - which would have the effect of weakening Iraq and making it even
more vulnerable to attack by Iran or other enemies and ultimately more
carnage. This was Joe Biden's solution. John McCain's solution was to
increase the military and win the war. McCain's solution was undisputably
the correct choice.

John McCain has also been in congress a long time but he has the instinct
and the wisdom to make the right choices. Joe Biden on the other hand was
hardly a blip in the run up to the presidency, a run he lost big.
Since when do we reward the losers?

Biden has a history of wrong choices. McCain has a history of right
choices. Hillary Clinton appealed to Democrats on the basis of experience,
but seriously who can claim she had any, except as the wife of a
philanderer and president? Palin has the experience Clinton would have
like to claim. But Hillary was my pick because she was running in
opposition to Barack Obama who is not only inexperienced, he is also a
fake and as mentioned so many times it has become trite, nevertheless I
will say it again; he is an "empty suit."

Where to Hillary's credit she cracked the ceiling and a movement emerged
out of it. She won the popular vote and then had it taken away from her by
Obama who stole the election by trucking in shills to caucus states and by
the DNC who never liked the Clintons and stacked the delegates for Obama
in spite of Hillary winning the vote. It was a betrayal and no Democrat
should settle for what the DNC gave us. It wasn't democratic.

The choice is easy. Palin is the reformer and a women and more fit than
Obama and Biden. She is exciting and represents REAL change.

Hank Roth
http://inyourface.info/

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There Is Now Sarah To Hate

Alaskan Rabbi Joseph Greenberg and Terry Gorlick, a Jewish businessman in
Alaska told Politico that Palin is a friend of the Jews. Sure, she is
young and never visited Israel but she did sign a boilerplate
Alaska-Israel friendship resolution. A Republican Jewish Coalition
supports her. BUT not that it should be any surprise the Obamabots are
e-mailing members of the Jewish community wherein they claim she was a
supporter of the right wing Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul. It, like much of
what emanates from the Obama campaign and their friends is conspiratorial
and slanderous.

McCain is a staunch supporter of Israel, yet most Jews are liberals and
the Obama lead in spite of growing numbers of Jewish conservatives has
been cited as about 2 to 1. I doubt it is that great. They never polled
me.

Joe Lieberman, now an Independent - who I had disdain for last year is all
of a sudden looking better and better to me as a McCain loyalist and his
support for Palin. Just recently when addressing AIPAC, the pro-Israel
lobby, Lieberman said, "We had a good productive discussion on the
importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and we were pleased that Gov.
Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong commitment to the safety
and well-being of Israel" per AIPAC spokesman Josh Block.

AIPAC considers all four candidates to be pro-Israel. I consider at
least one of them as wooing the Jewish vote, but Obama is hardly a
supporter of Israel when his closest associates are for Israel's demise.

Obamabots are going to transmogrify the truth; they always do. They have
Sarah Palin now to hate too. As David Kahane puts it in the National
Review Online (Sept 2, 2008):

"But ever since that wrinkly old white dude with the numberless
residences, John "the Senator from the Canal Zone" McCain, rained on
Barack Hussein Obama II Barry Soetero Barack Hussein Obama Jr., a.k.a.
the "Senator from Hinky Dink Kenna," aka the Punahou Kid's, parade
with his insane, opportunistic, clueless, out-of-touch and
breathtakingly audacious, game-changing pick of Sarah Marshall Palin
to be his vice president, there's another Sarah in town to hate."
(NJO)

Hank Roth
http://inyourface.info

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If Obama Becomes President
September 3rd, 2008

John McCains pick for vice president is not unlike his courageous stand on
the war. He was right then and he is right now. AND those are signs of a
man who is ready to be president. Not every decision is so clear that we
can see the right choice, but someone does and in these two instances
there is no doubting that John McCain is farsighted enough to make the
right kinds of remarkable decisions.

The Democrats are having trouble dealing with McCains choice; not that
many didnt agonize over Obama ignoring his best chance at winning the
presidency when he turned down Hillary Clinton. Obamas judgment has been
called into question often these last couple of months. The Democrats
ignore those misjudgments at their own peril

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