It’s amazing what there is on the internet. A geneological researcher has emailed me with three pictures of Obama’s mother in the nude. That would be of trivial interest except for the setting in which the picures were taken. They were clearly taken in a sophisticated mid-century apartment and my correspondent suggests that the apartment details could be used to identify the photographer. He feels that the photographer is the Communist “Frank” whom Obama mentions as his mentor. That Frank was so intimate with Obama’s mother would support the contention that Frank was in fact Obama’s father. Various bloggers have pointed out how similar Obama looks to “Frank” and the coverup of Obama’s birth certificate is certainly very suspicious.

I will not post the pictures here as Google would undoubtedly take down this blog as soon as I did. Instead, I have posted the pictures here and here and here.

I give below part of the email from my correspondent:

By pure serendipity I found a photo of what I believe is Stanley Ann Dunham; two more I found through sheer plod. They are taken before Christmas by the decorations and unopened presents. Also a stereo and records that an expert could confirm as jazz records are in view.There is a distinctive grain to the wood floors. I do research including genealogical and had downloaded everything I could find. Not much. So when I saw the picture, I locked on the the ear lobes, chin, eyebrows. It is she. A nude photo,not distasteful, but posed, I believe, by a mature man who knows what he likes, including jazz and now we know young girls. One could ascertain the location of where the photos were taken.

And the shoes..not indigenous to Hawaii,but maybe not unsual for Helen Canfield Chicago socialite and Marshall’s second wife. The photos are important in the sense that they explain the going to Chicago and the immediate acceptance by the hard left, if his father is Frank Marshall Davis, not just his mentor.

More background on Obama here.

This is where my old school, Paleo-Conservative, Fundamental Baptist Self comes out…

Via The Corner on National Review Online

15 percent of recently returned female soldiers report a sexual trauma during service, compared to 0.7 percent of male soldiers, according to preliminary research results from a Department of Veteran Affairs study released at the American Public Health Association meeting in San Diego. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this.

There’s a simple solution to this, and I just know someone is going to see this and is going to pop a vein when I say it. But, if these women would have stayed home and been wives to their husbands and Mothers to their Children, then they would not have never gotten raped in the first place. By no means do I justify the rapes, not at all. But the simple fact is that Women have fought for equal rights with men, led by that feminist Nazi Gloria Steinem. Now that they have these rights and one of them gets raped by a man who looses control, they want to be treated special, coddled and treated differently.

To HELL with that I say, if you cannot take the heat, stay the hell out of the Kitchen. The Military was originally designed for men, fighting men, to defend this country against our enemies. Women were not a part of the equation. That is because Women knew their place and it was not on the battlefield. But thanks to your stupid liberals, women are now a part of the Armed Forces and they’re getting raped.

….and they wonder why we had such a time winning in Iraq.

—-

Originally Posted at my Blog: Political Byline

Our concept of litter is often situated in our aesthetic vision of the world, and a short time view…

One of the largest problems in how we view the world is in how we consider the concept of litter and pollution. Ultimately these are false concepts because they are only related to how we see something, and in how long we live and the band of time we live in.

So if there are bacteria and living things that eat the oils and use them for fuel of life, then is oil a polluting chemical?

In other words, when there is an oil spill, you are not damaging a coastline forever, but only making it different to how we saw it a short time ago. What you have done is create a huge pile of food for bacteria to feast on. Is food pollution?

The only difference is the time scale you look at it. Look at it at an hourly scale and it looks different to you, and you are disgusted that the common natural aesthetic vision has been broken. Mostly because WE can’t eat oil and the creatures we like can’t eat oil, and so we don’t appreciate it as much as the bacteria that will eat and live and travel on it.

Give it time, and it will fade into the background again…

The same is true of all our pollution. Give it time, and they will break apart, and degrade. We don’t like plastic soda bottles because they ‘last 100 years’. Well glass bottles can last more than 1000 years!!! So why do we like them more than the plastic ones?  Also the solution is there in the statement. Wait 300 years.

So then the problem is one of space, not one of pollution. And the kicker is that the problem of space will eventually fix itself. If one wants to find the richest deposits of minerals and materials, a garbage dump is the richest supply of such things. it is only a matter of short time that it will be more expensive to mine things from the earth than it will be to mine garbage dumps and render the garbage into raw materials.  

We are approaching that level now with the ability to grind up cars and tires and things and sort the particles recovering around 80% of the material. What is left over would be buried and in another 100 or so years technology would exist to recover that material. By then we would be getting new material, and disposing of material in space sending it with a push to the sun.

The whole idea of burying our nuclear waste for 10,000 or 1,000 years is absurd. we are well within 100 years of safe individual space flight (when we are allowed to each have lots more energy, we then will all be able to do this. restrict energy, none of this higher order life is possible as each new level requires a new level of energy consumption). This means that nuclear waste will eventually be solar destroyed, as the sun is the greenest of all green garbage disposals for humans. (Not to mention that soon it will be easier to manufacture the most nasty things in space where venting stuff gets carried away by the solar wind)

We are on the verge of a new level of freedom… which is why the politicians are all siding with socialism. Like the industrial revolution before it, each new modern level of capitalism makes the politicians less relevant. And they then use their power to hurt the machine, so that it has crisis and it seems to make them very relevant. However the machine would run better without them, and space and all the new nationality type things it will bring, will fracture whatever globalism we have, and again, foil the feudalists who can’t control distributive power AND collect its fruits.

So what if the world runs out of natural resources?  The solar system has more than we could ever possibly use, and we are on the verge of private flight. So we are not long away from our natural resources being scaled up by planetary quantities. Which would make the economics shift and make things like CO2 air scrubbers worth making and not hurt doing so.

Ultimately Marxist ideas and the movements it spawns is nested in the old world idea of running out of ideas, and that progress can’t solve problems (that it now has already solved!). That they are the ones fixed in time that do not see that the wonders will continue if we are allowed to progress to each new levels, and the ideas that they hold are ideas in which validity MIGHT only exist if such new progress was impossible to make.

They are the modern luddites hiding themselves in a veil of belief that allows them to think that halting progress is in some way making progress. that by restricting opportunities, you can create opportunities. That we are going to run out of ideas because Marxists are such very poor visionaries (which is why they keep trying to make a unworkable system work), that they cant see that as the total monetary scale grows, things that were impossible before become possible because they are now cheap. That being green and having a better world is a luxury that the poor can’t afford, or even make, as the expense of the luxury comes at the expense of their lives.

The socialist countries have been the worst polluters, and the ex leaders of such are the largest proponents of having to control all of us, to make stagnant the planet in a totalitarian rule that will then ration all the resources of the solar system before we run out. the western capitalist countries are not only orders of magnitude greener, they are also going back and cleaning up past dirt, and will do so in an endless process till its clean to our satisfaction.

To actually do that, one must be so bourgeoisie that one has the excess wealth to spend it on the luxury and energy to clean things up. Which is why hunters are greener than greenies, and put up money when the greenies want to steal with the power of the state to get theirs.

Without the kind of luxury that makes socialists want to puke, the pools of money are not large enough that the amount taken from them is small enough that we don’t mind making the world clean, green, and truly a better place. The one problem is that those leading the green movement, are not at all interested in actually making a cleaner greener world. They are only interested in using the desire for such as a premise to dictate I fine detail how you or I should live.

The restriction of cheap oil from drilling ANWR and other areas is often touted by these people as a way to make a greener world. However, as claimed above, the proof is in the actions and outcomes, not the platitudes and soft words they use to seduce us into a false idea. This season thousands of Americans and Canadians will go out and chop down trees to burn in their inefficient fire places to make heat and lower the oil costs. Rather than burn dead plants from several million years ago, we will go out and cut the live ones that are scrubbing co2 out of the air, and burn them at 1/6 the efficiency of oil, and throw much much more pollution up the chimneys, than even a poor oil or gas furnace.

Even worse, is that in areas like Kentucky, which is heavy coal country, many people will be taking high sulfur coal and using that in their stoves to get heat rather than buy gas or oil as they are land rich and money poor.

It’s all in how you look at it and how you wish to perceive the situation. They are dictating the ‘right’ perception, and so we are up in arms over a false situation that ultimately will make us respond in ways that we think will help, but will hurt a lot more, and later justify more intervention, till no more justifications are needed and the sham can be throw aside.

Maybe its time for us to take a look at things and start to think about why we see things the way we do, and perhaps not listen to those who only pretend to have our interests at heart, and who clearly only have their own in place. The USA is greener than most other places on the planet, even though we use more material, and use more power. Over time, that will get much better, if we do not stagnate in our progress to solve the problem by creating a dark age. At best, that would only hold off such progress till we forget why we aren’t progressing and a new age dawns.

Lets skip the progressive dark age, and move on to the next renaissance were we might cast away these feudal throwbacks to socialist demagoguery and proceed to expand into the universe that is all around us and provides literally more than a trillion humans could ever use in a thousand years. We are not bound to just the small dreams of big people, we are supplied by the unlimited imaginations of billions of free people. We need not look to the few with such poor views of the world, and of people like us to get to the future; we will get to the future despite them, and in spite of them, as we have always done, if we do not let the left stagnate us in the name of progress.

Study reveals an oily diet for subsurface life

 

Click here to see image

 

Thousands of feet below the bottom of the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, single-celled organisms are busy feasting on oil.

Until now, nobody knew how many oily compounds were being devoured by the microscopic creatures, but new research led by David Valentine of UC Santa Barbara and Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts has shed new light on just how extensive their diet can be.

In a report to be published in the Oct. 1 edition of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, Valentine, Reddy, lead author George Wardlaw of UCSB, and three other co-authors detail how the microbes are dining on thousands of compounds that make up the oil seeping from the sea floor.

“It takes a special organism to live half a mile deep in the Earth and eat oil for a living,” said Valentine, an associate professor of earth science at UCSB. “There’s this incredibly complex diet for organisms down there eating the oil. It’s like a buffet.”

And, the researchers found, there may be one other byproduct being produced by all of this munching on oil - natural gas. “They’re eating the oil, and probably making natural gas out of it,” Valentine said. “It’s actually a whole consortium of organisms - some that are eating the oil and producing intermediate products, and then those intermediate products are converted by another group to natural gas.”

Reddy, a marine chemist at Woods Hole, said the research provides important new clues in the study of petroleum. “The biggest surprise was that microbes living without oxygen could eat so many compounds that compose crude oil,” Reddy said. “Prior to this study, only a handful of compounds were shown, mostly in laboratory studies, to be degraded anaerobically. This is a major leap forward in understanding petroleum geochemistry and microbiology.”

The diet of the single-cell microbes is far more diverse than previously thought, Valentine said. “They ate around 1,000 of the 1,500 compounds we could trace, and presumably are eating many more,” he said.

Research for this project began seven years ago and much of the testing was done at one of the planet’s best natural labs. “We have the world’s most prolific hydrocarbon seep field sitting right offshore of Santa Barbara, about two miles out,” Valentine said. “We have something on the order of 100 barrels of oil a day coming up from the sea floor.”

The source of this oil seepage is near Platform Holly, but it’s not being caused by the drilling. “It’s just oil that is naturally oozing out, probably has been for thousands of years,” Valentine explained. “Holly just happens to be near some of these seepage areas, which is fortuitous because we were able to get samples from about a mile deep.”

By studying samples from the subsurface, the ocean floor, the mid-water, and then from the surface, the researchers could determine how much of the oil was being degraded and digested by the microbes.

Using a new technique devised by Reddy, the scientists were able to pick apart the differences in the makeup of the oil, which is migrating to the surface through faults from deep below the sea floor. The microbes prefer the lighter compounds of oil, the gasoline part of the black goo. They tend to leave behind the heavily weathered residue, which is what makes its way to the surface and, sometimes, to the beaches in the form of tar.

“There always seems to be a residue,” Valentine said. “They (bacteria) hit a wall. There seems to be stages in which they eat. There’s the easy stuff - the steak. And then they work their way to the vegetables, and then garnish, and then they stop eating after awhile. Just depends on how hungry they are and what’s fed to them.”

Reddy’s new diagnostic technology is called a comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC). Typically, chromatography involves heating up a sample and putting it into a column around 60 meters long. Compounds are then separated based on their boiling points, which works well with light crude oil, Valentine said. But, with the two-dimensional test, the compounds are put into a cooled trap, for about 10 seconds, and a flash pulse of hot air releases them into the second column. This two-dimensional separation allows the researchers to pick out the many thousands of compounds.

“This new technology was actually too good at its job,” Reddy said. “It was able to separate and help identify significantly more compounds in the oil samples than traditional analytical techniques. The end result was that we were handcuffed with too much data afforded by the GCxGC. However, we overcame this hurdle by using new algorithms to help us interpret the data, which in turn led us to these milestone discoveries.”

The next steps in their research are already under way, according to Valentine. They are following the oil diet in controlled laboratory conditions, and tracking the fate of the oil once it forms a slick at the sea surface.

“When you fly out of the Santa Barbara Airport, you can look down and see these massive slicks,” Valentine said. “You can follow them for about 20 miles. A lot of the oil comes up on the beaches, but then what happens to it after that? Certainly the microorganisms continue to act on it. Evaporation occurs, but most of it can’t evaporate. Some of it breaks down from sunlight. So where does the rest of it end up? We want to know how far the organisms will go in eating the oil and what happens to the residual tar. It doesn’t all stick to our feet and there must be a lot of it out there somewhere.”

Source: University of California - Santa Barbara

 

One can file this under, when you lose, sometimes you win.

The judgment of Judge Miriam Goldman Cederbaum came in on the issue of discriminatory pricing for NY nightclubs.

Roy Dan Hollander, who has been crusading against such practices, commented that her dismissal of his lawsuit was consistent with the discrimination against men in the legal system.

Basically, Hallander was making the argument that charging a man $25 dollars to walk in the door, while not charging women was sexual discrimination. The practice of free drinks for ladies also becomes suspect under this line of thinking.

True to form, Judge Cederbaum, invoked the mental process of oppressor and oppressed dialectics and decided that giving women free drink and not charging them entry was a completely legal and fair thing. The reason given though is key.

Judge Cedarbaum said nightclubs can price their products as they wish because they’re not acting as representatives of the state.

Judge tosses suit over ‘ladies’ nights’

NEW YORK — It’s closing time for a lawsuit alleging ladies’ nights at nightclubs discriminate against men.

Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum tossed the lawsuit out of federal court in Manhattan on Monday. She said nightclubs can price their products as they wish because they’re not acting as representatives of the state.

The lawsuit was brought by attorney Roy Den Hollander, who has crusaded against feminism and recently sued a university over its women’s studies program.

Hollander said ladies’ nights at Manhattan nightclubs discriminate against men by offering women free or discounted admission and drinks. He tried to link the state to the discounts because it licenses the sale of alcohol at nightclubs.

How does that translate to a condition of when you lose you win?

Easy. Mr Hollander is probably upset (and the article says as much), but he hasn’t seen the overwhelmingly positive outcome that this legal precedence makes.

Basically various businesses and clubs in NY have had a problem when it comes to running their business the way they want to. Just as in this nightclub case.

Various businesses have sought to have men’s only businesses, but the women’s groups will not let such discrimination stand. that its illegal and discriminatory to prevent a woman from participating in a mens only gym, because she is a woman.

Well this problem has now been fixed by Judge Cedarbaum, prices that are set by gender are not discriminatory, they are legal.

Now Gyms that wish to be mens only can have this not by forbidding women from entering, but by just charging them differently.

The ladies night in a club has the effect of promoting the attendance of women, while dispromoting the attendance of as many men. What this judge has in effect ruled is that one can set prices in ones own free market business that promotes one sex or gender over another, and that since the business is not a state entity, they are free to do this.

This means that no more lawsuits as to sex discrimination in business and clubs as it is fair for them to charge men $50 dollars a month membership fee to join the gym, and charge a woman $500 dollar fee.  

One may make the argument that the disparity in price might signal discrimination, but this is not so. if the clubs in NY charged a dollar for the women to enter, and charged the men $25 dollars then the difference would be established as 25 times the prices. at that disparity, the gym could charge $1,250 and be on exact parity with clubs.

However the club lets them in free… and free is less than a dollar, and so the amount of disparity is actually anything one wants to claim, especially the amounts above what a dollar would be fractional.

This means that every club in NY that wishes to disbar women from entry, need only set their prices. Judge Cedarbaum has ruled that such practices are perfectly legal and not considered discrimination.

Hollander can now proceed to fight on behalf of NY hair stylists. Years ago, they ruled that a hair stylist cant charge women more for a cut because the women have more complex hair styles, or longer hair.

Well, now that has been replaced by the new free market precident that business owners can charge what they want. Hair stylists are not acting as representatives of the state.

ALSO, this means that dry cleaners can also charge more for womens clothing, another lawsuit years ago made that illegal. Even though the explanation, like the hair above, is that women tend to wear finer clothes with lace and these items have to have more care.

Well now judge Cedarbaum has insured that such reasons are not needed. a business owner can charge whatever they want in an effort to promote or inhibit attendance by any group they wish, and its not discriminatory as long as they are not representatives of the state.

This means that one can also go back to the evil days of jim crow and have different prices based on race, since race and gender are legally equivalent in discriminatory law. And one can now charge the young more money and the elderly less, after all, that’s a social good too. Now atheists can charge Christians more, just so they don’t have to bother with them.

Judge Cedarbaum has insured that 40 years of democratic meddling in free business will now finally come to an end. Businesses are free to discriminate in pricing since such isnt discrimination unless the state does it, and they are free to succeed or fail based on that policy.

So in the case of nightclubs, they are free to do this, and we are free as patrons to decide whether we agree.  The same would be now true of any business over any reason like age, race, religion, or disability. They are free to succeed or fail on that policy and its outcomes in the market. have higher prices for African Americans, and that’s ok, if you can succeed doing that.

Whats more is that Judge Cedarbaum in her effort to be fairly unfair, and sock it to the guys has also gutted the disabilities laws. For if its ok for a club to charge differently at the door for different classes of people, then its ok for a business to charge a wheel chair bound person 100 times the price to cover custom service of moving them into the store without a ramp yet still grant access.  

Ah…  Judge Cedarbaum having decided that there is a double standard and its legal, has under the concept of equality under the law, made such double standards a legal goodness again.

It will be interesting to see how this all might pan out if these things are applied. Will then Judge Cedarbaum change her judgment, or would a higher court do so?  would the courts be forced to let it stand and therefore, have to grant the legality of these practices under freedom, even if we don’t like them?

I guess it depends on Hollander, and all the other businesses who wish to define how and why they do business with people.

After all, its now legal to charge higher rents for “undesirables”. An apartment is a business, its not owned by the state, and so the business is free to set prices any way it wants. So it can charge 10k a month for a minority and can charge 1 dollar a month for a favored group. Why? because judge Cedarbaum has said that it can.    

At the very least, she has potentially thrown all this prior law into contention.

Either its ok for businesses to set prices to promote or inhibit a mix of clients, or its considered discriminatory to do so.

The key is that the mechanism is prices, not rules forbidding attendance. That a group can be inhibited is now legal, it just can’t be prevented. Having a high price for one group, inhibits them, but does not prevent attendance. The argument that such disparity is not burdensome is specious when one then says it’s discrimination against the poor men who wish to go out with the women who wish the door cost was their to weed out poor men.

The argument that the same disparity that is absent from clubs and doors, is absent when one looks at the skin color, the age, or anything else, is just as specious.

 “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”

Sir Walter Scott.

Here’s my latest INFERNO entitled “INFERNO.” Before that is last week’s FIGHT THE POWER which, apparently, I was too lazy to post last Sunday. Moreover, it seems I forgot to post THE REAL OBAMA as well.

[kaltura-widget wid="hilq9h99g8" width="295" height="250" /]

More than 900 criminal aliens, immigration fugitives, and immigration violators have been removed from the United States or are facing deportation today following a three-week enforcement surge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Fugitive Operations Teams in California.

During the special operation, which concluded late yesterday, ICE officers located and arrested a total of 905 immigration violators throughout the state, including 137 here in the San Diego area. Of those arrested locally, 73 were immigration fugitives, aliens who have ignored final orders of deportation or who returned to the United States illegally after being removed. More than 40 percent of the aliens taken into custody in this area had criminal histories in addition to being in the country illegally.

Among those arrested by the Fugitive Operations Teams locally was a 30-year-old Mexican national who was convicted in 1997 for robbery and sentenced to four years in state prison. Last year, Cesar Hernandez-Gallardo lost his appeal to remain in the United States and failed to depart after being ordered deported by an immigration judge. ICE officers also arrested a 37-year-old Mexican national at his residence in Escondido, whose criminal record includes a prior conviction for burglary. He was ordered deported last June and lost his appeal to remain in the United States last month. The other criminal arrests included violent crimes for assault with a deadly weapon, carjacking, domestic violence and sexual assault.

In addition to the local Fugitive Operations Teams, ICE officers from the agency’s teams in Los Angeles and San Francisco were temporarily deployed to the area to assist with this enforcement action.

ICE’s Fugitive Operations Teams are tasked with identifying and arresting foreign nationals who have ignored final orders of deportation or have returned to the United States illegally after being removed. The teams prioritize cases involving immigration violators who pose a threat to national security and community safety. These include child sexual exploiters, suspected gang members, and those who have convictions for violent crimes.

“ICE is committed to restoring integrity to this country’s immigration system and that means ensuring that the removal orders handed down by the nation’s immigration courts are carried out,” said Robin Baker, field officer director for ICE detention and removal operations in San Diego. “As a country, we welcome law-abiding immigrants, but foreign nationals who violate our laws and commit crimes in our communities should be on notice that ICE is going to use all of the tools at its disposal to find you and send you home.”

Since many of these individuals have already been ordered deported, they are subject to immediate removal from the United States. More than half of those arrested during the statewide operation have already been removed to their home countries. The remaining aliens are in ICE custody and are awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge, or pending travel arrangements for removal in the near future.

The Fugitive Operations Program was established in 2003 to eliminate the nation’s backlog of immigration fugitives. Today, ICE has 75 teams deployed across the country, including 13 in California.

Last year, the nation’s fugitive alien population declined for the first time in history and continues to do so - in large part due to the work of the Fugitive Operations Teams. Estimates now place the number of immigration fugitives in the United States at slightly under 573,000, a decrease of more than 59,000 since October 2006. Given the success of the fugitive operations effort, Congress has authorized ICE to add 29 more Fugitive Operations Teams in fiscal year 2008.

ICE’s Fugitive Operations Program is an integral part of the comprehensive multi-year plan launched by the Department of Homeland Security to secure America’s borders and reduce illegal migration. That strategy seeks to gain operational control of both the northern and southern borders, while re-engineering the detention and removal system to ensure that illegal aliens are removed from the country quickly and efficiently.