Jazmee27 
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Tell me she did *not* say that!
If there's anything I find more irritating than that, I have yet to find it!
Reply #301. Nov 03 10, 1:00 PM
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satguru
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| I am hoping my research tells me that as well, although that was the headline there was nothing in the piece at all that says she mentioned the two together, but only separately without a comparison. I've complained to the website who wrote it and will see the reply. Arnie however did definitely call climate skeptics Nazis this week and seems at least half of California agree with him. Maybe they'll one day get their wish and become independent, preferably of this planet the way they're going/ |
Reply #302. Nov 03 10, 2:59 PM
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| lesley153
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Stuff Europe - we have enough fun trying to understand our own legal and political systems and, as soon as we start getting the hang of it, it gets changed...
One third of the House being re-elected every two years isn't that complicated. It's a 33 and 1/3% turnover. And mid-term protests against the incumbent party or leader are the norm everywhere.
Reply #303. Nov 03 10, 4:39 PM
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| lesley153
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Non-believers are Nazis? Has Arnie lost the plot?
Reply #304. Nov 03 10, 4:40 PM
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satguru
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| He's not really that original, he's just repeating what his friends are saying while adding a personal twist. It seems his supporters are clearly blinded to his lack of individual mental stability, while the rest of the world apparently prefer to think about doughnuts or puppies. What a sick sad world we have become. |
Reply #305. Nov 03 10, 5:02 PM
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satguru
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Back to Kingsbury and all that resides in this part of it. After staying up past 4am watching the election coverage the best I could do was a walk round the nearest park while it was still light and also pretty warm. I returned to write an article I'd been working out yesterday and hope it meets with approval. I've seen a good few bloggers out there bemoaning the abandonment of cap and trade (it's like the medical firms wanting to keep cancer so they can keep selling treatments for it or blowflies missing the manure after the streets have been swept) while reminding us all they managed to hold the senate so can't quite rule out some big time theft. We will see but their wings have been severely clipped.
I'm now about to edit the article and will wait till I get a reply about the first one before I offer the next. Besides speaking to the builders next door tomorrow about the flat roof situation I am a free man, and can wait before any other obligations are carried out for the right moment. No doubt Grace will call sooner or later so save the cemetery for her next visit plus will announce the 'Non' from the Kingsbury marriage jury so she no longer lives in any hope. I couldn't commit the rest of my life to that level of conversation as it would be like trying to type with a hand tied behind my back. Most of what I said would go straight past her and most of what she said would sadly either be out of my frame of interest or away with the fairies where she still spends much of her time due to the mental issues. Shame but she can easily meet someone if she tries as she will get them with the looks and good nature. But it takes more for a marriage unfortunately.
I don't really know if I have any more plans besides the spare room, there is a rather ordinary sign to take near Guildford at the weekend to keep me occupied and so far little more. Getting a thumbs up for the magazine would be a great help as this one is known and easy to find unlike UFO Matrix. Never let anyone (usually family) tell you you can't realise an ambition. If you can write, paint or anything else creative then do it and learn to do it better. Offer stuff for use or sale and sooner or later if there's enough and the right place to put it someone will take it up. Every magazine needs people to come up with ideas every time it's published and people will always buy new books and paintings. Find which subject you're best at writing about or better at painting or whatever and show people the best material first. These are all areas you need no qualifications in as you are judged by what you produce alone. Having a profession helps in writing as it gives you a niche, but once outside that niche unless you're a recognised writer will be no more likely to get used than anyone else as I've discovered. So don't be put off, if you can do something then get it out there, someone has to be published or sold. |
Reply #306. Nov 03 10, 5:26 PM
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satguru
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I am always aware of energy phases where the same type of things happen all around, and after the roof on my late grandma's dormer window finally gave up last week I did notice a screw was getting loose again on my glasses when I was out, and forgot when I needed to do it and it popped out in the car and vanished. It may well have gone when I was out but the lens fell out when I sneezed. I suppose I'm lucky the £55 lens didn't fall out in the street and get lost or damaged, I just need to find someone to have the same screw now as I didn't realise I can't actually see a lot with my left eye otherwise- my right is half as bad so rely on that if no glasses. Just one of those annoying things as there are no opticians near here and will have to park miles from one and hope they're not busy when I arrive.
I wrote another article yesterday- if I have a reason I have various areas I can tap when required. I've heard nothing from the editor on the last one but have it ready one way or another. At least I've got a trip out on Sunday to check some more signs, and hopefully sort out the spare room completely before then. If I can think of what to do with the spare mattress the bed will be made as well. It will be nice to have a bit more of interest while I have the chance to do it but inspiration or news has to come for that. |
Reply #307. Nov 04 10, 12:18 PM
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satguru
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Paul McCartney (who I always have to mention I have seen in person) does have a way of summing things up, so not wanting to take credit for someone else's material, it's just another day. Yesterday evening I discovered just how little I can see with my left eye when the lens fell out of my glasses, and the optician didn't have a screw to fit and sent them off to be done for next week, and said I was lucky to go there as most would have tried to sell me new frames. As long as a single screw doesn't cost as much (and then fall out again as the thread is going after not very long) I'll be OK.
As it was raining I made the bed up in the spare room so can now have visitors or lodgers (if I dare to again) and edited and sent the article off. I've heard nothing about the first one but at least she now has more choice whatever the decisions. So not a wasted day and have little idea for tomorrow besides probably carrying on tidying if the rain is still present.
I do see the Republicans plan their intended climate enquiry, and about time too. If they unearth anything people like me with no status will no longer have to do their work for them, as till now every country in the world besides Saudi Arabia appear to be involved to one degree or another. Remember half get the benefits of carbon credits so they're hardly likely to question the actual basis for their sudden windfall. It's day one though of what usually lasts for years, but if the job is thorough and I'm still here to see the results that's all I want to.
Meanwhile the pretty new symptom added to the vast panorama of 'our fault' is ocean acidification. Except a) it's alkaline and b) a summary of hundreds of studies shows it is impossible and has no effect on marine life. Oops! |
Reply #308. Nov 05 10, 5:08 PM
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| lesley153
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If we're quoting singers, here's another bit of wisdom (I nicked off da_man11's profile - I hope he won't mind).
"Truth is like the sun, you can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away." Elvis Presley
"Ocean acidification?" What are they trying to do?
Reply #309. Nov 05 10, 6:26 PM
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channe
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"Acidification"? I thought Timothy Leary was dead.
Reply #310. Nov 05 10, 7:36 PM
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Jazmee27
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"He's got a screw loose!" (Sorry, couldn't resist-the story about your glasses reminded me of when I was in the short-term care facility and the screw kept popping out of the one side of my walker [the therapists tightened it, but by the next day it was loose again, which won't happen anymore as my grandma glued it in; she did the other side, too, though that side was still fine-probably just in case!])
Reply #311. Nov 05 10, 7:47 PM
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da_man11
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I don't mind Lesley, I'm honored my profile is worth reading.
Reply #312. Nov 05 10, 9:12 PM
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bionic4ever
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Resolving to check all of the screws in my walker before the next time I need to use it! (Don't have glasses, or I'd check those, too.)
Reply #313. Nov 05 10, 11:12 PM
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| lesley153
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da_man, I had a peep because I was curious to know about someone who would admit to being addicted to FT. Assuming it was an admission. It might have been a joke. Hard to tell. :P
Beth, that might be an answer to my question about Alice, answered before it was asked if I'd looked here first.
Reply #314. Nov 06 10, 5:34 AM
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satguru
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I'll have to check next time I'm there but according to the optician's certificates she's probably well over 80 and going strong. Her shop has been there as long as I remember and probably never been decorated either.
Just to summarise the current global warming picture, Fred Singer wrote a piece today about the changes in the American government and possible results, and basically the bottom line is that if it is found to have been fabricated (all lines of enquiry point that way, I have reams of studies saved) every single action in its name would have to be dismantled and we could all get back on with our lives, and hopefully a lot wiser until another generation is born to accept whatever authorities tell them before they realise they can't.
So the week was better than the previous one where I was also free. Two articles written, although unless published remain seeds to be planted on whichever ground they find themselves on (I'm not religious but prefer the bible quotes to Shakespeare) and had my two visitors, and had to rush out after lunch if I wanted any photos before it got dark at 4 as it will till March now. The offer on my grandma's house was withdrawn soon after the roof collapsed (no connection), and now we have to find someone willing to do it for the proper price which so far has not happened.
As for next week/year/beyond, not a clue. I'm off for some more old signs tomorrow at least, none are wonderful but hopefully better than nothing. There is the small personal and outside list of possibilities- the articles for me and the US climate enquiries generally. That may take a long time but that is not important if carried out properly. And even for the believers it must be just as vital to either clear their name or discover it wasn't true from the start, everything has to be open to outside scrutiny, and with the latest announcement (ready?) the UN will be raising $100 billion in new taxes for the climate this inspection is much like the Dutch boy putting his finger in the dyke. Can they get there in time before the new law is in place or will we all be (as the law creates and requires) a new world government? Many people assume larger scale government makes more sense and isn't a bad thing, but you have to remember the UN are not a government, and not elected. So we will have an unaccountable body above all our own governments telling everyone what to do, presumably backed up by pretty heavy sanctions. Is this really what anyone wants? |
Reply #315. Nov 06 10, 11:21 AM
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satguru
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Reply #316. Nov 06 10, 11:25 AM
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satguru
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It's very interesting trawling the various global warming fan clubs like twitter to see a combination of the predictable hand wringing over 'the first political party to deny climate chang' getting in in the US, while others carry on their business as usual trying to stop people driving cars and predicting local disasters around the world.
Emotion is always going to win over logic in the short term, fear the very most, but it can't ever last when built on a foundation of carbon credits, something which means the traders de facto become owners of the very atmosphere above and around us. The imaginative ways people find of seeing the climate making war against them shows a pure power of human invention, while weather carries on worldwide as it always has, now anything slightly or extremely damaging is MY FAULT. And your fault. The fact the IPCC itself warn against trying to pin individual events on man this stops no one once that virus has taken. It really can't last now can it?
Otherwise the road sign trip was postponed to see the two British drivers drop out of the grand prix leader chances in Brazil, after a series of accidents and disasters finished Lewis Hamilton's chances of a second championship let alone Jenson Button's two in a row which were clearly not going to happen when he started qualifying in double figure positions. I think I'd rather have gone out on reflection.
I also learn so much about people's minds in this war, and am forced by ethics to challenge as many I see to see if it's possible to find a way in and allow them to see what they worry about is only in a film and not actually happened, and if happening is still not likely to do any more than what we have but in slightly different places. That's all weather can do, no one thinks that is more as the IPCC (as in the new testament) in an obscure paragraph claims if temperatures rise by 4C by 2100 world economic activity will reduce by....
3%
Our world economy has lost more than that already (and due to far far more) from green initiatives (my online translator comes up with 'fraud' when run through it) to stop basically, er, nothing happening. And it's there in open view but not publicised, except by me and someone who told me yesterday. That's the media for you, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. |
Reply #317. Nov 07 10, 12:39 PM
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| lesley153
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"Emotion is always going to win over logic in the short term"
That's interesting. I always thought the only guaranteed winner was a promise of a penny off income tax.
Your online translator sounds very perceptive.
Reply #318. Nov 07 10, 5:20 PM
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satguru
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Fear is behind more evil acts than any other as it blinds us to everything else until enough information comes in to relieve it. The 'paedophile principle', as named and described by a Mr Howard of Kingsbury states that by appealing to the publics' greatest level of fear, ie their children, you can then hide or mix any amount of untruth within the scenario which is blindly accepted as long as there is the belief their children are at risk. For paedophile you can replace climate or CO2 and the formula is set. But like all false premises despite the best efforts to keep the facts away from the public, with the internet which then leaks into the rare independent report elsewhere then like acid rain, bird flu, swine flu, the paperless office, everyone working part time by 2000 etc etc, each attempts to write the future but as this is impossible when that date comes the reality takes over. Setting the 'due date' around 2100 allowed the IPCC to step out of that particular trap but this particular one I just received summarising my own findings a week earlier and more is something you'd have to be related to the scientists to dismiss.
 http://climatechangedispatch.com/behind-the-science/8093-is-the-western-climate-establishment-corrupt-asks-sppi
I'll put it in the world forum as well as it seems to cover more or less every aspect I mentioned already. You can't beat the laws of mathematics however hard you try to twist them to appear 1+1= 5 (+/- a %400 error margin). |
Reply #319. Nov 08 10, 4:37 PM
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satguru
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Phew, finally got to Surrey today. There were three locations within a couple of miles, one was a pair of small signs like national ones but quite possible council issued but old, another was a very old council sign but covered by a laminate stapled over it, and as council signs aren't in my collection left it as it was, and a third a hideous copy of an old sign I thank goodness already have in genuine form.
Other than that I've called the radio again, won another expert category, technically far harder than winning a crystal ball but apparently less satisfying as there's no instant result or league table (well there is if you look elsewhere but I'm not on it either) and got an extra session in the gym for a change. The ex is now coming tomorrow as I was out today (I hoped it would be off for the week but some people are not so easily put off) and have no more than little jobs to do so far like getting a couple of repairs to my camera and arranging a car service etc. I presume the other magazine will reply to my articles after asking me for them, I know most people don't say 'I'm too busy to read them for a week' for example, but just wait till they've done it and made a decision, or not, as in the case of the first one who made me wait about 9 months to find they were in fact using it. Better than the other way round but bloody rude, just like not sending us free copies but business is business.
As usual if I've missed anything (including my latest peanut butter purchase and the council missing my recycle bin two weeks running) it's clearly not worth remembering, but I always try and balance quality with quantity. |
Reply #320. Nov 09 10, 6:46 PM
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