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Nightmare with a fun interlude

2012-01-18T05:24:00.003-05:00

The dream I had while sleeping fitfully prior to the Tuesday game of Jan 17:

It was night. Me and Billy Devoe, who died earlier this month, were both alive. We were guarding or living in a large house, that was surrounded by plenty of lawn-type of open field type space. The house was the type that has a large ground space in terms of square feet, but does not reach high up into the sky. It was night-time, and summerish type weather.

The house we were in, was being attacked by evil spirits. Billy told me to go out into the yard and wave a chainsaw around to scare off the evil spirits, but that did not seem like a good idea to me. Seemed to me that the wise course of action with regards to the evil spirits that were assailing the house, was to keep on the move inside the house, constantly moving from place to place, and while staying in a space, staying in a space where I would be hard to see.

At one point there was an upbeat interlude that distracted from the fear and the gloom. I was in a very big van with Billy, he was outside the van, just a foot from the door. There was a nude young adult white female with him. She had long straight brown hair and was pretty. She was average height or shorter. Her body build was slim. She had long narrow slim breasts that hung down to her groin but not further. I was in a back seat of the big van.

She climbed into the backseat and sat down upon me immediately we were having DELETED. My DELETED inside of her, grew to gigantic dimensions while it was still inside her, so that it filled her up all the way up to the base of her breasts. I was surprised that she was in no way injured by my DELETED filling up her torso. I enjoyed her she was like a breath of fresh air.

Billy and I found two evil spirits around the house. One was in a dark green SUV vehicle filled with what looked like various cuts of meat, unpackaged. Amongst this pile of cuts of meat was a decapitated pig's head, that had been skinned. There was an evil spirit inside this pigs head.

Also we found the decapitated head of DELETED inside a big chest. DELETED's eyes were very strange: they were just whites of the eye, there was no eyeball in either eye. He was dead or unconscious. But there was an evil spirit in his head.

But neither Billy or me was an evil spirit.

The dream was strange, combining the stress and anxiety of being under assault by evil spirits, with the triumphant sex act with the spritely young woman. I was stressed by the evil spirits but not as afraid as I would have expected to be.

The dream described above was about a man who died, who was a friend of mine when he lived in my town. The dream is a way of me showing respect, as we are expected to with the deceased. I felt that censoring the dream too much would just get in the way, dilute the quality of the story.

Boston area ethnic percentages

2012-01-16T01:48:00.006-05:00

Brian Francione, at the Waltham Y, told me that the majority ethnic group in the Boston area is those who are of mixed Irish-Italian ancestry.

Then they hired Jack Fucci for their executive director job at the Waltham Y that I applied for.

Then Francione came into the locker room to announce that Jack Fucci is the new Executive Director and to suggest that I get a graduate degree.

I spent about 8 hours Sunday researching the ancestry and ethnic composition of the Boston population. I did not mean to spend so much time on it but i got absorbed in it.

The data I laboriously and skillfully obtained & put together, listed a person's ancestry as being of 'the first ancestry mentioned' (by the person), or did not bother explaining on what basis ancestry was assigned to a person by the data collectors. I consider the data I put together, to be approximations.

Actually, of the Boston area population Irish are 24%, and Italians are 15%, which comes to a total of 39% of the Boston area population.

Regarding ancestries found in myself:

The English (8.3% of Boston area pop.), the Scotch-Irish (2.6% of Boston area pop.), and the Scots (1.9% of Boston area pop.) put together, are essentially the three groups that compose the UK or Britain population, and added up amount to 12.8% of the Boston area population.

The Germans compose 4.1% of the Boston area population.

Asian Indians compose only 0.9% of the Boston area population, but their median household income in 1999 ($72K per year in 1999), exceeded that of the Irish ($63k per year), the Italians ($57K per year), & the English ($63k per year), the Brazilians ($38K per year), & the Haitians ($39K per year). The Asian-Indian median household income exceeded that of any other group the source I used reported on. I've been told, that the Asian-Indian group in the US, has a higher income per capita than any other ethnic group in the US.

Boston area population representation for types hired by the Waltham Y

The Boston area was found to contain about as many Asian-Indians (0.9%), as it does Haitians (1.1%), Brazilians (0.7%), or Greeks (1.3%). One source declares that 4.2% of the Massachusetts population, is Jewish. The data shows approx 6% of the Boston area population is African-American (including subgroups such as Haitians), & 3.2% is French.

Sexual Harassment--What is it Really?

2011-12-21T05:51:00.003-05:00

(note: these are my beliefs, which may not always coincide with actual reality)

Respectable, innocent members of our society are being intimidated into social paralysis and isolation due to the intimidation they experience because campus administrators, campus police, and public police persecute them on the grounds of alleged 'sexual harassment', without understanding what sexual harassment is in the first place.

Whatever system it is that trains these administrators and police has apparently failed; seems whatever system it is, has simply instilled them with: a guilty until proven innocent mentality; a general prejudice against men; a general prejudice against heterosociality; an unreasonably high level of respect for complainants; an unreasonably high level of contempt for those complained about; and a harsh irritable capricious attitude.

Certain rule-books are reasonably interpreted as proclaiming that sexual harassment consists on one party visiting 'unwanted attention' upon the 'victim' party.

This idea that unwanted attention in and of itself constitutes 'harassment', is incorrect, and results in social paralysis, with everyone afraid to find out whether some other party is interested in being social. Realistically, the only way for one individual to find out if another individual wants to be social, is for the socially inclined extraverted individual to socially proposition the other individual.

Similarly, a few years ago, an organization came up with an eccentric definition of spam: it defined 'spam' as 'unwanted email'. This definition of spam had the effect of unreasonably inhibiting communication. People do not know if their email is 'unwanted', until they find out it is unwanted. If it becomes necessary to telephone, or speak in person with the potential email recipient first to find out if they can be emailed, the result is that the potential email recipient is burdened with a hassle that is even greater than the hassle of getting an unwanted email.

At least one campus cop has proclaimed: if you email a woman, and she fails to respond to the email, and then you contact the same woman you emailed again a second time, you become guilty of harassment.

This campus cop's idea that contacting an unresponsive individual a second time, when put into effect results in a social paralysis that psychologically and emotionally damages society. Often even when a woman wants to marry the man who contacts her, she will not respond to the first email, or message on the answering machine, or letter. Therefore the declaration that a man must abstain from communicating with a woman who fails to respond to the first communication, can result in the abortion of marriages, and at minimum, unnecessary emotional distress in the male whose first communication is not responded to by the woman who wants to marry him.

By way of contrast, a relatively reasonable sexual harassment rule that I found in a university rulebook, declared that if a woman notifies a man that she is not interested in socializing with him, and yet he persists in attempting to seduce the woman into such socialization, then the man becomes guilty of harassment of a type.

When persons in authority adhere to invalid definitions regarding what 'sexual harassment' is, they conflict with the book which amongst books is the most important foundation of our legal system, the Bible.

The Bible states: 'Open rebuke is better than secret love' (Proverbs 27:5). Translation: it is better to reveal your love to someone you love, and get rejected, than it is to keep your feelings of love secret.

The Bible states: 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened' (Mt 7:7-8).

Persons adhering to a fallacious definition of harassment, clash with scientific understanding of differences between male and female behavior with regards to courtship. Modern science understands, that females are naturally 'coy' in their relations with males (see, Google search: men women courtship coyness; Google search: females males courtship coyness).

It's too bad, that given an atmosphere that intimidates men, featuring scary persons in authority who do not understand what 'harassment' is, running around persecuting men for alleged 'harassment', women fail to adapt to the new conditions by becoming more extraverted and initiating communication with men who they are attracted to. The end result of such female failure to adapt, can be: aborted marriages, aborted relationships, aborted children, physically/emotionally/financially damaged men.

©2011 David Virgil Hobbs

detention sections of defense appropriations bill seem unreasonably extreme

2011-12-02T17:23:00.003-05:00

There has been an outcry in the internet media, regarding sections 1031 & 1032 of S1687 the Defense Appropriation Bill.

Upon reading the text of controversial sections, my initial reactions:

1-- Why am I the only person who understands what the sections are saying with regards to US citizens? The sections declare that when the United States Armed Forces detain suspected persons prior to deciding how they are to be 'disposed of', the United States armed forces are obligated to hold persons who are not citizens or lawful resident aliens in the military custody of the armed forces of the U.S; however the U.S armed forces are not obligated to detain U.S citizens, prior to deciding how they are to be 'disposed' of, in military custody of armed forces of the U.S.

2-- Why is the language of the sections so extreme? Apparently, if you are merely suspected of non-violently helping an organization that is suspected of being associated with Al-Qaida, this is enough to make you an appropriate target for detention.

3-- Why is the type of detention prescribed so severe? Apparently, the section gives the President the right to use the U.S armed forces to send you off without trial, to be held by any foreign entity whatsoever, for any length of time.

When I consider the possible alternatives to the legislation endorsed by the U.S senate, I feel as if the wording of the the controversial 1031 & 1032 sections is much too harsh and extreme.

Here, for example, is a possible rewrite of the sections:

Subtitle D—Detainee Matters (Revised DVH version)

SEC. 1031. AFFIRMATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES TO DETAIN QUESTION & SEARCH PERSONS GUILTY OF INFECTING THE UNITED STATES WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

(a) IN GENERAL.—Congress affirms the authority of the President to order the United States Armed Forces to detain, question & search residents of the United States suspected of infecting the United States with Weapons of Mass Destruction.

(b) LENGTH & TERMS OF DETENTION --

(1) Those detained shall not be detained for more than three weeks.

(2) The US Armed Forces shall have the right to search the possessions of those detained while they are detained.

(3) Evidence uncovered by way of said detention & search, shall not be used to prosecute detained person for crimes other than crimes involving infecting the United States with weapons of mass destruction.

(c) LIMITS TO REPEAT DETENTIONS

(1) No person shall be detained pursuant to this section, more than once every five years

(d) LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE DETAINED

(1) Those detained shall enjoy as far as possible, a standard of living equal to that enjoyed by the average college student.

Are Beach Boys & I really cousins?

2011-11-22T02:50:00.002-05:00

Re the dream about the Beach Boys, in which it was either common knowledge that I and them were cousins, or one of them said we were cousins, I can now verify that the Beach Boys and myself are both according to the charts, descended from Charlemagne.

When I had the dream, I did not know this, all I knew was that: I was according to charts descended from Euro-royalty and so were they; their ancestors and my ancestors followed the same intra-American migration pattern and resembled each other closely in certain ways.

The Beach Boys were descended from John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem. John of Brienne was the great-grandson of Erard I, Count of Brienne, who was a descendant of Charlemagne.

Similarly, I am according to the charts, through my mother's father, a direct descendant of William the Conqueror through the Conqueror's daughter Saint Adela, & William the Conqueror was descended from Charlemagne.

Beyond that, the Beach Boys and myself are both descended from contemporaneous Kansas plumbers. The Kansas plumber who was a Beach Boys ancestor and the one who was my ancestor, both had ancestors who followed the same migration pattern, from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Kansas. This combines with the fact that the Beach Boys and myself have ancestors with the same name-- for example, The Beach Boys and myself both have ancestors surnamed Adams.

It would take even a highly skilled genealogist much time to ferret out all the possible connections between Beach Boys ancestry and my ancestry.

As of now, I lack information re the ancestry of my mother's mother, who, I've been told, was of aristocratic ancestry, more aristocratic than my mother's father.

Above and beyond the Charlemagne connection, suffice it to say, that given that the Beach Boys and myself are both descended from Kansas plumbers whose ancestors followed the same migration pattern, there exists a cultural similarity that in and of itself could produce as much of a sense of kinship as biological connection.

Dream about the Beach Boys

2011-11-20T02:35:00.002-05:00

I was outside the door of a room, in a dimly lit house or building. I opened the door to the room and walked in. The dimly lit room was squarish shaped, not bigger than a square of 8 yards length on each side. One of the four corners of the room was uninhabitable because of some vent or pipe that ran through the corner of the room. The walls of the room like the pipe thing were painted an off-white color, a very light brown or a very slightly dark white.

Inside the room, two of the 'Beach Boys' (famous & excellent singing group first formed in the 1960s), were lying on their backs on beds. I did not know which two they were. One was on a bed next to the wall to my left, with his feet facing towards me. I did'nt get a good look at the other, but he was lying on a bed next to the far wall, with his head closer to the other Beach Boy than his feet. The two Beach Boys and I were the only people in the room.

Both of the Beach Boys were tall, about six and a half feet tall. The one whose bed was near the wall on my left, the one I got a better look at, looked a little like Dan Ehnbom, but the hair on his head and trimmed beard was lighter than Ehnbom's. In the darkness it was hard to tell if his hair-color was gray or white or yellow or what kind of mix of the three. In the dim light he looked older than Ehnbom and not as healthy. He was wearing a rain-hat that was a light gray or light brown color, which made his face harder to see due to the shadow it cast.

When I walked into the room, one of them, not sure which, said to me, 'you're beautiful'. I did'nt say anything in response.

One of them, not sure which, told me that I was a cousin of theirs; he said, 'you're a cousin'. Again I said nothing in response. Either that or it was common knowledge amongst us three that I was a cousin of theirs.

One of the Beach Boys had a transparent bag of the type used to store food in refrigerators, that had about an ounce of marijuana in it. This marijuana was an unusual uncommon type of marijuana. All of it was in the form of buds shaped like an oversized almond, a dark green color, and moist and sticky not dry.

They rolled up a 'joint' of this healthy and special high-class marijuana and smoked it with me. Then they left the dimly lit room, and began walking somewhere, down a dimly lit indoor hallway. I did'nt know where they were going, but I quietly walked along with them.

As he walked down the hallway, the Beach Boy who looked a little like Ehnbom, was wearing a light-brown overcoat of the type worn in cool to cold weather; in his right hand he carried a brown paper bag of the type grocery stores use, that had handles at the top. Both of the Beach Boys seemed tired, as if they were getting on in years.

What I've learned from the Brown vs Warren senate race

2011-10-07T01:57:00.003-04:00

Lessons I've learned from 'Scott Brown takes a poke at Elizabeth Warren’s appearance on Boston radio show - Metro Desk' and similar articles:

If you posed nude for a magazine 30 years ago when you were in your early twenties, this should be a mark against you when you run for US senate.

Women who are not accomplished, can be laughingly dismissed on the basis of their looks.

Women who are not held in the highest esteem, can be laughingly dismissed on the basis of their looks.

If you did'nt go to Harvard, this should be a mark in your favor when you run for US senator.

If you went to the 'School of Hard Knocks', this should be a point in your favor when you run for senate.

If you were disadvantaged as a youth, this should be a mark in your favor when you run for US senate.

If you did'nt fight & scrape for everything you've got, this should be a point against you when you run for US senate.

The fact that a transcript of the debate cannot be found on the internet, is not important.

2011 FIFA Women's Soccer Media Analysis & Reporting Deficiencies

2011-07-18T13:37:00.004-04:00

The quality of the reporting and analysis of the Women's World Cup, I found (I did not watch or read that much about it) to be astonishingly simple-minded.

The commentators I encountered, all ignored crucial points such as: how many paces of the feet and yards separated the initial contact with the ball from the shot point?; what was the angle of the dribble-movement relative to the angle of the pass that first gave the goal-scorer possession of the ball? when shot on the first touch, what was the angle of the shot relative to the angle of the incoming pass?; when shot off a dribble, what was the angle of the shot relative to the dribble direction?; what was the distance between shot-point and goal-line?.

Americans habitually ignore such key points, and simply assume, that soccer excellence is a matter of being gifted with some kind of talent or spirit.

I am experiencing limits on my time and energy, a lack of video equipment, and a lack of staff--hence my ability to report on the US Japan Women's World Cup Final is limited; yet I can still improve on the professional reporting and analysis produced by the well-funded well-equipped companies:

Note: 12:00 means straight in front, the direction my body is pointed at; 3:00 means directly to my right (90 degree angle to right); 6:00 means directly behind; 9:00 means directly to my left (90 degree angle to left); and then there are points between.

48' US near-miss
As the US player Alex Morgan ran at the ball crossed in to her from her right, she was about 4 yards in front of the Japan left goal-post, with the ball coming in to her from about 1:30 O'Clock; she attempted to one-touch the ankle-high ball off a low bounce into the goal @ 9:00 O'Clock with the inside of her left-foot, and hit the goal post. Ball-incoming to ball-outgoing angle was approx 135 degrees.

69' US Goal
After the US player Alex Morgan ran behind the (originally bouncing) but now rolling long pass the defender had sent straight up to her, she was about 16 yards in front of the Japan goal; she placed her body between the defender and the ball, and shot the rolling ball with the inside of her left foot, at a 45 degree angle to the right into the left side of the Japan goal.

81' Japan Goal
Japan player Miyama, used her right thigh to intercept US defender clearance ball before it bounced, which was coming in to her from 9:30 O'Clock; Miyama was 8 yds in front of middle of US goal; on the first touch she deflected the ball forwards with her right thigh, took a step with her left foot, and a step with her right foot, two steps as the ball bounced, and kicked the ball at about a 75 degree angle to her left with her left foot, across the goal line 5 yards away from the point of the shot.

104' US Goal
Alex Morgan (US), dribbled to the right goal-line slash penalty-box-line corner intersection, and with her left foot, sent a 22 yard volley pass to Wambach (US) who was standing near the middle of the front goalie-box line. 6 yards from the middle of the Japan goal-line. Wambach, headed the ball (which never bounced) at a 90 degree angle to her right, across the goal-line; the point of shot to goal-line distance was approx 6 yds.

117' Japan Goal
Some say that the Sawa goal, which forced the US into overtime, was accomplished by way of Sawa kicking the ball into the goal with her heel ("an amazing flying heel shot"). Inspection of the videos shows that this was not actually the case. Sawa had her right leg stretched almost straight and her right foot thigh high when she contacted the ball she was jogging at; Sawa deflected the ball (which never bounced) to her right at a 120 degree angle, with her right foot, not her right heel. One can see from the follow-through that the ball was not heeled into the goal. The ball richoted hard--a 120 degree deflection allows the ball to retain plenty of velocity. The ball crossed the left side of the goal-line 12 yards from where Sawa contacted the ball. The US player who touched the ball after Sawa did not effect the outcome-- the shot would have been a goal anyway, with the ball passing the goal point at a point near where it did after the deflection, even if there had been no deflection.

Note that in the five examples of above, the ball's direction after it departed the shooter's body, relative to the ball's direction before it was shot away, was (135 + 45 + 75 + 90 + 120) /5 = 93 degrees.

See: http://www.sportsknowhow.com/soccer/dimensions/soccer-dimensions.html

Huge Church Building Contains a Peace that Transcends all Human Misfortunes -- a Dream

2011-07-04T07:19:00.003-04:00

Early in the morning of July 3 2011, I sent an email to Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart; the email was cc'd to some important people who will play an important role in the Boston 4th of July 2011 celebrations. Then in the afternoon I took a nap. While I was napping, the radio in the radio-alarm-clock started playing. It was tuned to 96.9 FM in the Boston area (accidentally, I find it difficult to choose what station it is on); some kind of talk show was on, the reception was staticky. The volume was loud enough to be heard, but not loud enough to wake me up. I suspect that the noise of the radio had some impact on the dream I had, which ended at 3:19 PM on July 3rd.

In the dream:

I was walking down a road outside of Allahabad, India. Sasanka was walking with me. He was wearing the Indian loose white pajamas type clothing. We got to what seemed to be some kind of guest house and rested.

Looking outside the window, I could see what looked like boulders about 50 to 100 feet high, that had an approximately rectangular but jagged shape, sticking out of the flat plains off in the distance. I could also see, what looked like a gigantic church building that in terms of architectural style, combined Gothic and Byzantine characteristics; somehow I could tell that the dome roof of the building was approx at least a half a mile wide in diameter. Best I can recall, the huge dome of the building was a light green color.

The huge building which looked like a Gothic/Byzantine Church, was shaped like a cylinder topped by a dome. The cylinder shaped walls were made out of some dark, almost black colored stone. The cylinder shaped walls had tall, high narrow rectangular shaped structures sticking out ot the wall; these rectangular shaped structures ended at the top in a shape like a narrow pointed arch; it was these things sticking out of the wall that gave the building an architecturally gothic look.

The top of the awesome, enormous church-like building was shaped like a dome, like one half of a sphere or ball. at the base of the dome, where the dome met the wall, there were what looked like dark gigantic precious stones; I was not sure if these stone like things were shaded windows.

The fantastic building was far off in the distance but it seemed, somehow I could tell, that the diameter of the dome at the top was at least half a mile.

Whenever I gazed at this huge building, I felt in myself the presence of a peace of mind that transcended all human misfortune. It was a peace of mind that would be accessible, no matter what misfortune afflicted me or the world. Hence repeatedly my gaze was drawn to the huge building and my mind repeatedly became absorbed in the special peace of mind that came to me when I looked at it. As I stared at the building, sometimes its walls would change in color from dark, almost black, to a light-brown sand color.

After a while I realized that this huge building, was an architectural representation in stone of my face and my head. The presence of a human face was not obvious, there were no mouth or ears drawn into the walls, but I could somehow tell what the building represented and resembled nevertheless. It represented what my face and head look like in the most recent photo of myself that I placed in the January 13, 2011 entry of my sports log. I could see the same curvature of my face and head seen in the January 13 photo, in the dome like roof of the awesome building. I could see that the huge precious stones that may have been windows, represented my eyes. But I felt no pride, or arrogance, or conceit.

When I was not absorbed in looking at the gigantic magnificent Byzantine-Gothic looking Church, I was interacting with and observing the people around me. I was in an Indian public housing building, that was subsidized by the Indian government. It was not dirty or poor looking; but the rooms were somewhat small. There were colorful carpets on the floor, colorful curtains, colorful wall-hangings. There were many rooms shared in common by the occupants of the building, who were mostly Asian-Indian. Seemed about 25-75 people lived in the building. They were non-violent and law-abiding, but they were always in a bad mood, squabbling with each other; seemed alot of them were from Southern India; I was thinking, that the people in North India are nicer; in the dream it seemed as if Allahabad was a south Indian city.

Attempting to reduce the level of squabbling, I told one of them, that the Muslims, Jews, and Christians are all 'people of the book'.

At one point I encountered a woman who looked somewhat like Vandita, but taller, in a hall. I told her that I was in soccer becoming like a Pele; she scoffed at me.

There were some details in the dream that I don't remember. I woke up and could hear the radio playing and felt as if it had influenced the content of the dream. The people talking in the radio show seemed ill-tempered and quarrelsome like the Indians in the public housing.

@2011 David Virgil Hobbs

Satan Exhorts His Followers to Destroy the Masses by Destroying the Environment

2010-12-29T10:33:00.002-05:00

Satan: Let us poison the earth and the seas and the air, so that 90 percent of the world population will be exterminated. We after all, the richest one tenth of one percent, will survive the cataclysm. We will expand our riches and our power through our foreknowledge of the poisonous cataclysm. The end situation will be enhanced security wealth and power for us, despite the destruction of the environment!

Acolytes: Hail Satan! Thy Will Be Done!

Satan: Since we, the class going to war against the world, will know about the catastrophes we inflict before they happen, whereas the masses of sheep will not have such foreknowledge, we will use our foreknowledge to reap gigantic profits off investments based on our foreknowledge. Similarly, we will inflict crushing financial losses on the masses, through our foreknowledge combined with our financial savvy!

Acolytes: Hail Satan! So be it!

Satan: as the catastrophes enrich us, and impoverish the masses, the masses will be forced into a position from which they will not be able to recover by overthrowing us!

Acolytes: Hail Satan! Thy Kingdom Come!

Satan: the weaker the masses grow in terms of their ability to survive, the stronger shall be our own security power and wealth.

Acolytes: Hail Satan! Hallowed be thy name!

Satan: Our powers are so great, that the catastrophes we inflict on the world will not harm us. When the price of a glass of water rises to cost what an average man earns in one day, we will be swimming in champagne. When the poisonous air kills the masses, we will be breathing air that has been purified by the most sophisticated processes!

Acolytes: Hail Satan! Thine is the power forever!

Satan: When the masses have been exterminated, sickened, wounded, and enslaved, and we have become incomparably rich and powerful and secure, then we shall be able to take pleasure and pride in knowing that we have done an excellent job of providing safety and power and riches and pleasures to our families, our children, and our grandchildren!

Acolytes: Hail Satan! Thine is the glory forever!

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

How could the Ghunklump people be so stupid?

2010-12-22T04:36:00.002-05:00

There existed, a few millenia ago, a people called the Lunksnarkwads, who existed on the planet Headdoof. Their religion was about how God had sent them to genocidally wipe out the Brunflong peoples and seize their land.

Out of the Lunksnarkwads, there arose a prophet named Bunkercuddlelips. He advocated that the Lunksnarkwads give up their attitude, based in their religion, that they are racially superior to all the other people on the planet Headdoof, and therefore have a right to murder rob, and deceive the people on the planet Headdoof. But the Lunksnarkwads, killed the prophet Bunkercuddlelips, and rejected his religion.

Out of the Lunksnarkwad religion, there arose a cult called the Headmunch Cult. The Headmunch cult advocated: racism, atheism, homosexualism, anti-christianism, elitism, criminalism, and satanism. It was sort of natural that the Headmunch cult should rise out of the Lunksnarkwads, who followed a genocidal religion and rejected Bunkercuddlelips.

Whereas on our planet earth, we have seen many Christian Conquerors, the Headmunch Cult was by nature not only imperialist, but also criminalist satanist etc. The Christian Conquerors conquered by way of wars between their nations and the other nations, thus they could live with Christian doctrine that advocated an ethical lifestyle with regards to persons of one's own nation. However the Lunksnarkwad people, attained to power and prosperity by way of being a powerful minority inside of other nations. Thus the Headmunch Cult that grew out of the Lunksnarkwad people, by nature, rejected ethical conduct with regards to other members of one's nation, because the Lunksnarkwad/Headmunch people, became powerful by way of crimes committed against persons of the nation they resided in who were not ethnically speaking Lunksnarkwads.

The lucrative criminalism of the Lunksnarkwads, directed against fellow-citizens, was incompatible with Christian ethics. But it was compatible with criminalism, atheism, anti-Christianism and Satanism; it was compatible with homosexualism due to the clash between Christianity and homosexuality.

The Lunksnarkwads played a very simple trick on the Ghunklump nation amongst whom the Lunksnarkwads lived as a minority. They secretly sponsored and controlled the Lumpknocks, who violently aggressed against the Lunksnarkwads and the Ghunklump nation. The Lunksnarkwads were able to behave very bravely when they opposed the Lumpknocks, because they secretly sponsored and controlled the Lumpknocks. The Lunksnarkwads impressed the Ghunklump nation by their bravery in the conflict with the Lumpknocks.

Since the Lunksnarkwads secretly controlled the Lumpknocks, the Lunksnarkwads, appeared to be extremely competent, more competent than the Ghunklump nation or anybody else, in the conflict with the the Lumpknocks.

The Lunksnarkwads said to the Ghunklump nation amongst whom they lived: "Now you must give us total power over you and become our slaves. Now you must allow us to commit any crimes we feel like committing, because that is the only way that we and you can be saved from the Lumpknocks".

The Ghunklump nation responded to the Lunksnarkwads: "So be it. You Lunksnarkwads have shown yourselves to be the bravest and the most competent soldiers in the conflict with the Lumpknocks. We agree that we have to allow you Lunksnarkwads to do whatever you feel like, and commit any crimes you want, so that we can be sure to defeat the Lumpknocks".

The Ghunklump nation had followed the teachings of Bunkercuddlelips. His teachings promoted the poor, criticized the rich, and pointed away from racism. The rich elites of the Ghunklump nation, felt that a remedy for this influence of Bunkercuddlelips, was to support the Lunksnarkwads, who rejected and hated Bunkercuddlelips and his teachings. Everyone in the Ghunklump nation was obsessed with selling whatever they wanted to sell, and they felt that the teachings of Bunkercuddlelips interfered with sales by discouraging potential customers from buying the things they were selling.

And so the Lunksnarkwads became the tyrants in the Ghunklump nation, and subjugated the Ghunklump nation. The Lunksnarkwads proceeded to exterminate anybody in the Ghunklump nation who rejected the Racism, Elitism, Anti-Christianism, Criminalism, Homosexualism, and Satanism of the Lunksnarkwads. Then the Lunksnarkwads proceeded to conquer the entire planet Headdoof, and treated the rest of the planet Headdoof the same way the treated Ghunklump.

To this day, the planet Headdoof, is controlled by the Lunksnarkwads, and any opposition to the Lunksnarkwads is summarily crushed.

And to this day, galactic observers are wondering, "How could the Ghunklumps be so stupid?".

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

What a True Jew Should Be

2010-10-11T23:31:00.001-04:00

God sent the ancient Hebrews, to conquer territory in Palestine, so that they could have a base from which to carry on with more peaceful activities, such as the education of the Gentiles, in the future. God's intent from the beginning was to use the Hebrews as teachers to promote virtue in the world so that less people would go to hell and so that the lives of the people of the world psychologically, emotionally, and mentally speaking would improve.

The man who is a true Jew, is interested in spreading Judaic thought word and action in the world, through the teaching of wisdom to the Gentiles; he realizes that a state of enmity with the Gentiles is not conducive to the successful impartation of wisdom to the Gentiles.

The true Jew appreciates the teachings that have been given him, and realizes that despite whatever respectable ancestors he may have, what gives him true pleasure in life, and pleasure as opposed to pain in the afterlife, is not the fact that say 7% of his ancestry is from some especially respectable family, but rather his conforming himself to the wise teachings in Judaism.

Hence the true Jew realizes that Gentiles who are taught and receive the Judaic wisdom, can become as valuable and respectable and internally happy in an honorable way, as he himself is. The true Jew sees that his ancestry is just as much from those the ancient Hebrews killed during the invasion of Canaan, as it is from the ancient Hebrews who invaded Canaan; thus he sees how rejecting the new modern reformed Judaism of the prophet known as Christ, is a form of rejection of the self, because Christ's Judaism is inclusive even with the persons whom the ancient Hebrews fought against and invaded.

Thus the true Jew' ambition is to promote the love of God, and the love of the relatively honorable persons in the world. His ambition is to in the world suppress the wrongful use of the name of God, the taking the name of the Lord in vain. His ambition is to promote the practice of on a regular basis resting from work, because too much work, too much of the cares of the world, interferes with knowing God. His ambition in the world is to suppress and reduce the incidence of unjustified homicides, thefts, and slanders. His ambition in the world is to reduce the incidence of sexual passion that is misplaced in terms of the object of passion. His ambition is to reduce the mental illness wherein persons are filled with a desire to take ownership of things away from others so that they may own those things themselves. His ambition is to promote the thoughts words and actions which result in mankind's love of God becoming stronger.

The true Jew understands how his ambition to promote Judaic virtues in the world, will succeed only through the promotion of the new modernized reformed branch of Judaism that is centered on the prophet known as Christ. The true Jew cannot ignore how the Old Testament is superior to the Talmud, he cannot ignore how absurd, silly and insane many passages of the Talmud are. The true Jew does not follow the Talmud when the Talmud promotes racist arrogant contempt for Gentiles, and malicious criminal acts perpetrated against Gentiles.

Throughout history, every nation has always looked upon some battles fought in the past which preserved the nation, as sacred battles. Nevertheless, throughout history most nations have never adopted an attitude of constant warlike contempt for all foreigners.

Yet somehow Jews, despite their intellectual talent and thoughtfulness, have developed perpetual enmity for all non-Jews, and worship as a superhero, the barking raging, suicide-and-killing promoting, Hebrew drill sergeant of the invasion of Canaan of three thousand years ago, replete with hairy chest, bulging biceps, and a healthy hatred for the Gentiles, whom he loves to stab and shoot arrows into.

By way of contrast, nations that in some ways are less talented than the Jews, have understood what a child can understand, which is that although sometimes the people of a nation do God's will be invading another nation, this does not mean that the nation should be in a state of perpetual enmity with foreigners. They understand this the same way children understand that although sometimes the proper thing to do is to fight back against the bully in the schoolyard, this does not mean one should constantly be an enemy to every child in town.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

Practice: hours per day, how hours should be spent --insights for sport derived from music

2010-10-10T07:56:00.005-04:00

When it comes to sports practice, there is a mental and also a physical element involved. Even if there exists the physical ability to practice for say, eight hours a day, which is the typical amount of time workers spend on the job, there could still exist mental constraints that render practice-time beyond a certain number of hours per day unproductive, or not worth the time invested.

Therefore, I was excited to find a superior blog-post ( http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/how-many-hours-a-day-should-you-practice/ ) by Dr. Noa Kageyama, which explores the amount of time per day that musicians should practice. Sitting on a chair and practicing a musical instrument does not tire the body the way practicing soccer or basketball does, but it tires the mind. Thus answers to the question of how many hours per day should music be practiced, give insight into how mental limitations effect the question of how many hours per day a sport should be practiced.

I have been (before I read Dr. Kageyama's article) practicing sports in a manner that resembles the manner in which Dr. Kageyama recommends that musical instruments should be practiced. In my sports log I made statements similar to the ones made by Dr. Kageyama in his article, though at the time I had never read Dr. Kageyama's article.

The roots of my Kageyama-like approach lay in my application of common-sense and thoughtfulness to the goal of maximizing improvement per hour of time invested.

I created an edited abridged concise subtitled version of his article which allows me to focus on the key points in his arguments:

METHODOLOGY AND HOURS PER DAY IN PRACTICING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
by Dr. Noa Kageyama
(abridged version created by D Hobbs)

GREAT MUSICIANS ADVISE 2-4 HOURS A DAY OF PRACTICE

(Rubinstein) stated that nobody should have to practice more than four hours a day, explaining that if you needed to practice more than four hours a day, you probably weren’t doing it right.

“If you practice with your fingers, no amount is enough,” was (Leopold) Auer’s response. “If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.”

Heifetz also indicated that he never believed in practicing too much, and that excessive practice is “just as bad as practicing too little!” He claimed that he practiced no more than three hours per day on average, and that he didn’t practice at all on Sundays...Donald Weilerstein, once suggested that I establish a 24-hour period of time every week where I was not allowed to pick up my instrument.

the “ten-year rule” and “10,000-hour rule”... suggest that it requires...10,000 hours of deliberate practice to achieve an expert level of performance in any given domain – and in the case of musicians, often closer to 25 years in order to attain an elite international level.

MINDLESS TYPE OF PRACTICE

Mindless practice: engaging in mere repetition (“practice this passage 10 times” or “practice this piece for 30 minutes”) or practicing on autopilot (that’s when we play through the piece until we hear something we don’t like, stop, repeat the passage again until it sounds better, and resume playing through the piece until we hear the next thing we aren’t satisfied with, at which point we begin this whole process over again).

PROBLEMS WITH MINDLESS REPETITION AND AUTOPILOT (REPLAY BAD PASSAGES) TYPES OF PRACTICE:

little productive learning takes place...what this model of practicing does do is strengthen undesirable habits and errors... This makes it more difficult to correct these habits in the future... “Practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent.”

practicing this way actually hurts your confidence...you that realizes you don’t really know how to consistently produce the results... Even if you...find that you can nail it 3 or 4 out of every 5 attempts, your confidence won’t grow much from this. Real on-stage confidence comes from...most importantly...you know precisely why you nail it or miss it – i.e. you know exactly what you need to do from a technique standpoint in order to play the passage perfectly every time.

We tend to practice unconsciously, and then end up trying to perform consciously – not a great formula for success..you have a tendency to shift over into hyper-analytical left brain mode when you walk out on stage. Well, if you have done most of your practicing unconsciously...When your brain suddenly goes into full-conscious mode, you end up freaking out...

Practicing mindlessly is a chore. Music may be one of the only skill-based activities where practice goals are measured in units of time...What we really need are more specific outcome goals – such as...or practice this passage until you can figure out how to make it sound like _____.

DELIBERATE, CLOSELY OBSERVED & RECORDED, SCIENTIFIC, EXPERIMENTS ORIENTED, ANALYZED PRACTICE

...the practice room should be like a laboratory, where one can freely tinker with different ideas, both musical and technical, to see what combination of ingredients produces the result you are looking for.

Deliberate practice is often slow, and involves repetition of small and very specific sections of your repertoire instead of just playing through...

Deliberate practice involves monitoring one’s performance...continually looking for new ways to improve...so that you can tell yourself exactly what went wrong. For instance, was the first note note sharp? Flat? Too loud? Too soft? Too harsh? Too short? Too long?

Let’s say that the note was too sharp and too long with not enough of an attack to begin the note. Well, how sharp was it? A little? A lot? How much longer was the note than you wanted it to be? How much more of an attack did you want?

...So, why was the note sharp? What did you do? What do you need to do to make sure the note is perfectly in tune every time? How do you ensure that the length is just as you want it to be, and how do you get a consistently clean and clear attack to begin the note so it begins in the right character?

Now, let’s imagine you recorded all of this and could listen to how this last attempt sounded. Does that combination of ingredients give you the desired result?...

Few musicians take the time to stop, analyze what went wrong, why it happened, and how they can correct the error permanently.

DELIBERATE THOUGHTFUL SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE SHOULD BE DONE 2-4 HOURS PER DAY, IN SESSIONS LASTING NO LONGER THAN ONE HOUR...HOW SUCH PRACTICES SHOULD BE DONE

How Many Hours a Day Should I Practice?
You will find that deliberate practice is very draining...Practicing more than one hour at a time is likely to be unproductive...Even the most dedicated individuals will find it difficult to practice more than four hours a day.

...there is essentially no benefit from practicing more than 4 hours per day, and that gains actually begin to decline after the 2-hour mark.

Keep practice sessions limited to a duration that allows you to stay focused. This may be... 10...minutes...and as long as...60 minutes.

Keep track of times during the day when you tend to have the most energy...Try to do your practicing during these naturally productive periods

Keep track of your practice goals and what you discover during your practice sessions...have a clear idea of the sound you want to produce...that you’d like to be able to execute consistently.

When you figure something out, write it down. As I practiced more mindfully, I began learning so much during practice sessions that if I didn’t write everything down, I’d forget.

There are...times...when we don’t need to practice harder, but need an altogether different strategy or technique.

I remember struggling with the left-hand pizzicato variation in Paganini’s 24th Caprice...I realized that there had to be a smarter, more effective way to accomplish my goal.

I tried to brainstorm different solutions to the problem...When I felt that I came up with some promising solutions, I just started experimenting. I eventually came up with a solution...

1.Define the problem (identify and articulate the specific issue)
2.Analyze the problem (identify root causes of the issue)
3.Identify potential solutions
4.Test the potential solutions to select the most effective one
5.Develop an action plan to implement the best solution
6.Monitor implementation (is it working as planned?)

...Any model which encourages smarter, more systematic, active thought, and clearly articulated goals will help cut down on wasted, ineffective practice time.

King Stephen vs Matilda Succession Controversy (12th Century England)

2010-10-08T21:34:00.004-04:00

Notes as of 9:35 PM 10/8/2010

Stephen was allegedly a norman only on the "spindle side" (mother's side). so also henry II (http://books.google.com/books?id=2L4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130&dq=hardrada&hl=en&ei=-WuvTKeTHMKqlAfChvTrDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=stephen&f=false ).

Stephen, the son of Stephen, Count of Blois and Adela, daughter of William I was born in about 1097.

Henry II was born in Le Mans, France, on 5 March 1133.[1] His father, Geoffrey V of Anjou (Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Fulk of Jerusalem), was Count of Anjou and Count of Maine. His mother, Empress Matilda, was a claimant to the English throne as the daughter of Henry I (1100–1135), son of William The Conqueror, Duke of Normandy.

It was a Plantagenet who said, after one of their massacres, "from the devil we come and to the devil we go".

Henry II' Henry II, the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, was the first of the House of Plantagenet to rule England.
mother matilda, daughter of henry I, son of Conky.
+
on father's side, a Plantagenet. Henry was the first to use the title "King of England" (as opposed to "King of the English").

King Stephen
mother adela, daughter of conky
+
stephen, count of blois

there are lots of sycophantic descriptions of the great looks of henry II, a little derogatory stuff re the looks of king stephen...it all smacks of feminists blindly siding with matilda, idiotically...

stephen was well established when matilda rebelled, and popular, and, a ...male...

the biased history vs stephen is refuted in
http://books.google.com/books?id=d_Uw7fhx82cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22king+stephen%22++conqueror&source=bl&ots=Qi9mqaK3q6&sig=kLTmee_be0VNASxuVar0gQHp72A&hl=en&ei=u7mvTJCtHYX7lwewzPjkDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22king%20stephen%22%20%20conqueror&f=false

the constant prejudiced history is nauseating. "the time when christ and the angels slept" sounds poetic and dramatic, so the idiots write as if of course indeed this was a horrible time. They have no sense of exactitude regarding the crime and poverty that prevailed. For example, if the crime and poverty were twice what it usually was, that is different than it being ten times what it usually was, and, who can deny that during the middle ages, during every reign there was a certain level of crime and poverty?...the idiot historians find themselves incapable of blaming matilda for the crime and poverty that beset stephen's reign, though obviously, the cause of the crime and the poverty was matilda's rebellion....it all smacks of winners writing history, sycophants, and feminism...to this day the english are feminine, enthralled by female royalty...wonder how much damage matilda's rebellion v stephen has caused in terms of setting loose a tidal wave of feminism that can still be felt today...the effeminate streak in the english charaacter, the femfag thing, has caused god knows how much damage.

Undoubtedly during every reign in english history, at some time, some men said that christ and his angels slept or something to that effect. So the historians are idiots. writing to please the line that became established as royal.

the idiot historians for some reason are willing to consider a couple of catchy snappy sounding anti-stephen quotations from persons who obviously had a motive to slander stephen because they lived under the reign of the rebellious matilda's son henry (matilda rebelled v stephen), as sufficient to condemn stephen. Unbelievable.

stephen was a grandson of conky via saint adela. matilda was a grandson of conky via a less distinguished sibling.

feminists are so often idiotically simple minded and shallow in their thinking. For example, they forget that stephen's mother was St Adela daughter of conky, in their mania for matilda daughter of henry who was son of conky. The argument v stephen was that he was the son of a daughter of conky, whereas his rival matilda was a daughter of a son of conky, this is an antifeminist argument. Yet, the feminists blindly rush to the support of matilda, because matilda was female and stephen was not.

The normans of the time were accustomed to male rulers, such had served them well. stephen being related to conky through his mother, whereas matilda was related to conky through her father, should not by nature and common sense and tradition have been the deciding factor. When stephen's mom and matilda's dad were on center stage, there was no confusion re who was king. But when confusion developed, the natural heir would be the male stephen not the female matilda.

Anarchy developed when the natural male succession was interrupted by the rebellious and untraditional matilda, who rebelled against the well established and well liked leader Stephen. Anarchy did not develop when female claimants refrained from rebelling against male heirs. This is not coincidence. It indicates that the cause of the anarchy was the aberration of a female rebelling against a male heir.

The idiot historians pile up lists of complaints re the alleged incompetence of king stephen, completely neglecting that perhaps stephen was forced into allegedly incompetent decisions, due to the pressure of matilda's rebellion. Sometimes in sports the pressure of the other team is such, that one is forced to choose alternatives that one would not choose in the absence of such pressure; and even when the alternative is chosen wisely, the outcome is not as favorable as it would be if this pressure from the opponents had never existed. Same principles apply to war. Yet the idiot historians write as if they had never played sports, and had none of the common sense boys derive from sports. Might this be because they are fem fag feminists with a mania for matilda? For example it never occurs to the idiot historians, when they complain about st stephen being too forgiving with rebels, that perhaps the reason he was so forgiving was the pressure matilda was bringing to bear on him. Beyond belief. They compare stephen to other kings and remark that he was too soft compared to these other kings who were better than him--all the while completely neglecting to conceptualize, that these other kings did not face internal rebellion and civil war.

If someone said that a leader of a nation that was attacked by a powerful competitor, and who had to expend vast resources to fight back the aggressor, was a worse leader than another leader of the same nation who did not have to expend resources to fight any aggressor, simply because the leader who did not face aggression was able to generate more internal prosperity than the leader who had to fight aggression, you would be right to say that the someone who said this stupid thing is an idiot.

When Henry I died in 1125 precipitating the succession crisis, Stephen was 29 years old, and Matilda was 23. In those days the world of ruling nations was a man's world. Matilda was 6 years younger than Stephen. Yet Matilda rebelled.

Stephen's mother adela daughter of conky was literally a canonized saint; but way of contrast, Matilda's father Henry, son of conky, was a philanderer ("Henry had no problem siring children. His problem was fathering legitimate offspring, who could inherit the throne." -- http://www.webhistoryofengland.com/?p=1319 ) who produced no male heir, but rather lots of bastards! Henry was next in line after his brother Rufus, and seized the throne after Rufus was murdered!

Henry died in 1125
Matilda was born in 1102
stephen was born in 1196

they keep saying that stephen forgave men he should have executed as traitors. Yet their hero is matilda, chief
of the traitors!!!

Sen Blather: conspiracy theory should be illegal

2010-09-20T21:39:00.005-04:00

For immediate release
September 20, 2010

Contact: Senator Blather's Office
Phone: 666.367.7286

Statement of Senator Billy Jo Blather, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Promotion of the Work Ethic, Conspiracy Theory as a Threat to the Hard Working Minority

Link to hearing exhibits [PDF 666 MB]

Link to Permanent Subcommittee on Promotion of the Work Ethic hearing page with list of witnesses and links to witness testimony

Th' brilliant professo' Dr. Hunstein has co'reckly stated, thet th' current president of th' nashun, sh'd be given th' right t'arress them who accuse th' president's friends, of bein' members of criminal groups. Eff'n th' brilliant professo' Hunstein succeeds in his admirable crusade, by law, varmints will be obligated t'state thet th' president's friends is not members of criminal groups. Yet on account o' we believe deeply in th' consteetooshun of th' foun'in' fathers, it will still be OK t'say thet a friend of th' president is a criminal but not a member of a criminal group. On account o' sayin' a friend of th' prez is a crook but not a member of a criminal group, is not cornspiracy theo'y.

Fust off, yo' hafta unnerstan' th' legal definishun of cornspiracy: " an agreement between two o' mo'e varmints t'commit an ack prohibited by law o' t'commit a lawful ack by means prohibited by law".

We is trimenjus big-time players. When we bend th' rules, Ah mean when we does thin's thet varmints say is a bendin' of th' rules, we operate in trimenjus groups. Our groups thet does thin's thet look like bendin' th' rules, is composed of thousan's of members of th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity. Th' hard wawkin' mino'ity has t'band togither in groups, on account o' they is outnumbered by th' lazy as a houn'dog majority. Our trimenjus groups of thousan's of hard-warkin' folks, through whut th' liberals call bendin' th' rules, make millions an' billions of dollars. Our groups is loyal members of th' high-income high-wealth hard-warkin' minority group.

By way of corntrast, th' low-income criminals operate on their own, as indivijools. Their crimes junerate li'l money compared t'th' money junerated by our groups of allegedly rule-bendin' members of th' hard-warkin' mino'ity. They is an example of a lack of th' teamwawk rightly praised by th' admirable hard-wawkin' famous football coach Lou 'Trimenjus-stud' Holez. These indivijool crooks wawkin' by themselves is members of groups thet habitually align themselves wif th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity's attempps t'steal fum th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity.

Thus th' president havin' th' right t'eleckrocute them who claim thet th' president's friends is members of criminal groups, will in th' end prodooce a fine outcome fo' th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity.

Ah knows thet varmints like Hobbs say thin's like, an' ah quote: "but what happens if a new election brings in a president who is cruel and evil, and this president decides to arrest those who claim that his cruel and evil friends are members of criminal groups?"

Wal, th' fack is thet in a society whar th' majo'ity is lazy as a houn'dog, th' noble defenners of th' rights of th' hard-warkin' minority is of course derided as "cruel an' evil".

Fack is thet we is nowadays always winnin', an' thar is li'l chance thet a president who represents th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity will occupy th' white house. Eff'n a lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity president occupies th' White House, his friends will be lazy as a houn'dog-majo'ity type petty criminals who operate on their own as indivijools an' knows nothin' of teamwawk. Hence, eff'n th' hypothetical improbable situashun featurin' a president representin' th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity evah develops, we will be able t'mount effeckive attacks on th' president's friends wifout accusin' them of bein' members of criminal groups. Fo' example, we c'd accuse them of secretly gowin' out at night t'give cash t'lazy as a houn'dog varmints.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

return to basketball

2010-09-14T09:11:00.002-04:00

Starting August 28 I have been practicing basketball again. These basketball practices are described in my sports log at
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/soccaireighteen.htm. The log entries contain diagrams showing individual dribble and shoot basketball moves I have invented.

How Should the 'Princes of Israel' Behave?

2010-08-11T01:37:00.002-04:00

Apparently, an important topic should be, how should the Jewish ancestry men who have attained to the uppermost level in terms of wealth and power, behave with regards to their family, their ethnic group, their nation, their world? This because such men not only have been very powerful, their dominance seems to be increasing.

For now I shall refer to such men as the 'Princes of Israel'. Scripture also sometimes refers to 'the Princes of Israel', sometimes praising and other times despising them.

These 'Princes of Israel', are concerned with regards to their families. They are from the scriptural viewpoint correct in being concerned with regards to their families. Nevertheless, they could be making too big a deal out of their families, and slash or, they could be pushing policies that are not optimal with regards to their families and those who will survive them after they die.

According to scripture, the rich men find salvation through conscientous benevolent intent action with regards to their family and also persons outside their family, not just their family. Scripture does not say that rich men enter heaven by doing a good job providing for their families. Scripture says rich men enter heaven by doing a good job in general.

If the 'Princes of Israel' in their obsession with power and attaining to the state of being the world's rulers, in the process create a hellish world for their grandchildren to live in, then they have not engaged in optimal conduct with regards to benevolent intent conduct with regards to their families.

Ultimately, when there are various alternatives, there exists a certain level of doubt and mystery, with regards to which of the alternatives should be implemented. Scripture declares that the Lord hates "the heart that deviseth wicked imaginations". The meaning of this is, that for example it is wicked to imagine that the sky will fall down if you do not viciously abuse your innocent family. Similarly it is wicked to imagine that things will go better for you and your family now and in the future, if you persecute Christianity.

Even if a majority of Christians misinterpret and misbehave, the persecution of Christianity oppresses a religion featuring humanitarian ethics and wise advice with regards to how one's inner mental processes should function.

The ancient Jewish scriptures prophesied that the day would come, when the gentiles would become like the Israelites who managed to avoid damnation. How then can it be said, that Gentiles are subhuman?

The proper attitude for the 'Princes of Israel', is one of a sense of camaraderie and brotherhood with regards to the Israelites of old, who were wise saintly heroic Jewish Christians, and also with regards to their descendants, who are found in the gentile populations. One could say, yea, the Jew has the advantage of having more Israelite blood than the Gentile; one could also say, but the descendants of the best of ancient Israel are found amongst the Gentiles.

Nobody knows for sure what the future will bring; scripture says that prophesies shall pass away; we are uncertain regarding what is true prophesy and what is not; we are uncertain regarding how prophesies should be interpreted. The 'Princes of Israel' could in this atmosphere of uncertainty imagine that: if they were to change their ways and become good Christians, they will lose their power, and then people will take revenge on them, result being that they and their families are murdered by enraged vengeance-crazed cruel executioners. On the other hand they could imagine that if they were to change their ways and refrain from evils such as antichristian conduct and racist arrogance, the future outlook for them and their families will improve. Of these two the first attitude is erroneous; the latter mindset is the virtuous mindset.

Generally speaking, beyond the subgroup that is the 'Princes of Israel' there exist the people of the world in general. Amongst the people of the world you find those who have done bad things. After they have done the bad things, they can choose between believing that they should behave even more badly, so as to avoid horrible outcomes for themselves and their families. Or they can choose a change of heart and a mending of ways, believing that the latter will produce better results for themselves and their families.

Those who have spent significant time and energy thinking about God scripture and ethics would agree that the proper choice amongst these two alternatives for them, is to change the heart and mend the ways, while at the same time trusting in almighty God and praying that things proceed on earth according to God's will and praying that God would mercifully intervene in their lives.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

World Cup 2010 Final Match Spain vs Netherlands Notes

2010-07-12T07:24:00.003-04:00

Version 1, 6:28 AM 7/12/2010

I still have not watched the first half of the 2010 final between Spain and Netherlands, and I have watched the second half and the overtime only once. When I do some more watching of the game I will revise this blog-post and report the revision in this post.

Spain and the Netherlands both failed when the attacker was near the goal and had only the goalie to beat, or only the goalie and one defender to beat. The mistakes consisted of: shooting instead of cutting to the left or right with the ball (NED); dribbling straight ahead instead of cutting left or right (ESP); cutting to the right into a goalie or the defender when the proper course of action would have been to dribble straight ahead or shoot (ESP, NED, ESP).

In my previous blog-post I discussed how in the semifinal, Spain had an advantage over Germany derived from the Spanish dribbler moving towards the German defender, which gave the dribble the choice of cutting either to the left or to the right. Seems that my advice re this advantage was taken too literally. Repeatedly players dribbling the ball, unaccountably and strangely, dribbled the ball towards the goalie or defender when they should have shot the ball or cut away from the goalie or defender and then shot the ball.

Although advantage can be derived by dribbling the ball towards the defender before making cutting left or right with the ball, such is not always the wise thing to do.
Generally, dribbling towards the defender before cutting this way or that, is a good choice for a dribbler when the dribbler is too far away from the goal to shoot, and the defender is in front of the dribbler. When the dribbler is close enough to the goal to shoot, and the defender it to the side of the dribbler as opposed to in front of the defender, dribbling towards the defender is less often the wise choice.

Repeatedly, shots were taken close to the goal, and were stopped by the goalie's feet with the goalie's body lying on the ground. This should not happen as it is not that difficult to loft the ball over the goalie's feet when the goalie is lying on the ground.

Three times Spaniards had the ball in a position where the smart thing to do would have been to cut to the left, fake a shot, and cut back to the right, or, cut to the right, fake a shot, and cut back to the left. This they did not do, result shot blocked, shot missed, ball lost etc. This dribbling on a slant faking a shot and cutting back is something even us Americans could do in high school.

Villa missed an easy shot near the Dutch goal, and Ramos missed a relatively easy header off a cross near the Dutch goal. Villa also tried to volley a long cross into the Dutch goal and missed badly.

Seems Villa like the rest of us has seen too many videos featuring the '100 greatest goals of all time' etc. One of these video clips featured an English player volleying a long cross into the goal, Villa apparently attempted to imitate the incredible shot.

When watching such videos, we should stop and realize that just as in music in America there have been these musical artists known as 'one hit wonders', who produced one great song and nothing else of note, so also, many of these 'greatest goals of all time', were freaks involving players doing something that they were able to do only once in their entire careers. I don't see it as wise to imitate such freak events. It would be smarter to imitate 'great goals', of the type that players have been able to accomplish repeatedly.

We've often read of how persons have been just once in their lives filled with superhuman strength and done things like lift a car off of an accident victim beneath the car--we should not forget that these heroic persons were able to achieve superhuman strength only once in their entire lives.

Simply from timing the speed of my shots with a stopwatch, I've noticed that about one in a hundred shots accidentally features very high speed with little effort, due to that rare combination accidentally coming together featuring the ball the body the foot all in exactly the right positions.

Apparently again watching the FIFA 2010 Finals, we witnessed the phenomenon wherein due to concentration on more difficult skills, the basic easy skills acquired early in youth become rusty, decline in terms of competence-level. Again we saw how the basic underemphasized strategic wisdom, is to in practice spend neither too much or too little time working on a given skill.

Twice I saw Spaniards making a mistake which I had noted in a previous blog-post re the 2010 World Cup: failing to anticipate defensive movements that were predictable. As a result, their passes were intercepted.

Both Spanish and Dutch players manifested a certain level of a lack of competence with bouncing balls. In one instance, a Dutchman got a bouncer near the goal, with time and without a Spaniard near him, but he was too clumsy and slow controlling the bouncer. A bouncer came to a Spaniard after the ball bounced off the Dutch goalie after the Dutch goalie fisted the ball away; the Spaniard had plenty of time and space to start something tricky like an aerial dribble towards the Dutch goal, but he just shot the bouncer and the shot did not even come close to scoring.

I napped through the entire game, not watching it, until about five minutes before the winning goal in the 116th minute, which occurred about five minutes after I started watching the game, which was after the Red Card evicted Heitinga of the Netherlands.

I wonder, was it coincidence that the one goal of the game was not scored until five minutes after I started watching the game about 110 minutes after the game started? Was is it coincidence, that the winning goal was similar to the first shot I took in front of the scoffer the Spanish/Guatemalan gentleman named 'Biro' (in front of Biro, I shot a bouncer into the right side of the goal from the left of the goal with my left from about 20 yards out, see June 30 entry of my soccer log).

Was it a coincidence that the referee of the match was Howard Webb, who looked almost like a twin of my uncle when my uncle was a young man? Was it a coincidence, that while I was sleeping prior to starting to watch the match after the match was already in overtime, I dreamt that the day of the match was my father's birthday even though actually it was not my father's birthday?

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

WC 2010 Semifinals Notes

2010-07-07T17:32:00.001-04:00

I watched most of the Netherlands vs Uruguay and Spain vs Germany matches (the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup), and took some notes. I did not watch either match twice.

Overall I was mystified at how the media announcers failed to mention things regarding the events during the games which I felt were relatively speaking important.

The media announcers manifested a prejudice in the direction of praising the players as opposed to criticizing them. For example for a few minutes they were claiming that a Netherlands goal involving a Uruguay player deflecting the ball into his own goal, was actually skillfully deflected into the Uruguay goal by a Netherlands players. This kind of sycophantic prejudice may make sense from the business point of view (convincing the audience they are watching great athletes), but it is a potential pitfall for players and coaches.

Uruguay vs Netherlands:

Both teams were repeatedly offsides on plays involving a pass recipient running towards the goal.

Both teams scored on similar goals.

Forlan cut to his left, and fired a long distance shot with his left foot. Bronckhorst cut to his left, and fired a long distance shot with his left foot.

Both these goals took advantage of the long range with the Jabulani ball. Both shots were done with the same style, crouched hunchback multi-step approach to ball, body rising up as ball shot.

A few days ago I had commented regarding taking advantage of the Jabulani's longer range.

Also I mentioned earlier that England suffered from a fear of using the left foot. I was talking about right-footed persons not using their left-foot, whereas Bronckhorst is left-footed, but the point remains, that left-footed approaches had been neglected previously. The right footed Forlan scored his big shot with his left foot.

It was surprising how the goalies were getting only one hand on the shot balls. Perhaps this is because of players obscuring visibility and thus delaying reaction times. The computer program I wrote that I am using to estimate if a practice shot would have been a goal assumes that if the goalie gets to the ball the shot will not be a goal. Seeing how the goalies have been getting to the ball with only one hand, it appears that often when the goalie is able to reach the ball the shot will be a goal or a rebound leading to a goal anyway. I read somewhere that most of the goals in soccer are off rebounds.

Seemed to me that shots that the laws of physics would declare to be failed shots blocked by the goalie, were going in anyway.

Spain vs Germany

At least throughout the first half, Spain kept the ball in the German half the clear majority of the time.

Spain was aggressive on defense, rushing up to the German player who had the ball and challenging him, Germany was different, laying back and giving the Spanish players time. This was an indirect effect of the Spanish dribbling skills, which Germany had to respect.

The Spanish players when they had the ball, would initially face the defender and move at the defender, in this they very closely resembled the individual style of dribbling I have developed for myself, a style that is not consciously based on imitation of Spaniards. Moving directly at the defender freezes the defender, and opens up both the cut to the defender's left possibility and also the cut to the defender's right possibility.

Germany more resembled the style in which if one has the ball and the defender is to one's left, one scurries to one's right; and if one has the ball and the defender is to one's right, one scampers off to one's left. The disadvantage with this latter style is that one is left with only one directional alternative, which leaves one usually attempting to rectify the situation with last minute feints this way or that which are off balance and ignored by the defenders, movement in one direction being obviously more amenable to circumstance than movement in another direction.

My style of dribbling and apparently that of the Spaniards also, is to naturally open up more than one directional alternative by moving at the defender, and then at the last minute choosing which direction to cut, all the while ignoring feints (recently I've been developing individual set plays involving pre-decided feints, but such is a new thing with me, without this new thing I've already developed the ability to dribble by defenders).

The Spanish showed tricky dribbling involving kicking the ball to the left with the right foot when the right foot is behind the left foot, and the reverse of this. There was a great example of this 18 minutes into the game, when an aerial line drive pass sailed at a Spanish player and the Spaniard with his trailing right foot (best I could tell), deflected it to his left right to a team-mate.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

Soccer long range shooting tactical lessons of 2010 World Cup

2010-07-07T02:42:00.001-04:00

The outstanding events of the Netherlands vs Uruguay contest, were the goals by Bronckhorst for the Netherlands, and Forlan for Uruguay. These goals resembled each other they were almost like twins.

That the soccer world is in a state of confusion is evinced by: the conflicting reports re the distance of the shots, how far they traveled from shot-point to target; the lack of attention to detail in terms of exactly how the shot distance is measured (shot-point to middle goal-line or shot-point to goalie?); and, the lack of attention to whether the kmh reports for the speed of the shots reflected the average speed in flight or the max speed during flight.

Best I can determine looking at the conflicting reports and the low quality (given the equipment I am using) video clips on the internet, the distance from shot-point to goalie on the Bronckhorst shot was 33 meters, and the distance from shot-point to goalie on the Forlan shot was 21 meters.

There are several reports that the Bronckhorst shot was 68 mph, and a couple of reports state that the Forlan shot was at 45 mph. I believe these speeds refer (for a change) to average speed of ball in flight not max speed of ball in flight; if these figures were for max speed of ball in flight, one would never expect the shots to have managed to result in goals.

I estimate the Forlan shot at 45 mph average speed and 64 mph top speed in flight, traveling in the air for 1.11 seconds during flight.

I estimate the Bronckhorst shot as at 68 mph average speed, and as at 109 mph in terms of max speed during flight, traveling in the air for 1.12 seconds during flight.

The Bronckhorst shot then seems to have been right on the borderline in the sense that if it had been faster it would have been impossible for the goalie to stop. Seems the goalie hesitated for an unusually long amount of time before leaping towards the ball, which makes the goalie's achievement in getting as close as he did to the ball with his hand, notable.

The Bronckhorst shot was spinning in a motion somewhere between a backspin and a spin to the left. Bronkhorst shot the ball at about a 20 degrees right angle relative to the ball movement before the shot, with the front inside of his left foot.

Judging from the spin on Bronckhorst's shot, I estimate that from the goalie's point of view, the ball swerved to the goalie's right as it came at that goalie, and swerved upwards compared to a ball without swerve. The ball ended up above the goalie's hand and from the goalie's perspective to the left of the goalie's hand. seems the goalie was fooled by the backspin on the ball sending the ball upwards, and that the goalie from a horizontal perspective overcompensated for the swerve on the ball which sent the ball on a curve towards the goalie.

The Bronckhorst shot appears to have been a case of a team and a player being aware of exactly how much range their shooting had given the power of their shots and the peculiar characteristics of the Jabulani ball (lighter and with less seems than previous World Cup ball); it was shot from the maximum of this range. The Bronckhorst shot appears to have been a very skillful achievement combining tactical wisdom, power of shot, and good aim. It reminds me of the earlier long shot by Oscar Perez of Argentina, which similarly appears to have been shot from maximum range and placed accurately.

In the Forlan case, from the goalie's perspective the ball passed slightly to the left of the goalie's outstretched hand and so was not stopped from entering the net. In this case it appears the goalie undercompensated for the (from the goalie's perspective) swerve of the ball to the goalie's left , which was caused in part by the ball spinning to the right (from the shooter's perspective). The goalie positioned himself initially directly in the path of where the ball would have gone had it not swerved to the goalie's left; the goalie was then caught off guard to the point of being able to get only one hand in the direction of the swerving ball. Forlan's shot would not have been a goal absent the swerve on the ball which confused the goalie, given the speed of the shot, the distance between the shot-point and the goal, and the distance between the goalie's position at shot-time and the position of the ball as it crossed the goal-line.

All this reminds me that the computer program I wrote which estimates whether a practice shot would have been stoppable by a goalie, does not take into account confusion caused by swerve and has so far been used only with a replica of the 2006 World Cup ball, not with the replica of the 2010 Jabulani ball.

There is alot of talk about the 2010 Jabulani moving in ways that deviate from the straight line; I've found that my shots with the replica of the 2006 World Cup ball from about 20 meters produce swerves of up to four feet left or right.

A tactical lesson here appears to be: a player's maximum range is the distance from which a well-placed shot of his would be unstoppable by a goalie; players should figure out what their maximum range in terms of shooting is; players should fire shots from this maximum range; an advantage of long range shots is that the longer the shot, the greater the swerve on the ball.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

World Cup June 27 Observations...American inferiority complex in soccer

2010-06-28T01:33:00.004-04:00

Watched the World Cup for a while on Sunday June 27 2010.

First there was the England vs Germany game.

Rooney had an opportunity to cut to his left, instead he passed into the right corner. This may have looked good statistically and not excited the coach's ire, however burying the ball in the right corner makes things difficult for the team as a whole.

Then one of the England forwards, had the ball about ten yards from the Germany goal line. All that was between him and the goal was one German defender and the goalie. The German rushed at the Englander from the Englander's left. The Englander would have had a tremendous position if he had cut the ball to his left, contradicting the rush of the German. Instead he shot the ball into the body of the German defender who had rushed at him from his left.

I concluded that the English have not been practicing cuts to the left followed by: shot with left foot; or, pass with left foot; or, dribble with left foot; or, shot with right foot; or, pass with right foot; or, dribble with right foot.

As a player I spend almost all my time in the air, meaning the ball is off the ground. Thus I am different from your typical player. For me shooting with the right foot after slanting left is often a reasonable and effective alternative. Not sure to what extent a player who plays with the ball on the ground can shoot with the right after slanting with the left. But I thought I'd list the shoot with right after slanting left alternative anyway.

Next there was the Argentina vs Mexico game.

The Argentinians and the Mexicans impressed me with their skill when it come to trapping aerial passes that have been sent to them and that have traveled approx 50 meters, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I have lived in the U.S. since I was 5 years old, hence I am similar to Americans who were born in the U.S.A. I possess the American characteristic which is an inferiority complex when it comes to soccer. Watching the Argentinians and the Mexicans deftly trap the long aerial passes sent to them made me feel depressed and inferior.

Problem with this is that the feelings of inferiority are often delusional.

One of my high points since I began taking a serious interest in the sport of soccer, was the days during which I would do things like throw the ball at the wall, then intercept the rebound before it bounced, take control of the ball, and then commence an air-dribble in a predetermined direction, all without the ball touching the ground.

Note: air dribble for me, means moving horizontally 5 or more meters while keeping the ball close to the body but off the ground ( for me this has meant avoiding use of the head because such is easy, and avoiding use of the thighs because such is easy and slow).

Let's face it, what I did with the rebound off the wall, is harder than what the Americans impressed me with, which is their one touch passing that I earlier concluded they were too preoccupied with.

(Note: In the World Cup action Sunday there was a notable lack of one touch passing, I had said in my blog-post Saturday that the Americans had hurt themselves by overemphasizing one touch passing).

Today at practice a ball came at me, rebounding off the wall after I had shot it at the wall. I trapped it with ease, bringing it to a complete halt under my right foot (I am left footed), with one touch. It had flown at me at a high rate of speed without bouncing after rebounding off the wall about 15 meters away, after I had shot it at the wall. Then I realized that the sense of inferiority that ensued from watching the Argentinians and Mexicans display skill in trapping long aerial passes, was a delusion.

Earlier a few weeks ago I (May 30 entry soccer log) had had a dream in which these Spanish and Black players were air-dribbling the ball with their thighs at a high rate of speed. They would run at a fast speed, with the ball touching their thighs every two or three paces; they seemed to be angels; the ball never touched the ground; I felt as if I would never be able to do what they did.

Then in real waking life I attempted to do what 'the angels' had done in the dream, in the gym at the Waltham Y. I found I was able to do the same thing that they had done at the same speed. But when I had the dream I felt like they were better than me and that I was unable to do what they had done.

Such is the American inferiority complex in soccer.

As for Perez' tremendous goal that his fellow Catholic TV announcer Ambrosino crowed about as being in the upper 90s in mph speed, given how the Jabulani World Cup 2010 ball is (June 25 entry soccer log) faster than the Replique of the 2006 World Cup, Perez' excellent shot would have been at just around 80 mph with the Replique of 2006 that I have been practicing with up till Friday. Yet Perez and Argentina showed intelligence in that they seem to have realized that the Jabulani travels faster and taken advantage of the fact.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

World Cup Soccer Defeat for US vs Ghana; what went wrong?

2010-06-26T17:59:00.002-04:00

It is 524 PM EST and Ghana just eliminated the US in the World Cup, and I start writing my blog-post re the event. I now offer some constructive criticism re the US performance. I estimate such to be more valuable compared to praising the US for what they did well.

The US showed itself to still be the good old USA, same as the USA has been for dozens of years, in that its players showed themselves to be too shy and too cautious, when it comes to dribbling the ball past a defender with the ball on the ground. They never attempted to beat the defenders on the air-dribble, dribbling the ball with the ball not touching the ground.

Dribbling the ball past a defender with the ball on the ground, is an art I have already explained in internet pages, even though it would have been to my advantage to keep such things secret. The art of beating a defender on the dribble, is mental. To succeed you have to plan your practices in a thoughtful intelligent way, and to succeed you have to make the right chess-like moves against the defender during the game.

The US weakness in terms of dribbling past a defender, resulted in the US making poor quality passes and taking poor quality shots, because the alternative of attempting to dribble past the defender for all practical purposes did not exist for the US.

The US repeatedly on shots kicked the ball straight at the goalie. What is even harder to understand is that the US taking shots, repeatedly shot the ball right into the bodies and feet of the Ghana defenders. It was as if the coaches fans and administrators wink their eye at blocked shots because nobody knows if the blocked shot would have been a good shot if it had not been blocked, result being players feel safe being scored for having had a shot blocked.

On passes the US was excellent in terms of one touch passing. The US showed itself to be world class when it comes to making a difficult one touch pass with balls coming at the passer in a difficult way and the recipient of the pass in a difficult position. At the same time, inexplicably, the US was repeatedly inaccurate in aerial passing when the US player had established control of the ball before passing it. US aerial passes tended to be too short and too low.

I estimate that the US had been spending too much time practicing one-touch passes while ignoring and taking for granted passes and shots made after the passing/shooting player has established control of the ball. With one-touch passing, the momentum the ball has before it reaches the passing player is used to propel the ball to the pass recipient. Not so (to anywhere near the same extent) when the player has established control of the ball before passing it.

Reminds me of how after I had been emphasizing difficult right-footed moves (I'm left-footed) practicing the air-dribble, and emphasizing sideways shots as opposed to straight ahead shots, to my surprise all of a sudden my right footed shots shooting sideways had become better than my left footed shots shooting straight ahead (I am left-footed).

The US repeatedly showed themselves defective in terms of the anticipation of movements by players on the opposing team. As a result of such lack of anticipation, shots were blocked, passes were intercepted, the ball was lost on the dribble. The movements that went unanticipated were movements that were quite predictable.

The American players who were on the receiving end of the chip type aerial passes in the penalty box, appeared to be weak in terms of the ability to gain control of such passes or shoot or pass on one touch off such passes. Seemed the players in positions that receive such passes are too light or too short and the US needs some height and weight in those positions.

Repeatedly A US player who had the ball out in the open with nobody near him and plenty of time, would simply without delay, pass or shoot the ball. Seemed that they would have been wiser to get closer to the pass recipient or the opposing goal before passing/shooting.

Generally the US gave the impression of being strong in the things that a coach can teach to a team and weak in terms of the things that a coach cannot teach to a team. Seemed as if a plethora of self-important American coaches (this is not to condemn the current coach of the team) had overemphasized those maneuvers that a coach can teach while de-emphasizing maneuvers that are at best difficult for a coach to teach to a player. Seemed as if the US had become almost stereotypical, intolerant of atypical (not typical) persons and athletes, due to a quota mentality running amock amongst a diverse population. Seemed the egalitarian traditions of the US had suppressed individual enterprise when it comes to beating defenders and scoring.

Blog-post finished at 6:01 PM 6/26.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

World Cup Soccer Stats compared to my stats

2010-06-23T15:10:00.003-04:00

Interpreting the World Cup soccer stats as of 6/23/2010 is complicated because: it is either difficult or impossible to find the definitions explaining exactly what the various stats mean; it is either difficult or impossible to find the totals for all the teams and players combined; and, the free-kick and non-free-kick totals are lumped together. Furthermore, it appears that in the team total statistics the blocked shots are counted as part of the total shots whereas in the individual statistics they are not, and that there is now no way to tell if this is really the way they are counting the stats.

My best estimate re non-penalty shots at the World Cup up to 6/23/2010, not counting blocked shots: average distance between shot point and shot crossing goal line or being caught by goalie, 17 meters; 43% of shots have been on target; 57% have been wide or high; 10% have been goals; and, 3% have hit the goalpost or the crossbar (with the individual stats the shots hitting the goalpost/crossbar and the shots that score goals seem to be counted as shots on target, leading one to guess that they are counted as shots on target in the team stats also, but at this level of confusion who knows for sure).

Looking at my stats personally ( http://coolname001.angelfire.com/soccairsixteen.htm ) of late firing a volley shot after a twisting turning 4-touch air dribble covering 10 meters in distance, the ball never touching the ground between the first touch and the shot on the fifth touch:

June 14 avg dist 17.2 m, right footed shots: 45 shots; 30 on target (67%); 15 wide (33%); 3 goals (7%) 1 hit post/bar (2%);
June 16 avg dist 15.8 m, left footed shots: 37 shots; 15 on target (41%); 22 wide (59%); 10 goals (27%); 2 hit post/bar (5%);
June 17 avg dist 15.3 m, right (at first mistakenly listed as left footed) footed shots: 16 shots; 10 on target (63%); 6 wide (38%); 5 goals (31%); 0 hit post/bar (0%)
June 18 avg dist 15.7 meters, left footed shots: 48 shots; 24 on target (50%); 24 wide (50%); 5 goals (10%); 3 hit post/bar (7%)

TOTAL June 14-18, 16.1 meter distance shot; 146 shots; 79 on target (54%); 67 wide (46%); 23 goals (16%); 6 hit post/crossbar (4%).

The curving air-dribble, during which I run about 10 meters while keeping the ball off the ground and close to the body before shooting the shot, has followed different directions on the different days, such seems to have impacted the shot quality for me.

June 14 and 17, the shots were taken right footed even though I am left-footed, and have practiced such right footed shots probably less than ten hours my entire life. The air-dribble I have been practicing involves slanting to the right with the right foot twice and appears to have built up power and accuracy in shooting with the right as I had expected.

Seems that being left footed, the days on which I was shooting straight ahead with the left foot I was overcome with a lust for power, whereas I was more careful and thus more accurate shooting sideways with the right foot. Seems all the emphasis on the right foot during the air-dribble has built up the right foot shot skill at the expense of the left foot shot skill. Seems all the sideways shooting has built up the sideways shooting skill at the expense of the straight ahead shooting skill. More details can be found at the soccer log entries for June and at the pages links in these entries link to.

Adidas Absolodo X IN my choice for soccer shoes

2010-06-21T08:54:00.001-04:00

After several hours of tiring time consuming research, I made my choice for a new pair of soccer shoes. I decided to buy the Adidas Absolodo P X IN, or the Adidas Absalodo X IN (as of now I can discern no difference between the two shoes except for the outer coloring). I now explain the reasoning behind this choice.

I have been practicing soccer on a basketball court using Adidas Bracara shoes, which have served me well. But with the passage of time, the Bracaras have become smoother and smoother on the sole area of the foot, and I have been slipping more and more. It got to the point where I felt sort of as if I was ice skating. I decided that my next pair of shoes should as much as possible, on the sole area that contacts the ground, resemble a basketball shoe. Basketball shoes are made for basketball courts so such is simple common sense.

Secondly, I decided that the shoe laces on the shoe should be "asymmetric", "offset", "off center" lacing type shoes, meaning that the shoelace holes should not go straight down the middle of the shoe, but off to the side of the shoe; and I decided that the shoelace holes should angle to the outside of the foot not the inside of the foot (Nike is now making best I can tell--the photos at their website are confusing--at least one indoor soccer shoe featuring laces that angle off towards the inside of the foot).

My Adidas Bracara shoes feature a row of shoelace holes that angle off towards the outside of the foot; when I bought them it had become no longer possible to buy shoes with laces going down the middle. The shoes I used before the Bracaras, Pumas, had the shoelace holes right down the middle of the foot. At first I was worried that such shoelace angling might mess up my game, which involves alot of keeping the ball off the ground and backspinning the ball. I thought that since the shoelace holes angle off to the outside of the foot the result would be that I would not be able to use the shoelaces and the shoelace holes to aid in the backspin of the ball. But as it turned out, while using the Bracaras I was able to competently backspin the ball keeping it off the ground and close to the body while running around, despite the shoelaces angling off to the outside of the foot.

As I progressed in skill I entered into a long struggle involving an attempt to master the difficult skill of keeping the ball close to the body but off the ground while running, by way of chipping the ball to my right with my right foot despite being left-footed. I found this skill to be the most difficult skill I had ever attempted to master. Finally after several weeks of practice, in the past couple of days I've gotten to the point where I consider myself on the verge of mastering it. As I finally succeeded, I realized that the success was associated with putting plenty of backspin on the ball. I decided that the shoelaces and shoelace holes angling off to the outside of the foot, help me to succeed in accurately chipping the ball to my right with my right foot because they help me to backspin the ball. Thus I decided that I want shoes with shoelaces and shoelace holes angling off to the right of the foot.

The Adidas Absolado P X IN, and its twin the Adidas Absolado X IN, both feature soles that are like basketball shoe soles and that have a relatively large number of grooves in the sole per square inch, with the grooves being relatively deep. Also they both have the shoelaces angling towards the outside of the foot. Therefore these are the shoes I favor.

The shoes that I decided not to buy fell short of the Adidas Absolado X In shoes for several reasons: the groove patterns on the soles of the shoes did not resemble the groove patterns in basketball shoes; the grooves were too shallow; there were not enough grooves per square inch; the shoelace holes did not angle off towards the outside of the foot.

I spent some time studying tennis and I read about how the loosely strung tennis rackets allow the player to put more spin on the ball, which supports the idea that shoelaces help to put backspin on the ball.

I don't really need the help the shoelaces provide when it comes to backspinning the ball for air-dribbling tricks such as: cutting to the left with my left foot; cutting to my right with my left foot (I am left footed); cutting to my left with my right foot (more natural than cutting to my right with my right foot). I need the help the shoelaces provide for backspinning, for cutting to my right with my right foot.

I've read plenty of text re the supposed impact of shoelaces in terms of the power and precision of shots and passes. My personal experience with the Adidas Bracaras has been that I've been able to get off (my estimates using stopwatch) accurate 100 mph shots with the outside of the foot despite the shoelaces angling off to the outside of the foot. My opinion is that power and accuracy are produced not by extreme effort or by the position of the shoelaces, but rather by the ball and the body in the optimal positions.

Switching flash-drive access between computers at the push of a button

2010-06-10T05:32:00.001-04:00

I estimate that through a purchase and installation made today at Microcenter in Cambridge MA, I will be able to each year, save approx 5 hours of time that would otherwise be spent twisting and turning and squinting plugging and unplugging USB devices.

For $40, I bought an Iogear Automatic Printer Switch, and for $10 I bought a Goldx USB 5-in -1 Quick-Connect package containing 5 adapters and a wire. I installed the Automatic Printer switch software on both my HP and Dell computers. I plugged a 2.0 GB USB flash drive into the 'printer switch' instead of a printer. I connected the 'printer switch' to both my computers. Presto! Now I can just by pushing the printer switch button, change from accessing reading and writing to files on the flash drive using the Dell computer, to accessing reading and writing to the same files on the same flash drive but using the HP computer, and vice versa.

As of now, I am a light year ahead of where I was yesterday, because I can do things like: change a file on the flash drive on my Dell computer, save the page, push a button, then change it on my HP computer, save the page, push a button, and then be back working on it on my Dell computer, all without plugging anything in or unplugging anything.

I did a stopwatch test of how long it takes me to type Dell into a text file on the flash drive on my Dell computer, save, push the USB switch button, type HP into the text file on the flash drive in my HP computer, save, and then return to my Dell and type Dell, using the 'printer switch' method and the old manual method.

Using the Iogear 'printer switch', this took me 61 seconds. Using the manual method of removing and inserting the flash drive, it took me 112 seconds (in part because I was reluctant to avoid the time-consuming processes Windows prescribes if one is to 'safely' remove a device).

Aside from the slow speed of action, with the manual method, there is the human physical and mental wear and tear in terms of twisting and turning and carefully putting things in and pulling them out. The manual way, the physical connections become more and more stressed every time a thing is pulled out or put in.

Aside from the speed of action, there are many occasions when I have simply not done something that I would have done had the push-button switch been available for me.

The test maneuver was 51 seconds faster using the USB switch.

If I had to perform the kind of maneuver tested once a day, the USB switch would save me 52 hours over ten years. If one were to value my time at $20 per hour, the average wage of the American worker, the USB switch will save me $1040 over 10 years even though it only cost me $50.

Now if 100 million persons were to follow my USB switch gospel, and each save $1000 in time over ten years, that would be 100 billion dollars. Such saving could put me into serious contention for a Nobel Prize.

Problem is, I could end up spending more than 5 hours this year, trying to figure out how to get my Samsung 300 GB external hard drive, to work with the 'Printer Switch'. So far this maneuver has been beyond my powers.

Two Bad Computer Viruses: How I got rid of them With Free Simple Solutions

2010-06-01T04:31:00.002-04:00

Google Redirect Virus Defeated

The solution for the Google Redirect Virus, was first found at:
http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-google-redirect-virus.html
which was listed on page 6 of the search results from
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22google+redirect%22&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1B3GGIC_en___US381&prmd=v&start=50&sa=N .

For a while I flailed around on the net, not getting any answers. I found when I went to the public library to search Google for answers, where the room temp was cooler, where it was brighter and more spacious, where I could look at the search results without resorting to copying the URL of the search result and pasting into the address bar so as to avoid the browser redirect, my mind starting thinking more clearly.

Instead of using search terms that attempted to narrow down the search results to exactly the problem I had, by including terms such as asklots (a page I was frequently redirected to), I switched over to trying to use the kind of search terms that are most commonly used for the virus, leaving details out. I did a search for "google virus". This search led to a page that said the virus was commonly known as the "google redirect" or "google redirection" virus. The "google redirect" virus was more common a term according to the search results than "google redirection".

Looking at the search results for "google redirect", I resolved to start with the simplest possible solutions and work upwards to more complex solutions. The deletemalware.blogspot.com solution was approx the fourth simplest one I found and the fourth one I tried.

I found the content that I found at deletemalware.blogspot in several pages. This content featured easy to understand graphics showing screen shots of various checks that should be made on the computer. The fifth of seven steps recommended was to download http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.zip , size 944 KB, (http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions?qid=208280684 ). I downloaded it and ran it; it was finished (command line window) in just a couple of seconds; it told me that it had it found the C windows system32 drivers cdrom.sys file infected by the tdss rootkit; it said it would be cured on the next reboot. It did not find any registry objects infected (some pages giving advice had advised toiling with softwares that backup and check the registry); it found only the one cdrom.sys file infected. It said on reboot, I would be free of the virus.

And on reboot, indeed I was free of the virus.

Defeat of the Mebroot Virus

Previously Feb 25, I had been infected by the Mebroot virus. In that case, finally, by doing a Google groups search for "Mebroot removal tool", (http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=mebroot+removal+tool&btnG=Search&sitesearch= ), I found an entry (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=266428 ) that said Eset had a tool that successfully removed the virus. To my surprise, ESET's small command line program (http://www.eset.eu/encyclopaedia/mebroot_backdoor_sinowal_trojan_mebroot_stealth_mbr_trojan_backdoor_maosboot?lng=en ), 0.1 MB, ran for just a couple of seconds, told me to restart, and the virus was gone.

Generalizations RE the Two Victories over the Viruses

Both when I succesfully removed the Mebroot virus Feb 25, and when I successfully removed the Google redirect virus June 1, the solutions were small, free command line standalone malware removal tools produced by established reputable professional computer security companies. Both times the programs provided by these companies ran for only a couple of seconds, and had the virus cleared out with just a restart. Both times the tiny utilities were extremely easy and simple to use.

With both viruses, there were plenty of false leads in the content of verbose, expert sounding web pages (found through Google searches) giving advice re the viruses, pointing to expensive, time and energy consuming, complicated, dangerous (in terms of causing computer problems) alleged solutions. With both viruses there were lots of pages talking about how difficult it is to remove the virus, how dangerous it is to try to remove it.

With both viruses there were plenty of stories that would be laughable were they not so tragic, about unfortunates who in attempting to remove the virus had gotten to the point where they could no longer do anything at all with their computers.

When I encountered the more recent "Google redirect" virus, I by mistake bought a paid copy of Prevx, because mistakenly in my memory I thought that Prevx was the one that had removed the virus. Actually, Prevx had found the virus but would only remove it with the paid version--ESET was the company whose free product had actually removed the virus. But mistakenly, my memory told me that Prevx had removed the virus, because I had downloaded a colorful trial version of Prevx that captured my attention, that I had to pay attention to to work with. The real hero, the ESET standalone command line program, was drab, colorless, and did not require much attention to run so mistakenly I did not remember it as the hero it was. I estimate that both myself and others fail to give the proper level of attention to solutions that are superior but less memorable.

Generally, seems that a key to virus removal, is to use the right terms in the Google searches re the virus. You could have two slightly different searches using slightly different words, and one search could result in hours of useless research whereas another search immediately results in the problem being quickly and easily solved.

Apparently when using search engines to research a virus, one should use the same words that lots of people are using to describe the virus, not words and phrases that a small minority are using to describe the virus. Apparently it is advantageous to leave out little details that one would think would help to narrow down the search results to what is needed, because most people working on the subject leave such little details out of the pages relevant to the subject.

Seems it's wise to: not to get bogged down in the results produced by one search, before experimenting with a few different searches using a few different terms; be sceptical with regards to persons who exaggerate re how difficult and complex a task it is to remove the virus; start with the simplest solutions available and work your way upwards to more and more complex solutions; and, not be panicked and stampeded into prematurely spending lots of money on an expensive solution, or prematurely getting involved in complex difficult solutions.

Fact of the matter is that for any given computer infection, apparently, there are an unbelievably large number of pages pointing to sub-optimal solutions.

ESET called their solution to Mebroot, a "Mebroot removal tool", and a "Mebroot remover", and a "standalone malware removal tool" (http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2372 ). Kaspersky called their solution to "Google Redirect", a "disinfection of an infected system", a "malware remover", and a "malware family utility". I estimate the use of such phrases will lead to quick and easy successes when fighting off viruses.

Pretzel Logic in Washington DC

2010-05-25T12:07:00.001-04:00

It gets to the point where the pretzel logic of America's top leaders can no longer be ignored, despite the fact that it is a tiring, time consuming activity to refute their illogical ways.

Example 1: a top US national leader, after the attacks on the World Trade Center, said that because the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, which was a leading location for international trade, therefore anybody who is against free trade is a terrorist.

The statement in example 1 makes no sense. It's like saying: Yesterday a child abuser was murdered. Therefore you are a terrorist because you are against child abuse.

Example 2: a top US national leader, said that politicians such as him were not to blame for the fact that money intended to deal with the problem of money being lost on bad mortgages, was given to the banks instead, because they, the politicians, did not know that the money would be given to the banks instead.

The statement in example 2 makes no sense either. It's like saying, "I'm not to blame for the fact that I let a lion into the house and it ate my child. I did'nt know that the lion would eat my child". The politicians could have written a clause into the legislation, which would have served to prevent money from being given to people the politicans did not want it given to. But they did not. And then they turn around and say, "it's not our fault, we did'nt know that the money would be given to the banks".

Example 3: Another top US national leader, a pro-free-trade guy, said that free trade is good, because when some of America's most insignificant trading partners reduced restrictions on American exports, America's balance of trade with these trading partners improved.

The statement in example 3 also makes no sense. What America has been involved in, international trade with insignificant restrictions placed on imports, is what people in general and the pro-free-trade crowd call "free trade". The fact that when a few relatively tiny nations reduced restrictions on imports, America's balance of trade with these nations improved, does not even come close to proving that the current "free trade" situation is good for America. The fact is, that a nation's trade balance always improves when an exports recipient reduces restrictions on the nation's exports. At the same time undeniably, the facts are that: nations can damage themselves by reducing restrictions on imports; and, nations can benefit through governmental or private sector actions that reduce imports. Therefore, it is illogical to say that "free trade" is good for America simply because America's trade situation improved when a trading partner reduced restrictions on American exports.

The ivory-tower pro-free-trade theories ignore the fact that aside from government restrictions and tariffs on imports, nation X can take advantage of nation Y, by hating nation Y more than nation Y hates nation X. Nation X being more allergic to imports from nation Y compared to nation Y's attitude to imports from nation X can result in a flow of money away from nation X to nation Y.

Example 4: Over and over again, we hear from the pro-free-traders about Smoot-Hawley. As far as they are concerned, this proves that tariffs are bad and free trade is good.

The attitude expressed in example 4 is also illogical. Prior to the depression, almost 100 years ago, America raised its tariffs, by way of the Smoot-Hawley act. This was followed by the depression. Yet the fact that one event is followed by another event, does not mean the second event caused the first event. If it rains after the Red Sox win a baseball game, that does not mean that the rain was caused by the Red Sox winning the baseball game. When Smoot-Hawley raised American tariffs on imports, American tariffs were at a much higher level, compared to the level they are at now. Therefore, to say that what happened after Smoot Hawley increased American tariffs proves that America should not now increase tariffs on imports, is illogical. It's like saying that since a doctor killed a patient by prescribing too much of some medicine, therefore that medicine is bad. yet people can be killed even by drinking too much water. 100 years ago, America's net international investment position was much better than it is now. 100 years ago, America had not been running enormous trade and budget deficits year after year for dozens of years. Nobody says that since anti-cancer drugs accomplish nothing for those who do not have cancer, therefore they should not be used on people who do have cancer.
100 years ago, (taking into account inflation), it was more expensive to transport goods thousands of miles, and the wage differential between America and America's trading partners was less. The fact that something was bad 100 years ago, does not mean that it is bad today. You don't hear anybody saying that we should drop atomic bombs on Japan today because dropping an atomic bomb on Japan brought WW II to an end 65 years ago.

The illogical pretzel logic coming out of Washington DC would be shocking were it not for the fact that we have been bombarded by so much mischief that we have gotten used to it. The media and the public's failure to notice the lack of logic in the illogical statements is disconcerting. Seems a factor in this is that throwing free market theory aside, academic credentials, the attainment of which requires abnormal ability in terms of rote memorization and brainspeed, have been empowered by way of goverment intervention. Yet the scientific fact is, even morons can memorize entire books. Thousands of poor kids in Pakistan memorize the entire Koran, even before they can understand the meaning of the Arabic words they are memorizing. Memorization and brainspeed are not the same thing as logic. Just as a fool in a fast car can get lost in a complicated city, so also fast brainspeed does not necessarily produce wise results. One cannot help but thinking, despite one's desire to be inoffensive in the eyes of the famous and powerful, that bribed, robotic men, do not need to think logically and so therefore become incompetent in the art of thinking logically. President Nixon said that the (tariff-protected) America of 1969, was the best time and place in history for a human to live. He also said, that the mind is a muscle--using the mind builds the strength of the mind just as using a muscle builds the strength of the muscle. But if people don't need to use their mind because they are a bribed robot, or a puppet with a gun to his head, or both, then their ability to think logically declines.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

ice hockey poem -- commemoration of 2010 NCAA championship

2010-04-13T03:19:00.005-04:00

David Virgil Hobbs

Poem on the Occasion of 2010 Boston College National Ice Hockey Champions

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Motto

Aulsay, asway away oicechay oungyay anmay, erethay asway otnay amongway ethay ildrenchay ofway Israelway away oodliergay ersonpay anthay ehay: omfray ishay ouldersshay andway upwardway ehay asway igherhay anthay anyway ofway ethay eoplepay...ethay ORDLAY aidsay untoway ethay ophetpray Amuelsay, Eholdbay isthay anmay Aulsay allshay eignray asway Ingkay overway ymay eoplepay...Amuelsay ooktay away ialvay ofway oilway, andway ouredpay itway uponway Aul'ssay eadhay, andway aidsay otay Aulsay, ethay ORDLAY athhay anointedway eethay ingkay...Amuelsay aidsay otay allway ethay eoplepay, Eesay Aulsay omwhay ethay ORDLAY athhay osenchay, erethay isway onenay ikelay imhay amongway allway ethay eoplepay. Andway allway ethay eoplepay outedshay, andway aidsay, Odgay avesay Ingkay Aulsay...Amuelsay aidsay otay Ingkay Aulsay, Utbay ownay ythay ingdomkay allshay otnay ontinuecay: ethay ORDLAY athhay oughtsay imhay away anmay afterway ishay ownway earthay, andway ethay ORDLAY athhay ommandedcay imhay otay ebay aptaincay overway ishay eoplepay, ecausebay outhay Ingkay Aulsay, asthay otnay eptkay atthay ichwhay ethay ORDLAY ommandedcay eethay. ethay ORDLAY aidsay untoway Amuelsay, Ooklay otnay onway Eliab'sway ountenancecay, orway onway ethay eighthay ofway ishay aturestay; ecausebay Iway avehay efusedray imhay: orfay anmay ookethlay onway ethay outwardway appearanceway, utbay ethay ORDLAY ookethlay onway ethay earthay. Avidday Eliab'sway otherbray, asway uddyray, andway ofway away eautifulbay ountenancecay, andway oodlygay otay ooklay otay. Ethay ORDLAY aidsay otay Amuelsay, Ariseway, anointway Avidday: Enthay Amuelsay anointedway Avidday otay ebay ingkay: andway ethay Iritspay ofway ethay ORDLAY amecay uponway Avidday. Utbay ethay Iritspay ofway ethay ORDLAY epartedday omfray Aulsay

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ARGUMENT

The Boston College Men's Ice Hockey team, featuring lots of Massachusetts boys, decisively defeated Miami of Ohio in the NCAA semifinals, even though Miami's team was bigger and higher ranked. Then they also badly beat Wisconsin which also was higher ranked and had bigger players. This despite the fact Boston University (which is not Boston College) coach Parker had said, he does not recruit Massachusetts boys because Massachusetts players are injured, burnt-out, tired, and lack enthusiasm for ice hockey because of having played it too much as boys.

Part I

Boston College defeats Miami of Ohio by 7-0 in the 2010 NCAA Hockey semifinals

The youths of the Boston College Men's Ice Hockey Team
Are smaller than average men;
Yet in the semifinals
Against Ohio's Miami University
Their small players scored seven
Against men a tenth taller than them
While Miami scored zero against
Boston College's little defense

This even though Miami was ranked first
Whereas Boston College was ranked third

Part II

Boston College defeats Wisconsin by 5-0 in the 2010 NCAA Hockey finals

Then in the finals on Saturday night,
The Boston College team for hockey on ice,
Composed of youths below average in height
Playing against Wisconsin scored five times
While Wisconsin's taller and heavier young men
Scored zero against the Boston College defense

Part III

The Boston College victories contradict Boston University Coach Parker's idea that Massachusetts boys should not be recruited because they are stunted as a result of having been obsessed with ice hockey.

The Boston College men's ice hockey team scores many goals
Yet it contains many Massachusetts youths, known as massholes

And the Boston University Coach had stated,
His team contains few from the state of Massachusetts
Because the state's boys play too many hockey games,
And so by the time they become of college age,
They are tired injured burnt out and lazy,
And take no joy in the sport of hockey.

Yet Despite what the Boston University coach said,
The injured, tired, burnt out joyless and ice hockey obsessed
Boston College dwarves from the state of Massachusetts,
Beat two teams filled with tall heavy heroes,
by seven to nothing and five to zero.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

Poem re Duke beats WVU in basketball

2010-04-04T04:33:00.006-04:00

David Virgil Hobbs

Poem re Euro-American Duke Downs African-American WVU
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Ostmay augustway Aesarcay, oneway ouldshay owknay atthay ethay Americanway egionslay adhay evernay ownknay efeatday iorpray otay ethay acialray integrationway ofway eirthay ilitarymay unitsway. Orfay enmay indfay itway easierway otay attainway otay ethay acticepray ofway ertaincay irtuesvay, amongstway erethay ownway aceray, omparedcay otay ethay ifficultyday ofway acticingpray uchsay irtuesvay amongstway osethay ofway otherway acesray. Orfay ostmay ofway en'smay irtuesvay enefitbay osethay ofway eirthay ownway aceray, ereaswhay ehay owhay etraysbay ishay aceray oesday otnay enefitbay utbay armshay ishay aceray.

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Argument

David Virgil, sent his psalms to the white players and coaches but not to the black players and coaches at Duke and WVU, prior to the game between Duke and WVU. Result of the game: unexpectedly one sided victory for the whiter Duke.

Part I

The narrative describes the basketball game played Saturday April 3 2010 between Duke and WVU, which was won by Duke

On saturday evening April fourth,
Third ranked Duke of North Carolina,
The highest ranked of the four college teams
Left in the NC double A tourney,
Took on sixth rank West Virginia
In Indiana in basketball.

Duke, seventy one percent of whose players
Are white Euro-Americans,
Was by just two points the team that was favored,
But Duke beat them by twenty one.

Fifty six percent of Duke's points were
scored by two slim German-Americans whites,
six five Scheyer of Chicagoland's Glenbrook high;
and, Oregon's six eight Kyle Singler.

These heights translate mathematically
to five nine and six foot amongst ladies.

Of Duke's total points three out of four
By Euro-americans were scored.

Duke conquered a West Virginia team
Of which african american were sixty percent
Of whose fifty seven points in defeat,
The African-Americans produced nine out of ten

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

God is a code word for liberalism, avoid Churches that preach God--Senator Blather

2010-03-13T02:54:00.007-05:00

INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
America's Dangerous Flirtation with 'God', a code-word for liberal redistributionism
Wednesday, March 03, 2010 Print Share This
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This is a rush transcript from "Billy Jo Blather," March 12, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SENATOR BILLY JO BLATHER, HOST: God is a code-wo'd fo' liberalism, redistribushunism, populism, progressivism, usin' govment t'fo'ce rich varmints t'share.

When Ah was in college, Ah had at least three liberal room-mates--thet was befo'e Ah split wif them-- who thunk thet whut God be hankerin' fo' is liberalism an' redistribushunism an' taxashun of rich varmints in th' wo'ld.

T'other day Ah did some icognito research, Ah put on sunglasses so nobody c'd reckanize me, an' went t'a unyversity whar Ah heard these populists, about a dozen of them, talkin' about how they believed thet whut God wanted, was govment fo'cin' rich varmints t'share th' wealth.

Ah put on a false musstache an' spied on a cocktail party--Ah mean made a cameo appeareence at a cocktail party-- pretendin' t'be mah buddy's outta town friend. Ah heard at least ha'f a dozen progressives at this hyar party, talk about how they believed in God, an' were into experiencin' God's Spirit.

Ah also knows of at least a dozen labo' union thugs who believe in God.

So yo've gotta unnerstan' thet God is a code-wo'd fo' liberalism, an' a soak-the-rich wif high taxes mentality, th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity decidin' t'have th' hard wawkin' mino'ity fo' dinner.

So eff'n yo' hear a Church start talkin' about God, exit thet church, helter-skelter as fast as yo' kin away fum it, an' find yo'seff a fine cornservative Church thet igno'es God.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

career test results for David Virgil Hobbs

2010-03-06T15:07:00.005-05:00

Today msn.com featured a test that uses color preferences at careerpath.com (http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/). I took a few tests at careerpath.com. These tests use the results of the questions they ask, such as questions re color preference, to come up with suggestions re what careers would be the best choice for an individual. You can see my notes re these tests and their results for me, at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/careerpathtestresults.htm

Dangerous computer virus that mystifies geniuses, helpassistant win32.mebroot.bz, still unresolved

2010-02-27T20:31:00.004-05:00

The text below shows what I incorrectly thought was the case when I thought I had this ultratough virus beat. Actually After I restarted once helpassistant folder was not recreated, then a second restart failed, on third restart, the help assistant folder had reappeared in C:\Documents and Settings

Incorrect blog post I made when I thought I had the virus beat:

My computer was attacked by a virus, which installed helpassistant and HelpAssistant.S-COMPUTER folders in C:\Documents and Settings, and enabled the help assistant user (the help assistant user is disabled by default, it can be found through right click on my computer, manage, local users and groups, users). The word on the internet is that the virus is a trojan, the technical name for it being win32.mebroot.bz.It is also called mebroot.

The internet pages that dealt with the subject said: this is one of the worst and most sophisticated viruses ever; it is a virus that has stolen huge amounts of private info, passwords etc from banks; it is an extremely difficult virus to deal with. Many brilliant sounding writers on the internet gave very complex descriptions of how the virus works, without even attempting to provide a solution. I saw three pages of a forum which featured someone trying to coach a victim of the virus through one very complex solution after another to cure the virus, none of which worked (I marvelled at the patience of the victim and his coach). The internet offered many fantastically complicated and dangerous sounding methods for ridding the computer of the virus.

The most common solution was to run the recovery console and then fixmbr. However, opinion was divided as to whether such an action would produce a disastrous result of the loss of data in the computer. The general opinion was that one should be expert before using the recovery console because a mistake could result in a loss of all data in the computer and the need to reinstall the operating system. There were warnings to back up all data before proceeding with the recovery console solution. The two folders the virus created contained multi-gigabyte copies of folders on my computer such as desktop, my documents, favorites, and others. This filled up my computer to the point where it was 99% full. Twice after the virus invaded my computer, the computer operation, while I was viewing the vancouver2010 olympics pages, was interrupted by a scary 'stop error screen' that said:

"A problem has been detected and windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Run a system diagnostic utility supplied by your hardware manufacturer. In particular, run a memory check, and check for faulty or mismatched memory. Try changing video adapters.
Disable or remove any newly installed hardware and drivers. Disable or remove any newly installed software. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode.
Technical information:STOP: 0x0000007F (0x00000008, 0x80042000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance."

The computer became so stuffed with files due to the virus, that disk cleanup would not function. Seemed the computer being so stuffed with files was causing the 'stop error screen'. Needless to say, the computer getting stuffed with files restricted my ability to add new files to the computer. I had heard that the virus enabled those who controlled to take control of the entire computer. I was worried that the virus might cause even more problems in the future. I like most everyone whose computer has been infected by this virus, had a strong desire to get rid of it.

The whole thing was a big pain in the ass because I was afraid that if I simply deleted the copies of folders the virus had made, I might delete something that I would end up sorely missing, something that had been copied with the original removed.

I deleted the helpassistant and helpassistant.s-computer folders. On restart, the helpassistant folder re-appeared. After repeated deletes of this folder, it kept reappearing.

I decided to implement a couple of the simpler and safer methods advised on the internet for dealing with the virus: I disabled the help assistant user previously mentioned as found via right click in my computer, and changed the name of the helpassistant folder and then deleted it. But on restart, the help assistant user had somehow been enabled again, and the helpassistant folder reappeared.

So next I simply deleted the help assistant user in my computer, and again changed the name of the helpassistant folder and deleted it. On restart, to my surprise--success. The helpassistant folder did not reappear, and the help assistant user identity did not reappear in my computer.

Perhaps one reason I was able to succeed, was that when the virus first downloaded, I found it's exe because it was suspicious looking, via Windows Defender - software explorer, and deleted it. Windows defender gave the following information on the virus exes:

File Name: ltkpsftav.exeDisplay Name: ltkpsftav.exeDescription: Not AvailablePublisher: Not AvailableDigitally Signed By: NOT SIGNEDFile Type: ApplicationAuto Start: YesFile Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\aniccw\ltkpsftav.exeFile Size: 278784File Version: Not AvailableDate Installed: 2/25/2010 8:12:15 AMProcess ID: 192User Name: S-COMPUTER\OwnerClassification: Not yet classifiedShips with Operating System: No

The other exe from the same virus that I deleted was:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\FrPx.exe

However according to the prevx antivirus program, which unlike windows defender and the trial version of spyware doctor found the virus, the virus is still on my computer at "c:\$mbr.0 [PX5: 99AA2E4B009FF0F80185002040C95900259D9CD1] Malware Group: Rootkit.MBR". Maybe this remnant of the virus will cause a problem, don't know. But prevx wants to be paid $35 for the full version before they will delete $mbr.0. The prevx paid version says it will provide real time protection against such viruses. As for me, I am now planning on switching to the Google Chrome browser, using it instead of Internet Explorer.

This all seems to be yet another example of how: the internet becomes filled with fantastically overcomplicated solutions to problems; the wise thing to do is to patiently search for simple solutions, and try them, or combinations or modifications of them, before plunging into some very complex or dangerous solution. Seems people, including myself to some extent, tend to become absorbed in the fascinating intellectually challenging details of overly complex solutions, when the wiser thing would be to step back, look at the big picture, and make better decisions regarding which solution should be attempted in the first place.

Regarding those who created this virus, my first reaction was extreme hatred. However in their favor at least it can be said, that the virus did not delete important files and folders, it just copied them.

second winter olympics ice hockey poem

2010-02-26T08:01:00.003-05:00

David Virgil Hobbs

Winter Olympics Hockey, February 26, 2010
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Inway ethay ightlay ofway ethay ing'skay ountenancecay isway ifelay; andway ishay avourfay isway asway away oudclay ofway ethay atterlay ainray. Erewhay ethay ordway ofway away ingkay isway, erethay isway owerpay: andway owhay aymay aysay untoway imhay, Atwhay oestday outhay?

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Argument

How Canada's hockey team being influenced by wise leadership gained an upset victory over higher ranked Russia; and how Russia's performance showed that if only it had not procrastinated being influenced by such leadership it would have won instead.

Part II

The narration continues after the ice hockey matches of February 24th, and prior to the matches of February 26th

Canada of second rank a few days before
Was upset by the fifth ranked Americans
While watched by twenty million Canadians,
But on Wednesday February the twenty fourth,
For the first time in fifty years Canada,
Defeated the number one ranked team Russia,
In a massacre, seven to three was the score

Five days before this triumph of the Canadians,
David Virgil emailed a dozen Olympians
Appointing them Olympian leaders,
One of them was Canada's Mike Richards

A top offensive line is also a shut down line rarely
Yet after the appointment of Richards immediately,
Canada formed a new line, which in one line combined
A top scoring line which also was a shut down line
Richards on the left, Crosby center and Nash on the right,
Intended to suppress the Russian offense
This it succeeded in doing as if blessed

Of the twelve athletes appointed five days before
One was Russia's second string goaltender, named Bryzgalov;
The first goalie, who was not appointed, was Nabokov,
Who gave up six goals up to minute twenty four,
While the Russian offense scored just one time;
The last thirty six minutes of the night,
With Bryzgalov in goal for the Russians
Russia scored two goals and allowed just one

The mathematics of the match could be said to show
That if Russia had used only Bryzgalov in goal
The Russians by a score of three goals to two would have won;
If Russia during the match had used Nabokov alone
there would have been a fifteen to two loss for the Russians,

Russia procrastinated putting Bryzgalov in goal
the result being the Russians though ranked number one,
were upset by the number two ranked Canadians,
who had earlier themselves thrilled
The US the land of David Virgil,
by giving the fifth ranked US victory
by a decisive score of five goals to three

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

winter olympics ice hockey poem

2010-02-24T10:58:00.008-05:00

David Virgil Hobbs

Winter Olympics Hockey, February 24, 2010
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Good info on ice hockey is hard to find
Her'es the best estimates I can make at this time

Michael Milbury and Jeremy Roenick
Are hockey announcers this flu-filled winter
At the year two thousand and ten olympics

The Milbury surname indicates English ancestry,
Mike graduated from Brighton High in Boston
When Nixon was the President in nineteen seventy;
The Roenick surname indicates something German
Jeremy graduated from Braintree high in Braintree
When Reagan was prez, in nineteen eighty seven.

In ice hockey Russia ranks first in the world,
Canada ranks second, and third is Sweden
Fourth is Finland, fifth is the US this year

At the winter olympics of two thousand ten,
On February twenty first, fifth ranked US
Beat second ranked Canada by a score of five to three;
Slovakia beat Russia on February eighteenth

Today it's US ranked five versus Switzerland ranked seventh,
Russia ranked number one versus Canada ranked second,
Fourth ranked Finland against sixth ranked Czechoslovakia,
And third ranked Sweden versus ninth ranked Slovakia

A dramatic tale will unfold on television,
How second ranked Canada does against number one Russia,
After having lost to the fifth ranked Americans,
While watched by twenty million Canadians

This year the highest paid ice hockey player
Earning ten million dollars for a year,
Is Canada's Vincent Lecavalier
Fifty six NHL players earned more than five million this year,
NHL players have a median salary per year of a million,
Meaning half get paid more and half less than a million per year.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

Luge death at Vancouver olympics, reports reviewed

2010-02-21T06:25:00.001-05:00

I decided to become well informed re the Luge death at the winter olympics. Who knows what life-saving benefits might be the result of a person talented and skilled in understanding words and expressing thoughts with words, such as myself, putting some volunteer time into studying the subject, right? But i found myself totally mystified by the reports re the cause of the tragic accident.

As usual, it seemed like the news reports were mindless regurgitations of some other news report, or mindless regurgitations of what an expert has said, with the explanation of the terms used by the expert left out, rendering the regurgitation of what the expert said, incomprehensible. As if the writer was not really interested in understanding what the expert said, and also not interested in imparting to the audience, an understanding of what was said.

It was amazing how long it took to find a map of the course showing the curves in the Luge course that were being talked about. Even after reading many internet news articles re the accident, I was nowhere near finding a map of the course so I could see on the course the curves which caused the problems resulting in the Luge athlete flying off the course, while his sled continued on down the course--f he had kept himself attached to the sled and continued on down the course with the sled, he would still be alive now.

It was like getting sucked into quicksand--finding out the details re the tragedy, became unexpectedly time consuming. The more time I invested in the research, the more it seemed that it would be a waste now to just forget about it, and get on with life, without developing any kind of deep understanding of what happened.

Finally a gif image of the course was located (by me) at http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-spectator-guide/venues/the-whistler-sliding-centre/maps/big-wsc-street-map_148414hO.html# ; I cropped the image and saved it for personal use, so as to enable me to understand what was being talked about in the internet news articles re the tragedy.

"It appears after a routine run, the athlete came late out of curve 15 and did not compensate properly to make correct entrance into curve 16...This resulted in a late entrance into curve 16 and although the athlete worked to correct the problem he eventually lost control of the sled resulting in the tragic accident." (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article7026060.ece) (http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/n/news/fil-statement-on-mens-luge-competition_274462nE.html).

The internet news was filled with paragraphs such as the one above; most of the readers probably did not understand what was meant by "came late out of curve 15", and "late entrance into curve 16".

The phrases require explanation. From the perspective of the language of the world in general aside from the specialized world of the luge winter olympics, "coming late out of curve 15" would not be a problem, as it would mean that one was going more slowly than usual up to the point of leaving curve 15. Therefore there is something in the expert's comment, that requires explanation as it is based on specialized luge oriented lingo.

The photos of the accident occurring, seemed to show the tragedy victim, entering a curve that would move him in a direction to his left, and flying off the track as he entered this curve. Yet the expert authority whoever he was, said that the accident happened at curve 16, a curve during which the luger is constantly turning to his right. This confusion is left unexplained by the news reports.

A video of the crash is at:http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-021210-luge,0,3014063.story

My close inspection of the photos and the video showed that what happened, is that as the victim flew into the air while turning to his right at the end of the hairpin curve which is curve 16, when he flew into the air, he switched from being feet ahead of head, to head ahead of feet. The photos were taken from the direction that he was traveling. Thus when he flipped from feet first to head first, the photos taken from a spot towards which he was traveling, made it appear as if, he was going feet first into a turn to his left.

"After studying the crash on video, they said, it was determined that the luger was offline coming out of Curve 15 and 'did not compensate properly to make correct entrance into Curve 16'."-- http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-021210-luge,0,3014063.story

The above para is one of the few to translate the mysterious "came late out of curve 15" verbiage.

Apparently, the Luge athletes ride up high on the track during curves, and come down low towards the middle of the track during straightaways; the phrase 'coming out of curve 15 late', meant coming out of the high curve trajectory late, as a result of which one is higher up vertically than one should be coming out of the curve; the authoritative expert opinion translated into common language, best I can tell: the victim was too high vertically coming out of curve 15, which resulted in him being too high vertically coming out of curve 16 also.

At http://fibt.pixabit.de/index.php?id=216&track_id=36&L=0 you can see what it is like to go through the course the victim died on, from the perspective of one sledding through the course at a high speed.

Soccer air dribble runs returned to, link to log page

2010-02-16T05:02:00.003-05:00

After a vacation of about a month from the practicing the soccer, I got back to the practicing soccer again on Feb 11. I've gone on to a new practice log page which links to the others which are still up. The current soccer practice log page is at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/soccairfifteen.htm

This page is loaded with cool original state of the art web programming from yours truly. I used tricks I learned surfing the web, then put these tricks together and applied them in an original innovative way. I did not try to hide or obfuscate the code. I don't have the time/energy right now to give lessons on the tricks in the code but perhaps you can learn from it.

The page was very hard work. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Even the venerable javascript malfunctioned from time to time. I had to sit at the computer sometimes for 15 hours without a break working through the problems. I felt like, if I take a break and come back to it tomorrow or in a couple of hours, my understanding of the problems will be so reduced that I have to stick it out without a break until the problems are overcome.

Like the barely audible mutterer on the Martha Stewart show said, once the new innovative programming that has never been done before is finished, it looks easy; but the pioneering work that goes into it is hard.

Named color equivalents of the 27 mathematically basic colors in CSS HTML

2010-02-13T03:29:00.005-05:00

This is about an online program page I created at http://coolname001.angelfire.com/namedcolors.htm which allows you to see how the named color equivalents of the 27 mathematically basic colors interact with each other.

Using hexadecimal notation such as #ffd700, or rgb notation such as rgb(255,127,255), or rgb percentile notation such as rgb(25%,54%,86%), can be a drain on time and energy. Most of us are not used to typing characters such as (, ), #, comma signs, and numbers. The numerical names of colors do not in the mind identify with any particular color.

As a result we end up using colors much less than we otherwise would and less than would be warranted by given the ratio of what we accomplish compared to the effort inputted when we are using the appropriate technique. In the modern time, a quintessence of art is color in web pages yet the colors go unused. This despite the fact that this playing around with colors accords well with scriptural injunctions against making images of things found in nature.

What I call the mathematical colors are all the colors in which the red, green and blue values are either zero or zero percent, the maximum 255 or 100%, or half-way between zero and maximum at 127 or 128, 50%. There are 27 of these colors. Most of them have named color equivalents, thus a simple name such as red can be used in the CSS and Javascript, as opposed to the cumbersome, un-descriptive notational equivalents such as rgb(255,0,0), or rgb(100%,0%,0%), or #ff0000. For the colors that do not have exact named color equivalents, the named colors that are closest to the mathematically basic color is presented.

It is important to have an understanding of the mathematically basic colors; otherwise the coloring of the page can tend towards becoming unbalanced, with too much or too little attention paid to certain colors. Now that we have mathematical colors, it makes sense to take advantage of the math of the colors as a way of maintaining the artistry of the page.

At the bottom of the table in the bottom three rows, starting with 'silver', certain colors that are not mathematically basic are presented, along with their closest named color equivalents. Colors for metals are under-represented in the list of named colors so I emphasize them here, despite the difficulties involved in presenting such colors (metallic colors tend to be a mix of colors rather than just one color, use of gifs and jpegs are recommended for them).

Using this table, one can just copy and paste the color name from the input at the top, this makes coding a page easier.

The table allows one to see not just how various color texts look on various backgrounds, but also how various color borders look on various backgrounds.

Version 1 of this page presents what the 27 mathematically basic colors look like in various text and background combinations; in this version the closest named color equivalents are not presented, rather, the exact mathematically basic colors, are presented (example, for #7f00ff the exact color #7f00ff is presented, rather than the closest named equivalent which is 'darkviolet'.

What boggles my mind is, that a local bank has hired some guy with a degree from an art school to do graphic design work for them. This guy does not even know HTML. I'm sure if I had applied to the bank for graphics design work they would not have hired me (despite my skill as evinced in my creation the online app linked to here). And then we have to bail out these banks when they of course go broke.

Important Links:

Microsoft MSDN Color Table
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/namedcolors.htm

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Blather, King in DVH roundtable re taxi service crisis

2010-02-08T16:17:00.004-05:00

Transcript: Blather and King on 'DVH News Sunday'

Sunday, February 08, 2020
DVH NEWS

BLATHERVILLE, TX. — The following is a partial transcript of the Feb. 8, 2020, edition of "DVH News Sunday With David Virgil":

Copyright © 2010 DVH®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required.

"DVH NEWS SUNDAY" HOST DAVID VIRGIL: This is DVH NEWS SUNDAY. I'm David Virgil. Today, on a special Roundtable, the taxi service crisis, Americans, ninety nine percent of whom are not allowed driver's licenses unable to afford taxi service, continues to make headlines. We're back live from the DVH-Bay on the campus of Blather College just outside Blatherville, Texas. Welcome to you all. welcome back, Sir Senator Blather and Sir Congressman King.

SENATOR BILLY JO BLATHER: Thank yo', David. Pleasure t' be back.

CONGRESSMAN CALVIN LUTHER KING: Dank ya' fo' havin' me.

DVH: Thankyou, Senator Blather, and thankyou, Senator King, for agreeing to this roundtable discussion. Our company would be in real financial trouble were we unable to obtain exclusive interviews with great men such as yourselves. Yet as you know, we at DVH are esteemed as being the most courageously and sharply anti-establishment group in the nation and I am going to ask you some tough questions nobody else has asked.

DVH: Years ago, in the United States anybody who could pass a driver's license exam, could drive a car. Therefore, Americans did not have this problem of being in need of taxi service and being unable to afford taxi service. So I am going to ask you the tough question that nobody else will ask. Why not go back to the old days, during which anybody who passed a driver's license exam could drive, which kept taxi service costs low, and which also made taxi service less necessary and less expensive?

Senator Blather: We is th' one's who is bein' courageous by agreein' t'be interviewed by yo' in th' fust place. Fack is, thet we now haf th' highess quality taxi service in th' wo'ld. Th' Amerikin taxi service provides th' hard wawkin' mino'ity wif taxi service thet is th' bess in th' wo'ld. Varmints fum all ovah th' wo'ld come t'America t'use Amerikin taxi service. Yo' sh'd see th' problems in th' fo'eign countries whar th' govment provides taxi service. (Loud Applause).

Congressman King: If ya' wuz not so's racist, ya' in yo' mind could look into de eyes uh de yung negro chick who lost ha' Big Daddy cuz' some honkyfool who had some driver's license ran upside ha' pops who wuz some top musician and also a supuh'star adlete and in de prime uh his yung brother life, and ya' would dink oderwise. (Applause). Dere used t'be too many accidents, so's we decided dat we had t'limit de numba' of driver's licenses t'one million. 'S coo', bro. Now de drivers is excellent drivers and dere is less accidents. Dese drivers is brilliant and hard wo'kin', as some matta' of fact, dey wo'k too many hours. Deir average income be only $400,000 puh' year, but still dey unselfishly manage t'contribute t'my political campaigns so's dat Ah' am able t'as yo' congressman, suppo't da damn war on terro', which be way mo'e impo'tant dan any damned taxi ride. Now our nashun spends way less bre'd on gas, and so's de Arab Muslim raghaids dont have any bre'd t'fund deir terro'ist invasions uh black Christian Africa and do ho'rible doodads. (Applause).

Senator Blather: Now days in o'der t'git through drivin' skoo, yo' hafta haf a junius IQ an' a photographic memo'y. These days yo' hafta spend four years in drivin' skoo t'git a license so drivahs larn how t'be extremely safe drivahs. True, drivin' skoo these days costs $652,000 but we haf high quality Drivin' Skoo professo's arnin' fine incomes an' corntributin' t'antiterro'ist political campaigns sech as mine, an' we haf top quality technology an' equipment in th' drivin' skoos. American drivahs is th' bess in th' wo'ld as a result of which we now haf th' wo'ld's bess taxi service system hyar in America, providin' th' highess quality taxi service in th' wo'ld. Comparin' th' drivahs of today t'them of yessuhterday, is like comparin' respeckable spo'ts superstars like Peyton Mannin' t'liberal bozos. (Applause).

Congressman King: We da damn guv'ment decide who kin be allowed t'run some Drivin' School, and we limit da damn numba' of drivin' schools. Thus we gots good Drivin' Schools dat contribute t'de war on terro', and da damn Drivin' schools dat we gots, is prospuh'ous enough t' contribute t'our political campaigns so's dat we kin prosecute da damn war on terro'. We fo'ce da damn Drivin' schools t'provide some quality educashun t'de drivers.

DVH: thankyou for providing such informative answers to my questions. When questions are well answered, they make you begin to realize that the question was kind of dumb in the first place.

DVH: So now I'll take a slant that is less weird and antiestablishment but that nevertheless is relatively incisive. Senator Blather, the American people are faced with the problem of being unable to afford taxis at twenty dollars a mile. Only two percent can afford to hire a cab so as to be able to move around transportation-wise the way they need to. 53% can afford a cab to the point where they can satisfy their transportation needs partially, but since they have to pay twenty dollars a mile this is a very heavy strain on their budget and they still are unable to fulfill their transportation needs. 45% cannot afford taxis at all. Please describe the clever plan you have formulated to deal with the problem.

Senator Blather: Fust of all, let me say thet as a proud believah in th' free market, we muss allow th' fo'ces of th' free market t'operate freely, we muss allow th' cab drivahs an' th' taxi compenny ownys t' engage in free market competishun aginst etch other, on account o' ev'rybody knows thet tax cuts, an' free market enterprise competishun, is fine fo' th' economah. (Applause). Tharfo'e it is of th' greatess impo'tance, thet taxi services be supplied by th' private secko' an' not th' govment. Govment is inefficient. We does not be hankerin' fo' govment t'be involved in providin' cab services o' taxi services. An' we does not be hankerin' t'exclude fo'eign taxi companies fum competin' in th' American taxi market on account o' we knows thet free trade is fine fo' us. Tariffs on fo'eign taxi service will jest lead t'retaliashun aginst American taxi service exporters who is fine anti-terro'ist folks. (Applause).

We hafta remember thet taxi service is a privilege, not a right. Ah believe in gittin' th' govment outta th' business of providin' taxi service t'Americans. As of now, th' govment is involved in programs like Taxicare an' Cabaid, which he'p Americans pay fo' taxi service. These programs is based on taxes thet burden th' hard wawkin' mino'ity, so thet members of th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity kin git a ride t'th' pickup game on th' neighbo'hood negro baxetball court, which is obviously completely ridiculous. (Applause). Th' govment taxes th' hard wawkin' mino'ity, an' then some obese bozo fum th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, gits a free ride t'th' supermarket, when he c'd haf walked th' same distance in ten minutes. (Applause).

DVH: Congressman King, you take a different view on the subject. You believe that no American should be left without taxi service. You have spoken eloquently regarding how unfair it is, that some Americans are able to go wherever they want whenever they want in a taxi, while other Americans are never able to afford a taxi or go anywhere in a car. What are your plans?

Congressman King: Ah' have been suppo'tin' legislashun which gots'ta brin' taxi service t'every American so's dat no American gots'ta be left widout taxi service. Unda' my plan, All Americans gots'ta be required t'buy two dousand dollars uh taxi service puh' month, and no American gots'ta be allowed t'buy mo'e dan two dousand dollars uh taxi service puh' month, and da damn guv'ment gots'ta help dose who kinnot affo'd it t'affo'd it. Man! Thus de limited amount uh taxi service dat be available gots'ta be evenly distributed amongst da damn populashun. Such be justice. As Hobbs gots reminded us, it be easia' fo' some camel t'pass drough de eye uh a needle dan fo' some rich joker to enta' de kin'dom uh God.

Unda' my plan, de guv'ment gots'ta decide who be goin' to get more dan some dousand dollars in taxi service in some given month. Too much uh de taxicare money be spent on thin's dat produce only some small difference in de life of de taxicare recipient. Man! Thus as opposed t' guaranteein' dat da damn taxicare recipient gots'ta receive all de taxi service he needs, we is goin' t'make hard decisions regardin' who should get how much taxi service. Dis gots'ta cut da damn cost uh de Taxicare and Cabaid programs. It gots'ta also allow us t'punish dose who oppose da damn war on terro' by deprivin' dem uh taxi service.

Unda' my plan, de hard wo'kin' folks who kinnot affo'd taxi service and gots not been helped out by de Taxicare and Cabaid programs, gots'ta be required t'buy two thousan dollars of Taxi service each mond. De ones who kinnot affo'd to buy two thousan' uh taxi service puh' mond gots'ta be helped t' pay fo' it by de guv'ment.

DVH: Congressman King, Congressman Kucinich, recently impressed me by in just a few words pointing out what so many supposedly anti-establishment types had failed to make clear in tens of thousands of words, which is that there is a problem in requiring Americans to pay for taxi service when at the same time no limit is placed on taxi service costs and no public alternative is provided in terms of government providing an alternative public taxi service. What is your reaction?

Congressman Kin': Bein' 'esposed t'de honky folks in Wuzhin'ton DC gots made me some wisa' and some betta' man. (Applause). 'S coo', bro. Ah' have come on down to realize dat Senato' Blather is right about unleashin' de fo'ces uh de free market. (Applause). Man! We should not get into de business uh controllin' how 'espensive da damn service provided by taxi companies is. At da damn same time, I recon' we need some public alternative, guv'ment provided taxi service, t'keep down de cost uh taxi service.

Senator Blather: It is ridiculous t'deprive th' free man, of th' free trade right t'pay extry money fo' taxi service thet is of a superio' quality. Why sh'd th' taxi indestry be placed at an imbalance vis a vis th' food indestry, due t'limits placed on taxi-service prices while no limits is placed on food prices? Thet creates whut Hobbs has rightly called an unnatural inefficiency in th' economah featurin' unnatcherly high expenditure on taxi service, at a time when expenditure on gas fo' cabs is fundin' th' Muslim mideastern terro'ists. Th' natural greed of man, prodooces quality results an' makes society rich, as thet wonnerful Christian writer Ayn Rand has pointed out. (Applause). Eff'n we put limits on th' amount of profit Horatio Alger type entrepreneurs kin make by startin' taxi companies, th' result will be krappy taxi service at insanely high prices. (Applause). Its a lie thet Ayn Rand was an atheist Jew, Rand is clearly a Christian surname jest refer t' ancestry.com it's a great web service. Th' public taxi service advocated by Congressman King, will ind up simply bein' a waste of th' hard wawkin' mino'ity's hard arned money. (Applause).

Congressman King: And so's by de fo'ces uh compromise which is a wonderful quality uh de American political process, we gots our program uh requirin' citizens t' buy two dousand dollars uh taxi service puh' mond and helpin' de ones who kinnot affo'd it t'pay fo' it, combined wid no limits on taxi service prices. We should not lose sight uh how some natural free market high price fo' taxi service, which be produced by not limitin' de cost uh taxi service, gots'ta result in less bre'd bein' spent stealin' gasoline fum de Arab Muslim raghaid terro'ists.

Senator Blather: Wait wait, hold on a minute. Us conservative republicans is tougher on th' Arab Muslim raghaid terro'ists than th' liberal democrats like Congressman King. Wif mah plan, govment will be completely outta th' business of spendin' money providin' taxi service fo' citizens, an' less money will be spent on taxi service fo' citizens, so less money will hoof it to th' Muslim raghaid terro'ists buyin' gasoline fum them wif mah program, dawgone it. Fack is, thar is Muslim raghaid terro'ists in Iran who is not Arab an' congressman King did not knows thet which jest goes t' prove thet he is mighty unequipped t'deal wif th' dangerous terro'ist threat. Us cornservative republicans reckanize thet th' owners of th' taxi service companies might be financially blessed by a requirement thet Americans buy taxi service combined wif taxi companies bein' allowed t'operate in th' right free market type libertarian invironment. But sech financial blessin's are fine on account o' th' owners of these taxi service companies junerously corntribute t'mah campaigns fo' senato', an' courageous senato's like me, suppo't th' war on terro'. (Applause).

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

Super Bowl preview web page I made, featuring innovative dramatic visuals

2010-02-06T03:52:00.005-05:00

I have created a web page that does a superior job of previewing the super bowl compared to ther pages. It depicts the Indianapolis Colts starting defensive lineup, against the New Orleans Saints starting offensive lineup, showing photos of the players without their helmets, with all the players visible at once on a grid. Once you activate the page by clicking the link the entire grid goes up to a dramatically improved level of colorful quality including the ability to expand the photos of the players instantaneously on mouseover. The version up on the web now is version 1 put up at 3:56 AM Feb 6 2010. I hope to get another version up prior to the game.

The page is at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/superbowlio.html

Once you activate the page by clicking the link in the page, you have to scroll down slightly because the DHTML/CSS/Javascript code effects the ad put at the top of the page by the angelfire web server.

Citizens United v FEC SCOTUS Ruling, initial reaction

2010-01-22T06:37:00.002-05:00

v 1 6:38 AM 1/22/2010

Evening of Thursday, January 21, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow gave surprisingly passionate, sincere-sounding denunciations of the Supreme Court of the US ruling which loosened restrictions on the use of money for political purposes by groups of persons. Olbermann's speech was admirably eloquent.

So after hearing their speeches, I resolved to look into the matter; this is my first reaction, given after about seven hours of study.

Keep in mind that the case in question was considered by the justices for an entire year, during which they employed many assistants and ordered the contesting parties to explain this and that to them so as to help them to understand the matter.

The majority of the media articles I found on the internet, did a poor job of describing the Supreme Court decision regarding Citizens United vs the FEC. I had to spend hours sifting through many different articles simply to get to the point where I could understand the basic facts of the case in terms of: what the law used to be before the supreme court ruling, and what the law is now. This should not be the case. It should be easy for me to discover what the law was before the ruling and what the law is after the ruling, when I read the articles about this case. Obviously this before and after perspective is fundamental.

Just goes to show the lack of ability and or skill in the media, which, disconcertingly, is more able and skilled at reporting court decisions than the average person is.

I used to be a supporter of the Mccain-Feingold campaign finance laws overturned to some extent by the Supreme Court Ruling. Then my enthusiasm diminished when I realized that it gave advantages to rich individuals who finance their own campaigns, and produced relative disadvantage for persons who are not rich, acting as individuals and groups. I began to see how by suppressing persons from expressing themselves, it increased the power of the media.

The Supreme Court ruling, should be considered in terms of whether it levels the playing field or does the opposite, when it comes to the rights of various types of groups and individuals.

Prior to this Supreme Court ruling, the law favored certain types of spending over others. It favored issue oriented ads that ignored the candidates; it disfavored ads that focused on the candidates. It favored spending by rich individuals on their own campaigns; it disfavored spending by individuals and groups of individuals on other people's campaigns. It favored spending that is uncoordinated with a candidate, and disfavored spending coordinated with a candidate or controlled by the candidate as opposed to the activist group. It favored spending based on voluntary contributions and disfavored spending of the type wherein the dues required by the organization, or the money voluntarily donated to the organization, are spent based on decisions made by the organization's leaders, or based upon pre-agreed upon rules.

The recent SCOTUS ruling does not do away with all these meddlings, however, prior to the Supreme Court ruling, the government in which the Supreme Court is a key player, was meddling more that it will now at least for a while, in terms of favoring certain types of fund raising and spending while disfavoring other types of fund raising and spending.

This kind of meddling that has been reduced could put the various sectors of American society at a disadvantage compared to foreigners; meaning the reduction in meddling could have positive effects.

People think in terms of, not allowing the owners of American private sector organizations that produce goods and services to get an advantage over the employees of such organizations. In this they ignore the possibility that meddling in terms of favoring what kind of fund-raising and spending the various American groups engage in, could lead to a disadvantage for all American interest groups, compared to advantages enjoyed by foreigners who, often on the sly, meddle in American affairs unencumbered by the restrictions placed on Americans by American law.

The very complexity of the American campaign finance laws in and of itself, tends to inhibit the effectiveness of American fund raising and spending. This inhibition, could impair the quality of American life due to factors such as inefficiencies in educating the public re important matters.

It could be, if Americans were to put time and energy into being thoughtful and well informed re fund raising and spending, and if the legislative judicial or executive branch were to take steps to prevent foreign owners of American subsidiaries from taking advantage of the new court-granted freedoms, that the new freedoms granted by the Supreme Court could lead to an improvement in the American position in the world.

People tend towards an idealistic unrealistic view, that America should be "nice" and un-bigoted, whilst they live in a fantasy world in which America is the only nation in the world.

Actually, there are other nations in the world, who can take advantage of America if the rights granted by America to foreigners, are not reciprocated in terms of foreigners granting rights to America.

Even with reciprocation, foreigners can gain advantage over Americans due to factors such as: the economic decline of America, the economic rise of foreign powers, the multi-ethnic multi-racial makeup of America, the mono-ethnic nature of foreign powers, the discipline produced by the hardships experienced historically by foreigners, and the indiscipline produced amongst Americans due to the good fortune experienced historically by Americans.

Ones could say that: it is not the court's business to produce improvements in society through unconstitutional legislation; rather, it is the court's business to give society the opportunity to succeed by refraining from unconsitutional meddlings that impair the performance of society.

The legislative branch's power to change the constitution is relatively weak due to concerns re the balance of power amongst the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government; yet, still, the legislative branch has the power to change the constitution.

Well intentioned divergence from the rule of law, rulings that are intentionally unconstitutional, could lead to a lawlessness that is counterproductive.

One could say that regardless of whether Americans take advantage of the liberties granted to them by the Court, liberties which give them the opportunity to improve the national performance, the Court's job is not to insure that the nation perform extremely well but rather to give the nation the opportunity to perform well as a result of the Court's wise interpretation of the constitution.

One reason it might be wise for a court to refrain from well intentioned, domineering, divergence from the constitution with regards to how individuals and groups spend their money in terms of political activism, is that there is some truth to the traditional American individualist perspective that not just national aggregates but also individual realities are important; meaning, it's also important which individuals in the nation have how much in terms of time and money and liberties.

A nation with an aggregate GDP of $50,000 per capita could be worse off than a nation with an aggregate GDP of $30,000 per capita if the $30,000 per capita nation was less disorderly in terms of who had how much of what. Conceivably, an 'activist', domineering court could produce internal disorder in terms of who in the nation had how much of what.

Although America has historically displayed a tradition of national pride, some would call it excessive national pride, it has also traditionally manifested an internationalist bent. Christianity, which has been the dominant religion in America for centuries, sees foreigners as persons to be prayed for, persons to be helped to become persons who can enter heaven, regardless of their nationality or race.

The constitution's excessively vague and tolerant definition of treason manifests this basic friendliness to the world. The Declaration of Independence, which was produced by those who produced the constitution and thus reveals something re their minds, speaks of foreign mankind as being 'in peace friends, but in war enemies'.

Conceivably, a domineering activist court might succeed in improving American performance, but this at the expense of excessive disorder at home and excessive misfortune abroad.

It is childish to get absorbed in campaign finance and forget about the pollution of the political process that remains unaffected regardless of what the Supreme Court decided in Citizens United v FEC.

Both last week before the ruling and in the future, the political process remains corrupted or negatively effected by: revolving doors featuring ex-govt employees hired by the private sector; murder; bribes; corrupted voting machines; lying polls; politicians who do a '180' after they get into office; citizens fearing being fired; citizens desiring to be paid well; citizens wanting to be from a town which is liked by employers because of the way it votes; citizens being ignorant and thoughtless; citizens being obsessed with their families and sacrificing their nation-state to their family.

Conceivably the SCOTUS ruling could give America the tools it needs to deal with these pollutions of its government process, pollutions which existed before the SCOTUS ruling and will continue to exist in the future after the SCOTUS ruling.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

My maternal ancestry chart genealogical

2009-12-31T08:28:00.003-05:00

I produced a genealogical chart that describes my maternal ancestry and relations, using nothing more than Outlook Express. This is a new type of chart, different from the kinds of charts produced by various softwares, and the kinds of charts seen on web pages on the internet. It is like a descendancy chart, but it is not restricted to the descendants of one particular ancestor. It uses HTML table cells, which makes updating the chart and adding to the chart much easier compared to the plain text descendant or descendants or descendancy charts commonly in use.

The chart is at:

Maternal Ancestry & Maternal Blood Relations of David Virgil Hobbs Genealogical Chart
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/maternalancestry.htm

Irrational court opinion will not be reviewed by supreme court

2009-12-25T05:50:00.003-05:00

At the following link you can find version 1 of my comments regarding the DC Court of Appeals Opinion in "Rasul, Shafiq vs. Rumsfeld, Donald" (January 11, 2008)". The Supreme Court recently caused a stir by refusing to review this decision and opinion.

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/pretzelogicourt.htm

online chat customer service at Hewlett Packard impressive

2009-11-25T05:09:00.003-05:00

I had a problem with a CD containing the Users Manual for a Samsung monitor, not running on an Hewlett Packard computer that I keep offline. I was impressed by the free chat technician (chat using keyboard) help I got from HP re the problem, despite it having been several years since the computer was bought and warranties etc having expired. The free chat, with a transcript kept of the entire chat, is very reasonable compared to other methods of customer service. I estimate that such chat, with transcripts kept, would be a big step forward in areas such as educational student/teacher interactions, and organization management.

See:

"Transcript of my free chat with a Hewlett Packard (HP) technician, re a CD that would not run in an HP Computer"
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/hpchat.htm

Wide screen monitor for computer produces real advantages

2009-11-18T05:15:00.003-05:00

I created a web page, which is not on the blog again because it contains a table, regarding a new Samsung 2343BWX I now have the privilege of using. The page is at: http://coolname001.angelfire.com/newmonitors.htm. The page describes the actual, measured by experimentation advantages produced by a switch from a 13 inch wide computer monitor to a 20 inch wide computer monitor.

soccer sprint while juggling ball in air drills resumed

2009-11-13T04:02:00.003-05:00

After going 59 weeks without practicing soccer, during which I focused on improving my middle distance running endurance, Thursday Nov 12 I started practicing soccer again. The Nov 12, 2009 workout is described at http://www.angelfire.com/ma/vincemoon/soccairfourteen.htm.

Habakkuk in rhyme

2009-11-10T02:37:00.002-05:00

November Poem #1
Version 1: 2:36 AM 11/10/2009
Check back to see if this has been upgraded to a newer version

My rhyming, poetic version of Habakkuk 3:17-18 (http://kingjbible.com/habakkuk/3.htm):

Even if the fig tree does not blossom,
and the vines produce no fruit to eat;
Even if the tiring work in the heat
on the olive trees proves fruitless
and the fields yield no meat;
If the flock gets cut off from the herd,
and the herd disappears from the stalls:
Still will I rejoice in the LORD,
and rejoice in the God of my salvation.

(don't scoff, 9 line per day adds up to 270 lines per month)

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

KVM imperfection--possible solution

2009-11-05T16:13:00.003-05:00

I explore possible solutions to the the imperfections described in the previous post, "KVM Switch & two monitors, imperfect solution" (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/11/kvm-switch-two-monitors-imperfect.html), at:

'Switching Monitor Input Between KVM-to-monitor-output & Computer Output'
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/kvmtwo.htm

KVM Switch & two monitors, imperfect solution

2009-11-03T21:59:00.002-05:00

I created a page at http://coolname001.angelfire.com/kvmone.htm, entitled "KVM switch and splitter for two computers two monitors setup...KVM Switch Combined with Splitter an Imperfect Solution to two-computers, two monitors setup".

The followup to this page is:

"KVM imperfection--possible solution"
http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/11/kvm-imperfection-possible-solution.html

Believers never damned error -- another refutation of the error

2009-10-19T12:51:00.001-04:00

This morning on the AM radio, I heard an elderly preacher shouting into his microphone about how "a believer will never go to hell". He meant, someone who believes Christ is the Son of God, will never go to hell. I do not know what this preacher's name was, but for now I name him Pastor Goodfornothing.

Pastor Goodfornothing annoyed me. I have expended considerable time and energy in the past, refuting what I have considered to be an erroneous doctrine, which is the doctrine that if you believe Christ is the Son of God, no matter what you think, say and do, you will go to heaven.

If Pastor Goodfornothing is correct, the New Testament scriptures that say, you need to do something to go to heaven (see example below), would have to have been addressed to persons who do not believe in Christ, and the doctrine of the New Testament would be that good guys who lack faith in Christ go to heaven.

However the doctrine of Pastor Goodfornothing, is that good guys cannot go to heaven without faith in Christ. Thus Pastor Goodfornothing contradicts himself.

And yet again, I have succeeded, taking a gunfight as an analogy for a debate, in shooting my opponent with his own gun.

The doctrine of the New Testament is that faith in Christ is a necessary ingredient. Therefore, the logical conclusion is that the passages in the New Testament that say you have to do something to go to heaven, are addressed to persons who believe in Christ.

Example of New Testament scripture exhorting ethical conduct:

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be haughty neither to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth but in God, who so richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Urge them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous givers, to practice sharing, and to treasure up for themselves a sound foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that is really life.

--1 Timothy 6:17-19

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Abuse of high-class people such as men high class in terms of social-economic-partner attractiveness: misanthropic, contradicts spirit of the laws

2009-10-09T05:03:00.004-04:00

I have seen strange things in the world in which I live.

A man who dozens of beautiful women want to marry ends up being: unable to get a job; unable to get a job in which one has a chance to meet lots of people; unable to get a job in which one can meet lots of people who are in some way high-class; able only to get jobs through which he cannot adequately provide for even one child; able only to get jobs through which he cannot afford a car, or afford a nightlife involving activities such as going to clubs and bars; able only to get jobs that drain him of his time and energy while bestowing little upon him in return; denied a job in a locality he has resided in for many years.

Meanwhile, a woman who few to zero men have an interest in marrying ends up being: treated like a celebrity, given the red carpet treatment; bused in from a faraway city to get a restful un-fatiguing well paying job in a city she has never lived in; given a job that allows one to afford to have a child; given a job involving meeting lots of people; given a job involving meeting lots of people who are in one way or another in the elite; given a job that makes little demand on time and energy but pays a handsome reward.

This is the idea of justice where I live.

I now present argument refuting the idea that such is justice.

I DECIDED TO REWRITE THE REST OF THIS POST. AFTER IT HAS BEEN REWRITTEN, IT WILL BE REPOSTED

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

false flag attacks favored by Senator Blather in DVH interview

2009-10-01T06:13:00.003-04:00

DVH Interview: Senator Billy Jo Blather

Posted: October 1, 2009 0621 GMT
David Virgil BIO
DVH Anchor
David Virgil: Senator Blather, you have stated that you are in favor of the US government in the future resorting to false flag attacks in the US. False flag attacks involve basically a government attacking its own nation, so as to get the nation angry and involved in attacking the nation that allegedly committed the attack. Could you elaborate?
Senator Blather: We haf a problem in our country, which is thet th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, be hankerin' t'pareesitize th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity. In o'der t'combat this hyar problem, we need t'be able t'do reso't t'extryjudicial black ops black budgit operashuns direcked aginst th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity. In o'der fo' sech operashuns t'succeed, we need t'create an atmosphar in which them who deman' thet th' truth be known an' thet th' ajunts who carry out th' black ops be punished, is ridiculed as crazy. A trimenjus fine o'ganized false-flag attack, will haf th' beneficial side-effeck of creatin' this hyar kind of invironment, an invironment in which them who believe o' at least meekly accepp th' disinfo'mashun we prodooce regardin' th' false flag attack, an' regardin' other operashuns direcked aginst th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, is hono'ed as fine citizens, wharas them who agitate fo' th' truth an' fo' prosecushun of th' so-called guilty parties, is condemned as insane. Then we will haf th' kind of invironment thet we as an outnumbered mino'ity need, an invironment in which corncern fo' truth is cornsidered insane, wharas faif in disinfo'mashun, an' votin' fo' an' corntributin' t'th' disinfo-sources, is cornsidered hono'able. When we haf th' right kind of invironment, we will be able t'terminate th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity an' transfer th' resources of th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity wifout their cornsent. Their cornsent sh'd not an issue on account o' they is stoopid. Wif th' right invironment, th' varmints will does th' right thin' an' believe our respeckable disinfo about how we is not guilty, vote fo' us, an' corntribute financially t'our political campaigns.
David Virgil: Isnt it possible that if the US in the future adopts false-flag attack tactics, the result could be a societal environment in which government habitually attacks its citizens, using the excuse that it is all in the national interest?
Senator Blather: On account o' th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity is sech a large group, we hafta reso't t'covaht operashuns aginst th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity. We need t'terminate, incaracerate, third-degree interrogate, an involuntarily transfer the resources of th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, so as t'prevent th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity fum committin' crimes aginst th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity. When it is firmly established thet govment has a right t'attack its citizens as a way of furtherin' th' nashunal interest; when it is firmly established thet govment has a right t'spread disinfo'mashun regardin' who acshully committed th' so-called crimes, when them who believe th' so-called truth an' clamo' fo' truth is considered insane, an' when them who commendably accepp th' disinfo'mashun as truth is respecked, we will then be in a posishun t'succeed in an' git away wif covaht black ops direcked aginst th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity. Then we will be able t'transfer th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity's money into our accounts, an' ev'ryone will believe our disinfo regardin' how we did not does it, an' them who rejeck our disinfo will be disrespecked as insane.
David Virgil: If the US in the future resorts to false-flag attacks against the US, could this create a problem in terms of the US being stampeded into doing things that are not in its national interest?
Senator Blather: It is in th' interests of th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity, t'git th' US t'do thin's thet is not in its nashunal interest. Tharfo'e th' US doin' thin's thet is not in th' US nashunal interest, acshully sarves th' interests of th' United States. Wifout false-flag attacks, it is difficult t'git th' US t'do thin's thet is not in its nashunal interest. But eff'n th' US reckons thet some group thet has not acshully attacked th' US has indeed attacked th' US, then we will be able t'trick th' US into doin' sumpin thet is not in its nashunal interest. This hyar will weaken th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity an' proteck th' hard wawkin' mino'ity fum attacks by th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity thet'd otherwise be inevitable.
David Virgil: It is hard to understand how the US doing things that are not in the US national interest, could be in the national interest of the US.
Senator Blather: When th' US goes t'war, fightin' some war thet is not in th' US nashunal interest, this hyar results in soldiers whose families is part of th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity problem, gittin' killed off, which makes th' wo'ld safer fo' th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity. When th' US spends money on wars, thet means less money fo' th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, so th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity becomes less of a threat. When th' US goes t'war, money gits transferred fum th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity t'respeckable members of th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity who haf stock in, an' who wawk fo', hard-wawkin' co'po'ashuns thet prodooce th' thin's needed fo' th' war effo't an' thet is staunch allies of th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity. Such co'po'ashuns will haf fine reason t'be loyal t'th' hard wawkin' mino'ity eff'n in th' future we implement th' false-flag tackics, on account o' th' hard wawkin' mino'ity will be th' source of their riches.
David Virgil: Is'nt there a danger, that if in the future the US adopts false-flag tactics, innocent people will end up being framed for crimes that they did not commit?
Senator Blather: We in th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity is indeed a small mino'ity. In o'der t'win our struggle aginst th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, we need t'be reso't t'covaht black ops precisely on account o' we is so outnumbered. Tharfo'e an invironment in which we kin git away wif framin' so-called innercent varmints is a fine invironment which will keep th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity at bay. Innercence is in th' eyes of th' beholder. We kinnot aller th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity t'decide who is innercent an' who is not. We, th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity, hafta decide who is innercent an' who is not, an' th' ress of th' country, th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity, has t'accepp our judgement regardin' issues sech as who desarves t'be framed fo' sumpin they did not does an' who does not. Thar is lazy as a houn'dog varmints who desarve t'be framed fo' crimes they did not commit. Sometimes framin' some so-called innercent lazy as a houn'dog varmint fo' a crime they did not commit is th' tackically wise thin' t'do.
David Virgil: If the US in the future resorts to false flag attacks, could there be a problem because the US defenses against false-flag attacks have been shut down, a foreign nation say foreign nation A, is able to trick the US into going to war against some other foreign nation B, the result being that foreign nation A comes out ahead and the US and foreign nation B end up being the losers, the end result being just what foreign nation A wanted?
Senator Blather: Trest me, eff'n thar evah is sech a thin' as fo'eign nashun A doin' sech a thin', it will be th' hard-wawkin' mino'ity an' fo'eign nashun A wawkin' togither so th' end result will be fine. Th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity is not smart inough t'pull off sech a trick. Thet's one reason whuffo' we is tricky. On account o' we is better at tricks than th' lazy as a houn'dog majo'ity.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Suffrage & national performance & behavior historically

2009-09-28T02:27:00.004-04:00

I have put up a web page on the Angelfire server, entitled: "Suffrage and Voting Rights in Relation to Historical Performance of Nations & Conflicts Between Nations...An attempt to discern what forms of government produce the best national performance, and how governments featuring different levels of democracy can be expected to interact with each other" at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/suffragehistory.htm

High school soccer page updates

2009-09-25T20:31:00.006-04:00

I updated the web page about Massachusetts high school soccer and football at http://coolname001.angelfire.com/baystatesoccer.htm at 8:28 PM 9/25/2009. This page was originally linked to in my post at http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/09/boys-high-school-soccer-in.html.

This is the blog-post (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/09/high-school-soccer-page-updates.html) at which I will keep a record of updates of the page so that you will not miss out on the latest thing.

1:26 AM 10/2/2009 woops I changed my mind. This blog-post will no longer list the updates at the http://coolname001.angelfire.com/baystatesoccer.htm page. Henceforth the updates will be listed on the http://coolname001.angelfire.com/baystatesoccer.htm page itself. I updated the page today, the page is now at the version 2 stage.

Boys High School Soccer in Massachusetts--rankings by leagues and divisions

2009-09-25T04:48:00.004-04:00

I got frustrated by what seemed to me to be confusion regarding questions such as: how strong are the various leagues and divisions in Massachusetts Boys High School soccer; how are these leagues and divisions organized; how do they correspond with the better known football leagues and divisions. So I set out to cast some light on the darkness.

The information I obtained is shown at:
http://coolname001.angelfire.com/baystatesoccer.htm

Cooking Brazilian Feijoada de-mystified

2009-09-20T17:15:00.001-04:00

To simplify the Feijoada cooking process, I created two web pages.

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/Feijoadaingreds.htm is a table for keeping track of ingredients and ingredient quantities used in various versions of Feijoada.

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/feijoadamethod.htm is a rewrite of the difficult to understand Whole Foods recipe at http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/recipe.php?recipeId=1161.

Both pages halve the quantities in the Whole Foods recipe changed from prepared for eight, to prepared for four.

I tried the Brazilian Feijoada at the Whole Foods Hot foods bar in Newtonville. I thought: this tastes great; it uses inexpensive ingredients; it uses nutritious ingredients; it provides a balance of vegetable and meat ingredients; it uses meat ingredients to render vegetable ingredients more appetizing and palatable than they usually are.

Alexx, a guy who works at the Deli at Whole Foods Newtonville, told me that Brazilian Feijoada is 'Brazilian slave food'. In fact the next time they had Brazilian food at their hot foods bar there was no 'slave food' Feijoada available. I assumed Alexx knew what he was talking about because he looked South American. However, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale I read that Feijoada is Brazil's "national dish".

Wikipedia states at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoada that "In Brazil, Feijoada is considered the national dish, which was brought to South America by the Portuguese, based in ancient Feijoada recipes from the Portuguese regions of Beira, Estremadura and Trás-os-Montes".

So Feijoada actually is not merely a 'slave food' but rather the flagship food of Brazil. Then again maybe some think that the New Word Order is that a national food is a slave food because a typical person in a nation is merely a slave.

Kale is indeed nutritious, "very high in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, and reasonably rich in calcium." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale). Kale has a long history of being an important part of the diet in Europe.

(Patients taking meds such as Warfarin should consider avoiding Kale, says Wiki, because Kale increases Vitamin K levels, whereas the meds are attempting to reduce vitamin K levels).

The black beans in the Feijoada are according to Whole Foods (http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=2) extremely nutritious, a great source of antioxidants, fibre, protein, and minerals. The vegetable protein in the beans compliments the animal protein in the pork.

The broth used in the Feijoada is a natural source of many helpful nutrients such as Gelatin, which ounce for ounce is extremely high in protein (http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/brothisbeautiful.html).

Swine-flu Vaccine: negative public health impact of vaccine-refuseniks easily balanced out by hypothetical tiny positive effects for refuseniks

2009-08-26T03:19:00.002-04:00

Dr. John Cohen, recently appeared on WCVB TV (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20309509/detail.html) to express his indignation regarding the supposedly horrible consequences of persons refusing to take vaccines. He opined that those who refuse to be vaccinated, increase the risk of infection for persons other than themselves.

"I think it's horrible," said Dr. John Cohen (who looks like a boyish looking innocent looking white-haired bespectacled blue-eyed Irishman), a pediatrician and staunch supporter of vaccination (regarding 1.3% of Massachusetts kids not getting vaccinated). "There's no religion in this world that says you shouldn't immunize your child....Those (unvaccinated) kids are more apt to get the (H1N1 Swine Flu) disease therefore more apt to spread it therefore more apt to get your child in trouble"

"Team 5 Investigates" proudly reportED that it has "reported extensively" on the vaccination refusal; they are clearly in the camp of the vaccine-promoters.

Thus, the focus here will be on how those who refuse vaccination impact those who agree to be vaccinated, as opposed to how they impact their own group which is those who refuse vaccination. After all, if those who refuse vaccination really are as bad as Dr. Cohen says they are, wringing one's hand over how they harm themselves by refusing vaccination is silly.

Dr. Cohen speaks as if it were all very simple: his idea is that the increased risk accruing to the good guys who are vaccinated, due to the refusal of the bad guys to be vaccinated, of course outweighs the risks (such as maybe a small disaster turned into a huge disaster, & responsibly knowledgeable persons not allowed to opt out) and bullying intrusiveness involved when vaccinations are mandatory as opposed to voluntary.

Methinks that this may well be yet another example of an over-rated Jewish doctor, produced by a governmental/medical institution that artificially and unnaturally over-emphasizes rote and brainspeed, putting his foot in his mouth.

One feels like retorting, if these vaccinations are so great, than what have the vaccinated got to worry about, in terms of being infected by the un-vaccinated?

So let's take a look at something that is underemphasized, the facts:

The AP (http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/07/health_officials_predict_swine.html) on July 24, 2009, reported that according to Tom Skinner, of the CDC: thus far, 0.03% of the swine-flu infected population in the US has died and in the future, 0.4% of the US Swine-flu infected population is expected to die.

The AP article states 1 million current US swine-flu cases could balloon to 122 million US cases if a vaccination program is not implemented. This implies that 1 million currently infected with swine-flu in the US (according to the CDC), could end up infecting 122 million persons in the US with the Swine-flu in the absence of a vaccination program.

Reports (http://www.cjmed.net/news/info/id/33?PHPSESSID=ea880b282c1baa7c1b48fa5e4e12b022) are that in the 2007-2008 flu season, the flu vaccine promoted by the US government had an efficacy rate of 44%; meaning that those getting the vaccine had a 44% lower chance of contracting the flu, compared to those not getting the vaccine.

Thus if you assume that the swine-flu vaccine will also likewise similarly have an efficacy rate of 44%, meaning those taking the vaccine will have about 56% of the chance of contracting the swine flu compared to those who do not take the vaccine, you could say that one percent of the US population refusing the vaccine would: result in 440,000 additional cases amongst 150 million vaccinated (one in 341), infecting 0.29% of the vaccinated group; and, 780,000 additional cases amongst the 150 million unvaccinated, infecting 0.52% of the unvaccinated group. The total comes to 1,220,000, which is one percent of the 122 million new Swine-flu cases the CDEC expects to occur if there is no vaccination program; the infection rate amongst the vaccinated given these estimates is indeed 56% the rate amongst the unvaccinated.

Yet, even if the one percent who refused the vaccination were to be vaccinated, they would still hypothetically end up causing 246,000 cases amongst the150 million strong vaccinated group, and 437,000 cases amongst the 150 million unvaccinated because the vaccine efficacy rate would give immunity to only 56% of them.

If you assume in making the calculation that 50 million of the population are vaccinated and 250 million are not when the one percent refusing vaccination results in a 1.22 million increase in total cases, you find given that the vaccinated have an infection rate that is 56% of that of the unvaccinated, that the 1.22 million in increased cases would be distributed as: 123,000 or 0.25% amongst the 50 million that are vaccinated, and 1,100,000 or 0.44% amongst the 250 million that are unvaccinated. The total again is 1,220,000, and the rate amongst the vaccinated is again 56% the rate amongst the unvaccinated

If you assume in making the calculation that 250 million of the population are vaccinated and only 50 million are not when the one percent refusing vaccination results in a 1.22 million increase in total cases, you find given that the vaccinated have an infection rate that is 56% of the unvaccinated, that the 1.22 million in increased cases would be distributed as: 896,000 or 0.36% amongst the 250 million that are vaccinated, and 320,000 or 0.64% amongst the 50 million that are unvaccinated. The total is again 1,220,000, and the rate amongst the vaccinated is again 56% the rate amongst the unvaccinated. Yet, even if the one percent who refused the vaccination were to be vaccinated, they would still hypothetically end up causing 502,000 cases amongst the 250 million who have been vaccinated and 179,000 cases amongst the 50 million unvaccinated because the vaccine efficacy rate would give immunity to only 56% of them if they decided to be vaccinated.

Tech note: It is the rigidity of this particular model (assuming that whatever the percentage that is vaccinated a one percent refusal to be vaccinated will still produce 1,220,000 additional cases), that produces the variance amongst the scenarios. The formula is solve for: 0.56 times the number vaccinated plus the number unvaccinated equals 1,220,000.

By this rigid model, as the percent of the population that is vaccinated increases, the percentage of the vaccinated population that gets the disease due to the refusal of the refuseniks, increases. Therefore to paint a picture that shows the refusal to be vaccinated doing as much damage as possible, henceforth I will use the figure from the situation featuring the incidence of the disease amongst the 250 million of the population that has been vaccinated, going up by 0.36%, or 896,000 additional cases, due to the infectious influence of the vaccine-refuseniks.

Thus one percent of the population, 3.04 million persons, refusing to take the vaccine could be pessimistically said to increase the risk of disease for
250 million vaccinated persons, by 896,000-502,000 =394,000 per 250 million people. Thus one percent of the population, 3.04 million persons, refusing to take the vaccine would increase the incidence of Swine-flu disease in the 250 million strong vaccinated population by 394,000 cases or 0.16%.

Meaning, 3.04 million people refusing the vaccination, would result in 394,000 additional cases of the disease amongst the 250 million who are vaccinated, a ratio of one vaccination refusal causing 0.13 additional cases of disease in the vaccinated population; which is also a ratio of 8 vaccination refusals causing one additional case of swine flu in the vaccinated population.

Non-fatal cases of Swine-flu produce natural immunity, leading to the end of the pandemic/epidemic. The CDC (according to the AP report) estimates that 0.4% of the persons infected with swine flu or one in 250 will die as the percentage infected rises. Thus one could say that 8x250=2000 vaccination-refusals can be expected to cause one death in the vaccinated population; and, one vaccination-refusal will result in 0.0005 deaths in the vaccinated population.

The average person lives to be about 80. Thus one can assume that the average vaccinated person who dies because others have refused to take the vaccine, will be age 40. That computes to 40 lost years of life. On the other hand, amongst the 2000 vaccine-refusers who cause the one death in the vaccinated population, more than 0.02 lost years of life for each of the 2000, would total to more than 40 lost years. That means that if each of the 2000 vaccine-refusers who cause the one death of the vaccinated person, were to lose just 7 days of their life due to negative effects of the vaccine, this would more than balance out the 40 years of life lost by the person who died because 2000 persons refused to take the vaccine.

And this is not even taking into account, that a large percentage of those who will die from the Swine-flu, will die because their unhealthy lifestyles that they have voluntarily chosen, have impaired their immune systems.

If the average age of those refusing the vaccine is 40 years, and on average they have 40 years of life left to live, the loss of 0.02 years of life could be said to be analagous to a decline in the quality of life of 0.05 percent, because 0.02/40=0.0005.

Imagine that. If the quality of life of the 2000 persons taking the vaccine were to decline due to the vaccine by just 1/20th of one percent, compared to their quality of life not taking the vaccine, this would more than balance out the 40 years of life lost by the hypothetical vaccinated person who dies due to the refusal of the 2000 to take the vaccine.

There are credible reports that elements amongst the powers that somewhat secretly control the government dabble in: worship of Satan/Evil, deceit, schemes designed to reduce the population level through the destruction of human life, lack of national loyalty, theft, homicide, anti-Christianism, anti-white-europoid-ism, anti-Americanism etc etc. There are legions of tales regarding the selfishness of those who profit from the sale of vaccines and regarding their attempts to corrupt medical and government personnel.

Auto-ethnocentric, racist, malicious, misanthropic literature such as (portions of, some of it is no doubt inspired honorable literature) the 'Talmud' and 'the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' have historically been quite popular in the ethnic group that Dr.Cohen and WCVB General Manager Bill 'the mouse that roared' Fine are products of. I could swear that once I heard Mr, Fine giving one of his little speeches on TV, and while watching him I heard his voice say, 'I worship Satan', though for some hi-tech reason his lips, like those of a ventriloquist, did not indicate that he was saying this (maybe it was just a hallucination).

I can imagine some new 'psalm' of theirs: 'For the people of the world are the Canaanites of Canaan, made to be exterminated by us, the chosen Joshuas, just as Joshua exterminated the Canaanites to establish our people'.

And then there is simple incompetence--this year the US compnay Baxter managed to send millions of doses of vaccine contaminated with Swine-flu virus to Czechoslovakia (the 'vaccine' was supposed to be distributed to several European nations) (http://www.examiner.com/x-6478-NY-Page-One-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Swine-Flu-Mandate-US-Government-puts-states-on-notice). Nevertheless, Baxter is producing 80 million doses of vaccine for distribution in five countries (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-baxter-swine-flu-aug5,0,5981377.story).

People have become able to judge the extent to which they as individuals are liable to being harmed by a vaccine (this kind of thing can run in families). A certain percentage of the population compared to other groups, does a better job of assessing the potential cost/benefit of vaccines. There are always persons who are wiser than the government in any given subject.

Given these factors, it as of now certainly seems to be madness to say that vaccinations such as the swine-flu vaccine should be mandatory, when the situation is approximately speaking, that if every person refusing the vaccine were to have their lives shortened by just 7 days, or have the quality of their life decrease by just 1/20th of one percent due to being forced to take the vaccine, such would more than cancel out the loss of life accruing in terms of vaccinated persons becoming fatalities because of the infectious effects of persons refusing vaccinations.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Cooking up 5-star tasting food at minimal cost in money, energy, time

2009-08-19T00:55:00.004-04:00

I have made important strides forwards in the art of cooking in the past few weeks.

I have figured out how to produce five-star restaurant or five-star hotel type taste, while at the same time minimizing the amount of money expended (using inexpensive ingredients), minimizing the amount of time and energy expended (simplification), and not bothering with referring to any recipes.

My first success was:

Meat ingredient: boneless steak from Whole Foods, on sale at $6 per pound.

Marinade ingredients: curry leaves, crushed red pepper, tamarind brick, clarified milk made from buffalo milk;all mixed up in a blender.

I chopped up the meat into approx 3/4 inch by 3/4 inch cubes. I mixed up the meat in a bowl with the marinade. I let the meat sit in the marinade for 1-48 hours. I put the marinated pieces of meat shish-kabob style on a skewer (long stick-like sharp pointed thing). I turned on the gas flame on the oven and cooked the meat directly over the gas flame for about 5 minutes per piece of meat. I then mixed the cooked meat with a little clarified butter made from Buffalo milk and ate it, sprinkling some sea salt on it.

My second success was:

Meat ingredient: boneless london broil steak, on sale from Hannaford for $1.89 per pound.

Marinade ingredients: fresh coriander leaves, small very hot-flavored green peppers from the Indian store, crushed red pepper, cayenne powder, Jamaican all-spice berry powder, pitted dates, sea salt, tamarind brick, clarified butter made from Buffaloe's milk, 'liquid smoke'.

The process of cooking this second time was the same as described above, only this time I found that sprinkling some fresh lime juice using a piece cut from a lime on to the finished product is also tasty.

The main difference this second time was the pitted dates in the marinade which I felt was a good addition.

This second time I felt that the use of the powdered Jamaican all-spice in the marinade, was a mistake. Seems dried powdered spices work well for grilling seafood (I saw a cook at Whole Foods do this), and for curries in which the dried powdered spices are intensely cooked for a long time. Dried powdered spices in a marinade however, penetrate into the meat and never get cooked as much as they should if a proper taste is to be produced.

However after the all-spice had been mixed with the marinade for at least 24 hours, seemed the allspice blended in real good and began to seem to be an honorable part of the marinade.

This second time I discovered that each skewer of meat can be cooked for as little as 3 minutes.

First time I tried this recipe, marinating the London Broil for just 1 hour seemed enough. Third time, 4 hours of marinade seemed insufficient, the meat being too hard to chew. Seems what happened, is that my teeth and gums got tired out the first time after the meat had been marinated for an hour; thus the third time, the meat being marinated for 4 hours seemed insufficient because my teeth and my gums had been worn out by chewing the meat (London Broil is relatively tough). I estimate as of now, that London Broil that is used with this marinade should be marinated for at least 24 hours. Then again you might be the type whose teeth and gums do no not get worn out by chewing meat that is relatively speaking slightly tough. Or mayb e the problem was that the most recent time, with the meat marinated for 4 hours, I was beginning to run out of marinade so had less to use per pound of meat.

To some extent I have second thoughts re the use of the clarified butter in the marinade; however, the fact remains that it is difficult to turn meats like boneless fatless meats into something that tastes like a five star restaurant produced food, yet I succeeded in the trick (without spending lots of time or energy or referring to cumbersome recipes) by employing the buffalo-milk clarified butter in the marinade.

I am indebted to Sasanka Chandra for discovering the clarified butter made from buffalo milk at the Apna Bazar (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS300&num=100&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=%22apna+bazar%22+waltham&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&view=text&latlng=16854212408803434689).

Apparently, despite the fact that reports indicate that the clarified butter made from buffalo milk is nutritionally and also taste-wise superior to clarified butter made from cow-milk: clarified butter made from buffalo milk is very difficult to find in America; and, people are so backwards in their attempts to be forwards, that in America the clarified butter made from buffalo milk is labeled as 'Desi' (translation: country, hicksville) clarified butter, with the fact that it is made from buffalo milk hidden from the public.

Sasanka and his father Pramod Chandra were able to discern that the 'Desi" clarified butter was actually clarified butter made from buffalo milk.

They were able to do this even though the clerk working at the store, did not know if the clarified butter was made out of cow milk or buffalo milk. Thus you have a real problem trying to tell the difference between clarified butter made from cow milk and clarified butter made from buffalo milk. Clarified butter made from buffalo milk tends to be yellower in color, smells different, and definitely tastes different. I guess what you might need is some South Asian type who can tell the difference between the two.

Strange, I always request tourists to bring clarified butter made from buffalo milk back to America for me when they return from their trips to India, and here we have those who produce clarified butter made from buffalo milk and sell it in the US, too embarrassed to admit that the clarified butter is made from buffalo milk not cow's milk.

There is some farm in the Boston area in Vermont or something that makes yogurt and milk made from Buffalo milk but they do not make clarified butter made from buffalo milk.

The remaining challenge is to somehow combine the marinade with grilled vegetables, so as to produce grilled vegetables and plenty of liquid sauce that are flavored similarly to the meat, and which can then be combined with rice for a tremendous dish. Problem is this marinade on the first try never lost its pasty texture, even when cooked in a pan.

Third Success story:

A desert people were very impressed by:

Grind up lots of pistachios. Mix pistachios, organic half and half, cane sugar, the flesh of one mango, and French vanilla ice cream. Serve, enjoy. Simple.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Coolest Times of Day During Summers

2009-08-17T03:13:00.005-04:00

I realized that although I faced a situation involving having to do difficult athletics workouts outdoors, I was ignorant regarding facts such as what are the coolest and hottest times of the day during August, and how much these coolest and hottest times of the day differ from each other.

The info I discovered re this question can be found at my page at http://coolname001.angelfire.com/coolestimesofday.htm. The page contains a data table and therefore is on the angelfire table and not in this blog.

Body weights worn during long distance running--theory and results

2009-08-14T18:58:00.004-04:00

I recently put up a couple of pages on the angelfire server, because the pages contain tables, which are hard to get into this blog.

I realize that I did not know enough regarding how much I should wear on wrists, ankles, thighs, and in the weight vest, when wearing such weights while doing the six mile run walk routine, involving a mile run, then a mile walked then a mile run then a mile walked then a mile run then a mile walked for a total of six miles.

So I investigated regarding how much the various parts of the body weigh in proportion to the body as a whole, in order to determine how much the various weights should weigh in proportion to each other if things are to be properly balanced. You can read what I discovered at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/bodyweightproportions.htm

You can read on the poundage of the various weights I wore during the runs and the results starting with Aug 8 2009 at:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/6mileruninbodywts.htm

Racist cop who arrested Gates a disgrace--Congressman Calvin Luther King

2009-07-23T23:08:00.004-04:00

For immediate release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 23, 2009

Congressman Calvin Luther King condemns racist arrest of professor Henry Louis Gates

Hilda Kelly Blather Garden
6:67 PM EDT

CONGRESSMAN KING: De conduct uh de honky pigs offica' who arrested Super honcho Gates wuz some racist outrage (Applause.).

If some black joker impersonatin' super honcho Gates busts into super honcho Gates' crib and invades de crib uh super honcho Gates, well, den de brother joker impersonatin' super honcho Gates should be allowed t'bust into super honcho Gates' crib if he wantsa, widout bein' subjected t'racist harassment by honky pigs (Applause, shouts of 'right on!').

We absolutely gots'ta not tolerate, racist honky pig officers likes Sergeant Crowley, stirrin' down strife and disco'd between super honcho Gates, and brother dudes impersonatin' super honcho Gates who bust into super honcho Gates' crib. Such attempts t'divide and conqua' are bound t'fail (Applause, shouts of 'remember Isandlwana').

We live by de memo'y uh de wo'ds uh Christ, rememberin' dat Christ said, dat dose who fail t'show hospitality t'cribless brother black men, gots'ta be damned t'hellfire (Applause, shouts of 'praise de Lo'd').

Super honcho Gates be proud uh his liberal politics, he gots struggled against da damn racist injustice which be black dudes who racist honky pigs puh'secute, and brother black dudes who be impersonatin' dudes likes super honcho Gates, bein' deprived uh a roof upside deir haids (Applause, chants of 'Ungawa! Black Power!).

We gots'ta object t'racist attempts t'deprive super honcho Gates uh his right t'be hospitable t'de hypodetical brother black joker who might bust into his crib . Super honcho Gates be a nice kind joker who enjoys showin' hospitality t'cribless brother black men. 'S coo', bro (Applause.).

We shall overcome da damn racist honky pigs who interfere wid us marchin' fo'd t'a new wo'ld o'der, in which cribless brother dudes gots' a crib, cuz' dey be allowed t' impersonate dudes likes super honcho Gates and gain entry t'deir crib (Singing of 'Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day').

Yeah dude super honcho Gates wuz angry, but da damn point is, dat dese cribless dudes who be impersonatin' dudes likes super honcho Gates t'gain entry t'deir crib, who we is helpin' t'find cribs despite racial injustice, naturally get angry when dey is confronted by honky pigs when attemptin' t'bust into de cribs owned by hospitable gentlemen likes super honcho Gates Dey know dat if us victims uh racism overcome, dat dey gons'ta be able t'conqua' de racist honky pigs officers who meddle in de hospitality brother dudes show t'deir broda' black men, by loudly accusin' de racist honky pigs uh racism, de result bein' dat da damn honky pigs retreat t'deir stashuns (Applause.).

De stupid Sergeant Crowley should consida' himself t'be real lucky t'have addamanistered moud t'moud resuscitashun t'de great hoopball star Reggie Lewis when Reggie Lewis had some heart attack. Ya' know? A'cuz Crowley dun did dis, he finds favo' wid us de homeys 'n buddies uh de homosexuals, who is puh'secuted by de jealous Christians who hate us rich sucka's.

De only reason Crowley be not hangin' at da damn end uh a noose as uh dis minute, be dat luckily fo' him, he addamanistered moud t'moud resuscitashun t'Reggie Lewis when Reggie had his heart attack. Ya' know? (Applause, 35 minute standing ovation.)

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

If the well-established Polio vaccine increases non-Polio non-cancer deaths by 0.01%, (seems) it then should not be administered

2009-07-17T06:07:00.004-04:00

What then of the proposed mandatory never-used-before Swine-Flu vaccine?

There has been much horrifying talk in the alternative media regarding the danger that vaccines that will be administered en masse to the public for the purpose of the prevention of 'Swine Flu', will due to accident, incompetence or worse, end up killing and wounding huge numbers of Americans. I mentioned this to my father, and his response was to tell me that a close relative of the famous Dr. Salk who invented the Polio vaccine, was a friend of my mother, and what a nice guy Dr. Salk was.

So I decided to take a closer look at the Polio vaccine, which my father apparently considers to be an iconic symbol of vaccination water-into-wine type stuff.

My opinion as of now is that the Polio vaccine is yet another example of hi-tech disease-fighting engaged in by humans, being unnaturally focused on one particular disease, the result being that the advantages derived from reduction of the incidence of the targetted disease, is at least in most localities, more than balanced out by the negative impact in terms of increased incidence of other diseases.

Keep in mind, when it comes to cost-benefit, it is reasonable to suppose that the cost-benefit of the rookie Swine-Flu vaccine, which is to be produced by an apparently mistake-prone corporation, and which will be targetted on a virus that quite possibly will have mutated into a form the vaccine has no effect upon by the time the vaccine is administered, will be inferior to the cost-benefit that has been produced by the well-respected Polio vaccines produced by Saints Salk and Sabin.

"The polio vaccines developed by Jonas Salk in 1952 and Albert Sabin in 1962 are credited with reducing the global number of polio cases per year from many hundreds of thousands to around a thousand.[7]...In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic became the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.[81]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis).

Thus there is evidence that the Polio vaccine, has (worldwide) reduced the chance of becoming disabled or dying due to Polio, from approx 0.5%, to approximately 0%.

"In 1998, the National Cancer Institute undertook a large study, using cancer case information from the Institutes SEER database. The published findings from the study revealed that there was no increased incidence of cancer in persons who may have received vaccine containing SV40.[48] Another large study in Sweden examined cancer rates of 700,000 individuals who had received potentially contaminated polio vaccine as late as 1957; the study again revealed no increased cancer incidence between persons who received polio vaccines containing SV40 and those who did not.[49]"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine)

Thus there is also evidence that the polio vaccine does not increase the risk of getting cancer.

However cancer accounts for only approx 23% of all deaths in those over 18 in the US (http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx).

Therefore, even if the Polio vaccine increased death rates from causes other than cancer by only 0.7%, this would outweigh the benefit produced by the Polio vaccine, even if you assume that a person disabled due to Polio is equal to a person being killed by some disease other than Polio.

Beyond this:

Polio is more common in the world outside the US than it is in the US. This tilts the equation in the direction of being even less tolerant of the collateral damage of the vaccine causing diseases other than Polio. If you change from looking upon the vaccine as causing a reduction in Polio-produced paralysis from 0.5% in the world to 0% in the world, to looking upon the vaccine as reducing Polio-produced paralysis from 0.25% in the US to 0% in the US, then just a 0.4% increase in fatalities from diseases other than Polio caused by the vaccine, would mean the vaccine did more harm than good even if you count Polio-produced paralysis as being as bad as death from some disease other than Polio.

Beyond this:

There exist, effective alternatives to vaccination when the goal is prevention and treatment of Polio. Even Wikipedia itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis) has pointed out that an effect of improvements in sanitation has been that children have not been naturally exposed to mild levels of Polio infection which has caused upwards pressure on the Polio incidence rate (indicating that natural low level of exposure to Polio could be used to produce immunity to Polio). Taking account of such, again tilts the equation, the result being the level of tolerable increase in non-Polio produced mortality caused by Polio vaccinations becomes even less if the good done by the Polio vaccinations is not to be outweighed by the bad. Such (taking into account Polio rates in the US being relatively low) could easily bring the equation to the point where no more than a 0.2% rise in mortality caused by diseases other than Polio, is tolerable if the equation is to vindicate the Polio vaccines as doing more good than harm (even assuming a death from a disease other than Polio is as bas as being paralyzed by Polio).

Beyond this, let's level the playing field and remember that in the US only 5% of Polio cases resulted in death. Let's assume that the ratio of non-fatal adverse consequences of diseases is basically the same for Polio and other diseases. Let's stop assuming that a non-Polio death is equal to Polio-produced partial paralysis, and assume a Polio produced death is equal to a non-Polio produced death. Under such assumptions, even if the mortality produced by factors other than Polio were to increase by 0.01% due to Polio vaccinations, the Polio vaccinations would statistically come out as having done more harm than good.

Off the bat having looked at the evidence for one evening, I would have to say that the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that one can expect more than just a 0.01% increase in mortality due to causes other than Polio, as a result of Polio vaccinations (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS300&q=%22polio+vaccine%22+%22heart+disease%22).

Wikipedia seems to reflexively admire the Polio vaccine simply because 99% of the people who get three shots of it become immune to Polio.

What comes to mind:

"This hyar injeckshun gives 99 percent of th' varmints who take th' shot, immunity aginst th' ho'rible noo liberal-houn'dog-flu virus. Th' venerable Wikipedia an' me yer Senato' Blather agree, eff'n yo' folks take th' vaccinashun shot, it will become completely impostible fo' 99 percent of yo' t'become infecked wif th' liberal-houn'dog-flu virus! So seein' thet 99 percent of yo' kin become like gods, then obviously th' varmints like Hobbs who is postulatin' thet fo'cin' th' populashun t'take th' shot is a mistake, is idiots, an' crazy, o' both"

In contradiction of Senator Blather, imagine that the incidence of some disease is one in ten thousand. Now if vaccination enthusiasts begin to enthuse that the situation would be improved through use of a vaccine that provides 99% of those who take it with immunity, while it accidentally gives 0.02% of those who take it the disease it is designed to prevent, guess what? Vaccinating the population would double the incidence of the disease. And this is not taking into account corruptions such as standards being changed so that more cases of the disease are counted before the vaccine is administered as opposed to afterwards.

A nurse named Sheri Naaken makes several points against the Polio vaccine:

The Polio death rates were declining before the vaccines were introduced; several experiments have shown that the vaccine increases the incidence of Polio; Polio has been over-reported prior to vaccine programs and then under-reported after vaccine programs; Dr. Sabin himself, who developed the Polio vaccine, declared that the vaccine was ineffective; children of women who received the Polio vaccine 1959-65 experienced a thirteen fold increase in brain tumors; respiratory syncytial (RS) virus; AIDS originated in the use of the Polio vaccine in Africa; may doctors believe the Polio vaccine has increased the incidence of Leukemia; Polio is caused by vitamin B1 and mineral deficiencies, pasteurised milk, and a lack of fruit juice; only 1% of those who contract Polio virus develop serious symtoms, indicating something more than a virus is involved in the manifestation of the serious symptoms; improvements in santitation and hygiene have produced declines in Polio that have been attributed to vaccines; vitamin C, chiropractic methods, 'Nurse Kenny' treatment, have cured Polio at much higher rates than conventional medical techniques; William C Douglass MD reported in 1996 that the Salk/Sabine vaccine's suppression of the Polio virus resulted in the Polio virus being replaced in human bodies by viruses similar to the Polio virus which cause adult muscle weakness (http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/polio2.htm http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/polio3.htm). Dr Richard L Bruno (http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?id=3658&t=CFIDS_FM) also makes the last point re Dr. Douglass' work identifying viruses similar to Polio that have stepped into the vacuum created by Polio's demise.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

map showing aspects of early history of man updated

2009-07-10T02:28:00.004-04:00

I have from time to time been updating a cool new hi-tech map I have created at Google maps. The map "Contains markers with info related to: hapologroup R origin and migrations, origins of Sri Lankan population, lost tribes of Israel, activities of the twelve apostles of Christ, all in one map".

The map is at:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=105467116726735397573.00046b03188baca4c1e96

These personal Google maps really are worth checking out (despite spending plenty of time on the internet I did not know about them for a long time). You can: create your own maps using your own markers; put text and links into markers; snap lines running between markers to roads; get distances between markers; place markers with extreme accuracy; see markers against satellite or terrain map backgrounds; draw lines between markers; color and label areas on the map, zoom the map, scroll the map and more.

Program that analyzes food amino acid contents to determine type of food

2009-07-06T08:46:00.006-04:00

I built a computer program written in javascript, which I named the "Free Online Foods Amino-acids-contents-type Calculator". This calculator greatly speeds up the task of analyzing the amino acid content of a food to determine whether it is a pre-physical-activity type food, a post-physical activity type food, or in-between.

The page containing the program is loaded at:

http://users.rcn.com/vincemoon/aminocalculator.htm

http://www.davidvirgil.qsh.eu/aminocalculator.htm

nutritition and cardiac health blog-posts andweb page tables & programs links

2009-07-03T01:36:00.008-04:00

Here is a list of my blog-posts, web-pages, and web-programs in the subject of cardiac health exercise and nutrition (chronological order from first written to must recent):

Blog Posts:

http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/jogging-is-bad-for-you-new-theory-of-dr.html
"Jogging is bad for you -- the new theory of Dr. Al Sears debunked"

http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/jogging-is-bad-for-you-cause-it.html
"Jogging is bad for you 'cause it elevates blood-levels of heart disease markers theory of Dr Al Sears debunked part II"

http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/heart-health-and-aerobic-exercise.html
"Heart health and aerobic exercise performance enhancing super-foods"

http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/myoglobin-used-by-body-during-prolonged.html
"Myoglobin, used by the body during prolonged aerobic exercise--providing the body with natural precursors"

http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/histidine-consumption-prior-to.html
Histidine consumption prior to prolonged aerobic exercise as a method to increase myoglobin production potential

Web pages and Tables:

I've been working on some tables accompanied by text, regarding the problem of optimal nutrition patterns as a way of promoting cardiac and general health, through providing the body with the precursors it needs for the chemicals that it produces when it engages in prolonged exercise (chemicals that as I've explained in previous posts, are a part of health, even though they are produced after just a little exertion by persons who are sick). I put the tables and text up on servers because tables are problematic at blogger.com, and I cannot load the code that runs a program on to blogger.com:

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/amino_acids_table.htm 6/16
Amino Acid Representation in Human Body and in Human Myoglobin based on 2009 research

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/aminoacidintakeadvice.htm 6/17
Essential amino acids, supplement-manufacturer recommended dosages compared to health-authority recommended daily intake

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/sportbiofuels.htm 6/27
Data/Estimates Table showing creatine myoglobin creatine-kinase micrograms per gram in human flesh and blood

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/exerciseprecursors.htm 6/28
Amino Acid requirements adjusted to focus on pre-exercise production of myoglobin, creatine-kinase-m, and creatine

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/nonessentialaminos.htm 6/29"State of My attempts to come up with estimates for mg/kg per day consumption requirements, for non-essential amino acidsFeaturing profound(?) math"

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/preexerciseaminos.htm 6/30bigzio june 29io tablio.EML"Estimates for essential and nonessential Amino Acid recommended intake in general and prior to physical exercise"

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/mealsactivitiesnature.htm 7/1 originally, but histidine omission error correction resulted in now 7/2 online)JUNE 30 SECOND.EML"The natural human pattern is a meal followed by an activity followed by a meal that differs from the pre-activity meal"

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/eggsforlunch.htm 7/2
"Pork beef bacon followed be exercise, followed by eggs, followed by fish and milk--the ideal pattern of combination for food and exercise?"
Here the focus was on lysine/glycine/leucine when it should have been on lysine/histidine/glycine, due to the accidental omission of histidine
in the previous page. Oh well.

http://coolname001.angelfire.com/eggsindeedforlunch.htm 7/3
"Amino Acids composition of egg-whites compared to amino acid composition of ideal pre-physical-activity and post-physical activity meals, reveals Egg-whites as a post-physical-activity food...Problem of devising a quantitative measure of to what extent a food's amino acid composition is post-workout, pre-workout, or neutral solved"

http://www.davidvirgil.qsh.eu/aminocalculator.htm
http://users.rcn.com/vincemoon/aminocalculator.htm
"Free Online Foods Amino-acids-contents-type Calculator...Input amino acid content values of foods into form and run online program to determine whether the food is a pre-activity, post-activity, or neutral type food...Use default definitions for ideal pre-activity and post-activity amino acid intake levels or input your own definitions of ideal pre-activity and post-activity intake levels"

Histidine consumption prior to prolonged aerobic exercise as a method to increase myoglobin production potential

2009-06-15T05:52:00.004-04:00

I was able to, with difficulty, find information regarding: the molecular weight of specicic amino acids in the human body as a percent of the total molecular weight of amino acids in the human body ( http://www.jadenutra.com/aminoacids.html); the composition of human myoglobin (http://www.aw-bc.com/mathews/ch07/c07emhp.htm, http://www.aw-bc.com/mathews/ch05/fi5p14.htm, the molecular weight of the various proteins that compose human myoglobin (http://www.webqc.org/aminoacids.php).

Thus I was by extrapolation able to estimate the difference between an amino acid's percent of total molecular weight in the human body in general compared to an amino acid's percent of total molecular weight in myoglobin. The idea being that the more the latter exceeds the former, the more the amino acids should be emphasized for consumption prior to prolonged aerobic exercise.

I found that certain amino acids comprise a higher percentage of the total molecular weight of myoglobin, compared to their percentage of the total molecular weight of amino acids in the human body.

My estimates (% of molecular weight of myoglobin, % of molecular weight of amino acids in body in general, the first stat divided by the second to produce a ratio for the third stat, the third ratio stat multiplied times the first stat to produce the fourth stat):

Table 1:

glutamate 10.4, 6.2, 1.7, 17.7; histidine 7.2, 2.1, 3.4, 24.5; tryptophan, 2.0, 1.1, 1.8, 3.6; lysine 14.9, 7.0, 2.1, 31.3.

The fourth stat in table 1 is an attempt to measure an amino acid's importance at a time when the intent is to increase myoglobin production potential in the body (at such a time amino acids that are especially important for myoglobin production should be prioritized).

The fourth stat in Table 1 is the highest for lysine (31.3), and the second highest for histidine (24.5).

Using the method used in the previous post of comparing ('essential' amino acids only) an amino acid's percentage of total pieces of amino acids in myoglobin, to percent of total mg per kg body weight requirements, the figures for histidine are 12% and 6% a ratio of 2.0 (third stat in table 1). The 2.0 ratio figure times 12% = 24 (fourth stat in table 1) as an indicator of importance for timely production of myoglobin specifically, which is almost the same as the 24.5 figure for 'the fourth stat' for histidine derived from the method used today.

In the previous post (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/myoglobin-used-by-body-during-prolonged.html) I reported that since lysine's mg per kg estimated requirement is 17% of the total mg per kg estimated requirements for "essential" amino acids in the human body, whereas 29% of the pieces of amino acid in myoglobin are lysine, my estimate was that lysine should be emphasized when attempting to increase the body's myoglobin production potential.

The ratio of 29/17 = 1.7 for number of lysine amino acids in myoglobin as a fraction of total number of amino acids in myoglobin compared to kg per mg requirement for lysine as a fraction of total essential amino acids kg per mg requirements, is similar to the ratio I report in this post in table 1 for lysine's molecular weight as a fraction of total molecular weight in myoglobin compared to lysine molecular weight as a fraction of total molecular weight of amino acids in the human body in general.

The idea has been: improvement in terms of the amount of energy expended prior to the onset of fatigue lead to improvements in cardio health; such improvements can be facilitated by providing the body with precursors for creatine and myoglobin (which rise to high levels in the blood of marathoners during and after the marathon) prior to the body engaging in prolonged aerobic exercise.

Lysine's pre-eminent position in myoglobin, and dietary sources of lysine were discussed in the previous post; dietary sources of precursors of creatine was the subject of the post before that. In this post I discuss the importance of histidine, an important ingredient in myoglobin, and dietary sources of histidine.

The US National Rsearch Council stated in 1973, "there is no evidence that histidine is synthesized by mammals " (http://books.google.com/books?id=lIsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=%22there+is+no+evidence+that+histidine%22+histidine+humans&source=bl&ots=rDVyISBP8q&sig=wB1uRjbZjbrgjf2MR-dIjFnH0mQ&hl=en&ei=JO41SpWPO6K_twe455j5Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3). Wikipedia now says, "After reaching several years of age, humans begin to synthesize it (histidine) and it thus becomes a non-essential amino acid" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histidine).

The popular and scientific literature has divided the amino acids such as those that are used to form myoglobin molecules into "essential", "conditionally essential" (or "semi-essential"), and "non-essential" groups. Histidine depending on the information source and the time at which the info source provided the info, has been classified sometimes as non-essential, sometimes as conditionally essential, and sometimes as essential.

Histidine originally was classified as non-essential, because the body is able to maintain the nitrogen balance without consuming histidine.

Then concerns began to develop, that there arise circumstances during which, due to lack of histidine in the diet and/or the body's inability to produce sufficient quantities, the body's supply of histidine becomes insufficient.

According to the 2007 WHO technical report "PROTEIN AND AMINO ACID REQUIREMENTS IN HUMAN NUTRITION" (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/WHO_TRS_935_eng.pdf), "Histidine is considered to be an indispensable amino acid because of the detrimental effects on haemoglobin concentrations that have been observed when individuals are fed histidine-free diets"...Histidine was accepted in the 1985 report as an indispensable amino acid in human adults, despite controversy regarding its essentiality...Kopple & Swendseid found that nitrogen balance was negative in healthy adults and uraemic patients when diets were devoid of histidine for 25–36 days...A recent study confirmed many of these findings and showed that histidine depletion over 48 days resulted in a fall in albumin and transferrin, as well as a 24–28% decline in whole-body protein turnover. Because of the extended period of time (>56 days)".

The WHO report describes how the body deals with histidine shortages: "When a histidine-deficient diet was consumed for a prolonged period, a decrease in haemoglobin, in conjunction with a rise in serum iron,was observed...histidine pools may be maintained through the release of histidine from the degradation of haemoglobin (75), or through the reduction in haemoglobinsynthesis (82)".

Histidine is probably under-emphasized in the popular and scientific literature due to its history of being considered a "non-essential", or "conditionally essential" amino acid. Even today, the venerable Wikipedia classifies histidine as "nonessential" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#In_human_nutrition).
Hemoglobin and myoglobin are both involved in binding and transporting inhaled oxygen so as to make the oxygen available to muscles utilizing oxygen (aerobic means, 'requiring air'). The WHO report's finding indicates histidine shortage could result in degradation or reduction of synthesis of myoglobin, which is produced in large quantities by marathoners during the running of the marathon.

Dietary sources of histidine (http://www.nutrientfinder.com/nfsearch.php)

egg white dried flakes 1 lb 8 g

canned tuna fish 1 lb 6g

beef round 1 lb raw or braised, 5g,

pork loin chops raw 1 lb 5g,

swiss cheese 2c 5g

pork loin cooked 1 lb 4g

roasted soybean seeds, 2c 4g

pumpkin and squash seeds roasted 2c 4g

lupin seeds 2c 4gcottonseed kernels roasted 2c 3g

pheasant 1 lb 3g,

nonfat dry milk 2c 2g,

turkey roast meat raw or cooked, 1 lb, 2g

turkey pastrami 1 lb 2g

almond butter 2c 2g

dried pumpkin squash seeds 2c 2g

almond 2c 2g

roasted sunflower seeds 2c 2g

Note: dried pumpkin seeds provide half the histidine value of roasted pumpkin seeds (most 'authorities' ignore such important distinctions).

In the previous blog-post (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/myoglobin-used-by-body-during-prolonged.html), I wrote that my first and second choices for providing the body with lysine, an important ingredient in the body's production of myoglobin, are soybean seeds and pistachios.

In the post before that, I listed my top choices for providing the body with the ingredients for creatine (the creatine level in marathoners rises during their run): "Pumpkin seeds (excellent source of methionine and arginine); dried egg white (excellent source of methionine and arginine); dry gelatin powder (excellent source of glycine); milk (good source of glycine); tangerine juice" (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/heart-health-and-aerobic-exercise.html).

Several foods are good at providing precursors for all the biochemicals thus far of interest: creatine (glycine, arginine, and methionine), and for myoglobin (lysine, and histidine). A few foods have already been picked out as sources for creatine and lysine. What foods that have not already been picked out, should be added to the list of pre-prolonged-aerobic-exercise foods?

Yet again I make my choice with an eye towards avoiding troubles with animal foods such as cooking and cleanliness (at a later time I'll list the cooked foods that are useful for producing creatine lysine histidine etc).

Two cups of lupin seeds provide as much histidine as one pound of cooked pork loin; however, lupin seeds are difficult to find; even 'Whole Foods' does not carry lupin seeds or cottonseed kernels.

As of now, my first choice to add to my ingredient list with an eye on providing histidine in my diet, is almonds/almond-butter, which are available at Whole Foods.

My second choice would be (preferably roasted not dried) sunflower seeds.

Thus so far, my ingredients list is:

pumpkin seeds (excellent for glycine methionine & arginine for creatine; excellent for lysine and histidine for myoglobin)

Dried egg white flakes (excellent for glycine, methionine & arginine for creatine; excellent for lysine and histidine for myoglobin)

Dry gelatin powder (conventional jello mix, health-conscious whole foods jello mixes lack gelatin) (excellent source of glycine, arginine, and lysine; good source of histidine, not a good source of methionine);

Tangerine juice (facilitates absorption of methionine and glycine used to build creatine).

Milk (good source of glycine, methionine, arginine, lycine, and histidine)

Pistachios (very good source of lysine, good source of methionine, glycine, histidine, & arginine) (could not find the preferred soybean seeds at Whole Foods)

Almonds (very good source of arginine, glycine, lysine, & histidine, good source of methionine) (preferred lupin seeds unavailable at store),

Off the bat I would award points to each of these foods based on how good a source they are for the nutrients of interest and how many nutrients of interest they are a good source for; this provides me with a basis for determining how much of each substance should be used. On this basis my estimate is that the concoction should use:

1 unit milk, 1 unit tangerine juice, 1 unit pistachios, 2 units almonds, 2 units gelatin, 3 units egg white flakes, and 3 units pumpkin seeds (adjusted to provide desired consistency with flavorings added for palatibility) (unit can be tablespoon, half-cup, whatever).

The idea is to combine this (unsavory?) nutrient-rich concoction with an undisciplined consumption of whatever it is that I feel like eating.

Interesting how the stars of the show that have been discovered so far, are eggs and seeds. An egg is like a seed of a chicken.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Myoglobin, used by the body during prolonged aerobic exercise--providing the body with natural precursors

2009-06-13T07:04:00.002-04:00

In the previous blog-post (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/heart-health-and-aerobic-exercise.html) I discussed the foods that would provide the body with myoglobin and precursors to creatine. Seems whale-sushi would be the best source of myoglobin. I wanted to look for cleaner, simpler, sources of myoglobin precursors.

Looking at essential amino acids, an amino acid as a percentage of total essential amino acids in myoglobin, is one statistic (http://www.aw-bc.com/mathews/ch07/c07emhp.htm, http://www.aw-bc.com/mathews/ch05/fi5p14.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid#Table_of_standard_amino_acid_abbreviations_and_side_chain_properties).

The same amino acid's mg per kg body weight as a percentage of the total mg per kg body weight requirements for essential amino acids in total, is a second statistic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid).

The second statistic divided by the first gives you a third statistic. This third statistic shows the importance of the given amino acid in myoglobin, compared to its general importance in the body.

I find that lysine is the amino acid with the greatest score on this third statistic. Lysine also is the amino acid that is, compared to other amino acids, most present in myoglobin. Lysine is more present in myoglobin than any other protein/amino-acid.

Lysine's mg per kg body weight requirement is 17% of all the amino acid mg per kg body weight requirements combined; whereas, 29% of the 153 different proteins in myoglobin are lysine proteins. 29/17 = 1.7.

Thus I estimate that a good starting point for providing the body with precursors for myoglobin prior to prolonged aerobic activity would be substances that naturally provide high levels of lysine to the body.

Consumption of one substance, leaves less digestive power and stomach room available for another substance. All persons have limited digestive power, limited stomach space, and limited appetite. As a matter of timing, the substances that are especially required during prolonged aerobic activity should be consumed prior to prolonged aerobic activity and other substances that are not especially in demand during prolonged aerobic activity should be consumed at other times. Often, a food substance that rates especially high in terms of the presence of a given nutrient per ounce of the food-substance, also rates high with regards to certain other nutrients of interest also. The body is able to convert certain of the basic 20 amino acids into other of the basic 20 amino acids. A nutrient can be a precursor for more than one substance in the blood. All these facts add up to the conclusion that concentrating on a nutrient, lysine, that scores high when measured by the third statistic (described above) is a reasonable approach.

Leading sources of lysine (http://www.nutrientfinder.com/nfsearch.php)

1 lb egg white flakes 22 g
1 lb beef bottom round 13 g
2 cup pumpkin and squash seeds 12 g
1 lb canned tuna 12 g
2 cup egg white powder sifted 10 g
2 c soybean seeds 10 g
1 lb raw beaver meat 10 g
1 lb boneless pork loin 9 g
1.0 lb turkey pastrami 8 g
1 lb lamb foreshank 8 g
1 lb chicken roasting meat 8 g
1 12" pizza cheese meat veggies 8 g
2 c dry reg nonfat milk, 6 g
2 c egg yolk raw fresh 6 g
2 c egg whole dried 6 g
2 c cottonseed kernals 5 g
2 cup raw green soybeans 4 g
2 cup egg white raw fresh 4 g
2 c egg yolk dried 4 g
2 c scrambled eggs 4 g
2 c pistachio nuts 3 g
1 lb parmesan cheese 3 g
2 c hard boiled eggs 2 g

Notice how there are foods that are superior in terms of providing the body with what it needs to produce creatine, which are also superior for providing the body with what it needs to produce myoglobin. Looking at the above list my first instinct, is that the food that I would use to provide a basis for internal myoglobin production would be soybean seeds (my second choice would be pistachios). It's nice to be able to skip the fuss of dealing with meat poultry fish etc.

Egg white flakes (concise informative page at http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/PowderedEgg.htm), pumpkin/squash seeds, and milk have already been selected as precursors for the amino acids used by the body to synthesize creatine. It is reasonable to suspect that the diversity produced by combining soybean seeds with pumpkin seeds would be advantageous. .

The authoritative Wikipedia's blythe list of "good sources of lysine" is unintentionally deceptive as are most such lists. According to the venerable Wikipedia, "good sources of lysine are foods rich in protein including meat (specifically red meat, lamb, pork, and poultry), cheese (particularly Parmesan), certain fish (such as cod and sardines), and eggs" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine).

The wiki article lists lamb as if it was equal to egg whites for lysine content. Actually, dried egg-white flakes (can be eaten raw because pasteurized) give you three times as much lysine per pound as lamb; plus, dried egg whites do not require cooking and mix easily with other foods into one drink or dish.

Even with regards to eggs themselves, we would be missing out on some important facts if we simply took Wiki's word for it that eggs are a good source of Lysine.
As it turns out, the lysine value in eggs ranges enormously from 2 grams lysine in two cups chopped hard boiled eggs to 22 grams lysine in one pound of dried egg white flakes.

The general idea is to provide the body with precursors for substances that marathon runners start out with at a normal level in their blood, which then increase to a high level in their blood through production/release of such substances in the bodies of the marathoners during and after the running of the marathon. This should increase the amount of effort that the body is able to expend, prior to the onset of fatigue. This increase in fitness in turn should result in improved cardio-vascular health.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Heart health and aerobic exercise performance enhancing super-foods

2009-06-12T08:37:00.006-04:00

Building on the work of the previous two nights (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/jogging-is-bad-for-you-cause-it.html), (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/jogging-is-bad-for-you-new-theory-of-dr.html), I decided to take a stab at estimating what would be a good pre-game meal or snack for someone about to run 26 miles in a marathon or say 7 miles in a soccer game.

My theory was that the body should prior to the prolonged act of aerobic exertion, be loaded with the precursors to the substances that are at normal levels in the blood of marathoners prior to the start of the marathon, but end up at a high level in their blood during and after the marathon.

My idea was not that marathoners are an example of disease, but rather that they are an example of health. Most people: lack the energy to run a marathon; or, develop pains and injuries that interfere with the ability to run the marathon.

In support of my contradiction of the theory that elevated levels of creatine found in the blood of marathoners during and after a race indicate that running a marathon is an unhealthy activity,I discovered a dramatic and poetic example in nature:

"(1847) a German scientist named Justus von Liebig proposed that creatine is necessary to support muscular activity when he observed that wild (active) foxes contain more intramuscular creatine than foxes kept in captivity" (http://www.creatinemonohydrate.net/creatine_background.html).

Humans synthesize creatine within the body by using three ingredients: arginine, glycine, and methionine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine).

I finally found an online database that ranks various foods by how much of a particular type of protein they contain, at http://www.nutrientfinder.com/nfsearch.php.

Based on a cursory examination of the results from this database, I concluded that the best snack for providing the body with what it needs in order to produce creatines such as ck-mb, would contain the following:

Pumpkin seeds (excellent source of methionine and arginine); dried egg white (excellent source of methionine and arginine); dry gelatin powder (excellent source of glycine); milk (good source of glycine); tangerine juice (facilitates body's absorption of methionine and glycine,(see http://www.springerlink.com/content/j74444375w410380/).

Personally I'd mix these all up in a blender combined with some ingredients added for the sake of flavor and palatibility.

Another substance that increases in the blood level of marathoners when they are running the marathon, is myoglobin.

Along the lines that the events during the marathon in the bodies of the marathoners illustrate processes in bodies that are unusually healthy to the point of being able to run a marathon at a fast pace, my idea was that before engaging in some form of prolonged aerobic exercise, one should consume substances that provide the body with what it needs in order to produce myoglobin.

Yet again, I found poetic slash dramatic confirmation of my idea in nature:

"The richest source of myoglobin is the muscle of aquatic diving mammals, such as seals or whales, since these tissues need a very rich store of oxygen to see them through long anoxic periods during a dive" (http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/MolecVisual/bio13/bio13hemo.html).

"The role of myoglobin as an oxygen storage protein in the muscles of diving birds and mammals is well-established"(http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/287/6/R1304).

"Mammals such as whales and seals are capable of diving to incredible ocean depths...The sperm whale is able to dive down 3,000 meters (9,900 feet). That's *eight times* the height of the Empire State Building! Other deep-diving mammals include the bottlenose whale (2,000 m), the killer whale (1,000 m) and the elephant seal (700 m)" (http://www.patronsaintpr.com/samples/RIPLEY/guide5.htm).

I estimate as of now that superior sources of myoglobin to be (in approximate order of quality as a source of myoglobin):

(the pinker when eaten the better for these foods so long as the pinkness does not introduce risks of infection)

whale sushi; tuna sushi; steak cooked to rare; heart meat; cooked whale; cooked tuna; poultry dark meat; chicken legs; chicken thighs.

I base my estimate that such are the best sources of myoglobin on the following sources:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/turkeymeat.html

http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/story.php?id=2065

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4489

"Myoglobin: The pigment in muscle that carries oxygen" -- http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4489

www.informaworld.com/index/756845127.pdf

http://books.google.com/books?id=BJt610KOK8AC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=%22sources+of+myoglobin%22+sources+myoglobin&source=bl&ots=v1uoiT1rHw&sig=EJIgNHA0_WWee7WHhE2uSzfBxjw&hl=en&ei=SBgySqStAaTyMoaj2IkK

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS300&num=100&q=%22sources+of+myoglobin%22+sources+myoglobin&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

As of now my opinion is that these foods that contain the precursors to creatine and myoglobin combined with prolonged aerobic exercise will improve heart health.

My estimate is that the foods will promote the body's ability to exert itself during prolonged aerobic exercise, which in turn will lead to improvement in cardiovascular health.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Jogging is bad for you 'cause it elevates blood-levels of heart disease markers theory of Dr Al Sears debunked part II

2009-06-11T05:49:00.002-04:00

Dr. Al Sears bases his 'revolutionary insight' that prolonged aerobic exercise damages the health, on two pillars. Beyond these two pillars of Hercules (Hercules, musclebound and heavy avoider of prolonged merely aerobic exercise) lies his lost Atlantis filled with a deep respect for couch potatoes who avoid prolonged aerobic exercise, combined with just abhorrence of those who dare to engage in prolonged aerobic exercise.

One, he alleges based on a 1995 study by Queseda-Sanchez, that the increase in blood level of LDL and TG, and the increase in oxidization of such that occurs as a result of running the Marathon, proves that prolonged aerobic exercise is unhealthy. I demolish this argument at http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/06/jogging-is-bad-for-you-new-theory-of-dr.html in the post I put up yesterday June 10, 2009.

His second pillar:

"Worse yet, a report in the American Journal of Cardiology found distance running disrupted the balance of blood thinners and thickeners elevating clotting levels and inflammatory factors (footnote 5, referring to Siegel A, Lewandrowski EL, Chun KY, et al. Changes in cardiac markers including B-natriuretic peptide in runners after the Boston Marathon. American Journal of Cardiology, 2001 Oct 15; 88(8):920-23, http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22651044_ITM ). These changes are signs of heart distress, not a heart that's becoming stronger after exercise" (page 18, 'the Doctor's Heart Cure: Beyond the Modern Myths of Diet and Exercise', 2004, http://books.google.com/books?id=AbmXeprR82sC ).

Now I proceed to demolish the second pillar.

None of the substances for which Siegal tested the Boston Marathoners, are known as "blood thinners", or "blood thickeners".

Siegal tested for five different substances that have been used as markers for heart disease (their level of the blood in persons sick with heart disease is elevated). He tested for levels of myoglobin, ck-mb, cntI, cntT, and BNP in the blood of marathoners before and after they ran the Boston Marathon.

Siegal found evidence that supposedly 'condemns' the Marathoners. He found that myoglobin and ck-mb levels are at elevated levels in Marathoners both 4 hours after the end of the Marathon and 24 hours after the end of the Marathon.

He also found evidence to exonerate the Marathoners:

Levels of substances in the blood can be looked upon in relation to the upper level for what is considered normal. This can be expressed as a percentage--the level in the blood as a percent of the upper limit for what is considered normal. Here are these percentages for Marathoners prior to starting to run the Boston Marathon, as reported by Siegal:

Myoglobin, 43% 1998-99, 89% 2001; CK-MB 42% 1998-2000, 53% 2001; ctnI <1% 1998-2000, 5% 2001; ctnT <10% 2001; BNP 17% 2001.

Similarly the level of a substance in the blood compared to the upper limit of the normal range for that substance can be expressed as a percentage for substance levels found 4 hours and 24 hours after the Marathon by Siegal. These percentages as reported by Siegal:

4 hours after end of Marathon: ctnI 10% 1998-2000, 14% 2001; ctnT 41% 2001; BNP, 18% 2001.

24 hours after Marathon: ctnI 9% 1998-2000, 1% 2001; ctnT <10% 2001; BNP, 49% 2001.

Thus it is clear that:

With all substances tested for (myoglobin, ck-mb, cntI, cntT, and BNP), the marathoners were at a normal (myoglobin, ck-mb) or very low (cntI, cntT, BNP) level prior to starting the Marathon race

With all substances tested for except myoglobin and ck-mb, the marathoners were at a normal (ctnT) or low (ctnI, BNP) level 4 hours after the race

With all substances tested for except myoglobin and ck-mb, the marathoners were at a normal (BNP) or low (ctnI, ctnT) level 24 hours after the race

To look at these results and declare that they prove that running the Marathon is bad for the health because it throws the 'blood-thinner' vs 'blood thickener' balance dangerously out of balance, is ridiculous.

Myoglobin is the earliest and most primitive marker used to detect heart disease (the higher the myoglobin the more likely heart disease exists supposedly). Myoglobin levels rise when muscles are suffering temporary mild injuries as they do during long distance running. Myoglobin is used by the muscle cells to store oxygen so it is natural that it's level would rise during exercise.

CK-MB succeeded Myoglobin as the prince of the markers detecting heart disease (supposedly the higher the ck-mb level, the more likely the existence of heart disease). It helps skeletal muscle to utilize ATP so it is natural that it would rise in level during exercise. Elevated levels of CK-MB are commonly known to accompany extreme physical exercise, muscle weakness, and mild levels of dehydration such as one would expect during the running of a Marathon.

A paper co-authored by Siegal himself that came out in 2006, after Dr. Siegal's report of 2001 and after Dr. Sears' book came out in 2004, says: "Given their rich abundance in skeletal muscle and owingto the expected muscle injury related to prolonged running,elevations in myoglobin, CK, and the isoenzyme CK-MB more likely reflect acute skeletal muscle injury due to exer-tional rhabdomyolysis (5) with a cardiac signal somewhat obscured" ( http://66.102.1.104/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&scoring=r&q=cache:AGMt7CIFhzUJ:ajcp.ascpjournals.org/content/126/2/185.full.pdf+Siegel++%22changes+in+cardiac+markers%22++cardiac+markers
Saenz, Adam, " Measurement of a Plasma Stroke Biomarker Panel", Amer J Clin Pathol, 2006).

Cardiac-specific Troponins such as ctnI and ctnT seized the throne as markers detecting heart disease, replacing CK-MB. Cardiac-specific Troponins are preferred to ck-mb because they are found only in the heart whereas ck-mb composes 1% of the skeletal muscle CK. Cardiac-specific Troponin levels in the blood are not affected by acute or chronic muscle injury of the type experienced by marathoners during marathone, whereas CK-MB levels are. The Cardiac-specific Troponins can be detected in blood in which the CK-MB cannot be detected. Even microscopic myocardial necrosis can be detected by measuring cardiac-specific Troponin levels.

Therefore the Al Sears' interpretation of the Siegal 2001 study of Boston Marathoners (that the study proves that prolonged aerobic exercise is bad for you), relies on outmoded markers of heart disease and ignores the currently favored markers used for identifying the presence of heart disease.

Sears' interpretation favors as markers substances which the body uses to facilitate physical exertion and which are commonly known to rise in terms of level in the blood during intense physical exertion. The cardiac-specific Troponin markers are apparently much less effected by simple non-diseased states of physical exertion compared to CK-MB and Myoglobin.

BNP is a peptide hormone does nice things like 'promote urine excretion, relax blood vessels, lower blood pressure, and reduce the heart’s workload' ( https://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/BNP-An-important-new-cardiac-test.shtml). High BNP blood levels are also associated with heart disease and used as markers to detect heart disease. It is like a new rookie marker who suddenly rises to stardom amongst markers. At the time of its rise to stardom, the world had begun to shed its ignorant notion that high levels of substances that are at high levels in the blood of sick persons, are evil things.

The BNP level in the Marathoners was low compared to the upper limit of that considered normal both before and 4 hours after the Marathon. Then it went up to a normal level 24 hours after the Marathon. Therefore even those (such as Dr. Sears) who inflexibly associate elevated BNP levels with heart disease cannot say the BNP levels indicate the Marathon caused heart disease.

My estimate as of now is that the measurements taken by Siegal show, not prolonged aerobic exercise inducting disease into the body, bur, rather, changes that the healthy body goes through during and after exercise.

A healthy body running a marathon:

Starts out at a normal myoglobin level, goes up to a myoglobin level about sixteen times greater than normal four hours after the Marathon, then gradually declines to a myoglobin level about three times greater than normal 24 hours after the Marathon has ended.

Starts out at a normal CK-MB level, goes up to a CK-MB level about three times normal 4 hours after the Marathon has been ended, continues up to a CK-MB level that is eight times greater than normal 24 hours after the Marathon has ended.

Starts out at a ctnI level that is extremely low (in marathoners 3% of the upper limit of the normal range), goes up to low (in marathoners 12% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 4 hours after the marathon has ended, and then declines to a very low (in marathoners 5% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 24 hours after the marathon has ended.

Starts out at a ctnT level that is very low (in m arathoners <10% of the upper limit of the normal range), goes up to normal (in marathoners 41% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 4 hours after the marathon has ended, and then declines to a very low (in marathoners <10% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 24 hours after the marathon has ended.

Starts out at a BNP level that is low (in marathoners 17% of the upper limit of the normal range), stays at a low (in marathoners 18% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 4 hours after the marathon has ended, and then rises to a normal (in marathoners 49% of the upper limit of the normal range) level 24 hours after the Marathon has ended.

Note that these admirable marathoners, do not start out with an abnormal level of myoglobin or CK-MB. They start out with these at normal levels, and then during or after the run their bodies increase the level of myoglobin and CK-MB in the blood to abnormally high levels.

Thus it would appear to be an error to produce a sports drink that contains myoglobin and ck-mb that one is supposed to consume in order to achieve athletic conquest during prolonged aerobic endeavors.

Rather, the intelligent option would seem to be a meat, fish, protein and organic-acid based sports food that contains natural substances (minerals or derived from plants or animals) which enhance the body's ability to increase myoglobin and CK-MB levels in the blood without myoglobin and ck-mb being introduced into the body from the outside environment.

Siegal's data indicates that the bodies of the Marathoners produce and utilize myoglobin (a protein), ck-mb (an enzyme, an organic acid found in meat and fish), ctnI (a protein) and ctnT (a protein) during the marathon, and BNP (a protein peptide hormone) after the marathon. These substances are proteins and an acid, not fat.

By way of contrast, according to Sears, Marathoners 'burn fat' and this trains the body to store fat for use as a fuel.

Dr. Sears in basing his condemnation of prolonged aerobic exercise on the Siegal 2001 study, ignores the fact that the Siegal study ignores the possibility that certain of the substances tested might when at elevated levels in the blood, counteract the effects of high blood level elevations of other substances tested, or counteract the effects of biochemical changes produced by exertion which produce symptoms of such changes such as high blood levels for such substances.

Dr. Sears bases his persecution of prolonged aerobic exercise on a study which ignores blood levels of substances, high levels of which are, aside from exercise induced physiological states, associated with health as opposed to sickness. Such substances have been found to counteract the substances regarding which high blood levels are feared by Dr. Sears.

The 2001 Siegal study focused on substances that increase in terms of presence in the blood during exercise. It ignored substances that decrease in terms of presence in the blood during exercise.

There are substances which rise in terms of blood level in proportion to the level of fatigue; when a person is ill they fatigue easily. It is basically a leap of faith and poor logic to assume that if some substance is at an elevated level when sick, this means that elevations in levels of such generally indicate the presence of sickness.

In a nutshell to rephrase an important point, there are substances that increase in terms of level in the blood when the body is fatigued, and also during sickness. This is because during sickness, activities that are not usually tiring become tiring. The substances rise to elevated levels during sickness and also during health during and after physical exertion, because during sickness, being a couch-potato is as fatiguing as running the marathon is when healthy. The conclusion that since these substances are at elevated levels during sickness therefore an elevation of their levels signifies the presence of sickness, is a mere leap of faith.

Surprisingly, Siegal, who himself produced the 2001 report which Dr. Sears mininterpreted into something to base his 'prolonged aerobic exercise is bad for you' 'revolution' on, was still in 2006 co-authoring a report that declared:

"In our study, 70% of runners had a measurable level of troponin T after the race, and 23% had levels higher than the manufacturer’s recommended cutoff value. These results provide strong evidence of subclinical myocardial injury in middle-aged marathon runners...We report significant elevations in the levels of cardiacTnT, D dimer, MMP-9, and a multimarker stroke index innonprofessional middle-aged marathon runners before and after competition. The changes in troponin values in 70% of our subjects most likely reflect myocardial stunning and/or true ischemic cell injury" (Saez, 'Measurement of a Plasma Stroke Biomarker...', American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2006, http://66.102.1.104/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&scoring=r&q=cache:AGMt7CIFhzUJ:ajcp.ascpjournals.org/content/126/2/185.full.pdf+Siegel++%22changes+in+cardiac+markers%22++cardiac+markers).

Translation: Saez who co-authored the study with Siegal, is waving the alarm flag, because the marathoners had a Troponin T or ctnT level of 0.01 ng/ML pre-marathon, and this rose to 0.03 ng/ML after the marathon.

Absolutely un-frigging believable! the ctnT level of the runners starts out at 10% of the upper limit for the normal range before the marathon, and ends up at 30% of the upper limit for the normal range after the marathon, and Saez and his co-author Siegal darkly insinuate that this indicates that running the marathon inflicts myocardial injury on the marathoners!

Incredible. If Siegal has been so unable to learn from his 2001 study so as to be able to notice that the ctnT level in marathoners scrutinized in his own studies has consistently both before, 4 hours after, and 24 hours after the marathon been less than 50% of the upper limit of what has been considered normal, how do you expect him to master the more subtle points that I, a mere dabbling generalist, have made earlier in this post with regards to his 2001 study?

Siegal apparently after his 2001 study continued to plow ahead testing out ever more and new bad guy markers whose presence in increased levels is associated with sickness. This time the new bad guy markers are 'De dimer', 'MMP-9', and a 'multimarker stroke index'!

The details regarding the new 'bad-guy' markers are another matter, but it is apparent that Siegal amonst other conceptual failures has failed to understand what I was able to grasp after reading his 2001 report, and what even the be-knighted general consensus ( https://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/BNP-An-important-new-cardiac-test.shtml) has recently begun to understand: the fact that some substance is elevated in the blood when people are sick does not mean that it is a bad guy substance.

Note: Siegal's attempt (in his 2001 report) to verbally express in plain text the contents of his data tables is confusing. The confusion is worsened due to: the non-html-table nature of his tables; the breaking up of the tables into several tables; the lack of use of 'percent as relative to upper-level-of-normal' and 'percent of total population' figures. What do you expect, html tables are beneath the dignity of Roxbury I mean Harvard University and it's disdain for the 'overqualified'. I estimate that Siegal would have understood his own results better if he had worked with HTML tables which can easily be annotated.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Jogging is bad for you -- the new theory of Dr. Al Sears debunked

2009-06-10T10:20:00.002-04:00

Dr. Al Sears has set forth a revolutionary theory that aerobic exercise such as long distance running is bad for you (linked to at the George Noory Coast to Coast website http://www.coasttocoastam.com/). This theory has apparently not yet been refuted by anyone or reconciled to and compared with the traditional theory adhered to by almost everyone even now, that aerobic exercise such as long distance running is good for you.

Dr. Sears in making his arguments combines: assertions not backed by evidence or citations of scientific literature; evidence that he says is backed by scientific literature without providing a footnote linking to the study; evidence supposedly backed by scientific literature that is footnoted and linked to a study.

Thus a mere assertion takes on the color of a hypothesis strongly supported by data.

His argument that long distance running is bad for you is combined with: arguments that long distance running does not improve the health and arguments that anaerobic type interval training boosts the health more than aerobic-type nonstop training like long distance running. These arguments are presented jumbled up together as if proving that long distance running is useless or not as good for you as intervals or wind-sprints, proves that long distance running is bad for you.

With regards to the idea that long distance running is bad for you, Sears presents two pieces of evidence:

A 1995 study by Sanchez-Queseda showing that long distance running increases the level of LdL (low density lipoprotein) and TG (triglyceride)in the blood and increases their oxidation (it is a commonly held belief that high levels of LDL and TG lead to blood clots and heart attacks)

A study showing that aerobic exercise disrupts blood thinner vs thickener level and elevates clotting level and inflammation

Also Dr. Sears asserts without providing any evidence that I can see, that: long distance type aerobic exercise shrinks the heart and the lungs; and, aerobic exercise results in the harm of the body producing fat for use as a fuel.

In this post I take up the argument re the long distance running type aerobic exercise increasing the LDL and TG levels and the level of their oxidization in the blood of the long distance runner during and after the long-distance aerobic exercise.

Sears' book that presents his theory that aerobic exercise is bad for you, was written in 2004; yet one of his main three evidential arguments against long distance running is based on a 1995 study.

Even an amateur such as myself could easily find in one evening, several studies that came out between 1995 and 2004 that contradict Dr. Sears' argument.

Several studies that have been done since 1995 have shown that persons who engage in aerobic long distance running type exercise have in their blood, both before they exercise and during and after the exercise relatively high (compared to less exercised individuals) levels of substances that counteract balance and neutralize increased levels of LDL and TG and increased oxidization of LDL and TG.

Even person who do not regularly exercise, produce during and after exercise elevated levels of substances that counteract balance and neutralize high levels of LDL and oxidization of LDL in the blood.

Dr. Randolph Howes has produced a lengthy and impressive pdf that challenges the whole taken for granted notion that high levels of LDL and high levels of LDL oxidization have anything to do with heart disease in the first place.

Although Dr. Sears enunciates the principle that wisdom is to realize that what is important is what happens to the body after exercise and that this is not the same thing as what happens to the body during exercise, Dr. Sears is focused on the elevated levels of LDL and TG in the blood during long distance exercise.

the consensus opinion as of 2009 as reflected by a review of the literature regarding the subject of elevated levels of oxidants caused by exercise: such elevated levels of oxidants may be healthy in that they trigger and promote reactions in the body which produce anti-oxidants or other beneficial chemicals. Meaning, these chemicals signal the body that the body has exercised, and prompt the body to react to the exercise by producing wonderful natural wholesome chemicals.

sears ignores that even the exercise that he adores and pushes, anaerobic exercise, releases into the body the same substances that he loathes, which are released into the body by the aerobic exercise that he despises.

Even Sanchez-Quesada himself, in a 1998 article coming out three years after the 1995 article Sears bases his argument on, argues that ascorbic acid as found in orange juice counteracts the increased susceptibility to oxidation of LDL that is caused by intense aerobic exercise.

I personally know from having studied training from the point of view of performance improvement, that it is a myth that interval training of the type enthused over by Dr. Sears, is 100% anaerobic and 0% aerobic.

Actually to some extent interval wind sprint type training is aerobic. Thus aerobic training of the type Dr. Sears despises, improves performance and results when it comes to the anaerobic training that Dr. Sears adores.

Anaerobic improvement promotes aerobic improvement and aerobic improvement promotes anaerobic improvement so one could say they are like two sides of a coin. I suspect that aerobics prepares the mind and the body for anaerobics.

Everybody know that if if you give a person a physical work level that outstrips his nutrient intake you can work him to death. Such a worker would be better off limiting his activities to correspond with his limited nutritional intake.

It is common sense that since healthy nutrients enhance athletic performance, this means that athletic performance uses up, depletes, the beneficial chemicals in the healthy nutrients.

Therefore with regards to point number one, the alleged harm caused to the body by long distance running type aerobic exercise due specifically to the increase in production and oxidization of LDL and TG, the logic and the evidence is overwhelmingly against Dr. Sears.

As of now I am convinced that the rest of Dr Sears' arguments alleging that aerobic exercise is harmful will likewise collapse.

My natural tendency is to sometimes feel like going out and running say 9 miles slowly non-stop. This is my way of recovering from the interval training of the type advocated by Dr. Sears.

Sometimes if the choice is between interval training and not doing anything, I will choose to not do anything whereas it would have been better if I had followed the alternative of doing slow nonstop long distance running.

Sometimes if I have not been exercising for a few days, long slow non-stop running comes naturally to me as the first thing to do when I start exercising again. The slow running loosens me up and prepares me mentally and physically for the challenge of the interval type running. Similarly the general consensus: increase in free radicals produced by exercise promotes healthy reactions that neutralize the supposedly harmful substances that instigate these reactions and also accomplish other beneficial effects.

Long distance nonstop running sometimes improves my sense of physical and mental well-being more than interval training. Quite possibly the optimal course of action for me is following my own natural inclinations, mixing wind-sprint interval type training with long distance non-stop runs.

I am an individual, different from all other individuals on earth. What is good for my mind might be different from what is good for the minds of others. What is good for my mind could be good for my body.

I've heard that successful men rest from one type of activity by performing another type of activity. Likewise, one could rest from aerobics through anaerobics and vice versa.

I say this all as someone who is not good at long distance running and would prefer to have to do it as little as necessary to maintain mental health.

I simply find that sometimes long distance running is the superior course of action; I and millions of others resent (or would resent if we knew about Dr. Sears) the implication that by going out and running a few miles nonstop slowly we are damaging our bodies.

We resent the idea of facing disrespect in society, unemployment and even high insurance payments simply because sometimes we like to go on long slow runs.

See:

http://books.google.com/books?id=AbmXeprR82sC&pg=PT23&lpg=PT23&dq=%22al+sears%22+study+aerobic+studies&source=bl&ots=Tn40ukn9Ks&sig=FFyJjdwjxFPam55Uo2bwctTo5Bw&hl=en&ei=8UgvSpXvE-GMtge9wsH8Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPT27,M1

http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/276/6/E1083

http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/ajvr.2000.61.886?journalCode=ajvr

http://www.acsm-msse.org/pt/re/msse/abstract.00005768-200702000-00010.htm;jsessionid=KvyGvZJZ6yy4L18K0LJvZblKJvcZXybn1bS0X79yl9G1cws39KD2!-1260103914!181195628!8091!-1?nav=reference

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/reprint/86/7/3243.pdf

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:eV91zk85Dt0J:perweb.firat.edu.tr/personel/yayinlar/fua_3/3_6141.doc+sanchez-quesada+%22increase+of+ldl%22&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://www.dynamic-med.com/content/8/1/1

http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/5/e22

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2642810

http://www.thepundit.com/downloads/cardiovascular.pdf

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

American Indian vs Whites Conflict Level of Intensity relative to population size c. 1835 AD estimated

2009-06-09T05:44:00.006-04:00

Joseph Smith Jr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr. ), who lived from 1805 to 1844, was the author of the 'Book of Mormon' (http://www.sacred-texts.com/mor/bom.htm , this site has the best version of the Book of Mormon, lots of chapters on one page that you can use the hilite and word search on, the poor website needs money). The main topic of the Book of Mormon is roughly speaking, unrecorded history of war between whites and American Indians prior to the arrival of Columbus etc c. 1492.

So I wanted to be able to visualize in my mind, what the fighting between the American Indians and the US whites was like during the time of Joseph Smith, as I felt this would help me to better understand Mormonism. I wanted to understand the level of conflict from the perspective of a 21st century person.

As usual researching the subject took too much time and energy because of writers having left important information out of the picture in the process of spewing out little nuggets of information. I had to draw together several different sources of info to make several extrapolations in arriving at my estimates regarding what the intensity level of the fighting was like relative to population size of the whites and the American Indians.

I wanted a visual picture that I as a 21st century person could understand, meaning, relative to the modern population of 300 million in the US, what would the annual war casualties be, if the proportion of casualties relative to total US population were to be the same as it was in the days of Joseph Smith, around 1835 AD.

My estimate as of now:

The American Indian violence in the US on average, from 1775-1894, 119 years (estimated US population in 1835 15 million, US native population 1 million), was proportionally speaking in relation to a US population of 300 million something like: US: 300 million population, 3200 killed per year, 3200 wounded per year, 1350 captured per year; American Indians: 20 million population, 7600 killed per year, 7600 wounded per year, 2300 captured per year. Imagine this continuing, year after year for 100 years, and you have some idea regarding the intensity level of the conflict.

In the 20th century, the US did not have war in every year. The US had war in about 20 of those 100 years. If you imagine the 119 years of warfare with the American Indians from 1775 to 1894 as five wars each lasting four years, the casualties in the wars with the American Indians can be looked upon as five wars each lasting four years, with each war on average, involving casualties as follows: 76,000 whites killed; 76,000 whites injured; 32,000 whites captured. American Indians: 180,000 killed; 180,000 injured; 55,000 captured.

Thus one can see that during the 1800s when Joseph Smith lived, the conflict between whites and American Indians was more than a mosquito bite.

Comes a time when we have to give up the childish attitude that violence between American Indians and whites can be understood simply by the amount of persons seen shot during cowboy movies about American Indians on TV.

Proportionally speaking, the violence in the 1800s between Whites and American Indians, in and of itself and aside from the other conflicts of the US, was approximately equal relative to the size of the US society, to US combat deaths in 8 Vietnam wars, or US combat deaths in WW I and WW II combined.

Thus Joseph Smith produced his anti-American-Indian Mormon religion during times involving what must have seemed like unceasing, eternal large-scale warfare involving Whites against American Indians.

At the same time the stats indicate the majority of Whites and American Indians never engaged in violence between Whites and American Indians.

Seems any time there is war and violence, the majority forget about the non-violent majority. Two different groups living peacably side by side, does not make the headlines and get turned into movies as much as two groups fighting.

If a group of people of 20 million (the US population today is 300 million twenty times larger than the US population of 15 million in 1835; , in 1835 the native population in the US is estimated to have been 1 million) suffers 7600 killed in war every year, that means roughly speaking that a male from said group who lives to age 75 has over the course of his lifetime about a 6 percent chance of being killed in war. This would seem to leave plenty of room for persons from the group who are not involved in violence.

My estimate is that respected scholars like Russell Thornton (who wrote a book entitled 'American Indian Holocaust' and is supposed to be the leading authority on American Indian demographics) overestimate the extent to which the American Indian was destroyed by the Whites.

Today in the US population, about ten percent of the Y-dna chromosomes are haplogroup Q, the American Indian haplogroup. Compare that to the American Indian population of one million being 6 percent of the total US population of 15 million non-Indian plus 1 million American Indian in 1835. Despite the most famous and classical period of white vs American Indian conflict, the 'Indian Wars' from 1865 to 1898, the percentage representation of the American Indian population in the US population genetically speaking, seems to have increased.

Sources of Extrapolations

US population c. 1835 AD
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/census.html
Texas state census
US population in 1850 was 23.2 million, 1860 it was 31.4 million; based on this I estimate the US population was 17.2 million in 1840, 12.7 million in 1830, 14.9 million in 1835

US whites killed in conflicts vs American Indians
http://books.google.com/books?id=79IP9HN_VKUC&pg=PT243&lpg=PT243&dq=%22indian+wars%22+killed+wounded+captured&source=bl&ots=r40EKzFPxd&sig=brpnaoNwV9Zf-IJ0vWGvFGrMvm4&hl=en&ei=Kv0tStbLLcuLtgetvsz_Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=24#PPT243,M1
'the Captured', by Zesch, 2005, p 235-6.
19,000 whites were killed due to conflict with American Indians during the 119 years from 1775-1894 according to US Dept of Interior report of 1894. That comes to 160 per year.

US whites wounded in conflicts vs American Indians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war
During the 1865-1898 Indian Wars US wounded was about equal to US killed

US whites captured
http://books.google.com/books?id=0RX3xCm9i5cC&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=%22indian+wars%22+killed+wounded+captured&source=bl&ots=kobI73QMhK&sig=enud3reYGLeSf2Qv9QvUIgSBNtM&hl=en&ei=Kv0tStbLLcuLtgetvsz_Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=43#PPA470,M1
'A Fate worse than death', by Michno, 2007, p 470
1000 Americans captured from 1860-1875, that is 67 per year.

American Indian population in US c. 1835 AD
http://books.google.com/books?id=9iQYSQ9y60MC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22american+indian+population%22+time-series&source=bl&ots=INOrZJgC1a&sig=hIYG8m8Hr-MRCAqz0t4lS6rdWAA&hl=en&ei=aRsuSpGcBNiLtgeAkvmDDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA31,M1.
'American Indian Holocaust', by Thornton, 1990, p 31-32
Russell Thornton's (supposed to be the leading scholar on this, I should get a nobel prize for wading through reams of his verbiage to extract this) estimate is that in 1492 when Columbus arrived, what is now the US contained 5 million natives or American Indians; and Canada 2 million; in 1900 the US contained 250,000 American Indians and Canada 100,000; the rate of change from 1492 to 1900 was linear. Thus I (not Thornton)) estimate that in 1835 the American Indian population in the US was 1 million, and the American Indian population of Canada was 400,000.

American Indian haplogroup representation in US population in 2006
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zdownload/papers/FSI-2006.PDF

American Indians killed
http://books.google.com/books?id=79IP9HN_VKUC&pg=PT243&lpg=PT243&dq=%22indian+wars%22+killed+wounded+captured&source=bl&ots=r40EKzFPxd&sig=brpnaoNwV9Zf-IJ0vWGvFGrMvm4&hl=en&ei=Kv0tStbLLcuLtgetvsz_Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=24#PPT243,M1
'the Captured', by Zesch, 2005, p 235-6
45,000 American Indians were killed in the 119 years from 1775-1894 according to an 1894 US Dept of Interior report. That comes to 380 per year.

American Indians wounded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war
During the 1865-1898 Indian Wars US wounded was about equal to US killed; so for now I estimate the same ratio held for American Indians. However Michno reports that during the Snake War (see section below re American Indians captured), 985 American Indians were killed, 209 wounded, and 303 captured.

American Indians captured
http://books.google.com/books?id=5ZExU-tGSz8C&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=%22indian+wars%22+killed+wounded+captured&source=bl&ots=VRmP2hi6i5&sig=KHxjIrAZ8NrfYqITAUJUAT-YsIU&hl=en&ei=Kv0tStbLLcuLtgetvsz_Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
'the Deadliest Indian War', by Michno, 2007, p 345
During the Snake War, the American Indians captured was 30% of the American Indians killed.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Mormonism: it's insights, it's distortions, it's negative and postive influences

2009-06-06T06:06:00.002-04:00

I met and shook hands with Danny Ainge at the Hannaford supermarket in Waltham MA during the month of May 2009.

Later I discovered that when I met him, he had just had a heart attack, a big thing for an athletic relatively young man. I sort of marvel at the coincidence of meeting him right after he had the heart attack.

I shook his hand, told him about the emails that I had sent the Boston Celtics. He twice told me that he gets "thousands of emails". I gave him a chance to volunteer a method by which I could communicate with him. He did not reject the idea of further emails being sent, or of paper letters being sent.

I told him about me shooting at rates of up to 40% from up to 27 feet from the basket with my eyes closed when shooting basketball shots; I told him about me sprinting 20 yards keeping the soccer ball off the ground but close to my body. I told him I realized that if everyone was as talkative as me, life would become unbearable for him. I felt as if it would be improper to take too much of his time talking.

After I met Danny Ainge, I read up about him on the internet, discovered that he was an active Mormon. So I read up on the Mormon religion on the internet.

My first reaction was that people who criticize Mormons develop tunnel vision as a result of which, they lose a sense of perspective proportion and relativity, failing to take into account how protestant christianity, Catholicism, and non-Christian religions can also be found to be defective and faulty.

Seems Mormons consider the Book of Mormon to be some kind of fictional novel inspired by God, similar to how Christians consider the text in the Bible to be inspired by God. Question becomes, what is the influence of people who ignore the fact(?) that the writer of their special fiction novel 'holy scripture', pretended to be transmitting words dictated by angels when in fact he was just creating a special work of fiction?

I do not claim to be an expert on Mormonism so you can forgive me if I spew out a little humor, exaggeration, and mistakes setting forth my understanding of Mormonism having spent a few hours tonight reading about it:

My Idea as of now re The Book of Mormon Story:

Long ago, (c. 600 BC) half of a group of white jewish immigrants to America turned black due to their wickedness and fought with the good white half; they went through a unified phase after Christ visited America; then there developed division between anti-christians and Christians and the anti-christs won and exterminated the Christians; goodness turns a person's skin white, and wickedness turns it black; the lighter-color a person's skin is the better a person he is; c. 1800 AD Mormons arrived and discovered this history of skin color in America, which according to them, contains the most profound lessons ever revealed to mankind.

Mormonism's Message to Mankind (most important message ever, they say):

1) Dark-skinned people like American Indians are genetically evil, white-skinned persons are genetically good;

Extrapolations based on Supremely Important Mormon message to mankind:

1) In modern times, whites are good and stay good whatever they do, and dark-skinned people are evil and stay evil whatever they do. This is because when whites become evil their skin color turns dark and when dark-skinned people become good their skin color turns white; at the same time there have been no reports of person's skin color changing. True some evil dark Lamanites joined the Nephilites and vice-versa, but when they changed sides there was a corresponding change in skin color.

2) In the old days things were different, good white people used to become evil and dark-skinned, and evil dark people used to become good and light-skinned. This we know from the inspired Book of Mormon.

3) The whiter a person's skin is, the better a person he is. This can be understood as follows: God cursed the Lamanites with dark skin because of their evil conduct; in the old days, people's skin would turn white when they were good and dark when they were bad;

4) Exposing oneself to sunlight is a sin because it turns the skin dark (recent word is a little sunlight can do wonders for disease prevention through the promotion of the production of natural vitamin D).

5) People with white skin are beautiful whereas people with dark skin are ugly. This based on the book of Mormon repeatedly associating white skin color with attractiveness and beauty but dark skin color with ugliness and repulsiveness.

Book of Mormon's Message from a more realistic, sympathetic, perspective:

The Book of Mormon sends the message that the white man, who is in a precarious position and has a tragic victimized past, has even more of a natural right to be in America than the American Indian, because: the white man's presence avenges historical wrongs perpetrated on more ancient white men, regarding which the white man feels a deep sense of loss and a justification for revenge; and because the white man is racially superior to the 'chosen people' the American Indians as evinced by his lighter skin color signifying moral superiority.

Ways in which Book of Mormon reflects current realities:

If any ethnic group is genetically special it is the group containing the descendants of the Jewish Christians who merged with the Gentile populations

There exists in America, the offspring of the Jews who rejected Christ, and the offspring of the Jews who accepted Christ (found amongst the Gentiles).

There exists friction between the two groups, the descendants of the Jews who rejected Christ (Lamanites(?)) and the descendants of the Jews who accepted Christ (Nephilites(?)).

The descendants of the Jews who followed Christ who are found amongst the Gentiles in America, are from the genetic/Christian perspective (I realize this perspective can be overemphasized): the true Israel, have the dignity of being the current chosen people second to none; through this dignity, are a natural and dignified presence in America; their dignity imparts dignity to the white Gentile peoples; they have had a tragic past and face a precarious future (Americans tend to overestimate the security of their own position).

Past migrations of caucasoid/white types to America are under-reported, seemingly due to a political correctness (PC) prejudice that results in 'scientists' acting like lawyers attempting to prove that the presence of white-man-types in the Americas prior to Columus was minimal. Conceivably, these white-man types were overpowered by East-Asian types in the struggle to survive in the Americas.

The PC-scientists would have us believe that all of the American Indian Y-Dna and MtDna is from haplogroups such as Y-dna haplogroup Q which are characteristic of the majority of the native-American population. However close inspection of the subject reveals that many different haplogroups are significantly represented in the American Indian population and that the haplogroup composition varies significantly from tribe to tribe.

Joseph Smith grew up in a time and place featuring speculation that the builders of the ancient mounds found in Smith's area, were white men not American Indians. The majority scientific PC-opinion is that these mound-builders were ancient ancestors of the American Indians.

However, there are reports that: male skeletons found in the mounds were around 7 feet in length and female skeletons around 6 feet in length at a time when the average American Indian was 5.5 feet tall (which translates to men being 7.5 feet tall compared to the 5'10" average of today); artifacts such as arrow-heads found in the mounds resemble early European artifacts; legends relate that the moundbuilders preceded the Indians and came from Mexico and prior to that from a land named 'Mu' that was submerged in a flood.

The de-glamorizing factoid is that several tall skeletons found in the mounds, had skulls containing two rows of teeth in both the upper and lower jaw.

Haplogroup Y-dna R is characteristic of whites of european ancestry and a large segment of the population in India. The recent advances in genetics-based history show that the Mormon instincts re whites and American Indians being closely related to each other, may not have been so far off the mark. the relative closeness of the American Indian Y-dna to white european Y-dna, tends somewhat to support the idea that white Americans are a natural part of the American landscape.

Symbolically speaking, haplogroup R (white europeans) is like:

A brother to haplogroup Q (American Indians); a cousin to haplogroups N (northern Asia) and 0 (E. Asia, China/Japan); a second cousin to L (India), and M (E. Indonesia/Papua-New Guinea; a third cousin to I (white Europe) and J (Arabs); a fourth cousin to G (Caucasus) and H (India); a fifth cousin to C (northeast Asia); a sixth cousin to D (Tibet/Japan) and E (Africa); a seventh cousin to B (Africa), and an eighth cousin to A (E. Africa).

Societies such as ancient Israel were able to maintain themselves as top-notch societies, despite suffering gigantic losses of men in wars and civil wars. This may have been due to the presence of polygamy, which allowed such societies to bounce back from the losses sustained. Ancient Israelite kings such as King David and his son King Solomon had so many wives and children that one suspects a deliberate plan to, so-to-speak improve the 'crops' by using the 'best seeds'.

Modern war could be said to damage the population even more than ancient wars, because in modern war it is so easy to kill off the best soldiers. In modern war, a significant percentage of the young men are excused from military service (about 30% of American youth in WWII). In modern war, the most competent men often receive the most dangerous assignments. Perhaps the societal insistence on monogamy is interfering with society's ability to bounce back from massive losses of males in wars.

Mormonism, sets forth the idea that persons of different skin colors can be genetically similar (the dark Lamanites and the white Nephites). Modern PC science may be correct in emphasizing genetic similarity of those who have different skin colors.

Mormonism's idea that the good and the evil are genetically similar would be applauded by the PC scientists and reflects current notions regarding the nature of reality.

Ways in which Mormon attitudes might promote psychological health in America

Looking at Danny Ainge's career one wonders whether Mormonism has effects like some kind of super-psychiatrist.

Seems that Mormonism may counteract ideas that can damage the psychological health of Americans such as: white people are bad guys; the white presence in America is unnatural; the white presence in America is not digified; white people are just somebody compared to the superior special race the Jews; a man having children with more than one woman is evil.

Mormonism forbids coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol. Abstention from such can promote an individual's economic well-being hence his psychological health. Americans are well-known to consume excessive quantities of mind-altering substances. Persons are beginning to suspect that abstention from consuming substances often consumed in society, can result in improved ability to attain to supernatural states of mind.

Those who radically underestimate the dangers threatening them, could be said to be psychologically sick. The Mormon legend re the disaster that befell the good white Nephites, on the other hand, could be said to promote a reasonable sense of insecurity. One could say that the idea that white people and good people are never endangered is hubristic madness.

Ways in Which Mormonism may have damaged America

The Mormons for a long time have been associated with whiteness, repubicanism, conservativism.

The conservative republicans like to blame anybody but themselves for the nation's problems. They tend to excoriate groups other than themselves for allegedly causing the despised societal problems that actually they themselves have caused. The conservative republicans: agitated to remove tariffs; agitated for tax cuts giving themselves more spending money; and spent excessively on imports. Thus in a sense they single-handedly generated trade and budget deficits that threaten to collapse the US economy.

(Ron Paul would retort that the problem has been US govt borrowing of money. However, the money was borrowed because of pressures generated by tax cuts and trade deficits. The borrowing of money did not cause the tax cuts and the trade deficits; in reality, the tax cuts and the trade deficits led to the borrowing of money. Fact is, that it is obvious that individuals families and societies can financially ruin themselves without borrowing money).

The money that was borrowed from foreign nations as a result of tax cuts are what 'stimulated' the economy and made the tax cuts look as if they had improved the economy.

There seems to be in Mormonism undercurrents of: a lack of rigor in terms of demands for precision with regards to 'facts' and words presented by others; a lack of emphasis on precision with regards to one's own words and actions; a devaluation of important criteria as a result of a hyper-emphasis on skin color. I wonder if such influences through their effect on the political process have damaged the United States.

Note: To be fair to the conservatives, the most recent dream I had: I was running 220 yard runs at Stagg Field on the campus of the U of Chicago. I was doing really well, improving very fast, becoming one of the fastest 220 runners in my age group in the US, getting into the top dozen or so in my age group. Rush Limbaugh was sitting on a park bench right outside the fence that surrounded the field. He was wearing a colorful suit and tie. His face was pink, almost red as if was blushing. He was sitting on the bench facing away from the track, but the reason he was sitting there was that I was doing great things in track and he is a sports fan.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Riddle--the decline and fall of Emerico Ribner

2009-06-04T10:18:00.006-04:00

Mr. Qeronimo was an American Indian. He married Jaffa Rasputin, who was half Jewish and half-Russian. they had a daughter named Jane R Qeronimo. She was like a mix of American Indian and white.

Mr. Efrico Rebelez was half-black and half-Spanish. He married Ebonya, who was black. They had a son named Ed Rebelez, who was black.

Ed Rebelez married Jane Qeronimo, they had a daughter named Elaine Queronimo JR Rebelez.

Mr. Rabble was a British white man, he married a white Irish woman named Roberta. They had a daughter named Rory Rabble who was white.

Mr. Ribner was a German-ancestry white man, he married Ingrid who was a white lady from Sweden. They had a son named Ian Ribner.

Ian Ribner who was white, married Rory Rabble, who was white. They had a son named Inderson R.R. Ribner, who was white (boldface=two paras I accidentally left out even after proofreading several times).

Elaine Rebelez on her father's side was 3/8ths black and 1/8th Spanish, on her mother's side she was 2/8ths American Indian, 1/8th Russian, and 1/8th Jewish. Basically she was about half-black.

Elaine looked like the mix of black and American Indian and white that she was. She was a light-skinned black with American Indian features.

As for Mr. Inderson Ribner, his ancestry was simpler: white, a quarter British, a quarter Irish, a quarter German, and a quarter Swedish.

Mr Inderson Ribner was put in the awkward position of a blind date with Elaine Rebelez. He took comfort in knowing that at least her mother's grandfather was Mr. Rasputin who was white; and her father's grandfather was a white Spanish gentleman Mr. Rebelez.

Inderson Ribner married Elaine Rebelez, they had a son named Emerico Rebelez Ribner.

Emerico was 70% white, if you count Russian, Spanish, and Jewish as white; he was 20% black, and 10% American Indian.

Emerico looked like a light-skinned black, or a dark-skinned white; handsome, with caucasoid features influenced by his American Indian ancestry.

Emerico had a distinctively American look, he had the dignity of a natural American. He was a great basketball player who appeared on national TV in the college finals. He was a good musician, gifted with a great voice for singing. He was a likeable and popular young man.

But something went wrong. He did'nt make the pros in basketball. Studying and working both fatigued him. He wasn't a fast thinker, or good at memorizing things. His parents divorced. And Emerico began to fall apart.

Emerico's father Inderson Ribner began to have secret doubts about having married Elaine Rebelez, Emerico's mother. He secretly began having guilty thoughts such as: "my ancestors were great white men but my son is a negro; if we treat blacks as just like us as I have, soon we will all be black".

Emerico while using his father's computer stumbled across text in which his father had written out his secret thoughts. Emerico looked in the mirror and for the first time felt shame regarding his skin color and the texture of his hair.

Emerico and his father Inderson turned to drink. They spent the family savings. They borrowed and spent. They sold what they had and spent the proceeds. And now Emerico and his father Inderson Ribner, totter at the point of collapse.

Some say it is all because the two of them both think Emerico is black because Emerico is 20% black, and feel guilty about helping to turn the world's white people into blacks.

Explanation of Riddle:

Emerico = USA

First letters of names, sometimes second or third letters of names, initials in names = Y-dna haplogroups.

Original link re US Y-dna haplogroups:
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zdownload/papers/FSI-2006.PDF
The above link is now a broken link. Now to get the paper in question:
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0379073805006158

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs