Reflections From a Murky Pond

You know how some sorts claim that people who have a negative attitude towards homosexuality are likely to harbor unacknowledged or repressed attraction towards the same sex? Well, the same thing seems to apply to astronomy and cosmology as well.

Well, You Know What They Say…

Now there’s a scandal that’s going to rock the halls of science. 😆 Then, so many of us already knew that the foremost Pluto hater in America, Neil deGrasse-Tyson was really on the DL.

It is a simple truth that one can judge the tenor and climate of the People by their conversations in bars, saloons, and pubs. Much like the barbershops of bygone days, it is in these places where men speak frankly of matter of greater and lesser import.

2 guys, Jim and Dan, talking in a bar:

Jim: Hey Dan, did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?
Dan: You mean the Mexican gun running?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean SEAL Team 6?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama saying the average family would save $2,500 on their premiums?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Forcing businesses to violate their religious beliefs by paying for drugs that abort the unborn?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Violating the rights and sanctity of our Churches?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Spending $634 million on a website that doesn’t work?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama calling for an increase in our national debt when he lambasted Bush for the very same thing?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Obama having NSA spy on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Saddling our kids with $17 trillion in debt of which they can never get out of and will not have as good a life as we have?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Bailing out Detroit after decades of corrupt Democratic management?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean voter fraud?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Intentionally trying to hurt Americans during the sequester?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Blocking veterans who secured our freedoms from their monuments but giving the green light for Illegals to use Monument Mall?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Denying school kids the ability to tour the White House but still spending lavishly on his parties?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean Obama saying we can keep our insurance and doctors if we wanted to?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the military not getting their votes counted?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The NSA monitoring foreign diplomats?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the use of drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?
Jim: No the other one.

Dan: The IRS targeting conservatives?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The DOJ spying on the press?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: You mean Obama spending $3.7 Trillion on Welfare Over Last 5 Years?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Millions of Americans losing their health care coverage?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Forcing Americans to include coverage in their insurance policies of items they do not want?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Denying Arizona the right to protect its borders?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Providing weapons to Syrian rebels many of whom apparently are Al-Qaeda and other Jihadists?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The president’s repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The president’s unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: The President using nearly $1 trillion dollars of stimulus money to fund his cronies?
Jim: No, the other one

Dan: You mean Fast & Furious?
Jim: No, the other one.

Dan: I give up! …Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who don’t pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck us again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?
Jim: THAT’S THE ONE!

It’s an odd feeling to live in America at a time when the regime trying to rule it is so wrong-headed, corrupt, and criminal that any specific one of Obama’s many failings and bad acts are literally lost in the fog of scandal that surrounds him and his regime.

Snakes On A Plane

I guess a lot of parents are glad that Samuel L. Jackson never decided to teach geometry. 😉

Snakes, however, are important to applied geometry and other forms of math and that is a Mutherfuckin’ math lesson because snakes aka Active Contour Models use some seriously Mutherfuckin’ math. 😆

What’s The Matter With You?

Isn’t it odd seeming that so many people living within America’s borders will place at least some of the blame upon the murderer if they kill someone by any other means than a firearm but, if the murderer did use a firearm, they place the blame on the gun and the murderer’s ability to possess it in the first place?

The logical disconnect is so broad and stark that it’s almost as if it’s not the murder that bothers them in the first place and that the gun grabbers want to disarm the American people for some other reason. That’s definitely something to keep in mind during the upcoming 2014 elections.

Liberals and Progressives always come out strong and strident for education, seeing themselves as the cleristry that must guide and tend the vast, unwashed masses of churls. Looking at them and the nation, this is ironic since they seem woefully bad at math.

Remedial Math – I.E., Math For Liberals

To add fixed numbers to these trends, let it be known that total K-12 education expenditures in the US are approximately $661 billion at this time, taking into acct all federal, state, and local funding. We are also spending 2.9 times per student (in inflation-adjusted 2013 dollars) in 2013 that we were in 1970.

Yet the educational outcomes in reading, math, and science are nigh on flat lined during that same 43 year period.

It doesn’t take a genius to see and understand that America is spending inordinate amounts of money on attempting to educate our nation’s youth and receiving little or nothing in return for it. And yet the Liberals and Progressives not only rail against reduction in this waste but demand even more, and more, and more of it.

We’re left with two possible conclusions. Either the Liberals and Progressives and very bad at math and never took even basic Home Economics in school or their constant demands for more and more spending on education have nothing to do with teaching America’s children needed skills and knowledge.