When Pat Buchannon and Eleanor Clift agree on an issue like whether to go to war with Iran, you have to wonder whether they might realize something that tea party rhetoric might blind you to, that a danger that is neither clear nor present is preferable to an Expense in men and money and blood, which would be certain.

The Dow Jones Industrial average surged above 13,000 today for the first time since the recession began four years ago, or to May of 2008 levels.  However it's common knowledge that the average stock a person owns seldom keeps up with the Averages, and I haven't a real clue why this is.  Still the average IRA has regained over half of its pre recession capital, which ain't bad.  The economy is picking up, and even Judy's vitamin business is picking up.  We're fast getting to the point where people stop asking themselves how much things will make a dent into their capital as they contemplate the elective buying of a new item. That's what I like to hear.  Just as negativism creates a downward spiral, economic optimism creates an upward economic spiral.

"If it weren't for Innovation - the World would still be flat"

-TV commercial

"No, if it weren't for Innovation - the World would still be round"

-Marcus Arelius

US troops in Afghanistan burned many copies of the Koran with the best intensions.  They were "old copies" which by practice should be either burried or dumped in some sacred river.  However the troopers said they did this because prisoners were "writing notes to each other" in the pages.  Apologies from the Obama Administration have been "profuse", which will no doubt give the Republican's grist for the mill in the next debate, if there are any viable candidates left.  People have pointed out that Christians are more obtrusive in their "missionary work" than ANY other religion - - and that even includes Islam.  (Selah)

They now say that Justice John Roberts has proposed that the Supreme Court not hear the case of whether Obamacare is constitutional or not till after the Election, because whichever way they rule it will go adverse for the Republicans because of it, in November, in ways this writer has already laid out.  Now the Court is to rule on affirmitive action in college admissions.  I would really rather that affirmative action not be allowed.  If my side is going to rightly protest about "matriculation" of children of alumni on a favored basis, then I should be just as strident in insisting that minorities play by the same rules everybody else has to play by.  Now of course there are postings in ads that "unemployed need not apply for a job".  This manner of discrimination is still quite legal, but logically and ethicly it makes no sense because "the best people" should be the sole criteria for landing a position, and not some emotionality about "every unemployed person is really a bum anyhow" as Newt Gingrich might wish to believe.

They now claim that antidepressents be used only for the most severely depressed patients because their use is more psychological and plecebo than actual.  I disagree based on knowing exactly when Dr. Wong started giving me plecebo Serax tablets.  You know of course it's when he was no longer hesitent to do so, and this "change of heart" should have raised red flags.  It was particularly because I came a drug that was helping (Zyprexa) and not taking a plecebo.  So I had the withdrawal from a real drug and shifted to a fake drug that I knew was never working.  Antidepressents never seemed to help my Dad, except perhaps to exaserbate traits he already had such as apathy and an increasingly slow mental process.  I would be the last person to lie to a patient.  I would want my patients to trust me, and being caught in one lie would endanger my credibility in other areas where I was being straight with him.  I do not believe that Sixty Minutes story.  For instance I know when someone has slipped me a diet Coke less from the taste, which I might miss, but more because the expected sugar boost failed to come.  (Selah)

I don't believe you people have the following material yet.  I'm going to go through it right now and embellish and expand on it, if expedient.

A desperate person in the desert for days does not drink the sand because he is desperate for water; he drinks the sand because he doesn't know the difference

You know you have a good or bad marriage if one Spouse can ask the other a direct question and receive an immediate, honest answer.  As a husband and by nature I would not ask questions I was already given an answer to.  If other men might abuse this, then I say that the fault would lie with the man and not the woman, whose credibility would remain exemplary.   Also if you discover the guy you are dealing with on money matters is deceptive or a crook, the thing to do would be to pay him off and not contest him because "It's only money" and Time still trumps money in this society.  You would not "pay him off" for his (or Her) benefit but for your own sense of personal integrety.  (Selah)

If the average person took the same ammount of thought as to the future that a computer programmer does, logical consequences of each decision he made, both good and bad, his life would have a whole lot fewer problems.  (Selah)

A man can lose Everything but if he still has his mind and his values, he does well.  Being in some sort of "co dependant" religion robs you of something a lot more valuable than money, or even Time.  Integrety is to be prized above all else.  (Selah)

One chess piece said to the other of the opposite color, I'm not like you.  I'm not going to play by your rules.  (This is playing the "I'm above it all" script) The other chess piece said to him, "Look fellow.  We are both pieces of carved wood and on this same chessboard together at this particular space and time- - so Deal with it!"

A corporation that will spend more money to evade the law rather than have to obey it, be it taxes or regulations, is all the same Less guilty than the system that allows such behavior to flurish.

Any person or nation that would spend more in personal assets to press their case than the award potential of that case or cause, Hates his opponent more than he loves either his own liberty or common sense

Today instead of computers let’s do a basic Energy Sources test.  Someone once said there were only Four energy sources in the Universe.  "Not even close", in my oppinion.  Two forces they list are ones you never ever heard of before or since if you missed the lecture class that day.  It’s one of those matching answer type quizes.  There is a list of energy sources and a list of things associated with that specific energy source.   OK?

Exothermic chemical reaction

Fusion reaction

Photo chemical

Photo electric

EHF radiation  (source not relivent here)

Electro-chemical

Nuclear (atomic )

Gravity

Convection

Electro-magnetic

Photon wave conversion *

Sound wave physical force

physical energy, molecular

OK match the following substances up with the terms above.

Phytosynthesis

Hydro electric power (source)

Alpha particles, newtrons

Barium sulphate

Fireworks

Kids diaria liquid supplement

Tidal power generation

Microwaving your meals

Copper Sulphate  (other than pool use)

Wind turbines

Propane gas  (C ₃ C ₈₎    - (see I can do that)

Black light posters

The H bomb

Freon gas

Avelanches 

Nitro Glycerine

Acetate (as defined by George Martin in 1962)

Acetate (as classicly defined by the Johnston Family)

Silver Chloride

Water condencation

Selenium

Vitamin D

Solar electric cells

Sun Spot interference

*this phenominon is broadly known by another term; You guess it