The Daily Skunk

God damn, what am I going to learn about next that I have to post on here.

Check this shit out! Unbelievable!! Disgusting! Sad…

The Giant Garbage Patch = 1500 miles wide!

http://www.physorg.com/news112248742.html

Feast or Famine around here when it comes to me posting on the skunk.

I’m sure you all must think I don’t do anything else, but sit on the skunk. Not true, I just have to post ideas when they are fresh and sometimes I will have to stop and come back to one post several times throughout the day to finish it. I choose to make the time… “it’s like my pleasure in other peoples leisure”.

Anyway, tonight I was driving and listening to the local AM radio and heard a very interesting interview.

The guy being interviewed is a physicist (don’t know who just caught this briefly) and they were talking about several ideas, but they touched briefly on the weakness of the big bang theory. They weren’t suggesting creationism, but what the guy said was very intriguing and something that I haven’t really considered before - therefore very skunkworthy.

The first thing relating to this is the “Horizon Problem” which is based on the fact that the temperature across the universe is uniform and how we presently understand galaxies and time isn’t in accordance with the big bang theory. The 2 important points are: 1) If the Big Bang actually happened this would have created a massive influx in temperature, essentially creating a high gradient of temperature across space that could not have evened out by our present time. 2) The way we view and understand galaxies is based on the speed of light, the basic connection and its confliction with the bang theory also relates to the fact that the lack of variation of physical properties within our univerese is inconsistent with the bang. Since these are the case and there is only very, very speculative suggestions as to why these things do exist, it seems reasonable to me that the big bang didn’t happen.

The other problem with the big bang is that it says that there was nothing before the bang and what I’m about to say isn’t my original thought. By saying there was nothing before the big bang theory it inadvertantly imples that there was “time” before the bang. So, the big bang theory contradicts itself.

Through my searching I did find some other very interesting ideas which really deserve their own post, but I’ve done enough already.

Check this out, Look at the “the string theories“.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy all these thoughts, they were new to me. Hopefully they are intriguing to you as well..

I just got this email today, interesting. Biased of course, but just shows how out of touch all presidential cadidates are with the average person - especially McCain.

Yeah Yeah, I hear it already - Not Obama he is for us, the middle class. He can relate.

To that I say listen close… NO, he cannot possibly relate to you or me or anyone who is reading this (all 2 or 3 of you… lol). Anyone who has a worth in excess of 100,000 million cannot possibly relate us, or even the lower end deci-millionaires, as McCain clearly points out.

Anyway, here it is and I removed my state and put insert yours here. That and removing an internet address “to make my voice heard” on Barack’s site is the only change I made.

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Dear Friend,

John McCain said in an interview yesterday that he’s lost track of how many houses he has.

Think about that: he actually has so many houses that he actually can’t remember how many he owns.

Every day that goes by, Senator McCain shows just how out of touch he is with the struggles of everyday people—whether it’s offering billions more in tax breaks for the oil companies or declaring that multimillionaires are members of the middle class.

We can’t afford another president who doesn’t get it.

That’s why it’s so important to tell your friends, family, and neighbors more about Barack – who he is and where he stands on the issues that matter most to (insert your state here).

You can make a difference right now by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper and sharing with your community why John McCain is simply out-of-touch with the struggles of everyday people and why Barack is right on the economy and right for (insert your state here).

Make a difference and write a letter to the editor today. [http://my.barackobama.com

As president, Barack Obama will put the middle class first. He’ll pass a middle class tax cut that gives 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut of up to $1,000—and he’ll give families an emergency energy rebate to help folks cope with rising prices. He’ll offer students a $4,000 tax break to pay for tuition in exchange for doing 100 hours of community service. And he’ll raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation.

John McCain’s tax plan leaves out 101 million middle class families—and gives tax breaks to the oil companies and multimillionaires instead. And he’ll offer more of the same tax breaks and giveaways to companies that ship jobs overseas, leading to the loss of millions of American jobs.

The choice is clear. Barack Obama will be on your side. John McCain won’t.

Not that you need more than 1, the one being to just look at him.  If you want to know what I’m talking about go to his site and the first picture you see of him standing there with a smart ass smirk on his face holding a cigar makes me want to spit in his face.

Rush is an asshole and this is a nomination for the loser of the year… or perhaps loser of earth’s existence. Whenever he makes one of his many asshole comments (which is at least 1 every 5 minutes) I can just picture thousands of business men sitting in their vehicles smiling, noding their heads in agreement and even giving their own additional commentary to themselves as they listen to him.

For example, this topped the cake for me today. He played one of his biased, taken out of context sound bites of parents and childeren talking about how the gas prices are effecting the childeren of low income parents this year and the parents ability to purchase new school supplies and new shoes, etc.

Of course Rush scoffed at this and made it sound like they were complaining about not having the “new” supplies when the old ones are just fine, almost sounding like “when I was a kid all my shoes had holes in them, I had to walk 7 miles each way in 50 below weather, and I didn’t complain” type bullshit.

Not that I actually believe it is possible, but just in case, somehow I get the luck of winning a lottery and  Rush Limbaugh himself reads this I want to say with the deepest sincerity… Fuck you Rush Limbaugh, fuck you.

And no, quite honestly I don’t really care about Obama or any other political figures Rush bashes on his show. These are not the reasons I dislike Rush Limbaugh. Even though I’m sure almost everything he says about them is B.S.

So, for my 5 …

1.) He presents slanted BS as though it were fact and for some reason otherwise intellegent people belive it.

2.) He bashed druggies relentlessly and at one point said that there should be harsher penalties… then he was busted and admitted on air that he had (or still has for all we know) an addiction to the pain killer oxycontin.

3.) He has a following of people who when calling in to his show say Kudos, or many Kudos to you Rush… they are referred to as dido monkeys.

4.) Rush brags about his extraodinary wealth, his extremely large house, his lavish spending and his vehicle that only gets 8 mile to the gallon 

5.) He gives people just enough information to spread misinformation on rather important topics.

I’m going to try and make this my last post about Rush Limbaugh. He and my posts on him are a complete waste of time.

I have recently started to look into Massachusetts/Boston law regarding firearms ownership for a private citizen with no criminal record whatsoever and this is what I’ve found.

The state requires citizens to acquire a Firearms Identification Card.

This card costs $100.  It lasts for 5-6 years depending on when, during the year, you apply for it.

In order to acquire such a license, you are required to take a firearms safety course - at your expense.  This course costs around $150.

In addition to this, the police have a habit of asking owners to prove membership at a gun club.  This is technically illegal, but who the bleep am I supposed to call when the police break the law?  A gun club membership costs between $150-$250 per year.

Furthermore, provided that you can meet the aforementioned requirements, the police might also ask you to get a letter from your doctor stating that you are qualified to own a gun.  What business a doctor has ascertaining my qualifications as a gun-owner, I am unaware.  Perhaps they have added this to the med. school curriculum.  My friends at Harvard Medical School tell me no, but everyone knows Harvard Medical School is a safety school.

Thus, the total bill for acquiring a firearms license to merely possess, not carry, a gun is$100+$150+150 or $400.  Add to this the inflated cost of firearms on the east coast and owning something as simple as a Remington 870 might run you in excess of $600.

Now, I’m a fan of licensing.  I think that all gun owners should be required to register their firearms and should be required to pass a licensing exam.  But this should not be at the gun-owners cost.  The constitution stipulates nothing about licensing, so if the state wants to mandate it, it should be at their cost.

Oh, and here’s the best part: my girlfriend just got a job working for Senator Kennedy’s office.  I’m hoping she can put in a good word for me, so that maybe, just maybe, this time the cops will stick to the law and not try to railroad me with “additional qualifications.”

Several upper midwest states, including MN, ND, SD, IA, WI & MI are spending a lot of money and effort on research of fragmentation of lead bullets in venison. Any thoughts on how this “lead fragmentation” issue will affect hunting in your neck of the woods or prairie?

Say what you want about Senator Barack Obama’s lack of experience, but remember that George Washington had literally NO experience whatsoever before he assumed the Presidency of the United States. Lincoln as well had little experience before his trip to the White House. And George Bush, sadly, had lots of experience in government and look how well that worked for us. I would rather have a literate (it would be nice to have a President who can speak a goddamn sentence without stuttering and “misspeaking” like a retarded meth-head), extremely well-educated (his tenure as the editor of the Harvard Law Review[1], an accolade shared by only those who inhabit the highest echelons of legal academia, speaks volumes of his intellectual capabilities), but inexperienced man who has new ideas that inspire hope in so many Americans who have looked at the last eight years of this abysmal failure of a Presidency with disgust. Four more years of this, please excuse my francais, ridiculous pseudo-Republican bullshit (try playing the game, “find a Republican who believes in small government” these days) will push this country off the precipice and into a very real and extremely nasty culture war. We live in a time when Conservative Republicans attempt to vilify their Democratic opponents by calling them “latte-sipping” and “arugula-eating” demonstrates the embarrassing devolution of the American political landscape.

What’s perhaps most disturbing about this election is that we are witnessing the biblical fall of John McCain – a man once known as the “Maverick” Republican now panders to the backwards, intellectually bankrupt Christian Right (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/13/AR2006051300647.html) has now run attack ads on Barack Obama that deal with none of the substance of his candidacy; instead these ads amount to nothing more than desperate feces-slinging.

Obama isn’t perfect. We need to know more about his healthcare position. We need to know about his plan to improve America’s security. We need to know the details of how he plans to extricate our armed forces from the quagmire that is Iraq. And on a personal level, I would love for Obama, and for that member, the rest of the Democrats, to change their ridiculous policy on firearms. He needs to remember that shitting on the constitution (secret prisons in Eastern Europe, thousands of detainees held without charges, having the Supreme Court determine elections, the curiously misnamed “Patriot Act,” which could hardly be less patriotic, etc.) is this current batch of Republicans’ shtick. Also, Obama has the added virtue of not having called his wife a “see you next Tuesday” in front of reporters.

Regards,

Jonathan P. Figdor