Saturday, September 5, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
RECORD BREAKING JULY HEAT -- AGAIN
The figures for July, 2015 are in. July, 2015, is the "hottest July on record."
The importance of this graph is not "just another hot July."
Rather, it is that the "little dots" reflecting the data have consistently stopped descending below the "Long Term Linear Trend" red line.
What that means is, If we make the red line more accurate, it's NOT STRAIGHT, but rather CURVED UPWARDS.
The termininology I employ to describe this is, "It's 'going asymptotic' -- it's turning up faster and faster."
It conforms convincingly to another recent development -- the fact that the Methane Line on the graph showing the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases has overtaken the carbon dioxide line ...
What that reflects are things like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FM0hczFNDZI
Ever-more-powerful methane geysers in Siberia, Canada, and Alaska, and more and more methane being release from the oceans, especially in the polar regions, where ocean currents drag the Equator's heat so that the waters there are warming 4 times as fast as at the Equator.
Do you see that 400 parts per billion line at the top of the second graph?
In the first quarter of 2015, methane levels in the Arctic air reached 2,845 parts per billion, requiring a graph seven (7) times higher than what you see above.
That's not the "world average," but that is a shockingly high Arctic measurement.
Now, here's the thing about atmospheric methane: It warms the world about twenty (20) times as fast as atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Probably, we have lost the race. We didn't wake up in time.
The land-bound ice in the world in Antarctica, Greenland, and in higher altitudes generates about 225 feet in increased ocean depth -- that is, 225 feet ABOVE current sea levels -- when you factor-in everything.
That is 155 feet above my head, where I am sitting in Camden County, New Jersey.
That sounds like an insane delusion, doesn't it?
It's a matter, now, of 5 decades or so, would be my guess.
Within 5 decades, as fools like the Tea Party News Network post global warming denials, the annual increase in ocean depth from global warming will begin increasing geometrically,
from 1/32 of an inch,
to 1/16 of an inch,
to 1/8 of an inch,
to 1/4 of an inch,
to 1/2 of an inch,
to 1 inch,
2 inches,
4 inches,
8 inches,
16 inches,
32 inches,
and so on.
To understand the social impact of each unit of ocean depth increase, multiply each inch of depth increase by 1,000. In other words, every 1 inch increase in sea depth makes every river and creek near the ocean get about 83 feet wider on each shore.
The world's estuaries -- rivers and creeks close to the sea, and adjacent lowlands -- will become permanently flooded.
That will force approximately 60% of the world's population to relocate, because THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE ESTUARIES.
That will cause virtually all social systems to break down.
Billions will starve, as people with guns -- including in our own military -- take over the food supply for themselves in the name of "social order."
Billions will die from chaos and conflict.
Environmental scientists should probably IMMEDIATELY begin entertaining bizarre suggestions for emergency mechanisms to burn-up airborne Arctic methane -- things like tens of thousands of giant fans feeding atmospheric gases into trash-fed incinerators.
I would also entertain bizarre suggestions for carbon dioxide sequestration.
Beginning about 10 years ago, I suggested the following ...
Mankind should abandon all paper recycling, and start backfilling abandoned strip mines with bottoms above 250 feet above sea level -- that's most of them -- with paper and wood. Perhaps it would help to "pickle" the cellulose with salt, as we do so. A good-size strip mine could hold a year's worth of an entire nation's used cellulose. Then, cap-off the cellulose-backfilled strip mines, and collect and burn any released methane to generate power. 90% of the carbon would end up being permanently sequestered in the ground in this low-tech fashion, while fossil fuel burning elsewhere becomes less necessary as each backfilled strip mine becomes a power source.
As the cellulose supply from termination of paper recycling dries up, replace it with cellulose from fast-growing pulp trees on vast tree farms in the tropics. Those tree farms are the real cure -- they REMOVE carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into cellulose.
Such an approach eliminates Mankind's additions to the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases in two ways -- as backfilled-strip-mine methane replaces coal-burning at power plants,
and as tree farms remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Rather, it is that the "little dots" reflecting the data have consistently stopped descending below the "Long Term Linear Trend" red line.
What that means is, If we make the red line more accurate, it's NOT STRAIGHT, but rather CURVED UPWARDS.
The termininology I employ to describe this is, "It's 'going asymptotic' -- it's turning up faster and faster."
It conforms convincingly to another recent development -- the fact that the Methane Line on the graph showing the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases has overtaken the carbon dioxide line ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FM0hczFNDZI
Ever-more-powerful methane geysers in Siberia, Canada, and Alaska, and more and more methane being release from the oceans, especially in the polar regions, where ocean currents drag the Equator's heat so that the waters there are warming 4 times as fast as at the Equator.
Do you see that 400 parts per billion line at the top of the second graph?
In the first quarter of 2015, methane levels in the Arctic air reached 2,845 parts per billion, requiring a graph seven (7) times higher than what you see above.
That's not the "world average," but that is a shockingly high Arctic measurement.
Now, here's the thing about atmospheric methane: It warms the world about twenty (20) times as fast as atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Probably, we have lost the race. We didn't wake up in time.
The land-bound ice in the world in Antarctica, Greenland, and in higher altitudes generates about 225 feet in increased ocean depth -- that is, 225 feet ABOVE current sea levels -- when you factor-in everything.
That is 155 feet above my head, where I am sitting in Camden County, New Jersey.
That sounds like an insane delusion, doesn't it?
It's a matter, now, of 5 decades or so, would be my guess.
Within 5 decades, as fools like the Tea Party News Network post global warming denials, the annual increase in ocean depth from global warming will begin increasing geometrically,
from 1/32 of an inch,
to 1/16 of an inch,
to 1/8 of an inch,
to 1/4 of an inch,
to 1/2 of an inch,
to 1 inch,
2 inches,
4 inches,
8 inches,
16 inches,
32 inches,
and so on.
To understand the social impact of each unit of ocean depth increase, multiply each inch of depth increase by 1,000. In other words, every 1 inch increase in sea depth makes every river and creek near the ocean get about 83 feet wider on each shore.
The world's estuaries -- rivers and creeks close to the sea, and adjacent lowlands -- will become permanently flooded.
That will force approximately 60% of the world's population to relocate, because THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE ESTUARIES.
That will cause virtually all social systems to break down.
Billions will starve, as people with guns -- including in our own military -- take over the food supply for themselves in the name of "social order."
Billions will die from chaos and conflict.
Environmental scientists should probably IMMEDIATELY begin entertaining bizarre suggestions for emergency mechanisms to burn-up airborne Arctic methane -- things like tens of thousands of giant fans feeding atmospheric gases into trash-fed incinerators.
I would also entertain bizarre suggestions for carbon dioxide sequestration.
Beginning about 10 years ago, I suggested the following ...
Mankind should abandon all paper recycling, and start backfilling abandoned strip mines with bottoms above 250 feet above sea level -- that's most of them -- with paper and wood. Perhaps it would help to "pickle" the cellulose with salt, as we do so. A good-size strip mine could hold a year's worth of an entire nation's used cellulose. Then, cap-off the cellulose-backfilled strip mines, and collect and burn any released methane to generate power. 90% of the carbon would end up being permanently sequestered in the ground in this low-tech fashion, while fossil fuel burning elsewhere becomes less necessary as each backfilled strip mine becomes a power source.
As the cellulose supply from termination of paper recycling dries up, replace it with cellulose from fast-growing pulp trees on vast tree farms in the tropics. Those tree farms are the real cure -- they REMOVE carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into cellulose.
Such an approach eliminates Mankind's additions to the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases in two ways -- as backfilled-strip-mine methane replaces coal-burning at power plants,
and as tree farms remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
SHEDDING LIGHT ON CONSPIRACY TO KILL PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I was a little kid in St. Martin of Tours Parochial School on Roosevelt Boulevard at Oxford Circle in the Lower Northeast section of Philadelphia on Friday, November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. Our class was engaged in constructing an arts and crafts cornucopia collage for Thanksgiving at the moment Mother Superior of the Immaculate Heart nuns who ran the school got on the loudspeaker and simply declared, "PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS BEEN SHOT," and then, a little later, "PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD."
In all of my life, I never for a moment believed that a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President. And everything I saw forever after, as I matured sufficiently to absorb the material, verified my doubts.
Tonight, I had a thought: "Though Lee Harvey Oswald did not actually do any shooting, because unknown to himself he was the chosen 'patsy,' and to that extent a part of the conspiratorial structure," I wondered, "Since the beginning of Oswald's presence at the Book Depository building signaled the beginning of the assassination effort (by a placing of the patsy where he needed to be when other gunmen at the same location took-out President Kennedy at the same location), it is important to know
(a) if Oswald and the assassination plot went to a pre-announced presidential motorcade route, or
(b) if the government insiders, who could be said to have participated in the assassination plot because of their actions, brought the presidential motorcade to the assassins, by designing a route for Kennedy's motorcade which passed right in front of them."
Here is the answer ...
Illustrated is Lee Harvey Oswald's application to work at the Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dallas. It is dated "October 15, 1963."
Now, who designed the motorcade route which took Kennedy down Elm Street to in front of Dealey Plaza where a bullet from the front blew his brains out toward the back of the car, according to the Zapruder film, and when?
According to the Warren Commision Report, it was Dallas' chief Secret Service Agent Forrest V. Sorrels who functionally brought Kennedy to the point of his assassination, by a motorcade route which he designed at the request of the White House Secret Service, according to the following schedule ...
On November 4, Agent Sorrels was notified of the anticipated visit by Kennedy to Dallas.
On November 8, when the White House Secret Service was told that whatever route was selected by the Dallas Secret Service office, it had to take no more than 45 minutes to get the presidential motorcade from the President's plane to the site of his luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, the White House Secret Service representative sought a route plan from Agent Sorrels.
On November 14, Sorrels drove the route with the White House Secret Service office representative.
They did so again on November 18 with the Dallas Police, and the route was approved, and then, for the first time, publicly announced.
So, a Dallas, Texas Secret Service Agent -- in fact, the chief Secret Service Agent in Dallas, Texas -- functionally brought President John F. Kennedy to the point of his assassination, where the assassination operation had already taken up station and was waiting to kill the President, on Elm Street at Dealey Plaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqzJQE8LYrQ
In all of my life, I never for a moment believed that a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President. And everything I saw forever after, as I matured sufficiently to absorb the material, verified my doubts.
Tonight, I had a thought: "Though Lee Harvey Oswald did not actually do any shooting, because unknown to himself he was the chosen 'patsy,' and to that extent a part of the conspiratorial structure," I wondered, "Since the beginning of Oswald's presence at the Book Depository building signaled the beginning of the assassination effort (by a placing of the patsy where he needed to be when other gunmen at the same location took-out President Kennedy at the same location), it is important to know
(a) if Oswald and the assassination plot went to a pre-announced presidential motorcade route, or
(b) if the government insiders, who could be said to have participated in the assassination plot because of their actions, brought the presidential motorcade to the assassins, by designing a route for Kennedy's motorcade which passed right in front of them."
Here is the answer ...
Illustrated is Lee Harvey Oswald's application to work at the Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dallas. It is dated "October 15, 1963."
Now, who designed the motorcade route which took Kennedy down Elm Street to in front of Dealey Plaza where a bullet from the front blew his brains out toward the back of the car, according to the Zapruder film, and when?
According to the Warren Commision Report, it was Dallas' chief Secret Service Agent Forrest V. Sorrels who functionally brought Kennedy to the point of his assassination, by a motorcade route which he designed at the request of the White House Secret Service, according to the following schedule ...
On November 4, Agent Sorrels was notified of the anticipated visit by Kennedy to Dallas.
On November 8, when the White House Secret Service was told that whatever route was selected by the Dallas Secret Service office, it had to take no more than 45 minutes to get the presidential motorcade from the President's plane to the site of his luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, the White House Secret Service representative sought a route plan from Agent Sorrels.
On November 14, Sorrels drove the route with the White House Secret Service office representative.
They did so again on November 18 with the Dallas Police, and the route was approved, and then, for the first time, publicly announced.
So, a Dallas, Texas Secret Service Agent -- in fact, the chief Secret Service Agent in Dallas, Texas -- functionally brought President John F. Kennedy to the point of his assassination, where the assassination operation had already taken up station and was waiting to kill the President, on Elm Street at Dealey Plaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqzJQE8LYrQ
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE !!!
I really did finally find a very, very good, very powerful inductive proof of God's existence which I won't relate here and now.
But, I took the proof over to my friends in the Ask an Atheist discussion forum website, and their response was always the same. In essence, here it is -- and THAT is what this post is all about ...
"Peter, what you are pointing out to us is not really interesting at all. There is no such thing as 'a miracle.' Suppose a man is standing in Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in front of an audience of 70,000 people, flipping a silver dollar ...
... and he flips the coin three hundred billion (300,000,000,000) times in a row, and IT COMES UP HEADS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! Do you realize that there is nothing at all significant about that -- that nobody in the 70,000 person crowd should be even a little bit surprised, because 300,000,000,000 heads in a row is just ONE of the 300,000,000,000 possible outcomes of the coin tosses, EACH OF WHICH IS EQUALLY UNLIKELY. In other words, the 70,000 person audience should be equally astonished at a coin toss heads/tails series looking something like this ...
H T H H T T T H T T H H H H T H T T H T ...
Each outcome is equally entitled to a gasp from the crowd."
Okay. What is wrong with that argument?
But, I took the proof over to my friends in the Ask an Atheist discussion forum website, and their response was always the same. In essence, here it is -- and THAT is what this post is all about ...
"Peter, what you are pointing out to us is not really interesting at all. There is no such thing as 'a miracle.' Suppose a man is standing in Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in front of an audience of 70,000 people, flipping a silver dollar ...
... and he flips the coin three hundred billion (300,000,000,000) times in a row, and IT COMES UP HEADS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! Do you realize that there is nothing at all significant about that -- that nobody in the 70,000 person crowd should be even a little bit surprised, because 300,000,000,000 heads in a row is just ONE of the 300,000,000,000 possible outcomes of the coin tosses, EACH OF WHICH IS EQUALLY UNLIKELY. In other words, the 70,000 person audience should be equally astonished at a coin toss heads/tails series looking something like this ...
H T H H T T T H T T H H H H T H T T H T ...
Each outcome is equally entitled to a gasp from the crowd."
Okay. What is wrong with that argument?
Monday, July 27, 2015
SAFE TO GET A BIG WET KISS ON THE MOUTH FROM A DOG ?
Dogs lick their various back-end apertures again and again and again. It is part of being a dog.
And -- let's face it -- they are not very discriminating about what they are licking OFF.
And yet, despite these obvious facts, guess what is a very common practice among dog owners ...
If you ask the dog owners, "Is that wise," a common answer, nowadays, is, "Dog's mouths have powerful enzymes which immediately annihilate bad microbes and other horrible things in their mouths ! People's mouths are MUCH dirtier !"
Is this true ? Is it safer to kiss the mouth of your rear-end-licking poochie than it is to kiss the mouth of your spouse ?
Well, what's on-line is pretty unanimous: Dog's mouths in fact are horribly germy. When you are kissing your dog, you are kissing the flotsam and jetsam from his rear end and other things poochie likes to sample with his tongue that are still present in microscopic form.
Whipworms ...
Hookworms ...
Roundworms ...
Our old friend, the tapeworm ...
Parvovirus ...
Cryptosporidia ...
And a vast, vast variety of other microorganisms.
And from this we conclude that dogs absolutely, positively DO NOT have super-duper germ-killing, feces-cleaning enzymes.
So, if you see your significant other kissing the dog, before you kiss your significant other you might want them to clean their mouth out with this ...
... and watch carefully if he or she likes to drag their hindquarters around on the rug to itch them, like poochie does when he has a problem ...
And -- let's face it -- they are not very discriminating about what they are licking OFF.
And yet, despite these obvious facts, guess what is a very common practice among dog owners ...
If you ask the dog owners, "Is that wise," a common answer, nowadays, is, "Dog's mouths have powerful enzymes which immediately annihilate bad microbes and other horrible things in their mouths ! People's mouths are MUCH dirtier !"
Is this true ? Is it safer to kiss the mouth of your rear-end-licking poochie than it is to kiss the mouth of your spouse ?
Well, what's on-line is pretty unanimous: Dog's mouths in fact are horribly germy. When you are kissing your dog, you are kissing the flotsam and jetsam from his rear end and other things poochie likes to sample with his tongue that are still present in microscopic form.
Whipworms ...
Hookworms ...
Roundworms ...
Our old friend, the tapeworm ...
Parvovirus ...
Cryptosporidia ...
And a vast, vast variety of other microorganisms.
And from this we conclude that dogs absolutely, positively DO NOT have super-duper germ-killing, feces-cleaning enzymes.
So, if you see your significant other kissing the dog, before you kiss your significant other you might want them to clean their mouth out with this ...
... and watch carefully if he or she likes to drag their hindquarters around on the rug to itch them, like poochie does when he has a problem ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
JOKE: CHURCH ON SUNDAY
It's Sunday, and a mother looks at the clock and is shocked that her son is still in bed.
She rushes upstairs and wakes him and yells, "GET OUT OF BED AND INTO THAT SHOWER AND DRESS FOR CHURCH! IT'S SUNDAY!"
The son pleads, "Mom! Please! I'll give you two good reasons why I shouldn't go to church. Number One, I hate them. Number Two, they hate me."
"I'LL GIVE YOU TWO GOOD REASONS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO GO!" the mother responds. "NUMBER ONE, YOU'RE 59 YEARS OLD! NUMBER TWO, YOU ARE THE PASTOR!"
She rushes upstairs and wakes him and yells, "GET OUT OF BED AND INTO THAT SHOWER AND DRESS FOR CHURCH! IT'S SUNDAY!"
The son pleads, "Mom! Please! I'll give you two good reasons why I shouldn't go to church. Number One, I hate them. Number Two, they hate me."
"I'LL GIVE YOU TWO GOOD REASONS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO GO!" the mother responds. "NUMBER ONE, YOU'RE 59 YEARS OLD! NUMBER TWO, YOU ARE THE PASTOR!"
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
AN EVIL LAWYER REPRESENTING AN EVIL DIVORCING WOMAN
Years ago, when I did divorces, I discovered that about 60% of them involved men who "became crazy" as a result of mid-life crisis. These men, as they realized with ever greater clarity that they were getting older, that their "equipment" was running out of gas, and that they were mortal, would "seek life" in the body of a younger woman, and torture their first wife with great mountains of abusive behavior.
The younger "replacement wives" would frequently get over-involved in proceedings, and come to court with the husband on motion day or for trial, and the attorneys and judges, back in the judges' chambers after seeing the replacement girls, would express astonishment at the ability of the mid-life crisis guys to find "photocopies" of their wives -- younger, better-looking women, but photocopies, in all other particulars.
I usually represented the women in the divorce cases, not because I understood the women -- I didn't -- but rather because I understood their husbands, and the evil in their husbands' souls, and so I got pretty good at anticipating their legal nonsense, so that I could "lay boobytraps" in the cases (which I won't go into now) and be ready for their lies and deceptions in court before they even thought of lying and deceiving.
A certain percentage of the time, when I represented men in divorce actions, they would come to me in a state of shock and show me a criminal charge for sexual abuse of their own children. I quickly recognized the pattern in those cases --
(1) The charge would come-up only AFTER the divorcing wife had had her first sit-down with her divorce lawyer;
(2) the same few divorce lawyers were representing the women making the accusations;
(3) the kids who allegedly had been abused were always infants -- too young to deny the accusations against their dad.
The effects of the criminal charge always gave the accusing wife sudden total control over the divorce case:
(a) The accused husband was suddenly in for the fight of his life;
(b) he frequently had to spend the entire divorce case in jail, leaving the wife free to seize total control over savings;
(c) the divorce court judges would suddenly become unreservedly hostile toward the accused husband.
In the cases where the husbands were accused by the divorcing wife of molesting infant children, a Mount Holly, New Jersey divorce lawyer seemed to be talking the divorcing wives into using fraudulent charges of incestuous sexual abuse of infants as a "nuclear weapon" devastating the husbands more frequently than any other lawyer. It reached the point where, if a man walked into my office with a divorce complaint drawn-up by that lawyer, AND they had one or more infant children, I would tell them, "Listen, stay calm when I tell you the following. Promise?" The guy would say, "Yes." And I would say, "You are probably about to be accused of molesting your own infant daughter."
"My wife wouldn't do that!" the man would answer.
And then, within a few weeks, the police would come to his home and take him away in cuffs.
I was dead certain that that divorce lawyer was talking the women into making the false charge in every single case. I wanted so bad to destroy that lawyer.
One day, several years after I stopped doing divorces, I was outside my home, doing gardening work in the garden next to the sidewalk in front of our house.
One of the neighborhood girls walked up the sidewalk toward me and with a very sad look said, "Pete, can you and I sit down in the shade someplace and have a talk. I have a religious problem, not a legal one."
I pulled out a couple of chairs and said, "Wow! It sure is nice to talk to you. I haven't seen you in years! I heard that you and your husband are divorced now. I hope everything is at peace."
"Is that all you heard?" she asked.
"Yup," I answered. "I don't gossip much. I guess people gossip enough about me."
"Well, I want to talk to you about my divorce. I did something very, very, very evil to my ex-husband," she said.
"Who was your attorney in the divorce?" I asked.
"Mr. So-and-so, in Mount Holly,' she answered.
It was THAT attorney. I knew what she was about to say.
"What happened?" I ask.
"Well," she answered, "My attorney told me to falsely accuse my husband of sexually molesting our infant daughter, to give me complete power over him in the divorce case. He had me falsely accuse my ex-husband twice. So, my ex-husband went to jail twice, each time for 6 months.
"I think some pretty horrible things happened to my ex-husband in jail. Our daughter, now that she is on her way to growing up, is deeply confused about him, and I can't tell her the truth. I believe that unless I do something to fix things, God has a very, very terrible place in Hell reserved for me."
I fell quiet, and finally I said, "I am glad that you told me this. Do you know that that same attorney has done the same thing to several divorcing men, over the years. He should be disbarred, stripped off all of his assets, and sent to jail for the rest of his life. This makes me think of a way you can pay back your ex-husband, and get God to forgive you."
"What?," she asked. "I'll do anything."
"Let me represent you as your attorney, and I will set up an agreement giving you complete immunity from prosecution for anything related to your false accusations in exchange for your testimony in support of criminal charges against the lawyer. You would also have to be your ex-husband's witness in a lawsuit against the lawyer, to enable your ex-husband to strip him of everything he owns, including his license to practice law. Although I am sure that, under such circumstances, you ex-husband will forgive you, I can't do anything to keep the lawyer from counter-suing you. Any judge on the planet would protect you under these circumstances, however, so that wouldn't have that much to worry about.
"Lastly," I said, "I know a gentle and a good priest who would be happy to hear your confession, and give you absolution. That will save you from Hell."
The lady looked at me with profound shock, and said, "Pete, I just can't do those things."
And she walked away, and died.
True story.
The younger "replacement wives" would frequently get over-involved in proceedings, and come to court with the husband on motion day or for trial, and the attorneys and judges, back in the judges' chambers after seeing the replacement girls, would express astonishment at the ability of the mid-life crisis guys to find "photocopies" of their wives -- younger, better-looking women, but photocopies, in all other particulars.
I usually represented the women in the divorce cases, not because I understood the women -- I didn't -- but rather because I understood their husbands, and the evil in their husbands' souls, and so I got pretty good at anticipating their legal nonsense, so that I could "lay boobytraps" in the cases (which I won't go into now) and be ready for their lies and deceptions in court before they even thought of lying and deceiving.
A certain percentage of the time, when I represented men in divorce actions, they would come to me in a state of shock and show me a criminal charge for sexual abuse of their own children. I quickly recognized the pattern in those cases --
(1) The charge would come-up only AFTER the divorcing wife had had her first sit-down with her divorce lawyer;
(2) the same few divorce lawyers were representing the women making the accusations;
(3) the kids who allegedly had been abused were always infants -- too young to deny the accusations against their dad.
The effects of the criminal charge always gave the accusing wife sudden total control over the divorce case:
(a) The accused husband was suddenly in for the fight of his life;
(b) he frequently had to spend the entire divorce case in jail, leaving the wife free to seize total control over savings;
(c) the divorce court judges would suddenly become unreservedly hostile toward the accused husband.
In the cases where the husbands were accused by the divorcing wife of molesting infant children, a Mount Holly, New Jersey divorce lawyer seemed to be talking the divorcing wives into using fraudulent charges of incestuous sexual abuse of infants as a "nuclear weapon" devastating the husbands more frequently than any other lawyer. It reached the point where, if a man walked into my office with a divorce complaint drawn-up by that lawyer, AND they had one or more infant children, I would tell them, "Listen, stay calm when I tell you the following. Promise?" The guy would say, "Yes." And I would say, "You are probably about to be accused of molesting your own infant daughter."
"My wife wouldn't do that!" the man would answer.
And then, within a few weeks, the police would come to his home and take him away in cuffs.
I was dead certain that that divorce lawyer was talking the women into making the false charge in every single case. I wanted so bad to destroy that lawyer.
One day, several years after I stopped doing divorces, I was outside my home, doing gardening work in the garden next to the sidewalk in front of our house.
One of the neighborhood girls walked up the sidewalk toward me and with a very sad look said, "Pete, can you and I sit down in the shade someplace and have a talk. I have a religious problem, not a legal one."
I pulled out a couple of chairs and said, "Wow! It sure is nice to talk to you. I haven't seen you in years! I heard that you and your husband are divorced now. I hope everything is at peace."
"Is that all you heard?" she asked.
"Yup," I answered. "I don't gossip much. I guess people gossip enough about me."
"Well, I want to talk to you about my divorce. I did something very, very, very evil to my ex-husband," she said.
"Who was your attorney in the divorce?" I asked.
"Mr. So-and-so, in Mount Holly,' she answered.
It was THAT attorney. I knew what she was about to say.
"What happened?" I ask.
"Well," she answered, "My attorney told me to falsely accuse my husband of sexually molesting our infant daughter, to give me complete power over him in the divorce case. He had me falsely accuse my ex-husband twice. So, my ex-husband went to jail twice, each time for 6 months.
"I think some pretty horrible things happened to my ex-husband in jail. Our daughter, now that she is on her way to growing up, is deeply confused about him, and I can't tell her the truth. I believe that unless I do something to fix things, God has a very, very terrible place in Hell reserved for me."
I fell quiet, and finally I said, "I am glad that you told me this. Do you know that that same attorney has done the same thing to several divorcing men, over the years. He should be disbarred, stripped off all of his assets, and sent to jail for the rest of his life. This makes me think of a way you can pay back your ex-husband, and get God to forgive you."
"What?," she asked. "I'll do anything."
"Let me represent you as your attorney, and I will set up an agreement giving you complete immunity from prosecution for anything related to your false accusations in exchange for your testimony in support of criminal charges against the lawyer. You would also have to be your ex-husband's witness in a lawsuit against the lawyer, to enable your ex-husband to strip him of everything he owns, including his license to practice law. Although I am sure that, under such circumstances, you ex-husband will forgive you, I can't do anything to keep the lawyer from counter-suing you. Any judge on the planet would protect you under these circumstances, however, so that wouldn't have that much to worry about.
"Lastly," I said, "I know a gentle and a good priest who would be happy to hear your confession, and give you absolution. That will save you from Hell."
The lady looked at me with profound shock, and said, "Pete, I just can't do those things."
And she walked away, and died.
True story.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
WATCH OUT ! THE NEW CHIP-EQUIPPED CREDIT CARDS HAVE A PROBLEM !
There's something they didn't tell you about your new chip-equipped credit cards.
They can be "pinged" in your wallet, and made to broadcast your credit card number from as much as 25 feet away, by someone walking past you in the mall or on the sidewalk with a device available online costing less than $50.
Apparently, the rotating PIN system that is supposed to make them fraud proof only kicks in at a particular amount. So, small transactions CAN be done on YOUR credit card by a stranger walking past you.
Additionally, your credit card information which your chip-equipped card itself broadcasts like a radio can also be used at any on-line site not requiring the old 3 digit security code.
And now for the big one: There is no PIN, and no limit except for a one million ($1,000,000.00) transaction limit, on foreign currency transactions. So, a passerby scanning your card inside your wallet inside your pocket with his little $50 pinger bought on-line can purchase thousands of dollars in British pounds sterling or French francs with your credit card -- and then you get the bill.
What is the protection? Your card in a paper envelope in an aluminum foil wrapper -- a "Faraday cage." The paper between the card and the aluminum foil protects the still ubiquitous magnetic strip on one side and the chip on the other side from damage.
They can be "pinged" in your wallet, and made to broadcast your credit card number from as much as 25 feet away, by someone walking past you in the mall or on the sidewalk with a device available online costing less than $50.
Apparently, the rotating PIN system that is supposed to make them fraud proof only kicks in at a particular amount. So, small transactions CAN be done on YOUR credit card by a stranger walking past you.
Additionally, your credit card information which your chip-equipped card itself broadcasts like a radio can also be used at any on-line site not requiring the old 3 digit security code.
And now for the big one: There is no PIN, and no limit except for a one million ($1,000,000.00) transaction limit, on foreign currency transactions. So, a passerby scanning your card inside your wallet inside your pocket with his little $50 pinger bought on-line can purchase thousands of dollars in British pounds sterling or French francs with your credit card -- and then you get the bill.
What is the protection? Your card in a paper envelope in an aluminum foil wrapper -- a "Faraday cage." The paper between the card and the aluminum foil protects the still ubiquitous magnetic strip on one side and the chip on the other side from damage.
Not such a wondrous piece of technology.
And, note well, this isn't MasterCard's fault.
ALL chip cards with ALL credit card providers
have the problem. Blame it on your elected officials.
Sunday, July 12, 2015
It HAS to Be the Case: The End Times ARE Here !
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Christ said that we "can't know the day or the hour." Catholics who view themselves as "well-grounded" and "common-sensical" use Christ's words to squelch all public End Times speculation, to avoid the laughter of skeptics.
Bingo.
But, Christ said more -- a lot more. Despite his "day and hour" assurance, if we look at Christ's Own general indicators of the arrival of the time for "wrapping things up," coming in the sky amidst a thunderous trumpet blast "to judge the living and the dead," one can plausibly argue that hushing talk about the impending nature of the End of Time is irresponsible.
When one reviews the general indicators, it is astonishing how well the tumblers seem to be falling into place.
In other words, "He is near, even at the door."
I had hoped that there would be a great, sudden victory for the Church of the Popes over evil before the end of time, but to be perfectly frank it's looking more and more like lying liberals in charge of the lying liberal media in charge of the minds of the angry, spoiled people, who just want uninterrupted food, things, screens and nookie -- everything else be damned -- is going to be the rule in the world when everything is shook by the trumpet blast, and all look up, and realize that the opportunity for grace-empowered love is over, and that each is just a rat in the middle of the floor, and that the Divine Cat has come. People will try to scurry to dark corners to escape, but nothing -- nothing -- will save them from the Divine Cat.
So, go ahead: Contact me. Post below. Make fun of me in public. Criticize me. Attack me as crazy.
But read the following, first.
THE LEAFING OF THE FIG TREE
Matthew 24:32 et seq. is the key verse in Jesus' famous Eschatological Homily, or "end of the world homily," to His disciples ...
"Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that Summer is near. In the same way, when you see all of these things, know that He is near, even at the door." Matthew 24:32-33.
In the Bible, the fig tree is the type, or symbol, for the "Old Testament Church," the Kingdom of Jews. That is why Jeremiah 24:1-5 symbolizes the Jews with figs. That is why Zaccheus, the Jewish tax collector, is portrayed as sitting in a "sycamore" or fig tree when Christ first meets him -- a good man, the text's implication is that Zacchaeus is "fruit of the fig tree," Judaism. See Luke 19:1 et seq. When Christ "curses the fig tree," Mark 11:12 et seq., He is foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
The branch of the fig tree coming back into leaf would therefore by the re-establishment of Israel by the U.N. in 1948. The fundamentalists are right about this one.
Christ says that when you see this, you should "know that Summer is near."
Summer was harvest time in Israel.
So, "Tumbler #1" has fallen into place.
THE ABOMINABLE DESTRUCTIVE THING ON HOLY GROUND
I believe that the 1970 translation of the New American Bible for Catholics translated the Greek of Matthew 24:15 et seq. better than any other ...
"When you see the abominable and destructive thing which the prophet Daniel foretold standing on holy ground -- let the reader take note! -- those in Judea must flee to the mountains." Matthew 24:15-16.
Reference to Daniel is uninformative.
What qualifies as an "abominable destructive thing"? How about this ? ...
In fact, no thing in the history of man better qualifies as an "abominable destructive thing."
But where in heaven's Holy Name do we find thermonuclear weapons "on holy ground"?
Christ's own words give us a hint ...
"When you see the abominable and destructive thing which the prophet Daniel foretold standing on holy ground -- let the reader take note! -- those in Judea must flee to the mountains."
Lo and behold, Israel's nuclear weapons sit atop Medium Range Ballistic Missiles in deep silos in the foothills of Judea.
Bingo.
The prophecy is fulfilled.
So, "Tumbler #2" has fallen into place.
WOE TO PREGNANT WOMEN AND NURSING MOTHERS
The 1970 New American Bible translation of Matthew wildly mistranslated Matthew 24:19, probably because the New Testament Committee was deeply puzzled by the Greek. The contemporary version of the NAB is literal ...
"Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days." Matthew 24:19.
The "problem" with the literal translation is that the Greek term underlying "woe," ouai, without exception in the New Testament, is a threat ! It is not a word expressing pity ! Functionally, the text has Christ nastily declaring, "Watch out ! I'm gonna get you, pregnant and nursing mothers !" If you don't believe it, get a Bible Concordance, and concordize "woe" in the New Testament. It's a threat.
Now, many Church administrators will be alarmed at this extremely undiplomatic reverse reading of the normal interp for Matthew 24:19. Why in Heaven's Holy Name would loving Jesus threaten pregnant women and nursing mothers ? Has He flipped ?
I believe that Jesus' words do not refer to "pregnant women" and "nursing mothers." I believe that the Greek carries within itself a colloquial reference to women who would be pregnant or who would be nursing, but for the fact that they got an abortion !
When Christ makes His threat to the aborting women of "those days," He is telling those listening to His Eschatological Homily, "Keep your eye out for the aborting ones I am threatening here. They are another sign of the impending nature of the End.
In other words, the Pro-Choice Movement that has killed tens of millions of helpless humans since Roe v. Wade is itself a sign of the End of Time !
We're here.
So, "Tumbler #3" has fallen into place.
AS IT WAS ... ON THE DAY LOT LEFT SODOM ... SO IT WILL BE ON THE DAY THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED
Luke 17:28 et seq. features the Eschatological Homily Sodom warning. What is up above in the subtitle is sufficiently reflective of the content. I know, I know, there is that claim by some of the more liberal commentators that Sodom was destroyed because of a lack of hospitality to Lot and his family (when the men of Sodom surrounded the house where Lot was and demanded custody of the angels to have sex with them). However, that intrinsically absurd claim is well-contradicted by Abraham's conversation with God establishing that if there were as few as 10 good people in Sodom, God would not destroy it, and by Luke's careful specification that every single male in Sodom was gathered outside of lot's house demanding gay sex with the angels.
Face it: It was about mass social approval of gay sex.
Now, compare Christ's words to what is happening as we speak ...
After the Supreme Court of the United States, a little more than a decade ago, constitutionally disconnected our laws from the 4,000 year old Judeo-Christian rules against sodomy, it "found" within a Constitutional Amendment that can not possibly have anything to do with forcing states to marry men to men and women to women (otherwise, no one would have voted for it in 1867 and 1868) the power to do precisely that, thus disconnecting the Constitution itself from an historical understanding of the words and so destroying its essential meaning, forcing states to marry men to men and women to women, and generating the philosophical basis by which gays are now empowered to strip devout Christians of their jobs, their businesses, their assets and their homes, while cold liberals on-line in Facebook dress up in rainbows and cheer them on, just because a devout Christian or Jew or black who loves God and Scriptute will not commit the sin of helping them marry.
Astonishingly, with crystal clarity, my brothers and sisters in the Supreme Court of the United States have themselves fulfilled what one would have thought to be the least likely of Jesus' Eschatological Homily prophecies!
So, "Tumbler #4" has fallen into place.
Hey !!! Keep those rainbows on, you rainbow readers ! Be proud of them ! It will help the Divine Cat to know exactly what kind of rat you are when He suddenly appears at the door !
NATIONS PERPLEXED BY THE ROARING OF THE SEA AND THE WAVES
Everyone reading this with half a brain knows where I am going with Luke 21:25 ...
"On Earth, nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves. Luke 21:25.
Global warming.
The global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases is shooting up, up, up, up, up.
In the meantime, fools are "fiddling while Rome burns," forcing states to marry gays, and helping gays begin the process of wiping-out Christianity and Judaism, while the oceans get
deeper and
deeper and
deeper,
faster and
faster and
faster.
In 10 to 20 years, there will be calls to evacuate Miami, southern Delaware and Manhattan.
Hate-filled, Nazi-like rainbowers can distract themselves from the impending 225 foot increase in ocean depth by helping gays to persecute Christians and pressing "Like" as they do so -- as they sink.
So, "Tumbler #5" has fallen into place.
Now, we must flip over to one of Paul's Epistles, in 2 Thessalonians 2. Those who study Bible know where I am going ...
THE GREAT FALLING AWAY
"We ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, not ... to be alarmed either by a 'spirit' or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from us to the effect that the Day of the Lord is at hand. ... For unless the apostasy comes first [then the end is not here]." 2 Thessalonian 2:1-3.
Translators and commentators of Paul, upon seeing Paul's words, here, figured that since Paul was surrounded by "apostasies" of all sort at the time, then he could only be referring to a giant, frightening falling-away from Judeo-Christianity. so, they very loosely translated Paul's word apostasia to read "the Great Falling Away." Very appropriate.
And I believe that it is happening as we speak.
The vast, vast majority of God's people are rebelling against Him in the flesh day-in and day-out, by ignoring really nasty contraceptive-condemning provisions in the Bible. (Three of them say that users are Hell-bound.) And now they are dressing themselves up in the rainbow flag to celebrate the Supreme Court's constitutionally-unauthorized destruction of state authority over marriage and the accelerating attack on Judeo-Christianity. There's no way they're going to give up their perspective. They aren't really Judeo-Christian's anymore. They have switched sides.
And then gay priests and enabling bishops and popes have completely demolished the ability of the Church to advance in most places, with the sex abuse cases.
And the churches are emptying faster and faster, consolidating, re-consolidating, re-re-re-re-re-re-consolidating, so that soon a Catholic will have to travel 200 miles to attend Sunday Mass or receive absolution !
The end of the Church is in sight.
So, friends, we are here. It's apostasia time.
"Tumbler #6" -- the evil tumbler -- has fallen into place.
In Matthew 24:33, Jesus says, "When you see all of these things, know that He is near, even at the door."
I see all of those things.
Friday, July 10, 2015
EVOLUTIONIST OR BIBLE LITERALIST -- EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD REALLY IS YOUR COUSIN
When I was maybe 13 years of age, I was watching a 1930s Charlie Chan movie on black-and-white TV when the movie made reference to the pre-communist Chinese penchant for tracing family lines by having Charlie Chan introduce someone as his "31st cousin."
The concept of "distant-cousin-ness" stuck with me. When I was in church or at a stadium watching a football game or other place with a large audience, I used to think how cool it would be if the locale were plunged into darkness, and God were to first light-up all of my first cousins; then all second cousins; then all third cousins; then all fourth cousins; and so on.
Then it dawned on me that every living soul would eventually light up, because literally everybody is one's cousin.
As I came to understand that there were millions of people out there who did not ascribe to an evolutionist understanding of world history as we were raised to think in our family, who instead were committed to a literalist comprehension of the time line in Genesis 2 et seq., it dawned on me that that, irony of ironies, entailed an even closer relationship between people than the evolutionist perspective.
Why "irony of ironies"? Well, though no one has confirmed such to me by admission or by way of some kind of unimpeachable zillion dollar federal study, one gets that feeling from the whiteness of some white churches that the distinctness of the races is important to a lot of Christian fundamentalists. As one Christian fundamentalist lady said to me years ago when I worked at Jordan Kelsall's Unity-Frankford Grocery Store on Penn Street at Sanger Street in Frankford, "Look at their ears! Look at their noses! Look at their lips! Those blacks are monkeys!" I gently responded, "Aren't our [meaning 'whites' '] lips actually closer to those of a monkey? Blacks are more evolved!" [I was just a kid at the time, so I didn't put up a bigger fight.] She gave me a dirty look and stomped out of the store.
I thought it was so interesting, a year-or-so ago, when my Ancestry-com DNA sample verified that one or more of my family's slave owning ancestors on my mother's side had begotten offspring by one or more African Americans, almost certainly as part of the widely-accepted culture, in the pre-emancipation South, of concubinage of female slaves. The implication of the results obtained, so far, is that as a consequence several hundred to several thousand blacks in the United States are distant cousins of my white family.
I would have loved to have had DNA verification of that silly fundamentalist woman's relationship to blacks -- and I would have loved to have been there when the evidence was shown to her. I would have said, "Hey! Guess who's comin' to dinner!"
For me, the importance of the DNA connection was that it drove home how much we are all members of the Family of Man -- from the blondest blue-eyed SS stormtrooper to the blackest, most effeminate gay Australian aborigine. We are all cousins.
That would be a very cool photo: A grim-looking fully-uniformed blonde-haired blue-eyed Nazi stormtrooper holding hands with a short, very fat aborigine woman with a really big Afro. The caption would read, "Not such distant cousins."
In law school, I was immensely delighted to see that one of my textbooks on Wills and Estates contained The Lawyer's Table on Consanguinity, the chart showing things like what a "third cousin, once removed" is ...
Suddenly, I understood the system assigning a descriptive title to each of my distant cousins -- every human being ! [Perhaps the most distant cousin would be something like my "14,354th cousin, 117 times removed."]
The "bottom line," here? Literally, ever thermonuclear MIRV atop every ICBM awaiting launch in every silo in the world is aimed at cousins, only!
And when Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan did this to Bibi Aisha ...
... they literally did it to their screaming cousin.
When Nazis rammed as many screaming Jews as possible into fake showers to gas them all with Zyklon B ...
The concept of "distant-cousin-ness" stuck with me. When I was in church or at a stadium watching a football game or other place with a large audience, I used to think how cool it would be if the locale were plunged into darkness, and God were to first light-up all of my first cousins; then all second cousins; then all third cousins; then all fourth cousins; and so on.
Then it dawned on me that every living soul would eventually light up, because literally everybody is one's cousin.
As I came to understand that there were millions of people out there who did not ascribe to an evolutionist understanding of world history as we were raised to think in our family, who instead were committed to a literalist comprehension of the time line in Genesis 2 et seq., it dawned on me that that, irony of ironies, entailed an even closer relationship between people than the evolutionist perspective.
Why "irony of ironies"? Well, though no one has confirmed such to me by admission or by way of some kind of unimpeachable zillion dollar federal study, one gets that feeling from the whiteness of some white churches that the distinctness of the races is important to a lot of Christian fundamentalists. As one Christian fundamentalist lady said to me years ago when I worked at Jordan Kelsall's Unity-Frankford Grocery Store on Penn Street at Sanger Street in Frankford, "Look at their ears! Look at their noses! Look at their lips! Those blacks are monkeys!" I gently responded, "Aren't our [meaning 'whites' '] lips actually closer to those of a monkey? Blacks are more evolved!" [I was just a kid at the time, so I didn't put up a bigger fight.] She gave me a dirty look and stomped out of the store.
I thought it was so interesting, a year-or-so ago, when my Ancestry-com DNA sample verified that one or more of my family's slave owning ancestors on my mother's side had begotten offspring by one or more African Americans, almost certainly as part of the widely-accepted culture, in the pre-emancipation South, of concubinage of female slaves. The implication of the results obtained, so far, is that as a consequence several hundred to several thousand blacks in the United States are distant cousins of my white family.
I would have loved to have had DNA verification of that silly fundamentalist woman's relationship to blacks -- and I would have loved to have been there when the evidence was shown to her. I would have said, "Hey! Guess who's comin' to dinner!"
For me, the importance of the DNA connection was that it drove home how much we are all members of the Family of Man -- from the blondest blue-eyed SS stormtrooper to the blackest, most effeminate gay Australian aborigine. We are all cousins.
That would be a very cool photo: A grim-looking fully-uniformed blonde-haired blue-eyed Nazi stormtrooper holding hands with a short, very fat aborigine woman with a really big Afro. The caption would read, "Not such distant cousins."
In law school, I was immensely delighted to see that one of my textbooks on Wills and Estates contained The Lawyer's Table on Consanguinity, the chart showing things like what a "third cousin, once removed" is ...
Suddenly, I understood the system assigning a descriptive title to each of my distant cousins -- every human being ! [Perhaps the most distant cousin would be something like my "14,354th cousin, 117 times removed."]
The "bottom line," here? Literally, ever thermonuclear MIRV atop every ICBM awaiting launch in every silo in the world is aimed at cousins, only!
And when Muslim fundamentalists in Afghanistan did this to Bibi Aisha ...
When Nazis rammed as many screaming Jews as possible into fake showers to gas them all with Zyklon B ...
... they were ramming their cousins into those showers.
Be nice to your cousins -- the Muslims, the Jews, the blacks, the gays, the Asians, the Latinos, and so on. All of them !
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