I just finished reading the trilogy, "The Sylo Chronicles," by D.J. MacHale. A very good read. I'd suggest that a different ending could be produced where the main characters, when they end up in 1952, could have a vial of Magic Medicine, with them. If not a vial than they could have blood tests done and perhaps produce the medicine from their blood--remnants of the medicine could still be in their systems. If the technology wasn't available they could develop it. I would also post that it would be interesting to discover that taken in weak doses could extend one's life significantly. This would allow the primary characters to really make a difference over the long run. I would also suggest that this extended length of life would benefit them if they used their knowledge to expand out into space and possible into the universe. Just thoughts, keep up the good work.

Ted Cruz's lack of honor.

Ted Cruz demonstrated that he has no honer when he gave his speech at the RNC. To accept an invitation to speak at either the RNC or the DNC implies that you are going to support the nominee of the the party in question. In this case Cruz had previously signed a pledge to support whichever candidate finally got selected to be the presidential nominee for the Republican party. He didn't do it. He used a lame excuse that Donald Trump attacked his wife with negative publicity. It was Cruz's campaign that did this first when they attacked Trump's wife--he responded by attacking Cruz's wife. Cruz is using this as an excuse for what he did. There is no excuse if Cruz is a Texan as he claims to be. If you give your word to do something, than you do it--no excuses. This shows that that Cruz is no Texan at heart and that he should go back to Canada. I don't believe that any real Texan will ever trust him or vote for him in the future. As far as I am concerned he has lost any chance he ever had of becoming president of the United States. He has no honor and won't keep his word! My grandfather was a real Texan. If he gave his word he honored it, no matter what the consequences were.

I just learned that Sea World has bowed to the ban the killer whales group and are going get rid of their killer whales. This is asinine. First it was the elephants and now it's the killer whales. What animal is going to be next? Let's just skip ahead and tell all the people that have pets that they need to get rid of them. Return them to the wild--let them go now! We need to ban all zoos and any activity that necessitates the use of animals. Rescue dogs, seeing eye dogs, bomb sniffing dogs. We can't have any animal that is kept by humans for anything. The end of this will be humans sitting around in sterile apartments sucking on tofu. Our human race is getting to be a little bit asinine. We have dominion over the animals. When the killer whales go from Sea World I'll go too. I'll not go to Sea World again. Do I have to quit eating tuna? What about my belts and my shoes? Will I have to use plastic? Oh, I forgot a lot of our plastic is derived from petroleum. It'll probably be banned too. Can I pick and eat a tomato? I might disturb a bug on it when I do. Is that allowed. Some people need to get a life.

Karl Rove's Reported Possible Number Shift in the Iowa Caucus May be wrong: Cruz vs Trump

In the Iowa caucus Karl Rove is reporting, and he is being quoted on a lot of news outlets that if slightly over four votes per precinct had been shifted to Trump from Cruz than Trump would have possibly won the caucus. I think that the reported numbers are wrong. If slightly over two votes per precinct had shifted than Trump would have been the winner. There are 1,500 precincts in Iowa. The difference in the vote count between Cruz and Trump is 6,239 votes which works out to be slightly over four votes per precinct if the 6,239 votes are divided by 1,500. The correct method is to divide the 6,239 votes by two to get the average number of votes and round up and down to the next whole number. The winner has the higher number. If the average of 3,118.5 is used and dividing it by 1,500 produces 2.079 votes per precinct. Trump would win if slightly more than two votes per precinct were shifted. This is simply seen by examining the following: let's look at smaller numbers. If Cruz got 12 votes and Trump got 8 votes. The difference is 4 votes. Shifting the 4 votes would give Cruz 8 votes and Trump 12 votes. If we use the average it would take only a two vote shift to make the votes even. Shifting two from 12 produces 10, and adding two to eight produces 10. The numbers would be equal. In a larger sample it would take a total of 3,119 votes to be shifted from Cruz to Trump for Trump to be the winner. Which is slightly more than two votes per precinct.

Time Warner Cable Cancellation

I'm preparing to cancel Time Warner Cable internet and television as its become too expensive to have. Almost every month their cost has increased. Over 20% this this year. It's become ridiculous. One of the final things that they have done is to add an additional fee to cover the sports channels. I don't watch sports. With all of their "optional" fees that they pass through to us they are just not a customer friendly company. As an aside, it's my understanding that they make over a 90 percent profit on their internet costs alone. I'd like to continue with them, even though it's the company I detest the most to call, as I'm "happy" with the channel mix they have and their internet. If they'd only find out how to cater to their customers that are presently using them and not just to all of the newer ones. I have no desire to have any of their programming on my cell phone and could care less about being able to view programs from any room in my house or to have programming on demand. I just want to be able to watch a few channels, maybe less than twenty--if I could select them. I'd like to have a smorgasbord of channels I could select from. Most of the channels offered are watched by very few individuals anyway. I'm going to have to call and work through a number of individuals and waste an hour or two being made to feel as if I begging. I don't expect much from them but an attempt to reduce what they offer me, as far as channels and internet speed is concerned, for a small reduction in monthly cost. Which they will hike back up in the next couple of months. Maybe this time I'll be surprised. If I am I'll write another blog and let everybody know. Have a good New Year.

Race versus Ethnicity Incorrectly used.

In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites. This is one of the most stupid statements that I've had the pleasure of reading from the associated press written by a professor of political science. The article goes on to also talk about Hispanics becoming a significant voting block. It's about time that our political science types quit mixing up race and ethnicity. The vast majority the Hispanics are white as the Hispanic label only denotes ethnicity and not race. If we are going to talk ethnicity we need to be concerned with Germanic's, Slavs, Irish, English, Scottish, Etc. This equating ethnicity and race to ones political advantage is asinine. It is presently impossible, except for a few local elections, for the black vote to be larger than the white vote in the US. Any statement to the contrary is done for some form of political advantage and is totally wrong. It's time that we started using the correct terminology. If we can't face things as they are than we will never be able to come to the table together and be one family--Americans. Quit trying to divide us.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/28/in-first-black-voter-turnout-rate-passes-whites/#ixzz2RosrBZtb

National Debt

It appears to be that the conservatives and Republicans, who are worried about the direction of our country and its national debt, really shouldn't be worried. I believe that a rational plan is afoot. With the significant overspending, as driven by our national leaders and their willing cohorts, will most likely attest. Added to this spending is their reckless borrowing and monetizing of our debt to the point where there is only one recourse left to us. A very well planned recourse and well orchestrated. We will make our currency worth so little that we will be able to issue new dollars and wipe our debt out overnight. It doesn't matter what happens to most of the citizens of our country, or those on a very tight budget. The leaders will be able to say that we don't have any debt, at least not any of any size. If our new dollars are to be set to where each new dollar is worth ten of our old dollars than the debt will be reduced by ninety percent. That's pretty good for a days work. Almost no debt. I'll bet, like all good third world countries, the new dollar will have our fearless leaders picture on it. The only question we have is, "Will it be during his second or his third term." I lean towards the end of his second, but who knows it might even be sooner.