After reading this article about the latest crazy theory on why we can’t yet prove the Big Bang, I couldn’t stop thinking about a particular quote: “Professing to be wise, they became fools.” Read on and see if you don’t agree.
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.
According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.
“She still seems to be suggesting that there are different levels of forcing someone to have sexual intercourse without their consent, that some rapes are better than others. What a dangerous and foolish thing to say.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.
The actress Whoopi Goldberg has coined the stupidest term in the whole furore over Roman Polanski’s arrest in Zurich for having sexual intercourse with a minor.
Speaking on television show The View, Goldberg said “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”
“Rape-rape?” As opposed to just ‘rape’? Goldberg was trying to pin down the exact crime Polanski was charged with but she still seems to be suggesting that there are different levels of forcing someone to have sexual intercourse without their consent, that some rapes are better than others. What a dangerous and foolish thing to say.
Republicans are wrong! They think anti-Obama Health Care forces are pro-GOP.
The independents aren’t joining the repubs the repubs are joining the independents!
Viva Liberty!
CHICAGO - After two terrible elections when independent voters turned away from the GOP and the party lost control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans finally have a little spring back in their step thanks to a health care debate that has done more to cool off Obama-mania and reignite the conservative base than even most of its leaders had hoped…
But that enthusiasm, and the dip in Obama’s poll numbers, has yet to translate into a spike in Republicans’ numbers.
The response in the media - particularly from Democratic PACs have left many a Tea Party Goer scratching his or her head at how misunderstood their movement is. A recent email blast from MoveOn.org made it all clear where the disconnect is coming from.
“Dear MoveOn member,
It’s getting ugly out there.
All across the country, right-wing extremists are disrupting…
Sen. Arlen Specter announced today that he would be switching parties. Now a lot of people are upset about the “shift of power” in the Senate. But let’s be honest here - Sen Specter has been voting Democrat for years and the fact that he now is finally admitting that allegiance does NOTHING to the actual votes in the Senate. It does however provide one less straw man - on less RINO (Republican In Name Only) to use for claims of “bi-partisanship”. Which are often pointed to later when things don’t go as promised (almost always) to blame Republicans for this or that law or bill passage.
REALLY, the GOP now that they have lost 60 vote cloture numbers game (which they didn’t have even back in the “Gang for 14″ days) should step up and throw out some more dead wood. I can think of 6 more Senators that the GOP would be better without. Make the RINOs be honest and sport that D next to their name. You don’t have their vote and at least they would get to sabatage the party from the inside any more. Let the libs fully claim and own their liberal policies. At least then when they implode you can proudly say “I told you so” and pick up the electoral peices. That is of course if the GOP actually wants to win future elections. Lately here, I wonder. Read the rest of this entry »
Wesbury and Stein at Forbes remind us that even “if the government increased the top tax rate [(for the highest income-earners)] from the current rate of 35% to 100% (yes, that’s right 100%), it would only collect an extra $400 billion this year. In other words, confiscating all the income that is currently taxed at 35% would not raise enough revenue to cover any of the annual deficits projected in the next 10 years. There is no way that tax hikes on the rich alone can pay for proposed spending in the current budget.”
Kind of puts the “only raise taxes on the rich” in perspective. And shows how utterly out of hand it has become.
Rush Limbaugh proposed a great comprise in leading the country out of this recession: Keynesian AND Supply Side economics - divvied up by voter split (54/46 for Obama in this case) This is quite brilliant politically. Rush is calling for President Obama to put his money where his mouth is - both figuratively with all his talk of bi-partisanship and literally with his economic idealogy.
And this second part is the kicker. If Obama and the Left are sooo convinced that their grow government tatics are the only way out of this recession - why not once and for all prove it. Side by side with the republican’s tax cut methods - real life economic turn around data could be gathered. Both sides CLAIM their method works, but never in history have both be tried in such a side by side manner.
How many jobs does a $100B tax cut create vs how many jobs does a $100B infrastructure program create? Done simultaneously, you remove most of the external factors (since they would the same for both) that make such historical comparisons so difficult. So again, if you are sure your stuff works - why not prove it? Put up or shut up.
There’s a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention….
With the election of Obama, I am a bit worried about the direction of Liberty in our country. However, make no mistake, Obama is our president. He won. Congratulations Barrack Obama. The first black man elected to the Presidency. That is amazing and historic. Although I strongly disagree with his policies, I certainly recognize his accomplishment.
The coming years are the time to make some noise for conservatism - to make cogent arguments that win over hearts and minds. These four years will give us ample opportunity. Please don’t fall into the left’s position of the previous four years (or eight). Yelling Commie! at every Obama supporter won’t do any good. As a real example, my own neighbor has begun to receive hate calls because someone found out she voted for Obama (and we live in Memphis). Rediculous.
But I have to be honest. I had a fear on Tuesday. My fear was that Obama would be elected and that the stock markets would rally on Wednesday. This would, no doubt, have been used as “proof of investors’ realization of all the wonderful things Obama was going to do for the economy” or some other drivel. And this would have grated on my very soul.
It turns out I was somewhat vindicated. The market had it’s largest ever post-election drop yesterday, and the markets are down today as well. Of course, it is bitter-sweet, as I’m not satisfied watching the markets drop; I’m just glad that I don’t have to hear about how investors are discounting a rapid recovery under an Obama administration.
I was asked the other day about the coming election and what I thought about it.I mentioned that foreign policy has become the main issue for me, and barely got the words out of my mouth before I was promptly interrupted.He could not believe that I wasn’t concerned about the economy.To which I replied, “Not really.”He was incredulous and wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say.So I decided to put to paper these issues and hopefully clarify.
First, I am concerned about the economy.Unemployment will rise, consumer confidence will fall, earnings will disappoint, the market will go down, and times will be hard.But, it’s not the end.We act as though we’ve never seen a down-turn in the markets before.Yes, trillions of dollars have vaporized, and portfolios have suffered, but these things happen.Indeed, if you are not prepared for something like to happen, and are not ready to accept the risk of it happening, then you should not put money into the stock market (or housing market for that matter).And guess what?The markets will come back up again, and then surprise! they’ll go back down again too.As much as they would like to you have you believe, Congress can not repeal the business cycle.
December 1st, 2009 
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