tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2271388442268724669..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: There are Approximately 23 Million Government Workers in The USADeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68316593237246448842018-02-09T23:22:37.611-05:002018-02-09T23:22:37.611-05:00Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion ...Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles away<br />Associated Press <br />MARCIA DUNN<br />,Associated Press•February 9, 2018<br /><br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/farthest-photos-ever-taken-nearly-4-billion-miles-181248616.htmlCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2140755718546772422018-02-09T22:05:44.407-05:002018-02-09T22:05:44.407-05:00https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c678a7048e9d96df5e1...https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c678a7048e9d96df5e1139f875754ae533be279d/0_110_4811_2886/master/4811.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=4e9e0f01fa08cb0027ffab2c521d1d55Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74489151865617040252018-02-09T21:27:10.123-05:002018-02-09T21:27:10.123-05:00.
...and retaining our culture.
Is that our cul....<br /><br /><i>...and retaining our culture.</i><br /><br /><br />Is that our culture (2018) or our culture (1955)?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32169570601031709752018-02-09T21:25:55.769-05:002018-02-09T21:25:55.769-05:00Look at it this way:
Paddy didn't pass on his...Look at it this way:<br /><br />Paddy didn't pass on his homicidal genes.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25603209772563746402018-02-09T21:22:54.491-05:002018-02-09T21:22:54.491-05:00Dats raysist or somethin.Dats raysist or somethin.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21852354377859863102018-02-09T21:21:01.403-05:002018-02-09T21:21:01.403-05:00.
Look at Stephen Paddock, not only did he launch....<br /><br />Look at Stephen Paddock, not only did he launch the biggest mass killing event in US history but even after being married a couple times, he didn't have any kids.<br /><br />Selfish prick.<br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67368768244836363192018-02-09T21:19:57.156-05:002018-02-09T21:19:57.156-05:00Eddie, aka Chief Eddie.
His ancestors developed t...Eddie, aka Chief Eddie.<br /><br />His ancestors developed the Appaloosa horse breed.<br /><br />He and his group are heavily invested in the Clearwater River Casino now.<br /><br />Beats fishing and digging camus roots.<br /><br />Don't know where they picked up the Eddington.<br /><br />They used to be the Running Foxes of the Running Fox Clan.<br /><br />Always had the reputation of being real smart folks.<br /><br />Nice too.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40965926490441852652018-02-09T21:12:31.037-05:002018-02-09T21:12:31.037-05:00.
Many, many more simple fixes will stabilize US ....<br /><br /><i>Many, many more simple fixes will stabilize US population growth while maintaining and improving our quality of life and retaining our culture.</i><br /><br /><br />Well sure, perhaps more free love and fewer condoms and abortions among whites.<br /><br />Those guys don't seem to be holding up their end of the compact.<br /><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83691880112855079302018-02-09T21:02:56.552-05:002018-02-09T21:02:56.552-05:00.
Well, thank you ma'am. I appreciate your k....<br /><br />Well, thank you ma'am. I appreciate your kind thoughts.<br /><br />The encouragement you have offered will be locked away and brought out again in those moments of doubt and frustration (not a sexual reference so please do not sue me) when the effort grows long and hard (sorry, also not a sexual reference) when I am alone and...(oh, hell).<br /><br />Thank you, ma'am.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47832462412972170062018-02-09T20:48:30.184-05:002018-02-09T20:48:30.184-05:00Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. T...<b><br />Senate Introduces Bill Intended to Displace U.S. Tech Workers</b><br /><br />In one of his final official acts before retiring, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced the Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 that would increase the annual H-1B visa quota up to as many as 195,000 from the current 85,000.<br /><br />Co-sponsored by lame duck Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., the bill would also allow H-1B visa holders’ spouses and children to work, a provision that then-President Barack Obama’s 2015 executive order granted, and which the Homeland Security Department is re-evaluating with an eye toward ending.<br /><br />The news release that announced the Hatch-Flake legislation, also referred to as I-Squared and a nonstarter in the two previous Congresses, is watered down with touchy-feely language, but the end goal is obvious: fewer jobs for American tech workers and more imported overseas labor.<br /><br />...But displaced, highly skilled American tech workers tell a different, more compelling story than the congressional boiler plate pap.<br /><br />Craig Diangelo worked at Connecticut-based Northeast Utilities. Like many of his fired IT peers nationwide, his severance package was contingent on him training his H-1B replacement.<br /><br />The indifference Congress has consistently shown to laid-off Americans who must, often for the first time in their lives, rely on unemployment insurance to survive propelled Diangelo to become a 2018 congressional candidate in Connecticut’s Fifth District.<br /><br />https://www.noozhawk.com/article/joe_guzzardi_senate_bill_intended_to_displace_u.s._tech_workers_20180204#at_pco=cfd-1.0Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25982437049285251192018-02-09T20:47:58.796-05:002018-02-09T20:47:58.796-05:00.
Is that Ed Eddington from down Appaloosa way?
....<br /><br />Is that Ed Eddington from down Appaloosa way?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21277962304933733742018-02-09T19:51:21.995-05:002018-02-09T19:51:21.995-05:00This FRI, Feb 9, the COS resolution HCR32 will be ...<b>This FRI, Feb 9, the COS resolution HCR32 will be voted on in Idaho for the first<br />time ever! History will be made in Committee Room EW40.<br /><br />https://causes.anedot.com/states</b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27951059071666885762018-02-09T19:47:23.916-05:002018-02-09T19:47:23.916-05:00It's possible I have a Bozeman Brain.
Nice co...It's possible I have a <i><b>Bozeman Brain.</b></i><br /><br />Nice country out that way -<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozeman,_Montana<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80963159832875682018-02-09T19:33:46.968-05:002018-02-09T19:33:46.968-05:00Is it possible YOU might have a 'Boltzmann Bra...Is it possible <b>YOU</b> might have a 'Boltzmann Brain' ?<br /><br /><i>....Turning to the multiverse hypothesis, the false prediction arises from the so-called Boltzmann brain problem, named after the 19th-century Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann who first formulated the paradox of the observed universe. Assuming there is a multiverse, you would expect our Universe to be a fairly typical member of the universe ensemble, or at least a fairly typical member of the universes containing observers (since we couldn’t find ourselves in a universe in which observers are impossible). However, in The Road to Reality (2004), the physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose has calculated that in the kind of multiverse most favoured by contemporary physicists – based on inflationary cosmology and string theory – for every observer who observes a smooth, orderly universe as big as ours, there are 10 to the power of 10123 who observe a smooth, orderly universe that is just 10 times smaller. And by far the most common kind of observer would be a ‘Boltzmann’s brain’: a functioning brain that has by sheer fluke emerged from a disordered universe for a brief period of time. If Penrose is right, then the odds of an observer in the multiverse theory finding itself in a large, ordered universe are astronomically small. And hence the fact that we are ourselves such observers is powerful evidence against the multiverse theory.<br /><br />Neither of these are knock-down arguments. Theists can try to come up with reasons why God would allow the suffering we find in the Universe, and multiverse theorists can try to fine-tune their theory such that our Universe is less unlikely. However, both of these moves feel ad hoc, fiddling to try to save the theory rather than accepting that, on its most natural interpretation, the theory is falsified. I think we can do better.</i><br /><br />https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-lifeCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77463212747447542412018-02-09T18:34:47.719-05:002018-02-09T18:34:47.719-05:00...let me know if I missed anything while wearing ......let me know if I missed anything while wearing out my scroller roller.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7019364783417800402018-02-09T18:17:42.802-05:002018-02-09T18:17:42.802-05:00Buncha lights and chemicals.Buncha lights and chemicals.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39438143831652403612018-02-09T18:16:39.888-05:002018-02-09T18:16:39.888-05:00...it still remains a nagging question to some:
W......it still remains a nagging question to some:<br /><br />Why?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82431470958908246452018-02-09T18:16:39.074-05:002018-02-09T18:16:39.074-05:00No matter, never mind
Never mind, no matterNo matter, never mind<br />Never mind, no matterCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10682603723781432142018-02-09T18:16:04.018-05:002018-02-09T18:16:04.018-05:00What the Hindus knew long long ago, long before ou...What the Hindus knew long long ago, long before our 'Enlightenment', before Christianity, before Judaism -<br /><br /><b>Is The Universe A Conscious Mind?</b><br /><br /><i><b>....We have no direct access to the nature of matter outside of brains. But the most reasonable speculation, according to Eddington, is that the nature of matter outside of brains is continuous with the nature of matter inside of brains. Given that we have no direct insight into the nature of atoms, it is rather ‘silly’, argued Eddington, to declare that atoms have a nature entirely removed from mentality, and then to wonder where mentality comes from. In my book Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (2017), I developed these considerations into an extensive argument for panpsychism: the view that all matter has a consciousness-involving nature.<br /><br />There are two ways of developing the basic panpsychist position. One is micropsychism, the view that the smallest parts of the physical world have consciousness. Micropsychism is not to be equated with the absurd view that quarks have emotions or that electrons feel existential angst. In human beings, consciousness is a sophisticated thing, involving subtle and complex emotions, thoughts and sensory experiences. But there seems nothing incoherent with the idea that consciousness might exist in some extremely basic forms. We have good reason to think that the conscious experience of a horse is much less complex than that of a human being, and the experiences of a chicken less complex than those of a horse. As organisms become simpler, perhaps at some point the light of consciousness suddenly switches off, with simpler organisms having no experience at all. But it is also possible that the light of consciousness never switches off entirely, but rather fades as organic complexity reduces, through flies, insects, plants, amoeba and bacteria. For the micropsychist, this fading-while-never-turning-off continuum further extends into inorganic matter, with fundamental physical entities – perhaps electrons and quarks – possessing extremely rudimentary forms of consciousness, to reflect their extremely simple nature....</b></i><br /><br />https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/02/universe-conscious-mind/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60002502178172966462018-02-09T18:15:31.095-05:002018-02-09T18:15:31.095-05:00
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I will not lower myself to entertain, much ...<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />I will not lower myself to entertain, much less address, the possibility of ANY corruption in the DOJ or FBI.<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83570851780511127042018-02-09T18:13:20.409-05:002018-02-09T18:13:20.409-05:00.
"a congressional nutjob who conjures cons...<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />"<i>a congressional nutjob who conjures conspiracy theories out of nothingburgers and likely wears a tinfoil hat to church on Sunday's.</i>"<br /><br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7478404590119186622018-02-09T18:06:55.024-05:002018-02-09T18:06:55.024-05:00To Quirk -
Dear Sir,
I am not blind to the worth...To Quirk -<br /><br />Dear Sir,<br /><br />I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of <i><b>"Dilly Dilly - The Tao of Quirk"</b></i>. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were making our Western wits fat and mean. I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment, which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely of fortifying and encouraging.<br /><br />I did not know until I, last night, saw the book advertised in a newspaper, that I could trust the name as real and available for a Post-Office. I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks, and visiting Detroit to pay you my respects.<br /><br />Bob WaldoCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13344818489558924602018-02-09T18:00:27.827-05:002018-02-09T18:00:27.827-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42483576086774205872018-02-09T17:33:46.843-05:002018-02-09T17:33:46.843-05:00You might even throw in a little dilly dally occas...You might even throw in a little <i><b>dilly dally</b></i> occasionally for sensuousness and sex interest.<br /><br />That's why Ernie had to put that nonsense about Maria into <i>For Whom The Bell Tolls</i>.<br /><br />Hollywood would demand the romantic interest be expressed.<br /><br />Just some fundamental writing advice from your English Major....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33921957343639714872018-02-09T17:30:07.489-05:002018-02-09T17:30:07.489-05:00.
Noted.
Dilly Dilly
..<br /><br />Noted.<br /><br />Dilly Dilly<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com