Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc 7/27
Interesting Items Alex Gimarc <[email protected]<http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > Monday, July 27, 2009 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Jupiter 2. Apollo 11 3. Chappaquiddick 4. Honduras 5. Walprin 6. Gates 7. Bears 8. Ethics 1. Jupiter. An amateur astronomer discovered a brand new impact spot on Jupiter last week. Within 24 hours, most of the big professional telescopes took a look at the impact site in all wavelengths. This is the second discovery of something hitting the largest planet in the solar system. Fifteen years ago, a small comet was broken up in a close pass around Jupiter. Gravity redirected it to a collision course and the world watched as over 20 pieces of Shoemaker Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter over the course of a day. We were able to see the actual fireballs formed by the impacts. Jupiter has an interesting effect on inbound objects from the outer system. Its large gravitational field will tend to redirect the paths of those objects; some are tossed out of the solar system; some are redirected into the inner solar system; and some eventually impact Jupiter itself. This weeks’ discovery was a reminder that the solar system is a moderately chaotic place and that things happen. ------------------------------ 2. Apollo 11. Last week was also the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. We made five additional landings before the Apollo program was cancelled. Apollo was a smashing success in that we won the sporting event – the race to the moon against the Soviet Union. It was a stunning failure in that it eliminated the other American manned space program at the time – a military one, and more importantly created a government monopoly on manned spaceflight and cemented for a generation the notion that that government monopoly was the only way that Americans could conduct manned spaceflight. That government monopoly is the single reason that we are not permanently off this planet in large numbers of people as it never allowed the free market to operate. Fortunately, there is today a growing movement of entrepreneurs building the tools, vehicles and infrastructure necessary to get large numbers of people permanently off planet. Do a search on the words “newSpace” and “Space Frontier Foundation” for an idea of what they are up to. Our next target may not be the moon at all, as it is very dry and difficult to produce fuels for propulsion. On the other hand, earth sits in what amounts to a swarm of near earth objects (NEOs) – asteroids and burned out comets. A number of these are very close in terms of energy required to get from here to there, though the trip times will be on the order of months rather than days. The beauty of these objects is that they are not dry, and many of them should be rich in ices – particularly water ice. And if you can find water, you can live off planet for a very long time. You can also convert that water ice into oxygen to breathe and into rocket fuel for propulsion. ------------------------------ 3. Chappaquiddick. This week was also the 40th anniversary of one of the more infamous traffic accidents in recent memory when a drunken then US Senator Ted Kennedy crawled out of an overturned car in the water and left his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne to slowly drown while he tried to figure out how to cover his sorry, drunken backside. He didn’t report the accident for nine hours and then hid behind his name while evading responsibility for negligent homicide due to not immediately reporting the accident. ------------------------------ 4. Honduras. Two new bits of news out of Honduras came to light last week. The first was described in a pair of articles – one from Pajamas Media and the other in the American Thinker – describing the discovery of a room with 45 computers. The room was in a building next to the Presidential Palace occupied (infested?) by deposed El Presedente Zelaya. The computers held the results of an election that was never held. This was the referendum demanded by Zelaya that would call for a constitutional convention that could be used like Chavez has used similar referendums in Venezuela to set up a personal dictatorship, eventually giving him an unlimited number of terms in office and unlimited power. The election certified election results in the prepositioned computers had Zelaya massively winning the referendum that never happened. Here we have Hugo Chavez with the assistance of the Castro brothers in Cuba and Ortega in Nicaragua attempting to force Honduras to accept their choice for dictator. The people of Honduras, on the other hand, are standing alone against the world, unfortunately including the United States, which has sided with the dictators. Zelaya has been grandstanding on the borders of Honduras, threatening to come across with an invasion force. At this moment, it appears that Honduras is well prepared to militarily defeat such a move; that is unless Obama gets militarily involved. ------------------------------ 5. Walprin. Fired Americorps IG Gerald Walprin filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the feds last week. This will be a particularly festive event, as there will be a discovery process that will uncover a bunch of information that the Obama WH, ACORN and Americorps do not want released to the light of day. Given his age, there is probably no chance that he will get his job back. On the other hand, he stands to uncover a lot of corruption and get that information released in court for the public and most importantly, congress to get their hands upon. He also stands to get all his legal fees covered at the end of the process. If the Obama administration is smart – which they aren’t - as they are doctrinaire, arrogant and absolutely convinced of the rightness of their leftist cause – they will come to an out of court settlement before discovery takes place. ------------------------------ 6. Gates. One of Obama’s Harvard buds got busted last week attempting to break in to his own home in an upscale Cambridge MA neighborhood. The guy was a tenured professor of African American Studies (racial grievance mongering) named Gates. Apparently the neighborhood had a number of break-ins over the last several months, and when a neighbor, who was looking out for Gates’ property, saw two black men trying to break into the home at night, they called the cops. By the time the cops arrived, the second guy, the chauffer bringing Gates home from the airport, had left and Gates was in the house. The cop showed up on the front door step, knocked on the door and asked for identification. Gates went off on him about all the expected grievances you would hear from a professional race hustler; pulled the old “Do you know who I am?” routine; ran his mouth; and got himself arrested for disorderly conduct. Apparently much of his mouthing off was taped, though the audio has not yet been released to the public. At Obama’s press conference Wednesday night, the last question asked was about the situation. Obama, forgetting he is now President of the entire United States and no longer a community organizer for ACORN, took the opportunity to blast the arresting cop and the entire Cambridge police force for acting stupidly, and by implication also acting as a bunch of racists against the poor victim. One blogger noted that his response to this planted question showed the most interest and most energy of the entire press conference. WH polling apparently didn’t go well after those unwise comments, as he was back in front of the microphones the next day, crawfishing like crazy, massaging and rewording his response. While he did not apologize directly to the arresting cop, he did try to defuse the situation. The only two racists in this entire episode are Gates and Obama who took the opportunity to fan the flames of racial hatred rather than work within the system. What an embarrassment. ------------------------------ 7. Bears. An Alaska resident near Talkeetna was cited for killing four bears trying to break into his cabin. It was a sow with four cubs, two of them 2-3 years old. He was awakened by noise outside the cabin and shot the sow, mistaking it for a boar that had become a nuisance on his property over the last several weeks. Once the sow went down, the two oldest cubs tried to enter his cabin, perhaps to discuss the passing of their mother. He killed them also. The final cub was simply hanging around, so it was dispatched also. The wildlife trooper cited the man for killing two of the bears without proper justification because the trooper thought the resident was not in physical danger at the time of the shooting. He now faces misdemeanor charges if convicted. The episode demonstrates quite nicely that we have too many bears in Alaska, as sows towing three cubs around are uncommon. Usually that many cubs don’t survive to maturity, though pairs are not uncommon. It also demonstrates the mindset of Alaska Department of Fish and Game enforcement people, when they have the temerity to second guess the ability of residents to defend themselves and their property from bears. At this rate, people are going to stop calling ADF&G when they take animals down. They are going to start killing the bears and dumping the carcasses and ignoring the law completely. 8. Ethics. Last week saw the release of a nine-page letter from an investigator for the Alaska Personnel Board saying that Governor Palin may have broken state ethics laws with her legal defense fund. The ethics complaint was filed alleging that she would personally benefit from the fund. In conclusion, the investigator suggested that the state ethics law was broken, and that the legislature ought to make provisions that would allow the State of Alaska to pick up all legal costs for ethics complaints that were without merit. The letter was a confidential attorney – client piece of correspondence, and whoever leaked it to local media themselves committed a violation of state law. As I have said previously, something is broken in state ethics legislation that will allow a tidal wave of ethics complaints to be filed against an individual with that individual having to pick up the entire cost of defending him or herself. I expect this to be fixed like the Special Counsel law was fixed at the federal level – about the time when it starts getting used and abused against leftist office holders. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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