.chm to .html conversion

7.14: news.cyb/xp/.chm to .html conversion:
you need a CHM decompiler

(You can use HTML Help Workshop)
[but it seems that is just a dev's api
not a command line tool ...]
counter-suggestion:
. decompile CHM using the built-in command line tool:
hh.exe . eg,
C:\>HH.EXE -decompile D:/output-folder D:/converted.chm
where "decompile-folder" could be simply "."
Decompiling the file produces a slew of
HTML and image files,
together with the table of contents (.hhc) file,
index (.hhk) file, and a few other supporting files.
The only decompiler with any additional features
is KeyTools,
as this can try to rebuild the project (.hhp) file.
You will need this file if you want to recompile the help project.
One thing to note is that the decompile/recompile
isn't a "round-trip" process.
Certain features that the help author added
to the original help file
can't be recovered when you decompile it,
so these may no longer work properly
after you've recompiled.
This is especially true in the area of
context-sensitive help,
which may be broken in the new version of the file.

7.14: cyb/fs/.chm to .html conversion:
web:
. the .chm file type is microsoft's compiled html
and I found there are decompilers for it
on both xp (built-in) and on ubuntu (openware).
proj: done on xp:
. I did it with hh! [@] see snapshot
. to use the terminal without the help of the
[open a terminal here] file menu item
-- where did that go?!
(I need to be in the admin acct) --
use the run box, and type in cmd.exe;
then try the command
(change directory to virtual drive E)
ie (cd E:)
which is really just link to a long pathname;
then in the hh command,
I'll need to mention the drive in the file paths,
and I'll rename the files
to make my command typing easier;
eg, rename "(programming python.chm) to pp.chm,
create a folder named pp,
and then run this command:
hh -decompile e:\pp e:\pp.chm .
. instantly it's filled with html files
-- data liberation !

mis:
. (cd E:) doesn't work?
likely because I don't own that space?

7.14: mis.cyb/xp/
virtual device has strange permissions:
. I have some ms programs that need their installer cd
to be in the cd drive at all times;
so, running these programs over-uses the cd drive,
and also the drive is slowing down these programs .
. the fix is to copy the cd to a folder,
and then use a command to
associate that folder with some spare drive letter .
. now I want to use that drive as a temp drive;
because when doing commands that use pathnames
it's easier to type in E:\
than C:\documents and settings\myacct\ .
. but I'm having trouble with the permissions,
and they are not found under properties?
I'll have to check a dos cookbook .
. I thought it was the admin's,
so the user would only allow reading not deleting;
but, xp is not letting the admin delete files either?
. so,
now nobody can delete anything from E:,
but anyone can add to it,
and move things within it;
eg, I created a trash folder,
and put all my done work into that folder .
todo:
. the next thing to try is removing the startup script
that creates the virtual device links .
. maybe it will have more permissions then .

mis.cyb/xp/
command line locks the current folder:
. it would not let me move one done folder to trash folder
because it's in use?
the command line's current folder was set to that,
so I moved it out of there (cd ..)
and then I could move it .

mis.cyb/xp/
command line output confused by virtual cd drive:
. I asked if I could (cd doneDir; rm *.*)
and it said it didn't recognized that command;
but it was supposed to remove files, and it did!
no it thought it did,
the finder shows it's still there .
. I can say (cd e:; del trash)
then I can reply sure to the "(are you sure?),
and it comes back having done nothing .

internet with both privacy and security

7.26: co.apt/cyb/sec/cloud computing is not easy:
. I thought cloud computing would be a breeze;
it was just like SOA, right?
only SOA is on a private network,
while cloud computing is using a public network .
. can that even be done securely?
[ it seems like shifting code tech should do it .
. being able to initialize the session
might be complicated .]

7.8: sci.cyb/sec/how to get secure internet?:
. can there be secure communications networks
that are also self healing ?
how can we support openware and anonymity too?
to be anonymous you simply get another service to
send the message for you
but for openware that depends on
whether we need OS cooperation for the security .
[9.26:
. openware-based internet depends on
whether we need OS cooperation for the security?
I don't think the problem is software,
so, having openware wouldn't make the net more secure .
. there are 2 problems:
# denial of service:
. it's too easy for too many machines to be
owned by malware .
# id theft:
. it's too easy to spoof being someone else .
the solution?:
. there should be special hardware available
in order to authenticate your id;
if you don't have that box,
then you can't do banking, credit-card shopping,
and if there's a denial of service attack,
then you can't get through;
because, nodes stop forwarding your messages .]

7.10: news.cyb/sec/
DOD says we can have both privacy and security:Cybersecurity and American power 7.9:

At an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event
U.S. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander
urged us to support cybersecurity legislation
being pushed through Congress .
. it asks internet service providers to
help federal anti-virus software,
by searching all emails for viral signatures,
and reporting malware event parameters
(malware signature, source address, destination address).
. when asked about china's role in the motivation
he reminded us that there is a high cost from malware
due to intellectual property loss via cyber espionage.
"Symantec placed the cost of IP theft
at $250 billion a year .

The director of the National Security Agency (NSA)
and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS)
reemphasized an immense problem the U.S. is facing:
cybercrime has been "the greatest
transfer of wealth in history,"
Alexander said in a statement.
global cybercrime is $114 billion annually
($388 billion when you factor in downtime),
and McAfee estimates that
$1 trillion was spent globally under remediation.

[ you might think the reason we are such targets
is that our foreign policy is so offensive
to so many bright communists and liberals
but, we'd be in the same danger anyway,
because there's so much money to be gained
from cracking our banks and intellectual property .
9.26:
. when they talk about remediation costs
they are referring to having their hands tied
by an internet that is inherently insecure;
I wonder what the cost would have been
if we had just rebuilt the internet from scratch
with security in mind .
. can the surveillance proposed by this legislation
make up for the lack of a dual system,
one that promotes anonymity,
and the other that promotes reliability? ]

unhosted.org

7.10: news.cyb/net.unhosted.org:
@GoogleAppsDev

Tell us what it would take for you to
use "nothing but the web"
- google apps developer../2011/09/

. one reply was:

Unhosted.org-- to separate web apps from user data,
I must be in control of my data.
Once I put my data in the hands of a
third party web service or application,
I am no longer in control.

Unhosted.org ?

Unhosted.org is developing technology that will
put control of user data
back where it belongs: With the user.
Freedom from the web's monopolies
The web is not as open as it used to be:
monopoly platforms formed new proprietary layers on top of it.
But we create a better architecture for the web.
We break the package deal
»you get our app, we get your data«
with remoteStorage,
a cross-origin storage protocol
separating application servers from people's documents.
This enables everyone to use various web services
but keep their data in one place they choose and trust
– their remote storage,
their »home folder« for the web.
The applications will not run on servers you can't control,
but be pure Javascript which runs client-side, in your browser.
And app developers don't need to bother about
providing storage or managing user accounts.
Technically speaking, we define a protocol stack called remoteStorage.
A combination of WebFinger for discovery,
OAuth for authorization,
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
for cross-domain AJAX calls and GET, PUT, DELETE for synchronization.
We also work on its adoption through developing apps like
Libre Docs and Opentabs
as well as making existing apps and storage providers compatible.
If you speak French, there is also some info on Framablog en Français.
Unhosted is a movement by the people, for the people.
Everyone can participate, including you!

Libre Docs – liberate your ideas
libredocs.org
github.com/unhosted/libredocs
Remotestorage providers
github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/remoteStorage-providers
freemium providers:
    OwnCube recommended for end users!
    5apps recommended for javascript developers
domains that provide remoteStorage to their users:
    all Dutch universities
ways to run your own remoteStorage server:
    install pagekite on your computer
github.com/pagekite/plugins-pyUnhosted
    install ownCloud on a server
owncloud.org/
    coming soon: how to use your CouchDB instance as remoteStorage
pagekite
github.com/pagekite/plugins-pyUnhosted

. Unhosted.py is an HTTP server
implementing the bare minimum required for
the simple remoteStorage API from unhosted.org.
Hopefully this program will be useful for folks who want to
study how the remoteStorage protocol works
or as a development tool for people working on Unhosted apps.
As Unhosted matures,
Unhosted.py will hopefully also mature into a usable personal data-store
for people who want to store their Unhosted data on their own devices.
Getting started
Quick-start:
    Install pagekite.py
    In another console:
pagekite.py 6789 rs-YOURNAME.pagekite.me
You should now be able to use
whatever@rs-YOURNAME.pagekite.me
as a remoteStorage account.
If you prefer, you can also
use Unhosted.py without PageKite,
but you will need an SSL enabled
reverse HTTP proxy (such as Pound)
in order to comply with the protocol.
As far as I can tell,
hosting on http://localhost/ won't work.
Play!
5apps.com have written a nice Unhosted tutorial and test app
which works just fine with Unhosted.py.
Hacking
The file Unhosted.combined.py is combination of Unhosted.py
and the HttpdLite.py module it depends on.
For hacking, you'll want to check both out from github:
    Unhosted.py
    HttpdLite.py
The combined "binary" is generated using Breeder.
Where is my data?
Unhosted.py stores data in ~/.Unhosted.py/,
in a relatively intuitive directory structure:
~/.Unhosted.py/USER/CATEGORY/...
Each data folder will contain some regular files,
as well as a file named _RS_METADATA.js.
This meta-data file stores "real" names
for all keys, mime-types
and may store other meta-data in the future.
The meta-data file may also store key values as well,
if they are small and do not really "look like a file".
This is an optimization to reduce clutter and disk seeks
when working with small keys:
if the data is large or looks like an independent file,
it will be written as such to the filesystem,
although the name will probably be sanitized somewhat.
Note that changes to individual files of name:
_RS_METADATA.js
may be overwritten by Unhosted.py if it is running,
as it caches their contents in RAM.
Bugs
    Directory listings do not work yet.
    User names and passwords are ephemeral.
    _RS_METADATA.js could be overwritten by evil apps.
    Saving metadata fails sometimes due to a race condition.

hidden drive solved by permissions repair #mac

7.6: mis.cyb/mac.finder/
hiding the internal drive from user acct:
. my user acct's finder can't see anything on the internal drive
but on a visible external drive
there is a working link to a file on the internal drive,
so I know the files are there .
. the admin acct can see everything .
. there are no updates from Apple .
. use the disk utility app to verify and repair mac's permissions:
they are bad, but before fixing, verify disk is healthy .
web:
. others are seeing this last year,
and by 2 authors the terminal was suggested:
sudo chflags nohidden /
-- all but one mac user was not happy about that fix:
one just never came back to verify it worked;
and the other cracked jokes about
finding a fix by downloading xcode .
. I would find later that
Apple's diskUtility.permissionsFix
would fix my problem of finder hiding everything .

laptop suspended over recliner

7.6: proj.cyb/xuw/making it usable from easy chair:
. since my eyes can only see things a foot from my face,
I'm wondering how to make the laptop usable
while sitting in the easy chair:
. my first idea was to use it with glasses;
(I have some cheap prescription swimming goggles
to allow me to see things resting on my lap;
much cheaper than new scripts from the optometrist).
. I need a tray for another ergo kybd,
I'm using a spare 1ftx3ft plywood as tray
and resting it on arms of nearby chair when not in use ..

virginMobile's new outlook

7.9: aq.cell/Virgin Mobile/We Paid Your Monthly Charge
9.26: summary:
. I had to dump Virgin Mobile;
because, they kept double-billing me;
they used to have very high ratings
from Clark Howard
now I'm with tracfone.
. after I cut VM from my credit card
they sent me this piece of cheese ...

the new microsoft outlook

7.31: co.apt/cyb/the new microsoft outlook:
. what is the significance of microsoft getting into hardware?
I would have thought this was more of them owning the platform
just so they could abuse their position of power;
but they don't really have the power of monopoly anymore,
because, they are losing ground to opensource (google, apple).
. one thing I just noticed was that
they used to have a lot of clout with hardware vendors,
because hardware vendors needed ms's os;
but increasingly people are just as happy running linux;
so that may be a factor in why ms should be
very interested in getting into hardware
-- so it can still have control over that .

the last good cd

7.29: co.amazon/cyb`gear/review Taiyo Yuden-JVC Water Shield
White Inkjet Hub Printable 52X CD-R Media 50 Pack: 5-star"the last good cd as cd's are obsolete:
. the few I have tried have been good .
( I now do all my backups onto
spare harddrives instead of cd's,
I just use these for
sharing data by snailmail ).
. I was amazed it took so long
to find a cd maker who
got consistently good reviews;
all the others are selling cd's cheaper to us simply to
avoid having to sort out defective ones .
. on multiple sites, reviews have been good only for
this brand .

getting over Word97 format

7.13: proj.cyb/fs/word97 conversions/wordviewer fails:
. try opening files in xp's todo folder
(the todo's are things like converting files
that only win97 can open )
I do have wordviewer now,
but that isn't helping anything .
. it says I should look into [text recovery tool] .

web.cyb/fs/word97 conversions/
Word text recovery tool fails:
. I found this hopeful title:
How to recover text from any files by using the
"Recover Text from Any File" converter of Word
but none of the instructions for Word
seems to apply to Word viewer?
try installing word97 on xp .

proj.cyb/fs/word97 conversions/xp.word97 fails:
. there is a compatability mode that includes win95,
but something about word97 and xp
was such a vulnerability
that it's now considered a malware .
[@] web,sci.cyb/xp.word97/failing
. once I started playing with the registry,
it had some code to kill the installation process .

7.14: proj.cyb/fs/word97 conversions/
vista.word97 installs ok but fails:
. try vista.ms'word97;
works but won't open .doc files
... the format it seems to be
(from opening it with ko'edit)
is an .rtf not a .doc;
so change file's type.name;
and then vista.word97 still does not open it;
however, vista.wordpad opened it .
[@] news.cyb/vista.wordpad/will open word97's .rtf's

7.14: web.cyb/vista.word97:
is it possible to run word97 on vista?
. can't hurt to try searching on web .
I know vista has better security,
but by then 1997 was a long time ago!
news: not promoted:
. Office 97 Pro compatible with Vista?
. one convincingly shows it does not;
(Description of the versions of Office
that are supported on Windows Vista
goes back only to 2003)
but I'll finish checking the selected links .
news: some encouragement:
. How to Run Office 97 on Vista | eHow.com

7.14: sci.cyb/vista.word97/install succeeds:
. vista does have a win95 compat'mode;
and it's not complaining about word97 .
mis: won't open a .doc
(what mac calls word97 format):
. mac said this 2003 file was word97 format,
(I never used word97 in 2003,
but this file was authored elsewhere).
. word97 would not open it,
but I tricked vista.wordpad into opening it,
(by retyping it as .txt ? vague recall)
. maybe it needs word viewer,
but word pad finds a lot of text,
only there's a lot strange char's added too .

news.cyb/vista.wordpad/
will open word97's .rtf's:
. after correctly identifying the word97 file
as being an .rtf not a .doc format,
vista.word97 still won't open its own file
[due to security issues]
but, vista now gives me
an option to open with wordpad,
so do that: and it does open it!
. it said there were some codes in it
that my permission level was not allowed to have;
so, there file might not look like the original;
but, it looked great .

sci: why word97 can't open its own files on vista:
. word97 wouldn't open its own .rtf
but vista.wordpad would?
. wordpad said
     there were some codes in it
     that my permission level was not allowed to have;
     so, the file might not look like the original ...but, it looked great .
. and, word 97 does open the same .rtf
after wordpad has filtered the sensitive codes .
. therefore, vista.word97 does work
but can't deal with the security issues
that vista is now trained to detect .

7.12 cyb`gear word97 install

news: compatability may be partial:

The problem was not the driver
but rather changing print settings
from anything but normal in printer properties.
You can make changes
as you print in MS WORD
but do not make any changes in "PRINTERS";
if you do, changing them back to normal
will not accomplish anything;
you will have to remove the printer
and uninstall and reinstall the printer driver.
I tried this three times!
I realize that some may think
this has nothing to do with VISTA
but having used MS WORD
before VISTA without any problems,
I think all the "OUT OF THE
STONE AGE" MS OFFICE 97 users
will appreciate this information.
...
Well, that depends - it may be a
combination of a changed Vista interface
along with the old style interface
that Office programs use
to access system devices.
...
Still, at least for me,
I can change printer settings to
what I'd like to use within Word (temporarily)
but if I start messing with the
main settings in default printer properties,
it's uninstall and reinstall to get it back to normal.
By all means, do not use any compatibility settings,
that's what brings on the winword error message.

news.cyb/vista.ms'office97/
Access has same troubles as Word or worse?:

"( . I finally got my MS Office 97 to load in Vista
but I still couldn't open my old MS Access files.
I finally bought MS Office 2003,
which seems to open all my old files properly.)

. after seeing that,
I wondered if Access worked at all,
or if, like Word, vista just had security issues
with letting an old app open old files .

beans increase your activity level

7.21: co.fb/health/legumes/
beans increase your activity level:

    Being Inactive Kills as Many as Cigarettes
    - Longevity Center - Everyday Health
How about some truth in headlines:
Being a [hyper-glycemic dieter] May Kill You .
-- The Truth About Sex via The Truth About Sex

me:
. one way of getting more active without trying
is to get far more fiber
(replace meat with beans
and replace sugar with greens)
. look at the details of that study:
medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/ExerciseFitness/33793

"removal of physical inactivity
had the largest effect on colon cancer,
and the smallest on coronary heart disease,
in terms of percentage reduction, ..."

. it just so happens that beans are
a major preventive of colon cancer
just as if you had gotten more exercise .
. that's not all beans do for health .

7.25: news.health/hormonics/
sugar transitions muscle to
prefering glucose over fats:
07-23-12 European Journal of Nutrition,

. the participants were lightly active, lean,
and then drinking soft drinks for only four weeks.
. Dr. Hans-Peter Kubis, Bangor University in England .
. the research showed regularly drinking soft drinks
changed the way muscles use food as fuel,
making them prefer to burn sugars over fats
via altered gene activity
-- encouraging unhealthy adaptations
similar to those seen in people with
obesity problems and type 2 diabetes:
a reduced ability to burn fat and to fat gain.
and making it more difficult for the body to
cope with rises in blood sugar.

found a loophole in Atkins 2002

7.20: health/hormonics/found a loophole in Atkins 2002:
. my familiarity with Atkins is limited to
a book he last revised in 2002;
in that book, he suggested that
in determining our carb' allotment,
we didn't need to count the non-insulinemics,
which includes fructose .
. the Zone diet noted that
one way to keep your blood sugar up,
is to get generous amounts of certain proteins
(chicken, fish, egg whites, veg protein isolate,
but not whey protein isolate).
. Dr.Lustig noted that a leading cause of
the liver becoming insulin resistant
is from eating too much fructose;
he also warned us that it was the
combination of glucose provoking insulin
and fructose causing insulin resistance
that was causing the current epidemic of
metabolic syndrome (obesity, fatty liver, ...).
. some with high blood sugar are finding that
their blood sugar is high on awakening
suggesting that for some reason
their liver is being fooled into making
too much glucose .
. one way it can be fooled is insulin resistance:
as it produces glucose,
it knows when to stop because
it detects that levels of insulin are getting high;
but if it's insulin resistant,
it can't hear the insulin signal
and thus continues to produce glucose
even when the {insulin, glucose} are too high .
. therefore,
high glycemics is not exactly the whole problem:
fructose is making the liver insulin-resistant
which makes the liver put out too much glucose;
so, if instead of sugar you had too much
combined fructose and protein,
that too would cause the same hyperglycemia,
without being on a high -glycemic diet ?
. if that 's true,
that's a loophole in the Atkins 2002 diet,
because he allows non-insulinemic carb's
and any amount of any sort of protein .
. most people don't fall into that pitfall
only because fructose is usually combined with
the insulinemic carb's that Atkins controls,
so most on Atkins diet tend to get less of
all sorts of carb's, including fructose .

biofuel & TEG electricity sources

7.30: gear/pedgen powered by wood-burning turbine:

. a great way to produce energy while mobile
is to use a wood-burning steam engine
to power a windmill's electricity generator .
. go to a national park where there is forest litter,
and burn it in a steam engine,
that drives that the generator
that recharges your batteries .

9.25: summary:
. with that thought in mind,
I set about looking for equipment that
already does such wood burning,
and I found an even better idea:
thermoelectric generators (TEG)
-- converting heat into electricity .
. existing TEG-based camper products
include the $129 BioLite CampStove .

full-time rv legal residence

7.29: co.answers.yahoo.com/mobi/
full-time rv legal residence:
2011: answers.yahoo.com

If you are full time rv person
how do you maintain a resident status
and how do you deal with mail?

Neva Neva -- Best Answer - Chosen by 1 Voter:

Deal with your mail on the Internet.
Do your banking on line.
You do not really have a resident status.
Your home goes where you go.

7.29: my comment to "(best answer)
. that answer may be increasingly correct
in the future:

toilet design for very-low water usage

7.24: gear/toilet/design for very-low water usage:

keyboard tray for reclined use without sliding

7.28: proj.gear/table for kybd in bed/
make a fence to preventing kybd sliding:
. when using the table for kybd in bed
 I like to have the table at a slight angle,
 but then the kybd tends to slide off,
 so the table needs a little fence in front,
 and found just the adapter among my junk hardware:
 there are angle brackets for reinforcing cabinets .
 . I screwed a pair of them into place near the edge .

compressed natural gas will save us

7.7: gear/mobi/compressed natural gas will save us:
. after trying cycling with a mobile home,
it occurred to me that I might need
quite a bit of distance to find safe places to park it
given I spend time at the city's library
but there are often city-wide bans on car-camping .
. the healthiest economical engine
runs on compressed natural gas
and many cars are converting to this
(4 million in latin america).

weightlifting away alzheimers

7.18: news.health/alz/weightlifting away alzheimers:
summary:
. comparing weightlifting to aerobics
for reductions in cognitive decline;
weightlifting was much better for women
at least if they started doing it
before the cognitive decline advanced much .
. the comparison used only women because,
an aerobic study of men found that
among the elderly, only the women
responded cognitively to aerobics .
. while weightlifting was better than aerobics
aerobics can do some good for women,
but only at near-daily application of
an earnest 80% target heart rate;
ie, 4 days per week was interesting,
while 2 days of less intensity was not .
. if she had only 2 days to work,
resistance training is what helped .

. he is welcome to do aerobics
but needs to also do weightlifting,
or needs to complement aerobics with
a diet that optimizes these parameters:
Fasting insulin, cortisol, and IGF-I .
. other tests that male aerobics didn't help
were brain-derived neurotrophic factor,
and β-amyloids 40 and 42 .

. light aerobics in women
did improve one memory test:
the Rey Auditory Visual Learning Test.
( given a list of 15 unrelated words
repeated over five different trials
and are asked to repeat.
Another list of 15 unrelated words are given
and the client must again repeat
the original list of 15 words
and then again after 30 minutes.
Approximately 10 to 15 minutes
is required for the procedure
(not including 30 min. interval)).

another win for heavier aerobics
(walking 45 minutes 3 days per week)
was that at an age where the hippocampus
was normally declining 1.5%,
that level of aerobics was increasing it by 2% !
. it also increased BDNF
(brain-derived neurotrophic factor).

"By midcentury, care for people with Alzheimer's
will cost the U.S. over $1 trillion.

Four Clinical Trials Further Clarify The Role Of
Physical Activity In Cognitive Function And Dementia.

Moderate walking may grow brain region related to memory;
increase nerve growth factor.

Resistance Training Promotes Cognitive and
Functional Brain Plasticity in Seniors With
Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Resistance training and executive functions:
a 12-month randomized controlled trial.
-- contrast Baker's study:
Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Mild Cognitive Impairment

Refining Exercise Prescription
to Promote Executive Functions in Older Adults
using Multi-State Transition Modeling
-- that description matches this study:
Resistance training and executive functions:
a 12-month randomized controlled trial.

online art galleries

7.25: news.wealth/online galleries:
googleartproject.com/
The Web Gallery of Art:

. a virtual museum and searchable database of
European painting and sculpture of the
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850),
currently containing over 29.000 reproductions .

the smithsonian
The Museum of Modern Art
the british museum
France's Louvre
www.louvre.fr/en/selections
[offline at the time]
www.onlineartgallery.org.uk/

huperzine complements

7.20: news.wealth/things that go good with hup:
a reviewer of huperzine commented:

This is one of the best staples in my regime
for concentration and motivation.
Any effects on mood, I can easily
counteract it with Ashwagandha
or even a cup of coffee.
Great to mix with Pine Bark
for an added mental kick and proper dosing.
My concentration improves some,
and my recall / short term is always 100% sharper.

4g huperzine.

MAO-A inhibitors in tribulus

7.30: news.wealth/tribulus/
"reversible" Monoamine Oxidase A inhibitor:
. related to dopamine?
Tribulus extracts may contain "reversible"
inhibitors of Monoamine Oxidase A .
forum.lef.org/
www.springerlink.com/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

MAO-A can selectively metabolize
adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin,
and dopamine to inactive compounds.
Tribulus contains Harmine,
a short-acting, "reversible" MAOI-A inhibitor
The inhibition of MAO-A prevents the degradation of
adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin, and dopamine
and the result can be increased mood,
alleviation of depression  and more energy.
High dopamine levels can stimulate the pituitary gland
to release lutenizing hormone (LH)
which leads to an increase in testosterone levels
and thus elevating libido, another mood enhancer.
Harmine is "reversible" because it
does not bind permanently to MAO-A,
thus is not as contraindicated with
tyramine-containing foods (cheese, red wine, etc)
as irreversible MAOI's,
nor does harmine raise levels of tyramine per se
since it allows tyramine to be metabolized.
The short-acting and non-permanency
of it's binding capabilities means that
the anti-depressive effects of harmine
usually cease 24-48 hours after stopping therapy.
. with a half-life of 2.5 hours,
several doses are necessary;
eg 3 * 750 ... 1,500 mg
of standardized 45% steroidal sapponins.

. lef member suggests tribestan .
tribulus at Beyond A Century:
(bac's 1kg, 100g, High-Protodiocin 50g).
9.23:
[. this was added to the health store page
under performance/mood enhanced .]

schiz'ia thought to be related to autism

7.31: co.fb/med/schiz'ia/thought to be related to autism:
How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody     io9.com
[@] news.med/autism/
How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody
There's not much doubt that autism, along with Asperger Syndrome,
is finally becoming accepted as a normal part of the human fabric.
Even if some people still see autism as a condition that needs to be "treated,"
it's increasingly obvious that people on the autism spectrum
are finding ways to...
--
. interesting that an article about
people misunderstanding autism
also noted that some had seen autism
as related to childhood schizophrenia;
because, schiz'ia too is quite misunderstood .
. medicals claim it's all about
being detached from reality:
having delusions about thoughts as objects
-- thoughts being sharable between people .
. the truth is,
not being able to control communications
(because thoughts are given to us
-- not made by us) means that
schiz'ia can be a lonely disease
and one filled with much frustration,
popularly known to end in mass murder
(people who think together, die together!?).
. what makes our medicals think that
this thought sharing is delusional?
. it may be delusional to think you control it,
that's where
a belief in the supernatural makes sense;
a belief in god
apparently makes a lot of sense,
but a belief in the devil is in the bible too,
yet even among many religious,
it's downplayed,
just like rational thought about schiz'ia .

leukemia from promiscuous kissing

9.22: news.health/cancer/
risk factors for leukemia include promiscuous kissing!:
. risk factors for leukemia include promiscuous kissing!
. One is EBV, the Epstein-Barr herpes virus,
that can inhabit B-lymphocytes and nasopharyngeal cells.
Infection with EBV occurs by the oral transfer of saliva;
90 to 95 % of adults have been infected .
. it also causes chronic fatigue syndrome
but not everyone with leukemia and lymphoma
showed traces of it in their blood work .
. other causes of leukemias include chemical exposures
and ionizing radiation (eg, for treating other cancers).
. one important reason for exporting jobs is that
many 3rd-world countries
don't ban chemicals like benzene
that are needed in manufacturing
but that are known for causing leukemia .
. also interesting note that those employed overseas
can buy the products that are banned here:
cigarette smoking is linked to myeloid leukemias .
. other viruses known to cause leukemias
include HIV and HTLV-1
(the human T-cell lymphoma/leukemia virus).
The HTLV-1 virus is closely associated with
T-cell lymphocytic leukemia,
found in Japan, Africa, and the Caribbean.
. less than 4 percent of those infected with this virus
develop leukemia.
. farmers might be at risk handling cows who have
Bovine leukemia virus;
but cats with feline leukemia virus
are definitely not contagious .
. a high sugar diet can cause it indirectly;
because it leads to kidney and heart disease,
so then Kidney and heart transplantation
require the immunosuppressive drugs
that have been implicated in secondary leukemias.
. finally, a society that spurns eugenics
will never escape from genetic predispositions
to chromosome instabilities .
(source:
. adapted from Patient-Centered Guides © 2000
adapted from Barbara B. Lackritz `Adult Leukemia
http://oreilly.com/onconurse/factsheets/risks_leuk.pdf
).

spontanious combustion in wood chips

7.30: news.phy/spontanious combustion/in wood chips:

. huge piles of wood will spontaniously
combust within 6months
if not turned over to remove
anaerobic decomposition
-- just like smaller piles of dung
that do the same much sooner .

[@] www.nrbp.org/papers/055.pdf
CASE STUDY OF SUCCESSFUL WOOD-FIRED
CO-GENERATION POWER PLANT, 1982-1996.
Danny Aerts and Kenneth Ragland.

Y (male) chromosome degeneration

7.10: news.biol/Y (male) chromosome degeneration:

Professor of Human Genetics
at the University of Oxford since 1997,
Bryan Sykes, discussed his DNA research ,..
Sykes described his work on the
"Seven Daughters of Eve."
The Y (male) chromosome in general has been subject to
more degeneration and mutation than the X (female) chromosome,
and, he warned, if this continues
males might eventually become extinct .
. y-chromosome holding male-ness is decomposing;
we could move male genes to another chromosome,
or we could just clone without males .

[ Primate Y chromosomes, including in humans,
have degenerated so much
that primates will also evolve relatively soon,
new sex determination systems
in about 14 million years in humans.[7][25] ]

Criticism of the book and theory at Discover Magazine/
Jean M Says: June 1st, 2011 at 11:17 am: "(

Bryan Sykes heavily invested,
both academically and commercially,
in his vision of The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001)
– the matriarchs of the European population,
only one of whom (Jasmine i.e. mtDNA J)
he pictured as arriving from the Near East with farming.
The rest he saw as more ancient in Europe.
Unfortunately for Sykes, he was just plain wrong.
Now that aDNA researchers have better techniques
to guard against contamination,
and can test to a much higher degree of
resolution on the mtDNA tree,
the picture has turned completely around.
Two papers last year showed that
Neolithic people in Northern Europe
were completely unrelated to their Mesolithic predecessors,
who were overwhelmingly U4 and U5.
New papers attempting to set their own material in context
do not always reflect the latest discoveries.
There is often a long delay between
submission and publication of a paper.
This is the second paper which has attempted to
reconcile the old Sykes story with
what is emerging from Y-DNA,
not realizing that the Seven Daughters saga
has gone the way of the dodo.
Some of the mtDNA haplogroups found in this study
are indeed ancient in Europe – the U5 for sure.
But not the majority.
.
It no longer looks as though H1 and H3 were
spread from the Franco-Cantabrian refuge
either. See my blog post:
Franco-Cantabrian refuge for what? Not mtDNA H1, H3.)

[. that post is not archived, but there is
a follow up at eupedia.com .]

forums for bizarre ideas

7.8: news.adds/forums for bizarre ideas:
. forums for exploring bizarre ideas,
found while googling for aspirin-melatonin interactions .
AboveTopSecret.com:

AboveTopSecret.com is the Internet's largest and most popular
discussion board community dedicated to
the intelligent exchange of ideas and debate
on a wide range of "alternative topics"
such as conspiracies, UFO's, paranormal, secret societies,
political scandals, new world order, terrorism,
and dozens of related topics with
a diverse mix of users from all over the world.

unexplained-mysteries.com:

A to Z of the unexplained, paranormal phenomena, discussion forum,
sightings database, search engine and all the latest news
on everything unexplained.

mech.pencil with less lead wasted

8.13: proj.cyb`gear/mech.pencil with less lead wasted:
. try sawing off tip of a forte pentel a55
and found that the unit is right at the chuck tip,
going below that
clears a lip that holds back the ring
that holds the chuck closed .

. the big win of the whole experiment
is the twist erase-III QE515-C:

conquering imac brightness

8.6: proj.cyb`gear/mac`shades/
combined shade&blue-blocker/test:
. make new imac glasses with orange uv shades
taped to sunglasses
-- depressing in room but just right for mac .

8.7: proj.cyb`gear/mac`shades/
string to raise nose bridge:
. add bridge to mac shades to get more ventilation
and reduce fog .

8.10: proj.cyb`gear/mac`shades:
. tape isn't holding up? get help by
tucking the lenses under the nose bridge string .

8.18: proj.cyb`gear/mac`shades/
drill holes for holding shades on shades:
. use the aluminum wire
in the smallest holes my drill will give .
. like a staple but twisted once too .

making room for a used leather couch

08.25 apt`gear couch

8.24: apt`gear/couch/explore reuse:
. my neighbors tossed a great leather couch
so I took it home with my dolly,
but there's no space in the living room
unless I can move out the couch currently there .
. the only way to get it down the hallway,
is to cut off its absurdly tall arms
(they are as high as the back of the couch!);
but how to remove the upholstry on the couch
without ripping all the fabric up?

an app that alerts you to drone strikes

8.30: news.cyb/dev.iOS/
an app that alerts you to drone strikes:

. npr just said that the Apple app store
recently disallowed an app that would
ring you for each drone strike?

. I can understand why Apple would make such a stand;
they shouldn't be put in the position of
ok'ing another's political speech
in what amounts to their work place .
. would you go on about drones at your workplace ?
some might think that unpatriotic
and some might agree drones are not right
but not want their chain pulled during work .
. we all have to get along at work;
there is plenty of time for free speech afterwards .

. we need a generic version of the same thing:
an app that interfaces a news site
where you can get rings for
your personal search results;
eg, it could be integrated with google's alert service,
which sends emails to you
whenever some search of interest to you
comes up with another hit .
. in this integration,
it could ring your idevice instead of emailing you .

carnitine saves bone when thyroid acts up

8.5: web.health/osteo/
carnitine saves bone when thyroid acts up
. high T4 and high TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone)
results in lower bone density .
. however it may not be the thyroid directly;
rather,
high thyroid causes high cortisol
and high cortisol causes osteoporosis .
. when hyper-thyroid women were given carnitine
they had better bone density;
and it's known that after carnitine usage,
thyroid hormones can't get to their target;
but some thought this link was not direct:
rather, they theorized that
because carnitine may also lower cortisol
it could be the cortisol reduction
that has carnitine saving bone .
... however, I couldn't find anything on
carnitine's lowering of cortisol,
except that at huge doses it can raise cortisol;
so, I'm theorizing that the reason for
carnitine helping bone mass,
is that it prevents high thyroid activity
and then normalizing thyroid also normalizes cortisol,
which then normalizes bone density .
. any hyperthyroid osteoporosis with normal cortisol?
. Thyroid hormone directly stimulates bone resorption
in organ culture .
. hyper-thyroidism is associated with
accelerated bone remodeling;
conversely,
hypo-thyroidism is associated with
bones that are denser but not stronger
suggesting a retarded resorption
(bone building adds the density
but matched breakdown is needed for strength).

Big Bang Theory protests fat head

6.8: co.apt/relig/christian/
jew begat christian begat Big Bang theory:
. christianity is not even meant to be bible-based;
because, it's intent is to be a sarcastic protest against
the legal assumption used by jews to nail christ
(he was punished for acting like god,
so protesters should call him a god ).
. the scientists, in turn, seem to mock the christians
by perpetuating that ludicrous big bang theory
which has not a shred of evidence for
supporting the idea that at one time
all mass and energy
were the size of a subatomic particle .

pedophile priests protest overpopulation

6.12: relig/christian#catholic/
pedophile-protecting priests may be protesting:
. I've often thought that catholicism has lost its way;
the point of not using sex for sport
has been to protect us from the pitfalls of sex:
irresponsible pregnancies,
and sexually transmitted diseases;
but,
the typical mob reaction to such a culture
is to simply say all sex is deliberate
thereby the tendency to have large families
even among the poor .
. when jesus said there will be poor always,
he was not giving us a pass to wallow in poverty:
the only joblessness should be from disabilities,
not these huge families .
. what if priests thought the same thing?
what if they were muttering among themselves:
"(we pretend like we're in control,
and like the masses are in compliance,
but the amount of sex we tolerate is so abusive
deliberately casting all our children into poverty!)
. what if one way to protest fertile sex
is to keep pushing infertile sex
-- under the table ?
.
a conservative pattern:
. then again, we could be seeing a pattern here,
where part of promoting [father knows best] culture
is never making a big deal about father failing .
. this has been an obvious problem among the catholics,
but I recently saw a conservative jewish version of it too:
. a jewish woman was protesting the conservatives
because they felt it was counterproductive
http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/childsexorthodoxjudaism.html
to expose cases of incest in jewish homes .

the oneness of good and evil

co.apt/relig/bible/the oneness of good and evil:
. in the bible, they portray god as
the reason for homo'intolerance:
they're saying it's not a rational hate, not of us .
. indeed, god and devil are portrayed by some prophets
as being one and the same thing;
but other prophets do refer to a devil
as if it's a separate entity;
so that may have been simply showing that
ideas about god have changed
across generations of bible writers;
but, I would tend to agree with the first prophet;
because, you can see the oneness of good and evil:
the good of peace tends to fall into
the bad of decadence, weakness, and death;
while the bad of war leads to the goods of
strengthening, survival, and life .

6.11: relig/bible/genesis/
tree of knowledge of good and evil:
. an important concept in knowing good from evil is
much of what is good is arbitrary
and depends only on what we've
agreed to call good vs evil;
ie, being attentive or well-read is often
much more important to social coordination
 than being thoughtful .
keywords: (reptilian, repeatable, fidelity).

6.4: co.apt/relig/we're all right for the wrong reasons:
. christ [as] the devil:
[7.27: the christians support privacy .]
. whose the elite? [why blame it on the rich?!]
privacy is the key (the root of all evil)
would you hide good works under a bushel?
[like Matthew 5:15]
. a republican or a democrat;
the 2 faces as the shield of the one thing,
whatever you do -- good or evil --
you save the game,
[7.27: of  stasis vs evolution,
personal freedom vs cultural survival ]
and feed the eternal dream .

Dr.Williams questioning schiz' theory

6.24: news.psy/schiz/Dr.Williams is correct:
re:
By Paris Williams, PhD

. we still have no clear evidence that schizophrenia
and other related psychotic disorders
are the result of a diseased brain ...
anyone who takes a close look at the actual research
will simply not be able to honestly say otherwise.
And not only does the brain disease hypothesis
remain unsubstantiated,
it has been directly countered by
very well established findings
within the recovery research,
it has demonstrated itself to be
particularly harmful to those so diagnosed
(often leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy),
and is highly profitable to the
pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries
(which likely plays a major role in why it has remained
so deeply entrenched in society for so many years,
in spite of our inability to validate it).

review:
. I think Dr.Williams is correct,
although I didn't find his arguments compelling;
however, there is compelling evidence out there
(and he's got a book on it I bet is interesting).
. in fact, most psychiatrists secretly agree with him;

prof.Derber's clarion call

7.16: news.pol/purges/reaganomics/
prof.Derber's clarion call:

. jerry doyle's guest is prof.Derber:
he has a book about surplus population?
yes: The Surplus American:
How the 1% is Making Us Redundant
(co-authored with Yale R. Magrass, Hillary Marshall)

Derber's other books?

witches, queers, and schiz', oh my!

6.1: co.apt/med/psychiatry/corrupted by mobocracy:
. our forefathers thought that you could tell a witch
by their being undrownable;
if they died, you killed an innocent
-- but that was justifiable collateral damage
in the war on witches!
. modern psychiatry until the 70's
had diagnosed homosexuality as mental disorder;
because it was indeed causing mental disorders
to many around them,
but politically you couldn't say most people are
mentally ill on exposure to homosexuality,
so they simply cheated the queers .
. the opportunistic mainstream gov's
or their tools of control, like psychiatry,
were caught lying about witches and queers,
and they are still lying about schizophrenics:

piracetam quality lacking

6.9: web.wealth/piracetam:

summary:
. I've had many leary perceptions of the racetams
as others said their effects were too subtle
to risk spending much money on .
. but I'm very impressed from today's research
that they cleared aging spots in the brain
(levels of lipofuscin in the rat brain).
however
. I was concerned that the FDA doesn't allow
sale of Piracetam in the US as a dietary supplement;
I think that means there is no reason to sell you
USP or Food Grade quality;
everyone can save $hundreds on technical grade,
but what are the contaminant levels?
for instance, my contact for high-grade stuff is
www.awscientific.com:
they'll sell me anything spectrumchemical makes;
but again, when I check spectrum's site,
the EP* grade requires regulatory approval .
* [EUROPEAN PHARMACOPOEIA
europe's equivalent to our verified food grade .]
. the grade being sold on the street is this .

high times for low carb

7.9..13: summary:
. A Calorie Is A Calorie theory
disproven again?
nobody was seriously positing
that all calories are equal;
what they were trying to do is
not offend the food marketers
or those who like the new modern diet .
. what they were say is:
"( so what if corn syrup is addictive:
can we treat consumers like adults?! )

. however, it's very interesting to hear
that low-carb diets raise cortisol
and C-reactive protein (measure of inflammation)]
more than low-glycemic diets !
-- esp'ly when most people will
misinterpret what that just said:
Atkins did not raise these!
Atkins dieters had very good cortisol levels
relative to the levels associated with heart disease
and Atkins will cut your CRP in half !

the spirits and molecules of autism

6.22:
. this file started out as a political issue
-- 5.20/pol/energy/Autism related to Coal's mercury --
but mercury policy has improved
while autism rates have increased,
so, it's been reassigned as a health issue .
7.10:
. however, it may also be a socioeconomic issue
as worsening underemployment
increases reliance on children's disability payments .
. nevertheless,
even if parents were encouraging the diagnosis
for collecting child disability payments,
there is still evidence of increased autism risk
from environmental pollutants
(pcb's, pesticides, estrogenics, mercury)
and a degraded food supply quality
(increased use of gmo's, pesticides,
and herbicides -- thanks to gmo's;
non-organic farming creates a lack of
selenium in food
which is needed to counteract mercury).
7.9:
. another theory explaining increased autism
is what I call two-headed dominance syndrome
where one of the heads tends to submit
in order to let the other head take control .
. likewise, in sociology,
when a population starts to feel
a loss of economic opportunities
there may tend to be more silent tension,
and an increase in dependent personalities .

. at the same time, unique to our times
is a tendency to demand much more of students;
whereas, in the past,
the developmentally challenged may have been
understood to be simply a rowdy or lonely laborer .

6.22: web: autism is on the rise:

repairing a recumbent exercycle

6.30: mis.gear/exercycle/chair`stem`weld failed:
. the Marcy exercycle's seat weld failed!
and, inspecting the weld area,
the reason is obvious:
they had the weld strengths reversed:
they needed only light tacks
in the back,
but a good strong seam in the front
because that is getting
a lot of lift pressure;
instead there were only
2 tack welds in the front,
so when the front tacks snapped apart,
then the seat pitched backwards about half a foot .

6.30: proj.gear/exercycle/
recovery from chair`stem`weld failure:

combo solid tire and tube

2013.2.21: summary:
. this chronicles my combining of a
typical pneumatic inner tube
with a Bell No-Mor Flats (solid) Bike Inner Tube .
. I now have this on both a bmx bike front wheel,
and on all wheels of a recumbent trike . 

BHT anti-viral may be anti-cancer?

6.24: news.health/bht:
7.8: summary:
. at lef.org's forum, a note about hepatitis C
mentioned a yahoo health group, BHTcures .
. files they have there include
Fowkes`The BHT Book,
also at projectwellbeing.com .
. if you ever used that for insomnia,
you might be interested in knowing
-- for minimizing liver toxicity --
that it can be absorbed through the skin:
simply mix BHT with mct oil and blend .

. eg, use 5.5 tsp of BHT (16.5 grams)
for a quart (32 fluid ounces) of MCT oil.
Each tablespoon of oil now contains
slightly more than 250 mg of BHT.
There are about 64 tablespoons to a quart.
. I tried adjusting that recipe for higher potency:
. 250mg bht per tsp/2 oil
is done by blending 32oz oil with
2* cup/4 + 3 tbspoon bht .

[6.28: proj:
5.5 tsp means 250mg per 3tsp,
so 6*5.5 = 33 tsp crystals means 250mg per tsp/2 oil .
. 3tsp per tablespoon, cup = 16*3 tsp, cup/4 = 4*3 tsp .
. 33tsp = 2* cup/4 + 3 tbsp .]

. another highlight of the book was purification:

interpreting JC's beatitudes

5.20: web.relig/jc/the beatitudes:

Jesus began to preach a message of repentance
because the kingdom of heaven was near (4:12-17).
In order to reach a wider audience,
He moved from Nazareth to the city of Capernaum,
on the shores of the Sea of Galilee,
but more importantly,
on the main highway through the land.
His declaration of beatitudes would come,
but not until He called for repentance.

critiques of Judaism and Christianity

5.6: relig/bible/unifying
the jewish and christian messages:
. judaism pointed out we get punished for
not following god's law;
christianity points out:
we will never be able to follow the law,
so there can be no salvation in actions;
and that's why god's love said
we'd be saved simply by believing that
the work of Jesus Christ could save us .
. actually, god's love comes in 2 forms:
there are the warnings about how to avoid harm,
and then there is the spirit-guided urge to
ignore the warnings;
this indirectly leads to love; because,

duelling romney - obama funnies

5.3: sci.pol/obama/
romney can win because he's sarcasm:
. romney can win because he's sarcasm:
"( proud capitalism is canibalizing your job ),
and people will then feel silly being jealous of 1% image .

5.4: pos.pol/obama/
romney has a chance with delegates voting:
. now I'm sure romney is electable because
the group he's making his case to is not us
but the delegates .

5.7: co.apt/obama/controling us with czars!:
. obama is controling us with czars!
that's what dem's always do, they invented the first czar,
for the drug war;
but also the alcohol prohibition, ... who did that?
the women, when they got to vote,
** it got right there in the constitution **
-- talk about a super czar .

5.8:  co.apt/pol/obama/from the socialists, with love:
. recall someone recently saying
that usa youth on the euro tourist circuit
were feeling a lot more loved at europe's hostels
after it was seen that usa had voted for Obama .
. but love can be tough:
the amsterdam coffee shops
no longer cater to foreign tourists,
they're only to keep local youth off the street .
6.23: web:
(23% of tourists visited those coffeeshops).

5.9: web.pol/obama/obama's real father:

. real father rumors are hitting the fan;
is this why he's out for gay marriage now?
. the story I got from the radio was that
obama's real father, Frank,
and a friend, the kenyan, agreed to agree
for some reason,
that the kenyan would say he was the father,
perhaps so he could have access to
usa as married to citizen ?
he never said, or I was radio surfing elsewhere .
...
frank was married with many children
and was struggling to maintain that marriage,
so perhaps this move was part of that struggle .

Birtherism 2.0: Obama’s ‘Real’ Father
April 30, 2012 at 11:04 am Ed Brayton

. taking birtherism to a new level,
in “Dreams from My Real Father:
A Story of Reds and Deception ”
(see trailer, and intro)
Joel Gilbert is arguing that
not only wasn’t Obama born in the USA
but that Barack Obama Sr.
isn’t even his real father.
And who is his real father? A communist!
Gilbert rejects the official story
that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama
was the president’s father.
Instead, he argues, Frank Marshall Davis,
the radical poet and journalist
who was a card-carrying member
of the Communist Party USA,
was the real, biological -- and ideological --
father of Barack Obama.

the real father is Frank Marshall Davis?

Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation
claims that Davis was a political influence on Obama .
A rebuttal released by Obama's presidential campaign,
titled Unfit for Publication,
confirmed that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis,
but disputes claims about the nature of their relationship.

5.11: co.apt/pol/obama/romney is funny:
. funny story to find romney forcing a haircut;
you'd think they'd use an eagle scout ...
as if my audience:

. phil, that is an eagle scout:
you find a long-hair, you cut his hair off!

as self:

. just saying, you'd think they'd find a match who
wouldn't squawk underneath the presidential lights !

5.22: co.apt/pol/obama/
it worked for colin powell:
. Colin Powell's new book is
"(it worked for me);
suppose that was about
him looking like Obama?
. Powell was the one
who was asked to say:
"( there's weapons of mass destruction
-- just kidding! ).
. Obama was told to say these kiddings:
"( g'tmo is closing down,
israel will be told no more wars for
defending arrogant settlers ).

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)

5.30: co.apt/pol/Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.):
diane rheme's show, Rep. John Lewis:
. his every response was a flowery
"(that's none of your business) .

. when he showed concern for a lack of voting,
diane asked what he would do about
making it easier to get 3rd parties voted in;
and he scoffed at that as
not even representing us well!
. if we had instant-runoff voting,
then we could show our support for other parties,
without having to worry about the spoiler affect .

. and after saying that,
he called us a democracy?!
. other leaders are quick to remind us
it certainly is not a democracy!
it's a constitutional republic .
. I've never seen a referendum at the federal level;
and if there was one,
much of drug law would be in the toilet .

. he also did nothing to defend himself against
a caller who was wondering how he could
be for love and obama,
when obama lied about the repub's,
saying they wanted to poison our environs,
and throw grandma over a cliff .

here's how I would have defended obama:
. do the repub's not support small gov'?
does that not skimp on regulations
and also skimp on using tax money to
transition us to less toxic forms of energy
-- away from coal and oil ?

. but I didn't know about that grandma comment;
what was it refering to?
. apparently a progressive group was asking
if america was beautiful without medicare .
. the fox news commentary of that
was pointing out that repub's simply
agreed with obamacare's death panels:
they wanted to cap the growth in medicare spending
not put an end to medicare .

. but wasn't there some republican talk about
privatizing our entire medical insurance?
. anyway, it's not clear to me that Obama
personally would say such a thing .

conclusion:
. I think his problem is being brain damaged
(he was hit hard during a civil rights march);
the best he can do is
gracefully evade complicated questions ...

[6.23: are you kidding?!:
. Rep. Lewis was simply using the same tactics
that Obama would use against massive contention .
. Obama certainly isn't brain damaged,
but a highlight of his speaking tour for ObamaCare
was spending hours saying nothing !
. they think they are being honest, like this:
"( I understand that you see
nothing in this bill for you;
but, if you are well-read on the subject
you know that it does improve things
for the majority ).
. another reason to say nothing
is when you're convinced the questions being asked
are merely rhetorical,
and anything you say will merely be used against you .
. I've noticed Obama getting a lot of heat just for being
the first hiafric to tower over euro's .
. maybe a hiafric congressman has had to deal with
the same treatment, incessantly .]