Ratatouille and baby Ratatouille, who arrived rather unexpectedly, as Ratatouille was long believed to be a "he"--Due to being one of a litter of feral cats I trapped from a friend's back yard and had all but two neutered or spayed, Ratatouille being one who didn't but who has escaped outside long enough to have had kitten litters before this, so it was finally decided it was because he was a he --Known for his extreme bad disposition with humans--well, mainly me, at whom he would rather hiss than breath, it tickles me how gentle he is with his one kitten, who is practically another appendage, and why he approved of my calling the kitten "Baby Ratatouille", it naturally being a extension of himself--herself.
Thoughts on a April night:
1) Did it ever occur to these people who are concerned about undocumented workers having a pathway to  citizenship because it would out number the European population, that the Latino culture is European too---Latin like in Rome and Hispanic like in Spain? "Black Irish" coming from the defeat of Spanish Armada   by the British in waters near Ireland where the Spanish sailors were supposed to have swum ashore and took up residence in Ireland?
2) Gun registration --Did it ever occur to anyone who doesn't want the government to know they have a gun in case some neo-Nazi took over, that they should be more concerned about a huge defense build up and the return of the draft creating a military that can then be used against it's people instead of some one knowing they have a gun.. The saving grace though, is that our soldiers routinely aren't paid enough to inspire them to go against their own people.

Green Flash Details The index of refraction of air for red is 1.000292 and that for blue is 1.000295. Out of a total refraction of about 0.53°, the dispersion is only 0.006° or about 20 arc seconds, compared to a 120 arc sec resolution for the eye. Thus under normal conditions the eye would not see the separation of red and blue images of the sun. The green or blue would be seen only after the red image is gone, and the passage time for this 20 arc second band is reported by the Meinels to be about 1.4 seconds. The successive red, green, and then blue images can be seen more distinctly by viewing the planets Venus and Jupiter with a telescope as they pass below the horizon. The ease of viewing the colors in these cases has to do with their smaller angular diameters. At right is a rough sketch of the color separation in a photograph of Venus reproduced in Greenler's "Rainbows, Haloes and Glories". It is described as a photograph taken by Raymond F. Newell, Jr. in New York when Venus was 2 to 3 degrees above the horizon. Also displayed there is a photograph taken when Venus was 10 degrees above the horizon which has a very different appearance. At 10 degrees the upper portion is bluegreen, with a thin green region, a white region, a yellow region and then a very thin red edge on the bottom. The Green Flash

Index Atmospheric optics concepts Reference Greenler Plate 7-9

HyperPhysics***** Light and Vision

BREWING COFFEE, TEST LAB RATS AND/OR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

THE OTHER AFTERNOON I WAS LISTENING TO C-SPAN'S AUDIO OF ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT ON I THINK THE PROP 8 QUESTION, WHEN THE SHAPE, PHILOSOPHY AND MODUS OPERANDI OF THIS MISTAKEN COURT BEGAN TO COME INTO FOCUS. 

THEY WERE ARGUING (IN THE LEGAL SENSE) ABOUT HOW TO DECIDE THE CASE BEFORE THEM   IF THEY FOUND AGAINST PROP 8, THE COURT EXPRESSING IT'S RELUCTANCE TO MAKE  A "SWEEPING" DECISION, THAT IT WAS FAR MORE SENSIBLE TO  DO INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN REGARDS TO THIS QUESTION--- TO SEE HOW THE COUNTRY WAS  GOING. TO GO ETC. THIS PHILOSOPHY I  HEARD FIRST IN THE DECISION ABOUT GUN RIGHTS--THIS POLICY OF LETTING  THINGS ''PERCOLATE'', AS THEY TERM IT,  FOR A WHILE TO SEE IF OTHER LAWS NEED TO BE CONSIDERED.. INDEED, JUSTICE GINSBURG  OFFERED THE OPINION THAT  CIVIL RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY "PERCOLATED" FOR 50 YEARS, AS IF 50 YEARS BEFORE THE TURBULENT AND DEADLY 60S, WITH 90 PER CENT OF THE COUNTRY BACKING INTEGRATION, TWO LEGENDARY OPPOSING LAWYERS HAD STOOD BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT AS ONE TOGETHER ARGUING BRILLIANTLY FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL  RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO. MY JAW DROPPED.

FIRST OFF, IT WAS MUCH LONGER THAN 50 YEARS THAT THE AMERICAN NEGRO HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF THE RIGHTS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR IN SO BLOODY AND PAINFUL A MANNER. AND TO SANITIZE THE JIM CROW SOUTH IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SUGGEST THAT THOSE YEARS WERE NECESSARY AS A  TEST LAB FOR THE SUPREME COURT TO GET INTO FOCUS WHICH CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IT NEEDED TO UPHOLD AND ENACT IS AN INSULT  TO THOSE WHO DIED, WERE LYNCHED, DENIED THE VOTE, AND TREATED NO BETTER THAN THE RATS IN A TEST LAB.  AND MOST OF ALL TO THOSE WHO DIED, MARCHED, WERE BOMBED AND ATTACKED BY DOGS AND POLICE TO BRING ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF THOSE OF COLOR IN THE 60S

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BUT WORSE STILL, IS THE POLICY SET FORTH IN THE GUN LAW DECISION THAT USED THE MANY MANY, MANY INNOCENT LIVES  WHO DIED IN HAILS OF BULLETS IN THE PAST  YEARS SINCE THEN AS A TEST LAB TO DETERMINE IF FURTHER LAWS CONCERNING GUN SAFETY WAS NEEDED.. THE LAST TIME I EVER HEARD OF THIS POLICY OF  EXPERIMENTING WITH HUMAN LIVES TO DETERMINE INFORMATION IN THIS COUNTRY  WAS THE EXPERIMENTS DONE  AT THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE ON MEN OF COLOR ABOUT SYPHILIS, AND BEFORE THAT IT WAS,TO USE A CLICHE,  NAZI GERMANY AND JUST ABOUT AS COLD BLOODED.

 

THIS COUNTRY IS LEFT WITH THE VERY REAL PROBLEM OF A SUPREME COURT WHOSE JUSTICES WHERE PUT THERE BECAUSE THEY WERE BUSINESS FRIENDLY WHO ARE NOW BEING ASKED TO MAKE PROFOUND HUMAN DECISIONS ABOUT  THE RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN FOR WHICH THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN, FOR WHICH A GOVERNMENT IS  DESCRIBED IN IT AND FOR WHICH THE RIGHTS DERIVED FROM OUR CREATOR ARE ENSHRINED, ASSURED AND PROTECTED. INSTEAD, FACED WITH THE REAL FUNCTION OF THE COURT PROTECTING REAL RIGHTS FOR BREATHING "PEOPLE"  THEY ADOPT A POLICY OF LETTING THE COUNTRY "PERCOLATE" AS THEY CLAIM  AT THE TERRIBLE EXPENSIVE OF AMERICAN  LIVES AND AMERICAN DEATHS AND THUS WE WILL BE LEFT IN THE COMING YEAR WITH NO RECOGNITION OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN BIGOTRY BY OMISSION AND WE WILL HAVE NO DECISION CRIMINALIZING VOTER SUPPRESSION, WHICH WILL FURTHER THREATEN DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY  WHILE THIS COURT LETS THE DEADLY AND MISGUIDED POLICY OF CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS "PERCOLATE"  MEANING DELIBERATELY COME TO A BOIL IN THE COUNTRY AT THE EXPENSE OF HUMAN LIFE AND RIGHTS WHICH ANYWHERE ELSE WOULD BE CONSIDERED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.  TO PARAPHRASE MARTIN LUTHER KING, GOOD MEN CREATE EVIL ALSO WHEN THEY STAND BY AND DO NOTHING. AND WHEN THOSE ARE THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COUR,  THE PROTECTORS OF OUR RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY, WE INDEED ARE A TEST LAB WITHOUT THE JUSTICE OF A NUREMBERG.

Was trying to remember my history about the South Seas Bubble, which in our classes when i was young anyway, was taught to demonstrate economies that create bubbles are bad economies and the South Sea Bubble was a prime example-unfortunately, along with a dead beat congress, trashed economy, no raises for the average worker, thus far less Social Security in their retirement years and a government that now wants to reduce that, we also have a kind of "free market" world economy that is ripe for bubbles--not to mention the Real Estate Bubble that landed us in this enlightened economy nurtured all the way by supposed college educated brilliant economists--too bad no one up in Washington learned from history--Anyone wanting to experience 1700s deja vu all over again is invited to read this Wikipedia summary of the South Sea Bubble and I am going to order Noel Coward's play---unfortunately, our economy  is still pretty much as it was, and with our dead beat congress won't change much, so all I can say is be very very wary of anyone who asks you to invest in anything which they claim is a sure bet as it's value is rising and will keep rising and pay for itself in your golden years  run the other way--                                                                                                          South Sea Company
                                                                                                         From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"South Sea Bubble" redirects here. For the Noel Coward play, see South Sea Bubble (play).



Hogarthian image of the "South Sea Bubble", by Edward Matthew Ward, Tate Gallery
The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of fishing, commonly called the South Sea Company,[1] was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt. The company was also granted a monopoly to trade with South America, hence its name. At the time it was created, Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession and Spain controlled South America. There was no realistic prospect that trade would take place and the company never realised any significant profit from its monopoly. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, peaking in 1720 before collapsing to little above its original flotation price; this became known as the South Sea Bubble.
A considerable number of persons were ruined by the share collapse, and the national economy greatly reduced as a result. The founders of the scheme engaged in insider trading, using their advance knowledge of when national debt was to be consolidated to make large profits from purchasing debt in advance. Huge bribes were given to politicians to support the Acts of Parliament necessary for the scheme. Company money was used to deal in its own shares, and selected individuals purchasing shares were given loans backed by those same shares to spend on purchasing more shares. The expectation of vast wealth from trade with South America was used to encourage the public to purchase shares, despite the limited likelihood this would ever happen. The only significant trade which did take place was in slaves, but the company failed to manage this profitably.
A parliamentary enquiry was held after the crash to discover its causes. A number of politicians were disgraced and persons found to have profited unlawfully from the company had assets confiscated proportionately to their gains (most had already been rich men and remained comfortably rich). The company was restructured and continued to operate for more than a century after the Bubble. The headquarters were in Threadneedle Street at the centre of the financial district in London, in which street today can be found the Bank of England. At the time of these events this also was a private company dealing in national debt, and the crash of its rival consolidated its position as banker to the British government.[2]
The Bubble Act, which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse. This was an effort to prevent the increasing competition for investors, which it saw from companies springing up around it.

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