Thursday, June 27, 2013

What's Better In The News?

* What's Better With Government Testing Drugs?
What's better with the government testing drugs is that Massachusetts now supplies another example that the results are not always true. This is important to we the people who go against prosecutors with almost unlimited staff and money, especially compared to what we the people have. State drug chemist Anne Dookhan has been arrested for making up drug results. The reason why she may have been arrested has been her cozy relationship with prosecutors. It was obvious from her communications that she wanted to be one of the good ole boys with the prosecutors and to be considered one of their team instead of an independent professional. Her affiliation needs apparently doomed her.
This problem has been going on a long time with the most recent big story coming out of Texas. What is needed is closer checking of the credentials of these chemists plus more oversight. I'd humbly suggest having the supervisor also sign off on any written finding by a state chemist. People who cannot afford to pay for independent testing or have a judge who won't allow them to, should be able to depend upon the accuracy of testing done from government chemists. After all, we the people pay for their fine salaries, their offices, their benefits, and their over the top retirements.
* What's Better With Student Loans?
  What's better with student loans is that the government is now trying to find out people who go from college to college using government loans and repeatedly flunking out, leading to the conclusion that they don't want to be get a degree and don't want to get a job either.  The government is beginning by looking at students with multiple admissions to colleges, especially open admission ones like community colleges and Internet colleges. The number so far is small, only about 1 per cent of college borrowers are academically doomed and are just going from one college to another. The article didn't state what the enforcement criteria would be such as how many attempts the student would be given before he was denied federal aid. However, if there is a reasonable number set with an appeal process and a reinstatement process later where the student can demonstrate a better attitude or freedom from a personal problems like alcoholism, this would be a good boundary to set. Throwing good money after bad should be stopped for the student's sake as well as the sake of we the people who make that loan money available. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW 352-359-0850

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

What's Better In The News?

* What's Better With The Immigration Bill?
   What's better with the immigratioln bill is that Michele Bachmann on the Sean Hannity Radio Show today has joined other conservatives by urging Americans to melt the phone lines to the House of Representatives. You should call your representative and tell him not to vote for any immigration bill because it has already been decided that if the the Senate and House immigration bills go to conference, a very liberal immigration bill will result and then be passed.
*What's Better With An Aids Vaccine?
  What's better with an AIDS vaccine is that now if AIDS drugs are taken properly, they are 74 per cent effective in preventing an HIV infection. This drug regimen will next be offered through four demonstration projects at  four health centers. Those who will be treated at that time will be those most vulnerable to contacting AIDS such as prostitutes, needle-addicts, gays, and bisexuals. These drugs are very expensive wth significant side effects, but 74 per cent effectiveness is very heartening.
* What's Better With South Africa?
  What's better with South Africa is that an African country is actually offering a welfare program to the 15 million poorest South Africans. There is some doubt by South Africans themselves that the population will be able to support such a program, but it is a beginning. Now if more African countries could become more business friendly, they too would become more prosperous and be able to give the poorest some degree of protection.

Monday, June 24, 2013

How To Re-Stock Your Hanging Cans For Bigfoot

When you have a Bigfoot hit your hanging cans of food and drink (which I have discussed the particulars of in previous postings), I suggest that you try to announce to Bigfoot that you have re-stocked his cans of food and drink. If you are a hunter, you may know that deer and wild hogs will learn to listen for the corn feeders in their territory to go off ( begin spreading the corn at set times) and will know that means dinnertime  and will go to the feeders. This response becomes so solid that there has been a hunting gadget made to simulate the sound of a feeder going off to attract deer and wild hogs. This should also work for an animal so much more intelligent than hogs and deer that he hunts them, meaning Bigfoot. Therefore, I suggest you bring something that will make a noise that will carry a long distance, such as a whistle, hunting horn, bugle, aersol boat horn, or whatever you can think of. If you drive to your hanging cans, use your truck's horn. I also suggest that you use your own code, like three longs, each time so Bigfoot will know what the noise signifies and precisely what gift tree it comes from. If my invention of the hanging cans of food and drink for Bigfoot works, there are going to be an increasing number of groups of cans in Bigfoot woods. Eventually, Bigfoot will come to vehicles with cans displayed on the roof of the cars or trucks just as Black Bear come for food from the tourists parked on the sides of roads in the Smoky Mountains. It remains to be seen if that will be a safe practice with Bigfoot.   I do not want to ignore the possible danger of Bigfoot. Bauman's partner was killed by one, Man Mountain in Okeefenokee Swamp supposedly killed about five men, there's a old newspaper account of one killing a horseman in a group of hunters who were trying to catch the Bigfoot alive, and there are also stories of hunters and trappers in the Northwest being found in their sleeping bags with their heads torn off. I am certain there are other killings too including disappearances in national forests that David Paulides has writtten two books about. If I were going into Bigfoot land, I'd want to carry an elephant gun like Peter Capstick's favorite, the .416 Rigby. I'd also want to carry a .45 semi-automatic for two possible purposes: 1. to fire a warning shot or two at Bigfoot to stop his advance ( the elephant has learned to respnd to this). 2. If you have to shoot Bigfoot, it had better be first with the two shots from your elephant gun. If that does not stop him, then use your .45 for about two chest shots, and then save the rest until he is so close you can't miss the area at his nose and above - the brain. If you are sensitive to others possibly laughing at you, then carry a bear gun like the .338 or the .375 magnum. The latter is also used for lion which have tremendous musculature and nine lives. But if you are interested in Bigfoot, then you don't care what people think, so carry an elephant gun and a .45 pistol. Obviously, you are going to need plenty of practice with your guns as Bigfoot is inhumanly fast. Let the idiots laugh while they can. It won't be long before Bigfoot's existence is aknowledged by the mainstream, and everyone is trying to drive to the nearest big park or national forest to give him cans of food or drink. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW 352-359-0850 North of Gainesville, Florida

Sunday, June 23, 2013

What's Better In The News?

What's Better With Bigfoot?
  To answer this, I will turn it over to the intrepid philosopher-adventurer Two-Guns (aka Pete Nickerson): I have been using Google to see if anyone is publishing about this idea, and have seen no mention of hanging cans of food for Bigfoot so I may have been the first to invent the idea. I am not keeping it to myself because I have no nearby Bigfoot woods to hang my cans. I have hanged a can of Coke out in an area where I have collected three Bigfoot sightings, but they were about thirty years ago. Florida has changed drastically since then.
  I read two stories about Bigfoot that influenced my inventing this food  and liquid source. First, I read that the captured and domesticated Bigfoot Zana in Georgia, Russia in the late 1800s dearly loved copious amounts of wine. After she drank it, she would arrange her bed and then peacefully sleep off the intoxication. This would take hours. I next read of a Kentucky hunter with his muzzle-loader who was charged by a mother Bigfoot. She had about a three-quarters grown cub with her. The hunter must have been both kind and courageous as he fired his only shot in front of her instead of going for a head shot. The shot turned her, and the hunter wasted no time abandoning his stand. When he came back to it, he found his pack rifled, his food eaten, and his cans of Coke broken against rocks presumably done so the Bigfoot could drink the contents. 
  These two events led me to eventually using #17 gauge electric fence wire to hang cans of food and drink with tabs for Bigfoot. You simply pass one end of the wire under the tab being careful not to crack the can so that the contents are pristine and will last almost indefinitely. Then you pass the same end of the wire through the hole in the tab and twist it back on itself several times to secure it. Take the other end of the wire and wrap it around a stout branch or limb once or twice and then twist it around itself, making several twists to secure it to the branch. Have less than a foot of wire from the branch to the can. I believe Bigfoot will need about four cans to figure out how to pull the tab top open and not spill most of the food or drink.
  There are numerous things available in cans, and they seem to be increasing. Since Zana loved wine, I'd go for that if it is available and you can afford it. There is also beer, Vienna sausages, beef stew, chili, a variety of Progresso stews, and as mentioned, dog food and soft drinks.
  You must check your hanging cans regularly to re-stock as soon as possible after Bigfoot hits them. You want to build up a habit for him just as is done at feeding stations for deer, wild hogs, bear, and other game. If he gets into a habit, you have an excellent chance of coming onto him or him showing himself to you as he is going to be very curious about who is feeding him. Then I hope you get the million dollar video.
  It is imperative that Bigfoot be recognized as existing not only because of the threat of immigration taking all our undeveloped land but also because there is talk of the local, state, and federal governments selling their parks and forests. The Love Principle of doing the most loving thing (for Bigfoot) dictates that I make this method available to you. It would be great to hear from you.  Two-Guns   352-359-0850  North of Gainesville, Florida

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Wire For Bigfoot Cans

I had two spools of #17 electric fence wire in the garage and used that to run through tabs of dog food without cracking open the can, twisting the wire together and then looping the other end around a stout branch and twisting that end together. It worked perfectly. I tried several angles and all went well. I would hang at least four of these together so Bigfoot will get the idea of how to use it without spilling the contents as he will probably be lifting the cans initially which means at least some of the contents will fall out. Since Zana, the domesticated Bigfoot in Georgia, Russia, dearly loved her wine, I'd start with what you know has worked if you can afford wine, and if it's available in cans. Other items are coke, beefstew, beer, and dog food.  If you don't believe Bigfoot exists, let's talk. 352-359-0850
Pete Nickerson, MS, MSW  Self-appointed First Social Worker for the Bigfoot Nation

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Now Jesus "Only" Kills Children Metaphorically

  About a month ago, I wrote about hearing a short sermon at payer meeting by a First Baptist minister on Revelations, Chapter 2. The preacher pointed out that Jesus said he would kill Jezebel and her children. I commented that I was disappointed that Jesus would kill children for something the mother did. A brain surgeon's wife then asked twice who I thought I was to question Jesus. I also asked if there was another interpretation to this, and the minister replied that there was but he wasn't going to get into it. Later in his sermonette, he said, "You know the old saying that the fruit doesn't fall from the tree. That may be a reason for the killing the children."  I shooked my head no while being painfully aware that others were nodding in agreement.
  After blogging about that, I arranged to talk to a Methodist minister over the phone. By then a friend who is a Friend (Quaker)  had told me that the passage was a metaphor not a threat to a specific Jezebell and her children. When I talked to the Methodist minister, I told him what the lady who belongs to the Friends had said about the metaphor, and he agreed completely with her. Still why would you metaphorically kill the metaphoric children of a metaphoric Jezebel? The Methodist minister added that you can find God killing children in the Old Testament. So how does that make him a just God? If he had reasons to kill children, as unlikely as that seems, why didn't he tell humans the reasons so we could worship a just God? On what basis should we worship an unjust God? Because we're cowards and fear his wrath? Now that's a reason to be proud of ! Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW
Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Correction To Hanging Cans For Bigfoot

The correction is that ribbons, at least the one I used, are not strong enough to pull a tab on a top off. I used the blaze-organge kind hunters buy to mark their trails and other things. I have several spools of wire at home and will try these. But I wanted to give you this correction. Don't want you getting miles back into the woods with the wrong thing.
  Also,  if anyone had a bad experience seeing a Bigfoot, please feel free to call me. I have a master's in social work and have spent my life counseling people. You can remain anonymous. Talking helps.
  Also, if you don't believe Bigfoot exists and either want to vent your frustration against people who believe he does, or you want to hear why we Bigfooters believe he does, please feel free to call me.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  Bigfoot's First Social Worker, Gainesville, Florida  352-359-0850

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

I've Thought Of A Way to Attract Bigfoot

First, I am offering this because I cannot do it. It requires land that Bigfoot is found in where you can go and check your feeding station or gift tree regularly.I don't have that. I got my idea from reading recently that Zana, the bigfoot from Georgia, Russia, dearly loved wine. I also got my idea from another recent reading of a hunter in Kentucky who got charged by a mother Bigfoot and had to fire his front-loader into the ground in front of her to stop the charge.He quickly left his stand, but when he returned some time later, he found that the Bigfoot had gone through his pack, opened his cans of Coke on some rocks, and presumably drank what she could get.
  This led to my idea which is to get four to six cans with tab tops. I think Bigfoot will get the idea how to open a tab top in about four tries. According to Albert Ostman's accounting, Bigfoot is very curious and careful examining human artifacts. Run a ribbon under the tab without cracking the top of the can. This means that the can has not been opened, and the contents are pristine. You can choose coke, or other soda - remember that caffeine is mildly addictive so I'd use that- beer, dog food, soup, and beef stew. If you can afford beer, use that.  Anything with a tab top. Run that ribbon under the tab and through the hole and tie it in a knot. Then tie the other end of the ribbon to a stout limb so if Bigfoot pulls the can, the ribbon can pop the tab. He should be smart enough to figure out how pop a tab in four to six tries. Use a brightly colored ribbon, hang your cans, and give it some time.
  If you get a Bigfoot hitting your tree, you need to replenish your supply of cans right away or risk him moving on. If he starts hitting your tree or station regularly, you have a good chance of him showing himself to you as they are very curious about humans. Then you get your million dollar video. I think it is imperative that Bigfoot be discovered before Obama and the idiot Republicans involved give away all the wild land in America to the Mexicans and anyone else who wants to come here. The Bigfoot may not have any more luck with man than the Indians did, but this will give them a chance if they are officially recognized as existing.  I am sure that the money people don't want Bigfoot recognized any more than the black puma, but if we, the people, will just work at being better informed and not accepting the cliches made by the left and right, all creatures will have a better chance.
  If you or your team hunt Bigfoot at night by making a campfire and hoping to draw him in, these cans could possibly help you bring him in if you put them out on the perimeter of your campfire, well back into the woods. If he finds them, opens them, and likes them, he may come in closer to see if you have any more. Maybe he will tolerate a trail camera placed at the gift tree.
  I would greatly appreciate any feedback now or later when you've tried this idea. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  352-359-0850

Friday, June 14, 2013

What's Better And What's Worse In The News?

*What's Better With The U.S. Hacking?
  Edward Snowden claims in a Hong Kong newspaper that the the NSA has done 61,000 global hackings with dozens of them in Hong Kong and Communist China. This has been going on since 2009. He claims that huge Internet routers enable the NSA to break into multiple computers without having to hack each one.
* What's Better With Depression?
  Finding the right antidepressant for depressed people is tricky with only half of the people who take the same antidepressant getting any relief from their depression. A study of the antidepressant Lexapro showed that patients who improved on it had a distinct pattern in the region of the brain called the insula. This was seen using the  positron emission technique (PET). Scientists are hopeful that they can build on this and use PET to show who should get what kind of antidepressant.
*What's Worse With al-Qaida's Weaponry?
  Al-Qaida has the SA-7 surface-to-air missile and probably plenty of them since piles of instruction manuals have been found in a captured al-Qaida stronghold in Mali. At least one SA-7 has been seized by the French Army, and photographers allowed to take pictures of it. It has a range of 1.4 miles so the French are now using planes instead of heliocopters to fly high fast.
  The SA-7 was developed by the Soviets in the sixties and is not much larger than a poster tube. They are heat-seeking missiles.
*What's Worse For Russian Gays?
   Russian continues clamping down on individual rights in that the Duma has just passed a nationwide law prohibiting the "promotion of homosexual propaganda." This mislabeled law means that holding gay events, speaking in defense of gays, or saying that gay relationships are equal to straight relationship are all promotions of homosexual propaganda." The bill mandates stiff fines and jail terms. Even if you are a Russian and don't like homosexuality, taking away the rights of homosexuals places the Soviet security goons one step closer to your door. Restricting the rights of homosexuals encourages the government to restrict your rights next.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850 Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh,  Morrison  (FM - 97.3, Gainesville, Florida), Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

What's Better and What's Worse In The News

*What's Better In Peru?
  Peru is gowing its economy at the average rate of almost 7 per cent for the last five years while socialist Venezuela languishes at 2.1 per cent. Peru's president, Olllanta Humala, appears to be growing too. He came from a family that would discuss Marxist economics at the dinner table. His father led an outdated movement that proclaimed that only the descendants of Incas should run Peru. Mr. Humala showed his modernity by participating as a soldier in a military uprising to protest the corruption of President Fujimoro. The uprising stopped peacefully, and Mr. Humala was later pardoned by the government. The Peruvian president has gradually embraced business much to his father's horror. He has even gone to America to meet a group organized by J.P. Morgan to assure the group of his acceptance of a free market. Since then, he has been business friendly, and Peru's economy and people's standard of living have improved. Humala almost mis-stepped by purchasing a national share in a refinery, but walked back when business leaders objected, and his popularity declined. It was said that even the working classes in Peru were against any policies that would kill the goose - the free market- that laid the golden egg - money and more prosperity. Would that Americans understood the same.
*What's Worse With Obama's Spying?
  Of course our dear leader knows nothing about what is happening with the scandals in his adminisrtation. Of course, we're idiots, and he's so smart. Today, a caller to the Rush Limbaugh Show told Rush that he was developing a business that builds an exhaustive data bank on every individual in America. Every kind of information that is legally available is mined - credit ratings, foreclosures, legal involvement, even your friends mentioned on your facebook and other programs. This man plans to sell this data bank to people so that when they call your number, your complete dossier appears on their computer screen before you even answer the phone. This allows them to sift through all the information on you so that they can develop a personal hook to get your attention. Say you have a passion for fishing or golfing. They would use this to grab your attention and try to entwine themselves around you. This kind of information would be especially useful for salesmen and would make cold calls much warmer. Also, these data banks can be used at places receiving calls so that before the person answers your call, there is your complete dossier on his computer screen. He can decide from that how best to approach you or even if he wants to talk to you at all.
  The inventor of this program believes that all the data the NSA is collecting on us is not only being used as meta-data by the NSA but that the particulars are being gathered by Obama's minions to build an exhaustive data bank on every American citizen. This could include what party you support, how often you call political parties, and how much you contribute as just the tip of the iceberg. Obama will then give this information to Demonic-crats running for office whom he likes. This will make him a kingmaker much like Putin is with Medvedev and like Bill Clinton desires to be with his wife Hillary.
Peter Nickerson, MS,MSW Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Chip Morrison of FM.97, Gainesville, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

What's Better And What's Worse In The News

*What's Better For George Bush?
  For the first time in five years, Bush's approval rate is greater than his disapproval rate, according to a Gallup poll. He was shown at 49 per cent approval. Contrast that with Obama's 47 per cent approval rate. We're making progress because an increasing number of Americans can see the misery they are living in caused by Obama's anti-business attitude. Please keep talking the pro-business attitude up. It's the only way to make money and have prosperity for the as many people as possible.
* What's Better With Tim Tebow?
  Tim Tebow is playing with the Patriots. Maybe if he plays more, the Christian-bashers will tire of having hysterics about his praying on the field. He looked good in practice yesterday and maybe running out of the pocket will eat up the time it takes him to throw the ball. Unfortunately, the camera did not show if he threw bullets or ducks and if his receivers were catching his passes. With his bulked-up body and his spirit, he should be an exceptionally durable quarterback if he's reasonably protected by his linemen. It's great to see him on the field again.
*What's Worse With Ticks?
  The Lone Star Tick, named for the white spot on the back of the female, can cause bitten humans to become allergic to meat in a process that may take six years or only a few hours. Besides man, white-tailed deer and turkeys are its natural hosts. The allergy seems to fade after several years if the person is not re-bitten. The University of Virginia is doing pioneer research having discovered the problem. Other species of ticks in other countries are also causing meat allergies. Since this is a new discovery, there is still some eye-rolling about it in the medical field so you may have to ask about it if you develop an allergy. Don't allow yourself to be patronized by Minor Deities (MDs).
*Knowledgeable Fact
  This should remind you of Barack Obama: When Lenin moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow to make room for the occupation of Russian land by the Germans during World War I, he soon made a speech in Moscow, his new home. There was little to add to explaining his cession of Russian land to the Germans besides  "breathing space," "gaining time," and "gathering strength," so he again attacked Kerensky, Chernov, and other members of the dead Provisional Government. He even dredged up "Predator Napolean," the "Predator Alexander I," the "Predatory English Monarchy," and the Paris Commune. He was unmoved by the occasional shouts of "Lies!" page 186 "Lenin" by Dmitri Volkogonov.
 Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  Gainesville, Florida  352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Morrison (FM 97.3 Gainesville), Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

What's Better And What's Worse In The News?

* It is disquieting to see representatives of we, the people, like John Boehner and  Peter King calling Edward Snowden a "traitor" and a
"defector" respectively, for revealing to we, the people, that the NSA was spying on us. Neither man should be so enthusiastic about the government spying on us.
  The furor over this surveillance surprises me as for years I have been reading and hearing about the Eschelon Program which  has centers in America, England, Germany, and Australia, and has computers that listen to every telephone and Internet conversation.These computers are programmed to flag key words. If these words are picked up in a conversation, an NSA employee is alerted to review the conversation and decides if it constitutes a terrorist threat.
  Much of the furor over Edward Snowden is because he is an easy target with a name in the midst of frustrating failures like Benghazi, the Boston bombings, and the IRS's illegal discrimination against conservative groups. Supposedly, there is no one to blame in these failures so Edward Snowden fills the void. It's a prmitive, emotional way of dealing with reality, but it fills the bill for too many people. Edward Snowden a traitor and defector for telling us that we are being spied upon by our government? Hardly. Besides, a lot of us know it's much worse than that. Say "Project Echelon."
*What's Worse With Immigration Reform and Marco Rubio?
   I've heard it from a caller on the Herman Cain Show and then from Chip Morrison (FM 97.3 Gainesville, Florida)  himself: Marco Rubio has just lied. He has repeatedly assured us that securing the border comes first. But when speaking in Spanish to an Hispanic group, he told it that comprehensive reform came first and then securing the borders. In other words, closing the chicken house doors after all the foxes are inside the chicken house. I am angry and disappointed that Rubio did an act of hypocrisy. I had hoped he was above that. Who will represent Conservative Republicans?
  Rubio is naieve about the immigration bill because the Demonic-crats will chip away ( they love incrementalism) at all the restrictions imposed upon illegal immigrants applying for citizenship until there are no restrictions left. They will also try to make sure secure borders are never made. Do you think Obama or Hillary or Joe Biden is going to put up a border that stops anyone? Immigration reform as proposed now must be stopped. Give your representatives a call please.
*What's Worse For George Zimmerman?
  This quote portends it: " 'It's not an exaggeration to say this (Florida) is the most corrupt place in the country,' he (Karl Hiassen, Florida writer and newspaper columnist) says with delight." p.C11, 6-8 thru 9-2013, Wall Street Journal
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW  Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Monday, June 10, 2013

What's Bettter And What's Worse In The News?

*What's Better With Icebergs?
  In the spring thaw, icebergs are netted by small boats and brought to a trawler where they are melted and then sold to a few companies like Iceberg Beer and Berg Water. This is water formed from glaciers and is thousands of years old. It is supposedly the purest water available naturally. So far, it is a one trawler business, hunting icebergs off the northeast coast of Canada, Newfoundland, and even Labrador.
* What's Better With Pot In Vermont?
  Vermont has become the 17th state to do away with criminal penalties for small amounts of marijuana, up to 1 ounce of marijuana and 5 grams of hashish. This needs to continue until all drugs are legal for adults or America is going to become so corrupted by the drug cartels that we may as well be ruled by them. Look at Mexico. It's coming our way.
* What's Worse For George Zimmerman?
  What's worse is that Zimmerman apparently hasn't found any "black" blood in him. He needs to find a black grandmother or someone so the blockheads who judge things on color can say, "This is a case of someone who has some black blood in him shooting someone who has, as far as we know, all black blood in him. I guess we can't cry racism." The reality is that finding will augur much better for Zimmerman than the way it is now being represented :"A white Hispanic has shot a young black." Since Zimmerman is an Hispanic, there is an excellent chance he has black blood from the African slaves brought in to cut the sugar cane. The Spaniards first tried using the Indians, but they died quickly in captivity. It's pathetic that we're talking color when we all originated in Africa. We are all "black" and every other color people have on earth.
*What's Wrong With The IRS Now
    It appears that despite Obama's words, the opposite is happening. As usual. FBI agents are not looking into IRS abuse to find out which employees in the hierarchy had a hand in discriminating against tea pary applications. Also, FBI agents are not trying to find out who initiated the order to start the discrimination against the tea party applications- the smoking gun. Oh, no! Not at all! Instead, the FBI is contacting tea parties  about their meetings and who comes to their meetings. So now the No-Justice Department and the IRS are together discriminating against the tea parties!
  This is what a Phi Beta Kappa lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, says is happening  in a half-page interview in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal. Incredibly, Ms Mitchell knows of another illegal advance the IRS has made in harassment and terror. The IRS is now going after donors to conservative causes. One donor to a conservative cause wanted to participate in a merger of two companies. The IRS told him he could not make that merger until he filled out some forms relating to his donations to conservative causes. You see how the IRS is taking this one step farther? It is now going from asking undue questions to saying if you don't answer these questions, we're going to stop your business or employment. If this is true, do you see how utterly dictatorial this is?
And we have Obama flashing his warm smile and using his soothing voice to tell us that this is completely unacceptable. Is there a "But I'm not going to stop it" that he's not saying. It sounds whacko which is not at all like the Wall Stree Journal. I urge you to check out Cleta Mitchell. Earlier today, Rush Limbaugh said we are going through a coup d'etat by Obama. Are we?
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW Gainesville, Florida

Friday, June 7, 2013

What's Better And What's Worse InThe News

*What's Better With Torture Claims?
  A defense contractor, Eligibility Holdings, has to pay 71 Iraquis ( who first have to pay their attorneys) $5.3 million for torturing them. Other US cases are pending. Let's hope judges don't sit on their hands on the pretext that "these are military matters" as civilian contractors are not in the military.
*What's Better With Water?
  Nationally, the extraction of oil and gas takes less than 1 per cent of the amount of water used in agriculture.
*What's Worse With Spying?
  Rush Limbaugh reports that Eric Holder refused to answer directly when Congressmen asked him if the No-Justice Department was spying on them. He made an evasive response which apparently was accepted by the testosterone-challenged Republicans.The problem is now who is spying on the No-Justice Department to make sure they're not using their spy information corruptly? We, the people, need to be demanding an end to corruption and telling the potentially corrupt what we want watching over them.
*What's Worse Now With The Zimmerman Case?
  The judge has denied the wishes of some of the defense witnesses to testify confidentially. Obviously, they are afraid of publicly telling the truth and having  people hurt them as a consequence. If this is true, let me ask the people who would harm people who tell the truth this: "Is this the way you want to live your lives where the threat of violence is used to stop the truth? You may think you're holding a sword in your hand, but that sword cuts both ways. Meaning, is this the kind of world you want for your children and yourself? Where the truth is not respected but gangs of criminals are? If you don't care about your childlren or yourself and are hopelessly immoral, are you aware that if your standard of "truth" is force, you are hopelessly outnumbered? Are you aware that if you use force, the most loving thing to do to you is to stop you with whatever force is reasonable?
  Don't be a hypocrite who wants force used against others but not against your family, your friends, and you. Stand down and let Zimmerman have a fair, honest trial. No, insist on it!
* Quote Du Jour
   The great Russian poet "Gorky who did not 'accept' the (Communist)Revolution right away, was quite direct: ' Lenin, Trotsky, and their fellow travelers are already intoxicated with the the foul poison of power as they show by their disgraceful attitudes to freedom of speech, the person, and to all the rights for which the democracy fought.'" page 169
"Lenin" by Dmitri Volkogonov
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW, Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

What's Better And What's Worse In The News

*  What's Better With Sex In India?
  Succinctly, there's more of it. Sex outside of marriage is still generally a taboo in India. With men not marrying now until 26, that leaves a lot of frustrated men for a very long time. Men are prone to acting out their frustrations - esternalizing them- while women internalize them. Men in India are acting out their sexual frustrations by making sexual gestures at women, yelling at them, groping them as well as pressing their erections against them in crowded places where women are trapped, and by raping them. The good news is that cohabitation appears to be starting among the upper class. Plus, cohabitation is being depicted in the movies. An Indian actress has dared to say that " living together before marriage is not a crime."
  This celibacy is also one reason why young  Muslim men are seemingly always hysterical and hateful. The rich and powerful older men snag all the women through multiple wives and sex slaves. It is also one reason that Muslim jihad to America is so popular. In America, Muslims have access to pornography in pictures, videos, movies, and strip clubs, paid sex, and "free" sex.
This is all against Muslim dictates except the primary one that says all is forgiven if you are engaging in jihad. How convenient!
* What's Better For Vegetarians, Seemingly?
  About 73,000 Jehovah's Witnesses were tracked at the end of almost six years. Their religion encourages a vegetarian diet although not all do follow one. A Journal of The American Medical Assoication (JAMA) has published some interesting observations. Vegetarians had 12 per cent fewer deaths over that period of almost six years. Vegetarians also were 19 per cent less likely to die from heart disease. Curiously, men profited more from vegetarianism then women. I want to point out that this was not a scientific experiment with controlled variables and double blinds. This was just an observation, and I think the "Wall Street
Journal" article should have made that clear. There is entirely too much junk science.
* What's Worse With Obama's Respect?
By that, I mean Obama's respect for the American people. Let me tell you why. Susan Rice, Obama's Ambassador to the corrupt and anti-American United Nations was picked by him to go on five talk shows in one day to spread the lie that the attacks on Benghazi were caused by a demonstrations against an anti-Islam film made by an American. I don't know if she knew what she was saying was a lie, but I think she did. Why else were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton not saying anything instead of her?  Because they didn't want to be caught in a big lie. As Susan Rice's reward for telling the lie to the American people, Obama has just promoted her to National Security Advisor. This is another example of the Demonic-crats putting themselves first by lying to the American people. Obama wrapped this insult to the American people up by making his famous warm smile and quipping how nice it will be for Susan Rice and her family that she no longer has to commute from D.C. to New York City.
Barrack Obama, the first black man to become president, the first American Indian to become president, and the first white man with black blood and American Indian blood to become president. He had such promise until we found out he was a hypocrite. He wants us to live in poverty and be forced around by him while he and his close friends live in luxury and vacations and parties and are free as birds! Do as I say not as I do. The people don't need hypocrites. Nothing good comes of liars. If you really love a liar, you will urge him to stop lying. That's the most loving thing to do. Tell Obama to stop lying. Talk it up!
* Quote De Jour
  "At the time of the Revolution of 1917, Lenin, age 47, had spent all of two years in paid work." p. 50 "Lenin" by Dmitri Volkogonov
  In other words, this great leader of the working class had virtually no experience working. Here's another hypocrite who partied and vacationed while his people literally starved to death, millions and millions of them.
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW Gainesville, Florida 352-359-0850
Sources: Wall Street Journal, Gainesville Sun, talk show hosts Cain, Limbaugh, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.

Monday, June 3, 2013

What's Better and What's Worse In The News

* What's Better With Benghazi?
  Talk radio host Andy Dean says he was told by a Navy Seal that authority to cross another nation's borders by the military has to be given by the president. It's called "Cross Border Authority." The question now is did Obama give that authority to Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey the night Benghazi, America's Second Alamo, fell or was it even possible for him to do that? This begs the question of what was so important to Obama that he had to disappear for about five hours. Was the nuclear football with him?
*What's Better With a Lost Arabian Horse? For this I turn to the intrepid Bigfoot hunter, Two-Guns: " Hello. What's better for the lost Arabian is, frankly, that I am looking for him. Perhaps you know the story from the Internet of the Arabian on a 22 mile or so endurance run being spooked by something - my bet is that it was Bigfoot drawn by curiosity about the race- throwing the professional rider and running off into the jungle woods last January at the Goethe State Park in Florida near Dunnellon. Two other riders in the race saw the rider thrown.
I was bigfooting through the woods and had already called in a suspicious car - a spotless cream PT Cruiser parked in the woods- and the fact that I had talked to someone who was trapping hogs in the park. I was surprised that the dispatcher didn't ask me even what kind of vehicle the hog trapper was driving. In fact, she said nothing. There was only stiff silence when I told her of the hog trapper. There was obviously something she didn't want to discuss about it. I hadn't been on Ten Mile Road long before I got to where two pipes were installed under the road so the creeks wouldn't flood the road. One creek was completely dry, and the other had a pool of water at both ends of the pipe. There was what looked like black, moist dirt in the creek by these water holes, and that dirt looked disturbed. I got out of my little truck, hoping I'd see Bigfoot tracks in the black dirt, and praying he wouldn't be nearby to kidnap me as I am unarmed. My left knee is almost gone due to a necrosis (dead area of bone) in it. I almost fell once, and there was no way I could get down into the creek. I had to stay on the bank and peer down. What I saw was very puzzling. The imprints looked like they had been done by something soft, and they were rectangles several inches long and slightly less wide. My first thought was "Horse? A little horse?" Later, I wondered if the tracks were Bigfoot on his knees scooping up water with a cupped hand as he's been seen to do. I wanted to talk to the owner before I called this into Ranger's Station as I wasn't thrilled with the reception I was getting there. After many calls and sleuthing  about the next couple of days, I found and talked to the owner, Robyn, who has moved to Canada for the summer. Lucky her! I had talked to the work crew at Goethe, and they had said they would go look at the prints Saturday morning and call me back with what they thought they were.  I never heard from them. This afternoon, I called Goethe again and talked to Ranger Thompson who promised to go take a look at the tracks. He confirmed that where the horse threw the rider was very close to where I saw the prints. This time, I said I'd call him back. I then called Robyn in Canada and asked her to call and  tell Ranger Thompson she was aware of his promise to me and looking forward to hearing what he found. The problem is that I found those tracks last Wednesday, and indubitably there has been rain  since then as this is Florida in the summer, and the tracks have been erased. I hadn't planned on going back to Goethe State Park for a while because of lack of funds, but I've got the hunting fever now and want to find that horse. I've had two rescued Arabians and appreciated their spirit very much. I'm sure it's why they are endurance racers. If this Arabian is still alive after six months in the jungle-woods of Florida, she's something else. She deserves a break. If you're an animal-lover too, please call the Goethe State Park Ranger Station and urge them to make patrols to that creek on Ten Mile Road on the chance that is where she's getting her water. She faces a lot of danger. There's coyotes,wild hogs, alligators, three specieis of poisonous snakes, panthers, bears, Bigfoot, and humans who drive very fast on the paved roads at night. The Ranger Station's number is 352-465-8585. That's all from me. Two-Guns."
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW 352-359-0850 Gainesville, Florida  Sources: Wall Street Journal,  Gainesville Sun, Talk show hosts Limbaugh, Cain, Morrison, Dean, Savage, and reading widely.