Assuming Barak is NOT planning to assume the presidency and push the big red button launching world annihilation and bellowing “Jihad” and laughing maniacally in a mind-numbingly diabolical tale of terrorist infiltration…..He’s gonna get a great number of opportunities to make a big difference in America.

While Bush concentrated on aligning his business partners with government industrial and civil contracts, ostensibly since companies that he participates in financially are truly the most fit to execute on these contracts, it has left him with precious little time to care about things on the home front. Like, you know; education, economic stability, food prices and oh yeah; gasoline prices.

And, assuming that Barak is elected president, and somehow is NOT shot down within the first two weeks by gunmen hired by his vice president, racists or the government Good Old Boy coalition to keep oil importation the same, “GOBCKOI”  - -  Barak could do the following.

Take aim at smokers without making Philips Tobacco Co pay for it. How novel would that be, for the Fed, in concert with the Ad Council, to put together an ad to try and reduce smoking using the things that matter most to Americans.

There would be two ads.

Ad number one shows an American Idol contestant smoking before his gig. Simon walks by and notices it. After the singer is done, Simon waits for Paula and Tito or Germaine or whatever to get out how great they were. Then Simon says “You suck!”  long pause “You’re a smoker for one thing and that is just making stupidity unmistakable. If you can’t keep cancer sticks out of your mouth, how could we expect you to embark on a career in music where you wouln’t end up killing yourself in some OTHER stupid way?”

In America, whatever American Idol says, goes. Imagine, if as an experiment, they just ran American Idol on Sunday morning at about 9AM

American Churches would be empty. Lucifer would crack two ribs laughing so hard milk came out of his nose. God would sit with his hands on his knees and hang his head. And Americans would be in front of their TV’s

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them.”

If you don’t see the aliteration in the show’s name and content; versus the population’s worship of same - you have to know Satan has a helluva sense of humor and is enjoying every minute of it. Ours is a culture of consumerism, materialism and most of all, taxpayerism. Fact is, no one will ever meddle with our materialism and consumerism because it drives a big machine. And people view their taxation as “pay to play” and they know if they miss a tax payment, they’re gonna face the wrath of the IRS and that will get in the way of getting that new Playstation.

Ad two: Has two cute girls just driving along in their Neon, talking. And they’re discussing some cute guy. And one girl says and he smokes…Slight pause, then “Cancer sticks?”      “Yeah”   long pause.   Resume conversation about another guy who doesn’t smoke. Idea is to subtly produce the idea that girls don’t like guys that smoke very much. And since woemn are objectified and viewed as some sort of “ride” in our culture, guys will come in line on the smoking thing -  not to mention that if two cute girls eschew smoking, the rest of the Britney culture will too.

Can you tell I have been infected with some sort of cynicism?

Is much of what I am saying too far off base?

Cincinnati, Ohio - Researchers for the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] working with doctors at the University of Columbus have discovered that Americans are being exposed to high quantities of the carcinogen “O6-methylguanine”. According to Dr. Ephraim Malinowski, pHd, Director of Oncology at U of C; “The compound O6-methylguanine has been isolated from blood samples taken from more than 75% of our current and past oncology cases. Sampling tissue samples post mortem and even samples taken up to 24 months ago reveal high levels of O6-methylguanine in these tissues. The association indicates that the O6-methylguanine was a primary factor in these cancer cases and did not take very long at all, to create terminal cancers in a variety of forms.”

US Department of Homeland Security representatives located within the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have further determined the source of the O6-methylguanine appears to be from inside the victim’s own gastrointestinal tract. Escherichia coli bacteria recovered from the GI tracts of more than 60% of patients currently under oncological care at two major cancer centers in Atlanta are capable of producing large quantities of O6-methylguanine.

According to Department of Homeland Security spokesman Dwight Evans, “These E. coli species are not naturally occurring and are definitely introduced. The genetic loci responsible for the bacteria’s ability to produce the O6-methylguanine has been shown to be recombinant, or bio-engineered.

Further investigation of the source of these bacteria has since revealed that the method of distribution of the engineered ‘trojan’ E. coli is via dairy products, most notably infected liners inserted into milk bottle caps at the time of packaging. Estimates of the number of infected caps distributed on dairy products over the last twenty four months put the number at 4.5 billion infected caps. Again, Evans does not incriminate the dairy industry. “We have found E. coli capable of synthesizing O6-methylguanine in more than 90% of commercially available milk and milk products.”

This is coincident to FBI investigations which are revealing what appears to be long term tampering and contamination of milk packaging areas by members of US-based Muslim terrorist cells, almost all of which are here using withdrawn or suspended Visa from the middle east.  More than sixteen of these individuals have been deported to their respective homelands of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan before their activites within the dairy production areas was discovered.

Doctors responsible for researching the effects of O6-methylguanine in the victims identified so far, are also estimating how much cancer might result from the infections.  Evans reported that the scientists project the ‘morbidity’ [number of eventual cases of cancer] in the tens of millions based on risk factors such as frequency of milk consumption, age, coupled with the amount and duration of O6-methylguanine exposure.

Advisors to the President as well as senior Department of Defense officials have expressed concern and dismay about the activities of middle eastern militants with regard to this apparent instance of biological warfare. Defense Secretary Warren Schmidt-Volk said “This muslim “jihad” may have taken out most of America’s civilian population without firing a single shot.”

Wow.

>>The above is entirely fictitious, but is a very real possibility. Access to the nation’s reservoirs is unrestricted for all intents and purposes and many chemicals are potent carcinogens in small quantities.<<

So I am driving down to the office, interstate you know. And I see this motorcyclist..And he’s wearing blue jeans. No socks, sneakers. I understand wanting (or having) to save gas.

But this gear is crazy. I think, if they were smart, they could do the following: Look at their pants. Then let them out of focus and look at that hard, rock wall whipping under them at 60-70 miles and hour. Imagine if something happened to the bike, some gravel or a disc brake problem, sudden loss of power -  and they went down on that road, skittering along at 60 mph on their thin blue jeans. Why do those people put on helmets? If I lost that much skin, and cartilage from every pointy surface on my body - I would WANT a significant head injury also, to minimize my awareness of how bad I screwed up.

Okay so the guy accelerates and starts tailgating the car in front of me. I just stared with my mouth open. What could I write here that would properly convey how, this guy must have had LESS common sense than a dog or cat. I like motorcycles. I wish I had one. But you see, the CONSEQUENCES of my decision to ride one could be SO total, so summary, so entirely catastrophic that I could not see my way to riding one.

Anyhow. So I saw a motocycling tailgating a car and I was amazed. I have to put it on my almost endless list of stupid things people do, including war, tailgating, American Idol, paying taxes on inheritance, capital gains and lottery winnings, bungey jumping, parachuting and drugs.

Next….Stay tuned for “Why Men (and Marriage ) Wrecks Most Women”  and, an eventual article on “Rap Music: An Effective Tool to Limiting the Empowerment of Black Folks in America”

Dr Erik Johnson

I am sure, I am *so* not alone.

But I hate Windows Vista. Windows Vista removes ALL doubt that Microsoft is not on the consumer’s side. I am not sure that they are courting ANYTHING, other than OS sales, because a well-functioning product is NOT obviously their agenda.

I hate Windows Vista so much. If I had cancer, I would spend time adapting to my inevitable death by reminding myself that the sooner I die, the sooner I will no longer have to use Windows Vista.

If I HATED someone, I would not wish they would die. I would wish they could live to be a hundred; but use Windows Vista the whole time.

Windows Vista is such a terrible Operating System, investing in an Apple finally looks like a good step, even though I just bought a new PC.

If I was going to destroy China before they destroy us, I would simply sell them Windows Vista, let them build hospital and military infrastructure on the software, then bluescreen them to death. Why Microsoft has reserved that torture for us domestically is a mystery to me.

Windows Vista has so much “stupid-ware” on it, to automate things for people who don’t know how to use or maintain a computer, that people who DO know how to use a computer feel isolated from their machine and it’s actual capabilities. We know how a computer should act. But Vista busies the computer with owner-protective tasks to the distraction of real work.

If you tried to keep up with the service packs and updates you get with Vista, you never could. In the meantime, it’s Bluescreen heaven. If someone so much as PINGS your IP address, you get a blescreen to protect your PC. I think if I was marketing for Microsoft I would be extremely proud and disgusted.

Proud that we could deliver an operating system that was scarecely more than a title and then BUILD it with updates AFTER it’s release. Wow.

But disgusted that OEM computer manufacturers are dumb enough to install it on new PC’s and the American public is ignorant enough to buy them. I did. I bought a Dell with Vista.

Love the computer. Probably will box it up and send it back due to Vista.

Dr Johnson

In his groundbreaking documentary text; “And the Sun Wept” which takes its name from the ancient Greek story of Icarus whose wax wings would not save him, in the face of a relentless sun; popular science-writer Vincente DeVosjolie describes the destruction of the ozone layer in the late eighties by chloroflourocarbons and other industrial by products. Tracking the decline of several UV-fragile sentinel species such as frogs and citing recently de-classified work by the Environmental Protection Agency regarding UV penetration to the surface of the globe, DeVosjolie describes how the ozone layer is now substantially absent over most of our planet. The ramifications he documents include destruction of amphibian eggs and young, destabilization of plant growth and DNA as well as a stunning 1,100% increase in skin cancer among humans. The cover-up effort [to avoid mass hysteria], by several industrialized nations is spotlighted. DeVosjolie concludes his text with the sage observation that if an astrological catastrophe was about to obliterate the planet earth, would the planet’s governments ever release that information?

(Does this sound plausible? Well I am not so sure that it’s not happening…..But the book mentioned above never did - Yes, this is entirely made up just to get you thinkin’.) (I would add however; that it’s true: The frogs are dying and they are pretty sure it’s an increase in UV.)

I watched the sun come up today. And I noticed as I often do that it is coming up on a different point in the Eastern horizon. They say, that the earth wobbles in its rotation….Creating seasons. I had a hard time picturing this for a bit. But if it’s true, then the SOUTHERN hemisphere of our planet should be experiencing “its” winter right now. In fact, the South Pole should probably be experiencing some sort of endless night about now….

If it’s true.

But what occurred to me, was something Steven Hawking wrote….about light particles (photons specifically) but really any particles’ path….Probability-Chance described the moment to moment position of dynamic particles - and I thought “That makes vast assumptions about things. It wouldn’t take that many variables or one or two bad assumptions to make it all wrong….”

Mainly I was thinking about, relative to light, and photon travel, that while probability-chance describes the wavelike transmission of photon energy, it makes an assumption or two. And I thought in the application of this theory (which is what it is) could be deeply flawed relative to astronomy if it fails to intercept one factor (among many) and that would be the static position of the energy’s emission point….Because in many things the source of the energy is NOT static and we make a vast assumption that the SUN is, and that our entire solar system might be moving eccentrically too.

Then I thought….Why does everything have to be explainable to the eye, and then in some sort of math equation? I mean, some things could be explained intuitively. And frankly, the astronomers would have to call some things undefinable or unexplainable SIMPLY because they could not write a replicable equation to explain it?   Okay -  if you OBSERVE an apple is red. There must be some math that explains it. And if there isn’t - it isn’t red. There must be another quantifiable description…..But what if the apple IS in fact red and doesn’t NEED any other descriptive because there ISN’T one? Then again Edgar Poe could describe an apple so descriptively you’d never want to eat another one…..But probably he could not do math. Not in a form you could understand at least since he measured stuff in “hands” ha ha ha.

I love astronomers and physicists, especially Steven Hawking because he could make some sense to people, but I thought;  when a researcher is wrong, even though they can produce human “math” to fit an observation, it’s a collossal amount of work to build even a single brick in the lexicon of wrong. Never forget that there were bright minds and almost flawless math at one point, to support that the Earth was flat, and was the center of the universe. The one or two observations that they could not explain via math (Ptolemeic math) were simply discounted - which let the premises of the time stand for hundreds of years. I just thought; “Wow…History repeats itself” and then I thought….”That’s not an original thought.”

Doc

I gathered up some of my writings on common tropical fish things and put them in a new section off the main page. Enjoy. I also put up perhaps ten or twenty new Koi and Pond articles. I thought I might get that many per day on here, but there’s other stuff going on in life.

I don’t do water changes any more. On my two big tanks I have drip irrigation systems. Just go to Home Depot and ask where the drip irrigation stuff is. A whole aisle of it. Anyway my tanks are fed by drip irrigation, and use an overflow device to put the wastewater outside. It took an hour to hook up but now my fish have no perceptible change in their environment as the water is continually, very slowly, replaced all day and night. I’ll show you the way it affects growth rate. But mostly, it is the simplest, safest and most effective way to keep the pond topped off AS WELL AS replacing water and diluting gases, nitrogen and other biological background pollution - all the time without the laborious drain and fill changes. I write about this in my book and also on my websites. Dr Johnson

Meh. I unpublished the last two posts. This isn’t the place for those. I suppose this should be mostly fish related stuff.

I think I will endeavor to put ten articles per day on Koivet.com - I mean; of course I won’t achieve that but maybe I can do twenty to compensate missed days. It’s just cutting and pasting articles from the old site(s) to make Koivet pretty complete. I think I should bring articles in from all my websites to this one, centralized location…I did a ton of stuff on Koi nutrition, for example at KoiFeeding.com - I can leave that site UP but also duplicate those articles on Koivet. The websites are a negative-cash flow situation. I think Koivet.com, Petlibrary.com, Pondcrisis.com and Koicrisis.com, as well as Fishdoc.net (It will only contains resources to find a fish vet in the USA) will remain the main sites for fish information and help. Also, I am going to pack up all my presentations in PDF format and upload them into an area for download by anyone who wants them.

I am also looking at making a video tutorial every month on different topics. Mostly for fun, and to create education online in a personal way, instead of galavanting all over the place for seminars. I’ve already got some of the parasites in video online, I noticed I don’t have a link from the home page so I gotta find and post that. What an idiot I am sometimes.

Doc