Has Mayor Bloomberg Lost His Mind?

No.  I am not defending the man.  I don’t like him but I can see what he is doing.  He is a lame duck politician who is looking for immortality.   He feels that he can accomplish this by having his name on a law that he had passed.  His recent “weekly” proposals, 16 oz. pops, decibel limitations on personal music devices, hiding all cigarettes in stores etc. seem to be the rantings of someone unhinged.   Trust me this does feel good.  I have written and had a law passed.  Mr Bloomberg has even told people publicly how to circumvent his proposed laws, like buy two 16 oz. pops.  So I believe that he is feeling more like a has-been rather than having become a mad hatter.  He should stop however.

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Sorry I Have been Away for so Long

I am alive and well.

As is happening to more and more people, my family and I have fallen on very hard times.  I lost my good paying job, our house, all our possessions including our dog.  Look this is not to instill any empathy or pity upon my readers for me it is just an explanation as to my situation.  It is getting better but my posts are still likely to be sporadic for a while.  I hope I have not lost too many of you but I will attempt to post more as soon as I become more knowledgeable about current events.  I do not have TV or Internet yet but have rigged up antenna TV and everyone knows that I network well.

THE BOTTOM LINE

The best way that I can stick it to the man is to keep my head up, keep slugging it out and survive this ordeal.  That is exactly what I am going to do despite any future bumps in the road that lay ahead.

NOTE

Thank you to those of you that are still there and willing to be there for me.  I have not been completely abandoned, have had common courtesy human decency help along the way.  I will not mention names because some may catch some flack for it and that is not fair.  Realize that you are better people for being the way you are.  I thank you again for my family and me.

As always, God bless,

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The Day the Music Died

RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson,

Today is the day the music died in 1959

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Greenland Sun

There is quite the buzz about the sun rising in Greenland 2 day early.  Theories abound, mainstream media and the powers that be wanting us to believe that it has to do with man-made climate change. 

Global warming has so they claim done at least one of two things. One the ice cap melted so much that the horizon is lower so the sun came up earlier (and due to the health crisis the people in Greenland have been exercising more thus breathing harder thereby melting their icecaps). Two global warming released so much methane in the air that refraction of the light in the atmosphere changed so that it appears as though the sun rise came earlier (and I have been eating more beans lately so I am the cause). 

A factor that could actually cause this is a change in the earths axis.  The problem with this is that there would have to be a global conspiracy of governments and scientists to keep this a secret from every one.  Possible but not probable.  One would think that there are enough armature skywatchers in the world that the word would get out. 

The three above theories are possible suspects in this anomaly but there are problems with all of them.  The third and later idea problems have already been brought forth.  The amount of methane in the air to cause a 2 day early refraction seems to be out of reach.  Increases in that quantity of  methane in the atmosphere should have been seen and reported long ago.  The melting of the icecap has its own problems.  One would have to have information like the distance of the observed phenomenon to the ice that blotted out the sun.  That not withstanding, it would seem to have to be an enormous amount of topical ice that vanished and again someone should have been able to predict this cause and effect.  Again without proper information like distance it is a very difficult thing to predict but it still stands to reason that a titanic amount of ice would have to be removed because as the weight of the ice is removed from the land the land will “float” higher counter acting the effect of an early sunrise because of the loss of ice.  I will name this “The Venice Effect.”  If you do not know what I mean the bottom line as to why that historic city is sinking, it is because of the weight of the buildings upon the earth.

It is interesting to note that none of the agencies that predict sunrise and sunset predicted this early rise of the sun.

So what caused this phenomenon? I cannot answer that but it would seem that we are in the dark either by lack of intellegance or because all the facts have not been released to us.  One thing is sure it does not seem possible that any of the three proposed theories hold water.

FORMULA

Height of the object (ice cap) X (1.17 X  hight of your eye) = the distance you can see that object

This does not take into accunt

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the bikerbernie family

Town of Tonawanda

OK,

To the right under “Pages” click on Town of Tonawanda.  This is a page for you to discuss anything you desire about the Town where you do not have to comment on off topic blogs.  Have fun, visit often, tell everyone.

Comments are closed on this blog but not on the one to the right.

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Life Redefined

The six elements essential to live are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur, right?  Not any more.  Yesterday December 2, 2010 all this has changed with profound implications that cannot be imagined.  In California life was discovered without one of the essential elements that scientists believed were necessary to be . . . well living.  Phosphorous was conspicuously missing in this life form. 

This reminds me of the movie “Evolution” where arsenic is poisonous to us but not the alien life because the life discovered was based on nitrogen rather than carbon.  Interesting it is how closely the movie called it to what we now know.

Bacterium Lives Without Phosphorus; May Alter Thinking On Life

03:01 pm

December 2, 2010

 

by Mark Memmott

There’s lots of chatter on the cable channels and on the Web today about the news from NASA that researchers found a bacterium that can live without phosphorus — something scientists didn’t think life forms, at least those we know about, can do.

What’s more, it’s able to survive on a diet heavy in arsenic, which we all know isn’t good for you.

Among the feverish headlines is FoxNews.com’s “Are Aliens Among Us? Sort Of, NASA Says.”

We’ve turned to NPR’s Science Desk for an explainer. Here’s what Jon Hamilton has filed for the next newcast:

 

“One of the truisms of science is that life isn’t possible without six elements, one of which is phosphorus.

“But a young scientist at NASA wondered whether that truism was really true. She thought arsenic, which is chemically very similar to phosphorous, might work as a substitute.

“So she and other researchers began studying tiny organisms taken from the mud of Mono Lake in California. That mud contains a lot of arsenic. And they found at least one bacterium that was able to adapt to a diet that included lots of arsenic, but no phosphorus.

“What’s more, the bacterium appeared to be using arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA. Scientists say that suggests organisms could exist in places on earth, or elsewhere in the universe, that were previously thought incapable of sustaining life.”

NASA sums up news this way: “This finding of an alternative biochemistry makeup will alter biology textbooks and expand the scope of the search for life beyond Earth. The research is published in this week’s edition of Science Express.”

And there’s a free abstract from that Science Express paper here. An excerpt:

“Our data show evidence for arsenate in macromolecules that normally contain phosphate, most notably nucleic acids and proteins. Exchange of one of the major bioelements may have profound evolutionary and geochemical significance.”

One has to wonder what else our scientists have got wrong. Perhaps our search for ET has gone in all the wrong directions with this perception of what really is life.

Christmas

  

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As the great story “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” taught us all, Christmas after all CANNOT be stolen.  The Grinch found out that “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags! “  My oldest daughter brought to my attention, perhaps because we are in a position of understanding, peoples money and employment is so bad this year that people have come up with a creative solution to explain the situation to  the little ones.  Some would say so that they do not find out that Santa does not exist (I will NEVER say that because he does, he is mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the Salvation Army, the random stranger on the street, and the myriad of others that embody the spirit of Santa.)

1. The idea afoot is to give you more time to gather some money to buy your gifts.  So explain that Santa had a mix up with the naughty and nice list and he is straightening it out.

Here are a few more ideas I came up with, some more updated for the tech or savvy kid in your life.

2. Sticking with the naughty and nice list, Santa’s computer got a virus that mixed up the naughty and nice list, he will straighten it out but presents may be delayed
3. Santa’s computer lost some of the email requests and he is recovering the lost emails now but it may delay the presents.

Production of toys is delayed because:

4. Many of the elves are sick
5. A production line machine broke down
6. Huge demand for particular toys has caused a backorder (explain backorder the best you can but kids are fairly smart today with on-line ordering)

PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS HERE IN THE COMMENTS ON HOW ELSE YOU MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY PRESENTS WILL NOT BE UNDER THE TREE ON CHRISTMAS

Life can be tough at times let us help make these tough times easier on those that are distraught over the inability to spread Christmas cheer with their children this year and every year.  After all there is a need for this for some one every year.

NOTE: only helpful respectable answers will be approved

Remember the reason for the season CHRISTmas if my family and I can say that right now destitute and homeless anyone can say it.

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SNOW in Buffalo Must be the Thruway Authorities Fault

Stuck on the highway, awwwwww.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Almost all of the stranded motorists need not have been stranded if they did not try to beet the odds. They knew what they were doing when risking travel on the 190 – 290 – 90 during a snow storm. Traffic was backed up from only exit 50 – 55 after 13 hours. It would have been much worse if no one headed the warnings. There were signs up warning people to seek alternate routes and the radio also warned of this situation. Blame no one but yourselves especially if you have lived in Buffalo for more than a couple of years, if it is snowing pay attention to signs and the radio and stop blaming others for what you done to yourselves.

By the way I was out there because of work and the signs and radio guided me away from the 90 just fine.

Thank you Thruway Authority for the information. I know that you are accepting blame because it is the easiest way to defuse an intense emotional bomb for all those that will not take any personal responsibility. I wish you did not have to be PC to save your jobs and just tell people to stop being jackasses.

Bras Off Zippers Down

Note that this is a low resolution image, scanners will actually have hi def that will show much greater detail.  I remember when this was just a joke in the move Airplane, who is laughing now?

In the name of safety all women should go bra-less and men leave their zippers down.  Hell since the new scanners at the airports make so many feel so warm and fuzzy and sublimely believe that this is not invasive (by the way just because you are OK with it does not make it any less invasive to be sure these scanners are the quintessential definition of invasive) every one should be made to walk around nude then we will not have to spend any time and money on these scanners.  I ask all of you who are OK with these scanners to affirm your convictions and shun your clothes, prove to us the strength of your conviction or prove you are just mindless parrots of political oppressive governmental rhetoric and laws.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

- Benjamin Franklin