Monday, April 27, 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Sunday, April 19, 2015
"Damn it Pete, Your God is too SMALL" (Dennis Blalock, April 2004)
The Dimensionless Challenge!
How big is Your God---so big that the bigness empties into tinyness? I say, it's not big enough. How about tinier than peering into a Higgs-Boson field and seeing the dimmest visible flickering of energy or light? My friend, I say, that is not small enough!
Bob (Robert Archer Smith) solves this challenge with a wave of the hand: "The universe is dimensionless."
"Dimensionless?" I ask.
"Yes, as the apostle Paul tells us:
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. St. Paul to Romans 8:36-37
"He's so far out the only way out is in..." (Paul McCartney, "The Man on the Flaming Pie")
How big is Your God---so big that the bigness empties into tinyness? I say, it's not big enough. How about tinier than peering into a Higgs-Boson field and seeing the dimmest visible flickering of energy or light? My friend, I say, that is not small enough!
Bob (Robert Archer Smith) solves this challenge with a wave of the hand: "The universe is dimensionless."
"Dimensionless?" I ask.
"Yes, as the apostle Paul tells us:
"He's so far out the only way out is in..." (Paul McCartney, "The Man on the Flaming Pie")
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
In my mind, one of the best!
Lido Shuffle 1977
"you gotta have a jones for this, a jones for that...
runnin' with the joneses just ain't where it's at."
Boz Scaggs live 2004
"you gotta have a jones for this, a jones for that...
runnin' with the joneses just ain't where it's at."
Boz Scaggs live 2004
Monday, April 06, 2015
Thursday, April 02, 2015
CIA Apparatchik Discredits a Founding Father
CIA Disclosure concerning Ben Franklin is a Good Example of Orwellian Purging of History
Nice job GUYS of throwing revisionary spin on a previously published scenario ! An "undisclosed" CIA insider analyst (unnamed) reveals a so-called document with no publication date and an "unrevealed author" which vilifies the Founding Father. Was this article perhaps cobbled together by a comittee, or anonymous scriptor or is it a contemporary fabrication? All that is clear is that the so-called history is disclosed from a "black box" which ensures that it cannot be scrutinized by peer review.
Directorate of Operations Doc. (b)3(c)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0000872649.pdf
This communique coming from the agency whose modus operandi is to sacrifice liberty for security 24/7---has never grasped Franklin's famous adage: "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security will have neither."
I would keep my bets on the man of integrity rather than the anonymous disclosure of this soviet-style directorate communique.
Franklin himself was aware of Izard and Lee's accusations and in regard to such dirt slinging calmly remarked: "...[S]pots of dirt thrown upon my character I suffered while fresh to remain; I did not choose to spread by endeavoring to remove them, but relied on the vulgar adage that they would all rub off when they were dry (Fisher 1898, p.298)."
It is not difficult to conclude that the direction of the spin reveals two tendencies: a)a tendency to discredit Franklin and b)a tendency to project a contemporary connotation of 'security' in a historical sense. The framing that this document reveals suggests the date of the document and the clue or give-away is the hyper-emphasis on projecting so-called "sloppy security epithet" upon Franklin which indirectly legitimates the actual modus operandi of this so-called intelligence agency disclosure.
Nice job GUYS of throwing revisionary spin on a previously published scenario ! An "undisclosed" CIA insider analyst (unnamed) reveals a so-called document with no publication date and an "unrevealed author" which vilifies the Founding Father. Was this article perhaps cobbled together by a comittee, or anonymous scriptor or is it a contemporary fabrication? All that is clear is that the so-called history is disclosed from a "black box" which ensures that it cannot be scrutinized by peer review.
Directorate of Operations Doc. (b)3(c)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0000872649.pdf
This communique coming from the agency whose modus operandi is to sacrifice liberty for security 24/7---has never grasped Franklin's famous adage: "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security will have neither."
Franklin himself was aware of Izard and Lee's accusations and in regard to such dirt slinging calmly remarked: "...[S]pots of dirt thrown upon my character I suffered while fresh to remain; I did not choose to spread by endeavoring to remove them, but relied on the vulgar adage that they would all rub off when they were dry (Fisher 1898, p.298)."
It is not difficult to conclude that the direction of the spin reveals two tendencies: a)a tendency to discredit Franklin and b)a tendency to project a contemporary connotation of 'security' in a historical sense. The framing that this document reveals suggests the date of the document and the clue or give-away is the hyper-emphasis on projecting so-called "sloppy security epithet" upon Franklin which indirectly legitimates the actual modus operandi of this so-called intelligence agency disclosure.
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