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..."to make something with a lot of money is easy. But to make something out of nothing - now
that is really sum thing.." - Baldassare Forestiere

...z e r o / imagine dragons...[ rev. 12:7
Tell her, NO / zombies.......12:8...but they did not prevail
Here without you / 3 doors down
Nothing compares 2 U / O'Connor
Still hvnt find what lookn 4 / U 2
No woman, No cry / bob & the wail....
..total.) the Garden / zero 7.
A R ] .. nobody knows / Axe
Saved by zero / the Fixx..) ) .. holding on to words
..that teach me...eYe will conquer space around me..
So maybe I'll win..) saved by zero...
3 8 0 9..L A [ chald. / No, not, nil...zero
. - 719. . a refuge..) . strong radio net.
3 0 9 0. Yah sevens.

All hail our simpleton. I mean "so-called" president conman.

Hydrologists, climatologists, and epidemiologists, present company included, push them on us all. Sure they have their places, and there's the saying, 'all models are bad, but a few are useful'. And Samuel Clemens, (Mark Twain for folks like M in Dream Time), had a few choice words on the subject. "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics". My thoughts exactly, when I heard about this "500 year flood", second in a few years, in the US mid west, on Public Radio. (NPR---National Proletarian Radio) What gives?

(with apologies to Heisenberg) I am suggesting there exists a Trump uncertainty principle that states Trump's political positions and their destructive velocity can not be predicted, only viewed in retrospect to the resulting chaos. Strangely enough that does not keep Trump from pretending he knows everything about anything.

1 hour 48 minutes to lift off

..tag.) unlisted Fed.Officer.
...
O5. Train of thought / dream theater
...3...Freight train / Jackson..) ball point radio.)
O2.. locomotive breath / Tull
..... the numeric code of PoP.....[ Psalm 9 / trouble
NY o.*...this might hurt / 9 inch nails
......8 days a week / Beatles
7 churches / possessed
.....Gold mine / take 6
5th Dimension / byrds
....4 horsemen / Metallica
Eli's Coming / 3 dog night
Until the end of the world / U 2....[ Mt.28...
First strike is deadly / Testament
0. Saved by zero / the Fixx
X./ Los Angeles.
*...not yet official.

that HC can increase mortality, and heart issues, in the treatment of Covid -19. British Medical Journal embarrassed, again. As was the Lancet for touting an association between vaccinations and Autism, based merely of an anecdotal case series of 8 pediatric patients. Any lessons here? There are quite a few for fair minded folks to learn from.
For starters, detecting and characterizing valid relationships between illness and other factors in free living human populations, is tricky business. Policy from science rests on much more than research outcomes, however seemingly robust. Less so if results are weak, or inconsistent.
Just as important, we must be ever vigilant of how politics can influence science. The Universities and research labs are largely staffed and administered by folks of one political view. Just as those of big Pharma, perhaps in other profit oriented biased directions.
And relying reflexively on clearly biased media resources, such as the NYT, or Washington Post, for scientific information, is fraught with danger of being in error. Reporting/journalism often has become political activism, leading to similar invalid information. Fortunately, we now have much better understanding of how this goes, with the clear existence of Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. It goes like this. One reads a story on some biased outlet. Instantly, in a rush to support ones side, and to feel smug and clever, without reflection, the typing/posting starts. It's all made much worse when the sufferers of the Syndromes have little, and often none, of the needed education for supporting such often biased assertions. Teaching in HS, and a little time working as a lab assistant, or realtor, etc., are honorable gigs, but inadequate to the task.
Finally, RED MAN BAD, is the deep syndromic emotion. But RM not always wrong, is often the truth..

1. More so an observation. Art and beauty are not logical. To answer a question such as: Why did they put so much time, or effort, or money into doing that beautiful design like that? Is there really an answer to that? Or, is it sheer emotion.

2. If you do not believe in a spirit or soul, then why is a body lifeless after death?

On Sunday, June 21, the annular solar eclipse will be visible. Unfortunately, it will be visible in Pakistan, India, China and parts of Africa with a partial eclipse in parts of Eastern Europe and Northern Australia.

This type of solar eclipse occurs when a new moon is near its farthest point from Earth (called its apogee), forming a straight line with the Earth and the sun. This event occurs once a year.

So, if you are in the area affected and want to witness this phenomena, wear proper eye protection and you will see the rim of the sun around the moon creating the 'Ring of Fire' effect.

Hopefully, I can catch this event on a streaming source like YouTube from the comfort of my home!

...Half way through my second go around on Prof. Sean Carroll's DVD from the Great Courses on the topic. Pretty mind blowing. Only getting a dilettante's level of understanding, but well worth it. Plus lots on cosmology, relativity and particle physics along the way. Check it out.