FOLLOWING THE MONEY

At last, a few people are following the money.  Republicans are investigating whether the decision to look into Goldman Sachs is a political ploy to bolster Obama at this point.  It seems the Republicans are full of projections.  I've learned to see their accusations as a reflection of all the dirty tricks they have been pulling for the past 10 or more years.  They suspect of the Democrats all the rotten things they do themselves, wouldn't you?  For a little more on the above, click here.

A blurb to strengthen faith in our financial institutions is that 5 Goldman Sachs top executives sold stock for more than 65.5 million dollars as soon as the SEC started to investigate.  Certainly nothing devious or self protective in that move that anyone could suspect, right? No doubt their grandchildren needed tuition bills paid and their sugar bowl was empty of cash.  Almost $13,000,000 each dropped into trusts, perchance?  But that is not nice of me.  I'm sure they will be forthcoming with the altruistic reasons for ALL their activities.

"Five Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives sold stock worth $65.4 million after the company received notice of possible fraud charges from the government, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Goldman received a notice from the Securities & Exchange Commission in July and disclosed it only later, saying it didn’t consider such a notice as material information for investors, the Journal said. The stock fell 13 percent on April 16 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against Goldman in a case involving the sale of collateralized debt obligations."  Read the full article here. "Board member John Bryan, Co-General Counsel Esta Stecher, Principal Accounting Officer Sarah Smith, and Vice Chairmen Michael Evans and Michael Sherwood sold stock between October 2009 and February 2010, the newspaper said. That was the most active period of insider selling in three years at Goldman, the Journal said, citing InsiderScore.com."  That is a touching reflection of the loving bond of connectedness to which the term 'insider' refers to about stockholders and top executives deciding to sell so much stock from the company they have done so much for....or should that have been 'to'?  No, I guess the 'to' should refer to what they have done to the middle class citizens, the tax payers, whom they figuratively fornicated.

WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN THESE?

Who is writing Sarah Palin's speeches.  There is no way she has learned to think empirically in less than 2 years.

She gives (and for $100,000 a pop) a logical, if deceitful, plea.  The Teapartiers are an enigma to me.  Grassroots movements need 'fertilizer' just as lawns do to stay alive and healthy.  Yet, we, the public, aren't being shown leaders.  We are told that 70% voted for McCain and are Republicans but that, if one listens to accounts, varies with everyone who describes tham.

Most who know more than I do, on the inside of the Beltway , know that most people don't understand what the party to which they belong really stands for.  For a complete article on what seems to define them, click here.

 The most prevalent beliefs are that they are being run by Fox and Corporate America.  Some of the News channels, or at least some of the talking heads, tell us a great deal about who is behind many things.  It would be helpful to all citizens and voters if more of that kind of exposure could be augmented.  I, for one, would like to know what is done with the product from Think Tanks.  Where do their monies come from?  Having watched the low profile Cheney run the last Administration, how many other low profile evil people are making the decisions that have just about ruined the country?  Whom can we trust for the truth?

THEY COULDN'T GET THEYAH FROM HEAYAH

From Science Daily: "Researchers have discovered 2,363 new DNA sequences corresponding to 730 regions on the human genome by using new approaches. These sequences represent segments of the genome that were not charted in the reference map of the human genome." They shouldn't be granted patents but I think there would be some justice if these were within some other that were already patented, as unlikely as that might be since they would have been violating a patent to be researching them unless it was the owners themselves who were doing the sleuthing.

"A large portion of those sequences are either missing, fragmented or misaligned when compared to results from next-generation sequencing genome assemblies on the same samples," said Dr. Evan Eichler, senior author on the findings published April 19 in the advanced online edition of Nature Methods. Eichler is a University of Washington (UW) professor of genome sciences and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "These findings suggest that new genome assemblies based solely on next-generation sequencing might miss many of these sites." "

In a multidisciplinary approach, Professor Yves Barral, from the Biology Department at ETH Zurich and the computer scientists Dr. Gina Cannarozzi and Professor Gaston Gonnet, from the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, joined forces to chase possible sub-codes in genomic information.  To read the entire article, click here

It seems that mankind is looking for smaller and smaller parts of things that were thought to be total in and of themselvesm once.  I had been taught there were 92 elements (that's how long ago I had been in school). Wikipedia writes:  "As of 2010, the table contains 118 chemical elements whose discoveries have been confirmed. Ninety-four are found naturally on Earth, and the rest are synthetic elements   (too unstable to be found naturally) that have been produced artificially in particle accelerators. Elements 43 (technetium), 61 (promethium) and all elements greater than 83 (bismuth), beginning with 84 (polonium) have no stable isotopes. The atomic mass of each of these element's isotope having the longest half-life is typically reported on periodic tables with parentheses.^[3] Isotopes of elements 43, 61, 93 (neptunium) and 94 (plutonium), first discovered synthetically, have since been discovered in trace amounts on Earth as products of natural radioactive decay processes."

The whole scientific process and its rapid burgeoning is fascinating and mind-boggling at the same time. Only a few decades back, a person of  minor, elevated intelligence could keep track of all these new findings. It is getting harder and harder to conceptualize and stay current with changes in some of the things science has found without specializing in a particular field.  The 'jack-of-all-trade' is becoming extinct. We amateurs who used to have a reasonable knowledge on many technical, technological, medical, as well as rich accumulated resources on many subjects, now realize all things need a more in-depth study, limiting those who are unwilling to focus just on one area of expertise.  We are no long 'jacks-of-all-trades' but we can be assured of being 'masters of none'.

THERE IS TOO MUCH UNEXPLAINABLE IN LIFE

Today, I noted my blog has been showing a huge black space filled with gobbledy-gook.  None of the black showed up in the preview so I was unaware that what I wrote and what Google printed were not the same as the preview showed.  It occurred to me how much time is spent out of my life checking, redoing, and looking for why my world has shifted something so.

Inanimate objects do not seem to remain where I know I placed them.  It seems that I can find everything I have owned and saved for years but the one thing for which I am hunting.  Sometimes I recall I last saw it when I lent it to someone and can, after many wasted hours, get the object back.

Sometimes it is my own lack of attention and human frailty to error.  For example, in a rush to get somewhere as I was trying to print out a Google map, my printer would not print.  I followed the frustrating checklist of steps I have learned which annoy me when techs on Help desks use it.  Is your printer plugged into an AC source?  "Yes"  Is it turned on?  "Yes"  Is it connected to your computer?  "Duh! No"  At this point I am happy no one is watching my stupidity, print that which is on screen and find that only the map printed and not the directions.  However, as I was, by then, late to leave the house, I dashed off with only the map...couldn't find my GPS, and through Divine Intervention...no doubt...I got to my destination on time.

BITING YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE

NC Democrats who think only one step at a time and don't see ultimate consequences.  Click here 
It seems very short sighted that to vote for the party you didn't want in the first place, will give you what you want just because you spat in the face of the party for whom you did vote.

We have all known the disaster of voting 'against'  something by voting in the opposition...much to the unalterable fact that we will have to live with that ridiculous mistake for four more years and near ruination of our country.

Don't do it, North Carolina!

FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON MAKES A CLEAR MESSAGE ABOUT THE CURRENT THREATS TO PEOPLE DULY ELECTED

Hopefully people will listen and watch to MSNBC as Rachel Maddow presents the Timothy McVeigh tapes made while he was in prison which explain his thinking and rationalization about the bombing of the government building in Oklahoma on April 19th, 15 years ago..  It is not our brightest, though perhaps whitest, fanning the flames of hatred an lack of acceptance of our chosen leaders currently.  While Michele Bachman can talk about the teabaggers as having high IQ's, I wonder where she gets her information since it is unlikely she listens enough to discern the intellectual capacity of others.  I believe in free speech but have little respect for flagrant lack of respect of our President who was elected fairly, indicating that (regardless how those who thought he could perform miracles instantaneously are disappointed and some pollsters manipulating questions which they do not share as part of the information on poll validity) Bachman considers the administration 'gangsters'.

Rather than waste time defending himself to such people of little worth, Obama has defended himself by being a superb President for the people and for keeping his campaign promises which few were conditioned to expect of an elected official since the previous administration seemed to forget theirs, hoping others would do the same.

OBAMA: A RARE PRESIDENT WHO REMEMBERS HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES

Michael D. Shear wrote in the Washington Post: Gay visitation order shows how Obama brings big change with small actions.  "President Obama's decision Thursday night to grant same-sex couples hospital visitation rights is the latest and most visible example of a strategy to make concrete steps toward equality for gays and lesbians without sparking a broad cultural debate or a fight with Congress."  Click here if you wish to read the whole article.

95% of Americans have lower taxes this years than they have had since before Reagan.

Politifact,com tracks his campaign promises.  They have been tracking 500.