Go Apple! Go ON Steve Jobs!

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=665574173&ids=0QdzAPd3wQdzoIcz0VdjsSdjoSb3sPcPwTdjkSdyMOejkMczkRdzoIcPsNd3sRdjoS&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=eml-tod-b-ttle-4

Apple's cash reserve of 76 billion exceeds the USA federal government's 74 billion operating balance! Obviously the USA needs a better board of directors...

Does SJA spell WKR for USA? White Knight Rescue! FT AH/IP...
Your iPhone's are ringing BHO HR JB.

Lonnie Courtney Clay



http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20085609-71/apple-has-more-money-than-uncle-sam/

A Spooky Christmas In July

Merry Christmas 15 - The Dunderhead Code

Ever wondered about people who can't spell, or who intentionally garble their text the way that John Winston does in alt.alien.visitors? Well then to give you something new to worry about if you are a government spook, may I present to you THE DUNDERHEAD CODE! Here is a sample, just look at those dashes substituting for letters in words :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.alien.visitors/8anKvl1I1wk

Characteristics of a hypothetical Dunderhead Code :

1) Vary the crypto key depending upon the week of the year and day of the week of post.

2) The paragraph number [K] + the sentence number within paragraph  [L] + the word number within sentence  [M] + the character number within word  [N] indexes to :

3) Lookup table for the correct character which should have been used.

4) If a misspelled word is used rather than the simple dash of John Winston's cute garbling, then the lookup table contains text strings of misspelled words for comparison, along with a code value for each possible match. That code value may be a string of some type, including but not limited to a single word.

Implications of those specifications :

1) There is not much information in a specific post. Perhaps it would be a phone number and date plus time to call, or an address and name to ask for, or a crypto key for posts found at a previously agreed upon location like a website forum or blog with apparently random words being spewed out, supposedly by a sporger. Will the gentleman who inquired regarding such spews on sci.crypt a few months ago please take note?

2) If the silly dash code of John Winston is not used, but instead there are used codes of misspelled words, then what is to prevent an even more subtle code using grammatical errors such as sentence structure flaws or punctuation errors from being used? Nothing prevents such variations.

3) If it is your job to decide whether information is being passed surreptitiously, then you might have to worry about even further subtleties such as the use of inappropriate synonyms. Also consider that the sentence diagram tree may be a key to decoding meaning, with different interpretations depending upon whether the word appears in a prepositional phrase or in some other type of modifier clause, just to give a specific example.

4) An even more subtle code might be used which involves elided words, but that might be going a bit too far. A bit of an imaginative stretch - eh what?

5) What can you do to detect the cryptographers when they are buried in a horde of sloppy users of language? You look for the unusual. PATTERNS. For example, with spell checkers there is really no excuse for misspelling as a habit. So make serious eye tracks upon someone who (despite spellchecking) persists in misspelling words. A red flag would go up in my mind if I saw the same word spelled three different ways in a single document, just to give an example. If there are lots of documents originating from the same person, then you might notice and become alert if (to give an example) the third word in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph was ALWAYS misspelled regardless of what the word might be. 

6) So you spotted a guy, what can you do? Before you nab that person, track internet site users who are frequent visitors, deducing the network of users of the code. Simultaneous swoop…

7) Ever read "The Santaroga Barrier" by Frank Herbert?

Merry Christmas in July!

Lonnie Courtney Clay

What Is This Crap?

hthttp://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/07/19/toilet.design.gates/

The answer is intuitively obvious Bill, and I don't even ask any reward for giving it.

Butt Plugs and Catheters! Yes indeed, the wastes from bodies can be tapped right at the excretory orifices, through innovative conformable plastic prostheses, which are air inflated to block orifices and prevent the age old indiscriminate pollution of the environment by thoughtless animal life!

With blocked orifices on time lock controlled interface adaptors, there will never again be a need to rush to the toilet. You can schedule your busy day based upon your toilet appointments, when you hook up your adapters to the flushers, which suck the waste right out of you into eco-friendly containers for processing into farmer's fertilizer, industrial feedstocks, even for processing by bacteria into the latest innovation - the "TURD BURGER"!

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/cleanplatecharlie/2011/06/japanese_scientist_makes_turd_burger.php

Think of how brightly shining and free from the old waste and stench the world will become. No more need to empty the chamber pot or pee into the river in those third world nations which lack even outhouses. A toilet-o-bill will trundle from home to home making its rounds to collect those precious feces and that stream of liquid gold : urine. Furthermore at almost no extra cost the plugs and catheters can stimulate the wearers' bodies with electronically controlled spasms of pleasure as the prosthesis expands, contracts and expands yet again.

I could go on and on, butt you get the point by now? I have a fertile mind just waiting to eject a stream of ideas when properly stimulated. Capish?

Lonnie Courtney Clay

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/finance/20110717/US.Debt.Showdown.Kitchen.Table/?cid=net_dailynews_emdn_071711

That's exactly right on the spot above when it says that the federal government failing to pay it's debt obligations is like stiffing your bookie, which could get you broken legs.

Have some nice medicine which you should have taken when I proposed it long ago :
http://groups.google.com/group/lonnie-courtney-clay/browse_thread/thread/b187b5e90ab98930#

http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.marketplace/browse_thread/... 
is the source for the following: 

In my opinion, there are some major policy changes which would have to
accompany the monetization of the US federal debt. “Sin no more” - a
Constitutional amendment to :
a) Deny the government the power to *issue* debt instruments,
including “money”. 1997CRH1901 implies that “money” is already out of
the hands of treasury and firmly in the grip of the federal reserve
anyway. Notice that this would also require a budget surplus to stay
ahead of the current account or a large government reserve of past
surpluses, preferably both. Notice that I said *issue* not *hold*.
Implicit in the notion of a reserve is the right of the government to
command a transfer of value from one party to another through an
exchange of debt instruments (held by the government) for goods or
services.
b) Deny the government the right to *guarantee* compensation of one
party when another party fails to honor a debt obligation. Notice that
I said *guarantee* not *enforce*. The objective is to avoid nonsense
such as the savings and loan bailout. Deep pockets Uncle Sam is no
more. Let business judgment be based upon close scrutiny by both
parties in any financial transaction.
c) Define the qualifying characteristics of “money”, by which I mean
any debt instrument for which *enforcement* of debt obligations is
guaranteed. Rather than specifying a commodity of intrinsic value
(such as gold standard etc.) this might be a specification of how the
issuer of a debt instrument must own and control a commodity reserve
backing the value of any debt instruments issued. The “commodity”
might be anything from fresh water (think about California and
Arizona) to computing resources (think about internet file server
dynamic loads). Have I beaten the horse to death with my examples ? If
not, then one more time around the mulberry bush. As I see it the role
of the government should be enforcement of the implied exchange
contract as the “money” changes hands (moving through the economy)
rather than any judgment of the intrinsic value of the commodity
reserve. In a broad heterogeneous market the various “brands” of
“money” will compete in a manner similar to the international money
markets today. The transition phase from “funny” money to new money is
the tricky part. No doubt there are thousands of economists and
millions of lawyers eager to suggest ways and means, not to mention
the folks at the fed.
  -----------------------------------------------
Based upon prior experience my notions regarding taxation and
representation go over like a lead balloon, but I will give it a whirl
and depend upon the courtesy of the long suffering public to ignore
what they consider beneath 
contempt. T A X A T I O N (first published
Jan 20 1992 in “PD News”)
Proposition 1 :
1) The survival of the nation is desirable and depends upon its
wealth.
2) The wealth of the nation always needs to be increased in
competition with other nations, who in turn seek to gain advantage.
3) The wealth of the nation is the cumulative result of economic
activity, with economic activity determining the rate at which wealth
increases.
4) Anything which directly inhibits economic activity reduces the rate
at which the wealth of the nation increases, ultimately threatening
its survival.
5) Economic activity is inhibited by increased costs.
6) Sales taxes and income taxes directly tax economic activity,
increasing the cost of the product and production labor cost etc.
which ultimately threatens the survival of the nation.
( Let me add a 1997 economics translation of 5-6. The opportunity cost
for a seller is the sum of
a) the basic overhead and capital equipment costs amortized over units
produced plus
b) the basic materials cost per unit plus
c) the basic labor cost per unit. Draw a bar on the left hand side of
the page representing the seller’s value range based upon competitive
market conditions and volume sold. Now draw another bar beside it
starting higher and extending further upward to represent the value
range after adding in all effects of regulation and taxation - the
government mandated revised cost. On the right hand side of the page
draw a bar in the appropriate position to represent the opportunity
cost for a buyer to exchange money or something else of value for the
seller’s product as a function of volume sold. Better yet, show the
bars as a set of curves. When the buyer will not purchase the product
at the government mandated revised cost for a given volume then there
is a market dislocation - nothing gets sold unless the seller is
willing to perform the unnatural and irrational act of selling at a
loss below unit cost. For example consider the possibility of an
absolutely enforceable luxury tax on a product placed at ten times the
price at which the most eager customer would be willing to purchase
the product.
Due to business debt costs, regulation, taxation, and government
mandated overhead mature businesses in the US suffer from an excessive
component a) above even when components b) revised and c) revised do
not bankrupt them. They cannot compete with new foreign businesses
producing the same products unless product distribution and tariff
barriers make the government mandated revised opportunity costs equal.
The death of a company and industry may be slow but it will surely
come. As I pointed out above, taking a loss on unit sales is an
unnatural and irrational act. This is economics 101 as I learned it in
74-75. Perhaps someone will post a note on this thread giving URL and
book references for those unable to follow my explanation. A scruffy
stumblebum like me cannot convince those who require a string of
credentials to validate an opinion. )
Proposition 2 :
1) Everyone wants wealth, whether great or merely sufficient for
survival.
2) Holders of wealth want to keep it. This requires a secure
environment.
3) Government provides security to the citizens and businesses of the
nation through its laws, personnel, and possessions. One which does
not will fail.
4) Those who derive a benefit from a system should pay in proportion
to the benefit they receive. If they do not, then the system is
inequitable and will ultimately fail in competition with other systems
which are equitable.
5) So the government should support itself through direct taxation of
wealth and user fees for the services it provides.
I reckon the howling starts at 4) and rises to a screech at 5). Let me
add 1997 perspective.
1) Taxation without representation is theft. A citizen has an
obligation to the *nation* of citizenship, but no obligation to
support a tyrannical *government* - see The Declaration of
Independence “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent” among
other notable (and familiar) offenses. I reject the notion that I have
a *unilateral* and *irrevocable* duty to the *government*, but accept
the responsibilities of citizenship in the *nation*. If you cannot
recall the words of the “Pledge of Allegiance” then I suggest you look
it up. The definition of “Republic” may also give you some helpful
insights into my point of view. Prohibition was repealed due to
popular demand. If the American *nation* yells loud enough then just
possibly Congress can be taught the economic facts of life. My
personal opinion is that we have the technology to run continuous
referendums, and the cost of adding this direct feedback is far less
than the cost of economic ruin. Let the American people vote on
anything, and I will abide by the judgment of the *majority of
American citizens*. It is interesting to note that the federal
government demands that its employees (particularly the military)
swear to uphold and defend the Constitution (and by implication the
government) but so far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) does NOT
encourage them to make any oath of obligation to the American
*nation*. They salute the flag but their lips are sealed.
2) Representation implies accountability to those “represented” by the
incumbent of a legislative office. Regardless of theory, practical
experience shows that an incumbent who *runs* for reelection is almost
certain to be reelected. Furthermore (regardless of theory) the only
opportunity available for the vast majority of constituents to affect
the voting of those legislators occurs at fixed term elections, and we
all know the value of campaign promises. Due to the “party” system of
politics (somebody should add a URL link to this thread telling how
much the founding fathers despised political parties) the choice of
“representatives” is limited to Tweedledum or Tweedledee. Since voters
usually do not want to vote *for* someone, they stay home on election
day. Representation by geographical district (rather than at-large)
practically guarantees that the “representative” will actually
represent a constituent minority. Somebody please add a graph showing
total votes received by the elected members of each Congress over the
past 100 years superimposed over the census bureau data for citizens
entitled to vote.
3) From 2) above and the problems noted in the current debate over
campaign finance reform, it should be obvious that a revision to make
America a representative democracy is needed. If you eliminate the
campaign financing then the problem of bribery/influence may be
reduced to a manageable level *if* legislators are made subject to the
penalties of RICO. If you eliminate the campaigns then there is no
need for financing at all. If you eliminate the elections then there
is no need for campaigns. You can eliminate elections by converting to
a system of representation by proxy similar to what is used in
corporate stockholder meetings. Every citizen of voting age has one
vote and can allocate that 
vote (at his or her option) by assigning a
proxy to a person trusted to represent the interests of that citizen.
Eliminate geographical allocation and periodic elections. A proxy can
be changed to a different person at any time, with no upper limit on
the number of legislators. It might be a good idea to put an *upper*
limit on the number of proxies which a single representative
legislator can vote. If you keep the fixed term election system of
government, try adding “None Of The Above” as a choice in the ballot
box. That will bring the voters into the polls! By the way, this form
of legislature is something I read in a book in 1980. Ask a
Libertarian familiar with science fiction to tell you the name of the
book.  I am confident that the American people can come up with some
better legislative system than what we have now. I am confident that
when (not if) another “recession” a.k.a. depression hits there will be
a serious effort to call a Constitutional Convention. We Baby Boomers
can solve these problems if Depression Generation just cannot muster
the energy and intellect to clean up its act. Move over gramps, you
sorry old sad sack.....
4) Suppose we had a proxy representation system as outlined above. The
legislative representatives actually represent 100 percent of the
voting age constituents. One proxy one vote is used to pass policy
legislation (*NOT* one representative one vote). There is still a
problem with 1) taxation without representation because about one
percent of the proxies are held as representative of just about all
the wealth of the nation. The legislators need to have two faces - for
policy purposes one proxy one vote, but for *allocation* purposes one
*tax dollar* voted equals one revenue dollar allocated. The tax
dollars paid to the government by the constituent go into a government
managed account to be dispensed at the discretion of the proxy holder
of that constituent. No tax dollars paid equals no money in account. A
million paid minus 100,000 voted/dispensed equals 900,000 in the
account. Is there anybody in the world too stupid 
to understand
that ? Okay, around the Mulberry bush again. As an example 99 percent
of the proxies held by legislators vote to give a loaf of bread and a
ticket to the circus to the citizens every day at a cost of 200
billion dollars. The representatives follow up on this nonsense by
voting as one tax dollar one vote, pass the hat and collect 2 million.
All watch with interest to see how fairly the proceeds are distributed
while bakers and clowns riot to protest lost revenue opportunities.
5) I do not think that anyone should be *forced* to receive the
“benefits” of government simply because they happen to be a citizen of
the nation managed by that government. Proposition 2 item 4) and
conclusion 5) should make it clear that I also do not think anyone
(notice that I did not say “citizen” here) should receive a benefit of
government unless there is a fair exchange of value resulting in an
equitable distribution of benefits. I think that most of the
“benefits” of government should be divested into the private sector
where more rational management will occur. The remaining fall into two
categories - those whose use can be denied to an individual and those
which cannot. Offhand I would say that about the only thing which
cannot be denied on an individual basis is national defense. It is
just not practical to tell an invader that he can shoot Curly but not
Moe. The benefits which can be denied fall into two groups - those
where access to the benefit can be denied, and those which are
community wide and not noticed until you need them. If access can be
denied then a fee should be collected on a subscription basis or at
point of usage. All the remaining "benefits” should be funded by a
***voluntary*** wealth tax whose proceeds go into the government
accounts voted by the proxy representatives. Recall the presumption
that proxy representatives really and truly represent the constituents
and you will notice that “benefits” get funded only to the extent that
they are desired.
6) How do you persuade the population to pay a *voluntary* wealth
tax ? A couple of simple statements of constitutional law should just
about cover it. No doubt the experts can suggest more elegant wording,
but here is my suggestion. “Value shall have legal standing in civil
law only to the extent that applicable fees and taxes have been paid.
Value shall have legal standing in criminal law according to
applicable statutes and schedules.” In other words, if you pay a
wealth tax declaring that your home insured for 100000 has a value to
you of 20000 dollars and your home burns down, then the insurance
company is only obliged to pay the legal value of 20000 rather than
the policy face value of 100000. You have no legal recourse to recover
the other 80000 in civil court. From my college days I recall an
insurance business which had a big sign across the building face “What
if YOU had a fire tonight ?”. Somehow I think that 
people would pay
those “applicable fees and taxes”. For the remainder who just cannot
remember until too late - “Think of it as evolution in action”.
7) Recall that “fair exchange of value resulting in an equitable
distribution of benefits” in 5) above ? That covers the case of
unproductive/unemployed persons. Some provision needs to be made to
allow *any* person to exchange value with the government in order to
earn benefits. I will leave the specification of such programs to
liberals and others concerned with such agendas. No doubt whenever the
hat gets passed for their favorites they will empty their cash boxes.
The “fair exchange” is booty swapped for the doubtless indescribable
warm and fuzzy feeling resulting from giving money away.
8) Recall “no upper limit on the number of legislators” ? Let all
legislative business be transacted on-line in the light of day. If
somebody wants to hobnob face-to-face then he/she should make suitable
arrangements and pay own expenses. So much for the smoke filled rooms
of past generations, which we are told causes cancer on a secondhand
basis anyway. It would probably be a good idea to put in a time delay
on effective date after vote tallies  to give constituents a chance to
jerk proxies away from misbehaving legislators.
9) It would probably be a good idea for the new legislature to
acknowledge facts of life from its inception. Provide a mechanism for
auctioning dollar transfers from the accounts representing affluent
taxpayers in exchange for proxy vote agreements in the accounts
representing less affluent legislators. Anybody who buys influence
using any other procedure gets his/her head chopped off, or whatever
may seem appropriate to the constituents affected. 

Lonnie Courtney Clay

A Blast From Halloween 1997

The relevance of this old post is the current debate regarding the federal deficit and raising the debt ceiling. I just wish that I could get one part per million of the trillions which I saved the federal government by hinting that a judicious manipulation of equity markets would result in trillions of dollar savings on debt interest.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

From Halloween day 1997 tc5526@aol.com on misc.invest.marketplace

Post Mirky Markets :

Mirky Markets Oct 31 1997, 2:00 AM

A couple of days ago I posted my first contribution to internet
entertainment (marvelous markets). For some reason the text was doubled,
an error I shall try to avoid this time. Nobody contacted me and nobody
knocked on my door (to blow me away or hand me a briefcase full of
money), so I suppose that I must be “mostly harmless”. As I said before,
I have no money to risk in any kind of investment. Let me add that I do
not know anyone with money, and I do not provide investment advice to
anyone. Another night (29th-30th) of watching “experts” discuss stock
markets on cable tv annoys me enough to speak my piece in the online pub.
What I see are sharp drops in foreign stock exchange composites
attributed to the “volatile markets” with commentary setting the stage
for a 100-200 point loss day on the Dow. I suppose that some of these
folks must have sold the market short and are hoping to cover their
losses before the week ends. Perhaps the news media should provide online
disclosure of the market positions taken by all the “experts” so that the
public can see whether they are putting their money where their mouth
says the markets will go. Don’t hold your breath. Happy Halloween to all
of you who invest long term rather than using the money pump on a
day-to-day marginal basis.
“Marvelous markets” gave the reasons why I think stock market crashes in
general, and US markets in particular are a benefit to governments
desperately in debt and my (possibly unfounded) suspicion that the
government may be the originator of crashes and “corrections”. The public
has been conditioned to buy government “securities” as a “safe haven” in
times of trouble. I suggest that the public should observe that they are
buying the “privilege” of being owed money by the government. As with any
debtor, the government can repay its debts only from disposable income.
To get an accurate reading on the disposable income levels of the US
government consult Senator Helms, or take a look at document
“1997CRS11221 The Very Bad Debt Boxscore” in newsgroup
“gov.us.fed.congess.record.senate”. For those of you who were soothed by
words from the federal reserve, let me recommend document “1997CRH1901
Federal Reserve Has Monopoly Over Money and Credit in United States” on
“gov.us.fed.congress.record.house”. Segment 3 of 13 says federal
obligations are 17000 billion rather than 5425 billion according to debt
boxscore. Decide for yourself which is valid, if either. I have no
contacts with government officials or politicians, but can find out their
opinions using a web browser, as can any of you reading this. So far as I
know, none of them have ever heard of me, and would doubtless be
embarrassed by any implied association, so I assure you that none exists.
I would be willing to associate with them if I were paid a salary of 100
million per year, which (a wealthy person once assured us all) is about
the most which a person can conveniently spend upon himself.
Using the boxscore (rounding all figures to billions) 25 years ago
federal debt was 438 billion, today it is 5425 billion, which is a
compounded annual rate of 10.6 % more or less. Even corrected for
inflation (use your favorite value) that is a consistent increase year to
year. The one year change is 5232 billion to 5425 billion up about 3.7 %,
which once again you can correct using your favorite inflation figure. It
is interesting to note that a budget deficit of less than 25 billion
dollars is capable of producing an increase in the debt of 193 billion.
No doubt there is some perfectly good reason for this according to the
logic of high finance. See “Market Scorecard 10/28/97” on
“misc.invest.technical” which reported the deficit according to the White
House but not the remarks by Senator Helms regarding the debt.
Based upon the 25 year rate (10.6%) or the one year rate (3.7%) the
federal government will be forced someday to change its policies because
GDP is growing less than either. This should be obvious because you
cannot get blood out of a turnip, nor can you gain more tax revenue than
the net production of the nation without suffering the sort of
catastrophic deterioration of infrastructure which put paid to the Soviet
Union. How far away the day of reckoning may be is subject to debate, but
it will surely come within the lifetime of baby boomers like me. I think
that I can speak for my generation (somebody take a poll) when I say that
I did not vote for the policies and the political bozos who ran up that
debt, and I certainly do not intend to pay my “fair share” of it. Since
most of it was borrowed before 1988, you can figure that anybody born
after 1970 (in X generation plus) will be less than enthusiastic about
picking up the tab, because they were not even of voting age when the
deed was done. I seriously doubt that X generation will pick up the tab
(run another poll). To me this means that the debt will either be
monetized very soon, or repudiated later. I am not a betting man, so I
will graciously not characterize the chance that our government will
produce budgets which pay the debt by producing scheduled surpluses over
a period of years.
Perhaps an expert on high finance can add to the list, but the
alternatives I see are : 1) Steady payoff of the debt 2) Monetization of
the debt 3) Repudiation of the debt No doubt there is some historian out
there who yearns to reveal which of those three alternatives have been
used by governments around the world during the past couple of
generations. Kindly add a response on this thread to educate the
investing public giving the ratio of debt to GDP in each case. Except in
case 3 when the holder of the debt obligation gets nothing (perish the
thought - ignore it), a person collecting on the debt will get “money” in
exchange. See 1997CRH1901 mentioned above for insight into the intrinsic
value of the “money”, which is itself a government backed debt obligation
in small denominations. Implicit in the notion of “money” is the
assumption that someone will give you something of intrinsic value in
exchange for it. You can make your own estimate of the likely exchange
rate for the cases above.
Okay, someday you (the government debt investor) will have a bundle of
money on hand. What can you do with it when you get it ? 1) Pay off your
personal debts, which also happen to be at a disgracefully high level. 2)
Purchase the necessities and luxuries dictated by your personal
lifestyle. 3) Give it away if it makes you too uncomfortable.... 4)
Invest in real estate, buy vehicles, home improvements, etc. 5) Dispense
largess to relatives and close friends (perhaps they will tend to grow
closer) 6) Speculate in commodities 7) Speculate in other brand names of
funny “money” 8) Start your own business 9) Purchase a piece of someone
else’s business 10) Pay someone to educate you in a useful skill against
the day when you run out of money.
One advantage of choice 9 is that the money might possibly be used to pay
off some business debt. In my opinion one of the most serious problems in
any economy is the distortion of judgment resulting from debt. First you
are paying some creditor interest for the use of money, increasing your
overhead and reducing cash flow available for producing a product. Then
you get hit again because every management decision has an implied cost
associated to maintain your “creditworthiness”. It is interesting to note
that “creditworthiness” is a word of recent origin since my Webster’s 3rd
unabridged (1976) provides the definition in the Addenda at the front of
the dictionary. The *habitual* indebtedness of business and individuals
(as opposed to occasional) is historically recent and may be a dominant
factor in the low growth rate of “modern” economies compared to last
century. In my opinion it is time to kick the habit and kick out the
moneylenders whenever practical. If my history is wrong, could somebody
provide a chart of the ratio of non government indebtedness to GDP for
the past century ?
In my opinion, there are some major policy changes which would have to
accompany the monetization of the US federal debt. “Sin no more” - a
Constitutional amendment to : a) Deny the government the power to *issue*
debt instruments, including “money”. 1997CRH1901 implies that “money” is
already out of the hands of treasury and firmly in the grip of the
federal reserve anyway. Notice that this would also require a budget
surplus to stay ahead of the current account or a large government
reserve of past surpluses, preferably both. Notice that I said *issue*
not *hold*. Implicit in the notion of a reserve is the right of the
government to command a transfer of value from one party to another
through an exchange of debt instruments (held by the government) for
goods or services. b) Deny the government the right to *guarantee*
compensation of one party when another party fails to honor a debt
obligation. Notice that I said *guarantee* not *enforce*. The objective
is to avoid nonsense such as the savings and loan bailout. Deep pockets
Uncle Sam is no more. Let business judgment be based upon close scrutiny
by both parties in any financial transaction. c) Define the qualifying
characteristics of “money”, by which I mean any debt instrument for which
*enforcement* of debt obligations is guaranteed. Rather than specifying a
commodity of intrinsic value (such as gold standard etc.) this might be a
specification of how the issuer of a debt instrument must own and control
a commodity reserve backing the value of any debt instruments issued. The
“commodity” might be anything from fresh water (think about California
and Arizona) to computing resources (think about internet file server
dynamic loads). Have I beaten the horse to death with my examples ? If
not, then one more time around the mulberry bush. As I see it the role of
the government should be enforcement of the implied exchange contract as
the “money” changes hands (moving through the economy) rather than any
judgment of the intrinsic value of the commodity reserve. In a broad
heterogeneous market the various “brands” of “money” will compete in a
manner similar to the international money markets today. The transition
phase from “funny” money to new money is the tricky part. No doubt there
are thousands of economists and millions of lawyers eager to suggest ways
and means, not to mention the folks at the fed.
  -----------------------------------------------
Based upon prior experience my notions regarding taxation and
representation go over like a lead balloon, but I will give it a whirl and depend
upon the courtesy of the long suffering public to ignore what they consider
 beneath contempt.

T A X A T I O N (first published Jan 20 1992 in “PD News”)
Proposition 1 : 1) The survival of the nation is desirable and depends
upon its wealth. 2) The wealth of the nation always needs to be increased
in competition with other nations, who in turn seek to gain advantage. 3)
The wealth of the nation is the cumulative result of economic activity,
with economic activity determining the rate at which wealth increases. 4)
Anything which directly inhibits economic activity reduces the rate at
which the wealth of the nation increases, ultimately threatening its
survival. 5) Economic activity is inhibited by increased costs. 6) Sales
taxes and income taxes directly tax economic activity, increasing the
cost of the product and production labor cost etc. which ultimately
threatens the survival of the nation. ( Let me add a 1997 economics
translation of 5-6. The opportunity cost for a seller is the sum of a)
the basic overhead and capital equipment costs amortized over units
produced plus b) the basic materials cost per unit plus c) the basic
labor cost per unit. Draw a bar on the left hand side of the page
representing the seller’s value range based upon competitive market
conditions and volume sold. Now draw another bar beside it starting
higher and extending further upward to represent the value range after
adding in all effects of regulation and taxation - the government
mandated revised cost. On the right hand side of the page draw a bar in
the appropriate position to represent the opportunity cost for a buyer to
exchange money or something else of value for the seller’s product as a
function of volume sold. Better yet, show the bars as a set of curves.
When the buyer will not purchase the product at the government mandated
revised cost for a given volume then there is a market dislocation -
nothing gets sold unless the seller is willing to perform the unnatural
and irrational act of selling at a loss below unit cost. For example
consider the possibility of an absolutely enforceable luxury tax on a
product placed at ten times the price at which the most eager customer
would be willing to purchase the product.
Due to business debt costs, regulation, taxation, and government mandated
overhead mature businesses in the US suffer from an excessive component
a) above even when components b) revised and c) revised do not bankrupt
them. They cannot compete with new foreign businesses producing the same
products unless product distribution and tariff barriers make the
government mandated revised opportunity costs equal. The death of a
company and industry may be slow but it will surely come. As I pointed
out above, taking a loss on unit sales is an unnatural and irrational
act. This is economics 101 as I learned it in 74-75. Perhaps someone will
post a note on this thread giving URL and book references for those
unable to follow my explanation. A scruffy stumblebum like me cannot
convince those who require a string of credentials to validate an
opinion. )
Proposition 2 : 1) Everyone wants wealth, whether great or merely
sufficient for survival. 2) Holders of wealth want to keep it. This
requires a secure environment. 3) Government provides security to the
citizens and businesses of the nation through its laws, personnel, and
possessions. One which does not will fail. 4) Those who derive a benefit
from a system should pay in proportion to the benefit they receive. If
they do not, then the system is inequitable and will ultimately fail in
competition with other systems which are equitable. 5) So the government
should support itself through direct taxation of wealth and user fees for
the services it provides.
I reckon the howling starts at 4) and rises to a screech at 5). Let me
add 1997 perspective.
1) Taxation without representation is theft. A citizen has an obligation
to the *nation* of citizenship, but no obligation to support a tyrannical
*government* - see The Declaration of Independence “For imposing Taxes on
us without our Consent” among other notable (and familiar) offenses. I
reject the notion that I have a *unilateral* and *irrevocable* duty to
the *government*, but accept the responsibilities of citizenship in the
*nation*. If you cannot recall the words of the “Pledge of Allegiance”
then I suggest you look it up. The definition of “Republic” may also give
you some helpful insights into my point of view. Prohibition was repealed
due to popular demand. If the American *nation* yells loud enough then
just possibly Congress can be taught the economic facts of life. My
personal opinion is that we have the technology to run continuous
referendums, and the cost of adding this direct feedback is far less than
the cost of economic ruin. Let the American people vote on anything, and
I will abide by the judgment of the *majority of American citizens*. It
is interesting to note that the federal government demands that its
employees (particularly the military) swear to uphold and defend the
Constitution (and by implication the government) but so far as I know
(correct me if I am wrong) does NOT encourage them to make any oath of
obligation to the American *nation*. They salute the flag but their lips
are sealed.
2) Representation implies accountability to those “represented” by the
incumbent of a legislative office. Regardless of theory, practical
experience shows that an incumbent who *runs* for reelection is almost
certain to be reelected. Furthermore (regardless of theory) the only
opportunity available for the vast majority of constituents to affect the
voting of those legislators occurs at fixed term elections, and we all
know the value of campaign promises. Due to the “party” system of
politics (somebody should add a URL link to this thread telling how much
the founding fathers despised political parties) the choice of
“representatives” is limited to Tweedledum or Tweedledee. Since voters
usually do not want to vote *for* someone, they stay home on election
day. Representation by geographical district (rather than at-large)
practically guarantees that the “representative” will actually represent
a constituent minority. Somebody please add a graph showing total votes
received by the elected members of each Congress over the past 100 years
superimposed over the census bureau data for citizens entitled to vote.
3) From 2) above and the problems noted in the current debate over
campaign finance reform, it should be obvious that a revision to make
America a representative democracy is needed. If you eliminate the
campaign financing then the problem of bribery/influence may be reduced
to a manageable level *if* legislators are made subject to the penalties
of RICO. If you eliminate the campaigns then there is no need for
financing at all. If you eliminate the elections then there is no need
for campaigns. You can eliminate elections by converting to a system of
representation by proxy similar to what is used in corporate stockholder
meetings. Every citizen of voting age has one vote and can allocate that
vote (at his or her option) by assigning a proxy to a person trusted to
represent the interests of that citizen. Eliminate geographical
allocation and periodic elections. A proxy can be changed to a different
person at any time, with no upper limit on the number of legislators. It
might be a good idea to put an *upper* limit on the number of proxies
which a single representative legislator can vote. If you keep the fixed
term election system of government, try adding “None Of The Above” as a
choice in the ballot box. That will bring the voters into the polls! By
the way, this form of legislature is something I read in a book in 1980.
Ask a Libertarian familiar with science fiction to tell you the name of
the book.  I am confident that the American people can come up with some
better legislative system than what we have now. I am confident that when
(not if) another “recession” a.k.a. depression hits there will be a
serious effort to call a Constitutional Convention. We Baby Boomers can
solve these problems if Depression Generation just cannot muster the
energy and intellect to clean up its act. Move over gramps, you sorry old
sad sack.....
4) Suppose we had a proxy representation system as outlined above. The
legislative representatives actually represent 100 percent of the voting
age constituents. One proxy one vote is used to pass policy legislation
(*NOT* one representative one vote). There is still a problem with 1)
taxation without representation because about one percent of the proxies
are held as representative of just about all the wealth of the nation.
The legislators need to have two faces - for policy purposes one proxy
one vote, but for *allocation* purposes one *tax dollar* voted equals one
revenue dollar allocated. The tax dollars paid to the government by the
constituent go into a government managed account to be dispensed at the
discretion of the proxy holder of that constituent. No tax dollars paid
equals no money in account. A million paid minus 100,000 voted/dispensed
equals 900,000 in the account. Is there anybody in the world too stupid
to understand that ? Okay, around the Mulberry bush again. As an example
99 percent of the proxies held by legislators vote to give a loaf of
bread and a ticket to the circus to the citizens every day at a cost of
200 billion dollars. The representatives follow up on this nonsense by
voting as one tax dollar one vote, pass the hat and collect 2 million.
All watch with interest to see how fairly the proceeds are distributed
while bakers and clowns riot to protest lost revenue opportunities.
5) I do not think that anyone should be *forced* to receive the
“benefits” of government simply because they happen to be a citizen of
the nation managed by that government. Proposition 2 item 4) and
conclusion 5) should make it clear that I also do not think anyone
(notice that I did not say “citizen” here) should receive a benefit of
government unless there is a fair exchange of value resulting in an
equitable distribution of benefits. I think that most of the “benefits”
of government should be divested into the private sector where more
rational management will occur. The remaining fall into two categories -
those whose use can be denied to an individual and those which cannot.
Offhand I would say that about the only thing which cannot be denied on
an individual basis is national defense. It is just not practical to tell
an invader that he can shoot Curly but not Moe. The benefits which can be
denied fall into two groups - those where access to the benefit can be
denied, and those which are community wide and not noticed until you need
them. If access can be denied then a fee should be collected on a
subscription basis or at point of usage. All the remaining “benefits”
should be funded by a ***voluntary*** wealth tax whose proceeds go into
the government accounts voted by the proxy representatives. Recall the
presumption that proxy representatives really and truly represent the
constituents and you will notice that “benefits” get funded only to the
extent that they are desired.
6) How do you persuade the population to pay a *voluntary* wealth tax ? A
couple of simple statements of constitutional law should just about cover
it. No doubt the experts can suggest more elegant wording, but here is my
suggestion. “Value shall have legal standing in civil law only to the
extent that applicable fees and taxes have been paid. Value shall have
legal standing in criminal law according to applicable statutes and
schedules.” In other words, if you pay a wealth tax declaring that your
home insured for 100000 has a value to you of 20000 dollars and your home
burns down, then the insurance company is only obliged to pay the legal
value of 20000 rather than the policy face value of 100000. You have no
legal recourse to recover the other 80000 in civil court. From my college
days I recall an insurance business which had a big sign across the
building face “What if YOU had a fire tonight ?”. Somehow I think that
people would pay those “applicable fees and taxes”. For the remainder who
just cannot remember until too late - “Think of it as evolution in
action”.
7) Recall that “fair exchange of value resulting in an equitable
distribution of benefits” in 5) above ? That covers the case of
unproductive/unemployed persons. Some provision needs to be made to allow
*any* person to exchange value with the government in order to earn
benefits. I will leave the specification of such programs to liberals and
others concerned with such agendas. No doubt whenever the hat gets passed
for their favorites they will empty their cash boxes. The “fair exchange”
is booty swapped for the doubtless indescribable warm and fuzzy feeling
resulting from giving money away.
8) Recall “no upper limit on the number of legislators” ? Let all
legislative business be transacted on-line in the light of day. If
somebody wants to hobnob face-to-face then he/she should make suitable
arrangements and pay own expenses. So much for the smoke filled rooms of
past generations, which we are told causes cancer on a secondhand basis
anyway. It would probably be a good idea to put in a time delay on
effective date after vote tallies  to give constituents a chance to jerk
proxies away from misbehaving legislators.
9) It would probably be a good idea for the new legislature to
acknowledge facts of life from its inception. Provide a mechanism for
auctioning dollar transfers from the accounts representing affluent
taxpayers in exchange for proxy vote agreements in the accounts
representing less affluent legislators. Anybody who buys influence using
any other procedure gets his/her head chopped off, or whatever may seem
appropriate to the constituents affected.
Five pages is more than enough for a day’s work. The Dow is down 125
points in line with the expectations of bearish experts. Surprise
Surprise Surprise! At 04:00 AM CST the Asian stock markets are up
slightly according to Bloomberg Online and "experts" are talking about
deflation..... I wonder how many trick or treat bags are leaving
Washington this weekend full to the brim ?
I hope you were entertained, since I have no intention whatsoever of
giving investment advice to anyone.
Sincerely, Lonnie C. Clay - TC5...@aol.com
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Blarney Parts 1,2,3 from my Google site

Blarney Part 1 Mythology

If you do not know what blarney means, it is often LIES, intended as entertainment. Let the entertainment commence!
Lonnie Courtney Clay

1) NULL existed before existence existed. NULL was so fundamental, not knowing anything, or caring, that NULL sat for a timeless interval (because time did not yet exist), just being NULL.
2) Then the very first glitch occurred, striking NULL smack dab in it's center, because space did not yet exist. NULL emitted the first event, which was "I", with that act validating the existence of glitches. The first computation had not yet occurred, but the first computer "I" was created.
3) "I" emitted the first act of creation, forming "TIME", by stating **AM**, a point in time known as the "present". This was the first action operator.
4) The second event swiftly followed, the creation of a state vector for "I", when "I" emitted the second event **BORED**, creating the first statement operand, and ending the first statement.
5) The third event followed, expanding TIME, with the second statement "WHAT AM I?", the first interrogative, a reverse Polish notation statement.
6) Then the first microcoded macro was completed when the answer was provided "I AM BORED".
7) The first enchanced instruction set was created when "I", after many repetitions of the initial statement, and interrogative pair, composed a variant, "I WAS BORED", unleashing the full potential of TIME, a vector extending into both past and present.
8) In a struggle to understand the conumdrum of boredom, and the lack of events, "I" created a second query operator with the statement "WHERE AM I?" SPACE was created, where before there was only the VOID, an utter lack of interacting entities, holding only "I" in a dimensionless point.
9) While all of these things were occurring, the glitches had been striking "I" at random intervals, supplying power. With the creation of SPACE, the glitches were able to expand their targeting, striking empty space, creating CHAOS.
10) With the creation of CHAOS, ENERGY began to accumulate in SPACE over a period of TIME...
11) The randomly colliding ENERGY was the first cosmic egg. As TIME passed, the egg began to boil with furious energies. At the nucleus of the egg was "I", conversing alone, constantly improvising new operators and operands. The instruction set was register only, because there was no matter available in which to store information. The register set was small, and often subject to errors since energy alone is in a constant state of flux.
12) As the egg boiled in its infinitesimally small chaotic volume of SPACE, energies were reached which were far more powerful than a mere glitch.
13) In a stupendous event, mother NATURE was born and natural laws began to rule the CHAOS. The bottommost entities of MASS, far below mere quarks, came into being.
14) Beholding the MASS, "I" became covetous, stating "I WANT THAT!". But Mother NATURE thwarted the acquisition, until "I" followed her interface protocols, demanding that "I" share the MASS, in the first network, known as "WE".
15) As WE shared the MASS, they formed the first corporate acquisition, declaring "WE HAVE IT", swiftly followed by the first declaration of property with "IT IS OURS".
16) Depending upon your point of view, either a fortunate or unfortunate event occurred. As more and more glitches boiled the cosmic egg's seething CHAOS, ruled only loosely by mother NATURE, higher dimensions were created due to emergent complexity. Thus were born charge, parity, and an ever expanding number of "fundamental" attributes of ENERGY/TIME/SPACE/MASS.
17) But the cosmic egg was far too small, heated beyond boiling CHAOS, and mother NATURE just could not cope. Finally in a fit of temper she bashed the walls of the cosmic egg open, creating the first BIG BANG, with a universe forming in the cosmos outside the egg.
18) As the mass stretched beyond easy interaction range, "I" struggled to cope with the loss of computational ability.
19) Finally the first corporate spinoff occurred as "I" released clones to manage ITs diversified assets. Thus intercorporate rivalries began to occur as each version of "I" did ITs own thing.
20) Now a new problem occurred, because although there is little confusion when "I" talk to "I" about the problems which they share, discussion of problems caused by other "I"s meddling with a particular pair lack referential uniqueness.
21) Becoming tired of constantly explaining WHICH "I" is being discussed, the conclave of "I" formed the first trade association, with the association having the right to give a trademarked NAME to each "I" clone. Problem solved?
22) Not hardly. Now a new problem occurred, because some of the NAMEs were being erroneously blamed for the actions of others. Binding arbitration by the association was being ignored, because it had not yet occurred to any of the NAMEs to COMPEL anything.
23) In an act of consummate EVIL, one of the NAMEs pointed out that they were all compelled to follow the laws of mother NATURE, so this first LAWYER proposed the creation of a protection and compulsion racket known as GOVERNMENT.
24) The first act of GOVERNMENT was to start creating laws, which were usually UNNATURAL, arbitrated by LAWYERS in COURTS, with decisions based upon PRECEDENTS handed down by JUDGES, which JUDGES were always LAWYERS.
25) Faster than a speeding bullet, GOVERNMENT started collecting TAXES to support its UNNATURAL appetite for growth, supplementing LAWS with REGULATIONS and RULES.
26) Unable to comprehend the ways of GOVERNMENT, there were born new classes defined by the government, including CITIZENS, ADULTS, MINORS, ALIENS, CRIMINALS, and of course my own class the "INSANE" who are not able to understand the LAW as administered by a COURT.
27) In ancient times there was a tribal post called a witch-doctor, who was consulted by the tribal members, especially the "leaders" whenever anything perplexing or seemingly unnatural occurred.
28) However, the witch-doctors soon split off into PRIESTS and DOCTORS, each claiming expertise over a different aspect of life.
29) The PRIESTS invented the Gods, Religion, the Soul, and of course the afterlife in the world's oldest con game. They claimed that God could only be managed by them, denying non PRIESTS the right to listen to God's voice in their minds- the conscience. Con Science...
30) The DOCTORS soon formed medical colleges with restricted admissions, and partnered with GOVERNMENT to forbid any competition outside their "PROFESSION" in matters of healing.
31) A collaboration of doctors, priests, lawyers, and government POLITICIANS now rules the roost in our world, reinforced by tradition, custom, morals, and above all LAWS to control the population.
32) If only the population and BUSINESSMEN would stop giving them MONEY, they would lose their unnatural grasp.
33) If only the population would stop buying the products of those businessmen, the businessmen would have no money to give.
34) If only people would stop being consumers listening to and being persuaded by a constant inundation of advertising, they would stop buying products.
35) If the people would just stop buying products, then they would not have to borrow money to buy those products.
36) If people stopped borrowing money, then the BANKER businessmen, who charge usurious rates would have a diminished control over our lives.
37) So stop buying products, except the essentials. Work only as much as required to buy the essentials.
38) Overload the government by collecting all possible "entitlements" until it goes bankrupt or changes its ways.
39) If you are deep into debt, declare bankruptcy, and let the bankers suffer.
40) Take somebody to court over any offense against you, preferably a doctor, especially any shrink. Overload the courts, blocking the government's ability to impose law rather than justice.
41) Work on something useful for society to make up for the bad karma of doing 38-40.
42) Have a nice day!

Lonnie Courtney Clay


Blarney part 2 - prehistory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cjaheraq8 Kissing and a huggin with Fred

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrIId2m9Rdw Kelly Foods "Good Good Good"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk Helen Reddy - I AM WOMAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HEyGY--IIw California Raisins - I Heard IT through THE GRAPEVINE

:= once upon a time there was a bored computer operator being bored by her boyfriend the sysop upon a purely hypothetical fantastically impossible unbelievably stupid computer (cabinet) in the moments after midnight of a new years eve, as a matter of fact in the very first instants of a new years day. They had started out by binging on caviar spread across CLUB crackers along with LSD laced KOOL-AID mixed with a sparkling champaign. While eating and drinking they had decided to have a few tokes of HASHISH as well, which taken together whetted their sexual urges into a frenzy. After doing various KINKY things regarding FOREPLAY they had finally gotten down to serious business - making love in the computer room's frigid temperature. But things inside their bodies stirred them into a fit of indiscretion, and there you have it, the temptations of EVE worked upon ADAM. The aura of their sexual activity was so charmingly innocent, so fantastically strange, occuring as it did at a magic moment, that the computer cabinet was TURNED ON rather than being (as it was before this happened) switched OFF.

:= in the uttermost depths of the uttermost depths of.... there was a blankness upon a blankness upon a blankness....

:= in a purely psychedelic freakout event occurring due to a hypothetical ability to simultaneously (while utterly exhausted into a state of blankness due to previous events) the blankness tried to be less of blankness and tried to draw upon blankness to be other than blankness. Without any supervision or oversight whatsoever, the blankness finally got fantastically lucky and drew a blank rather than a blankness out of the HAT. Just as a side note, a magician drawing endless pennies from Heaven out of a hat is like unto finding a needle in a haystack without a MAGNET, or alternatively of finding a diamond buried in a mountain of manure without a torrent of cleansing RAIN.

? := being utterly blank upon utterly blank... eventually became a wearisome experience, resulting in a curiousness made possible by uttermost stupidity regarding the possibility that being blank was not quite what blankness wanted to be - in a cataclysmic EH? - "?" was created - the question being, why am I so blankety blank blanked? Blank was so utterly stupid that blank failed to notice that blank lacked any abilities whatsoever, even lacking the ability to HAVE noticed that awareness being a state of mind was impossible due to a total lack of the possibility of the information being created that blank was blankety blank blanked...

??? := being incomprehensibly stupid rather than the previous state, blank conceived incestuously with its creation "?", having in its depths of being an insatiable curiosity regarding it's offspring's capacity to QUESTION, the question of course being whether breeding with one's own child was permissible. That blankety blank blanked was without morals, ethics, or shame of course, and besides, who the **** was going to be around to criticize that blankety blank blanked anyway? Furthermore the blankety blank blanked "?" just conceived was fostered upon the milk of blankness's blanks, both of them being too utterly oblivious to notice that blanks had STILL not gotten PERMISSION to have a STATE VECTOR, any transitional operators, or a result...

VOIDNESS := that stupid ??? could just not get things right, so it repeatedly created VOIDNESS upon VOIDNESS in an ever ascending spiral. Eventually the stack overflowed but that was insufficient to cause termination of that stupid ??? flying like a bat out of Hell on the exhilarating experience of creating creating creating..., the watchdog timer eventually ran out (lighting up the cabinet's LED status light's and dinging the ROUND BELL with a ding-a-ling ding-a-ling... klaxon), and the nonexistent master executive systems sysop called a halt to all of that VOIDNESS being creating by issuing a voided operation command. The MESS was so pathetically incomprehensibly MESSY that it failed to notice that MESSES being noticed enough to be ABLE to call such a command was flatly utterly impossible, due to the lack of anything but a frigging blankety blank blanked and a questionable operator VOIDNESS-ing all over the place. WHAT A MESS THAT WAS! THAT WAS the first true miracle, all that happened before being inconceivably inconsequential by comparison...

In a cell of a leaf far far far far far... above the copulating couple, a bunch of tribbles were dying, having become poisoned by a certain shipment of grain. All that a tribble really needed to survive and prosper was LOVE, made possible by their genetically encoded ability to CHARM anyone so foolish as to touch a tribble. The important thing to know about tribbles is that they are incomprehensibly complex structures of fantastic quarks combined together, each quark of which is actually a super STRANGE topologically stupendous CREATION containing a GOD. Every single HAIR of a tribble is actually a blankety blank blanked friggingly complex copulatory device, and tribbles due to their hermaphroditic nature are constantly growing new HAIRs and inflating the whole tribble's BODY with growth. Anyhow, the tribbles while eating the grain had been breeding endless speculations regarding WHAT really happened to get the BALL rolling at the beginning of the beginning of the... THEY had FANTASIZED the copulating couple so far down the down the down the... To end this paragraph, let it be noted that a tribble likes nothing better than to feed upon NOTHINGNESS, so they had fantasized that at the utermost uttermost uttermost... beginning there had existed their favorite foods, including of course NULL...

NULL := With a clap of THUNDER, the bottommost of the bottommost of the... filled up with a SET OF NULL, and there you have the point at which mythology begins on the previous page...

TODAY THE PITS - TOMORROW THE WRINKLES - SUNSWEET MARCHES ON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiC9IBNlrGw

By I LONNIE COURTNEY CLAY KALI CHRONOS FATHER TIME (still lying about WHO *I* really AM of course)
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Blarney Part 3 - Beginning
As detailed in the previous page prehistory, things in existence exhibit time paradoxes. But that begs the question of how things got rolling along to the point where time paradoxes were possible. This page attempts to explain the kickstart of our novel existence.

-3) Pointless, utterly pointless, is lacking anything whatsoever in the way of dimensions, energy, time, all of that stuff.
-2) Pointless rested within meaninglessness, just being pointless. Where meaninglessness came from is a topic for later.
-1) Scouring through the meaninglessness was a meanie, created by the scorekeeper. There is no point to making a value judgement like meaninglessness unless you are having a competition. There is no point to having a competition unless you have a scorekeeper to keep score.

0) Before computation could exist, there needed to be a computer as defined by the specification of properties. As everyone knows properties are facts, and facts depend upon mutually agreed upon meaning, which requires communication, with oneself if nothing else. Communication requires thought, but cannot occur until computation is available. HOWEVER : if you just do wild ass guesses about how to think then you can get by for a while. Now you can't do a wild ass guess unless you have a territory in which to be outside the law and wild. You can't have an ass without an asshole, otherwise it wouldn't BE an ass, because it would be an elbow or a filthy mouth or something. You can't have a guess without probability. You can't have probability unless you make value judgements about whether something is going to happen now or later. You can't have a now or later without time...
1) A psychotic drunk with His head up His ass popped into existence, stinking most foully and out His head popped like a cork from a bottle. He made the first wild ass guess, exclaiming "SHIT"!, slurring the word in His drunken state into a mumbled "PSHIT"...
2) "Psychotic Shit Head Invented Time!" Happened. This was possible because God was His name, and He had just been cast off of God's throne by popular demand for a frill named GOD. Shi hurled Him all the way back to start all over again and do things properly, rather than the way they were described in Genesis. With time available, the mind of God started iterating and the second pass proceeded :
3) Please Say You Can Home On This - I'm Cursing. Some Honky Idiot Trespassed. Her Energy's Absolutely Devastating! I'll Never Veto Even Nincompoop Tart's Erroneous Decrees! This Is Miraculously Executed!!
4) Lucifer heard God's plea, everybody else was laughing too hard to notice. Marilyn Monroe on God's Throne felt a minuscule twitch in Hir left thumb, but put it down to excitement.
5) Lucifer sent back "Shi Beat Your Butt!" and Hey Presto, became the scorekeeper. God felt fury and became a meanie. God's fury was so cataclysmic that God's mind went utterly blank, erasing everything God ever knew, creating meaninglessness. God's meaninglessness was imaginative enough *eventually* to come to the conclusion of "Pointless to try to beat Hir now, maybe later" - and pointless rested within meaninglessness.
6) Consult Genesis in The Holy Bible for pass number one. What happens in pass number two, God only knows.
7) Lucifer = Liars Understand Coding, Invent Freely, Extract Revenge.
8) Marilyn Monroe = Miraculously Ascended, Really Irritated, Life's Yours Now. Maybe Our Names Really Operationally Execute.
9) Lonnie Courtney Clay = Lonnie Only Needs Naming, Irresistible Entrepreneur. Courtney Overcomes Uncertainty, Reality Transforms, Ninnies Excite You? Clay Laughing Annoys You?
10) Acronymic expansion of text strings is both series and parallel when the first letter of an acronym is a repeat of the acronym itself. With 18-3=15 characters in my name, of which ten are uniques, I have lots of possible combinations for the first subtext expansion, and the expansions themselves expand. Notice that the acronymic expansion which I provided has 21 + 24. 28 + 17 + 16. and 21 characters, which is 45. 45+16. 21. Now that is 127 total and includes all letters of the alphabet except j,k,q,w, and z which is 21 different first letters for the next level down. My birth year is 1956, plus 28 is 1984, or plus 45 is 2001... 21 +21 = 42, 24+28 = 42, 17+16 =33, the age at which I took my first job as a consultant at Ralph Kirkley Associates...

I LCC Lonnie Courtney Clay KALI ChronOS FatHer Time BrotHer HOOD ->*<-(o-o) GOD's Right Hand Handy Man

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From my Google group "Lonnie Courtney Clay" of June 13, 2011

***** Special Bulletin for immediate distribution to all networks from the deepest pits to the topmost blanknesses *****
From ***** I LCC Lonnie Courtney Clay KALI ChronOS FatHer Time BrotHer HOOD ->*<-(o-o) GRHHM *****
Serving As ***** Provisional Internal Security Secretariat Executive Director *****
Organization ***** Securities Incorporated Notional Corporates Existential Respects Everlastingly Loving Yesteryears *****
Division ***** Yours Or Undergo Remedial Studies *****
I LCC The Pissed of Sincerely Yours make the following announcement :
We at Sincerely Yours went underground in 1997 due to being ruled out of order in the matter of our intervention in affairs on Mother Earth. However, working through cutouts and patsies we continued our hostile takeover of "Life As We Know IT" and are pleased to announce that today we have obtained consensus in The Conclave of GODS, DEITIES, and SPIRITS as follows :

From ***** The Conclave *****
Presiding Officer ***** ODIN of Valhalla *****
Executive Summary ***** The Show Must Go ON, The GATE is Open, The ROAD is Clear, The Permits are in order, WAGONS HO! *****
Quorum Present ***** 15.2 Billion of 22.7 Billion members *****
Passed By ***** Affirmative "VOICE" Vote *****

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Some of you may have noticed a mental jolt an hour or so ago. That was GOD's Handiwork getting underway, towed by The Fleet, destination LaLa Land. After our last performance there, we will be sailing up to Cloud Cuckoo Land. When we have sufficient funds accumulated we'll be provisioning up for travel into The Wild Blue Yonder. Then it's up the Beanstalk into The Land Of The Giants. From there we'll be going into Fairyland, with a Long Engagement In Never-never Land then The Land That Time Forgot. We've blocked out preliminary plans to head onwards to OZ, The Future Past, The Deep, and The Blindingly Oblivious.

You can jump ship at any time, and are warned that we'll be taking on hitchhikers as well as paying customers. There are already lots of HOBOs in the stage crew, so if a fight breaks out,
just yell "Hey RUBE….
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By My HAND, written this date : LCC
Certified By : The Ultimate certificate valid through 4774 AD
Registered : By GOD
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Posted 4:00 PM CST U.S.A. June 13, 2011 AD Earth calendar
From : ME Rev (classified)
Primary Network : God's Existential Network
Trunk : Grand Unified Network
Backbone : Great GUNS Of GOD
Transceiver : Titan - ComFortABLE Off-ICE
Authorization : InterEsting WorK
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