Governmentium

Friday, June 15, 2007

A major research institution (MRI) has recently announced the
identification and classification of the heaviest chemical element
yet known to science.

The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium.

Governmentium has --

1 neutron,
12 assistant neutrons,
75 deputy neutrons,
and 224 assistant deputy neutrons,

giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which
are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be
detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes in contact.
A minute amount of Governmentium causes one example reaction to take
more than four days to complete when a similar normal reaction would
take less than a second.

Governmentium has a nominal half-life of two years; however it does not
actually decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion
of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact,
Governmentium’s mass actually increases over time, since each reorgan-
ization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate
that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity
in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.

So far, scientists have been able to discover almost no useful function for
this intriguing and ubiquitous element.

 
Gratitude

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale
who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that
caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body-her tail, her torso,
a line tugging in her mouth.
  
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in
and untangle her-a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in
what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed
them gently around-she thanked them.
  
  
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth
says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
  
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate----to be surrounded by people who will help you
get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving
 
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The Unexpected Nature of Paradigm Shifts

Man, is this a great time to be alive ...

One day you can have one view of the world, and then the next day have that same view totally turned on its head by a new discovery.

Take, for example, the burgeoning field of "Epigenetics" ...

Epigenetics is the study of how environmentally or behaviorally acquired traits can be passed on to future generations - without any change in the DNA of that organism.

Huh?

Yeah ...

Anyone paying attention to what's been happening in biology over the last 150 years just did a double take.

If this sounds to you like "Lamarckism" (the Lamarckism that you learned in High School was "disproven" by Darwinian/Mendelian genetics) you're exactly right.

Despite what has been believed as irrefutable biological truth, there is now a body of evidence that suggests that we didn't have the full picture. The study of Epigenetics shows that changes which occur to you as a result of your environment and behavior can be passed on to future generations. We don't fully understand "the how" yet, but the evidence of this phenomenon seems quite clear.

And no, these changes don't have anything to do with the way you treat your kids. They have everything to do with how you treat yourself.

For example, a cancer you get today could have been triggered by your great grand-mothers exposure to an industrial poison.

The passing of these non-genetic traits has been observed now across multiple generations of mice.

The implications are huge.

If these findings are right, then everything you do ...

... what you eat, your use of recreational chemicals (including alcohol and tobacco), where you live, your moods, your stress levels ...

All of these things can not only affect your health, but any adverse (or favorable) affects could be passed on to future generations as well.

If you've been looking for an excuse to change your lifestyle, I don't think you'll find a better one than that.

Stunning, isn't it?

Also stunning is the way new discoveries can completely up-end everything we think we know.

This unexpected nature of paradigm shifts makes the hubris and arrogance we seem to revere in our popular media all the more absurd.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.” -- James Madison, the father of our Constitution

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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
- Lord Acton

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"If the people are not convinced (that the Free World is in mortal danger) it would be impossible for Congress to vote the vast sums now being spent to avert danger.

With the support of public opinion, as marshalled by the press, we are off to a good start. It is our Job - yours and mine -- to keep our people convinced that the only way to keep disaster away from our shores is to build up America's might."

-- Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Board of General Electric and Truman appointee to head the Office of Defence Mobilization, in a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association, 1950

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