It appears that Joe Biden representing White House viewpoints was smoking the same type of crack that his son did when he was recently kicked out of the Navy for drug abuse. The Biden family obviously has a permissive attitude toward drug abuse as is evident by their politics, but it has migrated from just casual use to out-right believing that the hallucinations are a reality only they can see. For a politician with all the resources that come from the Obama White House—and being a so-called political heavy weight—Biden ridiculously predicted that Democrats would keep control of the senate. The evidence was extremely heavy against such a fantasy prior to the Election of 2014, yet he still went on the networks and gave speeches driven by hallucinations of hope knowing full well that his words would come back to haunt him—yet he did it anyway—as chronicled by Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden predicted Democrats would retain control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s congressional elections but said that whatever happens, Republicans would have to work harder to make sure things get done in Washington.
In an interview with CNN, Biden said he did not agree with forecasters who say Republicans are poised to capture the six seats they need to take over the Senate. They are also expected to expand their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“I don’t agree with the odds-makers,” Biden said in the interview broadcast on Monday. “I predict we’re going to keep the Senate.”
Just weeks prior to the election Biden’s youngest son Hunter was kicked out of the Navy for testing positive for cocaine use—yet the story by the media was nearly completely overlooked, which was a very significant report involving such a prominent politician. Cocaine is an illegal substance—yet for the progressive Democrats, they wish very much to decriminalize drug abuse obviously carrying over into destructive habits taught from parent to child. Here is one of the view media outlets who carried the story—Ben Swann—the reporter formally from Channel 19 in Cincinnati.
On Thursday, it was revealed that Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, 44-year-old Hunter Biden, was released from the Navy in February, after he tested positive for cocaine use.
In a statement from Hunter Biden’s lawyer, he said:
“It was the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family I’m moving forward.”
Hunter Biden graduated from Yale with a law degree, and he currently works in Washington as the private equity executive and board director of an international energy firm, in addition to practicing law in Connecticut.
Yahoo News reported that Biden, “faces no automatic review of his law license in Connecticut following his discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use.”
According to Connecticut’s Statewide Bar Counselor, Michael P. Bowler, lawyers in Connecticut face automatic review of their bar admission only when they have been convicted of a crime.
The Vice President’s son was discharged from the military which is run by President Obama while both of them currently reside in the White House for consuming an illegal substance yet nothing was said about it. And just weeks later Joe Biden was confident enough to tell the media that the senate would be retained by Democrats even when all the evidence pointed to other results—which eventually came true even more robustly than predicted. The only conclusion that can be surmised from these events is that Joe Biden is either ridiculously stupid and naive, or is on crack himself and should be drug tested—because he would likely fail.
Biden was arrogant enough to defy logic in favor of political ideology which is a symptom that most drug users are guilty of. They often abuse drugs so that they can escape the effects of reality upon their conscious minds—which is why drug induced users are dangerous to themselves and others. There is a reason that drugs are illegal—it is largely because it is proven that some of them—like cocaine have a detrimental effect on human beings that not only makes them dangerous and stupid but has a carry over effect into society at large imposing their destructive habit into the lives of the innocent. Alcohol is certainly a dangerous intoxicate also, but it takes much longer and a lot more consumption to arrive at the point of danger than a few lines of cocaine. People who want to cheat the evasion process of shrugging reality propose the decriminalizing of drugs—as Biden has because in his family he obviously endorses it. However, cocaine is still illegal and the Biden boy should go to jail—not just lose his standing in the Navy. Only a victim of a drug induced stupor would fail to see such a thing—just as the same condition would have been needed not to see that the Republicans were going to take the senate. For those who favor drug use and its effects—if you want to know the dangers of habitual use—just look at Vice President Biden and listen to him talk. Then you’ll know why cocaine is an illegal substance.
Before the election results of 2014 are fully sustained, it is important to understand how the radical element of our society viewed those elections—which are represented below so clearly by the Huffington Post. The aforesaid article came out just a few days before Election Day 2014 and reveals a great deal of the underpinnings of progressive beliefs. Obviously, the concern is that American politics is moving back to the conservative right based on the polling of the Republicans taking control of the senate and defeating Democrats in several key races. Momentum is evaporating from the left and they realize it. The same desperation that has made Barack Obama into the king of empty forums and a White House backtracking on the importance of a midterm election—the political left is losing support rapidly. Have a read of the way progressive organizations viewed this particular election and what they are blaming their eroding support on.
There is still suspense over what will happen on Election Day, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance. But regardless of who wins, we already know the 2014 election belongs to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is the first election where the country will experience the full impact of the Court’s recent decisions rewriting the ground rules of our democracy.
When the Court dismantled our laws regulating money in politics and gutted core voting rights protections, we knew those decisions would have consequences. But only now are we seeing the full scope of their impact: a return to pre-Watergate, pre-Civil Rights era practices. Cash from unknown sources is flooding the most important races, while state politicians have instituted new barriers to the ballot box for millions of Americans. Regardless of who wins, the integrity of our elections has been undermined.
For the first time in decades, citizens in nearly half the country will find it harder to vote. In 14 states, 2014 is the first major election with new voting restrictions in place. For many working class, minority, elderly, and young Americans, voting is now more difficult and expensive. For some, it is impossible. In Texas, for example, 608,000 registered voters do not have the photo ID now required to cast a ballot. A disproportionate number of them are black and Hispanic. Some have already been turned away at the polls.
While the voice of ordinary citizens grows fainter, the voice of the 0.2 percent of Americans who spend the vast majority of money in federal elections — often anonymously — is louder than ever. Outside campaign spending has shattered previous records, with new groups like super PACs and “dark money” groups that do not disclose their donors dwarfing the spending of ordinary citizens and sometimes even candidates themselves. In many key races it is impossible for us to know who is buying our elections.
Essentially, the Huffington Post is blaming their collapsing polices on the inability of their base to compete with money pouring into the political machine as if there was some type of unfair advantage being conducted. They seem to forget that Democrats have a nearly exclusive claim on minority voters, and the technically stupid. There are a lot of really stupid people out there and they mostly vote for Democrats. Democrats also have a lock on the public sector unions and all labor unions in general who pour many, many millions of dollars into candidates who obviously do not represent mainstream America. In fact, the progressive obsession with the whole photo ID issue is that it complicates the voting process too greatly for the typical Democrat. This means fewer voters for them who typically are sympathetic to the handouts given out by government.
What they mean by “pre-Watergate, pre-Civil Rights era practices” is that they successfully suppressed the influence of those who stand against them—and that now the pendulum is swinging the other way—and they don’t like it. It means they always intended to yank the nation radically to the political left with the intention to keep it there. But the nation doesn’t want to stay there; it doesn’t want the poor education practices, the hateful attitude toward business, the castigation of values and religion. It doesn’t want an abusive and top heavy government that will use the IRS to enact its will on dissenters. It doesn’t want Barack Obama or a Hillary Clinton who fails to understand that it is businesses that create jobs and nobody else.
I am personally not all that impressed by the election results. Sure the country is moving politically more toward my direction, but my representatives are far too pink to my blood red Republicanism. I live in a red state and a darker shade of that red than average—so many of the victories to me are just more wash-outs and future villains that need to be fought. But at least those are people worth fighting. The kind of politics the Huffington Post is referring to has deliberately been hidden from the view of the vast majority of Americans and it is now exposed. Now that people can see it, they are rejecting it—as many always knew they would. That is the price of deceit, and when elections are won by deceit—as they have for far too long now, progressive organizations like the Huffington Post should understand that any ground they have made will be lost in a whim just because their ground was not won by actual victory, but through deception. And this past election is only the beginning. There is a long way to go, but that direction is one that does not favor the progressive—that is for sure. Their arguments are tired, and now gleefully exposed.
On Saturday, November 1, 2014, Bill Schmidt wrote:
Rich,
After you again posted another of my e-mails to you on your blog, I told some people that I had been sending e-mails to this anti-school’s guy named Hoffman and that you had been posting and then commenting on them in your blog. They read some of the entries and then said that you seemed pretty kooky and creepy. They asked me why I kept sending you e-mails and I told them about your appearances on the radio, etc. They asked if I thought I could change your narrow mind at all and I said “definitely not”. So they questioned what was being accomplished by continuing the discourse.
I thought back to Nov of 2011 to when I sent you my first e-mail. Lakota had just voted down another school levy and it was clear more cuts needed to be made. I had been made very uncomfortable about how Doc Thompson had made you a spokesman about school finance and how he coddled you by agreeing with everything you would say and how he wasn’t being much of a journalist. So I wrote you an e-mail which you posted on your blog. Since then, various things have happened. You no longer are requested on the radio. You were kicked out of No Lakota Levy. A school levy passed in your district. And, judging that my e-mails are the only ones you seem to put out there, it appears your readership must consist of only a handful of kooks and creeps.
I had to admit that sending you e-mails seems to have no purpose anymore. We are just rehashing the same old stuff. I feel you dragging me into the abyss. I need to let you continue to sink on your own. Since I only read your school blog diatribes anyway, because the other stuff you write is such nonsense (as illustrated by your recent Virgin Galactic tout), I really doubt if I will be calling up your blog very much anymore.
Don’t hurt yourself out there trying to find Communists hiding behind the monkey bars but maybe you should take one of your Brown Shirts along with you as you search. I’d say mattjutras might be available. And I’ll be careful trying to find a Kroger survey to participate in.
William
Years down the road the strategy I am currently conducting will be quite evident. I have worked with others but consistent with my experience, there are severe weaknesses in doing so—so a strategy unique to the times is mandated to implement the needed objectives. I have been building that network now for several years and in doing so certain patterns emerge.
Schmidt’s current position is not that unlike the Laura Sanders episodes, or school board member Julie Schafer—when faced with facts that defy their worldly views, they chose mental evasion to logical observation. They always come around to saying that “you’re not worth the time or investment so I’m leaving.” What they really mean is that “I cannot make you accept my reality so I’m discouraged and will not look in your direction with the same candid flare a child hides under their covers hoping that monsters will not get them.” They often rationalize this position by calling me names like kooky or creepy and think they are smart with connections to debunked communist conspiracies or otherwise scandalous activity leading to public rebuke as if that public had a mind toward intelligence where their collective sum outweighed an individual thought.
Once these people reach the end of their tolerance—of their attempts to reform elements of society into their harmony they retreat to the warm arms of their like-minded despots—such as what William did in a moment of crises. Arrogantly his advisors spoke as if they were Christian missionaries on location in some primitive wilderness and their advice to William the failed missionary was to cut ties with the failed attempt and focus their efforts somewhere that brings success. In this way the government education culture has taken on a type of religious zeal not unlike the Crusades or the current Jihad movement of Islam—that anybody not brainwashed to the religion of their viewpoint should be cast aside as disreputable, or destroyed so that their challenging viewpoints do not threaten the sanctity of their religion—in this case the religion of public education.
There is a long list of such characters that have tried and failed to do what William has. Of them I will say that Schmidt often refrained from going too far which is why I will miss him a bit. He did provide a window into their thinking that I have been using extensively in studies for the referred to upcoming strategies. But as for demeaning my efforts here in attempting to portray them as ineffective and isolated from the mainstream—I can see who reads each day and how many of them there are. I see the many links to Lakota school computers, to the movers and shakers of politics, to the government offices of Columbus, Ohio and Washington D.C. I wouldn’t spend my time if it was wasted—which its not.
But I’m doing things, and planning things that are highly unconventional and certainly not a part of any current political playbook. And it’s all carefully considered and calculated. But as to Schmidt’s wishes of reputation smashing quandary—the meter on the sidebar tells the story better than words. Most newspapers would love to have those numbers, and I don’t sell any advertising aside from links to my own extended works which is about to get a major update. It’s all in the name of authenticity and in these types of political fights; there just aren’t enough characters in the arena who have a heart for that fight—or a proper strategy. And the ones who do are treated as a threat because they are upsetting the apple cart that people like Schmidt depends on. Like a last-minute football play in the closing seconds where a spectator might look away not able to take the drama of the moment—Schmidt’s type always retreats to this effort because the moment is just too much for them. The impact on the world at large is too great and they worry about the changes to their lives if it continues—which I can assure all—it will.
But you can’t do the same old thing over and over. I had a friend at 700 WLW, actually two friends, Darryl Parks and Doc Thompson. They were both fired largely due to people like William Schmidt who complained to the station and its advertisers hoping to quell the message against their social scam. 700 WLW is much friendlier now toward the William Schmidt types—the pro-pot, gay-marriage supporting advocates. They are a sports talk station that does not currently get involved in messy politics. They probably will return to that at some point in the future, but as for now, they are playing it safe. That was their decision. They have invited me on their programs which I have declined. Their criteria wished me to take on the role of the villain instead of the role I formally had—and that wasn’t going to happen. So we have moved on to other things separately. But those other things will likely have more power than the former things and that is the concern that Schmidt and his advisors see on the horizon.
So as things continue on, I will miss Schmidt and his window into oblivion—where his kind considers anything with a three syllable word—“kooky,” or “scary.” There is value in studying the problem, but as often is the case the problem when it knows that eyes are on their tail retreats into a hiding place trying to buy additional moments for its sustenance. But the time is running out—and they know it—even if they turn their eyes away hoping to maintain an illusion for just a moment longer.
Loss of life is always tragic, and is sad for the families. However, those who work as test pilots and adventurers know the risks and understand that death is a constant companion toward breaking the chains that shackle mankind’s freedom to the anchors of earthly conformity—so they risk their lives to chip away at those artificial limitations. In that context the most tragic circumstance of the Halloween disaster for Virgin Galactic—and all those of us who support its endeavors—is the loss of SpaceShipTwo. Although money can replace the $400 million dollar craft, the time and investment of resources which went into building the craft cannot be recovered. This will cause a serious schedule shift in Virgin Galactic’s intentions—which were to launch travelers into space during this upcoming year. It will likely take years to replace SpaceShipTwo meaning that this is a serious delay with the inevitable.
But do not mistake that these will not be the last tragedies. There will be many more, just as there was during the climb into the air with planes. Danger comes with adventure and only with adventure does mankind advance. It is necessary for mankind to scratch at the boundaries which confine it. It is that lack of boundary pushing that has put the clamps on NASA to in its current state—cancelled the Space Shuttle program without a replacement, and left those on earth scrambling for the same resources that they have for the last several thousand years. Those timid creatures of the earth, of the past, of the visibly tangible were too quick to delight in this accident in hopes that it might quell the reach for space by a civilian market place and take the pressure off their nerves imposed by an inner need for adventure.
I’m sure the cause of the crash will become evident and correctable, and once it is I would hope that flight tests would resume. If it were possible I would volunteer to fly today in another craft just to shake off the uncertainty of such tragedies and get the program back on its feet. As sad as it might seem to say it, the reach for space is more important than one life, or even a million lives. It is necessary for the furtherance of mankind—and without it, decay is our destiny.
I hope that Richard Branson will take his magnetic personality and shine it brightly in these dark hours to the lives of those who need it most. There is not time to mourn the dead and dying—because the hour-glass of humanity is emptying quickly—now advanced by this tragedy. The creators of SpaceShipTwo and all those at Virgin Galactic, and Spaceport of America need to get back on the horse quickly and show the world that they will not be timid but will push on to that barrier in the sky called space.
The mind of mankind is bigger than its flesh and earthly limitations. It has evolved into a species that can take abstract considerations and turn them into scientific reality. Space is not a vast empty void, but a land of opportunity. It is not cold and lost, but warm and present—it is there that the solutions to humanities problems reside so fret not over a tragedy while plucking the strings of innovation. Tune the action and try again quickly and without reservation—do it boldly without fear because not to is to retreat into the maw of the plague on earth that grips the mind of all that is terrestrial driven by a lack of resources and vision. Do not surrender to sorrow, but climb aboard the next flight and punch a hole in the sky with sheer determination. Get SpaceShipThree into the sky fast, and put bold adventurers on it equipped with the keys of logic and willpower to unlock that vastness to the encumbered minds of grounded ideology.
It is often said that a “grounded” personality is of the highest order among the human race. But it is they who are the first to point to the tragedy of Virgin Galactic and secretly relish in its tragedy. They are like the shadows in Plato’s cave in The Republic who desire to keep humanity facing a blank wall staring at the dancing shadows cast by firelight guessing what makes the shapes. Their great fear is that humanity might turn around and see that it is they who make the shadows and that behind them outside the cave is a reality they never imagined complete with a vast wilderness of shapes far more interesting. The dreamers and adventurers who break loose from that fixated position are the ones who escape to discover that there is much more to the shadows on a wall than what can be seen viewed from one direction. It should be understood that some will die in that escape, but the prize is worth the tragedy. Being grounded means that one is comfortable being regulated to the illusion of the cave images and not acting on a curiosity of understanding what casts those shadows to begin with. Being a dreamer means to break free to discover the mystery and push beyond those limitations to the real world outside of the control of illusions and dark caves depending on firelight to shape the perceptions of reality.
The ugliest girl I have ever met was the winner of a beauty pageant in Buffalo New York. She was by all measure the epitome of everything a male desires—except for one thing—she was a terrestrial being who hated Star Wars, made sure to let me know that she thought Godzilla movies were stupid, and that the worst film she had seen in during the 1980s was The Right Stuff. I stared at the woman as if she were the Medusa of Greek mythology—sent to earth as a beauty to turn man’s mind to stone and hold him to a terrestrial position forever as a metaphorical block of rock. There are far too many like this supposed beauty who today after the crash of Virgin Galactic’s innovative ambitions into the desert floor of the Mojave are there to soothsay the world into her stony gaze. Leaving that girl at the dinner table alone that evening was one of the best things I have ever done. The next step with her would have earned praise from humanity’s short-sighted grasp of reality—but would have forever bound me to a block of stone cast around my mind equivalent to Medusa’s gaze.
Medusa’s gaze is upon Virigin Galactic now. The temptation to cry for the cameras, to attend every funeral of every test pilot that will now or forever perish during attempts at space are there to hold the feet of mankind to blocks of rock forever claimering it to the jealous arms of mother earth. Medusa is the agent of earth created to keep that mother from crying at night from loneliness as it is but a corpse spinning through space destined to be destroyed by time itself. I beg those at Virgin Galactic to not look into the eyes of Medusa and become fixed like rock into passivity and caution. It is not the death of friends and family that will kill you—it is the loss of the dream to scratch at space that will. It is in allowing SpaceShipThree to become encumbered with red tape and bureaucratic nightmares that will stop the next great leap for mankind to launch into the freedom from earth’s clutches.
Richard Branson is one of the people I most admire. This will be his greatest moment or most perilous failure—for the Medusas of this earth will never let him live it down if he looks into their eyes for even a moment. He cannot get stuck now—the people at Virgin Galactic need to hear quickly that another $400 million dollar craft is ready to go and behind that ship is another, and another, and another. It will take everything Branson has to pull off this miracle now that the world has been tricked through tragedy into staring at the eyes of Medusa and her shadow on the cave wall into being fearful of the death that threatens all who try to escape earth. It is a time for rebellion, a time for adventurers, a time for boldness in breaking free of fear and for the first time stepping away from the nightmares of mythology for a new day beyond the grip of tragedy. SpaceShipThree needs to get into the air quickly! And ONLY Richard Branson can perform the task.
If a new Lakota teacher were hired in 2011 and is still working at Lakota, that person would still be classified as a 1st year teacher, yet would be providing the district with 3 years of experience. By the fact that voters rejected levies many times in previous elections, Lakota is no longer giving step increases. There is no clear indication that this teacher will ever get a step increase. By not getting step increases, this teacher has sacrificed about $7,500 in income by June of 2015. Looking at this prospect, I believe this teacher should work a normal 8 hour day. This teacher should work hard (not less) during that time and do it withenthusiasm. At the close of the day, this teacher should then work even more. That work should be towards recouping some or all of the $7,500 that has been sacrificed as the Lakota community has readjusted their educational priorities in rejecting several levies. If the “job” at Lakota has been found coming up short in achieving a “high destination” for the students being served, despite a hard and enthusiastic effort, other personal should be hired to work the extra hours to make this high destination achievable. It is possible that the money is not there for that to happen, but that is what the voters of Lakota have chosen in their rejection of previous levies. When you do not have enough personnel to do the job, then hire more just like a major business would.
I wouldn’t classify writing e-mails to you as “pulling strings”. It is you who have placed copies of my e-mails on your blog, without asking my permission and certainly not at my encouragement. At least one of the responses to posting my personal e-mail to you involves a physical threat, which you certainly did not discourage. You have misidentified me and misrepresented me in several of your blogs. Except for your actions, my views would only be known to you and that would not be imposing myself into “local management” by doing something like establishing a blog and taking a spot on a radio show.
You and some of your readers seem to think I should be learning something from you. Why would your opinions be any more valid than my own? Wouldn’t it be just as valid to say that you should be learning from me?
I hope that Lakota teachers realize that they could give all the extra effort possible, apply all expertise available to them, accept any reduction in salary imposed and it would not satisfy you and your supporters. This statement isn’t a “grief-stricken diatribe” — just the truth.
William Schmidt
The biggest trouble with Schmidt’s thinking is that he assumes a teacher is worth a $7,500 increase just for being employed—as if it were just years alone which dictated value. At Lakota this is the primary problem with their wage structure—they allowed too many employees to make in excess of $65,000 per year just because they showed up for work long enough to get step increases due to tenure. They didn’t earn their wages by beating out others to become the best in their field; they just had to put enough time in to gain a guaranteed percentage of wage increase regardless of performance.
Then Schmidt suggests the impossible—he actually believes that the best strategic position that can be conducted under these labor driven circumstances—inspired by radical left-wing economic philosophy, he suggests that teachers work even less than they do now.
The reason we had tax fights in Lakota was pure management or resources. The school administration wanted an unlimited community budget through taxation. Members of the community, like me, wanted competitive alternatives to drive down the cost of education and imposition upon tax payers. Without that fight, the big government—all day baby sitting lusting, left-leaning progressives would ask for tax after tax, after tax for the rest of existence. It is up to the tax paying base to apply pressure to those in charge of the purse strings to let them know that it will be painful to spend money. If pain is not introduced, it is proven that government workers will never stop taking, and taking—until there is nothing left. In Lakota they certainly did and even though they finally scammed their way into getting more money—they did exactly with it what we promised they’d do—they give an instant raise to their teachers. They lied to the public and the public saw it for what it was.
This put Lakota in a bad position. They know if they try for another levy in 2017 as they are projected to attempt, that there will be another fight—and it will be bloody—again. It is highly unlikely that they will get it approved the first time—statistically, it takes about three times to pass a levy in the Lakota district, at least over the last 15 years—so they are not looking forward to the attempts as they will take a serious public relations hit. So they will avoid it as long as they can, because the promise of a fight forces them to manage their resources. Without that promise, the government employees will abuse the money foolishly and the value of the overall product will be reduced.
So here is William Schmidt who doesn’t even understand the concept of management of money—he just believes that people are entitled to money because they breathe. And if they don’t get this perceived value, they are encouraged to work less…………………..how? Most teachers—not all—but most are glorified baby sitters, just as strippers are variations of prostitutes, and physical therapists are glorified masseuses’. They are all from the same family of occupation. Kids as proven by their test results and worldly knowledge are not being “educated.” They are simply being watched by other adults paid for by tax payers with a thin mask of “education” to make parents not feel guilty about the service. That is modern public education and William Schmidt wants more money for this baby sitting service just because someone has been one for a number of years established by a collective bargaining agreement ignoring value for the positions all together.
His letter further explores the possibility of opinion value assuming that just because he’s alive that his opinion is equal to mine. But it’s not. I know how hard I have worked to achieve my opinions and here Schmidt believes that he and I are equal just because we eat similar food, sleep in beds, and have other similarities that are human in origin. Monkeys like humans have similar features—they tend to eat similarly, dispel waste in a similar manner—yet monkeys and humans are vastly different from each other just as I am different from Bill Schmidt. Our opinions are not equal. They only thing I can learn from the letter above is just how right I have always been at the vast ignorance stirring at the center of the debate of public education and the value of dollars spent on the teaching profession. It is expected that these strange public union types do learn a thing or two from me and my readers—because we are trying to help them not be so treacherously foolish and a detriment to human civilization. But they have nothing to offer us of value as their entire existence is a parasitic one—in every facet of their lives.
After our brief email exchange I told him that he had the depth of a dried up creek—meaning that his thinking prevented him from an advanced discussion of the matter in much the way that driving a car could never be explained to a monkey at the zoo. It is just a concept that is too far removed from their culture on their little island display. He replied to me that I’m a fascist—which is always the retreat of a left—leaning loons when they run out of arguments—and facts to twist like a funhouse mirror. Arguments like Schmidt’s require non-thinking application of mental acuity lacking any intelligence. And because they do, they use name-calling to pound their point home. But—unlike in the past, those names only hit a brick wall of resolution and are flattened upon contact. Once it is understood that thinking destroys the position of people like Schmidt, they are left defenseless without anything to do but threaten with name-calling and collective opinion framed by their brain-dead followers.
You might have heard that a group of progressive liberals want to rename the Norwood Lateral in Cincinnati after Barack Obama. At first this seemed like a terrible idea–absolutely appalling. Obama will be known in history as one of the most terrible American presidents ever—even worse than the worst. I don’t say that as a racist because I’m not—I would have gladly voted for Alan Keys, Herman Cain, or Ben Carson—skin color doesn’t concern me in the least. Rather it is the content of the character of the public official and Obama is dreadfully lacking. I do sometimes use the Norwood Lateral to get back over to I-75 when visiting downtown. If Obama’s name were on the road I would likely find another way—just because I would hesitate to use a road with Obama’s name on it even if it saved me some time. Channel 12 news reported the attempt this way:
NORWOOD, Ohio (Angenette Levy) — The Norwood Lateral could be renamed for President Barack Obama. State Sen. Eric Kearney has introduced legislation in the state legislature to rename State Route 562 for the nation’s 44rd president. “The Norwood Lateral would be renamed the Barack Obama Norwood Lateral because we have the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway and so it would be a complimentary type of naming opportunity,” Sen. Kearney said. Kearney was a supporter of President Obama’s during his two election campaigns. Kearney said President Obama deserves the honor because he won Hamilton County twice as President Ronald Reagan did in the 1980’s. State Route 126 – also known as Cross County Highway – was named for Reagan in the 1990’s after he left office. “I don’t have a problem with that. I like President Obama,” said Norwood resident Charles Gatling. Norwood Mayor Tom Williams, a conservative democrat, wants the lateral’s name to stay the same. “I’m as opposed to it as I can get,” Mayor Williams said.
I am likely even more opposed to Barack Obama having a cat named after him, let alone a tax payer funded road. But, after some consideration, it might actually be appropriate as the Norwood Lateral actually does represent the Obama presidency. After all, the road does run past the parking lot that used to be the Norwood General Motors plant which used to build Camaros. Unions killed the productivity at that plant and now the jobs are gone. Also, the Norwood Lateral runs past the empty lot that used to be the Showcase Cinemas of Cincinnati—one of the largest and best movie theaters in the Midwest—just twenty years ago. Now it’s gone and is an empty lot filled with grass growing between the cracks in the pavement. Also, the Norwood Lateral runs by homes that used to be some of the best in the city, but are now considered Section 8 as government intrusion into the neighborhoods there have built a dependency culture that has destroyed the local economy and crushed future investment. Where the Norwood Lateral begins used to stand Cincinnati Milacron, a vast campus of precision machinery manufacturing that dried up and died by the year 2000, just eight years before Barack Obama became president—liberal policies and a nation of labor unions killed the machining market in America giving no place to go for Cincinnati Milacron but to close. Now the buildings which used to make such technical wonders are gone and replaced by some retail shopping selling shoes and cloths made in China
Perhaps the Norwood Lateral should be named after Barack Obama after all, as it represents what he has done to the nation of America during his tenure. I won’t drive on it any longer, but others who voted for that complete idiot would and could reap the world they helped to create—lost businesses, welfare expansion, and redistribution of wealth. The only thing Obama has created during his presidency was a wasteland. He will be the first president since perhaps the Civil War that has left America less than it was before he was first elected—a depleted place destroyed by progressive politics and old hippie economic philosophy.
There would be nothing worse for the economic development of Norwood going into the future than to remind Americans of such a ridiculously stupid and terrible president than to force them to see his name each time they drive down the Norwood Lateral. Social degenerates will love to see the name of their religious savior who stole from the productive and gave to the lazy, but unfortunately for Norwood the entire community will trend toward the latter and not the former, dooming the city forever. At least the current mayor of Norwood is smart enough to understand just how toxic the name of Barack Obama will be in the future. Obama is still fashionable among radical groups for the time being, but that window is quickly closing as history is about to cast its opinion of the debacle for posterity.
What’s even worse than the possibility of naming the Norwood Lateral after Obama, it is the sheer stupidity of suggesting it in the first place as the news headlines are currently filled with his immense failures. It is a terrible idea brought forth with equally terrible timing. Naming the Norwood Lateral after the diminished president would seal the fate of Norwood forever—because there are people who feel even stronger about the guy than me and just the site of such a name is enough to cause them to go someplace else. It’s not due to race, but the reminder of such a failure. Nobody wants to remember the terrible game their favorite team played, nobody wants to remember the time they did something embarrassing—and nobody will want to remember a president who was such a sheer failure. They will do whatever they can to overlook that failure in the future and those who wish to remember are the types who are capable of nothing short of destruction.
Maybe you didn’t know it as the news is saturated with crises after crises attached to political affiliation. The marvelous news of America’s first spaceport in New Mexico has likely been lost to curious eyes. Perhaps you have just watched the movie Interstellar, or have watched a movie about space travel on a home theater system and were wondering why we aren’t doing more in space. Perhaps you just visited the Kennedy Space Center—one of my favorite places on earth and detected accurately that NASA seems to refer to itself in the past tense as opposed to the present. NASA used to be the best and brightest, but they have been defunded and mismanaged by the same federal government that can’t find their way out of a paper bag—so they are no longer what they used to be and you likely felt sorrow for the realization. You probably heard on the news that American astronauts have to pay Russia to journey into space with the same helplessness that travelers to New York City have to call upon the services of an overpriced taxi just to move four blocks in a crowded Manhattan. But you have not heard that in southern New Mexico innovation and space exploration is alive and well—and thriving.
Gateway to Space
Behold the headquarters of the first-ever ‘commercial passenger spaceline’.
Developed by the international design team of URS Corp. and Foster + Partners, the award-winning Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space is the iconic home of Virgin Galactic’s global operations and fleet of motherships and spaceships. Precision-engineered to exacting LEED Gold environmental requirements, the sinuous shape of the building in the landscape captures the drama and mystery of space flight itself, articulating the thrill of space travel for the first commercial space tourists. The Gateway’s many interior spaces, including its massive central super-hangar, astronaut multipurpose training rooms, and the exclusive astronaut lounge, may all be reserved in coordination with Virgin Galactic.
Literally, anybody who can afford a ticket can visit this spaceport and fly into space starting in 2015. It is available to the general public for the first time in human history and is a very exciting development. And it isn’t just Virgin Galactic which will operate at the spaceport, just as one particular airline doesn’t operate at an airport. Just a couple of days prior to this writing a new company has signed up with the spaceport to operate a new variety of space travel with a bit cheaper and more luxurious option. The following is from the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico about this exciting new flight option from Spaceport of America.
World View Enterprises Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., plans to send customers on balloon flights that climb 20 miles into the stratosphere, allowing passengers to view the earth’s curvature and the dark of space while wining and dining in a luxurious cabin with 360-degree views.
No decisions have been made, but the company is in negotiations with Spaceport executives to launch its balloons from southern New Mexico, starting in late 2016, said Chief Technology Officer Taber MacCallum.
“We hope to have a home base at the Spaceport,” MacCallum told the Journal. “It’s an amazing facility.”
MacCallum and World View CEO Jane Poyntner were key players in the “Stratospheric Explorer” team that helped prepare Google executive Alan Eustice for his record-breaking supersonic skydive over Roswell last Friday. The team, set up by Paragon Space Development Corp., created the balloon technology that carried Eustice to nearly 136,000 feet, as well as the spacesuit Eustice used to safely leap back to Earth.
MacCallum and Poyntner co-founded Paragon and then launched World View as a separate company in 2013
World View has now acquired the balloon and spacesuit technology from Eustice’s jump for incorporation into the balloon flights that will eventually take paying passengers to the Earth’s outer edge.
The company expects to charge $75,000 for seats on a luxury capsule attached to a helium balloon. The capsule, which will carry six passengers and two pilots, willslowly ascend to 100,000 feet and then float in near space before returning to earth. The five-hour trip will include a meal and an open bar in the capsule, equipped with a lavatory and enough room for customers to walk around.
“The balloon will be the size of a football stadium once it’s fully blown up,” said World View Experience Manager Andrew Antonio. “Passengers won’t experience weightlessness, but that’s deliberate. The experience is about the spectacular views they’ll get while enjoying a leisurely flight and not even spill their drinks during takeoff and landing.”
The options being offered at this time from the Spaceport of America so far are just rides into space for the fun of it—for the experience. But with the construction and operation of the spaceport—and the type of people who will be the first to fly into space—new options will become available quickly. The area around that spaceport will soon become flooded with resident housing and commercial supplements to a new classification of human being, the first workers in space who will soon build hotels and launch platforms in space for future travel. At this phase, the Spaceport of America will allow investors into space to see the real-estate available to the ideas their minds create—the many factories, shopping destinations and resort communities that will soon float around the earth in zero gravity. It will not take long for the Spaceport of America to move from a novelty voyage to a daily commute to work as employees will fly up and down daily from that port building the next steps of human endeavor. In about the same time it took for the Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk plane to move into a thriving airport like O’Hara in Chicago, space travel will move from a gimmick of leisure to an act of function.
The gateway to it all is the Spaceport of America. It won’t take long for there to be spaceports in Japan, in Indonesia and other places so that voyagers can even use space travel to shave time off their flights around the world. A flight to Japan for instance from New York would be just a few hours instead of an entire day—which can be very valuable if the meeting requires a face to face encounter to fulfill the needs and speed of business. The degree to space travel that will occur will be directly tied to the amount of government intrusion there is into the surrounding culture. Large intrusive governments obviously will not be able to sustain such projects—and concepts, but those that allow entrepreneurial efforts to flourish will explode with opportunities. What is a desert now in southern New Mexico will soon become an oasis of capitalism and opportunity. The Spaceport of America will soon change the way everyone does business and spends their leisure.
You likely didn’t hear about this Spaceport of America because government considers its business of elections and chaotic micromanagement of tax payer resources as a priority—but to the world at large—its not. The true miracle of our age is there in the New Mexico desert growing by the day. In just a few short years it will be a hub of activity for all those scratching at the sky for an opportunity that only space can provide. If you are an older couple who has a few million dollars sitting in your bank account knowing that you likely won’t live long enough to spend it during your life time—what they Hell, get your tickets at the Spaceport of America for a memorable 50th anniversary in space from the luxury of a balloon cabin. Why not, the government will just steal all your money if you leave it to your children. Spend it on yourself and have some fun starting with the Spaceport of America and start a new club of romance called the “20-mile club.” The ticket office is now open so book your trip today!
Governments seldom do anything right and when they do it is off the backs of individual effort. NASA is an example of this paradox, at least in the beginning. In many ways the government created Chuck Yeager by putting him into an airplane as an 18-year-old kid and letting him become a fighter pilot at their expense. Now as a 90-year-old man who still flies and has defied the odds of living in almost every circumstance it was because of his individual effort that so many doors to the future have opened. In Yeager’s case, government gave him the tools to become great and out of thousands of potential pilots, one or two here and there did—and because of it, the world is about to unlock an entirely new dimension of discovery. This has never been truer than Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic endeavors which I’ve reported on before. 2015 will bring many exciting things to the societies of the world, but nothing more than what Branson is about to unload. I suggest that the videos of this article be watched completely dear reader for the proper depths and context to seep in correctly.
I am the type of person who always jumps into cold swimming pools. I do not dip my feet in the water—I just jump in. Much of the work at this site is to help people jump into the rapidly occurring events of the 21st century—to drop the restrictions of the 20th century behind and acclimate themselves to the future. Sometimes it requires a bit of harshness while dealing with the chill and shock of such a cold reality, and that is the task of creativity to douse minds with the cold hard facts for their own good. While watching Star Wars: Rebels this past week the beginnings of that acclimation were in full swing. As a kid I had a toy, which I still have called a “troop transporter.” It never appeared in the original Star Wars films, but Kenner designed it to fill a market need for their action figures in the early 1980s. Well, the guys making the new Star Wars cartoons and films are about my age, and they played with the same toys as children, and they finally put the toy into a Star Wars show, the third episode of Rebels during the first season. It was a bit of rather profound evidence in how small things from a childhood can have a major impact on the mind of an adult. When I was a kid, just as it was for the kids who are now involved in Star Wars projects science fiction and video games were very primitive—nowhere close to how they are in the present condition. So mathematically, it becomes very easy to see that the impact of these mythologies will compound dramatically in the coming years driving actual science quickly as the public consciousness has been prepared for these breakthroughs.
In 2015 the new Christopher Nolan film Interstellar will break box office records and win many accolades from the Academy Awards. It will become available for home theater systems and will become an instant treasure and topic of many dinner conversations. That is how the year will begin. The year will end with a new Star Wars film which Disney will market to every corner of the earth in a positive way. The mind of mankind will be opened in many more profound ways because of these two entertainment events alone. But in addition to that some of the minds sparked by these events in the past, the original Star Wars movies, and the science opened up by Chuck Yeager, and the unequivocal playfulness of Richard Branson’s entrepreneurship, civilians will for the first time climb into space. The mind of mankind will be prepared to behold a bit of this explosive reality by art, Star Wars, Interstellar and other similar features, but those playful thoughts from childhood which inspired the creation of a “troop transporter” inserted into Rebels will jump several steps forward—and stay there forever. It is a very exciting time to be alive.
Once the celebrities of society are routinely ferried into space by Virgin Galactic starting next year the way we view the world will change forever. Competition is on the heels of Richard Branson and even more methods of space travel will emerge in the few short years thereafter. Not long after that will be hotels and manufacturing facilities in space because that is the next step for mankind and the generations brought up on Star Wars and all the byproducts of fantasy and science fiction will be there to recreate the dreams of their childhoods with a sudden infusion of such science made into a reality.
Two forces are emerging in tandem, the old world and its ways are so closely tied to the false belief that government expansion and influence will preserve the traditions of the past and all the philosophies created by those minds—where Karl Marx still has a place at the table. There is no place for Karl Marx in space, so the philosophies introduced by George Lucas and lived out by real people like Chuck Yeager—the bravado of adventure and discovery upon scratching the face of an unknown wilderness will bring out the best of the human race leaving behind those still clinging to the terrestrial remnants of the German radical stuck to regional concerns of economic fairness. That voice will quickly become eclipsed as the untouched potential of space becomes a reality for average people instead of the very few—in much the way that Chuck Yeager was the fastest man alive in 1947, but just a few years later, flying supersonic was a common occurrence. Travel into space for civilians by a civilian company will move at a speed that governments could never fathom, and an explosive growth period will follow by minds already thrown into the deep end of the cold water by entertainment endeavors like Interstellar and Star Wars.
It was a pleasure to watch the documentary of the creation of Virgin Galactic. Seeing their engineers do basic layup of their fuselage sections in a giant open room without EMA controls, or lab coats with all the ambition of children playing with Lego’s, then rolling the large tooling into a giant oven was a privilege. My first thought was that they’d be busted by a government auditor for such work practices, but then I had to remind myself that Virgin Galactic is not beholden to such things as they are the end-user of their product and do not need government to stick its nose into their business. While in the air they have FFA requirements and the like to deal with, but they can avoid many of the insane government red tape and bureaucratic nightmares that are often involved in large aerospace companies forced into compliance with government authority because they are still a small company with ambition filling their sails of innovation. What is going on at Virgin Galactic is very similar to the early days of Chuck Yeager’s flight tests in the X-1, when he broke his ribs and his friend and engineer Ridely cut off the tip of a broom handle to allow him to lock the door to the first supersonic jet ever flown. The government back then had no idea what to do about flight, or if it would even become a viable option, so they had not yet stuck their regulatory tentacles into the endeavor allowing Chuck Yeager to be the cowboy of the desert, a hell-raising test pilot given millions of dollars worth of tools to prove that he could become the fastest man alive.
Virgin Galactic for the small fee of $250,000 will take people into space traveling faster than anybody has ever traveled before if they have the money to pay it. At first it will only be people like Labron James, and movie producers like Steven Spielberg who will touch that virgin face of space in a way nobody has before—for 6 minutes of weightlessness. But shortly thereafter, the cost will decrease dramatically because of competition and once there is something to do in space, such as a resort to fly to and vacation at, space travel will become a daily occurrence.
It is easy to become depressed about the state of the world, especially for those trying to help fix it, no matter what side of the political aisle they reside. But if you know how to read what’s coming and can see it clearly, you can take refuge in the knowledge that everything is changing right before our eyes for the better. The water might feel cold to the touch, but it is just right for a refreshing plunge into the depths of adventure. Those growing up with the entertainment influences of the past will have a better time adapting—others will struggle to keep up, and many more will be left behind fearful of the giant leap mankind is about to make. But the correct way to approach this new age is with the gusto that 91-year-old Charlie Yeager displayed after climbing out of his F-15 after a supersonic flight over Las Vegas in October recently paying homage to his ground breaking supersonic flight in 1947. Arms crossed across his body, feet square with his shoulders his usual no-nonsense approach to life was in evidence to the type of individuals who must have the “Right Stuff” for this exciting period being delivered by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. When a reporter asked Yeager when he was going to stop flying he remarked with his typical West Virginian, candor—“when I get too old.”
Yeager even as a very ripe old man still has in his mind the heart of a lighthearted child who just wants to play with toys—which I’d say is the secret to his longevity. Richard Branson beholds the same curiosity and playfulness. And today’s entertainment will breed more of those types through their endeavors creating in many millions of young people a deep yearning for life-long play and love of life that extends beyond the physical limitations of governments or previous philosophy. Virgin Galactic is on the precipice of a world-wide rejuvenation to an upcoming age of adventure that will go down in history as one of the most dramatic steps forward ever conducted by human minds. But, behind that glorious endeavor is a person I greatly respect not for his years of service in the Air Force, but because of his playfulness in life that ushered in the age of aviation to planet earth and all the wonderful inventions and discoveries that only comes from playing with expensive toys for the benefit of further creation—General Chuck Yeager. At 92 years of age, I can only hope that he can be one of the few first who gets to go into space on Virgin Galactic. I love that guy.
Open Letter to Leadership of Butler County Republican Party,The current leadershipoftheBCRP is operating on a personal agenda that damages the Republican name and Republican candidates. The Republican voters of Butler County deserve better.The Tea Parties of Butler County would like to see the following three things happen.
Follow the Ohio Revised Code
Follow the By-Laws of the Party
Adopt the National Party Platform
Here are two examples of the behavior of the party leadership.
Here is what happened at VOA Rally for Kasich:
“I went to the Governor Kasich rally last night at VOA. About 30 of us were there in protest of Common Core. After I finished and was going into the building for the rally I talked to Todd Hall. He told me that I could not bring the signs into the building. I took my signs and placed them in my car and returned to the building. When I got inside, I noticed almost every candidate had signs to give away. I re-approached Todd and asked him why I could not give away Pritchard signs; he became belligerent and threatened me by saying that he would physically remove me from the premises. He gave no reason why Mary’s signs could not be given away.”
September visit to Republican Headquarters:
“This afternoon I had an interesting encounter at the Butler County GOP Office. I went in to get a Condit and Sharon Kennedy yard sign. The older blonde lady did not know me nor did she ask. I told her that trying to get volunteers in an off-year election is hard. She immediately started ripping into All Tea Parties saying they won’t help out and they are obstructing road to success. Wow!
She also said that the Central Committee will not allow Tea Party to get the majority and they will be extinct in 30 months anyway. ”
THIS BEHAVIOR NEEDS TO STOP, strengthen the many not the few.
So let’s first address the Todd Hall issue involving the signs for Mary Pritchard. Mary is an anti-Common Core candidate who wants to put more conservative voices onto the Ohio State Board of Education—which is something that area Republicans should be happy about. Her candidacy should be supported, yet it’s not the direction that party players want to endorse as they are looking to merge the lines with the opposition—the Democrats who want fundamental transformation of America into accepting more socialism and less capitalism. Republicans like John Boehner and John Kasich under the direct influence of Barack Obama have sought to change the Republican Party from the perceived “party of no” into a party of “consideration and compassion.” Part of that compassion is to accept federal standards for education, open border immigration policies that bring in more voters for the Democratic Party and higher taxes to pay for all these utopian plans. Democrats have not moved even a perceived centimeter into accepting American capitalism as the saving grace of any economy—rather it is only Republicans who continue to move toward the center as it is established by radicals from the political left. Once they have arrived at that left established line, the same radicals who called Republicans names and derided them in the media as “rich,” selfish,” “white men,” will then move that line further to the left forcing the same clueless oafs that they are just big mean capitalist if they don’t move more to the left as a “compromise.” Meanwhile, Democrats will stay on their left leaning positions and will always seek to move further in the wrong direction at the first opportunity. So in their desire to appease the radical Democrats, Butler County Republicans are hand-picking their candidates who will be friendly to these strategic aims of “social compromise.” Mary Pritchard is not considered to be one of those Republicans who will fall in line quietly, so her signs were not allowed to be distributed at a GOP event.
Conversely, Democrats do not have such restrictions in their party. To qualify all one needs to be is a social derelict, a cocaine addict, a welfare promoter, a thief, a prostitute or molester of the innocent. Democrats do not care what kind of person their candidates are, they just assimilate them into their collective blob and call anybody names who might attempt to pass judgment on their individual character. And the media plays their role in maintaining these standards. This is the game that Republican Party leadership across America is dealing with—especially in Butler County.
The other issue is the GOP office where the old blonde lady openly derided Tea Partiers by saying they will be extinct in 30 months and that they were obstructing the road to success. The letter writer was in the office to pick up signs for Sharon Kennedy, who is on the Ohio Supreme Court and quite a fine personality from Liberty Township— a general, class-act, and Margie, who is the same as a House member. She is softer on issues than I’d like to see, but she is a generally good person. And in the office was a low-level mouth-piece for the establishment Republicans who likely hasn’t read a book in years, and conducts her life as a marionette to other people’s concepts of reality by stating that Tea Party types will be extinct soon.
In 30 months at the rate its going it won’t be the Tea Party who is extinct, it is the area GOP who will be forced to move further and further to the left until they are unrecognizable as conservatives, which for many, is already the issue. The path of success that the lady was talking about is not a path for area conservatives; it is for those who have a financial stake in politics who use the Party to make money. For those I know in the Tea Party, this is not something they care about—they do not seek party affiliation to profit from, they are passionate about their beliefs and do not easily yield—which is the real gripe. The Republican Party is feeling the social pressure to change and wish to do so—and they are upset that the rest of the party won’t unite behind them. But the evidence of that same Kasich rally in Butler County is that without the Tea Party types, nobody was left to attend the rally leaving only political insiders and profiteers left to cheer on the governor with a crowd that could have filled a living room, but didn’t come close to making the Ronald Reagan Lodge at the VOA look populated.
Compromise is a dirty word because the other side has no desire to perform the task. Those who beat the drums of modern compromise loudest are those who have an objective of social assimilation by conservatives into socialist mind-numb, knuckle dragging oafs so that they can easily conquer them in future elections. They don’t want to “co-exist” with conservatives—they want to destroy them utterly and completely. They are performing a military objective of domination and destruction—not compromise. So anyone who plays their game is doomed to failure. It will be they who are “extinct.” You can’t “compromise” with a lion, tiger or bear. You can’t reason with at Great White Shark. You can’t sign a peace treaty with a snake. If those creatures are hungry and you are available to eat, they will consume you without regret or warning. Democrats like snakes lay dormant and passive until they need food, then they strike ferociously without an ounce of compassion. And the Butler County GOP including the blonde lady passing out signs are functioning from the belly of a snake called the Democratic/(socialists) of Ohio. The last words of a party and its people who do not realize they are being digested so slowly that they can’t even feel the destruction of their very essence.
Over twenty years ago I read a book by Kip Thorne about black holes and time warps that was a treasure I will never forget. In it the theoretical physics applied I knew would alter the way human beings relate to virtually everything in their lives. It has taken a long time, but finally that applied science is emerging into a film that I think will shatter the perceptions many have of their reality and I am ecstatic about its release in theaters everywhere on November 7th. I have been waiting a long time for this movie as the subject matter is one that excites great passion in me. The topic of black holes as a category of science is an obsession of my wife who spends most of her time contemplating them and how they relate to the universe. It makes for some interesting dinner conversation. As I pay attention to politics and social sciences to a large degree, she would rather not have her mind encumbered with such sluggish perceptions. But when it comes to theoretical physics and the morality of the universe—she blooms like a spring flower. The movie is called Interstellar and was developed by Steven Spielberg then taken over and directed by Christopher Nolan in 2010, whom I have said so many positive things about as a young film maker.
When the movie Back to the Future came out, the film left a mark on the public consciousness that changed social vocabulary. It was a Spielberg produced project that made discussions about the space-time continuum a topic of dinner time conversation. Mankind became smarter because of the comedy Back to the Future due to the presentation of the theoretical science involved. A few years later Spielberg did it again with Jurassic Park and the concept of DNA building of living creatures. Complicated discussion about DNA engineering soon filled the airwaves and mankind took another complicated step forward. Only through the popular action movie Jurassic Park was the hard debate about DNA framed for public dialogue. In the new film Interstellar the concept of space, time, and even the life of the earth will be brought into a focus yet unexplored properly. That is because Kip is the executive producer of this important film and Christopher Nolan along with composer Hans Zimmer are willing to take epic risks to portray these complicated elements on-screen for audiences who had been previously unaware of these scientific concepts.
Warner Bros., who produced and distributed some of Nolan’s previous films, negotiated with Paramount, traditionally a rival studio, to have a financial stake in Interstellar. Legendary Pictures, which formerly partnered with Warner Bros., also sought a stake. The three companies co-financed the film, and the production companies Syncopy and Lynda Obst Productions were enlisted. The director also hired cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema since his long-time collaborator Wally Pfister was busy working on Transcendence, his directorial debut. Interstellar was filmed with a combination of anamorphic35mm and IMAX film photography. Filming took place in the last quarter of 2013 in locations in the province of Alberta, Canada, in southern Iceland, and in Los Angeles, California. The visual effects company Double Negative created visual effects for Interstellar.
Thorne was born in Logan, Utah, the son of Utah State Universityprofessors D. Wynne Thorne and Alison C. Thorne, a soil chemist and an economist, respectively. Raised in an academic environment, two of his four siblings are also professors. He became interested in science at the age of eight, after attending a lecture about the solar system. Thorne and his mother then worked out calculations for their own model of the solar system.
Thorne rapidly excelled at academics early in life, becoming one of the youngest full professors in the history of the California Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962, and Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1965. He wrote his doctoral thesis, Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical Systems, under the supervision of relativist John Wheeler. Thorne returned to Caltech as an associate professor in 1967 and became a professor of theoretical physics in 1970, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in 1981, and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991. In June 2009 he resigned his Feynman Professorship (he is now the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus) to pursue a career of writing and movie making. His first film project will team him with Christopher Nolan.
Throughout the years, Thorne has served as a mentor and thesis advisor for many leading theorists who now work on observational, experimental, or astrophysical aspects of general relativity. Approximately 50 physicists have received Ph.D.s at Caltech under Thorne’s personal mentorship.
Thorne is known for his ability to convey the excitement and significance of discoveries in gravitation and astrophysics to both professional and lay audiences. In 1999, Thorne made some speculations on what the 21st century will find as the answers to the following questions:
Is there a “dark side of the universe” populated by objects such as black holes?
Can we observe the birth of the universe and its dark side using radiation made from space-time warpage, or so-called “gravitational waves”?
Will 21st century technology reveal quantum behavior in the realm of human-size objects?
Thorne has made contributions to black hole cosmology. Thorne proposed his Hoop Conjecture that cast aside the thought of a naked singularity. The Hoop Conjecture describes an imploding star turning into a black hole when the critical circumference of the designed hoop can be placed around it and set into rotation.[5] That is, any object of mass M around which a hoop of circumference can be spun must be a black hole. As a tool to be used in both enterprises, astrophysics and theoretical physics, Thorne has developed an unusual approach, called the “Membrane Paradigm“, to the theory of black holes and used it to clarify the “Blandford-Znajek” mechanism by which black holes may power some quasars and active galactic nuclei. Thorne has investigated the quantumstatistical mechanical origin of the entropy of a black hole and the entropy of a cosmological horizon in an inflationary model of the universe. With Wojciech Zurek he showed that the entropy of a black hole of known mass, angular momentum, and electric charge is the logarithm of the number of ways that the hole could have been made. With Igor Novikov and Don Page he developed the general relativistic theory of thin accretion disks around black holes, and using this theory he deduced that with a doubling of its mass by such accretion a black hole will be spun up to 0.998 of the maximum spin allowed by general relativity, but not any farther. This is probably the maximum black-hole spin allowed in nature. He, along with his mentor John Wheeler, additionally proved that it was impossible for cylindrical magnetic field lines to implode. Both Hawking and Thorne have theorized that a singularity exists in the interior of a black hole.
Wormholes and time travel
Thorne was one of the first people to conduct scientific research on whether the laws of physics permit space and time to be multiply connected (can there exist classical, traversable wormholes and “time machines“?). With Sung-Won Kim, Thorne identified a universal physical mechanism (the explosive growth of vacuum polarization of quantum fields), that may always prevent spacetime from developing closed timelike curves (i.e., prevent “backward time travel”). With Mike Morris and Ulvi Yurtsever he showed that traversable Lorentzian wormholes can exist in the structure of spacetime only if they are threaded by quantum fields in quantum states that violate the averaged null energy condition (i.e. have negative renormalized energy spread over a sufficiently large region). This has triggered research to explore the ability of quantum fields to possess such extended negative energy. Recent calculations by Thorne indicate that simple masses passing through traversable wormholes could never engender paradoxes – there are no initial conditions that lead to paradox once time travel is introduced. If his results can be generalized, they would suggest that none of the supposed paradoxes formulated in time travel stories can actually be formulated at a precise physical level: that is, that any situation in a time travel story turns out to permit many consistent solutions.
Relativistic stars, multipole moments and other endeavors
With Anna Żytkow, Thorne predicted the existence of red supergiant stars with neutron-star cores (Thorne–Żytkow objects). He laid the foundations for the theory of pulsations of relativistic stars and the gravitational radiation they emit. With James Hartle, Thorne derived from general relativity the laws of motion and precession of black holes and other relativistic bodies, including the influence of the coupling of their multipole moments to the spacetime curvature of nearby objects. Thorne has also theoretically predicted the existence of universally antigravitating “exotic matter” – the element needed to accelerate the expansion rate of the universe, keep traversable wormhole “Star Gates” open and keep timelikegeodesic free float “warp drives” working. With Clifford Will and others of his students, he laid the foundations for the theoretical interpretation of experimental tests of relativistic theories of gravity – foundations on which Will and others then built. Thorne is currently interested in the origin of classical space and time from the quantum foam of quantum gravity theory.
All of that complicated dialogue will be presented with a coherent and compelling story driven by the director Christopher Nolan. It will be an epic event to say the least as many of Kip’s theories described above will be presented in Interstellar. For my wife and I it will make for marvelous diner conversation afterwards—an event that is rare indeed. It’s the kind of thing that we talk about often and it will be a pleasure to see such obscure topics presented in a way that elevates the future dialogue of the human race. On November 7th 2014, mankind will take a new step forward toward a fate that has not yet been written.
