Secret Squirrel has looked at our time travel tendencies, namely that of turning back the clocks, a journey in time, in time travel,sometimes called going to Standard time (British or otherwise), and then Daylight savings time,and whatever names this process is referred to in lands round and about the world, when the clock is turned back one hour to benefit more light in winter,and to achieve the same thing in the summer area. It's all to do with saving and utilizing much more,daylight,natural daylight.The idea came from Benjamin Franklin, and it works in applied practice, to a point,in short it can, indeed should,and MUST be changed to derive the maximum in tended benefit.Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours.Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight.
Well,it has been noted, that this one hour doesn't give all that much light,it does continue to get dark very much more earlier,and in fact, turning the clocks back two hours,would in fact, be very much better over the stretch of time this is supposed to be better for. We do this normally now,the turning back of the clocks(and forwards again at the summer area date). But why not ,then ,turn back two hours, to get a better maximum benefit of daylight in winter and so save all round on electricity and et cetera?
Too much at one time? Yes,it would be and is, but not if it was turned back as it now is, and then, three,or four(better four) weeks later,turned back yet again.The times for winter would be good as they are and or would be for the first extra hour. As to recovering, the present time for recovering the hour is practical, but for the extra hour of more light,useful light, we then turn ahead to recover the full time, three weeks,or the better four, after this.It's not rocket science, it causes no harm, it causes no confusion as it's done in the lands it's done in, and it is done all for the common good and the benefit of one and all.
We would all,in those lands that adjust present clock time, experience a maximized and increased benefit and savings all round for every body, a true savings, and a vastly increased safety factor for those traveling about the cities etc., such as children going to school etc ,whilst we,and the cities, and the businesses, also save on electric lighting costs.All that needs be done is to take a tried and true and applied principle, and increase it's utility to the maximum.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Secret Squirrel Discovers A Ridiculous Halloween Age Limit Developing
Secret Squirrel looks at developments in Halloween, and is stunned to see that some rather puritanical and dictatorial governments of some cities in America, have set limits on the times, and particularly the age at which one can go out on Halloween.Let's look at this problem and consider things, and we'll start at the very beginning of it all.
The best clue for how trick or treat got started comes to us from the Middle, or Dark Ages, when the Catholic church approved the act of "souling". This event was devised so that beggars could go around asking for food, usually barley or oat cakes, in exchange for prayers. The Catholic church said the prayers were an extra bit of "insurance" that a dead person's spirit would be given entry into heaven. Soul Cake day is no longer in common practice in England, but it is still rather popular in Scotland and Ireland and from this, it is believed, the concept of trick or treat arose.Another theory on the evolution of this grand yearly event is that Trick-or-treating evolved out of the late medieval custom of children asking for treats in exchange for praying for the dead of the household, according to Hans Broedel, a University of North Dakota history professor and expert on early traditions.Tricks--usually vandalism and other debauchery by teens and young adults--were a big part of Halloween for a time until a conscious effort in the 19th and early 20th centuries to shift the celebration toward children, Broedel said.
,Trick or treating didn't start happening in America until sometime in the early part of the 20th century. It was first found in magazines and papers in the latter part of the 1930's. Throughout the 1940's trick or treat started to get into full swing due to many of the children's books and TV shows. In 1952, Walt Disney permanently burned it into the minds and hearts of America when his cartoon, Trick or Treat debuted. Trick or treat was here to stay.
Teenagers who trick-or-treat in some cities face something more threatening than any costumed zombie or ghost -- like the long arm of the law...some cities (Virginia State)even yet class it as a class 4 misdemeanour.......maximum $250 fine....these were brought about in Virginia in the 1970's.
In Virginia, several cities have had trick-or-treating age limits on the books since the 1970s. City officials from Meridian, Miss., to Bishopville, S.C., and Boonsboro, Md., have cut off the trick-or-treat age at 12,and limit time to no later than 8PM. Other cities,Chesapeake,Hampton,Newport News,Norfolk,Portsmouth,Smithfield,Virginia Beach,
Williamsburg.Still, officials cannot recall anyone ever being arrested or fined for being too old to trick-or-treat.If anything, officers will let teens off with a warning or a call to their parents.Even if they wanted to, officials acknowledge the laws are difficult to enforce. Still, they say putting the word out about the laws every year keeps too many teens from violating the bans. How is it even possible to make laws stating that you can't go ring someone's doorbell past a certain age? If someone isn't comfortable with the trick-or-treaters, they can just not go to the door, just like with anyone else. What about the kids that develop early? You get boobs and you aren't allowed to go?Twelve seems really young to set as a limit,kids need something innocent to do for fun - especially on holidays like Halloween.
The last time I went was when I was 16.No word on whether they believe it should be government’s responsibility or that of parents to give kids the talk about Santa Claus.
You know what's generally said about politicians......
"If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit."
-Robert Brault
If you wish to limit the age for trick or treat, how about 90.Thank heavens, then,there's no age limit on trick-or-treating at Mickey's Halloween Party ... at Disneyland, where kids of any age can continue to trick-or-treat.The choice is yours, have a lit pumpkin or not,open the door or not, but the politicians in some places think not.
The best clue for how trick or treat got started comes to us from the Middle, or Dark Ages, when the Catholic church approved the act of "souling". This event was devised so that beggars could go around asking for food, usually barley or oat cakes, in exchange for prayers. The Catholic church said the prayers were an extra bit of "insurance" that a dead person's spirit would be given entry into heaven. Soul Cake day is no longer in common practice in England, but it is still rather popular in Scotland and Ireland and from this, it is believed, the concept of trick or treat arose.Another theory on the evolution of this grand yearly event is that Trick-or-treating evolved out of the late medieval custom of children asking for treats in exchange for praying for the dead of the household, according to Hans Broedel, a University of North Dakota history professor and expert on early traditions.Tricks--usually vandalism and other debauchery by teens and young adults--were a big part of Halloween for a time until a conscious effort in the 19th and early 20th centuries to shift the celebration toward children, Broedel said.
,Trick or treating didn't start happening in America until sometime in the early part of the 20th century. It was first found in magazines and papers in the latter part of the 1930's. Throughout the 1940's trick or treat started to get into full swing due to many of the children's books and TV shows. In 1952, Walt Disney permanently burned it into the minds and hearts of America when his cartoon, Trick or Treat debuted. Trick or treat was here to stay.
Teenagers who trick-or-treat in some cities face something more threatening than any costumed zombie or ghost -- like the long arm of the law...some cities (Virginia State)even yet class it as a class 4 misdemeanour.......maximum $250 fine....these were brought about in Virginia in the 1970's.
In Virginia, several cities have had trick-or-treating age limits on the books since the 1970s. City officials from Meridian, Miss., to Bishopville, S.C., and Boonsboro, Md., have cut off the trick-or-treat age at 12,and limit time to no later than 8PM. Other cities,Chesapeake,Hampton,Newport News,Norfolk,Portsmouth,Smithfield,Virginia Beach,
Williamsburg.Still, officials cannot recall anyone ever being arrested or fined for being too old to trick-or-treat.If anything, officers will let teens off with a warning or a call to their parents.Even if they wanted to, officials acknowledge the laws are difficult to enforce. Still, they say putting the word out about the laws every year keeps too many teens from violating the bans. How is it even possible to make laws stating that you can't go ring someone's doorbell past a certain age? If someone isn't comfortable with the trick-or-treaters, they can just not go to the door, just like with anyone else. What about the kids that develop early? You get boobs and you aren't allowed to go?Twelve seems really young to set as a limit,kids need something innocent to do for fun - especially on holidays like Halloween.
The last time I went was when I was 16.No word on whether they believe it should be government’s responsibility or that of parents to give kids the talk about Santa Claus.
You know what's generally said about politicians......
"If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit."
-Robert Brault
If you wish to limit the age for trick or treat, how about 90.Thank heavens, then,there's no age limit on trick-or-treating at Mickey's Halloween Party ... at Disneyland, where kids of any age can continue to trick-or-treat.The choice is yours, have a lit pumpkin or not,open the door or not, but the politicians in some places think not.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Secret Squirrel Considers Merit In Electing Judges.
Secret Squirrel here ponders things Judicial,specifically,that of Judges, and the methods used to create judges, being appointed and/or elected,dependent.It is noted here that Switzerland, Japan and the United States are exceptions to the rule in the rest of the world where judges are appointed in order to secure their independence. These three democracies allow some non-federal judges to be elected by popular vote on the grounds it helps prevent cronyism.
In most of the world where judicial selection is made by the executive branch from a civil service-like pool of professionals who have been trained in the equivalent of a school for judges,but not necessarily so,most coming from law schools, meaning they have been and are and were,firstly,lawyers. In the United States such is the case for federal and Supreme Court judges but not for the majority of state
judges who face popular election.
UN Special Rapporteur for judicial independence, Leandro Despouy gave his opinion on
juducial appointment systems.........
“In the countries I’ve visited, especially the poorer ones, judges are chosen by the
executive branch and it is up to the executive to sanction them if necessary. In general I am not in favor of elected judges. They should be chosen on a merit basis based on their knowledge and independence so they can resist all pressures to conform to the wishes of elected officials.”
However here we have a dicotomy,a conundrum,appointed they can be sanctioned
by,dis-appointed by,and are in fact, really not capable of resisting, the wishes of
certain specific government officials.Conventional wisdom says that those who appoint judges affect future judicial decisions.Judgeships could be,and are,bought and sold according to the personal preferences of those making the selection,appointments degrade the quality of the judiciary. It is not uncommon for appointed judges to loose sight of what they are supposed to be doing to start actually writing new laws themselves through the decisions they make. And is anyone really so naivé as to believe that the current appointed "independent" federal judiciary has not become a political branch? As Thomas Jefferson had warned:
"Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. . . . [A]nd their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.""The exemption of the judges from that....from election.....is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it [control] from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
Elected ones, are subject to the people, and specifically can be removed with the next election, and can be influenced by the wishes of the public at large,which is, of course, for justice,equality,equity in the judicial processes.Voters in many US states think justice is too lenient with criminals and they demand harsher sentencing. They prefer that a judge who ignores the popular sentiment be voted out of office,thus making them accountable to the people themselves,judges must be there for be professional, objective and independent.In America,nationwide, 87 percent of all state court judges face elections, and 39 states elect at least some of their judges, according to the National Center for State Courts.
Some states have recently considered proposals that would abolish the election of State judges and replace it with a system of appointed judges who would face periodic retention elections. While supporters of this plan argue that retention elections will keep judges accountable to the voters, it is irrefutable that this plan will give judges a level of insulation from the public they have never before experienced and make them more unaccountable than ever before. The folly of this proposal is made clear both by history as well as the lessons of other States that have adopted such a plan.Originally the Founding Fathers of America feared tyranny from the Judiciary,so they placed severe limitations on that branch, employed the powers of impeachement to remove them quickly should the need arise, as Alexander Hamilton explained, "the practice of impeachments was a bridle",a way to keep judges accountable to the people,such that the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from the judiciary.For judges to campaign and win voter support actually prevents the judiciary from becoming a political branch and running a political agenda.
In the 2002 election, the appointed New Jersey Supreme Court reviewed the State law
declaring that a candidate's name may be replaced on the ballot only if the "vacancy
shall occur not later than the 51st day before the general election" and somehow decided that the 35th day before the election fulfilled the same legal requirements as the 51st day before the election. (Recall that the Democrat candidate was lagging far behind his Republican opponent in the polls; the Democrats convinced the unelected judges to place a more viable candidate on the ballot - in violation of the State law - and Democrats therefore won a U. S. Senate seat they were destined to lose.)
Elected judges know that if they make such agenda-driven decisions, they will face
removal by voters for contempt of,and violation of,State law. When judges are elected, the selection process is totally open to the public. The reasons why a particular individual may be chosen are readily visible to inquiring citizens or the press, and State Legislatures can actually specify the minimum qualifications for each judicial office,thus ensuring intelligent choices be presented to the voter.Judicial independence is essential to a functioning democracy,and the regulation of judges requires involvement of we, the people.
In most of the world where judicial selection is made by the executive branch from a civil service-like pool of professionals who have been trained in the equivalent of a school for judges,but not necessarily so,most coming from law schools, meaning they have been and are and were,firstly,lawyers. In the United States such is the case for federal and Supreme Court judges but not for the majority of state
judges who face popular election.
UN Special Rapporteur for judicial independence, Leandro Despouy gave his opinion on
juducial appointment systems.........
“In the countries I’ve visited, especially the poorer ones, judges are chosen by the
executive branch and it is up to the executive to sanction them if necessary. In general I am not in favor of elected judges. They should be chosen on a merit basis based on their knowledge and independence so they can resist all pressures to conform to the wishes of elected officials.”
However here we have a dicotomy,a conundrum,appointed they can be sanctioned
by,dis-appointed by,and are in fact, really not capable of resisting, the wishes of
certain specific government officials.Conventional wisdom says that those who appoint judges affect future judicial decisions.Judgeships could be,and are,bought and sold according to the personal preferences of those making the selection,appointments degrade the quality of the judiciary. It is not uncommon for appointed judges to loose sight of what they are supposed to be doing to start actually writing new laws themselves through the decisions they make. And is anyone really so naivé as to believe that the current appointed "independent" federal judiciary has not become a political branch? As Thomas Jefferson had warned:
"Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. . . . [A]nd their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.""The exemption of the judges from that....from election.....is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it [control] from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
Elected ones, are subject to the people, and specifically can be removed with the next election, and can be influenced by the wishes of the public at large,which is, of course, for justice,equality,equity in the judicial processes.Voters in many US states think justice is too lenient with criminals and they demand harsher sentencing. They prefer that a judge who ignores the popular sentiment be voted out of office,thus making them accountable to the people themselves,judges must be there for be professional, objective and independent.In America,nationwide, 87 percent of all state court judges face elections, and 39 states elect at least some of their judges, according to the National Center for State Courts.
Some states have recently considered proposals that would abolish the election of State judges and replace it with a system of appointed judges who would face periodic retention elections. While supporters of this plan argue that retention elections will keep judges accountable to the voters, it is irrefutable that this plan will give judges a level of insulation from the public they have never before experienced and make them more unaccountable than ever before. The folly of this proposal is made clear both by history as well as the lessons of other States that have adopted such a plan.Originally the Founding Fathers of America feared tyranny from the Judiciary,so they placed severe limitations on that branch, employed the powers of impeachement to remove them quickly should the need arise, as Alexander Hamilton explained, "the practice of impeachments was a bridle",a way to keep judges accountable to the people,such that the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from the judiciary.For judges to campaign and win voter support actually prevents the judiciary from becoming a political branch and running a political agenda.
In the 2002 election, the appointed New Jersey Supreme Court reviewed the State law
declaring that a candidate's name may be replaced on the ballot only if the "vacancy
shall occur not later than the 51st day before the general election" and somehow decided that the 35th day before the election fulfilled the same legal requirements as the 51st day before the election. (Recall that the Democrat candidate was lagging far behind his Republican opponent in the polls; the Democrats convinced the unelected judges to place a more viable candidate on the ballot - in violation of the State law - and Democrats therefore won a U. S. Senate seat they were destined to lose.)
Elected judges know that if they make such agenda-driven decisions, they will face
removal by voters for contempt of,and violation of,State law. When judges are elected, the selection process is totally open to the public. The reasons why a particular individual may be chosen are readily visible to inquiring citizens or the press, and State Legislatures can actually specify the minimum qualifications for each judicial office,thus ensuring intelligent choices be presented to the voter.Judicial independence is essential to a functioning democracy,and the regulation of judges requires involvement of we, the people.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Secret Squirrel,Seriously,The NRA,Read The Where For & The Why.
Secret Squirrel here waxes to the serious side,the very serious side, Squirrel is the NRA,(Squirrel is a Life PATRON member of the NRA,Golden Eagle), and here shares with you an email sent to him, by the NRA,Wayne Lapierre......and encourages you to also,if it pleases you, join the NRA,as you wish,you are free to do so or not, but if not to support your stand on Americans and the right to keep and bear arms (guns),your guaranteed Second (2nd) Amendment rights,to support your gun rights, to support your freedom,to support your freedoms,and so too the freedoms and rights of all Americans,there is yet freedom, there is yet choice, the choice is yours, the choice is still yours,but your freedoms and rights are being seriously eroded.Let freedom ring.
Here is a letter, sent to me, from The NRA, from Wayne Lapierre,the NRA's Executive
Vice-President.........
Dear Frank:
On June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision known as McDonald v. Chicago, declaring that the Second Amendment means what it says -- and that government cannot deny law-abiding citizens their Right to Keep and Bear Arms.But just four days later, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his City Council issued a declaration of their own -- making it clear that they have no intention of respecting the Supreme Court's ruling.Instead, they enacted a city ordinance that effectively nullifies the Court's decision through a blizzard of roadblocks, regulations and red tape -- carefully designed to make sure honest citizens never get through the process and never get a gun.
In blunt terms, Mayor Daley has declared that freedom is NOT a right, but a privilege to be granted by government officials -- and that he alone will dictate which freedoms Chicago residents are allowed to enjoy, as surely as King George told the American colonies that his word alone would be the supreme law.Every gun-ban politician in America has an eye on this battle.And if you and I allow Mayor Daley's attacks on freedom to go unchallenged, we're going to see this new gun-ban strategy start to spread like a virus -- city by city, county by
county, and state by state all across America.
And the first step toward winning this battle must begin ..................
With all my heart, I believe that the NRA has a historic role to play right now in keeping our country free.................So if you're angry at the arrogance of politicians who refuse to represent you...if you're fearful for the survival of freedom when elected officials do all they can to steal it or destroy it...and if you want an America as free and safe for your kids as it was for us, then register your anger and outrage by sending them a message they cannot ignore.................. help NRA tell the truth and protect FREEDOM.
NRA needs your help to vastly increase our legislative efforts in city halls, in county councils, in state legislatures and in the United States Congress. We'll need to defeat more politicians at election time who deny citizens basic access to the Bill of Rights.Most important and urgent of all, NRA needs to step up our efforts like never before to reach out to the American people -- in an intensive, long-term media campaign that takes our message to American gun owners on television, on the radio, in newspapers and magazines, on the Internet, and by mail and phone.
There is no other organization in this country today that can get the job done, for the simple reason that you and your fellow members have the passion and vision to get involved and protect your freedoms.....................
If we continue down this road -- where elected officials are allowed to rip whole pages from the Bill of Rights based on their own petty political views -- then the entire ideal of American freedom eventually unravels. That's why I say that this battle is about more than the Second Amendment, it's about the entire future of freedom.
Thanks for your............steadfast loyalty to the cause
of freedom!
Sincerely,
Wayne LaPierre
Executive Vice President
National Rifle Association
11250 Waples Rd
Fairfax, VA 22030
http://www.nra.org
1-877-NRA-2000
Here is a letter, sent to me, from The NRA, from Wayne Lapierre,the NRA's Executive
Vice-President.........
Dear Frank:
On June 28, 2010, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision known as McDonald v. Chicago, declaring that the Second Amendment means what it says -- and that government cannot deny law-abiding citizens their Right to Keep and Bear Arms.But just four days later, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his City Council issued a declaration of their own -- making it clear that they have no intention of respecting the Supreme Court's ruling.Instead, they enacted a city ordinance that effectively nullifies the Court's decision through a blizzard of roadblocks, regulations and red tape -- carefully designed to make sure honest citizens never get through the process and never get a gun.
In blunt terms, Mayor Daley has declared that freedom is NOT a right, but a privilege to be granted by government officials -- and that he alone will dictate which freedoms Chicago residents are allowed to enjoy, as surely as King George told the American colonies that his word alone would be the supreme law.Every gun-ban politician in America has an eye on this battle.And if you and I allow Mayor Daley's attacks on freedom to go unchallenged, we're going to see this new gun-ban strategy start to spread like a virus -- city by city, county by
county, and state by state all across America.
And the first step toward winning this battle must begin ..................
With all my heart, I believe that the NRA has a historic role to play right now in keeping our country free.................So if you're angry at the arrogance of politicians who refuse to represent you...if you're fearful for the survival of freedom when elected officials do all they can to steal it or destroy it...and if you want an America as free and safe for your kids as it was for us, then register your anger and outrage by sending them a message they cannot ignore.................. help NRA tell the truth and protect FREEDOM.
NRA needs your help to vastly increase our legislative efforts in city halls, in county councils, in state legislatures and in the United States Congress. We'll need to defeat more politicians at election time who deny citizens basic access to the Bill of Rights.Most important and urgent of all, NRA needs to step up our efforts like never before to reach out to the American people -- in an intensive, long-term media campaign that takes our message to American gun owners on television, on the radio, in newspapers and magazines, on the Internet, and by mail and phone.
There is no other organization in this country today that can get the job done, for the simple reason that you and your fellow members have the passion and vision to get involved and protect your freedoms.....................
If we continue down this road -- where elected officials are allowed to rip whole pages from the Bill of Rights based on their own petty political views -- then the entire ideal of American freedom eventually unravels. That's why I say that this battle is about more than the Second Amendment, it's about the entire future of freedom.
Thanks for your............steadfast loyalty to the cause
of freedom!
Sincerely,
Wayne LaPierre
Executive Vice President
National Rifle Association
11250 Waples Rd
Fairfax, VA 22030
http://www.nra.org
1-877-NRA-2000
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Secret Squirrel's Plan To Speed Up Earth's Lost Rotation Speed.
Secret Squirrel has noted, in his researches,that the earth's rotation is perceptibly actually slowing down.This is a dangerous lifestyle threatening situation for us all,since the earth slowing down will decrease,slowly, gravity generation as well,and eventually,the atmos will escape, and we'd suffocate slowly, and or else, we will simply fly off, not being held down any longer.However, engineeringwise I have discovered a solution to said problem, and I shall simply use wind power,create electricity & bring Earth's rotation back to normal.Thence we
shall not suffocate slowly, and not fly off in to space either, instead we shall enjoy life as it is,and shall be, and at the same time benefit from the oodles of electricity I shall greenly generate whilst saving earth, and you, mind.
Now, presently we are now encountering vast and dangerous chicken littleism in the
fields of green energy generating systems and also Tidal movement is causing a continual loss of mechanical energy in the Earth–Moon system due to pumping of water through the natural restrictions around coastlines, and due to viscous dissipation at the seabed and in turbulence. This loss of energy has caused the rotation of the Earth to slow in the 4.5 billion years since formation. During the last 620 million years the period of rotation has increased from 21.9 hours to the 24 hours we see now in this period the Earth has lost 17% of its rotational
energy. While tidal power may take additional energy from the system, increasing the rate of slowdown.The ever increasing use of tidal generating propeller(impeller) systems cause slowdowns in the tides, affecting the rotation of earth drastically such that earth slows down now with the tides, and also by causing back pressures to produce the same effect. Well, politicians do not see the sense and the immense danger in things since slow down of earth's present rotation is such that only a second or so is lost each year. Well the warning signs are
there.............slowing the rotation of the earth, causes the earth to slow such that gravity will lessen,the earth will commence to loose it's atmos, resulting in our eventual suffocation, and we will all fly off.
Well, there are effects that reduce the rotation of the earth, provable effects.....most definitely proveable,scientifically proveable, and acknowledged to be so, the slow down of the earth, not Chicken Littleism, but actual scientific fact and truth, horrible scientific fact and truth..........and as such as it up to us to correct things before things get drastic and they can be corrected...........we must go to and encourage the use of, windmills to generate energy,more and more windmills,wind turbines.......indeed we can see and prove,that these generating propeller driven systems, in the hundreds, going in to the thousands, to reach hundreds of thousands in numbers are actually physically capable of speeding up the rotation of earth to compensate for this horrid effect,indeed much as airplane propellers were proven to pull an aircraft through the sky by pulling on the wind and directing it to the rear of it's propellers, so too will the principle of wind turbine,windmill, propellers work, in and after the same fashion, they being fastened to earth in place of the propellers being
fastened to aircraft to work.Proven working physics,proven working scientific fact, engineering in action.
We know that globally the wind blowing from West to East will increase,
so the Earth's rotation will decrease.The days will be longer - and the nights won't be shorter to compensate.It means 24 hours won't be 24 hours any more. It will be something a little bit more.The threat is there,this will be the shape of things to come.
We are seeing the effects of this today.......Leap seconds were first introduced in 1972, but this is the first to be applied for seven years.Well what must be done, is we must compensate for this effects of the earth, the rotational slowdown, and speed up earth.......but how..............well.......The prevailing wind,generally, is from West to East. The direction the Earth spins is from West to East. If anything, the wind turbines should speed up the rotation of the Earth,with the blades configured such that the blades angle with respect to the applied wind, is such that the propeller like pull form them is with the wind in effect, helping the wind along, helping to pull the earth forwards and faster such that we can compensate for the slow down effects we presently are feeling.Yes, we need more wind turbines, not less, indeed they ARE so configured such as to pull themselves
forwards, whilst connected securely and directly to the earth,with the prevailing winds driving them and earth FORWARDS!! Yes! Success! With more wind turbines!! Not only will wind turbines help us generating electricity, but they will help earth increase and compensate for the earth's present slow down!!!!!!!!
Further yet, there is more yet on the plus side for windmill power........what is used to balance out and cool the heat in our living edifices............fans...........ceiling fans...........air fans...........they cool the room,they cool us, proveably by scientific fact they cool, hence large amounts of windmills,while generating free power electricity for us,will also get the earth's rotation back to normal speed,preventing us eventually flying off in to space,but also serve to combat and reduce the effects of global warming,in and after the same fashion that a fan,directed at your face, noticeably and most definitely, and proveably, cools you!!!! All round pluses for these marvelous devices. Of course, there is a downside,what if it's actually global cooling taking in to account the actual weather of the day, then thing's'll get worse, but what the heck, the politicians believe it's too hot,in which case they can be packed off to Antarctica to cool off and be forgotten about.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
shall not suffocate slowly, and not fly off in to space either, instead we shall enjoy life as it is,and shall be, and at the same time benefit from the oodles of electricity I shall greenly generate whilst saving earth, and you, mind.
Now, presently we are now encountering vast and dangerous chicken littleism in the
fields of green energy generating systems and also Tidal movement is causing a continual loss of mechanical energy in the Earth–Moon system due to pumping of water through the natural restrictions around coastlines, and due to viscous dissipation at the seabed and in turbulence. This loss of energy has caused the rotation of the Earth to slow in the 4.5 billion years since formation. During the last 620 million years the period of rotation has increased from 21.9 hours to the 24 hours we see now in this period the Earth has lost 17% of its rotational
energy. While tidal power may take additional energy from the system, increasing the rate of slowdown.The ever increasing use of tidal generating propeller(impeller) systems cause slowdowns in the tides, affecting the rotation of earth drastically such that earth slows down now with the tides, and also by causing back pressures to produce the same effect. Well, politicians do not see the sense and the immense danger in things since slow down of earth's present rotation is such that only a second or so is lost each year. Well the warning signs are
there.............slowing the rotation of the earth, causes the earth to slow such that gravity will lessen,the earth will commence to loose it's atmos, resulting in our eventual suffocation, and we will all fly off.
Well, there are effects that reduce the rotation of the earth, provable effects.....most definitely proveable,scientifically proveable, and acknowledged to be so, the slow down of the earth, not Chicken Littleism, but actual scientific fact and truth, horrible scientific fact and truth..........and as such as it up to us to correct things before things get drastic and they can be corrected...........we must go to and encourage the use of, windmills to generate energy,more and more windmills,wind turbines.......indeed we can see and prove,that these generating propeller driven systems, in the hundreds, going in to the thousands, to reach hundreds of thousands in numbers are actually physically capable of speeding up the rotation of earth to compensate for this horrid effect,indeed much as airplane propellers were proven to pull an aircraft through the sky by pulling on the wind and directing it to the rear of it's propellers, so too will the principle of wind turbine,windmill, propellers work, in and after the same fashion, they being fastened to earth in place of the propellers being
fastened to aircraft to work.Proven working physics,proven working scientific fact, engineering in action.
We know that globally the wind blowing from West to East will increase,
so the Earth's rotation will decrease.The days will be longer - and the nights won't be shorter to compensate.It means 24 hours won't be 24 hours any more. It will be something a little bit more.The threat is there,this will be the shape of things to come.
We are seeing the effects of this today.......Leap seconds were first introduced in 1972, but this is the first to be applied for seven years.Well what must be done, is we must compensate for this effects of the earth, the rotational slowdown, and speed up earth.......but how..............well.......The prevailing wind,generally, is from West to East. The direction the Earth spins is from West to East. If anything, the wind turbines should speed up the rotation of the Earth,with the blades configured such that the blades angle with respect to the applied wind, is such that the propeller like pull form them is with the wind in effect, helping the wind along, helping to pull the earth forwards and faster such that we can compensate for the slow down effects we presently are feeling.Yes, we need more wind turbines, not less, indeed they ARE so configured such as to pull themselves
forwards, whilst connected securely and directly to the earth,with the prevailing winds driving them and earth FORWARDS!! Yes! Success! With more wind turbines!! Not only will wind turbines help us generating electricity, but they will help earth increase and compensate for the earth's present slow down!!!!!!!!
Further yet, there is more yet on the plus side for windmill power........what is used to balance out and cool the heat in our living edifices............fans...........ceiling fans...........air fans...........they cool the room,they cool us, proveably by scientific fact they cool, hence large amounts of windmills,while generating free power electricity for us,will also get the earth's rotation back to normal speed,preventing us eventually flying off in to space,but also serve to combat and reduce the effects of global warming,in and after the same fashion that a fan,directed at your face, noticeably and most definitely, and proveably, cools you!!!! All round pluses for these marvelous devices. Of course, there is a downside,what if it's actually global cooling taking in to account the actual weather of the day, then thing's'll get worse, but what the heck, the politicians believe it's too hot,in which case they can be packed off to Antarctica to cool off and be forgotten about.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Secret Squirrel Ponders A Possibly Ballooning Housing Development.
Secret Squirrel has pondered mobile housing at times, and is encouraged in what could,perhaps, become a problem solving application of existing technology applied to English cottages to solve problems such as overcoming and avoiding flooding,or the question and expense of housing in hotels at vacation time.Often times we hear people speak of the ballooning housing market, but yet nothing much yet ever comes of it. Interestingly here consider this found at......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1317510/The-giant-Skylifter-airships-carry-buildings-hundreds-miles.html#ixzz11P36U6LV
The Daily Mail headline reads.......
The giant airships which can carry entire buildings hundreds of miles
By Daily Mail Reporter
Invention could see disaster-relief centres dropped into remote areas
Giant balloons that can carry loads over long distances could one day even transport entire buildings.
Australian firm Skylifter is developing a piloted airship that will carry up to 150 tonnes more than 1,200 miles.
Indeed yes, hardly a new concept,merely reapplied.Recall the film, The Fiendish Plot Of Fu Manchu, indeed the simple English cottage of Sir Dennis Nyland Smith, was able to deploy,up and out the chimney, a balloon, which airlifted the cottage and he was able to fly the cottage to Fun Manchu's Tibetan lair.It's an interesting concept, only now coming to be,perhaps realized. But what with this Disaster Relief Center beneath the balloon, well,Britain certainly isn't Kansas, but the Australians could perhaps better apply the concept to our simple English cottages,houses,as it were. Thence,say in event of flooding, we could simply inflate the balloon and fly off to another,safer,drier location. Or, indeed, much as caravaning was and still is the rage, we could simply inflate the balloon and pack off with the house to a suitable "cottage" caravan like site etc, or pack off from the city to a suitable vacation country location. Or, indeed, air routes could be established and, complete with cottage, we could fly off the handle to the continent for a nice vacation in our own home. Of course, the caravan people, and the hoteliers will have none of it,and so, sigh, nothing much will come of it.Sad.But we in the MRL must encourage the continued development of this fine Australian project and encourage them to channel their energies to the much more useful,for us, area, that of Britain's ballooning housing market.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold).
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1317510/The-giant-Skylifter-airships-carry-buildings-hundreds-miles.html#ixzz11P36U6LV
The Daily Mail headline reads.......
The giant airships which can carry entire buildings hundreds of miles
By Daily Mail Reporter
Invention could see disaster-relief centres dropped into remote areas
Giant balloons that can carry loads over long distances could one day even transport entire buildings.
Australian firm Skylifter is developing a piloted airship that will carry up to 150 tonnes more than 1,200 miles.
Indeed yes, hardly a new concept,merely reapplied.Recall the film, The Fiendish Plot Of Fu Manchu, indeed the simple English cottage of Sir Dennis Nyland Smith, was able to deploy,up and out the chimney, a balloon, which airlifted the cottage and he was able to fly the cottage to Fun Manchu's Tibetan lair.It's an interesting concept, only now coming to be,perhaps realized. But what with this Disaster Relief Center beneath the balloon, well,Britain certainly isn't Kansas, but the Australians could perhaps better apply the concept to our simple English cottages,houses,as it were. Thence,say in event of flooding, we could simply inflate the balloon and fly off to another,safer,drier location. Or, indeed, much as caravaning was and still is the rage, we could simply inflate the balloon and pack off with the house to a suitable "cottage" caravan like site etc, or pack off from the city to a suitable vacation country location. Or, indeed, air routes could be established and, complete with cottage, we could fly off the handle to the continent for a nice vacation in our own home. Of course, the caravan people, and the hoteliers will have none of it,and so, sigh, nothing much will come of it.Sad.But we in the MRL must encourage the continued development of this fine Australian project and encourage them to channel their energies to the much more useful,for us, area, that of Britain's ballooning housing market.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold).
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Secret Squirrel End Wars, Makes War Hell,Makes Peace Heaven (Or, “It Takes Two To Fight, Hell No We Won’t Go”).
Secret Squirrel says NO! To War!!War, good God yu’all! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.it means destruction Of innocent lives War means tears to thousands of mothers eyes When their sons go to fight and lose their lives.War, friend only to the undertaker. It’s an enemy to all mankind.War is destructive, not only of people and property, but also of common decency. I have offered other solutions to avoid war, as in not go to war or not have war.The incumbent oily governments have not listened to my incredably sound ideas on ending this repugnant thing, this war business.Here view the methods I have and had proposed, obviously rejected but ridiculously inadequate governments.
1) The first was to send androids/robots/cyborgs/Boilerplates in place of actual men, but alas and alack,present day governments(non MRL governments) have either ignored this or have lagged behind dragging their feet on the development of these,preferring to participate in wars and send men to die to do so.To further elaborate,I had pondered the problems of war, and concluded they’re rather messy things.Some it seems wish to go and invade other places, to rule those places, simply because they’re better than…………..others invade because they’re ignorant and lacking abilities or things such as minerals…………others have nothing better to do………..and so most are forced to defend themselves. For those forced to defend themselves, it is costly, in terms of human lives,messy as well. I have pondered this and in my researches have found something
rather interesting. I discovered, or rather, re-discovered, BOILERPLATE.Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by Professor Archibald Campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.Built in a small Chicago laboratory, Boilerplate was originally designed as a prototype soldier for use in resolving the conflicts of nations. Although it was the only such prototype, Boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its
proposed function by participating in several combat actions.In the mid-1890s, Boilerplate embarked on a series of expeditions to demonstrate its abilities, the most ambitious being a voyage to Antarctica. Boilerplate is one of history’s great ironies, a technological milestone that remains largely unknown. Even in an age that gave birth to the automobile and aeroplane, a functioning mechanical man should have been accorded more significance.Indeed what I proposed to do, was to revive,recreate,or create the BOILERPLATE project, and create ROBOT WARS……….quite simply, we will never again send humans out to fight barbaric wars, but rather we will send ROBOTS……………………we will send………….BOILERPLATES. It’s really the only civilized thing to do for uncivilized conditions. I’m sure there isn’t a British mother,or mother of any other nation, who won’t thank me,I,Secret Squirrel, who wish only the best for you,for them, for their sons and daughters et all!For all of you! Well the New Labour government of the day,Tony Blair’s government it was in those days,nor the one of Gordon Brown,wouldn’t listen to me,they nary lend me an ear (they couldn’t afford to what with the expenses scandal).
2) Well, there was a second solution proposed, that of abolishing income tax. You see the original income tax was put forward to fund wars and never removed since the governments of the day and today(not MRL), have taken a fancy to this war tax and going to war.To further elaborate income tax and it’s very deviant development. Income Tax was announced in 1798, and introduced in 1799, as a means of paying for the war against the French forces under Napoleon. France was threatening to invade, and had already landed briefly in Wales and Ireland. For much of his campaigns from 1795,Napoleon was better organized than the British forces. The cost of war had drained Britain’s resources, and run up a considerable national debt. The army was starving, and poor conditions in the navy in 1797 had led to mutiny.William Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1783,and needed greater ‘aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war’.‘Certain duties upon income’ as outlined in the Act of 1799 were to be the (temporary)solution. It was a tax to beat Napoleon. Income tax was to be applied in Great Britain(but not Ireland) at a rate of 10% on the total income of the taxpayer from all sources
above £60, with reductions on income up to £200.
In the colony of Canada……………
The First World War had mostly been financed by traditional means, but in 1917, a tax on income was introduced as a temporary measure to fund the war. The income tax has since become a permanent feature of the Canadian tax system.
Hence, logic dictates that income taxes were born out of war, to fund war,yes,income taxes were created to fund war……………….I,Secret Squirrel, and we in the M.R.L. do not approve of war, and hence will eliminate income taxes such that wars cannot be funded, hence eliminating war.But again, the New Labour government would not lend me
an ear. Nay, the preferred to keep income tax and hence war.War mongering swine, they hang on to the very end of evolution.
3) And then also,I also suggested a third,simply having a Paintball War in it’s place,an alternative to this rather messy quest for oil…..err……….war business. It might be arranged and negotiated worldwide by an M.R.L. government, such that our and other nations present magnificent warriors need not die. In fact it could be set up that each nation that wishes to war over some issue or other, send a selected fixed number team, and
the other opposing nation do the same, to an appointed suitable for warfare, dueling ground.Now instead of weapons, these lads would be given a flag to defend,suitably, and sent to Duke it out, as it were(Oh my, I’ve found a use for the idle aristocracy).The rules of course, will be similar to capture the flag but as the requirement is to have a war there will be an equal numbered army, and thence be armed as paintball gun equipped warriors, and sent out, to duel,to an obviously painted victory. To the victor go the spoils, yes
indeed the other nation surrenders.Of course paintball weapons are preferred over the supersoakers,which were considered, as it’s much easier to tell hits and things rather than stand and declare war over who shot who first where,when and how badly.This will do away with all that messy killing, the need for surface and submerged warships,war aircraft, surface military vehicles etc. resulting in an immense saving in fuels and oils.There will be
a winner,and a loser.So it goes. Finality,rules adhered to,for the loser,surrender is the only option.To the victor, go the spoils. no one gets hurt,
no harm done, a winner a looser, abide by the outcome.But it seems there was fear in the government about going to war in such a condition, the outcome being so very final.They regarded it as a game,a game in which there was the possibility of …………….Loss………..Surrender………Finality.The government of the day would have none
of it, the possibility of simple loss irked them.I’d even yet pondered and covered what was to be done with the army itself now that there would be no war to keep them employed.
Now as for the military as having been a major source of employment, well what was the military can now be given shovels and as a work army sent out to dig roads and whatever else needs be done for the good of the general public…picking up trash………..cutting lawns and tending gardens for the elderly etc, employed just as they were, but not to mostly sit about as layabouts,as most all do nowadays unless there’s an increase in demand for global oil, but to do useful things for the nation.
And so I further pondered the problem of ending war, and have come up with a fourth (4th),course of action.In all finality,it has came to this,in my ponderings,the fact that well it was said, “War is Hell”.Well, we can’tmake it Heaven,and we can’t continue to send our brave young men to Hell, nay it is the government of the day (not MRL), which can go to Hell if it likes to. What I propose to do, is to make NOT going to war, absolute
Heaven, this would make the army (et all armed forces herewith further referred to as army)far less WILLING to go to war. So what needs be done, what modern reforms of the military must be accomplished such that an existant army will not want to go to war?
1) Food, diet. Here we have two alternatives, they have a choice, full vegetarian diet, this will reduce their weight, and sap their strength such that they cannot possibly carry their field equipment, and finding it too hard would spend their time struggling and straggling with it such that going to war on any kind of march would be utterly out of the question. The second alternative diet, high fat….in short they’ll pile on the lard such that the virtually same affect is achieved, but due to their high bulk weight(personally I think these will be the happier lot, and probably will regard those vegetarians as so many nutters).Always nice to have a choice.
2) We go to the Priesthood, the Chaplaincy to council and preach to the troops, preach to the troops the religious gospels of universal peace and love for all,teaching,the Chaplains in the army must tend to their religious beliefs, and encourage the religious beliefs of the army, mainly to teach and preach religion to the army, that killing and maiming is evil, unnecessary, despised of by God,and that it is much better to make love not war.
The Chaplains can teach the religious belief it is much better to love the enemy in and after whatever fashion,although,perhaps, it best be not unwisely and too well, and history has shown that many victorious armies have put that very principle in to practice,(the unwisely and too well part)all be it after a successful war,a sort of rite of celebration as it were, including pillaging and whatever as they shall soon get to it….the pillaging part not the……….err…………err…..never mind.
3)Well now, the old adage,”Make love not war!”,remembered from my hippy daze, certainly holds true,yes, a roll in the hay is worth much more than a roll in the mud of a battlefield any day of the week, and certainly those who have gone to war and know it have mentioned this as well.In the old days when there was a war, there was much much
pillage and rape for example.Pillage enriched the warriors, and rape,well satisfied them.The Japanese even brought things farther along and yet recruited those they called comfort women to comfort soldiers,at least the Japanese soldiers.This was also done in the American Union Army, recall the tented girls of General Hooker who camped out on 13th Street in Washington,D.C., to the satisfaction of the Union Army, and displeasure of President Lincoln who may have been,in actuality, a Eunuch………..but this Japanese technique of bringing the girls to battle only served to encouraged wars and the going to war.What we must do, is see to it that our soldiers pay is raised to at least comparable levels with those on welfare in Canada,so that the urge to go to war,risking death and maiming, to pillage is seen as utterly ridiculous,and totally out of the question,in short they’d have money to spend, freely,and could then spend it in and after a lovingly
fashion, as you’ll see.Now further to things ,recall certain European nations have legalized prostitution, well,so this job is now accepted,and legal, and so socially governmentally acceptable. So we must then legalize prostitution for the army and see to it women are recruited to that level of achievement,err rank.Quite simply the Canadian Army has thousands with the rank of sappers, generally acknowledging that the vast majority who go to the army are just that, saps. We can give the women a sort of comparable rank of say…Sackers.That will certainly sooth the savage beast,give’em a choice, either go to war or spend time in the sack with a comfortable woman,and a legal one at that!!! Now what else is to be done, look after their entertainment, after all idle hands make for work of the
devil…
4) Recreation, the lads must have rest and recreation. This can easily be achieved by having camps of sorts, resorts for them,on beach fronts,near to casinos and piers, in such lands as say Holland or Denmark where,you know, girls have been legalized. And so, all work and no play, has been dealt with by a fine and long R&R (Rest and Recreation)
vacation package for them. We could also offer say a cheaper version, if the budget couldn’t afford this, of merely sending the lads to Sweden, where they could go door to door, knocking to visit the very bored and unsatisfied wives(as reported in so many surveys of them) of Swedes who are off working. And so the lads could have a jolly good knocked up vacation. Of course,with either vacation package, this would be interspersed with visits to pubs round and about, a sort of I&I (Intoxification and Intercourse).
5) After such a stay, the lads may be keyed up on their return And so they must be further trained,trained to the rigors of life in bivouac conditions, roughing it, deprivational therapy,now off the fine and fancy foods, on to rations, no baths etc etc etc that army life had PREVIOUSLY presented and life which a war environment would present. Yes, from Hotel like accommodation, to the swine swill pit of degradation, quite a contrast to sharpen
their minds.After a suitable time, mandatory teaching of meditation by master sargeants, to let the men concentrate on the fine life they had versus the harsh reality of the war environment.
6) Further staff sergeants teaching sensitivity to the soldiers such as accepting the enemies customs, or at least tolerating them. After all what results in wars is America’s wish to bring American behavior to the rest of the world,and so too their soldiers wish to do the same, thinking they are doing the world a favor by substituting theirs, which is anathema to the religious beliefs,customs, and habits of the people of the world generally,even to their their style of dress for example.Nay, we must encourage toleration and acceptance of others. We just can’t simply go shooting people in wars because they
won’t buy nor wear our brand of pants. Commanding officers must teach their men, encourage them, in the ways and paths of peace, and so vastly reduce their willingness to go to war.
7) We must encourage the army to accept people as they are,why just look at what the American General Honore did, in New Orleans, instructing his men NOT to shoot looters, and so he made a pacifist example of himself in refusing to give them the order to do so, and then ran about picking up and kissing their babies…….a much better task than killing people!!
8) And,finally, all guns and ammunition are to be kept securely locked up at all times, thus keeping temptation out of the view of the army, resulting in a psychological advantage towards not going to war, the weapons and instruments of war removed from temptation, and reminding them of their vulnerability, again encouraging a pacifist attitude in the army.If they exhibited any urge towards the use of weapons, we would simply direct this energy
towards war games, affected with paintball guns, and so effectively work out of their system any form of misguided, misdirected aggression, in a calm,peaceful,and utterly harmless fashion.
So, all these things being accomplished, should ever anyone attempt to send the army to a ridiculous war, the army would have absolutely no encouragement to do so. In short, it takes two to fight a war, one cannot simply war with oneself, and so, there would be no war, not today, not any other day.
http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/M/monkeeslyrics/monkeeszorandzamlyrics.htm
(Quote)
The Monkees
Zor And Zam, Lyrics
(Original)
The king of Zor, he called for war
And the king of Zam, he answered.
They fashioned their weapons one upon one
Ton upon ton, they called for war at the rise of the sun.
Out went the call to one and to all
That echoed and rolled like the thunder.
Trumpets and drums, roar upon roar
More upon more.
Rolling the call of “Come now to war.”
Throughout the night they fashioned their might
With right on the side of the mighty.
They puzzled their minds plan upon plan
Man upon man
And at dying of dawn the great war began.
They met on the battlefield banner in hand.
They looked out across the vacant land.
And they counted the missing, one upon one,
None upon none.
The war it was over before it begun.
Two little kings playing a game.
They gave a war and nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
[repeat and fade]
(unquote)
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
1) The first was to send androids/robots/cyborgs/Boilerplates in place of actual men, but alas and alack,present day governments(non MRL governments) have either ignored this or have lagged behind dragging their feet on the development of these,preferring to participate in wars and send men to die to do so.To further elaborate,I had pondered the problems of war, and concluded they’re rather messy things.Some it seems wish to go and invade other places, to rule those places, simply because they’re better than…………..others invade because they’re ignorant and lacking abilities or things such as minerals…………others have nothing better to do………..and so most are forced to defend themselves. For those forced to defend themselves, it is costly, in terms of human lives,messy as well. I have pondered this and in my researches have found something
rather interesting. I discovered, or rather, re-discovered, BOILERPLATE.Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by Professor Archibald Campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.Built in a small Chicago laboratory, Boilerplate was originally designed as a prototype soldier for use in resolving the conflicts of nations. Although it was the only such prototype, Boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its
proposed function by participating in several combat actions.In the mid-1890s, Boilerplate embarked on a series of expeditions to demonstrate its abilities, the most ambitious being a voyage to Antarctica. Boilerplate is one of history’s great ironies, a technological milestone that remains largely unknown. Even in an age that gave birth to the automobile and aeroplane, a functioning mechanical man should have been accorded more significance.Indeed what I proposed to do, was to revive,recreate,or create the BOILERPLATE project, and create ROBOT WARS……….quite simply, we will never again send humans out to fight barbaric wars, but rather we will send ROBOTS……………………we will send………….BOILERPLATES. It’s really the only civilized thing to do for uncivilized conditions. I’m sure there isn’t a British mother,or mother of any other nation, who won’t thank me,I,Secret Squirrel, who wish only the best for you,for them, for their sons and daughters et all!For all of you! Well the New Labour government of the day,Tony Blair’s government it was in those days,nor the one of Gordon Brown,wouldn’t listen to me,they nary lend me an ear (they couldn’t afford to what with the expenses scandal).
2) Well, there was a second solution proposed, that of abolishing income tax. You see the original income tax was put forward to fund wars and never removed since the governments of the day and today(not MRL), have taken a fancy to this war tax and going to war.To further elaborate income tax and it’s very deviant development. Income Tax was announced in 1798, and introduced in 1799, as a means of paying for the war against the French forces under Napoleon. France was threatening to invade, and had already landed briefly in Wales and Ireland. For much of his campaigns from 1795,Napoleon was better organized than the British forces. The cost of war had drained Britain’s resources, and run up a considerable national debt. The army was starving, and poor conditions in the navy in 1797 had led to mutiny.William Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1783,and needed greater ‘aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war’.‘Certain duties upon income’ as outlined in the Act of 1799 were to be the (temporary)solution. It was a tax to beat Napoleon. Income tax was to be applied in Great Britain(but not Ireland) at a rate of 10% on the total income of the taxpayer from all sources
above £60, with reductions on income up to £200.
In the colony of Canada……………
The First World War had mostly been financed by traditional means, but in 1917, a tax on income was introduced as a temporary measure to fund the war. The income tax has since become a permanent feature of the Canadian tax system.
Hence, logic dictates that income taxes were born out of war, to fund war,yes,income taxes were created to fund war……………….I,Secret Squirrel, and we in the M.R.L. do not approve of war, and hence will eliminate income taxes such that wars cannot be funded, hence eliminating war.But again, the New Labour government would not lend me
an ear. Nay, the preferred to keep income tax and hence war.War mongering swine, they hang on to the very end of evolution.
3) And then also,I also suggested a third,simply having a Paintball War in it’s place,an alternative to this rather messy quest for oil…..err……….war business. It might be arranged and negotiated worldwide by an M.R.L. government, such that our and other nations present magnificent warriors need not die. In fact it could be set up that each nation that wishes to war over some issue or other, send a selected fixed number team, and
the other opposing nation do the same, to an appointed suitable for warfare, dueling ground.Now instead of weapons, these lads would be given a flag to defend,suitably, and sent to Duke it out, as it were(Oh my, I’ve found a use for the idle aristocracy).The rules of course, will be similar to capture the flag but as the requirement is to have a war there will be an equal numbered army, and thence be armed as paintball gun equipped warriors, and sent out, to duel,to an obviously painted victory. To the victor go the spoils, yes
indeed the other nation surrenders.Of course paintball weapons are preferred over the supersoakers,which were considered, as it’s much easier to tell hits and things rather than stand and declare war over who shot who first where,when and how badly.This will do away with all that messy killing, the need for surface and submerged warships,war aircraft, surface military vehicles etc. resulting in an immense saving in fuels and oils.There will be
a winner,and a loser.So it goes. Finality,rules adhered to,for the loser,surrender is the only option.To the victor, go the spoils. no one gets hurt,
no harm done, a winner a looser, abide by the outcome.But it seems there was fear in the government about going to war in such a condition, the outcome being so very final.They regarded it as a game,a game in which there was the possibility of …………….Loss………..Surrender………Finality.The government of the day would have none
of it, the possibility of simple loss irked them.I’d even yet pondered and covered what was to be done with the army itself now that there would be no war to keep them employed.
Now as for the military as having been a major source of employment, well what was the military can now be given shovels and as a work army sent out to dig roads and whatever else needs be done for the good of the general public…picking up trash………..cutting lawns and tending gardens for the elderly etc, employed just as they were, but not to mostly sit about as layabouts,as most all do nowadays unless there’s an increase in demand for global oil, but to do useful things for the nation.
And so I further pondered the problem of ending war, and have come up with a fourth (4th),course of action.In all finality,it has came to this,in my ponderings,the fact that well it was said, “War is Hell”.Well, we can’tmake it Heaven,and we can’t continue to send our brave young men to Hell, nay it is the government of the day (not MRL), which can go to Hell if it likes to. What I propose to do, is to make NOT going to war, absolute
Heaven, this would make the army (et all armed forces herewith further referred to as army)far less WILLING to go to war. So what needs be done, what modern reforms of the military must be accomplished such that an existant army will not want to go to war?
1) Food, diet. Here we have two alternatives, they have a choice, full vegetarian diet, this will reduce their weight, and sap their strength such that they cannot possibly carry their field equipment, and finding it too hard would spend their time struggling and straggling with it such that going to war on any kind of march would be utterly out of the question. The second alternative diet, high fat….in short they’ll pile on the lard such that the virtually same affect is achieved, but due to their high bulk weight(personally I think these will be the happier lot, and probably will regard those vegetarians as so many nutters).Always nice to have a choice.
2) We go to the Priesthood, the Chaplaincy to council and preach to the troops, preach to the troops the religious gospels of universal peace and love for all,teaching,the Chaplains in the army must tend to their religious beliefs, and encourage the religious beliefs of the army, mainly to teach and preach religion to the army, that killing and maiming is evil, unnecessary, despised of by God,and that it is much better to make love not war.
The Chaplains can teach the religious belief it is much better to love the enemy in and after whatever fashion,although,perhaps, it best be not unwisely and too well, and history has shown that many victorious armies have put that very principle in to practice,(the unwisely and too well part)all be it after a successful war,a sort of rite of celebration as it were, including pillaging and whatever as they shall soon get to it….the pillaging part not the……….err…………err…..never mind.
3)Well now, the old adage,”Make love not war!”,remembered from my hippy daze, certainly holds true,yes, a roll in the hay is worth much more than a roll in the mud of a battlefield any day of the week, and certainly those who have gone to war and know it have mentioned this as well.In the old days when there was a war, there was much much
pillage and rape for example.Pillage enriched the warriors, and rape,well satisfied them.The Japanese even brought things farther along and yet recruited those they called comfort women to comfort soldiers,at least the Japanese soldiers.This was also done in the American Union Army, recall the tented girls of General Hooker who camped out on 13th Street in Washington,D.C., to the satisfaction of the Union Army, and displeasure of President Lincoln who may have been,in actuality, a Eunuch………..but this Japanese technique of bringing the girls to battle only served to encouraged wars and the going to war.What we must do, is see to it that our soldiers pay is raised to at least comparable levels with those on welfare in Canada,so that the urge to go to war,risking death and maiming, to pillage is seen as utterly ridiculous,and totally out of the question,in short they’d have money to spend, freely,and could then spend it in and after a lovingly
fashion, as you’ll see.Now further to things ,recall certain European nations have legalized prostitution, well,so this job is now accepted,and legal, and so socially governmentally acceptable. So we must then legalize prostitution for the army and see to it women are recruited to that level of achievement,err rank.Quite simply the Canadian Army has thousands with the rank of sappers, generally acknowledging that the vast majority who go to the army are just that, saps. We can give the women a sort of comparable rank of say…Sackers.That will certainly sooth the savage beast,give’em a choice, either go to war or spend time in the sack with a comfortable woman,and a legal one at that!!! Now what else is to be done, look after their entertainment, after all idle hands make for work of the
devil…
4) Recreation, the lads must have rest and recreation. This can easily be achieved by having camps of sorts, resorts for them,on beach fronts,near to casinos and piers, in such lands as say Holland or Denmark where,you know, girls have been legalized. And so, all work and no play, has been dealt with by a fine and long R&R (Rest and Recreation)
vacation package for them. We could also offer say a cheaper version, if the budget couldn’t afford this, of merely sending the lads to Sweden, where they could go door to door, knocking to visit the very bored and unsatisfied wives(as reported in so many surveys of them) of Swedes who are off working. And so the lads could have a jolly good knocked up vacation. Of course,with either vacation package, this would be interspersed with visits to pubs round and about, a sort of I&I (Intoxification and Intercourse).
5) After such a stay, the lads may be keyed up on their return And so they must be further trained,trained to the rigors of life in bivouac conditions, roughing it, deprivational therapy,now off the fine and fancy foods, on to rations, no baths etc etc etc that army life had PREVIOUSLY presented and life which a war environment would present. Yes, from Hotel like accommodation, to the swine swill pit of degradation, quite a contrast to sharpen
their minds.After a suitable time, mandatory teaching of meditation by master sargeants, to let the men concentrate on the fine life they had versus the harsh reality of the war environment.
6) Further staff sergeants teaching sensitivity to the soldiers such as accepting the enemies customs, or at least tolerating them. After all what results in wars is America’s wish to bring American behavior to the rest of the world,and so too their soldiers wish to do the same, thinking they are doing the world a favor by substituting theirs, which is anathema to the religious beliefs,customs, and habits of the people of the world generally,even to their their style of dress for example.Nay, we must encourage toleration and acceptance of others. We just can’t simply go shooting people in wars because they
won’t buy nor wear our brand of pants. Commanding officers must teach their men, encourage them, in the ways and paths of peace, and so vastly reduce their willingness to go to war.
7) We must encourage the army to accept people as they are,why just look at what the American General Honore did, in New Orleans, instructing his men NOT to shoot looters, and so he made a pacifist example of himself in refusing to give them the order to do so, and then ran about picking up and kissing their babies…….a much better task than killing people!!
8) And,finally, all guns and ammunition are to be kept securely locked up at all times, thus keeping temptation out of the view of the army, resulting in a psychological advantage towards not going to war, the weapons and instruments of war removed from temptation, and reminding them of their vulnerability, again encouraging a pacifist attitude in the army.If they exhibited any urge towards the use of weapons, we would simply direct this energy
towards war games, affected with paintball guns, and so effectively work out of their system any form of misguided, misdirected aggression, in a calm,peaceful,and utterly harmless fashion.
So, all these things being accomplished, should ever anyone attempt to send the army to a ridiculous war, the army would have absolutely no encouragement to do so. In short, it takes two to fight a war, one cannot simply war with oneself, and so, there would be no war, not today, not any other day.
http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/M/monkeeslyrics/monkeeszorandzamlyrics.htm
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The Monkees
Zor And Zam, Lyrics
(Original)
The king of Zor, he called for war
And the king of Zam, he answered.
They fashioned their weapons one upon one
Ton upon ton, they called for war at the rise of the sun.
Out went the call to one and to all
That echoed and rolled like the thunder.
Trumpets and drums, roar upon roar
More upon more.
Rolling the call of “Come now to war.”
Throughout the night they fashioned their might
With right on the side of the mighty.
They puzzled their minds plan upon plan
Man upon man
And at dying of dawn the great war began.
They met on the battlefield banner in hand.
They looked out across the vacant land.
And they counted the missing, one upon one,
None upon none.
The war it was over before it begun.
Two little kings playing a game.
They gave a war and nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
[repeat and fade]
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Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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