Symbols and Justice

I am finishing my Appellants Opening Brief, which is a description of the facts of the case, and again I am hopeful. Hoping that these words will trigger certain synaptic connections that will lead these justices to grant me a hearing to produce my proof, and make my claim of unlawful behavior by these banks.

I have been hopeful before, nine times since 2003.

In each of those nine different appeals, I have failed, with the use of symbols (words) to convince even one justice, that I am guaranteed by the constitution to my day in court. Specifically the fifth and fourteenth amendments to that constitution which guarantees due process. Instead my case has become somewhat of a hot potato to the judiciary, each body, dispatching it, without addressing the undeniable violation of law, which caused this mess, by greedy Wall Street bankers, and their service companies.
But as my hero, Winston Churchill, once said, "We will never surrender"

Past v Future

In spite of the facts, many citizens still oppose the use of medical marijuana.

It is not clear why some would oppose this god given weed of cannabis sativa.

Elizabeth Warren

Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren has announced that she will run as a democrat to fight for the seat held by Scott Brown, the seat held by Edward Kennedy.

Good Luck Elizabeth, I have been a big fan since 2004.

Have Faith in the DNA - God's Blueprinting Intelligence

A LONG DECADE AGO

In the trillions of multiplying unique human forms over time, it’s not surprising that the DNA would eventually produce one with a mindset that would use the tools of a modern world, such as jumbo jets, and couple it with a fanatical religious perspective to produce mayhem upon society. 

The real threat now, reminds us to think several steps ahead into areas never thought of before. After all, the success of the September 2001 attacks, were in their surprise. Who would have ever thought of using an airplane as a weapon of war. And it was not a nation, or a religion that pulled it off. It was a number of lunatic individuals, and the main lunatic himself; Bin Laden. The crucial meeting of Bin Laden with Atta, was as much determined by fate as anything else in this tragic chain of events and oversights. 

At least lower Manhattan can rebuild and regain its position among the great cities of the world. It’s not radioactive, and uninhabitable, which is a new threat to prepare for. Suitcase nuclear, dirty bombs etc.  Like the genetic mutation that produced these trigger men, driving their jets into history, in time, two years or two hundered years, eventually we will face this challenge.  The time to consider this is now, and of course keep our faith in unseen energies we do not yet fully understand. Have faith, and trust in the DNA.  

From "The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan", Playboy Magazine, March 1969.

The Playboy Interview:
Marshall McLuhan
A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of
media
In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English
students at the University of Toronto -- and a coterie of academic admirers who
followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two
remarkable books -- The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media
(1964) -- and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found
himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic
property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant -- and
frequently baffling -- theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name
has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of
pop culture.
Though his books are written in a difficult style -- at once enigmatic, epigrammatic
and overgrown with arcane literary and historic allusions -- the revolutionary ideas
lurking in them have made McLuhan a best-selling author. Despite protests from a
legion of outraged scholastics and old-guard humanists who claim that McLuhan's
ideas range from demented to dangerous, his free-for-all theorizing has attracted
the attention of top executives at General Motors (who paid him a handsome fee to
inform them that automobiles were a thing of the past), Bell Telephone (to whom
he explained that they didn't really understand the function of the telephone) and a
leading package-design house (which was told that packages will soon be
obsolete). Anteing up $5000, another huge corporation asked him to predict -- via
closed-circuit television -- what their own products will be used for in the future; and
Canada's turned-on Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau engages him in monthly bull
sessions designed to improve his television image.

Us and Them

World Economy and Pink Floyd

The United States was struggling through the great depression when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941.

Suddenly, on a dime, the will of the nation changed. Political differences vanished and Americans had a common enemy. The government started building tanks, ships, and airplanes. Unemployment vanished and people had money to spend to fuel the economy. Prosperity continued for decades after the axis surrender in 1945.

Today, perhaps, we need a common enemy to focus on, to do what needs to be done.

It will likely need to be from outer space, since the whole world is in this financial mess.

In America, the problem is made worse by the two political parties, who both truly beleive they are right, and doing the right thing, to cure our financial ills.

Peace 

From Fox News

NEW NUCLEOTIDES IDENTIFIED IN HUMAN DNA

Human DNA includes eight nucleotides instead of the four originally identified.

Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:04 PM ET
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THE GIST

• Researchers added and removed methyl groups to identify these new nucleotides.
• The list of DNA nucleotides had been previously increased from four to six.
• The discovery could someday advance the field of stem cell research.

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When scientists talk of DNA sequencing, it's written as strings of these letters: A, T, C, G.Click to enlarge this image. 
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The human recipe just got complicated: It turns out there are more ingredients in us than we thought.

In high school science, we were taught of the four basic units that make up DNA -- adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. When scientists talk of DNA sequencing, it's written as strings of these units: ATCGGTGA, and so on.

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In recent years, scientists expanded that list of nucleotides from four to six. And in a study published online in the most recent issue of Science magazine, researchers from the University of North Carolina School's medical school have discovered the seventh and eight bases of DNA.

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But the meaning of this extra ingredient in the alphabet soup that makes us who we are isn't as simple as A, B, C.

"Before we can grasp the magnitude of this discovery, we have to figure out the function of these new bases," said Yi Zhang, biochemistry and biophysics professor at UNC's Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Zhang arrived at his discovery by playing around with the chemical makeup of the base cytosine; by adding a new chemical tag -- called a methyl group -- to the base it became those fifth and sixth units. This process, called methylation,causes the DNA's double helix to fold even tighter upon itself.

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Demethylation describes the removal of a chemical group from a molecule, a process that led to the new 7th and 8th units -- they've been given the ugly names 5-formylcytosine and 5 carboxylcytosine. (The fifth base -- 5 methylC -- and the sixth base -- 5 hydroxymethylC -- have equally ungainly names, to be fair.)

"These bases represent an intermediate state in the demethylation process," he explained.

Once better understood, Zhang hopes his discovery could someday advance the field of stem cell research. By demethylating DNA, it may be possible to reprogram adult cells to make them act like stem cells.

It could also inform cancer research, as it could give scientists the opportunity to reactivate tumor suppressor genes that had been silenced.