About the Debt Ceiling

What they are NOT telling us about the Borrowing Limit (aka Debt Ceiling);

The Debt ceiling is getting Lower every day because of inflation.

Today the Debt ceiling is 14.3 Trillion US$ or 303.4 thousand tons of Gold.

Last year, 2010, in June the Debt ceiling was 12.4 trillion US$ or 336.1 thousand tons of Gold.

So when measured in Gold the debt ceiling has fallen since last year by 32 thousand tons of Gold.

Why do I get the impression I'm hitting the upper atmosphere on a de-orbit without a heat shield?

US Borrowing Limit POSTULATE

Postulate;

The DEBT Ceiling OR Borrowing limit is irrelevant.

REASONING;

The USA CAN NOT Borrow any more money.

Witness the following observation (AND MATH);

Last Years Calculation

Last year, that's right One Year Ago, the national debt was equivalent to 352,242.3 tons of GOLD. More gold than the entire production of the world since we first started digging the little gold flecks out of the sand.

TODAY, the National Debt is only worth 303,378.91 tons of GOLD. A drop of 48.9 thousand tons and now in range of total worldwide estimated gold ever mined.

The Postulate is that; "WE CAN NEVER BORROW MORE MONEY THAN THERE ACTUALLY IS". The laws of physics prevent it and there is an actual physical limit beyond witch we can't go.

Lets talk about this on the golf course with speaker Boehner and president Obama.

Notes;

National Debt per GoldPrice
GoldPrice = US$ 1615.30 / troyounce = 51933.101 US$ / kg
NationalDebt = 14293065510000 US$

14293065510000 US$ / 51933.101 US$ / kg
= 275220.72 thousand kg
‎= 303378.91 ton of gold

Plane Taking Off

Whats in a gram (part II Gold)

I just did a quick back of the envelope calculation I was curious about;

Washington State Debt

6 Billion US$
325,240 lbs gold
162.6 tons gold

Or an 8 ft diameter sphere of solid gold

Federal Debt

13 Trillion (+/- a few Billion) US$
352,242.3 tons of gold

Or a 103.6 ft diameter sphere of gold

And an interesting observation;

In the entire history of humanity it is estimated that the total amount of gold ever mined is 343,000 tons of gold. That's 20 million years of mining the stuff AND ITS 10,000 tons less than the amount of DEBT we have.

I'll email you numbers if you want to check my figures. I used the recent record high for the price of gold of $1,260/troy ounce.

Jill England 36th District Legislature

Professional Experience

Software Designer/Engineer; Creating software for private industry and State of Washington DOAG, DSHS, Seattle DOJ, Federal Public Health Service

Education

Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems University of Puget Sound 1984

Statement

$6.2 Billion dollars in the red and Olympia can’t cut spending. That’s $931 for every person. Next year will be higher with pensions still unfunded. It’s time to bring common sense back to our state.

• I believe in improving our education system by giving teachers more autonomy.


• I'll cut wasteful spending.


• I’ll not ignore the people’s tax initiatives.


• I’ll reduce business manufacturing bureaucracy that is driving jobs from our state.


• I'm against the income tax initiative because it does not eliminate other taxes such as sales tax and we know it will eventually be applied to all state citizens.

Help me restore fiscal responsibility to our state!

VFR not recommended ...

Preflght, on arrival do not fly over the cylindrical building at the end of runway eight. Contact Portland Approach for Mandatory Advisory 119.0 before PDX airspace. VFR not recommended due to low ceilings en-route.

Walls within walls and the brick in this wall is round.
Walls soft and hard,
My destination surrounded, controlled,
The sky gray, covered.
Before me this cover touched the hills, impenetrable.
Over the hills my destination lay.
Decisively, ninety degrees right I turned
So I would go West instead of South,
And dodge,
And weave,
Below and then above,
Looking for the door I knew was there,
Rechecking, always feeling something was left undone,
Around the storm and hills I flew
To the valley of the great western river called Columbia,
Through the valley I approached the Metropolis,
Listening as Pearson weather crackled to life through the static,
I contacted the controller,
Who instructed, ordered, requested,
I stay below her airspace,
And I ducked below the limit,
And was then too low to easily see my destination,
Then I saw the round brick,
The cylindrical tower of apartments
I had been told to avoid,
Marking the end of the runway and my destination.
I turned, I flared and landed with the wind.

Inspired by flight from Harvey to Pearson Field June 2010

A Civil Life

The current crisis of conservatism in America is of dire concern for all of us. Bottomless debt, the end of the ideals, end of freedom, and end of the promise of a better life looms above our necks as the proverbial sword of Damocles, while we squirm on the block struggling against all hope for a reprieve.

Many have feared these days were coming. Back in 1970's the incredible debt and inflation of the era put fear into many. But the problem never got better. Except for a brief respite in the 1980's government has grown more powerful, more intrusive, and more irresponsible at a logarithmically increasing rate.

Today many of our own neighbors will tell us, yes the end of America as we knew it is at hand and yes the totalitarianists are at our very gates but, let it come, it's not so different than what we have now, and we will find a way to live under their rule.

Shame on them! Shame on Americans who would not support freedom and Shame on us for not speaking out against this among our own friends. For these phony Americans will not find some benign dictator in the wave of oppression that is to come. They will find the most brutal despots, those without a true religion, without a true civil government and who destroy all hope of families to succeed on even the most basic of levels. They will be but slaves in their masters empire.

For these despots do not believe in individuals striving to make themselves better people, they seek absolute control through the application of violence against the governed, and they despise the notion of the basic union of one man and one woman to form a functional family unit and as the basis of an individually rewarding and enduring society.

A True Religion,
A True Civil Government,
A True Domestic Life

These are the foundations of America. These are the principles our founding fathers attempted to protect when they codified the Federal Government. These are the principles we have not lived up to in the last 100 years, and the punishment for not living up to these ideals is coming down upon our heads and we must admit that we justly deserve it.

Before we can win our fight against the Marxists we must recognize our own personal failings in these areas and we must not suffer that lies spoken against these ideals be uttered unchallenged.

In the arena of a True Religion, we must allow that a true religion requires that every individual admit their faults, and recognize that they can and must strive to personally improve, not by their own judgment but in the eyes of their creator. This is and underpinning assumption of our society, that the individual can better himself not just financially but also spiritually.

In the arena of a True Civil Government, we must never rule by the sword, that is never rule by murder. The Turks ruled by murder in the 15 through 17 hundreds. This was paralleled by the papacy and Spain ruling by murder during the Spanish inquisition. In the Americas of this time the colonists terrorized their populations and burned “witches” at the stake. Criminal gangs employ rule by the sword, murdering their rivals and civil authorities. Immediately you should think that these incidents are not on the same scale, but they are on the same scale in the heart. Once you choose that path you are a murderer and it’s only a matter of your price which will get larger every day as you attempt to maintain and extend your power. It can start small with simple trials and over year’s blossom into a full fledged murdering witch-hunt-inquisition; McCarthy trials, sex predator or child abuse accusations on false evidence, drug busts by swat teams in the middle of the night on false warrants. We must never as individuals allow ourselves to participate in or abide such atrocities and methods of governing. Rule by the sword in all of its manifestations is evil and must be resisted with every ounce of our humanity.

In the arena of a True Domestic Life, we must all recognize that the ideal and in fact only self sufficient renewable unit of society is a family formed by the union of one man and one woman with their own children. Other societies despise the idea of monogamous marriage. These societies do not respect the woman in society and treat her as though she were one of many slaves. Our own society both Europe and America seeks to establish homosexual marriage as an equal or even superior union to monogamous marriage. A homosexual marriage is not self sustaining and can never be a building block for any culture that wishes to grow and be prosperous for the long term. In fact these 'marriages' do just the opposite, they cause a culture to diminish in its values, and it's people to diminish in their numbers, over time. Because this is such an emotional topic let me add that members of the same sex can form mutually supportive agreements or unions for them to live to together and support each other. This will never be the same as a family unit which creates and educates their own children and I believe that every person can see this perspective if they stop for a moment and are self reflective. 'Gay Marriage' however is a diversion from other very real perversions that have been instilled upon domestic life in America in the last 100 years. The government has increasingly subverted the family by supporting unlimited abortions, extortive child support permitting 'mothers' to raise children without fathers, omnipotent state imposed ‘Child Support Services’ bureaucracies that operate by inflexible rules and arbitrarily destroy families in their children’s name. Worst of all is welfare which undermines the families’ right to raise their own children. The Federal Governments intrusion into religion, family values, and subsequent destruction of a true social life defies an adjective.

In all three areas we have failed miserably both individually and as a society. The root of the failing of the others is our failure in the first. We must have a belief that our creator wishes that we be a better people and we daily strive each individually to improve ourselves in his eyes. To work in concert with natural laws, each love and protect our fellow man, and each of us recognize our individual faults that we may be better people tomorrow. This is the fundamental principle of a 'True Religion'. This is the fundamental foundation of a free people. If we can once again find this in ourselves we may also find that the will and strength to resist tyranny has again been restored within us

We can hardly hope to prevail against false religions, governments, and domestic living when we refuse to recognize, admit, and correct our own failings, our own sins. This is as true today as it was five hundred, or a thousand years ago.

I draw inspiration for this post from Martin Luther in 1528.

See http://www.crossings.org/thursday/2002/thur1010.shtml for a sumation or "LUTHER'S WORKS, vol. 46: 157-205 Revised translation by Robert C. Schultz.", also http://www.puritanboard.com/f24/martin-luther-war-against-turk-40430/

Socialism is ...

Slavery is ownership and control of one person by another.

Socialism is ownership and control of all persons by the State.


Song For The Times;

Revolution 1, The Beatles [White Album] Disk 2

You gota wake up people ...

It is so surrealistic, it's like everyone's dropped acid and they are letting the 'chosen one' get away with everything he promised to do during the election. Raping and pillaging the American Constitution, tromping on the bill of rights, and stealing untold trillions from future generations and giving them to his 'friends'.

And everyone is just walking around in dream; "Like it's ok man, he's the choosen one, he knows what he is doing, the media would tell us if something was wrong."

Everyone is so blind to it all. They are going to wake up in 30 days and ask themselves, what just happened?

Hybrid SUV

O'bama won't you buy me a Hybrid SUV,
My friends all drive smart cars they're greener than me,
I long for the day when I live carbon free,
O'bama won't you buy me a Hybrid SUV.

O'bama won't you buy me a flat-screen TV,
Government bailouts are trying to find me,
I wait for my subsidy each day until three,
O'bama won't you buy me a flat-screen TV.

O'bama can't you finance my night on the town,
My house speculation has really brought me down,
I'm counting on congress to buy the next round,
O'bama won't you finance my night on the town.

Everybody now,

O'bama won't you send me my next welfare check,
I could get a Job but, Lord what the heck,
My 12 kids need health care and I need that too you bet,
O'bama won't you send me my next welfare check.

Amen.

With apologies to Janis Joplin

And Now There Is No One Left

THEY CAME FIRST FOR those who were independent and lived in rural America,
and I said nothing because I lived in the city,

THEN THEY CAME for those who spoke out against the theft of property and rights,
and I said nothing because it did not agree with the mainstream broadcasts,

THEN THEY CAME for those who clung to their right to their weapons,
and I said nothing because I did not carry my gun,

THEN THEY CAME for those who clung to their religious beliefs,
and I said noting because I was not religious,

NOW THEY have come for me,
and no one is left who can hear my screams.

What's in a gram?

One gm can be converted into .025 Terra watt hours, or 25,000 Mega watt hours, or 33.5 million horse power hours, or 2.23 million gallons of gas ... or one Nagasaki, depending on which measurement you think you understand.

Using light units!

One of my favorite programs is the Unix 'units' program. This program can convert from cm to miles for example. The really cool thing about it is that all of the definitions are in a special 'language' and stored in a file called units.dat.

Many years ago I taught units a very cool trick by substituting the value for the speed of light with 1 and changing the length of a second to meters. This creates the awesome ability to quickly change mass to energy and vice-versa.

Currently I use the version of units that comes with CGWIN.

To create a light_units.dat file apply the following changes to a new /usr/share/light_units.dat file.

$ diff -dtw --unified=1 units.dat light_units.dat
--- units.dat 2001-12-13 07:22:13.001000000 -0800
+++ light_units.dat 2004-08-21 18:25:18.965594600 -0700
@@ -291,3 +291,4 @@

-s ! # Duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation
+#s ! # Duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation
+s 2.9979246e+08 m
second s # corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine
@@ -574,2 +575,29 @@
#
+# Information to compare energy usage and generation to energy released
+# from nuclear devices. For giving a rough idea.
+#
+
+ton_e 1e+9 calorie
+ # kilotons as a metric mass measurement
+ # (kilotonnes) of TNT gives a value of
+ # 1000 c/g, well within the reported range,
+ # while treating it as "kilo short tons of
+ # TNT" gives 1102 c/g, at the extreme
+ # upper end of the reported range. Thus a
+ # kiloton can be called a "kilo metric ton
+ # of TNT" and a "kilo short ton of TNT"
+ # with about equal validity.
+ # Should this be Thermochemical Calorie? or IT Calorie?
+#
+# http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm
+#
+hiroshima 12.5 kton_e # 08-06-45, 3600 kg, 9ft 9in, littleboy, u235, 118,661 killed
+nagasaki 22.0 kton_e # 08-09-45, 4050 kg, 11ft 4in, fatman, pu239, 73,884 killed
+littleboy hiroshima
+fatman nagasaki
+
+nova 10^44 J
+#
+
+#
# Dimensions. These are here to help with dimensional analysis and
@@ -691,3 +719,2 @@
#
-
sec s
@@ -885,3 +912,4 @@
pi 3.14159265358979323846
-c 2.99792458e8 m/s # speed of light in vacuum (exact)
+#c 2.99792458e8 m/s # speed of light in vacuum (exact)
+c 1 # The distance of a second is 2.997 meters ergo
light c
@@ -889,3 +917,3 @@
epsilon0 1/mu0 c^2 # permittivity of vacuum (exact)
-energy c^2 # convert mass to energy
+#energy c^2 # convert mass to energy
e 1.602176462e-19 C # electron charge
@@ -1089,2 +1117,3 @@
# NIST publication 811
+ly lightyear
lightsecond c s
@@ -1534,3 +1563,4 @@
earthradius_polar 6356912.0 m
-earthradius_equatorial 6378388.0 m # Could be wrong? 6378136.3 m better?
+#earthradius_equatorial 6378388.0 m # Could be wrong? 6378136.3 m better?
+earthradius_equatorial 6378136.3 m
landarea 148.847e6 km^2
@@ -1557,3 +1587,4 @@
venusradius 6.3 Mm
-marsradius 3.43 Mm
+#marsradius 3.43 Mm
+marsradius 3397.2 km
jupiterradius 72 Mm
@@ -1664,3 +1695,3 @@
# extended.
-nauticalmile 1852 m # Supposed to be one minute of latitude at
+#nauticalmile 1852 m # Supposed to be one minute of latitude at
# the equator. That value is about 1855 m.
@@ -1671,2 +1702,3 @@
# 1954. The UK switched in 1970.
+nauticalmile 2 earthradius_equatorial pi / 21600

3D Color Anaglyph of Cascades, Mt. Phelps

This is the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle. The rock standing up in the mid foreground left is Mt. Phelps and the peak in the background on the right is Mount Hinman on the north side of Snoqualmie pass. I believe that the peak in the center of the picture is Cashmere Mountain just west up the valley from Leavenworth. Cashmere Mt. is the furthest point visible in this picture and is the center of this anaglyph.

This picture taken from about 6000 ft on the south side of Tolt Reservoir looking south east.

Global Warming Is Mass Hysteria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

Mass hysteria, also called collective hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, or collective obsessional behavior, is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person.

A common manifestation of mass hysteria occurs when people believe they are suffering from a similar disease or ailment.[1]

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The above definition of mass hysteria describes our collective frenzy of 'Global Warming'. We need to recognize Global Warming as the collective western psychosis it has become and think about what we are doing reasonably.

One of the symptoms of this psychosis is that collectively we don't recognize it as such.

Fortunately this hysteria has only infected the western world and most of the worlds population are insulated from it.

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The picture is the partially flooded Snohomish river valley, near Duvall, after our recent annual flood last week .

Bellevue, Seattle, Olympics from the Cascades

On the way back from the mountains we saw Bellevue, Seattle, Bremerton (can't really make out anything of Bremerton) and the Olympic mountains. Both lake Sammamish and Lake Washington are visible in the picture. The tallest building in Seattle is the Bank of America building (formerly the Columbia tower on the left of the city. On the right of the city, the tall tower (with the ship behind it) is the Seattle Space Needle.

This shot makes the city seem awfully small.

Cascades McClain Peaks

McClain Peaks are on the left, Mt. Phelps is on the right. We just had a major snow storm in the Cascades, followed by a heavy warm rain. Its frozen again today in these pictures with more snow expected tomorrow.
Here we are coming around the north side of McClain. Very steep terrain, cliffs, snow chutes etc.
Swinging around to the west side of the peaks.
Closest approach. This shot is very clear and quite a bit of detail can be seen. It would be a pretty serious technical climb to get up here with feet on the ground.

Sun Shines on Seattle

Sun shines on Seattle today. The flood I was concerned about on the Snohomish will not happen. The flood level not only will not be as bad as last year, it won't even be in the top ten.

I'm happy about that. Doesn't mean we won't get another storm. We typically have up to two a year.

Storm 'Emergency' in Seattle ... Not!

Today our Gov. declared 'A State of Emergency' because of 'massive flooding, heavy rain, and high winds. Granted the wind was bad in some places but, it wasn't as bad as last year when parts of Seattle lost power for almost 4 days. The 'flooding' was bad with some local flash floods but, it wasn't as bad as last year when the Snohomish reached the tops of the levee's in, well the town of Snohomish though it may reach as high as last year again tomorrow, it's been much worse the recent past.

Frankly, if flooding and high winds happen every year in November and December its no longer an emergency its just another monsoon season in Seattle. By the way, we invite everyone to come visit us during monsoon season. We have great coffee and our favorite tour buses are recycled WWII amphibious trucks.

Come to Seattle during the monsoon and "Ride the Duck". We will leave the water fountains running for you. :)

It's not an 'Emergency'. Yes it is a bad storm but it happens every year. Relax already.

Eagle Sclupture

This is a beautiful and thought provoking sclupture on the stairs next to the Federal building in Seattle. It is an eagle in a cage. Symbolically it is quite thought provoking and I stop to look at it a couple of times a year.