The Bubbha’s Frontporch

I’m not sure who to feel bad or happy for in this video. I would call this epic either way. There’s a lot going on here, so watch the entire clip. (i.e. don’t fast forward)

Funny the things you find when your not looking. Basically the couple of block quotes below explain how before Noah’s Flood (probably should be called YHWH’s Flood) fallen angels had sexual intercourse with Earth women who in turn gave birth to a race of giants that roamed the land and caused men to be sinful. They had plenty of time to do it in since humans lived to be 120 years old. These giants, were all killed in the flood, that’s why we don’t see them to this day. However, their presence is still with us. God allowed 10% of the spirits of these giants to remain on Earth to influence mankind to do evil. Pretty sweet stuff!

Genesis 6:3

There were giants [nephilim] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The “lesser Genesis” called the Book of Jubilees talks about how:

the genesis of angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim. The Ethiopian version states that the “angels” were in fact the disobedient offspring of Seth (Deqiqa Set), while the “mortal females” were daughters of Cain. This is also the view held by most of the earliest commentators. Their hybrid children, the Nephilim in existence during the time of Noah, were wiped out by the great flood.

Also Hebrew was the Lingua franca for all people and ANIMALS of Earth. A nice explanation for this craziness is that these are remnants a polytheistic Jewish belief system of a nomadic social structure where the decedents of Gods walked amongst mankind.

I guess I’ve been out of the loop on South Parks lately, but I thought at least one of my nerd friends would have informed me about this South Park episode. For anyone, like me, who has seen the cartoon “Heavy Metal” a thousand times, then you MUST see this. Major Boobage. Just as a side note, I wonder if this writer’s strike has encourage shows to put complete episodes online. Either way for someone without cable I definitely reap the rewards. No more bittorrent downloading of Battlestar.

This is a thought provoking billboard I drive past on my way to work in the mornings. So does this mean that Ben Franklin isn’t who we think he is? A kite flying francophilic bifocal and stove inventing weather prognosticating founding father. Maybe I misunderstand. OR Perhaps this billboard is referring to the Masons themselves. Maybe they are the ones misunderstood. Seems like this billboard should say: “Not who you think” and under it, “THE MASONS” written in some super awesome script to attract new recruits. I could be completely wrong again.

Here’s my possible interpretations of the billboard

1. The Ben Franklin Image Society is campaigning to get Benny’s pic on more money.
2. The Masons’ numbers are running low and they need new recruits.
3. The Masons are running a PR campaign to do damage control in light of recent movies like National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code.
4. Members of the Masonic Temple are lonesome and want people to ask them stuff.

I haven’t had a chance to fully explore the website, but here it is: askamason

OK, I looked into it little more and I believe the key here is “The Solomon Key.” I’m starting to get bored with this topic so I’ll just say that it’s the name of Dan Brown’s book about Freemasonry. And I can’t tell if its promoting his book or responding to it. Bluggh Oh, well…ambivalence has taken over.

I ain’t getting any younger. None of us are. So why must we endure the slow turning of the oil-deprived wheel of progress any longer? It is because that’s just the way it is…its the way its always been? Answer: Yes. But maybe if we understand it more thoroughly we could overcome our anger? Answer: No. I think what pisses me off is out of date replies and/or implications that are perpetuated in the media. Take for instance the Leslie Stahl interview of Al Gore on 60 minutes last night. She asked him to respond to the fact that there are many out there who still deny that global warming is man made. Gore says hardly anyone says that anymore. And she replies that there are some major characters out there, such as the vice-president who doesn’t think its been proven yet. Al Gore just laughed and said, “You mean Dick Chaney?” He then went on to equate Chaney with people who believe in a staged moon landing and the flat earthers. It was a good answer for a politician. The thing that is a detriment in this scenario is that Stahl felt it was necessary, in some sort of unbiased news reporting, to even have to ask the question. So is it that she’s dumb enough to think that the validity of scientific evidence on this matter is still in doubt? Or does she want to appear unbiased to her peers, so is compelled to ask the question? Either way that fact that she asked Mr. Gore and it was broadcast displays to other reporters that are working their way up the media ladder that: When interviewing someone about global warming you must bring up the fact that others [oil soaked politicians/corporate vampires] still think that the “jury’s still out.” So Thank You Leslie Stahl for ensuring that my grandchildren will be asking me where I stand on the global warming issue.

Watched this two part Frontline expose’ or news documentary on the lead up to the war (part one) and the administration of post-war Iraq (part two). I highly recommend it. The upper echelon power struggle and closed door dealings in the White House was very eye opening. This exhaustive news story was conducted primarily by interviewing as many people involved who would go on camera as possible. I honestly came away from this with a more positive view of Bush. Going from a 0 out of 10 to a 1. Chaney, Rumsfield, and Wolfowitz seem like warmongers bent on a total American domination over all the peoples of the Earth. No surprise there. I don’t really believe in any sort of 9/11 conspiracy, BUT if there is one it is one of complacency. Perhaps, someone was aware of some sort of plan that was about to go down and just stood idly by. A terrorist attack would set into motion a Neocon plan that was public at least for a year before 9/11.

Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor.

If you don’t want to read it, I’ll summarize. Let’s invade Iraq, get at that oil. Stability and democracy will flourish in the Mid
East once all the other countries see how awesome Iraq has become. If they don’t see, then we will make them, launching our attacks from our bases in Iraq. Peace will come from War. War = Peace. How Orwellian.

Blah, blah, blog. You should watch this Frontline piece.

Well, it’s the fourth day of the NCAA tournament and I’m done. It’s almost as if I was trying to lose. Yesterday I lost a final four pick in Duke and today lost my tournament champion pick in G-Town. Seems like an above average year for upsets or maybe its just me…I’m upset. So now in typical sore loser fashion I officially put a hex on all the top seeded teams. Good news though, my hexes usually work in reverse.
A POX ON YOU AND YOUR HOUSE UCLA!
MAY YOUR SEED FALL ON BARREN SOIL NORTH CAROLINA!
MAY YOUR KITCHEN SINK GET CLOGGED MEMPHIS!
MAY GAS PRICES DOUBLE THE DAY OF YOUR FAMILY VACATION KANSAS!

Ahhhh. Cathartic.

And so comes the time of year where I pretend to myself that I care or know much about college basketball. While, yes, it is true I went to a prominent basketball school during my college years, I have since moved on to more pressing matters. For instance, drinking beer. One would think that the two pursuits would go hand in hand…. to be honest with you they do. However, it’s the degree that I take beer drinking that prevents me from integrating something that requires an attention span. When I attempt to combine the two activities I start off OK, but as soon as the first commercial is on I have to make a comment and yell at the TV. One may hear during the Michigan St./Kentucky game, “What the hell is up with these Head-on commercials? People complained about the first ones, only to be replaced with annoying amateur actors that have no business having a camera pointed at them. It reminds me of when they made the Mask only to be followed with the Son of the Mask. Who names sequels “The Son of” anymore? Didn’t that go out of style in the 30’s?” And so on. Next thing you know the game is over.

Nevertheless I will be filling out my brackets along with the millions of other schlubs out there. It’s one of the few traditionally American things in which I participate. Gambling. Well, if Bingo could be considered gambling. Gambling-lite. (I don’t like typing this, it seems trite. It’s like using the “on steroids” phrase.) Gambling-on-a-hunger-strike-in-China-due-to-a-repressive-government. (Better!) But I would do this even if the money wasn’t involved. I think the reason why people join in so excitedly at filling out the brackets in the newspaper is the off chance that they know something unknowable. It’s a test of intuition. A chance to say, “I knew they were going to win,” even though you had no fucking idea. Or in the case of myself, another opportunity to crumble up my paper printout, curse the stars, and realize that beer is my only friend.

THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL MOMENTS OF MY LIFE

If you’re like me then you don’t sweat the details. Just get a vague understanding of certain key things and most people will fill in the blank spaces with intelligence. The blank spaces are the vacuous parts of your brain. You just have to know slightly more than the people with whom you are talking. However, if a physicist enters the room, shut the hell up. Here are a few things that if you can remember it will garner you a reputation of knowing a lot about quantum physics. Disclaimer: If you are a guy, this will in no way equate to you getting laid.

Photons: Light is a wave and a particle.

Heisenburg’s Uncertainty Principle: Pick your poison: Space or Time. You can’t have both.

Schrodinger’s Cat: Matter doesn’t matter until it matters to you.

Just say this at some point in your physic’s diatribe: “God indeed plays dice, in fact he has a full blown gambling addiction.”

Relativity (general, special, & familial)

If you want to sound current mention string theory.

Planck’s Constant: A quantum ruler.

Grand Unified Field Theory: 42

Double slit apparatus: Not as fun as it sounds.

Everett many-worlds interpretation: There’s a helluva universe next door.

Nebulae are astronomical objects that are an amalgam of gases in a particular region of space. Over the course of millions of years, nodes of gases form and condense and grow in mass and attract more gas and condense and eventually form a star. They are the place where stars are born and in many cases are the most beautiful objects in the universe. Most people are familiar with them because they make really nice imagery for album covers.

But I digress…can you digress before you talk about what you really intend to talk about? Pregress? Foregress? How about preamble…pre-ramble?

Last night I did my star chart or natal chart on two websites. After inputing all my vitals and calculating my birth time into Greenwich universal time, from one website I found out that I’m passionate and complacent. Out-going and a home body. Enjoy Leonard Cohen and Richard Wagner. Probably not anything I should base important life decisions upon. But I’m someone that wouldn’t even if the output had made any sense. The best part of this website is that it provides you with all the houses that your planets (sun & moon as well) fall within. And a nice jpeg of your star chart which I thought was fairly mysterious and nice to look at. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it appears that I’m very much a Scorpio. The other website, Your Sky, required a little more work up front, but gave you a nice rendering of the sky as it appeared during your birth. (Or any other moment in history for that matter) No interpretation however, but as my council suggested today, this is preferred. “Why should you listen to some pre-canned answers?” And he’s right! So I guess the point is you can dig as deep into this as much as you wish. Very much like anything else.