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Jack

Moonset was a traffic stopper this morning, a pumpkin.

I see the hurricane feeding frenzy's died a bit.  Yesterday's ABQ Journal front page covered with info about the local race car driver, civic hero Bobby Unser, who can't spit without making the papers.  Somehow I can't determine without reading the article, he's connected to a mule-breeder in Corrales, a suburb at the end of Unser Blvd.  So the front-center of the Journal's appropriately dedicated to a picture of a mule.

On the other hand, the State/Metro front/center's got a nice pic of the arse-end of a couple of nice Angus cattle awarded blue ribbons at the State Fair.

After studying both a while, I think I favor the mule pic. 

Jack

I recall being in a school auditorium as a youngster when they added the words, ‘under God’ to the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Doak and Mr. Burke, Civics and History teachers were up there trying to get it right while teaching it to a couple of hundred kids.

Kid’s who were still on shaky ground from learning it the first time. That would have been in the mid-1950s.

Now, a Federal District Judge in San Francisco’s declared the phrase, ‘under God’, to be unconstitutional, which means the US Supreme Court will one day devote time and energy to deciding which way the wind’s blowing. The question of whether the framers of the Constitution would have thought a child having to say, ‘under God’ is a fairly weird one.

The reason it’s weird lies in the fact that the question of whether this nation is indivisible was never considered by the Supreme Court, never mentioned in the US Constitution.

It was decided by force of arms, one half, (the half possessing an army) of the nation believing it was indivisible, the other half believing it was divisible. The stronger half forced the weaker half to accept indivisibility at gunpoint after a lot of bloodshed.

Thus, the Pledge of Allegiance came into existence after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The winning side forced each surrendering Confederate soldier to say a pledge accepting indivisibility as one of the precepts of citizenship, followed afterward by many generations saying the pledge from early childhood since then.

But the US Supreme Court was never asked whether that Pledge acknowledging indivisibility was Constitutional, which might have saved a hundred thousand lives, legs, arms, and a whole different approach to US governance.

Instead, they’ll be asked to decide the easier matter of whether it’s a violation of a child’s civil liberty to utter the words, “Under God”.

 

Jack.

 

I was putting this together to email to an LP member when it dawned on me it might be of interest or value to some others out there.

Colloidal silver's a natural anti-biotic that's worked amazingly well for me and my various animals.  It's available in health product stores in bottles similar to the one above.  That one is several years old, 10 ppm, 4 fluid oz., for $23 and some change.

So far as I've been able to tell in my own pets, the stuff will make mincemeat of just about any infectuous condition, including parvo-virus in dogs and infectuous viral feline leukemia in cats.  I've known pets to continue living several years after the vets wanted to kill them because of incurable conditions.

But if you buy it in the stores, it's also expensive.

If you already use it, but buy it, or if you'd like to use it but have been deterred by the cost, here's how you can make it by the gallon for pennies:

The wire or bezel's available from jewelry suppliers.  Be sure to use 99 percent silver.  Not sterling, not any alloyed silver.

But, other than that, there are no caveats.  If you want to learn more about it you can find a lot through a web search.  But use your own judgement as to what you believe.  A lot of people want to sell you something and would like to make it more complicated than it is, or would like to scare you into only buying their bezel or wire.

Nothing much to it, really.

Jack

 

 

Just below that cave where ancient men struggled, fought, muddled their way through life as we do, there's a forest road that's closed after the first snowfall and stays closed until snowmelt in the spring.

One cold December night in 1999, before the road was closed this pretty lady parked her van on the pull-over beneath the cave.

 

Someone evidently saw her, or met her there.  Someone who raped and murdered her, stripped her corpse and left it spread-eagle across a rock a few yards off the road, then wrecked her van, evidently with the intention of trying to make it appear to have been an accident.

Someone, one has to believe, really stupid.

 

But not so stupid as to be identified and punished, or at least removed from the temptation of doing that sort of thing again.  Likely as not still picking up his mail at the post office, chatting with neighbors, drinking his beers down at the local watering-hole.

A cause for some concern among the villagers.

Jack

 

Sandia man.

They lived up the hill from me before I moved in.

A number of improvements have been made on the place since they lived there, but people occupied that cave on and off for centuries without the wire cage to keep the animalcules out and the spiral staircase to make it easier to get down to the stream where I took this picture.

The cave location has some high points.  It's located high enough up that cliff to keep the large animals out, but it faces enough westerly to catch the afternoon sunlight.

I'd imagine the place was mostly a summer home.

The moniker the pointy-heads have put on the time when the best (earliest) people occupied this cave is Folsum-Midland.  It was a period of warming, and the large megafauna were mostly killed off during the time of their ancestors, but evidently these folks got one.  A wooly mammoth.  Maybe the last one in New Mexico.  The bones were found in that cave.

They did pretty nice rock work in their tool making.  Notice how long the chip was that runs left to right.  That's typical of the sort of job they did on rocks.  Beautiful spearheads.

 

 

The guy who owned this one clearly used it a long while.  It's battered, pitted and re-sharpened, but he evidently hit a bad platform sharpening it for the last time.  The place I found it left me with the impression he discarded it, maybe in disgust.

Jack

Things have changed in some ways, but in others they probably aren't all that different.

I can't say I really got burned on it.

Jack

Powerball tonight: 21 24 42 49 50 1

33 unique numbers (see below).  Results:  3-1

Earlier today:

I've deliberately discarded the recurring numbers and increased the sampling on the two high number sets:

1st Moon Phase   
 

Feb 16, 2005  Florida Lotto  6 7 8 35 48 52
 Dec 18, 2002  Illinois Lotto  2 8 35 40 48 52
 Jun 19, 2002  Florida Lotto  4 10 14 33 48 52
 Dec 6, 2000  Florida Lotto  3 10 25 37 48 52
 May 17, 2000  Florida Lotto 9 12 40 42 48 52
 Dec 13, 1997  Illinois Lotto  7 14 25 48 52
 Mar 30, 1996  Illinois Lotto  44 48 51 52 54
 Mar 15, 1995  Illinois Lotto  25 27 38 48 52
     
11/12/2002  3 28 45 48 50 24
 Sep 23, 2000  11 13 30 39 48 50
11/20/2004  4 29 45 48 50 1

33 unique numbers and the frequency of hits of each within this sampling:

1-1 10-2 24-1 30-1 40-2 50-3
2-1 11-1 25-3 33-1 42-1 51-1
3-2 12-1 27-1 35-2 44-1 52-8
4-2 13-1 28-1 37-1 45-2 54-1
6-1 14-2 29-1 39-1 48-10
7-1       
8-2

Yesterday, with a smaller sampling of the high combos, but roughly the same number of unique numbers the result was 4-1

If there's any validity to this specific approach this sampling of 33 should have them all on tonight's PB draw.

Poor enough showing to be no cause for joy, but too good to entirely abandon.

Jack

Tonight that winner's going to be from New Mexico.

I can't imagine the circumstances where the winner would be me, but it might be someone I know, might be some person with whom I have a speaking acquantance.

It might.

Here's the deal.

I've combined the high-numbers triplets

The moon-phase/high numbers

and the Dow Jones averages.

And noticed that a friend of mine took it, hook, line and sinker.

Jack

I've deliberately discarded the recurring numbers and increased the sampling on the two high number sets:

1st Moon Phase     
 

Feb 16, 2005  Florida Lotto  6 7 8 35 48 52
 Dec 18, 2002  Illinois Lotto  2 8 35 40 48 52
 Jun 19, 2002  Florida Lotto  4 10 14 33 48 52
 Dec 6, 2000  Florida Lotto  3 10 25 37 48 52
 May 17, 2000  Florida Lotto 9 12 40 42 48 52
 Dec 13, 1997  Illinois Lotto  7 14 25 48 52 
 Mar 30, 1996  Illinois Lotto  44 48 51 52 54 
 Mar 15, 1995  Illinois Lotto  25 27 38 48 52 
       
11/12/2002  3 28 45 48 50 24
 Sep 23, 2000  11 13 30 39 48 50
11/20/2004  4 29 45 48 50 1

33 unique numbers and the frequency of hits of each within this sampling:

1-1 10-2 24-1 30-1 40-2 50-3
2-1 11-1 25-3 33-1 42-1 51-1
3-2 12-1 27-1 35-2 44-1 52-8
4-2 13-1 28-1 37-1 45-2 54-1
6-1 14-2 29-1 39-1 48-10 
7-1         
8-2

Yesterday, with a smaller sampling of the high combos, but roughly the same number of unique numbers the result was 4-1

If there's any validity to this specific approach this sampling of 33 should have them all on tonight's PB draw.

Jack

 

This presidential 'war' is already a costly affair.

I’ve called it a war, but in fact, the problem of a name for it has to go further back to a time when Americans still knew the difference between war and what’s happening today.

When the first of these presidential wars was conducted after WWII, the government was careful to call it a ‘police action’. The distinction always existed. The Korean war was a ‘police action’, and in the beginning the Vietnam War was also carefully called a ‘police action’.

The reason for the distinction was that the presidents conducting the wars were uncomfortably aware that the phrase, ‘war’ is a term that carries Constitutional baggage. Wars are declared by the US Congress.

By the end of Vietnam, the distinction was so drowned in fire and blood the term ‘police action’ was too small to cover the subject. The‘police action’ phrase was abandoned because it was an absurdity, but the legalities remained, and the Vietnam War never earned the legal and Constitutional dignity to be called a war.  This, even though the Vietnam police action was responsible for more US casualties than any actual war in history.

Those who are in favor of the current police action evidently view it as beginning with the attack on the World Trade Center. They see it as an unbroken thread of US retaliation for that attack, wandering about across the Muslim world, where ever a likely target of opportunity presents an excuse for further hostilities.

The Korean ‘police action’ never really ended. Full-scale hostilities toned down to a murmur following a ‘truce’, with each side agreeing to stay on one or the other side of the 38^th Parallel, but the fighting continues today. US troops are still there ‘policing’ half a century later.

The Vietnam ‘police action’ ended a bit differently, as we are all aware.

But that’s the way of ‘police actions’. They’re dominated by tactics because there’s no equation for overall strategy to win, no formula to tell us when it’s over.

Wars are won, or lost. Police actions just hang around indefinitely, or until we get tired (Vietnam, Iraq I), or forget (Korea).

Jack

 

Tonight's draw:

13-24-44-48-52, Mega Ball: 30

High numbers history 50/48 hits on 1st moon phase posted earlier today:

11/20/2004 4 29 45 48 50 1
 Sep 23, 2000 11 13 30 39 48 50
11/12/2002 3 28 45 48 50 24

High numbers history 52/51 hits on 1st moon phase posted earlier today:

 Nov 17, 1999 5 13 39 47 51 52
 Mar 12, 2003 3 6 7 29 51 52
 Oct 20, 2004 5 6 11 16 51 52

Recurring numbers history 11 repeat hits during 1st moon phase posted earlier today:

3/22/2005 6 11 27 37 43 34
3/25/2005 11 18 19 45 49 2
2/18/2003 12 22 29 42 50 11
2/14/2003 11 13 19 32 47 21

Total of 33 unique numbers in 10 draws.

4 11 29 30 45 50
1 13 28 39 48 51
3 16 24 37 47 52
5 18 27 34 43 
6 19 22 32 49 
7 12 21  42 
2   

 MM tonight:  9/13/2005 13 24 44 48 52 30

13 - 3 hits

24 - 1 hit

44 - 0 hit

48 - 3 hits

52 - 3 hits

30 - 1 hit.

As you'll see the recurring 11 draws weren't helpful.  All the five of 6 are in the high numbers draws in the 1st moon phase listed, which would have reduced the total unique numbers considerably.

Make of it what you will.

Jack

 

 

Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Europe

Commanded the North African Campaign, Med Campaign, D Day Campaign, Invasion of Germany

Ike followed Truman as prez.

One of the best presidents in US history, to my way of thinking.  He got a truce in Korea, settled relations with the USSR (Stalin died while Ike was in office) during his presidency, though they heated up when Kennedy came into office.

During his administration the Russkies agreed to 'free' Austria, neutralize it, which was unprecedented and unanteceded, for that matter. 

Ike sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce de-segregation of the schools... ended up with a standoff, near shooting war between the Arkansas National Guard and the US Army.  I'd give him high marks for commitment, but mixed reviews on the near shootout.  Those were crazy times... Arkansawyer adults lined up around the school, a group of adult females who called themselves the 'cheerleaders', screaming insults at a couple of scared black kids escorted to school by US Marshalls.  Weird, tough times testifying we weren't a lot better as a species then, than now.  Some, but not a lot.

Eisenhower was determined to see world peace.  He began the 'atoms for peace' program, which furnished uranium for peaceful purposes to friendly and third world countries for powerplant development.

Ike's last moments in office, his farewell speech is posted elsewhere on this blog, but to summarize it, he warned Americans to beware the Military/Industrial Complex, which he believed would try to keep America in a state of war and near-war as long as possible, to further their own financial interests and ambitions.

Which was obvious good advice not taken.. 

Great prez, even though he had Tricky Dixon for VP, and his son married Tricky's daughter.

Jack

 

 

 

Quite a hoopla and contraversy about this website on the front page of the ABQ Journal:  http://www.abqpd.com/

 

It's the 'unofficial APD (Albuquerque Police Department)' site .... so it says:

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Politics: Officers buck union endorsement

Posted by buggs on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 (01:39:26) (7 reads)

3 say board ignored push for Winter instead of Chavez

By Erik Siemers
Tribune Reporter
September 10, 2005

Some members of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association are fighting the union's endorsement of Mayor Martin Chavez, saying union leadership made the decision without their input.

"I think the board does not speak for the whole membership," Alfred Walck, a patrolman for 32 years said Friday. "They should have had a poll, an election to deal with what the membership felt."

The union held its candidate forum Thursday night and released its endorsement of Chavez on Friday.

Walck, Lt. Joseph Byers and Detective James Flores released their own statement late Friday, calling the union endorsement illegal and claiming the union's board issued the endorsement knowing that "the rank and file overwhelmingly support (City Council President) Brad Winter."

APOA president Pete Dwyer said the board acted properly and listened to the union members.

"Their input was considered, but the executive board followed the bylaws and voted to endorse Marty Chavez."


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apd: In the End, Time Ran Out for Slain Officers

Posted by buggs on Sunday, September 11, 2005 (20:12:59) (5 reads)

By T.J. Wilham
Albuquerque Journal;
Journal Staff Writer

A matter of minutes.

That's how close Albuquerque police detectives were to connecting the dots on John Hyde when APD officers Richard Smith and Michael King were shot and killed.

Within minutes after the officers were slain while trying to pick Hyde up for a mental health evaluation, Hyde's name emerged as a strong suspect in the slaying of two employees at a motorcycle shop earlier in the day, according to Chief Ray Schultz.

Smith broadcast the call of "officers down" at 10:15 p.m. Police say that King was shot first and that Smith was shot when he went to protect his fallen partner.

Schultz said APD detectives started to make the connection between Hyde and the cycle shop killings at 10:18 p.m. He said the connection was "solidified" within the hour.

Hyde's identity as the suspected shooter at Rider Valley Motorcycles was close to being in the grasp of investigators earlier in the evening.

It just didn't emerge soon enough to alert Smith and King, two patrolmen who had come out of retirement to rejoin the force and who thought they were on a relatively routine assignment— not picking up someone who would soon be accused of killing two people hours earlier.


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Police Tales: Fallen Officer Honored: Chacon Gunned Down 25 Years Ago

Posted by buggs on Sunday, September 11, 2005 (20:03:38) (4 reads)

By Jeff Proctor
Journal Staff Writer

Twenty-five years.

A long time, yes, but for Ted Chacon— whose older brother, Albuquerque Police officer Phil Chacon, was gunned down 25 years ago Saturday— it doesn't seem so long ago.

"To me, it's like yesterday," Ted Chacon said after fixing a wreath in remembrance of his brother to a light pole in a parking lot near the southeast corner of Wyoming and Central— the spot where Phil Chacon was killed. "I'm here honoring my brother's life, not his death."

On Sept. 10, 1980, Phil Chacon, who was off-duty, was visiting a battered women's shelter he helped start when he was told of an armed robbery in progress nearby. He rushed to the scene and was shot and killed by one of the thieves.

Three men were tried in connection with his slaying but were not convicted.

A police substation, a park, a transit-way and a school library all bear Phil Chacon's name.


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apd: Officers' deaths drive reality home for cadets

Posted by buggs on Saturday, September 10, 2005 (19:37:48) (11 reads)

By Maggie Shepard
Tribune Reporter
September 9, 2005

Danger is mostly theoretical for Albuquerque police cadets studying all the ways to avoid and prevent it.

The shooting deaths of on-duty, veteran Officers Richard Smith and Michael King three weeks ago turned that theory into a reality.

Not one of the 25 cadets took the deaths as an omen, an excuse or reason to doubt their potentially deadly goal.

"Not even for a nanosecond," said Cadet Eric W. Smith, 39.

That was the same reaction Southeast area Capt. Beverly Sandoval had 18 years ago, when during her police academy graduation week, Officer John Carrillo was shot dead while on a domestic violence call.

"It was just really shocking. It left you with a real empty feeling," Sandoval said.

Sandoval, then 28, graduated in the 59th cadet class.

"It brought home what kind of job and career we had chosen," she said.

It also forged a bond between cadets, a bond that would have come otherwise, though not as quickly, she said.


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Politics: APD Union Backs Chávez

Posted by buggs on Saturday, September 10, 2005 (19:09:27) (9 reads)

By Dan McKay
Journal Staff Writer

The city police union endorsed Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez on Friday, sparking a bitter fight with those on the force who oppose the mayor's re-election.

In a brief statement, the union said its support for Chávez and several City Council candidates "was based on their commitment to important issues of public safety."

Chávez, in particular, won praise for supporting officers who want to take their weapons into Metropolitan Court and for supporting better retirement benefits.

The union's executive board voted to endorse Chávez after a union political committee questioned the candidates.

But three officers opposing the endorsement released their own statement Friday evening. They say the union leadership didn't follow the proper process for deciding to endorse Chávez and that most officers instead support City Councilor Brad Winter— one of three candidates challenging Chávez.


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Politics: Will police chief keep his job?

Posted by buggs on Monday, September 05, 2005 (00:48:26) (21 reads)

Candidates sing his praises but won't commit

By Erik Siemers
Tribune Reporter
September 3, 2005

It's a job he once called "a dream come true."

It still is for Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz.

"I'm just so happy and honored to have the opportunity to come back and serve," Schultz said Friday.

But in a month, the city will elect a mayor who could have different ideas about who should hold the position.

All four mayoral candidates compliment Schultz; none would commit to keeping him at this point.

Schultz' tenuous job security is a fact of life under the "strong mayor" form of government in which the head of the executive branch chooses his or her administrators.


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Politics: Evacuees Headed To Albuquerque

Posted by buggs on Monday, September 05, 2005 (00:44:45) (1 reads)

Associated Press

Department of Public Safety spokesman Peter Olson says 97 Hurricane Katrina evacuees are on a flight headed to Albuquerque.

"We're scrambling how to figure out how to help them,'' he said.

Olson said the notice came in Sunday morning from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Right now, the department is trying to identify places that can accommodate the evacuees, Olson said, adding it should be a fairly easy task.

He said the plan is to find short-term housing for the evacuees then move them to a more permanent place.

There is a small chance the plane could be diverted at the last minute, he said. But as far as he knows, he said the evacuees are coming here.

Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas were all contacted as possible destinations for the evacuees, Olson said FEMA officials told him.

Then he said the agency asked him whether New Mexico could take the evacuees.

"We said, 'sure, send them,''' Olson said.

The state is expecting thousands of evacuees over the next couple of days or weeks, Olson said.

"We can only assume there will be lots and lots more people,'' Olson said. "They'll need to have a place to live.''

Mayor Martin Chavez said Saturday the city hopes to provide housing, medical care, job-hunting assistance and other social services for some 1,000 families displaced by the hurricane.


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apd: Records Say APD Officers Talked with Accused Cop Killer

Posted by buggs on Monday, September 05, 2005 (00:41:54) (11 reads)

Associated Press

A day after two police officers were fatally shot, Police Chief Ray Schultz called their deaths an ambush. Now, he's backing away from that scenario.

Dispatch records released by police Friday show Officers Richard Smith and Michael King arrived at accused killer John Hyde's house at 9:45 the night of Aug. 18.
A half hour later, at 10:15 p.m., Smith radioed that an officer was shot.

Schultz said the officers talked with Hyde during those 30 minutes and backed away from his previous description of the killings as an ambush.

"I can't go there yet,'' he said. "We still have some more witnesses we need to talk to. It was a conversation that went on for many, many minutes.''

Police are not saying what happened during the conversation.

But because officers routinely turn on a tape recorder carried on their belts when responding to calls, there is a record of their conversation with Hyde, police spokesman John Walsh said.

Police say releasing the tapes now could taint a jury and jeopardize Hyde's trial.


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Equipment: Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program Special Solicitation

Posted by buggs on Friday, September 02, 2005 (03:43:10) (8 reads)

Since 1999, over 11,500 jurisdictions have participated in the Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program. Through BVP, $118 million in federal funds have been committed to support the purchase of an estimated 450,000 vests for America's law enforcement community.

In November 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a Body Armor Safety Initiative in response to the failure of a bullet-resistant vest worn by a police officer in Pennsylvania. NIJ was directed to initiate an examination of Zylon®-based bullet-resistant vests (both new and used) and to review the existing program by which bullet-resistant vests are tested to determine if the program needs modification.


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Equipment: NIJ Body Armor Safety Initiative Status Report Executive Summary

Posted by buggs on Friday, September 02, 2005 (02:29:36) (0 reads)

Third Status Report to the Attorney General on Body Armor Safety Initiative Testing and Activities

Executive Summary

On November 17, 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the U.S. Department of Justice’s Body Armor Safety Initiative in response to concerns from the law enforcement community regarding the effectiveness of body armor in use. These concerns followed the failure of a relatively new Zylon®-based1 body armor vest worn by a Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, police officer.

The Attorney General directed the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to initiate an examination of Zylon®-based bullet-resistant armor (both new and used), to analyze upgrade kits provided by manufacturers to retrofit Zylon®-based bullet-resistant armors, and to review the existing program by which bullet-resistant armor is tested to determine if the process needs modification.

As part of the Body Armor Safety Initiative, NIJ has issued two status reports to the Attorney General containing results from the body armor studies.2 The first two status reports highlighted the following findings:


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