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Dutch researchers said no, a 4-year British study said no but along come the Swedes who say cell phone usage can cause brain tumors. "A total 85 of these 905 cases were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and/or wireless telephones and used them a lot," the study said. First it wasn't good to eat eggs, then they said "Go for it!". Coffee was linked to some kind of disease and then the researches retracted that. Cell phones bad, no cell phones good...uh wait, cell phones bad. While we are jumping from one foot to the next, somebody is getting mad grant money. Fucking figure it out already.

Last night I was awakened by the usual drag racing that goes on during the wee hours of the morning on my street. At about 1:30 a.m. I heard a particularly unusual racer and I jumped up to see a black Honda screech to a halt in the middle of the street in front of my apartment complex. A teen wearing a black shirt ran out of the car leaving the driver's door wide open. The youth ran into a parking lot in front of the apartment complex and hunched down behind a car. I was wondering what kind of stupid prank this cheese dick was pulling then I noticed a cop car racing down the street and then pull up behind the unoccupied car. Oh yeah, this douche bag are finally gonna get his. The cop got out of the car with a bewildered look on his face so I yelled out to get his attention by telling him where the driver was. He looked over in my direction but being on the 8th floor with 100+ apartments staring the cop in the face he asked, "Which car?". His question was almost drowned ou...

The first time I ever saw an American flag hung upside down was when I was stationed on my first submarine and the guy raising the flag during morning colors just screwed it up and raised it about halfway up before the Duty Chief yelled at him form the brow to reverse the direction. The young sailor was also shat upon by the people who saw the event. The kids at Montebello H.S. in CA not only raised the Mexican flag above our own ensign, an illegal act according to the laws relating to Old Glory, but also had the American flag hung upside down. There is no doubt that when looking at the photos of the event the flag raising that it was done in spite and contempt for our colors. Unwittingly, these jackasses did two things: 1. Displayed their ignorance of flying the flag. An upside down flag indicates distress (US Flag Code Section 8a). In an allegorical context, they have reinforced the illigal immigration issue in that the United States is in distress by the very flag that flew above it...

I have been making many post of the theory of evolution and religious ties to that theory on Andy's blog the last few days. There has been some great discussion and I figured now would be the best time to make my own posts in this forum. Ironically, these topics were discussed a few days ago in my office so my references are handy. I will not post all of the articles on my site because some are rather lengthy and I think poeple would end up skimming over them. Instead I will jsut post a thesis statement of the articles and link to them from my posts. I encourge readers to read the end notes at the end of each article. I told Andy that Iu sualy do't like to talk about this kind of stuff not becuase I am afraid of reprisal or, as the kids say, getting pwnd, but becasue no matter how much evidence is proposed and discarded, most people alrady have their minds made up. To wit, I had believed most of my childhood and adult life that modern day birds came from dinosaurs. this seems p...

Given Enough Time Anything is Possible - Even Evolution By David N. Menton (C) copyright 1991 Missouri Association for Creation, Inc. (repetative exclamation points removed) This myth is the ultimate argument of those who attempt to "explain" the origin of the Cosmos and all life by CHANCE and the natural properties of matter and energy. Evolutionists hope that by invoking immense amounts of time, highly improbable events can somehow be made probable. But with this type of argument it is possible to "explain" ANYTHING. We've all heard it said, for example, that "given enough monkeys and enough typewriters, EVENTUALLY one of them is bound to type the sonnets of Shakespeare error free." But this outrageous myth violates the statistical foundation on which all modern science rests. Statistically controlled experiments are useless if we do not assume that highly improbable events simply do not occur. The probability of any event which has a known number of...

Not Long Enough for Evolution: A response to Llewellyn Jones John Baumgardner The Los Alamos Monitor 3 April 1997 Editor: Llewellyn Jones in his 3/21 letter seems to be persuaded that 15 billion years is an abundance of time for life to arise by random interactions of atoms and molecules, whereas I have been arguing such an idea is sheer fantasy. I believe a simple arithmetic lesson is in order. To have some sort of ultimate limit on the number of trials -- the number of coin tosses -- we have to work with, let's use the maximum conceivable number of atom-atom interactions in all the universe during its entire history. Taking 10 to the 80th power as a generous estimate for the number of atoms, 10 to the 10th power for an extreme average number of interatomic interactions per second per atom, and 10 to the 18th power seconds, which is about 30 billion years, as a limit for the age of the universe, we get 10 to the 108th power as an upper limit on the number of coin tosses available....

Summary: Demise of the "Birds are Dinosaurs" Theory Two startling studies, relying on completely different methods, published just three weeks apart, have dealt a "one-two punch to the dinosaurs origins of birds hypothesis" according to paleontologist James Farlow of Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. The first study examined the origins of the three bones of the fingers/wings and feet of the theropod dinosaurs and modern birds. The results clearly indicated that the hands of the theropod dinosaurs are derived from digits I, II, and III, whereas the wings of birds, although they look alike in terms of structure, are derived from digits II, III, and IV. The second study looked at the lungs of the theropod dinosaurs (from fossil evidence) and compared them to the lungs of modern reptiles and birds. The results indicated that the theropod dinosaurs likely possessed a diaphragm and bellows-like septate lungs (similar to modern reptiles), which are not ...

Is the Chemical Origin of Life (Abiogenesis) a Realistic Scenario? by Rich Deem There are only two possibilities for the existence of life: 1. Chance assembly of life from chemicals 2. There is a Creator who designed biological systems If you deny the existence of a Creator, scientific studies demonstrate that you must believe each of the following things about the origin of life (short list): Fact: Homochirality somehow arose in the sugars and amino acids of prebiotic soups, although there is no mechanism by which this can occur and is, in fact, prohibited by the second law of thermodynamics (law of entropy). Solution: Reject the second law of thermodynamics Fact: In the absence of enzymes, there is no chemical reaction that produces the sugar ribose, the "backbone" of RNA and DNA. Solution: Accept "science of the gaps" theory Fact: Comparison of the dates of meteor impacts on the moon, Mercury, and Mars indicate that at least 30 catastrophic meteor impacts m...

PROBLEMS WITH CHEMICAL ORIGINS OF LIFE THEORIES Based on talks at the University of South Carolina, 16 April 93 and 3 April 95 Copyright 1998 by Emerson Thomas McMullen Abstract: The ultimate question concerning the origin of life is whether it happened naturalistically or as the result of a creator. In the twentieth century, A.I. Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane supplied a theoretical basis for the naturalistic origin of life. The supposed experimental evidence, the Miller experiment dominated discussions for decades, but has many weaknesses. One problem for all naturalistic explanations is the source of the information in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Whatever the proposed pathway, mathematical calculations indicate that it is impossible for life to occur naturalistically. The best explanation for the origin of life, as well as its detailed genetic information stored in complex molecules, is a creator.

My office recently got hooked on Google Earth, a tool that instantly rotates the earth to any Zip code or city in the world. This picture is of Pearl Hrbor and I was suprised at the detail. When I entered the ZIP for my childhood home I was very disappointed as the image was just a blurry blob. I wouldn't expect much satellite imagery near Greenbrier, AR though. Here is the link for Google Earth Here is another shot of Waikiki Beach with a building enhancer and a lodging tool.

I went to Sam's Club yesterday for the bi-weekly restocking of my office refridgerator and caught a glimpse of this woman in line next to me. Besides her morbidly obese apperance I also noticed the contents of her cart. She had a 2 pack of Zest soap totalling 24 bars. I can understand why she buys in bulk. This will probably last a month. I especially liked the two 2-foot hoagies, the two gallons of punch, and to wash it all down, a case of Bud Light. At least she's watching her calorie intake. She also had a huge package of tube socks. Everyone goes to the store for specific items and then a few other things are picked up as impulse buys. I would imagine the food stuffs were her specific target this run but the socks really confused me. Did she need them or were they impulse? I started running through a lot of assumptions about this woman after I remembered a sobering statistic about the obese. A company with 1000 employees will spend $285,000 on medical bills and other costs ...

The bi-annual RIMPAC exercise is gearing up and growing concern over the Navy's use of active sonar is getting environmentalist's panties in a wad. The Honolulu Advertiser ran a lengthy article on the subject yesterday and with good cause. It does appear that there can be some deliterious affects on marine mammals from high intensity active transmissons. There have been an increasing number of whale groundings and strandings in the past 6 years all over the world and NOOA has been trying to link them to active sonar exercises. In July, 2004 residents of Kauai awoke to over 200 "melon-headed" whales swimming dangerously close to land. Residents jumped in their canoes and kayaks in an attempt to drive the animals back out to sea. The melon-heads were noticably disoriented and "stressed", probably becuase they were being refered to as "melon-headed", something the species especially dislikes. They inform the other marine mammals they prefer to be call...

I have to pass along a link to one of the most moving sites concerning the war in Iraq I have ever seen. This blog does not belong to a Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. It belongs to an Army Enlisted soldier who proclaims in his posts and his ongoing documentary that he is an American. He is writing from Iraq while he plugs through a year-long deployment. It is some of the best and most brilliant writing that I have ever read- proof positive that the military is not full of mindless and uneducated pawns. I can only hope to reach the level of clarity and writing prowess Buck Sargent has mastered. I have batted around the idea of making a sister blog to Alohadump and lift just an edge of the vale that surrounds the submarine force and our role in the military. Unfortunately, our missions and operations are so clandestine that the blog would just contain vague references and sea stories, hardly on a level designed to inform. I anxiously await the release of his movie.

I have less than 17 months until I retire from the U.S. Navy with 20 years of service. It will be a meager retirement paycheck plus benefits and I will in no way be able to live on just the check from Uncle Sam- unless we live in a cardboard box and fish our food out of Burger King dumpsters. I found this entry in one of my journals. The 'military speak' has been dumbed down as much as possible so that the content of the entries can be understood by people who aren't in the military, people who are in a different branch of the military, or people who are in the military but have to read it every freakin day and do not wish to read it on a blog. Shit I Won't Have to Deal With When I'm Retired 1. Taking a shower and bouncing off cold steel walls because the dickhead Officer of the Deck decides to go to periscope depth during turnover. (the sip rolls from side to side if the seas are high) 2. Shower door popping open because of ship's angle. (Imagine trying to so...

I love watching Jon Stewart becuase he puts such a great perspective on the crap that surrounds us by the media. Last night he had a guy promoting his new book called "Saddam's Secrets" who was also a General in Saddam's army. Of course, it didn't take long for WMD's to come up and the General gave his explanation for the scarcity of them: " He had them there before Americans came and liberated the country. The weapons were transported to Syria by air and by ground ." I made a post recently that focused on one of Saddam's in-laws who was the head of a WMD program confessing that they were indeed working on a WMD program and now this General comes forward. I think things are starting to gel. After doing a little more research on General George Sada I found an interview he did with Brian Lehrer (WNYC-FM) on March 9th. Although I haven't listened to the entire boradcast , apparently there is a clip where he claims he did not actually see the WMD...

I was really bummed to read this story about South Park. Issac Hayes , the voice of South Park's cafeteria chef, says he will not do anymore shows for the crude cartoon after an episode which poked fun at the Scientology religion. "Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices." Hayes, who is a Scientologist, says he is leaving because the show is getting a out of hand, but I would imagine after the Scientology episode he got pressure to stop doing the episodes from his fellow members. This can be the only explanation that wouldn't paint Hayes as a hyprocrite and a douchebag. He had no problem doing shows, since 1997, that made fun of Christianity, Mormonism, Catholocism, and Islam not to mention other sensitive topics the show tackles like obesity, homosexuality, promiscuousness an...

I was going to make a post on another blog refuting the "Bush Lied about WMD's" argument and the UN Resolution 1441 violation but I just started to get a headache. They are tiresome and I have argued both of these too many times to try and show the opposition that they are wrong but I guess I should just make a post so I can just link to it whenever these replayed 8-tracks rear their ugly heads. Instead, I would like to comment of some local issues, and no, I'm not bashing a local or complaining about the noise level on my street. Hawaii made national news today when a dam broke on the island of Kauai. Here is the article from the local paper: Honolulu Advertiser. We have had a steady supply of rain for the last 2 weeks, 18" falling in just one 48-hour period. Telephone poles fell over Farrington Highway a few days ago, cars have been stuck in the high rising waters, yards and homes have been swept away by flash floods. I have lived here for more than 13 year...

(My first attempt at some Photoshop manipulation on this level where I combine my knowledge of electronics with my political, uh, something-or-other) The schematic and Hillary's face match- and here's why: Hillary Clinton

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As Britain becomes more and more politically correct and its citizens more and more dumbfounded by it all, it's encouraging to find that we are not alone. Tom Tickell looks back on a year full of pomposity, idiosyncrasy and plain old-fashioned nonsense, here and abroad. • A market trader in Derby was banned from selling candles - unless they carried a notice warning that they can burn. • A constable who saved the life of a man who was high on drugs by stopping him jumping from a window was reprimanded. PC Amerjit Singh, who had been summoned to a house in Cambridgeshire to prevent the potential suicide, had used "undue force" in holding the man back from killing himself. The man's father complained. • Labour's election slogan - Forwards Not Backwards - sounded ironic to most Germans. The words were the East German government's standard election cliché and slogan, just before the Berlin wall came down and Communism collapsed in 1989. Germans still use the term ...

Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness February 27, 2006 | The Onion: Issue 42•09 WASHINGTON, DC—In a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Monday, Congressional Democrats announced that, despite the scandals plaguing the Republican Party and widespread calls for change in Washington, their party will remain true to its hopeless direction. "We are entirely capable of bungling this opportunity to regain control of the House and Senate and the trust of the American people," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said to scattered applause. "It will take some doing, but we're in this for the long and pointless haul." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reaffirms the Democratic Party’s promise to remain marginalized. "We can lose this," Reid added. "All it takes is a little lack of backbone." Despite plummeting poll numbers for the G.O.P nationwide and an upcoming election in which all House seats and 33 Senate seats are up for content...

I got to bed about 10:40 after watching the Oscars. I didn't watch any of the movies so I won't comment on how it went except the point that it looked like they were forcing Memoirs of a Geisha into everything they could. Why was that movie in the Best Sound Editing category with Narnia and Kong? I just think that category, along iwth other technical categories, should be reserved for the Sci-Fi movies since most of the sounds have to be created. Here is the timeline from 10:40 pm to when my alarm went off at 6:30- 1:30 a.m. Awakened by crying man being consoled by his 3 friends. Aparently he was dumped and wanted to go kick the guys ass for whom he was dumped for. Cops showed up after our security guy called them. Random screams pursued including but not limited to, "Fuck you cops. PORKCHOP! You PORKCHOP!" 2:30 a.m. Cars drag racing down my narrow street. Extremely loud and annoying. Spent 25 minutes making a mental list of the things I nheed buy at Home Depot to l...

This post is rather lengthy and targets a small group of people who, by virtue of subject matter, would have me strung up and horsewhipped after having read it. What started out as a casual Hawaii Sovereignty bashing post surprisingly blossomed into a full-fledged research project. This post might appeal to people who think Hawaii is a happy place full of surfers, mai tai’s, luaus and hibiscus. This ‘paradise’ also has its dark side. I have to precede this essay with a statement concerning the people who live and work in the 50th state- I don’t have anything against them. Some people think that I am biased against Hawaiians after reading my posts on this blog and nothing could be further from the truth. I have a great respect for the people here and there are many things I admire about them. But, just as in any culture, or state, or region of the world, there are people that piss me off and they can be any color, creed, or nationality. With that said, here is my essay. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~...

No, this isn't an article about underweight supermodels. My best friend Jeff sent me this pictures of airport runways that probably make pilots drop a deuce on their approach. Jeff has been a pilot about as long as I have live here in Hawaii- and he still hasn't come to see me! Click on the images to enlarge.

After all this time in court Saddam has caved in and finally admitted just how much of a despotic asshole he really is. The mass graves in Northern Iraq, the weapons of mass destruction, the torture dungeons just couldn't hold up to the startling confession that came from the ousted dictator's lips this morning at his hearing. He ordered "the destruction of orchards as a reprisal for an assassination bid in a Shiite town." Yeah baby! Did you hear that? Straight from the horse's ass. So I submit to all you nay-sayers that democracy has taken a hold in Iraq as evidenced by this compelling court drama unfolding as we speak. Go fuck yourself Judge Judy! UPDATE It seems Saddam has caved even more as he confesses that he "signed orders leading to the execution of dozens of Shi'ites in the 1980s but said he was acting within the law as Iraq's president." Now, we're getting somewhere. Even these harsh allegations could not stand up to Saddam's ...