Anyone else have a weird day yesterday?

i’m serious. Starting Sunday night, shit has been off the hook.

Sunday night i’m walking down the stairs in the middle of the night and i smell a sulfer kind of aroma… which caused me to pause mid-step or something and i slipped down like 3 stairs or something. “god damn ghosts tryin’ ta kill me!” i muttered.

But the next day, (yesterday) things continued to suck. I felt upset most of the day after i got jammed up by somebody, then on the drive home i nearly ran into a mercedes who braked hard in front of me. Only 2 blocks from the apartment, my heart was still racing when i pulled up to find emily sitting in her car with the door open and a frown on her face. Turns out SHE got in an accident on the way home too… in the same way. Then while i’m re-attaching her bumper, my phone rings. it’s my mom calling to tell me that SHE got in an accident too!

“Fuck” i thought. “Darkness descends and shit.”

So i talked to one of her neighbors who was able to go pick her up… she’s fine… emily’s fine… i’m trippin… how are you? I’ve asked several people this morning and a good number of them experienced a deluge of shitty luck and weirdness yesterday as well. One friend even said “I fel like somebody put a hex on me sunday afternoon.”

So just curious if you’ve noticed any weirdness too. it doesn’t have to be BAD luck necessarily… just excessively DIFFERENT situations that you’re expecting to walk into. Synchronicity. In fact that first thing that set me off yesterday morning was actually part of an intense 3-way synchronicity too.

I wonder if more and more days like this will occur, the closer we get to 2012… if novelty increases as it’s supposed to, things are only going to get weirder. I for one am looking forward to it (and welcome our new ant-overlords… lol). Like Hunter Thompson said “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

Tags: 2012, novelty, spirituality, synchronicity

Pluto Loses Status as a Planet

 

Pluto’s status has been contested for many years

Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.

About 2,500 experts were in Prague for the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) general assembly.

The scientists rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club.

Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh.

The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.

“The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,” said the IAU resolution, which was passed following a week of stormy debate.

Professor Iwan Williams chaired the IAU working group that has been working over recent months to define the term “planet”.

“I have a slight tear in my eye today, yes; but at the end of the day we have to describe the Solar System as it really is, not as we would like it to be,” the Queen Mary University of London, UK, scientist told the BBC.

PLUTO – A ‘DEMOTED PLANET’   - Named after underworld god - Average of 5.9bn km to Sun - Orbits Sun every 248 years - Diameter of 2,360km - Has at least three moons - Rotates every 6.8 days - Gravity about 6f Earth’s -Surface temperature -233C - Nasa probe visits in 2015

The initial proposal put before the IAU to raise the number of planets in the Solar System to 12 – adding the asteroid Ceres, Pluto’s “moon” Charon and the distant object known as 2003 UB313 – met with opposition.

Robin Catchpole, of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, UK, told the BBC News website: “My own personal opinion was to leave things as they were; I met Clyde Tombaugh and thought how nice it was to shake hands with someone who had discovered a planet.

“But since the IAU brought out the proposal for new planets I had been against it – it was going to be very confusing. The best of the alternatives was to leave the major planets as they are and then demote Pluto. So I think this is a far superior situation.”

Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society in California, US, commented: “The classification doesn’t matter. Pluto – and all Solar System objects – are mysterious and exciting new worlds that need to be explored and better understood.”

Dwarf planet

Amid dramatic scenes which saw astronomers waving yellow ballot papers in the air, the IAU meeting voted through new definition criteria.

They agreed that to qualify as a planet, a celestial body must be in orbit around a star while not itself being a star. It also must be large enough in mass “for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a… nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.”

Pluto was automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune’s.

It will now join a new category of “dwarf planets”.

Pluto’s status has been contested for many years as it is further away and considerably smaller than the eight other “traditional” planets in our Solar System.

Its orbit around the Sun is also highly inclined to the plane of those big planets.

In addition, since the early 1990s, astronomers have found several objects of comparable size to Pluto in an outer region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt.

Some astronomers have long argued that Pluto belongs with this population of small, icy worlds.

Allowances were once made for Pluto on account of its size. At just 2,360km (1,467 miles) across, Pluto is smaller even than some moons in the Solar System. But until recently, it was still the biggest known object in the Kuiper Belt.

That changed with the discovery of 2003 UB313 by Professor Mike Brown and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After being measured with the Hubble Space Telescope, it was shown to be some 3,000km (1,864 miles) in diameter, making it larger than Pluto.

Named after the god of the underworld in Roman mythology, Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance of 5.9 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) taking 247.9 Earth years to complete a single circuit of the Sun.

An unmanned US spacecraft, New Horizons, is due to fly by Pluto and the Kuiper Belt in 2015.

 

Tags: 2012, astronomy, novelty, science, synchronicity

Lockheed Martin Profits From Your Red Light Violations?

I knew Lockheed was financially connected to most of congress but shit this just gets worse and worse doesn’t it? I post this because i think it’s important that we realize it is big business (and the elite fuckers behind them) that run this planet. NOT our government so your voting is a completely symbolic act… a charade… the same pieces of shit run things no matter who is elected…

anyway enough out of me…

The State Legislature Triples the Red Light Fine For Honest Drivers
from http://www.ticketassassin.com/autohonest.html

In 1996, California’s first automated red light cameras were installed in San Francisco. At the time, the fine for running a red light was $104. The corporation that leased these cameras to the city got to keep $17.50 for every person cited. This would be enough to keep the system profitable if every photographed motorist paid up.

Unfortunately for the city and its corporate partners, only about a third of the motorists photographed could be identified and cited due to blurry photos, missing front plates and obscured faces. As a result, they were only collecting a third of the expected revenue needed to keep this system profitable.

One of the two contractors involved in San Francisco’s pilot program, Electronic Data Systems, withdrew from the program after six months citing the financial shortfall. The city’s other corporate partner, U. S. Public Technologies (now owned by Lockheed Martin) hung tough, helping the city lobby the state legislature to deliver them from this revenue deficit. San Francisco had paid $30,000 per intersection to have the initial cameras installed. They did not intend on surrendering this investment without a fight. Led by San Francisco representatives, the state legislature rode to the rescue.

“California’s pre-existing fine structure was not adequate to make red light photo enforcement self-financing. This is important to local governments who support the program in principle, but are not willing to sacrifice funding for other programs to fund photo enforcement. The legislature addressed this by passing Assembly Bill (AB) 1191 (Shelley), in 1997, raising the fine from $104 to $346 for running red lights. This bill also changed the formula for distributing the fine revenues so local agencies now receive about $148 from each fully paid citation. This was essential for the survival of red light photo enforcement in California.”
- “How Can We Make Red Light Runners Stop?” by Jack Lucero and Bridget Smith, Westernite, November-December 1998, Vol. 52 No. 6

In 1998, the fine for running a red light was tripled to $346. This “enhanced” fine would net $70 per ticket for Lockheed Martin, and $78 for the city hosting the system. Automated enforcement was no more efficient but it was now profitable. This increased fine and bonus payment of $78 for the city has led to the rapid expansion of automated enforcement across our state.

Since only one in three drivers photographed are eventually cited under automated enforcement, this one honest motorist is, in essence, being forced to pay for all three. Guilty or not, it is unfair that the one honest driver must pay $346 while the two dishonest ones, lacking front plates or willing to perjure themselves, laugh and pay nothing.

Big Brother’s Tactics Are Not Subject To Public Scrutiny

Lockheed Martin was careful to avoid the most unsafe intersections in its San Diego installation (nearly all in low-income areas) in favor of intersections in higher income neighborhoods where profits could be assured. Since the city government did not object to these marketing tactics, we can assume they might concur with other possible profit-enhancing measures by Lockheed Martin, such as decreasing the length of the yellow lights at monitored intersections in order to increase violations. With no public scrutiny, Lockheed Martin may already be manipulating the timing of the intersections they control to maximize profits. This would not come as a surprise since the city has already given Lockheed Martin free reign to find you guilty, which is the only verdict that profits both the city and its corporate partner.

The corporations and cities that sponsor automated enforcement programs expect and need drivers to continue running red lights to keep the program profitable. It seems perverse that a system marketed to improve traffic safety, can only survive if it does not succeed.

If automated enforcement were truly capable of stopping drivers from running red lights, it would soon do so and become unprofitable. Does anyone honestly believe that private corporations are investing millions of dollars in a system whose success will soon render it obsolete?

Tags: 2012, conspiracy, corporations, establishment, novelty

The Plot Thickens… (Like Yo Mama)

Tags: adoption, novelty, parents, swami, your mom

An Educational Afternoon

Visted my mother for an hour that turned into three… heard a lot of interesting stories for the first time… the most interesting of which is that she almost adopted a korean girl before I came into the picture… she said that she was 4 months pregnant with me when the agency came to her asking if she was interested in this girl. But, according to my mother’s angry phone call to me in 1993, I was adoped too.so i think what she’s saying is that she had a choice and she chose me over her… then she capped the story by telling me how she always wishes that she had adopted the girl too.

My mom has been avidly denying the fact that i am adopted ever since she broke the news to me herself 13 years ago. i verified it with my dad who sighed and lit up a cigarette and proceeded to tell me the whole story. Apparantly I was the product of an affair had by a lady and her tae-kwon-do instructor… she had a husband and 3 children at home already. This took place in the faraway land of Rancho Cordova. My dad said he was shocked that she told me because she has always been so strongly against me knowing.

So anyway she’s in denial and makes up stories about being pregnant with me and there’s no pictures in the house of me younger than 4 months old or of her pregnant in any way. But this was the closest she’s ever come to talking about it. She went into detail about how the agency came to check out the house and checked their credit and histories… and all supposedly because she was considering adopting this girl…  So I asked “What was the name of the agency?” and she replied “Holt.”

So finally i have a lead. I just sent an information request to Holt International Children’s Services and we’ll see what pops up.

Tags: adoption, novelty, parents, sacramento

Open Invitation

so my friend clued me in to this site called zaadz.com…. looks to be a myspace/tribe-style community but for the evolutionary mind.

Since I know several of you are evolutionaries I’m inviting you to jump on board too. I know i might sound like an ad right now but here’s my logic: my blog has always been primarily about consciousness and the conscious evolution of our species… even my randomest shit that I post here is all part of the greater plan… and zaadz appears to WANT this kind of talk.

plus my job doesn’t block zaadz so I can regain the joy of blogging my random thoughts again.

what i thought was the most interesting is that you have to actually fill out an “about me” just to apply… they review your reasons for wanting to join and they even sent me real mail… yeah a real person read my app and spoke to me… that’s very cool to me.

so here’s my link:
http://swami.zaadz.com

bam bitch.

Tags: 2012, blogging, myspace, novelty, shamanism, social networking, spirituality, synchronicity, tribe