Sorry Need to Post Corrections

Sorry Need to Post Corrections:
For the past several years I had thought the Hamilton clan was Scottish Highlanders, when in fact the Hamilton Clan is a Lowland clan.
I have tried to change what blogs that I found that had errors.  However, I suspect I have not found them all, and because I have posted so much to the internet, I probably will never fully be able to change all of my mistakes.

Very Sorry,

Craig

Ed Markey and Mike Sullivan for Senate 2013: Comment on Debate

After listening to Democrats and Republicans debating for Senator Kerry’s spot, I hope that either Ed Markey http://markey.house.gov/ or Mike Sullivan are elected for senate. Their competition is 2nd class for Senatorial positions.

I am mostly in favor of the democrat candidate, Markey, but would not be disappointed if Mike Sullivan won.

Watching how Sullivan's Republican candidates, his competitors, didn't bat an eyelash at the subject of gay marriage had me worried. I am in favor of allowing gay marriage, but I don't believe I could discuss the issue with such a straight face. You know the type of straight face that makes people want to laugh.  When I initially wrote this as a post to Facebook, I was giggling at Sullivan's Republican opponents' candidate talk, and would like the chance to laugh in the face of his current competition.

If I had to describe the Republican debate on the subject of gay marriage, it reminded me of a scene in the movie Dirty Work (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120654/).

In one scene of the movie, Norm MacDonald gets even with a mean employer who runs a movie theater by playing (so called) gay porn in the theater.  The beginning of the scene is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXQm9K9cjQ

I wouldn’t even know what gay porn is, as I have never seen it nor do I want to.  So, if you are gay and reading this, thank you for keeping the gay porn out of my search engine.

I'll never forget the tone of the words in Dirty Work, "Let's have sex with it," and thank goodness that they didn't show the porn. They just showed all the customers running out of the movie theater. That attitude of the gay porn tone of voice, which was so funny in Dirty Work is pretty much exactly the same voice these Republicans use in the debate.  It is worth a giggle.

The debate is available here: (the Democrats) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41M6LUUils

And, (the Republicans),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VsKjzkBww

 

That would be called dry humor.

Spring Is A Go – A Poem

Spring is a go

Sing as we plow with our hoe

Scattering seeds of life

For back break harvest strife

Baseball games are ah playin’

My mood is a’ liftin’  I am just sayin’

And, in all that we do

Spring has sprung through and through

Bollocks: Scientific and Relgious

It's good to know that I am a religionist who doesn't fall into any of these [major or minor] categories [completely].

I do however credit Gd with intelligence beyond intelligence, and thus, I do believe in intelligent design. I also believe in faith healing, as well as that curses can be efficacious. Thus, I do believe prayer can work. Likewise, I also believe in karma.

It is a little bit of everything many scientific folks call quackery.

What I find is that Dawkins, like a typical person with a doctoral degree has such desire to make dumb folk act like parrots. The doctoral degree is absurd because doctors present themselves as gods, meaning that Dawkins and other doctoral folk are taught to take the necessary measures to make regular folk submit to their way of life.

Science has a lot of bollocks too. [Many] scientists publish stuff in lesser journals in order to avoid greater scrutiny that would come from publishing in a better journal. And, this science bollocks is done just to get funding.

What about science bollocks? Peer reviews by people that haven't repeated the experiments, but somehow feel they know enough to comment on them, though the comments aren't recorded. What about the prevalence of admission that if someone finds a journal article he or she can't repeat, then they blame it on themselves, not even bothering to make note? Why aren't records kept on who is able to repeat experiment? Why is it such that if other people can't repeat the science bollocks a record is not kept of the amount of times the information in a journal article has failed to work?

If peer review isn't how I suggest it is, then please inform me. Peer review is done by your peers in science, but that is all. It is not a review of people that have repeated the experiment. In fact, many times the experiment is not even done, but it is published as if it were done. If it doesn't have error bars, then chances are it is just a theory, which someone may or may not be able to make a fact. Please inform me about the way science peer review works if you think I don't have it right.

Nicotene, Caffeine, Taurine, ect. Soda Pop

It is completely beyond me why I have yet to hear of a soda pop that uses nicotene. One would think that this method for adminstering nicotene would not only be affective, but also save lives. That is, I want to make beverages with nicotene in them.

Airplane flights would probably be much more pleasant for a good many of smokers. In fact, these drinks would probably help a good many of people quit smoking. Additionally, drinking beverages with nicotine in them would probably extend a good many of peoples lives. For example, they already know from research that people are more likely to live to be a 100 years old if they smoke, despite the fact that smoking should generally be thought of as a killer for the vast majority of people.

Do Animals Think That We Are Gds?

In a chatroom on AOL, a friend of mine posited that animals think we are Gds because they treat us like we are Gds.  I recently asked my wife the same question, and got a different answer.  She thought that animals are completely unable to conceive of the idea of Gd.  That much I imagine is probably true.  A creature needs to have a certain amount of smarts to conceive of activities worthy of a deity.

Frankly, I don’t think most humans are able to conceive of the idea of Gd.  Most humans are either to dumb, idol worshippers for the sake of popularity, and/or smart people jaded by their own abilities.

1.       With respect to people that just aren’t smart enough to faith, it is not that I do not believe that there vessel, meaning their body, is not permeated by holy Light, but it is that they simply do not have an IQ high enough.

That might sound small minded, but I have had a professional IQ assessment of my intelligence, and more than just knowing that my intelligence is superior, I know that others must not have been able to give correct answers to questions I thought most people knew the answers to.  Thus, because I know these answers, I am baffled by the prevalence of those unable to answer such simple questions, and that gives me the idea that animals, and some humans may not be intelligent enough to conceive of the idea of a Gd.  However, that is not the only command, as I will show that there are commands other than faith below.

2.       With respect to popularity and idol worshipping, this is something that Christians do.  Christianity suffers from the belief that Jesus is Gd (heaven forefend that this is the case, but nonetheless it is the case).  These idol worshippers are living long lives though because outside of idol worship many of them are good people, and Hashem only knows their heart when He visits them on their death bed, as it is said, “Gd visits the sick.”

I, myself, feel lucky that Hashem visited me when I was very sick, and not only that, I got hope that my condition could improve and it did.  I believe Hashem visits the sick because only when one is so weak and humble is he or she ready to receive the message of the L-rd in its fullest sense.  That is, I would expect most people would take such information lightly had these visits come during others times.

3.     With respect to intellectuals and the intelligent, and here mainly I am speaking of doctors, especially those whom are atheists, it only makes sense to me that because they heal and experiment with their very hands, as if Gd did not exist  that they actually come to believe the existence of Gd is not necessary.  This is because it is said to act as if Gd did not exist when healing, and not to send someone on their way with only a prayer if at all possible.

So coming back to cats.  I like feral cats.  I like to heal, and by their actions feral cats show that they believe in a cruel harsh existence far different from the well taken care of domestic cat.  Don’t get me wrong, it is not that I don’t like domesticated cats.  I hope that there is a warm and loving home for every domesticated cat, and I own two of them, and they, these kitties, continue giving and have given so much love.  However, there are many cats out there that only know of a cruel existence, and though perhaps there is no hope for the adult feral cats, meaning that love can’t pierce into their hardened hearts, I have hope for feral kittens.

Sometimes a feral kitten can be taken in and shown that life doesn’t have to be quite so hard.  In that way, when cats are able to give up their predatory diet of blood and guts, in favor of more humanely slaughtered meat, in fact dry food, as in Leviticus it is a blessing to eat old produce (Leviticus 26), it is as if they have chosen Hashem’s way, where lovingkindness is central to the harmony, and foundation of seeing the less cruel side of nature.  That is, we as humans, like cats, especially those who take Torah seriously are able to live idealistic lives, and it is only because we have chosen and continue to choose the way of Hashem.

Do cats believe that we are Gods again...I can only ponder that.

“ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and other major disorders may be more related than we thought.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/psychiatric-disorders-genetics-mental-disorder-autism-adhd_n_2781772.html My extended commentary to a Huffington Post article on the subject of the title. I knew it all along. Why? Because I had them all. As a youngster, I had ADHD, but undiagnosed though every knew I had it. Then, I had a psychotic episode where I was told that my illness would only get worse. That was proven wrong by going not the holistic route, but the comprehensive route, where my family had to dig deep into their pockets in order that I would get healed. The treatment I receive comes by licensed practitioners at Comprehensive Psychiatric Resources in Waltham, MA. The separation of these diagnosis is often according to age more than anything else. Doctors are much likely to play the part of wishful thinking by diagnosing a kid with ADHD rather than make a mistake and give a diagnosis that has more stigma attached to it. If it’s a kid, then they call it autism or ADHD. Why? Everyone has a lot of hope that a cure will come for autism. And, frankly it is practically in style to get a diagnosis of ADHD. The problem is that autistic children become schizophrenic adults. That is when they get a, “You are beyond all hope diagnosis,” which is not entirely true if your doctor uses comprehensive resources like the Great Plains Laboratory. These folks are often able to get their diagnosis reduced to bipolar on a gluten and casein free diet, as I did, but there is no cure for the damage that ten or twenty years of opiates can deal to a young developing mind. Also, I recommend doing the test to see if a gluten free and/or casein free diet is necessary for you or your loved one. Lot’s of people go gluten free and just because they eat healthier, they report a false positive that removing gluten is helpful. That test can hopefully be administered to you through the Great Plains Laboratory that also requires that you work with a licensed practitioner in order to get the test. It will cost you an arm and a leg, and your health care almost certainly won’t cover it, but it can mean the difference between life and death. I, myself, am suspicious of the shots. Mainly, vaccines affect the immune system, and many of these disorders are traceable to the immune system. Thus, the thing that we are observing that has reaction to the immune system may go back as far as the appearance of narcolepsy, as a separate diagnosable disorder, where it was previously unknown to exist, and where these folks are observed to exhibit narcotic symptoms, that appear as if one has consumed opiates. It is that there are certain plants that contain gluten, and milk that contains casein, that these two proteins have opiate derivatives, which affect some people but not others. The fact is that the gut of someone with the illness in question, be it ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, narcolepsy, or chronic fatigue, etc, is fundamentally different. The gut of people with these illnesses digests gluten and casein different from the majority of the population. With respect to the doctor, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's, who lost his job for putting out a journal article for the above mentioned information. If the guy was actually a crook, out to do harm, he would have most likely not said something so profound as a link between vaccines and autism. That statement is so audacious that he would have had to have been a fool to make it and be trying to tell us all a lie. He would have been debunking the goodness of vaccines, and vaccines have long been considered perhaps in the 10 top medicinal inventions ever. Folks this guy was a doctor, and not a dummy. Only a dummy would make up such a lie as to correlate vaccines and autism, and frankly there is not a chance in hell that a doctor would have said that particular thing if it was in fact untrue.

WTF??? Does AT&T Think That I Want To Pay More for Data Sometimes?

I just looked at my AT&T Go Phone message that just informed me that I have no money left. That is because I didn’t buy a bigger data package. However, it would have been nice if they had warned me to buy a data package, rather than run up the dough on my phone, as if I wanted to pay more money by not having a data package.

So hi! Let me introduce myself. I was a happy AT&T customer because Verizon screwed me for data to a much greater extent than AT&T did though nonetheless both companies have screwed me before.

I am a somewhat happy user of a Go Phone now, so that getting screwed to the extent of $1,000 over data with Verizon will never happen again because when my card runs out of money, that’s it. If I was with Verizon under contract, it could have been worse. Last I knew, you could spend yourself into oblivion with Verizon data without even a warning.

At least a warning would have helped me with AT&T. Now, I am without my phone because I was watching a long video on it that ate up all my data. AT&T courteously stopped me when I had spent my last cent, but they didn’t courteously tell me that my data plan had run out. I would have liked the option to buy a new plan when the last one ran out, such that I don’t have to wait until my next check to have a phone to use.

Like Verizon, AT&T is doing bad business. When I worked at McDonald’s if you ordered everything that comes with a value meal, it was automatic for us to make it at the value meal price. Why? It is good business to help the customer get deals. That makes your business at least seem friendly. In the same way, when your data package ends, it should automatically deny you use of data unless you purchase a data package, even if it is an emergency package that costs say, $1 for 1MB, because seriously AT&T who actually wants to spend more money on data by not buying a data package, especially without being asked!!!???

A Looming Potential Disaster to the Credibility of Science

I think oxidation is a major factor when it comes to dating fossils. When dating something, oxidation is not included in the factor, because in theory these fields have yet to be united in a theory of everything, so to say. You can't tell me that the sun beating down on some rocks causes them to decay, and that is not someway tied to the their radioactive date. Radioactivity is only part of the picture, and it most certainly reasonable to believe that oxidation plays a role in radioactivity.

I have written on this subject years ago, but I never got much of a response. So, now I'll give it another try.

Why Christianity Is Wrong

"Exodus 33:20. And He said, 'You will not be able to see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.'"


Then, why do people believe that Jesus is God? Christianity is so absurd. By definition in the 10 commandments, if you believe something that is an earthen vessal, even a human is a Gd, then that is idolatry.

The same is true with me. I might claim to be a Messiah, but I am certainly not a God. God is in me as he is in everthing in this creation, permeating it in conceiled omnipresence, as we can't see Gd. Please don't worship me. And, it is true that I believe Gd has spoken to me. God's words to me where, "I am punishing you." So, I said, "Why are you punishing me?" And, Gd's reply was, "I get everyone sooner or later." And, yet I do know that this qualifies as a hallucination, yet I trust that it was real and Gd spoke to me.

TMI: On The Feb. 2013 Blizzard Nemo - Soaked In Pee In The Cold and Dark Night

I confess on the blizzard Nemo Feb 2013.  The power outage could not have gotten any worse for me the first night.  I woke up in the middle of it, and me being a guy, I figured I could pee in the dark.  You know, I've done it a million times in the light, so I should be able to do it blind-folded even.  Well folks, I missed the pot, and the spray came right back at me.  I took off my shirt and wiped myself with it, and I wiped the floor with it, but it wasn't like I could take a shower in the dark!  I would have fallen on my ass if I tried that.  So, defeated, having tried to stand and pee in the dark, I went back to bed on the couch.  Yuck!  Next time, when the power is out at night, I am going to sit to pee.  Thank Gd the power is back and I can take a shower lighted shower with hot water.

*** Beyond Outrage by Robert B. Reich – Of Reich’s Works That I Have Read It’s Comparatively Subpar

The first point I would like to make takes up a third of this book.  It is on what Reich has called Radcons in another book.  I think Reich has said enough about Radical Conservatives by now.  The Radcons are no longer a threat.  However, I agree that regression is a threat.

My generation has rejected the Radcon way of life in favor of having a more liberal lifestyle.  It is not radical conservatives Reich is afraid of, but those who wish to be fiscally responsible, and these folks may be either Democrat or Republican.

I, myself, have already stated that I believe Reich is wrong about what to do.  Reich wants to continue running trillion plus dollar deficits until the economy gets better.  However, to me that seems stupid.  We may get a good run at having a good economy, but not enough to sustain an economy recovery.  That is, 8 years is not enough time to put us in the positive, and chances are that partly because of term limits, we won’t be able to sustain enough of a recovery.  Perhaps, getting rid of term limits is something we should consider, but I think that we would just go for another 4 years of Obama mediocrity.

Some presidential leaders to look for come 2016 are Hillary Clinton, Deval Patrich, and even Reich himself.  It has baffled me why Reich hasn’t run for office.

The first part of this book, “The Rigged Game,” I think most folks already know enough about.  Most folks are angry at Wall Street and the rich, and want government to work for them doing things such as closing loopholes.  The word is out.  And, folks are right, the game is rigged.

One area I flat out disagree with Reich is that I don’t think giving more money to the poor is a good answer.  In my opinion, folks need to find out how to make their money, the money they already don’t have because they are broke because they have already spent it, work for them, such that the poor can be empowered.  Thus, the answer is for folks to be more careful when spending, rather than to toss out more handouts.  These actions are going to take a concerted effort, and America is going to need to find some fiscally conservative cheerleader that can see to it that folks are able to make their money go as far as it can possible go.

One suggestion I might make is that I often shop at Amazon.com, if a local store doesn’t have what I need, or if the local is charging an unreasonable price.  There are lots of good bargains on Amazon.com, especially if you are willing to put up with having used goods.  Also, there are other stores like BJ’s where if you are careful with your money, it will stretch further.

The major problem of this book is that it assumes that if you put more money in the hands of average Americans, then good things will happen, but that isn’t true.  The fact is that most Americans are clueless when it comes to math, such that if you gave them more money, they wouldn’t have a clue how to spend the money wisely.  Therefore, the problem is not that the poor and middle class don’t earn enough, but the problem is that CEO pay is ludicrously high.  The reason middle and lower class pay is good is because if we raise it, it would simply cause more inflation, and folks would have a much more difficult time determining whether or not they should purchase something based upon its price.

I do agree with the author that there are certain things we should be outraged at, such as the buying of political offices.  I agree that CEO pay is out of control.  I agree that we need to close tax loopholes, such taxing what is now considered to be capital gains.  Reich does make a lot of good points, but I felt that his books Supercapitalism, and Aftershock were much better. 

Lastly, the last third of the book seems both naïve and correct.  In order to have a movement that will make change, we have to get off of our couches.  However, the USA suffers for this as we Americans are couch potatoes.  Our ancestors would have bound together to fight against our problems, but for us, we are not a very cohesive nation.  That is, too often we relate to each other via the internet.  That is another subject that Reich might do well to include if he writes another book.

**** Killing Is My Business and Business Is Good by Megadeth – Awesome and Totally Old School

The reason I subtracted a star and gave this album 4 stars is that I don’t want anyone to be disappointed with the quality of the sound of this album.  This album was made on a shoestring budget, and as in the way that there isn’t so much need to buy old jazz albums because the newer ones are higher quality, so it is that way with Killing Is My Business.  As for me, I like the old school production.

As for the music on this album.  It is some of the best thrash/speed metal out there.  It really is a good album.  This is the type of album that when someone says to me, “I think metal blows,” and I say to them, “Well if you think it’s so bad, then why don’t you try playing it?”  I have never heard anyone complain to me about an album like this one when I said something like, “I will listen to your criticism, if and only if, you can play it,” because truly this album is a work of art, and it is not easily repeatable, as it is with all great works of art.

The USA's Junk Yard Economy

Every year the Obama administration has been in office, the deficit, roughly a trillion dollars, has been an economic stimulus. That is the yearly deficit is the yearly stimulus. Folks does this seem to be working? Last I knew prices, were going up. Can't we see, as a nation that there has to be a better way.

Now, I am not about having the poor and the middle class foot the bill. Why? Because the government doesn't protect the money of the poor and middle class. Why? Because they don't have any money to protect. Rather, the 5% of us that the government works for, it is these folks that the government who should foot the bill. So, it is not as if I am demanding the money from the rich to go to the poor, but rather I am demanding that the rich pay for their own government.

I'll also add that when I see a lot of average people, I would collectively call them a bunch of junk. They don't deserve to have more money because they will just squander it on booze, and drugs, and likewise prices will go up. I don't have much hope for average folks, and by that I don't mean poor, middle class or even rich folks. What I am talking about is that the bar has been lowered for the people and that the very morals that folks are participating in are low class. No I am not homophobic, anti abortion, etc, but what I see is that America has turned to drugs, such as marijuana that when used is proven to result in poor judgment, and a general breakdown of the family as a sacred unit of society.

I'll also state that I strongly believe that the time to make cuts now, rather than later, even though I agree it will make things messy. The reason I believe that now is the time is that we have a huge amount of debt. We have so much debt that it is scarcely believable that we could pay off the current debt we have now in our lifetimes. The idea that we could actually get the economy on track for long enough, meaning generating an economy that can sustain cuts all the way, and not flop is unbelievable.

Put it this way. We are in the economic super bowl and it is half time and we are down by 70 points. The fortune of the game is written. It seems like winning is impossible, so what is our plan? My plan I learned from a long song by Sepultura in high school, "When you go down. You go down fighting." When your down and you've got nothing to lose, go down fighting.

Things I’d Like to Do by Craig Hamilton the Christ

1. Take Alex to see his Grandparents in North Carolina, and his Great Grandmother, Gram in Albany more often.

2. Eat a lot of sushi.

3. Sing a lot of karaoke.

4. Spend time with my family.

5. Go with relatives to Lake George.

6. Eat a lot of olives from the olive bar.

7. Play competitively at MTG a card game.

8. Have a steady job.

9. Lose some weight.

10. Maybe play in a band.

11. Go to Scotland & Ireland.

12. Be a prolific blog author.

13. Stay on Cape Cod.

14. Go to Pawsox and Cape League Games (Go Bourne Braves!)

15. Have some extra money.

A Reason for Gun Control in Populated Areas - The Pigsty Effect

There is something also worthy of mention; what I call the pig sty effect. Most of the nations with stricter gun control in Europe also have a greater population density, such that this pig sty effect is of a greater worry than it is in most of the USA. The same is true in New York, where guns are more restricted than elsewhere in the States.

Basically, from a biological standpoint, pigs are very similar to humans. Pigs in a sty behave far worse than if they were not. In the sty, they fight a lot, eat their own poop, etc. I also have a theory; that a place like New York is also likely to become a sty. Ghettos are essentially cities gone wrong. Ghettos might as well have no gun control at all.

In some parts of NYC that means due to guns the life expectency of males is only about 18yrs old, meaning this life expectancy is due to the pig sty effect. We can't even get the guns out of these ultra-poor areas because it is the children who are the one's pulling the trigger, and children with guns is a very scary idea.

A good movie about this idea, is City of God.

Thus, to respect population as a trigger for gun related violence, gun control should not even be controlled at the state level, but at the district level, especially so that we can keep guns out of the hands of people in more populated areas, such as cities.

(The primary reason I am posting this article is so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.  I have no intention of making any money on it and I encourage the reader to visit the website below, which is from a more reliable site than mine.)


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183858/All-presidents-bar-directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html

Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king

• 12-year-old girl created family tree linking 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to King John of England, who signed Magna Carta in 1215
• Only eighth president, Martin Van Buren, was not related to John

By SNEJANA FARBEROV

PUBLISHED: 20:14 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 23:58 EST, 4 August 2012

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What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins.  

The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common, and rather unexpected, ancestor: King John of England.

‘They all have the trait of wanting power,’ d’Avignon told the station WFMY.

Budding genealogist: BridgeAnne d'Avignon created a family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common ancestor

History detective: It took d'Avignon several months to search through more than 500,000 names and trace the male and female lineages of American leaders

King John, also known as John ‘Lackland’, is renowned for signing the Magna Carta in 1215, which limited the monarch’s power and helped form the British Parliament.

 

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John’s other claim to fame, or infamy, is that he was depicted as the villain in the Robin Hood tales.

Common grandfather: The 12-year-old traced the lineages of nearly all of the U.S. presidents to King John, the signer of the Magna Carta

D’Avignon, a seventh-grader at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, started the project in hopes of tracing back her own bloodline in France, but somewhere along the way she decided to take her genealogical quest to the highest level. 

In order to create the family tree, the 12-year-old spent months scouring through over 500,000 names in search of the ‘presidential Adam.’

Her 80-year-old grandfather, who has been tracing roots for nearly six decades, helped her make the presidential links. 

D’Avignon started with the first U.S. president, George Washington, she traced both the male and female family lines to make the connection. 

Prior to d’Avignon’s discovery, genealogists were only able to link 22 families of presidents, likely because they only focused on male bloodlines. 

The only former commander-in-chief not linked to King John is the eighth president, Martin Van Buren, who had Dutch roots.  

The teen also found out that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama. She even wrote to her new-found relative a letter to share her findings with him.

So far, however, d’Avignon said she received only a generic response from the White House.

Odd man out: Only the eighth president of the U.S., Martin Van Buren, was not related to King John because he had Dutch roots

D’Avignon created a poster of the presidential family tree and is selling signed copies of it in hopes of raising enough money to make a trip to Washington DC. The middle-school student says her goal is to hand-deliver a replica of her family tree to the president. 

'I think we just all go back somewhere; it’s just a matter of proving it,' she said. 

Powerful relative: D'Avignon discovered that she is the 18th cousin of President Obama

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A Quick Explanation of My Vote: If any should wonder about my thoughts on the Tuesday Election.

1. At the Federal level, I am voting Republican or Independent. This is mainly to help see that we do not put a President with a legislature that is not his party. President Obama has demonstrated inability to work as a bipartisan, which is necessary if we are going to tackle the greatest issue that faces our country in this age, the deficit and debt of the USA!

2. At the State level, I am voting Democrat. In general, I am thrilled as to how things are going in my state. In fact, I believe MA to be the best and greatest state in the union, and we are mostly Democrat. We are an island of greatness in America. I want to continue that tradition by voting for incumbents.

3. This is not to say that voting Democrat is the right thing to do at the state level for other states. Thus, it is such that I believe Republican leadership might be what is best for other states, and I bless them that their voters choice the best choice for their respective state. 

Honest Prayers for the Victory of Mitt Romney

I'm praying for the victory of Mitt Romney.  I won't say that I think he is the perfect candidate.  For example, I don't like his running mate, all the while realising that his choice is wise.  I have a general distaste for religious conservatives.

I am sold on Mitt Romney because he has proved that he is qualified as a leader who achieved getting good legislation passed when in government he was very much in the minority as a Republican.  My wife pointed out to me that the differences between Republicans and Democrats have a greater amount of polarization at the federal level.  However, for example, Romney has talked clean coal for example shows that he is able to think beyond the narrow confines of the state of his govenorship.

My worst fear of Romney has dissipated, and that was that he would be a trigger happy Republican.  In the 3rd, and last debate, that Romney was constantly trying to shift his focus to the economy rather than talking about what countries he would attack demonstrates that once again, Romney is the candidate of evolution, that is, he evolves to what America needs as time changes.  He is my choice because his changes are the right changes.

Elections 2012: I Can’t Believe That There Is A Question as to Whether or Not We Need New Leadership

It’s practically unbelievable that there is even a contest for the 2012 election. America is in the mud, and everyone seems to be worried that Mitt Romney will take away all the precious program funding and leave us to hang out to dry. I do agree that Mitt Romney wants cuts. And, I can only pray that they will be sensible cuts that will eventually balance the federal deficit. However, what we have in office as I am writing this blog is a President that has proven himself to be completely ineffective at making any headway in reducing the federal deficit. That amounts to this, America is either going to have to take its cuts, which I liken to taking needed medication, or else we will go on inflating the dollar as a sick nation on a crash course with oblivion.

Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you, look at the evidence. President Obama has not been able to make even a dent in the deficit in 4 years, and many people want to reelect him. The evidence is that if he since he has not made any headway, that if we give him another 4 years, it is only reasonable that we can expect the deficit to remain unchanged, while trillions of dollars are once again heaped onto the federal debt.

America needs change, and the only way we are going to get it is if in the next four years we balance the federal deficit. Otherwise, we can only expect the devaluation of the dollar. Yes, there are consequences to running big deficits and the primary one is inflation of the dollar. If you don’t know what that means, it means things get more expensive though you do not have necessary money to pay for them. That is, with inflation, your money won’t stretch as far, and while you might have programs, the inertia of these programs to adapt to fiscal change is also very likely to leave those whom are unfortunate without anyway. They can’t be saved. Unless Obama does a 180 and suddenly starts putting forth potential ideas that are bipartisan to balance the budget America’s future will remain bleak. So, let’s put a stop to the Obama bin Laden’s insane fiscal policies.

First, and foremost, if we give someone who has already failed at this another chance, as in another chance to be able to work in a bipartisan House and Senate in order to accomplish something for good we as Americans are headed more and more into the direction of becoming indentured servants, for future generations.

When I elected President Obama, I had two things in mind. I wanted national healthcare, and I wanted a balanced federal budget. I believed then, and I still believe now that those two things are capable of being accomplished. Medication and medicine pays for itself, and I believed that the Democrats could make headway in balancing the debt because I believed in President Barrack Obama’s ability to fall in the steps former President Bill Clinton during his term in office. However, I was wrong. Barrack Obama wasn’t the answer, and I still think John McCain was not the correct answer either. Hopefully, though it may take some financial responsibility, the voters will elect someone new, and not someone who has done nothing on the most important issue we face in the last 4 years.

Craig’s Tips for Quitting Smoking Tobacco

Quitting smoking is no simple undertaking. It is expensive. It may require saving up to get it done. If quitting costs you only $500 in quitting materials, you should consider yourself lucky. If you are to be successful at quitting, for the entire first year or two, I recommend avoiding all places where tobacco is being smoked.

First, switch to self rolled cigarettes. In my opinion, rolled cigarettes are less expensive and less addictive at the same time.

Have it in the back of your mind that it may take 1,000 attempts to stop smoking, such that quitting requires a constant mentality that can be sustained, instead of a mentality that is heroic. Every time you try to quit and fail, do not judge yourself, but rather accept that you are mortal. Mortals can succeed and mortals can fail. If you are able to approach quitting smoking without judging yourself for the hundreds if not thousands of times you attempt quitting, there is victory in that alone.

This constant mentality I recommend includes acceptance of the displeasure for what cigarettes do to you. Realize how much wreckage they cause to you. The make you stink 24/7 such that people wrinkle their nose at you and think that they are better than you, and the make you order not only your day around smoking but your entire existence around smoking - I could go on, but if you are at this point, you don’t need to be reminded of the many ways smoking brings you down.

When you quit smoking, I recommend the strongest strength patch, but I can almost guarantee you this won’t be enough. Don’t be a hero! Buy the full strength gum too. I realize that the label says not to combine these, but for me, the author of this, it was the only way to quit! I would have quit trying just one of these methods, but one alone didn’t work. I tried and failed many times. Also buy the patch with lower strength and the lower strength gum, for once you buy the more expensive ones you may not have enough money for these, and that can cause failure as well, as you may find yourself sifting through ashtrays, and begging. Like I said, quitting smoking is expensive, and it is a good idea to stock up on the things that will help you in the journey.

Use the patch and the gum such that you can feel that you no longer want a cigarette. Though I do not recommend using two gums at once, you may have to abuse the gum too. Use whatever method it takes to quit, and not put the next cigarette in your mouth.

If you fail, and smoke a cigarette, then don’t give up on the gum and the patch. When I was using the gum and the patch I was able to wean down to 4 cigarettes a day. I was having relapses on the gum and the patch, but through persevering it is impossible to say that I have not had success. However, there were fewer relapses than without the gum and the patch. Keeping strong with the gum and the patch after a few weeks I was able to go from 4 cigarettes a day, to none, in one very difficult step.

Once you have successfully instituted smoking cessation methods, and are no longer smoking for about a week, it gets slightly easier from this point, but just barely. At this point for an entire year or two, I recommend avoiding having any contact with smokers. Don’t try to be a hero, but instead cower and avoid places where you might smell smoke on someone’s clothes. These places are the places that often cause relapses. For example, I had to avoid places where I might hear the flick of a lighter, or even a word associated with smoking, etc, especially in the first year that I have gone without a cigarette.

I still feel the urge to relapse after years of having quit if I am around smokers. Someone who has just quit is very fragile, and needs to protect himself or herself from situations where he or she might experience a trigger that make one have a rush of desire to smoke.

There are other methods to quit, such as behavioral substitutes. I recommend these too. I recommend using hot flavored sugar candies, such as fireballs or minty gum. A friend of mine had some success with a chew stick, where one can use their jaw muscle to generate endorphins, which help substitute for nicotine. My own personal method is to flex my jaw muscle until the endorphins come when I feel the urge.

I have been unable to avoid every situation where there is smoking entirely for at least a few years. When I go to a restaurant, I sometimes see people smoking, and it makes me want to have one even years later. Even mentioning words like tobacco, smoke, or cigarette are triggers for me. One personal trigger for me is when I have a good idea often times it makes me want to have a smoke. At this point, I pop a nicotine gum in my mouth if I feel myself getting close to the point of giving in and going to the store or to bum one. In fact, I recommend always having a few pieces of the gum around even years later for really difficult cravings.

Even years later it is difficult and I have to fight put an end to cravings, as best I can. Apparently, it seems quitting smoking is a lifelong battle, which is kind of sad, but there is victory for those who fight a good fight in the battle against the urge to smoke. Even those who are stuck at the first few steps, such that even admitting that you don’t feel in control and don’t smoke by choice should serve as a warning for those are pondering picking of their first cigarette or their first pack, etc. There is victory at all stages of the quitting process, from personal experience I can assure you that fighting in this battle is well worth it. And, count yourself lucky if you never had to because you never got addicted in the first place and there are better ways to spend your time than picking up cigarettes just to want to quit them later. Few are the people that enjoy being slaves to these cancer sticks that end too many lives too early.

Election 2012: Dumb versus Dumber

When I voted for Obama, first and foremost, I elected him because I wanted someone who would help get us out of debt. That never happened. I don't believe the answer to getting out of debt is to cut every program in America. Programs can work for us, but we have to implement them intelligently or not have them at all. So, now I have to choose between the man who didn't get the job done and someone who wrote the book, "No Apology for American Greatness," by Mitt Romney, where he outlines his hideous plan to achieve greatness in America through military spending. So, it looks like Romney will unfortunately be my vote because if I write in Robert Reich or Bernie Sanders the odds are grossly stacked against me. I want my vote to count. So, I choose Romney.

Relevance of Despicable Video of Mohammed to Judaism

I don't believe we have seen the last of these attacks on freedom of speech. Really, if a cartoon sets people off, I can only imagine how much more a video would. These attacks are proving Chalmers Johnson (r.i.p.) and Ron Paul correct, both of these folks wanted to shrink our influence in other countries. Likewise, it would not be surprising to see new movies and cartoons surface over the next few years that evoke the same response.

Nonethelesss: There does seem to be a benefit for Israel. We Americans are often quite forgetful, referring to 9/11. This may make us more prone to coming to the aid of Israel given Iran/Israeli war.

With respect to our military and occupations, we are in over 100 nations that are likely poorly stored fireworks to our country, especially if we disrespect their gods, god, or culture. Let's put a stop to this folly and not leave ourselves open to attack by smite nations.

Reconsider Bothering to Take Lecture Based Classes If You Can Read

Some Professors and teachers go by the book and some don’t.  With regard to learning, attending lecture is a poorer way to learn that actually sitting down with the textbook reading it for yourself.  Yes, some are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and some learn through feeling, but actually reading the material is key.

At college, if you are a dedicated student, chances are that you don’t have a lot of extra time to spend on activities such as lecture, where the lecture is simply a reiteration of written material, which is either available or not available.  There is a better way to learn than the old fashioned way of listening to a Professor ramble on for roughly 90mins each class, and that is by reading the text book and asking questions.  Some professors lecture on material that might as well be written down, and shame should be placed on them for not making that material available in written for written form is a better way of learning than lecture.  I won’t go so far as to say that being able to listen is unimportant.  Indeed, being able to listen if one is a doctor of medicine is often paramount, such that he or she is able to absorb what a patient has to say.  However, instead of lecturing on material not in the test, I suggest that Professors get creative about ways students can collaborate socially with the material which might be facilitated by a Professor.  Essentially, what I am suggesting is that Professors stop lecturing, and start working on facilitating students how they may collaborate together to better understand the material.

By the time students get to college, students should all know how to read, and it is such that reading the material is more important because it opens up the logic and reasoning centers of the brain, while listening to someone lecture often causes those logic and reasoning centers to shut down, such that while a student may be able to remember them, a student will generally be unable to synthesize ideas if he or she has learned via teacher/professor or television.  This is also one reason why I feel it is so important for me to blog this material because people that can read may be able to not just become parrots of me in a professorial way, but that my readers are able to take what I have to say such that it becomes inspirational.

A Listing of Various Websites Where One May Find Media That I Have Posted

1.      www.facebook.com/craig.nelson.hamilton

Hundreds of blogs posted here, and thousands of posts.  I don’t update note/blogs here very often.  In fact, I intend to repost these blogs elsewhere, and elaborate on this information as I get a chance.  This site also contains the largest collection of pictures, mostly of me and my family.

2.      http://s303.photobucket.com/albums/nn121/crgnlsnhmltn/

(This was the first place I posted photos on the internet.  I stopped using it when my photos didn’t show up in search engines.

3.      http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1I586IWW7KLE4 (I have posted hundreds of reviews to this site.)

4.      http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/

My blog on Magic the Gathering so far discusses various card reviews, and deck ideas.  I believe MTG is wonderful game especially because it helps people with mathematics and puzzles, where constructing a deck is comparable to piecing together a puzzle.

5.      http://craig-hamilton-guitar-lessons.blogspot.com/

I’ve been a guitarist since high school, so I figured that I would share what I know.  I don’t want all the knowledge to go to waste even if I may never get paid for writing this blog.

6.      http://craig-hamilton-ancestry.blogspot.com/

7.      http://craig-hamilton-religion.blogspot.com/

Around when I turned 21 at Rutgers University, I picked up on religion.  Specifically, I believe that I talked to Gd speaking to me through the walls of my apartment in the year 2000 CE, sometime in March, and this changed everything in my life.  Prior to March 2000 CE I was an atheist despite being active in the community, and doing a lot of stuff good boys doing.  Upon meeting Gd, first, I pursued Christianity.  However, even at the start, what I called as the Old Testament seemed to describe Gd as I know Him.  I stopped being a Christian in 2004 just before Christmas.  I continued my faith, but my faith is in YHWH, not Jesus.  Though Baptists could argue that I am a messianic Jew, I don’t appreciate that, and generally wish that Christianity would go away.

8.      http://craig-hamilton-economicsandmoney.blogspot.com/

This is primarily a place where I share inventions and tips on saving money.

9.      http://craig-hamilton-media-review.blogspot.com/

I feel that I can make a contribution to society through giving opinions on products.  Many of these blogs show up elsewhere on my various blogs, but some, especially the ones that aren’t about music are found here.

10.  http://craig-hamilton-baseball.blogspot.com/

I am a huge fan of the Bourne Braves of the CCBL and the Pawtucket Red Sox, who are a professional baseball team at the AAA level.  Go Sox!!!

11.  http://craig-myspace-sandwich.blogspot.com/

This blog is somewhat like a dumping ground, and I hope to come back and make this information more orderly, such that it is easier to find what I have written.

12.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/craig-hamilton

Flickr seems to turn pictures up in search engines better than photobucket, so I have switched to it as a primary source for my favorite family photos.

13.  http://www.myspace.com/crgnlsnhmltn

My first blog:  Probably has a few hundred blog posts.  I don’t update this blog often anymore.  In fact, I intend to repost these blogs elsewhere, and elaborate on this information as I get a chance.

14.  http://plus.google.com (search: Craig Nelson Hamilton will probably turn me up on Google.)

15.  http://www.blogger.com/profile/01496529655876634743 (My Blogspot Profile)

16.  I have posted several duplicate album reviews at www.rdio.com

17.  I also have posted to many articles at www.chabad.org