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TruthIsAll
11-20-2008, 02:36 PM
This is my all-time favorite video. Cher is not only a great entertainer, she's a true liberal who raised money to equip soldiers in Iraq with decent head-gear when Bushco wouldn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmL8hjpf1k

When I was a kid in the fifties, the Brooklyn Dodgers were my first obsession.
We had real heroes then.
http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/Brooklyn_Dodgers_1955.jpg

Then it was the music: my father introduced me to the big bands (Shaw, Miller, Goodman). We watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand and listened to Rock and Roll in the late 50s and 60s (Beatles, Elvis, Ray Charles, The Platters, Chuck Berry). And of course, popular vocalists (Sinatra, Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Streisand).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2LQGigK-0

In 1960, my first year of college, it was a JFK obsession. Another hero.

In the 60s, programming mainframes for aerospace/defense manufacturing. That was fun.In the 70s-90s, quantitative modeling for investment/foreign banks and major corporations. Challenging.

But since the 2000 Scotus/Bush selection, the obsession has been statistical analysis of election fraud. Not fun. Voting machines and central tabulators are not the problem; it's the humans who program them. There is no such thing as a machine "glitch"; it only does what the programmer tells it to do - like a little vote-switching here and there.

I've been programming computers since 1965 and have seen a machine "glitch" maybe once or twice; while thousands of legitimate errors were due to faulty programming -and were eventually fixed.

But the voting machines switch votes from the Democrat to Republican 98% of the time -and the media still won't discuss election fraud. When ALL types of voting machines are gone and are replaced by hand-counted paper ballots, this obsession will end.

http://www.geocities.com/electionmodel/TruthIsAllPic.GIF

davidgmills
11-24-2008, 11:38 AM
Looking intense but looking well.

I ran across this Monte Carlo Simulation analysis the other day. Made me think of you. Never heard of Monte Carlo analysis until you.

http://climatesanity.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/applying-monte-carlo-simulation-to-sloans-and-wolfendales-use-of-forbush-decrease-data/

Has to do with whether cosmic radiation is or is not responsible for global climate change. According to the Monte Carlo analysis, the statistical results by an author of another article failed to pass the Monte Carlo test.

TruthIsAll
11-25-2008, 02:09 PM
I'm as relaxed as can be and feeling great. Not intense at all.

When you come back from the grave as I did in 2006, you learn to appreciate everyday things you once couldn't do on your own: like breathing, talking, eating and walking.

Working on election models is great therapy. It's also good to get out of the house, like City Place in West Palm Beach where that picture was taken about a year ago.

davidgmills
11-25-2008, 06:57 PM
They have the look of serious business.

Dhalgren
11-26-2008, 06:39 AM
It is amazing to me, but when I name my favorite movies two of Cher's pop up: "Mermaids" and "Moonstruck". She was also really good in "Mask". (Do all of her movies titles start with "M"?)

I have never been a fan of her music (even though, of course, she has a great voice), but her movies are really good.

:hi: