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A Klaine prom oneshot. Inspired by Thank God I Found You by Mariah Carey, Joe, and 98 Degrees.
I think I'm gonna try my hand at more Klaine oneshots. I'm just so in the mood!
I do not own Klaine.
Kurt returned from the DJ booth with a grin on his face.
"What?" Blaine wondered with a toothy smile, as he took his boyfriend's hands back into his. They had been having fun dancing with the rest of New Directions, when Kurt suddenly had the urge to leave Blaine's side and strut his impeccably well-dressed self to the far end of the catering hall. Blaine had begun to follow like the puppy he is but Kurt turned, gave him a stern (yet loving) look and Blaine knew he was meant to stay behind for this brief moment. He re-joined Mercedes and Brittany who were both rocking out to a Ke$ha song but couldn't help but glance every so often at Kurt who was patiently waiting for the line at the DJ booth to disperse. Blaine took another moment to admire the boy who was rocking back and forth on the balls of his heels, his polished Prada shoes glinting a little in the dance lights. His hands were clasped behind his back which was arched ever-so-slightly. The black tux expertly matched with a stark, crisp white dress shirt and black bow tie. Around his neck, a white sparkling silk scarf draped just-so across his shoulders and visible from underneath the scarf was a baby blue corsage. He was so lucky to have the best looking guy at prom. Finally it was Kurt's turn to access the table at the DJ booth. He bent down on the table, picking up a golf pencil and quickly jotting down some words before handing it to the DJ who glanced at the paper, gave Kurt a thumbs up and returned to man his booth.
When Kurt returned, he took Blaine's arms and placed them around his own waist before resting his hands on the back of Blaine's neck. "I requested a song," he said coyly. "It came on my iPod randomly when I was getting ready tonight and it made me think of you."
Blaine took this with a grain of salt. Everything reminded Kurt of him. Not that he minded because it meant that he was all Kurt could think about. But yesterday when they were talking on the phone, Kurt said the theme from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World reminded him of Blaine.
"I'm sorry, what?" Blaine asked when Kurt innocently let that slip.
"It's not a bad thing. All of the songs from Disney World remind me of you. Because you bring out the child in me."
Blaine giggled then looked at the clock on his laptop. He had Facebook open and not only were the couple chatting on the phone but they were also talking in the face chat, somehow managing to have two completely different conversations. It was a craft they had perfected and nobody seemed to understand. "One A.M…YOU should probably get some sleep." he said over the phone.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
The little red flag popped up on the screen and Blaine clicked it to read the newest message from Kurt. "Don't forget the corsage." it read. "blue…"
"I won't :) Goodnight."
"Goodnight" Kurt yawned into the phone.
"See you tomorrow, babe. Alright. Bye." Blaine said before hanging up.
"I promise, this one actually makes sense." Kurt was saying as Blaine returned from his thoughts.
Almost immediately, the DJ came onto the mic to introduce the song. "This song is dedicated to Blaine from your loving boyfriend, Kurt. It's an oldie kids, but it's a goodie." The song began in the background with a gentle and recognizable piano melody joined by the soothing humming of Mariah Carey but it wasn't Mariah that Blaine was hearing in his ears, it was Kurt.
I would give up everything
before I'd separate myself from you.
After so much suffering
I've finally found a man that's true.
I was all by myself for the longest time.
So cold inside.
And the hurt from the heart it would not subside
I felt like dying
until you saved my life.
Thank god I found you
I was lost without you.
My every wish and every dream somehow became reality
when you brought the sunlight,
completed my whole life.
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
'cause baby I'm so thankful I found you.
Blaine closed his eyes, listening as his boyfriend serenaded him with what he was sure was the perfect song for the pair of them when he decided to return the favor. He held Kurt at arm's length, gazing deeply into his green eyes as he opened his mouth to sing,
I would give you everything
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do
He pulled him in tight and close, wrapping his arms around the back of Kurt's neck sending shivers up Kurt's spine as Blaine's hot breath lingered close to his ear.
To ensure your happiness
I'll cherish every part of you
Because without you beside me I can't survive
I don't wanna try
He released Kurt a little, sliding both of his hands from the back of his neck to his cheeks as they brushed ever so lightly against his flawless skin.
If you're keeping me warm each and every night
I'll be alright
'Cause I need you in my life
The students from New Directions began to see what was happening and decided to join in on the chorus behind the couple. Mercedes and Rachel were both beaming. Tina and Mike held hands while she rested her head on his shoulder and the others gathered to form a circle around the couple only at this point it seemed like they were the only two in the entire room.
Kurt released himself from Blaine's grip, walking in circles around the dark haired boy as he stared at Kurt from the center.
See I was so desolate
Before you came to me
Kurt stopped at one side of the circle as Blaine picked up where he left off, backing up slowly, his hands pressing the air around him to the ground as he swayed his head with the lyrics.
Looking back I guess it shows
that we were destined to shine
Their voices joined each other from each side of the circle, which seemed to have grown larger since New Directions had fanned it out to take up nearly the entire center of the room. Now other onlookers had joined the circle, seemingly brought there by the sound of everyone singing along.
After the rain to appreciate
And care for what we have
The boys began walking towards each other from either side, moving with purpose and lust in their eyes before crashing into one another's arms.
And I'd go through it all over again
To be able to feel this way
The room was practically spinning around them as they held each other close, not daring to release their grips. It felt like the whole room had joined in the singing, it was deafening to anyone who wasn't Kurt or Blaine because they were still in their own world.
It started to become silent as the song approached its end and the couple rested their foreheads to each other's. The boys' eyes were closed, their lips just millimeters apart as Kurt breathed the last lines of the song.
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
My baby I'm so thankful I found you.
The song ended and Blaine had pressed his lips against Kurt's, cupping his hand to the side of his face gently. The kiss lasted a few seconds but felt like eternity and turned Kurt's legs to jelly. Their lips barely parted when they took a breath and Kurt could feel Blaine smiling against his own lips. "Perfect." Blaine had whispered into Kurt's mouth, before returning to their kiss.


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For the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, a net total or net energy consumption (less electrical system energy losses) is provided to indicate the energy actually consumed by these sectors. In addition, energy consumed in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity (electrical system energy losses) is allocated to each sector based on the electricity consumed by the sector. Thus, total energy consumption represents the energy consumed by the sector as well as that used to provide electricity to the sector.
Between 2013 and 2014, industrial sector net energy use decreased 3.5 percent to 278.5 trillion British thermal units (Btu). Total energy consumption attributed to the industrial sector in 2014 was 358.1 trillion Btu, a decrease of 4.1 percent from 2013. Petroleum use decreased 5.9 percent, renewable energy use decreased 5.6 percent, electricity use decreased 5.2 percent, and natural gas use decreased 1.1 percent. Coal use increased 8.3 percent from 2013. Renewable energy consumption was comprised of biofuels and wood and waste.
In 2014, almost all (91.3%) of the industrial sector energy needs were met by renewable energy (33.1 percent), natural gas (32.4 percent), electricity (13.1 percent), and petroleum products (12.7 percent). Seven–and–nine–tenths percent (7.9%) of the energy consumed in the industrial sector was coal. The majority of the petroleum products consumed by the industrial sector were diesel fuel (73.7 percent), asphalt and road oil (17.5 percent), propane (7.3 percent), and motor gasoline (6.5 percent); the rest of the products each comprised less than two percent.
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Baraggan overestimates the abilities of his Fraccion. Like most other Espada; with the exception of Tia Harribel, Baraggan shows little to no concern for his Fraccion and was quick to call two of them useless when they were defeated. Despite this, half of his Fraccion are loyal to him for some reason.
Ben TennysonEdit
Baraggan made no effort to hide his obvious hatred towards Ben, simply because he's a human. The former King of Hueco Mundo did everything he could to get rid of the Ultimatrix wielder and even blamed him for the invasion of Las Noches.
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We usually see Apple hosting an early spring event to showcase some new products, usually new iPads. While we are awaiting confirmation, MacRumors suggests that an Apple event is on its way which is going to happen sometime next week.
This makes sense too, as last year the iPad Pro 9.7-inch was introduced on 21 March. According to the publication, the rumoured launch comes from reputable supply chain analysts and a possibility of an early April event is also on the cards.
Surprisingly we haven't seen any big rumours or leaks but it is no brainer that we will see new iPads at this event. Apple currently has three segments under the iPad lineup including the iPad Pro, iPad Mini and the Air with the latter two now becoming a bit boring. But then tablets in general have become boring unless its a 2-in-1.
There has been a round of rumours which say that Apple will be 're-focusing' on the iPad and could announce a flagship 10.5-inch version and updated 9.7-inch and 12.5-inch iPads.
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You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, and reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Christian. In fact I want to argue that it would be better if you weren't. The Emergent Church is a strong voice in today's Christian community. And they're talking about good things: caring for the poor, peace for all men, loving Jesus. They're doing church a new way, not content to fit the mold. Again, all good. But there's more to the movement than that. Much more.
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The Mathematics of
The Lottery
Black Jack
Slot Machines
Problems and Exercises
Solutions to Exercises
Gambling Systems
Just to define: Probability or Odds????
Probability is defined as the chance of an event divided by the total number of outcomes - such as heads on a fair coin 1/2
Rolling a 2 on a fair die 1/6
Pulling an ace out of a deck of 52 cards 4/52
Odds is the chance of winning compared to the chance of losing - such as heads on a fair coin 1:1
Rolling a two on a fair die 1:5
Pulling an ace out of a deck of 52 cards 4:48
Lotteries are similar to slot machines since they are random events that do not rely on pass events. The balls, however, are dependent upon one being selected and leaving a smaller set to choose from. The Kentucky Lottery has 6 numbers to be chosen from 42 numbers. The first ball selected has 1 out of 42 possible while the second is 2 out of 41. Therefore, the jackpot is (6/42)(5/41)(4/40)(3/39)(2/38)(1/37)=1/5245786. The back of a Lotto Kentucky, however, approximates a match as 1 in 5246000. The Powerball, on the other hand, is calculated as a match of 5 numbers out of 49 and one powerball out of 42 possible. Therefore, the chances are (5x4x3x2x1x1)/(49x48x47x46x45x42)=1 in 80089128.The back of both lottery incorrectly states that the probability is 1 in 80089128 or 1 in 5245786 when actually this is the probability of winning. Furthermore, the odds were calculated on the back of the ticket as 1 in 34.7 chances of winning a cash prize. (On the back of both scan-tron sheets is a web address http://www.kylottery.com )
Lotto Kentucky
Match probability Win
6 numbers 1/5245786 jackpot
5 numbers 1/850668 $1,000 cash
4 numbers 1/ 111930 $50 cash
The Probability for 6 numbers was calculated by (6/42)(5/41)(4/40)(3/39)(2/38)(1/37)=1/5245786.The process is the total numbers you have out of the total of possible choices such as you have 6 numbers out of 42 correct and 5 out of 41 until n=1 out of 42-6 in this case.
Match in pick 5 Match in Powerball Probability Win
5 1 1/ 80089128 Grand Prize
5 0 1/ 1906884 $100,000
4 1 1/8898792 $5,000
4 0 1/211876 $100
3 1 1/773808 $100
3 0 1/18424 $7
2 1 1/49392 $7
1 1 1/2058 $4
0 1 1/42 $3
The Probability was calculated as above except when having the powerball; the probability is multiplied by 42. For example, pick 1 and a powerball is 1/(49x42)=1/2058. In a more difficult example, pick 3 and the powerball is calculated by (3/49)(2/48)(1/47)(1/42)= 1/773808.
Rules of Play
All you need to know your first time playing is about the pass line and taking odds. By playing both of these the overall house advantage will be only 0.57% for a table with typical rules (full double odds) which is far better than most other forms of casino gambling.
Below are the rules and procedure of the pass line bet:
1.Place bet.
2.Roll dice.
3.If roll is 7 or 11 you win even money (end of game).
4.If roll is 2, 3, or 12 you lose (end of game).
5.If roll is 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 call the roll the "point." A white disk will we placed on the table to reflect what the point is. In the diagram at the top of the page the point is 4.
6.Roll the dice again.
7.If the roll from step 6 is the point you win even money (end of game).
8.If the roll from step 6 is a 7 you lose (end of game).
9.If the roll from step 6 is anything other than the point and a 7 then repeat step 6.
The pass line only has a house advantage of 7/495 =~ 1.41%. (To see how house advantage is calculated, see roulette section) However once a point has been established you may make another bet in which the house advantage is exactly 0. This additional bet is called the "odds" and the maximum is restricted to some multiple of the pass line bet. The odds bet is an additional wager that the point will be thrown before a 7. After a point is established it wins when the pass line bet wins and loses when the pass line bet loses. However unlike the pass line bet it pays more than even money. If the point is a 6 or 8 the odds pay 6:5, if the point is a 5 or 9 the odds pay 3:2, and if the point is a 4 or 10 the odds pay 2:1.
The multiple you may bet on the odds is usually twice the pass line bet. However if someone bets $2 on the pass line, then $4 of the odds with a point of 6 or 8, and then wins he would be due $4.80. To avoid this messy change most casinos have "full double odds" which means that if the point is 6 or 8 you may bet 2.5 times the pass line bet on the odds. So if you bet $2 on the pass line you may bet $5 on the odds if the point is a 6 or 8, which can win an even $6.
Now that you understand the theory of the game you need to know the etiquette. At the beginning of a round place your pass line bet on the pass line. This runs along the entire table so nobody has to reach to put money on it. Remember to wait until a new round begins, while you can place this bet after a point is established it would be foolish to. If after placing your pass line bet a point is established then you place you odds bet next to your pass line bet but just outside the pass line itself. When you win or lose the dealers will be busy either collecting chips or paying people off. They will go around the table, paying people off or taking their bets one at a time. If you win they will place your winnings next to your wagers. After they pay you off you may do what you wish with the money, but do not touch your bets until they pay you off.
Other things to know is that when you throw the dice they are supposed to rebound off the opposite side of the table, although this is not a hard and fast rule. You are not allowed to put drinks where the chips are but instead on a lower shelf. Try to know what you are doing, the craps dealers work hard and fast and don't have much time to explain the rules to beginners. If you act like a beginner the dealers or other players will often encourage you to place other bets on the table. Remember that most of the other bets are sucker bets and politely decline suggestions to bet on anything other than the pass line and the odds.
Craps Odds and Probability
There are 36 possibilities on a throw of two fair dice. Below are listed the combinations, with the chances of getting each of the numbers.
# combinations probability
2 (1,1) 1/36
3 (1,2) (2,1) 2/36
4 (1,3) (2,2) (3,1) 3/36
5 (1,4) (2,3) (3,2) (4,1) 4/36
6 (1,5) (2,4) (3,3) (4,2) (5,1) 5/36
7 (1,6) (2,5) (3,4) (4,3) (5,2) (6,1) 6/36
8 (2,6) (3,5) (4,4) (5,3) (6,2) 5/36
9 (3,6) (4,5) (5,4) (6,3) 4/36
10 (4,6) (5,5) (6,4) 3/36
11 (5,6) (6,5) 2/36
12 (6,6) 1/36
So, on the first roll, the probabilities are as follows:
7 or 11 (even money) 6/36 + 2/36 = 8/36
2,3, or 12 (crap out) 1/36 + 2/36 + 1/36 = 4/36
4,5,6,8,9, or 10 (establish point, roll again) 3/36 + 4/36 + 5/36 + 5/36 + 4/36 + 3/36 = 24/36
On the second roll, the probabilities are as follows:
Probability of losing on second roll
Roll a 7 6/36
Probability of winning on the second roll, if the point is…..-
4 or 10 3/36 5 or 9 4/36 6 or 8 5/36
Probability of having to roll again on the second roll, if the point is………….
4 or 10 27/36 5 or 9 26/36 6 or 8 25/36
So, to calculate the probability of losing in one or two rolls
Probability of losing on one + probability of losing on two (roll again x lose)
4/36 + (24/36)(6/36) = 8/36
Basics of Blackjack:
1. Cards between 2 and 10 are worth their face value.
2. An ace is worth either one or eleven.
3. Face cards are worth 10 points.
4. The object of the game is to reach 21 without going bust or beat the dealer who must stand at
17 or higher but he too can bust.
5. The player and dealer receive two cards such that one is face up and both can opt to hit, take
another card in hopes of getting 21 or beating the opponent.
6. If the player or dealer opts not to take a hit then they stand.
7. If the player has two of a kind then he can split his hand into two hands.
Many systems have been devised to beat the odds but card counting is illegal and a person can be thrown out if caught. A strategy by Edwin Thorp is presented at http://www.BlackjackInfo.com .He presents a table of when to hit, stand, or split a hand but as all strategies it is not a sure bet to win every time.
Bust Percentages Table
You Have Chances of Busting
12 31%
13 38% .
14 46% .
15 54% .
16 61% .
17 69% .
18 77% .
19 85% .
20 92%
The chances of busting were calculated by taking the remaining possible choices of going bust divided by 52. For example, if you have 20 then the only cards possible without going bust is the ace since it can be worth one or 52-4aces leaves 48 ways to go bust out of 52 is 92%. In the case of 19, the remaining ways of not going bust is either an ace or a two (8 cards) so 52-8 leaves 44 ways to bust out of 52, (48/52)x100%=85%.
Combinations with 52 cards
Total with two cards Possible Combinations from 52 cards
21 64 .
20 136 .
19 80 .
18 86 .
17 96 .
16 86 .
15 96 .
14 102 .
13 118
The only possible way of getting 21 is an ace and a face card or a ten. Therefore, there are 4x4+4x4+4x4+4x4=64. Nineteen, however, can be achieved by having an ace and 8 (4x4), a ten and nine (4x4), a jack and 9 (4x4), a queen and 9 (4x4), or a king and 9 (4x4) which adds up to 80. The total possible combinations with two cards is 52x51=2652. Therefore, the odds for 21 is 64: (2652-64) or 64: 2588.
Rules of Play
Roulette is a brainless game that doesn't pay well.
A roulette wheel is divided into 38 pockets. Thirty six of them are numbered and colored red or black. There are eighteen of each color. The remaining two pockets are green and numbered 0 and 00. You can bet inside bets on any of the numbers or split your bet between two or more numbers. You can bet just the even or odd numbers, just red or black or the first, second or third set of the 36 numbers. These are called outside bets.
The bet that you make determines the payoff. For example, a bet on a whole number (straight bet), the odds are one in thirty eight and the payoff is 35 to 1. Similarly, a bet made of four numbers (a square bet), the payoff is eight to one.
Since the payoffs on roulette are calculated as if there are 36 numbers on the wheel, when in fact there are 38 numbers, this gives the house the largest advantage of any game. To calculate the house advantage, subtract the probability based on 38 numbers from the probability based on 36 numbers (the advantage) and divide by the probability based on 36.
For example, if you place a straight bet (pick one number)
1/36 - 1/38 = .0526 or an advantage of 5.26%
The good thing about Roulette is that it is easy to understand. Every bet, except one, has a house edge of 5.26%. The only bet that is worse than all the others is the combination of 0,00,1,2, and 3. This pays 6 to 1 and has a house advantage of 7.89%.
Slot Machines
Unfortunately I can not tell you the odds behind the slot machine because it is determined by a replaceable microchip. Modern slot machines determine random numbers between 1 to over 4 million. Therefore, each play is random and can not be determined by previous events. The slot machine works by the coin being registered by an optical sensor and the random number chosen at that instant determines the outcome. The microchip uses the random number to assign a particular outcome with a lookup table. The design of the lookup table determines the payoff in the long run by stopping the reels on exactly that outcome. ( More information is available from http://www.charm.net/~schack/game/slot.html)
In the book Lady Luck, the slot machine is known as the "One-Armed Bandit". Atypical slot machine has three dials, each with 20 symbols (cherries, oranges, lemons, plums, bells, and bars). The symbols, however ,are not equally likely on each dial. The permutations possible is 20 x 20x 20=8000. The Jackpot is three bars but reel one has one, reel two has three bars and reel three has one bar. Thus, the average number of occurrences of a bar out of 8000 is 1x3x1=3.
Payoff on Typical Slot Machine
Paying Permutation Payoff Average Number of occurrences Average Total Paid
. per 8000 Trials Out per 8000 Trials
Bar Bar Bar 62 3 186
Bell Bell Bell 18 9 162
Bell Bell Bar 18 3 54
Plum Plum Plum 14 25 350
Plum Plum Bar 14 5 70
Orange Orange Orange 10 126 1260
Orange Orange Bar 10 18 180
Cherry Cherry Lemon 5 196 980
Cherry Cherry Bell 5 147 735
Cherry Cherry (not Bell or Lemon) 3 637 1911
Average number of winning plays in 8000 trials = 1169 Total Paid out = 5888
Average non-winning plays = 6831
Dials on Typical Slot Machine
Dial 1 Dial 2 Dial 3
Cherries 7 7 0
Oranges 3 6 7
Lemons 3 0 4
Plums 5 5 1
Bells 1 3 3
Bars 1 3 1
Total 20 20 20
Probability of a win on any one play is (1169/8000)= 0.146 Probability of a run of two wins is (1169/8000)x(1169/8000)=0.021 Note: each play is independent of the other plays
1. Roulette: Show why the house advantage is 7.89% on a bet of 0, 00, 1, 2 ,3 when the payout is 6 to 1.
2. Craps: Calculate the odds of winning on exactly the second roll.
3. Problems about Slot Machines
A. From the table under slot machines, what is the probability of a run of four wins?
B. If two days ago someone won with 2 bells and a bar, what is the probability of winning today?
C. Calculate the average occurrence of getting three cherries?
D. Calculate the average occurrence of getting an orange, bell, and a bar in this order?
4. Problems about Lotteries:
A. What is the odds of getting 4 numbers matched correctly from 49 possible?
B. What is the odds of matching four numbers out of 49and a powerball out of 42?
C. What is the odds of matching three numbers out of 49 and two powerballs out of 42?
D. Which ticket has accurately calculated the odds of winning the jackpot?
E. How much would you spend on purchasing all of the combinations possible for Lotto Ky when each combination is purchased for one dollar?
5. Problems in Blackjack
A. Show how to calculate the chances of going bust if you have 18.
B. Show how to calculate the possible combinations of getting 17 with two cards.
C. If the total combinations for 15 is 96. What is the odds for 15?
Another Gambling Quiz can be located at http://www.charm.net/~shack/game/quiz.html
1. Roulette: You have to calculate the payout compared to what the payout should be - if they are paying 6 to 1, that means if you put down a dollar and win, they give you 7. The probability of one of 0, 00,1,2,3 coming up is 5/36
so the solution is 1/7 - 5/36 = .0789
2. Craps: To calculate the probability of winning on exactly the second roll, you must calculate the probability of getting each point twice in a row and then sum those probabilities
(3/36)(3/36) + (4/36)(4/36) + (5/36)(5/36) + (5/36)(5/36) + (4/36)(4/36) +(3/36)(3/36) = 75/1296 = 5.79 %
3. Answers to Slot Machine Problems
B. 0.146, is a random event
C. 7x7x0=0
D. 3x3x1=9
4. Answers to Lottery Problems:
A. (49x48x47x46)/(4x3x2x1)= 1 in 211876
B. (211876)x42 = 1 in 8898792
C. (49x48x47x42x41)/(3x2x1x2x1)= 1 in 15863064
D. the Powerball
E. $5,245,786 [(6x5x4x3x2x1)/ (42x41x40x39x38x37)=1/ 5245786]
5. Answers to Problems in Blackjack
A. The cards that would not make me go bust are 3, 2, or ace so that leaves me with 40 cards to bust me.
B. The possible combinations are (10,7), (J,7), (Q,7), (K,7), (9,8), and (A,6). In each of these cases, we have 4 choices for say a ten and four choices for a 7 so there are 4x4=16 possible combinations for (10,7). This is also true for the other cases so 16x6cases gives 96 possible combinations for 17. This also checks with the chart found above from Lady Luck.
C. 96:(2652-96) or 96: 2556
The Truth About Betting Systems
One of the biggest myths about gambling is that games of luck can be beat by methods of varying bet size to manipulate the odds. Depending on how the system works in the long run you will either sacrifice a few large losses for many small wins or many small losses for a few big wins. In the long run you can't help but lose at games of pure luck. Regardless of what form of betting system you use the ratio of money lost to money bet will always approach the same constant the more you play, this is known in mathematics as the 'Law of Large Numbers.' Betting systems are just mathematical voodoo that will never survive the test of time. If you don't believe me here is what the Encyclopedia Britannica says under the subject of gambling:
"A common gamblers' fallacy called 'the doctrine of the maturity of the chances' (or 'Monte Carlo fallacy') falsely assumes that each play in a game of chance is not independent of the others and that a series of outcomes of one sort should be balanced in the short run by other possibilities. A number of 'systems' have been invented by gamblers based largely on this fallacy; casino operators are happy to encourage the use of such systems and to exploit any gambler's neglect of the strict rules of probability and independent plays."
Probability and Measure (second edition) by Patrick Billingsley provides a specific proof that betting systems do not win in the long run. On page 94 he states, "There are schemes that go beyond selection systems and tell the gambler not only whether to bet but how much. Gamblers frequently contrive or adopt such schemes in the confident expectation that they can, by pure force of arithmetic, counter the most adverse workings of chance." He then goes on with the proof that I will omit because anyone who would believe this fallacy probably wouldn't understand its disproof. At the end he concludes on page 95, "Thus no betting system can convert a subfair game into a profitable enterprise."
Following are the three most common fallacies that most gambling systems seem to be based on. The first fallacy is that if an event has not happened for a long time it becomes more likely to happen on the next trial. Generally people following a strategy based on this fallacy will bet more according to the number of trials they have just lost in a row. In the short run you stand a good chance of modest wins but at the expense of occasional large losses that more than offset the winnings. The second fallacy is that what has been happening is more likely to keep happening. A strategy based on this notion will increase the bet size according to the number of past wins in a row. This strategy can yield occasional large wins but at the expense of many smaller losing sessions. Again the losses will more than offset the wins in the long run. In games of luck like roulette and craps the ball or the dice have no memory. If the ball has landed in red 100 times in a row on a fair roulette wheel the probability is 9/19, as it always is, that it will be land in red on the next spin. The third fallacy is that you can beat the odds with systems that count on the what is to be expected in the long term to happen in the short term. For example in roulette the ratio of black numbers to red ones will approach 1 as the number of trials increase. You can devise systems that win when red and black happen in roughly equal proportions, however you can have substantial losses when they don't. While everything averages out in the long run, in the short run anything can happen.
To prove that all gambling systems lose in the long run I wrote a computer program in C++ to play one billion roulette trials under three different betting systems. Three players participated in the same trials. Player 1 bet 1 unit every time, in other words he was not using a betting system. Player 2 started a series of trials with a bet of $1 and increased his wager by $1 after every winning bet. A lost bet would constitute the end of a series and the next bet would be $1. Player 3 also started a series of bets with a bet of $1 but used a doubling strategy in that after a losing bet of $x he would bet $2x. A winning bet would constitute the end of a series and the next bet would be $1. To make it realistic I put a maximum bet on player 3 of $200.
Below are the results of the experiment:
Player 1
Total amount wagered = $1,000,000,000
Average wager = $1.00
Total loss = $52,667,912
Expected loss = $52,631,579
Ratio of loss to money wagered = .052668
Player 2
Total amount wagered = $1,899,943,349
Average wager = $1.90
Total loss = $100,056,549
Expected loss = $99,997,018
Ratio of loss to money wagered = .052663
Player 3
Total amount wagered = $5,744,751,450
Average wager = $5.74
Total loss = $302,679,372
Expected loss = $302,355,340
Ratio of loss to money wagered = .052688
As you can see the ratio of money lost to money wagered is always close to the normal house advantage of 1/19 =~ .052632 . In conclusion varying of bet size depending on recent past wins or losses makes no difference in outcome in the long run than always betting the same.
Remember, there is no easy way to win consistently!
Books used as resources
Silverstone, Sidney M. A Player's Guide to Casino Games , 1981
Weaver, Warren Lady Luck, Theory of Probability 1963
Wykes, Alan The Complete Illustrated Guide to Gambling, 1964
Web Pages used as resources


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Thursday, July 17, 2008
what proust ate when the world wasn't looking
After all, if you were to judge by cultural references, you'd guess that Proust lived on nothing but madeleines and lime-flower tea. Day in, and day out, nothing but cups of tea and dainty little cakes. Hardly a satisfying diet.
Fortunately, the cultural references are rather incomplete. Proust ate quite a lot of other foodstuffs, and he wrote about them in great detail in A La Recherche de Temps Perdu. (The madeleine just happened to steal all the limelight.)
Roast chicken. Boeuf en gelee. And asparagus. Lots of asparagus.
"I would stop by the table, where the kitchen-maid had shelled them, to inspect the platoons of peas, drawn up in ranks and numbered, like little green marbles, ready for a game: but what most enraptured me were the asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and pink which shaded off from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of imperceptible gradations to their white feet - still stained a little by the soil of their garden-bed - with an iridescence that was not of this world."
Proust writes of green asparagus, but it's white asparagus that are arguably more interesting. Unlike, say, red bell peppers and yellow bell peppers, green asparagus and white asparagus aren't different varieties of the same plant. Instead, white asparagus are created by burying the asparagus stalks in soil as they grow. Without light, the asparagus produce no chlorophyll, and thus never take on a green color. White asparagus are sweeter and more tender than green asparagus, and they're quite a delicacy in Germany, where they are known as spargel.
Traditionally, white asparagus are in season from May through June, but hothouse production means that you can have white asparagus all summer long. I know this all too well, because they were a summer special in the Italian restaurant I worked at, and as the lowest-ranking member of the kitchen staff, I had the task of trimming and scraping every crate of asparagus that came through the kitchen. I think I trimmed and scraped my weight in asparagus that summer.
We served the asparagus as a starter, gently cooked in stock and accompanied by either hollandaise sauce or a poached egg sprinkled with flakes of Parmesan. For an extra charge, patrons could also have their asparagus topped with shavings of black truffle.
I never had the chance to try the completed dish (even without the truffles), but I did get to try the asparagus. There would always be a few bruised or broken stalks in each crate, and those would end up poached and sliced into pieces as a snack for the kitchen staff during dinner service. Even without the extras, the asparagus were delicious: very tender, with a sweet, delicate flavor.
So naturally, I jumped at the opportunity when I saw white asparagus at a Haymarket stall on Saturday. The asparagus weren't quite as tender as the ones we served in the restaurant, but they had a lovely mild flavor, and they were delicious with oozy egg yolk and flakes of salty Parmesan.
Sadly, I don't think Proust ever got the chance to try white asparagus with poached egg. If he had, I think the madeleine might not have rated a mention at all.
White Asparagus with Poached Egg and Parmesan
(Serves one as an appetizer or light meal.)
Wash one-third to one-half of a bunch of asparagus, depending on the size, and trim off the bottom inch. If your stalks are thick, use a vegetable peeler to scrape off the outermost layer on the bottom half of the stalks. If they're slender, don't bother - it's more trouble than it's worth.
Put a small pot of chicken or vegetable stock - just large enough to submerge the asparagus - on the stove over high heat, followed by a second small pot of salted water.
When the stock comes to a boil, drop in the asparagus and put the lid on. Cook for eight to twelve minutes, depending on the thickness of the asparagus, until tender and easily pierced with a fork. Remove the asparagus from the pot, and arrange on a plate.
When the asparagus are a minute or two away from being done, bring the pot of salted water to a simmer. Stir the water to form a swirling vortex, and gently crack one egg in. Cook until the white is set but the yolk remains liquid. Remove from the pot with a slotted spoon, and place gently atop the asparagus. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan and a dusting of freshly ground black pepper. Serve immediately.
Note: Ideally, you want to time the asparagus and the poached egg so that the egg is done just after you've plated the asparagus. If that seems too finicky, though, cook the asparagus first and leave it in the poaching liquid until the egg is done.
5 comments:
- Ann said...
Mmm... I love the literary slant of your posts. And I like a poached egg, too... in secret or in public. :-)
- July 18, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Cakelaw said...
I have never heard of white asparagus before, so Proust or no, I found this very interesting.
- July 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM
- Katy said...
oh yum. white asparagus seems so luxurious to me! this sounds absolutely delicious.
- July 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- adele said...
Ann - Asparagus is as good an excuse as any for a poached egg. :)
Cakelaw - I don't think it's available in Australia. I know I never saw it until I visited Germany.
Katy - White asparagus does make it fancier, but it works just fine with green asparagus, too.
- July 22, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- Jen Dockter said...
This looks absolutely divine. I love poached eggs and asparagus, but I've never put the two together. I've also not ever seen white asparagus for sale in any place I've lived, but I'd definitely try this with the regular stuff. Yum!
- July 24, 2008 at 5:53 AM


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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
July 4th, Independence Day to Americans is coming up, our 234th. This is one of a series of patriotic holidays that, though we don't admit it, are slowly slipping away, Veterans Day also called Remembrance Day or Armistice Day and Memorial Day among them. We have others but they have long since faded into long weekends for government employees. The story is the same, parades to remember the dead, the disabled and the veterans, now almost all seen as damaged goods, a burden on society, same story war after war. Wars have never been what we say they are. As time goes on we learn that more and more. Even the cleanest war of all, World War II is falling apart, our propaganda slowly being exposed and, despite continued endless drumming about the holocaust, now little more than durable cover for mass murder in Gaza.
The lines between friend and enemy have blurred. Today, many historians believe Germany should have won World War I, backed by the US. History has made that one easy, no Hiter, no holocaust, no communism, no Cold War, no Korea, no Vietnam. Helping "the Allies" win the war cost a billion people decades of brutal slavery leading to, not just one more war, but every war we have fought since and have yet to fight. Without Britain and France trying to rule the world, using America as the surrogate for their bastard policies, none of today's problems would exist. Whether we are talking Lord Balfour and the Rothschilds or the division of India or Africa or the Balkans, we really screwed up that time.
Three of the only governments the American people can trust, not the American government, as even our own people don't trust our government, are Russia, China and Vietnam. How many of the rest were bought by "banksters?" Certainly the US, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Israel, in fact it seems they may be the "banksters." Can a government be a government when every tax is meant to help the banksters, every weapon meant to enrich their "war profiteer" clients, every treaty, every war, every threat, every new law has to pass the "bankster" seal of approval.
What if every political race was only one group of thieves trying to crawl closer to the money tree, scrabbling over the others with their attack ads, all paid for, both sides, by banksters, the same banksters. The accusations are a joke. Which candidate sexually molests younger children or steals more than the other? Who carries a bigger bible or who loves Satan more? The real game is war. There is a delightful efficiency to war. War is paid for by borrowed money that is paid for by taxes on the people whose children fight the war. One corporation over all has profited from America's ten years of war, Exxon. Yet Exxon doesn't pay a single cent of income tax in the United States on billions and billions of income, money made from oil secured by thousands of American war dead and fleets of ships protecting their interests, theirs, not ours.
Look at any of our world conflicts. The CIA claims they haven't heard from Osama bin Laden for nearly a decade and that Al Qaeda could fit in a school bus. With the Taliban only fighting the US because they hate Karzai, they seem flexible about letting the US stay in Afghanistan, they don't seem to mind us that much, could there be something behind the war we aren't seeing? Could be be in another Iraq, a war we got suckered into, twice, frankly.
Oh, you didn't know. It seems that there were some nasty financial dealings between Kuwait, the slave state, and Iraq, that might well have given Iraq very good reason to invade back in 1990. That story was buried behind the newspaper lies about babies being taken out of incubators and poor decent Kuwait citizens being executed in the streets. Saddam had been Americas best friend for a long time.
Who set the whole thing up, suckered Kuwait into kicking Saddam one time too many, suckered Saddam into invading, suckered America into going to war where we, frankly, shouldn't have cared less? The special country that did that was Israel. If Saddam was around, running Kuwait, do you know what kind of danger America would be in? We would have a powerful ally sitting next to Iran instead of a weak and divided country that Iran manipulates at will, giving them virtual control of nearly a fifth the world's oil supply. We got suckered. That's what surrogate warfare is all about, we carried the baby and someone else got to eat it.
Saddam simply couldn't believe the United States was so stupid. He kept extremists at bay, kept terrorists out of Iraq, produced oil for the United States and kept it flowing as expected, bought everything we had to sell and paid his bills on time. Can we believe all the terrible things he did? Yes, some of them. Inside his own country, the sheiks with the real power were getting sick of him.
Saddam was sounding more and more like, well, Dick Cheney, a liability even in a dictatorship. In the end, however, whatever bad Saddam had done, paled in comparison with the damage America did, bringing in mobster-bankster rule, starting a civil war, loading Iraq withterrorists, and leaving the country in ruins with well over one million dead and millions more in poverty.
We destroyed an ally, yes a dictatorship much like the one we are building in America today, destroyed its people, and why? It was money. Follow the money.
With troops arriving in Afghanistan every day and our military and that of Pakistan, fighting a largely unreported war, one nobody knows about or cares about, it is time we refocused on some hard questions. Who we are really fighting and, especially, why? Once we began the farce of the "imbedded journalist" we have little left but professional storytellers, propagandists and puppets to honor real men fighting a war. No insult could be greater. Whether these "paycheck chasers" are willing to sell their souls for "access" or simply close their eyes out of fear of murder at the hands of the drug gangs that make up the government of Afghanistan and too many of the foreign forces that support them or are simply unskilled, clueless and blind, it isn't clear.
A few voices out there begin to get it, but no one puts it all together, the fact that Afghanistan is little more than an sideshow of the 62 year old conflict between India and Pakistan, a long running conflict, hot war and terrorism, that has gone global. With Pakistan the surrogate of China and India the surrogate of Israel and America mindless and confused, being pimped by druglords here, oil companies there, and, of course, our masters in Tel Aviv, how could anyone keep up?
There would be no reason to draw the United States into Afghanistan, certainly 9/11 had nothing to do with it, there were no terrorists in Afghanistan at that time, unless something else was going on. What was going on that needed the US to be pushed into an area so remote that resupplying troops is almost impossible, an area where running terrorist operations from is equally insane.
The Taliban had ended narcotics production. Without the drugs, the governments of the Caspian oil and gas nations wouldn't become the narco-states now destroying Russia.
With Afghanistan, you also get Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the golden goose of all time, Kazakhstan, ancestral homeland of the Khazars. When these nations are added to Georgia, Azerbejan and Armenia, it begins to make sense.
You now control, not only 40% of the natural gas in the world but much of the planets untapped oil reserves along with many of the worlds oil pipelines, new and proposed, all making up the future of the hydrocarbon driven world economy if left on its current destructive path.
Were one to check the military expenditures of these nations, where their security forces are trained, their technology originates and their weapons, always unaffordable, building an addiction to foreign control, come from, it will be no surprise.
If you ever wonder why America is being demanded daily, every newspaper, every television network, nearly 90% of our congress, and dozens of "think tanks" all demanding war against a country that has never threated the United States and was proven by the CIA only last year to have no nuclear weapons program, to invade Iran, simply look at the map.
With the alliance between Israel and India and the primary war partners being the United States and Paksitan with Afghanistan more a passive victim, 88% of the population part of an insurrection against the Karzai Brothers of Kabul and their drug cartels and army of petty thugs, the situation is schizophrenic at best. Considering the official enemy, the Taliban, operates entirely on American financing, we can take it beyond normal schizophrenia.
America is fighting a war with Paksitan providing massive support against the Taliban, fielding even more troops and suffering more casualties than the US. At the same time, however, the US has allowed India and Israel to openly operate in Afghanistan, intelligence and terrorism support activities against, initially Pakistan but arming and training terrorists who have, on more than a few occasions, attacked the US as well.
Imagine what it would take for America to allow something like this, what "unbreakable bond" would be required to allow Americans to be killed, just like with the USS Liberty, by our own allies? This is some of the danger of surrogate warfare. There are no allies, only masters who don't pay the bill but reap the benefits of the chaos they cause. Thus, China fights India through Pakistan while Israel fights Pakistan through the United States, the Nation of Karzai and India. The proven method, the same one that destroyed Iraq and underwrote the deconstruction of representative government in the United States, replaced by a thinly veiled police state ruled by a foreign controlled oligarchy, is also destroying Russia and ready to pounce on Iran.
The art of staging, application of game theory by what author Jeff Gates and, coincidentally, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates call "the people in between," the creators of myth, the manipulators of the bizarre religious fables regarding Jewish supremacy and its role in global apocalypse, leave any trace of national will, patriotism, or even self interest secondary to surrogacy and enslavement.
Thus, the great Christian colossus, America, and its global military hegemony becomes a helpless dupe, stuck in war after war making even the hypocrisy of Vietnam seem like a holy crusade in comparison, each war more vile, more venal, more cruel than the last. Tens of thousands of troops, spending years away from home, drugged on anti-psychotics, almost afraid to return to the United States to suffer at the hands of our military, courts, the VA, troops who fear ending up in a prison cell as did so many Vietnam vets.
With no jobs, no assurance of anything for many, even families have disintegrated during the senseless ten year conflict, agreeing to spend a lifetime in the military is the only chance for survival for most. What was meant to be a professional army is now a force of highly trained economic hostages. If the Nation of Karzai is a narco-dictatorship, and it is, ruling the city of Kabul with an iron checkbook, a medieval duchy in the midst of a permanent national uprising, can Americans even be called mercenaries anymore?
Are we any better than the street corner thugs seen in so many of America's cities, peddling the agricultural produce, the poisons brought in by our Mexican and Afghani-NATO cartels?
What has ten years of surrogate war brought us? Americans don't want to hear about the war anymore, though the economic collapse it has brought provides an endless stream of desperate unemployed to fill the armed forces, that or starve. Every day, fathers, some in their 40's, try to leave their tearful familes, offering themselves to fight permanent war just to guarantee minimal healthcare for their kids and a poverty level life, an alternative to starvation. Each day, mothers prepare for deployment, leaving children with friends, relatives and even strangers.
Our huge success recently? We killed 500 mid level Taliban leaders who, if we simply discarded the Karzai cartel, would have been fighting alongside us instead of against us.
Eventually, it will all end, simple entropy will wear down everyone involved. The government that could have been put in place 20 years ago or ten years ago, were the United States not led around by the nose, will take over. We can call it anything we want but Karzai will be gone. What will the big win be? At best, we can have what we could have negotiated the day the Soviets pulled out in 1989. However, America was leaderless then, secretly preparing for the run-up to Gulf War I, you know, the war before Gulf War II. We were too busy preparing for Saddam's surprise invasion of Kuwait.
Long ago, AIPAC proved it could hoodwink backwoods Christians into siding against American interests. Every member of congress that couldn't be bought outright could now be threatened with removal. America as we knew it fell. 9/11 brought us Homeland Security, FISA and an end to everything our constitution meant to us, setting the stage for America to morph from free nation to international war pirate, a giant Somalia with nuclear missiles and aircraft carriers. This is the nation we see today, preparing for a surrogate war against Iran or is is Venezuela or Turkey or Pakistan? Why should we care, it isn't our country anymore anyway, we just go where we are told.
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Thank God that there are Americans who can see what is happening. I agree with you Rick.
Also, any member of Congress that committed treason by signing a letter of support for Israel should be charged with treason and be required to leave the USA they should certainly no longer be able to have a seat in the USA Congress.
Are you guys aware that the Tea Party movement is saying that a war in Iran will be short, whilst Israel believes it will go for many many years so that they can take the rest of the land in the Middle East that they want.
Sigh… why is it that the folks so loudly shouting to everyone else to "wake up!" are the most likely to have their heads completely inserted into their rectal cavities?
Ross, the conclusions claimed by 911 "truth" sites are the biggest bunch of hokum ever perpetrated on a gullible public. Everyone one of them makes outlandish and easily falsifiable claims and ignores any evidence that might contradict their absurd fantasies.
But you don't need to do a lot of research to debunk these yourself. Any fool with an Internet connection and access to YouTube can see the truth easily.
Go look at some real "controlled implosions" of buildings. Watch carefully. See how the explosives blow out the supporting columns at ground level (sometimes with secondary explosions elsewhere to help)? Then the building collapses *from the ground level*. You can see examples here:
Then go back and look at some closeups of the WTC towers collapsing. Watch carefully. See how the collapse occurs *exactly* at the point where the plane hit the building? See how the top part of the building falls down *through* the bottom part? See how the bottom part is largely unaffected until the top part comes crashing through it?
Now stop to consider that planting explosives for a controlled demolition to cause a building to collapse into its own footprint is a very complicated and slow procedure that takes days or weeks to prepare. You don't run in, plant a few charges, and run back out again. So any explosives in the WTC would have had to be planted ahead of time — well ahead of time. I believe that even the 911 "truthers" agree on this point.
So Ross… how did they know what floor to plant them on? Were the Saudis who piloted these planes really such great pilots that they could hit the exact floor above the one with the explosives?
Here is a much simpler theory — one supported by ALL the facts: Planes hit the towers, shearing many of the supporting columns and stripping the concrete and fire retardant coatings off many others. An enormous fire — fed by jet fuel *and anything else that would burn* — enveloped the floors, heating the remaining steel columns until they began to undergo plastic deformation. The more they deformed, the weaker they became, until the weight of the stories above them became too much, and they collapsed.
The upper stories then fell — at *free fall velocities, what else?* — crashing into and pancaking the floor below, which then joined in the downward rushing train of debris. And so the building continued its collapse, pancaking floor after floor as it dropped straight down.
Ditto for the second tower. Simple, obvious, and in accordance with ALL the facts.
Some other obvious crap spouted by 911 "truthers": The buildings fell straight down into their own footprints.
Well, I guess in your universe things sometime "fall" sideways when you let go of them, but here on Earth the acceleration due to gravity is always towards the center of mass, which we Earthlings call "down." So, of course, the buildings fell "down." But they didn't fall straight down. You can clearly see in the videos that the top portions of the buildings tilted — probably because the failing supports on the damaged floors gave out sequentially, rather than simultaneously — the way one would expect with a controlled demolition.
Furthermore, the buildings did not even remotely fall "within their own footprints." Both the hotel and WTC 7 were damaged beyond repair by falling debris from the towers, and there was enough damage to the remaining buildings that they were later scrapped.
As for building 7 being "pulled," what nonsense. The person being quoted said "pulled." He didn't say, "Yeah, we're gonna blow that mutha up!" Pulled can mean a lot of things. Taken out of context, it has no meaning at all. In this instance, if you find the video on YouTube where this statement is recorded, it's clear that he means that they are stopping all attempts to save the building and are pulling out the firemen and pulling them away from the building. They did this because WTC 7 was showing clear signs of impending collapse long before it finally fell — and if you look around on YouTube you can find videos that show this as well.
And look for the videos and still shots that show the deformation of the external skeletons of the towers in the vicinity of the fires — the exact plastic deformation discussed above. There's *plenty* of evidence to support what really happened if you don't approach it with the idea already that everything is a big conspiracy involving thousands of people in the government, in the NYPD and NYFD, in the U.S. military, etc.
BTW, WTC 7 was *severely* damaged by a chunk from one of the towers, and was deformed and getting worse for hours before it finally collapsed.
As for the "near free fall" collapse of the buildings, here's a clue, Ross: things only fall in slo-mo on TV. Get out in the real world occasionally and everything will become clearer. An object falls in free fall unless acted upon by an outside force. Wind resistance is too minor to play much of a role here, so the outside force would have to be the bottom part of the building.
But if you take a 20 story building, split it at the fifth story, raise the top 15 floors 40 feet in the air, and drop them onto the bottom floors, what do you think will happen? That top floor (of the bottom part) will blow out like it was hit by… well, by a 15 story building. It will provide very little resistance. The floor below it, weakened by the first impact and hit by the upper stories now traveling at a higher velocity, will collapse even more readily. And so on down through the remaining floors — so the resistance becomes less and less as the building comes down.
How about that? Near free fall velocity. Just as expected.
The 911 "truthers" make all sorts of claims, but most of them make no sense. The "near free fall" claim is a good example. It presumes that a collapsing building would fall at some acceleration well below free fall. But they never actually make that claim or provide any evidence to support it. They just say "near free fall" and leave it to the reader to "understand" that this must not be the expected behavior. Ditto for "into it's own footprint." No evidence is provided that a building would normally collapse any other way, but you're expected to believe it.
Or how about half-facts (dubious even in their eviscerated state) such as X number of engineers agree that blah, blah, blah… Notice how they never tell you how many engineers *disagree*. That 1000 people think something means quite different things depending on whether those who disagree number 10 or 100,000.
Like most humans, Ross, you decide what you want to believe first based on ideology or paranoia or insecurity, and then you work backwards to "prove" it by cherry picking "facts" (most of them fictions spouted by folks with an agenda) to support your claims and ignoring everything that contradicts your claims.
In my case, my ideology places no importance whatsoever on the events of 9/11/01. I really could not care less who caused the destruction of the WTC. Hence, I am a disinterested third party and able to consider the facts — when its possible to discern facts at all — clearly and draw sensible conclusions.
What I do care about in my lonely ideology is that we as a species stop being utter and complete morons. Maybe its just me, but it seems that overcoming our stupidity is the only chance we have for survival as a species. Oh, I know it's futile. But what else is there?
So if you would kindly remove your cranium from your rectum and look around a bit, that would be one fewer moron to worry about. You can do it, Ross. Really.
Someone let Joe Lieberman & his gang of Zionists/Neocons
know that we know ( TENS OF MILLIONS !! ) who to blame for the next FALSE FLAG ATTACK. A "CYBER ATTACK" , A FEW CITIES NUKED , ANOTHER OIL WELL/RIG BLOWN UP,
I lived overseas and turned in teh enemies of usa for ten yeears.. they swore to destroy this country and kll all ecendants of ww2 while there grandparents from ww2 watched..the nazis… mrsa is also being spread on purpose while all over the news was morgellons..please respond.
Even if Obama were born in Hawaii (which doesn't make sense since he's had lawyers spend LOTS of money to prevent anybody from seeing the version of his birth certificate with the doctor's name and hospital name on it), he still was a Philippine citizen through his step father (as well as a Muslim) and just when did he become a US citizen after that?
No he most likely wasn't. No he's probably not. We have the biggest problem of all sitting in the Oval Office, and now a former Hawaii records clerk has come forward to testify that no record of BO's birth exists or has existed in the files of the State of Hawaii. Period.
If BO has a long form Certificate of Birth, he needs to present it. The "Certification of Live Birth" is not satisfactory; it's not even sufficient to register your kids for public school.
Actually, India does have a border with Afghanistan, in the very north.
In your otherwise excellent summing up of current reality, you suggest that half the enemy in Afghanistan would be fighting on this side but for the Karzai cartel. A bit of an overstatement. A huge part of the anti-US sentiment has been generated not merely by Karzai's corrupt regime but by the incontinent killing of civilians by the US, which would have happened, Karzai or no. Those who suffered are unforgiving, and will fight to the death. And no part of the convinced Taliban ever would have been on this side for purely ideological/religious reasons. Any compromise that Karzai and Pakistan reach with them, as seems to being attempted as of now, will be largely on their terms. Unless Karzai is made to go the way of Diem and his brother (!), he is more likely to yet form a coalition with the Taliban and Pakistan, with China's implicit support: he is obviously more effectively devious than Iraq's Ahmed Chalabi. India has got to fish in these troubled waters, otherwise the militant focus will fall within its own borders and in Kashmir. What Cheney-Bush began is far more pernicious than Vietnam, and whether or not US forces leave, the region is doomed for the foreseeable future.
Great comment. I did Viet Nam too. Along with these insane wars, I am very distressed by the massive Wall Street/Treasury/Fed fraud on the American people. Now that our federal debt/deficit has us on the edge of bankruptcy, we have a "deficit reduction commission". Their preliminary statements follow the dictated line: We have overpromised entitlements and must reduce social security benefits. What we used to call these deductions in our working years were "contributions". Now that the social security surpluses of the past 50 years have been squandered, these payments are called "payroll taxes". How come no one even discusses prosecuting or taxing the "Too Big to Fail" gang?
somewhere nicaragua to belize.
obama was born in the US, is a citizen. Delusional screaming is not helping anyone. There are a lot of real problems to deal with.
arliss see http://ae911truth.org/ 1218 Architects and engineers want a new investigation into 911.Google WTC 7 the third building that few know about. It was in Larry Silverstein's own works "Pulled".If one building was pulled by controlled demolition,all three buildings were "pulled"
Open your eyes for once and see the truth.
Thank You Gordon,
This an exceptionally comprehensive and concise essay which states clearly what our biggest problem is today.
Rick, are you aware the "audit the fed bill" failed?
Excellent, you have given true picture of America to its people.
You are 100% right in saying " We killed 500 mid level Taliban leaders who, if we simply discarded the Karzai cartel, would have been fighting alongside us instead of against us." and
"This is the nation we see today, preparing for a surrogate war against Iran or is is Venezuela or Turkey or Pakistan? Why should we care, it isn't our country anymore anyway, we just go where we are told."
Take care of yourself as not only American patriots but all those who want peace, justice and tranquility on this planet also need you.
Nice, but I'm not sure that a German victory in WWI would have meant no communism. After all, the Kaiser's intelligence service bankrolled Lenin's return to Russia deliberately, knowing he would foment revolution and therefore disrupt the Czar's war effort. And indeed, after the revolution, Lenin withdrew from the war as fast as he could. If the Kaiser's regime had survived the war and France and England were weakened, it's not inconceivable that Wilhelm and Stalin would have still plotted to split eastern Europe. The Ottoman empire was doomed anyway, and if there were no organized central governments in the Arab world–maybe Attaturk would have tried to hang on to the whole empire, who knows–when oil was discovered there, perhaps we would have gone to war over it then instead of now.
Also, no Hitler would not have curbed Japan's imperial ambitions in China and the Pacific. That would have gone on regardless. Japan and the US both wanted control over the Pacific, so war was pretty much inevitable, certainly once Tojo came to power. Possibly only fighting a one-front war would have ended sooner, and maybe enabled us to help the Chinese nationalists against Mao. Again, speculating like this, one can come up with bunches of semi-plausible ways to war.
In other words, the oligarchy seems to have endless ways to make the world as shitty as possible and make other suffer for their benefit.
"tossed out of office." Better yet, TOSSED OUT OF THE U.S.
Continental US vs Federal US: zip codes, state abbreviations, laws, zones. Research it.
AIPAC of Luatics.
We must stop allowing ourselves to be duped.
We must remove " Israeli Firsters " from our Government.
Let us rebuild our economies & society .
Not one more thin dime for Israelis,not one
more shell casing.
STOP serving " THE MASTER RACE ".
Thinking that serving the traitorous,deceitful,FASCIST,SOCIOPATHIC GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL is " The fulfillment of the BIBLE is utter rubbish.
With your own eyes just look at who runs the "Israeli Government ".
They are Caucasians ,white, from far Eastern Europe.
These are Khazars. They behave in a very ANTI-SEMITIC MANNER.They treat & regard SEMITIC JEWS very poorly. A large portion of the non-semitic Jews who by terrorizing British authorities in 1942-1956 secured territory in Palestine
were and are RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Lord Rothchild setup/invoked a Charter for
a portion of Palestine , The Government of Israel is a tool , a puppet
for the TALMUDIC/SATANIC HOUSE OF ROTHCHILD !!/ THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
was around, running Kuwait, do you know what kind of danger America would be in? We would have a powerful ally sitting next to
Were he still around, you would then be able to say that evidence had not been destroyed — his brain. Was he on our payroll for years? Was he being paid by CIA funds? Very few people know the answer to that one. Was the real Saddam executed? Was it the real Hiro Hito who continued as figure head of Japanese Government? Very few people will know those answers.
One thing for sure — we had a decent balance of power at Persian Gulf before the strange call for war against Iraq.
Will any of us ever know HOW strange
The Globe's cover story is about Obama. It states that he is NOT a US citizen and that his Presidency is illegitimate. It states that the source for this story is a government insider. Hutz (thank you) found the link last night. I actually saw the magazine's cover in the grocery store last night.
I would post this information on as many Patriot websites as possible along with the questions about who should take over and strong objections to anybody but a Ron Paul coalition willing to return to actual Constitutional governance including returning control of the military to the PEOPLE, audit the Fed completely and shut it down, abolish the Commodity Trading Modernization Act of 2000 passed under the also illegitimate Presidency of Bush Jr. as well as his American version of Hitler's enabling acts (the Patriot Act etc.). Finally, all government officials holding DUAL citizenship with Israel and the US have to be tossed out of office.
gordon duff:
ya right. like you know what's going on. and how am i incorrect?
This is a well-written, objective and concise commentary regarding the TRUE state of our foreign policy in the Middle East. I sincerely hope that current and future veterans and service personnel will become equally enlightened.
We fly the flag at our home for heroes such as yourself. Well done, sir.
when i saw the part where the article says that pakistan is a puppet of china and india is a puppet of israel and america i stopped reading. this is dhimmi bullshit. pakistan is a jihadist state, along with the rest of the ulema. wake up.
Banksters are getting rich on the blood of dead servicemen being provided by the manipulated patriots and the suffering poor at home. It is hard to imagine that such vile creatures really do exist, but whats more they sleep well every night, they couldn't give a shit, money is God, and you can never have too much God. Blankstein at Goldman Sachs even says he is doing God's work, everybody took that to mean making money, but I suspect there was more politics and manipulation to the comment than that. This is not going to change while the sheep and their cannon-fodder-children go meekly. Your choice real America.
Looks like Iceland is a good option.
It looks like the fraud is beginning to implode. http://www.globemagazine.com/story/520
The cover story of this Tabloid magazine is that Obama is NOT A CITIZEN and his election was illegal. Few Americans will realize that he is not the first person to lie about that particular issue, but that fact will come out later. In any event, his lies are being exposed…meanwhile VP Biden is pinned down in the Green Zone. I would say that the NWO and the Illums have declared war on each other. Now is the time for people of honor to reclaim our countries and our freedom.
Better the Japanese than the Chicoms.
Afgan is an ambush …. demand immediate pullout….130,000 plus in small walled in area….breading "wmd accident"
wait for weather convection and right winds… fallout plume can be controlled for limited broadcast…or dirrectional broadcast…this grandure creates mass panic and confusion ….making way for world order to be impplimented
"AN ARMY MARCHES ON IT'S BELLY"…Have a very "happy Fourth of July".
Thank you Phil, and, thank you Gordon.
In my experience, most "Americans" are upset about "the economy" and maybe the oil "spill", but they simply refuse to connect any dots and they refuse to see the big picture and associated horrors that stares them in the face. By far, most "Americans" love war, have a completely fraudulent view of History, and implicitly trust "the government" no matter what.
Until this sorry situation changes, I don't see any hope.
I used to think that maybe 9/11 was the issue that could cause the desperately needed public paradigm shift, but that seems to have a brick wall.
I think it's time to consider moving out of the U.S. The question is: Where to go?
Outstanding Phil,
I think you might appreciate this one.
The Serving Armies of The Standing Bankers.
"One would be a fool to think that because they could see the delusions and denial of those around them that they were free of some degree of the same. You can't occupy a human body with its sensory apparatus and be free of it. Even if you were free of delusions about the nature and operations of the manifest world you would not be free of delusions about yourself. Even an awareness of the world is a delusion because it indicates a state of dreaming that doesn't exist, except as a projection upon a blank screen. The screen is real, the projection is not.
However, even if the pool a man is drowning in is not real, this does not mean you should not try to pull him out of it. His suffering is real to him, even if he is in denial about it.
I know that agents of the American and Israeli government were the authors of 9/11. I know this. Many others know this. Then there are those who buy the official line which is impossible. The very fact that no jets were scrambled during the event points to government complicity. The free fall of three buildings into their own footprints and the evidence of nano-thermite prove controlled demolition. Consider these things in a court of law.
Why then do seemingly intelligent people resist the obvious truth? Let's give an example of a personality type. Let's take a man who went to war in Vietnam or Iraq under the illusion that he was fulfilling some patriotic duty to a democratic country. We've since learned that the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, like nearly all wars, were the brain child of bankers who initiated them for profit. Let's consider that the so-called democratic country is not, in fact, a democratic country but a serf nation in fealty to a collection of bankers called The Federal Reserve. All of the representatives of this serf nation are employed by the bank and serve at the pleasure of the bank. John Steinbeck illustrated the nature of the bank in his wonderful novel, "The Grapes of Wrath". Today you see the reality of 'the bank' at work in wars for profit, in foreclosures and corporate thefts as well as the tightening of counterfeit, fiat currency flow into the economy.
This man who went to Vietnam has bought into his own sense of sacrifice and whatever idea of manhood he thought he got out of it. He even wallows in the injustice of his state, given how the war ended and the public's view of it. It defines him to himself. He's listening to Bruce sing, "Glory Days" on the bar stool of his dotage. He went from soldier to college graduate and into a field that relied on the serf nation for his employment. He bought into the system and served the system, continuing to believe that there are good wars and that his nation is a democratic one. He seeks justice in the system believing that the public interest is served. In reality, the poor usually go to jail and the rich stay out or spend their time in a country club. If he looks clearly at it he cannot justify his position with his conscience so he becomes philosophical and interprets everything that happens within a fantasy construct the same way he did with Vietnam.
Deep inside this man strives to believe that he is a hero. He rocks along with John Fogerty and never hears a word. All across this democratic land, there are men and women like him. They are lawyers and businessmen; politicos, doctors, engineers, teachers and whathaveyou and they all work for the system. The system allows only so much in the way of personal or reactive thought and action. When you're heavily involved in it and in debt to it, it owns you… no matter what you tell yourself. It owns you. You can't act outside of it and you can't speak against it or yonder looms the highway and the sleeping bag under the overpass. This living state of compromise and hypocrisy in the service of a confined, personal survival is untenable to a real person. A real person doesn't ask themselves the cost of truth. They pay the toll.
No one wants to have to accept that they went to war or that their children died in wars that existed only for the profit of bankers or the pressures of a foreign nation who control the banks that start the wars. No one wants to be put into the position where they jeopardize their position by speaking out against lies and hypocrisies, so they pretend they don't exist while the very thing stares them in the face. This is how you die inside. This is how you lose your youthfulness and all of the finer qualities that made you who you think you are but no longer are because these finer qualities will not stay in the heart of a man who is false to himself.
How is it that a man can think himself brave by going to war for bankers and not find himself capable of going to war for the very essence of what these false wars were presented as being about? All the phony medals and awards of this phony world are useless except in the company of other men and women who lie to themselves. They think they are honest yet they embrace dishonesty at every turn. They think they are brave yet they kneel in a moment before the oppressors of humanity. They think they are useful but they are all bad examples and willing servants of the engines of enslavement. They watch movies about people in dire peril who win the day because that's how movies go. They think they are one of those people but they are given the same choices as the people in the movie and they turn away. They turn away.
No man can see the world as it is who does not look closely at himself. No one can know the meaning of anything if they do not know the meaning of themselves.
It is something to see; people who imagine they are standing forth and speaking the truth while hearing the roar of the crowd. One does not hear the roar of the crowd when one speaks the truth. One hears the rustling of chairs and the sound of people leaving the hall. Why is this? The people who are leaving are not leaving because of the speaker. They are leaving because what is inside them cannot accept the responsibility that comes with hearing the truth and failing to act.
Such an immensity of lies surround us that it threatens to block out the sun. It has certainly blocked out the light of introspection and objectivity within so many of us. Enshrined lies now have their own laws to protect them. The only time a purported truth needs protection is when it is concealing the lies contained within it. If something is true then further inquiry only proves it so.
The men from Vietnam and Iraq believe they have sacrificed so much for their country but they fought and died and… in some part survived …conflicts generated by bankers. They are fools to believe otherwise but they do. Having embraced this lie it is not so hard to embrace each succeeding lie. They want to be a part of all they imagined to be true. They go on to fill the positions freely given to those who can accept and perpetuate the lies. They corrupt their own children with these lies after first having corrupted themselves. They corrupt their friends and their neighborhoods. Their churches speak of the deep things in unknown places which honor those who gave their service to God and Country. It was always the bank. It was always about the money; money for the men who did not go to war, money for the men who created the wars for money.
The greatest of honors are reserved for those who have the courage to see the lies and to admit that they were in service to lies and who then denounced the lies and their own complicity in them. These are the few and the brave who are no longer proud. How often have we seen any man accomplish this before the world and then go on to live the truth he has discovered at the cost of all he once believed to be true?
It has been truly asked what it profits a man to gain everything and lose himself. There are real heroes among us but their ranks are not composed of the men and women who have served the interests of those who sacrificed them for a lie."
Dear Gordon,
Superb summary of our current situation, thank you for it. Now, what do we do? Regardless what anybody thinks, most Americans that I talk to are very upset about the state of the world and this country. I don't want to see any more death for no reason or young men and women crippled and torn for no reason.
What do we do? How do we stop what is going on? I would really like to see some solutions BEFORE we get to the inevitable civil war that will break out when all the money in this country goes to the banksters with their illegal and invented DERIVATIVE garbage. We are paying interest on our money. We are paying interest on "investments" that aren't actually legal. The only thing that is left is absolute slavery to people who have more wealth than is imaginable and now desire power to preclude their just prosecution for the errant theft and criminality waged upon us.
We know what the problem is, what is the solution?
Good to remind that the Syke-Picot secret accords between GB & France divided the former Ottoman Emp.thus Kuwait, part of Iraq, was artificially created in 1935. No piece of the cake was given then to the USA. When things got rough in Europe because of the economical war, declared in 1933 by the Intnal Jewish Banksters, (resid. USA-GB) against D, USA was suckered to participate in WW II, as it is suckered now to sacrifice youn men-women, its economy and mortgaging the future of coming gen'tions f. Israel.
The truth and simply about how events have been staged and how they are unfolding now but never revelled to us by the main steam media serving the unscrupulous-madmen in Tel Aviv, London, NY, Zurich, members of a shrewed and unparallelled International Mafia integrated of Banksters & Corrupt Politicians, loyal to and serving only Israel. Saddam stod in the way of Israel's plans to take over the Middle East, same way it did with the USA, became defiant too, when he found out how bad he has been had by theUSA
I cannot see the USA ever getting out of Afghanistan.There are reports in our media, that Afghanistan has $ trillions worth of resources.If the USA pulls out,a resource hungry China has the numbers to completely swamp Afghanistan and re-write the history books.
So a broke super power that virtually has no manufacturing industry is in a corner looking for even more fights to distract the masses from the misery at home.
Thank you Mr. Duff for your analysis and for your pursuit of why and for whom's benefit young (and due to the economic draft mentioned in your piece, "not so young") American men and women are killing and dying on the battlefields abroad in this latest installment of wars for profit. Too many of our people and corporate media types say thanks by simply waving the flag and saying "God Bless Our Troops", but you give thanks by inquiring as to what reasons these young Americans are truly dying for. We owe our dead and our troops the truth, and I appreciate your understanding of that debt and your work, and the work of others at Veterans Today, in making good on it.
Phil Restino
Chapter Co-Chair, VFP Chapter 136
Central Florida Veterans For Peace
P.O. Box 9012
Daytona Beach, FL 32120-9012
ph/fax: (386) 788-2918
email: [email protected]
website: http://www.cflveteransforpeace.org
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War Crimes are War Crimes: PROSECUTE BUSH, IMPEACH OBAMA !
Remember …
"When a man who is honestly mistaken learns the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or he will cease to be honest."
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Great stuff. At the risk of repeating my broken record routine, people who question the conclusions presented above MUST take the time to listen to Benjamin Freedman's 1961 speech in which he said, "the Zionists and their co-religionists RULE these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs." He reveals the machinations behind the US late entrance to WWI and much more (http://iamthewitness.com/mp3/Benjamin_Freedman/)
Douglas Reed's The Controversy of Zion is also outstanding (http://iamthewitness.com/books/Douglas.Reed/The.Controversy.of.Zion/)
America? How long has that been a dead issue?
outstanding, compelling
Many reports have emerged of India using its afghan presence to arm baloch insurgency and even TTP in Pakistan. The current govemerment in Paistan iseems 'hesitant' to excpose Indian 'mishief' in Adfghanistan. India is not being 'generous' in Afghanistan (Just look at the conditions in Indian control Kashmir),it is using afghanistan in the proxy wafr against Pakistan interests. India does not even have a border with Afghanistan . It sat out the brutal Soviet occupation of that country and now steps in in the garb of helping Afghans.
You have rreighly exposed som,e thing that is not being highlighted in the "main stream" media.
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