Gene Simmons vs. The Fed

Gene Simmons is a character. His real name is Chaim Witz and he was born in Israel. He co-founded the rock group Kiss in the early 1970s.

I think he is 61 years old now.  I don’t agree with all of his politics, like supporting Bush, but do I like how he messes with people. His net worth is $300 million according to celebritynetworth.com.

He claims to have slept with 4,600 women. (That would be a different woman every night for 12 years.)

Simmons, 56, says, “I have not heard a complaint. That’s because I am straight with them. “I don’t lie, like most men do. I will tell a girl I want her and desire her, but I’ll tell her straight, ‘I want your sister and your mommy as well.’”

He has an interesting lack of embarrassment and a great playfulness.

He claims to have never been drunk because he wants to live a long time. I hope he does “win the marathon”.  He should give Aubrey DuGrey a million dollars. That would improve his chances of having the longest life possible.

If I was a Christian, I’d seriously consider the possibility that he is the devil…  but would the devil want to abolish the Fed? Would the devil donate to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS foundation? I think not.

KISS acoustic:

KISS orchestrated:

‘Blue Flu’ cases spreading around Gulf

“Blue Flu” infecting people along the Gulf of Mexico, other southern states?

Some people are calling it the BP Flu. But it is commonly being called the Blue Flu, because the alleged symptoms include blue lips and skin; and it’s scaring the hell out of people all around the Gulf area –from Texas to Florida.

This Blue Flu is separate from people experiencing something called TILT, or “Toxic-Induced Loss of Tolerance.” TILT is something that hit some of the folks who had been working on the massive cleanup surrounding the oil spill. Symptoms from TILT include eyes and skin being irritated, headaches and dizziness.

People with TILT are typically those who were in the immediate area of the spill, mostly those directly involved with the cleanup. Those suffering from Blue Flu are an entirely different matter. These are people who were not in direct contact with the spill, or the cleanup chemicals. They simply live in the south, near the Gulf.

Symptoms include swollen glands, notably in the neck, fever, vomiting, headache, bluish lip color, numbness in fingers and toes. The most alarming symptom being reported is “severe symptomatic cyanosis.” This is the entire body turning blue, a discoloration of the skin.

Of course this could cause alarm that these are symptoms of oxygen depletion along the Gulf. But could this rather be from all that Corexit that was sprayed everywhere, including dropped through the air from airplanes? This was a lot of chemical deposited in a large area, in a short frame of time. One wonders how the people living in the area could not be sickened from it. …

Whatever the cause the Blue Flu, it is important to note that the oil spill wasn’t cleaned up – it was covered up. As stated in the above quote, the Corexit that was sprayed and dumped all over the place is simply a (rather dangerous) chemical agent that prevented the oil from surfacing.

After all, the government isn’t interested in your safety. Rather, the government is interested in creating the illusion of safety. And the government often harms even more people in the end in their effort to keep up appearances.

Thus, expect the Blue Flu to be kept under wraps as much as possible. In an effort to deflect criticism, I would not be surprised if the government sounded an alarm over another flu bug – an effort at misdirection. The political class wants the oil spill story out of the way and forgotten. …

That article is at worldvisionportal.org. The writer wonders if these are symptoms of oxygen depletion in the air and water. Here’s a little from that one:

Along with the symptoms that mimic flu-like viruses, there are increasing cases of severe symptomatic cyanosis. These rapidly increasing symptoms range from bluish lip color to numbness in fingers and toes. There is also a fast growing increase of pneumonia cases which are being diagnosed as chemical induced pneumonia. Those working on boats and those living directly on the coast are the most effected.

Cyanosis is simply oxygen starvation in the blood. With a moderate case involving such a lack of oxygen, the skin appears to have a blueish colour. Hands and fingers especially show these signs as will other extremities such as toes and lips. A lack of oxygen in the blood can also have a purplish appearance where the skin surface is red from sun exposure but the blood beneath the skin is blue. Red and blue make purple.

If all these BLUE FLU symptoms were temporary, most everyone suffering from them would eventually recover as the blood becomes increasingly oxygenated once removed from the oxygen depletion source.

… The writer goes on to suggest that, “while the Blue Flu symptoms are increasing for more and more people, those who have had 30+ days of direct exposure to the toxic and oxygen depleted Gulf air and water are in immediate danger of permanent and irreversible biological damage… if not death.”

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COMMENT: Could it be from all the methane that was released into the air displaced the oxygen? That is what methane does. That is what Matthew Simmons was warning the gulf residents about when he said they MUST evacuate. Methane is odorless, but it displaces/replaces oxygen!!! Hence the cyanosis, blue lips!

COMMENT: We’ll be seeing more nasty effects like this – you can’t dump tens of thousands of tons of poison into the environment without hurting a lot of people.

But:
“The writer wonders if these are symptoms of oxygen depletion in the air and water.”

Absolutely not. In order to actually turn people’s lips blue, the partial pressure of oxygen would have to drop to astonishingly low levels, lower than anywhere on the planet. No one could miss this – for example, you’d pass out if you tried to run, everyone with asthma or pneumonia or heck, even a heavy cold! would simply die. ..

via ‘Blue Flu’ cases spreading around Gulf – Dateline Zero.

The photo is of a person with cyanosis, not a person with the blu flu.

In related news: The BP Investigation was Blocked by Senate Republicans after passing in the House almost unanimously. As Senator Bob Menedez (D) said, who are the Senate Republicans protecting and “what are we hiding here?”

COMMENT ON YouTube:  “Like said, left wing right wing same ol bird. Both parties will play us for their own personal gain.”

Farmer sues French MoD after two low-flying fighter planes ‘frighten 4,800 chickens to death’

A French farmer is suing his country’s Ministry of Defence after two low-flying fighter jets caused 4,800 of his chickens to drop dead.

Etienne Le Mehaute said there was an ‘almighty din’ when the planes passed over his farm in Pelguien, Brittany, on Tuesday afternoon.

‘We were having lunch when there this enormous roar of engines,’ said Mr Le Mahaute. ‘We could feel the shockwaves down our back.

‘The chickens were absolutely terrified and thousands dropped dead. We piled their bodies up and there were some 4,800 who did not pull through.’

Mr Le Mehaute, who has around 68,000 birds in total, wants £12,000 from the MoD for his loss.

MoD spokesman Frederic Solano has confirmed two jets were in the area at the time, but denied they broke low-flying regulations. He said an investigation into the deaths had been launch.

The British government regularly pays out compensation to civilians who complain about noisy military jets.

Last year defence chiefs paid out £42,000 to a Staffordshire farmer whose chickens laid fewer eggs because they were frightened by the Red Arrows display team.

And another £117,000 was handed over to a Yorkshire racehorse owner after the animal injured itself when it was spooked by jets.

A total of £7.6million has been paid out in damages over the past four years because of military noise pollution, according to official documents released earlier this year. …

via Farmer sues French MoD after two low-flying fighter planes ‘frighten 4,800 chickens to death’ | Mail Online.

Planets spotted in changing orbits

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting probe has spotted a system where two giant planets are locked in constantly changing orbits — with a super-Earth potentially pinned down in the crossfire.

Astronomers like to think of planets as a kind of celestial clockwork, keeping regular time. For example, the time it takes for the planets in our own solar system to complete their orbits can be calculated to within fractions of a second, and unless something huge happens, they’ll stick to that timetable for billions of years.

In contrast, the two Saturn-size planets circling a sunlike star now known as Kepler-9, more than 2,000 light-years from Earth, shift their timetable with every go-round. Kepler-9b has an orbit lasting approximately 19.24 Earth days, while Kepler-9c has an orbit lasting a little more than twice as long, 38.91 days. But on average, Kepler-9b’s orbit got about 4 minutes longer every time the Kepler astronomers checked, while Kepler-9c’s averaged about 39 minutes shorter.

That suggests the planets are in the midst of a gravitational push-pull that keeps the orbits close to a 2-to-1 ratio, in what’s known as a planetary resonance. In our own solar system, Pluto and Neptune are in a similar resonance (2-to-3), which is why little Pluto can’t be kicked out of its orbit. The same thing applies to the Kepler-9 system.

“The system is stable in the sense that no planet will be ejected,” said Matthew Holman, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is the principal author of a Kepler paper being published today on the journal Science’s website.

“The orbits of the planets are changing, but these variations are oscillatory,” Holman told me in an e-mail. “On average, the period ratio will be very close to 2-to-1. However, at any given instant that ratio may be bigger than 2-to-1 or smaller than 2-to-1.”

Orbital variations has long been known to be theoretically possible, but Kepler-9 is the first confirmed planetary system where astronomers have been able to register this type of off-schedule behavior. It’s actually quite a lucky break for the Kepler team. “The variations in what we call the transit times are large enough that we can use those transit timing variations to estimate the masses of these bodies,” Holman said in a Science podcast. …

via Cosmic Log – Planets spotted in changing orbits.