Those bastards, the city said they were going to postpone the water rate increase for further study. They then did a big slick ad campaign announcing how Lubbock Power and Theft would be sending refund checks to their electricity users, the first refund ever since 1906 I might point out. Idiots that they are, they could have made an adjustment on the regular monthly statement and saved the expenses. Then when everyone was going goo goo gah gah over the checks they received in the mail the city council passed the rate hike on water. They taxed it.  Okay, we can play that way too. The average home owner saw through it all. I will meet with the television stations soon. This will not pass. In regard to the Chippendales being busted here, the powers that be left the chief of police to hang out to dry, he came out looking like the goon he is. In case you missed the CNN news story flashed around the world.  I learned of it from Australia first, with the inquiry "What is wrong with your folks in Lubbock Gandi."  Hell Elvis made the same swivel hip moves 30 years ago here, they did not arrest him.  Lubbock, Texas the shame of the West. More to come, love you all.

 

 

 

 

I did a radio bit on AM 950 this morning defending the Dixie Chicks for they slammed Lubbock on thier album which just won five awards on the Grammys.  This town does not support local talent and as a matter of fact it just so happens the Chicks are and were right.   The truth hurts and it seems the town has great difficulty in accepting that fact.  Natililie Maines grew up here I made a record with her father and hope some day I can post it on the net.    http://3dixiechicks.spaces.live.com/

Peace,                                 

Gandalf

 One small victory for our side, the city has announced it is postponing the proposed water rate increase.  When I asked the water department representative how would she like if I brought a TV station into my dispute with them, I doubt very seriously she envisioned me being on the news calling them thieves.  Oh boy to be continued.

Peace
Gandalf

"Man's character is his fate.": Heraclitus - (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher

 

"These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland." : John Kenneth Galbraith - (1908- ) Canadian-born economist, Harvard professor. Source: The Affluent Society, 1976

scroll down the page and on the left click on the lecture with the title above.  If you want to get a deeper understanding of Tolkien and what he was telling us this should be an eye opener for you.  Love Peace and as John Lennon put it "Imagine"

Gandalf

 The tiny skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found. The finds caused a sensation when they were announced to the world in 2004.

But some researchers argued the bones belonged to a modern human with a combination of small stature and a brain disorder called microcephaly.

That claim is rejected by the latest study, which compares the tiny people with modern microcephalics.

LB1 has a highly evolved brain. It didn't get bigger, it got rewired and reorganised, and that's very interesting


Dean Falk
Florida State University


Microcephaly is a rare pathological condition in humans characterised by a small brain and cognitive impairment.

In the new study, Dean Falk, of Florida State University, and her colleagues say the remains are those of a completely separate human species: Homo floresiensis.

They have published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The remains at the centre of the Hobbit controversy were discovered at Liang Bua, a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, in 2003.

Researchers found one near-complete skeleton, which they named LB1, along with the remains of at least eight other individuals.

The specimens were nicknamed Hobbits after the tiny creatures in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Computer model

The researchers believe the 1m-tall (3ft) people evolved from an unknown small-bodied, small-brained ancestor, which they think became small in stature to cope with the limited supply of food on the island.

The little humans are thought to have survived until about 12,000 years ago, when a volcanic eruption devastated the region.

The Hobbit has forced a re-think of human evolution


LB1 possessed a brain size of around 400 cubic cm (24 cu inches) - about the same as that of a chimp.

Long arms, a sloping chin and other primitive features suggested affinities to ancient human species such as Homo habilis.

Professor Falk's analysis used the skulls of 10 normal humans, nine microcephalics, one dwarf and the Hobbit.

The brain leaves a mirror image imprinted onto the skull, from which anatomists can reconstruct its shape. The resulting brain cast is called an endocast.

Professor Falk's team scanned all 21 skulls into a computer and then created a "virtual endocast" using specialist software.

Then, they used statistical techniques to study shape differences between the brain casts and to classify them into two different groups: one microcephalic, the other normal.

Advanced tools

The dwarf's brain fell into the microcephalic category, while the Hobbit brain fell into the normal group - despite its small size.

In other ways, however, the Hobbit brain is unique, which is consistent with its attribution to a new species.



Archaeologists had found sophisticated tools and evidence of a fire near the remains of the 1m-tall adult female.

"People refused to believe that someone with that small of a brain could make the tools," said Professor Falk.

She said the Hobbit brain was nothing like that of a microcephalic and was advanced in a way that is different from living humans.

A previous study of LB1's endocast revealed that large parts of the frontal lobe and other anatomical features were consistent with higher cognitive processes.

"LB1 has a highly evolved brain," said Professor Falk. "It didn't get bigger, it got rewired and reorganised, and that's very interesting."

This apparently contrasts with LB1's other "primitive" anatomical features.

In September last year, Professor Teuku Jacob and colleagues published a scientific study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which claimed the Hobbit showed similarities to living pygmies and to microcephalics.

However, a different analysis by Australian researchers, published last year in the Journal of Human Evolution, supported the idea that LB1 was a creature new to science.

Did a bit on AM950 on Lubbock Power and Light calling the water utility company Lubbock Power and Theft.  The issue has been hot and heavy with the TV station. Since I called the situation to light on my first television interview on said subject.  I think we are starting to get through to them finaly but we shall see.  They say you cannot fight city hall and I did have the courtesy to asked them how would they feal if I brought a TV station in on this.  I have to laugh now because all the TV stations got in on it.  Lubbock's city hall is just a bunch of crooks and we all know it.  It is only a matter of time untill their darkest deeds are seen by the light of a new day.

On the Solution Number Nine I found another sound track that folds intol the radio drama and that is when the john doe number first gets up in the morgue.  You can hear John Lennon saying "get up rise" right after the corpse is named John Doe number nine.  This seems to get more interesting as time grows on. Love Ya Peace