Taking some advice perhaps I could return to the guitar after all. Nah! Just kidding... You know, I DID pick up my gitfiddle again yesterday. I remembered something I had forgotten. You need to get some callouses going on your finger tips. That will take time to build those back up again. Plus, you have to keep your finger nails short as possible. Otherwise it will foul the chords.
It's a thought though. Imagine wowing some folks with a performance of this song. Whoa!
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Some favorable political news for the GOP
President Trump doesn't enjoy great favorability numbers. So he needs a boost where he can find one. Even though Trump is not on the ballot, a popular president cannot hurt the party in control. An unpopular president might well hurt the GOP's chances.
Here's some good news for the GOP: There's a manufacturing boom that isn't getting much attention. That's not surprising, since the media won't report anything that might help the president.
Another snippet of good news for the midterms: Prescription drug prices have seen the largest drop in more than 60 years. Since Democrats are running on affordability, this should blunt their message.
The rise of the wacko element of the lunatic-fringe-left doesn't hurt either. The down side to that news is that there may be too many who no longer think these people are bad news. But they are.
Fusion Propulsion Post
8/15/26:
I meant to write about it today, but I can't think of anything to write about. It has already been covered. The only thing I haven't written about is... (blankout)
Look, the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics people are on to this, most likely. It would take only a minor modification of their device in order to make it suitable as a fusion propulsion device. How?
By taking away the coil which will be useful for electricity production, but not useful for spacecraft propulsion. But I covered that already. What next?
The thought occurred to me that if this device had sufficient thrust and ISP, you would not need to get to orbital velocity in order to escape Earth's gravity. But I covered that already.
Hmmm. Okay, so I went back into a Power Point file and picked out yet something else that I probably covered already. No, that was a different post. This power point pic isn't what Lockheed Martin produced, because I blanked out what I didn't quite understand or even agree with and came up with this
Now, the main thing to see is a picture of what I'm seeing. Here you have the Focus Fusion device (with the arrow pointing downward toward the magnetic nozzle), the tanks of hydrogen and boron that will comprise the reaction products that will fuse in the device and send out the alpha particles (mentioned in an earlier post) as thrust.
Lerner says that he can get 30,000 out of 100,000 joules expended. The rest is still in the device, not lost. This will demonstrate feasibility, says Lerner. But, let's just say (for the sake of argument) that we are just able to use the 30,000 joules. That is 30,000 Newtons, is it not? Is it not also true, that without slowing down the alpha particles (as would be the case if you were to convert to electricity), that you will get virtually all of this output?
It should be noted that
Why write all this? Haven't they already thought about this? Yes, I'm sure somebody has. What bothers me is that somebody could have something worthwhile and have it suppressed. There was a time when I thought that such a thing would not happen, but these days, I'm not so sure anymore.
Update:
I tried to confirm that 30,000 joules number by looking over a few of my posts. I know that I saw or heard that somewhere, but can't remember exactly where. Also, some of the energy production will come from the Xray emissions. Not all of it will come from the alpha particles. So, the potential thrust will be somewhere south of 30,000 joules. Don't know how far, but somewhat south of that number.
Yours truly has always liked this idea. It could be useful even if Lerner's device never reaches commercial value electricity production.
To recap briefly, all you need is SOME fusion going on. That part is relatively easy. A high school student once set up a lab apparatus to make fusion happen like this. HOWEVER, it is a different story when you try to get it to useful in a commercial sense. It has to produce more energy than it takes in. But in space, this won't matter for propulsion. You will need another energy production device in order to produce the alpha particles that result from the fusion.
There are two other posts on this subject, there are more on this blog...
-DPF Fusion Propulsion
-Focus Fusion as Propulsion, II
I meant to write about it today, but I can't think of anything to write about. It has already been covered. The only thing I haven't written about is... (blankout)
Look, the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics people are on to this, most likely. It would take only a minor modification of their device in order to make it suitable as a fusion propulsion device. How?
By taking away the coil which will be useful for electricity production, but not useful for spacecraft propulsion. But I covered that already. What next?
The thought occurred to me that if this device had sufficient thrust and ISP, you would not need to get to orbital velocity in order to escape Earth's gravity. But I covered that already.
Hmmm. Okay, so I went back into a Power Point file and picked out yet something else that I probably covered already. No, that was a different post. This power point pic isn't what Lockheed Martin produced, because I blanked out what I didn't quite understand or even agree with and came up with this
Now, the main thing to see is a picture of what I'm seeing. Here you have the Focus Fusion device (with the arrow pointing downward toward the magnetic nozzle), the tanks of hydrogen and boron that will comprise the reaction products that will fuse in the device and send out the alpha particles (mentioned in an earlier post) as thrust.
Lerner says that he can get 30,000 out of 100,000 joules expended. The rest is still in the device, not lost. This will demonstrate feasibility, says Lerner. But, let's just say (for the sake of argument) that we are just able to use the 30,000 joules. That is 30,000 Newtons, is it not? Is it not also true, that without slowing down the alpha particles (as would be the case if you were to convert to electricity), that you will get virtually all of this output?
It should be noted that
- I am relying on memory about the 30,000 joules
- That there isn't anything significant that I am missing
- There could be something significant that I am missing because I am not trained in this area
- My energy conversions could be wrong
- The device mentioned has not demonstrated continuous firing. It would have to fire continuously in order to be useful for power or propulsion. I am assuming that Lerner has this figured out.
Why write all this? Haven't they already thought about this? Yes, I'm sure somebody has. What bothers me is that somebody could have something worthwhile and have it suppressed. There was a time when I thought that such a thing would not happen, but these days, I'm not so sure anymore.
Update:
I tried to confirm that 30,000 joules number by looking over a few of my posts. I know that I saw or heard that somewhere, but can't remember exactly where. Also, some of the energy production will come from the Xray emissions. Not all of it will come from the alpha particles. So, the potential thrust will be somewhere south of 30,000 joules. Don't know how far, but somewhat south of that number.
Friday, August 14, 2026
This is what prompted my last post
8/14/26:
How I became the poster girl for liberal agitprop
The author repeated the lie about the GOP almost causing a default.
Quote:
Comment:
There are two problems with the GOP. One is that they won't fight back. Two, that they don't really believe what they claim to believe, for if they did, they would fight back.
Either they start fighting back, or we get rid of them. But that's not happening. They should be screaming about what Limbaugh once called the "biggest lie in American history".
Senator John Cornyn, representing my state, is running some ads on radio. He didn't support Cruz, so now he is trying to claim that he is a conservative. My ass!
If nobody will run against him and primary his ass, then I will not be voting for him in the general election.
Somebody has got to do something. I can do this much. I'd run for Senate myself, but that is an absurd idea.
If there's anything that I've posted here that I regret, it is likely this post. The idea of running for office is something I never should've mentioned.
So why did I do it? It was the exasperation in this post. Why can't the GOP field some decent candidates who will actually DO something???
I'm glad that Cornyn is gone. They aren't being removed fast enough, in my opinion.
I'll do my part here. Running for office is defintely not the ticket. Call that my General Sherman statement. Even if people wanted me to, I wouldn't. It's for the same reason why I would never be a cop. Why?
I'd be a Dirty Harry type cop, that's why. Dirty Harry types get creamed in this culture now. But that's why you do it, some will say. Yeah, but not me. I'm a keyboard warrior, and that's it.
Only in an emergency would I consider it even in the remotist sense. I hope that's clear.
How I became the poster girl for liberal agitprop
The author repeated the lie about the GOP almost causing a default.
Quote:
After a month of news coverage focused on an extremist and dysfunctional Republican Party that shut down the government and brought the nation to the brink of defaulting on its debt, the media had found its new scandal: the troubled rollout of the website where uninsured Americans can purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.[ emphasis mine]
Comment:
There are two problems with the GOP. One is that they won't fight back. Two, that they don't really believe what they claim to believe, for if they did, they would fight back.
Either they start fighting back, or we get rid of them. But that's not happening. They should be screaming about what Limbaugh once called the "biggest lie in American history".
Senator John Cornyn, representing my state, is running some ads on radio. He didn't support Cruz, so now he is trying to claim that he is a conservative. My ass!
If nobody will run against him and primary his ass, then I will not be voting for him in the general election.
Somebody has got to do something. I can do this much. I'd run for Senate myself, but that is an absurd idea.
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Another example to show that you should never underestimate the power of stupid
Joe Scarborough is an ignoramus, or he is a liar. If he is a liar, then his lies should amount to TREASON. There is no way in hell Iran could possibly win this war in any way shape or form UNLESS it gets serious help with traitors within the US body politic. Iran cannot possibly control the Strait. All they can do is cause the price of oil from the region to rise about 5 bucks above WTI. Whoop-de-friggin' do.
I based my opinion upon history. No military has stood up to America for the last 80 plus years. The only wars we "lost" were lost in the political sphere, not on the battlefield. These events occurred because of politics, primarily from Democrats, who are now controlled by COMMUNISTS.
If Scarborough doesn't know these facts, he shouldn't even be making commentary based upon his IGNORANCE. This is the most generous assessment one can make for the guy. He needs to STFU. For his own sake, and if he actually cares about his country, for the country's sake.
His story is very similar to mine
...but mine did not result in anything that could be considered as a success. The difference is that he picked up the guitar again, and I really did not.
Is there a moral to that story? Maybe... Some may wonder if I would take up the guitar again, but I dunno.... (lol).
There are so many resources now available on Youtube and perhaps elsewhere, which did not exist for me in the '70's. That may sound like an excuse, and perhaps it is.
Anyway, he has an explanation for why he became more successful with his guitar growth, and that is what the video is about.
Is there a moral to that story? Maybe... Some may wonder if I would take up the guitar again, but I dunno.... (lol).
There are so many resources now available on Youtube and perhaps elsewhere, which did not exist for me in the '70's. That may sound like an excuse, and perhaps it is.
Shy/Forget/Naive & Invincible by Caryl Archer aka CarylCake
8/13/26:
This is a live performance. She has an equipment malfunction several minutes into the video. No interruption of the performance at all, while she continues singing, she fixes the microphone. I guess you could say that was professional.
Ah, a name from the past! I got curious, what happened with her? Well, I clicked on the video, and it returned a new name. OK. So, it isn't CarylCake anymore? It's something else? ( after a pause to check it out... Same person!)
Here's a video I found with a catchy tune. To my recollection, she once had another tune that thought was catchy back then. Then one has a bit of that, too.
This is a live performance. She has an equipment malfunction several minutes into the video. No interruption of the performance at all, while she continues singing, she fixes the microphone. I guess you could say that was professional.
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