My voice is as the wind amidst ghosts

I tried to fly to the moon a few nights ago, but it was just a bit too far. This is as close as I came before I turned back toward home. Pretty nice shot, hah ?? I went because I wanted to see what was on the dark side of the moon -- to discover if it might be darker than the dark side of my soul. I probably never will learn the answer now. All things might be possible, but the time must be right for them to be. I suppose I am fortunate that I did not attempt to reach the sun. Although, like the dark, I am curious to know if the bright side of my soul (Dare I say the enlightened side ??) is as bright as is the sun, had I come so near to the sun as I did to the moon, the wax securing my wings might have melted and I would have been in real trouble. Turning to the music, I am putting up three more songs from The Killers. I sometimes use a band a few times and sometimes use a song or a variation of it by a different band a few times, but this is the first time I have run songs by the same band in posts only a few days apart. Hmmmm .... so what, I ask myself ?? I guess I am fascinated by the band's sound and, especially, at the moment, by its lyrics. It probably is the best musical poetry since Bobby Zimmerman was a student skipping classes at the University of Minnesota and dreaming about New York City. In reference to one of the songs (I am confident you will figure this out if you listen to the music), it could be he does look a bit like Jesus, except for the Colt Lightning in the back pocket of his jeans.

More of the same from me

This post will be liked by few and rejected by many, I would guess.

The point of this post is a continuation of the proposition that there is an incalculable number of genetically varied hominoid beings (Homo sapien sapiens) inhabiting the earth at this moment. Simply put, just as there are many similarities among them (us), there are many genetic abstractions to compound the more obvious differences such as intelligence, physical talent and emotional stability:

No one key can unlock all the doors -- except, maybe, in the future, genetic engineering will flower and be accepted, and the genome of individuals will not only be mapped, but be manipulated.

 And yet, today, some politically indoctrinated, narcissistic pied piper thinks a smile, a hug, a few government handout dollars and a pharisaical ideology will "convert" all these genetic variations into one idolatrous, drug-induced, educationally-mesmerized, happy family. Dream on .... uffff ....

I recently heard a well-known television commentator say that he thought the world was going to explode within a few years. He did not mean literally as from a nuclear holocaust, but, rather, a worldwide social and economic collapse brought about through dozens of brushfire wars created by raving, religious zealots intent upon the destruction of any and all who reject their narrow vision of our existence and permitted to happen through the impotence of worshippers of political correctness, utopian fantasies and socialistic policies.

I think this television commentator was correct in his analysis. I am not sure if this murderous metamorphosis will happen this year or next, but I think it probably will happen before the decade ends if another mirror-mirror-on-the-wall fool in love with himself (or herself) is elected president of the United States.

To look at history (simply look, not even study) is to see that evolution remains the constant force of life on earth and that not only the strongest individuals survive and prosper, but that the nations with the strongest leaders and most resolute citizenry are those which not only survive, but prosper.

History demonstrates that nations and even civilizations, like people, come and go -- rise and fall. While it is too soon to see the dominate forces a few decades from now, it is clearly evident that the United States and Western-style democracies are on a downward spiral. The dangers, of course, are not only from external forces such as Islamic extremists, but also from internal, entitlement ideologues who believe they are something special and are out to prove that they know what is best not only for themselves, but for everyone else.

 Not long ago, there was a popular bumper sticker which read: "He who dies with the most toys wins."

Really, that is true, but most people have no idea what it represents below the surface. And, contrary to the ideology (pathology) of Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama, golf clubs and basketballs are not part of the equation.

Just another piece of the puzzle

MUNICH, GERMANY — Analysis of DNA obtained from a 40,000-year-old jawbone from Romania's Oase Cave -- one of the earliest modern-human fossils found in Europe -- indicates that five to eleven percent of the man's genome came from a Neanderthal ancestor. "The data from the jawbone imply that humans mixed with Neanderthals not just in the Middle East but in Europe as well," researcher Qiaomei Fu said in a press release.

The international team of scientists, including researchers from the Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Harvard Medical School, and Beijing's Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, estimates that the man's exceptionally large segments of inherited Neanderthal DNA, which shorten with each generation, came from a Neanderthal ancestor in the previous four to six generations.

"Interestingly, the Oase individual does not seem to have any direct descendants in Europe today. It may be that he was part of an early migration of modern humans to Europe that interacted closely with Neanderthals but eventually became extinct," added David Reich, who coordinated the population genetic analyses of the study.