Golf Rules Change in 2020 – Please note

Posted on Sunday, November 3, 2019 by Post Scripts

PGA 2020 RULE CHANGES IN EFFECT FOR GOLFERS AGE 62+

Rule 9k.34– If a tree is between the ball and the hole, and the tree is deemed to be younger than the player, then the ball can be moved without penalty. This is so because this is simply a question of timing; when the player was younger, the tree was not there so the player is being penalized because of his age.

Rule 1.a.5– A ball sliced or hooked into the Rough shall be lifted and placed on the Fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the Rough with no penalty. The senior player should not be penalized for tall grass which ground keepers failed to mow.

Rule 2.d.6– A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed NOT to have hit the tree. This is simply bad luck and luck has no place in a scientific game. The senior player must estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree, and play the ball from there.

Rule 3.B.3– There shall be no such thing as a lost ball. The missing ball is on or near the course and will eventually be found and pocketed by someone else, thereby making it a stolen ball. The senior player is not to compound the felony by charging himself with a penalty.

Rule 4.c.7– If a putt passes over a hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped. The Law of Gravity supersedes the Rules of Golf.

Rule 5. – Putts that stop close enough to the cup that they could be blown in, may be blown in. This does not apply to balls more than three inches from the Hole. No one wants to make a mockery of the game.

Rule 6.a.9– There is no penalty for so-called “out of bounds”. If penny-pinching golf course owners bought sufficient land, this would not occur. The senior player deserves an apology, not a penalty.

Rule 7.G.15– There is no penalty for a ball in a water hazard, as golf balls should float. Senior players should not be penalized for any shortcomings of the manufacturers.

Rule 8.k.9– Advertisements claim that golf scores can be improved by purchasing new golf equipment. Since this is financially impractical for many senior players, one-half stroke per hole may be subtracted for using old equipment.

Please advise all your senior friends of these important rule changes and keep multiple copies in your golf bag. Those not following the rules need to be provided a copy.

Golf is…above all…a game of integrity.

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Steve Scalise: We Deserve Better

Posted on Sunday, November 3, 2019 by Post Scripts

By Pie Guevara

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Representative Steve Scalise, 2019-10-31

For those having occasional trouble posting comments to Post Scripts —

I do not know this for a fact, it is just a guess. Post Scripts comments are scanned by a spam detecting service. It could be that when a comment submission fails the connection to the spam filtering service is slow or the spam filtering server is overloaded effectively halting the comment submission process.  I suspect this is the case because when I make a comment from the submission form in a Post Scripts blog page and it fails I am still able to log onto the server on which the Post Scripts blog is written.

Just wait and try again a few minutes later or save your comment in a text file and try to submit it much later.

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Alzheimers Medical Breakthru – Light Therapy

Posted on Saturday, November 2, 2019 by Post Scripts

Posted by Jack

Researchers have previously shown that a type of light therapy could potentially reduce toxic proteins that build up in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. Now, the same team has identified what happens at cell level to achieve this result.

Light in the dark
A recent study asked why flickering light might help fight Alzheimer’s.

In 2016, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge found that shining a flickering light into the eyes of mice could reduce the toxic buildup of amyloid and tau proteins that occur in the brain with Alzheimer’s disease.  It appears the flicker rate is the key.  40 cycles per second is currently being used to achieve significant results in test mice.

Light therapy boosts a form of brain wave called gamma oscillation, which research suggests is impaired in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

More recently, the MIT team revealed that combining light therapy with sound therapy extended the beneficial effects even further.

Those studies also saw that light therapy can improve memory in mice genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer’s disease and spatial memory in older mice without the condition.

The most recent investigation, which now features in the journal Neuron, has shown that boosting gamma oscillations can improve the connection between nerve cells, reduce inflammation, and preserve against cell death in mouse models of Alzheimer’s.

It also shows that the treatment’s far-reaching effects involve not only nerve cells, or neurons, but also a type of immune cell called microglia.

“It seems,” says senior study author Li-Huei Tsai, a professor of neuroscience and director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, “that neurodegeneration is largely prevented.”

 

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Quid Pro Quo – So What?

Posted on Friday, November 1, 2019 by Post Scripts

by Jack

“A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to acknowledge that President Trump used U.S. military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family as the president repeatedly denies a quid pro quo.

In this shift in strategy to defend Trump, these Republicans are insisting that the president’s action was not illegal and does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense as the Democratic-led House moves forward with the open phase of its probe.”

Trump is not a politician, he’s a CEO.  He is acting exactly like a company boss.  But, in the role of a politician he is constrained by the sometimes absurd, sometimes unfathomable nuances, of D.C. politics and he’s opening himself up to criticism.  But, I don’t see anything malicious here, do you?  It’s just very petty stuff, except for Biden’s corruption allegations; that’s not petty and I think it deserves to be investigated.

In our law there are basically two kinds, (malum prohibitum)  a wrong just because we say it is a wrong and the other (malum in se’)  a wrong because it widely viewed as a wrong by global society.   What Trump did is at the very worst, a wrong because democrats said it was wrong.  A technical wrong, but one that does not rise to level of a high crime or even a misdemeanor.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has long resisted the idea of impeaching the president because she didn’t feel democrats had a good case.  The House will now have to weigh whether the president’s transgressions fall into the impeachable offenses of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” as dictated by the Constitution.  The House is divided along party lines.  Many think Trump was doing the right thing when coercing Ukraine to investigate influence peddling by Biden on behalf of his son Hunter.

If this goes to the Senate there is every reason to think it was be dismissed as fast as Bill Clinton’s impeachment.  Meanwhile, the people’s business is not being done.  There are many issues that should be a priority.  From the deficit to Social Security safeguards or border protection, etc., that should  to be considered!  Important things are gathering dust while frivolous political posturing is wasting valuable time and taxpayer money.

 

 

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Trump Rallies Live a Flop

Posted on Friday, November 1, 2019 by Post Scripts

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Pie Guevara appears in here courtesy of Jack Lee and Tina Grazier and is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton.  So there!

 

OK, this idea of hosting live events on Post Scripts and monitoring comments live has turned out to be a complete flop. I thought it would be fun and add a new dimension to Post Scripts and I would like to host other live events but so far I am failing in just this first endeavor.

This is could be because I have failed to announce live events well ahead of time. I shall try to do better but right now I live day to day, barely. As for the Trump rallies, they usually occur on Thursdays and Fridays. So here is a lazy announcement — I will continue to try to host Trump rally live events but I may not give any forewarning. So check in on Post Scripts Thursday and Friday evenings if you would like to participate. Or don’t.

Let me know. Would it be fun and interesting for you to participate in live events on Post Scripts with me or Jack and Tina monitoring comments live or not? Is there any events you would like to see hosted live? I was thinking the next Democrat nomination debate on November 20.

Note: Streaming connection to live events in Post Scripts currently depends on what is available on YouTube.

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Trump Rally Live 11/1/2019

Posted on Friday, November 1, 2019 by Post Scripts

Hosted by Pie Guevara

Pie Guevara appears in here courtesy of Jack Lee and Tina Grazier and is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton.  So there!

 

OK, late again. If you happen to check into Post Scripts and see this, I will be monitoring any comments real time.

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Pie Guevara’s Día de Muertos Special

Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2019 by Post Scripts

By Pie Guevara

Pie Guevara appears in here courtesy of Jack Lee and Tina Grazier and is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton.  So there!

 

While I love the Western Christian based U.S. traditions of celebrating Halloween especially where it concerns children having fun in costumes and extorting sweets from adults I also have had a life long fascination and love for the Mexican celebration of Día de Muertos which is also observed here in the United States.

This amazing syncretism of Catholicism and indigenous Mesoamerican culture is truly beautiful in ritual, art, religion and cultural practices. Día de Muertos is part of a multi-day celebration that involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember those who have passed in order to aid the spiritual journey of the dead and living. It is a joyful event where passed loved ones awake and celebrate with the living. Included are the forgotten dead who have no living descendants to remember them.

Día de Muertos activities include (but are not limited to) construction of ofrendas (altars honoring a dead loved one or dead groups), grave decoration, food, bread, sweet treats, feasting and calaveras literarias (skulls literature) which are epitaphs describing interesting habits and attitudes or funny anecdotes about a deceased family member.

Día de Muertos is a southern Mexico tradition but is also celebrated in central and south America and the Caribbean. Because of limited Mesoamerican influence in northern Mexico it was not widely practiced there until the Mexican government made it a national holiday.

In aggregate (but not inclusive to all Latin traditions) the holidays are a series of events celebrated each year from October 31 to November 2. It is my understanding that on October 31 the gates of heaven are opened at midnight and the spirits of children can rejoin their families for 24 hours. November 1 is el Dia de los innocents (day of the children or Holy Innocents day) and All Saints Day. November 2 is All Souls Day and Día de Muertos where the spirits of adults can rejoin their families as the children did earlier.

Día de Muertos traditions arose from the ancient traditions of pre-Columbian cultures. Rituals celebrating deceased ancestors and had been practiced for an estimated  2,500 to 3,000 years. These ancient indigenous religious traditions sycretized with the Catholic tradition, specifically All Saints Day.

Please note: I am not an expert on Día de Muertos nor Catholic traditions, nor am I cultural anthropologist. I am only sharing what I have learned about this beautiful celebration of life and death and the meaning and depth it adds to what it means to be a human being. If I have made any errors or have left any important aspects out I welcome corrections and further details.

Dia de Muertos in Chico —

November 2019 | Dia de los Muertos Art & Altar Exhibition

 

 

 

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Pie Guevara’s Halloween Special

Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2019 by Post Scripts

Care for a little excitement? Want to leave behind the four walls of today?

Ghoul Guevara appears in here courtesy of Jack Lee and Tina Grazier and is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton.  So there!

 

It’s pretty amazing what the imagination coupled to the sound of a rubber glove being turned inside out can do…

Yes fellow ghouls, Robert Louis Stevenson was creepy, very creepy. This radio adaptation of “The Young Man With the Cream Tarts” recreates the first of a series of three short stories known collectively as “The Suicide Club” first published in the London Magazine from June-October 1878.

The chicken heart that ate New York City…

Before Bill Cosby was a real horror story…

OK, if you have made it thus far, here is “the voice” and the ending, well, you will…

Ever change your mind? Ever try to change someone else’s? Boris Karloff once did…

By the way, for those of you who appreciate great cinematography, progenitors of noir style lighting, camera angle mixes and camera movement direction, the above film directed by Robert Stevenson is outstanding. For instance, note at about the 3:30 mark the camera movement about the two lovers beginning with the line “I’m coming with you.”

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Democrat Voters are Racist and Sexist

Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 by Post Scripts

By Pie Guevara

Pie Guevara is an unregistered trademark of Engulf and Devour Investments LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Walton Industries which, in turn, is wholly owned by David Walton. So there!

Democrat party presidential candidate Kamala Harris  (whose campaign appears to be in the dumper) explains/complains about her lack of electability in this HBO/Axios interview clip…

Harris concludes the interview with a lengthy story about her as a starry-eyed Obama campaigner getting told by an elderly black woman that, “They’ll never let him win.”

Harris who is currently polling in fifth place behind Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg has evidently taken a chapter out of Hillary Clinton’s excuse playbook before she has even folded her campaign.

Harris: “…what I believe to be the elephant in the room about my campaign. Electability… essentially is America ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States… There is a lack of ability or a difficulty in imagining that someone whom we have never seen can do a job that has been done 45 times by someone who is not that person.”

Translation: Democrats are too racist and sexist to nominate Harris.

My first impulse is think that no, Ms. Harris, Democrats are not too racist and sexist to imagine a woman of color as president. Then I reflected on my long experience with Democrats and thought that maybe Harris is onto something.

Perhaps the Obama presidency and the Hillary nomination in 2016 were flukes? Besides, how else do you explain her polling behind Buttigieg?

Harris has previously accused Joe Biden of racial insensitivity and has charged that the medical health care profession is misogynist and racist.

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Personal Accountability is Better Than a 10,000 Laws

Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 by Post Scripts

by Jack

Did you hear about the family on a cruise ship that left a toddler with her Grandfather and she fell out of their cabin window?  The fall killed the child.  Everyone agrees it was tragic. The distraught family sued the cruise line because of the placement of the window and it’s design.   If suing and collecting millions (and its not about the money) if this could save just one child…..( uh huh.)

In a surprise turn of events, the police have charged the grandfather with negligent homicide because of the placement of child – next to the open cabin window… 111 feet high. His defense, he [thought] the window was closed.

Several thousand miles away in Iowa a family decided to do a baby reveal.  The baby’s gender is revealed in puff of pink or blue smoke.  The ladies planning the event carefully packed a metal tube with some colored powder they knew would go poof with lots of smoke. The next day friends and family stood by for grand reveal.  The fuse was lit and it killed a 56 year old women from shrapnel; seems the pipe was packed with gunpowder.

About the same time as the above incidents, but in Arizona, a man thought it would be fun to use a legally produced exploding target while plinking in the hills. The flash from the target ignited dry vegetation and that resulted in the massive Sawmill fire, a 47,000 acre wild land fire. That fire cost the taxpayer millions and did a lot of property damage.

The point here is for the liberals among us.  You can have all the laws in the world, but they won’t protect you from stupid.

We are fast becoming the most regulated society in history, with thousands of news laws coming out every year; most of them frivolous, but with the potential for each one to cost us a little bit of our freedom.  In some cases these laws have made otherwise innocent people into instant criminals, by fiat.

Think about this the next time you read the warning label on a can of paint, “Do not drink” and about the people who forced that to happen. Then do us all a favor and never vote for a democrat again.

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