Roy Moore was running for Senate left open by Jeff Session, now the attorney General, for Alabama. Moore was in the lead until bombshell allegations arrived from “Liberal Media” that he had improper relations with under aged girls. It is the height of irony that papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post are called “Liberal” in anything, let alone in the smear of reporting upon such allegations. The era of Trump has made formerly conservative voices sound liberal, even dare we say it? To a thunder of squishing breaks as they hear this news… Socialist. Course the nut cases from the fringe like Alex Jones, Info Wars and Breitbart are now somehow considered to be legitimate new sources might account for the shift in media. Back to Alabama and Roy Moore. He was first accused of being a child molester by three women, now up to six and growing eventually to eight women. When I first heard their story, it sound just a little too good to be true to agree with it. In short, I was sceptical of the timing and the comments, yet awaiting further information to come. As that day wore on, Judge Moore spoke with Sean Hannity. In that interview he sunk himself by coming off as a creep and perv. His answers were evasive, all but screaming, “I did it!” or “Guilty!” He even agreed that he knew two of the girls and had dated them with their mother permission. He has since denied this and taken a polygraph to prove he did not know any of them at all. In any case, once I heard that, I was full convinced he should step down from running. Yet this fellow brings up two salient point to ponder on the wider picture.
First guns support; Roy Moore showed up on stage with a concealed handgun to show people that he was all for the NRA. This organization clearly only represents the interests of gun manufacturer and have fooled millions of Americans into joining. Their views however are ignored. They tend to run with the rest of American in wanting longer waiting period, more checks and more restrictions. All of which the NRA oppose. Yet all one has to do is walk on stage with a gun and the NRA love’s you? Very strange. Now, as more and more females are speaking, more damning information came out, such as Moore denial of having met one of his victims. She accused him of trying to rape her. He said he did not know her, did not know the diner she worked in, and never tried to rape her. She presented her year book, showing his signature and the name of the place in his handwriting. Yes very convincing. His attacks were almost laughable. The girl he almost raped? She was a behaviour challenged student. Which means you can rape her? In his mind it does. He was also banned from a shopping mall for harassing the young girls within and a local high school had a security guard follow him around on football nights as he was known to harass the cheerleaders. Yet for all these, the gun crowd still supports him? One issue voters, like gun nuts are scary like that.
The second point is the white people still support him. By that I mean white male republicans and their wives of a certain age, still support him. Why? The Liberal North cannot understand the support of this paedophile in Alabama. But here is the dirty secret you won’t hear much about. Why do people, who are white and older, support him? Because they remember a time long ago, that if they discount the rape and paedophile allegations, you are left with a man looking for a wife among the younger girls. This is in itself not a game changer. Many of their grandparents have similar stories of older men marrying younger women. And staying married all their lives. So the fact that Moore was trolling the food court at the mall looking for a teeny bopper to marry is not a disqualifier for voting for him. On the day of the vote, he lost by 1.5% but he filed legal papers to overturn the vote. He failed. Part of the reason why he failed was the experts he used. One of them was a UFO believer, easily dismissed! Another person cited in the legal case, while having a more serious issue to advocate had fundamental problems as well, but at least rationally based. His name is Richard Charnin
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/
First, they brought up his attempt to prove the assassination of JFK using math. I offer no comment, because I am not going to read that book, instead focusing on his views on the Alabama vote. He claims there are irregularities in the vote. That the way the voting pattern showed many former Clinton Supporters had to vote but a lot less of Trump supports did not. This he claims shows voter fraud. While I am not going to argue with his analysis, his math or even his statics and numbers, all because I don’t have to. In any election, past performance is not indication of future support. Just because I Vote for Trump in 2016 does not mean I will vote for Trump ever again or that I will vote for Moore now. Indeed, based on pure psychology, this voter pattern is explained. People hear tell he may be a paedophile. The liberals don’t want that so they vote in greater numbers. They have a reason to go to vote. On the other hand, republicans hear he is a paedophile and they refuse to vote for a liberal Democrat instead vote with their feet and do not go to the polls. It is usually as simple as that. Occam’s Razor. Go with the simplest explanation that explains all the facts. So sorry Judge Moore, but the people of Alabama voted you off the island. Your own supports did not vote for you so the polls switched and you lost. Now and forever, your past made you and it will always come out in the wash. People simply do not like you or trust you as much as they trust Donald Trump. May heaven help us all?

Greenbanks, West Virginia, is an unlikely place for refuges to stream into. But none the less, in they pour. More of a trickle, than a torrent; for in this city is United States National Radio Quiet Zone where in 1958 the US federal government set up a place for research into the universe using a radio telescope. Today, this quiet zone, radio noise causes interference with the telescope. Any electromagnetic wave might disrupt the ear of the researchers so to live there they have to sing away their rights to such technology. Today it is a home for people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Basically, they can feel those invisible waves from the electromagnetic spectrum that come from Electromagnetic fields (EMFs), things like WIFI and cell phones and many other sources. Worse, for the sufferers, is that there is no way to show that their condition actually exists, let alone how it is caused or a cure, to any scientific certainty. We think this might not only be a problem for humans but for all mammals especially those who use sonar to navigate likes whales, or bats to hunt. But so far, we cannot diagnose it or treat except in the avoidance of such sources of EMF. The symptoms are things like headaches, stress, and anxiety; up to much more serious illnesses have been reported. Science, at first, dismissed this as merely hysteria. Yet more and more cases come forward with the same or similar symptoms, it was not merely so easy to dismiss. Or to claim it was “All in your head.” Nor is there any cure, the physical remove of certain EMF sources such as living in Greenbacks’ is about all they can do when they are so afflicted.

For my own experience with this began about 5 years ago with the digitally re-mastered Beatles. I love the Beatles so I thought this is going to be great. Except after listening to 3-4 song, I felt nauseated: The feelings expressed not the sickness itself. I also cannot stand modern radio or most modern songs; with few exceptions; those exceptions being the real singers like Adele whose voice will sometimes break as she sings, showing that it is indeed her doing the music not a computer. Computers do not make such mistakes. There are two types of music today, or at least for my purposes I will divide music into two groups. Those singers, who I will call analog, that people who use their own voice to make magic of music happen and those who used a computer to do so. To wit; years ago they would take 30-40 takes in order to get the singer to sing that song just that right way; the “Oh so perfect” take. Today they get them to sing it once and say next song. The music is then entered into a computer for washing to make the song hit all the right notes in perfect harmony. Except humans are not perfect. If you use a measure tool on the human voice as they sing one single note, you would see the voice of the singer wobble in the electronic display because the singer’s voice is not perfect. You would not hear a difference but there is one to the measuring tool. However, when a computer does it, sing one single note, they make the note come out perfect, same tone and pitch, for as long as they want to or need to. Watching it in the electromagnetic spectrum, you do not see peaks and valleys; you see a straight line for the music is playing the perfect note. You might think this was a good thing. It is not. Since we human, as frail creatures, such a perfect note would induce real vomit, headaches and other such reactions due to it being so unnatural when we expect to hear something that is so natural like singing. Because it is too pure, too unnatural, programs like Autotune had to be programmed their musical output to insert the final product with flaws in it so that the human ear does not reject the music but can listen without it sounding too strange. It still comes off as robotic if overly washed.

Sadly the result is some people are hyper sensitive to music, wither it be for the misophonia or phonophobia, dislike of sound in general or hypersensitive hearing (of specific frequencies) such that Autotones uses to make their music work. I know not what or how, but listening to the digital music formats of songs, drive me insane. Like the newly re-mastered Beatles, such wonderful songs turned out to be a vomit comet. Been many years and I still have not managed to listen to but a handful of the songs. I will stick with my analog copies. They do not cause me anxiety, stress, anger and headaches. I can tolerate this music to some degree, usually in the 2-3 hours range but then after like a crest that builds up it breaks over and floods the valley below. Modern music, digital music, might one day have great singers like days of yore, but sadly I will never know. For in their quest to be perfect, they have simply turned what beauty they may have had into mere painful noise that drives me up the wall. Too perfect, this frankenmusic is merely a lazy form of singing for singers who are bad. They cannot sing but fool the public into thinking they are singers. This has now spilled out of the recording studio into the concert hall. So even “Live” is not just a digital rendition of the digital rendition from a digital source. Too many digitals for me.

Signed by the man seeking refuges in his old time rock and roll, yelling at the local teens; “You kids get off my grass!”

Here are some links to articles on this subject.

https://bodyecology.com/articles/little-known-dangers-of-emf.php

https://www.emf-experts.com/emf-quiet-zones.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2010/08/31/129562500/pop-off-can-songs-be-too-fresh-too-clean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_correction#Criticism

https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/3964406/seduced-by-perfect-pitch-how-auto-tune-conquered-pop-music

https://www.bphope.com/when-noise-annoys-coping-with-hypersensitive-hearing/

http://www.hyperacusis.net/what-is-it/4-types-of-sound-sensitivity/

Post script: A song was playing on the radio. Some guy was singing a Christmas song. So i asked a buddy, is that guy just singing his own song or is he singing along. Turns out he was singing the same song as on the radio. I could not hear the words and i could not recognize the song playing because all i could hear was the base and what I can only describe as noise.  Everyone else could hear music from the radio. All i heard was a pile of nothing that made any sense to me.