January 2005 - Tampa Bay Mensa

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January 2005 3 Editor’s Introduction – Introduction of the Editor Thomas George Thomas It may sometimes be misleading to think of January as a time of new beginnings. In the case of this column, so much of the “new beginning” came in the groundwork that preceded it. Over the past couple of months I’ve attended several of the events found in the Sounding Calendar to familiarize myself with both the activities and the people of Tampa Bay Mensa, and this was a treat (if sometimes hectic)! Between the TGIF in South Pasadena (with discussions of the nutritional value of Guinness Stout), the Lunch Bunch in Carrollwood (and a lively discussion of taxation), the new Reading Club in Tampa (with the sharing of suggestions for new books – I’m halfway through “The Diamond Age” from the first meeting), FSM in Sun City and other places (with a re-enactment of an old “I Love Lucy” routine) and the ever-popular Games Night in Oldsmar and other places (with trivia and Empire-Building), there’s activity all over the area, and one common thread – vibrant and fascinating conversation with other Mensans. I’ve been in the Tampa Bay area for four years, but I’m still a relative newcomer. So I look forward to meeting more of you, either at the various activities in the Calendar, or through artistic, literary, philosophical or other contributions you are invited to make to this Sounding – your magazine. My philosophy of editing is fairly laissez-faire. I don’t intend to rewrite any submissions without the foreknowledge of the author, which led to some thoughtful back-and-forth e-mails preceding this month’s Letter To The Sounding, which in itself may raise some lively discussion! However, I do intend to adhere to the submission guidelines on the inside back page of the Sounding. And after this month, may I be so bold as to add one suggestion: keep the letters under 400 words! More than that would rate an article, and could certainly be submitted as such. I look forward to hearing from you! Thomas 4 Tampa Bay Sounding January Birthdays 1 Jerry Merchant 2 John Hamilton, Mary Muka, Danielle Wingate 4 Michael Johnston, Betty Taylor 5 Lawrence Jay 6 Rick Craig, Susanna Shea 8 Ronan Heffernan, Patricia Johnston 9 Stanley Pleban 11 Vivian Barnard, Russell Brown. Robert Quinn III, Sean Smith 12 Julie Anderson, David Goodrich 13 Scott Wilson 14 Ronald Baker 20 Jessica Cameron, Thomas Johnson 21 James Perry 23 Theresa Hohmann, Patrick Rhodes 24 Anthony Ferrara, Joni Fisher, Brett Husselbaugh 25 Louise Kelly, Michelle Kurtz 26 Robert Young 27 Richard Averitt, Gary Posner, Marsha Raymond 28 Ben Gronek, Robert Murrin, Patricia Oldfield, K E Schneider 29 Lloyd Cook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to Tampa Bay Mensa! Ellen Berry* Ryan Boyle* Lloyd Cook Michael Fouse Brian Guidry John Hamilton Michael Harris Jamie Heuer* Joseph Hickey* Kenna Holder* Robert Johnson Charles Lardent Keith Lussen Vincent Marshall Alvin Nienhuis* Ferdinand Pointer Bradley Price* Terry Wells *= new member; others are moves in, preferences in, or reinstatements.
January 2005 5 January Mensaversaries 1 Richard Everitt, Christopher Cain, Lloyd Cook, James Dowling, Michael Hankinson, Kitt Holland, Samuel Milligan, Barbara Nichols, Matthew Petit, Frank Ridgway, Robin Schuessler, Arthur Schwartz, Susanna Shea, Robert Young 2 Douglas Fitzgerald, Susan Gardner, Lannis Harris, Michael Johnston, Mikael Magnusson, Sheila Mitchell, Barbara Rambow, William Schneikart, Brandon Shaw 3 Alvin Bedgood, Norman Cillo, Brian Dreggors, Paul Happel, Thomas Thomas, Thomas Vena, Robert Waltz 4 Gary Martin 5 Donna Ippolito, Martin Jenns 7 Dave Bryant, Michael Perry 8 Nelson Crowle, Steven Graves, Bill Lewellen, Roger Preslar 11 Ron Austin 12 Ryan Kennedy 13 Karen Hamlin 18 Grant Logan 21 Bonnie Wilpon 25 Benito Enriquez, Kenneth Kaplan, Bruce Perry 27 Lee Miele 30 Jerry Merchant, Brigitte Walker 31 Daniel O’Neal 37 Maryl Curry, Mary Sanchez * Mensaversaries come from the membership list provided by national Mensa; some may represent rejoin dates after a lapse in membership. 6 Tampa Bay Sounding Letter To The Sounding In response to Dan Chesnut's diatribe on Global warming let me say Man Made Global Warming is a Farce - an International Cock and Bull story if I may. The Man Made Global Warming hoax is generally perpetrated by the usual bunch of Anti-American, Anti- Capitalist, Anti-Growth, UN Socialist sycophants who always protest the production and use of energy; The same people, I might add, who deplore Nuclear Energy production while they ignore Nuclear Bomb production of rogue nations. First off let me say I do not dispute the findings of NOAA nor my own empirical evidence that yes the world does appear to be warming. What I do dispute is that man has any significant effect on this phenomenon; Please let me make my case. As a Math Professor Dan knows what is required of a proof: claim that a statement is true, start with one previously proven fact, and then in logical progression of small irrefutable steps make the case that you original premise must be the one and only valid conclusion. But Dan has done anything but that in his piece. He buries us in data that says the earth is warming but his connection of this to mankind as the cause is flimsy and ill conceived. The truth he expects us to believe is: man is on the earth using fossil fuels, the earth is growing warmer at the same time, so ergo man must be responsible. To accept such faulty logic as truth or proof is shear folly, at best it is a remote possibility and nothing more. While scientist do tell us the Earth is warming they've also determined Mars is warming. Logically if 2 planets are in the same sphere of influence from the Sun, one populated by man the other not, if only the planet populated by man were warming one might assume it were the effect of man, however since both planets are warming one would have to consider the Sun as logical cause. Besides the Sun other serious Intra-planetary causes need to be evaluated as to the cause of global warming. I am referring here to a report in the NY Times that a significant decrease has been observed in the Earth's Magnetic Field; reportedly it is off 10% and scientists do tell us there have been polar juxtapositions of the earth's magnetic field throughout geologic history. How this magnetic field decrease affects the planet and what types of radiation and particles are drawn to it has yet to be studied but the possibility of it affecting climate is conceivable.
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