blog'n at san onofre: 08/31/03

Saturday, September 06, 2003

[ You Gotta Cancel the San Onofre Club Contest! ]

5th... in my heat..

I paddled faster than the last guy.....

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Friday, September 05, 2003

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And More Great San Onofre White Shark News, Blood in the Water!

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Thursday, September 04, 2003

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --
Innovative astronomer Horace W. Babcock, former director of the Pasadena-based Carnegie Observatories, has died. He was 90.

Babcock helped create several astronomical measuring tools including the first solar magnetograph, which measures the general magnetic field of the sun.

Born in Pasadena in 1912 and educated at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley, Babcock joined the staff of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories in 1946. He directed the observatories from 1964 to 1978.

His inventions include development of a "seeing monitor" used to judge the observing merits of various mountaintops selected as possible telescope sites, and a 1953 proposal to modify scopes with a technique he called adaptive optics, now a standard feature of modern telescopes.

Babcock was awarded some of his field's most prestigious awards, including the Hale Prize and Henry Draper, Eddington, Gold and Bruce medals.

He is survived by three children and a granddaughter.

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Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Surfers' Paradise Lost to the Great White Hungry Shark

"I could clearly see the flat face and little stumpy nose, so at this point I know what this puppy is," said Graeme Rae, 36, describing the sight of a white shark while he was surfing here. After swiftly paddling to shore, he and another surfer considered taking up another sport, he said. "We actually discussed Ping-Pong."

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Tuesday, September 02, 2003

Federal marijuana laws do not trump California's medical marijuana law.

Amendment X

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Alcohol Prohibition was an amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore became the law of the land, superior to any contradictory state law.

But marijuana is nowhere mentioned in the United States Constitution. Therefore, regardless of any federal marijuana laws, the United States Constitution declares and protects the right of any state, or the people of any state, to enact contradictory laws about marijuana. No agencies of the federal government, acting Constitutionally, can arbitrarily claim federal statutes trump state statutes.

If the federal government wishes this ascendancy, it must seek to codify its wishes regarding marijuana within an amendment to the United States Constitution. Until such an amendment is ratified, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Within the state of California, California's marijuana statute trumps federal marijuana laws, and federal courts charged with preserving and defending the United States Constitution are obligated to note and conform to the Tenth Amendment in such cases.

Sincerely,

Robert Merkin
Northampton, MA

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