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Summaries:

1)Inca Pyramid: Let's unearth it and save the religious artifacts & the knowledge of them.Please read the selection below.

2)Parkersburg, WV: Angular momentum & northern migration of continents and the plumingback up of sialic matter with oil&gas.

a)Angular Momentum & Continental Drift

b)Deep Biomass Activity

c)Wrench Faulting & Deep Methane

3)WV Map for Pocatalico Gal

4)Pocatalico Gal

5)Upside Down Minimum Wage Thinking

Please read the selections below.

1) The Pyramid

The telling of a story 52 years later:  A father and his son were hiking up into the mountains and were attacked by Indians.  These were not American Indians, but those of a far away country.  Walking up a ravine, the father and son were confronted by a campesino, farmer Indian, on a cliff.  The father took a .22 pistol from his backpack and told the campesino, “Con cuidado,” take care.  The campesino started shouting for his nearby campesinos.  The father instructed the son to turn around and start walking down the ravine.  In the meantime, the campesino started hurling boulders down on the hikers.  One boulder missed the son by inches.  Five minutes down the ravine to its mouth, the hikers were cut off by a band of campesinos.  One of the campesinos carried an ancient rifle.

            The father and son both remembered they had been told, when they first entered the city down in the valley, that many hikers in the surrounding mountains simply disappeared.  Remember, the title of this tale is The Pyramid. You ask, “What has this story got to do with the title?”  Well, that is the hook of the tale, but it is leading up to that and in a round about way.

            The father carried water in liquor bottles in his backpack.  The city’s water system was infamous for impurities.  Water for consumption was boiled and stored in available bottles.  Very often, the available bottles were liquor bottles because U.S. officials were expected to entertain often.

            The Indians became focused on the liquor bottles when they opened our backpacks and took away the .22 pistol.  Their contents’ taste must have been perceived as smooth since we were filthy rich gringos that could afford the best liquor.  While they were passing around the bottles, we were allowed to back away from the group.  We simply walked as fast as we could down to the city in the valley.  By the time the Indians realized the bottles contained only water, we were gone.  Go figure, but I’m here alive to tell the tale.

            Now, I’m getting to the title. Why do you suppose hikers in the mountains often disappeared?  Well, from the city in the valley, something up in the mountains looked like a pyramid.  At the American school that was opened up to English speaking natives, the native children referred to that thing in the mountains as “The Pyramid.”  It looked just like that.  Subsequent to this episode, the father told the son he could never tell anybody what had happened on the hike.  His brandishing a pistol could have an adverse impact on his military career.  Classmates at the school started talking about hiking up to The Pyramid. The son was scared, but classmates and the son at that school hiked up into the mountains three times to see “The Pyramid.”  Locals commented that adult hikers were the only ones that vanished.  Children weren’t bothered by the campesinos.  I’m not sure why children received favored treatment by the campesinos, but there were no adverse consequences with the subsequent hikes.  Was it because children had not acquired the greedy tendencies the Indians had noticed for white adults?

            “The Pyramid” is located in a slight crook at the top of the mountain range that flanks the city in the valley.  The mountains may have been at an elevation five thousand feet above the city, but the city in the valley is at an elevation of some eight thousand feet.  Due to the thinness of the air, we had difficulty hiking in the mountains.  On each of the hikes to “The Pyramid,” we were so tired that we couldn’t explore around “The Pyramid.”  “The Pyramid” simply looked like a part of the mountain.  Up close, it didn’t look like a pyramid.  We had been told that there was a lake behind “The Pyramid,” but we didn’t hike beyond it to look for the lake.  Due to the lateness at the end of each hike, we needed to get back to the city before nightfall.

            Here are the “what if’s.”  What if the Incas had a religious pyramid near a mountaintop lake?  Incas regarded lakes as the results of “tears of the moon.”  What if they covered that pyramid with earth and boulders to hide it from the greedy conquistadores?  Remember, present age adults have those same greedy tendencies.  If the apparent pyramid is a natural rock formation, why is it by itself along that mountain range?  Why is it, even if the actual reasons have been lost over the generations, hikers in the area have simply vanished?  Remember, the Incas had a hatred for conquistadores, but that actual knowledge was 433 years before the hike.  Maybe, there has been a vestige of the hate of it remaining today.  Is that why adult hikers disappear when hiking?          

          The area served as a granary for the Incas.  With that and the ideal climate, did the Incas regard this area as a religious retreat?  Did they build a pyramid there with the nearby lakes and their religious connotations?  I know there are nearby lakes there because the nearby city is going to tap them and build pipelines from them to the city to help alleviate their water needs.

The Incas built Machu Picchu.  Thus, they had the expertise for hiding a pyramid if they were so motivated.  Once the Indians knew about the conquistadores thirst for gold, they should have been motivated to hide their religious artifacts.   The area was settled by Spaniards ten years after Atahualpa, the last true Inca Sapa (or king) was killed by Francisco Pizarro.

 Pizarro had set the stage for two warring half-brother Inca Sapas who were offering like bribes of filling a room with gold for their ransoms.  Atahualpa had defeated Huascar (his half-brother) and had imprisoned him.  Pizarro had captured Atahualpa and Atahualpa offered to fill a room 22 feet by 17 feet to a height of 9 feet with gold for him to be released.  Huascar sneaked out information to Pizarro that, if Pizarro freed him, he could more than match Atahualpa’s offer.  Atahualpa learned of that and had Huascar killed to prevent Pizarro from using the two brothers against each other.  Atahualpa fulfilled his side of the bargain, but Pizarro knew that releasing Atahualpa would result with Atahualpa unleashing waiting Inca warriors who could not function without orders from the Inca Sapa.  During the time of fulfilling Atahualpa’s side of the bargain, Atahualpa’s religious leaders probably started to not exactly follow Atahualpa’s orders.  Pizarro had sent a small force to Pachacama near present Lima that was a known religious center for the Incas to strip it of its gold in order to hasten the process of fulfilling the ransom.  The Spaniards did not find the gold there.  The religious leaders had started to relocate their religious artifacts.  They may have started thinking that the artifacts needed to be placed far away from the greedy conquistadores.  The Incas did not use gold and silver for monetary purposes.  They simply appreciated the beauty of the metals used for ornamentation and for religious purposes.  They must have considered another remote religious retreat.  It might have been a religious pyramid retreat where their granary was located.

They had time to hide this pyramid.  It took ten years before Spaniards settled this new area.  Did they have time?  Well, they could have because it indicates they also built Machu Picchu as a safe haven from the conquistadores at the same time.  The Incas did not hide their gold at Machu Picchu.  Remember, the conquistadores were concentrating their gold seeking efforts in the Peru area, which was the heart of the Inca Empire.  The area of The Pyramid was far enough away that the Indians would have had the time to cover it up and plant vegetation to hide their efforts.

Indians can react graphically when they finally do get the correct spin on human nature.  There was a Jivaro tribe in Ecuador that resorted to pouring melted gold down the throat of captured Spaniard governor in Logrona del Oro in 1599 when they knew how he thirsted for it.  So, campesinos may regard gringos and adult hikers as being just like conquistadores even though they have forgotten the direct comparison. We are now 471 years after when conquistadores did settle there.

Since The Pyramid  is an obvious feature, you might assume someone has already scoped out that feature.  That is what everybody over time has assumed, and you know what assuming happens, right?  That feature is difficult to hike to because it is at something like 13,000 feet.  However, all it would take is for some expedition to go to it and check out the feature.  If it is an Inca Pyramid, the area would be a new Mecca for the studying of the Incas.  Remember again:

 All the Inca’s gold may reside under the earth and boulders in The Pyramid. 

The feature is in the mountains overlooking Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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2) Parkersburg, WV:  The edge of wrench faulting that enabled WV to start the oil&gas business in the late 1800's.

Angular Momentum, Continental Drift, & Deep Methane:

You know how a gyroscope keeps itself upright and how a skater makes himself spin faster on the ice by bringing in his arms while spinning.Well, that is because of angular momentum.If you make a fist with your right hand with the thumb pointing up, the direction of angular momentum is up with the other fingers pointing in the direction towards the way the object is spinning, as in towards the east. Now, the earth's continents tend to be sialic rocks floating on basaltic rocks.Sialic rocks are silica-aluminum rich rocks with more than 65 percent silica content while basaltic rocks are dark with ferro-magnesium minerals. Are the earths continents slowly migrating north, despite some tectonic plate movements are somewhat opposed to that, because of angular momentum?There is only water at the North Pole.Is that because of angular momentum and water is more fluid than rocks?Maybe, the Arctic Circle is where sialic rock material is returning deep into the earth and tends to come back out at the South Pole, Antarctica, when it plumes out.Most of the earths continents are in the northern hemisphere.West Virginia, where I live, used to be south of the equator.I would like to see more exploration, and explanation on it, under the Arctic icecap.

Does the material of sialic rocks return to the depths of the crust at the Arctic Circle and slowly migrate up in plumes at Antarctica and elsewhere?Is Antarctica the birthplace of continents?There are 91 volcanoes under the icecap there.We have subterranean hot spots throughout the world where mantle matter plumes up.There are hot spots at both poles.Is the north one there because sialic matter is returning to the depths in a perturbing manner?Is the one at the south there because of sialic and basaltic matter pluming up and generating a new continent similar to what happened for Pangaea?

Thomas Gold, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell University, predicts about methane occurring naturally deep in the earths crust and that capped gas wells will rejuvenate themselves, is there a natural tendency for oil and gas coming from the depths of the earth to migrate out with sialic rock material at Antarctica?Now, we did first determine the geologic features in sedimentary rocks that were likely to yield oil and gas reservoirs.Shales with platy clay particles provided a natural trapping mechanism.We may have found oil and gas first in sedimentary rocks because these rocks yielded reservoirs that were near enough the surface for us to get at them.

Look at Saudi Arabia.It could be awash with oil because it is at the edge of an expanding tectonic plate.The Red Sea is where plates are moving apart.As new rocks come from the depths, it could be that methane is following the same path as sialic matter and getting trapped by sedimentary rocks there.

Deep Biomass Activity:

Another issue, does biomass activity deep in the earth create methane and assist in the formation of oil and gas reservoirs?It has been argued that, if you took all of the microscopic creatures that lived half a mile deep in the crust of the earth and weighed them on a scale opposite the mass of every living creature and plant from the surface of the earth, that scale would be tipped towards the microscopic creatures of biomass activity deep in the earth.Think about it and 300 oil wells in Siberia that were drilled in bedrock, not sedimentary rocks.Is it possible that the biomass activity in the rocks near the Arctic Circle have yielded methane and it is being perturbed to near surface rocks as sialic rock material is slowly returned to the depths because of angular momentum? Also, think about the Alaska North Slopes where we want to tap oil reserves.Are methane and oil being perturbed to nearer surface capping rocks because sialic matter is being returned to the depths and that disturbing, in combination with deep biomass activity, are why we are finding oil there?Please keep in mind that us, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway are all positioning themselves to go after oil within the Arctic Circle.

Wrench Faulting & Deep Methane:

The rejuvenation of gas wells might be selectively tested.If copious records had been made on storing mcfs of gas obtained and diverted to an existing storage well that used to be a producing well, then one could pump out that well.Normally, one would never be able to take out all of the gas that had been

pumped into a non-producing well that was then being used for storage.If significantly more gas were taken out than put in, the implication would be that the well was rejuvenated.

It is also true that some gas wells here in West Virginia that were first drilled before 1900 are still producing gas despite the regular decline curve expected for gas wells.In West Virginia, most decline curves have something like a 7-year period for a rapid decline before settling to a gradual decline period.The most rapid decline is during the flush 2-year period at the beginning.However, some decline curves will show increases after 5 or 6 years without further prodding.Also, some wells have decline curves that still show economical production after 45 years.For ad valorem tax purposes for pre-1900 drilled wells, we simply start another 45-year tax model, but what about the application of a third 45-year tax model when one expects a well to stop producing economically after the application of the first 45-year period?Does that start to make you rethink your knowledge about gas wells?

During the Permian time period, West Virginia was in the midst of two continental plates wrenching past each other and creating huge mountains with the Appalachian Orogeny.The two tectonic plates slammed together and slid by each other.This caused wrench faulting which broke through the basement rocks, igneous rocks.This allowed methane to seep into the wrenched area.That wrenched area extends from Wayne County (in WV) to Roane County, Calhoun County, Gilmer County, Lewis County, Harrison County, and Preston County.

This is where all deep drilling to the Trenton Formation has been generating interest.Much of this deep drilling is where many shallow wells that were drilled before 1900 have remained economical well beyond our 45-year models.Have they remained economical because really deep methane has been allowed to seep up through the wrench faulting to shallower formations?Traditional geologists discount the idea I am expressing, but the deep drilling is happening where this wrench faulting occurred.Also, so many geologists with Ph.D. degrees get too bogged down with inside the box thinking.Remember, most scientists more than 110 years ago would have assured folks that powered flight by man was just impossible.

If someone would just drill through the basement in the wrench faulting area, he might be able to cause Parkersburg to be the be all to end all location for settling the oil&gas questions posed here.Did that wrench faulting during Permian time cut through the basement that caused oil&gas to seep up and first centered the business in the Parkersburg area?Parkersburg is where Rockefeller first had his refineries.

As for my angular momentum theory, I know that the mid-Atlantic rift is too deep in the ocean for us to drill there and look for methane, but what about looking for methane in Antarctica?I realize that opens a whole can of worms of worries in that all countries have decided not to try and claim Antarctica.Other worries are environmental related, but my theory could somewhat be tested in Antarctica.The other thing is to explore more thoroughly as to whether sialic rock material is being returned to the depths at the Arctic Circle and to be plumed up elsewhere.

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3)WV Map for Pocatalico Gal:

 

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 4) Pocatalico Gal

Pocatalico gal, "plenty of fat doe" gal, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal

To git to bow-legged Sally is "canoe way" paddling is all I know, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

Kanawha paddling gits you thar for "plenty of fat doe" gal, with hair of straw and freckles to

boot, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal

I stack my lumber on the green chain line.  Then, I run my dogs who bark at the moon,

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

When they's all played out, I clog all night with bow-legged Sally, Pocatalico gal,

Pocatalico gal.

The finest sound you ever did hear is a fine-tuned fiddle with a time beating jug,

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

The thumpin on the floor with "plenty of fat doe" gal is all I want and bestest sparking,

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

She has tamed my heart to the core of my soul, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

And shouts to all, "Montani Semper Liberi," Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

From Seneca Rocks to Tu-Endie-Wei, a "place between 2 waters," Pocatalico gal,

Pocatalico gal.

There, for the 1st time, mountaineers bowed down not to Dunmore commands,

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

They smelled a skunk in those commands, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

They made Cornstalk's Indians there sue for peace at Tu-Endie-Wei, Pocatalico gal,

Pocatalico gal,

But Dunmore's politicking knack got Virginny writers to call this Dunmore's War,

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal.

So, that is why we sort of flick the tail of our coonskin cap, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal,

And claim,"There ain't no aunt in not so nearby Richmond. This is 'West by God Virginia,'"

Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal

Pocatalico gal, "plenty of fat doe" gal, Pocatalico gal, Pocatalico gal

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In this article below, I argue that stewardship of a business should become the concern of Corporate America, not individuals simply filling their own pockets. Maybe, at the higher levels, making yet more money is not what satisfies them or drives them. Wanting to be a good steward might be the driver for them. How does one reward someone for being a good steward? Does knowing that one is on the controls for being a good steward and knowing that the outcomes will benefit many below him will be gratifying? Think about it beyond where I talk about reigning in CEO pay levels and lowering the minimum wage. Please think about it. 5) Upside Down Minimum Wage Thinking Enter Alice In Wonderland where all the liberal press Mad Hatters pontificate on matters that are soaked up by politicians as politically correct thinking and are spoken as the the right things to do. One of those right things is the raising of the minimum wage. Any nitwit out here in common sense land will know: If you increase the price of something, more sellers will pop up and fewer buyers will be there. Yes, raising the minimum wage sounds like the correct thing to do, but will it really help people? Laborers are the sellers of their wares, and employers are the buyers. Raise the price of labor, and there will be fewer buyers. Can we get the liberal press to repeal the law of gravity and/or this economic truth?  (Please see pg. 39 of the October 2005 Issue of Readers Digest on "Thats Outrageous.") Only in America do the salary levels of CEO's and CFO's in large corporations, or the Fortune 100, go beyond obscene levels. Presently, CEO's are paid on average 262 times what the average wage earner receives. The average wage earner receives something like $42,000 a year. That is not at the minimum wage level. So, the multiple would be far larger if you were talking about CEO pay in relation to the minimum wage. Back in 1965, the multiple was 24 times. In 1978, it was 35 times. What happened here in America? The greed in Corporate America took over. CEO's and CFO's largely were able to insulate themselves from the rest of America, and they largely controlled the make-up of the boards that were supposed to control them. In 1989, the multiple was 71 times. By 2000, the multiple was 300 times. Then the Enron debacle hit us and has led us to the enacting of Sarbanes-Oxley. Those CEO's and CFO's are largely insulated from market driven forces and manipulated their own boards until Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted.Corporate America executives should be stewards for the corporations they run. The corporations should not be their playgrounds for just to enrich themselves. Their perks alone would still allow them all sorts of goodies the average wage earner does not see. I have had thoughts on capping CEO and CFO pay, but I would leave those thoughts for another time.  Is it possible that the desire for stewardship and for aspiring to be a steward is what is starting to motivate people to head corporations? Per the above discussion, corporate heads would have all sorts of latitude to maintain their stewardship place. Let them focus on that rather than on the greed factor.  Let me go on with the discussion.  Employers govern who will be determined or counted as employees. Remember, employers are the buyers. The liberal press is like a slow-witted pupil; you have to repeatedly remind them of the basics. As the minimum wage goes up, buyers of labor buy fewer new warm bodies. Does that really help those people who are trying to enter the workforce for the first time? How about senior citizens that are trying to get their lawns mowed or the snow removed from sidewalks? I am not talking about abusing children workers, but senior citizens on fixed wages can't afford to have their lawns mowed or their sidewalk snow removed. How about farmers that presently can't find local boys who want to make hay? That is mostly why those big round bales are out in hayfields. Farmers couldn't find local boys to bale those old rectangular bales and couldn't afford to pay them minimum wage. Think about it.  The key is to allow a person to get a foothold to be counted as an employee. Once he gets the foothold, the employee can start inching his way up as the employer starts teaching and training him. Business has been more socially responsible about teaching than the educational establishment has been. If the educational establishment has failed society, why kick business in the pants? Once an employer buys a new laborer, the employer will pay gargantuan amounts in taxes that provide the socially acceptable goodies that government forks out in the most horribly inefficient mechanisms imagined. In taxes, we are not just counting the corporate income tax generated by the labor of our workers and the buying public; we are also counting the tax related items such as Workers' Compensation, Unemployment Tax, and Social Security with its Social Security Disability component, not to mention property taxes, B&O taxes, etc. which may or may not be increased by employment. I don't pretend to know the myriad ways these taxes get into the hands of the educational establishment, but unintended channels are created by bureaucrats after we have been fleeced. Instead, encourage business to do the teaching by helping them to employ more people. Doesn't that imply that lowering the minimum wage would actually help employers to employ more people and pay more on those tax related items while employing new warm bodies and training them? The converse is forcing more people to be forced to rely on government help which is grossly inefficient.
By raising the minimum wage, we are forcing employers to seek for alternative ways of getting the job done. Are we forcing them to buy computers that are being more productive while becoming cheaper rather than hiring ever more costly employees? By investing in computers, employers are discovering that work can sometimes be done most anyplace. In cyberspace, they can employ English speaking folks in Malaysia at a fraction of our minimum wage costs and get the job done. Driving up the minimum wage results in cost push inflation driving up everyone elses wage in relation to the minimum wage standard which ultimately causes jobs to be exported. Are we going to export our jobs to Malaysia, India, China, and Latin America?
I have sometimes heard that the beating of a butterfly's wings can cause hurricanes that disrupt human activity in unintended ways. Immediately after WWII, and for some 20 years, everyone in the world beat a path to our doorway. We could dictate the price of our services and goods. That is not the case now. Can we impose our minimum wage standards on the rest of the world? Are our economic laws operated in isolation in relation to what is happening throughout the world? Is a small increment of raising the minimum wage akin to the beating of butterfly's wings?
The liberal press will point to New Jersey in the 1990's where an increase in the minimum wage resulted in an increase in employment, but they seem to think the minimum wage is the only variable in effect that is driving the results. Let me ask the question this way: If one freely opened our border at El Paso to Mexicans while at the same time their minimum wage was increased to the equivalent of 75 cents in Ciudad Juarez (based on exchange rates or something similar to that), would Mexico's employment numbers decrease? No! New Jersey is the place where corporations are being driven to because they operate so expensively in New York. Those corporations are moving to New Jersey with their high priced staff members in New York. This causes increased demand for lower level services in New Jersey even despite the increase in their minimum wage. New Jersey to New York is the Ciudad Juarez to El Paso. Now that we have slain that dragon, let's move on.
It has often been said that you couldnt put all economists together in a line and still reach a conclusion, but the following prestigious economists universally agree that raising the minimum wage would decrease employment. Let us see who they are: Milton Friedman, Arthur Laffer, James B. Buchanan, Merten H. Miller, Martin Feldstein, David F. Bradford, and Robert Barro. The former Labor Secretary, Reich, thought differently and his analysis showed how unfair our minimum wage is in comparison to the exorbitant amounts corporate CEO's receive. Why don't we push his logic to the extreme and look at it again?
If we are going to remove the huge difference between what minimum wage earners receive and what CEO's receive, lets just raise the minimum wage to $100 per hour. After all, our economic system is operated in isolation isn't it? That sort of sounds how bankers tell us that we can borrow ourselves into prosperity. If our minimum wage were $100 per hour, everybody would be beating down the doors to get at those jobs. The poor and everyone would become wealthy, or would employers simply turn off the employment spigot and put employees out of work? I think we know the answer: You're damn right! Most of us would be out of work, employers would be exporting themselves and their operations to foreign lands, and the government unemployment offices would be swamped. We would be big time pregnant. Why try to talk about only being a little bit pregnant with the present happenings of the raised minimum wage?
Right now, there is wholesale hemorrhaging of the shipping of our jobs to China, India, Malaysia, and Mexico. We have to do something to level the playing field here. We can't demand that everybody raise their minimum wages there. We have to lower wages here. As a final thought, please notice that where most illegal immigrants work they are probably working for less than the minimum wage and the economy there is thriving. If a lower than minimum wage scene makes for a thriving economy, why not spread that thought around to other parts of the nation? I rest my case. **************************************************************************************