Today is a Wednesday, which for me is usually sci-tech day.  But a few newsworthy notes first. Inflation last month reached 4.2%, the highest level in three years .  Of course, part of this problem is the war in Iran, for gasoline alone jumped 7%, up 40.5% in the the past year. I yesterday reported that for the 38th time since this Iran war started, President Donald Trump promised a peace deal was close ?  Well, apparently not now, for he today said Iran is playing us for suckers , and we will hit them...hard.  Very hard.  What will that be? It was on March 14, two weeks after the U.S. and Israel first bombed Iran, that I predicted an obvious future target was Kharg Island .   The next day, I posted the following: How likely will this happen?  Well, In a 1988 interview , Trump indicated that if Iran tries to make us looking like a bunch of fools, I would go and and take Kharg Island . Then two weeks later, I further provided key reasons why he ...

On Sunday, I indicated that my life had three 27-year periods after the age of 5, and provided details of the first trio, but only got through high school.  Today, I will complete this initial educational cycle with Stanford University, an important learning experience in the Hawaiian sugar industry, then graduate school. So in 1958 I left Hawaii for the first time. My brother by then was working at the Naval Civil Engineering Center in Port Hueneme, California.  I stayed with his family that summer, for he secured for me a summer job at this center. Stanford was a challenge, for I was below average, again, in all facets of life, sociologically, economically and intellectually. There were no Black students, Hispanics were not yet even identified and I was the only student of Japanese ethnicity. Actually, there was one Black in 1891, the year the school opened, Ernest Houston Johnson.  He graduated in 1895 in economics, but sadly died of tuberculosis in 1898 at the age of ...