Research resources can be slim up here in rural Idaho. Our little town has a library, but my main source is the Idaho Youth Ranch (IYR) "used treasures" store. The Idaho Youth Ranch has 20 stores marked on the Idaho map. IYR has a mission statement. It is: "The Idaho Youth Ranch provides troubled children and families a bridge to a valued, responsible and productive future. ?

"The Ranch is a 56 bed, 24 hour supervised, long-term treatment program for boys ages 8-18, and girls ages 13-18. The campus is located on a large ranch in southeast Idaho. The Ranch includes five residential lodges, administrative offices, school, gymnasium, indoor riding arena, dining hall, chapel, firehouse, wood shop, staff housing, and farm buildings. An on-campus, special education school is operated under the auspices of the local school district. Lots of horses and a summer 4-H program make ranch life real and create lessons that last a lifetime. ? You can learn more at: http://www.youthranch.com. (Send money!)

Anyway, The Idaho Youth Ranch "used stuff" store is where I found the ancient record that explains exactly what is going on with our planet. It is what is causing all of the turmoil; the earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, terrible storms, tsunamis, and, although I have not proved this, psoriasis.

I guess I may as well admit it right now.

It isn't an ancient record.

It isn't even that old.

I lied so that you would read my article.

Please forgive me. I did it for the good of mankind.

The treasure is my own very used copy of "Heroes of Polar Exploration. ? Written by Ralph K. Andrist with arctic explorer Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, U.S.N. (Retired). It was published by American Heritage Publishing, Co., Inc. in 1962. (Make sure you read about the distinguished admiral at: http://www.aeromuseum.org/Exhibits/ILMilAviHallOfFame/dufek.html).

Well, I guess that 1962 is ancient enough for some of you.

I found the secret to what is going on to cause all the world's trouble on page 18. Admiral George J. Dufek himself gave us the secret so we know it is the god's truth of the matter. This is what he said, "It is as if a mythical force (had) thrust its thumb down on the North Pole and a bulge appeared at the South Pole. ?

WOW!

Doesn't that explain it all at once!

God bless you Admiral Dufek!

For those of you who are not expert in Arctic research, here are more details: You know that the Arctic is wet and the Antarctic is dry, right? (Look at the map if you must.) Our friend, the admiral, points out that the Arctic Ocean is 10,000 feet deep. The average elevation of the Antarctic is 6,000 feet (with peaks as high as 15,000 feet.) On top of that is ice 2,000 feet deep.

So now you know everything there is to know. The Antarctic Bulge is the culprit. It continually distorts things, causing our axis to wobble all over the place. Don't forget that its geometry changes with the snow pack. (That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Nobody likes a wishy washy scientist.)

God made our planet rotate on an angle of 23 degrees to the orbital plane. He went out of his way to provide us "No Name Moon, ? to stabilize that orbit. That is why we can live on this earth. But life is not perfect here because someone put his or her thumb into the top of our earth! (I also suspect that all the junk our astronauts left on "The No Name Moon" changed its orbit and made things worse.)

That is why we have all of these blasted problems. The "Southern Bulge!" (I put that in there so as not to embarrase those who don't know which pole is "The South Pole.")

At this point I would like to go deep into scientific theory.

Well, I guess that would not be a good idea, but I would like to say that the wobble in the earth's axis, especially as seen from "The No Name Moon, ? is because of that great thumb print as described by the Admiral. ( I feel I need a reference here. Try: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurflr/orbital_change2.html).

Now we know for sure what happened to the dinosaurs. The great mystery is: whose thumb was it?

Well, I think I'll put detective Richard Lacey ("Bone China ? and "In No Way Guilty ?) right on it!

John T Jones, Ph.D.

Jones was a vice president of a Fortune 500 company subsidiary having the major responsibility for research and development and certain engineering functions. After he retired, he became editor of an international trade magazine. Jones is Executive Representative of IWS, sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He is a direct mail and mail order marketer and operates a dozen websites.

He has written three technical books, four novels (Bull, Revenge on the Mogollon Rim, Bone China, and In No Way Guilty), and many published papers on business, marketing, engineering and other topics. Details on many of these topics can be found at his personal web site.

Jones is a hack poet and amateur landscape painter. He lives in Idaho with his wife of 52 years. He has five children, three in medicine, a lawyer, and a portrait artist. The Jones? have thirty-two talented grandchildren (many with special musical talent and skills), and one great grand child.

Jones is a prolific writer which started when he was an engineering professor at Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!). He doesn?t know how to stop.