Monthly Archives: February 2024

Solutions for Shooting Deaths

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The Tennessee Dems think they have a solution to decrease the deaths by shooting in the state. Oddly it is primarily the one county in which they just almost totally rule where most of the killings occur. [Avg about 1 per day]

That does not speak well for their ideas. Maybe those in Memphis should pay more attention to the areas where the killing is not so prominent.

Then, of course they can’t do that no matter how many die. They would have to admit they have been wrong all these years and they are are going to make sure to dig their heels in good to prevent that.

Little Things

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Over the years, I have decided if I could have a house built, there are a number of things I would insist on. Naturally, that is not going to happen. When I woke on my 40th birthday, married with 2 kids, 2 car payments and a less than great paycheck, I knew, unless something really big happened, I will likely spend my remaining years in this house. I mean, I have not stumbled across too many oriental lamps. Those I did find, seemed quite normal.

So, such as it is, strange as it is, here is my house wish list.

  1. good insulation. Don’t like cold. Don’t like heating the great outdoors.
  2. Lots&lots of electric outlets, especially in kitchen and living room. Don’t like using outlet multipliers such as extension cords.
  3. All electric outlets would be 3 feet from the floor. Might not look great but don’t like moving furniture to plug or unplug stuff.
  4. ez access to to plumbing and wiring. Why should we have to tear things up to replace a Fawcett?
  5. Should be at least 2 USB outlets in each room. Why is it no one thought of that?
  6. I know I’m asking too much, but what about a garage that doesn’t get ridiculous cold or hot. That way, when I pull out of my driveway, I am already comfy. If not that, then a hose that warms or cools car.
  7. A safe, for valuables and guns. It wouldn’t need to be big. I don’t have much of either.
  8. I don’t want trees anywhere near the house. The leaves and or needles collect on the roof. Also, I might want solar batteries later.

I suppose that’s more than enough, you can send me your bill. Just don’t expect a payment.

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Very old memories

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When I was considering buying a gun, I visited the range/gun store and recognized an old friend, an M14 rifle, the weapon I went through basic with.

I asked the salesman if I could look at it and he got it down for me. It is amazing but it fit my hand as if it was yesterday. For those unaware it shoots a 7.62 round, weighs about 12 pounds with a loaded 20 round magazine.

I was so tempted to start going through the manual of arms right there but I didn’t want the attention. Besides, I would have never lived it down had I dropped the weapon. At my age, though slim a chance of it, I chose not to risk it.

I was a quarter inch from buying it. However, being as I don’t hunt, it was really difficult to justify buying it to only poke holes in paper.

I could use it for self-defense. I mean, I think one of the bullets can go a mile or two. Even if I hit the bad guy, it might go on and kill another 2 or 3 good guys.

Still, I hate myself for not buying it, as an investment, if nothing else. It is against the law to brandish a weapon, but if an armed thief saw me pull that that monster out, I really think he would have reached for the sky, somewhat instantly.

Odd as it is, by pointing such a weapon, it might save the man’s life by threatening with the 30 cal instead of of shooting him with the 9mm 2 or 3 times.

Liberals do have a strange way of looking at things. They don’t seem to understand that using strength to avoid the conflict just might be better than the shooting conflict.

Incidentally, that seems to be the same problem with international conflicts.

However, trying to convince them of that might be more difficult than crossing the the Red Sea afoot without devine help.

I really hate violence. However, sometimes it is unavoidable. Better to get it over quickly at a minimum of loss of life. Better still, if only the bad guys die.

Since Old Joe took the reins, it has been nothing but violence. I sort of lost count, but when Old Joe has has to face Jesus, he will have to account for 30 or 40 thousand deaths. As far as i know, not one person died during the time Trump was in office. Certainly, there was no major violence.

As near as I can tell, the dems share in Old Joe’s sins, considering they don’t seem to be at all concerned and ready to vote him in for another 4 years of violence.

Gravity: Consistant & Reliable

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Drop something, it “falls,” all things. Moreover, the rate at which it falls is totally predictable. It is based on the mass, the air resistance & so on. You notice I put falls in quotes. That implies the direction it “falls” is always the same, down.

Down, of course is aways defined as toward the earth’s center. Never is it this way or that way. Always down. Perhaps for millenia, mankind have thought about that. In recent history, huge papers have been written on the subject since Issac Newton & Leonardo de Vinci. People have been studying it and we still still know little more than we did, maybe less.

Perhaps, the one thing that amazes me the most is the way it reaches out into the millions of light years and helps control the orbits of orbits.

The average person thinks the astronaut in orbit has escaped gravity, but not so. It just is that he has other has another force acting on him, inertia. Take the inertia away, that big space station will fall like a big piece of metal.

By the way, Inertia is an awfully reliable force too. Then again, there are many laws of science we only pretend to understand. Isn’t it amazing how God put it all together? He did it all without our help.

Then, oddly, there are those who say God doesn’t exist. It all just happened by accident. And all those laws of science just fell in place without anyone setting them in place.

Just what requires more faith, the presence of God, or that it all just happened. I’m putting my faith in God. The gravity that is caused by accident can fail at any time, by accident…as well as well the thousands of other laws we must trust daily. We must, like it or not.

Great Comment

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Although I have had this blog for, I guess 4 or 5 years now, I don’t know all the ins and outs, so I will not risk the possibility of giving away anyone’s privacy. However, there was a person that made a comment on my post, Photography.

I must admit it hit me hard in that, for a short time, it confused me. I just couldn’t imagine anyone not having a regular camera, with shutter speeds, f-stops and focus.

It made me realize that I have lived through a total evolution of technology. I actually saw the use of the big press cameras that used the flash bulbs. Back when I was a boy, most photos were black & white. Color was something reserved for Christmas and Easter pictures. The color was very expensive.

I took most of my pictures in slides, which saved a lot of money. It did have the drawback of needing the slide projector and darkening of the room, but what huge and bright brilliant images. I guess the regular screen was about 4X5 feet. However, I used bed sheets and still the image was sharp.

I’m not sure, but I think that some of the old slides rival the resolution of all but the most expensive electronic images today.

The technology really affected 5 major industries. Naturally, it hit the photographers, pro and amateur. Consider the wedding photographers. Their biggest competition now is the customer with a cell phone.

The TV industry, just a decade or so ago went through an enormous revolution. One day, the images, size and resolution, takes a huge step forward.

Perhaps the largest change is in personal photography. In the past, you heard, “Quick, Jim. Get the camera. I think Joey’s going to take his first step!” Today, you just keep your phone handy. If it turns out to be a false alarm, you can just remove the video. On the other hand, you can keep it. The memory cards are cheap.

You would think the big silver screen would be immune to the change and the huge reels of plastic would last forever. Not so. I suspect within a decade or two all film images will fall by the wayside, and replaced by the microchips.

I suppose the biggest change is the media itself. Kodak used to be a big part of US industry. No more need for instant film development. Polaroid, to the best of my knowledge, no longer makes any kind of film.

It makes me wonder about Technicolor and all their competitors. Personally, I liked Technicolor. The images always seemed to have a special brilliance.

I am sure I have overlooked a lot. On the other hand, is it really practical to include it all in one large post.

I guess the one comment might seem small to many. To me, it launched me into a lifetime of memories. Memories of memories, so to speak.

Thanks .

ONE LAW?

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I have a list of them. May I include a group of them, as in each legal voter would be allowed one vote and no one would be permitted to vote for anyone else.

The trick is that in order for that to happen, many laws would have to be changed, mainly in registering. Honest efforts would be needed to make sure that those laws and the old laws would need to be followed.

What i would really hope for is for folks to follow the ones we have. Instead we have an army of lawyers that help those who are dishonest find ways around the spirit of the law.

Then too, there are those who openly, intentionally ignore the laws we already have without penalty. This even to the point they make no attempt to hide it.

Indeed the law ignorer in chief sits in a chair, behind a big nice desk, in an oval office, in a big white house, on Pennsylvania Ave. sometimes. When he isn’t taking a nap.

Old Joe says he needs laws to control the border while he ignores the oodles of laws that are there. If he had more laws, he would ignore them too, that is, unless he could use them to lock up those that actually seek to properly enforce the laws we have.

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Border Bill?

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Do you suppose that McConnell can write a border Bill that would actually improve conditions on the border?

Nope. Not going to happen. First, he is in favor of low wages for the rinos and he just can’t seem to separate it from Israel and Ukraine.

Best to have three bills so us real Republicans can determine who is voting for what. If they are voting for open or closed borders, we’ll know. If the are voting for Israel, we will know. If they are voting for Ukraine, we will know.

One thing I do know, the border part of the bill would fall flat by itself. It would make it worse and it would make it permanent. No one in the oval office could ever fix it.

Better to take a big sword and slice into confetti.

Photography

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Used to have three cameras. Over time, I took, perhaps 2 or 3 thousand pictures.

I have lost interest for 3 reasons.

  1. Lack of subjects.
  2. Change of medium. I lliked 35 mm film. Now anyone with a phone has countless pictures. I am not saying it is worse, just different.
  3. Purpose. I am old. No one wants my pictures. When I die, I don’t guess anyone will want any of the pictures I have. I do still take a photo now and then, but once I am gone, but I doubt any will outlive me.
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They Don’t Mean it

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It is a blatant lie. They know it and they know we know we don’t believe it. At least twice a day, they still tell the lie on radio in hopes of changing our minds.

The so-called covid 19 inoculations don’t work. I would guess they made an effort at it, but I had it and, since then, I am sure I have had the virus 3 times. I am not alone. Some of those that had the inoculations suffered from the inoculations. Some died from it.

And now, the argument is being made, “let’s knock out covid 19,” as if we can strike it with blow our fist and the dreaded disease will go away. It won’t happen that way. The virus will not go away from the inoculations. However, of course, those who make the inoculations will have a very healthy bottom line.

Meanwhile , the government keeps us from using things that do work.

Now let me see. Do you suppose the government is providing financial aid to those who make that which works not? This, of course while some of us suffer illness, while young people suffer long term heart problems, and some even die…needlessly.

Couldn’t Figure it Out

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Ordered a little, I guess you call it a wallet. I call it a credit card holder. When I got it, I couldn’t figure it out. As I put one of my cards in there, I was afraid I’d not get it out again. However, after about 30 minutes, I figured it out. It works great and has for quite a while, I guess about a year now.

I suppose it is designed to fit up to 8, but I never have more than 6, many of those are not credit cards. When I need one of the cards, I push a lever and up pops 3 cards, somewhat separated. Sorry, just cant think of the right word. Nonetheless, if I want my Kroger card, it is easy to separate if from the other 2. If I want one of the other 3 cards, I use the other lever.

It actually works faster than the wallet I was using and the other wallet was cracking and breaking the cards. The card easily goes back into the place designed for it. Once I figured it out, it works far better than I expected. Moreover, I have gotten a number of complements on it. Someone sees me get a card out and they say something like, “Wow. That’s neat.” I think maybe I should keep the name of web site handy for the next person that asks about it.

It has some side benefits. The cards are safe from hacking and I would suppose, they do provide some anti-theft advantages.

Just thought I’d pass it on to someone, maybe looking for a solution. Sorry, like all other wallets, it is not large enough for SS cards or Medicare cards. I figure one day, they will either make the cards smaller or the wallets bigger. They just might switch from paper to plastic as well, but not likely in my lifetime.

As mentioned, I got it through Amazon. I looked it up and it appears that they are still sold through Amazon and VM Fashion also has its own site. I don’t know. I might buy another, maybe two. The size is 3.74 x 2.56 x 0.59 inches, not much larger profile than the card itself. Also, as I checked, I noticed they had many other things along the same line. There might be a good gift among them.

Might I remind one and all, I do not get money for this blog site. I am not receiving anything in return for this post. It just is, when I see a good idea, I figure I should pass it on, for whatever good it might serve.