Since early school, I have heard of states ceceding. I wonder what the possibilities are of expelling a state or two. Maybe three.
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Only in NY, NY
Well, that’s not totally true. Also D. C. and Atlanta. Now, let’s see what happens and how quickly with the Supreme Court.
I Think I’ve Figured a Way To Charge My EV
It’s not that hard.
- rent a store front. I know where there are several
- buy about 50 or 60 exercise bikes
- modify the bikes so that pedaling generates electricity
- connect the bikes to a battery.
- charge my car from the battery
Advantages are simple. No problem generating generating co2 anywhere. Well, those doing the pedaling will expel a little.
Other than my initial costs, the electricity is free. I let them use the bikes free and they provide power for my car. Now let me see, I just might draw a few of my customers from other gyms.
Okay. It won’t come close to working. Still, isn’t it a shame all that energy put into pedaling just goes to waste? I mean how much power could you generate off fifty bikes?
“News Can Make a Person’s Life Better”
They keep saying this on News, Channel 3, WREG in Memphis.
I can’t say I disagree. I don’t even dislike it. It just is that the opposite is also true and most of us know it after a little thought. I mean as long is the news is accurate, it’s a good thing. However, spreading lies is never good. Nightly, I see lies being told regularly as if absolute truth.
I guess I can’t say they’re alone. I would give examples. However, with a little thought, I am sure most folks can easily come up with a list.
It’s not just wrong to bear false witness, it can destroy lives instead of helping. Moreover, it is wrong, very wrong to call evil good and evil good. It makes me wonder why a person would want to do it, especially after calling themselves church going truth seekers.
Free Food!
Just saw a news headline on the news, Free Food. No such thing. Someone is paying for it. Just shows to go how much you can believe the news media.
I didn’t hear who was actually paying for the food, but I would guess state and local governments, which means the taxpayers.
If that is the case, they should say it that way. The concept of free food is simply a uphamism for openly picking our pockets.
To the Rescue, Not
If you are one of those willing to risk life and limb to save someone from murder, rape or theft, you really should think about it.
If that neighbor woman in that nearby apartment should be assaulted, if you go to the rescue, it might be more than you physical well being at risk. If you should hurt or kill the man threatening that helpless woman, the district attorney might decide you are the dangerous one. He could actually charge and and convict you. You could go to prison.
Even if he doesn’t get a conviction, you will still lose your fortune and you will be penniless and on the street for legal bills. And if you didn’t kill the real assailant, he will be roaming the streets free, looking for another victim.
Am I wrong? It happens and it will, possibly to you.
You need to be careful as to who you vote in as district attorney. You need to be careful of who you elect to be sheriff. Certainly you need to know the candidates for mayor and city council. These people are not running for federal office, but no one can ruin you life any faster.
Not only can they come after you for protecting yourself but for coming to the rescue of others too. If you can’t get someone in office who believes in proper and responsible defense, you just might want to leave the area. If you can’t do that, bar your doors and windows. Fortify your home and maybe your business. Then, of course, you might not want to go out for that walk on that nice day. You should just resort to the treadmill.
And if that young woman is crying out for help, turn away and plug your ears.
I Guess it Could be an Old Idea
Of all the computer games out there, the only one that really gets my attention is Free Cell. When I first started, I got so frustrated. I rarely won. Then I found out that that, as far as anyone knows, all the dealings can be solved. I don’t know. There are so many combinations. Since I bought this computer, I have won all 70 of the first games I played on it. To be sure, I have gotten pretty good and I have learned to watch for some things.
At any rate, I do hope I’ll be able to pass 1000 on the new computer with no losses. The hitch is, you lose one game and your average will never again be posted at over 99%, at least not with the MS version.
There I go chasing rabbits. That was not at all my intended subject. It is about those commercials they post on the side. You know the ones trying to get me to play that game, I think Forge of Empires. Pardon me, but I have absolutely no interest in the game. However, I must admit the one that did the artwork has really done some outstanding work.
I do wonder if anyone has considered making some calendars out of them. It might not be in their marketing strategy, but, I for one, would be willing to shell out as much as twenty dollars for one. The one showing the train pulling into the station is particularly nice. It seems so much like a photo but yet it is so obvious it’s not. Besides, I have always had a real weakness for steam trains. It is such a shame the diesels took over. Also the detail in the rest of the picture is enough for me to just sit and stare at it until the next ad comes by.
Then again, maybe it has already been tried. If so, and there are any left, does anyone know how I can buys a few?
I’ve Had a Few
This won’t be new to some, perhaps most of you. I have already written about them, though not at once. I started in a fast food restaurant for about 2 years. I spent 9 years in the Marines where I learned a lot, including that I am a poor leader.
For a short time after my discharge we had problems for a while. It proved you can learn from just about any job. during my time as a security guard I learned a lot about people that I carry with me to this day.
I went from there to repairing computers. I repaired the little ones and the big ones. I repaired big monster printers and huge disk drives that weighed 900 pounds. Years ago, I told a humorous true story of something that happened to me while working on a thousand pound tape machine. Won’t repeat it here. it would take too long. Maybe one day I should go back and make a list so those who want can go back and read them. On the other hand, maybe I can just put them all in a book. Open to suggestions.
One day computers, printers, disks and tape drives stopped breaking. In fact, I don’t even know if anyone even makes tape machines anymore. No need for them.
That put me in the unemployment line again. Well, I taught for 3 years while in the Marines, so I figured I might try to go back to teaching. I had hoped to get into teaching the basics at the Navy base at Millington, but they put me to work teaching radar instead, for three years.
I thought I had a secure position until peace broke out. They started tearing down the Berlin Wall and about half of us instructors were sent job hunting again. It’s sort of one of those things where really good new was not so good for some of us. Sometimes it happens that way. If you haven’t already seen it you will.
I found a bank that used the a computer I used to repair and went to work there. Wow. Did I learn a lot about banking by running that computer. You know, it’s the sort stuff you thought you knew but didn’t
Regardless, it was hard work and I was getting old. When I saw an easier one that paid more, I jumped at it, operating a computer but far easier. I guess I worked there close to 20 years. And by the way, the folks I worked for there were just the best. Sort of made me look forward to going to work.
When I first started repairing computers the processors were 1800 pounds. The input output processors were 800 pounds. Altogether, the computer weighed about 30 thousand pounds. The all-in-one I just bought which weighs about 20 pounds; if it existed back then, I could have replaced the entire computer and all that was in the room. Well, that would not have included the printers and three huge air conditioners. They each had two compressors that I don’t think two of me and a small boy could have lifted, even if I were in the shape I was in right out of boot camp.
My suggestion, don’t look into computer repair as a secure way of making a living. It has turned into the genuine Maytag repairman job.
I haven’t made a fortune, but I had some good times and raised a couple of sons on the way. By the way, I have 4 pretty good grand kids too.
Now my job is spoiling my wife for just as long as I can. She deserves it, really she does. I’m not just saying it.
The 2 Primary Purposes of Government
In my belief, there are really 2 primary purposes of the federal government. 1 is to protect us from others foreign and domestic. The other is to protect us from government, at all levels.
For the federal government to fail to protect us from others is bad. For them to fail to protect us from governments is catastrophic. For if the government has no respect for our rights, who will?
For the feds to do other things is right and good, within reason. However, if it gets to the point that the 10th Ammendment becomes null and void, that’s wrong.
How Can This Be?
Houses are heavy, right? If I needed to lift a 1500 sq ft house, it would take, maybe 2 cranes. I don’t know. Maybe 3.
But then a storm comes by…. The house is lifted with nothing but air, something that can’t be seen.
It reminds me. God can’t be seen either. Is it really a good idea to use that to say he doesn’t exist? We shouldn’t believe in something we can’t see?
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