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Some People Are So Gullible They Believe Anyone

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You take for instance the idle worshiper. He actually feels that that rock is going to help him. He goes to it for advice consolation and of course in offering of gifts.

On the other hand, there are those who believe the government (AKA democrats) will take care of all their needs. Oddly, some feel that it is all owed to them. All they have to do is keep those dems in office and all will go well. Hence, they will do lie, cheat and defraud to insure that they have Big brother in there to provide for them their handout. For those that have some reasoning left, that only lasts until they have their dictatorship set up. Then it will be the dems who will be doing all the receiving. Those that voted them in will have absolutely no say, no money, no food, and, of course, no medical.

It does all seem to be sort of the same thing. However, the fact is that the rock might be more helpful. It isn’t trying to control what you do, what you say or what you think, which is the desire of the dems.

Lest anyone get the wrong idea that I am encouraging rock worship, I am just saying, rocks are less dangerous. They have no desire to take over and rule the world, like Lenin, like Mao, and yes, like Hitler.

Piloting

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I guess I was about 12 when my brother suggested that I might want to become a professional pilot. Sorry. Never grabbed me. Love to watch planes fly, especially the fast ones. Just never had any interest in actually flying for a living, though I have a lot of respect for those who do. Even back then, I knew it took a special skill and a real attention to detail. I have heard those who say that the small aircraft are not that much more difficult than driving a car. Even back then, I knew that wasn’t true. Now even more so.
When I was in the marines, my job was maintenance on navigation and radios. I learned a lot from that job. Having to work on the navigation equipment required me to learn how they work and a little on how to use them. Later, I purchased a MS flight simulator. Again I learned quite a bit about flying. I watched by simulation how to use the navigation equipment and got good at it.
As a side note, I got to see a lot of simulated scenery. It was the one thing that would encourage me to try to fly. When I laid in a course from Seattle to LA one time, I was really awed. Made me wish I could make the flight for real.
I found a statement by the flight simulator remarkable. “All takeoffs are optional. All landings are mandatory.” I must admit it made me laugh. I suspect it is something that every flight student is told in one way or the other pretty much at the beginning.
It is an important point. I suspect any person can be quickly taught how to fly a plane straight and level. A little more training and a person might even be able to pilot a plane from one place to another. In those regards it probably isn’t that much more difficult than a car.
However, before a person can really be considered a pilot, he must be able to get a plane into the air and land it successful. And, again, all landings are mandatory. Eventually, the plane will run out of gas and it will have to come down, one way or the other.
Another thing suggested by the flight simulator is that, when landing, every foot of runway behind you will do you no good. There is an ideal touchdown point. A good pilot will put the plane down close to that point. It will give him plenty of time to bring the plane to a speed slow enough to taxi off the runway and over to the taxi ways.
On the flight simulator, I tried landing a 747. It was fun. I walked away from every landing. However, in each case the simulated 747 was a wreck. You must understand that there are three specific things that make landing a 747 more difficult than the proverbial Cessna. That Cessna likely lands at around 70, perhaps as slow as 60 mph. 747s land at somewhere around 150, about twice as fast. It not only makes it more difficult but everything happens at least twice as fast. Those feet I spoke of earlier go by in the blink of eye.
Jet engines are much more difficult to control. When you change the throttle, it may take 5 or 6 seconds for the engine to settle at the new power. In other words, the pilot must learn to anticipate the engines. My experience with the 747 was that this was the most difficult part. As I approached, I kept having to adjust the throttle. Experienced pilots rarely need to make significant changes.
There is one more thing for sure. Piloting a 747 requires teamwork. It is why they require two citified pilots. Generally, one pilot lands the plane. The other takes care of all the other stuff so as the pilot doesn’t have to take his eyes off the effort to put the plane down safely and smoothly.
Even with two pilots, things happen fast. At the appropriate times, the flaps need to be readjusted, the landing gear needs to be lowered and fine adjustments need to be made to the power. Also adjustments must be made for wind gusts and such.
Contrary to what many think, at least during landing, the throttle controls decent. The nose pitch controls the speed. These are certainly primary controls for landings. However, the ailerons must also be used to control the direction. When wind is involved, then the ruder figures in too.
Then, at just the right time, of course, reverse thrust must be applied or the plane will go off the other end of the runway. That little Cessna doesn’t have reverse thrusters. It is another complication for the 747 pilots.
Over the years, many additions have been added for landing an aircraft. Bottom line, that pilot must be able to land the plane without them. If they fail, the pilot must still land the plane. Remember. The landing is not optional. You cannot call off the landing because some part of the plane stopped working.

As an aside, I tried many times to fly the MS helicopter. I realized quickly that those machines try to crash and it is the pilot’s job to keep them from it. I am not going to try to explain it all. I certainly don’t understand it myself.
However, many years after trying it, I ran into a former friend who was a chopper pilot in the Army and still flies them, or at least he did last time I talked to him. We talked for a while. Then I started to bring up the subject of the MS chopper and he interrupted me. “Don’t worry, I can’t fly it either.”
It told me that the MS chopper was not all that realistic if a very experienced helicopter pilot can’t fly it. Still, I imagine the real ones are very difficult. I don’t think I’m going to try it.

New Shot for the Virus

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Recently heard about another booster shot for the China virus. If you ask me if I’m going to take it, that would be a no!

Don’t mind taking a shot or two when the effectiveness has not be proven, but this is ridiculous. After, what two or three years, not only can’t they prove it has any effectiveness, it seems obvious that the only effect it has is negative. People have died from that shot, you know. Yet, it seems it will not even slow the effect of the disease. Since I have had the shot, I have had the virus twice. I don’t think the shot works. I’d much rather take the Hydroxycloroquine. It has better proven results than the dumb shots. More important, I know it won’t kill me, as the shot might.

It is another reason I call the old man Joe. He tried to force the men in the armed forces to take an experimental drug. Those who refused to take it, he made them leave the armed forces. That’s not just nuts. That is crazy nuts. It’s one more thing he will not be able to explain to Jesus when he sees Jesus face-to-face. My best guess, from his appearances, form his mannerisms, that does not seem to be much into the future.

The Forgotten Option

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Everyday I see stories about the disaster called Ukraine. I hate to see it. I hate to see how it lingers on. Everyday I see them discuss the options. One man says we need to do this. Another says we need to do that. Then there is the really “smart” reporter that says we need to just do it this way. Then, from time to time, there is the remark, “It’s on the other side of the world for crying out loud. Let’s just leave it alone. I’m tired of playing the police for the world.”

I really don’t understand it. No one, including the Republicans ever suggest the one method that has been tied and true. It worked with Reagan and virtually ended the cold war. It worked with Trump, until the know nothing Old Joe got in there and messed up everything. You want to stop the Russians from making war, drive the price of oil down just as far as you can. It eliminates the money that the Russians have for making war. If maintained, it will bankrupt the country to the point they won’t be able to raise substantial battle against Poland.

I am beginning to think that everyone wants to overlook the oil aspect.

  1. Drive the price of oil down as much as possible, at least 30 dollars a barrel.
  2. Supply oil and natural gas to our allies in abundance so that Russia will not be able to sell to anyone but China. Who knows? At 15 dollars a barrel, maybe even China will abandon the Russian supply.
  3. Stop buying anything from Russia and China. The stuff we make is better anyway and it doesn’t need to be shipped in.
  4. Stop the Opioids from China, especially the Fentanyl. We don’t need it. Nothing good comes from it and it only helps the criminal elements south of the border. We certainly don’t need that nor do the people of Mexico.

It is just that simple. I know why Old Joe doesn’t want it brought up. What about the rest. What about the Republicans. I haven’t even heard a peep from the conservatives including Sean Hannity.

A Weird Dream

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Don’t have clue why I had the dream. However, part of it you just might find interesting, should you be a sci-fi enthusiast. It was, of all things, a FedEx advertisement. The one guy goes into a FedEx office and hands the guy behind the counter what looks like a toy tractor. The attendant puts the thing in a container, which like so many other things, gets delivered overnight to another office. The attendant at the other office delivers the container to a customer, who puts the tractor in a device and, in a few minutes, he has a full-sized tractor just like the one that came out of the factory and shrunk right off the assembly line.

Now I am not suggesting this will be possible, but wouldn’t it make shipping a lot faster. I don’t know about less expensive. Seems to me that the machines that would shrink and restore the tractor would be awfully expensive. However, it would sure be better than shrinking kids.

Not kidding, folks, I did write the post because of the real dream. Sometimes I have strange dreams. Now you suppose this might be the basis of a good book…or movie. Sounds like a good spy plot to me. Could be a good love story built in. Oh well. My wife says that sometimes I have just too much imagination.

How Many Quarts in a Gallon?

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Most folks will say four. For most of my life, that is what I’d say. However, we are in a new world. In this world, the women might be men and the men might be women. This is especially true for some men. That is to say, some men are women so they can compete with weaker women. Then too, there are the men who are conveniently women so they can shower with the women in the ladies locker room. And by the way, you better not say it’s a lye of convenience. You will have your hand slapped by the political correct police. On the other hand, you could be punished far worse. Indeed, some have been.

So, I figure that some just might start tinkering with our system of weights and measures. Wait a minute. They already are. They want us to buy gas by the liter and food by the kilogram. In a while, we will have speed limits by the kilometer and who knows what the measure will be for a cup of coffee.

They will do it under the name of making everything easier. Already, I find it more complex. I have to keep two sets tools. My car engines were measured by cubic inch and horsepower. Now they are measured by liter and dins. Sorry folks. I still can’t get my mind wrapped around that centigrade thing. The only thing I know for sure is that if it is 0 degrees centigrade, it’s cold. If one hundred, it’s hot.

In the past, I watched weather reports in Japan. Didn’t get much from it other than if it was going to rain or snow. All their temps were in centigrade. Every time they said a temp, I had to try to convert it in my head.

Now let me see. Every degree centigrade is 9/5 s of a degree Fahrenheit. Now, convert 21 to Fahrenheit in your head in less than 30 seconds. Fact is, until the conversion is done, it doesn’t mean much to me. And, by the way, Fahrenheit is almost twice as accurate as centigrade. Did anyone ever tell you that.

So. I figure it is only a matter of time they will start messing with the English measurements. I guess they will start telling us that a gallon is really three quarts or will it be liters? Of course they will. Those selling gasoline or milk will likely get behind it.

Don’t doubt them. They will do it. They did sell the idea that a man was really a woman. Which is easier? Which is more believable? It is a new world you know. Down is up and up is down. Good is evil and evil is good. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll not dispute it.

No Such Thing

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After all the confusion of trying to find a charging station or the proper equipment for conversion, I thought I came up with the perfect solution. No such thing. I was going to suggest a standard 220 volt outlet on all charge stations. That won’t work. I came to that solution after googling standard 220 volt outlet. No such thing, or that is to say there are about a dozen of them at least.

I suppose we could require the charging station to have all of them. However, that doesn’t sound so great. As I said, no such thing.

Dumb Advertising

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Yesterday, I received an advertisement from Humana. Now just why should I start out like that. What is so significant? Just why is it dumb advertising?

Well, let me start by explaining just what I did with the ad. Once I saw it was from Humana, it went straight into the trash. It did not pass go. It did not collect $200. It went directly into the trash. In other words, what Humana paid on the ad and the mailing was a total waste. It did them no good. I suppose it did help Uncle Sam’s Postal Department a little, but it was a useless thing for Humana. In a sense, it was an insult.

On a day, not too many years ago, another dumb man did something really dumb. He came up with a medical system called The Affordable Care Act. There was nothing affordable about it. I could have almost paid for my new car with what I paid for it, over 30 thousand dollars. It took a big bite out of my IRA.

My wife was not yet 65 so I was obligated to pay for insurance for her, about a thousand a month, nearly twelve thousand a year for five years. I don’t need the dems doing me any more favors like that for me.

However, getting to the point. For one of those years, my payment went to Humana. That was pure profit for Humana. My wife never went to the doctor for the entire year. You would think Humana would have liked to keep us on for a few more years like that. They didn’t. At the end of the year, they dropped us and we had to go to another company, a more expensive one.

Now, it would seem, for some reason they want us back as customers. Now just what do you think the chances of that are, especially since she is now on Medicare.

If there is one thing dumber than Humana sending ads to us, it would be us thinking of doing business with Humana. Nope! Not going to happen. I’m not that dumb. They got their 12 grand from me. They’ll just have to settle for that. We don’t want their help. We don’t need their help. Just one thing worse than their help, Obama’s help.

One more little note, Obama Care would not have passed without the support of AARP. Don’t have any use for that liberal outfit either. Never will. The best thing they can do is to disappear. The only thing they are good at is taking bribes.

Myth Busters

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Used to be one of my favorite shows. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in science and Myth Busters was a show, mostly, about science.

However, over the years, they exposed things on the show that really deserve greater research. Off hand, I only remember two. There was the one about dimples in golf balls and the one about the blindfolded person walking in a curve, possibly, eventually in a circle.

In the one with the dimples in golf balls, they proved that a dimple in the surface of a car will make the car more aerodynamic. Now that’s a kicker. Where is the research on that. Don’t you think by now, we would all be driving around in cars with dimples? I don’t know. Maybe someone(s) in some college did do some research on it. I have heard nothing of it.

I’m thinking that the big eighteen wheelers ought to have dimples on the enclosed trailers. A five percent decrease in fuel usage is just what this nation needs. Has anyone tried it with airplanes. At a speed close to the speed of sound, maybe they could save 10 or 15 percent of the fuel.

Where are the engineers checking this out. It’s easy to do. There are wind tunnels for that stuff, you know. Has so much as one engineer tested one dimpled surface in one wind tunnel. I would check it out, but I have neither the degree nor the money. Without the degree, no one will listen to what I found out. Without the money, I’d not be able to research it.

I wonder. Does it work on water too. Can you imagine what would happen if we put dimples on an aircraft carrier. Maybe we could make it faster as well as more efficient. (maybe quieter)

I don’t understand. These going green folks should be all over this. With one simple change in our engineering, we might save 5 to 10 percent on fuel and decrease the CO2 oven more. After all, it would make the electric car more practical.

Then there is the old walking in circles thing they proved. You put a blindfold on a person; tell them to walk in a straight; and they don’t. They follow a slight curve. I don’t know why. Perhaps a few experiments will reveal something.

Is it always the same? Perhaps the curve changes based on how close they are to the equator. On the other hand, is the same or nearly the same with everyone. Is there any variance based on altitude. Has anyone considered the experiment under water?

I don’t know the answers to any of these. I don’t know if anyone does. I don’t even know if anyone has experimented with it. What did they find out if they did. Isn’t anyone besides me curious?

I do know this. They have known of the problem for a long time. It is why they used to trail ropes on ships and from wagons while going across the prairie. It is difficult to go straight with no mountains as a reference.

Just a thought. If we know how much we curve naturally, maybe we can figure a way to counter it and go straight.

The Plans of Mice and Men

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My Nissan Ariya was down to about 30% so I decided that while we went out for lunch, I’d also get it charged up. Well that was the plan. The Internet showed that there are three charge stations. The one at the Nissan dealer, I already knew about. I wanted to find something else in case the one at the dealer wasn’t available.

So we set out to Sam’s Club. Couldn’t find it…the charger. I’ve been to the store a few times. To make matters worse, I used quite a bit of the charge just waiting in line. That was a bad idea. Next time I’ll call ahead and see if they will give me a little better instructions. Or, for that matter, if they will let me use it without being a Sam’s Club member.

No big thing. Right across the street are more chargers. Two problems. I couldn’t get to them and they likely had no power to them anyway. The police had the access blocked… a bunch of police. A dump truck driver forgot to lower the bed after dumping his load and wiped out several power wires and power poles. No power on that side of the road for a block and a half. Worse, the traffic was backed up, causing me to use more power.

At this point, I figured it was time to go back to Old Faithful, the dealership. More problems. They disconnected the charger because of some remodeling. Moreover, there was hardly anyone there. One man told me they had one at the Chevy place. How revolting. I was going to have to go back to the place I bought my HHR.

Fortunately, they did in fact have a charger they had put in the day before and it was a simple matter of moving a Tesla out of the way to get to it. An hour later, mission accomplished, I left, of course after paying the Chevy dealer and thanking them. (still don’t like the Chevy)

As bad as my day was, I don’t think it was all that bad. I’d sure hate to be that poor dump truck driver.