The news reports five states that just might determine the election. I figure New York and California are lost causes anyway. So all we need to do is come up with a way to get democrats from these five states to move to California and New York.
There is one hitch to that. The problem is people are leaving those states, not moving in. I’m afraid not even the fantastic weather of California or the sites of New York will draw many, from any of the other states.
Recently, stories have been released in the news on bridges Locally, they say they will replace the current 4 lane bridge with a new one, expected to cost a billion dollars. I do hope to live long enough to see just how much the cost over runs will be. If I were a betting man, I’d have to put my bet on at least 1.3 billion. Invariably all government projects take 30% more than planned.
Truth be told, I think it is planned that way. I’ll let you speculate why. I have my own guesses.
One thing I do find interesting is that I did have some difficulty determining how many lanes it will have. Let’s face it, what is the point of replacing a 4 lane bridge with a 4 lane bridge. It seems to me it would simply be better to put the bridge somewhere else.
After some searching on the web, I found where they said they “hope” to make it at least 6 lanes. I have two concerns about that. Is it 6 lanes or not. More importantly, they will likely start pouring concrete soon. I would hope they have their minds made up by then.
As something as a secondary thought. Even if they are going to a 6 lane bridge, wouldn’t it be better to put it somewhere else? That way, 6 lanes are added instead of 2.
Even if the idea is to cease use of the old bridge, putting the bridge elsewhere removes the need of demolition of the old bridge. Well, the demolition isn’t likely that much anyway, just a couple of few million. I am sure the government can afford it.
Switching attention east. Just a simple straightforward suggestion on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. If they commenced tunneling, they might have been almost done now. Right now, I would guess they are over a month away from starting the foundation of the bridge.
On another note, it is really difficult for a ship to run into a tunnel.
I would love California if there would just be some way to send the illegal aliens home and the dems to New York. That would come real close to making it a paradise.
I’ve said this before and I will say it again. I was brought up in southern California, which for sure spoiled me. So, don’t like cold. Don’t like hot. Certainly don’t like humidity.
One might ask, then, why did I leave California? Even more so, don’t like the California politics. Don’t like California taxes. Don’t like California crowds.
That’s right. I saw another Nissan Ariya just like mine as I pulled into a parking lot. He must have seen me too as he smiled and waved. It’s a shame we couldn’t have stopped and spoke for a while. Who knows? We might start a club after a while.
The 1st one, arm, took me out of my first year of Little League. I think that was the one that upset me the most. I guess I was about 55 when I shattered my left ankle. The ankle still hurts, especially just before a good rain.
The broken right ring finger I’d call the strangest. I had gone on a walk, for my health. The walk was almost done and I was in the street in front of my house. I carelessly stepped on a pine cone and I was horizontal on street in pain, instantly.
I was in so much pain I couldn’t even sit up. Finally I recovered a little and started brushing the gravel off my sore hands when I noticed my finger was pointed the wrong way.
When the damage report came in, I broke my one knuckle and dislocated another. Ironically, the one I broke is fine now. The one I dislocated will hardly bend after 6 or 7 years.
Important note. I had an enlarged parathyroid causing low calcium in my bones. Had I had it removed years earlier, I very likely would not have broken the ankle and finger, or at least not as badly. At least this is what I was told. Also, the high calcium in my blood led to kidney stones and a lot of pain. For this reason, I would strongly suggest checking calcium level regularly as I have found this to be a common problem. If you look up the parathyroid, you will see that when it is enlarged, it can cause a wide range of symptoms. Also, it is a easy, relatively painless and inexpensive check.
They used to call them service stations. Today, I’m not sure a person can find one. We used to drive into a service station and out an attendant would come running. We’d say fill it up and the attendant would go into action.
He’d start the gas, lift the hood, check the radiator, oil and battery. He’d close the hood and clean the windshield. Most likely the young man was still in high school and did odd jobs and clean up around the station when there were no customers.
Maybe it wasn’t that important of a job but it gave the kids a chance to build a work ethic. By the way, he could also build up a little cash for that all important weekend date.
The cost of gas got rid of attendants. We pump our own gas now. But it wasn’t just the gas but the minimum wage too. Can you imagine paying an attendant now. Hence, the job went away as many others like them.
Those smaller jobs that were good for teenagers to break into the labor market have become ever more rare.
Some might actually like that. I’m not going to say if that is good or bad. I’ll let you you make up your mind. Just figured I would call it to your attention.
For those who believe the seas are rising, convince me by moving off the shorelines, like Gore, Biden and Obama. Convince me by building seawalls as in NY, NY and Maryland. Why aren’t we moving our government buildings away from the sea or make big seawalls to protect them. It seems, according to Gore, DC should already be under 5 to 10 feet of flooding.
Maybe someone, somebody might convince me that it is believed, really believed, by pumping ocean water into salt lakes that are drying up… or for that matter, into new salt lakes, creating resorts out of deserts.
If you truly believe in man made climate change, why do we still have drive through restaurants, banks and myriad other things? Why are they permitted? Why do people driving big SUVs and pickups use them? Every minute they wait in lines results in enormous amounts of undesirable gases out into the urban and suburban atmosphere.
What on earth gave anyone the idea to transport half the students of a city to the other, knowing the fuel it would use and the atmospheric warming it would cause? Then again, that had to be done you know. The school systems and the urban areas had to be destroyed, you see. It was the highly successful method of driving the wealthy and whites out of the center city areas. Which, by the way, left only the Blacks and the poor behind. And, by the way, totally destroyed public education.
It would seem you can only destroy the earth if you have a D after your name and you are rich and/or powerful. They do pretty much what they want when they want. Maybe that is why they seek to be be rich and powerful.
If Old Joe and his State Department had stayed out of it, the Israelis-HAMAS war would have been over weeks ago. Every time Israel starts getting the upper hand, Old Joe says something to encourage HAMAS. I’m really trying to figure out if that is dumb or stupid. Just perhaps it’s both.
Then again, keeping the war going is his desire. He certainly cares very little about the loss of life on either side. He does seem to be encouraging both.
Something all EV cars need is a trailer with an auxiliary battery as an an option. It could add 50 to 75% to the range. Then the auxiliary battery could conceivably be charged at the same time as the car’s battery. This effectively almost doubles the charging rate.
It’s very expensive. Would anyone buy them. Some might buy 2, maybe 3. Maybe not. Maybe it at least rates some marketing research.
One thing I do know is that I am limited to about 80 mile trips as it is. Maybe 150, 160 with such a trailer. One way trips, I’m talking almost 400 miles.
As an side thought, the batteries could be built and added in modules so it wouldn’t hit the old pocket book all at once.
