Twenty Five Days

Twenty five days left before Christmas. The bottom line is at steak here so . . .

BUY, BUY,BUY

as in purchase. Better hurry because things are going fast!

Later.

Egor

Happy Thanksiving

Spare the turkey - eat a ham
Pause to think and to thank and to contemplate how good you have it and that it could be worse?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Pin Ball is Dong Rather Well

Pin ball, the games of gravity, metal ball and flippers is doing well it seems. Want to own one? Then just go here http://www.bmigaming.com/games-pinball.htm and buy one

Hint - all it takes is money.

Later.

Egor

A Basket Full of Eggs

With the holiday season soon to overrun us all we offer this. A place where multiple online newspapers, and research can be either conducted or read.

http://www.hotsheet.com/

For information mavens, this is a must!

Trust us.

Egor

Christmas is Coming (Lets All Run And Hide)

In light of the recent elections in the good old USA we offer the following.

Christmas is Coming

An Alternative Rendition
By Sherman Lackey
(My apologies to the original author)

Christmas is coming
Let’s buy a government,
A lot of good old boys
And a pile of Democrats.

If you can’t afford a Democrat
An Independent will do,
If you can’t afford an Independent
Then shame on YOU!

That is how we see it

Egor

Handy Places to Get Handy House Repair Information

My master had occasion to replace his hot water heater and needed some instructions. So he used the Internet and found three very good places to locate house repair stuff.

• Ask This Old House http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tvprograms/asktoh is a favorite.
• The Family Handy Man http://www.rd.com/familyhandyman/openLandingPage.do;jsessionid=94EC699666A1DFD9529D30D04D96910A.app1_rd4
• http://www.hgtv.com/

The Family Handy Man has pictures as well as text, in case you need them, and the HGTV is just loaded with all sorts of ideas.

Have fun, enjoy

Egor

The High Cost of Conservation

The lesson this week is this: Conservation AKA using less is very costly. So much so that the lower income brackets, thirty thousand and less before taxes a year house hold income are the lessor income ones, are unable to afford the cost. And do not even think about conservation. What so they conserve exactly, and what if something breaks.
Low flush toilets cost around a hundred bucks, which takes three or so months to come up with. Do they go in the years, next door, a bucket that they dump down the storm drain at night, what?

Many comminutes have nice little laws that force conservation. Less lawn watering, native low use shrubs, drip irrigation, a stepped water use table so if a threshold is breached one must sell his kidney and or child to pay the bill and no "you can’t do payments, we will just send this to collection".

In some communities they "allow" a replacement with like for like. For instance if the house came with a hot water heater that holds 40 gallons they you can replace with the same 40 gallon hot water heater. No fee if you do it but if a plumber does it then town hall wants 20 bucks, the plumber wants three hundred and the tank costs two hundred and ninety optional delivery costs sixty bucks. Total cost if a plumber does it runs around four hundred nineteen bucks depending on costs.

However if you want to install one of those "on demand tankless" hot water heaters then town hall gets eighty bucks at least. Inquiring at city hall will get you different answers depending on the person that you call, at least in Portland Oregon. And in Portland Oregon there is no way to guarantee those once you are placed on hold you will ever connect with anyone. Let’s just say don’t use a cell phone. Your town may be different.

Seems to me that if the various forms of government in this country were actually interested in saving the salmon, saving the trees, saving the planet for pet’s sake. Then tankless hot water heaters, low gas mileage cars, solar cells, low flush toilets etc. Would be free for everyone rich to poor and back again.


That’s how I see it.

Egor

Democratic Brain Trust For President

So here is a thing to think about. The next presidential race in the good old USA is going to have the very top brains from the Democratic Party running for office.

• One candidate said on at least two Fox News Sunday programs that she was not, repeat not, interested in running for president – ever.
• One is doing a “chicken little” thing about global warming. No folks I really don’t care if the sea rises just pick up and move like our ancestors did when the sea rose in times past.
• One is claiming to be a veteran of foreign wars and oh dear, he mean mouths the men and women that protect him, his money and his way of opulent life.

Everyone sounds like a wiener to me.

Egor

Yard Sales That Aren’t

My master was walking to work the other day and saw a sign that read “YARD SALE”. Now just what does this mean? The English language can be very confusing.

• Is the yard for sale?
• Is something for sale by the yard, for instance a yard of string?
• What sort of yard is for sale?
• Is the yard sale a place in which things are being sold?

Perhaps we should have a sign ordnance that uses the truth in advertising laws to indicate that the alleged yard sale is actually a sale taking place in a yard and the things for sale are broken, used, or unwanted.

OK you soon to be elected official persons. Law crafting time, and don’t just say “Tax it!”

That’s how we see it today.

Egor

Interesting and Fun Stuff

Need some interesting and fun stuff to do? Well. . . . .

How about creating a computer in a pumpkin? http://www3.uark.edu/bkst/pumpkin/index.htm

Or

Watch a video of a bunker busting bomb? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4027207027790760702&hl=en

Or

Learn why never, NEVER drive your car behind a 747 airplane. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9211793766758129558&q=boeing&hl=en

As Always, enjoy.

Egor

Places to go, Places to See

1. Wandering around the globe can be expensive, so what if one has a deficiently of money. That is the Boss is a miser and refuses to pony up the real value that you provide to him? Well try Web Cams.
   
   We recommend three such cams that kids can view as well as adults. So here they are.
   

• Whistler Canada http://whistlerlivewebcams.com/Sproatt/Default.htm they have more than one camera.
• San Juan county in Washington State http://www.camcentral.com/camviewer.php?script=listings&task=list&item=state&show=Washington&page=1&id=305 They also have more than a single camera.
• http://www.pyramidcam.com/ This is a single camera in Egypt and best looked at after the sun goes down west coast time. Why? Good question, has something to do with the sun and time and stuff.

Enjoy.

Egor

Election Season is Upon us, Feel The Joy!

Oh goodie it is election season again and November can’t come fast enough. When perusing the voter pamphlet notice how many candidates are using the elected office as their next step in promoting or sheltering their process that began in a different appointed office or unelected capacity.

Take note of the rhetoric, the ideas, and especially the promises to change things that 1. require a vote of the people, or 2, that they have no power to do ( like restrict the National Guard to their state).

Also pay real close attention to things like tax measures that the proponents swear up and down will never, NEVER be more that a certain percentage. Cause they lie. When Washington State passed their sales tax the people were promised that the rate would never go beyond 3 percent. Some locations are now paying almost 10 percent, liars one and all.

Don’t know who to vote for? Know of an truly honest person that isn’t affiliated with government but they are smarter than the average Congressional page? Write them in on the ballot. Better to vote for a honest person (man or woman) than a crook.

This brings me to the last thing here about candidates for office. Honest people tend not to run for office, because they are to busy making a living and dealing with the wrong headed actions of the elected few. Who really don’t care about honest people, if they did we wouldn’t be killing the unborn, paying payroll taxes and substances that kill – like cigarettes - would be forbidden.
That’s how I see it.

Egor

Press vs Printer - The Differance

If you think that the 3D printer is a bit overpriced at fifty grand. Take a look at a "real press" and the price that they go for used.

The difference between a press and a printer? Well a printer fits on your desk and a press, at 2 plus tons, will give ya a hernia if you try to lift it. Even if one lifts with ones knees.
http://www.a-1enterprises.com/

As always, that's how I see it.

Egor

Printing in a New Dimention

Let’s say you have a drawing or a 3 dimensional computer aided design file. Now let’s say you want to print it as a 3 dimensional object. Fantasy? Nope Look here http://www.zcorp.com/ and behold the wonder of 3D. If you have fifty grand or so buy one!

Later,
Egor

Intersting stuff

In keeping with the idea of odd and useful information we offer the following.

If you have ever wondered how many times the Untied States Navy has had a boat named Enterprise? Well just look here http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usn-name.htm and see.

I found an interesting take on American and World Aviation here http://www.aeronautics.ru/ Some amazing stuff.

So when the afternoon gets soggy and the day is a good hot chocolate and kick back day, with absolutely nothing on TV that is worth while. Just go there and see what is "goin on"

Later.

Egor

Ileagel Immigration The Whole Issue in Pperspective.

This was sent to us and we think it needs posting, just to keep things in focus.

Cheap Labor? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage, Consumers don't want expensive produce, Government will tell you that Americans don't want the jobs. But the bottom line is cheap labor.

The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."Take, for example, an illegal Mexican who sneaks in here with his wife and five children. He takes a job for five or six dollars an hour. On that wage with six dependents he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year if he files income tax he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent, he qualifies for food stamps. He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school. He requires bilingual teachers and books. He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for medicare.

All of this is at that taxpayers expense. He doesn't have to worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He cannot be fired, harassed, or sued. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20 to $30 an hour in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5 or $6 an hour left after paying their bills and his.
They also pay for increased crime, graffiti, and trash cleanup.Cheap labor?
YEAH RIGHT!

Just keeping things honest - as always that is how we see it.
Egor.

Outsourcing as Applied to Illegal Aliens

While reading an article about the federal government apprehending some illegal aliens back east I was given an idea. It seems that a chicken processing plant employed about a hundred people that were in this country illegally. So they rounded them up and sent them home.
One of the reasons that employers hire such people is that they work long hours for little money. While depriving the American citizen and the legal alien because they can’t live on such small wages.

How about we do this them. Drum roll please. How about we outsource the production of poultry to a foreign country like say. . . oh India. I think it should work this way. American farmers still raise the chicken. At harvest time these chickens are taken in cages to the airport where they are put on a large airplane built by Boeing. Air pressure and ventilation can be maintained so that the cluckers arrive in India alive and well. A chicken processing plant kills, plucks, processes and packs the birds in boxes. Placed on pallets and returned to the airport the same large airplane returns to America with the final ready to buy deceased chicken. No need to freeze them in India as when the airplane reaches proper altitude, say fourty thousand feet, simply depressurize the main part of the airplane. Flash frozen bride chunks result. Saves energy, saves time.

Now people form other countries don’t get to work for low wages and a reduction in the number of people wanting to break the law is the result.

We like it – Go animal plant outsourcing!Look at this thing! http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraftsearch=Boeing%20747-4J6%2FLCF&distinct_entry=true

Easer To Kill in a Group

Let’s take a moment to pause and consider land use planning as a matter of aiding and abetting terrorism. As we all know every square inch of America has undergone land use planning beginning in the 1960’s. Businesses go here, houses go there, manufacturing goes a way over that away. There have been drawbacks.
But, on the premise, that the earth is overpopulated we offer this. Crowding people together assists in shrinking urban sprawl and adds an element of profound military planning. With the move away from atom bombs there is a problem of scale. Bombs of the regular sort cost money and so do bullets.

So in crowding people together we find that it is easer to blast a whole bunch of personas, and cheaper, due to the density. After all housing was all spread out, say 1 per acre, and then an “A” bomb would be needed.

However if we can bunch people up then a single airplane with two bunker busting bombs can take out an entire neighborhood all at a single drop. Don’t like those people over there, they are conservative, just take em all out at once.

Think of the savings 3 guys, one bomb, single Airplane, and Instant park. Well after grading and a little litter pick up. Yes sir, it certainly looks like land use planning is a matter for Homeland security (http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/). Think about it.

That is how we see it!

All Sea Food Must Die - Part III

Here is a link to the latest thing I can find about the Oregon coast dead zone. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060812155855.htm Of particular note is the presumption that no other cause could contribute to this. So they aren't looking at changes in the temperatures of the sea floor or the gases other than oxygen. Happy reading

Rethinking Cell Phones And Driving

Good old California is at it again. They want to ban talking on a cell phones and driving at the same time. The goal is in reducing accidents. Noble enough I suppose but in my opinion we need to rethink this.

Assuming that Darwin got it right, we should allow the practice of driving and talking on cell phones to continue. Why, you ask, would we want to do that? The answer Is simple enough, weed out the gene pool!.

Yes we are proposing that we use cell phones while driving to become rid of the idiots amongst us that can not drive and chew gum, or talk on cell phones, at the Same time. In this manor we will have smarter people driving, smarter voters voting, and (hopefully) smarter candidates running for elected office.

Another side effect of this would be encouraging the economy because all of those traffic tow trucks , embalmers, casket makers etc. Will have renewed business. Well, for a time anyhow.
Oregon uses a cousin to the cell phone while driving, rain. First rain of the season usually clears the gene pool a bit. While this seams a bit harsh just what do you call a person that crams on the breaks while tailgating the car in front at excessive speed. Cause smart it ain't.

So let the cell phone gene pool Liquidatorion begin!

That is how we see it!