It's reported Donald Trump pleaded the fifth more than 440 times yesterday during his New York deposition. The only question he answered was his name.
Maybe he knows 'The Mob'
Always the comments are more entertaining than the news link:
"But would about Hillary's emails?" Well she was deposed for many hours around 11, answered every single question and never pleaded the 5th once.
But somehow she is still considered guilty by the republicans while saying Trump is innocent and being picked on.
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When you were a kid and your parents found out you did something they forbid you to do, what was your excuse?
It could have been smoking in the alley with your buddies and your neighbor caught you and told your mother. Did you use the lame (peer pressure) excuse "All my friends were doing it. I didn't want them to call me a sissy for not joining them"
That made it right...right?
What about the one where your parents don't want you to do something your older brother is allowed to do? "Well, you let Jimmy do it, why can't I do it too?"
Ignoring that your brother is 8 years older.
Different situation and different rules that apply.
I think kids that resort to 'permission by association' as a way of increasing the envelop of what they are allowed to do. So if you were bad and have to 'go to your room and miss dinner' it's a tiny punishment, because you know you can sneak downstairs at 2am and help yourself a slice of pie and a glass of milk and no one will notice the next morning.
Do things like that for twenty years and it becomes habitual... the percentage of getting caught is rather low and overall the gain is much less than the pain.
Cheaters and pathological liars fall into the same category.
When caught, any excuse to pass the blame to someone else...
Some people are good about throwing smoke screens to 'squeak out' of a tight spot and not getting hurt.
I shouldn't laugh but a ribbon-cutting ceremony was cut short.
In Kinshasa, the capital city of Democratic Republic of Congo, a footbridge was built and the moment the ribbon was cut the bridge collapsed. It appears 8 people was more than the structure could hold.
Edit: It now appears on YouTube
The event was video taped and also appears on Twitter.
I always go to the comments for insight:
"The contract was awarded to a relative of the politician in charge of the area. The relative used shell companies owned by the politician. The actual construction cost of the bridge was a fraction of the bid submitted. The excess revenue above the actual cost is in the politician's and relative's overseas banks.
The politician is in the process of requesting bids to repair the bridge."(maybe not true, but funny)
Time travel has always been an interest of mine. The 1960 movie The Time Machine being a favorite, except H.G. Wells went forward so nothing in the present was affected.
The 1985 movie Back to the Future always had the element of 'fixing things' that were disturbed from their time travel visits.
Yesterday while returning home I was doing the speed limit and went through an intersection under a yellow light. Could I have stopped? Probably, but I had model helicopters and gear in the back, so I carried on. Cross traffic still had a red light. However, a car leaving a gated community was charging the intersection ignoring the 'right turn on red law' that states AFTER a full stop. Realizing if he didn't brake, my car would be struck on the right side, I leaned on my horn and pressed the accelerator hoping to clear the intersection a second sooner.
It worked, Obviously, the driver wasn't paying attention, but I got him to brake and actually turn away from my path. Good thing or he would have struck my car directly and I would have spent the afternoon in the hospital, go through months of physical therapy and weeks of car repairs.
I was watching some LED ZEPPELIN videos and as many remember, when John Bonham died in 1980, so did Zeppelin. Sure, each of them continued musically, but their collective careers stopped.
What if I could change history... What if I was there and hired a body guard to follow John's every move and keep him from drinking excessively... the reason for his death.
John would have survived, history would have changed, Zeppelin would have released 6 more albums, etc, etc, etc... the repercussions would be immense.
On a smaller scale, 20 years ago, while driving to work one morning where highway traffic slowed, if I would have been in a different lane, I would have missed the woman on her cellphone that caused a 4 car pileup sending me to the hospital causing years of back pain.
That's a good start. I could think of other personal events I would like to have changed along the way!
A woman in Thailand decides to have her eyebrows tattooed.
I've heard of this before. Asian women often do this because their eyebrows have thin hair. The tattoo is to darken the natural lines so they don't require daily cosmetics.
She went to a budget tattoo artist and didn't get the expected results.
The 2nd set of eyebrows were above the real ones having the appearance of 4 eyebrows. The woman complained to the artist who said he would remove them, but that didn't happen as the next day the clinic had closed down.
It's reported the woman hid away for a year until she could find another artist to fix her eyebrows... for free.
Video in Thai, but you can get the gist of what's happening.
Story link in English:
It looks like Groucho Marx!
Somewhere in the 1960's VOX (Jennings Musical Instruments) created a rocking style foot activated effects pedal. It had a controllable tone circuit that allowed a guitarist emulate the sound of a muted trumpet. As you press the pedal like a car accelerator, it made a 'wah' sound rocking forward and back. Thus the Wah-Wah pedal was born.
Innovation leads to copy and many other companies followed with their versions of the wah pedal. I'm not sure of the patent rights, but I know each company had to be different enough to avoid lawsuits. A lot has happened over the years and one of the most famous wah pedals are manufactured by Dunlop. Their precise circuit tuning can make a guitar sound like it's crying... because of this, it's called the CRY BABY.
Demo of the pedal:
As gas prices climbed last year, many people directly blamed Joe. My neighborhood 'cheap' gas was $3.35 in December. On the way home yesterday, I see it's dropped to $3.18
Therefore, I think it's only fair to thank Joe for dropping the prices of gasoline.
Green Iguanas aren't indigenous to Florida. They were brought to Florida on ships from Central and South America that carried fruits. Often thought their presence was good, they soon found out the Iguanas became a nuisance. They cause damage to plants with flowers, foliage, or any kind of vegetables and they destroy them. Moreover, iguanas burrow deep holes in the soil that can damage the infrastructure of sea walls, sidewalks and drainage canals.
Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) deems them an invasive species and are NOT protected. There are services available for Iguana removal and no license is required to kill them as long as it done in a swift humanely manner.
Often, they become road kill when they get in the way of oncoming vehicles. That was the case this morning when I was leaving a project in a community surrounded by dense foliage. When they are hanging in trees and moving about they appear to be really slow... however they are extremely quick to run and can disappear in a heartbeat when provoked.
This one committed suicide and there was no way I could have avoided hitting him. It felt like I struck a 4 inch thick tree branch. The cars behind me had to steer around to miss him.
NOTE: The photo below is for visual reference to the variety that inhabit South Florida.
IT'S NOT A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL IGUANA IN MY BLOG.
I have to laugh about the claims of some dating sites having real members or verified profiles.
Sniffing out a new member here, I found the same photo on a handful of bogus LinkedIn sites, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, an Italian dating site and a few not worth mentioning.
DTN... Don't Trust No-one
Historically, a stage coach is a horse drawn carriage from the old West that often carried passengers, mail and money (usually gold or silver) across America. Having a driver alone was too dangerous if they carried bullion, so a second person was hired as protection against attacks by bandits or (as they were called in that period) Indians.
The second person carried a shotgun (and or rifles and handguns) and sat alongside the driver. Usually, this tipped off the bandits as a lone driver carried no money.
The phrase 'Riding Shotgun' was coined as the person sitting next to the driver and still carries over into modern times... hopefully without the guns!
Nobody wanted to sit in the back seat, so when dad wanted his kids to accompany him on a trip it was a duel as to who got to sit up front. The car had a bench seat and some models were large enough to hold 3, but as we grew older and bickering occurred only one could have the position of shotgun.
The same thing happened when I was in a band and we were old enough to have a license to drive. Frank had a van that carried some of our equipment to rehearsal. If you didn't call shotgun and be the first, you had to sit on the floor of the van... without much air conditioning.
I remember Bob called "Universal Shotgun" and Jay said "Only if you'd like to be ejected from the group"
Junior Walker and The All-Stars performing SHOTGUN on the 1966 TV show HULLABALOO
I lost track as it's been more than 9 months with tooth extraction, bone rebuild and membrane, implant, fitting for a crown and today the crown installation procedure was finished.
Lots of waiting between steps to assure the implant will take.
I felt some pressure between the adjacent molars when the crown was installed, but the dentist said that will quickly disappear... she was right.
Different technology to many of the YouTube examples I've seen. My crown screwed through the top and sealed with composite. Should anything go wrong, the dentist can remove the composite cap and remove the screw holding the crown and abutment into the implant. Any of it can be repaired or replaced.
My dentist said it's 'the Mercedes' of implant procedures and I'm thinking I would have been happy with a Toyota!
Of course it was rigged. No news at 11.
Oh wait, I just read the news at 11.
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