I took a trip down memory lane when I looked at some very old threads. Those who have been around here as long as I have will no doubt remember some of these members who are no longer active on this site such as;
OREGONGOLD
MONTEMONTE
TTOM50
SCUBADIVA
THERESMYFRIEND
PUR4MANCE
CUDDLINGSOUL
VENUSENVY
GLATLOL
It left me wondering whatever happened to these folks?.
1, Use Less Electricity.
Most of the electricity that is sent to your house is produced by burning fossil fuels like Coal, Oil and Natural gas. The more you use, the more fossil fuels are burned to create that electricity. The burning of these fuels creates Carbon Dioxide CO2. CO2 is a Greenhouse Gas which acts like a barrier to thermal radiation while allowing the higher frequency radiation, light, to freely pass through. Simply put, visible light passes through CO2 unhindered, falls on the earth, people, pavement, roof tops, lakes and oceans etc. These things absorb the light and get warm and release this warmth in the form of lower frequency Thermal Radiation. CO2 is opaque to Thermal Radiation thus, it can't escape back out into space. The result? The temperature of our environment goes up. The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more energy is trapped. CO2 is not the only Greenhouse Gas but it is the most abundent. BTW, Glass is also a very efficient substance for allowing light to freely pass but it's not very transparent to thermal energy. This is why a Greenhouse is made of glass.
Here's how to use less Electricity;
Turn lights off when they're not needed, same with ceiling fans. My house has 2 outside lamp posts. 1 is halfway up the driveway and the other is by the back corner of the house. They have a sensor which turns them on when it starts getting dark out in the evening and they go out when the daylight reappears the next day. They are very convenient for when you come home late at night. The bad part is they light up my bedroom like it was broad daylight so in order to get some sleep I have the close the blinds. That's not the worst part. Are you ready for this? Each lamp post has a 500 watt bulb. So they are normally on for 9 hours a night. Do the math, 500X2X9 = 9000 watts a day, 7 days a week. That comes to 3,285,000 Watts a year, 3 Million, 285 Thousand Watts. And guess who pays for that? It didn't take me long to unscrew the bulbs from these 2 lamp posts. If I need lots of light outside at night for whatever, I just reach up and screw the bulb(s) back in and the light comes on.
No, it's not Howdy Doody time. It's Mosquito time. Time to break out the Mosquito repellent like "OFF" etc or "Avon Skin So Soft" on any exposed skin if you have to work outside especially in the evening. Time to setup the Mosquito traps so if you do happen to get stung at least you can have the satisfaction of killing any of the baby mosquitoes your blood meal enabled.
To make a mosquito trap all you need is a bucket of water, the more stagnant the better, and an empty bucket and a fine mesh splatter screen. Make sure there is no other source of water around so the mosquito will have to use your bucket to lay her eggs in. After the eggs hatch and you can see the little "wigglers" swimming around in your bucket, simply pour the water through the splatter screen into the empty bucket. The mosquito larvae wont fit through the holes in the screen and they will all be squirming on top of the screen. Simply knock them off the screen onto the ground. They can't live out of water and they will dry up and die and the ants will eat them.
One more thing, if you have anything around your house that contains water and is open to the air, you are breeding mosquitoes. This applies especially to bird baths.
The other day we got about a 3" (7-8 CM) snowfall. I turned on the TV and got an error message saying something like "searching for satellite". After waiting about 5 minutes with nothig happening, I went outside and looked up on the roof and sure enough, the Direct TV dish was covered in snow. I went back inside and flipped a couple of Co-Ax switches and plugged in the little power inserter, took all of about a minute and Bam, I have about 15 channels to watch from the antenna I bought & mounted on my chimney.
Brits can't or wont pronounce the letter R when it is within the body of a
word, well, like WORD they say wohd, or care they say caah. I guess their
stiff upper lip prevents them from forming the mouth to enable them to
pronounce this sound. Here are a few words Brits typically screw up.
conTROVersy They put the accent on the second syllible when it belongs on
the first. What's interesting, is when they utter controversial, they
correctly move the accent to the third syllible. I guess it would sound
like gibberish if they didn't.
Here's a few woRds I've noticed the British seem to love to modify.
AmazIn; When was the O changed to an I?
MarathIn; Same question, When was the O changed to an I?
MiliTRY; What became of the third syllible?
MedsIn; When was the O changed to an I and where is the second syllible?
Da Facto; When did the E become an A?
Hit me with your best shot
Fire away!
I have an uncanny gift to be able to predict outcomes before they happen such as the assassination of JFK, and MLK as well as an ability to see patterns which most people can't see. This has enabled me to fathom what caused Stephen Paddock to commit mass murder. I also think I know why Melania wore that jacket when she went to visit the children at the Mexico/US border. However, it's late here and I'm tired so I'm going to bed and I'll be back tomorrow with my theory but I'll give you all a hint; Donald Trumps explanation was total BS. It was nothing but a face saving maneuver.
BTW, N.M.P. stands for Not My President in case you were wondering.
Recent developments have combined to paint a picture for me which may explain a conundrum as to the reason Donald Trump would risk losing a portion of the electorate by refusing to release his tax returns. This decision can only be explained by the metric that to refuse to release would have less adverse impact than to release. To refuse to release, meant losing some votes. To release, could mean going to prison.
Let me explain.
During the 2016 campaign Trump was winning primary after primary and as he got closer to the nomination people started getting more and more concerned about seeing his tax returns. The higher he got in the campaign, the harder people pushed to have him release. It's entirely possible there are certain business deals outlined in them which could be hard to explain especially if they are going to be scrutinized word for word and down to the penny by people who are not big fans of his like the SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission not to mention the NYSE and NASDAQ and lawyers working with other candidates. I'm talking stock manipulation or insider trading which is what got Martha Stewart some time behind bars. There's an old saying, "It Takes A Thief To Catch A Thief." It also takes a Stock Trader to catch a Stock Manipulator. I've been trading stocks & bonds since 1967 and I can spot a "Pump & Dump" or maneuver to either raise or lower a stock price pretty damn quickly. Judges have been caught up dabbling in stocks of companies which run "for profit" prisons. It's easy for them to enhance their portfolio by incarcerating offenders by the bus load.
For a president who may be invested in steel companies like US Steel symbol x or AK Steel symbol AKS or Alcoa Aluminum symbol AA or a raft of other companies to make his holdings go through the roof by imposing tariffs on imported steel & aluminum. Maybe he has a position in Whirlpool which would explain a tariff on washing machines which had to be the strangest move imaginable. That was what got me wondering WTF is the logic behind that? Maybe he holds a large block of stock of a domestic manufacturer of solar panels. Who knows? A look at his tax returns and his 1099's would show that in less than a minute. Import tariffs would also affect his other businesses.
Electing a businessman with billions invested in corporations just may be the worse decision a country can make. Corruption isn't restricted to 3rd world countries by any means.
If I'm right, and I have very little doubt I am, the American voter will never see Donald Trump's tax returns. At least not until the statute of limitations on securities fraud runs out. It could mean swapping his luxury digs at Trump Tower for a cot at the "Tombs" in NYC.
"It’s no secret that President Donald Trump loves dictators. Over the course of his presidency, Trump has expressed admiration for a slew of authoritarians, from Russian President Vladimir Putin to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The latest to receive such praise is Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In closed-door remarks to Republicans on Saturday, Trump celebrated Xi for his recent consolidation of power and for getting rid of presidential term limits, according to CNN, which obtained a recording of the meeting."
Read the rest in the above link.
How to tow an MG.
Before you start, you must determine what kind of MG you have. Is it an MGA, MGB MGTD or a variant of same? It could be an MG Midget. You may have an Austen Healey Sprite which looks like an MG but isn't. Not that it matters anyway. The thing you must keep in mind at all times is never tow an MG faster than 80 Miles per Hour as automotive engineers don't know what might happen at that speed. The hood (Bonnet) might fly off or the wheel bearings might catch fire. One sure thing is the Dunlap Gold Seal Tyres will surely explode. For this reason you should never attempt to tow an MG with a Volkswagon Beetle as the temptation is just too great.
to be continued:
I posted an early version of this several years ago and since then we have a lot of new members so I updated it to reflect certain major developments.
New York City is flush with Con Artists, it has been a Mecca for these types for about a hundred years or more. People who live in NYC or grew up there, like me, have developed a detection mechanism that alerts them when they are being exposed to "ConSpeak". Alarm bells go off in their brain.
A common characteristic of ConSpeak, is to start, but not finish, a sentence. The idea is to allow the listeners brain to finish the sentence with what the Con Artist wants to implant. In this way, the listener adopts the idea as their own, like adopting a child and protecting it like your own flesh and blood no matter what. An experienced Con artist does this unconsciously and their dialog is often peppered with this vocal trick. It becomes their basic speech pattern. Another benefit to this trick is if things go bad the Con Artist can always say “I never said that.”
Another characteristic of "ConSpeak" is repetition of phraseology. The idea is to embed a sentence with a phrase and repeat it 2-3 times so, while the listener may forget the whole sentence, he remembers the phrase.
If you want to hear a classic example of "ConSpeak" which uses both characteristics, just listen to how Donald Trump speaks. He is a master of the art. If somebody asks later "What did he say"? you don't remember anything but the phrase. When I listen to Trump speak, I'm squirming in my seat, my brain is flashing like a fire alarm.
A third characteristic of ConSpeak, is the excessive use of adjectives like Tremendous, Great, Fantastic, etc.
Another thing to watch out for is the phrase “Believe me” or “Trust me”. When someone utters either of these phrases it means they have hit a mental block in their spiel and found it necessary to employ a stalling tactic. This gives them a little time to think of what to say next. What usually follows is a repeat of something they've already said possibly several times but with added embellishments like great or fantastic thrown in to make it sound new.
An experienced, successful, Con Artist is very good at reading the body language of their prey. It is a common phenomenon that people tend to nod affirmatively and unconsciously when listening to anything that they believe or have been led to believe. The Con Artist will watch for this head movement while delivering his/her spiel. When they see it, they know they are succeeding in their ruse. Just look at the audience in a church broadcast on TV as the preacher speaks and you'll see a lot of head nodding going on.
People who live in less populated places who get by with hard work instead of trying to separate others from what they have, are much less able to detect this ruse when it's directed at them. Is it any wonder that the most infamous phantom sales item offered to the uninformed is the Brooklyn Bridge located in NYC? The deed to the Brooklyn Bridge (if there is one) would be covered in white out with all the names of the new owners.
more;
That a man who goes by the name of "freedomofspeech" would ban anybody from commenting on his blog?
Why do some people create a blog that asks a question, but won't allow people to answer by not allowing comments? Are they so afraid that someone might disagree with them? Is it a case of, I want you to listen to me but you can just SHUT UP cause I'm not interested in what you have to say?
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