Humor to start the week…

Confucius say,

  1.  Virginity like bubble. One prick – all gone
  2.  Bird in the hand is not better than two in the bush
  3.  Man who do business in whore house get jerked around
  4.  Gypsies got no babies because gypsies have crystal balls
  5.  Panties not best thing on earth, but next to it
  6.  War not determine who right. War determine who left
  7.  Woman who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house
  8.  Man who fight with wife all day, get no piece at night
  9.  It take many nail to build crib, one screw to fill it
  10.  Man who keep feet on ground have trouble putting on pants
  11.  If you want pretty nurse, you got to be patient
  12.  Passionate kiss like spider web, soon lead to undoing of fly
  13.  Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day long
  14.  Woman who go camping must beware of evil intent
  15.  Squirrel who runs up woman’s leg not find nuts
  16.  Man who run before bus get tired
  17.  Man who run behind bus get exhausted
  18.  Man who make love on side of hill not on level
  19.  Sex is like the army, the closer you are to discharge, the better you feel
  20.  Man with tight trousers is pressing his luck
  21.  Man who stand on toilet high on pot
  22.  Man who eat crackers in bed wake up feeling crummy
  23.  man with hand in pocket all day not crazy, just feeling nuts
  24.  man who sleep in bed of nails is holy
  25.  do not drink and park, accidents cause people
  26.  Man who put pea in soup very unclean
  27.  Man who run through airport turnstile sideways going to bangkok
  28.  Boy who go to sleep with sex problem on mind wake up with solution in hand
  29.  Man who fishes in another woman’s well, often catches crab
  30.  To meet girl in park is good, but to park meat in girl is better
  31.  Squirrel lay on rock and crack nuts, man lay on crack and rock nuts
  32.  Butcher who back into meat grinder get a little behind in his orders
  33.  Electrician get much angry when find shorts in wife’s bedroom¦
  34.  Man who shoot off mouth, must expect to lose face
  35. Man with big mouth beware of foot
  36.  Man who fart in church, sit in own pew
  37.  Woman who fly upside down have crack up
  38.  Man who leap off cliff jump to conclusion
  39.  Man under wheelbarrow playing with tool, not necessarily mechanic
  40.  House without bathroom is uncanny
  41.  Foolish man give wife grand piano, wise man give wife upright organ
  42.  Man who sits on stool smells like shit
  43.  Man who throws dirt is losing ground
  44.  Woman who go to man’s apartment for snack, get titbit
  45.  Man who lay woman on ground, get piece on earth
  46.  Man who get kicked in testicles, left holding the bag
  47.  Man who kisses girl’s behind, get crack in face
  48.  Girl who ride bicycle, peddle ass all over town
  49. Man who buy drowned cat, get wet pussy
  50.  Man trapped in pantry, have ass in jam
  51.  Girl who sit on jockey’s lap get hot tip
  52.  Girl who sit on judge’s lap get honorable discharge
  53.  Waitress who sit on leper’s lap, keep tip
  54.  Man who snort coke, get bubbles up nose
  55.  Cow with no legs, ground beef
  56.  Two wrongs not make right, but two rights make u-turn

Old school…

This one came over the transom from the mil email…

The question-

“Why does a mile have 5280 feet, that doesn’t make any sense? Everything should just be decimal metric”

The answer-

Actually it makes perfect sense when you know something about surveying land, and farming, and commerce in commodities and crops, and the history of all of the above.

5280 feet is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 32, 40, 48, 66, 80, 96, 100, and 120.

Those are all the customary divisions, fractions, and factors, used in surveying, farming, and commerce, for literally over a thousand years… Except 64, 144, and 128, but you can get to each of those by evenly dividing, adding, or multiplying the other fractions.

A mile is 1760 yards, or 80 surveyor’s chains long… And both of those are evenly divisible into most of the customary fractions as well (a surveyors chain is 22 yards or 66 feet long)

A square mile is easily evenly measured by surveyor chains. It is evenly divisible into 640 acres, or 80 surveyor’s chains squared. All its major fractions are evenly divisible by acres and chains. A quarter square mile is exactly 160 acres. An eighth square mile is exactly 80 acres. A 16th square mile is exactly 40 acres, and so on.

A distance of 5 chains, or 1/16th of a mile or 330 feet long; by 2 chains or a 40th of a mile, or 132 feet wide, is 10 square chains, or one acre.

These were all customary sizes for land parcels and especially for farming…. In fact they still are.

Almost ALL the English customary units make much more sense than metric decimal units, when you understand how they got to be customary units… And when you understand it’s because they are all easily evenly fractioned or factored or multiplied into their larger or smaller customary units.

At which point they become just as intuitive and make just as much sense as decimal units… Or in the context of farming and commerce in actual physical objects, more so, because decimal units can’t be evenly divided in nearly as many ways….

A dozen can be evenly divided into halves, thirds, quarters, or sixths, which can then be evenly divided further into eighths and twelfths. That’s all the customary fractions used in farming and day to day commercial trading for over 1000 years.

You can always evenly divide something in half, even when you don’t have precision instruments or a calculator. Then from there you can get quarters, eights, sixteenths etc… and by evenly splitting, multiplying, and adding, you can get to almost any fraction or multiple, evenly, and in your head, or with actual physical objects or substances in front of you… No scales or measuring tools needed.

It’s why base 12, or base 16, or base 64, are actually much better number systems than decimal. Much more evenly divisible fractions.

And since much of the USA was divided by acres back in the day… And our predecessors came from England, many from ‘rural’ England, it does make perfect sense. Also, we were smart enough NOT to bow to the rest of the world and go along with the metric crap… 🙂

Huh…

Who’d a thunk it? And ohhh… look when it was commissioned!

Service members don’t participate in violent extremism at higher rates than the rest of the U.S. population, but former troops do — and their involvement is growing, according to research published at the end of December.

According to the report, which was commissioned by the Defense Department, anecdotal accounts of service members being involved in violent extremism create a false impression that it’s an outsized problem. Those accounts often fail to differentiate between current service members and former troops, a demographic found to participate in violent extremism at higher rates, the research states.

Full article, HERE from Military Times (which is NOT a friendly publication to the military)…

I find it interesting that 18 months AFTER it was completed, it was finally approved by DOD just after Christmas. Makes me wonder how many rewrites went on in that time period?

And of course, it’s the veterans’ faults as usual… sigh…

Something about us and our oaths maybe? This part?

…I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…

And the fact that we are more patriotic than the left/dems/etc.

I dunno… sigh

 

Oopsie…

Looks like another east coast wind farm is biting the dust…

BP and Equinor have decided to cancel their power contract for a major offshore wind project in New York, citing “changed economic circumstances on an industry-wide scale.”

“Equinor and bp today announced an agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to terminate the Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Certificate (OREC) Agreement for the Empire Wind 2 project, an offshore wind project in the US with potential generative capacity of 1,260 MW,” Equinor said in a statement. 

Full article, HERE.

I know we’ve beaten this horse again and again, but they never really pay for themselves, and the ‘investors’ get their federal energy subsidies from the government for the term of the lease/ownership, which is why they are ‘sold’ every time the .gov money grants run out.

Also, most of them need at least 9mph of wind to ‘generate’ any electricity, and top out at 35mph for generation. Anything above 55mph ‘should’ cause them to auto feather to stop damage to the blades/gensets/etc.

I know that travelling 287 N, everytime I go up toward Amarillo, I see more and more of the wind turbines with blades feathered even when the wind is blowing. Overdue maintenance? I have no idea.

Also, they DO use up to 700 gallons of oil to lubricate/cool the turbine heads, which must be replaced every 9-16 months, and the blades are not recyclable… They have to go to special landfills or are burned because they are fiberglass and composite that is NOT biodegradable.

And as a ‘bonus’, they kill birds and screw up radar returns for low flying aircraft, among other things…

Grrr…

Just another CI…

If there was any doubt that Ray Epps was a confidential informant for the feds…

Ray Epps, the only person who was captured on video actually telling people to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. 2021, has just been recommended for a six-month sentence, while others who entered the Capitol when police opened the doors for them and walked around for awhile taking selfies are facing years in prison. What’s going on here? The most obvious explanation is that Ray Epps is or was a fed, and a leader of efforts to fabricate a Jan. 6 “insurrection” in order to frame and destroy Donald Trump. But surely the leftist elites wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing, would they?

Full article, HERE.

This isn’t the first time, and probably won’t be the last time a CI has been in the middle of an ‘incident’… Garland, Texas HERE, the Minnesota governor kidnapping HERE, and numerous other cases.

It was interesting how ‘quickly’ Epps disappeared from any charge sheets after the demonstration, and suddenly showed up as a witness for the government, and on TV talking about it while everybody else languishes in jail or has gotten long prison terms (some up to 18 years), yet he didn’t spend any time in jail or was arraigned in the original filings, even after being filmed exhorting people to go into the Capitol.

And we all know the Jan 6 investigation was staged by the dems and a couple of RINOs and ‘produced’ for television by a literal television producer!

I don’t know about anybody else, but what little faith I had in .gov law enforcement of any type has fallen into the negative numbers at this point…

Sigh…

A little humor…

To start the new year!

The staff at a local United Way office realized that it had never received a donation from the town’s most successful lawyer.

The person in charge of contributions called him to persuade him to contribute. “Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn’t you like to give back to the community in some way?”

The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, “First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?”

Embarrassed, the United Way representative mumbled, “Um… No.”

“Or,” the lawyer continued, “that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?”

The stricken United Way representative began to stammer out an apology but was interrupted when the lawyer added, “Or that my sister’s husband died in a traffic accident?” the lawyer’s voice rising in indignation, “Leaving her pennyless with three children?”

The humiliated United Way representative, completely beaten, said simply, “I had no idea…”

On a roll, the lawyer cut him off once again, “So if I don’t give any money to them, why should I give any to you?”

++++++++++

A champion jockey is about to enter an important race on a new horse. The horse’s trainer meets him before the race and says, “All you have to remember with this horse is that every time you approach a jump, you have to shout, “ALLLLEEE OOOP!” really loudly in the horse’s ear. Providing you do that, you’ll be fine.” The jockey thinks the trainer is mad but promises to shout the command. The race begins and they approach the first hurdle. The jockey ignores the trainer’s ridiculous advice and the horse crashes straight through the center of the jump. They carry on and approach the second hurdle. The jockey, somewhat embarrassed, whispers “Alllleee ooop” in the horse’s ear. The same thing happens – the horse crashes straight through the center of the jump. At the third hurdle, the jockey thinks, “It’s no good, I’ll have to do it,” and yells, “ALLLEEE OOOP!” really loudly. Sure enough, the horse sails over the jump with no problems. This continues for the rest of the race, but due to the earlier problems, the horse only finishes third.

The trainer is fuming and asks the jockey what went wrong. The jockey replies, “Nothing is wrong with me – it’s this bloody horse. What is he, deaf or something?” The trainer replies, “Deaf? DEAF?? You asshole, he’s not deaf – he’s BLIND!”

++++++++++

This guy is walking through Chinatown and sees a building with a

sign “Hans Olaffsen’s Laundry.” “Hans Olaffsen?”, he thinks. “How in

the world does that fit in here?”

So, he walks into the shop and sees an old Chinese gentleman sitting

in the corner. The visitor asks, “How in the world did this place

get a name like Hans Olaffsen’s Laundry?”

The old man answers “Is name of owner.”

The visitor asks “Well, who is the owner?”

“I am he,” answers the old man.

“You? How did you ever get a name like Hans Olaffsen?”

The old man replies, “Many years ago when I come to this country, I

was standing in line at Documentation Center. Man in front of me

was big blonde Swede. Lady look at him and go, “What your name?” He

say, ” Hans Olaffsen.” She look at me say, “What your name?” I say,

“Sam Ting.”

+++++++++++

As a guitarist, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost.

I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch.

I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play.

The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I’ve never played before for this homeless man.

And as I played ‘Amazing Grace,’ the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my guitar and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, “I never seen nothin’ like that before and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”

Apparently, I’m still lost…

+++++++++++

Paddy was driving in a dangerous manner, swerving across several lanes on the motorway. This was notice by Guard O’Malley, who after completing a vehicle stop, approached the car, and said, “What in heaven’s name are you doing?” Paddy replied, “This is my first time behind the wheel. I’m learning to drive.” “Saints preserve us! Without an instructor in the car?” Guard O’Malley exclaimed. “There’s nothing to worry about officer,” Paddy replied as presented the phone in his hand, “it’s an online course.”

Happy New Year…

I wish everyone the best for 2024…

Go forth and screw up those checks for the next month!

Now go away, quit bothering me, I’m going back to sleep…

Auld Lang Syne…

Getting this in early, since I’m NOT staying up…

Happy New Year to all, and best wishes for 2024!

Rut Roh…

Seems Daihatsu has been a bunch of bad boys… for over 30 years…

The underlines are links to other articles on the subject.

A Japanese tiny-car manufacturer has halted production of its vehicles after admitting it had been forging safety tests for 30 years.

Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu, known for its miniature vehicles, halted factory operations on Tuesday after a report found that it had been forging the results of some safety tests since 1989.

The company had already paused shipments of all its vehicles, and will now shut down its four Japanese factories until at least the end of January.

It’s the latest development in a long-running saga surrounding the company’s safety record, with Daihatsu first acknowledging it had falsified some crash tests in April.

Full article HERE from Business Insider.

Daihatsu was/is known for making the VERY small trucks/cars in Japan, many licensed as Toyotas for world-wide sales. And they are now owned by Toyota.

That makes Toyota ‘suspect’ in their oversight of Daihatsu, and calls into question their own QA and crash test procedures. NOT a good place for them to be, especially with the Japanese consumers, much less the world-wide consumers.