Thursday, September 17, 2009
Rock and Roll Revival
Hi everybody! I apologize that I haven't been blogging or commenting on the site much lately. It's not I don't like you guys-I love you all!! I've been busy making preparations on my return trip to California to see Barbara(aka Layla)again. I'll try to post pics of my trip on my site. Or maybe here. Although, I visit many sites, I promise you guys I'll hang out here a little more often. Keep rockin' guys!
Realistic Article on Wisconsin's (& Racine's) "Economic Recovery"
"So perhaps the most apt description of Racine is empty factories and full jails. But don't expect to find the Times highlighting such depressing news when they can find an entire dozen new hires in one town to demonstrate the vitality of the 'free market.'"
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/4893/nyt_puff_piece_on_wisc._recovery_ignores_mass_unemployment/
A tip of the hat to the Racine Post for pointing out the article.
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/4893/nyt_puff_piece_on_wisc._recovery_ignores_mass_unemployment/
A tip of the hat to the Racine Post for pointing out the article.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Cops Bust Naked Bike Rider - in Florida
More: http://www.ocala.com/article/20090916/ARTICLES/909161000/1402/NEWS?Title=Naked-biker-ends-up-wearing-handcuffs.
At least the drunk on the scooter on the Marquette Interchange was wearing clothes.
Snakes CAN be dangerous!
Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.
Here's why......... A couple in Baltimore, Maryland had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing some of
them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream! The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was.
She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The attendant rushed in,
wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the EMT saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so
she called on a neighbor. He volunteered to capture the snake..
He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.
Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the
snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her. The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from
shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with
a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed
that he had been bitten by the snake.
She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred.
They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. The little snake again came out from under the sofa.
One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled,
jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire truck
ladder when they were halfway down the street.
The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block
area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed!
Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right
with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought
they should bring in their plants for the night.
That's when he shot her.
Here's why......... A couple in Baltimore, Maryland had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing some of
them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream! The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was.
She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The attendant rushed in,
wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the EMT saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so
she called on a neighbor. He volunteered to capture the snake..
He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.
Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the
snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her. The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from
shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with
a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed
that he had been bitten by the snake.
She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred.
They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. The little snake again came out from under the sofa.
One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled,
jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire truck
ladder when they were halfway down the street.
The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block
area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed!
Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right
with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought
they should bring in their plants for the night.
That's when he shot her.
How Many Licks and Other Fermi Problmes
You might remember the classic old commercial that poses the question "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The wise old owl licks twice, bites one and proclaims the answer is three.Now author Aaron Santos has taken a stab at the question in his new book How Many Licks? Or How to Estimate Damn Near Anything.
He takes on what are commonly called Fermi problems. Fermi problems are basically exercises in estimation. You take a problem, make a few quick reasonable assumptions, and try to figure out a reasonable (although not exact) answer. The legendary Fermi problem is Fermi estimating the strength of the atomic blast at Trinity by observing how far the blast wave blew some paper. Knowing how far away he was, he got a pretty good estimate of the strength of the blast.
I heard about this book on the podcast the Naked Scientists. Naturally, they had to estimate how many people are having sex in the world at any given moment (a question sure to get the attention of high school students!)
I used these when teaching. They are great exercises in creative thinking. You can probably do some if you give it a shot. How many gallons of gasoline are used each year in the U.S. by automobiles? Well, you have an idea of how many cars there are, how far the average U.S. driver drives per year (my car insurance statement tells me this!) about what the average fuel economy is and you can get a reasonable number with a basic four function calculator (and if you are only interested in the nearest power of 10, you might be able to do it in your head).
One of my favorites was when my students asked me if there was a google (a 1 followed by 100 zeroes) of atoms in the universe. I didn't know the answer but quickly started jotting down some figures on the board (average density of the universe, size of the universe), got out my four function calculator, and quickly pronounced no. Off by many powers of 10. I got about 10^79 atoms which puts me nicely in the range of accepted estimates.
Fermi problems also serve as a good B.S. detector. Earlier this year with Obama's stimulus plan, a bunch of chain emails proposing other solutions that were allegedly cheaper. One such email proposed giving everyone over 50 $1 million to retire to solve unemployment. Well, a quick check of the math (that I could do without a calculator) put the cost of this proposal at about $40 trillion (which is a lot more than $787 billion). For reference, the entire U.S. economy is about $14 trillion per year. Obviously people need to be able to estimate things a little bit better before passing on chain emails! Another one claimed that the stimulus package amounted to more than $1 million per day every day since Jesus was born. I heard this, estimated the number of days in 2,000 years, and that one turned out to be true.
Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.
Drunk Man Drives Scooter on Marquette Interchange
"Daniel Samplanski, 35, of Milwaukee was charged Tuesday with drunken driving on a three-wheeled electric scooter - in the middle of the Marquette Interchange.
"How does one drive a piece of health care equipment onto the ramp from southbound I-43 to eastbound I-794? According to the criminal complaint, Samplanski was too drunk to say."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/59370337.html
Video available here: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/59287712.html
Hey Huck, don't get any crazy ideas now.
"How does one drive a piece of health care equipment onto the ramp from southbound I-43 to eastbound I-794? According to the criminal complaint, Samplanski was too drunk to say."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/59370337.html
Video available here: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/59287712.html
Hey Huck, don't get any crazy ideas now.
Dear Madame Zoltar
Hello, my hot potatoes! How are you? It appears that we’re finally getting our summer in September. Better late than never. Or, I’ll take what I can get.No needy emails or pleas for help were received this week. I did receive a missive from an Armando Valladares entitled Obama-Clinton: “Big Stick Policy” for Honduras and “Smiling Policy” for Cuba. I quote: “Proclaiming loud and clear the truth facts that hurt the contemporary Goliaths, with irrefutable arguments and evidence, in an invariably educated and respectful way, is the most effective manner to help up the small and heroic Honduran David, as well as the brother Latin-American peoples who suffer under the malign effects of Chavist ‘axle of evil’.” Darn that axle!
In my never-ending quest to help Racine, The City After My Spleen, I offer another valuable suggestion to the powers-that-be: Gypsy/traveler sites/camps. They’re all the rage in England (like roundabouts):
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/work_underway_on_2_million_gypsy_site_near_carlisle_1_611736?referrerPath=2.880/home
http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/4628358.Planners_recommend_gypsy_site_for_approval/
http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/78674/more-gypsy-sites-for-oswestry-.aspx
And there is also all sorts of that funny British money available from their government to pay for it. I’m sure that corresponding stimulus funds must be available here. All I ever hear about from our civic and economic leaders is how we must attract visitors to Racine. Trust me, if you build sites for gypsies, they will come. Unless, of course, there is some sort of prejudice problem . . .
Following, my friends, is an educational video from Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (http://www.edgarcayce.org/). This is only part 1 of 5, so if you’d like to watch the entire program, click for the start of the playlist here. I don’t make claims for Mr. Cayce one way or the other, but I do know that some rather fascinating things occurred in his life.
That’s all for this week, folks. Don’t forget to send your lonely hearts club letters to: madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com. Pastrami!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The Incredible Shrinking Toilet Paper Roll Rip-Off
They are both rolls of Northern bathroom tissue. "Big rolls." The one on the left came from a package I bought last month. The one on the right I purchased this month.
I remember that they started doing this with candy bars years ago.
What's next? Clothing that is shrunk so you'll have to pay extra for plus sizes?
ACORN Baltimore Prostitution Investigation
AP story here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hA9b96qgu9MG_331xFUGcYvhOcLAD9AKPV901
More videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/veritasvisuals
"From small acorns, large trees grow."
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BUMP
I bumped this blog because of ongoing developments. ACORN has now been busted in a third major city advising a supposed pimp and prostitute to lie about their "profession" in order to receive government funds: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/09/15/2009-09-15_acorn_counselors_advice_dont_say_youre_a_prostitute.html.
Keeping people enslaved to social welfare programs is the best way to keep your foot on their necks. Getting them to do it for you is the kind of genius that only US "leaders" could pull off.
"Gableman ethics case hinges on defining lie"
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/59290897.html
Haw, haw, haw. That is great. You can't write better material than this. Judges and lawyers fighting over what constitutes a lie. What a hoot! I almost spit up my coffee.
Haw, haw, haw. That is great. You can't write better material than this. Judges and lawyers fighting over what constitutes a lie. What a hoot! I almost spit up my coffee.
Monday, September 14, 2009
New York Air Show
Memorial Day Air Show
Please enlarge the photos, the quality is excellent!
Pictures courtesy of original photographer(s)
and a fellow blogger for sending them to me.
Please enlarge the photos, the quality is excellent!
Pictures courtesy of original photographer(s)
and a fellow blogger for sending them to me.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Where's Willie?
Can you find a person of color in Pete Selkowe's Racine Post picture of DRC's chair auction in downtown Racine yesterday?
http://www.racinepost.com/art09/sunny4.jpg
Downtown Racine is situated in one of the poorest and most blighted areas of the city. Don't let that scare you, though, because DRC makes sure that no one who actually lives in the hood will come into contact with visitors to their beautiful downtown. It's good for us to have wealthy, racist outsiders lording over Racine's inner city. It's very, very good. Just ask the people who don't live there.
Party on!
http://www.racinepost.com/art09/sunny4.jpg
Downtown Racine is situated in one of the poorest and most blighted areas of the city. Don't let that scare you, though, because DRC makes sure that no one who actually lives in the hood will come into contact with visitors to their beautiful downtown. It's good for us to have wealthy, racist outsiders lording over Racine's inner city. It's very, very good. Just ask the people who don't live there.
Party on!
OUCH
I've been home a few days now. My shoulder feels like I took a bullet. Real sore, but good pain pills help. It wasn't until then day after they decided to tell me I'm not supposed to weld anymore, or have an MRI. I was very pissed as the MRIs are how they have kept track of the neuromas. If I had known, I'd have had an MRI done before the procedure. Typical medial asshats. At least the care provided was top notch compared to St. Mary's. Score for vA. Care 1, Info 0.
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