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Monday, April 12, 2021

This is The Best Reason I Have Ever Heard to Shut Down All Nuclear Reactors on the Planet

 I worked in the naval nuclear power part of the navy in 1970 to 1976. At the time, i thought it was a good way to generate power. Never thought much about the  ramifications of getting rid of the stuff when we are done with it.

Then Chernobyl came along. Didn't think too much of it. Then 3 Mile Island came along, my eyebrows got raised a couple of feet when a guy i knew who was still in the industry explained to me what had happened. Don't ask me now, i don't remember any of it. And then Fukushima happened about 10 years ago.

They always say the 3rd times the charm. This is the 3rd time. Right now Fukushima is set to dump about 1,000,000 tons of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.  That is about a metric shitton of gallons.Can you say bad idea?

We used to do that on the ship, dump about 10,000 gallons or so of radioactive water into the ocean, on a fairly regular basis. What do you suppose all that does to the life in the ocean? And now about 1M tons will be discharged. 

I say it is time to shut down all nuclear reactors on the planet. I guess that makes me a greeniee. I want to Save The Planet!

Japan Decides To Dump One Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into The Pacific; IAEA Approves


Cigarettes

 I am not aware if any of my readers here smoke. I have not smoked a cigarette since Dec. 1, 1991, Saturday night, 6:30 pm. Or maybe 6:31 pm.

As young children are wont to do, my youngest daughter decided she didn't want me to die from smoking, so somehow she got up enough money to buy for me a filter kit which was designed to help you stop smoking. I suspect my wife fronted the money, but no proof of that.

Well, crap. I can't disappoint my daughter now can I? So, I start in on the first of the filters. You place your smoke of choice into the filter, which resembled the plastic end of a tiparillo cigar, and away you smoke for a week or so, until you graduate to the next filter up. These filters slowly decrease your intake so that you gradually get weaned off of the nicotine. Those things were nasty if you ever bothered to look at one after use.

If I remember correctly, there were four filters, and by the end of the fourth one, your desire for smoking was supposed to be gone. And by golly, that is what happened for me. I think each filter was 2 weeks, and around the 7th week on that saturday night, i simply stopped.

Today I was in Hanford calif and i was eating a lunch of fritos scoops and frito bean dip with an unsweetened bottle of Pure Leaf black tea, when I observed this sign on the fence in front of me.



I thought that was pretty damn expensive for a pack of cigarettes. Hell, a 2 pack a day habit is $15? You kiddin me? I remember  in the 70's paying $0.50 pack, and being pissed off about the high price. Hell on the ship overseas old packs of camels no filter were $0.05 pack. 
So i went on down the road to my next customer. I am only working about 4 days a month right now. Anyway, after i am done and on the way home i stop in Traver calif to pee and get another drink. At checkout i saw the packs of smokes and I ask the clerk how much marlboros are. That was my smoke of choice. $10.75 pack!!

$21.50 a day for a 2 pack a day habit, which is what i was up to. That is $7,847.50 for the year. Ho Lee Shit! 

Fred's Insurance Policy

Treatment for Covid

 I spotted this over at Free North Carolina

Eminent doc: Media censored COVID-19 early treatment options that could have reduced fatalities by 85%

Gas Car Sales

 Norway’s gas car sales are crashing to a crawl and rest of the world will follow faster than you’d think

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Has Anyone Paid Attention to This Volcano?

 Apparently there is a volcano threatening eruption on an island in the caribbean. But that is not the story. The story is, even in the face of this emergency in which thousands could potentially die, BOY, if you ain't vaccinated you can't leave this island!!!

You heeaarr me BOY???

What a load of happy horseshit! Can't leave the island unless i'm vaccinated?! Fuck you and your vaccination!

After Volcano Erupts On Caribbean Island, PM Says Only Vaccinated Can Board Evacuation Ships, Others Sent To Safety Elsewhere

 





Gasoline

 Many people, myself included, store gasoline away for future use. I have often asked myself how long i should store this before use. Especially now that i don't drive over 100 miles per day anymore, which helped me rotate my stored gas.

In my perusal of the net today, I ran across this article about storing gasoline, and thought you might find it interesting.

How Long Does Gasoline Last?

Feds Seize 1,000 Safe Deposit Boxes w/One Warrant - Ep. 7.412---Is the 4th Amendment as Dead as the 1st and 2nd?

The 4th amendment in our bill of rights: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Is the 4th amendment to our constitution dead? Seems like everyday you hear about no knock warrantless entries, people getting their cellphones searched without warrants. And now this video i saw on youtube about 1000 or so safedeposit boxes getting seized. How can our government do this legally?? What happened to particularly describe?

 


 




Friday, April 9, 2021

AAARGHH Revisited

 Went out yesterday afternoon to change the oil sending unit on my wifes car. Holy crap that thing is hard to get to. 

My hands and my arms look like gigantic liver spots now from winding my way thru miles of tubes and bolts and wiring harness to get to the sending unit.

I thought to myself, self, lets crawl under the car and see if we can get to it that way. So i did, and i could not. 

So, i tried going thru the fender well without removing the tire. Uh Uh, baby, ain't gonna happen.

So i unloaded all my work tools out of the car so i can get to the jack and handle situation. The reason all my work tools are in her car is because my grandson was in a fender bender last week and the insurance gave him a check and took his old car, and he is currently looking for a vehicle and driving my truck while looking.

Anyway, jack up the car and remove the tire and the piece of something that is shielding the dirt from flying into the motor. Get a long extension and a 21mm deep socket. It was an impact socket. After about an hour of doing this,that and the other i am finally able to get the old unit out. Go to screw in the new unit, takes me about 30 minutes cause i just can't get to it very well. Anyway, finally got it screwed in after dropping it about 4 times. Go to remove the deep socket and it falls into the car. Or i should say the black hole of the explorer, cause it is nowhere to be found.

Crap. Go to remove the socket and as i said, it is nowhere to be found. Crawl under the car and no socket anywhere. Crap. That is a $15 socket and i don't want to lose it. Shining my flashlight everwhere, feeling with my hands under the car and no socket. Hope it doesn't fall out when i drive it.

Anyway, that appears to have cured my oil pressure gauge problem. 

Now i get to remove the instrument cluster to replace all the bulbs so i can see the cluster at night.






 

Morning Jokes

 A man is driving down a country road when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.

The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, "Ah excuse me mister, but what are you doing?"

The farmer replies, "I'm trying to win a Nobel Prize."
"How?" asks the man, puzzled.
"Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are out standing in their field."



A Doctor while examining an old retired Army vet, "when was the last time you had sex?"
With a long pause the vet replies: "1955 I believe."
Doctor: "Whoa! Its been a long while then?"
Vet: Its only 20:15 right now?


An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."



Thursday, April 8, 2021

This is What Those Assholes at Comcast Did to Me

 


 


Here is a Load of HorseShit for You----Guess No One in DC Knows How to Read

BREAKING: Biden Announces 6 Gun Control Executive Actions — And It’s Just the Beginning 

Shortbus Joe at it Again

 

Warning! New STD Alert!



The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease.

This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced "gonna re-elect him").

Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed for the past couple of months, in spite of having taken measures to protect themselves from this especially troublesome disease.

Cognitive sequellae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea Lectim include, but are not limited to: Anti-social personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a distinct messianic flavor; chronic mangling of the English language; extreme cognitive dissonance; inability to incorporate new information; pronounced xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; exceptional cowardice masked by acts of misplaced bravado; uncontrolled facial smirking; ignorance of geography and history; tendencies toward creating evangelical theocracies; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or-nothing behavior. The disease is sweeping Washington. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed and baffled that this malignant disease originated only a few years ago from a Delaware Asshole.

Sadly These Are Not Jokes

 

Congress
Date of Joke: Saturday, 21st May, 2005

"Vermont Senator James Jeffords is being called a hero today after he chased down a teenager who stole a wallet from his daughter-in-law on Capitol Hill. How fat are our kids getting when they're being run down by 68-year-old senators. ... At one point Jeffords yelled out 'Stop thief' and two hundred congressmen froze." - Jay Leno

"Some scholars have argued [that] the Constitution clearly states only Congress can declare war, and they are not allowed to simply delegate that authority to the president. However, you can get around that with the legal technique of taking the word 'constitution' and adding the word 'shmonstitution' to the end of it." - Jon Stewart

"Earlier this week the Senate voted 97-to-0 for tougher regulations. For example, when corporations buy a senator, they must now get a receipt." - Jay Leno