So SiteMeter FINALLY fixed whatever issue I (or they) had with my ability to sign in and view my hits and statistics.
Only took 2 1/2 weeks and 3 emails.
Not so sure I wanna pay for their service….
No explanation or notice, it just started working again.
Thanks very much to all of you.
Today, 39 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost. Broken in two, she lays in 530 feet of water near the Canada US boundary near Whitefish bay in Lake Superior.
29 men died that day, Nov 10 1975.
Gordon Lightfoot made a large sum of money with his ballad, not much of which was facts. But were it not for his ballad, there’d be little remembrance of that loss.
29 men died, and that is the sad part.Their families remember though.
Scientists find virus that hinders Cognitive functions…
Seems that *Someone* wants to stir people up.
Perhaps make another day of rage.
‘Cause we all know that, without any facts at all, we can judge the actions of others based solely on race, right?
Now, I don’t know what happened that day in Ferguson, Mo…neither do you, nor do any of the folks who want Officer Wilson lynched (and yes, they want a lynching). Reports are that there are (more that) several witnesses who dispute the stories being bandied about by the race baiters and the rabble rousers. And all of THOSE witnesses are black.
I haven’t heard their testimony, so I really don’t know, but reports are that they more or less corroborate the testimony of Officer Wilson.
I refuse to make any judgement. I do know that young Mr. Brown appears to not have been a very nice person, that evidence disputes the “Gentle Giant” meme, and that Officer Wilson appeared to be a good officer.
But again: I. Don’t. Know. And I am not willing to judge either one based on facts not in evidence. I *DO know that there is a disparate news coverage based on race. I *DO* believe that this is being pushed to start (or inflame) a race war.
I *DO* know that most people (of any color/race/ethnicity) couldn’t protest if they wanted to….because they are working for a living. Only the unemployed, the welfare takers, and those who don’t have to work for a living have the time to protest, and have noting to lose if they are arrested, so they are gonna be there. Decent, hardworking people likely won’t be.
In order to save time (like 2 hours disassembling some machinery, the the same reassembling) I used an old fashioned method of fixing something….Which included turning a piece of tooling with a 24″ pipe wrench about 2 foot over my head. (with the help of a piece of pipe for additional leverage)
The result? I did indeed save 3+ hours. I impressed myself and my helper with the amount of force I could exert..
And I appear to have damaged the deltoid and top of the bicep in my right arm.
That was 2 weeks ago.
Now when I was 18, and had an injury like that? It’d heal in a day or three, 5 tops. Not too sore after a day or two.
Not so much today……now that I am on the downhill side of the half century mark. It has been getting more and more painful. Not healing at all.
Tiger Balm and massage, and if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to hold a 1911 up at shoulder level for 60 seconds in a day or two…. ‘Cause right now, I have to shoot as soon as the sights are on target, ’cause I can’t hold the gun up long.
Aging sucks.
fighting for the country since 1775…..
I used a different set of log tongs (still gonna make a set as soon as I find some half inch plate) to pick up the rounds in my front yard and stack ’em in the back yard. It’s nice having the tractor to pick ’em up.
Plus these:
Makes for a lot of wood. It’ll make a LOT of firewood come next year.
I used a set of these:
Which are nice tongs, for what they are, but they really don’t grip the logs the way the tongs that I lost . They just sorta hook the wood. Yeah, they are meant for skidding, not lifting, but they really won’t replace what I had, either.
I’m still gonna make a new set. I gotta find some 1/2″ drops that are like 18″X 6″
are telling me they are hoping the Ferguson/Brown/Wilson Grand Jury decision (which by all accounts if is anything resembling fair, will exonerate Officer Wilson) happens later in the week, as then the weather will be cold and somewhat windy, and the protests in major urban areas will be less motivated to stay out and make trouble….In other words, they’ll fizzle out fairly quickly, if they happen at all.
Seems that they all believe that these folks will only protest when it is convenient, and they’ll protest only because they don’t have anything better to do. and won’t when they might get uncomfortable doing it.
I hope they are right about this.
Who says they have any authority, anyway?
What right does the “Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission” have telling any business that they can’t refuse to provide goods or services to anyone?
A privately owned business should be able to choose who, when, where and how they do business. If they don’t want to do business with someone, then that is their choice. Not up to the government, be it state, local or federal. If they want to discriminate based on religion, or race, or gender or whatever, that is between them and their customers….Not any government entity…Iif the Human Rights Commission is actually a government entity)
I would have issues were this a publicly funded entity such as a school or a government office, but it isn’t. It is a private business.
I’d contribute to a legal defense fund, if he goes to court and needs help.