Out of CorningWare too….
Lots and lots of stuff became possible because of his accidental discovery of PyroCeram, (glass ceramics).
And lots of people ate meals that could only have been made in CorningWare dishes. Especially the square ones with the ears….
Nope, I’m not talking about Pyrex…that is an entirely different subject .
Seems that the BLM is going about things in a different direction….an end run around.
“Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) are human restricted management areas. ACECs have been a tool used by the federal government to gain further control of large masses of western lands and the resources.
As proposed, nearly 3 million acres in Southern Nevada will be locked away from the people. This includes most uses on the land (recreational, agricultural or otherwise).”
Read the whole thing. Yeah, the Bundy’s are biased, but still….
If they do this, will “Dirty Harry” still get his solar plant?
This election, and your win in many places, was NOT a mandate for your policies, but rather the citizenry making the best least bad choice from a pool of bad ones. You didn’t win so much as they lost.
No one wants “DNC lite” here, we want conservative leaders. Please Please please don’t think that you have to appease your opponents, nor their followers. You won because you weren’t them, so don’t be like them after the election.
Stand for something…don’t disappoint your constituents.
You’ve got control of the Senate. And the House.
Great.
NOW DO SOMETHING WITH IT!.
Fix things. I expect to see some legislation coming very soon to fix the last few years. Like repeal of Obamacare, so people can be able to work full time again. Like getting the economy back to working. Like reduction of spending, getting the deficit under control.
Make Barry veto stuff. Make him stand for his failures.
Change the attitude of the government towards the citizens.
Time to be conservatives, and STAND FOR SOMETHING. Don’t pander to the other side. They couldn’t get enough votes. You did.
Try, very hard, not to fuck up as badly.
Via Peter
The Republican backed candidates are gonna win big.
Maybe.
Can they overcome the “Margin of Fraud”? The DNC folks have ramped things up in that arena lately.
My polling place uses paper ballots. They are read by an electronic reader, true, but they can always be rechecked bu a human if need be. There is still a ballot that can be viewed, unlike the touch screen setups with “calibration errors” that leave no permanent record of the vote.
We shall see.
The Republicans will take their win as a mandate, not realizing that people just want anyone else but what they have now. If I felt it would send a message, I’d either not vote or vote for third party…But OG has convinced me to vote (at least this time) for the lesser of the two weasels.
Or if the MSM would do the job they claim to;
Then the borders would be closed very shortly thereafter.
The CDC admits that disease was imported along with the illegal immigrant kids this summer….. Measles, enterovirus, flu etc. Which was orchestrated by the Democrats and the Obama administration cronies. Kids have DIED because they were exposed to diseases brought by these children from other countries.
IF the American people understood, they’d lynch the Obama folks.
So today (Saturday) I went with some friends to get a few tons of firewood. Storm damaged oak, to be exact. Really big oak. The tree was circa 120 years old, the rounds coming in a just under 48″ on average. This was the first real work I had done since I tried to remove my left index finger with a table saw a few weeks ago..(look for an upcoming post about that soon).
Took the tractor on the trailer to my brother’s house, and began loading tree parts. 10K pounds or so on my trailer, about 8k on the other one, and about 6 on the smaller one. Took that to my house and unloaded…the rounds roll right off if you place then right when loading.
Second run, we put another 10K pounds or so on my trailer, about 10k on the other one, and about 8k on the smaller one. (which was about 1500 lbs too much). Left the tractor there so bro could do some work with a plan for retrieval later in the week.
Dropped one trailer load at my neighbor’s house, and went about 20 miles to drop the others. (stopped and moved the smaller trailer’s load a bit, moving about 1k to my trailer and moving the other 500 or so lbs to the front of the trailer to make it balance better.
Now, the last stuff we loaded wasn’t rounds, but broken pieces that we didn’t need the log tongs for…At that point, things become murky. My brother took the tongs off of the hook on the loader bucket…that much is sure. No one really knows what happened after that. All we know is that several hours later bro calls and says “Where are the log tongs?” He thinks he left ’em on the trailer, and I had assumed that when he took them off of the tractor bucket he put them somewhere safe. I did hear a “klank” as if I had lost or run over something when driving to the unload point but I looked in the mirror and didn’t see anything so I kept going…I mean, I didn’t expect there to be anything but logs and ratchet straps on the trailer, and I could see both the straps in the mirror,………, so I dunno…,and when I went back to that stretch of road, there wasn’t anything to be found…I walked close to 4 miles of that road to try and find them. I DROVE the entire route, but again, no joy. If they fell off the trailer, someone else has a really good set of log tongs now…I had assumed that the tongs were with the tractor, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Now I wouldn’t mind this much, as a few tens of dollars will buy a set of mediocre log tongs. But I MADE these and have had them for over 18 years. I cut and bent them and hard faced the points. I welded the rings to the chains that lifted and pulled the tongs closed. I welded the swivel at the juncture of the chains so that things could turn to make it easier to use ’em. They have been bent, twisted and mangled, but each time I’d toss ’em into the fire and heat ’em and beat ’em straight again. Then I’d heat em again and temper them so they wouldn’t twist as much These were durable tongs…I built ’em to hold 3000 pounds, and they and picked up all of that and more. I know they have lifted 5000 pounds several times. I modified them enough to do the job the way I wanted them to. But most important, these were MINE. One of a kind. I dunno if I can recreate them.
Now they are gone. Bummer. I hope whoever found ’em on the road uses them and takes care of ’em.
I has a sad.
I’m trying to remember what the dimensions are so I can recreate the tongs. I can only sorta remember the dimensions that I built ’em to…18 years ago….And the new dimensions I bent them to after the first design sorta needed massaging. And, of course, not even a picture to scale them from. I no longer have access to a forge, either. Not sure I can bend things enough with a torch.
Now I gotta re-invent the wheel. After I find someone with a really decent plasma cutter that can cut 3/4 plate…
Next time I will check myself to see that my equipment is properly put away, rather than trusting people….
A quarantine has no basis in science….
And now Kaci Hickox’s roommate (when she was working in Sierra Lone) has Ebola.
But there is no need to quarantine Ms Hickox….There is NO CHANCE she has Ebola….
Right…
Of course, entry restrictions would prevent any chance of ever having an issue…
Even Canada has gone Anti Science and restricted Visas….but those Canadians are all racist anyway.