Tam has a really good point to ponder.
Why should I follow the law, when there appear to be no consequences for those who don’t?
When being an upright, honorable, model citizen means I get jacked for piddly little shit, when Mr. Violent Sumdood gets away with blatant misdeeds because the po-po just can’t be bothered…….
Why should I follow the law?
Fixed. Was something to do with the log tongs image.
Once I deleted that, things seem to work like they should.
For some reason, the below two posts are not clickable, nor are the comments
are other blogger blogs having this issue?
Enquiring minds and all that….
What is YOUR reaction time?
Find out here
(since blogger seems to be having issues, go to http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime )
I averaged a bit under 240 ms….high of 304, low of 146.
Try it.
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.