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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Saturday, August 31, 2013

86 % say no to attacking Syria!

latest Newsmax Poll Results:

No 86% on striking Syria
Yes 91 % on seeking Congressional approval

The feeling of the voters knowing we have no Commander in Chief, only a speech maker who talks too much!

Four Historians Take on 'The Butler's' Racist Depiction of Reagan- Breaking News from Newsmax.com

 Lee Daniels -  Picking Hanoi Jane as Nancy says a lot about this film.   Boycott, I say!

SamKat

Breaking News from Newsmax.com

Four Historians Take On 'The Butler's' Racist Depiction of Reagan
Four Ronald Reagan historians have slammed the portrayal of former President Reagan in the movie "Lee Daniels' The Butler," saying that the 40th president's "attitudes toward race" as shown in the movie are completely inaccurate and false. The movie has come under fierce criticism from Republican and veterans groups who have called for a boycott of the film.
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Daytona Beach - Boardwalk Clock - Jim Zeisler of Portsmouth Ohio ... Thx Pidge F!

Good job, Jim Zeisler, Pidge's brother!  Jim and Pidge were born in Portsmouth, Ohio and lived four houses north of the Kegley clan on McConnell Ave.  Jim looks just like his dad did back in our day.

Portsmouth should have some sort of similar landmark, maybe with P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H-W-A-L-L for the Clock numbers.  We are very proud of the Floodwall murals  which show more than two thousand years of history on over two thousand feet of floodwall.

SamKat



 Daytona Beach -  Boardwalk clock

http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130825/COLUMNS/130829653/0/search
 Hour has come to fix the Boardwalk clocktowerPublished:
 Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.Daytona
 Beach does not have an official timekeeper, but it does have
 Jim Zeisler.  Zeisler, a retired Ohio firefighter, clock aficionado and vice
 president of the Daytona Beach chapter of the National
 Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, is the guy who,
 twice a year, when Daylight Saving Time begins and ends,
 ascends 30 feet in a cherry-picker bucket and sets the hands
 on the four faces of the Boardwalk's clock tower.The
 clock hands are made out of titanium and bolted on with
 stainless steel bolts to resist the wet, salty sea winds.
 Zeisler removes and repositions each one to put the hour
 right. It's not like spinning the hands around your
 kitchen's Kit-Cat clock dial.At
 this hour, though, Zeisler is alarmed at the clock
 tower's overall condition and told the Daytona Beach
 City Commission about his concerns Wednesday night.“I
 don't think it's structurally sound,” he said.
 “I've been up there more times than you can count on
 your hands and feet ... and it needs help.”Built
 as a make-work New Deal project and dedicated on the Fourth
 of July 1938, the clock tower substitutes the letters
 “D-A-Y-T-O-N-A-B-E-A-C-H” for the 12 hours on the dial.
 It's been a defining local landmark and an image on
 hundreds of postcards ever since. Along with the Bandshell
 and pier, it's been a symbol of the city's signature
 beachside district.The
 whole clock tower project cost $268,000 to build, which
 would be $4.5 million in today's
 dollars.
 The
 local NAWCC chapter has been maintaining the clock's
 insides over three decades now. Club members undertook major
 overhauls to the clock's electric motors in 1989 and
 2008.But
 even though the insides are running fine now, the outside is
 not so good, according to Zeisler.“The
 structure is pitiful, but it runs,” he said.And
 a quick look at the structure backs him up. Some stones are
 blackened with mold. The water in the fountain at the base
 of the tower is milky and nothing you'd want to dip your
 legs in even on a hot August day. Stones are loose.
 There's algae in the fountain and pigeons perch on the
 tower's sculpted scallops.And
 then there's the matter of the weather vane.If
 you look at the model of the Boardwalk in the Halifax
 Historical Museum — and you really should, the whole place
 as it looked in the 1930s is rendered in brightly painted
 clay and looks like a scene from a Wallace and Gromit movie
 — you will notice a weather vane atop the clock tower.
 This surprised me since I didn't remember seeing a
 weather vane there.But
 according to Ziesler, the weather vane, with an eagle
 perched majestically atop, came down in a storm in the
 1970s. And even though the column that the weather vane
 rested upon now has chunks missing, he hopes to see a new
 one go up.Warren
 and Ruth Trager, who have long been active in preserving the
 area's heritage, already have donated $500 toward a new
 weather vane and have pledged another $250 toward topping
 the project in style.“Before
 we can really put the weather vane up, we've got to put
 some work on the structure itself,” said City Manager Jim
 Chisholm.But
 the good news is that the city now is planning to do
 something about
 that.“What
 we're learning is that any pre-World War Two coquina
 structure needs continuous monitoring and maintenance,”
 said Deputy City Manager Paul McKitrick.In
 addition to recent renovations to the coquina Bandshell,
 McKitrick noted the city recently spent $100,000 to restore
 the coquina walkover at the base of the Daytona Pier.“If
 it could look like the Bandshell, we'd be thrilled to
 death,” said Zeisler.And
 he's encouraged enough by the city's response that
 he's looking forward to the day when that will
 happen.
 Jim Zeisler, with the National
 Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, holds two of the
 large titanium clock hands before he installed them in 2010
 in this file photo. Last week, Zeisler urged the city to
 renovate the Bandshell’s clock tower structure.



The clock tower on the Boardwalk
 as it looked in 1961.
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Friday, August 30, 2013

The Fleecing of America by Jesse and his boy ... Jackson's strike again!

The fleecing of America continues from prison…
 
So, Jesse Jackson, Jr. 17 year veteran of the US Congress, suddenly gets a "mood disorder" (about the same time he learned he was to be indicted) and is going to prison for 2.5 years.  Because his "mood disorder" was so severe, he has become disabled and will receive $8700 per month as a disability payment as well as $45000 a year from his congressional pension, a total of about $150K per year. 
Is this a great country or what?
 

obamacare- doctors ask if you own guns ... Thx Ramey H!

Yes folks this is really the sad truth. This was sent to me by a friend who is a retired Medical Doctor and Aviation Medical Examiner so many will know who this is. Just another example that ObummerCare is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation to come by in years, possible forever!
 
 
 
 
29/2013 5:04:00 PM
Your doctor might ask if you own guns

By GARY ABERNATHY
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief


If I had not heard the following directly from someone I know, I would have written it off as another ultra-rightwing, Obama-hating conspiracy tale with little foundation in truth. I would have considered it the typical fodder found in a National Rifle Association fundraising letter, or a promo for the next broadcast from Hannity, Beck or Limbaugh. 

But this is no far-right lunatic anecdote. This is true.

A female acquaintance told me that when she went to her doctor in Clinton County earlier this week - a typical general practitioner medical doctor - at the end of the usual litany of "routine" health inquiries came a question which left her momentarily speechless.

As usual, the nurse took the patient's blood pressure, checked her temperature, and asked things like, "Do you smoke?" and "Do you drink?" 

Then, the nurse asked, "Do you own any guns?"

Yes. Let us repeat the question. The nurse asked of a patient who was there for a checkup, "Do you own any guns?"

When the patient recovered from her shock, she asked why on earth such a question would be asked. She told the nurse that whether she owned any guns or not was none of her business. 

The nurse replied, "We have to ask you that, under Obamacare." The nurse also agreed it was none of her business, but said the question was now being asked of all patients. The nurse said she was advising everyone to just answer, "No."

I have tried not to be the kind of conservative who considers Barack Obama the devil incarnate. He is well-intentioned and sincere, I have believed, and I have tried to reflect that belief when occasionally visiting Obama-related topics in this space. 

Even though I disagree with nearly everything the president seems to believe politically and philosophically, I honor the office of the presidency and do not share the feeling that just because Obama does something, it must automatically be the wrong thing to do.

But this, friends, this crosses the line.

I took some time to research the subject and, sure enough, it seems that among a number of executive actions signed by the president earlier this year was one which encouraged doctors to seek the gun information from patients, and it becomes nearly a requirement as Obamacare is phased in.

Mind you, these questions are not just coming from psychiatrists or psychologists seeking such information from depressed or possibly suicidal or homicidal patients, which might seem reasonable. These questions are being posed by family medical practitioners to all of their patients, in adherence to the guidelines of the Affordable Care Act.


The fact is, the NRA and other groups successfully managed to get language inserted into the Affordable Care Act that seemed to prohibit doctors from asking patients about guns. But the Obama administration believed the language was filled with loopholes, and, accompanying an executive order by the president earlier this year was a White House-provided "fact sheet" that encouraged doctors to seek patient information about gun ownership.

The fact sheet said, "Doctors and other health care providers also need to be able to ask about firearms in their patients' homes and safe storage of those firearms... Some have incorrectly claimed that language in the Affordable Care Act prohibits doctors from asking their patients about guns and gun safety... The Administration will issue guidance clarifying that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit or otherwise regulate communication between doctors and patients, including about firearms."

The follow-up "guidance" provided by the administration has apparently flat-out directed doctors to include inquiries about gun ownership in their conversations with patients. 

According to various first-hand accounts found online, doctors are asking the question in different forms. Some are asking flat out, "Do you own any guns?" Others are asking, "Are you concerned about unsecured weapons in your home?" Still others inquire, "Are you worried about the dangers of guns in your home?"

Of course, asking patients in Highland County whether they own any guns is like asking them whether they breathe oxygen. Doctors here could save themselves time by just filling in that answer before talking to patients. 

Or they could just file a report to the government asking for an exemption, explaining, "We practice in Highland County, Ohio. Everybody owns a gun." In fact, the concern here would be focused more on anyone who does not own a gun, than anyone who does.

Not that anyone has to worry about being any more honest with their doctor on the gun question than they are on any other question their doctor asks. As far as my doctor knows, based on my answers, I've cut back on smoking, I've eliminated cheeseburgers from my diet, and I walk two miles a day. If my doctor believed my answers to the usual questions, my general precarious health would be quite the medical mystery.

The sad thing is, what this all reveals is that the Obama administration views guns as a health hazard. The administration views gun ownership in the way that most people view disease, injury and illness. Owning guns is something that needs to be cured, like diabetes or heart disease. 

It is unsettling enough to make me consider attending a Tea Party meeting, and not just to report on it. 

Gary Abernathy is publisher of The Times-Gazette. His columns appear on Tuesday and Friday. He can be contacted at gabernathy@civitasmedia.com.

Newsmax poll resullts not in obama's camp

Newsmax online poll shows 90 % of us voters don't want the USA to bomb Syria.  About the same percentage believe he should consult Congress before doing anything.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Putin incensed by obama's "Bored Kid" Comment Newsmax

NY Times: Putin Incensed by Obama's 'Bored Kid' Remark

Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013 10:42 PM
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A comment by President Obama that Vladimir Putin looked "like the bored kid in the back of the classroom" apparently "infuriated" the Russian president, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The comment came Aug. 9 at a news conference concerning a showdown with Putin over Edward Snowden, the former defense contractor who leaked top-secret details of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.

Putin ultimately gave Snowden temporary asylum over the objections of Obama, and the president was asked about his working relationship with the Russian leader.

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"I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. But the truth is that when we're in conversations together, oftentimes it's very productive," Obama said.

The president went on to say that he didn't have "a bad personal relationship with Putin," and that "when we have conversations, they’re candid, they’re blunt; oftentimes, they’re constructive."

But Putin was not amused — and the remark just "intensified" Putin's suspicion of Obama, as did his abrupt cancellation of a meeting scheduled for next week in Moscow, The Times reported.

"The comment infuriated" Putin, The Times said, citing an unnamed Russian official.



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Impossible to do in our socialistic system, but interesting nonetheless ... Thx Pidge F!


                               "IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT
AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM"
                              WRITTEN BY A 21-YEAR-OLD FEMALE who gets it.
Wow, this girl has a great plan!   Love the last thing she would do the best.

It's her future she's worried about and this is how she feels about the
social welfare big government state that she's being forced to live in! 
These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.

                              This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX

                              PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .
                             Put me in charge of food stamps.  I'd get rid
of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's,  just money for
50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk
you can haul away.  If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

                              Put me in charge of Medicaid.  The first thing
I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. 
Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine.   If you want
to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

                              Put me in charge of government housing.   Ever
live in a military barracks?   You will maintain our property in a clean and
good state of repair.  Your home will be subject to inspections any time and
possessions will be inventoried.   If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then
get a job and your own place.

                              In addition,  you will either present a check
stub from a job each week or you will report to a
"government" job.   It may
be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing,
whatever we find for you.   We will sell your 22-inch rims and low profile
tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the
"common good."
                              Before you write that I've violated someone's
rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary.   If you want our money,
accept our rules.   Before you say that this would be
"demeaning" and ruin
their
"self-esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking
someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered
self-esteem.

                              If we are expected to pay for other people's
mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad
choices.   The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad
choices.

                              AND while you are on Gov't subsistence, you no
longer can VOTE!   Yes, that is correct.   For you to vote would be a conflict
of interest.  You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are
receiving a Gov't welfare check.   If you want to vote, then get a job.

                              Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON.  I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET THIS BACK.   IF EVERYONE SENDS IT,  I WILL GET OVER 220 BACK!!!   I WOULD KNOW YOU SENT IT ON!!!

             IN
"GOD" I TRUST!   QUESTION ALL OTHERS,

Ordering pizza after obamacare ... Thx Ramey H!

Ordering a pizza in 2015, after ObamaCare.
 
      This is hilarious. . .but it may come true!!!

      Just click below:

Nikita Kruschev said in 1959- Almost there now with rock star obama ... Thx Pidge F!


Nikita Khrushchev Quote - September 29, 1959
REMEMBER WHEN HE APPEARED AT THE U.N. AND BANGED HIS SHOE ON THE LECTURN?
THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE - HOW RIGHT HE WAS!  SCROLL DOWN:

WE'RE ALMOST THERE!!!
...Thanks to Obama!

Click on "A funny Mexican guy with Groucho Marx ... Thx Clay V!

Click here: A Funny Mexican Guy with Groucho Marx#.UfVbmBN44QQ.emailskegley.blogspot.com

obama loves to give speeches- All of the world , especially American service people will pay for his rhetorical writhings- George Will


George F. Will commentary: Obama put himself in a place where he had to act

Thursday August 29, 2013 5:35 AM
 
Barack Obama’s foreign-policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “ smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton’s rather than a gourmet’s appetite for his own rhetorical cuisine and has talked America to the precipice of a fourth military intervention in the crescent that extends from Libya to Afghanistan.
Characterizing the 2011 Libyan project with weirdly passive syntax (“It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions”), he explained his sashay into Libya’s civil war as pre-emptive: “I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”
With characteristic self-satisfaction, Obama embraced the doctrine “R2P” — responsibility to protect civilians — and Libya looked like an opportunity for an inexpensive morality gesture using high explosives.
Last August, R2P reappeared when he startled his staff by offhandedly saying of Syria’s poison gas: “A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.” The interesting metric “whole bunch” made his principle mostly a loophole and advertised his reluctance to intervene, a reluctance more sensible than his words last week: Syria’s recidivism regarding gas is “going to require America’s attention and hopefully the entire international community’s attention.”
Regarding that entirety: If community connotes substantial shared values and objectives, what community would encompass Denmark, Congo, Canada, North Korea, Portugal, Cuba, Norway, Iran, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Poland and Yemen? Words, however, are so marvelously malleable in the Obama administration, the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of coup (“a change in the government carried out violently or illegally”) somehow does not denote what happened in Egypt. Last week, an Obama spokesman said, “We have made the determination that making a decision about whether or not a coup occurred is not in the best interests of the United States.” So convinced is this White House of its own majesty and of the consequent magic of its words, it considers this a clever way of saying the law is a nuisance.
Section 508 of the Foreign Assistance Act forbids aid to “any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup” until the president determines that “a democratically elected government” has been restored. Secretary of State John Kerry was perhaps preparing to ignore this when he said something Egypt’s generals have not had the effrontery to claim — that the coup amounted to “restoring democracy.”
Perhaps Section 508 unwisely abridges presidential discretion in foreign policy, where presidents arguably deserve the almost unfettered discretion they, with increasing aggressiveness, assert everywhere. And perhaps if Obama were not compiling such a remarkable record of indifference to law, it would be sensible to ignore his ignoring of this one.
But remember Libya. Since the War Powers Resolution was passed over Richard Nixon’s veto in 1973, presidents have at least taken care to act “consistent with” its limits on unilateral presidential war-making. Regarding Libya, however, Obama was unprecedentedly cavalier, even though he had ample time to act consistent with the Constitution by involving a supportive Congress. As Yale Law School’s Bruce Ackerman then argued:
“Obama has overstepped even the dubious precedent set when President Bill Clinton bombed Kosovo in 1999. Then, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel asserted that Congress had given its consent by appropriating funds for the Kosovo campaign. It was a big stretch, given the actual facts — but Obama can’t even take advantage of this same desperate expedient, since Congress has appropriated no funds for the Libyan war. The president is simply using money appropriated to the Pentagon for general purposes to conduct the current air campaign.”
Obama is as dismissive of red lines he draws as he is of laws others enact. Last week, a State Department spokeswoman said his red line regarding chemical weapons was first crossed “a couple of months ago” and “the president took action” — presumably, announcing (non-lethal) aid to Syrian rebels — although “we’re not going to outline the inventory of what we did.”
The administration now would do well to do something that the head of it has an irresistible urge not to do: Stop talking.
If a fourth military intervention is coming, it will not be to decisively alter events, which we cannot do, in a nation vital to U.S. interests, which Syria is not. Rather, its purpose will be to rescue Obama from his words.
George F. Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.
georgewill@washpost.com

Cal Thomas- Kutcher wisdom from Today's Columbus Dispatch

Cal Thomas commentary: Kutcher has words of wisdom for today's young people

Also in Opinion

Thursday August 29, 2013 5:33 AM
 
Ashton Kutcher, the 35-year-old actor and ex-husband of actress Demi Moore, has never been considered a poster child for the family-values crowd, but at the Teen Choice Awards two weeks ago, he easily could have passed for one.
Following screams from young female fans in the audience, Kutcher silenced them with a motivational message that bordered on inspiration. He told them: “I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work. … I’ve never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.”
Kutcher wasn’t through: “The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart and being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap … that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful and be generous.”
That such remarks would gain so much attention is indicative of where we are as a nation. One way to take the cultural temperature is to observe how ancient wisdom suddenly sounds new, even radical. Not many Millennials are hearing this message. Maybe some get it from their parents, but many teens and young adults don’t discover such wisdom until they are parents, if then.
For older adults, Kutcher’s remarks are so obvious that when they were teens they would have been unremarkable and nearly universally believed, if not always practiced. They resonate today because of the dire condition of the nation’s economy and because of moral libertarianism — whatever feels good goes; whatever works for the individual is right, even if the good of society suffers. More and more people seem to be looking for a lifeline. Kutcher threw them one.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said of many of today’s young people: “There is a fog of depression. … There’s pessimism … and it’s because they do not think there’s any prosperity left for them. … They don’t think there’s any money to be earned; it’s all gone. Their parents’ and grandparents’ generation were the last ones that really had it made. And they’re certainly not hearing this kind of message from anybody in politics that they vote for.”
Kutcher has described himself as “a fiscally conservative, socially liberal independent.” He supports gay rights and same-sex marriage. Though raised a Roman Catholic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he has dabbled in Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism. No one can typecast him as a soldier for religious conservatism. He is a supporter of President Barack Obama, but doesn’t like his health-care plan.
The road to success remains what it has always been: hard work, believing in yourself, never taking “no” as the final answer and making right moral choices. These have been proved throughout history to better any life and improve even the worst of circumstances.
If we know such things to be true, why are they not taught and modeled in today’s culture? For many, it could lead to less reliance on government. Politicians would become less necessary. If such principles were again taught in our public schools, someone might sue for imposing someone’s “ moral values” on others.
Envy, greed and entitlement are the unholy trinity of failure. What Kutcher offers young people is the opposite, leading to success, self-realization and independence.
Here’s one more Kutcherism: “Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you. And you can build your own things. You can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don’t live one, build one.”
If only Washington politicians would think and talk this way.
Cal Thomas writes for Tribune Media Services.

Twenty places that don't look real ... Thx Clay V!




1. Bamboo Forest (China)

                                                          Bamboo-Forest-China

 

2. Black Forest (Germany)

Black-Forest-Germany

 

3. Fields of Tea (China)

Fields-of-Tea-China
4. Hang Son Doong (Vietnam)
Hang-Son-Doong-Vietnam

 

5. Hitachi Seaside Park (Japan)

Hitachi-Seaside-Park-Japan

 

6. Lake Hillier (Australia)

Lake-Hillier-Australia

 

7. Lake Retba (Sengal)

Lake-Retba-Sengal
8. Antelope Canyon (USA)
Antelope-Canyon-USA

 

9. Lavender Fields (France)

Lavender-Fields-France

 

10. Mendenhall Ice Caves (Alaska)

Mendenhall-Ice-Caves-Alaska

 

11. Mount Roraima (South America)

Mount-Roraima-South-America

 

12. Naico Mine (Mexico)

Naico-Mine-Mexico-2

 

13. Red Beach (China)

Red-Beach-China

 

14. Solar du Uyuni (Bolivia)

Solar-du-Uyuni-Bolivia

 

15. Tianzi Mountains (China)

Tianzi-Mountains-China

 

16. Tulip Fields (Netherlands)

Tulip-Fields-Netherlands

 

17. Tunnel of Love (Ukraine)

Tunnel-of-Love-Ukraine

 

18. Wisteria Flower Tunnel (Japan)

Wisteria-Flower-Tunnel-Japan2

 

19. Zhangye Danxia Landform (China)

Zhangye-Danxia-Landform-China

 

20. Zhangye Danxia Landform (China)

Zhangye-Danxia-Landform-China

Railroad tracks ... Thx Nita E! and Jack H!

Railroad tracks- An interesting re-cycle! 

Fw: railroad tracks
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Railroad Tracks
The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did 'they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular Odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So, who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.

Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. In other words, bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or process, and wonder, 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right.

Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses.

Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, you will notice that there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah.
 

The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit larger, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.


So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important!
Now you know, horses' asses control almost everything; this explains a whole lot of stuff about Washington D.C., doesn't it?
 
 

a Bible Story ... Thx Clay V!

Nothing like a good Bible story to start your day.  Right, Clay!  We're both in trouble now.


Nothing like a good Bible story to make your day...

Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely.
So, God asked him, 'What's wrong with you?'  
Adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to.
God said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman.
He said, 'This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will cook for you,
and when you discover clothing, she will wash it for you
She will always agree with every decision you make and she will not nag   
and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement.  
She will praise you!  
She will bear your children.
and she will never wake you up in the middle of the night to take care of them
She will NEVER have a headache and will freely give you love and passion whenever you want.'

Adam asked God, 'What will a woman like this cost?'   
God replied, 'An arm and a leg.'

Then Adam asked, 'What can I get for a rib?'

Of course the rest is history............!!!!

Wal-Mart - Interesting! ... Thx Pidge F!



Wal-Mart – interesting
It is quite interesting. Even if you do not forward it,
read it all the way to the end............


1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of
every day. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
2. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
3. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
4. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
5. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
6. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
7. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
8. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
9. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
10. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
11. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans -- Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the
Legislature -- It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt and ineffective:
a.The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 237 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 77 years to get it right and it is broke.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 48 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 47 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 42 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 35 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars. AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH
A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly
elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
AND We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,??????????? In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, Japan and Turkey..And Pakistan ........previous home of Bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!! Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no extra aid nor do they get any special breaks--nadda beyond shopping discounts... AND Congress wants to freeze Social Security payments...
You do know that Congress voted themselves a pay raise for 2013??? Google this—it’s true!!!

99% of people won't forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Obama Hate signs from Egyptian demos ... thx Pidge F!

PHOTOS FROM THE TAHRIR SQUARE PROTESTS!!
Curiously, a massive wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt has been utterly ignored by main stream media, even though the protests may be the largest in all of human history.
 
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON SO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY CAN SEE WHAT THE MEDIA IS RELUCTANT TO REVEAL AS TO WHAT THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS ABOUT OBAMA!!!

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