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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.











Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Who is rich? ... Thx Clay V!

Fwd: WHO IS RICH???







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Maturity funnies ... Thx Marge R!




 Thank You For Sharing The Wisdom
Of Maturity With The Folks!










THE AGING PROCESS TEACHES YOU TO LAUGH AT YOURSELF.
SO DON'T FORGET TO PASS THIS TO ALL THOSE "SENIORS"
THAT YOU LOVE AND RESPECT I DID!

And remember......
"Inside Every Older Person Is A Younger Person
Wondering What The Hell Happened!"









Thx Paul C! Upper Peninsula of Michigan Winmter 2014 ... Thx Paul C!

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan after a severe snowstorm:
 
 
The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI
 
WEATHER BULLETIN
 
Up here in the Northern part of Michigan, we just recovered from a Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44 inches of snow and winds to 90 mph that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities, and cut power to 10's of thousands.
 
 
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FYI:
 

Obama did not come.
 
FEMA did nothing.
 
No one howled for the government.
 
No one blamed the government.
 
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
 
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
 
Our mayors did not blame Obama or anyone else.
 
Our governor did not blame Obama or anyone else, either.
 
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or even report on this Category 5 snowstorm.
 
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Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
 
Nobody - I mean nobody - insisted that the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews, and No Geraldo Rivera.
 
No Sean Penn, No Barbara Streisand,
No Brad Pitt, No Hollywood types to be found. 
 
 
 
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Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
 
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow-engulfed cars.
 
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
 
Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow-bound families.
 
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers. 
 

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We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die."
 
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin' at home' checks. 
 

Even though a  Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. 
 
 
 
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I hope this gets passed on. 
 
Maybe .....
SOME people will get the message:

The world does not owe you a living.

Humans and animals ... Thx Marge R!

I found this interesting and thought you would too:
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Great story from the past ... Thx Dr. H!

A GREAT STORY FROM THE PAST
 
In 1933,  a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her  clothes for a movie  director. She ran through  the woods, naked. She swam in a lake,  naked.  Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period.
 

 
The most  popular  movie in 1933 was King Kong. But  everyone in Hollywood was talking  about that  scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.
Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the  most beautiful woman in the  world. The film was  banned practically everywhere, which of  course  made it even more popular and valuable.  Mussolini  reportedly refused to sell his copy at  any price.

The star  of the  film, called Ecstasy, was  Hedwig Kiesler. She  said the  secret of her beauty was "to stand there and  look  stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything  but stupid. She was a  genius. She'd grown up as  the only child of a prominent Jewish  banker. She  was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all  the power her body  and mind gave her.

(She converted to Catholicism and was a "practicing Christian.")

Between  the sexual  roles she played, her tremendous  beauty, and the power of her  intellect, Kiesler  would confound the men in her life  including  her six husbands, two of the most ruthless  dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie  producers in history.
Her beauty made her  rich for a time. She is said to  have made - and spent - $30  million in her life.
 
But her greatest  accomplishment resulted from  her intellect, and her invention  continues to  shape the world we live in today.

You see,  this young  Austrian starlet would take one of  the most valuable technologies  ever developed  right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing  to  America , she not only became a major Hollywood  star, her  name sits on one of the most important  patents ever granted by the  U.S. Patent Office.

Today, when you use  your cell phone or, over the next  few years, as you experience  super-fast wireless  Internet access (via something called  "long-term  evolution" or "LTE" technology), you'll be using  an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first  conceived while sitting at  dinner with Hitler.

At the  time she  made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to  one of the richest men in Austria . Friedrich  Mandl was Austria 's leading arms maker. His  firm would become a key supplier to the  Nazis.
Mandl  used his  beautiful young wife as a showpiece at  important business dinners  with representatives  of the Austrian, Italian, and German  fascist  forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these  gatherings - which included meals with Hitler  and Mussolini - was  the technology surrounding  radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes.

Wireless weapons offered  far greater ranges than  the wire-controlled alternatives that  prevailed  at the time.
Kiesler  sat through  these dinners "looking stupid,"  while absorbing everything  she  heard.

As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her  husband's business ambitions.  Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in  his  castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she  managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the  maid's clothes and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to  London  .

 

 
(She got  out just  in time. In 1938, Germany annexed  Austria .. The Nazis seized  Mandl's factory. He  was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil .. Later,  he became an adviser to Argentina 's iconic  populist  president, Juan Peron.)

In  London , Kiesler  arranged a meeting with Louis  B. Mayer. She signed a long-term  contract with  him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She  appeared in more than 20 films. She was a  co-star to Clark Gable,  Judy Garland, and even  Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM  movies was  a blockbuster.

But  Kiesler cared  far more about fighting the Nazis  than about making movies. At the  height of her  fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of  communications system, optimized for sending  coded messages that  couldn't be "jammed." She  was building a system that would allow torpedoes  and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill  Nazis.

By the  1940s, both  the Nazis and the Allied forces were  using the kind of single-  frequency  radio-controlled technology Kiesler's ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this  technology was that the  enemy could find the  appropriate frequency and "jam" or intercept  the signal, thereby interfering with the missile's  intended  path.

Kiesler's  key  innovation was to "change the channel." It  was a way of encoding a  message across a broad  area of the wireless spectrum. If one part  of  the spectrum was jammed, the message would still  get  through on one of the other frequencies  being used. The problem  was, she could not  figure out how to synchronize the  frequency  changes on both the receiver and the  transmitter.  To solve the problem, she turned to  perhaps the world's first  techno-musician,  George Anthiel.

Anthiel  was an  acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some  notoriety for creating intricate musical  compositions. He synchronized his  melodies  across twelve player pianos, producing  stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard  before. Kiesler  incorporated Anthiel's  technology for synchronizing his player  pianos.  Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon's receiver and its transmitter.

On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was  granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey,"  which was Kiesler's married name at the time.

Most of  you won't  recognize the name Kiesler. And no one  would remember the name  Hedy Markey. But it's a  fair bet than anyone reading this  newsletter of  a certain age will remember one of the great  beauties of Hollywood's golden age ~Hedy  Lamarr.

That's the name Louis B. Mayer  gave to his prize actress. That's the name his  movie  company made famous.


 
Meanwhile,  almost  no one knows Hedwig Kiesler - aka  Hedy Lamarr - was  one of the great  pioneers of wireless communications. Her  technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which  has used it ever  since.
You're  probably  using Lamarr's technology, too. Her  patent sits at the foundation  of "spread  spectrum technology," which you use every day  when you log on to a wi-fi network or make  calls with your  Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies  at the heart of the massive  investments being  made right now in so-called  fourth-generation  "LTE" wireless technology. This next  generation  of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed  and quality, by spreading wireless signals  across the entire available spectrum.  This kind  of encoding is only possible using the kind of  frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.

And now you know the rest of the story.

India imports- Fascinating IIT ... Thx Ramey H!


This is fascinating!
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