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I'm an artist, educator, militant anti-theist , and I write. I gamble on just about anything. And I like beer...but I love my wife. This blog contains observations from a funny old man who gets pissed off every once in a while.

Monday, October 19, 2015

MONDAY #2496


One Of My Very Own…
Sorry.




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And right when I start thinking that humanity has a chance, there is this news. My wife delivered another huge load of diapers and wipes, etc, for the flood victims and the woman in charge immediately took out a Sharpie marker and blacked out all the bar codes. When asked why she would do such a thing, the woman said that people are going from aid station to aid station and carting off as many diapers, etc, as they can get, then returning them to stores for a cash refund. That kind of turns my stomach.



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NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory captures a rare image of the far side of the moon fully illuminated, as it crosses the earth.

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I only have one large piece, the mannequin with the ammo belt filled with rolls of dollars on it. I think this would be a great way to display it.

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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans . . . We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

- Hawking

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PUBLIC STATEMENTS

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After it flew proudly over Baltimore during the final battle of the war, Lt. Col. George Armistead took the impressively huge 30-foot-by-42-foot flag home as a keepsake, while Francis Scott Key wrote the shiny new nation's anthem in its honor. When Armistead died, he passed it on to his wife, and when she died in 1861, it passed again to their daughter, Georgiana Armistead, who thought it was so lovely, she couldn't bear to keep it all to herself.
 The Star-Spangled Banner is the Smithsonian's most prized possession, but before it landed in their collection it was savaged by the scissors of Georgiana Armistead, daughter of Lt. Col. George Armistead, who received the flag after the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.

Georgiana began to shop the banner around to museums that wanted to borrow it, but it wasn't enough for people to just see it on display -- they wanted to own a piece of history, too. And so, bombarded with requests for fragments of the flag, Georgiana began snipping pieces off of it and handing them out to whomever she deemed worthy. It was considered a great honor, usually bestowed on worthy folks like war heroes and famed politicians -- but she was still tearing off pieces of the Star-Spangled Banner like they were tabs at the bottom of a "Free Guitar Lessons" flier.

When I saw it, I thought all the holes were British rocket or cannon damage.

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Actual scene from a Nigerian movie

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The Mateba MTR-8 revolver is one of most unusual weapons of its class...
 I don't see why this configuration would be advantageous.

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Want to guess what this is?
 A big-rig containing millions of bees overturned on the highway, and the swarm promptly attached itself to the first responders.

The officers decided to remain in their vehicles.

Speaking of bees...
This guy's hives have shapes.

Afterwords the wax is molded to that shape.

Speaking of shaping things...

Dave Barkby's big ass lathe.


He starts with something like this...

And turns them into things like this...

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Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose,”  probably lost.

- Martina Navratilova

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I tried to load a much longer version of this before, but no luck.
The kid actually tossed all three pillows into a pile, then tumbled off the bed onto the cushioning. 

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I need jokes.
 I will give a bar a gold to anyone who sends me a good joke I haven't heard before.
First 1000 entrants only.

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They gave a lot of thought picking out not only the letters to be used, but the font.
Notice how each letter has about the same "weight." No I's or M's or W's. And each letter more or less fills its space with ink at the top, bottom and both sides...no T. 

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An excellent example of customer service in this airport.

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A Congressman drank the Pope's leftover water. The congressman also gave some of the papal water to his wife Debra, and two staff members, to drink. He then invited A US Senato into his office. That guy brought his wife and mother and they all placed their fingers in the glass.

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And he looks EXACTLY like you would expect such a man to look.

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This teacher had sex with a 15-year-old boy (statutory rape) around 50 times, admitted to it, and now faces 250 hours community service with no jail time.
Yeah, women want to be treated equally. 

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When they told us to "simulate being engaged," they should have specified, "by the enemy."
 "Our privates are touching." -- Commanding Officer


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The instrument shown here is one of the three original lyres of Ur found in 1929, which are held today in the Museums of Pennsylvania, London and Baghdad as unplayable models.

It is approximately 4,550 years old and is thought to predate the construction of the Great Pyramid, and even Stonehenge in England.

There is also a CD of music played on a replica on Youtube.

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I dare you to predict how this ends.
But who the fuck remains calm enough to just stand there and film it?

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A nuclear reactor being forged...

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A vicar clearing out a cupboard at his church found a forgotten first edition King James Bible dating back to 1611.

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Pedestrian street crossing lights...
They need those in the Five Points area of my city.

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Said to be a bridge fire.
Notice how the rails look like cables; and how one support knocks over the next.
You think that was staged?

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Scientists are especially concerned about an anomalous area of record-LOW temperatures near Greenland. There is strong evidence that this is a consequence of the long-term decline of the Gulf Stream System, in response to global warming.
In 2005, British researchers noticed that the net flow of the northern Gulf Stream had decreased by about 30% since 1957. Coincidentally, scientists at Woods Hole had been measuring the freshening of the North Atlantic as Earth becomes warmer. Their findings suggested that precipitation increases in the high northern latitudes, and polar ice melts as a consequence. By flooding the northern seas with lots of extra fresh water, global warming could, in theory, divert the Gulf Stream waters that usually flow northward, past the British Isles and Norway, and cause them to instead circulate toward the equator. If this were to happen, Europe's climate would be seriously impacted.

That has happened before during the Little Ice Age that was going on during the American Revolution. London was covered in feet of snow. 

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Reusable cloth sanitary pads.
I have no idea what to say about that.

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In Madison alone, 1,000 black children were arrested in 2013, but only 3,247 black children live in Madison.
Sirena Flores, 17, said she was arrested for “blocking traffic” during a peaceful protest. Charles Jargue, 18, said he was ticketed as a 10 year old for “running in the street.” One 15-year-old said she was cited for disorderly conduct for picnicking in a restricted area of a park.

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My wife has OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but not for very long.


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This reminds me of my blog.

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A school district has banned elementary students from playing the game of tag.

The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety. This means while at play, especially during recess and unstructured time, students are expected to keep their hands to themselves. The rationale behind this is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students.


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That's a good thing, right? Right?

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Based on the 5-point Health Star Rating system, foods containing gluten were rated as healthy as gluten-free foods.


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I don't think she's listening properly. 

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An Orca eats a dolphin. I didn't know they did that.
I'm going to assume the dolphin was sick or injured. 

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When the NHL goes into overtime now, the competition is 3-on-3.


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I finally reached my goal weight of Don’t Care.


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Turn in your man-card.

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This is what full mobility means.
They simply don't have the time or resource to deal with you. 
During the war, my grandmother would take old men's suits with thin butt and knees and elbows and recut them to form a woman's suit with skirt.

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The onset of sleep in most primates (including modern humans) is often accompanied by a hypnic or hypnagogic jerk, which is a sudden muscle reflexive movement that frequently awakens the sleeper. Although the ultimate cause of the hypnic jerk is unknown, a common hypothesis is that it is an archaic reflex to the brain's misinterpreting the muscle relaxation accompanying the onset of sleep as a signal that the sleeping primate is falling out of a tree. The reflex may also have had selective value by having the sleeper readjust or review his or her sleeping position in a nest or on a branch in order to assure that a fall did not occur.

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