Our planet from space. But you'd better watch this full screen or I slappa u face!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Seven magnetos, 56 spark plugs, and 28 cylinders.
It's a Pratt and Whitney 4360 Wasp radial engine introduced in 1944, and freshly restored.
Turn up the volume and run the wife, the cat and anyone else who doesn't like the roar of raw power out of the room.
Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20 first start from Dave O on Vimeo.
Some more stories on corncobs and Corsairs.
It's a Pratt and Whitney 4360 Wasp radial engine introduced in 1944, and freshly restored.
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Turn up the volume and run the wife, the cat and anyone else who doesn't like the roar of raw power out of the room.
Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20 first start from Dave O on Vimeo.
Some more stories on corncobs and Corsairs.
"My personal political journey began about five years ago when I was sitting at a business luncheon in Houston, listening to a presentation by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher. He showed a series of slides with typical Fed fare: deficits, interest rates, home prices, mortgage markets.
This was before the financial crisis, and the economy still seemed strong. But Fisher was not so optimistic, and his talk was a little unnerving. At the end, he said words to the effect, “All of this probably sounds scary, but the next slide that I’m going to show you is the one that keeps me up at night. If you are concerned about your country, it should keep you up at night too.”
On the screen appeared one number: $84 trillion. “That is the unfunded liability of Medicare,” Fisher said.
I quickly ran the math and realized this was almost $300,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States, including my wife, my five kids, and me. I was stunned.
After the luncheon, I made my way through the crowd to find Fisher. I expressed my bewilderment and said the number couldn’t possibly be true. “It’s true, “ he replied. “It’s one of the first questions I asked my research staff when I joined the Fed, and it has been checked and double-checked.”
“How did this happen?” I asked.
He looked at me and said one word: “Congress.”
And keep in mind that that is just Medicare. It doesn't consider Social Security, or this new boondoggle, Obamacare, or all the debt the government has added on during the Obama administration.
Since the political class has created these enormous debts, and is adding to them daily, we can for sure know they will not stop until the entire financial edifice comes crashing down, or they print money until every dollar is worthless.
As the system is currently structured, how could they do otherwise?
As the system is currently structured, how could they do otherwise?
Prepare accordingly.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
SCOTUS upholds Obamacare.
I guess we all exist to serve the government now, not the other way around. I for one welcome our new government overlords, as we must recognize that most of America now wants and in fact needs some entity or person to act as a parental figure, to provide for our basic needs, and to make sure we don't fall down and go boom.
Now that we know that the government can pass any law regulating our lives, we should learn to love this new, benevolent oversight of every bit of our existence. We must accept that faceless bureaucrats will now make the most critical decisions about our health care, and as a derivative power, will need to make sure that our lifestyle "choices" do not unfairly cost the government healthcare money they otherwise would not have to spend.
The "Eat Your Broccoli" act, or it's equivalent, cannot be far away now.
Expect the all powerful government to eventually, probably sooner rather than later, require all Americans to eat what they say they should eat, workout on a government schedule, and avoid activities that might be unusually dangerous, like rock climbing, sky diving, driving, drinking out of the creek, or running with scissors. Seriously.
I think that the country has well and truly screwed itself. By voting in these Democrats/Liberals/ Progressives, they have ceded their freedom, their individuality, their right to make their own decisions and their liberty to the government.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time, as the margin of error at the SCOTUS was only one for many years; a thin reed to rest the most basic liberties and values on in any case. Now one of those reeds has broken, and with it has gone our most precious rights.
Although there is a slight hope that Obamacare can be repealed, that possibility rests on so many things that would need to happen just right, and on the resolution of so many politicians that see their interest as maintaining the law, that the chances of that happening are just too small to think that this trend will be reversed.
Hold out your hands, Americans, so that they can be fitted for their chains and for slavery, the chains with which you have voted to bind yourselves.
Almighty God has not forbidden it, after all.
I guess we all exist to serve the government now, not the other way around. I for one welcome our new government overlords, as we must recognize that most of America now wants and in fact needs some entity or person to act as a parental figure, to provide for our basic needs, and to make sure we don't fall down and go boom.
Now that we know that the government can pass any law regulating our lives, we should learn to love this new, benevolent oversight of every bit of our existence. We must accept that faceless bureaucrats will now make the most critical decisions about our health care, and as a derivative power, will need to make sure that our lifestyle "choices" do not unfairly cost the government healthcare money they otherwise would not have to spend.
The "Eat Your Broccoli" act, or it's equivalent, cannot be far away now.
Expect the all powerful government to eventually, probably sooner rather than later, require all Americans to eat what they say they should eat, workout on a government schedule, and avoid activities that might be unusually dangerous, like rock climbing, sky diving, driving, drinking out of the creek, or running with scissors. Seriously.
I think that the country has well and truly screwed itself. By voting in these Democrats/Liberals/ Progressives, they have ceded their freedom, their individuality, their right to make their own decisions and their liberty to the government.
Perhaps it was only a matter of time, as the margin of error at the SCOTUS was only one for many years; a thin reed to rest the most basic liberties and values on in any case. Now one of those reeds has broken, and with it has gone our most precious rights.
Although there is a slight hope that Obamacare can be repealed, that possibility rests on so many things that would need to happen just right, and on the resolution of so many politicians that see their interest as maintaining the law, that the chances of that happening are just too small to think that this trend will be reversed.
Hold out your hands, Americans, so that they can be fitted for their chains and for slavery, the chains with which you have voted to bind yourselves.
Almighty God has not forbidden it, after all.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
For a bit of good news on a Wednesday evening, it is encouraging to hear that the Masterlock company is returning more and more of it's manufacturing to good old Milwaukee, Wisconsin from far away China.
This American icon has discovered that it is just as cheap to make their locks here, and they can better control quality as well. Further, they can avoid a labor situation that has become more unpredictable over time. Although they maintain a factory in China, production there is almost all for the Asian markets, and even some of the American production is now sent to Asian markets.
The company notes that their Milwaukee factory is now at full capacity, something that hasn't occurred in 15 years.
More please.
This American icon has discovered that it is just as cheap to make their locks here, and they can better control quality as well. Further, they can avoid a labor situation that has become more unpredictable over time. Although they maintain a factory in China, production there is almost all for the Asian markets, and even some of the American production is now sent to Asian markets.
The company notes that their Milwaukee factory is now at full capacity, something that hasn't occurred in 15 years.
More please.
The corrupt Holder Justice Department has been trying to keep Florida from purging it's voter rolls of dead people, illegal aliens and others who should not be voting at all. Contrary to their contention that Florida is trying to prevent legitimate voters from voting, they are really attempting to allow as many ineligible people to vote for Democrats as possible.
Sorry if that offends you, but that is my opinion of what they are up to.
Now, a federal district court judge, appointed by Clinton, has slapped the Justice Department down, ruling that the state has the right to purge the rolls of ineligible voters at any time.
Now, that is a legal appetizer for tomorrow's feast of crow for the despicable Eric Holder.
Sorry if that offends you, but that is my opinion of what they are up to.
Now, a federal district court judge, appointed by Clinton, has slapped the Justice Department down, ruling that the state has the right to purge the rolls of ineligible voters at any time.
Now, that is a legal appetizer for tomorrow's feast of crow for the despicable Eric Holder.
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