I don't like crooks, but this is pretty imnpressive:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Prohibited animal foods
I’m told that here is a old Chinese saying that they will eat anything that swims crawls walks or flys.
In the USA, there are more cases of people being eaten by their pets, then people eating pets:
http://www.travel-golf.org/elderly_eaten_by_pets.htm
Many cultures have meat prohibition by species:
- Sacred Cows: Trying ordering beef curry in an Indian Restaurant sometime, it’s great fun!
- No Pork: Pork ain’t kosher, and ordering baby back ribs in Israel is a waste of time!
But in America we have cultural prohibitions against eating certain critters:
- Eating Horses: Horses deserve a special place in human society because they were indispensible to the advancement of humans, and it remains against the law to eat horses in the USA. President O'Bama made a campaign promise to stop horse slaughter for overseas consumption, but it never happened. Horses do not meet USDA standards for meat, and even simple horse drugs like Bute can cause their meat to be toxic and cancer causing.
- Eating companion animals – Dogs and cats are not on the menu by law in many states.
- Rabbit: While legal., there is an ”ick:” factor, and as a child, my parents always told me it was chicken and I never knew the difference.
One reason people don't eat cats is because predators taste nasty
It’s ironic that in many states it is legal to eat your Roadkill.
In Alaska they encourage people to take home a Moose treat and other states now all you to eat “road pizza”.
In some states, eating roadkill is legal, regardless of the species.
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In the USA, there are more cases of people being eaten by their pets, then people eating pets:
http://www.travel-golf.org/elderly_eaten_by_pets.htm
Many cultures have meat prohibition by species:
- Sacred Cows: Trying ordering beef curry in an Indian Restaurant sometime, it’s great fun!
- No Pork: Pork ain’t kosher, and ordering baby back ribs in Israel is a waste of time!
But in America we have cultural prohibitions against eating certain critters:
- Eating Horses: Horses deserve a special place in human society because they were indispensible to the advancement of humans, and it remains against the law to eat horses in the USA. President O'Bama made a campaign promise to stop horse slaughter for overseas consumption, but it never happened. Horses do not meet USDA standards for meat, and even simple horse drugs like Bute can cause their meat to be toxic and cancer causing.
- Eating companion animals – Dogs and cats are not on the menu by law in many states.
- Rabbit: While legal., there is an ”ick:” factor, and as a child, my parents always told me it was chicken and I never knew the difference.
One reason people don't eat cats is because predators taste nasty
It’s ironic that in many states it is legal to eat your Roadkill.
In Alaska they encourage people to take home a Moose treat and other states now all you to eat “road pizza”.
In some states, eating roadkill is legal, regardless of the species.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Why eat Possum?
I’ve eaten possum, (tastes like chicken) but hey, it's free meat. I server my kids open face sandwitches with possum gravy. My kids used to say "Mo Possum Dad, Mo Possum!".
On TV, some reporter asked a redneck why bother eating possum when you can buy a chicken at the grocery store. He replied:
Possum is free; chicken costs money!
Yummy Possums!
You don’t mind killing posssums because they are just nasty, giant hissing rats . . .
On TV, some reporter asked a redneck why bother eating possum when you can buy a chicken at the grocery store. He replied:
Possum is free; chicken costs money!
Yummy Possums!
You don’t mind killing posssums because they are just nasty, giant hissing rats . . .
Monday, January 23, 2012
Meeting a T-brid
there are two kinds of thunderbirds, the USAF air show team:
And this obscure western thunderbutt owl:
And this obscure western thunderbutt owl:
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
A smokers friemd turns ugly
I travel all over, including places where repressive regimes prohibit smoking a cigarette on a windy beach but allow Marijuana smoking!
Many folks residing in the land of fruits and nuts (hippies) think that they are free but they are too stupid to realize that they cannot light-up a Marlboro in their own back yard!
Most hippies can't find their own butts, using both hands
Smokers friend goes Nuclear
I saw this “Smoker’s Friend” a few weeks ago afar if had a major plastic meltdown, requiring a fire truck and several respirators o deal with the cancerous vapors and noxious fumes:
Boy, I’m glad I quit smoking . . . .
Many folks residing in the land of fruits and nuts (hippies) think that they are free but they are too stupid to realize that they cannot light-up a Marlboro in their own back yard!
Most hippies can't find their own butts, using both hands
Smokers friend goes Nuclear
I saw this “Smoker’s Friend” a few weeks ago afar if had a major plastic meltdown, requiring a fire truck and several respirators o deal with the cancerous vapors and noxious fumes:
Boy, I’m glad I quit smoking . . . .
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Optical edye readers for positive ID
Almost all forums of ID in secret areas have problems:
- Fingerprint readers cannot always tell if it is a severed finger.
- Optical tongue readers did not work out, too messy
- The eye however, shows the most promise.
It is also unobtrusive, since distance cameras can read your iris and identify a person:
- Fingerprint readers cannot always tell if it is a severed finger.
- Optical tongue readers did not work out, too messy
- The eye however, shows the most promise.
It is also unobtrusive, since distance cameras can read your iris and identify a person:
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 09, 2012
The wold's coolest cockpit! - The SR71!
The Seattle Air and Space museum has a Real front-end froma a real flying SR-71:
To really appreciate the SR-71 you really need to be an Air Force Brat, a kid where you would hear the tall tales of the tall men who flew these magnificent machines.
I acrually kn oew the crontrols from my FAA license:
As the Blackbird re-appeared from base OPS an hour later, the leading edges of the wing sill glowing and dull red, against the evening dusk.
It took 15 minutes to roll to the end of turn way 27, and all commercial and military aviation was grounded as they could be an eyewitness seat to wittiness a scene to such spectacular proportion that they would replay if to their grand-children.
As she lined-up o Runway 27 and gunned the twin engines, the earth shook beneath our feet like a heard of wild stallions, inside a deafening roar.
The rotation was glorious; a smooth motion skywards, nuzzling-in 60 degrees. Before the distant boom of her first sound barrier, she was over 70,000 feet and over s hun hundreds of miles away!
To really appreciate the SR-71 you really need to be an Air Force Brat, a kid where you would hear the tall tales of the tall men who flew these magnificent machines.
I acrually kn oew the crontrols from my FAA license:
As the Blackbird re-appeared from base OPS an hour later, the leading edges of the wing sill glowing and dull red, against the evening dusk.
It took 15 minutes to roll to the end of turn way 27, and all commercial and military aviation was grounded as they could be an eyewitness seat to wittiness a scene to such spectacular proportion that they would replay if to their grand-children.
As she lined-up o Runway 27 and gunned the twin engines, the earth shook beneath our feet like a heard of wild stallions, inside a deafening roar.
The rotation was glorious; a smooth motion skywards, nuzzling-in 60 degrees. Before the distant boom of her first sound barrier, she was over 70,000 feet and over s hun hundreds of miles away!
Friday, January 06, 2012
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Sitting in an SR-71
At the air museum in Seattle they ket you sit in the cockpit of a real SR-71, super-cool:
I got to see one fly many years ago, the very defintion of awesome:
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Monday, January 02, 2012
The Smokers Friend
Smokers are treated like social outcasts, but I remember the days when American's rights to abuse their lungs was respected. . .
I'm old enough to remember when:
- You could smoke a cigar in a crowded evevator
- Supermarket endcaps had ashtrays.
- You could smoke in the last 10 rows of coach on any airline flight. I was on a flight the very last day that you could smoke on an airplane.
I quit smoking years ago, but I pity to poor souls who must endure socialist oppression just because they smoke.
I was in a Socialist place recently where you cannot smoke on a windy beach!
Smokers are religated to prison-like "lepur colonies", where I noted this meltdown.
The black smoke was horrible, and they called the fire department . .
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I'm old enough to remember when:
- You could smoke a cigar in a crowded evevator
- Supermarket endcaps had ashtrays.
- You could smoke in the last 10 rows of coach on any airline flight. I was on a flight the very last day that you could smoke on an airplane.
I quit smoking years ago, but I pity to poor souls who must endure socialist oppression just because they smoke.
I was in a Socialist place recently where you cannot smoke on a windy beach!
Smokers are religated to prison-like "lepur colonies", where I noted this meltdown.
The black smoke was horrible, and they called the fire department . .
.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Fidem Scit
If you ever see a sign reading "He knows Faith" at a Christian cafateria, you reading a Latin pun, The stuff of pure nerds, almost as bad as speaking "Klingon" . . . .
Latin puns are great fun and Fidem Scit is a great one because it translates into Latin as "He knows Faith".
When pronounced it sounds just like "feed'em, shit!"
I love British food, but the first time I saw bangers and mash it reminded me of a dog taking a crap on a pile of mashed potatoes.
Fidem Scit: bangers & mash . . .
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Latin puns are great fun and Fidem Scit is a great one because it translates into Latin as "He knows Faith".
When pronounced it sounds just like "feed'em, shit!"
I love British food, but the first time I saw bangers and mash it reminded me of a dog taking a crap on a pile of mashed potatoes.
Fidem Scit: bangers & mash . . .
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