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Funny (strange?) Stuff
Thursday, March 05, 2009
WHAT DOES A TRILLION DOLLARS LOOK LIKE?
I don’t think ANY of us really know what a trillion means…..despite the fact that the number is being thrown around with abandon, these days. I remember when a $400,000,000,000.00 (four hundred billion dollars) was an UNCONSIONABLE deficit…..but that was a long time ago - back when a Republican was in the White House. Now, the government can commit to spending well over one trillion dollars it doesn’t have (meaning it will borrow or print the money), and (almost) everyone is cheering.
Anyhow, thanks to Jonah Goldberg at THE CORNER, I’ve been to a website where one can see in a very graphic fashion the full reality of $1,000,000,000,000.00 (one trillion dollars). Get ready, because it’s a little bit shocking. OK…..(I’m not making this up).....(don’t say I didn’t warn you)........HERE IT IS.
Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • Politics • Domestic • Government Outrage • Economics •
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
IS IT IN YOU…...?
Takes off from a recent ad campaign (that I haven’t seen) in a delightful way…...
Hat Tip: The PHIL FILES
Sunday, December 14, 2008
YOU PROBABLY THINK ALL THIS CARPING ABOUT THE NANNY STATE IN ENGLAND IS EXAGGERATION, DON’T YOU?
Well, try this on for size…..
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Fire extinguishers could be removed from communal areas in flats throughout the country because they are a safety hazard, it has emerged.
The life-saving devices encourage untrained people to fight a fire rather than leave the building, risk assessors in Bournemouth decided.
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They know BETTER THAN WE DO WHAT’S GOOD FOR US.. And since we won’t do the right thing on our own, they’ll simply make us! Remember….it’s for your own good.
Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE • (0) Comments •
Thursday, December 11, 2008
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? THEY’RE REAL, YOU KNOW…......YOU CAN SEE THEM!
You have to go where it’s REALLY COLD, so they don’t deteriorate over time…...we’re speaking, of course, of the abandoned structures left behind over the years, as courageous human beings explored the least known continent on earth…..
Saturday, December 06, 2008
PLAXICO BURRESS RECENTLY SHOT HIMSELF WITH AN UNREGISTERED GUN…...UPDATED
....and since making a Public Service Announcement on the importance of gun safety is commonly part of the restitution ordered by the court, someone has imagined what Plaxico’s would be like.
(For those not in the know….PLAXICO BURRESS plays football for the New York Giants, and was RECENTLY IN THE NEWS when he carried an unregistered gun into a NY nightclub and accidentally shot himself in the leg.)
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Don’t miss it!
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Miscellany • Funny (strange?) Stuff • SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE • Politics • Second Amendment • (0) Comments •
Thursday, November 06, 2008
READY FOR A CAR FUELED BY *AIR*.......?
Well, OK…...the “fuel” isn’t air, of course. The power source is an engine that uses compressed air to drive the pistons…..but the energy to compress the air is produced by some more conventional power source. Central generation of electricity is more efficient than burning hydrocarbons in individual cars, they tell us - so these cars qualify as “green”, even when they come in other colors…...
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Nègre and company assert the AirPod can hit 43 mph, by way of MDI’s 5.45 hp compressed-air motor with traditional pistons like an internal combustion engine. At 15-20 miles per hour, they say, the AirPod has a range of 130+ miles per tankful. Sporting a body of plastic composite, the AirPod is just 82 inches long, 63 inches wide and 79 inches high, and expected to come in passenger and cargo versions, each weighing under 500 pounds.
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This particular one is a replacement for the golf cart in many applications, it seems to me. But larger and more powerful ones are promised. Many questions remain…..
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
GOING GREEN? SAM’s CLUB MAY NOT BE THE FIRST PLACE YOU THINK OF…..
But, they’re about to begin selling an electric car…...
THIS electric car:
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READ ALL ABOUT IT
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