02 Mar 2020 at 10:01:39
· Filed under Arizona, Critters, Family, Media, Retirement
Posted by CapnBob
First of all, Happy Birthday to our beloved Beethoven (a.k.a “Bay Bay”) who is ten years old today. He is the youngest of the two Miniature Pinchers that run our household. We adopted him about eight and a half years ago and, needless to say, is a beloved family member.
Image - Bay Bay at Ten - Click to enlarge
Spring months bring a flurry of birthdays and such to our household and the family in general. Between now and the end of April, birthdays for all three of our granddaughters and one great granddaughter will occur. Moreover, we will probably have another April birthday this year as our middle granddaughter is expecting another little sister to her three year old on her 27th birthday. That will make a total of four great grandchildren. And tomorrow is the 24th birthday of our youngest granddaughter, who is engaged to be married at a date not yet known to us. Perhaps in June.
In other events, we are expecting a call from the Vision Center where both Damsel and I had our eyes examined and ordered new glasses. They typically are ready after a week or so and we will be making a second trip down to the valley (about 35 miles distant) to retrieve the new eyewear.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is being reported ad nauseum by the FakeNewsMedia© who blow it out of proportion mainly to discredit President Trump. The Media and Democrats (repeating myself) couldn’t give a red rodent rectum about the victims of a pandemic and merely use it to try and make the administration look bad - Trump Derangement Syndrome.
In the business news, the misreporting of the virus story has spooked investors to the point where our holdings in mutual funds have declined considerably, but not to the point of despair. We’re looking at it as an opportunity to eventually get back to where it was before because the distributions will now buy more shares at a discounted price. We remain solvent.
Our desert home is showing signs of spring already. There are flower buds appearing on many of the native and imported cacti around the yard. We were supposed to get some rain today, but currently it is sunny with no echoes visible on the radar in our vicinity. Although it will remain cool today thanks to a frontal passage, we will be expecting highs in the 70s later this week. We wish everyone (including ourselves) a nice, early spring.
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20 Apr 2015 at 21:44:30
· Filed under Firearms, Media, Military, Patriotism, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
If modern mainstream media had reported the news in Lexington 240 years ago today, we might have seen this sort of nonsense in black and white:
Read it all - it’s kinda cool. Click on the image if you don’t have your bifocals. Found on Fecesbook™.
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02 May 2014 at 18:43:14
· Filed under Beltway Kabuki, Media, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
Eric Allie’s take on the classic three monkeys . . .
Via The Patriot Post.
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04 Apr 2014 at 14:50:49
· Filed under Greenbats, Media, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
Greg Pollowitz at Planet Gore wrote a rebuttal to a Time Magazine article entitled “No, It’s Not Safe to Pee in the Pool, Says Science.” The Time article claimed that components in the urine could combine with chlorine to produce chemicals potentially dangerous to humans.
While the “scientific” analysis that dangerous chemicals are produced was basically true, the quantities of chemicals were not discussed. Pollowitz wondered how many people urinating in a pool would be needed to kill a swimmer. He found additional research on the topic and discovered that to produce dangerous chemicals in an Olympic-sized pool, you would need about three million swimmers peeing in the pool. THREE MILLION! But wait, it gets better.
However, there’s a problem. The researchers in the paper showed that for a concentration of 0.33 millimoles of chlorine per liter (about 15 mg/L), the dilute concentration of uric acid (5×10-5 moles per liter) eliminated all of the free chlorine. Hence, if we want chlorinated water that can actually turn all of the uric acid we’re peeing in it into cyanogen chloride, we need a more concentrated chlorinated solution.
If an approximately one-hundredth-strength-of-pee concentration of uric acid uses up 15mg/L chlorinated water, we need super chlorinated water-—on the order of 1500mg/L, or roughly half a liter of chlorine per liter of water.
In the end, we need a pool that is two parts water to one part chlorine and would probably burn the eyeballs out of your sockets and make your skin peel away from your bones (this calls for a pool boy who can only be criminally sadistic). If you and three million other people could get at this pool and unload your pee into it before your bodies melted, before the crowd crushed you to death, and before you drowned from the massive tidal wave of pee… yes, you could feasibly die of cyanogen chloride poisoning originating from chlorinated water and pee.
To conclude, Pollowitz wrote:
And that’s why, boys and girls, we don’t trust everything we read in the MSM.
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16 Mar 2014 at 10:12:55
· Filed under Beltway Kabuki, Media, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
. . . and the mass media ignores it. Ramirez, however, pens this insightful editorial cartoon:
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08 Jun 2013 at 12:18:40
· Filed under Beltway Kabuki, Media, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
Eric Allie Cartoon via The Patriot Post.
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19 Apr 2013 at 17:23:45
· Filed under Humor, Media, Whacko Politics
Posted by CapnBob
Here’s two different cartoons that basically demonstrate how the media works . . .
First, from Rick McKee:
and then from Gary Varvel:
Both via The Patriot Post.
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First of all, Happy Birthday to our beloved Beethoven (a.k.a “Bay Bay”) who is ten years old today. He is the youngest of the two Miniature Pinchers that run our household. We adopted him about eight and a half years ago and, needless to say, is a beloved family member.
