Be careful of those squirrles when you are racing around the neighborhood. They can be spotted in the rearview mirror best doing the following.
June 17, 2010
Optical illusions.
Pay close attention, or you may miss it. Instructions on how to make your own at http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/articles/opticalillusions/dragon_illusion/dragon.pdf
September 2, 2010
Mid term elections are coming up. Everyone can see November 2010 from here. And many are getting ready to vote against the incumbency. The Democrats and their dismal, and highly partisan performance thus far, has alienated many near and far. People are rightly fed up with the current state of affairs in this country, and plan on showing their disapproval at the voting booth.
Anti-Democratic Sentiment Aids GOP Lead in 2010 Vote. Gallup.
Gallup finds a higher proportion of voting against the incumbent party than in past midterm election cycles, with close to half of Republican voters saying their vote is based on opposition to the Democrats. This reflects frustration with the direction of the country under President Obama and the Democratic Congress — the poll finds 20% of Americans satisfied with the way thing are going in the country. Along the same lines, 35% of registered voters say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who opposes President Obama, while a smaller 27% say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports him.
Hot Air reads the cards on the table. Gallup: Antagonistic voting hits historical high.
That probably means that Democrats can’t reverse the tide by running against George W. Bush and demonizing Republicans. They have to find a positive message about their own performance that will cool voter anger and give them a shot at limiting their losses. Unfortunately, their tone-deaf focus on forcing an unpopular overhaul of the health-care system while ignoring the fact that their stimulus didn’t work has doomed that effort in this election cycle.
Why yes, Obamacare really chafes the American publlic. 58% Favor Repeal of the Health Care Law, 36% Are Opposed . Rasmussen.
There continues to be a huge divide on this issue between the Political Class and Mainstream Voters. Among the Mainstream, 65% favor repeal. Among the Political Class, 80% are opposed.
Goodness. The unemployment rate is 9.6% August 2010! Employment Situation Summary. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The number of unemployed persons (14.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.6 percent) were little changed in August. From May through August, the jobless rate remained in the range of 9.5 to 9.7 percent. (See table A-1.)
So unemployment continues to remain high despite the Democrats costly economic stimulus plans, and there is still a clear majority of voters who disagree with health care reform passed by the Democrats. No surprise that employers trying to cope with ever-increasing premiums, are now starting to pass it on. As predicted, employers pushing more health insurance costs on employees. AT. All the Democrats can think of now is Congress may extend unemployment benefits. Reuters. Dems may benefit from reading Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail. WSJ.
Then there is the severely anemic economy. 8 in 10 Americans Say Economy Is Bad. CBS. The Democrats have clearly shown that Bad Medicine Begets Bad Economy. Forbes.
Analysis: Time has run out for Obama, Democrats on economy, unemployment before November vote. Washington Examiner. The Labor Day Weekend has kicked off. Likewise, the campaign season before November elections. And the mood of America is well-known.
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Also at Free Republic.
If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a Republican doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a Democrat doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Democrats demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a Republican reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. A Democrat will delete it because he’s “offended”.
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Probably not a good sign when you ask the doorman to get your car, and you see this when you walk out the door.
“Police car limousine.”
Image courtesy of http://www.holyegg.com/index.php?id=1120.
Mannequins are ripe for the prankster.
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How A Cadaver Made Your Car Safer. Jalopnik.
Well the automobile manufacturers will deny they use dead human bodies in their safety testing of cars. Instead, they farm out the work to universities who have access to cadavers, and can easily study the sturdiness of the technological marvels coming off assembly lines before they hit the showrooms and streets.
How they do it. Image here.
Typically in cadaver tests, as the one pictured here run by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, researchers swaddle the body in stockings, including one over its face, partly for scientific reasons and partly out of respect. The arms and hands, if still attached, are bound in place to keep them from moving during a simulated crash, and sensors record the forces on various parts.
Alas, a modicum of respect for the dead. It appears the number of cadaver studies has been diminishing over the years now that computer models and simulation has advanced. Apparently, quite a bit has been discerned.
But is it right or is it wrong? You be the judge.
Prasad says as good as computer models are, they still can’t capture the exact essence of how human tissue reacts.
“It’s always a good idea when you’re developing something to do cadaver testing,” he said.
Here is a human partaking in an airbag test. Ouch! Did that blow to the belly trigger a visit to bathroom right quick afterwards?
June 9, 2010
A report by NBC in Kansas City, Missouri Government Videos Raise Cadaver Questions written version. Video version at You Tube. The report raises the question of deception in not entirely revealing the plans for a body donated to science.
November 21, 2008
Bottom line is that if you donate your body to science, then they have the final say in what exactly happens to you once you are in their possession. Even if you are unaware of the breadth of the possibilities. It is likely to help advance science, nonetheless. Chop, chop. Bump, thump. Fling, flung. Crunch, crush.
One particularly illuminating example of what happens during testing came from a comment by SeanKHotay. His personal observations from a presentation by a professor studying impacts in a boxer and a cadaver in a crash test.
His first video was of a boxer sparring while wearing head gear with load cells to measure the force of the blows with a pony tail of wires down his back…
The next was of cadavers getting hit from different angles just to show the flexing of the skull before fracturing…
He then showed an x-ray of a skull where they obviously had drilled holes to put load cells inside the skull, wires coming out of it, to further measure blunt force head trauma…
As Margo Channing who played Bette Davis in “All About Eve,” said,
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!
“Crash test dummies. Vince and Larry, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s talking crash test dummies. The people behind the masks in this photo are Katie Snipes as Larry and Michael Dawson as Vince.
Image courtesy of http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ncdiv/docs/patbroc.htm and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dummies.jpg.
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One day an old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old German Shepherd thinks, ‘Oh, oh! I’m in deep doo-doo now!’ Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly, ‘Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?’
Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. ‘Whew!’ says the panther, ‘That was close! That old German Shepherd nearly had me!’
Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the panther. So, off he goes.
The squirrel soon catches up with the panther, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the panther.
The young panther is furious at being made a fool of and says, ‘Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving canine!
Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, ‘What am I am going to do now?’, but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says…
‘Where’s that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!
Moral of this story…
Don’t mess with the old dogs… Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery! BS and brilliance only come with age and experience.
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April 11, 2008
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August 30, 2010
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