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Something to ponder
Railroad tracks
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. Thats an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because thats the way they built them in England , and English expatriates designed the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and thats the gauge they used.
Why did they use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular
odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because thats the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. In other words, bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process, and wonder, What horses behind came up with this? , you may be exactly right.
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses behind.)
Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, you will notice that there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah .
The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit larger, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature
of what is arguably the worlds most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horses behind. And you thought being a horses behind wasnt important?
So, Horses behinds control almost everything
Explains a whole lot of things,
doesnt it?
Article source: http://friendsnews.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/something-to-ponder/
A couple of things
First, have you checked out Tara’s newly-designed blog?! It looks great! And I’m not just saying that because she’s my wife. Well, not entirely, anyway. But seriously, it looks good. Here’s the link: http://tarasfaves.com/
And on a completely unrelated subject, the following pretty much explains our stand on the whole “gay marriage” issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfFa44p96o&feature=player_embedded
How to make up fake news stories about Obama
Just follow the template, below:
- “Why can’t Obama __________?” (cut the national debt / end the war in Iraq / end the war in Afghanistan / do something else that no Republican or even TP’er president would ever be caught dead trying to do)
- “Obama is about to stab America and Americans in the back by _____.” (starting a war with Iran / not starting a war with Iran / instituting sharia law / not letting american christians eliminate science from the public schools / preventing oil companies from drilling in Yellowstone National Park / hiring chinese instead of American contractors to build the secret government FEMA slave labor camps).
- “Yesterday Obama met with _____ (William Ayers / ACORN / the Black Panthers / any person of color, but don’t SAY that, just show a picture) instead of attending the meeting of ______________.” (the Boy Scouts / the NRA / Crippled Republican Veterans Against Muslim Encroachment / Christians Who Hate Obama But Get Mad When He Won’t Meet Publicly With Them)
- “Obama’s _____ (mother / father / grandmother / high school basketball coach / secret gay lover) is/was _____.” (not really dead / murdered / a drug addict / not really married / really married to their next-door neighbor / really Hillary Clinton / also a Secret Muslim)
- “Today President Obama _____. (tripped / stammered / dropped a pencil / was not perfect AGAIN / scratched his ass).
- He and the entire Democratic party are running scared because his poll numbers _____. (have been plummeting for two years now / mean that the Democratic party might lose seats in Congress in November / are much worse in Rasmussen polls than in any other polls / are always better than Sarah Palin’s)
- Republicans have rallied by _____.” (filibustering legislation that they actually support / keeping vital legislation bottled up in the Senate / editing a videotaped speech by someone in the federal government so it seems to say the opposite of what they actually were saying / pandering to the lunatic right wing of their party / getting Dick Cheney to imply America will be attacked again soon as punishment for its voting for a Democratic president)
- “In fighting Obama and his Package, congressional Republicans are _____.” (mobilizing their base by revealing its true size and also exciting them about big government trends / fighting to keep him from changing the U.S. motto to “Once You Go Black You Never Go Back” / preparing to disclose that he is the REAL father of Lanesia Garcia’s baby / trying to keep Larry Craig from suddenly changing parties)
Quote of the day
“Watching Titanic [the part where the ship is sinking] is like watching the U.S. economy, where the rich conspire to sink as many of the poor as they possibly can.”
– Bill Holmes (yes, I thought this one up myself!)
Birther Update — May 16, 2010 (pt 2)
I also read the story at WorldNetDaily, which is just as disappointing as the affidavit. Its core thesis, which is stated repeatedly, is that said SSN# must have been obtained fraudulently since Obama had NO connection, particularly no family connection, to the state of Connecticut:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=152773
Except, of course, that his dad lived there. Wups! DARN those fifth-column journalists! Can’t even run a deranged wingnut website these days without damned college-educated spell-checking commie liberals spoiling your beautiful “facts”. Oh, for the good old Swiftboat days:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2999618/obama_social_security_number_fraud.html?cat=9
Back to the Daniels affidavit, if you look closely enough at the exhibits you can see that the radioactive SSN# she is talking about appears to be “042-68-4425″. So in an attempt to cut right to the chase, I researched this number on my own on that impeccable source, USAPeopleSearch.com, and found out that the number had indeed NOT originally been assigned to “Barack Hussein Obama”. It had been issued to — are you ready for this? — SATAN! I know you’re surprised. And what’s more, it was issued at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 B.C., which (thanks to Bishop Ussher) we all know is the EXACT ACTUAL MOMENT THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED. I can’t think that there’s any doubt of ANY kind now about what is going on in the dark corners of American politics. More to come on this.
In a related matter, Shapeshifter-In-Chief Obama is being tried for sedition AS I SPEAK, in a Harlem church. Remember that in the 10th amendment the Founding Fathers stated that rights not given to the federal government were given to the states and citizenry. That means that anyone can hold a trial at any time and convict anyone else of anything they can think of. This is a time-honored American tradition portrayed in many Hollywood westerns and known in the vernacular as a “kangaroo court”. I am sharing this information with you to help fight the massive media blackout that is hiding this trial and keeping all the sheeple in ignorance as to what is REALLY happening. Gee, I wonder what the verdict will be:
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2010/05/obama-treason-trials-start-thursday.html
Fortunately, Salon.com is doing their bit for democracy by covering this trial. And I’m sure they are doing it straight. Because how could anyone laugh at this kind of thing?
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html
Keep the faith, fellow birthers. Remember that the facts have a well-known liberal bias, which is why we refuse to have anything to do with them. And I’ll keep you all posted.
Birther Update — May 16, 2010 (pt 1)
A couple of days ago I alerted you all to the fact that President Barack Obama is a centuries-old serial-killing vampire, as evidenced by:
the fact that he has used a social security number with a prefix from Connecticut (when he should be using one with a Kenyan prefix); AND/OR
the fact that said number is actually the SSN# of someone who was born in 1890; AND/OR
the fact that he was using multiple misspellings of his name in multiple states with multiple SSN#s; AND/OR
the fact that said number was originally issued to Vinz Clortho, Keymaster for Gozer the Gozarian.
The birtherspace is alive with excitement. There’s so much evidence of so many different types of malfeasance! It’s like lunchtime at The Golden Corral! Why choose? LET’S SWALLOW EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!
But, let’s not be gluttons. Since the Snopes team is dragging its feet on this vital and urgent topic, I decided to take it upon myself to investigate this crucial area. First, in order to help possibly eliminate some of these glorious possibilities, I accessed the affidavit filed by Dr. Taitz’s most recent stooge, I mean one of the two private investigators involved in the SSN# brouhaha, Susan Daniels. Oddly enough, it appears that most of what Ms. Daniels is asserting in her interviews is not in the affidavit, presumably because when you lie under oath you can get in trouble whereas when you lie to WorldNetDaily you get paid extra for it.
In summary, her affidavit (1) lists numerous variant spellings of “Barack H. Obama” at different Chicago addresses and (2) explicitly states that only one social security number is involved. BORing….
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21193983/DOC-86-2-Keyes-v-Obama-Affidavit-of-Susan-Daniels-Refiled
Interestingly, the name of the malefactor in question is spelled “Barrack” throughout the affidavit. This COULD just be a typical example of birther illiteracy SORRY I mean birther expression of freedom of speech (which would include freedom of spelling too, wouldn’t it?). Still, it is a little odd. Maybe she’s not talking about the president at all, since she never identifies him as such — could it be some other ‘Barrack’ Obama that the affidavit is really about? And I’m also curious about this “refiled” in the title. It suggests that the affidavit must be originally from one of Sore-Loser SORRY I meant to say Also-A-Black-Guy-American-Patriot Alan Keyes’ long-ago-thrown-out-of-court-Obama-eligibility cases. Well, waste not, want not; why can’t birthers recycle too? It must get awfully expensive having to make up brand-new stuff all the time. And it’s not like any of these clowns is being picky about what they choose to believe in. Steve, could you ask your pastor at church tomorrow about the spelling of Barack and the refiled thing, and let me know? because I can’t find out anything from my own minister at the “Church of the Secret Muslim Flying Spaghetti Monster” even though I pay extra in order to have access to Obama’s latest plans for world domination.
Birther Update — May 14, 2010 (pt 2)
About a third of all birthers (who currently constitute approximately 20% of Americans; the same 20% who approved of G.W. as he rode off into the sunset, I guess) approve of Obama and his work to date in office. (Go figure. They may be the only ones who do.) Also, people without high school degrees are twice as likely to be birthers as those with postgraduate degrees. This constitutes scientific evidence that education turns people into communists, probably by FORCING them to read the Constitution and learn the actual definition of terms like “natural born”:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004463-503544.html
Another one of Orly Taitz’s suits challenging President Obama’s citizenship, plus a “slew of other counts”, has been dismissed. However, all is not lost; her claim that his signing of the health care bill was unconstitutional was dismissed on a sheer technicality — the fact that the bill had not been signed at the time that she filed the claim. Curses! foiled again! But probably Dr. Taitz can re-submit her claim in a more timely fashion. All birthers wishing to support Dr. Taitz and her various causes should do so by letting her do their root canals:
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/04/judge-dismisses-suit-by-birther-activist-orly-taitz.html
Birther Update — May 14, 2010 (pt 1)
Now that the unpatriotic commies who run the state of Hawaii have banned repetitive requests for his birth certificate and actually declared PUBLICLY (again) that Obama was born there, it looked like the Forces of Righteousness had received a setback. But this was only temporary. Because apparently an alert birther recently discovered that his social security number PROVES that Obama was born in — Connecticut! that well-known hotbed of sedition. But! also, it appears that THAT SAME SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER was issued to someone born in 1890 in a different state altogether; so THAT could also prove that he is an immortal vampire shapeshifter. He even could be the original inspiration for the Twilight books (as proof of this, Michelle has frequently been heard to address him as “Edward” and his eyes glow amber, particularly when he is in the company of werewolves). How can these two facts be reconciled? was he born in Connecticut and therefore has been an American since birth [oops, better scratch that part], or was he born out-of-state in 1890 and therefore is some kind of mysteriously Highlander-type unnatural-born citizen? Does this sound confused? That is NOT my fault.
http://news.spreadit.org/obama-social-security-number-president-obamas/
But clever Orly Taitz! she has even hotter data! She found out that Obama HAS USED AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS IN THE PAST. She discovered this, how? by searching for names that were spelled similarly to Barack Obama’s. There are loads of addresses in many different states associated with names similar to Barack Obama’s that he was never even known before to have connections to. That sort of thing leans one toward the immortal vampire-type theory, doesn’t it? Just brilliant, Orly; did you become a dentist just so you could sniff nitrous oxide all day? (sing: “cause I’m a dentist…. say ‘aaahhhhh’ “) This is a breaking story. I will keep you all posted, unless [brother in-law] Steve prefers to do so himself:












