Republicans Throw Tantrum Over Having To Work on The Weekend

WASHINGTON : Howls of protest filled the halls of the U.S. Senate today as dozens of Senators expressed their outrage at having to work through the weekend to save the United States from financial Armageddon.

“We’re hearing a lot about the country plunging back into recession and millions of people being thrown out of work,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). “What we’re not hearing much about is how our Sunday is being completely and irrevocably ruined.”

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Now That's A Really Big Shark

The Mammoth Megalodon, A Shark About 30 Times the Size of a Great White

 

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The (Carcharodon) Megalodon is thought to have looked something like a Great White Shark, only a bit more stocky and overall bigger… much bigger,

 

with an average adult Megalodon estimated to have weighed around 70-100 tons (about 30 times that of a Great White Shark which full grown tend to be about 2.5-3 tons).  The Megalodon is estimated to have been around 15-24 meters long (50-78 ft., compared to a typical adult Great White Shark which is only 6m or 20 ft long).  It is also estimated that the bite force the Megalodon’s jaws could generate was somewhere in the vicinity of 108,514 N – 182,201 N (11-18 tons of force).  For reference, this is about 6-10 times the biting power of a Great White Shark and 18-30 times that of a Lion.

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Could Iowa City Rank In he Top Ten Cities For Singles?

 If your answer is yes, you are correct!

 

 

Finding the best cities for singles goes beyond simply identifying the places with the highest percentage of bachelors and bachelorettes. Financial factors count, too. After all, you’ll want to meet someone who can afford to date, right?

To put together a list of best cities for singles, taken into account were income and living costs. The cities that made the final cut boast household income levels well above the Census Bureau average of $49,536. The cost-of-living score -- derived from Council for Community and Economic Research data -- indicates essential costs, including rent. A high score is acceptable as long as it’s offset by attractive incomes and a strong dating pool.

Cities were screened based on the percentage of unmarried households because many otherwise great places to live are heavily populated by happily wedded couples, not swinging singles. And the cities were limited by unmarried households comfortably above the average of 49.4%.

Finally, added was what was dubbed a date-night tab: the average cost of two movie tickets plus a bottle of wine. Use the amount to budget for your next night out. Take a tour of the top-10 cities for singles.

 

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A Visit To The Archives -Virginia Earthquake Devastation

Remembering the devastation of August 2011. What a tragedy.

 

 

Mayan Calendar Revisited-Yields New Forecast

News Flash-World Didn't End

If you are reading this, then the world didn't end on December 21.

News Flash # 2: The Mayan's Never "Predicted" the world would end on December 21, 2012. 

The scenario is not entirely different from the old example of telling a short story to the first person in a line of people.

Each person then turns around and whispers it to the next person, who then turns, and so on. By the time the story reaches the last person in line, the original story is often wildly differnt than the original version.

I remember first hearing the story about the Mayan calendar a few years ago.

The original version went something like this:

The Mayan calendar will be recycling into a new period in 2012. Each period is called a "baktun."

 

 

 

 

Each baktun represents 144,000 days — or nearly 400 years. The 13th baktun of the Mayan calendar is slated to come to an end on the solstice marked on Dec. 21, 2012.

 

 

The years will simply click-over and start a new cycle.  Similarly, if a car's odometer runs past its complement of numbers, you can still drive it.

Compare this story to today's madness, early school closings, families teaching their young children to wear gas masks, and many, many other outrageous stories.

Never underestimate the sheer zaniness of some segments of our population. And enjoy thr rest of your day.

Keep in mind that "Life's Journey is the Reward, not the destination."

Billy

25 Really Funny I Phone Auto Corrects

 

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10 Overlooked Reasons Romney Lost

1. Amish warlocks placed a curse on Mitt because he put a bonnet manufacturing company out business during his Bain years and was against the buggy bailout.
2. Democrats secretly distributed 200,000 copies of Fifty Shades of Grey to Republican women in Michigan, thus giving them something more satisfying to do with themselves than vote.
3. An astrologer in Budapest claimed that the position of Jupiter's third largest moon foretold that Democrats would win Ohio, thus affecting the vote there.
4. Secret Chinese experiments with electromagnetic rays caused Republican voters to go temporarily sane on November 6 and vote for Democrats.
5. An insidious Democratic cabal of scientists at NASA electronically altered the orbits of five tracking satellites, thus sabotaging the GPSs of Ohio Republicans who drove voters to the polls and, as a result, ended up in Canada.
6. Fortune cookies in Miami were biased, influencing elderly Jews to vote Democratic.
7. Kenyan operatives infiltrated polling places in Wisconsin.
8. False rumors that The Kingston Trio would be giving a free concert in Orlando on Election Day were circulated among young Republicans.
9. Obama's prayers to the Vishnu influenced the Latino vote.
10. In response to Romney's stand on immigration, aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy telepathically controlled the minds of a million Republicans, causing them all to vote for Obama.

Thanks to John Blumenthal

Follow-Up 13 y.o. Girl Wins Fight Against Hasbro Toys

Hasbro to  introduce new line of gender-neutral Easy Bake Ovens.

 

 

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20 Celebrity Stars Who Have Not Aged Well

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Some people age gracefully, and other dont.

All the money in the world can’t save Hollywood stars from getting older, but while some manage to maintain their looks through the years, others haven’t been quite so fortunate. From too much plastic surgery to outrageous weight gain, BillyChicago has located photos of the 20 most shocking celebrity transformations.

PHOTOS: The 20 Most Shocking Celebrity Age Transformations

 

Great Tweets From 2011

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20 More Interesting and Funny Facts for Friday December 14

1. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
2. Over 75% of people who read the first list tried to lick their elbow.
3. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew, but its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

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Same interesting and funny stuff, but more of it, and in a better package.

 

To my loyal readers, Thanks for your interest and support.

 

I started this blog just as a way to keep in touch with my children and, out of the blue, and I'm not sure how, other people started reading it. I now have readers from all over the world, even in places where I was unaware English was spoken.

 

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How To Locate A Gas Leak

 

Don't Take Chances With Natural Gas

Don't take chances with natural gas. An undetected leak could change your life forever, or end it entirely.

If you suspect a gas leak, remember that gas leaks can be fatal, causing death and immense property damage, often to not only you, but your neighbors and friends as well.

Your first priority should be to call your local gas provider right away. Your Gas Utility Company places the highest priority on your safety and will send someone to visit you immediately.

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Leggo My Underpants !!

I meant to say LEGGO MY UNDERPASS!

 

20 Interesting and Funny Facts

Warning : Some May not Be True!

 

1. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
2. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
8. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
11. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
12. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
13. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
14. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
15. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
16. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
17. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
18. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
19. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
20. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Headline:"Study: Bears "most engaging" NFL team on social media"

Isn't that sweet! I want my old Bears back. The ones who ran the ball down your throat and would kick your a** just for looking at them funny.

 

 



 

Fiscal Cliff For Dummies Defined

 

 

There's no less than 10 jillion articles on the internet these days titled "What is the Fiscal Cliff?". Unfortunately, almost none actually answer the question.

Here is the simple answer.

 

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke came up with the term “fiscal cliff” while urging

Congress to avoid a steep dropoff (as in "cliff")for the economy at the end of 2012 thanks to tax increases and automatic budget cuts.

 

If you want to find out more about it, please read any of the aforementioned articles.

Why Are Barns Red?

Have you ever thought about it? Why are most barns painted red?

History suggests that as barns came into existence, when planning a barn, weather and how it would affect the barn was a major consideration. Building a barn was a major undertaking for the farmer. It involved a huge commitment of labor and finances. It only stands to reason that a farmer or rancher would attempt to protect this significant outlay of time and money.
Early builders of farms took into consideration many factors. In addition to the health and welfare of his animals and stored harvest, the early farmer noted the direction of water runoff and drainage, the direction of sunlight and wind patterns. Equally important was the preservation of the barn’s wooden timbers.

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Early thinking considered the type of wood and its placement to be critical and the prevailing thought at the time was that wooden structures needed no paint. As the 1700’s began, barns, wooden bridges, and houses in the early settlements were not painted. It was thought that natural, unpreserved “seasoning” of the wood was satisfactory.
As the century progressed, by the late 1700’s, the practice of wood seasoning gave way to artificial methods of preservation. Paint was becoming the new law of the land. Virginia farmers paved the way for considering paint as a means of protection from the elements. And in Pennsylvania, Dutch settlers began using the color red. It is uncertain whether, at the time, the color red was just a fad or if the use of red had more practical purposes. It is apparently fact that red paint was the lowest price paint available at the time until the invention of “white wash”.
The Dutch, by custom, favored red for use in bricks, flower geraniums, barns and even reddish brown cows.
On the practical side, it was discovered that red paint, when combined with linseed oil would prevent certain contaminants and from subjecting wood to decay. Some farmers also added red blood from slaughter animals to the paint and as the paint dried, the color changed from a bright red to a darker burnt red. The exact reasoning for addition of blood remains unclear.
Ferrous oxide or rust was found to be a toxic poison for fungus such as mold, mildew, and moss which grew on the barns and decay the wood. Since rust was plentiful on the farm it soon became the practice to add it to the paint used to coat barns, again the color of rust contributed and preserved the continuing tradition of red.
It is also said that red barn became a fashionable thing that contrasted well with traditional white farmhouses.

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