Bullet Points:
** He states the obvious. But it’s still worth the read.
** Nobody ever drowned in sweat.
** “I believe that much that is wrong with the world has to do with the absence of front porches. Builders stopped constructing them as a matter of course in the 1950s, and since then, the world started to go sideways.” – roughly a quote from Philip Gulley. There is a lot to that, you know. Sitting on the porch and talking after dinner was replaced by television and then video games. Moms and Dads used to watch the kids play until the sun went down, and they’d talk about their day. Maybe if porches were added to building codes, it would help. Unplugging the TV and the electronic games would help, too. The marrow of life can be found in the nuclear family. There are too many distractions from that for young families. How many divorces would be alleviated if couples took the time to sit on the porch and talk as the sun set?
** Is your luck like a bald guy who just won a comb?
Black Holes
Empty Magazines Matter
I hate empty magazines. What good are they, other than being potentially filled magazines?
Identify the Armor
Identify the Aircraft
1
2
Take a hard look before you answer.
3
4
Identify the Armor:
Wiesel TOW
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Junkers Ju 288
2. Tupolev Tu-2 Bat
3. Nanchang Q-5 Fantan
4. Ikarus 214
Yes
(A) Wiesel / TOW
(1) Looks like an He 219, but no radar… so early / prototype?
(2) Maybe a FIAT BR-20 ?
(3) Nanchang A-5 / Q-5
(4) I will not answer, as when I popped out the picture in a new tab so I could see it, the url told me the answer. Until then, I had no idea whatsoever.
– Kle.
The way I see it, a black hole singularity might be a touchpoint with “another universe” (if indeed they exist), but you’re not getting through it to get out the other side.
As an engineer, i love the term “In theory…”
Nobody knows but I doubt that they’re a transition point to another universe and that they end up as a “white hole” spewing matter someplace else. Stephen Hawking “father of the black hole” and Hawking radiation associated with the same is worth a read if you or anyone cares.
Still amazes me Hawking was an atheist..maybe he was ticked at God for his terrible physical affliction.
He may not have understood what “faith” is.
Except in himself.
I get the brilliant could forgo humility in anything beyond their heavy cerebral influences, yet Einstein seems to have possessed the trait.
The genius is proud of his intellect in the same way that a prisoner is proud of his large cell…
There’s no going back. AC means not having to go out on the porch to cool off.
But there are people who do it to get away from the TV that dominates each living room.
I guess. There is solace, if not nobody but me, in ending a day on the porch, watching nightfall.
Every night for me. (altho still waiting for an alien ship to land in the pasture or God to drop in for a more direct one-on-one chat.)
You guys are blessed to not live in a burb where you orch faces the street not a sunset.
Love to sit on the porch when it’s not too cold and watch the wildlife come up to the deer feeder….except for the hogs.
For full disclosure…I have no problem taking a whitetail or turkey near a deer feeder that will be put in the pot or freezer. Many people don’t realize that wildlife need to be culled like cattle or other stock. When I utter the cull word there is a group who moan, complain, and chew grass or tree bark. Being 82, the grass and bark chewers, can kiss my wrinkled old butt.
And Ed is correct…been there, done that and hated every year of it.
“Gateways to other universes”, other universes? I’m still trying deal with the size/number of other galaxies!
Then there is the “great attractor” drawing us in its direction. Nobody knows what that is. I doubt it’s a supermassive black hole much larger than Sagittarius A (in the center of our galaxy).
Many mysteries. “A man’s reach must exceed his grasp, or what else is heaven for.”
We moved into our present digs in April 2005. We had the house built for us. It it a modest 1800 square foot 3 bedroom house on a hill in the woods. The house design called for a full length front porch 6 feet wide with the steps in the center. We have it nicely set up with outdoor furniture and spend lots of time out there in nice weather. Coffee in the morning, and lunches later. For the winter, the porch is completely cleared and the furniture goes down to the barn. I will be decorating it for Christmas on my day off tomorrow.
Lovely!
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While living in Alabama with my wife, we had a 9 acre goat farm and we sat on the back porch facing the barn yard where I had my 35 head of Boer does and kids, three miniature donkeys and my riding mule, assorted free range chickens. That was where we had our morning coffee and sometimes dinner. It was a blast watching the kids being goofy. Our front porch faced a 4 lane US highway and wasn’t as satisfying as the menagerie.
Did you milk the goats and make cheese?
When I was a boy, living in Torrance, CA (Greater Los Angeles, which had rural spots unlike now), neighbors owned goats and sold milk, cheese, and goat ice cream. I was friends with the family and used to go there all the time. Some of the goats were mean and chased us, but that was part of the fun.
For those of you who may be familiar with the area, it was across from 223rd St. Elementary school where I attended 4th and 5th grades.
Oh no! Milking goats are 10X harder than a cow. I did when momma wouldn’t or couldn’t nurse the kid. Boers are a South African meat goat and that was why I raised them. Sold them to a friend that would take his goats to Miami to sell to Haitians and Cubans that loved goat…
All of the goat restaurants I’ve encountered in Latin America, Southern California, and Arizona are run by narcos. That being said, cooked properly, a goat is a GREAT meal. I don’t mean good. I mean, great.
I’m certain that government regulations wouldn’t allow them to sell goat milk or cheese today. But back then there wasn’t the oversight we seem to crave today.
Black Holes…I thought they did a good job depicting certain BH aspects in Interstellar, certainly the CGI was compelling.
Europe’s Culture Failing- Exactly why Denmark said “see ya, don’t come here either”. Rampant Multiculturalism is a cancer to any Nation and its sovereignty because at the heart of it is “non assimilation” but “use and abuse”. The everybody gets a trophy mentality dilutes any culture it infiltrates. If your borders are a sieve then you have no country…it’s like a noisy trashed campground where anything goes, ultimately becoming a 3rd world hellhole if left unchecked (like what PedoJoe and The Handlers are doing to America).
Don’t get me started on “modern” era zero charm residential architecture, born out of efficient material use and costs (damned accountants). The “subdivision” has at its root “division”. I grew up in a neighborhood not a subdivision…never heard the term until I moved out West. Modern design created the loss of the front porch and out in back garage, a travesty to Americana and our culture. The other day CW @ Dailytimerwaster posted a front-on picture of Rosehill Cottage (Surrey), built for The Holiday movie to evoke a certain Old English cottage “feel”. It was perfect. So it can be done…yet how many have no idea why they are drawn to its coziness, all the while inhabiting their sterile but large square-footage McMansions; garage sticking out up front and front door pushed back on a 4-6ft concrete porch with the tall side yard “privacy” fence…totally impersonal and uninviting. Developers have done this. I could go on but will refrain.
Luck- Hard work usually pays off, it isn’t “luck” (same concept as the 30 year “overnight success”). But yeah, if I invest in something everyone else should invest in the opposite. I have zero luck because I hate “the market game” (find the modern mode a total grift) so I don’t do the deep investigatory work required for hedging one’s bet. Been true even if having done a sure thing with former clients, never pans out for me, so I simply don’t anymore.
My porch is an elevated deck 30’x30′, covered, and elevated 30′ over the top of the ponderosa pine landscape that falls off in a canyon behind my house for acres. I realize that makes me sound like a plutocrat, but a lot of thought and planning went into it. There’s also a built-in BBQ for outdoor living meals. No TV is present. No city is present either. I realize that my situation could be viewed as somewhat privileged, but I worked most of my life to get this. My point isn’t to say, “look how cool I am”. When we lived in the fetid cities, I arranged for similar situations on a much smaller scale, with no view, but flowers, and doing what I could do. My point was more that people can work to create that environment – sometimes. And it’s a desirable way to live and to shut out the stress and trouble of the world if only for a moment.
Us too…the “luck/success” thing; it’s not hubris to achieve and enjoy the fruits of ones labor – only those who operate out of envy do that.
When we built (our crazy selves, but we were younger back then)…in order to shorten the move-in schedule I never constructed the front or rear “sitting” porches, just the log trussed entry porch part. Finished both timbered porches a few years back…use them all the time. Not privileged, hard work.
Porches went downhill after they started being taxed as interior space. The tax SF was counted as the area inside the foundation. That’s when porches started falling off, because the new foundations were inadequate. Look at houses from 1850, the porch foundation is sufficient and the porch hasn’t fallen off.
I didn’t know that, but it makes sense. So much trouble comes back to greedy taxes.
Maaßen could well have been speaking of the left’s plan for America with OUR borders.
And as he describes the European view of letting the courts settle it, which they won’t, we law-abiding citizens are doing the same.
There’d be hell to pay by people who might take up arms to defend our border.
Empty magazines. Useful; just like a fork or spoon waiting to be filled up with something wonderful.
Black hole. Interesting and one of the mysterious things in our universe that keeps things entertaining.
Last night I swept the snow off of one of the chairs on the back patio and spent most of an hour listening to the owls and coyotes, very worthwhile to reset my mind. The glass of Glenfiddich I allow myself may have helped a bit. About the only downer was that it is the time of year where we don’t get clear nights so no stars to wonder at.
Immigrants, way too many young men in the mix to be anything else other than an invasion. Does a country still exist if it doesn’t have borders anymore?
Snow?
The immigration scam comes with millions of uneducated, unskilled, military-age males who are also the demographic that is responsible for the bulk of crime.
Local crime yesterday in our area involved a Honduran illegal who was deported in 2011 and came back. How many thousands of times does that happen in our nation?
It’s easily managed. Two time loser illegal alien? Life at hard labor at a work camp.
America has no problem with political prisoners these days. Illegal allien convicts doing convict labor works.
Was thinking (didn’t even hurt myself in the process)…couched as “anything can be made political” these days.
Black Holes: If We The People were Space with Matter then DC is a Black Hole generating Anti-Matter.
The FBI is often called a black hole in law enforcement circles.
Proving the theorem everyday, especially lately where innocent people get sucked in and never return.
Especially if you were to visit the People’s House on Jan. 6, the police invited you in and you walked around between the velvet ropes.
The house we built in the country had a10’ deep covered wraparound porch overlook a BNSF railroad about 100 yards off. Always a source of entertainment. When we moved back into our small town 10 years back, into a 100 year house, I completely remodeled the house. Just finished the full front porch this past fall. Also have a south porch we cook on, and a small covered porch off the back where we can escape the hot summer sun. I guess We really enjoy sitting on the porch.
Im a N frame revolver guy but can certainly can appreciate the FN 510 10 mm. Shes kinda cute as well.
*the absence of front porches.
Totally agree, of course the DLC has a grand and spacious porch. And silver, obvs.
I’ve rocked there, on that very porch in the days of the Blue Terminator.
i believe there will soon be a return to the front/back porch, due to lack of said ac and electricity in general. in really hot weather we pulled the mattress out there to try to sleep. my grandpa and i sat out there during thunderstorms. he loved to watch the lightning dance in the sky.
That sounds wonderful.
It’s America.
Was.
Yeah. Was.
drat
Growing up on south shore of Long Island, N.Y. in the fifties I saw more than one multiple hundred cookie cutter house developments built before I graduated from high school in 1967. No front porches and questionable foundations. Lots of kids in school, our community had thirteen school buildings. Last I heard they were down to five because the post war baby boom was over and the older folks didn’t sell out to another young couple with kids! Also no porch to sit on and enjoy the sunset in their old age!
Levittown…even had one around SE PA.
I love my front porch. As you know, it’s spacious, a room in itself and made for our sunny southern weather.
What’s your take on the weird little German Marder or whatever it is. Strikes me as an updated Bren Carrier, tbh.
My wife and I have started to sit out on the more pleasant evenings from mid spring until late fall and watch the bats flitting between the streetlights. North Georgia can be too hot and muggy for that mid summer though.