Friday December 20, 2007
It's Friday and the last day before I take off 11 days for Christmas. I am headed to Florida for a few days. I will post more when I get back after Christmas. Merry Christmas to all.
Nana Tech
One of the nice aspects of what I do is being involved in lots of different technological advancement. One area that I have been involved is in alternative energy. I have some knowledge of solar, geothermal energy, biomass, wind, and hydro. I have a close friend that converts automobiles to electric. In the plastics design, material properties have move from the micro to the nana tech. The nana technologies far outreach anything that we have experienced in micro technology. We are all familiar with the micro: computers and the microchips that is in everything that we use that has electronics. Nana doesn’t only apply to electronics but to materials as well. Examples in materials are the strengths, weight, and insulation properties to name a few. But there have been a couple of resent developments that we will all see in the near future. On is a battery that will store 10 times the energy of current batteries and a solar panel that produces power for under $1.00 a watt. Currently a solar panel cost about $4.00 a watt making it more expensive to produce electric with solar than coal or oil. The $1.00 gets that cost into a cheaper range than the coal or oil. This is going to change things. The other issue with solar is the storage of that power when there is no sun. In the past it has taken a lot of batteries. This new battery will definably help that. The next item is the electric cars. The issues with it are the cost and weight of the batteries that are required. My friend that converts cars to electric has vehicles that will go between 75 – 150 miles on a charge. These are good for getting back and forth to work but not for any distance driving. 10 times that distance and you have something. He has one that recharges while at work with solar panel. It doesn’t completely recharge but it does add a few miles that he can drive between charges. As you can see with these new inventions how it will help the development of the electric car and the hybrids. Can you imagine having 10 times the battery power in your truck? You could have heat, AC, and all the other niceties that require electric. There are no ends to the changes these inventions will bring. These items are already developed and are in the patent stages and will soon be available in the items we buy. Expect to see many new developments that are more life changing in the next few years than we have experience in the pass.
Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907 :
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years old.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. Had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City Cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more Heavily populated than California With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st Most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !
The average wage in the U.S. Was 22 Cents per hour. The average U.S. Worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, A dentist made $2,500 per year,A veterinarian $1,500 per year, And a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. Took place at HOME . Ninety percent of all U.S. Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death in the U.S. Were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn’t been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. (no wonder we miss the good old days)Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
There were about 230 reported Murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!
Now I sent it to you and others all over the United States, possibly the world, in a matter of just Seconds!
Just Try to imagine..... What it may be like ....In another 100 years !
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Ready to End This Chapter
Thursday, December 20, 2007
I am ready to end this chapter in my life. When I reflect back on what I have done for over 40 years it is with mixed emotions. I have enjoyed the most of it but I should have left 10 years ago. I could then have a much better feeling about what I had accomplished. I hate what has happened to this industry.
I taught classes at Nashville State Community Collage in Cookeville for a while but just didn’t have my heart in it. I hated to see students working and studying to learn an industry that wasn’t going anywhere. When I would be asked what the prospects were I could not honestly tell them that it was worth the effort. We still have a lot of manufacturing in this country but the jobs have become more completive and the pay is less in comparison to what it has been most of my career.
As you know if you have read any of my blog, we have mostly Mexicans where I work. I don’t have anything against them. They are very hard workers and take a lot of bull from the owner. But we are in an economically depressed area because of several plants moving to China and Mexico ant the companies here had rather hire a cheap Mexican. I am not going to get on my soap box with this right now but it is only a matter of time that we have foreign nationals in ever aspect of labor in this country including truck driving. When our plants went to Mexico the skilled jobs stayed here but that is not true with China.
Back to the main subject of this blog: I am ready to call it quits. Truck driving may not be the eternal answer but it will be a change for me. I will be turning Sixty (did I say that) when I start this new career. My goal is to drive a million miles before I leave.
I am ready to end this chapter in my life. When I reflect back on what I have done for over 40 years it is with mixed emotions. I have enjoyed the most of it but I should have left 10 years ago. I could then have a much better feeling about what I had accomplished. I hate what has happened to this industry.
I taught classes at Nashville State Community Collage in Cookeville for a while but just didn’t have my heart in it. I hated to see students working and studying to learn an industry that wasn’t going anywhere. When I would be asked what the prospects were I could not honestly tell them that it was worth the effort. We still have a lot of manufacturing in this country but the jobs have become more completive and the pay is less in comparison to what it has been most of my career.
As you know if you have read any of my blog, we have mostly Mexicans where I work. I don’t have anything against them. They are very hard workers and take a lot of bull from the owner. But we are in an economically depressed area because of several plants moving to China and Mexico ant the companies here had rather hire a cheap Mexican. I am not going to get on my soap box with this right now but it is only a matter of time that we have foreign nationals in ever aspect of labor in this country including truck driving. When our plants went to Mexico the skilled jobs stayed here but that is not true with China.
Back to the main subject of this blog: I am ready to call it quits. Truck driving may not be the eternal answer but it will be a change for me. I will be turning Sixty (did I say that) when I start this new career. My goal is to drive a million miles before I leave.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
December 19, 2007
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Congress has just passed an energy bill that will require automobiles to get 35 MPG by 2020. I might be off on details but you get the picture. The radio talk shows are coming up with all sorts of problems and solutions. One is switching to diesel and saving 30%. One was using cooking oil and one is producing fuel from corn, excreta, and excreta. Any of these ideas may be part of the solution but any one way will not solve the problem.
We are in another oil crisis. This is nothing new. We experienced our first in the mid 70’s with the oil embargo. Americans realized that we were seriously dependant on oil that is controlled by countries that we don’t consider friends. Nixon was to get us independent of foreign oil by 1980. Oops we didn’t make it.
If we get in a crisis such as a war the effect of oil supply would create a serious impact on our way of life. It could even affect the outcome of that war. It would certainly have a major impact on our economy. During the 70’s oil embargo, interest rates went out of sight. With a limited supply of raw material such as plastics we experienced a slow economy, inflation, and interest rates above 20%.
Over thirty years later and we have done little to improve the situation. We have debated drilling in Alaska and other sensitive areas as if this is the answer. We know what the answer is but have not been willing to commit to it. Use less oil! No amount of drilling is going to alleviate the problem. With the increase of the oil consumption in China and the world we need to be looking at what can be done to conserve.
It is time to move into a new chapter of how we do things. As sure as we moved from horse drawn carriages to automobiles, it is time to advance our sociality once more. We need leadership to do that. Eisenhower after experiencing the Autobahn during WWII in Germany implemented the interstate highway system. It is hard to imagine not having it today. We need someone that will do that today with a national mass transit system.
Oil Consumption: Where is the oil used? We have three major categories of large oil consumption. We have the heating and cooling of our homes and businesses (oil, gas, and electric energy from oil); transportation (planes, trains, and automobiles); and raw materials (plastics, chemicals, and building material).
The problem: Demand is higher than supply. Or at least at a rate that makes the suppliers in control. It is a sellers market.
The solution: Decrease the demand on oil. We keep hearing the politicians using the catch phrase of “Decreasing our dependence on foreign oil.” We are in a world market so the real phase should be “Decrease our dependence on oil.” How do we do that without changing our way of life? Well it is going to change but not necessarily for the worse. Do we change it under our control or do we let the oil supplies control and change it. It has already changed. With gas at $3.00 a gal and going up it has taken away our buying power. Not only are we paying more each time we fill up but there is an ever increasing cost in everything we buy. We have higher manufacturing cost on the products that we buy. We have higher shipping cost, increase food production prices, and an increase in the cost of heating and cooling of our homes. It has caused a major impact in our life styles. But it is time we took charge!
There are a lot of areas where we can change things, nuclear power, solar and wind power, and even better design and insulation of homes.
But what I propose here is related to transportation. We need to design and build a national transportation system that works. For it to work well we need to be able to get from point A to point B anywhere in the country comfortably, efficiently, and economically.
We would no longer be limited to where we live and work. We could live in a rural area and commute miles away to a city or vise versa without increasing our time and expense in travel. Factories could be located in areas where land, space, and taxes are cheaper and workers commute from all directions to the plant.
How can we accomplish that?
We need to build a national high speed train system for passengers and for cargo. It can be similar to the interstate system in that it services all the large cities and has limited access and stops. It should be serviced by local trains that move people and products from areas that don’t have convenient access to the limited access high speed trains. These in turn should be serviced by buses. In rural areas that don’t support a large bus system Jitney buses could be used. A person would call or go online, give an address of where he or she is leaving from with the time and date and an address with the time and date to arrive. A computer schedules a pick up will best accommodate his schedule. If it is for transportation to and from work, you enter your daily schedule. The Jitney’s need only to go where there is a pickup instead of a regular route saving both time and fuel. Airports in some cities use this system for picking up and delivering passengers to and from airports and it works very well.
If you are going a long distance for example: You wish to travel from a rural area in Tennessee to a rural area in Florida. You enter the addresses and times and you get a travel agenda of pick up time and arrival time. You will be picked up at your home and delivered to either a train that moves you to the high speed train that will take you to Florida or depending on your location you may go directly to the high speed train. You can relax, read a book, watch a movie, or dine in the dinning car, and arrive at your destination point in Florida. There you would transfer to your bus or train that will take you to your final destination. You do this all on one ticket and your bags are transferred for you. Time in distances of less than 1000 miles could rival flying times.
There are a lot of ways and systems to get you to the major part of the transportation system (the high speed train) including your private vehicle but also systems like San Francisco that has electric cars. You use a key card and you drive any car that is parked and then leave it for someone to use.
Getting people to use the system is crucial for its success. It will require a comfortably, efficiently, and economical system that meets the demand of the people. We should have a weekly, monthly, and yearly passes where you can travel wherever you wish to go in the system. Next a family plan is needed so that a family can travel more economically that driving a private car. Underage children passes should be cheap. Most families now have several vehicles, especially if it has teenage children. We would need to keep it cost efficient for families.
We have a large part of our population that shouldn’t be driving at all but is forced to because of no good means to get from point A to point B. Some people would chose not to drive because of the expense of owning a car, some because of driving records, DUI etc, some because of age, and we all know that someone that just don’t need to be driving. We could stop giving repeat DUI offenders driving privileges without hindering their ability to get to a job. Also they would be more likely to use public transportation if it was convenient to use thus avoiding a DUI to begin with.
Improved Life Style: Our life style would improve. A family now has a major expense in transportation. With the price of a car, maintenance, insurance, and fuel cost for it, especially in a multi car family, it is often a greater expense than our home. We would have more money to spend on goods and vacations.
The decreased demand on oil will lower oil prices therefore decreasing the cost of manufactured goods and food cost as well as the cost of getting these goods to us.
If we moved enough people off the highways into the trains we could stop paving over more and more land and start maintaining the roads that we do have.
As anyone that has traveled around the country knows that our roads are crowded, poor conditions, and are under constant construction. These we are sharing with the trucking system that is so important for the delivery of everything that we have.
Cargo: Here again we should have a rail system for moving these goods. Trucks deliver to a train, that train moves them efficiently, and economically where they are picked up by truck for delivery. Companies such as FedEx and UPS could have stations at these points to transfer directly to the delivery trucks. They could possible even have sorting areas in the trains to sort while the train is in route to an area. With the use of computers and communications it could be done efficiently and economically.
A new age of transportation is not only desirable because of the oil prices but it is essential for the economy of our country.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Congress has just passed an energy bill that will require automobiles to get 35 MPG by 2020. I might be off on details but you get the picture. The radio talk shows are coming up with all sorts of problems and solutions. One is switching to diesel and saving 30%. One was using cooking oil and one is producing fuel from corn, excreta, and excreta. Any of these ideas may be part of the solution but any one way will not solve the problem.
We are in another oil crisis. This is nothing new. We experienced our first in the mid 70’s with the oil embargo. Americans realized that we were seriously dependant on oil that is controlled by countries that we don’t consider friends. Nixon was to get us independent of foreign oil by 1980. Oops we didn’t make it.
If we get in a crisis such as a war the effect of oil supply would create a serious impact on our way of life. It could even affect the outcome of that war. It would certainly have a major impact on our economy. During the 70’s oil embargo, interest rates went out of sight. With a limited supply of raw material such as plastics we experienced a slow economy, inflation, and interest rates above 20%.
Over thirty years later and we have done little to improve the situation. We have debated drilling in Alaska and other sensitive areas as if this is the answer. We know what the answer is but have not been willing to commit to it. Use less oil! No amount of drilling is going to alleviate the problem. With the increase of the oil consumption in China and the world we need to be looking at what can be done to conserve.
It is time to move into a new chapter of how we do things. As sure as we moved from horse drawn carriages to automobiles, it is time to advance our sociality once more. We need leadership to do that. Eisenhower after experiencing the Autobahn during WWII in Germany implemented the interstate highway system. It is hard to imagine not having it today. We need someone that will do that today with a national mass transit system.
Oil Consumption: Where is the oil used? We have three major categories of large oil consumption. We have the heating and cooling of our homes and businesses (oil, gas, and electric energy from oil); transportation (planes, trains, and automobiles); and raw materials (plastics, chemicals, and building material).
The problem: Demand is higher than supply. Or at least at a rate that makes the suppliers in control. It is a sellers market.
The solution: Decrease the demand on oil. We keep hearing the politicians using the catch phrase of “Decreasing our dependence on foreign oil.” We are in a world market so the real phase should be “Decrease our dependence on oil.” How do we do that without changing our way of life? Well it is going to change but not necessarily for the worse. Do we change it under our control or do we let the oil supplies control and change it. It has already changed. With gas at $3.00 a gal and going up it has taken away our buying power. Not only are we paying more each time we fill up but there is an ever increasing cost in everything we buy. We have higher manufacturing cost on the products that we buy. We have higher shipping cost, increase food production prices, and an increase in the cost of heating and cooling of our homes. It has caused a major impact in our life styles. But it is time we took charge!
There are a lot of areas where we can change things, nuclear power, solar and wind power, and even better design and insulation of homes.
But what I propose here is related to transportation. We need to design and build a national transportation system that works. For it to work well we need to be able to get from point A to point B anywhere in the country comfortably, efficiently, and economically.
We would no longer be limited to where we live and work. We could live in a rural area and commute miles away to a city or vise versa without increasing our time and expense in travel. Factories could be located in areas where land, space, and taxes are cheaper and workers commute from all directions to the plant.
How can we accomplish that?
We need to build a national high speed train system for passengers and for cargo. It can be similar to the interstate system in that it services all the large cities and has limited access and stops. It should be serviced by local trains that move people and products from areas that don’t have convenient access to the limited access high speed trains. These in turn should be serviced by buses. In rural areas that don’t support a large bus system Jitney buses could be used. A person would call or go online, give an address of where he or she is leaving from with the time and date and an address with the time and date to arrive. A computer schedules a pick up will best accommodate his schedule. If it is for transportation to and from work, you enter your daily schedule. The Jitney’s need only to go where there is a pickup instead of a regular route saving both time and fuel. Airports in some cities use this system for picking up and delivering passengers to and from airports and it works very well.
If you are going a long distance for example: You wish to travel from a rural area in Tennessee to a rural area in Florida. You enter the addresses and times and you get a travel agenda of pick up time and arrival time. You will be picked up at your home and delivered to either a train that moves you to the high speed train that will take you to Florida or depending on your location you may go directly to the high speed train. You can relax, read a book, watch a movie, or dine in the dinning car, and arrive at your destination point in Florida. There you would transfer to your bus or train that will take you to your final destination. You do this all on one ticket and your bags are transferred for you. Time in distances of less than 1000 miles could rival flying times.
There are a lot of ways and systems to get you to the major part of the transportation system (the high speed train) including your private vehicle but also systems like San Francisco that has electric cars. You use a key card and you drive any car that is parked and then leave it for someone to use.
Getting people to use the system is crucial for its success. It will require a comfortably, efficiently, and economical system that meets the demand of the people. We should have a weekly, monthly, and yearly passes where you can travel wherever you wish to go in the system. Next a family plan is needed so that a family can travel more economically that driving a private car. Underage children passes should be cheap. Most families now have several vehicles, especially if it has teenage children. We would need to keep it cost efficient for families.
We have a large part of our population that shouldn’t be driving at all but is forced to because of no good means to get from point A to point B. Some people would chose not to drive because of the expense of owning a car, some because of driving records, DUI etc, some because of age, and we all know that someone that just don’t need to be driving. We could stop giving repeat DUI offenders driving privileges without hindering their ability to get to a job. Also they would be more likely to use public transportation if it was convenient to use thus avoiding a DUI to begin with.
Improved Life Style: Our life style would improve. A family now has a major expense in transportation. With the price of a car, maintenance, insurance, and fuel cost for it, especially in a multi car family, it is often a greater expense than our home. We would have more money to spend on goods and vacations.
The decreased demand on oil will lower oil prices therefore decreasing the cost of manufactured goods and food cost as well as the cost of getting these goods to us.
If we moved enough people off the highways into the trains we could stop paving over more and more land and start maintaining the roads that we do have.
As anyone that has traveled around the country knows that our roads are crowded, poor conditions, and are under constant construction. These we are sharing with the trucking system that is so important for the delivery of everything that we have.
Cargo: Here again we should have a rail system for moving these goods. Trucks deliver to a train, that train moves them efficiently, and economically where they are picked up by truck for delivery. Companies such as FedEx and UPS could have stations at these points to transfer directly to the delivery trucks. They could possible even have sorting areas in the trains to sort while the train is in route to an area. With the use of computers and communications it could be done efficiently and economically.
A new age of transportation is not only desirable because of the oil prices but it is essential for the economy of our country.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I Added a hit Counter to My Blog
Tuesday December 18, 2007
I added a hit counter to my blog. Now I can keep count of the thousands of hits that I get each day. So far it doesn’t seem to be working.
This is the last week before Christmas Vacation. I had stayed with this job till the end of the year to get my vacation and year end bonus and to get my house finished. The company has done so poorly I don’t expect a bonus and I haven’t got the house finished.
I haven’t gotten into Tennessee Tech @ Nashville for the January 2 class. I may still get in if some don’t show at the beginning of class. I hope that I can get into it but if not then I will have another 8 weeks to get prepared. I hope this job holds out till then.
The company is down 2 ½ million dollars this year from a 4 million dollars year before the family took over the business. They keep quoting jobs but not getting anything substantial. Most of the work we do is for automotive companies for handling parts in their plants and for shipping them between plants. Each job we do is run in days or weeks. If a new supply of jobs are not constantly added then we get slow. We are down from 30-40 employees in the plant to 10 and they work 4 days a week half the time. The office (including me) is still full staff. The ratio of the overhead personal to the workers in the plant that are actually producing product is way out. Since most of the management is family I become the most expendable one. The only problem with that is they don’t know how to do what I do. If they get rid of the people that do the work then they will have to get in here before 10 AM and do it themselves. That is going to suck (for them). Life can be cruel.
I added a hit counter to my blog. Now I can keep count of the thousands of hits that I get each day. So far it doesn’t seem to be working.
This is the last week before Christmas Vacation. I had stayed with this job till the end of the year to get my vacation and year end bonus and to get my house finished. The company has done so poorly I don’t expect a bonus and I haven’t got the house finished.
I haven’t gotten into Tennessee Tech @ Nashville for the January 2 class. I may still get in if some don’t show at the beginning of class. I hope that I can get into it but if not then I will have another 8 weeks to get prepared. I hope this job holds out till then.
The company is down 2 ½ million dollars this year from a 4 million dollars year before the family took over the business. They keep quoting jobs but not getting anything substantial. Most of the work we do is for automotive companies for handling parts in their plants and for shipping them between plants. Each job we do is run in days or weeks. If a new supply of jobs are not constantly added then we get slow. We are down from 30-40 employees in the plant to 10 and they work 4 days a week half the time. The office (including me) is still full staff. The ratio of the overhead personal to the workers in the plant that are actually producing product is way out. Since most of the management is family I become the most expendable one. The only problem with that is they don’t know how to do what I do. If they get rid of the people that do the work then they will have to get in here before 10 AM and do it themselves. That is going to suck (for them). Life can be cruel.
Friday, December 14, 2007
The 5 Minute Rule
Friday December 14, 2007
I am sure that I have too much free time.
The 5 Minute Rule
We have all been in public places (such as a grocery store line) when some bratty kid is throwing a temper tantrum and the parent is not getting control of this disruptive child. It makes for an unpleasant experience for all that has to tolerate it. Very often it is because he wasn’t given something that he wanted. It is time to stop this ill behavior. These parents need help.
What I am suggesting her is what I refer to as the five minute rule. The rule would state that if you can not control your child within 5 minutes from the time he becomes disruptive then it is open for someone else to step in and do it for them. I am sure there would be plenty of volunteers for this. Smacking the kid would be allowed.
The resulting changes would soon become apparent. Parents that don’t want some stranger smacking their kid would take control. All that would need to be done is for someone to look at their watch and start timing it, which would create an immediate reaction on the part of the parent. The second thing is the children usually will not try to get away with as much form strangers as the do their parents. The have already figured out the limit to which they can push parents.
I am sure their would be a few problems that would need to be worked out such as are you allowed to slug the parent if they try to interfere with you enforcing the rule. In states that don’t allow spanking (big mistake) the law would need to be revised. My mother sure believed in spanking and look how I turned out (well let’s don’t go into that).
I am sure that some of you will be outraged with this suggestion but you have to admit that there would be less misbehaving children in public places.
I am sure that I have too much free time.
The 5 Minute Rule
We have all been in public places (such as a grocery store line) when some bratty kid is throwing a temper tantrum and the parent is not getting control of this disruptive child. It makes for an unpleasant experience for all that has to tolerate it. Very often it is because he wasn’t given something that he wanted. It is time to stop this ill behavior. These parents need help.
What I am suggesting her is what I refer to as the five minute rule. The rule would state that if you can not control your child within 5 minutes from the time he becomes disruptive then it is open for someone else to step in and do it for them. I am sure there would be plenty of volunteers for this. Smacking the kid would be allowed.
The resulting changes would soon become apparent. Parents that don’t want some stranger smacking their kid would take control. All that would need to be done is for someone to look at their watch and start timing it, which would create an immediate reaction on the part of the parent. The second thing is the children usually will not try to get away with as much form strangers as the do their parents. The have already figured out the limit to which they can push parents.
I am sure their would be a few problems that would need to be worked out such as are you allowed to slug the parent if they try to interfere with you enforcing the rule. In states that don’t allow spanking (big mistake) the law would need to be revised. My mother sure believed in spanking and look how I turned out (well let’s don’t go into that).
I am sure that some of you will be outraged with this suggestion but you have to admit that there would be less misbehaving children in public places.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
End Product Safety Warning Labeling
Thursday December 13, 2007
Disclaimer: You were warned in the heading of my blog that I have a twisted sense of humor so read at your own risk.
End Product Safety Warning Labeling
End Product Safety Warning Labeling. Product safety warning labeling has caused Americans to become dumber and to shirk their responsibility for making informed decisions on what to buy and how to use it. We should not try to protect the person that doesn’t reason that he should not put a plastic bag over his head because he will suffocate. He should be eliminated and therefore not produce offspring that is dumber than him. Nature’s way of improving the species is for the weak and dumb not to survive (or survival of the strongest) so that the species can evolve up the food chain. We had reached the top but now our evolution is declining. We now have a dumber and less educated generation that the previous for the first time in our known history. If we ended out product safety warning labeling and put a limit of liability on products for law suites, people would then start paying attention to what they buys and how they use it. Since we evolved from a rodent like creature (and we thought descending from the ape was degrading now it’s a rodent) and we made it to the top of the food chain who knows what will be next on top. We had better watch our backs. I personal will put my money on the cock roach. So the next time you step on a roach watch out, your grand children may become servants to them. And all this is because of product safety warning labeling.
P.S. If you relate to this, go to rehab and get help quick before the brain damage becomes more severe. Say no to Drugs.
Disclaimer: You were warned in the heading of my blog that I have a twisted sense of humor so read at your own risk.
End Product Safety Warning Labeling
End Product Safety Warning Labeling. Product safety warning labeling has caused Americans to become dumber and to shirk their responsibility for making informed decisions on what to buy and how to use it. We should not try to protect the person that doesn’t reason that he should not put a plastic bag over his head because he will suffocate. He should be eliminated and therefore not produce offspring that is dumber than him. Nature’s way of improving the species is for the weak and dumb not to survive (or survival of the strongest) so that the species can evolve up the food chain. We had reached the top but now our evolution is declining. We now have a dumber and less educated generation that the previous for the first time in our known history. If we ended out product safety warning labeling and put a limit of liability on products for law suites, people would then start paying attention to what they buys and how they use it. Since we evolved from a rodent like creature (and we thought descending from the ape was degrading now it’s a rodent) and we made it to the top of the food chain who knows what will be next on top. We had better watch our backs. I personal will put my money on the cock roach. So the next time you step on a roach watch out, your grand children may become servants to them. And all this is because of product safety warning labeling.
P.S. If you relate to this, go to rehab and get help quick before the brain damage becomes more severe. Say no to Drugs.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Christmas is Fast Approaching
Wednesday December 12, 2007
Christmas is Fast Approaching
Well the company decided today that the plant will be closed from the end of shift Friday the 21st till Wednesday the 2nd. Let me qualify that. Even though the plant will be closed they will need some to work during that time and they haven’t decided who that will be yet. So other words no one can plan on what days they will have off. They love the godly control they have over people. I had put in for my vacation days but they still haven’t been approved. Not that that would mean anything they can change their mind and take it back. I have never worked for such arrogant people before. I will be glad to get out of here.
I am planning on a trip to Florida to see family for Christmas and then back to work on my house. My home owners’ insurance company has a problem with my 16 foot high deck not having railing around it. I can’t imagine why! The real story is that I am going to build a roof over the deck before I do the railing and I haven’t had the time to do it. I guess I will go ahead and do a temporary railing. I hate to spend the time to do anything temporary but it will take the pressure off to get the roof done. I hope the weather is cooperative during my time off.
Speaking of weather, we have record breaking high temperatures this week in Tennessee (77 degrees) but snow is predicted for Saturday. We are expecting a 50+ degree drop by then. You’ve got to love Tennessee weather. It is like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates ‘you never know what you’re going to get’. We are also making up for our lack of rain during the summer. But I love rainy days when I not having to drive in it.
I posted some links on my blog today to some blogs that I watch. I am living on the road through them for now. But I am a doer not a watcher so I get anxious to be out there.
Christmas is Fast Approaching
Well the company decided today that the plant will be closed from the end of shift Friday the 21st till Wednesday the 2nd. Let me qualify that. Even though the plant will be closed they will need some to work during that time and they haven’t decided who that will be yet. So other words no one can plan on what days they will have off. They love the godly control they have over people. I had put in for my vacation days but they still haven’t been approved. Not that that would mean anything they can change their mind and take it back. I have never worked for such arrogant people before. I will be glad to get out of here.
I am planning on a trip to Florida to see family for Christmas and then back to work on my house. My home owners’ insurance company has a problem with my 16 foot high deck not having railing around it. I can’t imagine why! The real story is that I am going to build a roof over the deck before I do the railing and I haven’t had the time to do it. I guess I will go ahead and do a temporary railing. I hate to spend the time to do anything temporary but it will take the pressure off to get the roof done. I hope the weather is cooperative during my time off.
Speaking of weather, we have record breaking high temperatures this week in Tennessee (77 degrees) but snow is predicted for Saturday. We are expecting a 50+ degree drop by then. You’ve got to love Tennessee weather. It is like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates ‘you never know what you’re going to get’. We are also making up for our lack of rain during the summer. But I love rainy days when I not having to drive in it.
I posted some links on my blog today to some blogs that I watch. I am living on the road through them for now. But I am a doer not a watcher so I get anxious to be out there.
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