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Commercial Suicide
Posted on 05/09/2023 by Grumpa Joe
The world has truly gone crazy. I have a very hard time believing that so many companies are being duped by governments around the planet. Their commitment to company suicide is admirable but assinine. It surprised me when I heard car company after car company climbing onto the bandwagon of switching to electric cars. Have they gone mad?
Actually, when Henry Ford began making cars, he had no idea where the gasoline would come from. There were no gas stations around the country to supply fuel to the suckers who jumped at the chance to buy a motorized wagon. In the movie Field of Dreams, there is a famous line “Build it and they will come.” I guess the entire world now operates on that philosophy. It is not a bad directive, but I would like to believe that there has to be a tiny bit more behind investing billions of dollars in a technology that is still years away from fruition. I give Elon Musk credit for sticking his neck out to build electric cars, but I don’t give GM, Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes, Volkswagen, and the many other car company’s any credit for rushing into this scheme built on the phenomenon of global warming being caused by humans. Yes, global warming can happen but it is far beyond our capabilities to make it so.
My intention with this post is to add to this fray of commercial suicide. I am proposing two of my designs for electric cars free to the world for use by humanity. Both are just as viable as the cars Musk and others are producing. In fact, these designs may be more reliable and cheaper to build than those in current production.
Design number one.
Filed under: Cars, Cartoons, Humor, Sarcasm | Tagged: Electric Cars, Man Made Global Warming, Saving the World | 2 Comments »
My Reaction to A New Car
Posted on 22/05/2023 by Grumpa Joe
I never thought I’d see the day, but it has arrived, and I’m blown away. This is just another reason for me not to waste my money by buying another car.
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PSA-230515-Poking Fun At Other People
Posted on 15/05/2023 by Grumpa Joe
Today, I received a message from my cousin Rick. In it he sent me some educational material which I would like to convey to you. I learned three things:
- The meaning of Molon Labe
- A bit of Texas history which I was always curious about
- The location of Liberty Arms
Liberty Arms Gun Shop is located at
1506 N. Broad St.
Tazewell, TN 37879
The above information has presented itself with a new question.
Why is it that places that sell guns are always labeled as Gun Shops?
I have never heard of a gun store, only shops.
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Things that Slither In the Night
Posted on 12/04/2023 by Grumpa Joe
For the past week I have tried to post everyday, but yesterday I missed. The goal is blown. Instead of writing I spent the day in my shop cutting feathers. My latest Intarsia project is a large bird with his wings spread. The feathers become the bird. The goal for this project was to finish by May ’23. It is still possible but only if I never sleep, never eat, spent zero time with Lovely, and grind wood the whole time. It’s not gong to happen. I like to sleep, and eat, and spend time with Lovely that’s why.
A new challenge has arrived to make my Intarsia project a dream, Spring! Yesterday we had a genuine beautiful day, sunny, warm, and breezy. The girls are wearing shorts again, and some guys too, but I don’t lear at guys like I do at girls!
Spring is when “. . . Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it . . .
Then last night as I was retiring my step grandson came to me as white as a sheet to explain that as he opened the garage door to get some night air, he saw a long skinny thing (snake) about 2 cm in diameter slithering past. I looked at him and said “he’s probably horny from being in hibernation since last September. Did he come after you?”
“But, but, but, is he dangerous?”
“Of course not, most likely it is a garter snake, and even though he looks ominous like all snakes do, he is harmless.” The conversation shifted to a discussion on why I should fix all the cracks and crevices between the garage door and the floor to keep him out of the garage. I went to bed.
Today, I’ll search the area and see if I can locate his den. I don’t know what I’ll do if I find him except to greet him with a cheery “happy spring,” and chase him off to the wetlands behind the house. Of course if I happen to come upon him while in the garage he’ll scare the shit out of me and cause me to run to the hardware store to buy a new weather strip for the door.
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