I have long had a theory about most politicians. The theory is that one becomes a politician to get good pay for doing absolutely nothing. When confronted with this, they will try to prove you wrong by doing something and that something is usually bad news for the taxpayer. Obviously, this is not all politicians and many do go into politics because they want to see changes in government. Unfortunately, most have no clue what they are doing or why.
Here’s a couple stories I have recently heard about.
The first was just last Thursday in Bedford, Ohio just outside Cleveland. Andrew Mizsak lives with his parents. He has a room in their basement and doesn’t pay rent. His mother is a city councilwoman. Apparently Andrew is a 28 year old, 275 pound slob. He’s also a school board member and is very active in local politics.
According to the report, Andrew’s father asked him to clean his room. Andrew threw a plate of food across the room and then threw a tantrum. He balled up his fist apparently threatening his father. Dad called 911.
When police arrived, the father said he had over reacted and didn’t want to press charges because he didn’t want to ruin his son’s political career. Police said Andrew was crying uncontrollably and said he would comply with his father’s request to clean the room.
Good grief! It seems that Andrew learned from his parent’s that the easiest way towards success is to be a politician and leach off the taxpayers. It’s also obvious that this guy has no self control or self discipline. THIS GUY MAKES DECISIONS THAT AFFECT THE LIVES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN!
http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2009/05/andrew_mizsak_clean_your_room.html
Here’s Sen. Harry Reid saying that taxes are voluntary. Does this guy live in the real world? Evidently, this is the way Democrats think. How many Obama cabinet appointees hadn’t paid their taxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6q0slMhDw8&feature=related
And here’s the last one for the day.
Senator Robert Menendez, New Jersey obviously has no clue the difference between income taxes and capital gains tax or anything else. This guy makes decisions daily that affect every American!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446625,00.html
We could go on forever....
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Bone-in Ribeye
(since the time I originally wrote this article, I found out and admit, I was completely wrong. It is the same cut of meat without the bone.)
Government spends billions of dollars protecting us from ourselves and those that would scam us. So, why doesn’t government do something about the scam meat cutters, butcher shops, and grocery stores have duped us with over the past twenty years? What I’m talking about is the "bone-in ribeye steak."
It was a genius marketing scam that has caused rib steak prices to rise and allowed countless restaurants to sell lesser quality meat as a rib-eye.
On a beef cow, just behind the shoulder is where the ribs are. Much like those of a person. Where the rib comes off the back and around the side is where the rib meat is cut from.
http://www.yoursdaily.com/food_drinks/havin_a_cow_the_types_of_steak_part_one
The eye of the rib is cut from the inside the cow’s rib. Hence the name "ribeye."
The meat outside the rib stays with the rib so there is less waste for the meat industry. That cut is called the rib steak or rib roast. It is not a "bone-in ribeye" any more than the area outside a hurricane wall would be called the outside eye of the hurricane. On a hurricane only the inner area of the wall is referred to as the eye. The same goes for a steak. Only the inner portion of the rib is the eye.
When I was a kid, in the not so distant past (although it was the last century), the rib steak was sometimes called a "cowboy steak."
I have no idea why. The ribeye was the wealthy cut, with the best flavor and the tenderest meat. The tenderloin or filet mignon was the most expensive cut which was cut from the inner roll of the sirloin just behind the ribs. It was all so easy and you knew what you were buying. Now, the stores rename the cuts to make us believe we’re buying something we’re not. The flyer in the paper says "ribeye $3.77 a pound" with a small print beside it that says "bone-in."
It’s downright dishonest and lord help the poor waitress who brings me a rib steak when I’ve ordered a ribeye. Be safe, order a t-bone or a porterhouse. Hopefully the restaurant will know the difference.
Government spends billions of dollars protecting us from ourselves and those that would scam us. So, why doesn’t government do something about the scam meat cutters, butcher shops, and grocery stores have duped us with over the past twenty years? What I’m talking about is the "bone-in ribeye steak."
It was a genius marketing scam that has caused rib steak prices to rise and allowed countless restaurants to sell lesser quality meat as a rib-eye.
On a beef cow, just behind the shoulder is where the ribs are. Much like those of a person. Where the rib comes off the back and around the side is where the rib meat is cut from.
http://www.yoursdaily.com/food_drinks/havin_a_cow_the_types_of_steak_part_one
The eye of the rib is cut from the inside the cow’s rib. Hence the name "ribeye."
The meat outside the rib stays with the rib so there is less waste for the meat industry. That cut is called the rib steak or rib roast. It is not a "bone-in ribeye" any more than the area outside a hurricane wall would be called the outside eye of the hurricane. On a hurricane only the inner area of the wall is referred to as the eye. The same goes for a steak. Only the inner portion of the rib is the eye.When I was a kid, in the not so distant past (although it was the last century), the rib steak was sometimes called a "cowboy steak."
I have no idea why. The ribeye was the wealthy cut, with the best flavor and the tenderest meat. The tenderloin or filet mignon was the most expensive cut which was cut from the inner roll of the sirloin just behind the ribs. It was all so easy and you knew what you were buying. Now, the stores rename the cuts to make us believe we’re buying something we’re not. The flyer in the paper says "ribeye $3.77 a pound" with a small print beside it that says "bone-in."It’s downright dishonest and lord help the poor waitress who brings me a rib steak when I’ve ordered a ribeye. Be safe, order a t-bone or a porterhouse. Hopefully the restaurant will know the difference.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Dog Shot By Police
Several years ago, I was visiting my parents and my sister was there. We were sitting in the living room talking and the news was on in the background. One of the day’s stories was that the police were chasing a fleeing robbery suspect. The suspect jumped a fence into a yard where there was a big dog. A policeman followed and was confronted by the dog. The policeman shot the dog, then took the suspect into custody.
This created quite a discussion. Of course, I saw the side of the officer and my sister saw the side of the dog owner. It may not have seemed like it to her, but I listened to my sister’s opinion. As a supervisor, I always used this discussion as a teaching tool to my troops.
As a cop, if I’m chasing a fleeing felon, I have every right to chase him wherever he goes. If he runs to his own house or anyone else’s and I’m in what the court deems "hot pursuit," then I’m chasing him in to make the arrest. No warrant is needed and I have violated no rights. Now during that, I’m confronted by a growling dog and that dog attacks me, I have every right to protect myself.
As a homeowner, my dog is locked up in my yard and someone comes in, no matter what reason, and my dog protects my property by attacking the uninvited guest. That guest better not kill my dog. Not even if it’s a cop.
Now for a cop, the trick here, is to have gone over this scenario in your mind long before it ever happens. That’s training, and it’s a fact that in situations where there is little time to think, you will revert back to your training.
An animal control officer (dog catcher) gave me a little insight into animal behavior. First of all, dog’s bark. That’s how they communicate. Most dogs, like people are protective of their domain. Even a scared dog will attack if he feels cornered. Don’t worry just because a dog is barking and coming towards you, but if he’s growling and is chomping his choppers, you’d better watch out.
Most police officers (in southern California anyway) are fairly well educated and were hired because of their ability to multi-task. Talk on the radio while driving for instance and at the same time putting up the windows so you can activate the siren and the lights. Keeping your "head on a swivel" while watching the suspects for tell, tell movements of certain activity. You get what I mean.
So my training was not to tell an officer exactly how to act. There are laws, rules, and regs of what you can and can’t do. What I trained them, was to see all sides and look for all possibilities before the incident so when and if it happened, they could revert back to that training and do not only what was legally right, but what they felt was also morally right.
I’m happy to say that in my career as a police supervisor, no one shot a dog on my shift.
This created quite a discussion. Of course, I saw the side of the officer and my sister saw the side of the dog owner. It may not have seemed like it to her, but I listened to my sister’s opinion. As a supervisor, I always used this discussion as a teaching tool to my troops.
As a cop, if I’m chasing a fleeing felon, I have every right to chase him wherever he goes. If he runs to his own house or anyone else’s and I’m in what the court deems "hot pursuit," then I’m chasing him in to make the arrest. No warrant is needed and I have violated no rights. Now during that, I’m confronted by a growling dog and that dog attacks me, I have every right to protect myself.
As a homeowner, my dog is locked up in my yard and someone comes in, no matter what reason, and my dog protects my property by attacking the uninvited guest. That guest better not kill my dog. Not even if it’s a cop.
Now for a cop, the trick here, is to have gone over this scenario in your mind long before it ever happens. That’s training, and it’s a fact that in situations where there is little time to think, you will revert back to your training.
An animal control officer (dog catcher) gave me a little insight into animal behavior. First of all, dog’s bark. That’s how they communicate. Most dogs, like people are protective of their domain. Even a scared dog will attack if he feels cornered. Don’t worry just because a dog is barking and coming towards you, but if he’s growling and is chomping his choppers, you’d better watch out.
Most police officers (in southern California anyway) are fairly well educated and were hired because of their ability to multi-task. Talk on the radio while driving for instance and at the same time putting up the windows so you can activate the siren and the lights. Keeping your "head on a swivel" while watching the suspects for tell, tell movements of certain activity. You get what I mean.
So my training was not to tell an officer exactly how to act. There are laws, rules, and regs of what you can and can’t do. What I trained them, was to see all sides and look for all possibilities before the incident so when and if it happened, they could revert back to that training and do not only what was legally right, but what they felt was also morally right.
I’m happy to say that in my career as a police supervisor, no one shot a dog on my shift.
A Century of Longevity
I read an article about how this socialized nationalized medicine will cause medical research to become pretty much non-existent and how much it has helped us longevity wise in the last century. Every year our nation's longevity gets a little longer. Of course the article gave credit entirely to medicine.
That got me thinking. Fifty years ago, it was common for weekly bathing instead of daily. It seems to me that daily bathing had a lot to do with the prevention of disease and bacteria. What about dishwashers? That had to have killed zillions of bacteria from hot water and heated drying. Same for heated clothes drying rather than line hanging.
I read this morning where one school had 17 cases of chickenpox. They tracked it back to one Mexican kid who hadn't been vaccinated and whose family takes him to Mexico regularly for visits. Reminded me of the article I read where polio is showing it's ugly face in Mexico and other countries. Hmmmm.
That got me thinking. Fifty years ago, it was common for weekly bathing instead of daily. It seems to me that daily bathing had a lot to do with the prevention of disease and bacteria. What about dishwashers? That had to have killed zillions of bacteria from hot water and heated drying. Same for heated clothes drying rather than line hanging.
I read this morning where one school had 17 cases of chickenpox. They tracked it back to one Mexican kid who hadn't been vaccinated and whose family takes him to Mexico regularly for visits. Reminded me of the article I read where polio is showing it's ugly face in Mexico and other countries. Hmmmm.
The Last Run
This is a little something I wrote about my final day as a cop after 20 years of chasing bad guys.
"It was a day of mixed emotions. The excitement of leaving, and the sadness of leaving. I was going crazy inside when I was turning in my equipment, then again when I gave up my guns. Yesterday morning was a long drive from home to the station, knowing I was turning my unit over. As I turned the last corner to the station, I flipped on the lights and siren and made one last run. No one saw it. It was only two blocks and was only at 25mph, but I loved it. It was the best run ever."
Uncle_R 3/8/2008
"It was a day of mixed emotions. The excitement of leaving, and the sadness of leaving. I was going crazy inside when I was turning in my equipment, then again when I gave up my guns. Yesterday morning was a long drive from home to the station, knowing I was turning my unit over. As I turned the last corner to the station, I flipped on the lights and siren and made one last run. No one saw it. It was only two blocks and was only at 25mph, but I loved it. It was the best run ever."
Uncle_R 3/8/2008
Monday, May 04, 2009
Name Change Resistance By The Drive-By Media
5-3-09
I often reflect on things that I notice. A lot of these things are obvious to me but no one seems to be talking about them. Here’s a couple things that have been on my mind recently.
Rush Limbaugh named the mass media "The Drive By Media" because the majority of the American media report only agenda driven stories and not report the real news. He says they report on "the flavor of the month" news. I find this true.
Last week, the CDC announced the recent swine flu virus had nothing to do with swine, only that the strain compared to those of past virus’ that were also called the swine flu. Apparently in Egypt, they slaughtered a bunch of pigs (I’m thinking it was around 3000) because of the hysteria created by the media and our government over this swine flu. So the CD said to no longer refer to it as swine flu but to use the new name "Influenza A/H1N1." So what happened. The media announced it yet continues to refer to it as the swine flu. This mornings headlines were that Mexico has reported receding number of "swine flu" cases being reported.
Let’s talk about Global Warming. If you do a little research, you’ll find that between 1895 and the 1970's, scientists believe the earth was cooling and that if we didn’t do something about it, the earth would return to the ice age. Then came along the others who went the other direction and has convinced the majority of our politicians of Global Warming. Al Gore was big on it and even won a Nobel for his 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth." Thanks to the internet and it’s vast resources, people caught onto this and caused an even bigger controversy. So what happened, the scientists who work on these theories from grant money and private contributions realized that the "greenhouse gasses" released into the ozone causes both cooling and warming. So they announced that "Global Warming" would now be known as "Climate Change." And, the media still calls it "Global Warming."
So why is this? Uncle R has opinions own everything just as most free thinkers, and here’s my opinion on this. The newspaper is a business and their business is to sell papers. It’s all about money. Sensationalism sells papers, not reporting the news. The truth is that we free thinkers want the news reported and if they only reported it the way they’re supposed to, the papers would sell. Instead, Americans are disenchanted with the media and newspapers are losing money and some are going out of business. Of course, the papers won’t admit this, they say the reason for the decline is that the resources are available in abundance on the internet for free. Obviously, it has nothing to do with quality of reporting.
There are those who have questioned Uncle R’s way of thinking and say I don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. So, for them, here’s a list of references.
tp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13480
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090501/LETTER/904309886/1022
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drive_by%20media
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/science_history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
I often reflect on things that I notice. A lot of these things are obvious to me but no one seems to be talking about them. Here’s a couple things that have been on my mind recently.
Rush Limbaugh named the mass media "The Drive By Media" because the majority of the American media report only agenda driven stories and not report the real news. He says they report on "the flavor of the month" news. I find this true.
Last week, the CDC announced the recent swine flu virus had nothing to do with swine, only that the strain compared to those of past virus’ that were also called the swine flu. Apparently in Egypt, they slaughtered a bunch of pigs (I’m thinking it was around 3000) because of the hysteria created by the media and our government over this swine flu. So the CD said to no longer refer to it as swine flu but to use the new name "Influenza A/H1N1." So what happened. The media announced it yet continues to refer to it as the swine flu. This mornings headlines were that Mexico has reported receding number of "swine flu" cases being reported.
Let’s talk about Global Warming. If you do a little research, you’ll find that between 1895 and the 1970's, scientists believe the earth was cooling and that if we didn’t do something about it, the earth would return to the ice age. Then came along the others who went the other direction and has convinced the majority of our politicians of Global Warming. Al Gore was big on it and even won a Nobel for his 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth." Thanks to the internet and it’s vast resources, people caught onto this and caused an even bigger controversy. So what happened, the scientists who work on these theories from grant money and private contributions realized that the "greenhouse gasses" released into the ozone causes both cooling and warming. So they announced that "Global Warming" would now be known as "Climate Change." And, the media still calls it "Global Warming."
So why is this? Uncle R has opinions own everything just as most free thinkers, and here’s my opinion on this. The newspaper is a business and their business is to sell papers. It’s all about money. Sensationalism sells papers, not reporting the news. The truth is that we free thinkers want the news reported and if they only reported it the way they’re supposed to, the papers would sell. Instead, Americans are disenchanted with the media and newspapers are losing money and some are going out of business. Of course, the papers won’t admit this, they say the reason for the decline is that the resources are available in abundance on the internet for free. Obviously, it has nothing to do with quality of reporting.
There are those who have questioned Uncle R’s way of thinking and say I don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. So, for them, here’s a list of references.
tp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13480
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090501/LETTER/904309886/1022
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drive_by%20media
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/science_history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
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