All of this will be true even though it sounds a tad on the fictional side. As the saying goes, sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

Anyone who is relegated to working from home due to injury tries to find method of increasing the income generation potential. Let’s face it, the options are not that great yet for at-home work but they are growing. However, that knowledge is also known by those who would choose to be a scammer.

These scammers will go to some creative lengths to try and con you out of your money. Recently, I was contacted to become an “Assistant Director” for a company I will not give the honor of having more traffic. Some flags flew up and I decided to do my due diligence and follow through checking on what this “employer” was requesting.

One of the websites this “employer” from Sweden claimed to have worked on was for the company ErgoGenesis LLC based out of Texas. After following up with the person in charge of their website, I discovered what I suspected. My “prospective employer” was just a scammer. But now the scammer had a double gift coming back. First, the company lawyer was not pleased with this false advertising from this scammer. Then there is this silly thing called and FBI list which these scammers get to be part of. Hopefully this schmuck will get a gift soon from the Investigative branch in Sweden soon.

But I am grateful to the scammer for a different reason. I wouldn’t have known about ErgoGenesis if it weren’t for the scam. Since I have my fair share of physical ailments and know of others who do as well, I am thrilled at the concept of having my own office chair built for my specifications. So whether you are with your own physical ailments from injury or from the effects of aging, I recommend that you can construct your own chair located here.

I had attended a college that is strong in the engineering field. When you go through the Physics classes, the calculus classes and more you realize very quickly just how bound the hard sciences are to math. In engineering, either you do the calculations correctly or someone could get killed either during the construction or afterwards.

So when you are talking about steel buildings, you need to not only get the calculations correct but you must factor in the construction codes of the state and regional areas you are doing the work in. Because if you fail to do so, all of the work on the steel buildings is for naught as the building inspector will not approve your work for sale or use.

So whether it is for a warehouse, a church, or a dairy barn, you need to make certain you receive the best quality steel buildings as they need to stand up to the various forces of nature. Up here, they have to withstand the ranges of 50 mph winds and hot summer heat to the bitter cold of January and blizzards. Should you be in California, you are graced with the building codes to factor in earthquakes. So it goes on for whichever state you may be in.

May certain you get a company that values performance of their product which is only done by following real science and math especially if you are in the areas of hurricanes.

My Wife’s PHS


As I have written before, my view on relationships, especially on marriage, is they are all about your level of trust, understanding, and communication. To have a successful marriage, all three need to be at their peak. This does not come naturally but it requires work to create and maintain. The initial puppy love or infatuation phase far too many mistake as being “in love” doesn’t last. Additionally, one has to know what kind of traits to look for in the right one or the understanding, trust and communication will have a tough time forming for the long term.

Why is all of that so very, very important? Any husband that knows their wife knows the answer to this. But it requires the husband to focus on and truly understand his wife. For every 24 out of 30 days, life is “normal” based on the standard for the couple. However, the rules change when it comes close to that particular time of the month. Each lady is different and reacts in different ways but guys have to respond the same. Control thy tongue, respond gently, and serve them, all while doing the equivalent of duck and cover. That’s married life. If you get lucky, you have a tough lady like mine who is just sensitive and doesn’t rip your head off at the slightest thing.

No matter how hard you try though the deck may be stacked against you. This is why establishing a solid relationship based on trust, understanding, and communication is so important to have in place long in advance. You may wake up one morning to find out you are in the dog house. You may have done everything right and still you are in the dog house and confused. It just may be that your wife had a dream that night when you did something wrong in her dream. So nearing that special time of the month, it is enough to land you in the dog house. If the solid relationship has been established, patching the errors of your ways that you did in her dream may only take half a day. What you do not get to say is “But it was only a dream!” That will get you the couch.

Give of yourself and be understanding. So when the times come when she isn’t feeling good by either illness or PMS (photo from link), bedtime is the time you can become a PHS for your wife. What is a PHS? Well, I know I am my wife’s Personal Heating System.

PHS = TUC + TLC = Peace (Personal Heating System = Trust, Understanding, Communication + Tender Loving Care)

Happy Wife, Happy Life!!


Outside of dogs and sometimes cats taking advantage of the continually fresh water, toilets are all for humans right?

That would be correct but that isn’t the primary point in this article. It is a bit more along the lines of how a human is like a toilet in a way. A toilet receives a lot of liquid waste and solid stuff that if it cannot remove it correctly will clog up the pipes causing a backup. Most of us have had the luxury of grabbing the plunger and start the pumping motion in hopes of getting the crap flowing again. Using the power of water and bubbles, eventually the clog is released and the toilet can complete the draining it was designed to do.

For the human body, I’ve experienced that sometimes you need to pull the level and flush out certain parts as well. In addition to my various skeletal maladies, I deal with the annual spring-time allergies. This leads to snoring which prevents me and my wife from getting a solid night’s sleep.

I’ve tried the medication route and that doesn’t do much. Those nose things meant to hold the nose open did nothing. What worked was the one thing I liked the least, flushing my nose out with a sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate sinus rinse once a night or every other night solved the problem. Trust me, it isn’t a fun experience but if it works, it works. A rested wife is a happy wife. Happy wife, happy life is the saying.

It does make sense that a colon cleansing could very well be a good thing. Purging out the poop production with an effective mega-plunger might be what is needed to optimize the human waste pipes for a better flushing experience.

Just what part is the lever is debatable.

Yes, this is true. The donkey, the symbol of the Democrat party, is in lock up. No amount of braying at the guards will help spring the burro from the pen. It will be staring from behind the bars for its evil deeds for some time to come.

For some unreported reason, the cousin of a horse became enraged and attacked to men. One guy got bit in the chest while another took a hoof to the ankle which then fractured. What made this donkey so angry? Could it be that it found out 31,000 scientists are in signed opposition to global warming? Dang, there go more taxes.

Whatever triggered the foul mood of this donkey south of the border in Mexico left it joining the company of a dog and a bull who were previously incarcerated for their evil deeds.

“TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A donkey is doing time in southern Mexico for assault and battery.

The animal was locked up at a local jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said Monday.

Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey will remain behind bars until its owner agrees to pay the men's medical bills.

"Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed," Gomez said — "no matter who they are."

The owner, Mauro Gutierrez, told The Associated Press he would try to reach a friendly arrangement to pay the men's bills, estimated at US$420 (euro270).

The victims said the donkey bit Genaro Vazquez, 63, in the chest on Sunday and then kicked 52-year-old Andres Hernandez as he tried to come to the rescue, fracturing his ankle.

"All of a sudden, the animal was on top of us like it was rabid," Hernandez said.

Police said it took a half-dozen men to control the enraged burro.

Chiapas police have thrown animals in the slammer before, including a bull that devoured corn crops and destroyed two wooden vending stands in March.

In 2006, a dog was locked up for 12 days after biting someone. His owners were fined US$18.”

All this though begs a question or two. As Officer Sinar Gomez is quoted as saying “Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed no matter who they are.”

Question #1: Since when did a donkey, bull and a dog attain personhood?

Question #2: If a rooster gets loose and takes a poop on the head of the police, would he go to jail for a fowl bowel?

Question #3: Are all of the residents vegetarians? If a donkey, bull and a dog are considered a “who” worthy of jail then how can any residents eat meat unless it is deemed a murder?

Inquiring minds want to know. So for setting such a steep legal precedent the constabulary of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico gets an Are You Thinking? award.


Just when guys were starting to figure out the field of women’s lingerie, the environmental movement has to go and come up with new mind altering ways of using women’s lingerie in particular their bras.

So where does the title come in and why the Are You Thinking category?

Let us review the products promoted in this piece and ponder the ramifications of if they went into production or encouraged similar development in other undergarments.

“Solar Power Bra”

Description: “It features a solar panel worn around the stomach” and “The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold water, resembling mini drink pouches, in order to reduce the usage of cans and plastic bottles. It doesn't hurt that the pouches also help fill out certain chest areas.” There is this minor detail that it can’t be washed or allowed to be rained on.

Comment: Even as a demonstration of new ideas and not designed for being on the market, what is the point? An undergarment that cannot be exposed to water (electrocution potential?) which does not get exposure to the sun is quite a pointless creation. So let us add to an electrical generating bra some pouches of water which you have to hope will not break because it will ruin the bra or cause electrical shocks. How in any way is this idea good? So is the purpose of the bra to reduce the carbon emissions of a person by electrocution when their water breaks?

The Braticon

Description: “A bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag”

Comment: Now if you can automate the transformation of this bra, you will have a brand new cast member to the Transformers 2 movie coming up. Toss in a touch of the All Spark and you are good. Or was it inspired by the new look Bumblebee has? Seriously though, how are you supposed to get this into a shopping store, hold much of anything without getting an indecent exposure charge to take it off and use it? It truly would be one item that is “more than meets the eye.” So much for that “No bags in the fitting rooms” sign. If it supports shoplifting, then it must be a Decepticon.

Chop Chop

Description: “one (bra) that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks”

Comment: Now that would be attractive on a date in a restaurant. ‘Please wait while I pull my chopsticks out of my bra.” So when you are done eating, do you need to take the chopsticks in back so they can be cleaned and sanitized before reinserting them into your bra? Otherwise, that bacteria and food particle build-up may make for some nasty smells from the bra. This would be a hand wash only too as having metallic chopsticks flying around in a washing machine or dryer may not be that kind to the machines.

I can only wonder what the new uses for panties, negligees and panty hose will be. There are limitations to the practical usage of items. So from the sheer basic standard of practicality, those who make transforming multi-purpose unusable undergarments get the award for Are You Thinking?

The State of Wisconsin is known for a few things nationwide and worldwide. We are known for our cheese (in particular our squeaky cheese curds), beer drinking amounts, wild ranging weather, and wearing and being Cheese Heads for the Green Bay Packers.


For those who routinely chug the brew, they may develop the beer gut and sometimes eat enough brats and drink enough beer to get to the obese level. Let’s face it, Wisconsin is not the land of svelte women and chiseled men.


But according to the global warming advocates, obese people are a significant cause of global warming now. Which means our own brat eating and beer drinking at the games may cause us to have a Frozen Tundra no more as we’ll have caused ourselves to lose home field advantage with mild or negligible winters. But all we would need to do is keep on the chugging of beer to accelerate global warming so we can cause the next ice age and return the advantage to the Frozen Tundra. If it gets too cold, we can always help out the power plants that look to burn wood but not produce carbon to keep us warm.


Or we could take a more balanced approach to it all and wait for the scientists to finish debating if global warming exists. As outlined in the article The Sun Also Sets, the Frozen Tundra will again reign supreme as natural cooling takes place for a number of reasons.


However, this may all be a moot point. We the Cheese Heads of Wisconsin who support the Green Bay Packers have lost our leader of 17 years. Football may have died the day Brett Favre retired. Let us sing along with Annette and hope a return to the Frozen Tundra of old can help the Cheese Heads cheer again.


How do those three topics merge together? Well, they merge together more often than one might think.


One of the greatest needs of standard businesses is employees who have the capabilities to follow extensive requirements accurately to produce a high quality product. What is not needed are employees incapable of solid science skills, poor mathematic abilities and independent minds that do what they want and not what is required of them.


In the public schools, we’re teaching ‘fuzzy’ math where answers on story problems can be “close enough.” Science education is often full of contradictions leading to a less than concrete understanding of how science really works. And a tendency of many students to choose to do what they want to do despite the rules and regulations.


Speaking as a person with bad ankles that may put me in a wheelchair, the last thing I would want is to be squished in a collapsing parking structure because an employee couldn’t do the math right and messed up the structural support requirements. I also wouldn’t care for the ADA laws and building codes to be ignored just because a person didn’t feel like following them.


So I do strongly prefer parking consultants like Desman that know what they are doing and have proven it. Whether it be planning, consulting, restoration, design, studies or transportation planning needs, the company that knows “close enough” is not good enough and brings their comprehensive and time tested skills to the table is the best one for the job.


But for Desman Associates to meet this goal, I must tip my hat to their HR department for continuing to hire the right kind of employee that knows how to do their thing. May they continue to do great so my future wheelchair doesn’t get caught in an unforeseen and poorly designed rut.

Like I have always stated, it is time to prove it. Eugenie Scott is not only the Executive Director of NCSE but is also a public signer of the Humanist Manifesto III. So a person who is running a “neutral” agency that influences the science curriculum of the 50 states and is a signatory of the Humanist Manifesto will not permit her philosophy to dictate the direction of the NCSE? Is the Golden Gate Bridge for sale?


Straight from the Humanist Manifesto:


“Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis.”


Okay, that’s fine. However, the next stance is contradictory to the first and bears a striking resemblance to what the NCSE stands for.


“Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.”


So the Humanist Manifesto values match the goals of the NCSE and are reflected in the Wisconsin DPI standards for science education. Nice version on neutrality.


Next exercise, go to the About page on the AHA website. Of course it is just a philosophy and not a religion but for the fun of it take their mission statement and substitute the words Humanist and Humanism with your choice of religion. Of course though, it isn’t a religion at all right?


It just talks like a duck, walks like a duck, looks like a duck, so it must be an ostrich.


Any further questions? Try reading their version I and their version II (modified after Nazism proved to be a bad human idea) if the picture isn’t crystal clear.


Let’s see in Version I the founder says:


“In order that religious humanism may be better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain affirmations which we believe the facts of our contemporary life demonstrate. … To establish such a religion is a major necessity of the present.” (emphasis mine)


Yup, humanism is not a religion at all. Obviously the founder was mistaken. The Public Schools are obviously neutral. If you believe that still, I can sell you the rights to being King of Atlantis and you can charge all the nations of the world who sail on the Atlantic Ocean. Hmmm, what would a fair price be for that?

One of the fields the public school system is derelict on is fiscal responsibility education. True, the public schools are bogged down with meeting test requirements but that isn’t an excuse. Another quandary is who in the school would teach it as many teachers weren’t taught or did not practice individual fiscal responsibility themselves. It definitely isn’t a required course for any education degree I’ve heard of.


The only option remaining is to educate yourself on how life and the world really works or have your parents teach you (if they know fiscal responsibility). One of the main causes of the creation of out of control debt levels is the improper selection and use of a credit card.


For the proper selection of a credit card with preference to those with perks, a person would need to find neutral information sources. Combine the information source with the current fuel issues, researching gas rewards credit cards would be a good start. When you can balance all of the various choices of credit cards, then you can take action on applying for the one that best fits your needs.


As for disciplined fiscally responsible decisions, credit card use has to be kept to a few basic guidelines. First being one need to make certain they have the funds available for the purchase in their savings or checking account. Next, pay off any balance at the end of the month. Lastly, restrict the usage of the card for online purchases or spending within your budget while on a vacation.


Going on these rules while using a useful educational website can help anyone tackle the debt demon before it gets control.

No matter the statements made about how the public school system is neutral on the topic of religion it amounts to little more than a public relations spin. To proclaim such a standard is pushing a blatant falsehood or con game on the population. I will be blunt in my statement. There is no neutral group or individual that includes humans in its numbers.


Each person brings their own set of ideas, bias, world view and opinion into whatever they do. It takes incredible discipline to separate out your stances from your work and remain neutral. That degree of discipline is quite rare and where it does exist, it sure will not get air time. Those who strive for the air time are those who want their opinions and bias heard.


Anyone that pays attention to what is being taught in the public schools knows the answer to the next question. Are the public schools neutral on the topic of religion? Obviously, the answer is a resounding no. It is the height of naiveté to believe religion and views on morality could ever be separated in a public school setting. To remove one that was taught for 150 years and declare “no religion” will be supported is a rather weak sales pitch. But it is a sales pitch bought because many do not pay attention to what their tax dollars are being spent on.


Is there any proof of religion in education? Quite simply, the answer is yes. The NEA long has had the stance of driving out the influences of Christianity and the parents because the group felt it knew better than the rest on how to raise a child. Is there a document trail to support my statements? Yes, there is.


On the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction website in the science section, they have issued their statement on the topic On the Nature of Science and the Teaching of Evolution and have stood by it since 1982. In their list of resources, they cite the National Center of Science Education (NCSE) and some of their articles. Let us follow the trail though shall we?


The NCSE comes straight out and says what it stands for right away on the homepage of their website.


“The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) defends the teaching of evolution in public schools. We are a nationally-recognized clearinghouse for information and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom and "scientific creationism" out. NCSE is the only national organization to specialize in this issue.”


On their website, they declare themselves to be neutral on the topic of religion. Give me a break, no group or agency is neutral. The NCSE is led by Executive Director Eugenie Scott since 1987 in a small building with about 10 or so staff members on-site. Can we draw the conclusion that since the position statement of NSCE is they are neutral on religion that the Executive Director is neutral too? Logically, we can’t. Would it be fair to say the opinions and bias of the Executive Director would have an impact on the operations of NCSE? Since that is how any business or group is run, obviously yes.


to be continued...

Can fresh unfossilized dinosaur bones be found outside of Alaska and other frozen areas? We only need to look to Montana for our answer. Way back in 1990 Mary Schweitzer found dried blood cells in unfossilized T. rex bones. Blood cannot last more than a few thousand years at best. Of course, honestly reporting observations carried with it the price of losing her job.


We can also look to the ground and see what the dinosaurs left us in their tracks. There has been much debate about whether or not the human looking footprints next to dinosaur footprints were real near the Paluxy River. However someone got the genius idea to ignore the human looking footprints and take some measurements and get some data. The measurements supported the initial observation of the dinosaur tracks follow the river bed. Since it is agreed the Paluxy River has maintained its current course for only a few thousand years, it begs the logical question of did the dinosaurs follow the river or did the river follow the dinosaur tracks? The only probable answer is the dinosaurs followed the river sometime in the last 4000 years or so.

But is there more concrete proof of dinosaurs having been around so recently? Again, yes there is. When the sites in Montana were observed closely, the coulees formed there are limited to a 3,000-70,000 year old time frame based on solid science with the variation depending on your viewpoint. The problem is hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaurs laid eggs in the exact same place which has them living between 3,000 – 70,000 years ago and not 65 million years ago. The shorter timeframe is consistent with the findings of the RATE study and the radioactive carbon in diamonds.

While this same scientist was at a fossil dig in Montana, unfossilized shells were found, dinosaur eggs were found in hard dirt (not rock) and the evidence was apparent dinosaurs have lived recently. But the leader of the expedition was certain hard soil you could displace with a paintbrush had to be rock because the dinosaur eggs had to be from 75 million years ago. So from this we can conclude that when something walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be an ostrich. Oh yeah, that isn’t how the phrase goes. Shhhh, don’t tell the leader of the expedition.

When you look at the data and the evidence though, the amount of time required for their assumptions is not available. So logically that would force the ToE into a small enough timeframe where it would have to be measurable as the rate of Evolution would have to exceed the rate of extinction. I try my best to remain neutral on a topic but also remain skeptical of claims. It is time to produce the proof or remove it from the text books.

The math just doesn’t add up. They seem to be running out of time.

Revisiting the topic of Origins of Life, I’ll lay it out at the basic core level. Real science operates on the scientific method and requires proof before a hypothesis is given credibility. On the topic of Origins, proof is impossible to attain as we obviously weren’t there to witness it.

However, you will have many different sides claiming they “know” the unrecorded past and must be right. Like the majority of the “evidence” used, the positions are based on assumptions and opinions. The debate topic must come down to the data and the proof. If it remains about opinions, then it is no better than debating whether you like Wolverine or Iron Man better.

The greatest challenge to the Theory of Evolution is the burden of proof. It assumes new genetic material has been added to a single cell to transform that one cell into every animal and plant we see today. The primary answer to the challenge is all those changes take a lot of time to do or somehow magically occurred in radical jumps. Do the evidence and the data support the assumptions of large amounts of time or go against it? Is there a time demand crunch?

In a previous article Inconsistent History in 1st Grade, I brought up the research regardingmitochondrial Eve’. When the ‘age of Eve’ was calculated based on observed data not assumed data, the answer came to about 6000-6500 years. That timeframe makes sense when compared to the human population growth curves and the sticking point of recorded history only goes back 5000 years. Any statements making claims beyond what is recorded history is guesswork.

By herself, ‘Eve’ does not provide enough data to constrain the time demands. How about we give ‘Eve’ a diamond to match? In particular, recent studies on diamonds have determined the existence of 14C or radioactive carbon. This study called RATE went through the process of having natural diamonds crushed then tested in a blind, valid test and the results came back positive for radioactive carbon. Merging this up with my prior article on the Positives of Radioactive Carbon 14 Testing means there is a hard cap of less than 90,000 years for the ToE to work within. The ‘light’ reading work done prior to the RATE can be found here.

Let us turn to the popular dinosaurs and what they can add to this time issue because they are assumed to be 65+ million years old.

One group of men including a geologist traveled to Alaska to search for dinosaur fossils. What they found were un-fossilized dinosaur bones, partially petrified bones and some that were frozen. While this by itself doesn’t set an age, it does create an issue. Frozen dinosaur remains in Alaska would indicate they lived until the ice age. That throws off the standard time line just a tad.

To be continued...

Now That Takes the Cake


Now That Takes the Cake

In this category I have lampooned a variety of actions of others. But this is my first set of prosecutors to roast. This is one of those cases where one can conclude the prosecutors are overreacting to a minor infraction.

This Are You Thinking? award will be going to the prosecutors from this story found here:

“MCARTHUR, Ohio - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.

While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn't allowed access to snacks.

Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months.

Caudill's attorney Claire Ball said that's outrageous. Ball says keeping Caudill out of a state prison would leave cell space for a more serious offender.”

Okay, Timothy Caudill should have followed the rules better. Rules are rules especially when you are incarcerated but the punishment should equal the crime. I am one that believes in the death penalty. Life for a life is the rule of thumb on that. But 9 months in jail for sharing half of a Little Debbie oatmeal crème cake sounds very excessive to me.

From a basic standpoint, does half an oatmeal crème pie count as a snack? It may be just a tad bit more filling than a Hostess Twinkie with about the same amount of nutritional value. There isn’t much to either.

If the prosecutor really wants an appropriate punishment for this massive crème pie crime, have Mr. Caudill do community service in a soup kitchen handing out food that actually does have nutritional value.

If the prosecutor does get this guy to sit in jail for 9 months because of half a crème pie, what are the punishments for speeding, graffiti, or murder? They make Sharia Law look tame.

When a person steps back and takes a look at the current world in the timeline of history, the major focus on drugs and the pharmaceuticals of today is just a speck of time.

Obviously, various forms of medical care existed long before the chemical drugs did so it makes sense to try to understand and incorporate the medical knowledge of the past. This is a role of science if it can remain unfettered by the restrictions of a pharmaceutical industry.

Much of the prior medical care focused on the use of plant life for its nutritional and medicinal purposes. As we are discovering, a variety of fruits and vegetables offer important nutritional aspects to our lives. There are a number of them which most of us are aware of like carrots, broccoli, bananas and the commonly known ones.

It is the less commonly known such as goji berries that require investigation and providing proper information to the public. So what can the goji berry do for us? I’ll let the website do all the talking for me.



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