It Does Not Require Many Words To Speak Truth
Nobody Said You Wouldn’t
What necessary part of regular car maintenance does almost no one do?
About a decade ago, I was following the news reports of crashes around Vancouver over the winter, and noticed that more than half of the fatal accidents were Honda Civics in single-vehicle accidents. Often with multiple fatalities.
Parents are unintentionally killing their children with Hondas!
How is that? They give the kids a hand-me-down car that is 10 to 15 years old. It has had oil changes, brake changes, and has decent tires. What it doesn’t have is good shocks. This is not a design issue. It is a maintenance issue.
When a small, light FWD is unladen, the rear springs are stiff enough that you won’t really notice worn out rear shocks. However, when you throw five teenagers into an old compact car (with three of them in the back seat) the dynamics change, and you have a very dangerous situation.
When the new driver drives too fast, and comes upon a corner, what do they do?
They turn the wheel and back-off on the gas. Everyone with any amount of high-speed driving experience knows that when you do that with a FWD it will tend to over-steer. How much it over-steers depends on how much weight is in the back. And when it starts to skid and you correct it, it will spin the other direction.
With good shocks on the car, this maneuver can be handled by the suspension safely. But with worn-out rear shocks, the rocking from one side to the other leads to a flipped car, at high speed, sliding into whichever light-standard / sign post / power-pole / tree is in its path. And if it hits roof-first, with five kids inside, you will have multiple fatalities.
PARENTS: Before giving your teenager that old Civic / Corolla / Golf / Accent / Rio-5 / Protege / etc. have the rear shocks replaced. (Better yet, all 4 shocks or struts replaced). Preferably with a performance shock, like the KYB gas-adjust or similar. It could save their life, and that of their friends!
The Food Mood Connection
Six facts about the food-mood connection
The food-mood connection is undeniable; an increasing amount of research demonstrates the relationship between what we eat and how we feel. When it comes to supporting mood, medications aren’t always the answer. We need to begin implementing more broad protocols and balance conventional wisdom with food-based approaches.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/food-cooking/six-facts-about-the-food-mood-connection-1/
80 Canadian Doctor Deaths Letter
A great example of promotional success backing up artistic talent.
I swear every primary school library has 3 million Isaac Asimov books. Why are certain authors prevalent but it’s harder to find say, Proust, Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, or even Camus in libraries? Is it somehow related to copyright laws?
Let me tell you a secret.
From the 1950s when he was forced out of his teaching job until his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov, without fail, met with his publisher (he used the same one for all his fiction and non-fiction works) on the same day every single week without fail.
The purpose of these meetings was to discuss book sales and publishing runs. During his lifetime, Asimov dominated the authoritative work in publishing “Books in Print” that was published every year showing which works were still in print runs and could be ordered directly from the publisher. No library or book store was without it. During his lifetime, almost all of his 500 books could be ordered directly from his publisher and it was only after his death that they cut back the number of his titles that were available.
Asimov, who was not fond of travelling, was still constantly on the go to promote his own works, both fiction and non-fiction.
So, say you’re a librarian looking to add some titles. Call up Asimov’s publisher and they will give you a great deal on the complete set of his works. In addition to filling up your fiction section, Asimov wrote works that could be included in 9 of the 10 major Dewey Decimal classifications.
But back in the day, similarly, Asimov had so many titles he would dominate the Sci-Fi section of most bookstores.
Two Posts Say It All
Coal For Energy
From a friend doing research…
The EU has 468 – building 27 more… Total 495
Turkey has 56 – building 93 more…
Total 149
South Africa has 79 – building 24 more… Total 103
India has 589 – building 446 more…
Total 1035
The Philippines has 19 – building 60 more…Total 79
South Korea has 58 – building 26 more… Total of 84
Japan has 90 – building 45 more…
Total 135
China has 2,363 – building 1,171 more… Total = 3,534
That’s 5,615 projected coal-powered plants in just 8 countries.
USA has 15 – building 0 more…Total = 15
And we have clean coal technology…
The Democrat politicians with their “green new deal” want to brainwash us and shut down those 15 plants in order to “save” the planet.
I had a rough idea about the number of coal plants but had not yet seen actual numbers until now.
This makes the point. Whatever the USA does or doesn’t do won’t make a Tinker’s Damn regarding CO2 unless the rest of the world, especially China and India reduce their coal-fired power plants as well.
The whole “global warming” and “climate change” gambits by Democrats are to create a supposedly sound, scientific basis to justify a federal government power-grab and the passage of MORE laws to increase taxes and increase control of the privately-owned power industry and its distribution.
Never forget the main motivation they have!
“Oh, we will SAVE the planet!!”
*WAKE UP AMERICA (and Australia)!!!! We are being played ….. again !!!
US Energy Independence
If you think Putin blew up his own income source, read/watch these:
https://davidicke.com/2022/10/12/sweden-refuses-to-share-results-of-nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-investigation-with-russia/
One commentor said, “We will never know who did it.”
I responded to that with, I heard this great saying once, “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it’s probably a duck!”
If Biden says in a video I have seen that Nord Stream 2 will never come on line and… well… just click on the above links and see if you see a duck!