Day: June 16, 2006

Are You Serious About Surviving?, by Doc

Jim: Recently Paul Harvey mentioned that hospitals are making some expensive upgrades. It seems the standard operating tables, which are rated to hold a five hundred pound patient, are not sturdy enough. The standard doors, at forty two inches wide, are not wide enough to accommodate today’s obese patients, so they are being widened. Hydraulic hoists are being installed. Longer hypodermic needles are being ordered to penetrate thick layers of fat. Even the toilets are being reinforced. I sincerely hope this does not apply to you, but the painful truth is, if you are so large you can’t fit through …


Letter From England Re: Gun Buy-Up Programs

Hi Jim, I have to support you in your view of Gun ‘Buy-back’ schemes. When the law changed over here in the UK in 1996 and the private ownership of handguns was made illegal the government put in place a scheme where all handguns were to be handed into police stations and the owners were given what the government called ‘fair recompense’. This took no account of the market value of the firearms handed in and most were overvalued. So what happened was that many people were spending their time buying cheep handguns and immediately going to a police station …


Letter Re: A New Google Earth Feature Tailored for Ham Radio Operators

Jim: Check this out! http://www.dxers.info/google/earth/index.php For example, scroll down to 6M and click on the 1 hour map. It brings up Google Earth with the “push pins.” When you click on the push pin you get the call sign of the amateur operator which can be put into www.qrz.com, and that tells you who they are and where they live. – Fred the Valmet-meister


Odds ‘n Sods:

Kentucky farmers and ranchers voice their distrust of NAIS.    o o o The 2006 Kansas wheat harvest is down 23% from last year. Stock up, now. Buy f rom your favorite storage food vendor before prices increase. We recommend Ready Made Resources (one of our first and most loyal advertisers) and Nitro-Pak (one of our affiliate advertisers)    o o o From a recent Reuters wire service story on the bankruptcy rate in the U.S.: “More than $300 billion in ARMs [Adjustable Rate Mortgages] are subject to interest rate resets this year and that figure is expected to reach …