Posted on 10/24/2013 12:11:05 PM PDT by WotansHammer
Mitch McConnell for Pres. 2016 and General of Counter-Terrorism for VP.
I thought you would be interested in this story I found on news.msn.com: US ambassador summoned by Germany over NSA spying ( http://news.msn.com/world/us-ambassador-summoned-by-germany-over-nsa-spying#tscptme, )
Wait a second? Didn’t Snowden first go to China? Where China and their reverse-technology, was granted the rights to reproduce the Grundig SW radio? I hear people in American jails, know how to increase the band-with of small transistor radio’s. What could China do with a Grundig or cell phone, like the Samsung knock-off.
Now didn’t Germany discredit our secrets, as found in the German newspaper?
As for France, just how long were they (like Australia in Afghanistan) going to provide there battalions, in the Syrian civil strife? Long enough to see the US weaponry as a Socialist Country? Then pull-out and leave us to boots on the ground?
Now: what about Switzerland and that $2,800.00 a month? Doesn’t that story sound familiar, as in the US $10 Million dollar theory?
What happened to our spy-plane brought down by China? If France and Germany are really worried about spying? Wouldn’t we infiltrate the Belgian Arms Race? I think they have enough to worry about, with the Saab software in Fighter Jets? Comprendee-Vous?
No. One Global Problem? Malnutrition.
Hence, concrete. It pretty effectively wraps it up.
The advantage for the concrete is that the microstructure of the ash provides a better high-strength bond. Volcanic ash works in a similar fashion.
Very interesting. I wonder how the costs compare, coal ash vs. volcanic ash for the same industrial use.
Mostly it’s a way of disposing of something considered all too plentiful, otherwise transportation becomes the primary factor.
Coal has other attributes to recommend against its common usage, but we have so much of it! It would be a shame, economically, if we did not use it to our best advantage while we can.
Eventually, the push that should get nuclear properly implemented may be the promise to use its abundant excess of energy to clean up the leavings of previous techniques, like coal.
I has deturmunashuns!
You’re an inspiration!
I’m trying to get everything clean for the Advent Kitteh, in spite of the dog and Tom’s essays and all. I don’t think I’m going to make it, but at least it’s closer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRYSOJOoHXA#t=284
My dog doesn’t like water. D0se your menagerie swim?
It’s finally up to 40 degrees, and somewhat sunny, with no breeze. I’ll be glad when Tuesday gets here, so I can get a haircut. My cowlick is obvious!
It’s hard to imagine that December will be here tomorrow... I want to put up the tree, just because I have one, but then I thought about putting it all away again. I guess the best thing is to do it Monday so a month will pass before I have to undo it! LOL!
At least I have room for one, here!
Weird. Santana likes to swim. So does Piper.
42 here, according to the tv weather-feed. DP has gone to Walmart to get me some anti-static spray. I have Cling, and it is not pretty.
We can simply put the air through a strainer. Problem solved.
I’m just mostly geekin’ today. I don’t seem to have much in the way of incentive. Maybe I’m saving up my energy for Monday, when I get to decorate! YAY!!!!
And I still can’t seem to get warm. I have no idea what’s up with that, but my hands don’t want to function. When I worked and my hands got cold, I used fingerless gloves. I was surprised how well they worked at keeping my hands warm.
A very big, extremely fine-mesh strainer.
*sznicker*
We’re leaving for a Quinceanera (at which DP and Elen will play the guitar and I will sing) as soon as he gets back with the anti-static spray. I won’t look stuning with my flounces creeping clumpily above my knees!
G’day!
I hate the clingy stuff.
Enjoy yourselves! It sounds like fun!
That was fantastic! Thanks for posting!
Or bubble the air through water like those Rainbow vacuums do. But then what do you do with the water?
Someone designed two huge, tall water towers to perform the same function in the desert to solve their pollution problem, but it was prohibitively expensive so they didn’t pursue it.
Have fun!
Decorate? I dunno. We haven’t for several years. We have enough ornaments and stuff to cover a large tree, and some thick garland around half the living room. It’s been too much of a pain lately, but we’re almost there. Maybe next year.
We always put up our Nativity scene on fireplace mantle. Always. I need to go get that from storage, probably stop by my folk’s house to get the Halloween stuff they borrowed.
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