Trying to sort out plumbing acronyms, and someone isn't helping:
I still dont understand because I have NEVER seen a pipe with either a penis or a vagina. Have you? <lol>
(I did see several pipes that had nipples though, so I instantly knew they were female) !!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Just to confuse things. MPT is a subset of NPT. Because NPT can be MPT or FPT. So, they aren't totally interchangable. Not to be a PIA, cause a MPT would go nicely into a same size FPT, but can't guarantee that a MPT would go into a NPT, only if it's a FPT NPT. If it were a MPT NPT, that wouldn't work. So, if you have a NPT FPT on your SUV, you need a MPT NPT, or you'll be SOL. KWIM? Then, you'll need a BFG, or BFH.
For no good reason, a blogger (I refuse to refer to people like this as authors) claims that even bad public schools are better than even the best private schools because education is a social good, while admitting that she learned very little in public school. She is okay with funding public school through theft, but also wants the right to criticize everyone else when she sends her kids to private school.
I am generally not one for prohibitions, but there is a trend in Florida of people being killed by wood chippers:
Roziland Jennifer Mowell, 24, of Lakeland, was working with a crew from Ashbranch Tree Service on Wednesday when she became caught in the chipper, police said. Mowell's husband, R. Bryan Mowell, owns the tree service company.
On July 6, 2000, a 14-year-old youth (the victim) working as part of a tree-trimming crew was fatally injured while feeding a limb into a drum-type wood chipper
Using his hands for support, the man climbed into the chipper and kicked the branches through.In an instant, the machine pulled half his body through its blades, killing him before he could cry for help, said Hillsborough County sheriff's Lt. Fred Asteasuainzarra, who described the accident Thursday evening.
In January 1999, a 22-year- old man died in Valrico when he used his foot to free a branch stuck in a chipper. Joshua Avery of Dover worked for Farrens Tree Surgeons.
In March 2003, a 24-year-old woman died in a similar accident. Roziland Jennifer Mowell, whose husband owned Ashbranch Tree Service, died in Lakeland when she became caught in a chipping machine.
From massive NSA spying, to IRS targeting of the administration's political opponents, to collection and sharing of our health care information as part of Obamacare, it seems every day we learn of another assault on our privacy. Sadly, this week the Senate took another significant, if little-noticed, step toward creating an authoritarian surveillance state. Buried in the immigration bill is a national identification system called mandatory E-Verify.
I find it odd that left-statists protest voter registration but not this...
The Senate did not spend much time discussing E-Verify, and what little discussion took place was mostly bipartisan praise for its effectiveness as a tool for preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining employment. It is a tragedy that mandatory E-Verify is not receiving more attention, as it will impact nearly every American's privacy and liberty.
The mandatory E-Verify system requires Americans to carry a "tamper-proof" social security card. Before they can legally begin a job, American citizens will have to show the card to their prospective employer, who will then have to verify their identity and eligibility to hold a job in the US by running the information through the newly-created federal E-Verify database. The database will contain photographs taken from passport files and state driver's licenses. The law gives federal bureaucrats broad discretion in adding other "biometric" identifiers to the database. It also gives the bureaucracy broad authority to determine what features the "tamper proof" card should contain.
Hello, 1984, are you just visiting or here to stay?
Texas is a beautiful place. The foliage, while rather dry at times, is a unique blend, along with what comes here through human intervention. So, our kids uave a handful of rubber snakes, one of which is realistic, and to scale. What's worse? It usually ends up with the patio toys. Yeah, you probably already guessed it. The youngest says he sees a snake on the patio. It looks like the toy snake, so I go to pick it up. Then it turns, looks at me, flicking its tongue.
I'm not even sure Wtf to file this under, so I'll just let Rush speak for himself:
"Well, it's a good point. You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun."
Apparently others have stopped trying to find reason in Limbaugh and simply quote his insanity verbatim. It appears to be a bit more effective:
"It's only been a month since I decided that simply quoting Rush Limbaugh verbatim is the easiest way to discredit him, and the best way to force his apologists to confront the ugly reality of his indefensible program. I didn't think I'd revisit it so quickly [...]"
So, I'm trying with great enthusiasm and time to sort out why drivers around the world are horrible, but those in Russia take the cake. And off all the Russian failures to learn how to drive, why is there one outstanding common feature? I'm talking about the Lada Riva (and some similar models).
This boxy little shitbox is the modern equivalent to the Trabant, a failure in design, execution, and management (let's allow the private market supply goods and services, unencumbered, shall we?). I'd hate to understand why this sort of vehicular failure could happen with such frequency.
So often, there is a Lada or Trabant (if any survived the collapse of paper money) involved in the accident, even if as a witness to the destruction of it's kind. They are either turning left in a right-turn lane, or trying to pass on the sidewalk, all before being involved in the destruction of property and sometimes life. I can't imagine anyone with any other choice would choose one...
I have a theory that these sort cars cost about a day's (heavily subsidized) pay, are worth about that, and those deciding to start driving have zero requirement to actually know how to drive, which many Russians apparently never bothered to learn.
I would have hoped for a world in which these individual examples of the less favorable traits in our species would simply be allowed to reduce them from the genetic equation. What's wrong with letting Darwin prove his theory? If he was wrong, we have Idiocracy to look forward to. If he was right, we'd better sure as hell allow those without the survival ability to fade into our collective past. Just don't piss off any crazy Russians.
A Kansas man who donated his sperm to help father a child for a lesbian couple has been ordered by the state to pay child support for the daughter he helped conceive. William Marotta, 43, responded to a Craigslist ad in 2009 by Angela Bauer and Jennifer Schreiner and signed a contract relinquishing parental rights. After a significant illness prevented Bauer from supporting the child, the Kansas Department for Children and Families requested the donor's name and pursued him for support.
