David #2: Remember that if a chicken can lay an egg it can lay you!
Now on to a movie review: “Time Trap”, now available on Netflix, features everything a caver could possibly ask for. The hapless spunkalunkers include the necessary two hot chicks in tank tops. They are inexplicably well equipped with descending gear but no ascending gear. Should have thought of that! But no prob cuz they have an endless supply of eternal glow sticks, so many that they toss them around like drug deranged teenagers at an all night rave. Whee! Far above the light from the entrance flickers, not because they are in a disco, but because in the cave time passes more quickly than on the surface. All cavers know that. As a result, a year underground passes in approximately five seconds! Since they have no ascending gear plucky little Greta Thunberg free climbs the pit to discover that climate change has eaten her future, the air is bad and all the ropes have rotted! So she climbs back down to discover that her little brother “Furby” has been dead for centuries. All cavers know that when you are stuck at the bottom of an entrance drop the best thing to do is to go further back into the cave, so they do. It was all a mistake because there they meet a lost tribe of beardless Pleistocene cave men who closely resemble quadrupedal Negroes. The cave men attack the spunkalunkers but are diverted when they in turn are attacked by a giant space alien from the future. Thus, the spunkalunkers escape. Back at the bottom of the entrance pit plucky little Greta climbs up again to discover that the top of the pit where the air used to be is now the bottom of the ocean. She makes the mistake of sticking her hand up into the water and is immediately seized by an aqua monster and disappears upwards. Despite broken bones the others climb the 80 foot drop to rescue her, whereupon they too are seized by the unseen monster. All seems lost until all of the explorers, including those who were previously dead, pop up out of the water in a hot tub (Yea!) inside of a space ship taking what remains of humanity to Mars for a new start. All others including Donald Trump are left behind to perish on the dying planet, so the movie has a happy ending! Think I’m making this up? I double dog dare you to watch the movie! But I would recommend the ingestion of drugs and/or alcohol first. SW From: Texascavers <texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com> On Behalf Of Michael Gibbons Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:25 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] sort of conservation related Recycling for the most part is a farce and cost more than making new. If it weren't for saving on raw materials and easing a slight load on land fills it would be a lark. Fuel efficient cars ease the pocket book and are better for the environment, but the question is this. Thanks to Trump we are for the first time in history not dependent on the middle east for fuel. Why is fuel so damn expensive then? I'll tell you why. It's because of greed. The domestic supply costs let's say $30.00 a barrel. After refining and other related costs our domestic fuel cost about 50% less than then the global supply at the pump. Why are our domestic suppliers charging us the global per barrel prices instead of their costs plus a decent profit. Greed. Wind energy. I read recently that the cost of manufacturing and maintenance of wind turbine energy far exceeds the energy output of the turbine over its lifetime. As for solar energy the carbon footprint for the manufacturing of panels is astronomical as is the production of batteries. Then there is the hazardous waste of the batteries to contend with. Again doesn't pass muster economically. Then there is the ethanol fiasco. Production of ethanol is 4 times the price of fossil fuel and it ruins the efficiency and longevity of the motors that use it. When you burn ethanol what is the by-product left in your engine? Why that would be sugar. Why not just put a pound of sugar in your gas tank with each fill up. That's crazy no one would do that. Yes they would we are all forced to when using ethanol. As for the attorneys that offer a defense to criminals. Our system guarantees a right to trial and a defense. Someone has to mount the defense and the folks that do should give their best effort for each case just as a prosecutor should. So that's an asinine correlation to draw. Being coerced into falsifying time sheets is a cop out and a different name for low moral and ethical fortitude. That is the same cop out as when one declares that defense attorneys shouldn't do there job or at least shouldn't be allowed to mount a bench as judge after the despicable act of defending a criminal to ones dead level best. On to the population of this planet. What is there to say about this. It is a factor of basic math. Sustianance grows on an arithmetic ratio and population grows on a geometric ratio. Never with twain meet on a gant chart. That's what planned parenthood was supposed to take on. Realistic affordability for couples wanting to procreate and the pros and cons of children vs ones capability to provide for them. Instead they morphed into a for profit baby killing machine because its profitable and informing the would be parents of responsible procreation is not. As for the problem of needing to share ones space. Be more diligent in selection of a flatmate who more closely meets the criteria you wish to have in one. Perhaps the criteria was ill concieved. Perhaps the urgency to cover cost overruns where the driving force in a hasty decision to generate income rather than find a compatible candidate. That answer is to not operate from an undercollaterialized position. Thoughtfully create a criteria to be met prior to the search for a roommate and stick to the criteria. If urgency to cover bills is the driving force than a person is already living beyond their means and re-evaluating ones spending habits would add clarity to the dilemma as would scrutinizing the means by which one earns a living. For the most part I enjoy your posts and the innocent manner in which you view the world. But you know its dog eat dog out there. And no one is responsible for the decisions made in your life but you. Hasty decsions and those made from a position of disadvantage will like always add to ones misery rather than alleviate any. I run my whole rodeo on $1200.00 a month. I have a three bedroom house, a vehicle and I manage everything I need and some of what I want. I have simple needs with no fluff or extravagance. I repair everything that fails myself. I dont eat out nor do it engage women that need maintaince. I shop everything and vehemently pursue any expenditure that is not what I agreed it would be. I'll chase $5.00 in a heart beat if an online vendor or other unscrupulous company tries to slicker fuck me. And I have 3nough left over to pursue a couple of hobbies. The answer my freind is the manner in which you conduct your affairs. You need to increase the influx of capital or re-evaluate the expenditures or both. But it's your chicken, we can hold it down for you but you've got to fuck it. On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 8:57 PM David <dlocklea...@gmail.com <mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com> > wrote: We are all conservationist here to some extent, and should be able to discuss conservation without getting our knickers in a wad, or using the p-word. Today in the world news, was a young passionate girl giving an official speech of some sort to the United Nations, I assume which was on behalf of her generation. Some of you may have seen parts of it or all of it. Our conservation efforts are likely better in 2019 than what was going on in 1943. As a self-employed person, I struggle to even recycle the products that I use that are recyclable. I made numerous efforts to drive a fuel-efficient car, for most of my adult life. My V8 Sequoia is now a necessity to survive, although, in hindsight it was a waste to get the 4x4 version. There is no way on Earth, I could use public transportation in my daily routine. I wasted thousands of dollars trying. As for wind-energy, there is little of that in southeast Texas, and windmills kill birds and bats, and are unsightly on the landscape. Solar-farms are highly sensitive to sand-storms and the areas with the greatest sun-potential have sand-storms. Population growth is a topic nobody seems to want to touch. We have too many humans on Earth - especially humans who are not in any way trying to make life better for their neighbor. ( I do lots of charity work ). My job is a charity job in a sense. We have people in our society that proudly drive their trucks intentionally spewing fumes into the air - as if it is a counter-statement. We have vandals who damage natural places, out of boredom and pure nefarious intentions. What this young activist does not understand is how capitalism works and the private sector and the public sector, but more importantly how people with low morals end up in high places, like being a judge in a court-room after having spent 10 years helping low-life criminals get through the revolving-door quicker. I am in the private sector and I have to deal with b.s. up to my waist. Why just today, a crooked gov't official caused me to waste about $ 10 in gas, out of my own pocket. This young lady has never had to work, and see the b.s. that goes on. At many places that I had worked in previous years, I was coerced into forging a time-sheet, over-charging the rich customers to under-charge the poor-ones, or maybe even vice-versa. We do need to plant more trees, but it will be years before those trees grow to replace the ones that got cut down. It is likely those new trees would be cut down too someday, so what is the point ? Nearly every tree-planting effort in Houston has been a disaster. The last big drought a few years ago, killed most of them. Elon Musk is selling Teslas as fast as he can, but this young lady does not understand the economics behind all that. Tesla is a crappy choice of a car in southeast Texas. People in southeast Texas need vehicles that are 4 feet off the ground, and are bullet-resistant. There was a big push for ethanol vehicles a few years ago. That program was a disaster in Houston area. Millions of buyers here over-payed for the ethanol-compatible cars ( flex-fuel ), only to find out that it was a pain in the ***. Cheaper fuel and more fuel stations and larger fuel-tanks in the vehicles was needed. Light-Rail in Houston has been a disaster and there is talk of ripping it out and putting in a dedicated bus lane in the same spot. I was in favor of light-rail until I saw how ludicrous the management of the projects were, and the hurt it did to the businesses along the route. The UN did not "steal this girls dreams." "The fairy-tales of business greed," is what the have-nots always have said during every revolution, as they over-throw the rich and powerful. It is always ironic when a poor person suddenly becomes rich, how they don't want to pay taxes, and buy Learjets, and yachts and have wild-parties. I am sharing a 2-bedroom apartment with a strange introvert stranger. This effort is due to economic stress, but I have always wanted to share my living space with someone who was compatible. I do not need a kitchen, nor bath, nor living room, nor dining room all to myself. But the practicality of it is not feasible. I need a place where my teenage daughter can visit, and my girlfriend and other friends and relatives. So I got to figure out some kind of plan to escape from this situation. While I am ranting incoherently, One thing America needs to fix is slumlord's. What is the solution to slumlords over-charging people for crappy apartments and crappy rental property? My opinion is hypocritical. I believe slumlords need to be held accountable. But that would cost taxpayer money, and use up valuable judicial and law-enforcement resources. We need to publicly identify slumlords on the front page of every web-site. But they would just retaliate against their tenants. Ironically, the gov't is the biggest slumlord in the USA - public housing and housing for gov't employees and FEMA emergency shelter, etc. is ludicrously crappy and taxpayers are over-charged. 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