TOO GOOD NOT TO PASS ON...

Railroad tracks.
 

The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance  between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

 

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates designed the U.S. Railroads.

 

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

 

Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

 

Why did the wagons have that particular Odd wheel spacing?
 

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

 

 

So, who built those old rutted roads?
 

Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.

 

And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.

 

 

Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. In other words, bureaucracies live forever.

 

So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or process, and wonder, 'What horse's ass came up with this?' , you may be exactly right.  Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses .

 

Now, the twist to the story:

 

When you saw a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, you will notice that there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah.

 

The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit larger, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

 

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.  And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important!

Now you know, Horses' Asses control almost everything.

 

Explains a whole lot of stuff, doesn't it?

OMG be-header mosque gets thankyou note from President

Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014 7:04 PM

If this doesn’t beat all!

Sent from Windows Mail

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This was on the "regular" local news channel. It was NOT from Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage or Fox news.

Can everyone grasp how our President disrespects our nation by doing this?

Wonder how family of victim feel about this?

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October 6, 2014

Obama sends thank you note to Oklahoma be-header's mosque

By Carol Brown

The president wrote a thank you note to the mosque that spawned the Oklahoma be-header. Go figure.

The note was hand-delivered by David Myers, a DHS Director. Myers not only delivered the note, he also read it aloud to the congregation.

Quite a bit of pomp and circumstance when one considers the circumstance.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch reports, quoting KFOR TV:

Today, an official from Washington D.C. flew in to Oklahoma to present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation.

He read a message from President Barrack [sic] Obama, extending warm greetings from the American people during the Muslim holiday.

“Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice.”….

KFOR claimed the killing was unrelated to the mosque (I guess they did their own thorough independent investigation) while noting that the FBI said the beheading “has nothing to do with the Muslim faith.”;

Whew, that’s reassuring. Because for a minute I thought there might be a connection, what with the beheader’s conversion to Islam; his wish to be called Mohammed; his badgering co-workers to convert; his Facebook page replete with jihad-inspired comments and pictures including a photograph of a beheaded person; his shouting Islamic phrases while carrying out his savage acts; and his recent request for a Muslim attorney.

And I guess it’s also a crazy coincidence that the mosque sells a book that calls for replacing non-Islamic governments with Islamic ones. And that an imam who recently preached at the mosque endorsed “convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad.” And that a former imam at the mosque with ties to al-Qaeda now preaches at the mosque in Boston that the Tsarnaev brothers attended.

And surely all the violence in the Koran, including the mandate to behead infidels, would also be unrelated.

Silly me. I thought this might be relevant.

So, to recap: Common sense has flown the coop. Stupidity reigns. The Oklahoma mosque is not being investigated. Instead, it gets a thank you note from the president.

Oh, and if I can just rant aloud here for a moment: How dare the president presume to send “warm greetings” from Americans. I send no warm greetings to this mosque. No greetings of any kind.

The president wrote a thank you note to the mosque that spawned the Oklahoma beheader. Go figure.

The note was hand-delivered by David Myers, a DHS Director. Myers not only delivered the note, he also read it aloud to the congregation.

Quite a bit of pomp and circumstance when one considers the circumstance.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch reports, quoting KFOR TV:

Today, an official from Washington D.C. flew in to Oklahoma to present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation.

He read a message from President Barrack [sic] Obama, extending warm greetings from the American people during the Muslim holiday.

“Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice.”….

KFOR claimed the killing was unrelated to the mosque (I guess they did their own thorough independent investigation) while noting that the FBI said the beheading “has nothing to do with the Muslim faith.”;

Whew, that’s reassuring. Because for a minute I thought there might be a connection, what with the beheader’s conversion to Islam; his wish to be called Mohammed; his badgering co-workers to convert; his Facebook page replete with jihad-inspired comments and pictures including a photograph of a beheaded person; his shouting Islamic phrases while carrying out his savage acts; and his recent request for a Muslim attorney.

And I guess it’s also a crazy coincidence that the mosque sells a book that calls for replacing non-Islamic governments with Islamic ones. And that an imam who recently preached at the mosque endorsed “convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad.” And that a former imam at the mosque with ties to al-Qaeda now preaches at the mosque in Boston that the Tsarnaev brothers attended.

And surely all the violence in the Koran, including the mandate to behead infidels, would also be unrelated.

Silly me. I thought this might be relevant.

So, to recap: Common sense has flown the coop. Stupidity reigns. The Oklahoma mosque is not being investigated. Instead, it gets a thank you note from the president.

Oh, and if I can just rant aloud here for a moment: How dare the president presume to send “warm greetings” from Americans. I send no warm greetings to this mosque. No greetings of any kind.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/obama_sends_thank_you_note_to_oklahoma_beheaders_mosque.html#ixzz3Fb7AfKvO
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THE COWBOY WAY...

Cowboy rules for:

Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho, Nevada, and the rest of the Wild West are as follows:

1. Pull your pants up. You look         like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap right, your head         ain't crooked.

3. Let's get this straight: it's         called a 'gravel road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No         matter how slow you drive, you're gonna get dust on your Lexus. Drive it         or get out of the way.

4. They are cattle. That's why         they smell like cattle. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't         like it? I-10 & I-40 go east and west, I-17 & I-15 goes north         and south. Pick one and go.

5. So you have a $60,000 car.         We're impressed. We have $250,000 Combines that are driven only 3 weeks         a year.

6. Every person in the Wild West         waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the         concept.


7. If that cell phone rings while         a bunch of geese/pheasants/ducks/doves are comin' in during a hunt, we         WILL shoot it outta your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to         your ear at the time.

8. Yeah. We eat trout, salmon,         deer and elk. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the         corner bait shop.

9. The 'Opener' refers to the         first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest         Saturday to the first of November.

10. We open doors for women.         That's applied to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there's no 'vegetarian         special' on the menu. Order steak, or you can order the Chef's Salad and         pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.

12. When we fill out a table,         there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup! Oh, yeah ... We don't care what you         folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... IT AIN'T REAL         CHILI!!

13. You bring 'Coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring 'Mary         Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

14. College and High School Football is as important here as the Giants, the Yankees, the Mets, the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.

15. Yeah, we have golf courses.         But don't hit the water hazards - it spooks the fish.

16. Turn down that blasted car         stereo! That thumpity-thump ain't music, anyway. We don't want to hear         it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to         #1!

A true Westerner will send this to at least 10 others and a few new friends that probably won't get it, but we're friendly so we share in hopes you can begin to understand what a real life is all about!!!

And there is more.............

The COWBOY Solution to save Gasoline. OBAMA wants us to cut the amount of gasoline we         use.....

The best way to stop using so much gasoline is to deport 15 million illegal immigrants!

That would be 15 million less people using our gas.
The price of gas would come down.....

Bring our troops home from Afghanistan to guard the borders.....

When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the Border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo         and ship him to Afghanistan ....

Tell him if he wants to come to AMERICA then he must serve a tour in OUR military....

Give him a soldier's pay while he's there and tax him on it......

After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country.....

He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal resident.....

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Afghanistan         and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves........

If they refuse to serve, ship them to Afghanistan anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo.

Problem solved......         

If you think this is a good solution to both the problems, forward it to your friends...........
I did...........