Month: March 2016

They are playing #Russian roulette with our #health, in the name of #safety.


When the airports became equipped with the backscatter x-ray equipment talking heads from across the globe touted how safe they were.


Backscatter X-Ray



Firstly, it is “ionizing radiation” which is not safe and, it virtually strips searches everyone.

  • That to me was troubling enough.

Their answer for this was that the people in the booth never knew who they were looking at.


“So, if there is a peeping tom watching you bathe or what have you as long as he or she does not know your name; it is ok…” How messed up is that reasoning?

Whistleblowers have come forth to talk about the atmosphere in the booth and here is the killer, they have collected those images and I would guess that since you surrender your ID before you enter the machine, they know who you are.




We were told that they were not saved and of course, that was a lie as well.

Talking heads extolled the virtues of how safe these things were, comparing it to the same amount of radiation one gets at altitude.

Problem… They are comparing apples to nuts!


Cosmic radiation rates compared to sunspot activity.  Maybe one should not fly or lay out when the sun is “active!”



While it is true that you are exposed to radiation at altitude, it is cosmic radiation, not ionizing radiation.  Skin cancer on pilots is more prevalent than their ground-based counterparts.

The pilots also have to go through these infernal machines so where exactly is the cancer coming from!


The backscatter x-ray penetrates much deeper than they attest to, which could cause all kinds of cancers down the road. Bones and some organs are clearly visible. Common sense would necessarily dictate that if the radiation images it, it could affect it thus, altering its structure or DNA enough to cause mutation.


It was not the health concerns, which brought about change, however; it was people not wanting their rude bits on display for jocular moments among neophytes sequestered in some dark room somewhere.

Along comes a new technology developed by the same company.

“The Human Microwave!”


Yes indeed folks, you are being ordered to stand in a huge microwave oven to once again be virtually strip searched while software supposedly obscures your rude bits allowing the same neophytes to look for anomalies and point them out to the attending TSA agent.

The human body is being bombarded with RF (Radio frequency energy) at the 34ghz spectrum, much faster than the common microwave at 2.1 ghz.  Actually this millimeter technology is anywhere between 30 and 300 GHZ.  This energy can destroy DNA quite nicely!  It is not too healthy for people’s eyes either in that cataracts will most probably be on the rise if they are not already.

Without the technical jargon, energy that hits living tissue generates heat.  The eyes have little way to diffuse that heat ergo cataracts are a real possibility. Testing these technologies on animals found that male rabbits were temporarily sterilized, as the testes were also unable to dissipate the heat due to blood flow issues. They too were also partially blinded by cataracts.

Cooked Nuts! Price you pay to fly!


Rocky mountain oysters aka bull balls deep fried.


This new technology still produces a vivid 3D image of your naked body.  Software that is supposed to target irregularities is supposedly employed to allay any concerns however; every now and then, an image of some celebrity makes its way around the internet that was indeed taken with one of these devices.

Not only are we trading our privacy for “safety” we are trading our health for it as well.

The lies and downright corruption has to stop! Someone needs to find a way to take money out of the equation before we truly see “hope and change.”

(That would be the Washington Cartel…)


We need to look at other countries to see how they are doing it “safety” and investigate all options.




Groping kids, women, and what have you in the name of safety is not it.


Radiating and or exposing healthy people to radiation of different sorts, is not it.


Radiation poisoning.



Dealing with the problem in a direct fashion is most probably the solution and the next president had best have some balls, as that is what we need to see happen.


The magnetometer along with checking inside carry-on stuff, along with profiling is most probably the answer. I know; it takes some modicum of intelligence to actually profile but hey, if you want more than minimum wage, learn a damned skill worthy of it!


These were all good so…enjoy…




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Am Radio kit from China

Am Radio kit from China

Cheap Chinese Radio Kit

As a radio enthusiast from way, back I thought that it might be fun to build a radio from a kit.

A quick search of eBay turned up a simple six transistor kit for less than $10.

I was interested in a kit that was as close to the radio’s we had in the 1960’s which would leave out anything with integrated circuits.

Ordering the kit it was about 3 weeks  before it arrived and another 2 months before I opened it.


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Radio kit from China
Not wild about the color of the case nor the front plate, but this is a kit, not a work of art; right?

notice the 2 transistor places marked v4

The board looks pretty straight forward.

Problem 1… the instruction are all in Mandarin.

T2, T3 and T4 Are not interchangeable.


Parts list for AM Radio
Those character by the purple blotch are the designations of which are which.

On another part of the document is a chart for the resisitor color code.  Since I know what it is I can work it backwards and figure out what the colors should be.


There you go…the primer as it were. BBROYGBVGW 
Now working this backward…The IF cans were identified.


T5 is the audio output transformer and it too has a key.  Notice the white dot on the board and the slightly raised up bump on the housing of the transformer.

The rest of this was simply to populate the board correctly and see if you guessed right.


board before final parts installation.
I noticed on the circuit board that there were traces that were not completed for some reason.  If I could read Mandarin I am guessing that possibly those are stages at which you could do tests before completing the entire circuit.


Notice the C and the D… There is also an A and a B which are not completed either.


Over to the left of the board you can see two of the incomplete circuit paths.

This is why the kit is so inexpensive.
If you look carefully at the parts layout you will notice that V4 and V5 should really be V5 and V 6 as there are two V4’s wich in our nomenclature would be Q4,5 and 6.

So not only are the instructions worthless to those who cannot interpret Mandarine the printing is flawed.


Schematic showing amplifier. 
My review and guess of this “kit” is that someone bought a bunch of them because they were dirt cheap as the printing was flawed.

The kit does not use a detector diode which causes it to lack sensitivity.  My guess is that they are using the driver Transistor as part of the detector as well.

Since these are silicon transistors and not germanium that too hinders the performance as a detector.

Once built you must insert a 455Khz signal with the variable capacitor open and tune the black If can for maximum sound output.

Using a non-metallic tuning tool you can then tune for your radio stations.  The two adjustments on the back of the variable cap work in conjunction with the oscillator and the last IF can to set the stations on the dial accordingly.

Even though this kit was cheap, unless you have some pretty good radio savvy, I would take a pass.

As an FYI the speaker is very tinny sounding.

I took a short video of it working but, the video type is not compliant with WordPress.  Sorry about that.


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One of the simplest occupations in the world must be “radio talk show host.”

I often have the radio on when I am working at things that require less intellect and more mechanical aptitude.  The Trump phenomenon is nothing more than ratings for every talking head to pontificate about.

Not shocking are the talking heads on liberal leaning sites who extol the virtues of Hillary Clinton, and how wonderful she is.  I wish I were making that up….  I swear Rachel Maddow is more in love with Hillary than Bill.

Trump on the other hand is no media darling.  There is not one outlet that has anything good to say about him.  Today I heard one talking head repeating things that some supposed butler that Trump had once said.  This talking head was rather vitriolic with his callers regarding Trump.  As if, his opinion trumps theirs (pun intended).  Oh wait he has a radio show so his must be more germane, more salient more accurate than his stupid listeners do.

How smug they must feel spewing out their “intelligence,” casting perls to the swine.

How is the view from your ivory tower boys?  Are you going to toss down some cake to the peons, the little people whose only voice is their vote!

If you people do not think you are doing this, I challenge you to listen to yourselves.

Let me ask the talking heads this, have you read Trumps books? Does it mean nothing to you that this man took $1 million and turned it into $10 Billion while our president has spent more money in 7 years, than all of the presidents that came before him combined have?

I firmly believe that Trump is the ultimate tactician. I think what he does and what he says is more deliberate than one might think.  His 2 billion in free airtime is either genius, or a rather stupid media hoping that it will bring ratings.

Do you think we can really afford four more years of Obama via Hillary? That is what it will be if she is elected and, you people are giving them ample ammunition.

Cruz is a politician and a Lawyer and comes off as Smarmy. Sorry Ted, that is how you come off.  If nobody has the guts to tell you the truth, I do.

Rubio did as well… I do think that his exit speech was praiseworthy, and I really appreciated the HairforceOne line.  Rubio has a sense of humor. I look for him to reappear one day, much wiser and more experienced.

Kasich is a politician and says what he thinks will resonate.

Bernie is a lovable old white person, ex hippy who has limited math skills, and not much of a grasp on reality.  If I were not so well informed; I might vote for the man…  He talks a good story and he makes you feel good.

Hillary is an oxymoron, an enigma…she is in fact the supreme example of “establishment.” Hillary is self-serving and at her advanced age, one has to wonder “why?”  Never mind the fact that she should be wearing an orange jumpsuit, and sitting behind bars; why Hillary?  Why spend your last years here on this earth in a job that sucks the life out of you? I am reminded of the Dark Crystal, with the big scary bird like things that sucked the life out of the Gelflings. The office of President is the granddaddy of life sucking entities.  Is power that much of an aphrodisiac?

Trump perhaps is the biggest enigma of them all. Here is a person who by his own words turned $one million into $ten billion.  Here is a person who has by his own words “ an easy life.”

I do think that he might have an issue with prevarication. It would appear that exaggerating the story for entertainment sake, is part of the fabric of Donald Trump.

As politicians go however; he should fit right in as I have yet to see one that does not have an issue with the truth.  They will tell you what you want to hear for your vote, and then forget about you.

All of the stump speeches will have some story with an emotional hook, they will be about as sincere as you are when you tell the police officer that just gave you a ticket to, have a nice day.

There will be much more social engineering between now and November.  As it always seems to be, at the end of the day, Americans will have to hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils.

The “conservative” talk show hosts will have much more fodder to stir up the folks over, and we will go on. MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN will be bringing you stories nightly on one of two things.  They will be either How great Hillary is, or how lame and incompetent the “republican” person is.  That is what they do.  Fox on the other hand is the Ying to their Yang.  I am beginning to see that Fox too has an agenda that appears self-serving.

The issues however, will probably not be addressed, by any administration.

Nobody is going to round up 12 million illegal aliens.

Someone might build a wall but Mexico will not likely pay for it.

More companies will leave the United States, leaving fewer and fewer jobs for the people here.

All of the candidates are painting the issues with broad-brush strokes hoping that the American people do not care enough to examine the facts of what they are saying. If Jessie Waters is correct, many are clueless and simply going with the wind.

Ted says he will abolish the IRS… Then what Ted?  Who is going to collect the Taxes?   Do you know how many people you will be putting out of work?

He is going to tear to shreds the Iran deal… Really…maybe you should read it first.. Maybe you can tear it up all you want but in the end, their copy will be just as binding as the pile of scraps on the oval office floor.

Ted is going to repeal Obama Care… Do you think you can just stop a speeding train that is heading downhill with sheer will?

They are great sound bites Ted… Some of us have a brain.

Kasich has said nothing that I can remember that he will do.  He does lead one to believe that when god was creating the earth, he was there telling him how to do it.

Trump has tangible assets that he has built.

Does he have skeletons in his closet, probably?

Is he a worse candidate than anyone on the democratic side?  No…


I do think that they all have it wrong.  If someone were to think outside the box, they would build a bridge to Mexico.  My take on this is simple… Help them fix whatever is wrong in their country so they can compete effectively in “free trade.”  We don’t have Canadians rushing our borders by the tens of thousands; why?  Canada embraces laws and capitalism, and even though they are more socialistic than we are, they still have an economy that works for them.

There must be a way to help Mexico get to a state that Americans want to go there or at the very least the Mexicans want to stay there. We have 12 million illegal aliens because their country needs help.  Building a big beautiful wall with a big beautiful door is not really the answer now, is it?

Do you realize how far 10 Billion dollars would go to assist the Mexican people to gain control of their country, making it a nice place to live, work and visit!

Mr. Trump, How…how are you going to Make America Great Again?  How are you going to “bring the jobs back? Some details rather than platitudes would really be nice. That is what I think are some of your largest detractors and critics. The devil is in the details and I for one would like some.


Not my Monkeys, not my Circus but maybe it is time to speak up.


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Customer Service and #Life #work #job

Customer Service and #Life #work #job


Recently I picked up my car from the dealer after having some unscheduled work performed.

Key word, “Unscheduled.”

Translated, I had an issue with my rather new vehicle and even though the warranty covered most of the repair, I was still inconvenienced in that I went for 5 solid days without my car.  I still had to travel to and from the dealership; twice, and … I had to pay a deductible.

The process of getting the car into the shop was relatively easy.

The service writer was not readily available but after waiting for some time, he finally appeared.

I am an easygoing person.  I understand that people are busy and cut them slack when necessary.

Today however, when I picked up my vehicle I was told to go to the cashier’s office.

An elderly woman behind her desk did not acknowledge me.

“Maybe she is hard of hearing…” I thought…. “Hello…”

“Last Name?”

Not hello, not kiss my foot not anything simply “last name.

Giving her that, she finds my invoice and tells me what my deductible is.

She then said “sign here.”

Trying to make some sort of small talk with her was to no avail.

I am a customer service animal.  I give great customer service so when I do not get it, it is bothersome.

She is the last person that one deals with at the dealership and her attitude and demeanor was curt if not downright truculent, to say the least.

She then points to the machine to use my card in.

“Chip or Swipe?” I ask.

She looks up at me as if I have just insulted her, and points back to the machine.

Looking down once again, I see a small-post it note, with scribbled writing on it “no chip…swipe.”

At this, I stop talking and swipe my card… Either this woman is having a bad day, or she is the wrong person to be in this position.

She waits for me to put my card back into my wallet before asking me for the last 4 digits on the card.

Truthfully, it felt as if she was screwing with me.

Twenty minutes later, I see my car making its way through the parking lot.

Here is the deal….

I do not care what vocation you have.

If you are taking a paycheck for what you do, you had best be smiling.

If you cannot smile at your job, go find something else.  Life is simply too short to settle for something that you cannot do with a smile on your face.

“I am not suggesting that every moment of every day will be laughs.”

The majority of your time at work you should be able to do cheerfully.

If you are dealing with their customers, that mandate is magnified; as you must be able to project that cheerfulness in your social intercourse.

I realize that many are in jobs that are of necessity and only that, rather than what they truly would like to do.

  • What is it that you would truly like to do?
  • What steps have you made towards that end?
  • Are you a settler, whatever comes along?

Money is unavoidable.  Money is a tool that allows you compensation for your efforts.  Money permits you to trade that tool for food, clothes, rent etc.

Everyone has some sort of skill or talent, what are yours?

Have you taken an inventory of them?

Much like a leaf traversing a stream of water, many choose to go where the wind blows them.  Folks that is a mistake!

Develop a Rudder


We have all seen leaves in that stream of water. Some are in the middle and some coalesce along the banks, snared in the weeds.

If you want to avoid having some crummy job that you cannot smile at doing, take some control of your life.

Many sit back and wait for the government to take care of them.  Others come out of school having spent tens of thousands of dollars while learning nothing, and expect a corner office.

Another percentage has taken inventory of their life.  They have developed their skills and have taken a course of action that places them in the category of “properly employed.”

The bottom line is that you can do what you want, just know what it is that you want to do.

Take your interests and skills and match them up to some sort of vocation.

Match that vocation with the style of life that you want to live.

If you want to live high on the hog, you had best choose some white collar vocation and be the best at it that you can be.

It is not going to happen by accident.  You have to know where you want to end up so you know how to steer your boat with your rudder to get there.


A word about H1-B Visas

Businesses have been for a long time bringing in foreign nationals to work high skilled jobs for cheap.

These folks lobby congress telling them that our country does not have the talent they need to compete.  The amounts of visas granted each year is astounding.  These foreign nationals are indentured servants.

They are beholding to their sponsoring company.  Because a company sponsors them, they cannot leave that company without going back to their country of origin.

Tens of thousands of highly skilled Americans are sitting at home or underemployed because of H1-B Visas.  If we stopped that program, more than likely those companies would simply move offshore as many are doing every year.

My point to this is pick your vocation carefully.  You might also pick your politicians carefully as well. Too many are bought and paid for by special interests.  They do not really give two hoots in hell about their constituents.  Once elected you are no longer important until it is time for your vote again.


  • Customer Service is more than lip service; it is in fact a mindset.
  • If you cannot smile at work, you have screwed up; re-visit your choice of work.
  • Take an inventory of your skills and talents.
  • Plan your life style you want and work towards it.
  • Choose your education carefully; some trades will pay better in the end than white-collar jobs.
  • Some trades cannot be outsourced.
  • Vote for those that will secure the border as too many people make for lower wages for everyone.

Whatever you are doing for a paycheck, give it your best. You are after all taking someone’s money and for that, you are selling him or her part of you.  They are expecting the person that they interviewed, that is what you owe.


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#GOPDebate or #barroom #brawl?  @RealDonaldTrump @oreillyfactor #gop



Mr. Trump has a temper that Rubio manages to ignite rather easily.

In the “heat of the moment”, the contentiousness of the rhetoric was akin to a schoolyard disagreement about whose father was tougher.

Let me back up a little bit however, this was an interesting day for Trump, which I feel was partially set up by “his own party.”

For Romney to go after their frontrunner in such a fashion was suicidal for the Republicans, and really bad form.

The tone for the day was set for him and I feel certain going into a debate knowing what Cruz and Rubio had in store, was also disconcerting for him.

On top of this, Trump humbled himself to take part in a debate with Megyn Kelly who he has a less than congenial rapport.

As a businessperson, taking the facts on face value as they are, if he indeed took a million dollars and made 10 Billion out of it, you do not do that without making some enemies and or mistakes along the way.

Rubio has no path for success in this race; and should not be there. He also has no employees and a questionable record.  He did a rather contemptuous thing with Jeb, his mentor, so his character is dubious.

Cruz has a limited path and Kasich is a dreamer if he thinks he has a chance.

While Trump’s temperament is disconcerting, I feel like with most of us, if our patients was tested to the limits that his was on camera, we would not look presidential either.

The thing to keep in mind about attorneys, which Cruz is one, part of the job is to act.

I remember not terribly long ago I was sent to deal with a customer who another employee had pissed off greatly.  The customer was a small law firm.

The gentlemen “using the term loosely” approached me with fire and brimstone.  He had never met me before but, since I represented the company, he unloaded on me.  I was sent because I had a history of diffusion situations such as this.

He yelled, screamed and cussed me, spitting in my face as he unloaded his frustration.

Standing there with a small pad of paper and pen, I made notes of his “pain points” while he “acted.”

You see, there is no possible way that anyone should be this upset about what he was claiming to be upset about.

After I did not respond, other than look at him while allowing the last of the steam to escape his body, he looked at me quizzically, stopped and ask, “Don’t you have anything to say?”

Looking him straight in the face I simply ask, “Are you finished?”

His demeanor changed like a light switch had been flipped; he actually smiled as the conversation changed as he was now interested in a solution. I did not buy his act.

This was not my first time to deal with attorneys; I was used to working with them from all over the country.  Some of them were really well known and some were ambulance chasers.  My point is, part of their stick is they have to act.  They have to convince a jury that their client is innocent; even if they know, they are guilty as hell!  That should tell you something about their character. “Not all of them are like this…no nasty e-mails telling me what a great lawyer you are, and that you have never yelled etc.”

Percy Forman once told me face to face, “It is easier for me to get you off, if I know that you are guilty!”

“Lawyers…the jokes are well disserved…”

Cruz acts for the camera.  He acts at the debates and unlike Trump, I have no idea if he is serious or not.

Watch his face as he gets the question, he receives the question, nods, goes into character, as he formulates his response and then “action.”  Every time….

Trump’s demeanor is honest.  I do not doubt that he would prevaricate if it served his purpose but unlike Cruz, if he is pissed or happy you can tell it.

I am not saying Cruz is a bad person or anything negative about him other than Washington is full of lawyers. All of those people are always looking for the loophole.  That is why we have 80 thousand pages of tax code!

Candidates talk in sound bites.  Lawyers, in double speak.

35 million people are in the Trump camp thus far.  35 million voters want that kind of a change in Washington.

“That speaks volumes!”

Politics as usual is what 35 million of the voting population is sick and tired of.  When the first mid-term election took place in 2010 the democrats were sent a message.  They lost seats in the house and senate.  Obama said, “I heard you, you are dissatisfied and want me to double down and do more.”

“No Mr. President, we want you to stop!”

2012 came along and while losing the house and senate, 26 million evangelicals stayed home as they could not deal with a  Mormon in the white house.  Sandra Flukes birth control pills were the issue of the day and the derived war on women and Occupy were top on the diversion list.

This was Social Engineering at its best.  “Never mind that man behind the curtain…pay attention to me the great and powerful…..” Yeah, we get it…lie to us some more because a large percentage of us do not really want the facts, we just want you to tell us nice things.

Obama gets another 4 years to perfect his golf game and apologize for Americans to anyone who will listen.

The stage is now set for Trump and Sanders!

A high percentage of the population has no idea what socialism is and even joke about it on social media as if they are proud of their ignorance. Bernie tells a great story and he is honest.  Bernie is an X hippy or old hippy who has little concept of math, much less economics, and the millennials love him.  His message resonates with millennials who think that when they come out of college that the corner office and the 6 figure salary should be waiting on them.

If they had learned anything of history in college, they would know that Socialism never ever works!

On the other side of the isle is Trump.

His message resonates with at least 35 million who, have truly been disenfranchised by the political elite; and business people who do bring in outside people to take American jobs.

A young Sanders supporter tonight tweeted that Trump was an “EF-ing Idiot and, anyone who supports him is an “Ef-ing Idiot.

This young women used her real name “I think,” which I found refreshing but, she is calling at least, 35million Americans “Efing idiots” while supporting a socialist!  She used the complete word in all of its glory; I am sure her parents would be proud.

I was going to respond to her tweet but, why? I don’t argue with idiots! I will leave that to Glenn Beck. Wait, he might agree with her… Wait, isn’t he a Mormon…?  Maybe this whole Romney, Beck thing is a Mormon conspiracy…!  No, I kid….

The middle class has no voice in Washington.  They are the people who work 50 ~ 60 hours a week trying to just get by to see their taxes go for nonsense!  Obama spends millions on a single 2-week vacation and thinks nothing of it while those that worked for that tax money struggle to make their rent!

The millennials who are on the other side want small companies to pay entry-level employees $15 an hour when some professional people are not making that!   They too did not learn economics.

Kasich, while having a grasp on policies is about as interesting as soggy toast.

For the RNC to try to figure out underhanded tricks to keep Trump from getting the nomination is detrimental to the party.  Their antics will further demoralize the taxpayers who see this as a rigged system. Much like the Democrats super delegates, they are waking up to just how rigged it is.

The “republicans” should rally behind the front-runner, and help make him as formidable as possible against the Democrats.

If Trump takes Florida, and even Ohio, it would be foolish beyond contemptible to not get behind him and unify the party before their petty bullshit does further damage.

You ran a good race, now bow out gracefully, and start talking nice….


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Attention Republicans!




The Establishment… 







“How did that work out for you?”


I think I know which one…













“What difference does it make?”



Either play ball with the new team, or ship out!





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