When I have my time wasted, am responsible for wasting time, or the time of others, it really chaps my ass. I wish that our leaders felt the same about us. For many, that seems their sole purpose. I know some will say that even paying attention to politics is a waste of time and for them, I have got to respectfully disagree, although that in itself may be wasting my time. I will try to keep this brief.
Last week I saw a photo of a Mexican politician who had climbed to the top of the new border fence between our nation and his. From the photo I was able to see that the vertical members of the fence are railroad rail on approximately one foot centers. It confused me when I began to think of how many of those giant steel rails would be needed for the nearly two thousand mile border. 5,280 pieces per mile times 2K equals 10,560K pieces thirty six feet long. The finished fence is to be thirty feet tall and extend six feet under ground to discourage shallow tunnels. So, we multiply again, the number of rails times the length and get 38,160K feet. Finally, we get to divide this immense number to get miles from feet, we divide by 5,280 and the result, for the number of miles of rail we would need to cut down to make this fence would be 7, 227 miles. More than enough to run an entirely new set of rails completely across our nation.
Wasting any more time on this disgrace, or a single dollar on this boondoggle is crippling our ability to do things that need to be doing. This post itself has wasted twenty minutes of my life, perhaps less of yours, but only if we continue to do nothing but talk about the traitor in the White House. I have finally settled on a name for the Terrorist-in-charge, it is Deceitful Traitor. My neighbor, who is far more conservative than I, calls him Phake Phony Phraud! whenever he hears the guy's name, he jumps up and down chanting "Phake Phony Phraud! Phake Phony Phraud!" At least he gets his lymph pumping, that is always a good thing.
I wrote a whole post on it years ago about how I used to sell pins, to turn any garment into a political statement and for years while I sold them, the best selling one was always the "Kill Your TV" Perhaps now we not only need to kill the piece of furniture that pumped us full of lies and hate, but our devices too. We all know the folks who wear Alexa or Siri on their wrists, research shows that people, on average check their "smartphones" multiple times per hour. Isn't that a waste of time?
Last week I saw a photo of a Mexican politician who had climbed to the top of the new border fence between our nation and his. From the photo I was able to see that the vertical members of the fence are railroad rail on approximately one foot centers. It confused me when I began to think of how many of those giant steel rails would be needed for the nearly two thousand mile border. 5,280 pieces per mile times 2K equals 10,560K pieces thirty six feet long. The finished fence is to be thirty feet tall and extend six feet under ground to discourage shallow tunnels. So, we multiply again, the number of rails times the length and get 38,160K feet. Finally, we get to divide this immense number to get miles from feet, we divide by 5,280 and the result, for the number of miles of rail we would need to cut down to make this fence would be 7, 227 miles. More than enough to run an entirely new set of rails completely across our nation.
Wasting any more time on this disgrace, or a single dollar on this boondoggle is crippling our ability to do things that need to be doing. This post itself has wasted twenty minutes of my life, perhaps less of yours, but only if we continue to do nothing but talk about the traitor in the White House. I have finally settled on a name for the Terrorist-in-charge, it is Deceitful Traitor. My neighbor, who is far more conservative than I, calls him Phake Phony Phraud! whenever he hears the guy's name, he jumps up and down chanting "Phake Phony Phraud! Phake Phony Phraud!" At least he gets his lymph pumping, that is always a good thing.
I wrote a whole post on it years ago about how I used to sell pins, to turn any garment into a political statement and for years while I sold them, the best selling one was always the "Kill Your TV" Perhaps now we not only need to kill the piece of furniture that pumped us full of lies and hate, but our devices too. We all know the folks who wear Alexa or Siri on their wrists, research shows that people, on average check their "smartphones" multiple times per hour. Isn't that a waste of time?
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