Ostrich hause

Viewed an ostrich documentary last night.

 Being egg laying, they are branched from dinosaurs.

Flightless, they can motor up to 50 MPH--the only bird on 2 toes.

If this speed doesn't deter an assault, they can eviscerate a lion with one karate chop.

Males can grow to 500 lb. An egg content is equal to 18 chicken eggs.

Avoid.                                                                             30/30 

Gaylord Perry was a great baseball pitcher, even voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Alas, he was a terrible hitter, typically taking three wild swings without making contact. A good morning, good afternoon and good night.

A reporter was talking to manager Alvin Dark during batting practice. Perry was up and hacking away and the reporter asked Dark if Perry would ever be able to ht a home run.

Dark scoffed and said that a man would walk on the moon before Perry would hit a home run.

 

On 20 July, 1959, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.   

20 minutes later, Gaylord Perry hit his only lifetime home run.

Just a quarter

Friends are down this wknd, and I told them a slot machine story re my Dad. I thought the poo-pawers would enjoy this too.

We were out for a summer family trip to Colo in our new packard. We stopped for lunch in a cafe close to Grand Lake. They had a nickle slot machine. My eyes were fixed upon it and I begged Dad for me to play with a quarter from my own stash-paper routes, grass cutting, lemonaid.

He looked inward, gave me a quick gambler's eye sparker, and said, "Just a quarter". 

The lady gave me 5 nicks for my quarter and in a moment the coin-in pull arm happened, for the 1st time in my life !   Zzzzzzz-clunk Then Zzzzzzz-clunk again . Then an orange and then an orange  then 3 oranges.  A grand slam !! I scooped up my 15 nicks and returned to our table.

My Dad acted like he hadn't watched but between slurps of soup he looked down and softly said, "Don't leave a winner up, sometimes they repeat".

So I went back to the machine, fed in a house nickle, and BAMMM ! 3 more oranges hit again.

P.S. Now I live in Las Vegas

July 4th

Very important date, the day we declared our independence from England . 7/4/1776.

Three Presidents died on the 4th of July, two on the same day ! Jefferson and John Adams both died on 7/4/1826, our 2nd and 3rd presidents, who were adversarial.

President Monroe also passed on a July 4. He was the signature of the Monroe Doctrine, giving notice to other world powers not to attempt to colonize the Americas.  

And Lou Gehrig of the NY Yankees gave his farewell speech on July 4, 1939,to 60,000 and he said, "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth..."

He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare disease that causes spinal paralysis and death, now best known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".

God Bless America Day,  2008.

Rockies

Watched the Rocks-Pads on the tube. Showed the Eric Young lead off home run in the Rox ML opening game. That was 15 yrs ago !! 

Sold our two tickets to that game for 30X to a scalper. I scalped him. We had backup tickets and saw the game.

That was Eric Young's only HR for the year until the last game of the season when he hit TWO taters!! 

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Alternative-energy policies

Our energy policy at work.

Congress went home for the 4th of July recess WITHOUT extending the solar, wind and other alternative-energy tax credits set to expire on Dec. 31.

Since this is an election year, Congress has only a relatively  small window for renewing the credits which are intended to increase manufacturing  volumes and bring down costs for these technologies.

 Congress is scheduled to meet only for another three weeks in July and three weeks in September before shutting down for the elections.            -J Jubak