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How Women Dress

3/31/2020

There are many women who complain about how they're viewed by men. Just my opinions of course, but if you're going to show me most of your breasts I will have a difficult time maintaining eye contact. I can't help it, I'm a heterosexual male. If you walk by and your skirt barely covers your upper thigh, I'll be tempted to look. I'm sorry, I truly can't help it as men are typically wired to be visually attracted.

The question is, why are some women dressing this way if they don't want to be seen as objects? Most women who dress this way want to be noticed, not by everyone, but men who they'd like to make interested. So they don't want to be seen as objects, yet attempt to gain interests by their looks and how they dress. What they're blaming men for is actually an oxymoron. If they want someone to respect them for who they are, then they shouldn't use their bodies as bait to begin a conversation.

Let's Talk Guns

3/31/2020

It is a widely known truth that when disasters happen, both the good and the bad of people come out. Natural disasters or even things like the electrical grid blackout, increases major crime. Businesses are broken into and merchandise stolen. Drug stores are typically hit first for their pharms. Electronics next, and then alcohol and food. This order can change.

Some of the worst areas to live should things turn bad are Baltimore, Chicago, D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Why? Because citizens won't be able to protect themselves. Pretty much the only people with guns in these areas who have nefarious intent, are those with unregistered weapons.

If things went bad in places like Birmingham, Charlotte, Charleston, Columbia, Dallas, Helena, Lincoln, etc., more people would be afraid to break the law because if they enter places they don't belong, they can be shot by people with registered weapons. If someone is kicking in or using a bat to break a window and rob a store, they can be shot in the process of breaking in; the owner doesn't have to wait until they enter the store.

The safest places for those who don't believe in the 2nd Amendment or do and don't believe in assault rifles, are in the homes of those who do. What's even scarier is the direction the Democratic Party is going. Many of their leaders want to make certain weapons illegal. Have gun collection sites where they pay a certain amount of money for each weapon. Then if someone has a registered weapon and doesn't turn in their weapon, they'll get a warrant and forcibly remove the weapon from the individual's home.

Guess what this leaves? The government can't track those who don't have registered weapons so they go uncollected. At this point the criminals will have the most powerful guns and rifles. I hope you don't think they'd never try it because it's already been on some of the Democratic candidate's platforms.

Wheaties

3/29/2020

General Mills introduced "Wheaties," in 1924. Ten years later they launched one of the greatest ad campaigns of all time as it's still going strong, and that is: "The Breakfast of Champions."

And the first champion to be on the box was Lou Gehrig. The other champion to make it on the box in 1934, was the female aviator phenome, Elinor Smith, who was one of the youngest aviators (age 16), in world history.

The First DNA Case

3/27/2020

It was geneticist from Oxford, England by the name of Alec Jeffreys, who discovered DNA matching in 1985. It was an accidental finding as he was working on a project to see if there was a way to determine if generations of family members pass down the same illnesses. He was putting together some test strips when all of a sudden he saw what looked like little bar codes showing up. Looking into it further, he saw that no one in his study had the exact same markers but family members had similarities.

Kind of strange, but the first use was to determine if children in the immigration system were in fact born to British parents. He thought that it could have many uses including to help law enforcement determine if someone had been at the scene of a crime.

The police from a small town in Britain had two separate rapes and murders of a couple of young girls. A 17 year-old boy with mental problems confessed to the crimes but the police didn't believe him. People were scared and young girls couldn't go anywhere without someone being with them and they certainly weren't allowed out at night.

One of the detectives heard about the new DNA technology and he called the Jeffreys to see if it could really work to determine who committed the murders. It hadn't been used up to this point so he was excited for the opportunity. He took DNA from both girls and then ran it against the young man who confessed and it clearly ruled him out.

They then did something we didn't do until years later as the ACLU was fighting against it, they took samples from all the men in the area and didn't get a match. Then someone came forward and said that a friend of his talked him into doing the DNA test for him; his buddy made up an excuse why he couldn't go. The police went to his home and arrested him and then when they took his DNA it was a perfect match. The detectives and Jeffreys were elated. It was groundbreaking. It took a long time for Jeffreys to explain in court why DNA was failproof and that no other person could've committed the crime other than the man on trial.

What Jeffreys did, changed the world. It is one of the greatest discoveries by mankind. Cold cases have been solved. Innocent people have been released from prison while the guilty parties are being locked up. Far less errors are taking place in ensuring the right person is charged with the crime. It has been a phenomenal deterrent as violent crime has declined in the U.S. by 51% since DNA testing became available. Amazing!

Train Tracks

3/23/2020

A railroad's tracks are 4' 8.5" which is unusual. So why did this happen? The Romans were the first major empire to build roads. They had chariots and wagons which were pulled by two horses side by side and the most stable width of a carriage was 4' 8.5".

For centuries, men who worked on carriage equipment, including the wheels, used the same spacing. Then when trains came along they continued to use that same distance for laying the tracks. The fact is, the train was built to fit the tracks, not the other way around. The Romans were pretty amazing.

The Invention of Dry Cleaning

3/20/2020

Thomas l. Jennings (1791 – 1856) was an African-American tradesman and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He operated and owned a tailoring business. In 1821 he was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent for his method of dry cleaning, With the proceeds of his invention he bought his wife and children’s freedom, then continued his civil rights work.

Typewriters

3/18/2020

Typewriters began being used in the 1880's and was invented by four guys who lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first commercial manufacturers of them include Smith Corona, IBM, Remington, and Royal.

Arguments

3/18/2020

Try to avoid getting into an argument with someone who has more of a reason to be in it than you.

The Oldest Sports

3/16/2020

The oldest sports on record were depicted in drawings in a cave in France and are determined to be thousands of years B.C. These drawings showed runners, swimmers, and wrestlers competing. Now to be accurate, the men clutching each other were naked, I'm just making the assumption that it was wrestling. :)

I'm Listening

3/16/2020

I really do try to pay attention to what my wife Maggie says, it's just that she throws so many words at me during the day that I can't catch them all. :)

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