Frank and Ernest by Thaves for July 04, 2010

Hey, I’ll go along with Ben……King George IS a Chowderhead!!!

LOL

Happy Fourth, Everyone!

After more than 200 years of taxation WITH representation, may we PLEASE have the Queen back!! She’s a heck of a lot cheaper to keep than Congress is!!!

And Congress is populated by certified ‘Chowderheads’!!!

And the President isn’t supposed to be a ‘leader’, he’s supposed to be an administrator who does what Congress TELLS him to do! There are more words in the Constitution specifying how to select and impeach the President than there are words specifying what his duties are!!!

Senate Republicans are chowderheads! Off with their chowderheads!

BIGCHIEF Though I can thoroughly agree with the rest, your first paragraph seems to overlook the taxation rate in the UK. It is fine to have the government pay eternal unemployment, free medical, and government supported housing (I’m talking UK, not USA). Unfortunately, the fortunate pay for the unfortunate with taxes rate up to 98 % Why do you think Paul McCartny is still preforming? This is a consequence of a social system that doesn’t insist a person should support themselves.Of course we’ve seen in our lifetime the UK go from the greatest nation on earth to a small time player. Wonder if that will happen to another country?

I didn’t know you were such a rascal, Ben! LOL!

Happy Independence Day to the USA!

Lewreader,

Your logic ignores the fact that the UK’s Monarch is just a figurehead now. They have a parliament that is every bit as capable of wasting as much money as our Congress is nowadays!

As I used to tell an Iranian student friend in college who was always griping about what he referred to as “Son-of-BLEEP Shah”; “Be nice to the Shah, he can’t possibly spend as much money on indulgences for himself in a whole year as our “Son-of-BLEEP Johnson” and Congress can blow on totally useless things like the Vietnam war (which was current then) in one day!”

Playboy Ben had a great sense of humor. Thanks for all of the humor and have a HAPPY FOURTH everyone.

Anybody who would fly a kite in a thunderstorm to demonstrate that it was electricity in nature can’t have all his marbles!! Although it proves he was certainly lucky! And, yes, it WAS known back then. Bell ringers in churches used to get electrocuted with monotonous regularity because one of their duties was to ring the church bells in lightning storms to drive off the evil spirits. Which sort of indicates that if such an imaginary thing as a god exists, whatever it is, it’s certainly NOT religious — at least not THOSE churches!! Maybe ‘it’s’ Muslim. Mosques and minarets don’t have bell towers or bell ringers. Maybe they know something that Christians don’t.

Back to the UK:

When Ben Franklin proved that lightning was electricity, and he correctly concluded that lighting rods would be useful and that they should have sharp points on the tips to keep electric charges from accumulating there, the English Parliament and/or the King decreed that all BRITISH lightning rods should have ROUND BALLS on the end because they couldn’t possibly copy those blasted colonialists who had just revolted against Mother England!!

And of course, a round ball doesn’t work worth a hoot as a lightning rod because the sharp point is intended to dissipate the electric charge in the nearby clouds BEFORE it forms into a lightning spark and hits the lightning rod. And the round ball does just exactly the opposite – it accumulates an opposite charge on the round ball which then ATTRACTS the lightning spark.

Um, BigChiefDesoto, you have just managed to rant about the ignorance of Christians, and then proved that ignorance is not the sole possession of religious folks.

Sharp points on Lightning rods concentrate the charge, thereby making the lightning stroke more likely to hit the rod–where it can then be channeled down the grounding wire into the earth, causing no damage. The problem with a round ball on the top is that it does not produce as concentrated field of charge, and so it does not attract as many lightning bolts.

Even worse would have been if they had not grounded the rods–as some who installed them did. Then they merely attract the lightning, without providing a safe way to ground the discharge…