Good take on this Blog Post

Interesting Blog Post from Chief Reason Art
Don’t expect accommodations or special considerations. You’re a grunt just like the rest of us. Time to pay your dues. You can’t be on top of your game if you don’t train. You can’t extend your reach or maximize your effectiveness, unless you are willing to put your blood and sweat into it. You don’t have the first idea of what I’m talking about, do you? You were never a firefighter…

 Chief Reason Art

Read it here: http://community.fireengineering.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1219672%3ABlogPost%3A537709

So True

Got this as an email, just had to post it here. These examples are so true,

The older we get....

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets .

I asked for a half dozen nuggets.

'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.

'You don't?' I replied.

'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.

'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'

'That's right.'

So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets

(Unbelievable but sadly true...)

TWO

I was checking out at the local Walmart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.

After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.

Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'

I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'

She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.

She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE

A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.

When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'

(keep shuddering!!)

FOUR

I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked.

She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'

'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.

'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'

PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!

FIVE

Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?'

'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

SIX

A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine. Then the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'

Dispatcher : 'Rush him in to emergency!'

Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!

Ice Out

Drove around to a few lake today and looks as the ice wet out with all the warm temperatures. The big rain the other night finally did it in. Open water fishing, are you ready?

Another Backdraft, Smoke Explosion Video caught in tape

Not too explosive, but a serious situation none the less. A lot of heavy smoke showing and with FF inside the use of a hose line on the roof comes into question? Just prior to the explosion or what ever it was they were directing a hose line to the roof area. The explosion occurs at 6:20 in the video, you have to watch close to see the helmet fly off.

Uploaded by mabas21 on Feb 17, 2012

Crews were dispatched to a reported house fire at 402 Madison In New Chicago on 02-17-12, On arrival smoke was showing and a working fire was declared. Crews quickly stretched lines into the house to knock the fire down and a hole was cut in the roof of the living room/entrance. Shortly after the hole was cut there was a violent explosion that blew an officers helmet off his head and blew the leaves in the lawn. We are unsure what the explosion was. There were three members in the structure when this happened and all were ok. One other member suffered an asthma attack while fighting the fire and was treated on the scene. The Lake County Fire Investigators Team was requested to the scene to assist with cause and origin.

Seems someone got it Right

Now true more then ever, did you get the change you wanted, if not then it’s now time for a real change, if nothing else vote for something but not for what we have had for the last three years. Seems no one listens to history? What worked before may work again. If it isn’t broke don’t fix it!

History Lesson

NOW THIS IS A REAL EDUCATION

Where did “piss poor” come from ?
Older people need to learn something new every day..

Just to keep the grey matter tuned up.

Where did "Piss Poor" come from?

Interesting History.

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot

And then once it was full it was taken and sold to the tannery...

if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot...

They "didn't have a pot to piss in" and were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature

Isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500s

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, And they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell,

Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings Could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery In the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, It would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables And did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers In the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme:

“Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old”.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom; “of holding a wake”.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, “saved by the bell” or was "considered a dead ringer”.

And that's the truth.

Now, whoever said History was boring!!!

So get out there and educate someone! ~~~

Share these facts with a friend.

Happy Turkey Day

5 Thanksgiving Disasters You're Probably Not Prepared For

www.cracked.com

Thanksgiving is like starring in porn. The lights are on, the camera is recording and everyone's good time rests entirely on your boner.

Something to think about, when you are out Deer hunting this week

WORLD'S LARGEST ARMY - Just in case you haven't seen this before. True story and most people will never know it.

Here's an interesting side bar. After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could
have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started. The prediction from our Chief of Staff was
we would not be able to stop a massive invasion until they reached the Mississippi River . Remember, we had a 2 million man army and war
ships....all fighting the Germans. So, why did they not invade?

After the war, the remaining Japanese generals and admirals were asked that question. Their answer....they
know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them.

The world's largest army...America 's hunters! I had never thought about this....

A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:

There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .

Allow me to restate that number. Over the last several months, Wisconsin hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.

More men under arms than in Iran .

More than in France and Germany combined.

These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters,
All of whom have now returned home.

Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone
would comprise the largest army in the world.

The point?

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower.

Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.

Food for thought when next we consider gun control.

New look

Working around with the new blogger templates, also added a mobile view for those with smart phone and itouch devices.

Videos of the day, I know not fires but neat none the less

 

This and That

Newest thing in removing warts a shotgun

Sean Murphy was so desperate to get rid of a wart he decided to use a shotgun, blasting off half his finger and almost ending up in prison in the process.

The 38-year-old had tried a variety of creams and ointments in an effort to rid himself of the painful blemish, but when the stubborn wart refused to budge he decided some drastic action was required. Fed up with the wart, after a few beers Murphy took his shotgun and blasted off the wart, along with most of his finger at the same time. His unusual cure grabbed the attention of police, and Murphy also found himself up on firearms charges for illegally possessing the shotgun. Murphy admitted in court that he hadn't expected to lose his finger when he used the shotgun, but didn't regret his rather drastic course of action. He said: 'The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble.'

Firefox 5 Now Available with 1,000 Small Improvements, Better Tab Closing [In Brief]

Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android: Mozilla has released Firefox 5, the first update for its new rapid-release three-month development cycle. Firefox 5's new features include support for CSS animations, do-not-track on Android, and faster canvas graphics. Perhaps our favorite Firefox 5 feature: You won't have to jump around so much with your mouse next time you start closing tabs. Firefox has adopted Chrome-like tab closing, in which tabs stay the same size while you're closing them. More »

Lakeland man digs a pool finds trash dump in back yard

Brian Dyer was tired of taking his wife and kids to water parks in Orlando. He thought it would be much easier to dig a pool in his backyard. When the pool company started excavating, it began bringing up load after load of trash. Metal, plastic, bottles, and who knows what else. It turns out that somewhere along the line someone had used their lot as an illegal dump site.
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It is unclear how big the problem is. The junk could be buried under the Dyer's home in the Oak Run subdivision in North Lakeland. It may even extend to other parts of their neighborhood. One of the biggest issues is: who is going to pay to clean up the mess? The company that developed the land is out of business. The builder and Polk County say they are not liable. That leaves Dyer holding the trash bag.

What Happened to Freedom of Speech?

See that they want to take the “N” word out of the the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" If it’s that offensive then don’t let them read it at all? The N-word appears 219 times in "Huckleberry Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer."

Teacher sees Twain's “N-word” as problematic ‎
Maryville Daily Forum -

Now, a new edition containing Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The ... She added, however, that she has taught the book in diverse settings, ...

Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News‎ - New York Times
Huck Finn Gets "N-Word" Change‎ - W*USA 9
'Huck Finn' navigating choppy waters‎ - USA Today

Mediaite's Colby Hall: Censoring Huckleberry Finn A 'Dangerous ... ‎
Mediaite.com - Frances Martel - “It's ok to change the words,” Hall argued, “but don't call it Huck Finn.” The decision to censor the book was made so as to reintroduce it to the classroom ...

PAVING DAYTONA SPEEDWAY

 

Not only is this a true project engineering feat, but it gives you better perspective of the pitch of the track itself. Good use of CAT equipment

Resurfacing The Daytona Speedway | djmick: V2

Nov 30, 2010 ... Construction workers are racing to resurface the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, tearing out existing asphalt and laying down ...

SOUND FAMILIAR, GENTLEMEN????

Tools Explained (Got this as an email, no known source take it for what it is, FUNNY.)

DRILL PRESS:  A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light .. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh--!'
SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle...  It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an auto mobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.

TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
SON-OF-A-BITCH TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BITCH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

Need a Photo Shoot Done?

In the central Illinois area and need some photos done. Used to work with this guy. Kind of eccentric, but good photographer if you could use his services. Knowing him, I know they would be done right. Nice web site. It has a lot of his work and contact information.

Visually Odd Photography

www.visuallyoddphotography.com

Welcome to my world

Thinking about a New Computer – What’s Ahead?

I have gone to WIN7, and it’s great compared to earlier version (never had to use  Vista), what's in store for computer users? Microsoft has announced the next Windows system to be out in about 2 years. Guess they need some more $. Should be geared towards the touch screen tablet computers? Will the ipad replace everything else? Other makers are getting their version of this out. Guess you are safe to get a new on for now. But as always something better will come along and we will all want it, not that we need just want it.

Windows 8 "About Two Years" Away from Debut [Windows]

from Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy

Microsoft marked the first birthday of its very successful Windows 7 release around the world last week. One such spot was a Dutch blog post, where keen-eyed Microsoft watchers noted a translation that indicated the company believed Windows 8 to be "about two years" off. Microsoft certainly has high hopes for Windows 8, more than the kind of iterative (but great) improvements seen from Vista to 7; one employee said Windows 8 would change the way people think about PCs." [WinRumors via CNET; image via Tested] More »

Submitted for your review - You Make the Judgment

THIS IS WHY WE ARE THE WAY THAT WE ARE NOW…

THINK ABOUT IT.          

Start with a cage containing five monkeys.

Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.

Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the
other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the Stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked.
The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth,
then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Hang on…
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, nor why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not?
Because as far as they know, that is the way it has always been done around here.

And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates...

And that is why we need to replace ALL of the original monkeys this November.

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN.

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN? Found this several places on the internet, True of Not? you can judge it for yourself, it sounds like something he would say but may just be a copy of what his stand on this is??

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN. 

'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. 
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you isn't, 
Where you is, 
What he drive, 
Where he stay, 
Where he work, 
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. 
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. 
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. 
$500 sneakers for what? 
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. 
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12? 
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward: 
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?  
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from?? 
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about  Africa  .....
I say this all of the time.  It would be like white people saying they are  European-American.  That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents.  I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to  Germany  ,  Scotland ,  England , Ireland , or the  Netherlands  .  The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to  Africa  .  So stop,  already! ! !

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail. 
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now. 
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..

We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

WELL SAID, BILL
It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!
PASS THIS ON AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!

Links below have the same thing??

1. Palmetto Football Talk | View topic - BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN

2. Bill has done it again ! ! ! - Patriotic Resistance

3. Bill Cosby has done it again | The Daily Reflector

4. BILL COSBY HAS DONE IT AGAIN !!! - Harvest Heartbeat International

5. Hoax/Scam Details - Bill Cosby Has Done It Again?

Really, you have got to be kidding me

All FF’s should be disgusted at this, don’t you think. Goes to show where his heart is.  Their religion is not the same as what we were founded on.
Full article at: Yahoo News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less.
"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has given New York City and the nation.

Nuff Said?

"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying: You ain´t what you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain´t you! You´re better than that!" (Rocky Balboa)