A Post About Stupidity

There is a lot of stupidity in this world.  Some people are just plain stupid and others are only stupid once in awhile.  Of course doing really stupid things can shorten your life expectancy quite a bit.  We have all done stupid things, and yes, even me.  Can you believe that (grin).  But today I am not going to list all the stupid things that I have done, that would be way too long of post and would take days to write and days to read.  Here is what Einstein had to say about stupidity:

Ole George Carlin seems to have a grasp on the situation: 

This next picture looks like it was taken in the wild and that means that crocodile is not tame and that guy is feeding him a little fish.  That fish would be an appetizer and just maybe that man will be the main meal.  What do you think? 

 Now, I bet this next guy will soon get to visit his dentist:

Wow, this guy got a great haircut and mustache trim.

Now in this last picture, someone found a real safe place to store their keys so that they don't get lost and don't get separated from the lock that they are for:

I could have posted a lot more pictures but I think this is enough to prove that stupidity is alive and well in this world.  Now, I know that none of you are stupid, because you read my postings :) , and I want you to have a great day, you hear?

Some Things To Smile About

I hope that I can put a smile on your face today with some of these things I found on the internet.  This first one is the most difficult things to do in the world. . . but I can think of some more difficult activities.

If someone asks the owner of this vehicle what his license plate number is, he could just answer license plate:

This next one makes a lot of sense.  One sure wouldn't want to make the animals sick, so please don't stand, sit, climb, or lean on this fence or you will be sorry:

The placement of this next sign was dead on.

This last one sure does make a lot of sense and is so true, don't you think?

Well, I hope you all are smiling now and I sure hope you have a great day, you hear?

Cartoon From a Friend

Yesterday, I posted about our ninth planet, Pluto.  My friend, Erma, who lives in Pennsylvania, sent me this cartoon about the Pluto Flyby.  It sure gave me a laugh and I hope it gives you one, too:

This cartoon came from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

Then I got a comment from another friend, The Odd Essay, who mentioned the two fellows who discovered Pluto, Bill and Clyde Tombaugh.  And we can't forget the one who named the planet, an eleven year old girl named Venetia Burney.  She named it Pluto after the Roman god of the underworld.

I just wanted to show you this cartoon in the hopes the you have a great day, you hear?

A Trip to Pluto.

There has been a lot of talk about our ninth planet (downgraded to a minor planet) since our probe took some great pictures of that way out frozen planet.  Since it takes 248 years to make one orbit of the sun, we best take advantage of it while it is as close to Earth as it will be in our lifetime and our grand-kids' lifetime.  Here is a picture taken by our probe:

See the heart shape?  No, I have no idea how it came to be unless it wanted to send its love to us for coming to visit and taking its picture.

Our probe took a close up of the white patch on one of its closer orbits and you can see the cracks and designs in it:

Then, of course there is the other Pluto, the one that has made us all smile and laugh out loud.  Yep, Walt Disney's Pluto:

And before you ask, no, the dog Pluto was not the inspiration for naming the ninth planet Pluto.

Now, you all have a great day and enjoy what all the latest probe to the outer planet will show us, you hear?

A Blastoff I Remember.- Update

Back on July 16, 1959 1969 a Saturn V rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center, it was Apollo 11 and carried the first men to step foot on the moon.  I remember that launch and the landing and the first two men to walk there, Neil Armstrong ad Buzz Aldrin.  They stepped on the moon four days after they left Earth.  The space race was won, and it laid the foundation for flights to come.

Dang, I just noticed that the last sentence above was a one line poem (grin).

OK, how many are like me and remember that historic launch, moon landing, moon walk (not like Michael Jackson's), and all the rocks that they brought back.  In fact, I even touched one of those moon rocks.

I better not forget the fellow who stayed with the moon orbiter, the Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins.  Well, that was my little bit of history for today and I hope it brought back some memories for any of you who are old enough to remember it.  Now have a great day, you hear?
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Correction, I made a typo in my first line and my friend Erma caught it.  The date should be 1969, not 1959.  Sorry for the error.

Faith and Good Answers

Some people try to test a persons faith.  They believe that they are logical people and faith and prayer are fruitless exercises.  I tend to disagree.  Faith and prayer have helped me immensely through the years.  I found this story on the internet this morning and it is an explanation of this and it may also give you a little chuckle or two: 

A boy was sitting on a park bench with one hand resting on an open Bible. He was loudly exclaiming his praise to God. "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God is great!" he yelled without worrying whether anyone heard him or not. 

 Shortly after, along came a man who had recently completed some studies at a local university. Feeling himself very enlightened in the ways of truth and very eager to show this enlightenment, he asked the boy about the source of his joy. 
  
 "Hey" asked the boy in return with a bright laugh, "Don't you have any idea what God is able to do? I just read that God opened up the waves of the Red Sea and led the whole nation of Israel right through the middle." 

 The enlightened man laughed lightly, sat down next to the boy and began to try to open his eyes to the "realities" of the miracles of the Bible. "That can all be very easily explained. Modern scholarship has shown that the Red Sea in that area was only 10-inches deep at that time. It was no problem for the Israelites to wade across." 

 The boy was stumped. His eyes wandered from the man back to the Bible laying open in his lap. The man, content that he had enlightened a poor, naive young person to the finer points of scientific insight, turned to go. 

Scarcely had he taken two steps when the boy began to rejoice and praise louder than before. The man turned to ask the reason for this resumed jubilation. "Wow!" exclaimed the boy happily, "God is greater than I thought! Not only did He lead the whole nation of Israel through the Red Sea, He topped it off by drowning the whole Egyptian army in 10-inches of water!"

OK, now you all have a great day, you hear?

Beauty Along the Way

Today was trash pick-up day so I carried the garbage cans down to the road.  When I was walking back, I noticed a lot of beauty along the way.  This beauty was in the form of wild flowers, bird feathers, and fungus.  The first two pictures are of pretty purple and white flowers.  I posted pictures of the same kind of flowers before.

This next one is of one like I showed above along side lacy reddish-purple flowers:

I tried to get a closer picture of the lacy flowers, but the camera didn't focus correctly on them:

 Then I noticed a feather laying there being supported off the ground by a leaf and some grass:

And I a little further on there was another similar feather:

And of course there was fungus and this one was very colorful:

Well, that was my walk on the driveway back to the house this morning.  I am glad you could come with me and enjoy the sights that Mother Nature puts there for us all to see.  Now, have a great day, you hear?