Walmart good or bad ?

 wal mart - good or bad ?

wal mart - good or bad ?

i live where wal marts headquarters is located..

i get sick and tired of all the BS hullabaloo about them. I remember BEFORE there was a wal marts. life was a daily grind of going hither and tither and standing in lines to gather the essentials one needed to sustain life and limb as well as do business. it always reminded me of the USSR.

not only did they bring MODERN products to everyone, they do it for 20% less.

my life IMPROVED DRAMATICLY when we got a wal mart.

not only because of the saved money and effort but it raised our production rapidly. which, in turn, raised our incomes.

wal mart has made a huge improvement in our lives over the following decades.

now my point.

all this bullshit about wal marts not paying enough is hogwash. they are actually doing the pragmatic thing for their lower eschelon personel..... 

they have calculated WHAT DOLLAR POINT IS BEST for them.... sorta like they do with their products...

anyone can calculate it.

wal mart KNOWS that if they pay their bottom part time etc. people MORE, then those same people would lose their benefits. so they calculate their pay to maximise the employees benefit....

they are pragmatic and know they couldn't afford to pay them the same amount as they accumulate now.

so they are actually looking out for those most needy in their organisation.

wal mart is  tops in my book.

athelete deaths after covid vaccinations

 Don't let them tell you this is normal...

•33 year old pro dancer Santo Giuliano suffers heart attack 5 days after jab

•32 year old Olympic Tennis player Joachim Gerard collapses during match with heart problems

•19 year old Football player Jalen Leavey dies at campus after the game

•23 year old Baseball player Daniel Brito suffers stroke during game

•19 year old Football player Tirrell Williams dies following on-field collapse

•21 year old Football player Okafor Kelechi dies during training

•29 year old Football player Lee Moses dies during training session

•15 year old Footballer Stephen Sylvester collapsed and dies during conditioning practice

•18 year old Football player Emmanual Antwi dies after collapsing on the field

•13 year old Football player Cajetan Chinoyelum Nsofor dies during practice

•15 year old Soccer player Moira Claire Arney died during practice

Junior High School Baseball Pitcher Andrew Roseman died suddenly and unexpectedly, no further information given

•17 year old Footballer Nickolas Lawrinas died suddenly and unexpectedly, cause given by media, unclear

•17 year old Footballer Miquel Lugo collapsed and died during practice

•16 year old Football player Devon DuHart mysteriously died in July 2021

•16 year old Footballer Ivan Hicks dies of Cardiovascular Disease during Scrimmage

•19 year old Footballer Joe Bradshaw dies mysteriously off campus, not conclusion of death

•16 year old Football player Drake Geiger collapses and dies during game

•15 year old Football player Joshua Ivory collapses and dies during game

•19 year old Football player Quandarius Wilburn collapses during practice and later dies

•17 year old Football player Dimitri McKee passes out and dies after practice

•28 year old Rugby play Tevita Bryce collapses during game from heart attack

•29 year old Rugby player Dave Hyde collapses and dies after match

•27 year old Baseball player Yusuke Kinoshita collapses and dies during practice

•32 year old Champion Speed Skater Kjeld Nuis suffered Pericarditis after the j @b

•24 year old Olympic Cyclist Olivia Podmore dies suddenly and mysteriously in her room and during that week another athlete sprinter Cameron Burell also dies mysteriously

•23 year old China Olympics Champion Gilbert Kwemoi collapsed in his home and died on the way to hospital

•37-year-old former French professional footballer Franck Berrier dead

•Germany goalkeeping coach of SV Niederpöring suffers heart attack

•24 years Bordeaux pro Samuel Kalu suffers cardiac arrest

•25 years old Belgian soccer player Jente Van Genechten suffers cardiac arrest

•31 years old Fabrice N'Sakala Besiktas Istanbul collapses on the field

•29 years old Pedro Obiang Italian first division after j @b has myocarditis

•30 year old Venezuelan National Marathon Champion Alexaida Guedez dead

•29 years old José dos Reis (Luxembourg) collapses on the field and has to be resuscitated

•Germany C-League Dillenburg a player from Hirzenhain collapses, the game is canceled

•16 years old Diego Ferchaud from ASPTT Caen suffers a cardiac arrest

•Austria player of ASV Baden collapses on the field and has to be revived

•16-year-old unnamed football player in Bergamo suffers cardiac arrest

•27 years old Belgian amateur soccer player Jens De Smet dead

•13-year-old soccer player from the Janus Nova club collapses on the field with cardiac arrest

•17 year old soccer player Dylan Rich dies of a double heart attack during a game

•Player from Birati Club Münster suffers cardiac arrest

•24 years old Lucas Surek from BFC Chemie Leipzig suffers from myocarditis

•49 years old Ain / France: Frédéric Lartillot succumbs to a heart attack in locker room

•45 years old Andrea Astolfi, sporting director of Calcio Orsago dead with no previous illness

•22 years old Abou Ali collapses with cardiac arrest during a two-tier game in Denmark

•19 years old ice hockey player Sebastiaan Bos dead. Passed away suddenly and unexpectedly

•40 years old A half marathon runner collapsed during the race and died a little later

•Germany Anil Usta from VfB Schwelm breaks on the field with heart problems

•33 years old Dimitri Liénard from FC Strasbourg collapses with heart problems

•37 years old Ex-NFL professional Parys Haralson dies suddenly and unexpectedly

•25 years old Kingsley Coman from FC Bayern

Munich, operation on the heart after an arrhythmia

•25 years old Canadian university football player Francis Perron dead shortly after a match

•19 year old FC Nantes soccer player suffers cardiac arrest during training

•Germany volleyball trainer Dirk Splisteser from SG Traktor Divitz collapses dead on the sidelines

•Austria, 64 years old former goalkeeper Ernst Scherr dead suddenly and unexpectedly

•Germany, 42 years old Alexander Siegfried dead suddenly and unexpectedly

•A 17-year-old athlete from Colverde collapses while training with cardiac arrest

•France, 49 years oldSC Massay player dead of heart attack during the game

•Mexico, Caddy Alberto Olguin collapses on the golf course after a heart attack

•29 years old Shrewsbury striker Ryan Bowman treated with defibrillator during play with extreme heart problems

•Italy, 18 year old soccer player suddenly faints on the field

•France, 40 years old A Saint-James player suffers a heart attack after warming up

•Italy, 59 years old long-distance runner from Biella dies of heart failure during a race

•Germany, Women's League match, a player collapses shortly before the end without any opposing influence

•25 years German goalkeeper Lukas Bommer dies suddenly and unexpectedly

•Mexico, 16 years old student Hector Manuel Mendoza dies of a heart attack while training

•Brazil, 18 years old pro footballer Fellipe de Jesus Moreira has double heart attack and is fighting for his life

•Italy, 27 years old cycling champion Gianni Moscon has to undergo an operation because of severe cardiac arrhythmias

•Augsburg referee of a Kreisliga Augsburg game in Emersacker collapses with heart problems

•English lineswoman Helen Byrne, heart problems has to be carried off the pitch at World Cup

•Germany Game abandoned due to cardiac arrest of the referee in a game of Lauber SV

•Italy, 20 years old young rider suffers a heart attack

•17-year-old soccer player of the JSG High Hagen has revived during game

•53-year-old football coach Antonello Campus dead

•16 years old collapses while playing soccer and dies a little later

•Germany Team leader Dietmar Gladow suffers a fatal heart attack before the game

•USA a high school football player collapsed during practice and died in the hospital

•Germany player collapsed during the A 2 regional league game suffered cardiac arrest

•Germany 15 years old goalkeeper Bruno Stein dead

•Italy, 53 years old AH footballer suffers a heart attack while training

•USA, 14-year-old soccer player Ava Azzopardi collapsed on pitch, is fighting for her life in an artificial coma

•France, 54 years old AH player Christophe Ramassamy died of a heart attack during a match

•France, 41 years old soccer player collapsed on the field and died due to cardiac arrest

•Austria, 26 years old Raphael Dwamena collapsed with severe heart problems

•Germany, Hertha BSC co-trainer Selim Levent dies suddenly and unexpectedly

•USA, 12 year old Jayson Kidd collapsed during basketball practice and later died

•Spain, 33-year-old striker Kun Agüero had to be replaced in a game due to heart problems

•USA 21 year old Senior student athlete John Stokes suffers with Myocarditis

•22 year old Cyclist Greg Luyssen forced to end his career after jab due to heart problems

CB radio

 Radio communications

As a child my reading primer was the AT&T basic electricity book. it's too long of a story to go into here but suffice it to say that it was the only book in the house. as a result i have been a lifelong geek ( read amatuer scientist) that lead to my interest in radios. i recall building my first CRYSTAL radio before i started school. i soon progressed to more advanced communications starting with CITIZEN BAND. by the time i was in 8th grade i had my amatuer radio ( ham) license. i could tell you to get your ham license but i know that few of you would do it. so i'll be pragmatic and explain the various radio communications that are license free. the mother of freeband communications is CITIZEN BAND.

to me it wasn't a toy. it was a tool. in the pre-cellphone age i had the distinct advantage of sophisticated personal communications. we had minimum communication problems in hurricane betsy even though all base stations were destroyed then too. WHY? because we ALL had CB radios in our vehicles. in that day and age that was the only two way radio systems available. EVERYONE! the police, the utility workers, the military, emergency services, businesses, the citizenry.... ALL! had CB RADIOS. EVERYONE could talk to EVERYONE!!!! decentralized communications to the max. even though those radios only had 23 channels ( now we have 40 ) and didn't have sideband ( SSB ) ,which triples the channels while effectively doubling signal output, we had more than enough bandwidth to do the job. nowadays we have even less interference problems than then. other important reasons that citizen band is the way to go for emergency communications are the proliferation of the units and most importantly thier RANGE. since they are Amplitude Modulated ( AM ) they reach a lot further than the modern Frequency Modulated units ( FM ) and lack one of the main problems with FM which do NOT PENETRATE TERRAIN. since CB is AM it is reflected off the ionosphere and bounces back down to earth. as a result CB hugs the earth and will go over mountains. FM is blocked completely by any terra firma between the units as well as any substantial building materials. with a CB you can talk horizon to horizon. in sideband mode you can actually talk intercontinental ( under ideal circumstances). SSB is the ONLY form of communications that works under the worst conditions. SSB is the ONLY form of communications from ANTARCTICA! i have talked from mid america to australia, and germany with my CB. I ROUTINELY talk to miami, ancorage, montreal, mexico etc. on my CB ( SSB) NOTE: about ionosphere. it is heated by the sun and forms a CAP over the areas in sunlight. this translates into the enhanced ability to communicate over extended distances during the daytime because the signal reflects very well off this ion cap. especially mid-day. during darkness CB working distance is limited to about 30 miles. no matter what you do.

IMPORTANT NOTE: since we are in the quiet of the solar cycle it is quiet on the CB. we are headed into the SOLAR MAXIMUM around 2012. that is the OPTIMUM TIME for LONG RANGE CB communications.

theres an old saying that old habits die hard. in my case the CB habit still thrives. we use it DAILY. even though we have cellphones we have learned by experience that our CB systems still offer SELF SUFFICIENT communications when the other systems fail. on numerous ocassions when our cellphone and landline systems have gone down WE still had communications. this has happened numerous times.

but there are KEYS to having good communications. as i often tell people  radios are like computers in one aspect. they have to be at arms length, turned on and operable. without these three things they are just objects de art! to meet these criteria you have to have your systems UP AND RUNNING NOW! you can't buy the equipment and store it for later use. unless you're a lifelong geek too. we use ours daily to MAINTAIN it's integrity. radio operators set up NETS ( networks) for DAILY communications just to keep the systems in peak operating condition. to fail to do so is inviting disaster. as sure a heck if you leave them on the shelf shut down MURPHYS LAW will bite you in the ass when you REALLY NEED THEM. happens ever time. thats why NETS! having said that lets examine equipment and how to set it up correctly. since there are many resources on this subject ( the best book you can get is http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=screwdriver+expert%27s+guide+to+cb&spell=1 ) i will assume you get it and read it because i won't be covering the basics. i will endeavor to explain the TRICKS AND TIPS i have gleaned from a lifetimes EXPERIENCE with CB RADIO.

two way radios emit Radio Frequency ( RF ) radiation through the antenna which is the output terminus of the system. antennas have been a lifelong interest of mine because in the early days that was the main way to improve your capabilities. i have designed, built and tested dozens of antennas for BASESTATION application.by far the DELTA LOOP ( see our communications files ) is not only the best performer but the easiest to make yourself. LOOK IT UP!  but if you are going to buy an antenna get an ANTRON 99 for base station. for MOBILE USE the 108 inch whip was the mainstay for decades. but now there are many better choices. the FIRESTICK is hard to beat. but many have their own preferences.

the TRANSCEIVER ( the two way radio ) can be just about any brand name. most are made by the same manufacturers. theres only a couple. but there are important capabilities you'll want to pay attention to. if you don't want to talk from horizon to horizon but rather use it for regional ( 30 mile radius) personal communications theres only THREE KNOBS that you MUST HAVE ! ON/OFF/VOLUME, SQUELCH and RF GAIN. while there are expensive units that have knobs out da wazoo they are only marketing scams. the more knobs the more expensive. some knbs even deteriorate the signal. like ANL ( automatic noise limiter ) and NB ( noise blank ) which can't distinguish between NOISE and weak/ distant communications thus blocking them. but for PRACTICAL use a CB must have an RF GAIN adjustment. in my experience the ONLY reason CB's are not utilized more is because people don't know how-to OPERATE them PROPERLY. they tire of struggling against all the other CB oprerators out there from coast to coast. THATS where the RF GAIN is critical. what it does is tune the RECEIVE aspect of the unit. it has NO AFFECT on the OUTPUT of the unit. the majority of CBer's turn the RF GAIN all the way up thinking that it increases the output power. in reality by doing that they increase the sensitivity of the receiver to maximum. by doing so thier other units get lost in the noise as well as they have to compete with it when they transmit. the proper way to use the RF GAIN is to TURN IT DOWN until all you hear is the unit you are speaking with. that way theres MORE THAN ENOUGH bandwidth on CB for everyone to use it. for instance i keep my units on all the time but i NEVER HEAR ANYONE except my mobile units because i keep the RF GAIN TURNED DOWN so my receiver is de-sensitized to all but units within the known transmit range of my mobiles and vice-versa. so my system works as quietly ( static free) and surely as a cellphone. the other controls ( knobs) are the on/off/volume which is self explanatory and the SQUELCH. the squelch is simply a threshold setting at which the units speaker is activated. it's function is similar to the rf gain. you set it downto where only your units trigger it. the difference being that in a unit without RF GAIN control when the squelch activates the speaker it is flooded with all that noise etc.

ON/OFF/VOLUME, SQUELCH, RF GAIN....thats ALL you need. anymore is fluff, any less and your units useless. SSB is only a required function if you are planning to talk coast to coast routinely. for personal regional comm. it's not necessary. having said that there are many choices. nearly all brands offer at least one unit like such. they are usually the second unit from the bottom in cost. but having used most of them i can say without reservation that the BEST is UNIDEN PRO520. it's compact, has the BIG THREE controls but most importantly it can be TUNED UP in performance ( more on that later) from the factory setting of 5 watts output to 15 watts output in minutes by anyone with a plastic screwdriver and minimum knowledge. you can also increase it's modulation ( more on that later also ) abilities as easily. this one - two punch makes it a fantastic unit. the UNIDEN 520 is a MOBILE UNIT which means it works on 12vdc in an automobile. but it can be used as a base unit by powering it with a plug in wall transformer. thats basicly the only difference between a BASE unit and a MOBILE unit. the base unit operates off either household current OR 12vdc.

for SSB units you can't beat COBRA but just about any are good. i prefer UNIDEN because if you're talking SSB you're talking TOP END units and in that catagory they're all about equally good.

the transceiver is connected to the ANTENNA by the TRANSMISSION LINE. this is made of CO-AXIAL cable. here is the TIP about transmission lines that seems to elude everyone who installs CB's. the transmission line must be cut to EXACTLY a correct length. this dimension is arrived at by the main FREQUENCY that you will be operating at. CB's are tuned to the middle freq. channel 20 from the factory. if you look at the output on a SWR meter ( more on that later ) the power curve appears as a bell graph with max output on ch.20. this is OK but i advise you use some other channel because the only crowded channel is 19 which is the trucker channel. additionaly there are a hugh numberof old CB's in use that only have 23 channels. so a channel above 23 is recommended.. ch. 35-40 are the unofficial SSB use channels. i use 33 LSB ( lower sideband) but 30 is a good optimum.

the formula to cut the ANTENNA ELEMENT is 300 divided by the frequency in megahertz times 39.37 the answer is for a FULL WAVE antenna in INCHES

the formula to cut the transmission line length is 984 times .66 ( decimal 66 ) divided by the frequency in megahertz answer is in feet.

so there you have it the BIG THREE tips for kick ass communications..

1) get a transceiver with a RF GAIN control

2) cut the antenna element proper length

3) cut the transmission line proper length

once you have done those then you can address FINE TUNING and POWERING UP your units

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Survivorlist/files/Communications/

in conclusion ( for now. i'll continue as interest dictates)

CB is the way to go for long distance communications. but for TACTICAL communications you can't beat the new FM operation FRS, GMRS, MURS and the brand new XRS handitalkies. theres not much i can say about them. theres no way to modify them.they don't make base units. you can't hook an antenna to them. but they do operate like a cellphone because they have scramblers on them so each network can have a different number. they are ideal for short range personal communications. they would adapt well in a worst case scenario because people could quickly set up local communications networks.each user could have thier own "call" NUMBER. it would function like a cellphone system but only within it's network. all i can say is get the most powerful one available.with the most operating frequencies ( for instance you can get units with BOTH capabilities of the FRS system and the GMRS system.even so you'll be limited to 15 miles LINE OF SIGHT communications. they will be crystal clear and private. But FM does NOT PENETRATE ANY TERRA. so it does not work well in mountains except line of site. on the other hand CB signals, which are AM, go into space, bounce of the ionisphere, and return to earth on the other side of the mountain.

Another important DX ( dx= long distance ) communications is a HEADSET. your brain acts as an audio amplifier. when i tell you i've talked to australia, japan and germany with my CB-SSB raios it was always done wearing HEADPHONES. normal communicatios from coast to coast are done without headphones.

while all CB's have an INTERNAL SPEAKER most serious radio operators have a external speaker. all CB's have a plug in the back for external speakers. all cb's will function as either a stationary ( base) or MOBILE application.

twilight zone

 I never dreamed that I would have to face the prospect of not living in the United States of America, at least not the one I have known all my life. I have never wished to live anywhere else. This is my home and I was privileged to be born here.

But today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life so filled with hate that they will agree with opinions that if they were in their right minds they would never express as their own. It's absolutely unbelievable. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.....then I saw this and I think that it's pretty close to describing how I feel.

I'm not starting a fight, but it is something to think about. This may open up a ton of outraged comments by some. Many who will argue how "wrong" this post is. My suggestion, save your time and effort! You're not changing the reality of what we are living by trying to somehow justify this insanity. Nevertheless, I couldn't resist because we are becoming the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!

• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.

• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.

• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.

• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

• Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.

• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.

• Immigrants with tuberculosis, Covid and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.

• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.

• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.

• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

• Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.

• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!

Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China. We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right, where darkness is light and light is now darkness.

Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water and sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!

RUST PROOFING

 Rust proofing firearm

as a lifelong shooter i have stumbled upon two tricks to rustproof

your guns. the first is for blued guns you don't want to alter.

clean them thouroughly with CARBUERATOR/FUEL INJECTOR CLEANER ( i

prefer berrymans) i mean scrub them down good. be liberal with it.

then place them in a window in direct sunlight until they are hot

and all the cleaner is dry. you'll notice a thin white film. wipe it

off with a clean dry cotton cloth. the first time you do this you

may have to repeat the procedure. while it's still HOT soak it down

good with SPRAY SILICONE lubricant. i prefer the original GUNK

liquid wrench. get the stuff with silicone ONLY. it has a small seal

on the label that says SOLDER SEAL which was the company that

originated it before gunk bought them out. it was originally used to

seal printed circuit boards against moisture/corrosion. after you've

sprayed it down remove the firearm to a COOL place. the cooler the

better. like in front of the AC etc. by doing this the moisture/old

oil is driven out of the metal by the heat and ether ( cleaner) and

is replaced by the silicone when it cools drawing it into the metal.

your firearm will NEVER RUST AGAIN. after that you can clean it as

normal.

the second way is for old shooters that you don't care about

altering. you may think this is crazy but trust me it works.

disassemble the firearm and scrub the parts down with 3M brightenr

pad. down to the shiny metal. then spray eveything with SALTWATER

and leave it outside under the night sky until a nice even thin coat

of rust forms. rinse it down gently with water ( don't wipe) to

remove any saltwater residue then place in the direct sun until HOT

and DRY. while it's still hot spray with RUST CONVERTER. and let

dry. the result is a finish that resembles the finish on an m-16 and

it wil NOT RUST AGAIN. EVER! you can bury in directly in the ground

for years ( i tested it by doing this with an old axehead and buried

it for four years and no rust) and it WILL NOT RUST AGAIN. providing

of course that you do a good job of it paying attention to nooks and

crannies etc.