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Garden Update – July 10, 2011

Lots of activity in my garden right now, but it is mostly bugs and critters eating what little can survive the massive amounts of heat of our summers in Texas. See the other posts I made about my squash bug problem and my gooey aphid problem. I also posted a few new pictures of the plants growing in my aquaponics system. I’m getting a few good cucumbers and peppers, but the tomatoes have shut down. Most of the okra is still too small to produce. Some of my mystery melons might be ready to harvest, but I’m not sure how I’ll know until I cut into them.

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Twitter Questions for BO

from iowahawk‘s “Questions, So Many Questions“

President Obama graciously offered to take questions submitted via Twitter today, courtesy the #AskObama hashtag. Being an inquisitive sort, I decided to submit a few that have been nagging me.

Below are my favorites: (click on full article above for more)

An $8 billion high speed train leaves Chicago for Iowa City at 8:15am at 40mph. Why?
How come you haven’t made unemployment illegal? #duh
Instead of making cars get 62 mpg, why not 62 million mpg? Also, do something about the gravitational constant.
Have you ever had a menial job, changed your own oil, or fixed a toilet?
Subtract Malia’s age from the number of states. Multiply the result by the number of jobs saved or created.
Math wasn’t your strong suit, was it?
I let my Mexican drug lord license expire. Am I still eligible for the free machine gun program?
When you’re visiting his volcano lair, does George Soros let you feed the laser sharks?
The staffer who suggested this Twitter Town Hall is fired, isn’t he?
Are you smart enough to create a problem so big that even you could not solve it?
Why isn’t your cabinet unionized?
If Joe Biden has a massive stroke, (a) do you have a replacement in mind, and (b) how would you tell?
Is there any job you’d be better at than president?
I understand you finally quit smoking. Do they make a patch for spending addicts too?
Is this question racist?
Why do you need permission to be clear, and not need permission to bomb Libya?
On behalf of the entire US population: dude, WTF?
Let’s say instead of winning the future, we end up in a tie. Do we then go to sudden death overtime?
I just voted to increase my sobriety ceiling. Why won’t the bartender give me another drink?
I really need to start living within my means. Do you recommend I start holding up banks or convenience stores?
If ATMs are so bad, why do you keep treating me like one?
Whose spending created your job?
When you create jobs, why do always create them for Texas?
Are strawmen cheaper when you buy them by the gross?
How much CO2 is created by a burning straw man?
Who are these “those who say”?
This whole Twitter Town Hall thing is turning out to be another amateur disaster, isn’t it?
If Eric Holder gets indicted in Operation Fast & Furious, should he get a civilian trial?
If we eat the rich, what do we get for dessert?
if punishing employers results in more employment, can you also punish beer makers?
Psst… got any spare tix for the 2016 Chicago Olympics?
Since you’ve doubled the number of wars, shouldn’t you be getting another Nobel Peace Prize?

YouTube – ‪CC’s Battle Hymn of the Republic – video by Lubbock Independent School District‬‏.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.

Mercedes W123 300 Fuel Sender

The list price of a sender unit is $340, so when my fuel level gauge stopped working, I was not very happy. I bought a portable 2 gallon tank and kept it full of fuel in the trunk of the car in case I ran out unexpectedly and I figured I would just leave it broke. That wasn’t good enough. I like gauges that work, what can I say! Luckily, the German designers of this car made taking the sender out possible without too much trouble. They positioned the box that houses the first-aid kit directly above the sender. It is a simple matter of unscrewing it and sliding it up. When I finally scraped enough gunk off of the bottom of it, I found a funny little nut to remove the inerads out of the protective tube. (looks like the tube also serves to dampen the fluid movement) I cleaned it up and installed it again, and now I have a working fuel gauge again! I think I’ll go ahead and keep that extra 2 gallons of fuel in the trunk though.
A note about what caused this: I left the car sit for about a year without driving it. Diesel fuel is often contaminated with microbes that grow and form nasty dark crystals on all the surfaces. You can buy biocide treatments, but they are not sold in all stores, and are a little hard to find. NAPA had a bottle that I used and hopefully cured my problems. Some diesel owners refuse to fill up at smaller stations because that is where the contaminated fuels usually come from: stations that don’t turn over their fuel supplies quickly.

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The Foreclosure of America

I’ve been on an interesting journey over the past few years. I’ve learned more about the history of the USA than I did in the previous 30 years of life, which included some really nice and expensive formal college education. While my pride of being an American citizen and fourth-generation Texan has strengthened, I’m saddened and discouraged by the people around me that are still in the same narrow-minded and restrictive reality that I was just a few years ago. All of the benefits we have enjoyed since casting off the oppressive rule of a monarchy are now once again at risk. Common sense says we can’t live our personal lives living paycheck to paycheck and relying on large credit card balances to get us through, but as a nation, that is exactly the path we’ve decided to take. The majority of the people recognize the problem, but each person is not willing to sever the unsustainable benefit they receive from the system. Everyone, seemingly wants something for nothing, and they are willing to keep voting for that. I now understand how fragile and rare liberty and freedom are. I’m embarrassed that I’ve gone on as long as I’ve have and not understood the importance of the life I am so privileged to live at this point in time.

Now I’m left wondering if celebrating our Independence is smart. We have changed course as a nation. I’m wondering if we are really about Independence, Liberty, and Freedom.

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