WHY IS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATED ON DECEMBER 25

WHY IS CHRISTMAS CELEBRATED ON DECEMBER 25?
Jesus was not born Dec. 25th. In fact, nobody knows for sure when Jesus was born. The best, educated guess as to when Jesus was born is the beginning of September.
(https://reasonsforhopejesus.com/jesus-born-september/)
Christianity was not an established religion until after Jesus' death.
(Some people did worship Jesus before the crucifixion, but, Christianity was not a well established religion with established traditions until after Jesus' death.)
Back then, there were a lot of Pagans. So, in order to attract them to convert to Christianity, they had to make Christianity as similar to Paganism as possible. Pagans have a holiday tradition they celebrate December 20-23 called Yule, which involves decorating pine trees, bringing other ever green plants, including Mistletoe, Pine Trees and Yew, into the house. The Pagan, Yule celebration also included exchanging gifts and some other things that Christians do now.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year)
Christians did some of the same things on the date that was chosen to celebrate Jesus' birth.
The plan worked. A lot of Pagans changed their religion to Christianity.
To this day, Christians still do a lot of things that were borrowed from Paganism, judaism and several other religions. Most Christians have no idea that things like decorating a Pine Tree or Dec. 25, originally had nothing to do with Jesus at all.

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons:

If we ever do have a WWIII,
it won't necessarily be a nuclear war!
If there ever is a WWIII, it will very likely start out, the same way as WWII and a lot of other wars started: Just a regular, conventional war. Two countries will decide they don't like each other. Those countries will grab their guns, tanks, troops, etc, one country will invade the other. Then, those countries will ask for help from their allied countries and possibly even places like the UN.
Once other countries join forces, someone will decide to attack an innocent country that doesn't want to get involved, just like in WWII, Japan messed with the wrong country and got their butt kicked!
If, however, all countries play fair and obey the laws that say you can't use nuclear weapons at all, unless another country launches one at you first, then, no nuclear weapons weapons would be used at all in the first place! In the US, we can use them in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons by another country, against the US.
In fact, ironically, the US and most other countries that have nuclear weapons, including: Russia, Canada, India and China, just to name a few, have them and keep them well maintained and ready at all times to PREVENT WWIII from ever happening in the first place! NOT so that we can fight a nuclear war!
The US invented both Atomic and nuclear weapons.
Atomic bombs ended WWII, but, those are no longer used. Soon after the war, the US invented nukes. Russia soon followed, along with other countries.
Since the US and Russia didn't get along at the time that nukes we're invented, they thought, " since the US has nuclear weapons, we need to have them to, so we can defend ourselves."
The US did not teach Russia how to make nuclear bombs, they had to figure that out themselves. They did!
Once the US found out that Russia had their own nukes now, the US no longer had an advantage and had that much power over the Russians. The Two governments had to have a talk with each other now and they both agreed on one thing:
Mutually Assured Destruction!
The US President told the Russian government, "If you ever launch a nuclear missile on the US, it's over, because, if you launch even one at me, I'll hit you with a whole bunch of nukes!"
The Russian government said, "I understand that. The same applies to you! If you launch one at me, I'll do the same to you! Launch several more than what you launched at me!"
Either way, they both agreed, it would be a bad day and possibly the end of the world! They called it: "Mutually Assured Destruction".
Eventually, other countries learned how to make them to.
Bill Clinton wanted to make some kind of a trade at one time with N Korea. So, of all things he could of chosen to trade, he gave them the plans of how to build a working Nuclear bomb!
Russia eventually created the largest and most powerful nuclear bomb ever: The Tsar Bomba. Much bigger than any US nuke!
Then most countries around the world signed a treat saying that they will no longer test nuclear weapons at all. This includes testing of nukes everywhere: Above ground, under ground, above or under water, suspended or launched into the air or anywhere in outer space.
The problem with a treat, however, is that it is just a piece of paper with signatures on it. Most treaties only last a certain amount of time and they have to be renewed. When one President signs a treat for anything, that ruins things for every President after them! If the next President wants to test nukes, for example, in this case, now they can't, because, a former President signed a treat, making it illegal. Now the next Presidents after the one who signed the contract can't do it. But, they are going to think, "I should be able to do it, because my signature is not on that treaty! I'll find a loophole in the treaty and I'll do it anyway!"
Treaties get violated all the time!
There is a treaty that protects Antarctica. It says that nobody can drill for oil or test nukes or do other potentially harmful things on that continent. Also, nobody, except: Scientists, government officials, military and a few other, similar people are allowed to explore the Antarctic Continent. There are probably a few places where regular, civilian tourists can step foot on the land, just so they can tell their friends they have been to Antarctica and walk around on the ice glacier.
However, the easiest way to win a nuclear war would be to launch 1,000 nukes on Antarctica! That would cause massive flooding, Tsunamis and severe, global warming, just to name a few problems! But, that would kill Everybody in every country, rather quickly!
When you see the President on TV, you often see one person staying close by, with a brief case handcuffed to his wrist. That is because, everything in that brief case is so important, so top secret and would be very dangerous if it got into the wrong hands.
I don't know what all is in there, but, one of the most important and dangerous things in there is: The codes to all the nuclear missiles in the US and all of them that the US has in other countries.
Other countries know that the US President has easy access to the nuclear missile codes at all times, 24-7-365! That is another deterrent to the commies and terrorist countries launching a nuke at us.
The most recent nuclear weapons test is suspected to of been in North Korea, just a few years ago. They deny having ever built and/or tested a nuke. However, the US and a lot of other civilized countries are constantly watching N Korea. We are watching them from outer space, on the and under the ocean, from S Korea and other countries, etc.
It only takes the International Space Station about 90 minutes to completely circle the Earth! Don't you think Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts could see the big mushroom cloud out the window of the ISS? However, that would be only, if someone were looking out the window at the right time and when they were over N Korea.
The satellites in space could also see it and, in several different countries, including the the US, they have devices that can detect the radiation and other things that are a tell tale sign of a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. All the nuke detection systems around the world detected a nuclear blast somewhere on Earth. Nobody owned up to it. So it was investigated and, the evidence showed that it came from N Korea.
These days, there are some people who don't like nuclear weapons. They are trying to fight to get rid of them and have every country sign a treaty to get rid of all nukes and never make anymore ever again!
That's not going to happen!
Like I said before, a treaty is just a piece of paper! It is not worth anymore than the paper and the ink that it was signed with!
People and countries violate treaties all the time!
Besides, with so many unethical countries out there that support terrorism and they don't like the US or a lot of other countries, we better have something to defend our country's with!
Some countries, I would never trust, Even if they did sign a treaty like that! They'd sign it, but, still keep some nukes. The US needs to keep some nukes, just to prevent those countries from attacking.
However, there are a few countries that have signed a treat saying that they, in their own country, will not have any nukes. The government and people of those countries agree with and support the ban. Maybe, they are near other countries that do have nuclear weapons. In that case, if a nuclear missile we're launched on their country, it could hit one of those neighboring countries. Even if it hit the intended target, the radiation, fallout, explosion itself, etc would affect the countries next to them, so, those countries would probably retaliate by launching their own nuclear missiles.

The origin of the expression: "Get your goat".

Don't let them get your goat!

Goats do keep horses calm.
The expression: Get your goat comes from Horse racing.
Years ago, people kept their horse in a stable before a race. To keep the horse calm, they put a goat in the stable with the horse. Now the horse could calm down and get some rest. Then the horse would be able to concentrate and have enough energy to run the race.
Sometimes, one of the competitors would not like one of the other people that was in the race or, maybe he thought one of the other horses was too fast and he didn't have a chance of winning against that horse.
So, the rider would try to give himself an unfair advantage. He waited till the day before the race, when nobody was looking, he'd go to that horses stable and steal that horses goat.
The next day, they got ready for the race and the owner of that horse noticed that his goat was missing.
Now the riders all brought their horses out to the track.
The one horse that was left to spend the whole day and night without a goat just wasn't ready for the race.
All the other horses were calm and well rested. Those horses were prepared to run really fast and concentrate on winning the race. However, the other horse acted like it had a severe case of ADHD.
The horse was too tired to run as fast as it possibly could, it may of been hyperactive and it couldn't concentrate very well on the race. That horse and rider were unable to win the race.
That left us with a very famous expression: "Don't let that other person 'GET YOUR GOAT'"!

What if NASA offered you a chance to go to Mars? Would you go?

DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS?
A lot of people, including myself, really love outer space. But, do you really want to go there? Probably not!

If NASA called you and gave you the chance to be one of only a dozen people to go on the first trip to Mars, would you go?
It sounds cool. I have always wanted to go to outer space. That would be so awesome to spend one day in space. If, it only took a few hours to get to Mars, that would be cool to.
But, be careful what you wish for, because, you might get your wish!
On the space station, they recycle water. In other words, the water they use to flush the toilet gets filtered and cleaned. Then it goes back into a tank and the Astronauts drink that water! Then, they pee it out into the toilet, it gets filtered again, goes back into the holding tank and repeats the process over and over again! Yuck!
They lose muscle mass, because, in almost 0 gravity, you don't get to work your muscles very much. They have to exercise 2 hours a day to prevent muscle loss.
Food doesn't taste the same in space as it does on Earth.
What would you do if you can out of food or if the food you have with you spoiled or rotted and it was no longer safe to eat? The nearest grocery store is about 35,000 miles away, on Earth.
It is a very small space on a rocket, space shuttle or the ISS. It would get boring up there in those cramped quarters. If there is someone up there with you that you don't get along with, that would suck for you! It will take about 5 or 6 months to get to Mars with today's technology. You'll be on the planet for probably 6 months to a year, then a 6 month long trip back to Earth. All that time, you'd be with someone you hate!
The closest Doctor to you will be on Earth! If you get sick or injured, you are on your own. You will be able to call the Doctor on Earth and talk to him, but, he can't give you any prescription medication, stitch up a wound, put a cast on a broken bone, perform surgery or anything like that!
Mars is much smaller than Earth. That means there will be less gravity. That will have an affect on your weight, the amount of pressure and stress on your Spine, how you walk and other things. Astronauts have no stress on their spine on the International Space Station. In fact, while their in space, their spine stretches out and the Astronauts are about an inch or two taller in space. After 6 months, they come back to Earth and the Earth's gravity pulls their spine down and puts stress on it again. That causes back pain.
There are a lot of dust storms up there. The wind blows the Red, Iron Oxide all around and it will be hard to see. The wind might even blow you around as well. You will be much lighter on Mars than on Earth.
(The surface of the planet is made up of Iron Oxide, which is basically rust from iron, just like on a car. That's what gives Mars it's red color.)
You'll have to wear a space suit everywhere you go. You might get a hole in your suit, which you can't just fix with duct tape. You could also run out of Oxygen or have problems with your O2 tank. Either one of those things: a hole in your suit or problems with your Oxygen, would be life threatening.
It is very cold and dusty up there on Mars. The atmosphere doesn't stop Metiors or harmful UV Ray's, Gamma Ray's, X Ray's, and other harmful things from space as well as the Earth's atmosphere does.
If your space ship breaks down, there's no one there to fix it and no way for it to be fixed. You would never make it back home to Earth.
I am sure you'd have to sign a waiver before you went to Mars, saying you know all the risks you're taking and if anything happens to you your family can't sue!
On the bright side, you would die famous. You would always be known as one of the first people to ever land on Mars. NASA would probably name a satellite after you, your birthday might become a national holiday, people would write books and movies about you and your name would be as famous as Neil Armstrong, Galileo, Stephen Hawking and Edwin Hubble.

The origin of the word: "SNIPER".

Sniper:
Years ago, up until the 1800s, there was a species of bird called a Snipe. Yes, there actually was a bird called a Snipe.
Hunters back then had a single shot Musket. They could fire only one shot, then it took a few minutes to reload.
If these birds saw or heard any signs of danger or people out hunting them, they wouldn't land and if they were on the ground, they would get up and fly away and they would not come back for a really long time.
A person who who hunted Snipe was referred to as a: "Sniper".
The term sniper is still used in law enforcement and military today.
The Sniper had to hide really well in the woods so these birds would not see them and fly away.
Snipers in the Army today say, "One shot one kill". That's one of their mottos.
This was true for a Snipe Hunter back then to, he only had one shot. If he didn't shoot the bird with that one shot, his day of hunting was over.
Today, most Species of Snipe, possibly even all of them are extinct. If there are any left, they are highly endangered.
In Boy Scouts, they have a joke that the really dumb People fall for. They take someone on a Snipe hunt. They give that person a bag and walk far out into the woods. Then, the prankster tells the idiot, "You wait here, I'll run over here into the bushes and Chase out the Snipes. When you see them running out, take the bag and catch the Snipe in the bag.
The victim is anxiously waiting to see a bunch of Snipe come running out of the bushes hoping he can catch at least one.
But, the prankster very quiet sneak away and goes back to camp. He just wait to see how long it takes before the victim figures out that he has literally been
"Left holding the bag"! This is also the how we got that Expression.

My revenge!

I have gotten revenge on a lot of people.
Most notably, Two former Teachers. One from 4th grade and the other from 7th grade. I thought for years about what I was going to do to those stupid Teachers. Finally, when I got my driver's license and I was able to go do things on my own and nobody would know what I was doing, I went on a recon mission. I found these Teacher's addresses and phone numbers in the phone book. Then I headed out to gain all the information I could get on the Teachers that I hated.
I drove past their houses, thinking I could come back and toilet paper them or something.
Unfortunately, booth houses were in neighborhoods where the houses were really close together and there were a lot of houses around and there was a lot of light!   I think one of them or one of their neighbors had a dog running around outside. So, vandalizing their houses, slashing their car tires, dumping poison on their grass, breaking the windows on their houses and cars and other things like that, which I was considering doing, those were no longer options. ☹️
I spent the next month planning.
I considered Everything you could possibly think of, hiding in the woods a half mile away and "Sniping them off" when they walked out the door, just like a military sniper. I thought about getting other people involved and having them do my dirty work. That was too risky. Why would you tell someone that you are going to harm another person or seek revenge on somebody! I didn't want any witnesses!
This was before we had the Internet. So, I went to the book store and got a few books about REVENGE.
I did some research and talked to some friends. I didn't tell anyone what I was up to, I didn't tell anyone that I was planning my revenge. But, I just casually asked what they've done to seek revenge. Some people had some good stories.
Ultimately, I ended up going back to the bookstore. I got a newspaper, which is the only thing I bought. The newspaper wasn't important, I just needed something to put order forms in from magazines.
I looked at ALL the magazines and took the order forms out of every magazine I could find. I stuck the order forms inside the newspaper. Then, I paid for the newspaper and left.
I had order forms from every magazine you can think of, from Sesame Street to Play Boy and everything in between! I had Newsweek, Time, Detroit Free Press, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Penthouse, Playboy, Playgirl, medical magazines, Army Times, High Times,
Homosexual magazines, religious magazines, etc, etc, etc!
I probably had order forms from over 50 different magazines.
Now, I was ready for phase one of my plan.
I spent a long time filling out order forms in these Teacher's names!
I sent all those order forms, I didn't stop there, every time I found another magazine, at home, school, at someone else's house, in the store, anywhere, I grabbed the order forms out of it and filled them out in these Teacher's names! That was so much fun!
Phase 2, kicking them when their down.
Then, I called the local newspapers for my home town of: Grand Ledge, MI and the surrounding cities of: Lansing, Charlotte, Portland, Mulliken, Westphalia and a few other cities within a 35 mile radius. I put adds in all of those newspapers saying that their houses were for sale! I also said they had some really nice cars for sale at very ridiculously low prices. I put some other adds in the paper with their names on them to. I also put in the adds: "Please call between: 9:00-11:00 PM!"
On to phase 3 of my revenge. Adding insult to injury!
Late at night, I drove past both houses. I blasted my radio, spun my tires, screamed obcenities out the window, blew a really loud whistle, threw firecrackers, launched bottle rockets at their houses, threw glass bottles in their driveway, threw trash in their yard and made sure, I ruined their night of sleep! I also made a mess in their yards and put broken glass on their driveways!
Phase 4, The final assault.
I called them at all hours of the day and night. Sometimes I called them at home and sometimes at work.
I called the school office and said I need to talk to Mr Johnson and Mrs Smith (Not their real names).
The school secretary would usually say, "They are teaching their class now, can I take a message?"
I said, "It's urgent!"
They called the Teacher to the office to take the call.
When the Teacher picked up the phone, I have an evil, psychotic laugh and hung up!
Then, I called in the middle of the night and in the evening and on the weekend, when I knew they'd be home. I'd usually just hang up. But, one time I called and said to them both, "I know where you live! I know where you work! I know what your car looks like! You usually park in the same spot at work! To leave at the same time for work every day! I've been watching you! I hate you! I'm going to get you!!!! You're a stupid, worthless piece of shit!"
Both of them sounded really scared now!
Both of their responses were about the same.
In a really scared sounding voice, they said, "Who is this? Why are you harassing me!"
I said, "I'm your worse nightmare! Someone you should of never *?&$#@ with!" You've pissed off the wrong person! Because I hate you now and I'm going to get you!" Have a nice day!" Then I laughed some more and hung up!
That's probably the only time I ever said anything to them on the phone. The rest of the time, I either just gave them an evil laugh or just hung up the phone.
Keep in mind, this was before caller ID existed.
For a few years after I finished my revenge, I still continued to send them more magazines anytime I found one that I hadn't sent them yet! That was just for a little extra fun.
Keep in mind, these were the worst People I have ever met in my life and they were psychotic, mean to students and other people in general and sorry ass excuses for human beings! They really should be sitting in prison for the rest of their lives!

(BTW: I didn't smash their mailboxes or spray paint their houses. Those are pictures of someone else's revenge!)

TV infomercials:

All infomercials are stupid! They are a waste of time and money. Everything on them is a cheap gimmick that's not worth anything. It will break probably by the third time you use it!
That's why, when I'm in a store and I see something that says: "As seen on TV on the box, I stay away from it!
I have bought three things in my entire life from Walmart that said As seen on TV on them. I thought, "Well, if they showed this on TV, it's got to be good."
I brought them home and 1st, they weren't as easy to use as they said on the box or on TV.
2. They didn't do "EXACTLY" what they promised to do. They came close, but, not exactly what they promised to do. In fact, sometimes they came barely close enough to where you wouldn't be able to sue them! The company would win the law suit if you did try to sue.
3. They broke very quickly. It will work fine the first 3 Times, but, the 4th time, it will break!
4. It is basically false advertising and they use some stupid, loud mouth idiot like Billy Mays getting people's attention and getting them excited about a piece of junk.
5. If they have to show the stupid infomercials at 0300 in the morning, when most people aren't even awake to see it anyway, you know there's something wrong with that!
It's cheaper to show things on TV after Midnight, especially at 3:00 AM, when very few people are going to see it anyway.
6. When they show stupid, cheap things on TV on a dumb infomercial, that ruins things for anything good that someone may show on TV.
Yes, there a lot of good things in this world. But, with the bad reputation that infomercials have, I don't care what they put on an infomercial, I don't trust it at all and I won't buy it!
Those infomercials have a paradoxical affect on things. They show something on there to get people to trust it, make us think that it will be something good and convince us that we actually NEED this piece of junk that they are advertising. But, when we see it on a TV, infomercial, we actually have less trust in the product! Just because it was advertised on an infomercial with a loud mouth like Willy Maze trying to sell it!
7. They have a bunch of "Customers" who have bought the product that is being advertised and they are all saying it works really well and they love it!
You don't know anything about the people on there. Maybe they did try the product out and maybe they did like it, but, maybe they didn't like it and they are just saying they liked it.
Maybe they haven't tried this thing out at all. They might even be paid actors!
Think of it this way: If I offer to pay you $25,000 or  $500,000 you will get on TV and say anything I want you to say! If you know nothing about something I want to sell or if you tried it but did not like it, you will still get on TV, radio, newspapers and anywhere else I hire you to go and you will say anything I want you to say, just so you will get the money!
I would probably do it to, if someone paid me enough money.
8. Most of this stuff looks like it could be made out of good quality materials, but, they are only charging $19.99.
If it were made out of good quality materials that would last a long time, they would be charging three or even ten times more than what they want for it.
9. They often say, "If you call within the next Ten minutes, we'll double the offer, you won't get one, but, Two of these stupid things at no extra charge! You just pay the shipping.
When they double the order for "FREE", they still have to get the money for the second item that they give you for free somehow.
Now, you are actually paying $10.00 each for these things. It probably costs the company $1.00 to make this piece of junk! If they pay the company advertising it $1.00 for each one they sell, they are still making $18.00 on each one if they don't give the customer an extra one free. $8.00 on the ones People bought "within the next Ten minutes". Because, they gave them a freebie.
If they want you to buy something in a hurry, in the next Ten minutes, for example, that doesn't give you enough time to think about it before you buy. If they want you to just buy something really fast, it's probably a scam!

When you see something advertised like this on TV, they will always try to make it sound too good to be true. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is not as good as people say it is!
Think before you buy something you see on TV, newspapers or the Internet!
Never buy something directly off a TV infomercial!
Ask a few trusted friends or relatives about things you see on TV. More than like, someone you know, knows someone that knows someone else who has bought it already. They can give you an honest review on the product.
Read some online reviews or check with the Better Business Bureau, Ripoorepott.com and Attorney General's office for complaints about the product, the company that makes it and the person advertising it before you buy the product.
The things I bought that said: "As seen on TV" on them, I didn't buy them from the company advertising them on TV, I don't even watch those infomercials. I found them at Walmart. I was able to open the box and look at the items first. Otherwise I would of never bought them in the first place.
If you have a bad feeling about something you see on TV or anywhere else, trust your instincts and either don't buy it at all or at least investigate it first!

Jupiter.

The Earth would fit inside Jupiter 1324 times! It may not appear to be that much bigger than Earth, but, the way someone described it to me was: Because of the mass of Jupiter, it would be like a balloon, the planet would stretch , just like a balloon. Just like a balloon stretching to hold more water or anything else you put in it, Jupiter would, THEORETICALLY, stretch whenever you put something inside of it. It would stretch out enough to where All the other planets, including Pluto, would fit inside of it!
The famous, Great Red Spot is about Three times bigger than Earth.
It is a large storm that's been going on for over 300 years. It is currently, slowly shrinking. It spins counterclockwise at about 225 MPH (360 KPH). It is comparable to a hurricane.
Jupiter would fit inside the Sun 9 times.
It has a faint ring system. Scientists did not know about the rings until the Voyager Spacecraft got there. Voyager showed the rings for the first time. The rings are too faint to be seen with a Telescope. In fact, I have a really powerful Telescope and I can't see the ring with it. University of Central Florida in Cocoa, FL has the second largest Telescope in the state of FL and they can't see it with that scope.
It has, as of now, 69 confirmed Moons. Probably, more to be found.
Looking through my Telescope, I can see the color bands on the planet and Six of it largest Moons.
Since, Galileo invented his own Telescope and looked at Jupiter, and discovered 4 of these same Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto), they are called: Galileo Moons. Those are Jupiter's largest moons. The rest are too small to see from Earth.
(Unfortunately, someone else invented the Telescope, just a short period of time before Galileo invented his telescope. So, he can't claim credit for inventing it.)
There are some very violent storms on Jupiter. Mostly inside the planet. Lightning on this planet is much more powerful than what we experience here on Earth. Scientists believe that it rains Diamonds inside of Jupiter. Because of the heat and pressure inside of the giant ball of Gas. But, they can't prove it.
The composition of the planet is mostly: Hydrogen, Helium and Ammonia. It's believed to have a rocky and metallic core.
Since the planet spins so fast, it completes one rotation in 9.8 Earth hours.
The rapid rotation causes Jupiter to bulge at the Equator. The diameter at the Equator is: 88,846 Miles (142,948 K).
The diameter at the poles is: 83,082 Miles (133,708 K). The Scientific name for this shape is: An Oblate Spheroid.
Jupiter is a Brown Dwarf. A failed star. Since it is made up of the same elements as most stars. However, it would have to be 75 times more massive to cause nuclear fusion of Hydrogen and turn into a star.
The color bands around Jupiter are created by strong 400 MPH (640 K) winds flowing East to West in the planets upper atmosphere.
Jupiter has a huge magnetic field, larger than any other planets. It is also the strongest magnetic field in our Solar System. It's almost 20,000 times strong than the one here on Earth! It is more than 1,000 times the lethal dose of radiation for a human. This magnetic field damages every spacecraft that goes near it, even if it is heavily shielded. The magnetic field extends out between 600,000 - 2 Million Miles (1 Million - 3 Million  K) towards the Sun and forms a tail which extends over 600 Million Miles (1 Billion K) behind the planet.
At it's furthest point from the Sun Jupiter is 507.04 Million Miles away.
When it's closest to the Sun it's 460.24 Million Miles away.
It orbits the Sun at a speed of 29,205 MPH. Completing one rotation around the Sun in 11.86 Earth years.
The distance from Jupiter to Saturn depends on where they are in orbit. When they are on the same side of the Sun and at their closest point, they are approximately 5 Astronomical Units (AU) away from each other.
When they are on opposite sides of the Sun, they are about 15 AU away from each other.
(One AU is the average distance between the Sun and Earth. 93 Million Miles or 149,668,992 K).
Depending on where the Earth and Jupiter are in their orbits, Jupiter is between 4.2 and 6.2 AU away from Earth.
We are lucky to have a planet the size of Jupiter in our Solar System, because, being so big, it has a lot of gravity. It attracts a lot of Metiors and other things to it. So, rather than hitting Earth or the other planets, a lot of them hit Jupiter instead.
Imagine what might have happened if Shoemaker-Levy would of hit Earth.
The SL comet had been captured by Jupiter's gravity about 20 or 30 years before it broke into several large pieces and hit Jupiter in July of 1994. The fragments of the comet got too close to the planet on July 16, 1994. The first impact created a fireball larger than Earth! A total of 21 impacts were observed over the next six days. The largest one created a dark spot more than 7,456 Miles (12,000 K) across. The explosion it created was 6 Million Megatons of TNT. That's 600 times the worlds entire known nuclear arsenal at that time, according to: www.americaspace.com.
A comet or meteor that size hitting Earth would quickly put an end to all life on Earth! In fact, most Scientists believe that it was a large meteor that crashed into Earth 65,000,000 years ago that killed off the Dinosaurs.

For anyone asking: Why does the US need to have a SPACE FORCE?

FOR ANYONE WHO IS WONDERING WHY WE NEED A SPACE FORCE:

    I'm pretty sure there was a time when people said: "Why do we need a Navy? Why do we need an Air Force? What good are those going to do? That's a waste of money!
Why are they spending Billions of dollars creating Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Army Rangers, Delta Force and similar things? That's a waste of money! They are wasting my tax dollars on this!
Why are they spending so much money on building nuclear weapons? That could destroy the whole world in just a few minutes!
The enemy can and does attack the US and other countries from the air and water. That's why we need Air Force and Navy.
There's things going on in the world everyday that you and I will never know about. We have enemies all over the world. People are constantly thinking of things they can do to attack another country. Delta Force is a top secret military organization that, up until Clinton was in office, we weren't even supposed to know about. The government denied its existence completely. Bill Clinton hinted that there might be an organization like that, but that's all I'm going to say.
They are constantly protecting the world from terrorists.
Navy Seals and Special Forces take most of the missions that are way too difficult, dangerous and top secret for any other military units to take on.
SEALS killed Bin Laden, for instance.
The reason we have nukes is to PREVENT nuclear wars from ever happening in the first place. How? N. Korea, Russia, Iran and all other countries that don't like the US, they all know that the US invented both Atomic and Nuclear weapons. They also know that the US has more of them than most other countries. I'm sure there's probably a country somewhere in the world that probably has more than we do, but, the US has more than 99.999% of other countries in the world. They know better than to launch a nuke at the US or our allies. Because, the US can and will track their missiles coming in from tracking devices in space and on the ground. If they launch ONE single nuke at us, the President will first, launch about 20, multiwarhead missiles on their country and turn them into a pile of rubble!
Technology is changing really fast all over the world and we need a new way to fight crime, terror, illegal immigration, drugs, nuclear war, the list goes on and on.
Just like Science Fiction movies from the 1980's and even ling before that predicted, we would be in space by the year 2000. Well, we're late getting into space! 18 years late, but, it was inevitably going to happen.
Not only should we have a military presence in space, but also, a lot more Scientists should be up there studying the Earth and it's atmosphere.
As soon as the US gets a military presence in space, other countries will do the same. Our enemies will be up there to.
From outer space, you can see an entire continent, so, instead of an airplane flying over the ground between 300 feet to 5 miles off the ground, they have satellites and troops 20,000 miles or more above the ground. They will be able to look down and see everything. The enemy won't be able to hide very easily on the ground anymore.
The US and rest of the world will be forced to invent new technologies to keep up with the Space Force. When a Scientist tries to invent something specific, they will have to work on it for a long time. In the process, they will accidentally discover and invent other things. That is how we got the Lazer and the Microwave along with Millions of other things.
There is a lot of "Space Junk" flying around in space. It's all over up there. A lot is in orbit around Earth. That could crash in on us and cause a lot of problems. Space Force can protect us from that and try to find a way to clean it up.
They will watch for Metiors and yes, even UFOs!
Space Force will be above the atmosphere of Earth, so, they will have a better, much clearer view of outer space. That will help us study Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and other things.
They can even send FBI agents up to watch down on the ground, not just in the US, but, in other countries to, and they can track criminals before they run too far away. Then, hopefully, it won't take 10 years to find them, like it did to get Bin Laden!
There's probably a Million other good reasons to have a Space Force.

LIGHTNING TRIVIA:

Lightning can strike up to 20 Miles away from a thunderstorm.
When you see Lightning in the distance on a hot day, but, you don't hear thunder, that's because, there is a storm a long ways away. Too far for you to see the rain clouds or hear the thunder. This makes it look like the lighting is being caused by the heat. People often think it is the heat that is causing the lighting. It's often referred to as "Heat Lightning". But, Heat Lightning does not exist. It is regular lightning from a storm that's too far away for you to see the rain or hear the thunder.
Lightning strikes the Earth between 50 and 100 times per second! Astronauts have confirmed that as fact, because they can see the clouds light up in several different places around the world, all at the same time. They can see it from the space station.
Lightning can travel in all directions, most Lightning is cloud to cloud lightning and it doesn't hit the ground. On the ground it can travel straight down, up, or sideways. According to the Discovery Channel and some high speed video footage of lightning strikes, which you can see on YouTube, most Lightning travels from the ground up, NOT down from the clouds!
Lightning has between 1 Million and 1 Billion Volts.
In the movie: Back To The Future, they use the the word: "Jigowatt". There is no such thing as a Jigowatt. The actors mispronounced the word: "Gigawatt". Just like the computer term, Gigabyte- 1 Billion bytes, a Gigawatt is 1 Billion Watts.
When people get struck by lightning, they usually don't get hit directly by the bolt, usually, the lighting hits something else, if someone is touching the object that got hit, they get zapped. It can also "splash", or bounce off something it hits and hit someone. Sometimes, it hits the wet ground several feet away and if a person is standing on the ground near the strikes, electricity travels across the wet ground and hits them.
The record for the most times being struck by lightning lightning is 7 times! It was a park ranger. He lived to tell about it! However, he had Psychological and physical health problems after being struck that many times.
The lighting capital of the word as of 2016, according to NASA.gov, is: Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. They get an avg of 233 lightning strikes per square Km every year.
Before NASA researched this, The Congo Basin in Africa held the record for the most Lightning activity each year.
NASA conducted their research with: "The Lighting Image Sensor" (LIS) on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
The lighting capital of the US is Tampa, FL. They have more Lightning than any US city. The word Tampa comes from the Clausa Tribe in the 16th century. The word Tampa means: "Sticks of Fire".
The Lighting Belt is an area of FL that extends from Tampa to Orlando and from Orlando down to Ft Myers and Lake Okeechobee. That  area of FL gets the most Lightning each year.
Lightning can generate heat up to 60,000 degrees F. That's 6 times hotter than the surface of the Sun!
Lightning kills more people than Hurricanes and Tornadoes combined every year.
NASA is not supposed to launch rockets through clouds, because, that could trigger lightning. However, I have seen them do it and the rockets did not cause lightning. Not the ones I saw.
Most commercial airplanes get struck by lightning at least once or more every year. Because of all the safety features on airplanes  to protect the plane and passengers from lightning, most people don't even know that the airplane was struck by lightning. In fact, planes can even trigger lightning.
Experts say that if lightning hits your car while you're in it, you should be safe. The force of the lighting will be absorbed by the outer frame of the car and you, theoretically, should not be affected by it. Unless you stick your arm out the window and touch something else that is touching the ground, then you'll get fried.
Lightning can be produced by other things besides rain, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, rockets and sometimes even a huge fire, which can also cause a fire tornado. That is a whirlwind caused by a fire. It sucks up the flame. Now the tornado is spinning around and it is actually spinning a flame around with it! Making it even more dangerous.l
Some other planets have storms on them and some of them also produce lightning. Jupiter has some of the most violent storms  in the Solar system. According to NASA, Lightning on Jupiter is much more powerful than what we experience on Earth.
(Most of this information comes from: Discovery Channel, NASA.gov, Orlandosentinel.com and Scientificamerican.com.)

Absolute Collections SCAM!

I just talked to a Lawyer about a call my sister received. about me owing money for a payday loan. IT IS A SCAM!!!
Things didn't even sound right with this anyway. First of all, I don't recall getting any payday loan or anything over the phone for a long time, especially not after filing bankruptcy.
Nobody has ever contacted me about any payday loan or anything from 2013. That sounded suspicious.
Then they told me on the phone that I used Mike Arndt as one of my references. That is a big red flag there! Believe me, if I ever do get a loan, Mike Arndt is the absolute last person I'd even consider using as reference! He doesn't like me very well and I am not a big fan of him! I don't trust him and I know he wouldn't give me a good reference anyway!
The other reference they said I used is someone I don't even  know at all!
All they told me over the phone was that the name of their company was: "Absolute". OK, Absolute what? They said they are a collection agency. Another thing that sounded suspicious about this was they told me on the phone that They were going to sue me. Then the lady I talked to told me, "Good luck in court!"
Why is someone going to tell the person they are going to sue: "Good luck in court?"
Things just didn't sound right at all, so, I did some research online about the company. I didn't find much information about them online. But, I did see one or two websites that said it was a scam. One other site that just said it was a collection agency and a website for an Attorney who fights this collection agency all the time. It said, "If Absolute Collections is calling and harassing you, call me, I can help."
So, I called the Attorney, he confirmed my suspicion that it was a scam. He told me to report them to the Florida Attorney General.
The Attorney didn't charge me anything and all it took was a 5 minute phone call.
I am going to report them to the Attorney General, police, Better Business Bureau, Ripoffreport.com, Yellopages.com, Google and any place else I can think of.

Scam baiting. A horrifying experience!

Today I got bored and looked up some phone numbers of known scammers. I wanted to call some of them and waste their time and harass them, just like they do to us whenever they call somebody. Only they take things a little further and try to rip people off! They want to sell you some service or product that you don't need or they will claim to be the IRS and con you into paying them (the fake IRS agents) money for overdue taxes that you don't owe. They will tell you that you'll be arrested if you don't pay.
There are a lot of people out there that try to do us all a favor by calling these scammers and wasting their time. The longer these people stay on the phone with these scammers, the less time they have to call other people and rip them off. It also gets the scammer really frustrated if you waste too much of their time. This increases the chances of the scammer getting frustrated with the job and quitting. When people call and waste a scammers time, it is called: "SCAM BAITING".
A lot of people don't support scam baiting, because, it just gives the scammer more experience in dealing with difficult people and doing their job. However,  it is a lot of fun!
I looked up a scammers number on Google and called them. On the first call, I got one guy and told him I had a problem with my computer and needed his help to fix it.
He immediately told me to F off!
I said, "What the hell jackass! I am calling because I have a virus on my computer and it sent me a pop up message saying to call this number so you can fix it! This is Microsoft Tech support isn't it?" He immediately hung up on me!
So I called back about a minute later. I got the same guy this time.
I said, "Why did you hang up dude, I need your help getting rid of a virus." I was nice about it.
He cursed me out some more and got really mad. Then he hung up again!
So I called back a third time. I finally got a different person on the phone. I told him I had a virus and needed his help. He asked a few questions about the virus and he was nice about it.
So, I gave him a fake name. I didn't want this scammer to know my real name. I said I was John Simons.
He said  "Ok, turn on your computer."
I told him I had my computer on, but, I didn't really have it turned on. Then I tried to act like the dumbest person in the world who didn't know anything about computers at all. (For the record, I am not a computer genius. But, I do have some basic knowledge about them and I've taken a basic computer class.)
He told me to do a few things to give him remote access to my computer. I told him I didn't understand and asked him to repeat the instructions. He did repeat the instructions. Then he hung up. I was on the phone with him For about 20 minutes.
I called back and got the same guy. I talked to him about my fake computer virus for a few minutes, then he told me he was in Las Vegas. I said , "No you are not! You are in India and you are a scammer!"
Now, the guy started laughing!
I told him that I don't have a virus, I was just wasting his time!
He hung up again. So, I called him back. Now he said I am making him mad.
I didn't really have a virus , I was just doing this to waste his time anyway.
This was when things got really scary for me!
I was really lucky I did not have my computer turned on at all right now. Because now this scammer tried to hack into my ISP!
First of all Mr Scammer said, "David, why are you wasting my time?"
I thought, "How the hell does he know my real name?" I asked him, "How did you know my name is David?" He said it was a lucky guess.
I said, "Do you know my last name?"
He told me to tell him a last name randomly and he would tell me if I gave him my real name.
I said, "Smith."
He said, "No."
"Jones"
"No."
"Williams."
"No."
"Thomson."
"No."
"Arndt."
"Yes."
I thought, "Oh shit, he has caller ID and it works in India. He can get my name and number all the way over there. No big deal."
At least, that's what I thought at that moment!
He proceeded to say, "David Arndt Jr.
XXXX Signal Hill Rd. Orlando, FL. 32922.
Phone number: (407)XXX-XXXX.
ISP: 12345678900000
Email address: XXXXXXX@yahoo.com.
Your bank is Sun Trust in Orlando, FL.
You make $35,000/yr.
As soon as you turn your computer on, I'm going to get into your internet connection and on your computer and drain your bank account!"
I thought, "Holy shit! All that information is my OLD info! Luckily, the only two things that are still valid are my full name and phone number! The rest of it was valid a few years ago! Since then, I've moved to a different city, closed that bank account and went to a different bank, I no longer use that old email address, I have a different ISP and, even back then , a few years ago, I was not making  $35,000. But, I got really lucky that he did not have my current information! He must of looked my name up on the internet!"
I am not going to call that number again! However, proceed with caution if you want to scam bait this number!
It is a fake computer tech support company.
The number is:
1-877-786-2227.

Next-gen vacations scam. Beware!

Do me and everybody else in the world a favor and please call this number: 1-888-321-3840. Next-gen vacations. There in Kissimmee, FL. They called me to schedule an apt for tomorrow  afternoon to go to a seminar and promise me two free airline tickets anywhere in the US! It's obviously a damn scam! To hell with them ass holes! Yes, I did schedule a time to go to their seminar with my GF. But, hell no, I AIN'T GOING! I did that just to waste their time! I also wasted about 10 minutes on the phone with them to!
Now, they want to call me tomorrow before my appointment. But, I am going to block their number!
This is too good to be true! They will not give anybody 2 free plane tickets on any airline they want to any destination in the US to use anytime within the next year and let you stay at any hotel you want in the US at their expense (Including a 5 Star hotel), all at their expense!
But, please, everybody, call them and bomb these jackasses with calls! Also, schedule fake appointments like I did! Then block the number so they can't call you! Then you call them again! Call them often to!
Again, that is:
888-321-3840.

Their address: 5000 Ave of the Stars.
                            Kissimmee, FL. 34746.

Black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Scientists have known for a long time that there's a Supermassive Black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But, now they've found a lot more small black holes and they guesstimate that there might be as many as 10,000 more small black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The way most most Supermassive Black holes form is by "eating" other black holes, stars and other things. Everything that the black hole consumes adds more mass to it and the black hole grows. The more it eats,  the bigger the black hole becomes. Most black holes start out as small ones. Then they suck things in it and they become bigger.
The way they form in the first place is:
A giant star runs out of Hydrogen and other forms of fuel. It collapses and what's left over is a black disk that has an immeasurable amount of mass. In fact, according to Einstein, a black hole might have an infinite amount of mass. However,  I find that hard to believe, because it sounds impossible for anything to literally have infinite mass.
The Sun is a Medium star. It doesn’t have enough mass to form a black hole. Scientists measure other stars, black holes and other really large objects in space with.   "Solar. Masses". One solar mass is the mass of the Sun.
In order to form a black hole, a star has to be at least 5 solar masses.
There are a few black holes that Scientists have found which they think are Millions or Billions of solar masses. These are called: Supermassive Black holes. There is one in the center of every spiral galaxy, including the Milky way.
The gravity from these Supermassive black holes helps hold the galaxies together.
Scientists are not sure exactly how Supermassive black holes form. However, one reason might be that it could of consumed Thousands of other black holes and planets and kept getting bigger.
The gravity from a black hole is so strong that almost nothing can escape from it. Even if something traveled at the speed of light, it would not be able to escape from the gravitational pull of a black hole. That is why they are hard for Scientists to find.
However,  Stephen Hawking discovered a type of radiation that does manage to escape from black holes. Since he discovered it, this radiation was named: Hawking radiation. Astronomers need special, X-ray telescopes to see it.
This technology is so new, that until recently, nobody had ever actually seen a black hole. They knew they existed, because they could see stars, planets and other things getting sucked into them. Hopefully, with the newer, X-ray telescopes, Scientists will actually be able to get a picture of a black hole for the first time ever! Astronomers have been talking about trying to do that this year (2018).

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dozen-black-holes-discovered-at-the-milky-way-centre

Heart Attack Grill. Las Vegas.

This place is terrible! A restaurant owned by a real Doctor. He used to be a nutritionist. How Ironic!
He is now doing just the opposite of what he was taught to do in Med school. This is the least nutritious food you can imagine. For example: A Triple Bypass Burger. Three huge burgers, cooked in Lard, not veritable oil or other things like normal restaurants or people at home, Lard! The bun is also smeared with lard.
They also have, what they called a Quadruple Bypass Burger. Four burgers, one pound of beef. Four slices of cheese, lard on the bun, burgers cooked in lard. Plus, anything else you want on the burger.
Even worse, there is an Octuple Bypass Burger. Eight burgers, 8 slices of chese, plus Lard. Good luck trying to eat that! This one has 20,000 calories! For most people, We are supposed to stick to a 2,000 cal diet. That's 10 times the amount of recommend cal intake!
If you ate the Octuple Bypass, you'd either gain a bunch of weight, get sick, have a Myocardial infarction  (med term for Heart Attack) for real or have really high cholesterol levels for the rest of your life.
All you can eat "Flat Line Fries". Those are also cooked in pure lard. They go through over 300 Lbs of fries a week.
If you weigh over 350 Lbs, you eat free.
They sometimes have people weigh in and out. Sometimes even check people's vital signs (Heart rate, breathing, pulse, etc.).
If you finish the entire meal, one of the Nurses (Waitresses) will wheel you out to your car in a wheelchair. If you don't finish everything, one of the Nurses will get a large paddle and whip your butt!
This whole restaurant goes against the oath the owner took when he got his medical  license. It's called: The Hippocratic Oath. Although it doesn't say these words specifically in the oath, it's implied and Doctors and other medical personnel have to learn the Latin phrase: Primum non nocere, which in English means: "FIRST DO NO HARM".

Please Stand By movie.

Over all, the movie was very realistic. Dakota Fanning did a really good job playing the roll of an Autistic girl. She shows a lot of the signs of being Autistic, not giving eye contact, having a few meltdowns, people trying to take advantage of her, she got easily confused, stuck to a routine, etc.
She was a Star Trek fan and she wrote a 400+ page Star Trek script. However, most people who have Autism Spectrum Disorders are not good at wiring. They are also not usually very creative. They are usually very logical. Most Autistic people are very logical and they're usually really good at things like: Math and Science.
There were a few things they did not show in the movie which would of made it a little better like somebody pulling a joke on her and at least one situation where she would have said something, but had no "verbal filter".
People with Autism usually don't understand jokes. If someone would of told her a joke and she would of gotten really confused and not understand that it was a joke and most people would of found the joke funny or, better yet, if she would of taken the joke literally, someone says something for a joke, but she takes it seriously and actually thinks what the other person said was really true so she doesn't laugh. That would have made for a really good scene in the movie.
They did a really good job showing her journey of trying to get to LA to drop off her Star Trek script and having a lot of problems along the way.
The name of the movie comes from what the main character, Wendy (Dakota Fanning), says and what other people say to her when she has a meltdown or when she gets really frustrated. She or someone else says, "Please Stand By, Please Stand By." They say it over and over to help her calm down.
Overall, it was a really good movie. Five stars.
It was realistic enough on some things, that
Anybody that has an Autism Spectrum disorder should definitely see this movie.

Having Asperger's myself, I could really understand this movie.
I mentioned above that most people who have Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are not good at writing, but, they're usually really good at Math and Science. They usually think more logically and they are usually not very creative. Most of them don't understand jokes. They don't understand what makes a joke funny, won't find the humor in it, won't laugh and worst of all, they might take the joke seriously! They definitely are not good at telling jokes. For some strange reason, I've always been just the opposite. I am very creative and I have always been better at writing than I was at Math and Science. In fact, I hate Math! I am also not good at it. I love Science, especially Astronomy. I was never really good in Science classes, but, I've always been interested in it.
For most of my life, I have been good at telling jokes and I've been able to understand them. I have also enjoyed hearing other people tell them. Most of the time I've been able to understand when somebody is telling a joke and most of the time, I didn't take the joke seriously.
People with Asperger's and other ASDs usually have at least one thing they are totally obsessed with. One thing I used to be obsessed with was telling jokes.

Aliens in the Milky way Galaxy.

The Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 Light Years across. We are are near the far end of one side. If aliens have tried to contact us all the way from the other side and they were 90,000 LY away, their message wouldn't reach us for 90,000 years after the day they sent it. That is only if they used a Radio Telescope like Scientists use here on Earth. That's because radio waves travel at about the speed of light thorough space.
Assuming they are much more intelligent and much more advanced than Humans and they've invented a UFO that can travel ten times the speed of light and they are also able to survive the G Force, it would still take 9,000 years to travel to us.
They could also have a time warp or, better yet, use Einstein's theory of "Bending Time and Space", which is only theoretically possible, where you could bend two points in space and bring them together. Then they would be able to pull our Solar System to wherever they are and just fly across within only a few Seconds! That would be so cool, but highly unlikely.
However, there's also a small chance that they will be less intelligent than us and they can't even figure out how to get off the ground of their own planet. I doubt that though. But, if that were true, or even if they had a big spaceship traveling towards us from 90,000 LY (27,607 Parsec) away, we still wouldn't be able to see them with the world's most powerful Telescope, which is called: "The James Webb Telescope". It will be much more powerful than the Hubble. They haven't even sent it up yet. NASA will launch it up within a few years. I don't know how, unless they get our space program going here again by that time. Otherwise, they will have to contract it out and have either one of the civilian agencies like Space X do it or Russia may have to send it up for the US.
If the aliens are outside of our Galaxy, they will be able to get in the Milky Way to visit us, but it will be extremely difficult for us or them to get out of our Galaxy. Because, the Milky Way is so big, and so strong that, Because of all of its gravity and several other forces of Physics, which I don't understand, you would have to travel about 1.2 Million miles per hour to get out of the Milky Way! That is the Escape Velocity of the Milky Way Galaxy.
If you did get out though, you may have a much easier time getting back in, but, since the spiral arms of the galaxy are rotating pretty fast, the whole galaxy will be flying away from you through space and our entire Solar System is moving through the inside of the galaxy,  if you did get back inside, you would be a long ways away from where you started from and you'd be far away from the Earth. Good luck finding it again!
Personally, I believe aliens have already been here, who do you think built the Pyramids 5,000years ago? As well as Crop Circles and other things.
(BTW, one Parsec is approximately 3.2 Light Years.)

This is why Teachers should be allowed to carry guns to school.

I've seen soldiers,police officers, security guards, corrections officers, firearms instructors, regular citizens who carry concealed weapons, people out hinting, people working in pawn shops and gun shops and other people who have guns, in fact, literally, more thanhalf the people in the US who are over 21 have a concealed weapons permit and own at least one gun.
You look around and see people walking down the street, half of them in the US are probably carrying a gun and know how and when to use it. They are also responsible enough and have enough self control to never use it unless someones life was in danger.
Some of those people have mental illness or anger issues. Some are taking medications prescribed by a Doctor or illegal drugs.
The population of China: 1.3 Billion. India: 1.2 Billion. USA: About 330 Million. Out of those countries, the USA has the most guns and gun owners.
My point is: I've seen so many people who carry guns lose their temper while they had a gun with them (including me), but, not once have I ever seen someone pull their gun out or even threaten to do so because they were pissed off! Yes, it could happen,  not very likely, but it's possible. Yes, it would be tragic if a Teacher lost their temper and shot a student, but, it would be worse if someone else walked into a school and shot a bunch of innocent people again. You know, if we don't do something drastic NOW to fix the problem, there is more than a 99.9999% chance that it will happen again! That is a guarantee! It is going to happen again if teachers don't start carrying guns in the US.  Teachers carry guns in some other countries and they almost never have any mass school shootings.
It will take the police at least  about 10 minutes to get even one or two officers to the school to respond to an incident like this. More than likely, they would send the SWAT team, not just regular officers, that takes even longer! But, Teachers with guns and the proper training are already there. They would call the police, but, the Teachers don't have to wait 10 minutes or, more than likely, longer, for the police to show up, because they can respond instantly! In those 10 minutes- minimum- that you have to wait for police, that psycho, gunman or woman, could potentially shoot and kill over 100 students and employees at the school! One of them might be your kid or you if you work in the school!
Why is everybody so scared of the 1% chance that an armed Teacher might shoot a student, but, they're not worried that somebody working elsewhere could go to work and kill grown adults (and kids) where they work, shoot people while walking down the street, at the post office, get on the roof of their house and shoot random cars that drive by, have a shoot out with a rival gang or get caught in the cross fire. All of the above have happened and will happen again! But, nobody ever says anything about any of that! Your kids or you are 1 Million times more likely to be shot in one of those situations than by an armed Teacher with a gun who is trying to protect your child's life.
99% of people who carry guns in the United States and other countries know right from wrong. We all realize that if you shoot somebody, you will go to jail. In some cases, you could get the death penalty. Nobody wants that, so nobody shoots anybody else, unless they are psychotic or if it is self defense.
Even if you shoot somebody in self defense and that person was breaking into your house at the time or if it was clearly an accident, more than likely, in most situations, YOU WILL BE ARRESTED! They can hold you in jail for a few days, with no warrant or anything else. It's legal and you should expect cor the police to arrest you after you shoot somebody in self defense. They can hold you in jail, in FL, for up to 3 days, while they do their investigation. After that, they have to either release you or take you to see the judge. Then the Judge will decide what to do with you next.
Why are people so worried about Teachers carrying guns to school to protect their kids, but, they're not worried about anybody else carrying guns? They're afraid of situations that are possible, but not going to happen!  There is a much greater chance of a psycho breaking into the school harming your kid, someone shooting you at work, wherever you work or you getting injured or killed almost any other time or place than a kid getting shot during school by an armed Teacher who is trying to protect your children in school!
Teachers wouldn't be working in school if they didn't love and care about kids and they also understand them and how children act. They are not likely to harm kids.
Pencils and school books can be used as weapons, but, how often do you hear about Teachers or anybody killing kids with a pencil?
People are much less likely to attack another person or place if they know the other person has a gun or there's a gun or person with a gun inside the building.

World War I Christmas Truce.

This truce was not authorized by the commanders of either country (Germany and Great Britain). When soldiers on both sides started getting out of their trenches and making friends with their enemies, the commanding officers on both sides didn't know what to do. Some soldiers got out of the trenches and befriended the enemy, some didn't. The ones that did got in trouble later.
When they all finally went back to their own trenches and ended the truce, a lot of the soldiers were unwilling to fight against the enemy,   because they had made friends with each other.
High ranking officers of both sides told the soldiers on their side not to participate in the truce. If they got out of their trench, they'd be in trouble. So many soldiers disobeyed the direct order that there wasn't much the commanding officers could do.
Since there were so many soldiers on both sides that were now unwilling to fight against their new friends on the other side, a lot of soldiers on both sides had to be relocated to different locations far away. That way they faced different enemy soldiers whom they did not know and they had not made friends with.
When WWI was over, The militaries on both sides wrote some new military regulations that made it illegal for any of their military personnel to do something like this ever again. They also came up with some very harsh penalties for anyone who ever participated in a truce like this again. The most severe penalties included: Court Marshall and military discharge. Soon after these countries made rules against having a truce like this, other countries made their own similar rules against it. For the rest of the war, some unit commanders on both sides ordered artillery strikes on the other teams trenches on Christmas eve and Christmas day, just to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
(There was a documentary on the History Channel about this several years ago.)

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Anne Frank.

ANNE FRANK:

Anne Frank and her family were Jews hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during WWII.
Anne was born June-12-1929.
She had one older Sister named: Margot.
Her parents were: Otto and Edith Frank.
They were originally from Frankfurt, Germany.
In the Fall of 1933, the Nazis were taking over the country of Germany and like most other Jewish families, they decided to leave. They thought they would be safe in the Netherlands,  so they moved to Amsterdam. At that time, Anne was only 4 years old.
Anne and her family were doing fine for the first 9 years living in Amsterdam. Anne and Margot were going to school and they very quickly learned the Dutch language.
It wasn't long until the Nazis invaded Amsterdam to.
Jews had a lot of restrictions now, they couldn't work, go to regular, nonjewish schools, use public transportation or even go to the movies.
They were eventually forced to wear a Yellow star on their shirt to show everyone that they're Jewish.
Nazis would often arrest Jews for violating these restrictions. That was often an excuse to send somebody to a concentration camp.
Anne and her Dad were walking past a store one day and Anne looked in the window and saw a diary. She mentioned to her Dad that she liked it. They continued walking home.
Her 13th birthday was a few weeks later. Her parents gave her the diary for her birthday.
Otto was already getting a little nervous about living in Amsterdam, because there were a lot of Nazis running around the city. He knew they couldn't leave the Netherlands and move to a different country, because the Nazis would definitely catch them. He had already been working on a place for the family to hide.
There was an apartment that was hidden in back of the warehouse of her dads company. Otto Frank owned his own business which made Pectin (A gelling agent for jam.)
They were going to move in to their new hiding place in a week or two. Until, one day, Margot received a letter that said she had to report to report to a concentration camp. Her dad said, "No way! We're going into hiding!"
They quickly grabbed whatever they could carry with them and left. They moved into the hiding place earlier than they had planned.
They moved to the new place in July 1942 and stayed there until Aug 1944, which is when they got caught.
The people working in the building never told the Nazis where she and her family were hiding.
The entrance to the apt was a hole in the wall with no door. It was hidden by a large bookcase. They hid  in the 3 story building for a Two years and one month.
They never expected to have to stay there that long.  They thought the allies would of won the war much sooner than they did.
They had to be very quiet and rely on other people to bring them food. They never left the house because they were afraid of getting caught by the Nazis.
Anne wrote a lot in her diary while they were in hiding.
There is a rumor that Her Sister, Margot kept a diary to. But, nobody has ever found it.
Eventually, the Nazis found the hidden entrance to the place where her family was hiding. They never found out who turned them in, but it had to of been one of their close "friends", because,  very few people knew where they were. If anybody in the warehouse turned them in, they'd of probably been arrested for helping them. Because, not only were they Jews, but, they were considered criminals now, because Margot didn't turn herself in and report to a concentration camp in her own free will.
In Aug 1944, the Nazis broke in and found the Frank family and arrested them. First they were taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany. Then in the Fall, Anne and Margot  were transferred to a different location called: Bergen-Beisen Concentration Camp in Northern Germany.
In the Winter both of the Sisters got severe cases of Typhus  (Not to be confused with Typhoid. They are NOT the same thing). Sometime in either Feb or Mar 1944 Margot died. Anne died a few days later. Margot was 18 and in a few weeks would of turned 19. Anne was 15 when they died. Typhus was the cause of both of their deaths.
Somebody found Anne's diary and kept it in a safe place hoping to return it to her when and if she came back after the war. But, since she never came back, the person who found the diary gave it to her dad, because he was the only one in the family who survived the camps.
Otto read his daughters diary and decided to get it published. First, he censored a few things that he didn't want everybody to see. Then he sent it to a publisher. In the updated version, after Otto's death, someone found some of the pages that Otto tore out of the book and they added them back into the diary. The book has been translated to over 60 different languages. Some schools have banned the book, because they think some things are too graphic  (sexually and other things), but that's only on a few pages. It is one of the most famous and popular books in the world. I've never read the book nor even seen it, however, people who've read it say Anne was a very good writer. She wanted to be a professional Writer some day. The original diary is on display inside the "Anne Frank House" in Amsterdam. It is now a museum. They get over 1 Million visitors a year.
Edith died from illnesses caused by malnutrition and starvation. Otto eventually died of cancer.
I've been to Amsterdam, I went there when I was on R&R from Iraq. I hung out with some people I met on the trip. We walked by the Anne Frank House. However, the line was to long to get in, so we didn't stop. Instead, we went to the Heineken brewery and got a tour of that.
Anne had a lot of friends in school. However when she was hiding in the house, she had absolutely no friends at all, that's why she named the diary "Kitty" so she would feel like she had a friend.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Frank

TOM DULA (Pronounced: Dooly) The true story behind the song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BtSzcKZGzDs&sns=fb

Tom Dula was a former Confederate soldier (1845-1868).
After the war, Tom resumed a relationship with Ann Foster. He eventually slept with Ann's sister Laura Foster. She became pregnant. Tom and Laura decided to elope.
Laura left home one morning on her dad's horse intending to run away and marry Tom and she was never seen alive again.
Laura's body was eventually found in a shallow grave in the woods. She had been stabbed in the chest.
Tom claimed he was innocent, However, he was convicted of her murder and hanged.
Somebody eventually wrote a song about the murder of Laura and execution of Tom. Nobody knows who originally wrote the song, however, in 1958, a band called: The Kingston Trio recorded the song and it became one of their most famous songs.
Until recently, I never knew that the song was based on a true story or even that Tom Dula was a real person. I always thought it was just an old song.

HOW I DELT WITH A MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORT SCAMMER:

HOW I DELT WITH A MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORT SCAMMER:

I got a call from a Microsoft tech support scammer in India, they left me a message saying Microsoft has detected a problem with my computer and I had to call them back. I knew it was just a scam. I have gotten calls like this several times before. I usually don't return the calls. But, today, I decided to have some fun and waste their time! The longer they talk to me on the phone, the less time they have to call other people and actually call somebody who believes that it's true and they have to pay these people to fix a nonexistent problem with their computer!
He asked if I was a "Thirdtender"? (SP?) What's a "thirdtender"?

I'm not sure how it's spelled or the exact pronunciation. But it sounded like the Microsoft scammer was saying: Thirdtender. I couldn't understand the guy very well. He is obviously from India and I was talking on the phone with Mr Scammer. He told me he was from California.
Then he said someone in Chicago was using my Internet connection. I said, "Really? How is that possible? I live in FL."
He said, somebody hacked into my Internet connection, not my computer, my Internet connection, all the way from Chicago!
Then he wanted me to turn on my computer and let him have remote access to it. He asked if I was near my computer, I said, no, not right now. He went on and asked if I've let anybody else use my computer lately. I said, "Only one person, a close friend,  I hope he didn't do anything to it! OMG! I am getting a little nervous about this now!"
I started acting and talking as if I were really nervous.
"Do you know who it is that is hacking into my Internet?"
He said, "Well no, but we would like to find out."
I said, "I hope you can figure it out and tell me their address, so I can sue them!"
He asked if I was a "thirdtender". What is a thirdtender or something that sounds like that?
I got a message on my phone to call Microsoft. I immediately knew it was a scam, because Microsoft will never call you and tell you that you have a virus or any other problems with your computer! They never will! Neither will Apple or any other computer company. The IRS will not call you either. The IRS will usually send you a letter, probably certified mail, if they suspect you of tax fraud or other legal issues.
I called the scammers back just to waste their time. I had him on the phone for 11 minutes and 16 seconds! I just played along with it to waste the scammers time!
At the end, I kind of felt bad about doing this, because I told him I knew it was a scam and I was just playing along to waste his time. The scammer actually was being very nice after that. He even complimented my acting skills and said I should move to Hollywood! Because, he believed I was serious and I was having issues with my computer, I was panicking and he believed I was really scared, nervous and concerned that my Internet and computer were really being attacked by hackers!
When I was talking to him and acting really scared and freaking out, he told me to calm down and Go drink a glass of water! I waited about One minute, then came back to the phone, I told him I was fine now.
I couldn't think of anything else to say at this point, so, that us when I let the scammer know that I didn't believe him and I knew it was a scam and that I knew he was probably calling from India, not California. Then I looked at my phone to see how long I was on the phone. I told him that I just wasted 11 minutes and 16 seconds of his time!
This was the point where he started acting really cool and nice. He told me I was funny and I'm a good actor and I should go to Hollywood!
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