Na- your not evil. I am evil. I was evil way before you...and do it with more panache and style.
Hill ( just ask this local congregation... class)
Na- your not evil. I am evil. I was evil way before you...and do it with more panache and style.
Hill ( just ask this local congregation... class)
i just came across this link advertising an award dinner by the canadian bar association.. http://www.cba.org/cba/news/2004_releases/2004-08-17_probono.asp.
it announces shane brady of georgetown (bethelite) as the winner of the probone award for 2004. i'll let the announcement speak for itself.. .
what burns me is that the brady is on a vow of poverty, and gets his marching orders from bethel.
Every now and again the Canadians really disapoint me...
Hill (of the WT bought the award and "face-time" to forward their barf ridden agenda class)
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lol...sorry, but i just couldn't help but take a "whack" at those few, very few, poor pathetic green bayers on this db!.
craigster
rumor has it that XW is wearing a blue and orange t shirt to bed... with a GSH on the sleeve .... another rumor is about the Farve is headed to Chicago on a trade involving a "player to be named later"
Hill ( stirs pot with stick class)
by jake coyle, associated press writer
new york - prince, now a jehovah's witness, has toned down his mojo, but the purple one can still pack a political punch.
his new music video, "cinnamon girl," is a big-budget production that follows the hardships and confusions of a teenage arab-american girl in a post 9-11 america.
Who knows? I thought he was still the symbol formerly known as the black kid from Minnesota.
Hill (modern culture escapes me class)
jehovahs witnesses look to their watchtower magazine each week for new light that would set the course for current "truth".
in looking back over the last 40 years of my association, "new lights" batteries ran out many times and had to be replaced with even newer ones.
some how this made sense to me at the time, but as time past, i began to wonder just how these "new light" articles could be called meat in due season.
Paragraphs dude, paragraphs!
Hill ( good post man, but my eyes need spaces in the text class)
i'm so thrilled i bought my stove top espresso maker today!!!
yipeeeeee!!.
i've been looking for these for months!.
dont tell any one..... but I find myself stopping by and getting a cup of that "girlie-man" coffee now and then..............
Hill (styro-foam cup and sawdust in my coffee class)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/265487.asp .
this made news on cnn!.
apparently a utility tower fell into another causing both to crash.
bttt
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/265487.asp .
this made news on cnn!.
apparently a utility tower fell into another causing both to crash.
If that is all the terrorists can muster here in the US, then I don't think we have much to worry about.And I've gotta wonder about those bolts in the first place. I don't know what these towers looked like and I don't know what kinds of bolts were missing, but I've seen light poles with HUGE bolts. You don't just bring out your 1/4 socket wrench and socket set to loosen these things. You'd need some heavy-duty equipment like those giant socket wrenches and a pretty big socket to match.
I have seen all of South Florida from Okechobee City south to Miami go totally dark from a few of those tangled up- mylar balloons that got across the 230 KV that ties Ranch Substation to Andytown in Broward, guys... and it took us over half a day to isolate the trouble and get the load back on. About a kazillion folks totally in the dark... and all the computers in the dispatching centers still needed line crews to ride line the old fashioned way...to patrol the trouble
Remember that "black-out" last year...not terror related at all....just one tree in the line in Ohio, relays one station and the load got so outta sync we had stations tripping for under-frequency all across the Midwest all the way east into NYC...millions out for a long time... $millions in damages and lost revenue. All for one tree.
The wrenches are not that big...most wooden pole bolts are 5/8", a 12" cresent wrench works on most of them. ( I know, been turning them for 20 years now) Steel towers.... most of those bolts are 1/2 inch and take a 3/4" standard socket. Yea, you could tack weld all the nuts... but I dont know who we'd pay to drag a grounded welding cable up a 200' foot tower to tack the 1000 or more bolts on a lattice tower... plus the induced field would knock the crap outta the guy doing the welding.
Hahaha..The "A" team.... sure. As always, "truth" is less entertaining than fiction. And yes, we HAVE had kids turn off miles of line after cutting a padlock off with a hacksaw and operating the lever to "see what happens".
We had one disgruntled employee (we think..he seemed to know alot about what to do) once who held the whole system at bay.... big outages every day for weeks... just a couple of clandestine operations of certain stratigic switches.... and poof -lights outs-for hours.... in major sections of our statewide area. They never caught the son-of a gun either.
Hill (Electric Power Lineman...20 years... some of it as a Trouble man and qualified switching operator for a major power company)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/265487.asp .
this made news on cnn!.
apparently a utility tower fell into another causing both to crash.
bttt
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/265487.asp .
this made news on cnn!.
apparently a utility tower fell into another causing both to crash.
My day job is in the Electric Utility Industry. For the last year or so there have been the Homeland folks have been circulating reports of Hi- Line Tower vandalism and we have been it's been suggested that Power Companies step up line patrols etc in an effort to increase security
The general public my be aware of Nuclear plants and those are an obvoious target.... actually pretty hard to "take out"... those containments are tough and Nuke's have always had good security.
What most of you dont know is that the majority of the utility system is for the most part un-patroled, un-observed and un-secured. Most transmission towers are out in the boonies someplace... a few bolts out... a couple of cut angle irons or a chainsaw on a wooden pole could cause a lot of damage very fast. The damage is done un-observed, then you wait for Mother Nature to make a gust of wind--- off to the races!
A person with a basic knowlege of how the national grid is laid out of power delivery could, through a few un-authorized switching operations shut most of north america down for hours...
Those switching actions and a a few demolished line sections could black out big areas for days... until the operators could figure out what happened and make repairs.
With out going into detail.... I can tell you that the "plan" to secure most of the EHV-Transmission plant (lines, substations and switch-yards) in this country is an "exotic" hardware store padlock and a chain link fence. Any body with a pair of bolt cutters and an "agenda" could raise a whole lot of hell with the grid.
By the way... who needs terrorists? Utilities nation wide- have ceased maintainence programs now for years... the system is starting to fall down all by itself in many locations.
Hill