Secret Squirrel has turned his attention to America,extends a helping hand, lends his mental acumin,and intelligence, his thoughts,his ponderings, notices that across the Great Puddle,across the Great Pond, there are severe problems in America.Americans are suffering from increasing National Disasters, massive devastating disasters, and Squirrel sees that they have little help beyond themselves, and those around them.Squirrel sees this as being just not right,there should be assistance,organized assistance,for the people, for the America citizen,a States National Guard to assist the American people, the American citizen,in times of vicious devastating disasters.Squirrel sees an America that staggers from one
disaster to the other...at least it's people do....not that it seems that the government cares, it's President off in Europe and things on high profile luncheons, tying on the feed bag,hob knobbing with Royalty, with the creme de la creme of Europe,the Peers of The British Empire, dining,dancing the nights away ,tripping to the light fantastic of what is and are European parties, having a good time.
Meanwhile in America there is thundering,blundering,and it's certainly louder than before, gets so each time that there's a disaster of some sort,any sort,and it's Federal government,giving what little help it does,that looks like some kind of big
bassoon.Indeed Americans suffer from hurricanes,floods,massive forest fires, tornadoes, and they., the people of America,the tax payer, they, the American citizen,are left gazing at a vast field of ruins,debris,shattered lives.....there's no real help for them,for they,for you, you the people of America, you the America citizen, who paid and pays the taxes, to provide for the entity that they created,supposdely to help Americas ,American citizens, that missing entity called, The National Guard,no,the American people,you, they ,have to help themselves.............there's no help form the federal government, none from the state.Where's the National Guard? Don't see any"?Where have they gone? Hmmmmm whatever has happened?The National Guard,THEY,used to be there, helping the people, it was their job.But nowadays, we've noticably seen,there are
none.Indeed,disaster after disaster, in State after State,event after event, there is no National Guard.Where are the hundreds, the thousands,of State National Guard?
There just is nobody to help the people, at least cleanup some,to find,dig out the living,find the dead, help the people receive medical attention, food, shelter, but sees no organization beyond themselves. Years back there were some, I,Secret
Squirrel, remember, yes, there were,yes, it was called The National Guard,I,Squirrel, remember.It did exist. And they did help,greatly help, they'd help digging people out, finding people, gathering them,sheltering them and arranging shelters,
helping them find food and such places as to where they could find food, and shelter, and help them clean up, bring in emergency services, medical aid etc etc etc,I know,we saw them, in massive numbers,the National Guard, helping the American people as they were supposed to do,helping, bringing and keeping civil order as well, in times of crisis,disasters, but,sadly, it's come to this, there's none, no one,none anymore.
Well, It was a grand idea, a grand organized well working plan. Indeed we must look back at what was, and,taking a lesson from the past,I Squirrel suggest,that America,the individual States of America actually form a National Guard, separate if
needs be from the obviously disorganized Federal government(all they're good at is obviously going on foreign vacations, and official luncheons and dinners,visits and tour thither and yon, and visits for Government officials of all sorts.Well most
definitely America is out of sorts, and the people suffer. The States themselves, must form their own National Guard,once more, a National Guard to help the people as they did, in their days, and months, and time, of national state disasters.the
hurricanes, the floods, the tornadoes, the massive forest fires etc etc etc etc.......yes indeed this must be done.Consider! Isn't that a great idea, isn't it a good idea, isn't it the best idea?It is indeed, to me, to you....but we must approach the State Governors, the working State Government, to improve the State of Americans, bring them out of the state of confusion and disorganization, by and through an effect National Guard,a real National Guard, great for use in times of emergencies in America, a guard to serve,protect, assist the people of America! Indeed yes, the individual American States must form a National Guard.....and as was in the past, problem,emergencies etc etc etc effectively,efficiently solved!!!!!
Indeed Squirrel discovered, in his researches that there was, or is supposed to be a National Guard most definitely in existence,but seemingly presently misplaced.Indeed under the Government of The People of The United States,presently regulated and ruled by, and directed by ,one President, one Barack Obama,there was or is supposed to be what is described as being The National Guard of the United States which is a reserve military force composed of state National Guard militia members or units under federally recognized active or inactive armed force service for the United States. Militia members are citizen soldiers, meaning they work part time for the National Guard and hold a civilian job as well.Established under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U.S. Code, state National Guard serves as part of the first-line defense for the United States. The state National Guard is divided into units stationed in each of the 50 states and US territories, and operates under their respective state governor or territorial adjutant general. The National Guard may be called up for active duty by state
governors or territorial adjutant general to help respond to domestic emergencies and disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes.
One discovers even yet there is a National Guard remnant site on the internet, and it states to the effect that "Missouri National Guard Soldiers with the 117th Engineer Team Missouri Guard activates after weekend storms." Well there were actually horrific storms,vicious tornadoes,tornado after tornado, striking towns etc et all,mercilessly, leaving scenes of devastation reminiscent of the atom bomb, fragments of trees sticking up here and there, even yet the bark stripped
off,that's all there is to see except for rubbish and litter knee deep on the ground.....remains of house and buildings,that's all folks.But where are these hundreds of National Guard,where are the thousands of National Guard,one
doesn't seem to see any,oh bless us all, send even a paltry few to help, something in a uniform, anything will do, something must do,do help.But why aren't they seen in numbers they used to be seen, there in numbers helping the people of America?Why they're just not even yet noticeable.They seem to be present on paper, somewhere's,but not noticeably or seemingly in America.Where are they?
There is also a direct American military, an army as it were, which seem to be in barracks and bases round and about the country, sitting powerfully, doing whatever it is they do as they sit there powerfully.These seem unable,or useless, to help
in National disasters.They are an army of some kind, used in foreign wars, invading foreign nations, defending Americans from invasions by doing all that but nothing else. We did notice some in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina emergency, but they didn't seem to do what the National Guard used to do,they most certainly didn't do what the National Guard was supposed to do and does, no indeed,the National Guard General went about directing rescue and relief efforts, alleviating the disaster situation, but the Army General just went round and about kissing babies.The rest of his Army,well, they just boated about, stood on street corners, and handed out water bottles here and there,but only if the people would leave New Orleans.Clearly there is a problem, American and Americans are in crisis,but Squirrel sees a cure to the problems, an assistance, aid,help for Americans,self help for Americans, through the revival of an idea, the idea of a cure,the formation in each State in the Union, the formation of a STATE National Guard, The National Guard,to assist America,Americans,the American citizen, in times of national disaster.This force could be mobile to assist other neighbouring states in their times of crisis in times of their disasters.Indeed, Americans helping Americans.Do it Barack Obama,do the right thing Barack Obama, help the American people Barack Obama.Form in each State, a State National Guard,to help Americans in time of disaster,when you return from your European Royal tours.Do it Barack Obama, I, Squirrel am telling you,I, Squirrel guarantee, it will work.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Secret Squirrel On Haberdashering Englishman For The Perils Of The Day.
Secret Squirrel has turned his attention to the problems with volcanoes,ozone layer depletion,fog,smog,adverse rain conditions,flood conditions, pub(bar)brawling, beatings, stabbings, and the increasing problem of nuclear radiation escaping from nuclear plants in the process of melting down,exploding, or just generally leaking vast amounts of radiation,and has come up with his own line of clothing which will effectively and properly haberdash the British gentlemen and/or ladies for the
ridiculous conditions of the dangers of the day being faced by all.Squirrel has engineered a clothing design to solve all the problems and conditions faced by Englishmen, and women, in everyday life in Britain.Designing, under the selected and private name of,Sasquatchi, here is the solution in the proper clothing to be worn,clothing for the man for all seasons, by the man for all seasons,a suit of clothing designed for all seasons,and all reason,clothing by Sasquatchi.
Firstly we will start with the head, and there shall be placed a lamp,a miner's lamp specifically, equipped with a fog light element as well, so here we have a fully steerable lighting,which move with the head so is constantly outputing a
useful beam of illumination, thus thrusting back the darkness, and also, penetrating any fog which might be present.
Now, Englishmen are known for stiff upper lips, but we'll give'em some more backbone, as to combat,deflect,divert
safely away, all rain and the cancerous damaging sun which now reigns down on us all as the ozone layer depletes(due to volcanoes and various other effects), up the back, shall be a brolley,bumbershoot as it were(this is an umbrella in American).It shall there for also provide backbone,spines, for the spineless. and in the field of orthopedics, prevent curvatures of the spine.Rain or shine, the properly haberdashered Englishman,and woman, will be properly protected. Indeed, what with the sudden onsets of these huge drafts of cold and snow brought about in England by the scientific explaination of global warming,the proper and full kit will and should include, heatable knickers,also equipped with suitable fart filtration to prevent contributions being made to global warming which will and would only worsen these winterlike global warming effects.
Now for the visage and protection of the lungs from the effects of volcanic ash(recall we're now told to stay indoors due to this effect),we shall have a gas mask,this filters out all poisonous gases,particles,malodours,gaseous effects
of fogs, and also the gas mask will have polarized anti-uv, anti glare coating.Now this does not have to be in use all the time, so the gas mask can be carried as it was during the War,in a suitable pouch by the side ready for use.Cheap rate suits
will simply come with a limited supply of surgical masks and a pair of sunglasses. The gas mask is preferred as it deals much better with everyday problems such as sudden malodorous farts as may be encountered on the omnibus,underground,aircraft etc.
For the problem what with stabbings,beating,pub brawls etc, we shall return to the standard gentlemens suit of iron pantsed armour as it were, in short, it's back to the tin suit, properly tailor made.We feel it's best go with the best, but a cheap rate will incorporate a somewhat similar kevlar suit.I encourage actors to wear this as a deterent to beatings,stabbings,shootings etc and various other demonstrations and manifestations as might occur by those incensed with
their bad acting.As an added plus, this will help protect against a sudden pub visit by a burka clad person, some of which are known to have sudden explosive personalities,the metal and kevlar proving a deterent to shrapnels,explosion blast and also the blood and guts of the exploding personage.
Now what with the ever increasing nuclear accidents,and incidents,and disasters, such as the Three Mile Islands,the Chernobyls,the Fukushimas,et all and whatever, which keep occurring, with the release of massive amounts of radiation, the tin
suit shall be made from an alloyed tin and lead,which will and shall protect the wearer from the effects of nuclear radiations,whilst at the same time providing the strength required for pub visits.
Now how will we deal with flooding,sudden flash or otherwise floods,which are predictably occurring in Britain these years and so move the properly haberdashed English gentlemen or lady about safely in flood conditions. Well,
we will incorporate,what we have seen in Japan,a suitable over pulled a kayak pants.This will fit nicely over the tin suit, and/or kevlar and alloyed lead radiation protection.Indeed this is a self inflating pants which turns in to a
kayak,as demonstrated in Japan, and so is most suitable to flood conditions.The cheap rate version will simply incorporate a suitable rubber ring,similar to an inflatable attached inner tube, it is one actually, and for the ladies we will use the suitable highly decorated pool rings in keeping with fashion trends.The ladies have a trendy,fashionable and optional inflating bra,worn on the outside, Madonna fashion, and these inflatable boobies will additionally inflate to help save one in
conditions of extreme flooding. Of course, men could conceivably wear one,but then one might be lumped in to the trendy by bohemian category Elton John and David Bowie find themselves in,men may or may not find this suitable. However, it is also
mentioned that while these inflatable boobies could be blown up in case of flooding emergency, in everyday use, they could be filled with beer,wine,liquor, and the inflating tube then becoming a liquor fill and feeding tube as required. In event of sudden flooding one had best consume,imbibe as it were, the beverage quickly so as to be able to utilize the inflating abilities for the developing flood emergency. Listening to government flood warning could clue one in as to when an emergency imbibation is necessary to ready the device for flood inflations.
And,indeed, yes, a children's line will also be available! There the gas masks will sport the faces of the likes of Mickey Mouse,Daffy Duck,Goofy(that'd be for a future politician,),etc,(as they were in Britain during WWII), and their floatation rings would be a suitable pool swimming ring,in keeping with the rules of children's fashions.Japanese businessmen in keeping with their good time boys nature,going cheap rate here in similar fashion, could go with The Swan,though the appearance of same at office parties may be frowned upon by their upper management.
There is an added plus for the American line, the tin/lead/kevlar suit would sport a ball and chain,detachable, to help keep Americans down in events of tornadoes,this being detachable for flood events so as to not weigh the wearer down.This could also be worn by known future victims of organized crime rubouts so's not to make trouble as they exit this world, conveiniently and cooperatively being ready for a trip to sleep with the dead fish.I understand the mob is merciful to those who cooperate with them.
Problems solved!All problems solved!! And so too, the day of the Squirrel Suit will see the light of day on the fashion runways of the world,Squirrel,designing under the selected name of Sasquatchi, a name soon to be as famous as that of Yves St.Laurent and Armani, in the fashion world!
Sasquatchi suits all!!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
ridiculous conditions of the dangers of the day being faced by all.Squirrel has engineered a clothing design to solve all the problems and conditions faced by Englishmen, and women, in everyday life in Britain.Designing, under the selected and private name of,Sasquatchi, here is the solution in the proper clothing to be worn,clothing for the man for all seasons, by the man for all seasons,a suit of clothing designed for all seasons,and all reason,clothing by Sasquatchi.
Firstly we will start with the head, and there shall be placed a lamp,a miner's lamp specifically, equipped with a fog light element as well, so here we have a fully steerable lighting,which move with the head so is constantly outputing a
useful beam of illumination, thus thrusting back the darkness, and also, penetrating any fog which might be present.
Now, Englishmen are known for stiff upper lips, but we'll give'em some more backbone, as to combat,deflect,divert
safely away, all rain and the cancerous damaging sun which now reigns down on us all as the ozone layer depletes(due to volcanoes and various other effects), up the back, shall be a brolley,bumbershoot as it were(this is an umbrella in American).It shall there for also provide backbone,spines, for the spineless. and in the field of orthopedics, prevent curvatures of the spine.Rain or shine, the properly haberdashered Englishman,and woman, will be properly protected. Indeed, what with the sudden onsets of these huge drafts of cold and snow brought about in England by the scientific explaination of global warming,the proper and full kit will and should include, heatable knickers,also equipped with suitable fart filtration to prevent contributions being made to global warming which will and would only worsen these winterlike global warming effects.
Now for the visage and protection of the lungs from the effects of volcanic ash(recall we're now told to stay indoors due to this effect),we shall have a gas mask,this filters out all poisonous gases,particles,malodours,gaseous effects
of fogs, and also the gas mask will have polarized anti-uv, anti glare coating.Now this does not have to be in use all the time, so the gas mask can be carried as it was during the War,in a suitable pouch by the side ready for use.Cheap rate suits
will simply come with a limited supply of surgical masks and a pair of sunglasses. The gas mask is preferred as it deals much better with everyday problems such as sudden malodorous farts as may be encountered on the omnibus,underground,aircraft etc.
For the problem what with stabbings,beating,pub brawls etc, we shall return to the standard gentlemens suit of iron pantsed armour as it were, in short, it's back to the tin suit, properly tailor made.We feel it's best go with the best, but a cheap rate will incorporate a somewhat similar kevlar suit.I encourage actors to wear this as a deterent to beatings,stabbings,shootings etc and various other demonstrations and manifestations as might occur by those incensed with
their bad acting.As an added plus, this will help protect against a sudden pub visit by a burka clad person, some of which are known to have sudden explosive personalities,the metal and kevlar proving a deterent to shrapnels,explosion blast and also the blood and guts of the exploding personage.
Now what with the ever increasing nuclear accidents,and incidents,and disasters, such as the Three Mile Islands,the Chernobyls,the Fukushimas,et all and whatever, which keep occurring, with the release of massive amounts of radiation, the tin
suit shall be made from an alloyed tin and lead,which will and shall protect the wearer from the effects of nuclear radiations,whilst at the same time providing the strength required for pub visits.
Now how will we deal with flooding,sudden flash or otherwise floods,which are predictably occurring in Britain these years and so move the properly haberdashed English gentlemen or lady about safely in flood conditions. Well,
we will incorporate,what we have seen in Japan,a suitable over pulled a kayak pants.This will fit nicely over the tin suit, and/or kevlar and alloyed lead radiation protection.Indeed this is a self inflating pants which turns in to a
kayak,as demonstrated in Japan, and so is most suitable to flood conditions.The cheap rate version will simply incorporate a suitable rubber ring,similar to an inflatable attached inner tube, it is one actually, and for the ladies we will use the suitable highly decorated pool rings in keeping with fashion trends.The ladies have a trendy,fashionable and optional inflating bra,worn on the outside, Madonna fashion, and these inflatable boobies will additionally inflate to help save one in
conditions of extreme flooding. Of course, men could conceivably wear one,but then one might be lumped in to the trendy by bohemian category Elton John and David Bowie find themselves in,men may or may not find this suitable. However, it is also
mentioned that while these inflatable boobies could be blown up in case of flooding emergency, in everyday use, they could be filled with beer,wine,liquor, and the inflating tube then becoming a liquor fill and feeding tube as required. In event of sudden flooding one had best consume,imbibe as it were, the beverage quickly so as to be able to utilize the inflating abilities for the developing flood emergency. Listening to government flood warning could clue one in as to when an emergency imbibation is necessary to ready the device for flood inflations.
And,indeed, yes, a children's line will also be available! There the gas masks will sport the faces of the likes of Mickey Mouse,Daffy Duck,Goofy(that'd be for a future politician,),etc,(as they were in Britain during WWII), and their floatation rings would be a suitable pool swimming ring,in keeping with the rules of children's fashions.Japanese businessmen in keeping with their good time boys nature,going cheap rate here in similar fashion, could go with The Swan,though the appearance of same at office parties may be frowned upon by their upper management.
There is an added plus for the American line, the tin/lead/kevlar suit would sport a ball and chain,detachable, to help keep Americans down in events of tornadoes,this being detachable for flood events so as to not weigh the wearer down.This could also be worn by known future victims of organized crime rubouts so's not to make trouble as they exit this world, conveiniently and cooperatively being ready for a trip to sleep with the dead fish.I understand the mob is merciful to those who cooperate with them.
Problems solved!All problems solved!! And so too, the day of the Squirrel Suit will see the light of day on the fashion runways of the world,Squirrel,designing under the selected name of Sasquatchi, a name soon to be as famous as that of Yves St.Laurent and Armani, in the fashion world!
Sasquatchi suits all!!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP,Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Secret Squirrel Engineering Your Future
Keywords:
pneumatic,subway,transportation,cannon,congestion,dams,lottery,lotteries,flood,protection,bridges,engineering
Secret Squirrel's great engineering projects, projects that rival the engineering and genius of The Great Engineer,Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel once said,"If there's an engineer greater than me, I shall do pinwheels in my grave." Well, down at the cemetary, he's known as Pinwheel Ishie. See,read, the genius of Secret Squirrel and his engineering projects, projects for a better world. See the world of engineering from Secret Squirrel's great vision.
MRL Things of Political Atmospherics
Well now, the MRL is hardly full of air, hot or otherwise, but engineeringwise, we know how to generate a cyclone of interest in our engineering projects. Indeed, as we proceed in modern times with our backsides to the future, it was to posterity that we looked and found a new method of transportation technology that has fallen by the wayside.Obviously we cannot allow this to go unnoticed but must move forwards by taking steps backwards and applying this technology to subway(tube), and above ground transportation as it was intended to do, by men of great vision and foresight, the engineering plans dashed by men of futuristic hindsight who saw to it's failure.After all, you know, engineered vehicular transport devices that worked in the past, will work in the future as well.....
The great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was converted to atmospheric or pneumatic railways, first mooted in 1810, after witnessing a demonstration in Ireland in September 1844. The system, which had been patented in 1838, entailed the use of a cast-iron tube laid between rails, to which carriages were attached by a valve. Pumping stations powered by steam engines at the side of the track forced air out of the tubes, thereby creating a vacuum to one side of the carriages and an "atmosphere" to the other, thus propelling them along.
The Alfred Ely Beach Pneumatic Railway was New York City’s earliest subway. It had a single station located in the basement of the house located at the corner of Warren Street and Broadway.
Passengers were carried in a car pushed forward by the pneumatic pressure generated by a huge fan. At the end of the tunnel, near Murray Street, the car stopped. The rotation of the fan was reversed and the car was "sucked" back to Warren Street station.
I too, have been converted to atmospheric plans so intend to revive the genius of these two great engineers and combine it with my own grand engineering techniques. A major problem with the systems was the generation and loss of air it seems. Of course modern technology can be applied to solve these lossy gas problems.
Also the method of generation of air was not up to standards even in those days. Nowadays we have all learned, politicians axed the plans of these great men and they were were full of hot air,full of the air of nothing. Knowing this, I shall apply these political failures to become great successes, in short, we need air, politicians generate air, and also, let me tell you, politicians really suck. By stationing each operating day, politicians suitably in stations at each end of the system, there they can read their long winded speeches with the air of nothing, at one end they will blow out their hot air, and at the other, we will have the lot who really suck. By having mixed sets at each end, one set of each, and suitably having one set blowing air at one end, and at the destination end we will the set who really suck working..............so we will move our passenger cars through the system.
We will never be at a loss for air. So to will modern politicians be made to work for the people,if they can be gathered in a group, ball and chained, and whipped frequently!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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The MRL Is Cannon
Well now, the City of London has been smiled on greatly through the centuries,especially with respect to the barrier of the Thames. Well The Thames is no barrier,bridges have been built across, the great Brunel's father started, and Brunel finished, a tunnel beneath the Thames, one which is still used to this very day, at least until the Heritage people get their hands on it whence it will be closed to preserve it from posterity, and whomever else might want to use it thereafter, in the hereafter. Indeed now there is even yet a proposal to have a , get this, cable car system across it. Well and good, no doubt there will be a great charge for this. I propose also to smile on the city of London, and present it with a great charge, but not a charge to those using my system to cross the Thames, indeed what I propose to do is to revive the sound idea of pneumatic cannon. These cannon still exist today, having been born out of attempts to hurl dynamite charges safely without exploding them to land on decks of ships and wherever and whatever and there to explode. Only air cannon could supply the safe cushion charge of air to hurl the projectile without exploding the dynamite in the barrel transit. This idea was thereafter toyed with, and developed to the form of circus cannon. Well, the idea is sound, and it is safe from an engineering standpoint, and INDEED has been safely proven,tested,and recorded on film, by A Thousand Clowns. Well, send in the clowns,again. We shall install a Air Cannon system on each side of the Thames, and for a minimal charge, I couldn't resist, fire them happily across to safely land in a net and there to proceed with their day's doings. It will be surely less taxing (Labor will no doubt initiate this one day we all suspect), than walking across by bridge, less taxing than driving across(you know, congestion tax, road tax), and surely as well take far far less time than the Cable Car system. It also will be enormously faster than either method once the cannon is fired you know. All that remains is for the MRL to be able to gift the already gifted people of London with a sound (chuckle,snort,chortle) air tight(yet more) engineering idea.Ever forwards we proceed with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Solves Congestion Charge Technologically.
Thousands of drivers from outside the UK are not paying London's congestion charge,but Britons are.And isn't it so that Tony Blair and his Labor Party are meaning to have you purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200(400$U.S.) and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28($56U.S.) for a rural florist and £194($388) for a delivery driver,then additionally. Is there a way out for the driving Briton, the government of Tony Blair, says "You all can go fly!!"......................and so, we just may.........
Roadable Aircraft - Aerocar Aerocar
Moulton B. Taylor dreamed of producing a roadable aircraft, which could be used as a family car and, as the need or inclination arose, have wings, tail and propellor quickly attached. After World War 2, Taylor set to work to produce such a vehicle, and by late 1949 a prototype Aerocar had flown.
On 13th December, 1956, the improved production Aerocar 1 received FAA certification. Four further Model 1s were built, for demonstration and sale. The six Aerocars so far built accumulated over 200,000 road miles and 5,000 flight hours. The final version was a much improved Aerocar III, converted from a model 1.
The car itself was a fairly conventional front-wheel-drive automobile. The power plant was an Avco Lycoming O-320 aircraft engine in the rear of the vehicle. This drove either the road wheels or, via an extended drive shaft in the detachable tail boom, a propeller to the rear of the Y-form tail structure. Braced monoplane wings were fitted in high configuration to the rear of the car. Unless the wings and tail boom were all correctly engaged, it was not possible to start the engine for flight.
Conversion from air to road could be achieved by one person in five minutes. The detached aircraft components could be towed behind the car in folding wheels fitted to the wing roots.
The Aerocar project ended with the passing of new legislation relating to automobiles in the United States. To meet 1970s requirements, the Aerocar would have to become too heavy and expensive to be practical.
And so the Hafner Rotabuggy was consigned to the better ideas of history past, and forgotten, till........................today.
Engineering work continued, militarily.............
and there came the Flying Jeep.
The work of the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Ringway, Manchester, on the Rotachute from 1940 onwards led to the suggestion that the free-wheeling autogyro principles employed could also be applied to larger loads. The designer, Raoul Hafner, suggested the Rotabuggy, a Jeep (or "Blitz Buggy") with rotors, and the Rotatank, a similarly modified Valentine tank. A development contract was placed with the M.L. Aviation Company at White Waltham in 1942, covered by specification 10/42.
Preliminary tests involved loading a Jeep with concrete and dropping it from heights of up to 7 ft. 8 in. (2.35 m.), demonstrating that the standard vehicle could survive undamaged from impacts of up to 11g. A 46 ft. 8 in. (12.4 m.) dia. two-blade rotor was then fitted, as well as a streamlined tail fairing with twin rudderless fins. Other additions were perspex door panels, a 'hanging' rotor control next to the steering wheel and a rotor tachometer and glider navigational instruments.
The Rotabuggy, camouflaged, carrying RAF roundels and a prototype "P", was tow tested behind a 4½ litre supercharged Bentley, and achieved gliding speeds of up to 65 mph (105 km/h) IAS.
The first flight was made on November 16, 1943. Later, some flights were made behind a Whitley bomber from Sherbourne-in-Elmet.
One witness described how she watched a Whitley take off with a Jeep in tow, circle and land. The Jeep, still in tow, did not touch down at the same time, and the witness realised that its occupants "were unhappy". With the pilot holding the hanging control column and the driver clutching the steering wheel, the Jeep made a series of up and down movements, whilst the audience hoped it would stall on a 'down' rather than an 'up'.
This it fortunately did, the driver taking over and driving flat-out after the Whitley, to which it remained attached. When it stopped, nobody got out for a while; the pilot was then assisted out and lay down beside the runway to recover. Apparently he was exhausted from trying to control the joystick, which had whipped in circles for the whole flight.
Apparently this flight was one of the worst, and the handling and flying qualities of the Rotabuggy were officially recorded as "highly satisfactory", especially when large tail fins had been fitted and greater rotor blade articulation provided. However, development of Horsa II and Hamilcar vehicle carrying gliders made further development of the idea unnecessary.
Now the existing technology could be applied and upgraded..................the time is now...............by reviving sutch a concept we could vastly reduce road traffic congestion, and just imagine, not being on a ROAD, the Labor government could not use and apply a road tax, nor could any other existing government of England. And now after having gotten this far in my proposal, you realize that it's certainly not a taxing engineering idea.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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M.R.L. Dam Building Technology.
Just look at the massive Three Gorges Dam built in Red China, took years to build, massive amounts of equipment and workers, all that problem diverting river water etc so the dam could've been built. Had Red China included the M.R.L. in the negotiations for construction, and engineering, it could've been built much cheaper, much faster and much easier. Yes quite simply it is in our nature to do things the easy way, let somebody else build it as long as we don't have to, build only when necessary. Indeed, what should've been done, is simply to have released beavers in
to the river(American beavers would've been used as they have sense to move when they cut down trees, many Canadian beavers are found squashed beneath trees simply because they haven't the wits to move themselves at the right time).
The beavers would then have started to dam up the river. We would've supplied the beavers with more and more materials with which to build the dam further. Now, this would've created the necessary working coffer dam, and the beavers would have continued to build it up and maintain it. Behind this, work on the concrete dam could thence have proceeded as planned, all in perfect safety and in a totally dry environment. When the dam was completed, we would then simply have slowly and properly, mind, blasted away the beaver dam. We could then, being kind in our natures to nature, and to appease any Greens complaints about things, taken the beavers and housed then suitably till they were required for yet another such project.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Ah Lotteries........................the very mechanism of it...the mind boggles...interesting it all is...................especially the multitudinous variety of payout ones existent in many lands, Canada for example, where,zounds and zooks, the very air abounds with lotteries at utterly unbelievable payouts, large and small in their structure, 15 20 million grand down to 35$ lowest for same lottery payouts etc etc etc et all,.........and the massive payouts in all of them, prizes unbelievable,unheard of large figures,great and to the smaller,even yet El Gourdo is a pittance in the colony of Canada............................well, what is the advantage of having these lotteries...........and how do they work.......
M.R.L. Lottery Policy
Lottery!!! LOTTERIES!!! Ah yes! the grand lottery, the great gamble where a little can get a lot.
Lotteries!! Gambling indeed! There's much money to be made in gambling, in lotteries, a great lot
all round, great for the lottery company, great for a winner. Great for a government, great when it
runs the lottery. There's much profit to be made, in running the lottery, taking more in than paying out,
as the system is supposed to work. But,how now? Let us examine a rather interesting system, a system run
in a foreign nation, the very foreign nation, the third world nation,the colony of Canada, that vast great
hinter land of the world.How do they run their lottery,profitably,profitably, and yet then more...........
how now.............
Firstly let us consider, it's all a monopoly, wherever it is, a government monopoly, a federal government
monopoly as their federal government runs theirs, then there's the lottery monopolies run by each of
their provinces(similar to Shires such as in our England). Each province has a lottery board which controls
the lotteries they run, to each their own, and to each the entire control, and,of course, collection of
lottery profits. Of course, the lottery must take more in than it pays out, to make a profit and keep
running.Evidently the system run by Canada and it's provinces is an expansion of the system run in Las Vegas
so it would make sense to adapt similar lottery rules,structures and government controls so nobody would
complain about it, after all it would profit the government(s), the winners,the people of the land, and this
the point isn't it, or at least, partly.
Now,how does a lottery run? Well, Firstly, people select numbers and buy tickets, in denominations of $10,
5 or 1, herein let us imagine it is pounds as it would be for here,Britain,our cash strapped nation which would
make money off it all just as they do in Canada, and the people who would have vast amounts of currency made
equitably available to the people,or rather winners, and, of course, profit money is applied to the government
itself for it to spend. So far we're all with it here. Now each lottery has a first prize, the grand prize, then
several prizes beneath that of lessening value, based on the grand prize level. We won't bother with the many tiny
payouts of extra tickets(lost revenues there),$1,10$ and paltry $100 and 1000$ payouts(let's pretend pounds since our lottery
is a let's make believe lottery isn't it), there can be regular payouts of wins of say as much as 25million, 50million,
dollars or pounds, and the the lesser values, all totaled up at any given time, in yet just one lottery, and then there are
many many others in the same provinces and so the system is in all the provinces there.
Then, let's total all the payouts up...........................and, we then discover, that in that tiny nation of
30million, they seem to have the population of two China's buying tickets just to pay for the winners! Indeed then there's yet the government
profits as well to take in to account!!That's just not millions, nor billions, that's TRILLIONS!!! And each year too!!!
My my, such vast money floating around a tiny miniscule insignificant nation with no discernable
economy! Imagine, what could be done were this lottery system could be applied in England, with it's much
greater of population!! Imagine yet, even Britain with it's vastly greater number of employed who can afford to buy lottery
tickets! The mind boggles just as does the thought of the vast currency so available all round in that
foreign welfare unemployed no economy nation!!!!!!
How does it all work? Why does it all work??It's all a monopoly, a monopoly game, using monopoly money!
So the game's afoot, we will apply more printing of government monopoly money and spread it all around and
make everyone in Britain part of the game,that's the name of the game....MONOPOLY!!!!And everybody will have
vast amounts of monopoly money, and if not, they can win it in the governments controlled lotteries!
Why imagine,such vast amounts money in British hands, money of such by comparison, magnitude which would result,
money such that Britain's regular lottery winners could afford to buy General Motors, Ford,General Electric,
Westinghouse,Boeing,Lockhead,Consolidated Edison, Exxon Oil etc. Somebody stop me!! Or Us!! Let them try!!
Britain could once again establish itself in internal industry and industry about the world.
Imagine if I could win, I could buy Australia outright and apply it as a vacation resort!!!
And so Britain would once more be employed,would once more own industries, and then the Blair,and similar governments,
could afford to sell the all again to the French and the Germans, not being able to think of little else.
But not if there was a total M.R.L. government, and all it takes is your vote....the M.R.L. Wants You!!...
to point our finger at as it's all your fault..........you're being fingered.............remember....when
you vote..........vote for me.........vote for me as your M.R.L. write-in candidate, and vote for change,for improvement,
for the betterment of the British people...anything less is utter..................lunacy.
Are you....................game?
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Walled City Flood Protection Plan
Well now, there have been interesting MRL projects and solutions to deal with the massive flooding England has
experienced, projects such as adapting and living with and in flood conditions, adapting to a total flood living
environment and living with it much as does Venice, then there are our drainage projects to drain flooding away.But
there is still one more method of dealing with floods that we really must consider, a method the ancients, our wise
engineering ancestors have taught us, their legacy of protecting the people. How you say?
Well........................Castles, our homes were and are our castles, but they lack what castles
had.....walls.....now it's a bit complex to ring each home, but imagine now, entire walled cities, as they were in
ancient times, but walled such as to be able to shut themselves in and keep the flood waters out!! Indeed we could have
flood doors at entry roads to the cities, and rail lines as well!! Shut these during times of flooding, and the entire
city is protected!! Ha! Problem solved!!
I'll bet you didn't think it was that simple, but it is!! What protected our ancestors, can work to protect us!
Ever onwards, we move forwards,looking back,moving forwards,with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Bridges,The New outlook? Look Out!MRL Improved Bridge Engineering.
Well what's up with bridge collapses in North America?Canada and the United States that's what, and their engineers and designs,their ideas of a good cheap bridge, slap dash rapidly constructed. Well, to put it quite properly, it's problem is this urge to unitized construction, utilize the cheapest material possible,build for the future...........build one again in a few years to replace it,the North American engineering outlook! That's the problem.! That and not being able to ascertain that it is the time to change the bridges once more! yes! Indeed, taht's their problem! So, what do we do to see to it that it not become ours? Well now...............
The Romans' legacy to bridge building was the heavy masonry arch bridge, hundreds of which were built throughout Europe. In this, large stone blocks were wedged against each other to form an arch. The central stone at the top of the arch was known as the keystone. The finest surviving example of such a bridge is the Pons Fabricius in Rome. Completed in 62 BC, the bridge (now called the Ponte Quattro Capi) has two fine semicircular arches each spanning 78 feet. A small "relief" arch in the central sponging of the two main arches releases excess water in times of flood.Still standing and carrying modern traffic today, 2007, as are and do many such Roman designed,engineered and constructed bridges.
So prolific and efficient was Roman building that it was hundreds of years before Europeans took to bridge building anew. Then, in the 12th century Catholic priests and professionals took over the building of bridges because the Church recognized the advantages of good road communications in a developing society. In France a group of interested priests formed a new order, the Freres du Pont, to design and build lasting bridges. Most famous of this order's works was the Pont d' Avignon, built in 1177 over the Rhone River. It had 21 arches in all, the longest spanned 115 feet. Similarly in England it was Peter de Colechurch who designed and built the first stone bridge over the Thames, the famous London Bridge. Another was done by the architect-priest Giovanni Giocondo (c. 1433-1515) who used the segmental arch in Paris' first masonry bridge, built in 1507.These still standing, in use today,2007.
In 1878 the City architect Horace Jones proposed a bascule bridge. 'Bascule' comes from the French for 'see-saw', and a bascule bridge at street-level has two 'leaves' that can be raised on a horizontal axis to let ships pass on the river.
And so Tower Bridge was constructed, still standing an din use today,2007.
Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who designed a structure that was built by Sir William Arrol's company between 1883 and 1890,Firth Of Forth bridge, a railway bridge true, but could be fitted with a road deck, and is still in use today,2007.
Well, obviously the ancients knew how to design bridges, how to build bridges.So what's with these collapsed bridges in North America? Well now, to avoid such occurrences in future on our side of the puddle, so must we simply turn to the ancients, build from and with the very best of lasting materials,and build the bridges exactly as they built them.....as they engineered them,making them longer in exact fashion as needed, exactly as they were designed,and we won't have any problem at all.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
pneumatic,subway,transportation,cannon,congestion,dams,lottery,lotteries,flood,protection,bridges,engineering
Secret Squirrel's great engineering projects, projects that rival the engineering and genius of The Great Engineer,Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel once said,"If there's an engineer greater than me, I shall do pinwheels in my grave." Well, down at the cemetary, he's known as Pinwheel Ishie. See,read, the genius of Secret Squirrel and his engineering projects, projects for a better world. See the world of engineering from Secret Squirrel's great vision.
MRL Things of Political Atmospherics
Well now, the MRL is hardly full of air, hot or otherwise, but engineeringwise, we know how to generate a cyclone of interest in our engineering projects. Indeed, as we proceed in modern times with our backsides to the future, it was to posterity that we looked and found a new method of transportation technology that has fallen by the wayside.Obviously we cannot allow this to go unnoticed but must move forwards by taking steps backwards and applying this technology to subway(tube), and above ground transportation as it was intended to do, by men of great vision and foresight, the engineering plans dashed by men of futuristic hindsight who saw to it's failure.After all, you know, engineered vehicular transport devices that worked in the past, will work in the future as well.....
The great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was converted to atmospheric or pneumatic railways, first mooted in 1810, after witnessing a demonstration in Ireland in September 1844. The system, which had been patented in 1838, entailed the use of a cast-iron tube laid between rails, to which carriages were attached by a valve. Pumping stations powered by steam engines at the side of the track forced air out of the tubes, thereby creating a vacuum to one side of the carriages and an "atmosphere" to the other, thus propelling them along.
The Alfred Ely Beach Pneumatic Railway was New York City’s earliest subway. It had a single station located in the basement of the house located at the corner of Warren Street and Broadway.
Passengers were carried in a car pushed forward by the pneumatic pressure generated by a huge fan. At the end of the tunnel, near Murray Street, the car stopped. The rotation of the fan was reversed and the car was "sucked" back to Warren Street station.
I too, have been converted to atmospheric plans so intend to revive the genius of these two great engineers and combine it with my own grand engineering techniques. A major problem with the systems was the generation and loss of air it seems. Of course modern technology can be applied to solve these lossy gas problems.
Also the method of generation of air was not up to standards even in those days. Nowadays we have all learned, politicians axed the plans of these great men and they were were full of hot air,full of the air of nothing. Knowing this, I shall apply these political failures to become great successes, in short, we need air, politicians generate air, and also, let me tell you, politicians really suck. By stationing each operating day, politicians suitably in stations at each end of the system, there they can read their long winded speeches with the air of nothing, at one end they will blow out their hot air, and at the other, we will have the lot who really suck. By having mixed sets at each end, one set of each, and suitably having one set blowing air at one end, and at the destination end we will the set who really suck working..............so we will move our passenger cars through the system.
We will never be at a loss for air. So to will modern politicians be made to work for the people,if they can be gathered in a group, ball and chained, and whipped frequently!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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The MRL Is Cannon
Well now, the City of London has been smiled on greatly through the centuries,especially with respect to the barrier of the Thames. Well The Thames is no barrier,bridges have been built across, the great Brunel's father started, and Brunel finished, a tunnel beneath the Thames, one which is still used to this very day, at least until the Heritage people get their hands on it whence it will be closed to preserve it from posterity, and whomever else might want to use it thereafter, in the hereafter. Indeed now there is even yet a proposal to have a , get this, cable car system across it. Well and good, no doubt there will be a great charge for this. I propose also to smile on the city of London, and present it with a great charge, but not a charge to those using my system to cross the Thames, indeed what I propose to do is to revive the sound idea of pneumatic cannon. These cannon still exist today, having been born out of attempts to hurl dynamite charges safely without exploding them to land on decks of ships and wherever and whatever and there to explode. Only air cannon could supply the safe cushion charge of air to hurl the projectile without exploding the dynamite in the barrel transit. This idea was thereafter toyed with, and developed to the form of circus cannon. Well, the idea is sound, and it is safe from an engineering standpoint, and INDEED has been safely proven,tested,and recorded on film, by A Thousand Clowns. Well, send in the clowns,again. We shall install a Air Cannon system on each side of the Thames, and for a minimal charge, I couldn't resist, fire them happily across to safely land in a net and there to proceed with their day's doings. It will be surely less taxing (Labor will no doubt initiate this one day we all suspect), than walking across by bridge, less taxing than driving across(you know, congestion tax, road tax), and surely as well take far far less time than the Cable Car system. It also will be enormously faster than either method once the cannon is fired you know. All that remains is for the MRL to be able to gift the already gifted people of London with a sound (chuckle,snort,chortle) air tight(yet more) engineering idea.Ever forwards we proceed with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Solves Congestion Charge Technologically.
Thousands of drivers from outside the UK are not paying London's congestion charge,but Britons are.And isn't it so that Tony Blair and his Labor Party are meaning to have you purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about £200(400$U.S.) and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28($56U.S.) for a rural florist and £194($388) for a delivery driver,then additionally. Is there a way out for the driving Briton, the government of Tony Blair, says "You all can go fly!!"......................and so, we just may.........
Roadable Aircraft - Aerocar Aerocar
Moulton B. Taylor dreamed of producing a roadable aircraft, which could be used as a family car and, as the need or inclination arose, have wings, tail and propellor quickly attached. After World War 2, Taylor set to work to produce such a vehicle, and by late 1949 a prototype Aerocar had flown.
On 13th December, 1956, the improved production Aerocar 1 received FAA certification. Four further Model 1s were built, for demonstration and sale. The six Aerocars so far built accumulated over 200,000 road miles and 5,000 flight hours. The final version was a much improved Aerocar III, converted from a model 1.
The car itself was a fairly conventional front-wheel-drive automobile. The power plant was an Avco Lycoming O-320 aircraft engine in the rear of the vehicle. This drove either the road wheels or, via an extended drive shaft in the detachable tail boom, a propeller to the rear of the Y-form tail structure. Braced monoplane wings were fitted in high configuration to the rear of the car. Unless the wings and tail boom were all correctly engaged, it was not possible to start the engine for flight.
Conversion from air to road could be achieved by one person in five minutes. The detached aircraft components could be towed behind the car in folding wheels fitted to the wing roots.
The Aerocar project ended with the passing of new legislation relating to automobiles in the United States. To meet 1970s requirements, the Aerocar would have to become too heavy and expensive to be practical.
And so the Hafner Rotabuggy was consigned to the better ideas of history past, and forgotten, till........................today.
Engineering work continued, militarily.............
and there came the Flying Jeep.
The work of the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Ringway, Manchester, on the Rotachute from 1940 onwards led to the suggestion that the free-wheeling autogyro principles employed could also be applied to larger loads. The designer, Raoul Hafner, suggested the Rotabuggy, a Jeep (or "Blitz Buggy") with rotors, and the Rotatank, a similarly modified Valentine tank. A development contract was placed with the M.L. Aviation Company at White Waltham in 1942, covered by specification 10/42.
Preliminary tests involved loading a Jeep with concrete and dropping it from heights of up to 7 ft. 8 in. (2.35 m.), demonstrating that the standard vehicle could survive undamaged from impacts of up to 11g. A 46 ft. 8 in. (12.4 m.) dia. two-blade rotor was then fitted, as well as a streamlined tail fairing with twin rudderless fins. Other additions were perspex door panels, a 'hanging' rotor control next to the steering wheel and a rotor tachometer and glider navigational instruments.
The Rotabuggy, camouflaged, carrying RAF roundels and a prototype "P", was tow tested behind a 4½ litre supercharged Bentley, and achieved gliding speeds of up to 65 mph (105 km/h) IAS.
The first flight was made on November 16, 1943. Later, some flights were made behind a Whitley bomber from Sherbourne-in-Elmet.
One witness described how she watched a Whitley take off with a Jeep in tow, circle and land. The Jeep, still in tow, did not touch down at the same time, and the witness realised that its occupants "were unhappy". With the pilot holding the hanging control column and the driver clutching the steering wheel, the Jeep made a series of up and down movements, whilst the audience hoped it would stall on a 'down' rather than an 'up'.
This it fortunately did, the driver taking over and driving flat-out after the Whitley, to which it remained attached. When it stopped, nobody got out for a while; the pilot was then assisted out and lay down beside the runway to recover. Apparently he was exhausted from trying to control the joystick, which had whipped in circles for the whole flight.
Apparently this flight was one of the worst, and the handling and flying qualities of the Rotabuggy were officially recorded as "highly satisfactory", especially when large tail fins had been fitted and greater rotor blade articulation provided. However, development of Horsa II and Hamilcar vehicle carrying gliders made further development of the idea unnecessary.
Now the existing technology could be applied and upgraded..................the time is now...............by reviving sutch a concept we could vastly reduce road traffic congestion, and just imagine, not being on a ROAD, the Labor government could not use and apply a road tax, nor could any other existing government of England. And now after having gotten this far in my proposal, you realize that it's certainly not a taxing engineering idea.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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M.R.L. Dam Building Technology.
Just look at the massive Three Gorges Dam built in Red China, took years to build, massive amounts of equipment and workers, all that problem diverting river water etc so the dam could've been built. Had Red China included the M.R.L. in the negotiations for construction, and engineering, it could've been built much cheaper, much faster and much easier. Yes quite simply it is in our nature to do things the easy way, let somebody else build it as long as we don't have to, build only when necessary. Indeed, what should've been done, is simply to have released beavers in
to the river(American beavers would've been used as they have sense to move when they cut down trees, many Canadian beavers are found squashed beneath trees simply because they haven't the wits to move themselves at the right time).
The beavers would then have started to dam up the river. We would've supplied the beavers with more and more materials with which to build the dam further. Now, this would've created the necessary working coffer dam, and the beavers would have continued to build it up and maintain it. Behind this, work on the concrete dam could thence have proceeded as planned, all in perfect safety and in a totally dry environment. When the dam was completed, we would then simply have slowly and properly, mind, blasted away the beaver dam. We could then, being kind in our natures to nature, and to appease any Greens complaints about things, taken the beavers and housed then suitably till they were required for yet another such project.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.
Minister for Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Ah Lotteries........................the very mechanism of it...the mind boggles...interesting it all is...................especially the multitudinous variety of payout ones existent in many lands, Canada for example, where,zounds and zooks, the very air abounds with lotteries at utterly unbelievable payouts, large and small in their structure, 15 20 million grand down to 35$ lowest for same lottery payouts etc etc etc et all,.........and the massive payouts in all of them, prizes unbelievable,unheard of large figures,great and to the smaller,even yet El Gourdo is a pittance in the colony of Canada............................well, what is the advantage of having these lotteries...........and how do they work.......
M.R.L. Lottery Policy
Lottery!!! LOTTERIES!!! Ah yes! the grand lottery, the great gamble where a little can get a lot.
Lotteries!! Gambling indeed! There's much money to be made in gambling, in lotteries, a great lot
all round, great for the lottery company, great for a winner. Great for a government, great when it
runs the lottery. There's much profit to be made, in running the lottery, taking more in than paying out,
as the system is supposed to work. But,how now? Let us examine a rather interesting system, a system run
in a foreign nation, the very foreign nation, the third world nation,the colony of Canada, that vast great
hinter land of the world.How do they run their lottery,profitably,profitably, and yet then more...........
how now.............
Firstly let us consider, it's all a monopoly, wherever it is, a government monopoly, a federal government
monopoly as their federal government runs theirs, then there's the lottery monopolies run by each of
their provinces(similar to Shires such as in our England). Each province has a lottery board which controls
the lotteries they run, to each their own, and to each the entire control, and,of course, collection of
lottery profits. Of course, the lottery must take more in than it pays out, to make a profit and keep
running.Evidently the system run by Canada and it's provinces is an expansion of the system run in Las Vegas
so it would make sense to adapt similar lottery rules,structures and government controls so nobody would
complain about it, after all it would profit the government(s), the winners,the people of the land, and this
the point isn't it, or at least, partly.
Now,how does a lottery run? Well, Firstly, people select numbers and buy tickets, in denominations of $10,
5 or 1, herein let us imagine it is pounds as it would be for here,Britain,our cash strapped nation which would
make money off it all just as they do in Canada, and the people who would have vast amounts of currency made
equitably available to the people,or rather winners, and, of course, profit money is applied to the government
itself for it to spend. So far we're all with it here. Now each lottery has a first prize, the grand prize, then
several prizes beneath that of lessening value, based on the grand prize level. We won't bother with the many tiny
payouts of extra tickets(lost revenues there),$1,10$ and paltry $100 and 1000$ payouts(let's pretend pounds since our lottery
is a let's make believe lottery isn't it), there can be regular payouts of wins of say as much as 25million, 50million,
dollars or pounds, and the the lesser values, all totaled up at any given time, in yet just one lottery, and then there are
many many others in the same provinces and so the system is in all the provinces there.
Then, let's total all the payouts up...........................and, we then discover, that in that tiny nation of
30million, they seem to have the population of two China's buying tickets just to pay for the winners! Indeed then there's yet the government
profits as well to take in to account!!That's just not millions, nor billions, that's TRILLIONS!!! And each year too!!!
My my, such vast money floating around a tiny miniscule insignificant nation with no discernable
economy! Imagine, what could be done were this lottery system could be applied in England, with it's much
greater of population!! Imagine yet, even Britain with it's vastly greater number of employed who can afford to buy lottery
tickets! The mind boggles just as does the thought of the vast currency so available all round in that
foreign welfare unemployed no economy nation!!!!!!
How does it all work? Why does it all work??It's all a monopoly, a monopoly game, using monopoly money!
So the game's afoot, we will apply more printing of government monopoly money and spread it all around and
make everyone in Britain part of the game,that's the name of the game....MONOPOLY!!!!And everybody will have
vast amounts of monopoly money, and if not, they can win it in the governments controlled lotteries!
Why imagine,such vast amounts money in British hands, money of such by comparison, magnitude which would result,
money such that Britain's regular lottery winners could afford to buy General Motors, Ford,General Electric,
Westinghouse,Boeing,Lockhead,Consolidated Edison, Exxon Oil etc. Somebody stop me!! Or Us!! Let them try!!
Britain could once again establish itself in internal industry and industry about the world.
Imagine if I could win, I could buy Australia outright and apply it as a vacation resort!!!
And so Britain would once more be employed,would once more own industries, and then the Blair,and similar governments,
could afford to sell the all again to the French and the Germans, not being able to think of little else.
But not if there was a total M.R.L. government, and all it takes is your vote....the M.R.L. Wants You!!...
to point our finger at as it's all your fault..........you're being fingered.............remember....when
you vote..........vote for me.........vote for me as your M.R.L. write-in candidate, and vote for change,for improvement,
for the betterment of the British people...anything less is utter..................lunacy.
Are you....................game?
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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MRL Walled City Flood Protection Plan
Well now, there have been interesting MRL projects and solutions to deal with the massive flooding England has
experienced, projects such as adapting and living with and in flood conditions, adapting to a total flood living
environment and living with it much as does Venice, then there are our drainage projects to drain flooding away.But
there is still one more method of dealing with floods that we really must consider, a method the ancients, our wise
engineering ancestors have taught us, their legacy of protecting the people. How you say?
Well........................Castles, our homes were and are our castles, but they lack what castles
had.....walls.....now it's a bit complex to ring each home, but imagine now, entire walled cities, as they were in
ancient times, but walled such as to be able to shut themselves in and keep the flood waters out!! Indeed we could have
flood doors at entry roads to the cities, and rail lines as well!! Shut these during times of flooding, and the entire
city is protected!! Ha! Problem solved!!
I'll bet you didn't think it was that simple, but it is!! What protected our ancestors, can work to protect us!
Ever onwards, we move forwards,looking back,moving forwards,with our backsides to the future.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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Bridges,The New outlook? Look Out!MRL Improved Bridge Engineering.
Well what's up with bridge collapses in North America?Canada and the United States that's what, and their engineers and designs,their ideas of a good cheap bridge, slap dash rapidly constructed. Well, to put it quite properly, it's problem is this urge to unitized construction, utilize the cheapest material possible,build for the future...........build one again in a few years to replace it,the North American engineering outlook! That's the problem.! That and not being able to ascertain that it is the time to change the bridges once more! yes! Indeed, taht's their problem! So, what do we do to see to it that it not become ours? Well now...............
The Romans' legacy to bridge building was the heavy masonry arch bridge, hundreds of which were built throughout Europe. In this, large stone blocks were wedged against each other to form an arch. The central stone at the top of the arch was known as the keystone. The finest surviving example of such a bridge is the Pons Fabricius in Rome. Completed in 62 BC, the bridge (now called the Ponte Quattro Capi) has two fine semicircular arches each spanning 78 feet. A small "relief" arch in the central sponging of the two main arches releases excess water in times of flood.Still standing and carrying modern traffic today, 2007, as are and do many such Roman designed,engineered and constructed bridges.
So prolific and efficient was Roman building that it was hundreds of years before Europeans took to bridge building anew. Then, in the 12th century Catholic priests and professionals took over the building of bridges because the Church recognized the advantages of good road communications in a developing society. In France a group of interested priests formed a new order, the Freres du Pont, to design and build lasting bridges. Most famous of this order's works was the Pont d' Avignon, built in 1177 over the Rhone River. It had 21 arches in all, the longest spanned 115 feet. Similarly in England it was Peter de Colechurch who designed and built the first stone bridge over the Thames, the famous London Bridge. Another was done by the architect-priest Giovanni Giocondo (c. 1433-1515) who used the segmental arch in Paris' first masonry bridge, built in 1507.These still standing, in use today,2007.
In 1878 the City architect Horace Jones proposed a bascule bridge. 'Bascule' comes from the French for 'see-saw', and a bascule bridge at street-level has two 'leaves' that can be raised on a horizontal axis to let ships pass on the river.
And so Tower Bridge was constructed, still standing an din use today,2007.
Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker, who designed a structure that was built by Sir William Arrol's company between 1883 and 1890,Firth Of Forth bridge, a railway bridge true, but could be fitted with a road deck, and is still in use today,2007.
Well, obviously the ancients knew how to design bridges, how to build bridges.So what's with these collapsed bridges in North America? Well now, to avoid such occurrences in future on our side of the puddle, so must we simply turn to the ancients, build from and with the very best of lasting materials,and build the bridges exactly as they built them.....as they engineered them,making them longer in exact fashion as needed, exactly as they were designed,and we won't have any problem at all.
Secret Squirrel,
M.R.L.,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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