16 September 2013 (12:12 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/25 Shahrivar 1391/12 Xin-You (8th month) 4711
“…what the Iranians understand is that, uh, the nuclear issue, uh, is a far larger issue for us than the chemical weapons issue. That, uh, the…threat against Israel….is much closer to our core interests.”-Barack Obama, regime President of the United […] Continue Reading…
Paktia Province, five people killed by U.S.-NATO airstrikes. Government officials say they were militants, but villagers disagree. The day before, another U.S.-NATO airstrike killed 16 people in Wuza Zadran District. Local government officials say half of those killed were from Pakistan.
Ghazni Province, PRT-Ghazni, reports that U.S.-NATO-ISAF personnel abandoned the base. Mujahideen have been launching […] Continue Reading…
In Kentucky, the Christian God can’t stop Catholic Lourdes Hospital in Paducah from laying off 58 employees. Officials blame it on consolidation to remain economically efficient with all the government Medicare/Medicaid cuts.
420 people out-o-work in Missouri! Integrity Solution Services shut down their call center in Cape Girardeau after losing their only contract.
16 September 2013 (22:48 UTC-07 Tango 15 September 2013)/11 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/25 Shahrivar 1392/12 Xin-You (8th month) 4711
Tropical storm Man-yi is pounding Honshu, and already contracted workers at Fukushima Daiichi have tweeted that the ground is so saturated with water, that water is flooding across the ground at a contaminated water storage tank farm […] Continue Reading…
British empire Australian-ISAF forces are being investigated for chopping off the hands of those they killed. Aussie Diggers said they needed the hands for fingerprinting.
Ghazni Province, PRT-Ghazni, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant from Georgia was killed. He was part of the 242nd Ordnance Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD, Explosive Ordinance Disposal). Mujahideen claim they […] Continue Reading…
In Vermont, North County Hospital laid off 19 employees and cut hours for three others. Hospital officials blame it on declining government Medicare/Medicaid payments, and declining customers.
The Christian God can’t stop the Baptist Health System from cutting 40 jobs in Texas. Hospital officials blame “drastic” government cuts in Medicaid payments.
Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that the same test well continues to show rapidly increasing levels of tritium. The well is 20 meters (65 feet) north of the water storage tank that leaked at least 300 metric tons of contaminated […] Continue Reading…
14 September 2013 (22:11 UTC-07 Tango 13 September 2013)/09 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/23 Shahrivar 1391/10 Xin-You (8th month) 4711
Click pics to make bigger and read why the instructions are wrong:
AMT-ERTL & Hobby Heaven reissued the early 1970s MPC Multi-Maverick kit. They even reissued the original confusing instructions.
The reissue kit reminded me why I had so much trouble building dragster kits as a kid in the mid-1970s. The instructions show you attaching the headers in step 1, but if you do you can’t get the engine onto the chassis. Headers/exhaust pipes must be attached after the engine & chassis are mated.
I installed this firewall as per the artwork on the box. The instructions didn’t mention it and I found out why. If you build the car with the extended wheelbase, and the engine moved forward, the firewall contacts the engine preventing the body from properly resting on the chassis.
The kit allows you to build two options; a standard wheelbase or extended wheelbase dragster. It says not to glue on the fender mods so you can switch between set ups, but for practical race time handling, I mean display purposes your choice should be permanent.
A major reminder of why I didn’t get along with dragster kits in the 1970s; suspension components are frustratingly fiddly & fragile!
The suspension parts can be easily broken when removed from the sprues, and the instruction’s rigging template for the front suspension was no help. I used a slow setting glue while fanagling the parts into place.
The fuel can in front of the engine is not how the instructions would have you mount it. It won’t fit with the engine in the forward position, unless you turn it sideways. Also, there’s no definite location point. The belt on the supercharger (blower) is plastic and snapped right on. No mention of it in the instructions. In fact, in step 1 you’re told to use string to make a belt, then in step 9 you’re told to use a rubber band. The ‘C’ notch in the front of the chassis is so the belt drive can fit when the engine is in the forward position, however, I still had to thin it greatly to get the engine to fit.
Another problem: The body hinge bar. Instructions tell you to insert the bar into the chassis, then glue it to attachment notches on the body. So called ‘notches’ are almost nonexistent. On top of that when I closed down the body the wheel wells didn’t line up with the Altered wheelbase.
You get one flimsy rod to hold up the heavy body, when you’re not busy racing down the strip.
“Let me assure you the situation is under control…”-Abe Shinzo, Prime Minister of Japan comments made to IOC on 07 September 2013
“I’m sorry, but we consider the situation is not under control.”-Yamashita Kazuhiko, TEPCo official’s statement made at meeting held […] Continue Reading…
“…the challenge is huge! It makes Three Mile Island look very simple, what you have is much more complex….”-Lake Barrett, former official with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in discussion with Tokyo Electric Power Company officials