Princess Alima

I usually just hit the phishing scam button for the Kipkala family, the Zongos, and all the assorted UK lotteries I've supposedly won. I also, like many others, get assorted e-mails from royal family members in Nigeria, the Sudan, and the African continent who all need my help with their inheritance passed down from deceased Kings, Queens, etc. I just had to reprint this e-mail from Princess Alima. The royal family grammar has improved since the last time she wanted to pass on part of her vast inheritance to me. Every time I get one of these I picture some little deformed troll sitting under a bridge with their laptop sending it with the help of a stolen WiFi signal from a nearby Starbucks. Anyway, without further ado, here's Princess Alima. Feel free to contact her if you wish.  :)

HELLO & Greetings to you.

I am writing this letter in confidence believing that if it is the wish of God
for you to help me and my family, God almighty will bless and reward you
abundantly and you would never re-great this.

I am a female student from Burkina Faso University Teachings Hospitals (BUTH)
Burkina Faso , Ouagadougou .  My father died earlier eight months ago
and left I and my younger brother behind. He was a king, which our town citizens titled him over sixteen years ago before his death. I was a princess to him and my mother is not literate enough to know my father's entire wealth.

He left the sum of USD $4.350.000.00US dollars. In a security company, this money was annually paid into my late fathers account from the Gold mining company and Colton processing Company operating in our locality for the compensation of youth and community development in our jurisdiction.I don't know somewhere in abroad to invest the money so that my father's kindred will not take over what belongs to my father and our family because I’m a female according to our African tradition. Now, I urgently need your humble assistance to move this money from the security company to your bank account that is why I felt happy when I saw your  contact because I strongly believe that by the grace of God, you will help me invest this money wisely.

I am ready to pay 20% of the total amount to you if you can help us in this transaction and another 10% interest of annual after Income to you, for handling this transaction for us, which you will strongly have absolute control over. If you can handle this project sincerely and also willing to assist me in lifting this money to your country, kindly reach me.

Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk free and I hope to start the transaction as quick as possible, I will send you my photograph as soon as I hear from you.


Yours sincerely,
Princess Alima
princessalim@voila.fr

San Francisco's Cherished Criminal Class

San Francisco again confirms its place in the annals of idiotic policy thought Idiots Amongst Us. The city law makers are considering making felons a protected class, because sane landlords and employers don’t want ex-felons in their businesses or real estate. Yes, felons are ostracized from regular society, and have been forever. They have to walk a hard path to earn their way back into our lives – and that’s how it should be. As pointed out in the article, these new members of a protected class will immediately make this into a business - going from one employer to another, and one rental to another, looking for love in all the wrong places with an ambulance chasing lawyer by their side. Felons have it rough… well boo hoo! For every crime these scuzzballs were caught and sentenced for there were a hundred they got away with and a string of victims who were never ‘protected’. I wonder if San Francisco’s law makers ever take the city’s law abiding citizens into consideration; but then again, the law abiding citizens of SF keep electing certified loons to represent them. I hope they enjoy their new protected class. I’m sure the rest of the country will get a laugh out of the criminal coddling capital of the West.

Colin & Pa Ride Flight Deck

I promised my Grandson I'd put our front seat ride on Great America's Top Gun/Flight Deck Coaster on YouTube for him. Since it wasn't all that long ago I was riding in the same seats with his Mom when she was his age I figured I'd put it on the blog too. This time warp reality ride really can be disconcerting.  :)

Yosemite

The Daily Mail had a great Yosemite pictorial and movie in this article on one of the most beautiful falls in the world. It's definitely worth taking a look at. Yosemite Light Show

77 Years Together

Imagine being married to the same person for 77 years. That’s how long the Vances have been together as husband and wife Anniversary. Mildred spotted Lindsey at a Sunday school class, went home and told her sister she’d seen the guy she would marry, and then got busy making it happen. Respect one another and stay committed are the keys according to these two experts on staying together. Since I could tell on the video they make each other laugh, they probably take the humor aspect for granted after all these years or they would have listed that too I’m sure. My 35^th anniversary is coming up. Compared to 77 years, that’s a glance out the window.  :)

2004 Nissan Frontier Clanging Noise

Above Picture - Alternator Pulley on right broken free of Crankshaft Pulley Assembly on a 2004 Nissan Frontier with 3.3L engine, causing a clanging sound when started.

Today’s post will be another chapter in automotive inside baseball. A customer brought in a 2004 Nissan Frontier with 3.3L V6 engine. He thought the Nissan’s belts were bad because he got a clanking noise from the drive belt area. I had him demonstrate the noise. The clanking originated at the crankshaft main pulley assembly. The rear most pulley that drives the alternator had broken free of the pulley assembly which drives three different belts, causing a clanking sound when the loose pulley wobbled and touched against the pulley in front of it. A thin neoprene type insulator ring binds the pulley to the crankshaft pulley assembly. When it breaks free it can damage the engine’s front case if the noise is ignored. I doubt this is a pattern failure because I had to special order the pulley assembly. I thought it best to illustrate this particular problem in case there are more of these out there.

Romantic Danger

Uh oh, my writing friends, I stumbled on this article claiming romance novels may be hazardous to your health Danger. Susan Quilliam, a UK ‘relationship specialist’, believes fictional representation of romance may be wrecking our real lives. She gives examples dealing with multiple orgasms, unprotected sex, uncomplicated encounters, etc. as being detrimental to attaining meaningful relationships in real life. I read all of Ian Fleming’s novels about his fictional spy with a license to kill when I was a kid. While I thought James Bond was cool, I didn’t emulate him. It’s always been my theory that people who believe us regular schmucks can’t differentiate between fact and fiction in our reading materials suffer from a regrettable malady – they have no imagination. Without an imagination a person may very well take everything in a literal sense. Thankfully, people without an imagination are I believe a small minority, and they don’t read fiction, because they can’t imagine anything. That someone without an imagination works as a ‘relationship specialist’ bothers me a heck of a lot more than whether people are in danger of blending fiction and reality in romance or anything else.  :)

Mother Nature On The Loose

This thirty mile wide dust storm closed the airport and stopped traffic in the Phoenix, AZ area. I've been caught in a couple of these in the past but never one this big. The folks living around there will be wearing their brooms out today. :)

China To The Rescue

This article was too funny to pass up. The Daily Mail out of the UK issued praise for China’s sulfurous spew from coal burning expansion as a reason the earth has been cooling Sulfur. When we burn coal or even mine coal here in the USA every Al Goreacle acolyte on the planet screams in fury, but Red China coal is good coal and a planet saving miracle. It’s no wonder the reporter’s name in this article isn’t even listed. I’ve always liked the UK’s Daily Mail but I’m wondering if maybe China owns some shares of Daily Mail stock. I have to assume China has figured out a new lobbying scheme to cover the visible clouds of literal poison billowing out from their continent. Unlike the USA where strict laws prohibit unfiltered emissions, China’s spew even reaches as far as Los Angeles. But of course since they own the debt of every nation on earth, it ain’t likely anyone in the media will ever get on a crusade to out China’s ‘developing nation’ con as they pollute to their heart’s content. The logical conclusion one would reach from this ridiculous article is Chinese pollution is rescuing earth from the dreaded imaginary global warming threat. The next announcement will be China selling the spew as pollution credits. The comments section on this article is hilarious. :)

July 4th

 

Joyce & I Time Warped to the Marina on my old 1973 Honda 750 for July 4^th 2011. The rear fender still has my 1979 Cal State Parking Sticker on it. It's funny how decades can slip away from you while doing something as silly and stupid as riding a motorcycle bought when you were 23. It was a very good 4th.  :) I hope all of you had a really super 4th with all the trimmings and can take pride in being an American if you call the USA home. I do. God bless America.