A Challenge for My Dear Readers

The above picture is an Artist's Rendering of an EV Charging Station that a German company named Sortimo plans to build. They say it will be the world’s biggest EV fast-charging station with 144 charging ports.

Already the confusion starts...

The Information I have found and will present to you below differs greatly from Sortimo’s numbers above.

Ø Sortimo says their 144 charging ports will charge 4,000 cars a day.

Ø The information below says it will take 600 Charging Ports to do 2,000 cars a day.

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Ø Sortimo says 24 of their 144 Charging Ports will be Super Chargers with a capacity of 350 kilowatts.

Ø The information below talks about 50 kilowatt chargers but makes no reference to Super Chargers but Sortimo does say that Tesla’s current Super Chargers are 150 kilowatts.

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Ø Sortimo says their Charging Station could offer savings of 7.8 million gallons, of fuel.

Ø Sortimo does not say how many gallons of Fossil Fuel will be necessary to create the electricity to put into their 4,000 cars a day.

Remember batteries do not make electricity they only store electricity that had already been made by burning some kind of Fossil Fuel.

Would I be accused of being a Wise Ass if I said that the electricity to put into Sortimo’s Car Batteries Will Not Be Made By Other Batteries? 

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Below are facts I got from the Internet. Here is your challenge...

Ø The Internet is very good at giving us Confusing if not Completely Opposite Explanations of Issues.

Ø If you have information that can disprove my found information below, use my blog’s Comments Feature to present those facts to your fellow readers of Foolishness...Or Is It?.

Ø We need the Truth, whether or not it is the "Truth" we often times so desperately we want to see.

If you are able, please help My Dear Readers and me to get to the Truth.

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EV Charging Insanity

In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?

Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | Jan 15, 2022

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Many of the EV Charging Waiters who are waiting for 8 hours are going to need some place to sleep and, in some cases, Counseling. This will result in the beautiful pastoral scene in the Artist’s Rendering being littered with Pup Tents and Army Cots with Physiatrists holding iPads seated next to the cots ready to spring into action.

Since EV Charging Stations are proposed to be the replacement for Gasoline Filling Stations, you can be sure that there will be Hot Dogs Hamburgers, Nachos and such available for sale so the EV Charging Waiters can “enjoy” their wait. This is going to result in a significant increase in the Body Bulk and the Cholesterol Count of Americans all across the Fruited Plain but that’s fodder for another Blog Posting on another day.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Disinformation...Or was it?

We must be careful with these kinds of lists because there is so much Foolishness out there. For example, I looked up one of Einstein's most famous "quotes" and came up with this... “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” was traced by Einstein archivist Barbara Wolff to US writer Rita Mae Brown’s Sudden Death (1983)."

Eventually Einstein and his wisdom was accepted by all...Or was he and it?...

"right up to his death in 1955, he was targeted for deportation as a Soviet agent by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover."

Oh well, the list below is interesting but don't bet your life that some of this list of 25 are not disinformation or some such thing.

I just hope everybody is not kidding us about everything.

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Entomologist Paul Ehrlich predicted in his 1968 bestselling book, The Population Bomb, that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the next two decades. 

Are They All Dead Or Are They Just Never Was?

Did I just hear you say, “What the heck is Fella talking about now?” Hang on. Trust me. It will all make sense shortly...Or will it?

When I was young there were many girls in St. Anthony of Padua Grammar school with names like: Judy, Mary and Linda.

That was Then but we live in the Now. I bet, if I put on my Potted Plant Outfit and went back to St. Anthony and slid around my old school for a day, I would not find any Judy’s, Mary’s or Linda’s there.

I’m not really saying they are dead. It’s just that they never happened. The girl’s are still there but they were never named these names to begin with.

If you want to know what the Cool People are doing, where would you go looking? You say you don’t know. Of course, you know. Think about it for a moment...

  

Are you done thinking? Did you draw a blank? You disappoint me...again.

If you want to know about Cool, of course, you seek out Celebrities. They are all cool. Even those of them who are not Cool are way Cooler than we are Cool.

I Googled “Celebrities with the most unique/uncommon names” and I found what they are naming themselves. Remember they do name themselves. If their old fashioned parents made the mistake of naming any of them Judy or Mary or Linda, when they are about to blossom into a Celebrity they change their name to something Cool like these actual Celebrity Names below...

Neve, Daveigh, Rumer, Sela, Cote, Leighton, Evanna, Jodelle, Saoirse, Odette, Paget, Alona, Thea, Zooey, Avril, Emmy, Holland, Troian

Aren’t you glad you are mot a Celeb? If I were a Celeb and someone asked me what my name was, I would say, "I'll tell you if you promise not to tell anyone".

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Now you know how UnCool I am because not one of the Cool Names above is “Fella”.

 

No Chase Policy Is In Effect All Over The Good Ole USofA & Now We Have The No Pay Policy In Effect All Over The Good Ole USofA

Did I just hear you say you don’t believe the above Subject is true? OK Mr. Smarty Pants, click here and Google It!... https://www.google.com/search?q=no+chase+policy&ei=D9WCYqiMO6vI_Qbvsb0g&ved=0ahUKEwjoz8u8jeX3AhUrZN8KHe9YDwQQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=no+chase+policy&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAELADEEMyBwgAELADEEMyBwgAELADEEMyCggAEOQCELADGAEyCggAEOQCELADGAEyCggAEOQCELADGAEyDAguEMgDELADEEMYAjIPCC4Q1AIQyAMQsAMQQxgCMg8ILhDUAhDIAxCwAxBDGAIyDAguEMgDELADEEMYAkoECEEYAEoECEYYAVAAWABgl09oAnABeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQDIARLAAQHaAQYIARABGAnaAQYIAhABGAg&sclient=gws-wiz

An example:

At the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) which consists of 660 stores. They have a no chase policy. Thieves have figured out that they could just walk in and steal liquor off the shelves and walk out and nobody would chase them.

The history...

Way back when, it used to be that you would walk in the store and fill a form out with what you wanted to buy. You would then pay for it and a clerk would get the product for you from the storage room at the back. There was no display of product.

This evolved to open shelving with product but offices in the middle with one way glass so you could be watched but you could not see who was watching you.

They then evolved to just straight open shelving and checkouts. This led to people just walking in and stealing liquor.

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I am not one to say I Told You So (Or am I?) but I Told You So way back on March 22, 2007...https://forii.blogspot.com/2007/03/deadly-pursuits.html

Now I ask you, is that not a Smart Blog Posting or what? Who would have known at the time that I was as Smart as I was? That was 15 years and 2 months ago! I was so young and I was already that Smart! Since then I have Matured. Now I am Matured and Smart. My Blogging must certainly be better...Or is it?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

For Heaven’s Sake Don’t Think for a Second That I Am Criticizing My Grandchildren

My two youngest grandchildren are really smart but their problem is they are really young. All grandchildren start out that way. I am confident that one or the other of them will be President of the Good Ole USofA someday and the other will be the Vice President to the one or the other of them that is the President.

Now that I have covered myself so I won’t be accused of saying that my grandchildren aren’t smart, I want to tell you about a recent visit we enjoyed from these two future Presidents and/or Vice Presidents...

Ø They both slept on the same room.

Ø In that same room there was a Radio/Cassette Tape/CD Disk Combo Player.

Ø Being as young as they are they are curious.

Ø They started playing around with the player and found the CD that was inside.

Ø Because they are curious and young they asked their Father what the CD Disk was.

I guess I am behind the times. I was not aware that a CD was a thing of the past.

Time marches on.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I bet neither of them knows what a Buggy Whip is.

 

The Most Important Issue in the Upcoming Mid-Term Election Is Going to Be the High Price of Gasoline...Or is it?

I once wrote a Blog Posting that told you about the Smartest Man in the History of the World for All Time. I’m not sure where that guy is today, but if he were here with Fella today, I am certain he would agree with Fella when Fella says, “The voters are talking about the high price of gasoline but they really don’t care about the high price of gasoline!”

Did I just hear you dare me to prove it? Oh ye of little faith. OK, here we go...

The people who do polling get all excited when they get a poll that gets over 50%. They contend that this is Conclusive Proof and they expect you to hear and believe because they have a 51% (or higher) response to their polling.

Well Fella has done a poll of his own and his poll has come up with a 100% finding, therefore, That’s The Name of That Tune, That’s How the Cow Eat the Cabbage or That’s All She Wrote...

'That's All She Wrote', recorded by Ernest Tubb and published in sheet music form in 1942:

I got a letter from my mama, just a line or two
She said listen daddy your good girl's leavin' you
That's all she wrote - didn't write no more
She'd left the gloom a hanging round my front door.

[If you want to hear it, and it is a classic of the country music genre, follow this link to YouTube.]

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Now that I have that out of the way, I will tell you the Rest of the Story...

Ø I pulled up behind a lady at Costco’s gasoline filling station who had just started filling up her Buick.

Ø I had time to waste so I got out of my car and walked up to the Buick Pumping Lady and asked, “What’s the price?”

Ø She said to me without turning to look at the pump, “I don’t know”.

There it is! There’s your proof! There is a Fella Poll that comes in with a conclusive 100% result! The Good Ole USofA’s Voters really do not care because they gotta pay whatever they (whoever they are) tell them they gotta pay!

That’s All She Wrote. 😒

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

$20 Ain’t Much...Or is it?

 Amazon Prime has now increased its annual fee by another $20...

Ø I first signed up for Amazon Prime at their Startup Fee of $79 per year.

Ø The Fee was increased to $99 in 2014 and I signed up for the $20 increase.

Ø The Fee was increased to $119 in 2018 and I signed up for the $20 increase.

Ø The Fee has now increased to $139 and a little voice somewhere inside of me said, “Whoa!”

I’ve now decided that Amazon has enough Prime Money. The way things are going somewhere in our bleak future (somewhere around 2072) one of the members of our 2% Approval Rated Congresses is going to decide to pass Stimulus Bill #753 in order to garner some votes just prior to an election and the Head Bean Counter is going to say, “Whoa!”

Congress is going to say to the Head Bean Counter, “What do you mean by saying “Whoa?” and the Bean Guy is going to say, “There is no money left. Amazon has it all”.

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Please allow me to explain how we might get to this point...

Ø At present Amazon has 310,000,000+ Members. (Are you wondering how many “+” is? So am I.)

Ø Recently the fee was increased by another “only” $20.

Ø 310,000,000 members X $20 = $6,200,000,000+...that’s $6.2 Billion with a B. (Don’t forget the “+” ... However many that is?)

Should Amazon worry about me since I’ve decided to say, “Whoa! Enough is enough. I ain’t gonna give you my $20”. (Actually a total of $139 for the year!)

I don’t think they will since, because of my boycott, Amazon will still pocket $6,199,999,980+ from this latest “only” $20 Increase. A little voice somewhere inside of me just said, “Don't fret for Amazon, Fella, they will get along just fine without you”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Hey, Florida People, You Need To Accept The Fact That You Can’t Have Everything!

 

You don’t pay State Income Taxes. If you want the State to send out a Bureaucrat who is trained to Wrestle Alligators for you, you gotta pay State Income Taxes!

Click here: You may have to click twice...

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I’m Glad Cartoon Characters Are Not Chickens

I’m not sure how the Chicken Finger Food Industry turns Chicken’s Fingers into such tasty treats but I sure am glad they do do that because I think Chicken Fingers are great!

Get ready, My Dear Readers, the above Subject of this Blog Posting is about to make perfect sense...Or is it?

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Because so many of us like to eat Chicken Fingers, if Cartoon Characters were Chicken, we would be facing another shortage in our present Supply Chain Shortage Crisis Dilemma Awful Situation because Cartoon Characters only have 3 Fingers!

We Need Congressional Action!

If there were a National Cartoon Finger Shortage our 9% Approval Rated Congress could step in and pass a law that requires all Cartoon Characters to have 4, 5, or maybe even 6 fingers.

Did I hear you say that Congress does not have that kind of power? Allow me to say this about what you say, Where Have You Been? We have seen Congress pass many laws that they do not have the power to pass.

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At least you did not say that Congress should not do such a thing because it would be Foolish. Foolishness Avoidance is not common in the hallowed halls of our 9% Approval Rated Congress.

I am here to commit to you that I am ready to vote for a candidate seeking re-election that had the campaign slogan which said, “I am the most foolish member presently in Congress”.

Does this surprise you? Allow me to explain. I would take comfort as I pulled the lever inside the voting booth by saying to myself, “Well, at least he is being honest about what he has to offer”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

The Times They Are a-Changin’ Again

Actually the word “again” is not needed in the above subject because the times never stops a-changin. Bob Dylan probably should have sang, 

The Times Are Always a-Changin’

Allow me to give you some examples...

First Example: There was a time when everyone knew what a Buggy Whip was because Buggy Whips were everywhere. Everyone had Buggies and everyone had Horses hooked up to their Buggies and everyone had to have Buggy Whips to make the horses pull the Buggies. (I sure hope the PETA people don’t read this Blog Posting)

Ø Hazel, where are the Buggy Whips?

Ø Horace, you are show ‘enf starting to lose it.

Ø Don’t you remember we keep all the Buggy Whips in the Buggy Whip Box right outside the barn door?

Second Example:

Grandpa, you just said that when you were young and you wanted to mail a letter you used to lick the back of your 2-cent postage stamp with your tongue to wet the postage stamp glue and then you would stick the stamp on your letter.

I’m beginning to worry about you, Grandpa, because that just cannot be true. If you did that, even one time, you surely would have caught COVID-19 and died before you got to be as old as you are.

Third Example:

How to get from Point A to Point B in the Old Days...

Grandpa explains to Grand Whippersnapper (Grandchild)...

Ø Grandpa went to the Service Station to fill up the Packard.

Ø He tries not to obsess because the price per gallon is up 5 cents to 17 cents a gallon because he knows he has no other option but to pay what those crooks are charging.

Ø He makes a mental note that while he is out and about to stop in at the Five and Dime Store and buy some fine letter writing paper so you can write his congressman about the high price of gas (he knows he is wasting his time because he wrote his Congressman when gas went up to 12 cents a gallon and he paid him no never mind).

Ø While the smiling Service Station Attendant is pumping his gas, wiping his windshield, checking his oil and his tire pressure, he goes inside the service station and gets a supply of Free Maps for the trip to Point B.

Ø He resists the guilt feeling of his being wasteful because he knows he already has these same maps from his last trip to Point B but they got all crinkled up when Hazel sat on them.

Ø When he gets home he lays out the maps on the kitchen table and writes down every turn and the mileage he will drive before he gets to every turn on some loose leaf paper.

Ø The day of the trip he sets himself up in the driver’s seat and gives the maps and loose leaf turn sheets to Hazel with these exact instructions...
”Hazel, you are the Trip Navigator. I need you to keep me informed of the next upcoming turn. Don’t give me more than just the next upcoming turn like you kept doing last time went to Point B. That caused me to make a wrong turn. Remember not to sit on the maps.”

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How to get from Point A to Point B in the New Days...

Grand Whippersnapper (Grandchild) explains to Grandpa...

Ø Plug the address of Point B into the car’s GPS.

Ø Click Go and Go.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Did I just hear a couple of my Dear Readers say, “Wasn’t it a waste of time to Whip A Buggy?”

Remember The Frog In The Pot Of Boiling Water Story?

 

If you have no idea what the Frog in the Pot of Boiling Water Story is all about, here it is…

If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put into a pot of normal water and then slowly the water is heated to the boiling point, the frog will eventually be heated to death due to its unconsciousness of the gradual temperature change.

Click here: https://www.prageru.com/video/chinas-social-credit-system?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_4144047

Would I kid u?

Smartfella 

 

Did I Just Hear You Say You Want To Go Live In Portland, Oregon? What’s A Matter Fa You?

 (First 4 paragraphs only of an online news article)

Article Headline:

Going into 2022, Portland still has no answer for its record-breaking homicides

January 04, 2022

“Several cities are no doubt hoping to leave their surging homicides in 2021 as the new year begins. If that is the hope for Portland, it is off to a rough start.

Portland saw its first two homicides of 2022 just hours into the new year. Those victims have now been identified as Andre Foster and his nephew Quayan Foster. A third person was also shot but is expected to survive. The next day, another person was shot and killed in the city.

In 2021, Portland saw more homicides than San Francisco and more than double the amount of Seattle, despite having a smaller population than both. According to the Portland Police Bureau, the city saw a record 90 homicides last year. Oregonian reporter Shane Kavanaugh (reporting preliminarily before three more murders were added to the official count) pointed out just how severe the increase in shootings and people wounded in shootings has been for Portland over the last few years.

The worst part is that this was entirely predictable. Portland, a city that tolerated rioting for years, folded before the “defund the police” movement in 2020, slashing police funding by $15 million and disbanding several specialized units, including one that investigated gun violence. The city did all it could to neuter its own police department, including preventing officers from using riot-dispersal tools, while Multnomah County repeatedly declined to prosecute rioters.”

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Has it gotten any better? The answer is no. Here are a couple of examples from recent news articles...

(First two paragraphs only)

Article Headline:

Businesses vandalized after weekend protest in NE Portland

April 18, 2022

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After a weekend protest left behind a path of broken glass, graffiti and a burned dumpster, the head of the Portland Police Association says there needs to be a frank conversation in the city about accountability. 

“Wanton destruction and arson have no place in a functioning society. Whenever we ignore it, we fan the flames. Wherever we excuse it, we acknowledge its legitimacy,” Sgt. Aaron Schmautz said in the letter posted Sunday night.  

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Article Headline:

A Running List of Portland’s Restaurant, Bar, and Food Cart Closures

April 19, 2022

I counted the list for you... 24 Restaurants and Bars closed January 1, 2022 until April 19, 2022.

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However, if you get shot or knocked down or decided you want to lie flat and cover your head with your arms, Portland apparently provides clean ground to lay down on...Or do they? 

According to The Discoverer Blog Portland is one of the 10 Cleanest Cities On Earth...

https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/10-cleanest-cities-around-the-world/XvHyVpKgiwAG5atl?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1497599708

(There was no date on this article.)

10 Cleanest Cities Around the World

Reykjavik, Iceland

Vancouver, Canada

Cape Town, South Africa

Copenhagen, Denmark

Singapore

Adelaide, Australia

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Zurich, Switzerland

Calgary, Canada

Portland, Oregon

The Bolded Words below were placed there by Fella...

Consistently ranked among the greenest cities in the United States, Oregon’s largest city is known for its progressive ways (Is it a “progressive” for a city to burn itself down* most any day of the week?) and quality of life (Is it a “progressive” for a city to burn itself down* most any day of the week?). It’s no surprise then, that the laidback citizens of Portland (LaidBack?!...The guy who wrote this article has got to be kidding!) are proud to keep things clean (Must use leaf blowers to blow the ashes off). Take the Portlanders’ penchant for biking. In 2017, more than seven percent of commuters in the Rose City commuted to work by bike, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. For those who don't want to bike, excellent public transportation is also available (Fella recommends equipping their busses with tracks so they can climb over last night’s debris). Although already a leading city in renewable energy use, Portland leaders recently joined a global pledge to transition to 100% clean energy by 2050 (If there is a Portland in 2050).

*Reminds me of the old joke...

Does a house burn down or does a house burn up?

*The new joke (not really a joke)...

Does Portland burn down or does Portland burn up?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

The Internet Thinks We Like To Read About Junk

The Internet has no respect for our intelligence. It thinks we have nothing better to do than read “news” articles they dangle in front of us that prove we are not intelligent. I’ll come right out with it...The Internet thinks we are stupid.

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The people who act on TV Shows are called “actors” because they act like they like each other but they often do not like each other and/or actually hate each other...

Ø Fred and Ethel in I Love Lucy hated each other.

Ø Robert Cummings and Julie Newmar in My Living Doll hated each other.

Ø Bea Arthur intensely disliked Betty White on The Golden Girls.

Ø Alan Young and Connie Hines of Mr. Ed hated each other.

Ø Most of the cast members on The Andy Griffith Show were not too fond of Frances Bavier...
>Ron Howard was the only cast member who ever came to visit Ms. Bavier in North Carolina and she refused to see him.
>When she died, neither Andy nor Don Knotts attended her funeral.

Ø Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond was a well-known conservative and Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle were big-time liberals so, of course, they did not get along well. 

Ø Back in 1989 Carol Burnett's daughter said that, at the time, her mother and Vicki Lawrence "are no longer friends".

Ø Joan Davis and Jim Backus hated each other when they did I Married Joan.

Ø Alan Alda truly hated one of his co-stars on MASH (article did not say which).

Ø Several of the Happy Days co-stars secretly hated each other.

Ø The actor who played Gilbert on Leave It To Beaver said he and Jerry Mathers didn't care that much for each other.

Ø Cybil Shepherd and Bruce Willis on Moonlighting hated each other. It got so bad that they had to film them for the show in separate cities for almost a whole season.

I just tricked into wasting your time reading about this Miscellaneous Inconsequential Stupid Stuff.

Don’t you just hate me when I make you do that?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

The Army Was Right!

A Miracle Drug is being used in the fight against COVID which has the effects of inhibiting virus replication, anti-platelet aggregation, anti-inflammatory and anti-lung injury, is expected to reduce the incidence of severe and critical patients, shorten the length of hospital duration and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular complications.

Oops! Did I forget to mention the Miracle Drug? It’s Aspirin. You just might have this Miracle Drug in your medicine cabinet.

Don’t believe me? Click here... https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2022/03/24/aspirin-improves-survival-for-hospitalized-covid-patients-study-finds/?sh=3969ead759b7

If you reported to Sick Call in the U.S. Army, you had to be really bad off not to be told, “Take two aspirins and report for duty”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: This clip has nothing to do with Aspirins or COVID19. It does have something to do with funny...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqg4rJPUxGs 

 

It Was So Sad but At Least She Died Peacefully

I could have saved her if she had only listened to me. I had nourishment that could have kept her alive but she refused to eat what I had to offer. I watched her starve to death.😞

Fighting back tears I begged her to eat but she smiled telling me not to take her death so hard. She said, “I have no choice. I’m not a Jack. I’m a Jill.”

I begged her to reconsider. I found myself shouting as she passed on, “It’s perfectly good and nourishing food. Americans have been eating it since 1896! Please take a handful!”

I don’t know if I will ever stop hearing her sweet voice saying her last words, “I’m a Jill”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: My fellow Americans, notice they are rewriting history! It actually says on the bag, “The Original”.