Category: Bunk Stuff

8:9:10 11/12/13

8 9 10 11 12 13

Hour: Minute: Second; Month/Day/Year
Cool Date/time numerical convergence.

Don’t Sit Under The Argan Tree

Goats In A Tree

These goats live in a small region in southwestern Morocco where the Argan tree grows. Although the region is semi-arid desert and there’s fodder elsewhere, they love argan berries. They’re goat candy. Since the goats can’t reach them from the ground, they learned to climb Argan trees.

But that’s not the weird part.

When the goats poop, local women pick out the hard undigested nuts, crack them, extract the seeds, mash and grind them up, and produce argan oil – all by hand. It gets stranger: only women are allowed to do it.

Women […] run the entire industry, which is an incredible fact considering that Morocco is a rather patriarchal society. Only women are taught to make argan oil, and they are the sole gatekeepers to the centuries-old method. Much of the country’s oil is made in cooperatives that allow women the opportunity to work and make money independently [via].

Then they rub it on their faces, put it in their hair or eat it. TRUE.

But take this story a step further, and it becomes downright astounding. One sunny day, hundreds of years ago, some Berber women figured it out:

“Hey, Fatima! Bouchra! I found some goat crap under a tree. I bet there’s something in it that we can eat AND wear. Whaddya think? Don’t tell the guys.”

And the rest is history. But wait. There’s more:

The Berbers were the same people that produced Berber carpets, and had a hand in producing purple dye from seashells – the color of Roman Royalty. It’s also interesting to note that a large percentage of Berbers were Jews, Christians and Animists before those sects were marginalized by Islam in the 7th Century. The Barbary pirates were Islamic Berbers, thrived in the world-wide slave trade, and the word “barbarian” has etymological roots to the Berbers as well.

Goats-trees-berries-poop-cosmetics-food-Morocco-Berbers-carpet-purple-Islam-pirates-slavery-barbarians. What a connection, and it all began with Goats In Trees.

Fun Facts To Know And Tell.

[Image found here. Somewhat related post here.]

How ObamaCare Works

ObamaCare Illustration 110

The warm water is not for you. It’s only for members of Congress, their employees and Union Workers who’ve been exempted by fiat.

Obamacare is the most destructive economic policy I’ve seen implemented in my lifetime, and its reach goes far beyond healthcare.

If you haven’t been paying attention, ObamaCare forces employers to reduce their workforce by government fiat. It prevents employers from hiring full-time workers, and it cripples the insurance industry by mandating coverage without allowing it to compete nationwide in order to balance risks. That’s how the insurance industry works – spreading risk, spreading payments,  balancing it all and adjusting it all the time. It’s a game about odds.

Obamacare changes all of that. This should be a logic issue, not a political one.

However, once a federal program like ObamaCare competes with the private sector and has the power to arbitrarily dictate unreasonable rules, existing medical insurance companies are doomed, neighborhood medical facilities close and Hospitals go bankrupt. Hell, it’s already happening.

Tell me where such a system has ever succeeded. I’ll save you the trouble. It hasn’t succeeded anywhere in the history of the world, without killing off those who needed medical treatment the most – The Poor and The Elderly.

In the United States, The Elderly, the so-called “BabyBoomers.” are the largest population who understand the seductive evils of Socialism/Communism, which makes them a target. They are the same people that Socialists and Communists abhor, i.e.,  People Who Remember. For socialism to prevail, these ancients need to be squelched, and in that respect, ObamaCare is a very useful tool.

I’m not unconvinced that this is part of the intent. The signs are all there, and and it’s been done before.

THIS is the stuff of fascism. Mussolini rejected socialism, and was hanged by his own people for his alternative,

[Image found here.]

The .GIF Friday Post No. 300 – Everything

Tacky Raccoons Be Crawlin' 300

Yep. Another Milestone. We’ve posted .gif animations every week since we began posting .gif animations every week, and this is the 300th week since we began posting .gif animations every week.

Hit this for the Tacky Raccoons .GIF Archives.

Some of the .gif animations are original, most are not, so if you steal and repost them, please give credit to where you found them. –Bunk

The .Gif Friday Post No.299 – Fall Season, Dog WIN & Speed Queen Color Spectrum

Fall Season

Dog Promotion

Speed Queen Spectrum

[Found here and here. The Speed Queen Color Spectrum is my own, images culled from here.]

9:13:9 13/9/13

9 13 9 13 9 13

Second: Minute: Hour; Day / Month / Year

Odd date/time convergence in smallest to largest increments on Friday the 13th.

3:5:7 9/11/13

3 5 7 9 11 13

Hour : Minute : Second; Month / Day / Year

Odd-numbered time and date convergence.

Potential: One-Eyed Rat Rod Short Bus

1953-short-Ford-Bus-right-side

This ^^^ could look like this vvv only lower.
Rat Rod Bus

1953 Short Ford Bus offered for only $6,500:

I put Flat Head V-8 In service 10 years Carb, Ignition, Two new water pumps, all heater hose and service ran strong and just needed a clutch fork, a few glasses and I have access to glass, pulled drive line and did not work on any more, would make a great ride [via]

Go for it.

P.S. The interior is flawless.

130903 Andreas Bus (3)

[Yep, now we’ve got an archive category for Rat Rods and it’s entirely awesome.]

The .GIF Friday Post No. 296 – Force Field Feline, Climber Chameleon & FlipBook

Force Field Cat

Climber Chameleon

FLIPBOOK

[Found here and here. Bottom one created with 25 out of 2,197 possible combinations from here.]

Happy Socialism Day – An Opinion

Union Racism California

Once May Day was coopted by socialists (to commemorate the 1917 Communist Bolshevik Revolution) President Grover Cleveland sought to distance an observance to honor those who worked in jobs requiring physical exertion. Labor Day was created as a sop to the unions, and it accomplished little except to foment class envy, the lever used by Leftists throughout history.

Labor Day was easily coopted by Unions, who are by definition socialist. Work too hard or too efficiently, you make the sluggards look bad. That’s what I was told, as was my father – work at average or below, nothing more, or you’re out of a job. When the top producers drop to the mean, the mean drops even lower.

There’s something obviously wrong and inherently evil with that credo, and I never bought into it.

Every worker starts out as a pissant. Few workers stay at that level… unless they want to. Who is dumb enough to want long-term minimum wage? I certainly didn’t.

Note that there is no holiday respecting the one institution that supports labor, pays for labor, frees people from impoverished economic slavery and provides step stones to prosperity, and that is Free-Market Capitalism.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or a liar.

BTW, here’s your bratwurst. Mustard’s over there.

Bunk