Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

Disconnecting a lead and oakum seal on a cast iron drain pipe

Cast iron drain / waste pipes they are most often joined with a lead and Oakum seal. Oakum is a hemp material coated in tar.  It is placed into the joint to seal it.  Oakum expands when it gets wet to seal the joint. The Oakum is held in place and the pipe joint is given some strength by casting a bead of lead around the pipe inside the hub socket. In this picture the cast iron pipe hub is on the left.

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This is how the pipe joint is put together originally – Pouring Lead Joint Horizontal

 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Book: Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935

Edward Mandell house was from Texas and was a kingmaker and back in the early part of the 20th century.   He picked men that were corrupt controllable and would propel them into the governorship and Texas senate statehouse and US Senate.   He was an agent of the Rothschild's syndicate reportedly an agent of JP Morgan but of course when Morgan himself was an agent of the Rothschild syndicate like John D Rockefeller.  they were that American business annointed to monopolize various fields banking, oil, railroading and so forth.  House was called Colonel house it was like Colonel Sanders as he wasn't a military man.  He was 5 feet off and it was an honorary thing.  A Kentucky Colonel.  They called him Colonel and I don't know why but in 1911 he anonymously wrote this book "Phillip Dru Administrator".  It had to be anonymous because it was very amateurishly written but it was also extremely subversive as it was a blueprint for the fascist takeover of the united states. This was in 1911 before most had heard of fascism communism or even totalitarianism.   This book Philip Dru Administrators was the blueprint for totalitarian rule of the united states and the world.

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How it fits into the scheme:

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Lune Of Hippocrates – Famous Ancient Math Problem

Hippocrates of Chios solved this, nearly 100 years before Euclid even wrote The Elements, and before we knew the exact formula for the area of a circle. This is said to be the first precise mathematical of the area between two curved lines. Learn how he solved for the area of a crescent-shaped lune (same Latin root as luna for moon). And I hope this will inspire you to solve a problem today that students thousands of years from now will learn in grade school.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Understanding Charles Schwab Treasury Bond Corporate Bond Municiple Bond Yields in Their Website Search Results

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  1. Google: are capital gains on treasury bond taxable
  2. How government bonds are taxed

 

Notes:

  • Income from bonds issued by the federal government and its agencies, including Treasury securities, is generally exempt from state and local taxes.
  • Income from bonds issued by state, city, and local governments (municipal bonds, or munis) is generally free from federal taxes.  You will, however, have to report this income when filing your taxes. Municipal bond income is also usually free from state tax in the state where the bond was issued.  See 2.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago