Helping My Kids With Their Education

Yes,

you in the back.

Do you have a question?

"TwoBuckHowie, what did Ivy Mike ever do for us?"

Good question.

Not much.

I'll let my good friends,

and they don't even know who I am,

at

Wikipedia

explain it to you.

"Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first test of a full-scale thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy. It was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion device. Due to its physical size and fusion fuel type (cryogenic liquid deuterium), the Mike device was not suitable for use as a weapon; it was intended as an extremely conservative proof of concept experiment to validate the concepts used for multi-megaton detonations. A simplified and lightened bomb version (the EC-16) was prepared, and scheduled to be tested in operation Castle Yankee, as a backup in case the non-cryogenic "Shrimp" fusion device (tested in Castle Bravo) failed to work; that test was cancelled when the Bravo device was tested successfully, making the cryogenic designs obsolete."

After that test,

the so called

Cold War

began in earnest!

1947 thru 1991

"TwoBuckHowie, what does earnest mean?

Don't they teach you anything in school anymore?

Oh,

that's right.

It is no longer the responsibility of the

School

to teach your kids anything.

As

Parents,

it is your job to have them counting to

100

and saying their

ABC's

before they start

Kindergarten.

As a

Parent,

I was told that I needed to spend at least

1 Hour

a day,

with each child of mine,

helping them with their

Education.

Let's see.

I have

7 Kids

and when they were in

School,

I was working

45 to 50 Hours

a week,

5 to 6 Days

a week.

Oh,

sorry.

I get carried away sometimes when I think of the

Pompous Attitude

of the local

High School

when an

Administrator

at the school once said to me,

"If you can't spend that much time with your kids, helping them with their education, maybe you shouldn't live here in Temecula!"

Earnest [ur-nist]

adjective

1. serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous:

an earnest worker.

2. showing depth and sincerity of feeling:

earnest words; an earnest entreaty.

3. seriously important; demanding or receiving serious attention.

noun

4. full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:

to speak in earnest.

This is,

Still Helping My Kids With Their Education,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela  -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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