My daughter has started a food blog as part of a class she is taking at you-dub:
http://www.kathryn-pamplemousse.blogspot.com/
Makes me happy.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Truth in Communications
From Miriam's brother, via Miriam and Dustbury:
Hello, and thank you for calling Furndock Corporation. Your call means nothing to us because we do not value our customers or their time. If we did, we would have a human to answer our phone. However, humans cost money and your time is free, at least for us, so we have bought a cheap automatic caller direction system. Since careful programming of this machine also costs money, we have programmed it very badly which means that you will waste a great deal of time getting to the person you want, if you get the person at all, which isn't very likely. We don't give a damn how much this inconveniences you.Substitue Verizon for Furndock and you will understand the hate part of my love/hate relationship with my "phone-internet-TV-cell phone-DVR-remote control" company.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
What's that sound?
So I am looking for information on death rates and I find a page on the CIA website, but the data does not make any sense to me. So I go looking for an explanation, which eventually leads me to their home page. The page comes up and the title starts showing up one character at a time:
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
But what's that sound? Could it be a typewriter? The CIA is using typewriters? Of course, I could only get it to play once. Now they are listening to me.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
If it wasn't FUBAR before, it is now. . .
H/T to Ross.
http://www.stanleyfubar.com/
To get to the fun stuff, you have to enable pop-ups. It's worth it.
http://www.stanleyfubar.com/
To get to the fun stuff, you have to enable pop-ups. It's worth it.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
My brother sent me this. I think there is a lot of truth in it. Besides I am really ticked off at the Republican Kleptocracy this morning.
A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republicans would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show, the host's keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I'm a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republicans would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home. He turns on a radio talk show, the host's keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I'm a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Another Broken Levee
The midwest is still suffering from flooding. Mike sent me the link to this video. Note though we are talking about Gulfport, we are talking about ILLINOIS, not the Gulf Coast.
Yea, yea, yea, conditions very bad, but what we really need is a song, so I went looking for a video of Led Zepplins' "When The Levee Breaks". Did not find one I really liked, but at least you can listen to the tune. The pictures here are from New Orleans which is on the Gulf Coast, not in ILLINOIS.
Yea, yea, yea, conditions very bad, but what we really need is a song, so I went looking for a video of Led Zepplins' "When The Levee Breaks". Did not find one I really liked, but at least you can listen to the tune. The pictures here are from New Orleans which is on the Gulf Coast, not in ILLINOIS.
Radioactive Snails
I was looking for pictures to go along with my story about radioactive lead and I came across this one. It didn't really fit with the other story, but I couldn't pass it up. It is just too great!
Patti Smith: Dancing Barefoot
I was looking for stuff about the P-38, and I came across this video, which uses the song for a soundtrack. I like this song, and I had not heard it for a long time, so I looked around on You Tube for a bit to see if I could find a better video. I didn't. I don't care for "live" recordings, and I don't much care for watching the band play. I want some kind of show. I'm not sure there is any connection between what is going on in the video and the lyrics in the song, but I'm not sure there isn't either. Patti wrote the song, and I think this is her singing, but I cannot be sure.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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