Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Lots of things just to record and remember
What is with these IRS lawyers - owe 140, and get off for 99k of that
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Fact: the Revenue of Google - FedEx, Mc Donalds, and Boing combined!
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Fact: One 1 in 5K druink druvers are caught
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Fact: Every candidae since Lincoln has had to carry OH to win
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Quote: George WIll - History repeats itself until the first time that it doesn't
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We have only seen Palin in skirts
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Check on Nuwave oven
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Vitamin B-12 for mind - liver and shellfish - what else
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U-Verse installation on 9/20 - remine Mick on the 18th
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Why do color codes n tv maps and other stuff NOT have a g\big contrast
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Quote: Dr. Phil: Shallow brooks make a lot of noise
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Quote: The longer it takes to introduce yourself, the less you have done
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Quote: ??? - Education is the civil rights of our timds
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Quote: Rush - Lieberman will now need folks to start his car, and tast his food
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Quote: Rush - Babies, guns and Jesus - hot damn!
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Cindy's McCains extensive humanitarian work all over the world
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Fact: the current Democratic Congress has the lowest approval rating ever.......lower than Bush
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Fact: More people watched the RNC speeches vs the Dems, AND they were broadcast of 4 fewer stations!
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Fact: Palin got more votes for Mayor of Wascila thatn Biden did for VP
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Fact: No incumbent / sitting member of Congress has beenn elected Pres since JFK
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Fact: When Ford challenged Carter to a debate in 11976, they were the first since 1960
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Fact: Only 2 Senators have moved directly from there to the Whitehouse - Harding and JFK & both were assisinated
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Quote: Huckabee - Barack Obama's Excellent Adventure to EU"
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Quote: Huckabee - I am not a Rep because I grew iup rich;; it is because I did not want to grow up waiting for the gov't to save me
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Fact: the Revenue of Google - FedEx, Mc Donalds, and Boing combined!
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Fact: One 1 in 5K druink druvers are caught
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Fact: Every candidae since Lincoln has had to carry OH to win
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Quote: George WIll - History repeats itself until the first time that it doesn't
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We have only seen Palin in skirts
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Check on Nuwave oven
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Vitamin B-12 for mind - liver and shellfish - what else
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U-Verse installation on 9/20 - remine Mick on the 18th
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Why do color codes n tv maps and other stuff NOT have a g\big contrast
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Quote: Dr. Phil: Shallow brooks make a lot of noise
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Quote: The longer it takes to introduce yourself, the less you have done
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Quote: ??? - Education is the civil rights of our timds
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Quote: Rush - Lieberman will now need folks to start his car, and tast his food
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Quote: Rush - Babies, guns and Jesus - hot damn!
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Cindy's McCains extensive humanitarian work all over the world
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Fact: the current Democratic Congress has the lowest approval rating ever.......lower than Bush
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Fact: More people watched the RNC speeches vs the Dems, AND they were broadcast of 4 fewer stations!
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Fact: Palin got more votes for Mayor of Wascila thatn Biden did for VP
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Fact: No incumbent / sitting member of Congress has beenn elected Pres since JFK
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Fact: When Ford challenged Carter to a debate in 11976, they were the first since 1960
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Fact: Only 2 Senators have moved directly from there to the Whitehouse - Harding and JFK & both were assisinated
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Quote: Huckabee - Barack Obama's Excellent Adventure to EU"
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Quote: Huckabee - I am not a Rep because I grew iup rich;; it is because I did not want to grow up waiting for the gov't to save me
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Politically Correct "Christmas Story"
Here it is folks............great!
Merry Christmas...........err, Happy Holidays? Whatever
Merry Christmas...........err, Happy Holidays? Whatever
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Can't this Election thing be Multiple Choice or something?
Ask yourself what dominates the news if you have following the candidates in the last few days or ANY days.
I have decided that I am exhausted (or angry?) trying to figure the answers to these types of questions:
What is a Christian? Is he / she Christian enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Morman? Is he Morman enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Muslim? Is he Muslim enough or too much and should I be scared?
Is he black enough? Can Oprah make him “more black” or create a new TV star?
All of those questions are the things that SHOULD scare us.
The real question is who is a leader. That is supposed to what we are trying to figure out. Instead, we spend a LOT of time, WAY too much time, micro analyzing each person’s religion or race and whether he has “enough” or to little of it. I don’t really know how to measure “enough.” BUT, I do know how to measure "too much” and that is where we are right now. The unfortunate part is that we still have a lot of months to go, and it will surely get worse. I thought we did away with all of this stuff when we did that Constitution thing? If this religion and race thing is suddenly on the table, can we also ask for a reexamination of women’s right to vote, slavery, bearing arms, freedom of speech and a few other things?
But, of Course, I have a plan. There is a better way to do this, and I propose the following alternatives:
OPTION 1 - “Selection by platform…….and nothing else.”
1. Randomly select 10 people, kidnap them and sequester them for the remainder of “election” season. They can be of any religion / non-religion, or ethnicity (I am still working on how we “randomly select” these people….but I will think of some lottery kind of thing based on registered voters…….or something. I also have to figure out a way that no one questions “Where’s Harry?” Details, details )
2. Have the 10 people reach consensus on the Top 10 Most Important Issues facing us. Just the issues….not their position, yet. At a minimum they must include these:
· National Health care
· Tax reform
· Iraq
· Education
· Environment
· Balance of Trade
. Immigration
.Oil Independence
.National Debt
. OPTOPIONAL - one of your choice
3. Next, have the group write 2 statements (opposing views) for each issue. One that reflects one side of the argument, and another that reflects the opposite view. This is done as a group, so that they each understand BOTH sides of each issue.
4. Have each of the 10 candidates (privately) examine both sides of each issue and select their position on each.
If you are folllowing along in this so far, we now have 10 people, who collectively agreed on the Top 10 Issues and then individually selected his / her position on each of them. Now each has a “platform” (so to speak,) to cenvey to us.......the voters.
5. Each candidate now creates a 4 hour Power Point presentation, at home by himself / herself without the aid of any “spin” folks or artists. Four hours was selected because it is approximately the time of a football game and we know that one’s attention span usually does not go beyond that
6. One, by one, the candidates gives his / her presentation over the course of 2 weeks that can be viewed on TV, the web, public places and then replayed as often as anyone wants a “repeat.” Each candidate, however, must wear something so that we cannot see his / her face, skin, nor determine the sex.( I am trying to figure out how to do this. A burka? I think not. Nor do I think that hoods would be a good idea. I am also still working on if / how we change the voice so no one knows if it is a man or a woman, but I KNOW we can figure out something. UPDATE: I have the perfect solution – every candidate has an avatar! Perfect! We all love cartoons! We just have to be sure to avoid any of that Teletubbies stuff)
7. Registered voters to the polls and vote as they do today. We count it up, see who wins, let the person come out of hiding and we go from there. IF the voters think that he / she is not handsome / pretty enough, we will just keep using the avatar! :)
This is really not a whole lot different politically speaking since we do not really know who the person is until after he is elected, huh?…………..oh, I guess after the election she can tell us what religion she is, only if she wants to
OPTION - 2
Dodge ball – Use steps 1 – 4 and then…………well, you know how dodge ball works
OPTION – 3
Musical Chairs - Use steps 1 – 4 and then……you know this one too
In any event, I think that ANY of my options will take less than a month. Who's in?
I have decided that I am exhausted (or angry?) trying to figure the answers to these types of questions:
What is a Christian? Is he / she Christian enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Morman? Is he Morman enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Muslim? Is he Muslim enough or too much and should I be scared?
Is he black enough? Can Oprah make him “more black” or create a new TV star?
All of those questions are the things that SHOULD scare us.
The real question is who is a leader. That is supposed to what we are trying to figure out. Instead, we spend a LOT of time, WAY too much time, micro analyzing each person’s religion or race and whether he has “enough” or to little of it. I don’t really know how to measure “enough.” BUT, I do know how to measure "too much” and that is where we are right now. The unfortunate part is that we still have a lot of months to go, and it will surely get worse. I thought we did away with all of this stuff when we did that Constitution thing? If this religion and race thing is suddenly on the table, can we also ask for a reexamination of women’s right to vote, slavery, bearing arms, freedom of speech and a few other things?
But, of Course, I have a plan. There is a better way to do this, and I propose the following alternatives:
OPTION 1 - “Selection by platform…….and nothing else.”
1. Randomly select 10 people, kidnap them and sequester them for the remainder of “election” season. They can be of any religion / non-religion, or ethnicity (I am still working on how we “randomly select” these people….but I will think of some lottery kind of thing based on registered voters…….or something. I also have to figure out a way that no one questions “Where’s Harry?” Details, details )
2. Have the 10 people reach consensus on the Top 10 Most Important Issues facing us. Just the issues….not their position, yet. At a minimum they must include these:
· National Health care
· Tax reform
· Iraq
· Education
· Environment
· Balance of Trade
. Immigration
.Oil Independence
.National Debt
. OPTOPIONAL - one of your choice
3. Next, have the group write 2 statements (opposing views) for each issue. One that reflects one side of the argument, and another that reflects the opposite view. This is done as a group, so that they each understand BOTH sides of each issue.
4. Have each of the 10 candidates (privately) examine both sides of each issue and select their position on each.
If you are folllowing along in this so far, we now have 10 people, who collectively agreed on the Top 10 Issues and then individually selected his / her position on each of them. Now each has a “platform” (so to speak,) to cenvey to us.......the voters.
5. Each candidate now creates a 4 hour Power Point presentation, at home by himself / herself without the aid of any “spin” folks or artists. Four hours was selected because it is approximately the time of a football game and we know that one’s attention span usually does not go beyond that
6. One, by one, the candidates gives his / her presentation over the course of 2 weeks that can be viewed on TV, the web, public places and then replayed as often as anyone wants a “repeat.” Each candidate, however, must wear something so that we cannot see his / her face, skin, nor determine the sex.( I am trying to figure out how to do this. A burka? I think not. Nor do I think that hoods would be a good idea. I am also still working on if / how we change the voice so no one knows if it is a man or a woman, but I KNOW we can figure out something. UPDATE: I have the perfect solution – every candidate has an avatar! Perfect! We all love cartoons! We just have to be sure to avoid any of that Teletubbies stuff)
7. Registered voters to the polls and vote as they do today. We count it up, see who wins, let the person come out of hiding and we go from there. IF the voters think that he / she is not handsome / pretty enough, we will just keep using the avatar! :)
This is really not a whole lot different politically speaking since we do not really know who the person is until after he is elected, huh?…………..oh, I guess after the election she can tell us what religion she is, only if she wants to
OPTION - 2
Dodge ball – Use steps 1 – 4 and then…………well, you know how dodge ball works
OPTION – 3
Musical Chairs - Use steps 1 – 4 and then……you know this one too
In any event, I think that ANY of my options will take less than a month. Who's in?
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
How Santa screwed the Pilgrims
This is a temporary draft of this.........but I wanted to get this out before Thanksgiving. I shall "polish" it later (and rewrite it 12 times. :)
Once upon a time, a group of people risked their lives and their futures to come across a VERY big ocean and took a chance on an unknown place.....sight unseen. We know these bravepeople as the Pilgrims. They arrived in Massachussetes, and all was good.
The Pilgrims made friends with the native inhabitants of the land and successfully coexisted, sharing new foods, planing techniques etc. All was good. Well, that 'successfully coexisted" with the native inhabitants" part would not last, but it was still OK right then.
At the time of their first harvest, in the Fall (when else? huh?) the Pilgrims had a special day to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, and give thanks. They invited their friends...the native inhabitants. It was a very satisfying event where everyone could share the harvest, fellowship. All was good.........and I guess they decided to call it Thanksgiving somewhere along the line.
Years, go by......years and years, and years. THEN, Santa arrived. He was invited to help people celebrate Christmas. He was a marketing agent" so to speak to get people to spend money for stuff to give as gifts for Christmas. But, that holiday was over a month after the (now) traditional Thanksgiving holiday. Not a problem at all. Each holiday had its own time and purpose. And all was good................
But, THEN Santa decided to take over. Why should that Thanksgiving thing screw up the amount of time that Christmas had to sell stuff. Why did he need to shut up until AFTER Thansgiving. Seemed to him like it violated his civil right of free speech. He wanted to be able to talk about Christmas, whenever he wanted. BAD Santa! SUre he looks happy and jolley, but remember he is a media creation. The Pilgrims existed; Santa does not. BUT, since there was a direct correlation between time and money, Santa decided that the "buying season" for Christmas had to expand to "help the economy" and "keep workers employed. " (I guess he meant he workers in China, of course. Do you think Santa might be Chinese? If so, we have to change thos pictures we see of him everywhere. )
We are now at the brink of insanity. First Santa said that he would start his "sales cycle" the day AFTER Thanksgiving......now the busiest shopping day for all Pilgrims. Right up against Thanksgiving. That is when the older Pilgrims started to get screwed and scared about Santa. No one liked their Thanksgiving holiday anymore. The new class of "mall Pilgrims" just saw it as a "day that they had to make a lot of food and hang out with each other. The new mall Pilgrims could not understand the point of doing all of that and not even getting a present! Besides, we really need the time that is taken for that "worthless holiday" to shop for Christmas. And all was bad...........from then on................
I think that we should get together with the native inhabitants,and change Thanksgiving to February, when it can have its own time for appreciation of its original intent. If we moved it, do you think anyone would miss it......or even notice?
Once upon a time, a group of people risked their lives and their futures to come across a VERY big ocean and took a chance on an unknown place.....sight unseen. We know these bravepeople as the Pilgrims. They arrived in Massachussetes, and all was good.
The Pilgrims made friends with the native inhabitants of the land and successfully coexisted, sharing new foods, planing techniques etc. All was good. Well, that 'successfully coexisted" with the native inhabitants" part would not last, but it was still OK right then.
At the time of their first harvest, in the Fall (when else? huh?) the Pilgrims had a special day to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, and give thanks. They invited their friends...the native inhabitants. It was a very satisfying event where everyone could share the harvest, fellowship. All was good.........and I guess they decided to call it Thanksgiving somewhere along the line.
Years, go by......years and years, and years. THEN, Santa arrived. He was invited to help people celebrate Christmas. He was a marketing agent" so to speak to get people to spend money for stuff to give as gifts for Christmas. But, that holiday was over a month after the (now) traditional Thanksgiving holiday. Not a problem at all. Each holiday had its own time and purpose. And all was good................
But, THEN Santa decided to take over. Why should that Thanksgiving thing screw up the amount of time that Christmas had to sell stuff. Why did he need to shut up until AFTER Thansgiving. Seemed to him like it violated his civil right of free speech. He wanted to be able to talk about Christmas, whenever he wanted. BAD Santa! SUre he looks happy and jolley, but remember he is a media creation. The Pilgrims existed; Santa does not. BUT, since there was a direct correlation between time and money, Santa decided that the "buying season" for Christmas had to expand to "help the economy" and "keep workers employed. " (I guess he meant he workers in China, of course. Do you think Santa might be Chinese? If so, we have to change thos pictures we see of him everywhere. )
We are now at the brink of insanity. First Santa said that he would start his "sales cycle" the day AFTER Thanksgiving......now the busiest shopping day for all Pilgrims. Right up against Thanksgiving. That is when the older Pilgrims started to get screwed and scared about Santa. No one liked their Thanksgiving holiday anymore. The new class of "mall Pilgrims" just saw it as a "day that they had to make a lot of food and hang out with each other. The new mall Pilgrims could not understand the point of doing all of that and not even getting a present! Besides, we really need the time that is taken for that "worthless holiday" to shop for Christmas. And all was bad...........from then on................
I think that we should get together with the native inhabitants,and change Thanksgiving to February, when it can have its own time for appreciation of its original intent. If we moved it, do you think anyone would miss it......or even notice?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Significant remembrance
I know that some of my wishes are / were strange, but I have bee right before! When I graduated from 8th grade in New Jersey, I wanted a tape recorder. In those days @ 1962 , there were only reel to reel recorders. l am sure that this was a big $$ sacrifice for our family, but,I got one and I have never forgotten that. It was a REALLY big thing for them and for me. Ironically,with that recorder, within 6 months, I vividly remember recording the enitre weekend of 11/22/963 when Kennedy was killed in Dallas, TX. It is ironic (again) that years later in 1976, I moved to Dallas, and have been here for the past 30+ years. I love Dallas, but none of us of my age (60) will forget that weekend, nor the announcemt on the PA system at school, the 4 day weekend...............nor will I ever forget mu beloved tape recorder. Thank you, Mommy and Daddy.
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