Is it as Bad as They Say?

The news headlines are in.   The panic presses have been smoking with ill tidings. Apparently in luxury items we did not buy like we should have.  Supposedly in this day of deflating stock portfolios, home values taking on water rapidly, and a wee bit o’ uncertainty about our jobs … well, we failed people. Drops [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody. If you’re like me, you’re stuffing yourself silly on sugar cookies, eggnog, and braunschweiger. And regretting what pounds may come when we shuffle onto our mortal scales… Have no fear, a doctor is using or justly earned flab to offset your (and his) carbon buttprint.  Using liposuction fat as biodiesel. I like [...]

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Last Pupdate in ’08 and Last Minute Shopping

Update: Say what you will of Bush, but he does care.  Plus the WSJ had an article some time back that I saved, and I saved it so it could not be forgotten as he leaves office and the Obamessaiah moves in.  (PDF file below)  Don’t get me wrong, he’s done a lot of stuff [...]

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An Elected Aristocracy that the Electorate Cannot Reach…

I leave it to you to be suitably outraged.  First, I present to you a picture of Congressman Barney Frank, taking a much needed break. With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise By Jordy Yager Posted: 12/17/08 05:41 PM [ET] A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this [...]

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Christmas is for Engineers, Too.

UPDATE:  My guess is that the bankruptcy route was not acceptable because they had no idea how to make it work.  Or they felt they couldn’t make it work and wanted taxpayers to take the risk.  Who knows? I’d like to have seen them at least try.  But no, gotta shut down for a month. [...]

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That’s a load off my mind… (and, Less Than Zero)

Whew.  Lucky for all of us, the investors screwed over in the Madoff financial ponzi scheme may get government protection. Those of us facing job and home loss could use some good news, and seeing our beloved billionaires get some relief from their pummeling losses just brightens my cold coal black soulless heart. No, really… [...]

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Uh Oh. Somebody changed Uncle Al’s meds again, didn’t they?

Wanna know how Obama feels about globular worming? “The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for [...]

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The Moooooon.

Update: Un-American?  My governor, or rather, my state’s governor thinks that voting against the bailout is un-American. HUH? December 12, 2008 Mich. Gov.: Vote Against Auto Bailout “Un-American” @ 11:18 am by Michael O’Brien Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) said it was “un-American” for senators to have voted against approving a bailout of troubled automakers [...]

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UN Rides in on a White Horse – Thanks Handsome Strangers!

Thank God for the UN – if it weren’t for the UN to save our butts, we’d be in trouble. Look how they have taken the lead by proving (by fiat, no less) that Globular Worming is real. Another fine Netizen has seen the light, the (soft) spoken wisdom of AlGore, the one who paved [...]

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Bailouts are undeserved, except just a few instances…

HERE is a guy who I’d say deserves to be given a little something – not because he is entitled, or a victim, or clamoring… but for his amazing attitude and unwillingness to victimize the pilot. A Korean immigrant whose family was killed when an F-18 crashed into his house returned home to survey the [...]

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Kangaroos, Camels, and Koalas – Oh My!

I know this is in the news but it’s too fun to pass up… Australians urged to eat camels – to protect the environment. The report in part says: Australians were urged Tuesday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by [...]

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We’re All Gonna Die. Again. Revisited. Again.

Ask me how I felt about the notion 24 hours ago…   Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper was running through my head with great muchness recently.   I’d have said “Bring it on, just two more steps and I’m there, baby.” So, four days later and 10 lbs lighter, I’m feeling sorta human again.  Food [...]

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Well… *barf*… I guess… *baaaarf*…

Sorry folks… out for today, perhaps tomorrow.  Food poisoning, rotovirus, or I’ve been poisoned by Cruel Wife for my many millions – all possible reasons, I guess. Except I don’t have millions.  If that’s the cause it must mean she just hates me.  Not unreasonable… So, before my intestines explode, I’m going to sign off, [...]

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