(With thanks to Zoo who did a great job in my high ate us) "20-Year-Old Missing After Heavy Rains, Flooding in Ark."--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 15 Noah should keep better track of his sons! "Town Searching for Police Chief"--headline, Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Jan. 12 You know you are in trouble when even the Police Chief gets lost! "Exploding Pumps Recalled"--headline, Health24.com, Jan. 12 "Ah, the blow up so young!" "ASEAN Leaders Agree to Put Teeth Into Group"...
(With thanks to Zoo who did a great job in my high ate us) "20-Year-Old Missing After Heavy Rains, Flooding in Ark."--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 15 Noah should keep better track of his sons! "Town Searching for Police Chief"--headline, Concord (N.H.) Monitor, Jan. 12 You know you are in trouble when even the Police Chief gets lost! "Exploding Pumps Recalled"--headline, Health24.com, Jan. 12 "Ah, the blow up so young!" "ASEAN Leaders Agree to Put Teeth Into Group"...
Shades of DynaMaso! Yes, today was spent trying to piece together a broken story of a dead hard drive at work! No warning, just bleeh! And all my settings went to the dogs! Fortunately not a lot of data was lost. Just some archived email messages (with "The Captain" gone, I will probably not need them), my favorites (now that really hurt!) cookies, and Arrrgggggg!!!!!! The damn time sheets and evaluations of my direct reports! (Fortunately, the HR have them, but ...
For those of you unfamiliar with this story, it is very interesting. Apparently a Cambodian woman, kidnapped by a feral man about 18 years ago, has been living in the jungles of Cambodia all that time. So much so, she has lost her capacity to speak languages, and is afraid of virtually her own shadow. It really caught my attention, and I have been following it. Her father, ever so grateful to have her back, is trying to get her back into society. What society? ...
Is the title shocking? Think about it. When you think about it, the statement is a truism. No one is saying that half of all children are stupid. That half of all children are morons. But the simple fact is that one takes the total sample, adds it up and divides by the number of the population. That is an average. And while one may argue that the average is not the median (the median is the true mid point of the population), with a sample size large enou...
Ok, the year is yet young, but this has got to be the biggest non-story. After preening and primping for the last 6 years, Hillary has finally tossed her bonnet into the 08 Presidential ring. And the MSM treats it like the second coming of Christ. Oh well, I guess weekends are slow news days. Because this should have been a footnote on page A-8, since it has been reported since she won in 2000. Ho-Hum.
As many of you may know, today is the birthday of Edgar Allen Poe - the greatest writer of the 19th century. For the last 58 years, a man has put a rose and a bottle of cognac on his grave on his birthday. Everyone has respected this man's privacy and no one has tried to find out who he is. But this year, the news has adopted a name for the man. The Poe Toaster! Sounds like a breakfast food. "Mom, can I have another Poe Toaster?" WTF? Why cant they just acknow...
Seems that the land of milk and honey is not so serene when it comes to breeding blood thirsty terrorists. Or not. I guess since Abu Usamah at Thahabi has not blown up any buildings, his rants do not qualify him as a terrorist. But then again someone who is advocating: calls for the public crucifixion of all "kuffar" and says they should be "left there to bleed to death for three days." And he regularly exhorts worshippers at the Green Lane Masjid, or mosque, in B...
Apparently the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) likes to trash the deeds and memory of great men. Just Monday they likened Martin Luther King to Robert Mugabe. There is no question that MLK was no saint. It is hard to be a mortal man and be perfect. But he had a vision - a dream - that America does try to emulate in many ways today. And like another great man, Mahatma Ghandi, he wanted to enact social change through peaceful means, and not t...
"Scientist Works to Predict Space Weather"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 2 The Forecast for today is Dark. Followed by gradual dark. "Police Search for Boyfriend Who Left Girls Alone"--headline, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 4 Shouldn't they be looking for the ones that DONT leave them alone? "Coroner Says Student's Fall From Tower a Mystery"--headline, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 4 Isaac Newton would disagree. "Wash. School Shooting Called 'Senseless' "--headl...
"Scientist Works to Predict Space Weather"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 2 The Forecast for today is Dark. Followed by gradual dark. "Police Search for Boyfriend Who Left Girls Alone"--headline, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 4 Shouldn't they be looking for the ones that DONT leave them alone? "Coroner Says Student's Fall From Tower a Mystery"--headline, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 4 Isaac Newton would disagree. "Wash. School Shooting Called 'Senseless' "--headl...
WTF? OK, this clown does not know poop from shinola. And he is really as dumb as a stump! But anyone with any iota of an idea of history knows that in 1607, a ship (the Godspeed) sailed from London and established a settlement on the new Continent. Now called America (because Columbus was too stupid to understand it was not India). But EXCUSE THE HELL OUT OF ME! That ship carried no slaves. It was not a slaver ship. It was a bunch of rubes seeking gol...
There is an old joke about a farmer's daughter (they all begin that way) and a traveling salesman. The joke goes that the farmer lets the salesman stay the night, but he is not to touch his daughter. And to make sure he does not, he puts eggs all around his daughter in her bed. Well, as it goes, the salesman cannot resists, busts all the eggs and then realizes he is a dead man! But being a traveling glue salesman, he runs out to his car, gets some glue and glues all the e...
There is an old joke about a farmer's daughter (they all begin that way) and a traveling salesman. The joke goes that the farmer lets the salesman stay the night, but he is not to touch his daughter. And to make sure he does not, he puts eggs all around his daughter in her bed. Well, as it goes, the salesman cannot resists, busts all the eggs and then realizes he is a dead man! But being a traveling glue salesman, he runs out to his car, gets some glue and glues all the e...
Seriously. They cost what, a few bucks? And they fail almost without fail! So what are they good for? Take them down and they die! I was listening to one of the fill ins on a talk show and he was ranting about them. A caller said the reason is that the leads are cheap (ok, so are the lights) and that the reason they fail is they corrode so fast. Given how many we replaced this year, and how many failed, I think he is right. These Christmas lights are ...