Total Pillow Total Victory

The point of advertisement is to get you to want what they have to sell you. Total Pillow just ran a commercial on my idiot box. Near the end of it, my Darling Wife and I were agreeing that it looked like a nice thing to have, and #3 (lying on the floor in front of the TV) said "Can I have one of those?"

It looks like a good product, but my had is off to the people at Total Pillow for making a commercial that had everyone watching in my living room wanting one. I'm WAY to cheap to buy one (well, two for the price of one, plus two hot/cold packs that fit in the pillow, just pay separate shipping/handling fees) but I'll give them a free plug for doing such a good job on the television spot!

What's The Worst That Could Happen?

It is about to be legal for the Feds to come and get you, impound you, not charge, and interrogate you Guantanamo style. The President, big chiefy man-pants manly man that he is, has totally folded on his veto threat bluff.

"What then shall we do? A predatory regime of both parties has provided the citizenry with another reason to shoot first and ask questions later when a raid party comes to your home. . . . These unprincipled idiots are playing with matches in a powder magazine. And the first match of this new box just got struck." Sipsey Street Irregulars

We'll see. I can't help but think some good solid Federal agents are going to be leaving wives and children with the cold comfort of life insurance payouts because of this. I am reminded of a law that kills people in Houston. On certain highways at certain times of day, your car will be gone within six minutes. Tow trucks patrol the areas to keep the roads clear. Traffic moves. And a few years ago I heard of the first guy who was killed playing Frogger on a busy highway trying to get gasoline for his empty fuel tank, instead of catching a tow bill.

Sure and you're not an innocent man if you don a mask to disappear your fellow Americans . . . but eventually one of those matches is going to find a fuse, mark the words.

Quote of the Day 11/11/2011

As I was leaving for the day, at lunch time, I walked past 4 guys on the deck outside the break room. One of them asked where I was going . . .

"I gotta kids' party to go to - envy me!"

. . aaaaaaand then there were 5 guys laughing.

You Can Fight City Hall . . .

. . . but you WILL lose if the University of Texas brings a copyright infringement suit against you!

Today in the shop we had a particular piece of exercise equipment to market for resale. It came from UT and had not just the name but the oh-so-well-protected UT Longhorn logo on the sides. We had purchased it from the University, so we were pretty sure the sale would be recognized as legit by the UT legal staff. So we whistled past the graveyard a bit.

Talking about the possibility of winning in court against the University I was heard to say, among other things:

"We'll see who has deeper lawyer pockets. . . oh, wait . . . ."

"I'm pretty sure they could buy us with one day's worth of legal fees."

This machine is the thing a football player runs into with his shoulder and it measures his blocking/tackling power. It is missing the padded dummy, and the striking surface is a steel cylinder. We were talking about testing it, and Guido said to NP: "I'm gonna let you run into the steel pole by yourself first"

Quote of the Day 10/31/2011

We had some guests over tonight. The babies were sleeping and it was past "call the cops on the noisy neighbors" hour, so we sent two Zoos worth of children from the backyard into a bedroom to watch a movei. Out comes #1 and says:

"Hey Dad, do you know where the first aid kit is?"

A brief discussion was followed by another of the children, this one a boy, who ended up going back into the room fully justified in his belief that he was fine, no band-aids needed.

Quote of the Day 10/12/2011

"you should lubricate that before you hammer it into your nose" -me

... right before this happened.

Quote of the Day 10/17/2011

"You are absolutely right, I just called Barack Obama a jerk. And I did that, because he is a jerk." -Neal Boortz

No really Neal, don't hold back, what do you really think? The man has a way with words.

Quote of the Day 09/14/2011

“Liberal Bloggers React To New York Defeat By Pushing Rumor That Sarah Palin Slept With A Guy And Did Coke. Which is hilarious because they immediately dismissed the exact same rumor about Obama in 2008.”

Quote of the day blatantly stolen (fair use! fair use!) from the Instapundit link to the actual story.

Quote of the Day 08/02/2011

"Coming from an administration of proven international gunrunners, should we take that as a professional opinion?" -Mike Vanderboegh

We're all terrorists now, eh.

Yes, this is "just" foot-in-mouth Joe Biden. Unfortunately, he got sewed into President Obama's coat tails as assassination insurance, and the guy calling YOU a terrorist is also the Vice President of the United States.

Boehner Plan: Garbage

Gee, let's scrape $85B (average) per year out of a $1.4T deficit and call it a BFD, while not mentioning the fact that it cuts most of the Congress out of the decision-making process. Sounds good to me, eh?

And this is the LEAST worst of the alternatives the old guard elites in Washington, D.C. are considering.

Mark LeVin was in fine form this evening. As part of his upbraiding of the Republicans for failing to realize that they have to do what they can (but are afraid to) do, he compared the current debate to Washington suffering repeated setbacks in the US' war for independence. The Wall Street Journal, if it existed back then, would have been publishing editorials saying:

Let's declare victory . . . and surrender!

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Quote of the Day 07/27/2011 round II: The stooge running press interference for the President was asked where the President's plan is if he's so smaht. The response: Look I know that's the number one Republican Talking Point and the jerk was cut off mid-sentence with

"No, it's not a talking point, show us the plan!"

The President has no plan. He is waiting for Republicans to eat their own after the RINOs in leadership propose total garbage bills one after another, and hoping to come out on top of the pile of sh*t at the end of next November.

Quote of the Day 07/09/2011 (Irony Edition)

I of course age not, but it is interesting to see my children getting older -Me, this morning

They grow like amazing little people-weeds, and whisper that I am getting closer to my final reward every day. :sigh:

Quote of the Day 07/07/2011 (Translated)

President Obama: "everybody acknowledged that we have to get this done before the HARD deadline of august 2nd"

Translation: "I really really want to get this done before the Republicans go back to their home districts and get hammered by their constituents and come back and stonewall me big time"

There is no such thing as a "hard deadline of August 2nd." It is a desperation move to claim any such thing. God willing, the Republicans won't fall for it. You are praying for your country, aren't you?

Quote of the Day 06/15/2011

"It’s very insulting, and it means if he knows English, he needs to be speaking in English." -Chris Harris, Texas State Senator for (basically) Dallas

Senator Harris spoke for me just then. The dude has been here for several DECADES and he can't make remarks in English? That's a big F U to my State and to my country. YES it was insulting. If you don't agree, learn English and we'll talk about why you are wrong.

Quote of the Day 06/16/2011

Yes, another one.

"If that's not war, then nothing is war!" -Jeff Kuhner

Regarding President Obama denying he is waging a war on Libya by dropping bombs and sending CIA operatives into the country.

Quote of the Day 06-17-2011

I'll eat a lot more sh!t if I have a lot more bread to pad it with. -Listing Buddy

Regarding payment of bonuses at work, the lack thereof, and the amount of insanity one will tolerate.

Quote of the Day 06/07/2011

" . . . the stenographers in the state-controlled media . . . " -Rush Limbaugh

Ouch. Tell us what you really think about the independence and neutrality of the MSM, Rush.

Quote of the Day 07 June 2011

Really? Twice? -Uncle

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Sometimes analyses don't need much length to be brilliant.

Quote of the Day 03/17/2011

"I bet this is gonna be a lot worse than Chernobyl, at least Chernobyl blew up and that was it." -Private Insano

This displays a shameful lack of historical knowledge and awareness of current events. I heard it as I walked by the A.O. of one of my younger co-workers. I waited for that conversation to end (because PI is one of those people who has to be right AND have the last word), and went over to reassure my noobie he would be ok.

I got back to my desk and sent him to this Forbes article (with ads that take forever to finish loading before the article loads) and then mentioned that the emitted radiation, while higher than the legal exposure limits are still relatively low. Then I found a money quote from someone who does know what they're talking about:

"There is no way the Japanese plant will even closely compare to what happened in Chernobyl," -Alexander Sich, Assoc. Professor, Physics, Univ. of Steubenville

Relax already.

Quote of The Day 02/28/2011

"You’re not intelligent people." -Uncle

Quote of The Day 01/16/2011

The reason why someone like Daisy Khan can make the outrageous statement that "the era of extremism is over" is because ethnic cleansing, mass slaughter, Islamic supremacism and genocide is not extreme, but Islamic purity. -Pamela Gellar

She is referring to the slaughter in Iraq of 80 Christians during worship services, by peace-loving adherents to the Religion of Peace. Full story at Atlas Shrugs, with pictures. Pictures not suitable for viewing by pregnant women, children, or anyone with a weak stomach.

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P.S., It can happen here, and that's why "some people" carry guns in church.

P.P.S., Why didn't you hear about this on the nightly news? It happened MONTHS ago.