The blogosphere rejoices! I saw this at Captain of a Crew of One, who saw it at Irons in the Fire, who saw it at Investor's Business Daily.
Remember how Obama was standing behind the (legally) ousted President of Honduras? Well somebody in the BHO administration must have tripped over a used newspaper actually describing what went down, and we are officially no longer calling for Zelaya's reinstatement.
That doesn't me we have to like it though, you doodyheads!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
New Michael Jackson Movie?
Gag me.
The radio news said they might be using footage from the last rehearsals MJ did, to make a movie. About what, I said, "The Final Days of Michael Jackson?"
Excuse me while I go vomit in the other room.
The radio news said they might be using footage from the last rehearsals MJ did, to make a movie. About what, I said, "The Final Days of Michael Jackson?"
Excuse me while I go vomit in the other room.
I Have GOT To Get A Radiant Barrier In My Attic!
In Texas, it gets warm. We've had around 50 days this year over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and several over 105º.
In my house, we like to keep it around 76º for the sake of inhabitant comfort. As my wife is a fine specimen of that ever-so-rare gem, a Homemaker, that means I want it to be 76º during the peak afternoon heat.
Our air conditioner was made in 1986, and it shows sometimes. When it's 105º out, it's 80º inside, if it's sunny. That's a 25º differential temperature and nothing to sniff at, but still mildly uncomfortable. This is America and we like 24/7 comfort! Today it was 100º and cloudy and the thing had no difficulty keeping the inside temperature down . . . until the clouds baked off. Then it rose to 78º pretty quick.
I have GOT to get that radiant barrier up. Being both broke and handy, it will be a DIY job. In the attic. When it's 130º up there. Ugh. But if it keeps the family comfy, it's worth an afternoon or two of hassle.
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Update: Nice try, local business guy, but I don't allow advertisements on my little corner of the Intertubes, even in comments. I especially don't allow unpaid advertisements from a company I never heard of. But thanks for reading.
In my house, we like to keep it around 76º for the sake of inhabitant comfort. As my wife is a fine specimen of that ever-so-rare gem, a Homemaker, that means I want it to be 76º during the peak afternoon heat.
Our air conditioner was made in 1986, and it shows sometimes. When it's 105º out, it's 80º inside, if it's sunny. That's a 25º differential temperature and nothing to sniff at, but still mildly uncomfortable. This is America and we like 24/7 comfort! Today it was 100º and cloudy and the thing had no difficulty keeping the inside temperature down . . . until the clouds baked off. Then it rose to 78º pretty quick.
I have GOT to get that radiant barrier up. Being both broke and handy, it will be a DIY job. In the attic. When it's 130º up there. Ugh. But if it keeps the family comfy, it's worth an afternoon or two of hassle.
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Update: Nice try, local business guy, but I don't allow advertisements on my little corner of the Intertubes, even in comments. I especially don't allow unpaid advertisements from a company I never heard of. But thanks for reading.
It's A Conspiracy!
Apparently there is a stomach bug going around Central Texas, laying people out for a day and making them feel puny for a week. I caught it!
Night before last, I woke up every hour on the hour. My Darling Wife asked me what for, and I told her to check the time, because that's all I did before going back to sleep.
Last night, I woke up every hour and a half to two hours, for the same purpose. Then I noticed a pattern: When the blankets are pulled off of me and I'm pushed off to the last 15" wide strip on my side of our queen sized bed, I wake up. Note: I'm wider than 15" at the shoulders.
When I got up this morning, I felt worse than last night when I went to bed. I called in and told WM I was going to miss at least the first few hours of work, and went back to bed. And wouldn't you know it, a hair over two hours after she left for the gym with the zoo, my Darling Wife comes back & makes noise, waking me up again!
Cliffs: I haven't had 3 hours' sleep (one REM cycle) in 2.5 days now.
I did get a little more rest and I'm trying my stomach to see if it will let me stay out of bed before heading out to work. I give me even odds and I give God thanks for a job where I can just not show up on a phone call's notice.
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Update later the same day: I thought I would be ok, then I put a shirt on. No dice. When I lost the heat radiation surfaces on my chest, stomach, and back, my energy meter started falling sharply. Sorry boss, but it's going to have to wait until I can muster more than 2 hours of sleep all together. :(
Night before last, I woke up every hour on the hour. My Darling Wife asked me what for, and I told her to check the time, because that's all I did before going back to sleep.
Last night, I woke up every hour and a half to two hours, for the same purpose. Then I noticed a pattern: When the blankets are pulled off of me and I'm pushed off to the last 15" wide strip on my side of our queen sized bed, I wake up. Note: I'm wider than 15" at the shoulders.
When I got up this morning, I felt worse than last night when I went to bed. I called in and told WM I was going to miss at least the first few hours of work, and went back to bed. And wouldn't you know it, a hair over two hours after she left for the gym with the zoo, my Darling Wife comes back & makes noise, waking me up again!
Cliffs: I haven't had 3 hours' sleep (one REM cycle) in 2.5 days now.
I did get a little more rest and I'm trying my stomach to see if it will let me stay out of bed before heading out to work. I give me even odds and I give God thanks for a job where I can just not show up on a phone call's notice.
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Update later the same day: I thought I would be ok, then I put a shirt on. No dice. When I lost the heat radiation surfaces on my chest, stomach, and back, my energy meter started falling sharply. Sorry boss, but it's going to have to wait until I can muster more than 2 hours of sleep all together. :(
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sure, Why Not?
Texas is looking to replace some of its local police lake patrol boats with money from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Question: is ANYTHING a local concern anymore? Whatever happened to paying for your own iced cream at the corner store? Do we really need to send our taxpayer money through D.C., give them a cut, and then spend it here? Really?
Question: is ANYTHING a local concern anymore? Whatever happened to paying for your own iced cream at the corner store? Do we really need to send our taxpayer money through D.C., give them a cut, and then spend it here? Really?
Madness @ Work!
Because it seemed like a good idea at the time, IT Guy put his athletic supporter on Warehouse Manager's telephone handset and left it there.
Later, they were heard to be 'rasslin' in the front of the building.
Strictly after working hours, of course.
Later, they were heard to be 'rasslin' in the front of the building.
Strictly after working hours, of course.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Obama Takes Another Page Out Of Hitler's Playbook
Don't like vociferous public dissent? Just have your thugs BEAT THE PROTESTERS! Send them to the hospital, sure, that'll shut 'em up!
Tip to President Obama: I'm a lot more restrained than a lot of my associates, and I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to dissuade them from shooting you if you keep this up. The people I know are a lot less trigger-happy than some of the people I know of. I still hold out a slim hope for our country, but public beatings of opponents of your agenda is NOT the path to peaceful "change."
WE REMEMBER what happened in Europe, starting in the 1930s, and we don't care to see it repeated here. Recall that America was FOUNDED on murderous rebellion against tyranny. It's little wonder Obama hates the private citizen's right to be armed with military weapons: he knows he's making more and more of them want to use them ON HIM.
Tip to President Obama: I'm a lot more restrained than a lot of my associates, and I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to dissuade them from shooting you if you keep this up. The people I know are a lot less trigger-happy than some of the people I know of. I still hold out a slim hope for our country, but public beatings of opponents of your agenda is NOT the path to peaceful "change."
WE REMEMBER what happened in Europe, starting in the 1930s, and we don't care to see it repeated here. Recall that America was FOUNDED on murderous rebellion against tyranny. It's little wonder Obama hates the private citizen's right to be armed with military weapons: he knows he's making more and more of them want to use them ON HIM.
Dead Cat Bounce
I didn't know what that phrase really meant, until I started seeing all the bottom-callers saying this recession is over.
a) it's a depression
b) it's not over, it's getting less-bad if you look at some metrics.
c) the numbers' "turning up" is based on speculation or greed, not fundamentals.
d) a cat fell far enough to die when it hit the ground. Now we are watching it bounce.
e) it will come back down, when the stimulus stimulation wears off.
I thought I had posted about this weeks ago, but I guess not. Stand by to stand by, and BOHICA. This economic depression is not over.
a) it's a depression
b) it's not over, it's getting less-bad if you look at some metrics.
c) the numbers' "turning up" is based on speculation or greed, not fundamentals.
d) a cat fell far enough to die when it hit the ground. Now we are watching it bounce.
e) it will come back down, when the stimulus stimulation wears off.
I thought I had posted about this weeks ago, but I guess not. Stand by to stand by, and BOHICA. This economic depression is not over.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Hillary Clinton Supports Health Care Dissenters!
. . . oh wait, no, she wants to cram it down your throat still.
But it is nice to live in the internet age, when we only have to go a few clicks down a series of tubes to hear her say:
Note: when she said that, nobody was calling the Demicans unpatriotic. Substitute "against the President" for "not patriotic" and it applies directly to the current debate over Obama's health care system destruction bill. She was correct, if a little strident, back then, and remains correct now, as far as this quote goes.
But it is nice to live in the internet age, when we only have to go a few clicks down a series of tubes to hear her say:
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."
Note: when she said that, nobody was calling the Demicans unpatriotic. Substitute "against the President" for "not patriotic" and it applies directly to the current debate over Obama's health care system destruction bill. She was correct, if a little strident, back then, and remains correct now, as far as this quote goes.
Tummy Yuck: We Has It.
We're practicing for life under Obamacare, so we haven't gone to the doctor for a diagnosis, but for a week or so now, several members of my immediate family have had some sort of ailment that causes sour stomach and . . . other symptoms. It's worse when it's hot outside (yesterday was 105º) and when we're not rested (I stayed up till 02:00 today) and I'm really feeling it today, so I've called in sick. Thank God for my Darling Wife, who puts up with me gracefully when I am sick.
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