Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
What??
Before I watch this I have to do something important; like wash my socks; or so I wont have to ask myself, how do I get that hour back.
Configuring New Laptop
Setting up my new Dell Vostro, wanted a Mac Book, too much money, it does what I want it to. Getting it to look and feel like I want it to; you know, like when you move into a new house or buy a new car or arrange your new 'man cave'. Or, break in a new wife; that's a lot harder, if not impossible. Been there, Tried that.
Well, onto the doable project.
Well, onto the doable project.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Walker Re Do
Just went to the local Scott Walker headquarters to find out when to come in to start verifying recall signatures and found out it will be a few more days before they get the sheets from the GAB so that we will be able to get started. They got so many more signatures than they thought they would that it will take them a lot longer to scan them into their system. Getting more signatures does not nessisarally mean that there are more people signing but just duplicates. The Accountability Board said about a month ago that it was legal to sign more than once, in so many words, they were saying 'sign as many times as you want' with the provissal that only one signature would be counted; which would also put more work on the Walker verifiers. In other words, clug up the works. So we have our work cut out for us, to get the number down to something more reasonable. I'm sure they will still have enough signatures for the recall but if we can find a lot of fraudulent signatures to make them look like fools we will be doing our job. Then on to crushing them in the unnecessary and very expensive do over.
15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican
During the practically endless series of Republican debates, we have heard almost every question imaginable asked to Republican candidates – if by every question imaginable, you mean horribly slanted, often irrelevant questions designed to make them look bad and help Obama. We've heard questions about contraceptives, religion, Newt's angry ex-wife, Gardasil, etc., etc., etc. So, what would happen if the mainstream media treated Barack Obama the exact same way that they treat Republicans? The questions might sound a little something like this.
Friday, January 20, 2012
The Worst White House Aide
via • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI of the WeeklyStandard
If for nothing else, Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas will be remembered for an anecdote from 2010. After he spent hours disputing an allegation in the French media that Michelle Obama thought life in the White House was “hell,” press secretary Robert Gibbs encountered senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. She told him the first lady was unhappy with his work. Gibbs exploded in a rage, informing Jarrett that she didn’t “know what the f— you’re talking about” and that if Mrs. Obama was displeased, well, “f— her too.” Subsequent relations between the senior adviser and press secretary were strained. Gibbs told Kantor he stopped taking Jarrett seriously “as an adviser to the president of the United States.”
Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett, and President Obama at West Point, December 2009
It’s about time. Many have wondered—and the Washington Post asked last year—“What, exactly, does Valerie Jarrett do?” No one has a clear answer. Whatever she does, the U.S. taxpayer pays her $172,200 a year to do it.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
» Margaret Thatcher on Income Inequality
This video clip has appeared on other blogs but it’s worth posting again.
Even in defeat, Tim Tebow is an exemplary young man
via Bookworm on Jan 18 2012 at 4:04 pm | Filed under: Uplifting stories
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this here before, but my dog is perfect. Her perfection isn’t always obvious to the uninitiated. Those who don’t know what’s really important might think that, because she’s a mutt, she’s a little goofy looking. They may feel that her habit of slipping on the kitchen floor and crashing into kitchen cabinets bespeaks a lack of that grace and elegance that the best dogs should have. And maybe, just maybe, there are some who think that, because she doesn’t do tricks (no rolling, no shaking hands) she’s not too bright. As I’ve said, the people who see only those traits — traits I find endearing — are missing her essence.
My dog is perfect because she is quite possibly the nicest dog in the world, which is exactly what one wants in a family pet. She adores people, but in a diffident way that precludes aggressive friendliness. She stands there, face smiling, tail wagging gently, signalling to people that she would be very happy to engage with them, but allowing them to make the first move. No wonder the little girls in the neighborhood are her biggest fans. She’s tidy, obedient, cuddly, playful, etc., etc. Where it matters, she’s the best.
What does this have to do with Tim Tebow?
Well, Tim Tebow didn’t win his last football game. It was a biggie, and his team had a fairly ignominious defeat. That allowed the usual crowd to talk about the fact that, as a quarterback, he’s still immature (which, given his age and short career falls into the “well, duh” category), that he’s got a bizarre playing technique, that he’s too slow to react, etc. He is imperfect and, the naysayers imply, unworthy of the attention lavished upon him.
These naysayers, of course, are missing the point. Well, I agree that Tim Tebow is not perfect, because no human being is, he is an exemplary young man in all the areas that matter. He is deeply kind, humble, generous and, as we learned today, truly stalwart. Despite sustaining very painful injuries after this weekend’s game was already good and lost, Tebow did not give up and, instead, played through the pain:
“I just wanted to show character. You just continue to fight and it doesn’t change who you are, how you play, how you go out there, you should be the same at all times,” Tebow said. “That’s what I wanted to show, it didn’t matter if it was the first play or the last play or you were down by 42. I was going to be the same player and I was still going to give everything I have. Because that’s all I have to give.”
There is a fundamental decency in that statement that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with whether Tebow ever wins another football game. It is enough that this season placed Tebow in the public eye so that as many people as possible can hear his message. Certainly, his message his about his faith, and I don’t want to belittle that core component of his personality. To limit what he offers to faith, however, is to do him disservice. His approach to his faith means that, in his conduct, he sends a larger message about the human spirit, and this is a message that should reach all young people, whether they share his faith or not.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia was my my Home Page, not anymore. The freedictionary.com is my new Home Page, from now on.
Monday, January 16, 2012
After the 'Listing' blues
We have had our house up for sale and like a lot of others, no takers. So we thought we would wait till spring to try again. We have done this before because, it seems, nobody wants our nice little house; so we know the routine. Every day at 800 am or after the real estate calls start coming in trying to get us listed with them. Today was a little different, one called in at 7:45; must be a real go-getter, wants to be the first. If we were smart we probably should go with this guy, he might be the kind that gets out there and beats the bushes for prospects or keeps calling back to people that have seen the house. I personally don't like pests but what's the saying 'nice guys finish last'.
On second thought maybe we'll try Tebowing!
Jessica Hagy, 'indexed'
One of Jessica Hagys' Index Cards
They are all good but I like the first one best.
A=Lust / AB=Edible Undies. Hey, men are like that but maybe you might be more profound.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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