AIG Partied Hearty On Taxpayer Dollars In 2008

For that special company who just doled out $1 million dollars or more bonuses to 73 executives.  Straight from taxpayer bailout funds.  American International Group. 

Just a little reminder of what AIG executives were doing last year.    They celebrated by spending half a million dollars for a single week’s play at a single posh spa hotel in California.

Ralston Purina Meow Mix Commercial

A little diversion from the tumultous current times.

Purina Meow Mix commercial from about 1982.  Sing along.  Lyrics and melody for the most lyrically challenged. 

Purina meowmix meow mix cat food

February 21, 2007

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Whoa!  Beannachta file padraig oraibha!   St. Patrick’s Day blessing.

How to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Like an Irishman

March 09, 2009

President Knew AIG Would Takes Bonuses From Bail Out Taxpayer Money

The utter disgrace.  AIG for doling out bonuses to executives for the farce of a business they call themselves requiring a tax bailout.  And President Barack Obama for keeping that information hush hush from the public for months, and in the next crisis of the opportunity moment to make himself look grand, promising to go after the hypocrisy.   Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Nancy Pelosi Gives Cause For Concern

Email in circulation.

You know it’s got to rub millions of nerves raw, when something like this starts making the rounds.

“Nancy Pelosi.  Speaker of the House.  www.speaker.gov.” Image courtesy of http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/jmOoexF2l6h/Speaker+Nancy+Pelosi+Holds+Weekly+News+Conference/JE4av0MAqKl/Nancy+Pelosi.

Pelosi Flies In Style, Major Media Ignores.  This certainly has generated a lot of buzz. An email had the following to say about the Speaker of the House’s traveling requirements.

Morphed Firearm For Liberals

And yet another clever image morphed into something else by a computer wizard.  Over at Canada Free Press.

Firearms for Liberals

I think I have found the solution to the problem.

“Approved for use by Liberals and Democrats.  Single shot available but not recommended.
Image courtesy of http://www.canadafreepress.com/.

F Word Triggers Arrests In Galveston

It starts with an `F’ and ends in two arrests at the Houston Chronicle alerts us to the smack down some folks got from some public profanity in La Marque, Galveston, Texas.

For the second time within the past eight months, a person using the word during private conversations in public places — once at a Wal-Mart in La Marque and then at a Mexican restaurant in Galveston — have been taken into custody and cited for disorderly conduct.

Huh?  The F word in a PRIVATE conversation in a public place can get you busted in La Marque?

Skin Tape Bandage Signals Pending Sun Burn

The plaster that warns you about staying too long in the sun … by going red before you do at the Daily Mail.  Another truly practical device for the avid sun bather.  So does this mean skin cancer related to sun exposure can be eradicated?  Possibly.

No Blind Spot Driving Mirror

How many times has a surprise been waiting for you in that lane you are just dying to change into, but  the surprise auto from nowhere mysteriously instantly appears there instead?

Well, fret no more.  Now you too can have panoramic rear view mirror sight while you drive along your favorite road or expressway.

Make those blind spots disappear and your driving experience more secure.  Click the image to get the mega view.

“The No Blind Spot Mirror”
Image courtesy of http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74978.asp.

See:

• http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74978.asp

Newsbeat Odd Box March 12, 2009

Check out the week’s latest weird videos.  BBC Newsbeat March 12, 2009 video.

• Conch shell blowing 47th annual event.
• Sell a village in Linkenholt Hampshire, England for 25 million.
• Children ages 2 and 6 years with pet pythons.
• Insured coffee taster tongue for 13 million pounds.
• Young police officers in West Yorkshire, England tackle parent’s offenses.
• 300 hour community hour service for tastelessly devouring lettuce at work.
• Tattoo festival in Thailand.
• Chippendale men stir the breakfast circuit.
• Dental procedures preceded by relaxing spa.
• Deer jumping beer fun in a liquor store in Pennsylvania – but they didn’t drink a drop of beer!

See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7940000/7940934.stm