Joke of the day.
Apparently George W. Bush will be honored by Barack H. Obama, according to an email in circulation. Also at US Message Board.
The Obama Administration will be honoring the 43rd President of the United States by naming the gap between the tectonic plates beneath Haiti after him.
The area will now officially be referred to as “Bush’s Fault.”
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Cupid deviates from the standard on Valentine’s Day.
October 14, 2008
Valentine’s Day can sometimes be an amorous day, and sometimes not so romantic. See two vantage points.
Pepe Le Pew romances Penelope Pussycat.
February 14, 2009.
A nice gift can warm the heart and gut nonetheless.
October 8, 2009
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall. NYT. In rural Vail, Arizona, outside of Tucson.
Alas! Something to control the time honored chaos of riding the school bus. Before Wi-Fi.
…stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirting, shouting, climbing (over seats) and sometimes punching (seats or seatmates).
After Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared.
The superintendent’s thoughts on the oddly quiet, studying, homework, emails, and even game playing, during the ride now.
“That’s a whole lot better than having them bugging each other,” Mr. Baker said.
“School bus. Before Wi-Fi.”
Image courtesy of http://www.epa.gov/wastes/education/teach_ecoportal.htm.
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The Off-Center President. Peggy Noonan at WSJ.
“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” he said. “And I—and I believe that.”
How he did it to himself.
The leftward edge of the left says he did it by being too accommodating, by trying for a bipartisanship that doesn’t exist. The rightward edge of the right says he did it by revealing his essentially socialistic agenda. The center has said, in polls and at the polls, that it didn’t like his administration’s first-year obsession with a health-care bill that was huge, costly and impenetrably complicated, and would be run by those people who gave you the DMV and the post office.
The perennial cheerleading.
Washington’s pundits have begun announcing that the White House is better at campaigning than at governing, but that was obvious last summer.
And the natural expected result of Chicago style thug politics, Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency. This was a review on the America: A fearsome foursome by Edward Luce at Financial Times, in which many insiders revealed their true feelings on the current state of affairs with the White House Administration. Essentially, outsiders are shut out, and governing is secondary to campaigning.
Any desire to move center and work bipartisan as he proclaimed vehemently during the election that he would, would likely lead to progress and the notion reelection would be more likely. Instead, there is the same mantra.
Thus, the idea of one term president persists.
Image courtesy of ChipMcFarlane of the Independents on News in Pictures January 4 – 10 via http://www.freakingnews.com/News-in-Pictures-January-4-10-Pictures–2738-2.asp.
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What would a Friday be without a break here and there? And the perfect sign to let others know you are away for the moment.
“Honest break sign.”
Image courtesy of http://www.dumb.com/pictures/Honest_Break_Sign.
Walter Fredrick Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, has died in Monroe, Utah on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, at the age of 90. Yahoo/AP.
Morrison’s son, Walt, told The Associated Press Thursday that “old age caught up” with his father and that he also had cancer.
Wham-O adopted the name “Frisbee” because that’s what college students in New England were calling the Pluto Platters. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co., a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.
Deseret News has more history.
For years before and after Utah native Fred Morrison was a prisoner of war in Germany’s infamous Stalag 13, he threw all kinds of discs and tried to market them.
It went from popcorn lids in 1937, to cake pans in the 1950′s, to eventually the disc that Wham-O bought the rights to in 1959, which remains fairly the same 50 years later, and continues to be enjoyed worldwide.
An honorable Frisbee toss to the inventor.
Image courtesy of http://www.rockcitynews.com/art/art9/art9.html.
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Snow Records Shattered as Blizzard Buries East. Fox.
Old-timers talk about a storm that blew through Washington in 1922, collapsing the roof on the Knickerbocker theater and killing more than 90 people. Their great-great-grandchildren will be able to describe the back-to-back blizzards of 2010, which were not nearly as deadly but set records for the snowiest winters ever in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Up to 16 inches fell in parts of western Maryland. Reagan National Airport outside Washington had nearly 10 inches by 2 p.m., and Baltimore got nearly a foot. That was on top of totals up to 3 feet in some places from the weekend storm.
At the White House. Unidentified DC Man Shovels Out Of Second Winter Dumping captured by I Own The World.
CLICK HERE FOR IMAGE. PRICELESS!
Meanwhile, back at the beach…
“Sunscreen for your siesta!”
Image courtesy of http://www.laughshack.com/pics/mexican.jpg.
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The utter fascination with photocopying one’s private parts.
See here by closed circuit TV how one man’s experience could deter those in consideration.
Just what would one’s coworker’s say to the rescue? From the Fail Blog.
Frbruary 8, 2010
20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Can’t Recover As Long As Democrats Control the Levers of Power at HA triggered a commenter’s very clear lesson on the etiology of the current American economy.
Doug Ross highlighted it in a separate post at The Sublime, Timeless Wisdom of Arianna Huffington Somehow Reduced to Ashes By Anonymous Commenter at Green Room. The points are succinct. A lesson that would well serve many voters and elected representatives who have forgotten basic economics and history.
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FUNNY QUOTES OF THE DAY This Day in History
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