Change I Can Believe In

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The Perfect Obama Metaphor

But even if you don’t want to get political about it, it’s fun anyway. Give it a watch.


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Post-Thanksgiving Thanks: I Concur

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But most of all I’m thankful for the USA. Yes, I know it is an hour of great peril, and it is fragile, and we must fight in ways we haven’t even invented yet.

But think about how much worse it would be if it had never come into being. And it was in the balance then too, you know? It was all too easy for it never to happen.

Government by the people for the people might be a difficult thing to keep going, to ensure it doesn’t perish from this Earth. But how much harder if we had to invent it.

I’m grateful for my inventive, rollicking, puritan, shockingly sexual, innovative, stodgy, fresh as paint, ancient as humanity, brilliant, noisy homeland.

May it live on. Humanity needs it. The future comes from America. And America belongs in the future.
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Democrats to Lose Voter Base

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Link of the Day: Satire – President Obama Awards Himself the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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President Obama Awards Himself the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Wisdom of the Day: Amazon Smelling Cookie Elephant Lawyer

Right at the End of My Fist, Where It Belongs

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Obama Warned Us – Discrimination

Discrimination cannot stand — not on account of color or gender; how you worship or who you love. Prejudice has no place in the United States of America.

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jul. 17, 2009

“Except against bitter-clinging Tea Party terrorists that threaten my… uh… OUR way of life.”

Straight Line of the Day: Bing Has Revealed That the Top Internet Search Trend for 2013 Is…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

Bing has revealed that the top internet search trend for 2013 is…

New Talking Points on Obamacare

So Obama is planning a PR push for the disastrous Obamacare. This will have to be delicate, but here are the talking points the White House is working on to help fix things.

NEW TALKING POINTS ON OBAMACARE

* You can’t really blame Obama for Obamacare because was drinking with Rob Ford when it was signed and doesn’t really remember it.

* Programming is really complicated as it involves not just the numbers 0 through 9, but also the letters A through F. No one can be expected to understand that.

* Obama can’t be blamed for bad management because it was all the people under him who were the bad managers.

* It’s easy to understand how Obamacare will lead to reduced costs unless you’re one of those sticklers who keeps referring to numbers and their meanings.

* Though Obama may have lied the first couple times he said, “If you like your plan, you can keep it,” he convinced himself by repeating it so many times that by the end he really believed it and wasn’t lying.

* The website basically works now, but please take our word for it and don’t visit it or all that traffic will just crash it again.

* Though HealthCare.gov is still a little buggy, the mechanism for fining people who don’t buy insurance looks to be working perfectly.

* Though millions are losing their insurance and paying more, theoretically there is someone out there happy with Obamacare… probably a psychopath who will make good use of the mental health coverage.

* This is all the Republicans faults, because reasons.

Microsoft Bra

MSBraHeard about the Microsoft Bra?

Really.

Mary Czerwinski is a Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group at Microsoft, according to her Web page at Microsoft. She’s working on a bra that has sensors that will be able to determine if the wearer is encountering stress. And, since stress often leads to over-eating, the Microsoft Bra is a diet aid.

And, apparently, it works:

The stress-busting bra was recently tested by a small group of volunteers who were able to get feedback on their moods. Microsoft built the sensor pads with a microprocessor powered by a 3.7-volt battery. It was able to sample up to eight bio-signal channels simultaneously, according to Czerwinski’s research paper…

Now, I’m uncertain how I feel about this.

Microsoft’s Xbox is a good device. Let me clarify: I like the Xbox 360; I’ve never used an Xbox One. I’ve used a Microsoft Mouse, and liked it. Microsoft Office works pretty well, once I get used to where things are every release when they move everything around. But, I don’t like Windows. Well, Windows 7 (which is actually Windows 6.1) works okay. XP worked alright. But Vista stunk up the joint. And, while I’ve not spent the money to get my hands on Windows 8 or 8.1, those I know that have, hate it on a desktop computer or a full-size laptop.

So, some stuff Microsoft gets its hands on works well, and some doesn’t.

Let me ask you, ladies. Do you want Microsoft to get its hands on your bra? So to speak.

What do you think about the whole thing? Good idea?

Random Thoughts: Knockout Game, Leadership, and Happy Holidays

So this Knockout Game stuff is real? It just seems so urban legendy.

Maybe the President of the United States should have basic leadership skills.

Merry Christmas! And happy other holidays near Christmas we inflate in importance for multicultural reasons!

If Christmas didn’t exist, but all the other holidays still existed, would anyone say “Happy Holidays!” this time of year?

He’s Gotta Run Out of Lies EVENTUALLY, Right?

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