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Archive of entries posted on 9th May 2014
Making Predictions Is a Dangerous Game
Asked if the midterm elections were a referendum on President Obama, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said “no, absolutely not”.
Coincidentally, also the answer to “if I like my insurance, can I keep it?”, so she might be wrong about the midterms.
Elegant Design Makes Me Giddy
The annoying thing about grills is that they’re bulky, cumbersome, and impractical to transport.
That may be changing, once this gets out of the prototype stage:
It’s like they asked themselves “how would the government design a barbecue grill?” and then did the exact opposite.
Link of the Day: Satire – Obama: Dump Costly Men, Hire Cheap Women
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Obama: Dump Costly Men, Hire Cheap Women
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Wisdom of the Day: Cartoon Reid Pharrell Radio
life is like a cartoon show, you wear the same clothes everyday to see how long it takes people to notice
— sofahunk 3000 (@couchdweller) May 8, 2014
Anyone doubt that Harry Reid smells of urine and sadness?
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 8, 2014
After much trepidation I have ultimately arrived at the conclusion that Pharrell's hat is indeed bigger than a normal hat.
— Tyler Schmall (@tylerschmall) May 8, 2014
People call me "Radio Shack" on Twitter, because I'm still around and nobody understands why.
— Tommytoughstuff (@Tommytoughstuff) May 8, 2014
The iTunes Kids Won’t Get This
During a recent speech, President Obama said he worried he “sounded like a broken record” talking about the economy.
Nah. The only record that’s broken is the number of people who’ve dropped out of the workforce.
Obama Warned Us – Talent
“What determines success should not be our gender, but rather our talent.” —President Obama http://ofa.bo/cUQ #FairFutureNow
“I totally picked Sebelius to head HHS because she was so talented. No, seriously.”
Straight Line of the Day: Panic! Global Warming Is Now Responsible for…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Panic! Global warming is now responsible for…
Wonder-ful
Guess who leans right more than the Koch Brothers?
Wonder Bread!
Actually, it’s Flowers Foods, the company that makes Wonder Bread.
The details of this are that, since 1984, no company has given a higher percentage of its political donations to Republican candidates than Flowers Foods. The New York Times reports that in that time period, only three Democrats have received money from the company, and no Democrats in the last 20 years.
What about the other side of the coin? Who gives money to Democrats? Royal Bank of Scotland.
Citizens Financial Group (properly, RBS Citizens Financial Group Political Committee) has, over time, given a greater percentage to Democrats than Republicans. The gap has been closing, though. In 2008, RBS gave 84% to Democrats and 16% to Republicans. So far in 2014, it’s been 56% Democrat, 44% Republican.
But, no company on either side give as much to one side as Flowers.
Will this change my eating habits? No. I’ve eaten Sunbeam, Durst, and Merita for years. Natures Own, Cobblestone, and Wonder Bread are all brands I’ve bought regularly. Well, not a lot for Cobblestone, but the others.
But, I gotta wonder. Will the left jump on this as a reason to attack Wonder Bread? Of course. It’s what they do. And, the article in the New York Times focused on the right-leaning companies, while barely mentioning the left-leaning ones. Particularly the foreign-owned bank that heavily supports Democrats.
Is there a point to all this? Only that I’m glad to see that a company that I’ve been buying stuff from for years isn’t turning around and giving it to folks that are trying to make my life a living hell. And, that when I’m buying bread, I’ll do like the guy on TV used to tell people: say it with Flowers.
Random Thoughts: Windows, Left-Handedness, and Hashtags
So when a crashing program brings up “Windows is checking for a solution to the problem” ever actually led to a solution for the problem?
How’s Windows going to solve anything? Will it delete itself? More afraid the solution it will find is, “KILL ALL HUMANS!”
If Windows OSs decided to kill us, could we survive? We’d all have to be Apple devotees or learn Linux. The living will envy the dead.
If I designed an OS, it would be all like, “Start your own program, you lazy bum!”
So, pretty sure now my nearly one year old son is left handed. Don’t know how to deal with that.
Since people are losing jobs for supporting Prop 8, is the NOH8 campaign literally about putting tape on people’s mouths?
If you don’t want people carrying guns in your restaurant, put up a “No Americans Allowed” sign.
By 2050, scientists predict that 95% of political debate will be declaring the debate to be over.
I don’t actually know any foreign languages, but I can pretend to speak a lot of them.
#BulletsNotHashtags
The overwhelming consensus is that if my son is left-handed, I teach him to pitch. Wife wants him to be hockey player, though 🙁
I don’t know how I’d relate to my son if he’s good at sports. I don’t even like playing sports video games.
If I’m going to play pretend something, it’s going to be pretend shooting aliens, not pretend throwing a ball.
I have lots of folksy wisdom about video games.
We’re going to use the power of goodwill to take on terrorists now? They’re not vampires; bullets work on them.
“They’re taking hostages! Mobilize SWAT and tell them what hashtags to start tweeting.”
Business Idea: Sell “Christians Need Not Apply” signs.
Did anyone check whether the rest of the “Irish Need Not Apply” sign was “…because you’re already hired!”?
Vanity
During a speech at Howard University, Michelle Obama told her audience “when the press leaves, we’ll really get candid”.
Like the press will ever leave. This woman won’t even shop at Target without an AP photographer.