PRO-LIFE?

Which is technically anti-choice since that is the exact opposite of pro-choice.

But really, can you call politicians who slash programs for the poor and build weapons of mass destruction pro-life?

DID YOU KNOW...DO YOU CARE?

If you change one letter,  ‘unseasonably’ - as in                           warm; becomes ‘unreasonably’…

POINTS TO PONDER

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

BRAD PITT?

 I woke Phyl up this morning before leaving for work. Thought she had a Dr appointment but it was a haircut instead. Anyway, she tells me about this dream where the two of us were in Mexico with Brad Pitt, but then Brad Pitt disappeared.

So I told her that he probably left because he got tired of stopping every 10 minutes so she could pee!!! (Which is actually true...the peeing that is, not Brad Pitt...)

JUST ASKING

If you don’t like cows…does that make you lactose intolerant?

TOMORROW IS GOOD ENOUGH...

There is an article on BBCOnline headed ‘Why do we procrastinate so much?’ but I’ll read it later and let you know what it says…

POINTS TO PONDER

Is (currently) Tropical Storm Isaac heading for Tampa?

And if so, does that mean God hates Republicans…?

MOVIE TITLE

 I'm thinking of a movie about a cult who believes the world is going to end soon and finds solace in a Trinidad music genre.

I call it…Apocalypso

JUST A THOUGHT

 Someone needs to invent a device that will remove a tea bag from the cup to prevent overbrewing...

POINTS TO PONDER

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease…

SERIOUSLY?

Christian-based Tae Kwan Do…seriously?

POINTS TO PONDER

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

George Washington 1796

POINTS TO PONDER

 Protecting the minority's freedom is the purpose of government, not oppressing the minority for the comfort of the majority.

TIME FLIES...

...One way or the other...

STILL WAITING

In the year 7510, if God's a' coming, He ought to make it by then...

 

(From '2525' by Zager & Evans)

THE CLAMSHELL OPENER

Oh, yes, what a great invention, basically a utility knife with a protected blade so you can't cut yourself. Supposed to make it easy to open those horrible hard plastic clamshells products come in these days. Not sure if it works, but a great idea. I saw this in a store the other day, and the funny thing is...

...It comes in a clamshell so how the hell are you supposed to open it!

BEER...IT'S BETTER THAN GAS...

A recent study found that the average American walks 900 miles in a year.

Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons a beer yearly.

Therefore, Americans beerdrinkers average 41 miles per gallon!

Be proud, your mileage is probably better than your car's mileage...

IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW

 It's National French Fry Day today...

It's not too late, go on down and get some - my faves are from McD's

SOME THOUGHTS ON FLYING

In airplanes, that is. Took a trip to Greensboro, NC on business earlier this week; flights up were good(thanks Delta); flights back were hell(thanks U.S.Air). But this flying brought some thoughts to mind.


Starting out with the trip to the airport, from driveway to parking space was exactly 53.6 miles. Oddly enough, I pulled intop said parking space at exactly 5:36. Weird, huh?

So now they load planes by something called 'zones' (a great Hawkwind album by the way) which apparently are just random groups of people seated in random seats all through the plane, which backs up the line into the entry tunnel. Makes no sense, compared to the old way of loading the plane from the back to the front, which caused less trouble since people had a smaller chance of being in each others way, and I'd bet was faster.

So then they give you pre-flight instructions on seatbelts, as if it was a 21st century invention!

Now, I can remember riding in cars as a kid where there were no seatbelts in the back, so back in the day, seatbelt instructions were probably helpful. But I should think in this day and age that anybody who can afford to fly probably at least knows what seatbelts are and how to use them.

Which reminds me of another old tradition (like getting actual food on the plane) that seems to have fallen by the wayside. I remember when flying as a kid, whenever the pilot would land the plane smoothly, the passengers would clap. Yeah, really. Of course, judging by my last trip, out of 4 landings, there was only one I would have clapped for, and one was downright crappy!



Though as my Dad used to say, "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing", and since hew was in the R.C.A.F. (though not a pilot)during WWII, I guess he'd know.



As for me, you couldn't pay me enough to fly U.S. Airways, no matter how patriotic-sounding their name is...

SCHOOL BUSES

 Well, now that school's out here in the County of Poke, I've got a question for everyone. Why is it that school buses have nice big numbers painted on them, but then have crappy little cardboard signs with a route number on them? Why not just leave the painted numbers off in the first place, or make a nice changeable sign instead, like real buses have? Seems silly to have a nice bus number and then not use it.

What if police cars didn't use their painted numbers? "Car 54, where are you?" "I'm sorry dispatch, we're cruising the other side of town today, so we're Car 43, over."

Just a thought...

 

Which reminds me; when I was at UConn, there was a couple (or possibly more) who lived in a school bus, which oddly enough they parked in an apartment complex. They had a stove in their, not sure if they had a bathroom though; but it was pretty cool back then...

 

 Which reminds me; also when I was at UConn, there was a school bus converted into a traveling diner, but only the kitchen part of the diner. They used to come around after 9:00PM after the student union had closed, and stay around until midnite or so. Food wasn't great, but when you had the munchies, it sure was handy to have around in the days before microwaves. One year, we had a panty raid going on campus (not sure why), and as a horde of students went running to the girls dorm area, that school bus sure took off in a hurry! They must have thought we were after them because of the food...(ohmigod - are they starving or are they pissed!!).

Well, maybe you had to be there...