Reinke Faces Life

http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart/bits/real_world.htm

The Real World

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Charles Sykes is the author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS. In his book, he talks about how the liberal, feel-good, politically correct garbage has created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Rule 2

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world Will expect You to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3

You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone until you “earn” both.

Rule 4

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.

Rule 5

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

Rule 6

If you screw up, it’s not your parents’ fault so don’t whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.

Rule 7

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8

Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they’ll give you as many chances as you want to got the right answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule 9

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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Seen all the gooferment commercials about “click it or ticket”/

Seems to be that is a good program for NJ governors and the gooferment in general.

What happened to the concept that “if it is such a good idea, people will do it voluntarily”?

http://www.acthompson.net/pony.htm

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“There has to be a pony in here somewhere!”

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There are many references to this “pony” or that “pony” on the web. Even on some prestigious sites. But, no one has the honest to repeat the whole story.

The original has an absurdly honest ring to it.

We know know parent would do such a thing. We know that children always see things with “pristine glasses”. We know know child no matter how naive would NOT think of playing in that, nor that there was a good surprise under all of it.

But this is a this a parable, a legend, a fable, a … a … morality play in a few sentences.

If we always see the glass as half-full, then we’ll be better off.

Will we?

So is it “I’ll believe it when I see it” or “I’ll see it when I believe it”?

IBIWISI or ISIWIBI

An new shorthand for a meme?

How to explain Libertarianism to a Luddite!

All in good spirits, of course. Notice that I was nattily attired in my http://www.freetalklive.com t-shirt. Slimming wasn’t it?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?
id=2007-05-08_D8P066800&show_article=1&
cat=breaking

Judge: Sheriff Andy No Harm to Actor
May 8 07:45 AM US/Eastern
By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A man who changed his name to Andy Griffith and ran for sheriff did not harm the actor who played Mayberry’s folksy sheriff on the “Andy Griffith Show,” a federal judge ruled.

U.S. District Judge John Shabaz on Friday dismissed the lawsuit brought by Andy Samuel Griffith, who played Sheriff Andy Taylor on the popular 1960s TV series.

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Whatever his name was lost.

Fooling people, or being “cute”, is a waste of time.

It was a great commercial. I always wanted a poster for my neice-in-law’s daughter. Girls today need to know the sky’s the limit. Boys too. But that’s a different problem.

http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6525

… once a day!

Luddite’s wife sent me this. I think it’s a hoot.

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From: Gerald K Potoka
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:45 PM
To: Assorted
Subject:

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC, 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.
Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative.

Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
Donald Ruppert

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Gerry

http://www.ishkur.com/posters/blogging.php

An Italian man wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little math test. “Here’s your first question,” the foreman said.

“Without using numbers, represent the number 9.”

“Without numbers?” the Italian says, “Datsa easy.” and he proceeds to draw three trees.

“What’s this?” the boss asks.

“Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree makea nine,” says the Italian.

“Fair enough,” says the boss. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.”

The Italian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. “Ere a you go.”

The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99 ?”

“Each of da trees isa dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.”

The boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hi re this Italian, so he says, “All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.”

The Italian stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, “Ere you go. One hundred.”
The boss looks at the attempt. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!”

(You’re going to love this one!!!)

The Italian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, “A little doga came along and crapa by eacha tree. So now you gota dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, datsa makea one hundred. So, when I’m a gonna start?”

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Courtsey of one of Frau’s High School buddies purportedly from Lucille Centonze, a US IBM-er

I just thought this was funny. Obviously, this was the work of “leadership”. The McJob types don’t get to play with laser printers. But the creator didn’t think much about “doing it write”. ;-) No wonder that 50% of my Sunday morning orders have a defect.

IMHO Leadership starts with the top.

http://tinyu rl.com/3yz8gm

I’ve now started to use that as my favorites. So, you can see what I’ve been looking at. (Just sharing the link love among the sites I like.)

http://terrylj.livejournal.com/212865.html

ARGGHHHH!!!!!!!!

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ARGGHHHH!!!!!!!!

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I know the feeling. Argh!

http://www.wedigtv.com/

Nice enough to burn some time and exercise some cells.

FROM LUDDITE’S WIFE

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Finally, a new bumper sticker for BOTH political parties.

This hottest selling political bumper sticker: “RUN HILARY RUN”

Democrats put it on the rear bumper.
Republicans put it on the front bumper.

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But, where would a Libertarian put it?

… anywhere he could in New Hampshire?

http://luminouslogic.com/foreign-wife-isms.htm

Foreign Wife-isms

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My wife is an American citizen by birth. But her father was in the foreign service and therefore most of her formative years were spent outside of the US. Her first language was Japanese, then some English while briefly in D.C., on to French in the Côte d’Ivoire, then German in Austria…

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Very funny.

I especially liked “pit spot”.

And, if some Thai person listened to me back when I was learning or “learned it”, then they’d have been in hysterics as well.

(Insert “flying kites” story here from Thai language school.)

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/
this_britain/article2296846.ece

http://tinyurl.com/39jbl9

23 fascinating facts about the number twenty-three
To most, it’s just what comes between 22 and 24. Yet to surprisingly many – including the makers of a new film – it means much more.
Cahal Milmo and Tom Willetts explore a bizarre obsession
Published: 23 February 2007

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17 The first morse code transmission – “What hath God wrought?” – was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23. In telegraphers code 23 means “break the line”.

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Weird, but you can’t just read one!

-23-

… … when the lens caps are on?

http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/
2007/02/politicians_pla.html

Friday, February 23, 2007
Politicians playing soldiers: picture special

;-)

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Perhaps it is that it is the first number with nothing special about it?

RE: Scuffing baseball could lead to 10-game suspension for non-pitchers – MLB – Yahoo! Sports

Why don’t they ever make the rules changes I propose. I’d change the extra inning rule that EITHER the team that scored the tying run wins (rewarding catching up) OR the team that scores the tying run loses (rewarding getting to that score first).

And, I’d figure out how to play the game without zebras!

It was a yucky day. Lot’s of people didn’t come in. Most just said “lousy weather”. Best excuse of the day was “My garage door was frozen shut”.

;-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=432937&in_page_id=1770

http://tinyurl.com/2w3v84

The hedgehog with ‘global balding’
Last updated at 21:38pm on 31st January 2007

A nice, soft fluffy coat is of little use to a hedgehog.

But poor old Glen is having to make do without any prickles – apparently thanks to global warming.

I’m not sure which is funnier. The poor animal who missed his nap. Or, the “climatologists” who have some more government programs and taxes to fix it!

p.s.: do pictures work?