On a recent trip to AC, I heard a comic do initialisms of car companies that was fast, cute, and funny.
The only one I remember was:
FIAT = “Fix It Again Tony”
Any one know others?
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INITIALISMS: Car name map to fun
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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POLITICAL: Carter calls for debt action
Wednesday, December 23, 2009http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/23608/
President Carter to U.S.: Tackle Debt Before Lecturing China
Trevor Williams
Atlanta – 12.16.09
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The U.S. should focus on getting its own fiscal house in order and give up pressuring China to revalue its currency, the yuan, former President Jimmy Carter said during a Dec. 3 panel discussion at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
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Pretty bad when ex-President Carter talks financial sense. Guess a stopped clock can be right twice per day. Clearly, the debt should be a priority. If not first, (i.e., national defense, citizen protection, the economy), it’s got to be up there.
The cure is one that the Big Gooferment advocates don’t want to hear — cut spending.
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TECHNOLOGY: Digital dirt
Wednesday, December 23, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/09text.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: December 8, 2009
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Robert Stephan Cohen, the lawyer who represented Christie Brinkley in her divorce from Peter Cook, said a spouse’s finding out about a cheating partner by reading their personal text messages would have a profound effect on how such cases were played out, both in court and among friends and family. Mr. Cohen predicted that the battles in even the most routine divorces would become uglier with more text messages as evidence.
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People really don’t understand the technology they are using. Nor, do they understand the implications of an “eternal love letter”.
And, in a corporate setting, it’s even worse. Why aren’t they REQUIRED to preserve email forever.
The “digital dirt”, created voluntarily, CAN come back to haunt you.
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WRITING: Unlimited Demand (An Index Card Novel)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009Unlimited Demand (An Index Card Novel)
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“What did you do before the Shumer Hit The Fan, Uncle?”
The fat old white guy was old. Very old by the standards of the day. When the S did HTF, (Who cares which particular S it was. We all know that one of them will.), many people died.
“Well, Bobbie Jo, I was a sheeple like most folks. But maybe a little sharper than your average sheeple.” He laughed. “I read the various survivalist sites. I knew I was NOT John Rambo, or wealthy like Howard Hughes. And, what was the one thing that every survivalist writer or story teller harped on?”
“What Unlce? Tell us!”
“Toilet Paper!”
“Wahhh????”
“Yup, I studied how I’d make TP after the S hit the F.”
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In the Seventies, Johnny Carson made a joke about the United States facing an acute shortage of toilet paper. This prompts viewers to run out to stores and begin hoarding.
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The fat old old white guy explained:
It was after a home construction project that created a lot of sawdust that I had the idea. I had a discarded blender. And a dream, of a profession after the S hit the F! I put the sawdust into a blender. A dash of hand lotion and a little water. Puree. Pour over a screen. Spread like butter. Roll it with a dowel as thick or as thin as you like. Cover screen with a towel. Cover with a board. Put something heavy on it. (I drove my car on it.) Stack your sheets after they’ve dried completely.
It was really just taking that experience and adjusting it to post SHTF scenario. I used a chipper to make mulch. Then, an old hamburger “drill” to make “sawdust”. Hydralic jack to squeeze it. Sunshine to dry it.
My prototype could push out a computer box of TP every sunny day. On bad days, I focused on making work in process up to the drying. On good days, I focued on drying.
Since I had that part of my act together, when the S did hit the F, I was the TP king.
And that children is how I became fabulously wealthy after the S hit the F.
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QUOTE: Jefferson “If the American people ever allow the banks … …
Tuesday, December 22, 2009http://www.visandvals.org/Jefferson_s_Warnings.php
Jefferson warned, “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied … I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.”
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INTERESTING: What’s the rest of the story?
Monday, December 21, 2009http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/18/3649762-wash-woman-gets-15-months-for-tax-evasion
Wash. woman gets 15 months for tax evasion
Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:39 PM EST
Associated Press
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SEATTLE — As the secretary and treasurer of Falcon Construction, Michelle Bielaski was supposed to turn over to the IRS taxes withheld from employee paychecks.
Instead, the 48-year-old Bellevue, Wash., woman spent the money herself — $2.5 million of it.
Now she’s been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay the taxes back in restitution.
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I’m sure the gooferment doesn’t like a thief stealing its loot!
Serious, was she sentenced for the theft? In which case, the article’s title is wrong.
Where is she going ot get 2.5M$ for restitution?
And, based on what little I know, I bet the construction company has to pay the 2.5M$ to the IRS. So I guess a bankruptcy is in their future.
I just find this “interesting” on so many levels.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Exonerated after 35 years
Monday, December 21, 2009http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091218/D9CLCDF80.html
Fla. man exonerated after 35 years behind bars
Dec 17, 7:03 PM (ET)
By MITCH STACY
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BARTOW, Fla. (AP) – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
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Wow!
Here’s evidence that the justice system is flawed.
End capital punishment now!
Let each state go through ALL it’s convictions and look for similar incidents.
It’s only fair. And, just.
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POLITICAL: Copenhagen caper
Sunday, December 20, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/12/world-leaders-spent-two-weeks-in.html
Saturday, December 19, 2009
World leaders spent two weeks in Copenhagen and all we got was this?
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It took two weeks of talks in Copenhagen, after two years of preliminary talks and in the end, to much fanfare we got….
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Lucky for us that “climate change”, “global warming”, and “global kooling” are all just “barbara streisand” to get socialism ramped up. More “global gooferment”, wealth transfer, and guilt the rich to transfer wealth from the have’s to the gooferments of the have not’s. Note that you can pour money on the “poor” until the cows come home and ALL of it will go into some petty dictators’ or bureaucrats’ pockets.
But lucky for us, humans are like the flies on the cows butt. We can no more impact climate with our minuscule actions then we can make poverty go away.
Argh!
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FUN: Score one for the placebo
Sunday, December 20, 2009http://www.impactlab.com/2009/12/16/weird-and-wacky-medical-findings-of-2009/
December 16th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Weird and Wacky Medical Findings of 2009
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– A testosterone patch designed to pep up a woman’s sex drive received the thumbs down in a study published in the UK’s Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin. The side effects included acne, excess hair, breast pain, weight gain, insomnia, voice deepening and migraine. “Significant numbers” of women placed on a placebo patch reported an increase in sex drive.
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Hmmm, maybe we could do a “sham wow” type tv campaign selling women the placebo?
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POLITICS: Unemployment numbers are misleading
Saturday, December 19, 2009http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2009/12/18/unemployment-lies-and-deception
Unemployment Lies and Deception
December 18th, 2009
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As far as I know, unemployment numbers are based on those who are reporting to the government — those who are collecting unemployment insurance.
Guess what… unemployment insurance RUNS OUT. And then, you are so worthless, you aren’t even counted as a statistic! You are essentially written off the books.
Yeah, this really gets under my skin. And we aren’t even talking about UNDEREMPLOYED people!!
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And, don’t forget the underemployed and the old farts who are now “retired” for want of anything better to do.
I fault the gooferment and it’s absolute stupidity.
First, average wage in gooferment is twice that of private industry. Regardless of how they slice and dice the numbers, gooferment workers are in the ascendancy in both quantity and money. TARP — bailout to the banks; should have just let them fail. (Cynically, I’d bet that they’d have figured out how to survive. The bail out of AIG was a direct payoff to Goldman Sachs. The same Goldman Sachs that paid gigantic bonuses.)
Second, every dollar the gooferment “gives” in unemployment benefits has to come from some taxpayer. Remember Basiat and the unseen victim. In this case, we now have four generation of “welfare farmers”. Some of those on “welfare” are rich companies and individuals. Milk and sugar subsidies come to mind.
Third, the poor economy has landed hard on the young and old. Youth unemployment — especially minority — is skyrocketing. And, the older workers are being forced into early retirement; some after burning through their savings from reduced retirement portfolios.
My solution is reduce gooferment. They need to cut, cut, and cut some more. Some entities need to be killed — Agriculture and Education would be my starting point. We need to cut the corporate income tax from 30+ to say ZERO. (Corporations don’t pay taxes. Only real people do. Corps pass them along or go out of business.) When Ron Paul campaigned, he asserted that cutting gooferment back to 1990 levels would allow the income tax to be ZERO.
Not like any of this is going to happen. But I wouldn’t trust anything the gooferment says or does. This included “running health care or health insurance”.
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