Category Archives: B.S. & Political Ridicule

From Mom

“Lexophile” is a word used to describe those that love using words in unique ways, such as “you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish,” or  “to write with a broken pencil is pointless.”

A competition to see who can come up with the best  one is held every year. This year’s winning submission is posted at the end.

When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.

The batteries were given out free of charge.

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.

Police were called to a day care center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off?  He’s all right now.

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she’d dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well done. That’s the point of it.

And the cream of the crop:
Those who get too big for their pants will be exposed in the end.

Arrgghhh!

  • Starting at 1:00 this afternoon, I will be sitting in a marketing meeting business meeting.
  • This meeting is scheduled to last for 5 hours. Sounds like fun?
  • Anyone?
  • Since I finally got to see the new pole lights after dark, I need to get brighter bulbs.
  • I mis-ordered and got very weak bulbs instead of the very bright bulbs I intended. Oh well, I can still use the weaker bulbs in the store.
  • I decided to pop for LEDs since they’re supposed to last forever! I hope it works out that way, I hate climbing that ladder to change bulbs.
  • Welcome Susan Kennedy as a member of my blog family.
  • Much thanks to Dennis for all his help yesterday with the lights.
  • Tori, you have to quit giving Erin crack at every meal. Wow, that kid was so full of energy yesterday that I felt like hiding backcountry just to take a quiet nap.
In hotel rooms I worry. I can’t be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.  – Jonathan Katz

And another windy few days predicted.

  • This seems to be the only thing the weatherliars can predict right, but it’s no great prediction since wind is a constant out here.
  • Coffee is good!
  • We slept with our bedroom window open last night. First time in a long time. The sun heats up the house to an uncomfortable level and ML gets cold with the door and windows open. I may set her on fire to warm her up.
  • I swear that woman is getting worse on many issues. Memory, fatigue, appearance, and social skills.
  • She’s been looking at the old pictures we brought back from her condo. she’s never even seen some of these according to her. Some pictures that Archie sent her confused her to the point that she had to be told repeatedly that it was Aunt Margie in the pics.
  • After an hour of looking at pictures, she looks like the dead. She won’t stop looking at the pics though.
  • Erin and I were playing this morning and I wore her down to the point where she called it quits!
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Her Highness loves our new adjustable bed.

 

Interesting

“Whatever the inequality of incomes, it is dwarfed by the inequality of contributions to human advancement. As the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein wrote, ‘Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances that permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of society, the people slip back into abject poverty. This is known as bad luck.’

“President Obama unconsciously confirmed Heinlein’s sardonic view of human nature in a campaign speech in Iowa: ‘We had reversed the recession, avoided depression, got the economy moving again, but over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.’ All progress comes from the creative minority. Even government-financed research and development, outside the results-oriented military, is mostly wasted. Only the contributions of mind, will, and morality are enduring. The most important question for the future of America is how we treat our entrepreneurs. If our government continues to smear, harass, overtax, and oppressively regulate them, we will be dismayed by how swiftly the engines of American prosperity deteriorate. We will be amazed at how quickly American wealth flees to other countries….

“Those most acutely threatened by the abuse of American entrepreneurs are the poor. If the rich are stultified by socialism and crony capitalism, the lower economic classes will suffer the most as the horizons of opportunity close. High tax rates and oppressive regulations do not keep anyone from being rich. They prevent poor people from becoming rich. High tax rates do not redistribute incomes or wealth; they redistribute taxpayers – out of productive investment into overseas tax havens and out of offices and factories into beach resorts and municipal bonds. But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth – and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them – America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

– George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism

Daylight Savings, Spring forward, Stupid Shit

  • Native American friends like to post a meme on Facebook about the stupidity of daylight savings time, or whatever it’s called. They say that “only the white man would think that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and sewing it on the bottom will give you a longer blanket.” This makes sense.
  • I hope New Mexico joins Arizona in abolishing this stupid practice. It’s a pain in the ass.
  • Erin goes to the allergist today. Doctor’s orders. I think the Herns are not giving her the cold medicine and the cold just renews itself at their house.
  • We are headed to the bank soon.

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