To those who are blind…
I found this at Kos; the originator is Dan Piraro.
Archive of entries posted on September 2004
Household goods excitement!
Woo-hoo! New refrigerator and dishwasher to be delivered Wednesday. Oh, joy. Clean out the old, find coolers to store frozen food while hooking up the new, reload. Then pull the old dishwasher, roll the new one in, hope I get the plumbing hooked up correctly, and try it. Ah well, buying “used/damaged” from the Outlet …
Baghdad Bob?
Hey, look! Someone with a responsible position in the media gets it! September 19, 2004) — On his Friday night chat show on HBO, comedian Bill Maher cracked a joke about President Bush remaining relentlessly upbeat about our war effort in Iraq despite a week of seemingly serious setbacks. Bush, according to Maher, sounds more …
Bleah
Unless you’re a home improvement junkie, wandering the aisles of a Sears Outlet Center looking for refrigerators and dishwashers is not the way Sundays should be spent.
Down the road a piece…
Hmm. Cheaper than I thought. On the average, you can expect to invest about $6,500 (C-172SP) for your private pilot certificate. If you were to calculate your costs based only on the minimum hours you will need, that cost is about $5,500. The actual cost depends on how much time you can commit to your …
Non-Nigerian spam
This qualifies as the weirdest spam I’ve gotten in years. Hello, I need to reach out to you and get some excellent advice from you on how to handle this dangerous situation that I find myself in. The attorneys here in Rushlimbaughville, Cape Girardeau, Mo, have frittered my time away, or outright refused to represent …
Litera-choo
Anybody ever read The Bourne Identity? This story seems to start the same way Ludlum’s book did. Who is this guy? In other literary news, unless you read Solonor you won’t have seen this list of fictional American Presidents. I know of a few that were left off that list. It mentions Harley Hudson, President …
Memory dump
Numbers. I remember numbers. 268 – School bus number in high school 1964-1968 131 – Boot camp company 1972 126 – Security badge number at NavCommSta Japan, 1972-1974 TAN 169 – Ca. license plate # family 1959 Olds 1895 – P.O. Box on Kwajalein 67 – Army P.O. Box in Japan 1339, 47, 2143, 5022 …
Enumerating errors
How wrong were the neocons? Let us count the ways: First, that the Iraqi army would instantly collapse as soon as U.S. forces crossed their border in a “cakewalk.” Second, that Ahmed Chalabi, now charged by our own puppet Iraqi government with money laundering and counterfeiting, would quickly emerge as the popular natural leader of …
Swifties for pay, not truth
Want to know the genesis of the Swift Boat Liars? Read this. Founders of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth say the president’s campaign never called the shots. But since its founding in April, the group has taken on a range of Republican-affiliated paid consultants, including Ginsberg’s law firm, a network of GOP political and media …