It's kind of an involved story, so I'll tell it step by step:
Oct 23, 2007: My 80-year-old Mother develops an aortic dissection. It's kind of like an aneurysm. To find out where it is, they would need to inject dye into her aorta. But that would knock out her already-compromised' [...]A tip from my long-time blog buddy Brian Kane:
My blog-buddy “Going Like Sixty” says he’s figured out a way to game those Coinstar change machines you find in supermarkets: go to the customer service counter and cash in two $20 bills for quarters, pump the quarters into the Coinstar [...]
Diagnosed Diabetes By County - All Races
(via Boots and Sabers)
From BlackHealthCare.com:
In 1993, 1.3 million African Americans were known to have diabetes. This is almost three times the number [...]The Blurb:
The NPR Radio by Livio was recently cited by Time as one of 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed! Now you can listen to Morning Edition whenever your morning starts - the programming you want, [...]
The Text of Psalm 109:8 That Is So Dangerous To Liberals That They Don't Want This Bumper Sticker [...]
From Bill O'Reilly:
With the possible exceptions of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, no modern era politician has been more derided by the media than Sarah Palin. And the attacks do not stop with her. They include nasty rumors about her family and even the mocking of her children.
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Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee. The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'."
The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call" [...]
Official 2007 Masters Golf Tournament Teddy Bear For Just $8
Would make a great gift for the golf nut in your life. It's amazing how much they charge for this Masters stuff -- this is about the' [...]
From Jonah Goldberg:
Indeed, some of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies. The bile she extracts from her critics is almost like a dye marker, illuminating deep pockets of asininity that heretofore were either unnoticed or underappreciated. ...
I'm happy about the' [...]
From gwendally's journal:
The operations manager at a grocery store told me a story last night.
That store carries several varieties of milk, including local organic half gallons in glass bottles. It's fairly expensive, as milk goes, about $6 including the $2 bottle redemption fee attached to the glass bottles. (I'm' [...]
Buy The Original Ronco Veg-O-Matic For Under $20
The original Ron Popeil classic! Veg-O-Matic slices, dices and makes mounds of fries in seconds! One of the products that started the Ronco revolution! The Veg-O-Matic was such a breakthrough [...]
From Pat Buchanan:
Are we at war – or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a [...]
Bruce McCall: DeSoto Discovers The Mississippi
From this lecture by Bruce McCall.
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Stephanie Abrams of the Weather Channel Reporting: Impressive Frontal System Puts All of South Florida on Alert!
A Cold War Flashback: Who Dealt This Mess?
From the glory days of National Lampoon
[...]From J. Robert Smith
What's notable about Sarah Palin's book tour, which starts midweek, is where she's not going. She's not going to L.A. or New York, Boston or San Francisco. She's going smack-dab to the middle of' [...]
Is This The Ring That Inspired Tolkien To Write The Lord of the Rings?
From The National Trust:
Placed for years within a glass-topped cabinet, beside a little type-written note, this solid [...]
Own The Rubber Stamp That Set Off The Boston Tea Party
Just $15, and you get a terrific blurb too:
Surely you must remember that pesky Stamp Act, one of many taxes that eventually led to all [...]
Guess Which One Was On Janet Napolitano's Terrorist Watch List?
Obama's arrogance is killing American soldiers. But he doesn't care. (via Grouchy Old Cripple)
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Two Ways To Improve AM Radio Reception: The Terk Advantage or the Select-A-Tenna
Click on the photo to read Jay Allen's terrific comparison of the two. It seems you can find the Terk on eBay for around $40, whereas the' [...]
From BusinessWeek:
Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. After noticing that sales sagged on weekends, he came up with an idea: He would offer' [...]
I got this idea while my wife was watching LMN, the Lifetime Movie Network. Here's one example:
Channel Description ABC ABC DE How to Incorporate Your Business FG The Placekicker Network HI Hello From Hawai'i JK The John F Kennedy Network (PBS) [...]Two weeks before the 2008 election I took my grandson on a 16-block stroller ride in highly liberal south Minneapolis. I counted over 120 Obama signs and one McCain sign (which had been vandalized several times). There were also roughly 50 anti-war signs (“Get out of Iraq”, “War [...]
From The Simple Dollar:
It’s often said that people are reflections of their five closest friends in many ways: behaviors, income levels, values, and so on.
Five years ago, almost all of my closest friends spent money like it was water. They were constantly doing things like playing poker, pushing each [...]
From Neatorama:
Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and [...]
From the Assistant Village Idiot:
My politics aligned somewhat with Michael's, but I found him an unlikeable character. The show had clearly lined up to show Archie and his ideas in the worst possible light, buffoonishly so, and this struck me as artistic abuse. As it became clear who Norman' [...]
A Scotsman walks into a bank in Glasgow and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5,000.
The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for [...]
A hooded robber burst into a Texas Bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash.
On his way out the door a brave Texas customer grabbed the hood and pulled it off revealing the robber's face. The robber shot the customer without a moment's hesitation. He [...]
Sixty Percent of Those Canned French Fried Onions Are Sold Between October and December
From the Washington Post a couple of years back:
They must taste like they have since 1955, when Campbell's' [...]
But as of today, November 1, it's only available for pre-order.
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Mugs-A-Plenty: Rusty Jones
Sent in by reader Susan Hensley. (Thanks Sue!!!!) For more on ol' Rusty, see my previous post Does Anybody Out There Have An Image Of The Old Rusty Jones Rustproofing Guy From The 1980s?
Mugs-A-Plenty: The Frito Bandito Tile Coaster
They don't mention "Frito" of course, but we know who it is, right? A great gift for that aging Baby Boomer Hippie friend of yours who really likes Fritos.
From the EInsiders.com obituary of Al Martino:
Anthony Bruno wrote in “Fact and Fiction in ‘The Godfather’”:
“In "The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions," Mario Puzo describes a couple of unpleasant encounters he had with singer Frank Sinatra, who was allegedly furious with Puzo for creating the character Johnny Fontane. Like [...]
Introducing The Official 2009 Christine Neumann-Ortiz Halloween Costume
Pretty darn scary, huh kids?
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Introducing The Official 2009 Barack Obama Halloween Costume
He's holding a Green Card because he couldn't find his Birth Certificate.
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Did You Ever Notice The Other Side of the Susan G. Komen Pink M&M's?
Whose lawyers do you think I'll hear from first?
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My Viewsonic Viewpad 100 eBook Project: I Discover Manga Meeya CE and Decide To Use My Viewpad 100 as a Comic Book Reader
Manga Meeya CE (MMCE) is a terrific piece of [...]
The American Telecare NX Patient Station Runs Windows CE .net 4.2
I got one off of eBay for 10 bucks. use it for a nightstand alarm clock and video player and audio player (moved the Chumby into the [...]
Creamed Chipped Beef in a Can: A Terrific Stocking Stuffer for that Hard-To-Buy-For Army Veteran in Your Life
Of course, you could always make your own SOS.
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My Viewsonic Viewpad 100 eBook Project: I Give Up and Buy a Sony PRS-505
OK, OK, I haven't really given up on my Viewpad. But I did buy one of these on eBay. I got the Sony PRS-505 for the' [...]
A Really Terrific Remote Control at a Decent Price: The URC-200 Automator from Universal Remote Control Inc.
Now sold as the RF20. Look for either model on eBay. Very, very solid; not flimsy at all. I liked the [...]
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage...
I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the [...]
The Renovation of Soldier Field: So Ugly, It Was Removed From the National Register of Historic Places
As usual, Wikipedia tells all:
On September 23, 2004, as a result of the 2003 renovation, a [...]
Going around Ye Olde Interwebs. I found it at Grouchy Olde Cripple:
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat' [...]
From The Fourth Checkraise:
John Derbyshire, the cranky old paleo among the neocon crew of the National Review, is certainly my favourite writer in that outfit, plus his "Derb Radio" podcasts always lighten up the Friday afternoons considerably. He now has a new book out, aptly titled "We Are Doomed" [...]
From SciFiWire:
At his recent keynote speech at the New York Television Festival, former Star Trek writer and creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore revealed the secret formula to writing for Trek.
He described how the writers would just insert "tech" into the scripts whenever they needed to resolve [...]
From Bill Geist's Zeitgeist:
We've already issued Air Law 5 about the goofs that insist on attempting to carry on luggage as big as small pony. And Air Law 7 about the people who rush to the gate to board, regardless of their section, in order to secure overhead bin [...]
During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:
MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy.
When asked why such a big password, she said that it had to be at least 8 characters long.
(from Grouchy Old Cripple)
[...]During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:
MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy.
When asked why such a big password, she said that it had to be at least 8 characters long.
(from Grouchy Old Cripple)
[...]While Walter Mondale remains the only major-party politician to have accomplished this feat, commenter John Galt asks "What about all those minor third party candidates we see every 4 years?" Yes, there are some, but probably not as many as you think.
First of all, we're only talking about' [...]
Evidently We've Been Through This Before
A little factoid from the comic book Big Town, published by DC Comics sometime in the 1950's.
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The National Park Service: Hostile To Christianity. And To The Public.
From their HFC Editorial Style Guide:
So evidently BC and AD are a big no-no with the NPS. They never say why. But this is what they say at the beginning of their style guide:
References [...]
A letter to Charlie Sykes:
My partner and I attended the tea party rally in Milwaukee on Saturday. I need to tell you this, I am a transsexual,I was born male, I am now female.I am relatively passable as a female, I am 38 and have been female over 10 [...]
The Google Map satellite view of Suisun Bay near Martinez, California, where these once-proud ships of the US Navy await their final fate. A World War II ship could be turned into 5 times as many razor blades as one of today's ships. ;-)
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Big Sale On Compact Flash Cards!
If you find out where it is, let me know.
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An Odd Little House 3 Doors Down From Our Old House on Crane Avenue in Hazel Crest Where We Lived 50 Years Ago
Have you ever seen [...]
Our Old House on Crane Avenue in Hazel Crest Where We Lived 50 Years Ago
A Google Maps/Virtual Painter production
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Sign at 9-12 Washington DC Tea Party Protest
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CNN Coverage of 9-12 Washington DC Tea Party Protest
From John McAdams:
Obama’s problem is simple: he has a hidden agenda. He wants a complete government takeover of health care. He wants health care rationed, as it is under systems of socialized medicine. He wants taxpayer money to pay for abortions. He wants illegal immigrants covered. He doesn’t mind [...]
I invited her up to my apartment and she said OK and when we got there she took a look around and said it needed a woman's touch so I handed her a broom and she hit me with it and left . . .
' [...]Another great morsel from The Fourth Checkraise:
Sometime during the last winter I was having dinner at one downtown Toronto food court before teaching that night, and two tables over there was a mother sitting with her six-year-old. As I was biting into my burger, I overheard her telling the [...]
