View from the cheap seats: Jun 3, 2011

Friday, June 3, 2011

A Pinch of This and a Dash of That

This just in: Scarlett Johansson has split with Sean Penn. Great, now I have to worry about her stalking me again.

Romney threw his hat in the ring and the first sentence he said was a lie. "When Obama took office, we wished him well and hoped for the best." Funny that's not what I remember. I remember something more like "The number one goal of the GOP is to make Obama a single term president."

It's no secret that the GOP party's main goal is to block every attempt by Obama to succeed at anything. Romney is the perfect example of this hypocrisy. As a governor, he boasted of his state's health care system. As a GOP congressman, he's done nothing but blast Obama's health care system - the system that is nearly identical to the one Romney endorsed for his own state.

Here is a link to some funny Army quotes.

I'm going to the SHRM (Society of Human Resource Managers) conference in Las Vegas at the end of this month. My company, Shiftwork Solutions, will have a booth there, telling people about what we do for a living. Should be fun.

An ex-aide to Sarah Palin wrote a tell-all book. If any of it is true, she is way less qualified than I already suspected her to be. She's flirting with the presidency saying, "We need to to get the country back on track." Strange to hear such implied insight from a woman whose qualifications can be fit onto a stick-it.

I saw a video of a badger eating a poisonous snake after being bitten by it. The badger, half way through his meal, passed out and sort of went into a coma. After a few hours, it woke up and resumed its meal. Badgers are bad-ass.

John Boehner made another one of his leaps-of-logic statements. I'm paraphrasing here but it went something like, "We need to get the debt under control because, uh, you know, uh, jobs." This is a little like saying, "I need to put gas in the car, uh, you know, uh, toaster." Whenever I see him talk, something about his manner tells me he doesn't believe what he is saying.

I'm in Europe now and I can tell you they are getting nervous about the U.S. debt ceiling. Here are a couple of important points to remember:

Failure to raise the debt ceiling will have a catastrophic economic on the world.
The debt ceiling will be raised.
The GOP will threaten to not raise it right up to the last-minute; creating increasing anxiety around the world.
The world markets will begin to react adversely as the deadline approaches
The debt ceiling will be raised but by then, sever damage will have been done worldwide - by the GOP

Some Aussies sneaked (I like "snuck" better) up to a truck that had a speed camera on it. The took off the plates and put them on their car. They then sped by the camera several times before replacing the plates. The result was the police department sending 17 speeding tickets to itself.

You may want to change your vacation plans for the summer and skip that stop-over in Libya. They have several cases of the bubonic plague. Other than that, and the occasional random arrests or mortar fire or heat and expansive vistas of dirt - it's quite the garden spot.

The word that won the latest National Spelling Bee: cymotrichous. It took me three tries just to the get the first letter right. (I'm sure Kimmy is not surprised by that.)

Check out this link if you want to see some clever/useful products.

I saw a news blurb about a guy that had some software called "Hidden" installed on his Mac. When his Mac was stolen, the computer sent him messages telling him where it was at. It also took random photos of the thief. This is really cool.

Now I don't trust my own computer. Suppose it turns on me and starts taking random photos and posting them on Flickr. Here's one that I found that looks suspiciously like me.