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.

Here is your quote for the day: "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Wayne Dyer

That's a wrap for today.  Time to save the world.

Up, up and away...

Jim

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What's going on out there?

This just in:  Apparently, the Church of Scientology is accused of being involved in a scandal involving sexual abuse of a minor.  A young girl said the following was told to her -after being abused by a senior church member - on how to testify to authorities: "Just say no. Don’t say yes, because otherwise you will be taken away from your parents and you’ll never see your family again."  The guy that coached her to testify thusly, a guy names Eastgate, later received the church's highest award.

I expect the Church of Scientology to contact me about a law suit any time with regards to the previous paragraph.  It's in their nature.

I read a Time Magazine expose on Scientology a few years back.  It seems that this group by thousands of copies of their own book Dianetics, just to keep it on the bestseller list.

Elsewhere...

Germany is planning on building more fossil fuel plants to replace 100% of their nuclear plants.  It seems they would rather live in a polluted world than to live in fear of the next big nuclear accident.  Not the choice I would make.

I think that if we knew what was next - after we die, we would spend less time being afraid of the monsters in our closets.

Here is a map of AIDS cases in the United States.  I found this interesting.

A Japanese group wants to put enough solar panels on the moon to power all of the Earth's needs.  Interestingly, we already have the technology to do this, including power beams to send the power back to Earth.  All we need to do is find the will to spend the money.  It would take a global effort and decades of work.

The Syrian government is offering amnesty to protesters.  Their idea of amnesty is a little different from the norm.  Basically, they will reduce all sentences to the next lower level.  So, if you are a protester that they would normally sentence to death, they will grant you "amnesty" and only give you life in prison.

I'm always amazed by how crazy you can be and still run a country.

Onward...

"Craplet" is the term given to all the junk software that is preloaded onto a new computer.

China has launched another cyper attack on Google's gmail.  China denies it.

At the same time, we are in military talks with China.  Who out there thinks China will honor any treaty if it suits them to do otherwise?

A flight broke out on a plane because a guy reclined his seat into the space of the person behind him.  I've considered being that person (the one in the back).  I've come to accept the fact that if only one seat on the plane is reclined, it is the one directly in front of me.  I recline mine about half an inch.  If I don't, my head bobs as I try to sleep.  The slight recline shifts my head's center of gravity back far enough so I can sleep without fear of whiplash.

Greece has just received a Caa1 rating.  This means that if you lend them money, there is a 50% chance that they will not be able to pay you back.  Would you lend them money?

The United States will be joining Greece very soon if the debt ceiling is not raised.  Would anyone lend us money then?

I know, I know.  There are those out there that say, "We have plenty of money.  All we need to do is cut spending and then we will not need to borrow any."  Those people have no idea about the scope of our debt.  They are overestimating how much waste we have and how much money we are taking in.

If we are to remain a great nation, we need to be willing to pay for it.

This brings me to today's quote:

"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference." Bear Bryant.

My spidy sense is tingling (yes, I have spidy sense), so I need to get going.

Up, up and away...

jim

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Here is a cool video about a jet pack.

Jet Pack