QOTD

"four pages of unfettered pandering and fluff"
- WilliamT firing on Chicago Magazine article on jagweed Bill Ayers, source

He he. I'm famous... Chicago Magazine July 2009 feedback
I saw my feedbag at the health club. I was going to tear the page out from there, but I forgot after I showered. Dop. So, I headed to the Jew-el for a little civil disobedience. I tore this page from a copy at the Jewel... clandestinely in the Wheat Thin aisle. Click on it for a readable size image:

Bow down to us, Chicago Magazine!
Oh, that's a good QOTD too (2?).

QOTD2

"Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me!"
- General Zod, Superman 2

bow to zod... yow, bill

PS - The highlight of this mornings Journal... the happy cigar girl:

Labels: fun, politics, qotd

Just relax and enjoy...

QOTD

"Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of shit."
- Congress-dude Boehner on the cap & trade bill, source

Pile of shit... that's a nice, relaxing smile.
Hope hope hope... cap & trade mega mega tax increase will die in the Senate.
Hope hope hope... that people will vote people out based on this shit... piles of it.
ahhhhh... yow, bill

PS - Shit, there goes my relaxation. Do I file this QOTD under liar or idiot?

QOTD2

"I know light bulbs might not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and our businesses."
- President Obama on the feds mandating the kind of light bulb you use, source

PPS - I can't end on that one.

QOTD3

"Give me your hand
cause it takes that fire to understand"
- Sister Hazel, "Killing Me Too"

Labels: globalwarming, politics, qotd

The Jew-el is covered with little signs proclaiming reduced prices. Indeed!
The two most promising, significant (and odd) price decreases that I saw were in the beer aisle and my $1.75 boxes of Tony Flakes. A buck 75! Shit, at that price... beer and Frost Flakes is my new diet.

God bless google... Jennifer Aniston over there in some tiger getup, all hot and bothered, riding a big tiger stuffed animal. Probable a stupid Photoshop fake... but a dang funny one. He he.

Movie: Valkyrie
Review: 2 bill-stars (out of 5)... not worth it
Wow, slow slow slow... and the payoff? Well, Hitler lives and all the good guys get shot. Roll credits. Jeez.

And I know it's a relic of my adolescent Hogan's Heroes viewing, but why not have the Nazis at least use German accents, rather than just talking all American.
Oh well. I heard that the movie got a bad rap. Nope. Just stinks.

Oh, well... great Sunday morning. My cheap Tony Flakes are calling.
grrrreat... yow,bill

Labels: 2stars, fun, movies

Wow, best death trinity of all-time? The icons death trinity:

1. Ed McMahon
2. Farrah
3. Michael Jackson

I like how Ed McMahon didn't really get any play on how he died... you know you're old when nobody is curious about your cause of death.

President Obama can't even spell hope.
Here is an excellent and hopeful article about the growing number of politicians and scientists challenging global warming: The Climate Change Climate Change

Feds taking over health care and taxing the exhaust from mammalian life itself... I hope not.
later... yow, bill

Labels: fun, politics

Emailing about "The Counselor" (right) today.
Veronica Hamel is 65 now. Jeez.
I gotta get those Hill Street Blues season DVDs.
They're only like $13; I wonder if they'll hold up almost 30 years later.
Stay tuned.

G - D - Em7 - Cadd9...

QOTD

"It shouldn't be so hard to keep it together
It shouldn't be so hard to say the right thing
To you!
It shouldn't be so hard just to be effortlessly"
- Sister Hazel, wussy lyrics from "Effortlessly"

QOTD2

"

Server is too busy

"
- message from Jenny Sanford site, www.scgovernor.com/about/jenny/... everybody's looking for her picture, like me

Well, here's a tiny Jenny Sanford.

That's always the impulse thing.
Affair? I wonder what she looks like.
It's idiotic. It's slowing down at a traffic accident.
Yet, that's the deal for some reason.
BTW, you look pretty good there in black & white, Jenny.

Oh, and this Mark Sanford thing was a classic, source.
I'm fine. No, I'm hiking. No, I'm in Argentina. No, I'm a little stressed out. No, I had an affair. Ahhhhh!

QOTD3

"Sleep will not come to this tired body now
Peace will not come to this lonely heart
There are some things I'll live without
But I want you to know that I need you right now
I need you tonight"
- Punkins, "In the Arms of Sleep"

What's with the wuss-fest lately?
strum... yow, bill

Labels: music, politics, qotd

LYOTD

"She shines
In a world full of ugliness
She matters
When everything is meaningless

Fragile
She doesn't see her beauty
She tries to get away
Sometimes
It's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away"
- Trent, "The Fragile"

Supposedly, there are some polls out there with people howling against President Obama's plan for socialized medicine. Forget the link search on that crap... whatever. I just hope so, man.

Can history repeat and Obama morph into Bill Clinton after he got his newspaper to the snout? I have my doubts, but it would be nice. One hopeful similarity: I find it difficult to discern a single driving value system for either guy... except to get/stay elected.
peace... yow, bill

LYOTD2

"It's something I have to do.
I was there, too.
Before everything else...
I was like you."
- Trent, "The Fragile"

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"I'm not sure he really understands what we face in primary care."
- President Obama's long-time doctor on fed-run health care

Here's the QOTD source: Obama's Doctor Knocks ObamaCare
I'm a faker here because it's just an anecdote, and the doctor advocates a complete socialist approach. Still a good quote, if meaningless.

As for more meaningful, rational commentary... perhaps President Obama could concentrate on fixing what the feds already do in health care (Medicare, Medicaid) before pushing it down the country's collective throat.
say ahhhhhhh... yow, bill

PS - June 19... first day turning on the A/C... curse this global warming. He he. My sprinkler system still lays dormant. Excellent.
PPS - QOTD2
QOTD2

"I love President Obama!"
- Dad, putting an end to a political discussion over dinner... I respect respect the honesty, if not the approach

Labels: healthcare, politics, qotd

Two-fer QOTD

"[It's] a feeble gesture, like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon."
- McKay, on current global warming efforts like stupid light bulbs and unplugging cell phone chargers

"[It] would be like putting an inefficient [computer] on everyone's desk in 1965."
- Bjorn Lomborg, on premature switching to current "alternative" energy sources

WSJ source on these: Climate Fight Heads for New Round

Here's a thousand words (below), also form that article. US and Europe emissions are flat. The emerging countries are the area of growth in both economies and carbon emissions. In 10 years, the US and Europe will be tiny tiny on this graph.


Light bulbs and 40 mpg cars and paying for clunkers and other "teaspoon on the Titanic" measures have virtually no impact on global carbon emissions. They are two things: 1) further, unnecessary control by the feds over individual lives, and 2) more busy work for the nabobs.

Let's assume global warming is man made. I do not. In either case, a fairly simple solution would include:

1. Spend a little - Spend a small percentage of fed research $$$ on alternative energy. Lomborg quotes 0.05% of GDP. It sounds small, but he makes sense. This stuff isn't a
   
2. Use what we got - Allow greater investment in known, proven clean technologies like nuc-ular, clean coal, and yes drilling for more oil. Slowing economic growth slows research $$$ and activity.
3. Do nothing - People adjust their consumption according to its cost. As energy costs go up, consumption goes down, ala gas prices last year. There is no need for fed mandates on everything from light bulbs to lawnmowers. If you're itching to do something, then just provide incentives rewarding energy-saving behavior like better building codes and higher MPG cars.
   

Now, let's close our eyes and pretend for a second. Rather than calling for some bullshit "green" plan that taxes the bejesus out of everyone and shifts control to the feds,what if President Obama called for a national "man on the moon" goal to find viable alternative technologies by 2020... a solution built on growth, leadership and technology.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know.
green schmeen... yow, bill

PS - The best online dating service is www.plentyoffish.com. POF is just one guy... though I read that he just hired his first programmer. POF has 22% market share of online dating services. It's one of the best metaphors for life/business in the 21st century. One smart, dedicated guy (Marcus Frind) is able to project his goodness in a way that touches millions. And of course, he gets to pocket millions himself. This is how real problems are solved: entrepreneurs. Here's the POF guy's blog, which is really interesting.

Labels: globalwarming, qotd

It's bikini Monday... another great week.

Great WSJ article: How Safeway is Cutting Health-Care Costs

The difference between Safeway's approach and the feds... provide monetary incentives for money-saving behavior, rather than mandate behavior.

Why isn't choice the default approach?
Why isn't there a popular backlash to mandated behavior from the feds?
Why don't people demand choice, rather than being told what to do on everything from education to health care to retirement to flipping light bulbs?
I mean, health care run by the feds, are you kidding me?

I don't know. Certainly, being told what to do, having a Daddy, is easier than having choices. But making choices and winning or losing with those choices... the American way? I thought so.
bikini monday... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
- Arnold Toynbee, source

Ah, it's so great to be "right".
I ask you the question, "Are things different this time?"
If you answer, "No"... you have a great chance at being right.
Sure doesn't feel that way though. Health care, taxes, energy, public schools, CO2, flippin' light bulbs, cars... Hmm.

Here's a comforting quote from President Obama's "Pay Czar", whose goal it is to impose certain restrictions on the private marketplace, namely executive compensation.

QOTD2

"One thing that troubles me is this notion of me described as a compensation czar. It makes it sound as if my goal is to impose certain restrictions on the private marketplace, whereas I am much more interested in working with these companies."
- President Obama's "Pay Czar", source

Hey, that Pay Czar really sounds like a nice guy. I mean if the NY Times says you're OK, then that's gold. Cough.

QOTD3

"You loser dinosaur!"
- Williamt, yelling at myself coding yesterday after botching some inheritance 101 in a class setup

dinosaur bikini... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

Lot of nerd synchronicity today. I think I started all this by hooking up a dual monitor to my iMac. Excellent.

QOTD

"The perfect blend of logic and emotion. A state of total computer bliss."
- The Dilbert guy... definition of "nerdvana", source

I have this Dilbert framed... a gift from my favorite Auntie form back in the day when SNPS went public.

source

XKCD rules!

source

One of my all-time favorite nerds: Joel on Software

QOTD2

"Would you hire a magician without asking them to show you some magic tricks? Of course not."
- Joel on Software... on asking coders to code during an interview, source

Now, back to my own nerdvana!
code on... yow, bill

Labels: nerd, qotd, xkcd

Q: How can there be more than one "Quote of the Day"?
A: How can there not be!

QOTD1

"I myself was built to lie on the sand and drink beer and be fanned by island girls."
- Christopher Buckley, contrasting himself with his father

QOTD2

"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
- Evan Thomas, mopey editor at NewsWeek

QOTD3

"I have this fantasy where I’m with Barack Obama at my parents’ house. We’re both naked, and he’s giving me a full-body massage. Suddenly my father appears and says "How could you do that?" And no kidding: In my dream, Obama replies, "I’m serving my constituents.""
- Nicki, 30-something nabob in a Glamour magazine article on women fantasizing about President Obama

I guess that Christopher Buckley has a book out breaking bad on his famous parents. The chasm between real personal happiness and public perception is HUGE , with a silent "H". And more obvious than a naked armadillo at a hockey game, the chasm between Obama reality and perception... as big as I've witnessed in my 47 years.
go penguin... yow, bill

PS - And sign along: "Detroit sucks... Detroit sucks..."

Labels: fun, politics, qotd, sports

QOTD

"As a society, we have put our belief in two great ideas: work and romantic love. Historically, our faith in these grew up together. We started to believe that you should marry for love at roughly the same time as we started to think that you could work not only for money, but also for self-fulfillment. These are two beautiful ideals, but they are also infinitely demanding."
- Alain de Botton, source

Wow, good one, Frenchie. Or Swiss... whatever.
infinitely demanding... yow, bill

Labels: fun, qotd

Good one. WSJ editorial today: School Reforms on the Brink

QOTD

"The great moral outrage of our time is the way the public schools establishment puts its interests ahead of children, trying to kill every school choice program whatever its success."
- WSJ editorial

school choice... yow, bill

PS - Rose knows... well, before the nose job and God knows whatever else she's had done. Can you imagine deciding to hack that face up. Talk about your moral outrage. Jeez.

Labels: qotd, schoolchoice

Google "global warming bikini":



He he.
I suppose in our post-apocalyptic future world, women will have to wear bikinis during snowball fights. It all makes sense to me now.

I couch-beached after 9:00 last night... tired.
Surfed into this treat for a few minutes - ABC: Earth 2100
It was hysterical. Not "very funny" hysterical... but "uncontrollably emotional" hysterical.
This is hysterical evangelism, pure and simple. Emotion used to trampel reason. It was a baptist revival warding off Satan... Hitler ranting about Germany being attacked by Jews... a KKK rally about...

Too far? Think I'm full of crap? Well, me too, but not on this.
Enjoy.
QOTD

"Civilization in ruins!"
"Experts predict food shortages, displacement and chaos in the year 2050."
"New disease has potential to kill thousands or millions in a single strike."
"Water rationing as a result of inaction on global warming."
"A future without water."
"What could happen if war breaks out in New York City."
"Imagine future in flames, with refugee camps and "mass destruction."
"Imagine lethal virus sweeping Earth; carriers marked with a red brand."
"Experts say over the next hundred years the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results."

- Quotes directly form the Earth 2100 web site (big and in red because it's all so very, very scary)

Guys, the nonsense in the actual show... just the 10 minutes I could stomach... was even more extreme than these quotes. All this crap is blared behind a graphical novel style cartoon of a girl wandering an Earth 2100 wasteland.

It was pathetic. A sham. Propaganda of the lowest form.
Here's a pretty good review, with some insane clips form the show: www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090603093737.aspx

We're going to spend trillions on this. Trillions with a "T". (Does that matter any more?)
Jeez, how far would "just" a couple hundred billion go toward food, health care, and education for poor people in Africa or Asia. Or worse, how will this nonsense impact the growth of global economies?

So bottom line: Some scientists buy global warming, some don't. There's lot of statistics on either side. The bottom line is that only the global warming side is using propaganda.

Common sense tells you what that means about global warming.
really nice outside today... yow, bill

PS - Kevin Gregg's blown save last night was worse than global warming. He he.

Labels: globalwarming, qotd

QOTD

"And you'll pull your crooked teeth
You'll be perfect just like me
You'll be a lover in my bed
And a gun to my head"
- Punkins, "Ava Adore"

QOTD2

"And you'll always be my whore
'Cause you're the one that I adore
And you'll pull your crooked teeth
You'll be perfect just like me"
- Punkins, "Ava Adore"

Labels: qotd