So a friend of ours has volunteered a large chunk of his time for the Obama campaign. Being team players, we were roped into a “visibility event” this Saturday.
We were a bit worried, but we were among friends and the whole ordeal turned out to be just a great time.
–dan
So I figured I’d take time out of my day to commend Via Talk for their great customer service.
Personable, friendly and empowered to make things happen - what a great staff. And the actual phone service is great too!
’nuff said.
–dan
So here are some more pics. The one with the bandana is Ashby’s Dog, Gracie. The other one is Maya AKA ‘The Bug’.
My name is Maya. (My-uh)
I am Rachel and Dan’s new puppy.
I am just getting accustomed to my new place.
Right now I sleep alot, since I am a puppy and have some worms in my butt.
Here are some more pictures of me; much more to come soon. I get along with my sister, Zoe, very well and we play together. I wish I had some pictures of that, but every time Zoe and I play, all I hear is “aweeeeee”.
Ho boy.
It’s on now.
Exhibit “A” is located here: http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/26/news/companies/gm_fuel.reut/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories
Just when you think American car manufacturers couldn’t POSSIBLY get any dumber, the aforementioned whining from the once-profitable bohemoth that is General Motors is presented for your judgement.
Quote Bob Lutz in response to the new proposed legislation to help curb our additiction to oil, “…that effectively hands the truck and SUV market over to the imports, particularly the Japanese, who have earned years of accumulated credits from their fleets of formerly very small cars”.
FORMERLY small cars? That’s all you got, Bobby? “Well, you USED to make small cars, but now you make BIG cars that get better gas mileage than our piles-of-shit that we’ve been so complacent as to allow a 60+ year old man to design (gee, wonder why nobody’s buying GM?) and further allow to get crap gas mileage, so THAT gives you an unfair advantage”.
Come again?
Yeah, Bob, this whole “oil” thing really cought us off guard. For the last 20 years when other countries have been producing lighter, higher quality, more efficient and more desirable autos, combined with CONTINUOUSLY skyrocketing consumption of non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels wasn’t a tip-off or anything.
NON-RENEWABLE means you can’t get it back, and fossil means it’s made from long dead animals and plant life. Maybe someday fuels will be made from oily auto executives.
These are the types of mentalities that will represent the slow, hard crawl towards a coherent energy policy for the US (and the world). That’s assuming we even have “energy” left over in 50 or so years to even have a policy for.
I don’t drive an electric car and I don’t recycle like I probably should. I also would like to think that if a policy were drafted to, oh, I dunno, try to save western civilization from extinction, I’d not be so self-righteous as to piss-and-moan about how such a policy puts someone else at an unfair “advantage”.
Christ.
–dan
Here’s something I just don’t get.
The Strokes.
The lead vocal track sounds as if it’s been recorded through a telephone. It’s like they REALLY phoned it in!
But somehow, *somehow* it’s good. And not just kind of good. It’s real good.
It’s like having all the best art supplies in the world and putting out nothing but crap. But give these guys a couple of crayons and they’ve got a damned Rembrandt.
“Studio B”
“Strokes are on line 2.”
“Stand by for click track, guys.”
heh.
–dan
Ahhh now THIS is a good deal here. The statesmanship is nearly palpable.
NEW YORK (CNN) — As President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, a top U.N. official said the two men likely will do their best to steer clear of each other.
Yeah guys, let’s not talk about the issues face-to-face when we have the (rare) opportunity to do so. Let’s keep up with the “bigger dick” foreign policy that has gotten us so far.
Chimps.
Today’s Quote:
Did’s the stuff that’s already done what does is gonna try to do.
–Louis Armstrong
Good stuff.
–dan
I have the solution. It’s not my own, however.
The list of items we cannot carry on board a commercial aircraft is becoming
so long that they should switch it to the things we can carry on. Of
course, the lines are longer than ever at the TSA stand that the decrease in
the amount of baggage may actually be a good thing. Less baggage, less to scan,
faster lines.
I’m sure that smells too much like common sense for TSA, so I’ll skip the separate
"nothing to check line" argument.
Following the previous line of logic, my dad had an idea that everyone should
be required to wear a hospital gown on board. This would go a
long way to eliminating the lines at the "scanner" machine - WTF will
you have that could possibly set the scanner off? You’re wearing little
paper slippers and a cotton gown.
The line moves much
faster.
And - **and** nobody is bitching because they’re too busy laughing and trying
to keep their ass out of public view.
This gives the average public person much more leverage in the event of a hijacking.
Let’s face it folks, we have a lot of ugly people in this country (present party
included) - would you risk a fight with someone at 30,000 feet with the risk
of a handfull of ass?
I sure wouldn’t.
Hell, even if it’s a suicide mission, these people have standards - perhaps
not morals, but standards nonetheless. If they flinch or hesitate for just a
second, we can have a veritable orgy of ugly, exposed asses right on their face.
–dan
It’s always interesting to me the things I find when I clear out my wallet.
Well, this time it is with feelings tinged with melancholy that I do so yet
again. My wallet is too fat with worthless crap (no money in there either).
In the immortal words of Gael* - "My ass just can’t take any more."
Too bad Spicy Meat & Rice, TBTBE®, and The ‘Trench
didn’t have a club card, ‘cuz I’d surely have one and no doubt toil over its
exclusion from my wallet. So I bit thee a fond farewell, (i) my paradise fitness
card that was neither to me, (ii) my 5 Star Diver’s club card that I never used
and (iii) my Student ID that I never needed.
(flings into trash can)
–dan
*Told you I’d get you back for correcting me, Gael. 
