Job Testing

How Tim W came to be a pilot

.One of the questions from the career placement test given college student applicants for a military commission.   "Rearrange the letters P N E S I to spell out an important part of the human body that is more useful when erect"   Those who answered "spine" went to medical school...the rest went to pilot training.    Tim W

Shadow Knows

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Season over

REMINDER The college basketball season ends today Time: Noon Eastern ESPN2

Electric Asshattery

GREEN CRAP BAD KARMA

“ Got a Half-Billion Dollar Gummint Loan Guarantee The Fisker Karma is a plug-in hybrid car that seems to have everything the rich and famous — and environmentally correct — look for in a set of wheels. Sleek silhouette? Check. Green cred? Check. Six-figure price tag? Check. Reliable battery? Not so fast. In a test conducted Wednesday by Consumer Reports magazine, the niche-market $107,850 sports car conked out completely, after a short ride at 65 miles per hour on a Connecticut test track. “Our Fisker Karma … is super sleek, high-tech — and now it’s broken,” Consumer Reports wrote on its website late Thursday. “We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles on its odometer … We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.” A Consumer Reports video shows a flatbed truck, sent by the Fisker dealer who sold the car, preparing to tow it away.[story] "James May Drives Hydrogen Powered Car," now showing in  Header Theater may be of interest.  In the meanwhile Obama is promising to give $10,000 of your money to any asshat who buys a Chevy ReVOLTing.  In the same breath that staggeringly stupid sumbitch  is still  lobbying against the Keystone pipeline.  Okay, I was wrong to use "stupid."  Evil, ”

Cody Can't Play Basketball In The Snow

Culture Product of the 24/7 News Cycle

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There be monsters ...

Today's Guest Column "GOT BALLS?"

“ I noticed this tidbit in a Human Events article: "However, it turned out that anyone can create a petition on the White House web site. Conservative humorist Iowahawk was delighted to learn this, and promptly created a one-word petition directed at President Obama: “Resign.” The White House web administrators can and do remove user-created petitions on occasion, but as of this writing, both the anti-Limbaugh and Iowahawk petitions remain active. It appears that the Limbaugh petition did not originate with the President, but his people also have not taken any action to remove it." but I couldn't find anything about it on Iowahawk's blog. ...I found it. Unfortunately, you have to create an account with the White House's web site to sign a petition there. Got balls? Grin GOTCHA This from the Administration that urged people to send in names and e-mail addresses of "folks" who "disagreed" with him. ”

Kitchen work

FOOD Kitchens

The new (rollover old) This, the just before A few weeks ago (Feb 16th) I posted about the start of a total kitchen do-over.  Guess what?  It's done.  On time.  On budget.  HFS!  Our contractor began when he said he would.  He finished on the day he said he would.  The final bill was exactly what the contract stipulated.  The craftsmanship is superb.  I know, we can't believe it either. MoSup did all the preproduction stuff, because I wasn't onboard with spending all that money on a kitchen makeover when we had just done a remodel in 1989.   But she was right, and made all the right choices,  but is now in a PPD stage.  My turn then to step it up.  I spent the past week  putting everything back, which is pretty easy since we have about 30% more cabinet space.  Still have to refinish a  section of flooring previously covered by an island (actually peninsula).  Other than that, the worker boys did everything. They even fixed a leak in the bathroom sink (gratis) because it annoyed them.  If anyone in the area wants a recommendation for the best contractor I've ever dealt with, drop me an e-mail. Now, I know what you're  wanting to ask. "Rodge, with all that new cooking equipment, what's the first thing you cheffed up?"  Raise you hands if you thought I'd say Caviar and Salmon Blini Tortes,  accompanied by a Red Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette and Triple Chocolate Tart with Boozy Whipped Cream for dessert?  Well you're wrong.  It was  a Foreman cookie.  . I had a hankering for a chocolate chip cookie. I had Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough in the refrigerator.  But, I wasn't going to  read the new oven instructions at 11PM, or heat it to make one lousy cookie.  Which is where my George Foreman grill came in.  If you don't have one, you don't know that this sumbitch goes from naught to 400º in about 20 seconds. No exaggeration.  I plopped a glob of dough about the size or a billiard ball on it, and closed the lid.  When I started to smell chocolate burning I lifted the lid, and there you have it.  If' I'da let it cool for 20 minutes or so, it would have been crisp.  I didn't.  It wasn't.  Tasted good anyway.  Coming soon, I review my favorite new thing - a sink /strainer/stopper that works. Try my cookie recipe.

Manix Gel

Manix Gel Watching Sausage Being Made

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Blondie

Today's Cultural Oddity BLONDIE

“ I don't know why.  Lohan looks like a meth addict. ”

Muscle Relaxers by the Inch

Gizmo and Gadget  Nostalgia Record High Pump Prices 3.57/ Inch Regular 3.15/ Inch Premium

These things are still around?  I thought them replaced by ... more, er,  complicated looking devices.  Possums, or Rabbits, or something.  I remember the first time I saw one of these.  We were looking at new-fangled home answering machines at Hecht's.   There,  sitting on the glass counter were displayed a dozen or so, standing upright like toy soldiers. They weren't turned on,  lest they vibrate off the table,  like one of those electric football game pieces, I guess. Took me a minute.  Stopped me in my tracks.   Despite the card calling it a "muscle relaxer," which I guess it is,  I recognized it for what it was.  I was embarrassed (srsly) that it was being sold in public, just as I was later when Tampax commercials were shown on television  (while the kids were watching).  God, that seems so long ago.  Mother Superior, then Sister Superior was with me, and had no idea what it was.  She doesn't have a mechanical mind.  When I told her she said "Oh stop!."  Muscle relaxing was only 57¢ an inch then.

New Meaning for "Bully Pulpit"

Hitler's Mustache                Giving new meaning to "bully pulpit"

“                                                                                                                                                        Threat copy via Sondrakistan Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is being targeted by multiple death threats after President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party ignored his apology for controversial remarks and continued to single him out for rebuke. The assault has become so nakedly partisan and opportunistic that even HBO host Bill Maher--who recently donated $1 million to Obama's Super PAC--has called it a witch hunt with intimidation as its goal. [Breitbart] ” There are indications that even the wacko left are realizing the threat Obama represents.  What will they do about it?  Nada.  If Obama started executing opponents today,  under a pretext of some internal security threat, they'd do nothing.  Until after the election.  Like the accommodation Franz von Papen, Alfred Hugenberg, and several industrialists and businessmen forced on Hindenburg, to make Hitler Chancellor ("We can control him."), Democrats first instincts are focused on keeping the government  in party hands. Pertinent - Did threats silence media on Obama probe? Is it true?  Maybe  Does it comport with how Obama has reacted in the past?  Absolutely

A Fine, Cultured Cheese

Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Yum-Yum - It's Cultured

The Predulator Avenger A-10B

Perfect Gizmos and Gadgets The Predulator Avenger A-10B

“ Ten years ago I had the villain in my novel "Bilko's Gambit" use a radio controlled plane, loaded with C-4,  to assassinate the fictional evil president of a fictional country.   Five years ago, to little fanfare, I brilliantly anticipated using RC aircraft to patrol our borders.  I didn't anticipate Obama; or this government at the time.  How could I?  How could anyone?  So I certainly didn't foresee that my idea would be turned against us.  Anyway, I've been busy in my workshop trying to come up with a deterrent, in the spirit of the Second Amendment, for use by citizen militia should it become necessary.  Here it is.  The Predulator Avenger A-10B. Should work brilliantly on traffic cams too. I just need some seed money to get it into production.  USA USA USA Wire Paladin, San Francisco. ”

When chanting USA USA USA is deemed racist

“ su casa, mi casa Even the best of us can get a cancer Mary.  Radiation treatment may be required.  USA! UAS! USA! ”

Harvard comrades Institute, Beijing 1983?

A leaked frame from Breitbart's film of Obama at Harvard? Harvard comrades Institute, Beijing 1983

Prolly not.

American of the Day

Tails of the Gun                                                                              American of the Day

Rush v. Fluke

It depends on what your definition of "bangs a lot of guys" is slut  (slʌt)  — n 1.     derogatory  a dirty slatternly woman 2.     derogatory  an immoral woman 3.     archaic  a female dog

“ In my yoot,  I would not have called these jeunes filles "sluts."  I'd have called them for a date to the Timonium Drive-in. My mother however would have used the slut word (and often did).    Like so many other things in today's Balkanized society,  word definitions are subjectively filtered to suit personal values, or interests.   Democrats, for instance,  often refer to themselves as "Americans."  Bill Clinton asked what is is?  So, this whole Rush Limbaugh v. Sandra Fluke thing comes down to this.  Ms. Fluke, unmarried, argued publicly in favor of  Obama's free contraception mandate,  because paying for it herself was a financial burden.  Rush and my parents immediately concluded that, here's a girl who's spreading her legs so often that buying protection would bankrupt her (financially).  Well hell, isn't that a spot-on evaluation?  The only real debate, then, is should he have used "slut" to describe her?  He could have used "screen-door,"slatternly,"promiscuous," matress-back," or "flappy-lips" instead, but he didn't.  So, to sum up, I'll borrow from a speech a fraternity brother once gave. “ .But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen! [Leads the Deltas out of the hearing, all humming the Star-Spangled Banner]  ” By the by, here's another slut quibbling about personal responsibility,  and who pays for what.  It's their culture [.Pelosi: Federal employees should not ‘carry an undue burden’ by paying more into pensions.] ”

Carbonte- Click Click

Hitler's Mustache                Reject & Eject

Since the market opened on Monday through its close today, Carbonite stock (NASDAQ:CARB) has plummeted nearly 12 percent, outpacing the drop of the NASDAQ index in that same time period by nine-and-a-half points. It was also one of the biggest decliners on the NASDAQ on Tuesday. Read more: Skoonj wrote that  he'd dropped his Carbonite account, and a few others too. El Jefe writes: “ How Carbonite will pull out of Rush's show but not Ed Schultz's. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/03/all-advertisers- vs http://wegoted.com/sponsors/ Carbonite now gets the El Jefe permanent blacklist. ” Good.  A couple of years ago, after writing about losing a lot of files and wondering about Carbonite (which I'd learned about from Rush),  jodi, I think it was, e-mailed me that she had Carbonite and  recently had to restore her disk.  Said it was a godawful process; slow and bumpy.  So I bought an external disk drive and backed myself up.  Ahem. The list below of other sponsers leaving Rush is complied by the leftist group Think Progress (Center for American Progress).  These are  people who lobbied FOX NEWS advertisers to bail because they didn't like Glenn Beck's influence on the public debate.  To this day I have refused to buy Sargento cheese products. “ So far, Sleep Number, The Sleep Train, Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, Citrix, Carbonite, ProFlowers, Tax Resolution, AOL, Bonobos, Sears, Allstate Insurance, Sensa, Bare Escentuals, Vitacost, Hadeed Carpet, Thompson Creek Windows, PolyCom, Service Magic, AccuQuote Life Insurance, Geico, John Deere, Stamps.com, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Cascades Dental, Philadelphia Orchestra, Goodwill Industries, Heart & Body Extract, Netflix, Downeast Energy, Capitol One, JCPenney, Matrix Direct, Reputation Rhino, Consolidated Credit, Constant Contact, RSVP Discount Beverage, and Cunningham Security have pulled ads from the program, and several others are considering following their lead. [John Podesta] ” This is a culture war, and we need to beat hell out of those Zombies. Let your feelings be known to at least one of these companies.

Payback

Tea Party endorsed Wenstrup
shocks RINO Schmidt in Ohio

In the pink

Sweet Pink Cotton

“ This is happiness. ”