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The Evolution of Dance

2008-08-14T10:14:00.000-04:00

What Would Jesus Buy?

2008-08-12T16:34:00.002-04:00

I watched What Would Jesus Buy last night. Hilarious and so true.

Also, some interesting thoughts here.

Never Play Nintendo Wii with a Dog Behind You

2008-08-11T15:35:00.000-04:00

Crafty Googling to find the good stuff

2008-07-18T14:14:00.003-04:00

Need mp3's, albums, software, ebooks, or ringtones? People post stuff all the time. G2P (not P2P), uses google to find it for you. Check it out.

Zen Habits

2008-07-17T12:14:00.003-04:00

I've been reading a blog lately that has some really enlightening information. You should check it out: http://zenhabits.net/

Goodbye George

2008-06-23T09:48:00.000-04:00

We'll miss you.

Three of My All Time Favorite Movies

2008-04-07T09:12:00.002-04:00

Charleton Heston starred in three of my favorite movies of the seventies. Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, and Omega Man. We will miss you.

Taco Town SNL Spoof

2008-03-31T14:23:00.000-04:00

Norton Internet Security Product Key

2008-03-27T14:15:00.002-04:00

FYI-

I've been getting this annoying popup from Norton Internet Security 2006 to install a free add-on that will upgrade to NIS 2007 and add additional Ad Blocking and Phishing protection.

Well I spent the better part of an hour installing the update and came to a screen asking me for the "Product Key". Which was no where to be found. I went online, created a "Priority ID", and called 800-745-6061, and spoke to "John" in India and he told me to look here:

C:\Documents and Settings\*your user name*\My Documents\Symantec

There it was in a text file. Just cut and paste in to the Product Key box(es).

Low Carb Foods Disappearing, But...

2008-03-18T10:57:00.002-04:00

I've been trying to cut back on carbs for a while. And now I'm starting Atkins induction. Since Quiznos and Subway have now done away with their low carb wraps it is hard to find a place that still offers any low carb options.

Our local Friendly's used to offer a bunless burger and even listed the carbs on the menu for certain items. Not anymore.

But I have good news! We have a local restaurant called Steve's Place in Glens Falls. I just recently ate dinner there (I haven't been there in a while), and they have 4 low carb menu options. It was surprising to see, as most of the other restaurants are doing away with theirs.

Drug firms 'inventing diseases'

2008-02-28T10:27:00.000-05:00

I just ran into this (from 2006) and thought is was interesting ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4898488.stm

Government Knows Best

2008-02-25T16:04:00.001-05:00

By Jonah Goldberg

Type "New York City Council" and "ban" and "2007" into Google. Here's some of what you find:

A New York Times story: New York City Council Approves Ban on Metal Bats

A BBC News story: "Racial slur banned in New York."

A CNN story on how New York is considering banning "ultrathin" models.

A New York Sun article on how New York City is contemplating banning feeding pigeons.

A link to the Humane Society's effort to ban horse drawn carriages.

And that's on the first page alone.

These sorts of stories trickle-in almost hourly. Sometimes we hear them and are briefly distracted by them, other times we tune them out as background noise. And, most often, we simply forget them, these little human interest stories that amused us for a moment on talk radio or in back pages of a newspaper.

Sometimes we giggle about what's happening in other countries, without long pondering that places like Canada and Britain often blaze the trail we are on. For example:

In Britain, in a perfectly typical event quickly forgotten, police tracked down and nearly arrested an 11-year-old boy for calling a 10-year-old boy "gay" in an e-mail. This was considered a "very serious homophobic crime" requiring the full attention of police. In 2006, the coppers fingerprinted and threw a 14-year-old girl into jail for the crime of racism. Her underlying offense stemmed from the fact that she refused to join a class discussion with some fellow students because they were Asian and didn't speak English.

In England, traffic cameras are now trained on drivers to arrest them for eating in their cars. And in both Britain and Canada, the old Hitler Youth slogan, "Nutrition is not a private matter!" has taken on a new life. One expert this week argued that obesity must now be treated like Global Warming, requiring stern government intervention.

Health experts in Britain and Canada insist that the government has every right to meddle in the private life of its citizens since the state is picking up the tab for their healthcare (never mind that it's not the "state" but the taxpayers themselves). As Tony Harrison, a British health-care expert, explained to the Toronto Sun, "Rationing is a reality when funding is limited." So fat people and others can't get surgeries if bureaucrats or doctors don't think they're worthy of surgery. Now, of course, there's a certain logic here since the taxpayers are picking up the tab and someone has to make the hard choices about priorities. But it never occurs to these people that maybe the fact that the government is slowly being put in charge of many of the most important and personal issues in peoples' lives is in fact an argument against socialized medicine. It doesn't occur to them that refusing to unload seriously ill patients from ambulances, sometimes for hours at a time, just so emergency rooms can meet government quotas, is a sign that something is seriously wrong with the way statists handle medicine.

Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that the goal of Progressivism was to have the individual "marry his interests to the State." "Government" he wrote in book, "The State," "does now whatever experience permits or the times demand." "No doubt," he wrote elsewhere, taking dead aim at the Declaration of Independence, "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle."

He was hardly alone. "[W]e must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many," declared the pioneering progressive social activist Jane Addams.

The old story of the frog who doesn't jump out of the pot because the heat is turned up so slowly comes to mind.

On countless fronts, the natural pastures of daily liberty are being paved over by bureaucrats, politicians and other do-gooders. They aren't merely fixing problems as they come up. They are laying-down a path to a world where people like them are in charge of our lives, in large ways and small. And when you realize it, the funny stories we so often hear, aren't so funny anymore.

Jonah Goldberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism.

Angry White Men

2008-02-21T09:40:00.000-05:00

by Gary Hubbell

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.

Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.

StupidTester Says I'm Totally Smart

2008-02-03T23:32:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul Got Elfed

2007-11-28T16:36:00.000-05:00

Hey, I just made a total elf of Ron Paul. Check it out by clicking the link below.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9628495583

Ron Paul 2008!

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

2007-09-26T10:28:00.000-04:00

Jeff Dunham does Achmed the Dead Terrorist.

Jeff: How do you spell Achmed?

Achmed: A - C - phlegm - SILENCE! I kill you!

Also here: Part 1

Spark Of Insanity! - Funny video clips are a click away

Part 2

Achmed The Dead Terrorist Part 2 - More bloopers are a click away

This video may be taken down at any time.

Don't Tase Me Bro!

2007-09-20T09:04:00.000-04:00

This is hilarious. I'm sure you've heard it on the newz.

Heated Exchange...

2007-09-17T12:50:00.000-04:00

I had a bunch of Canadian dollars I needed to exchange so I went to the currency exchange window at the local bank.

It was a short line .. . . there was just one guy in front of me. The guy in front of me was an Asian guy who was trying to exchange yen for dollars and he was a bit agitated.

He asked the teller, "Why it changes? Yesterday I get two hunat dolla fo my yen - today I get hunat eighty? Why it change?"

The teller simply replied, "Fluctuations."

The Asian guy said, "Fluc you white guys too!"

How to Make Bombs and Meth

2007-08-08T23:17:00.000-04:00

Some interesting reading here:

Bombs

Meth

About Israel

2007-06-11T01:06:00.001-04:00

Cool facts about Israel ...

Not So Cool Facts About Israel ...

Bene-bull Dogs and Cats are Carnivores

2007-04-06T13:18:00.001-04:00

I see all of these commercials for dog and cat food, stating that they
contain vegetables "for good health" and grains "for energy".

This is a bunch of Bene-"Bull".

Dogs and cats do not have the physiology (teeth, stomachs, or intestines) to
digest vegetables or grains. But commercial pet foods are up to 65% grains,
because they are cheap to make. Wheat gluten protein, the main "grain
protein" used in these foods is very minimally digestible by our pets.

Cooking also destroys all of the enzymes and vitamins and minerals in their
food.

Many experts say we should feed our pets raw meaty bones and organ meats
exclusively, and I agree ...

http://www.b-naturals.com/Feb2003.php
http://dogtorj.tripod.com/id51.html
http://rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html
http://www.fiu.edu/~milesk/Genetics.html

New Barbies

2007-03-19T10:43:00.000-04:00

Mattel recently announced the release of the improved limited-edition Barbie Dolls for the Greater Albany market:

Saratoga Barbie

The Saratoga princess barbie comes with an assortment of Kate Spade Handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired foreign dog named Honey and a cookie-cutter house. Available with or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic Ken sold only in conjunction with the augmented version. Saratoga Barbie is easily exchanged, and occasionally mistaken for Loudonville Barbie.

Delmar Barbie

The modern day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Wind Star Minivan and matching gym outfit. She gets lost easily and has no full-time occupation. Traffic jamming cell phone sold separately.

Schenectady Barbie

This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, a Ray Lewis knife, a Chevy with dark tinted windows, and a Meth Lab Kit. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) ..unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking about.

Loudonville Barbie

This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or Hummer H2. Included are her own Starbucks cup, credit card and country club membership. Also available for this set are Shallow Ken and Private School Skipper. You won't be able to afford any of them.

Cohoes Barbie

This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a NASCAR t-shirt and tweety bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Bud light and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired Ken's butt when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free.

Troy Barbie

This tobacco-chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased beer-gutted Ken out of Cohoes Barbie's house. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, and a see-through halter-top. Also available with a mobile home.

Vermont Barbie

This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, arch-less feet, hairy armpits, no makeup and Birkenstocks , or combat boots with white socks. She prefers that you call her Willow. She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase two Frankfort Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free.

Arbor Hill Barbie

This Barbie now comes with a stroller and infant doll. Optional accessories include a GED and bus pass. Gangsta Ken and his 1979 Caddy were available, but are now very difficult to find since the addition of the infant.

Lark Street Barbie/Ken

This versatile doll can be easily converted from Barbie to Ken by simply adding or subtracting the multiple snap-on parts.

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny

2007-03-09T14:51:00.000-05:00

I just watched Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny last night. Fucking awesome! Here are my favorite scenes ...

White Value System

2007-03-08T09:36:00.001-05:00

We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These White Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Whites are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the White Community
3. Commitment to the White Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

Does this sound racist? Now change everywhere it says "White" to "Black". This statement is what Barak Obama's, Black Supremacist preacher has on his website ( http://www.tucc.org/about.htm ).

I Hate My Job

2007-03-07T15:41:00.001-05:00

When you have an "I Hate My Job" day, try this.

On your way home from work, stop at your pharmacy and go to the thermometer section and purchase a Rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson.

Be Very sure you get this brand.

When you get home, lock your doors, draw the curtains and disconnect the phone so you will not be disturbed.

Change into very comfortable clothing and sit in your favorite chair, open the package and remove the thermometer.

Now, carefully place it on a table or a surface so that it will not become chipped or broken.

Now the fun part begins.

Take out the literature and read it carefully.

You will notice that in small print there is a statement, "Every Rectal Thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson is personally tested".

Now, close your eyes and repeat out loud five times, "I am so glad I do not work in thermometer quality control at Johnson & Johnson."

HAVE A NICE DAY AND REMEMBER, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE WITH A JOB THAT IS MORE OF A PAIN IN THE BUTT THAN YOURS.