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Croc Hunter Gone
I always had a bit of an issue with Steve Irwin wrassling alligators – it seemed to be for entertainment, and the alligators didn’t seem to be having much fun. However, just about a week ago I was watching an episode with my aunt who has dementia. He had rescued an injured koala and was showing his young daughter Bindi the sad little creature. The little girl was precious as she pet the sick koala – the fellow apparently was too sick to be saved, however. I remember thinging, bet she will work in the zoo one day.
Now that little girl has no father.
I remember stingray warnings growing up on the west coast of Florida – we were taught the stingray shuffle as soon as we were old enough to walk into the ocean. It really sounds like a freak accident – very unusual for these attacks to be fatal. My heart goes out to little Bindi and her baby brother – even though he did his controversial baby-carrying by the crocs a few years back, he really did seem to be a loving father.
Pension Philandering – More Corporate Welfare
Tell me why Exxon with record profits, ability to pay their outgoing CEO something on the order of 400 million, cannot fund their employees’ pensions and is going to leave it to the American taxpayer to pay off these pension funds? Are we so asleep we don’t even care that corporate America is ripping off not only their own employees, but all tax-paying Americans whose hard-earned dollars fund the pension guarantees these companies figure will pay the bill for them? Continue reading →
9 Points to Go to Meet Nixon’s Lowest Approval Rating
And now folks are saying there will need to be a big terror attack or something to pump up his numbers? How perverse is that kind of thinking? He will get better ratings as a president if we have a terrorist attack again? Huh? Continue reading →
Jobs Americans Don’t Want to Do
When I hear the argument that illegal immigrants are doing jobs Americans don’t want to do, I think, “What difference does that make? Most Americans don’t want to do their jobs. Haven’t you experienced the current level of customer service in our country?” How many Americans do you know who hate their jobs but do them anyway because that’s simply LIFE. Continue reading →
Kool-Aid Drinkers
Today I heard this phrase used on talk radio. I just love it! Basically, the Kool-Aid drinkers are people who support a politician/leader/president/whatever to such a degree that it wouldn’t matter WHAT they do, they would find some reason to say “Hey, what’s wrong with that?” I used to joke that a certain person I know (name will go unmentioned) would support President Bush even if he put babies heads on sticks – he must have had a good reason! He’s such a fantastic President! Continue reading →
Grab That Extra Second
That we are getting as the New Year turns over. We might not get any more of them in the future.
Have You Ever…
…happily helped a stranger with directions, then 10 seconds after he drives away realized, “Oh shit, I told him the wrong way.” Continue reading →
Quote of the Day/Week/Month or Whenever I Remember to Update It
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. -Thomas Paine
Many Americans forget Paine fell out of favor because he had very strong feelings about the role of church in society.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. – Thomas Paine
Googley Eyed for China – Not So Fast – Warning: If Your Are a Resident of China Stop Reading Now
First Yahoo! helped China restrict freedom (hey, anything to promote “free trade” is a-ok these days, including slave labor), then Google decided to be the final arbiter on the China-Taiwan dispute.
But then had a change of heart.
The Aussies Are Fatties Too!
Tucker Carlson thinks we are just too obsessed with our national chubbiness: “I hate how people beat up on fat people. They’re the underdog in this society.”
Me too, Tucker, and I hate how they beat up on people who wear bow ties (I wonder if he saw Curb Your Enthusiasm this week…).