tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38813962012-01-24T14:33:00.523-06:00Life in the Banana PatchA collection of thoughts and asides about life. And if I think of anything that needs to be mocked, it will show up here.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.comBlogger10841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-24214534081392485172012-01-24T14:33:00.000-06:002012-01-24T14:33:00.571-06:00Movie Industry versus InnovationHere's a cool infographic showing Hollywood's hatred of innovation. If you have a slow connection it will take a few minutes to load.
The takeaway is Hollywood hates change. In the 1940s, the studios predicted doom when they were forced to sell their theaters. They predicted doom when TVs came along in the 50s, claiming that they couldn't compete with free content. They predicted doom when VCRs Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-38461109853160136112012-01-21T12:46:00.000-06:002012-01-21T12:46:00.059-06:00Sex Toys for the FaithfulUntil now, I did not know that sex toys could be considered sacred. Book22 sells to Christians. KosherSexToys sells to Orthodox Jews. And El Asira sells to Muslims.
That's a bunch of dirty minded religous people.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-87671554456073486222012-01-20T11:23:00.000-06:002012-01-20T11:23:00.684-06:00I am a skeptic.
I do not believe in ghosts or spirits. I do not believe in invisible people in the sky who control our destiny. I do not believe in Bigfoot, Yeti, chupacabra, mok'ele-mbembe, Nessie or Champ. (Google 'em.) I do not believe that John Edwards, Sylvia Browne, or Derek Acora actually communicate with spirits. I do not believe in astral projection or ESP.
Oddly, I find myself Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-21173137071233340592012-01-19T12:34:00.000-06:002012-01-19T12:34:42.447-06:00Is Your Religion School-Approved?
Ginger Strivellis a witch. No, really. She practices witchcraft as a religion. One day, her son came home from school with a Bible. The Gideons International dropped off a few boxes of Bibles and the school announced that they were free to any student who wanted one.
Ginger marched down to the school and asked why they were giving away Bibles. The principal said that they would distribute any Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-66020529637232876042012-01-19T08:06:00.000-06:002012-01-19T08:06:00.462-06:00Thank GoodnessAs sites across the Internet went black on Wednesday, Congresscritters all across this land abandoned SOPA/PIPA like rats fleeing a sinking ship, and the measure was shelved. Not defeated. Shelved. They'll try again in a few months.
Here's why SOPA is bad. To quote from Ehowa.com, wherein, Ernie mentioned a post on The Truth About Guns and a round counting device that could go onto .357 magnum.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-36303622130494614272012-01-18T23:40:00.000-06:002012-01-18T23:40:24.772-06:00Not Very Much
I just filed my taxes. I pay an effective rate of 15%. Imagine my surprise when a millionaire named Mitt Romney says he only pays 15% and that his $375,000 in speaking fees last year "wasn't very much." I made less than $30,000 last year. He made more than $375,000. And we both pay the same tax rate. Ain't America great?
Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-81651026604821371762011-11-29T20:30:00.001-06:002011-11-29T20:47:44.059-06:00Marshal Rogers BatmanI remember when comics were something to be looked for at the newstand. Now, I look for comics in the graphic novel format, because that's how comics writers write.
Recently I bought Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers. Marshall Rogers was who I associated with Batman in my youth. He had such a crisp style. It evoked Neal Adams and John Byrne. I was happy to collect what issues I could Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-22197962523072373612011-11-29T18:44:00.001-06:002011-11-29T19:01:16.054-06:00Keep Christ in Christmas and Our Money in ChinaI just saw a piece on ABC Evening News where they are trying to get people to buy American. Ross Perot tried the same thing in 1992 and 1996 but NAFTA was the big thing. For those of you that don't remember, NAFTA would ease trade barriers between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Another unanticipated consequence was "Outsourcing", where companies create customer service phone banks in Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-12278425166497317272011-06-27T06:11:00.000-05:002011-06-27T06:11:00.181-05:00New York became the Sixth state to legalize Gay Marriage, and I say, about fucking time.
I've said it before: When the divorce rate among heterosexuals hovers above 50%, they can't spout off about the sanctity of marriage. Especially bastions of marriage like Newt Gingrich, who's been married three times and told one wife he was divorcing her on her cancer bed.
I think gays deserve the right Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-60583804555864981062011-06-26T18:11:00.000-05:002011-06-26T18:11:26.379-05:00Michele Bachman, a Tea Party favorite, is poised to announce her candidacy for President in the 2012 election. She does face a couple of questions, however: first, her family has received almost $300,000 in government funds. Now as a budget cutting Teabagger, she rationalizes it this way: first, $26,000 was for a counseling program at her husband's company, and her Wisconsin farm received Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-5459617780589698562011-04-23T03:48:00.002-05:002011-04-23T03:48:00.431-05:00Estabalis Chavez went on a hunger strike to get an invitation to the Royal Wedding on Saturday. Some passerby lent her almost $1300 to fly to London, where she will be one of millions watching from outside the church.
Aren't hunger strikes supposed to be for important things, like independence from England or something?Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-66249166841093928552011-04-22T07:51:00.001-05:002011-04-22T07:52:54.311-05:00In Oregon, a 16 year old student doing some community service with a third grade class, had the idea to put jelly beans in plastic eggs and let the kids hunt for them. The teacher in charge of the class okayed the activity, as long as the 16 year old use the term "Easter Eggs." (It was Spring Break, after all. Easter was 6 weeks away.) So they were called "Spring Spheres."
Somewhat obviously,Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-49391064571751809022011-03-19T17:54:00.000-05:002011-03-19T17:54:24.627-05:00Now that we are at war with Libya, where is Code Pink? Where is the anti-war movement that evaporated when Obama was sworn in? Where's the outrage?Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-51092261132026914852010-10-25T17:22:00.000-05:002010-10-25T17:22:36.533-05:00Be warned. You won't like the topic and you won't like the language. My favorite part is when they say that if you really want to protect the institution of marriage, you would outlaw divorce. True dat.
Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-56677726081612718682010-07-16T07:17:00.004-05:002010-07-16T07:26:56.163-05:00The NAACP recently condemned the Tea Party for its rampant racism, saying the group has verbally and physically harrassed Black members of Congress and they often carry signs depicting or comparing Obama as a monkey.
Apparently, this
and this
are racist. I wonder why the NAACP didn't say anything sooner?
Or is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-61169886238332007982010-06-23T19:23:00.002-05:002010-06-23T19:26:39.463-05:00I just saw a commercial for Activia yogurt. Jamie Lee Curtis said they were asking people to record their Activia Challenge, and some gal actually submitted her tape! WTF? The last line of her testimonial was: "I can see changes in my digestive system." Which my twisted mind supplied the following sentence: "I shit like a bull now!"
People, please. Can't we keep our digestive systems Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-34811056151631301252010-05-29T12:56:00.001-05:002010-05-29T12:56:00.686-05:00Fortress Amerikkka - Day 1475
There have always been illegal aliens in Texas.
"If I could build a wall from the Red River to the Rio Grande, so high that no Indian could scale it, the white people would go crazy trying to get beyond it." - Sam Houston (1793-1863)Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-38422348365109670092010-05-28T12:46:00.000-05:002010-05-28T12:46:00.249-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-23218868516952840522010-05-26T14:17:00.002-05:002010-05-26T14:26:43.446-05:00Fortress Amerikkka - Day 1476
Obamessiah has ordered 1200 National Guard soldiers to the Arizona-Mexico border. Arizona has a 339 mile border. That's 1,789,920 feet of border. That's one soldier every 1491.6 feet, or 497.2 yards.
That oughta slow 'em down.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-12703968264065678792010-05-26T07:42:00.000-05:002010-05-26T07:43:24.570-05:00FINALLY!
Google Chrome for Linux is here!Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-11994459407909598452010-05-01T09:44:00.003-05:002010-05-01T09:52:24.348-05:00
Everyone can relax now! The oil spill is under control.
The Chosen One is going to the Gulf Coast.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-55139228940448135012010-04-26T18:42:00.002-05:002010-04-26T19:22:22.043-05:00Fortress AmeriKKKa - Day 711
The legislature of Arizona just passed an immigration law that defies belief. Police officers are now able to ask for a citizenship check when they suspect someone may be in the country illegally.
Crap! Now I need some proof that I am a citizen before I go back to Arizona.
"Wait!" you say. "You aren't Hispanic."
And there lies the problem with the law. There are Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-11669899690938510832010-03-23T13:41:00.003-05:002010-03-23T13:49:33.998-05:00Reading the Health Care Bill Part 1
If one of the purposes of the health care bill is to reduce the growth of health care spending (Page 4, lines 1-2), why is there going to be an Excise Tax on medical devices (Part 1, Section 552)? Won't that increase the cost to hospitals? They will pass along those increased costs to the consumer as all excise taxes are passed along. That will accelerate Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-83092264810871821742010-03-15T10:13:00.000-05:002010-03-15T10:14:09.395-05:00Peter Graves - 1926 - 2010
Clarence has clearance. What's his vector, Victor? Godspeed Captain Oveur, over.
I remember Peter Graves better as Jim Phelps from Mission: Impossible, though.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-56815554559721775562010-02-06T21:13:00.003-06:002010-02-06T21:19:31.068-06:00I just saw a commercial by some celebrities asking for donations for Haiti releif.
Julia Roberts was filmed, I assume (since the other famous people had different backgrounds) in her living room. Julia said, "We don't have time to talk about what we should do." Apparently we have time to get a film crew up to Julia Roberts' house, set up the lights, get a shot, run back to a studio, put some Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-9680960344441424582010-01-30T20:17:00.002-06:002010-01-30T20:27:14.178-06:00Remember Katrina?
President Bush was held responsible when it took more than 24 hours to get troops into New Orleans after Katrina was gone. Obama's Katrina is Haiti. Ignore the fact that New Orleans in American territory and Haiti is not. The press has. As far as they are concerned Haiti=New Orleans.
Some Puerto Rican doctors were caught drinking. People are now pissed about it. Apparently,Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-34417254230371798402010-01-27T19:38:00.002-06:002010-01-27T19:47:30.183-06:00While watching television last night, I watched a commercial for a car company. The commercial showed the frame of a car crashing into a wall, and highlighted the crumple zones. The crumple zone, they said, crumples over the engine compartment and not in the passenger area. Impressive.
The more I thought about it, the more it didn't make sense. In the commercial, the engine compartment Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-66080116992737159832010-01-15T06:42:00.004-06:002010-01-15T06:44:40.033-06:00The Chosen One promised us a transparent government. What he didn't mention is that all meetings related to transparency will be opague.
Joe Biden is having one of the those closed transparency meetings today.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-51354767061357620242010-01-12T10:58:00.002-06:002010-01-12T11:10:26.636-06:00This health care thing might be less stringent than we thought. Back in November, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said women should stop getting mammograms every year--or, in other words, limit the health care options for women. As I predicted, this recommendation was put into the health care bill. That way, when the Feds take over the health care industry, they won't have to pay so much Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-70604482414245650152010-01-11T08:47:00.004-06:002010-01-11T08:59:26.717-06:00
Hmm. Apparently, the Chosen One misspoke when he authorized $787 billion economic stimulus package that was almost all construction projects. Remember? He told us that repairing bridges and roads would put Americans back to work, and America's college graduates and laid off investment bankers would flock--FLOCK, I say--to these construction jobs. As I predicted back in March, it didn't Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-71397434320579506502009-12-23T09:33:00.001-06:002009-12-23T09:33:00.951-06:00Happy Festivus!
Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-66981438650325497082009-12-21T17:19:00.000-06:002009-12-21T17:20:10.439-06:00I love archaeology stories. And I love biblical archaeology stories. While I don't believe the Bible is God's literal words, I do admire how well it chronicles history. And here's a story about some house that the real Jesus--the brown, Arab-looking guy that actually existed, not the white, Anglo-Saxon guy portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter--that was found in Nazareth.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-35672504500262854672009-12-15T06:35:00.000-06:002009-12-15T06:35:00.163-06:00More concerns about government funded health care. Thanks to the crappy economy and budget cuts, poor women are being denied mammograms and Pap smears. Medical care by government. We will be so fortunate!Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-64400759948419724232009-12-14T04:28:00.000-06:002009-12-14T04:28:00.418-06:00Waitaminit!
I thought the world would erupt in orgasmic joy with the arrival of Obama and Peace would descend from Heaven and angels would fly through the air. Apparently no one told Iran and North Korea. According to CNBC (formerly the biggest Obama cheerleaders whose bias is obvious but not harmful, like FOX's), under Obama the threats those countries pose has gotten worse.
I guess North Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-37480991776108308282009-12-11T10:14:00.000-06:002009-12-11T10:14:00.310-06:00This Just In: All other problems in the United States have been solved!
To preserve the Union, a House subcommittee has passed legislation that would force college football to switch from the current Bowl Championship Series to a playoff system.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-36169687239024330072009-12-10T09:03:00.002-06:002009-12-10T09:15:31.254-06:00AT&T sold the iPhone because of its ability to stream video on their 3G network. Now that people are doing that, they are contemplating ways to get them to stop. Maybe AT&T's slogan could be, "You can do this, but we don't want you to do it."Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-27783844992845855652009-11-27T13:29:00.000-06:002009-11-27T13:29:00.886-06:00I have never understood how a Catholic politician could be a good Catholic and still support abortion. I mean, the Catholic Church says that's a really bad thing. But most Catholic politicians are able to dance around the issue. Some said that their religion didn't apply to their politics and their politics didn't apply to their religion. Apparently, now that Ted Kennedy is pinin' for the Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-30335489350561584032009-11-26T06:54:00.001-06:002009-11-26T06:54:00.259-06:00Red Light Camera$ are a highly touted $afety feature of most citie$. The$e camera$, we are told, reduce accident$. Right?
Not so fast! In Chicago, red light camera$ only create ca$h flow, not prevent accident$.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-36695978296437664012009-11-25T06:34:00.002-06:002009-11-25T06:34:01.012-06:00I'm an old fuck. When I was growing up, jets just caused a hole in the ozone layer. The ozone hole would kill us all by allowing UV radiation to hit the Earth. There were TV documentaries by recently retired news anchormen that explained in great detail how we would all be dead by 2010. No one remembers the ozone hole paranoia now. Now, all jet planes cause is this:
Now that's some damn Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-41180378538795893552009-11-24T06:20:00.001-06:002009-11-24T06:20:00.423-06:00
Set Denial Beams on FULL!
Evolution sighted in humans! Someone check the Bible for a sufficiently vague quote to refute this.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-2719758177295717382009-11-23T07:39:00.000-06:002009-11-23T07:39:00.477-06:00The US Preventative Services Task Force, a government board, has recommended that women over 40 stop having mammograms. Let me restate this: A government board has suggested that women stop getting mammograms because they aren't needed.
And we're going to let the government run health care.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-68510180358466501142009-11-20T07:37:00.000-06:002009-11-20T07:37:00.304-06:00Pelosi and Obama are strangely silent as a corrupt former member of Congress is sentenced to 13 years in prison. And so is the media, who followed every step of the trails and tribulations of the previous administration. I wonder why?
Oh yeah, that's right. He's a Democrat.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-60129654604697074722009-11-19T05:18:00.000-06:002009-11-19T05:18:00.140-06:00
Sorry, Sarah. You can't do a MILF-y pose for Runners World Magazine, and then complain that it's sexist when someone else uses it. No one told you to put on those shorts.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-27315024361880958252009-11-18T08:14:00.000-06:002009-11-18T08:14:00.064-06:00Obama is going to close Gitmo. And the detainees are going to Illinois. The Feds are buying an old prison from the state of Illinois. Obama is from Illinois. Coincidence or payback?Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-7245831438689353842009-11-17T08:38:00.000-06:002009-11-17T08:38:00.598-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-31144505424483885802009-11-16T07:12:00.002-06:002009-11-16T07:12:00.206-06:00I had a discussion with an English-firster the other day. He used the "Immigrants should have to learn English when they come here" argument, so I thought I would help out all you English speakers with some basic Comanche phrases. After all, they were here first, and we should have learned Comanche!
Comanche
English
haa
yes
haamae
please
keeJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-44509092621725195902009-11-13T07:34:00.001-06:002009-11-13T07:34:00.324-06:00President Obama has asked for a review of the intelligence investigation into the alleged Fort Hood Shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, in order to determine if the Feds dropped the ball.
And he wants the Feds to be in charge of the health care system. Why am I not filled with confidence?Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-28642573094582257432009-11-12T05:52:00.000-06:002009-11-12T05:52:00.664-06:00
It's about what that darn thing is worth, now.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-17757840531177323272009-11-11T13:36:00.003-06:002009-11-11T13:52:53.965-06:00Remember a few years ago, when New London, Connecticut used eminent domain to take some homes and give the land to a developer? The development, turns out, would have enhanced Pfizer, Inc.'s nearby corporate facility. Now, Pfizer is closing that facility. In other words, all that time, effort and money is wasted.
In related news, Dell Computers is closing a manufacturing plant in Winston-SalemJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-9588562968932347852009-09-07T14:32:00.001-05:002009-09-07T14:34:06.429-05:00Texas now requires religious instruction in school. Oops. Sorry. Christian religious instruction in school. You're kid's a Jew? A Muslim? A Buddhist? Tough. They have to study the Christian Bible. Welcome to Jesusistan.
What astounds me is that people are objecting to Obama's speech to schoolkids tomorrow because he's "indoctrinating" the children, but they don't have any problem with Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-89084156623451341392009-09-02T17:20:00.002-05:002009-09-02T17:21:03.517-05:00"If I could build a wall from the Red River to the Rio Grande, so high that no Indian could scale it, the white people would go crazy trying to get beyond it." - Sam Houston, back in the days when white people were the illegal immigrants.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-81524202639014127862009-08-27T07:01:00.001-05:002009-11-11T09:14:56.161-06:00Fortress Amerikka - Day 1200
Yes, that is Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo on MST3K. A great comedy bit.
Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-52456461878399531402009-08-15T21:39:00.000-05:002009-08-15T21:39:00.319-05:00
I wish people would stop trying to teach science. All the science we need is in the first chapter of Genesis.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-9434748514073668172009-08-14T21:38:00.001-05:002009-08-14T21:38:00.929-05:00
Of course, this isn't in The Bible, so it's not true.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-69932456322698943492009-08-08T21:33:00.000-05:002009-08-08T21:33:00.592-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-71553903462020487902009-08-01T21:29:00.000-05:002009-08-01T21:29:00.964-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-68050099868192009872009-07-31T16:39:00.000-05:002009-07-29T16:39:37.261-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-39732929991563590332009-07-29T12:26:00.003-05:002009-07-29T12:37:11.794-05:00Reuters recently reported that after the removal of the Federal speed limit, deaths in road accidents have risen.
Overall, Friedman and his team found that increased speed limits led to a 3.2% jump in road deaths. On rural interstates, car crash deaths increased 9.1%, while the increase for urban interstates was 4%.
Naturally, they are calling for the 55 mph speed limit to save lives and stop Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-38586612077253041412009-07-22T18:36:00.001-05:002009-07-22T18:36:53.398-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-35061474543884238042009-07-21T21:28:00.000-05:002009-07-21T21:28:00.288-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-38156042245091400782009-07-19T20:54:00.001-05:002009-07-19T20:54:28.213-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-86136716903130149342009-07-07T21:26:00.001-05:002009-07-07T21:26:25.176-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-30777772583655209862009-05-27T07:22:00.001-05:002009-05-27T07:24:04.102-05:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-6066968623041820072009-05-13T07:03:00.001-05:002009-05-13T07:06:21.577-05:00No wonder the new Enterprise looked like a factory, it was the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Los Angeles.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-45162978841834945622009-05-11T14:55:00.008-05:002009-05-11T15:11:36.184-05:00
Because no one demanded it: My review of the new Star Trek movie follows.
First, this move grabs you by the throat in the first ten minutes and keeps you on the edge of your seat till the end. Second, great special effects! And, third, almost perfect casting. Watch it. It's awesome.
But. . .
1. My biggest gripe about the whole movie
December 7, 1941 - Annapolis, Maryland. A cadet is being Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-45104273784760710142009-05-08T11:26:00.002-05:002009-05-08T11:27:08.532-05:00I have been in retail for 30 years. And in that time, I have learned one thing: The customer is not always right. In fact, the customer is almost always wrong. As Scott Adams so eloquently wrote, "Customers are stupid." And, for the record, I include myself in the statement when I act as a customer.
Don't believe me? Read this description of a bed and breakfast here in Paradise:
BEDS & Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-28694777637464305822009-05-06T09:37:00.002-05:002009-05-06T09:44:55.582-05:00
Remember that credit crunch? It might just be getting worse. According to a New York Daily News story, the government is telling Bank of America, who they bailed out earlier, that they need $34 billion in capital. I wonder if they will start calling in loans, further deepening the mortgage crisis.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-37271445366821660872009-05-03T21:42:00.002-05:002009-05-03T21:45:49.163-05:00
Because I am a huge geek, I was reading John Byrne's reboot of Superman. His version of Krypton was a sterile place, where no one touched another person, not even parents.
With swine flu, we may be heading that way.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-26646779725030196632009-05-01T09:10:00.000-05:002009-05-01T09:11:36.206-05:00"Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately." -- Scott AdamsJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-4212022249182969972009-04-28T20:00:00.004-05:002009-04-29T17:56:21.060-05:00
I thought avian flu was what we were supposed to be worried about! Now swine flu will kill us all? What, are we flashing back to the Carter Administration?
So the media has forgotten avian flu and is now reporting we will all die from swine flu. But some have decided to take exception to the name "Swine flu." The CDC thinks we're so stupid that we will believe we get the flu from eating porkJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-42349668778875409552009-04-16T10:21:00.000-05:002009-04-16T10:21:01.417-05:00Three years ago, Congress, at the behest of America's lendors, passed a sweeping bankruptcy reform law that made it harder for you and me to file bankruptcy. They cited abuse as the reason for the legislation.
In retrospect, it seems that what really happened is that lenders knew what was coming. They knew that the liberalization of lending requirements under the Clinton administration was Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-44811092064852692552009-04-16T07:43:00.002-05:002009-04-16T07:46:59.888-05:00
Marilyn Chambers - 1952-2009
What red-blooded American male who could legally buy porn in the 80s wasn't in love with Marilyn. The world seems a little darker today.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-48671096796887305322009-04-15T22:14:00.002-05:002009-04-15T22:18:29.311-05:00Well, here's some good news: French Navy captured 11 pirates. The US? We got one.
Maybe we should impose sanctions on Somalia.
Oh, wait! We did! That's working well.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-65582178357059046482009-04-10T22:01:00.003-05:002009-04-10T22:10:11.057-05:00BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Once again, my assertion that all politicians hate us, not just the Republicans, is being proven correct.
The Electronic Frontiers Foundation, or EFF, who champions a lot of causes I support, has reported that Obamessiah is agreeing with the previous administration that warrantless wiretaps should continue. To quote from their newsletter:
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-47842270051777317622009-04-02T06:32:00.002-05:002009-04-02T06:45:14.920-05:00Yesterday, Car and Driver magazine's website reported that Obamessiah would force Chrysler and GM out of NASCAR as a result of taking money from the Govern-mint. Apparently, a lot of NASCAR fans reacted badly.
That April Fool's joke would have worked without the news the previous weekend that the White House had fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner. The Govern-mint can now dictate who works for a private Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-8190501778701805942009-03-27T20:23:00.000-05:002009-03-27T20:26:18.400-05:00The Problem with Traffic Cameras
Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-29658907623084517822009-03-24T19:09:00.003-05:002009-03-24T19:17:27.253-05:00
I have been jokingly referring to our President as "Obamessiah" because so many people believe that only he can save this country. And many of those believers are media types. This is not the first time I have seen this subliminal imagery--Obama with a halo--and I'm sure it won't be the last. So, from this Reuters story on Yahoo, a picture I have renamed "Obamessiah."Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-47975460589170641062009-03-13T09:16:00.002-05:002009-03-13T09:57:44.615-05:00I am not a huge Rick Perry fan, but he did the right thing, yesterday, when he refused part of The Chosen One's Stimulus plan.
Perry said that the state would be forced to raise taxes on business to continue to fund the unemployment benefits, as well as extend benefits to students, women and the elderly. I'm not sure how the state has gotten away with not giving benefits to women, but now if youJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-18271564185868678852009-03-06T10:28:00.002-06:002009-03-06T10:39:10.745-06:00The jobless rate jumped to 8.1% (As an aside, do you remember when they called it unemployment rate? Jobless sounds much better, don't it?), and another 600,000 jobs have been lost, bringing the total since December of 2007 to 4.4 million.
I don't know why anyone is concerned, The Chosen One told us the economic stimulus plan would create 3.5 million jobs. So as soon as Joe the Investment Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-43104103599923010472009-02-27T07:39:00.000-06:002009-02-27T07:40:08.973-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-10429398452374735512009-02-21T19:02:00.001-06:002009-02-21T19:07:52.688-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-46372715896200486712009-02-09T07:52:00.002-06:002009-02-09T08:32:17.935-06:00The One recently signed the State Children's Health Insurance Bill, which will be funded by a $1/pack hike in cigarette taxes. I thought Obamessiah was The Smart Presdident! I thought this was a President--and a party--that cared about the poor in this country. Looks like I was wrong on both counts.
The Democratic Party has long opposed regressive taxes, those taxes that a a proportionally Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-10101475298023773172009-02-04T08:10:00.001-06:002009-02-04T08:10:37.952-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-51634935643468606562009-02-03T14:10:00.003-06:002009-02-03T14:14:41.960-06:00Vanity Fair has posted a Federal Bailout application form.
And you can design your own Economic Stimulus Package here.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-69157345530433195772009-01-30T08:06:00.001-06:002009-01-30T08:06:47.595-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-18566883456467434002009-01-29T08:07:00.000-06:002009-01-30T08:10:33.347-06:00So, the Republicans in Congress are upset about the amount of spending in Obamessiah's (aka The One) economic bailout bill. (I know I know it's an economic recovery bill, but it's just another bailout: money to people we are giving enough of our money to.) They say it will increase the deficit.
No really! The party that gave us the largest deficit in history is saying Democrats spend too much.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-37788286041314588612009-01-27T16:43:00.001-06:002009-01-27T16:45:26.173-06:00Guess who reads this blog!
Representative Paul Broun (R-GA)!
Click here to see the proof.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-2682883560670009342009-01-23T06:14:00.001-06:002009-01-23T06:14:32.673-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-14394831990001995542009-01-20T07:40:00.000-06:002009-01-20T07:40:00.771-06:00Happy Unicorns and Rainbows Day!
Congratulations to President Obama. And as soon as the words "So help me God" leave his lips, most of the blogosphere will suffer one unified orgasm and they breathlessly celebrate the end of the Bush Administration and the beginning of the Obama administration. And then, tomorrow, the country will be perfect again!
The exact same thing happened after Clinton'sJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-70575504549655354062009-01-17T09:50:00.000-06:002009-01-17T09:50:01.181-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-16436595298882298802009-01-16T07:53:00.000-06:002009-01-16T07:53:01.081-06:00
KHAAAAAAAAN!
Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009). Montalban passed away January 14 at his home in California. Famous for his roles as Mr. Rourke, and as Khan Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and as Guttierez in Freakzoid! (my personal favorite role of his), Montalban passed from natural causes.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-81719027957330655172009-01-15T07:35:00.004-06:002009-01-15T07:43:02.244-06:00
October 7, 2008-Barack Obama: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
As he campaigned, Obamessiah pandered to the wishes of the public.
January 14, 2009-Barack Obama: "My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-60508171477314698902009-01-14T18:50:00.002-06:002009-01-14T18:59:08.051-06:00I was talking to my nephew the other day. We both were saying that we wanted to eat real Japanese food again. I was an exchange student in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1984-1985, and he was stationed in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, in 2002. We both wanted good yakisoba. We don't want Benihana or sushi or anything upscale, but everyday Japanese food. I want yakisoba. I want donburi. I really want Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-38477291849034586052009-01-09T07:54:00.000-06:002009-01-08T19:55:30.092-06:00Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-56448509966307991442009-01-08T10:31:00.004-06:002009-01-09T08:07:42.968-06:00Never one to miss out on free publicity, Larry Flynt, along with "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis, has traveled to Washington, DC, to ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, a coalition representing the commercial real estate industry is also asking for a bailout.
So, the banks, auto industry, several cities, the retail association, and these latest guys all want money because you Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-17479998689246141792009-01-05T06:16:00.000-06:002009-01-05T06:16:00.732-06:00New Mexico Governor cum Commerce Secretary nominee has withdrawn his nomination as a grand jury begins looking into his business dealings. Read about it here. I'm not here to rehash the charges. I just have to ask one question: Where are the calls for Richardson to resign? Is it because Democrats, by definition, cannot be corrupt? Like Blogo, in Illinois? Or is it only governors? Do we Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-58670403129492910682009-01-04T08:27:00.002-06:002009-01-04T08:55:31.240-06:00As you may or may not know, I am a Star Trek fan, and read all the novels. But I must confess that the recent string of Star Trek novels are starting to wear me down.
Beginning with Resistance, the Borg are Back. In this book, the Enterprise destroys a cube and learns of another one. Admiral Janeway tells Picard to stay away, and rushes to investigate. And in Before Dishonor Janeway dies Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-60312994828169066582009-01-03T09:39:00.003-06:002009-01-03T09:53:16.899-06:00
I've heard rumors that the National Retailers organization is looking for bail out money to shore them up because you and I aren't spending enough. I haven't seen a news article to back that up, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true. Basically, the bailout takes our tax dollars that we can't spend on other goods, and give it to the makers of the goods to replace what we can't buy.
In orderJeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-28066108753570621872008-12-22T10:23:00.002-06:002008-12-22T10:26:51.284-06:00And so it begins. . .
The Seattle Times is laying the groundwork for a bailout of Boeing.
. . .an aviation bust further out is now clearly on the radar. . . . Aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia, of the Teal Group, expects the downturn to hit Boeing in 2010 and last at least three years — and that's his optimistic forecast.
You read it here first.Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881396.post-12087809851638369332008-12-21T16:08:00.002-06:002008-12-21T16:18:12.516-06:00Remember that you heard it here first! Finally, the Main Stream Media has figured out what I predicted: Bankers got $1.6 billion in bonuses that came right out of the $700 billion bailout package. I guess we should start calling it the $698.4 billion bailout package.
Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other Jeff Holthttps://profiles.google.com/117234469008247427002noreply@blogger.com0