Archive for November, 2008
Obama: Already Impacting Our Foreign Policy
Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.
Well, I have got to say that back in Dec. ‘07, I had it right. In a small portion of an article I wrote back almost a year ago, I mentioned how whom we voted for president would have an immediate impact on our foreign relations with certain key countries. And, it is already happening!
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A Bedroom of My Own
When I was a wee little kid, I slept on a narrow daybed downstairs in my Mom’s sewing room. I’d pretend I was sleeping when my Mom’s lady friends came to be measured or to try on a semifinished dress. She made dresses and altered their other dresses. I’d see them in their bras and panties and long nylon stockings. If any lady complained about my being there while she disrobed…
…”Stashu is too young,” my Mom would say. “He may look at you, Mrs. Kaiser, but believe me, he’s an innocent baby. He doesn’t notice anything.”
Then not long afterwards, one day, my Mom noticed a gleam in my eyes, and I and my daybed were evicted from her sewing room.
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Nuclear Waste Nobody Wants Turned Into Energy
Snipped from CostaCountyTimes.com.
Put down that fantasy comic book! Put down that science fiction magazine! Put down that science magazine! Pick up today’s newspaper! Pick up the Contra Costa Times. (11/10/2008) It’s here again: Fisson and now Fusion and “the turning of lead into gold.” But wait! This time it’s the renown Lawrence Livermore Lab turning nuclear waste into energy (like electricity). Hey, take notice this time; these are the people who invent nuclear weapons. Real nuclear scientists! Maybe this time it really is real, works, and will happen!
It all came to light when Governor Schwarzenegger, joined by former Secretary of State George Schultz, talked to reporters after visiting the National Ignition Facility at the lab. Suzanne Bohan wrote the article for the Contra Costa Times titled “New clean energy initiative unveiled at Livermore lab.”
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The Layaway Plan
Snipped from NPR.org.
The year I started ninth grade, was the year I started working after school and on Saturdays at Harris Workingmen’s Store in Canonsburg, Penna as stock boy. The manager didn’t want to hire me, even though my oldest brother once had the same position. Nevertheless, I did get hired to replace the previous guy who had quit to join the Navy. Why? Because my father had a talk with Eddie Harris, the manager’s father.
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Strange Job Resumes
Snipped from CareerBuilders.com.
Suppose there was an advert for a streaker to run thru a convention hall that’s people-packed. “Bring resume to room 338, Blackball Bldg. One-time Pay $5,000. Trial run around building required.”
You give it some thought. You realize that there’ll be oodles of guys and gals there. How can you alone get the attention of the hirer and land the streaker job?
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64% Of Republicans Want Palin In 2012
Snipped from RasmussenReports.com.
Just what “I was afraid of. This is in relation to a portion of another article of mine. Here is a small quote:
I am pissed that 48% of the country thought one of two things: I can’t vote for Obama since he is black or Muslim (which he is not), or Sarah Palin was qualified to be Vice President (or God forbid, President). And I don’t know which one is more scary. I can’t believe Obama did not win more of the majority. HE ONLY WON BY 51-52%! Obama couldn’t have had a more perfect environment for a landslide election, and yet, there was no landslide.
