Monthly Archives: February 2008

After moving this site to a new location, I am now in the process of physically moving myself to a new location, just a mile down the road. I will be without Internet until Wednesday at my house, but I will still be able to get online at work. So before I disconnect things here, I have some observations about a couple of developments over the past week: Ralph Nader version 08 Version 00 and version 04 were disasters — for the country.  I could give a rat’s ass as to Nader’s loss in those two election cycles, you can indirectly pin the blame on him for two terms of George Bush.  I am still not convinced that the Republican Party put Nader up to running in those two elections to siphon off votes from the Democrats, but the result was the same. Now he wants to run again, totally ignoring the tidal wave of Democratic voters who are focused on Obama and Clinton.  Somehow he thinks that HE is the one they are going to want in the White House. Look, if I wanted a narcistic grumpy old man for president, I would vote for McCain.  At least he…

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It seems the theme of the week here has been about the rough times everyone is having.  Money is tight for most of us — the more we make doesn’t necessarily translate into the better off we are. Especially if you have the financial rug pulled out from underneath you. The Bush Adminsitration has been telling us all along that the dollar is strong, the economy is robust and things are a-growin’.  Yet down here in the real world, where most of us live and work, we just aren’t seeing strong and robust. We are seeing inflation. The gas for my car is now at $3.42 per gallon at the cheap Arco station.  When Bush came into office, it was about $1.05.  Then it went to $2.05, and $3.05.  It has literally trippled since Bush came into office. But we only really notice the pump price. We don’t notice the fact that it takes fuel to get goods to the market.  If the cost of that fuel tripples, then it is going to be reflected in the cost of those goods.  So EVERYTHING goes up. Except our wages. In most cases, our wages have remained roughly the same over the…

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Jesus Dave. I’m sorry about your house and everything else thats happening to you and Arron. I have been diagnosed with a form of MS, and am becoming a human pin cushion lately. I’ve been reading everyone else’s comments lately and appears we’re all in for a shit year. Well, God bless everyone here, no matter what form you think he takes. We all need the prayers of each other right now. Right now, If I thought dying would take away the pain, I wouldn’t hesitate, but then I would be greedy to those who stand by me. Sometimes I think that list is getting shorter. No one wants to hear it after awhile.

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I’ve gotten a bit behind in getting this shebang back up and running.  I made a faulty assumption that THIS site would be like all of the other ones I’ve moved — download, upload, restore the database, and viola!  Carnation Instant Website. Nope. There is some time-consuming tinkering I have to do here to make this site compatable with the new version of WordPress that comes out next week.  I also have to take out virtually EVERY plugin and start over. All of this while I have to make an “emergency” move to a new place this weekend.  The county has “red-tagged” this property and we have until Monday morning at 7 AM to be out of the house.  Not to fear, we have another house a half mile away from here, and we are busy moving stuff right now. The bad thing is, I will not have my FIOS connection for at least a week (or a connection of any type, unless I get a comcast internet for a few days) I am slowly but surely putting this together in between work and moving.  I have EVERYTHING on the Archive site, and it is my intention to start this…

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Part my my early youth was misspent close to New York City. My family, from the Adirondacks, was there because my father was offered a job on Park Avenue during the depression. Getting NYC-ites to notice is tough, especially as they walk to or from different destinations in Manhattan. This guy manges to get their attention in Grand Central Station. I know that’s tough because as I wandered the streets as a just barely teen it was close to my father’s office… so I knew it well. So let’s pause… to give a hats off to the gentleman who orchestrated this…

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Glenn Beck: “Hand, you are my only friend, the only one who always agrees with me and loves me without question. Hand, I will always stick with, and to, you forever.” Wolf Blitzer: “Somebody adjust my pole NOW! Adjust the pole NOW!” Tom Brokaw: “Shay, where doesh Russert keep hish got-damned vodka hidden?” George W. Bush: “How can they say I’m not popular - just look at this crowd of smilin’ people applaudin’ me. Okay, what time do we leave the Rose Garden and go make that speech at the Heritage Foundation?” Poppy Bush: “It’s a hell of a way to show your oldest boy you disapprove of him, I say ”all this chumming up to Bill Clinton and endorsing John McCain and so forth” but it must be done and when something hard must be done, I’m just the gent to do it.” Hillary Clinton: “This poll says that most voters think I’m too bossy, calculating and harsh. You people better find a way to make me look authentic and soften my image or you’re all fired!” Larry Craig: “It’s always ‘use a condom, Larry, use a condom, Larry’ with guys like you ” like I do this all the time in…

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