Archive for November 28, 2009
Why Are We Blaming Rahm? Obama’s His Boss
I came upon this tweet a few minutes ago and for a split second I thought, Yeah! Fu*k you Rahm. But then I thought, hey, Rahm works for Obama. Obama’s his boss for God’s sake. Why isn’t Obama bustin’ some chops here?
Sadly, Rahm isn’t the problem. Obama is. I mean really. Let’s face it.
Our Unspoken Shame
I’m watching a special program about the history of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on C-SPAN, a building that was built to “symbolize freedom,” but that was “largely built” by slaves.
Imagine what those slaves were thinking.
Oh, and the narrator said that there is no mention of slaves in the “official” history of the building.
We sure have dressed up our history, haven’t we?
Is Fox Photoshopping Pictures to Smear Obama?
Excuse me but this picture up on the homepage of TheFoxNation looks suspicious to me:
Click on the picture and you go to this:
Click on “Read The Full Article,” and you don’t go to an article at all. You’re taken to another version of the picture above:
Something’s fishy here. That magazine cover is just too clear to be true in my opinion. Not only that — and even more suspect — is when was this picture taken and, more importantly, by whom? Why isn’t Fox giving credit to the photographer like all credible blogs do?
The Whole Dubai Thing
Yesterday morning I watched a bit of CNBC and listened to their chatter about the financial situation in Dubai, which wasn’t very informative.
This afternoon I’m going to take some time to try and make sense of what’s going on there — at least in a general, over-view kind of way. Looks like this is as good a place as any to start.
Break Time — Hair Balls
Geez, I had no idea I was so stylish — that is — when I wear black and walk out the door with 10,000 pieces of white hair sticking to me from one or both of our English Setter dogs: The newest trend? Hair ball pins.
Woo hoo!
Finally, I can relax and stop spending hundreds of dollars on lint rollers.
Tweet of the Day
From Jim Gilliam:
And I would add that the same applies to the entire Washington punditocracy.
Ralph Nader for Senate?
Ralph Nader is apparently considering a run for the Senate in Connecticut, challenging incumbent Chris Dodd.
I think he just might be able to pull that off.
Sarah the Quitter Quits Again
Last week Sarah Palin left 100 people waiting in line at a book signing. On Thursday of this week, she quit a 5K race “to avoid more crowds at the end.”
For the life of me, I can’t understand how anyone thinks this woman has the guts, the gumption or for that matter the character — when you start something you finish it – to be the leader of the free world.
Nice Try Comcast
Comcast has a terrible reputation in the Denver area for missing appointments, putting people on endless hold, giving out inaccurate information and for generally having a screw-the-customer attitude. The other day I got a call from a company conducting a survey — obviously hired by Comcast — gauging the attitude of Comcast customers i.e., it consisted of questions about Comcast’s service and response time, etc.
Meanwhile Comcast has started running ads guaranteeing that they won’t miss an appointment and that they take your concerns seriously. They’re obviously in a PR pickle and I assume they are losing cable television customers to the likes of DirectTV and internet hookups to Qwest (which I have and which sucks).
So, they’re trying to mend their ways, but they’re as inept at that as they are everything else: Today we got our bill (we have Comcast cable) which included a $5.00 off coupon to a local pizza place and, ah, it expires on Monday. We have two days in which to use it.
Wow, their generosity is overwhelming, heh?
