random ramblings

2009

June 161
May 156
April 107
March 224
February 146
January 147

2008

June 75
May 52
April 87
March 69
January 100
“The biggest problem with broadband service in America is not...”
— Glenn Derene (via azspot)
Mar 3rd

March 3rd, 2009 is a Square Root Day. ...

shawnblog: inothernews: padayon: dare: constellation: twothirty: I’m not sure of...
Mar 3rd
hilker: The Housing Chart That’s Worth 1000 Words [h/t...
Mar 3rd
We just had a guy come in to our office trying to “win back” our business after we left...
Mar 3rd
From his actual website. Didn’t even have to...
Mar 3rd
So, someone (from the Philippines, I think) searched for...
Mar 3rd
“The recession is a good opportunity for out-of-work...”
— Coders urged to take up open...
Mar 3rd
Photos and Documents of Amin Al Husseini:...
Mar 3rd
Opinion: Republican Road to Recovery
Mar 3rd
“Listening to Mr. Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,...”
— Our Troubled Economy Is a...
Mar 3rd
“But after five weeks in office, it’s become clear that...”
— Our Troubled Economy Is a...
Mar 3rd
“Jokes are jokes, but this goes beyond what you might regard...”
— Education appointee email...
Mar 3rd
Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes (Video &...
Mar 3rd
“There was a difference with Reagan and it is one, critical...”
— Andrew Sullivan The Daily...
Mar 3rd
Full Text of the 787 Billion Dollar Act
Mar 2nd
needtherapy: ...
Mar 2nd
Pearls Before Swine free online comic strip library at...
Mar 2nd
“HANOVER (Reuters) - German twenty-somethings would ditch...”
— German twenty-somethings...
Mar 2nd
sds: http://nationalgrammarday.com/
Mar 2nd
I don’t mean that the Republicans are forever out of power—only that there hasn’t...
Mar 2nd
Obama to tap Kan. Gov. Sebelius as health...
Mar 2nd
Two NFL players lost at sea
Mar 2nd
Paul Harvey: An appraisal of his career by...
Mar 2nd

Rush Limbaugh is not helping the...

squashed: The Conservative Political Action Conference featured Rush Limbaugh as a keynote...
Mar 2nd
UPPER EAST SIDE WOMAN SUES NEIGHBOR OVER...
Feb 28th
The Obama Team's Drink of Choice? Coke, Not...
Feb 28th
Obama Calls His Budget ‘a Threat to the...
Feb 28th
Here's a Glimpse: A Letter from 1953
Feb 28th
“Grose says he accepts that the e-mail was in poor taste and...”
— Mayor who sent watermelon...
Feb 28th
“President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government...”
— TheHill.com
Feb 28th
“How obese is Obama’s spending bill? It is porkier than...”
— A friend’s Facebook...
Feb 28th
Dolores Umbridge vs Diane Feinstein
Feb 27th
Senate agrees to give D.C. residents a vote
Feb 27th

Someone from the California Senate's ISP...

sds: The entry page was a dashboard URL, so it was another tumblr. Ahhnold, is that you? ...
Feb 27th
“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more...”
— Mark Zuckerberg (via...
Feb 27th
sds: robot-heart: digitaljourney:joshawesome:noahkai:bluddyellmiss: livedeliberate:...
Feb 26th
un: Conservation Status (via puzzler:shaneblog: (and over...
Feb 26th
needtherapy: spaceships: thewayoftheworld: snuh: ...
Feb 26th
needtherapy: robot-heart: New Zealander Nadya Vessey —...
Feb 26th
shawnblog: (via aatw)
Feb 26th
shawnblog: via www.bluebus.com.br
Feb 26th
Holy cow!  What kind of school costs $150k?!?
Feb 25th
“Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic...”
— Byrd: Obama in power grab No...
Feb 25th
“I know that some in my generation have a hard time with...”
— Kevin DeYoung, Why We Are Not...
Feb 25th
Jindal gets panned
Feb 25th
“Nobody messes with Joe What’s important is that he’s in...”
— “Nobody messes with Joe” Biden...
Feb 25th
“So what, then, is truly the difference between Israel and...”
— Fundamentally Freund: Are all...
Feb 24th
sds: un: Cool Stuff: CHANGE Into a Tuck Art Print |...
Feb 24th
sds: azspot: Be Careful Our Children Might Get Even With...
Feb 24th
Windows startup programs. What are they? Are...
Feb 24th
Feb 24th
Pennsylvania rocked by 'jailing kids for...
Feb 23rd
via www.daybydaycartoon.com
Feb 23rd
“Wait ‘til you see the markets’ reaction to what he unveils...”
— Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Feb 23rd

Useful IRS Links

How Much Was My 2008 Stimulus Payment? (Check how much stimulus money you recived last year -...
Feb 23rd
“When you spill the milk, you don’t need a lecture on...”
— Dr. Kevin Lehman...
Feb 23rd
“The sky will open. The lights will come down. Celestial...”
— Bipartisanship didn’t...
Feb 23rd
PostSecret Almost every time I look at PostSecret, there is...
Feb 22nd
PostSecret
Feb 22nd
These executives are thinking about self-preservation, and that’s what we all do. They...
Feb 21st
The Farmer In The Dell Cartoons
Feb 21st
Using the queue, but since Tumblr is pretty well dead on Saturdays, I’m still filling up...
Feb 21st
Calculator for Azerbaijani Manat (AZN)...
Feb 21st
needtherapy: This might be going a little too far :)  I...
Feb 21st
needtherapy: robot-heart-politics: markbean: Big Fat...
Feb 21st
“I like parties, but I don’t like piñatas because the pinata...”
— - Demetri Martin via...
Feb 21st
(via shawnblog)
Feb 21st
foolishcross: Pew Research Center: Darwin Debated: Religion...
Feb 21st
New Deal or raw deal?
Feb 21st
Youniverse.com
Feb 21st
“Bill Mounce writes about Eph. 4:29 and how it applies to...”
— Between Two Worlds: Ephesians...
Feb 21st
Did Overeager Twittering Blow GOP Chances?
Feb 21st
Too late for ex-Burris backers to cut and run
Feb 21st
Obama wants to overhaul health care; can he...
Feb 21st
Confessions of a taxi driver
Feb 21st
[A sentiment from a friend] Government bailout is like the non-working spouse (government) giving...
Feb 21st
“A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans...”
— Poll: Most favor...
Feb 21st

An interview with parents of 18 kids

[Joy] Behar: I understand that you guys are debt free. I can’t even imagine how you pulled...
Feb 21st
Are you kidding me? Tumblr blows my mind sometimes. From...
Feb 20th
So, I am definitely going to have to look into using the queue.  If I post things once every 17...
Feb 20th
White House Transition
Feb 20th
He survived after bungee cord broke
Feb 20th
Stock Market Since Inauguration
Feb 20th
“Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must...”
— Experts Warn of...
Feb 20th
Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax
Feb 20th
“Bill Clinton says Obama needs to sound more hopeful: Former...”
— Bill Clinton wants Obama to...
Feb 20th

A Letter to the Editor

Let us shame those who wish Obama ill Don Ellis, Henderson Fri, Feb 20, 2009 (2:03 a.m.) It is...
Feb 20th
Why I hate Facebook - CNN Why I Hate the Oscars (But Can’t Stop Watching) - Newsweek Up...
Feb 20th
“A Fayetteville man who faked his death almost 30 years ago...”
— Fayetteville man pleads guilty...
Feb 20th
Tamil Tiger planes 'raid Colombo'
Feb 20th
sds: kevinnuut: I Could Go For Some Wine… Anyone who...
Feb 20th
ESPN Team's gesture supports grieving...
Feb 19th
“Keynesian stimulus only ends or softens a recession if most...”
— Opinion: ‘Hair of the...
Feb 19th
“On Tuesday Mr. Obama signed into law his $787,000,000,000...”
— Opinion: ‘Hair of the...
Feb 19th
“Team Obama has been living off its campaign reputation for...”
— Rove: Is the Administration...
Feb 19th
“Team Obama was winging it when it declared the stimulus...”
— Rove: Is the Administration...
Feb 19th
Men see bikini-clad women as objects,...
Feb 19th
“Repeating the statement that [Obama] won last November is...”
— Commentary: What Congress...
Feb 19th

Reagan vs Obama on countering "the worst...

sds: [Reagan’s] task was to begin rallying public support for a program designed to jolt the...
Feb 18th
Heard on the radio today: “Monkeys are tough.” “Nothing good comes after the...
Feb 18th
sds: onemoretimewithfeeling: sds: Yes, this is...
Feb 17th
“Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of...”
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of...
Feb 17th
hilker: “Green Island Project” imagines what Tokyo would...
Feb 17th
Amar Bhide Says the Stimulus Bill Relies on...
Feb 17th
Feb 17th
Police shoot chimp after rampage wounds U.S....
Feb 17th
I just emailed this to a friend who is in the process of purchasing a home.  Maybe I just...
Feb 17th
“I think that what I’ve said is what other economists have...”
— Barack Obama forgetting that...
Feb 17th
(via themiddle)
Feb 16th
Pretty cool.  I knew that I would have the highest...
Feb 16th
“I remember 2004, when they said that the Democrats were in...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“I do think that the Internet has really soiled a lot of the...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“I think that the blogs have poisoned the political...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“I remember Elaine Tornero in Reynoldsburg, Ohio: She called...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“They had huge crowds, and I felt they were really...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“Thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands of people...”
— Alexandra Pelosi, “Right...
Feb 16th
“To a degree, one of Mr. Geithner’s biggest problems was not...”
— Fair Game - The Worst Misstep...
Feb 16th
“Venezuelans approved on Sunday a constitutional reform to...”
— TAKE A LOOK-Venezuela’s...
Feb 16th
“Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple’s...”
—  Yahoo! News - Nine-year old...
Feb 16th
My Way News - Ohio woman pleads guilty in...
Feb 16th
PostSecret
Feb 15th

Why do they always want to cut social...

squashed: Sds and Bellatoris quoted a charming article by Jerome Corsi, who you might remember...
Feb 14th

Replacing government vehicles

squashed: Perhaps the most widely disparaged provision in the stimulus involves purchasing new...
Feb 14th
“As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800...”
— Federal obligations exceed...
Feb 14th
Michael Calderone's Blog: Clinton wants 'more...
Feb 14th
Obama planning ambitious road ahead
Feb 14th
“Maybe, just maybe, Congressmen shouldn’t have voted for...”
— The Trunk: Sneaking Stuff In ...
Feb 14th
“It’s like when you clean your house…certain...”
— foolishcross’s tumblr...
Feb 14th
“The traditional Arabic name for Jesus is Yasu’. Until very...”
— Jochen Katz: ‘Isa — the true...
Feb 14th
“The Great Depression caused hardship for many U.S....”
— Procter & Gamble:...
Feb 14th

The President's Conflict of Interest

jeffmiller: In September, Paulson’s dire warnings of imminent economic calamity had a dual effect....
Feb 14th
hilker: [h/t devin] What I find so humorous about this is...
Feb 14th
sds: via http://www.gopvalentine.com The first one...
Feb 13th

The Economic Crisis Explained With...

sds: hilker: soupsoup: Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin . In order to increase sales,...
Feb 13th
“However, it has become apparent during this process that...”
— Judd Gregg on withdrawing his...
Feb 12th
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,...”
— The day socialism comes to...
Feb 12th
“With all due respect to the president,” the principal...”
— Students: Change Boulder High...
Feb 12th
“I did send [Sarah Palin] a note after the election. I...”
— Bill Ayers I haven’t decided...
Feb 12th
How I Got A $12,000 Check From The Government...
Feb 12th

Jeff Miller analogizes the role of...

sds: (The title is mine) jeffmiller: So, yes, maybe the economic boom in the 1980s came about...
Feb 12th
IMDb Top 250 movies as voted by our users
Feb 12th
via media3.washingtonpost.com An amazing graphic.
Feb 11th
“Yes, this grotesque scene, like a claustrophobic circle in...”
— Camille Paglia on Obama,...
Feb 11th
“Lott says the picture indicated a law was being broken in...”
— Eight arrested in Michael...
Feb 11th

Obama's Tears

jeffmiller: They almost came as he talked about signing letters to the families of those killed in...
Feb 10th
“Those who presided over the last eight years — the...”
— Stimulus will lead to...
Feb 9th
Shouldn’t there be an easy way to share this from the...
Feb 8th

The conservative principles

While I am in the process of writing up my entire belief system (well, not the entire thing, but a...
Feb 8th
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young...”
— Stephen King on J.K. Rowling,...
Feb 8th
fincher: snuh: molodoichelovek: via
Feb 8th
Quiz: How much do you know about presidents'...
Feb 8th
Sometimes a President Is Just a President -...
Feb 8th
What got cut from the stimulus bill - CNN.com
Feb 7th
I’m a little hard on common sense in my post. Well, more than a little. And common sense could...
Feb 7th

The conservative principles

squashed: Andrew R. Fox lists, “Sanctity of life, small government, free-market economy” as modern...
Feb 7th

Joe the Prophet

squashed: Demographically, the Republicans need to change or die. The middle-class white guy vote...
Feb 7th
“21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by...”
— Facebook: 25 Things I...
Feb 7th
Australians try and copy U.S., "sully" their...
Feb 6th
Our internet gets so much faster when everyone is at lunch, it isn’t even funny.
Feb 6th
More turning to Web to watch TV, movies -...
Feb 6th
sds: khronos: thisrecording: When Union soldiers...
Feb 6th
“Paul Ford questions the nearly 45,000 citations issued in...”
— Duncanville council member...
Feb 5th
I just had to completely re-arrange my desk because the guy whose office door is next to my desk...
Feb 5th
Record-Breaking Breasts | NBC New York 38KKK. Yuck.
Feb 5th
“But many free software people I know argue for Netscape or...”
— Free software as a replacement...
Feb 4th
“Tabloids want me to be this young woman who loses it and...”
— Youth Culture Hot Quotes
Feb 4th
Americans Approve of Most Obama Actions to...
Feb 4th
“I look forward to working with all of you —...”
— Ironies pile up as Clinton...
Feb 3rd
I am currently reading Road Work by Mark Bowden.  I thought...
Feb 1st
PostSecret
Feb 1st