NOTICE

This page is on hold until I actually have space in my life for it.

*plants bookmark and hopes nobody steals it*

*goes back to stacking bricks on (top of) bricks*

Have a seat…

And now, a little something for the practical joker whose fortunes are untouched by the current recession.

Come to think of it, I think I’ll bookmark that particular site under “Wish Lists I’d Probably Use If I Start Celebrating Xmas Again And Need Some Ideas For The Fat Guy In The Red Suit.”

(hat tip: Ace)

While we’re talking toys (and giving a hat tip to the same source), here’s a little something that’s certainly less expensive and a lot less harmful… and something we could get away with breaking out every now and then in the press room at the HR. Heh.

Oh, give me a home, where the bankruptcies roam…

Not that it really matters, but the Great State of Kansas is broke. There’s not enough money to make payrolls this month, and anyone who’s scheduled to get a state income tax refund is going to have to wait.

No problem. I haven’t gotten a state income tax refund for the better part of a decade, if not more.

Actually, I haven’t even figured my state income taxes yet, but it would be a miracle if I were to get any kind of a refund. So it looks like that trip to Sonic is going to have to wait a while. (Gee, thanks, Michelle, for making me hungry.)

Meanwhile, President Vanilli is getting ready to do to us all in Denver what Perry and Richie did to the Clutters a few miles down the road here in Sunflowerland. (Yeah, guess what movie’s on TCM right now.)

Bad news for Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez has just been given permission to take the first steps toward being the next Fidel Castro.

Now the little chimp’s probably going to use the win to tell the civilized, democracy-appreciating world to shut up.

Let us pray that Obama never becomes so self-important.

Rush Limbaugh on Air America

If liberals had any brains, they would drop their “Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine” campaign after taking those five words to heart.

Because if they get that legislation, in the grave (where it belongs) since 1987, put back into law, they’re going to have to grant equal airtime to Limbaugh on AA and NPR, just as they want the stations that carry Limbaugh to grant equal time to the likes of Al Franken and Keith Olbermann.

Tragedy in Buffalo.

Buffalo is getting a lot of news coverage this week.

Most of it’s been for that plane crash that killed 50. The families of the victims are in my thoughts and prayers this weekend, as I hope they are in yours. (Conversely, I’m thankful that it didn’t happen anywhere near Grand Island, where someone near and dear to my heart resides.)

But a little of it has been for another tragedy – one that probably isn’t going to get as much coverage from the national media, irritatingly enough. You know, because the people involved are members of a Religion of Peace. Right, and I’m the friggin’ Pope.

Update (8:45pm Monday): CNN finally gets a round tuit.

You’d think it was a holiday or somethin’…

Happy Single Awareness Day, everybody.

Off to work.

Ten years.

And if I said
I really knew you well,
what would your answer be?
If you were here today,
here today.

Well, knowing you,
you’d probably laugh and say
that we were worlds apart…
if you were here today,
here today.

But as for me,
I still remember how it was before
and I am holding back the tears no more…
I love you.

What about the time we met?
Well, I suppose that you could say
that we were playing hard to get…
Didn’t understand a thing,
but we could always sing…

What about the night we cried?
Because there wasn’t any reason left
to keep it all inside…
Never understood a word,
but you were always there
with a smile.

And if I said
I really loved you
and was glad you came along,
then you were here today,
for you were in my song.
Here today.

-Paul McCartney

Bonk!

Nice vid at Treacher’s.

Only thing missing is the appropriate sound effect at the point of impact and President Vanilli making the appropriate face in close-up immediately afterward. Then the Benny Hill effect would be complete!

A first time for everything.

Did any of you (the few of you who read this, anyway) catch President Milli Vanilli’s first press conference? If not, Michelle Malkin has the Charlie Brown at 40-approved rundown. She knows what’s going on with this stimulus bill that your grandchildren are going to be paying for.

So do some of the posters, as this one points out:

I have read many comments from those that legally immigrated here from the repressive regimes that we fear and they recognize what is happening so clearly.
They have heard and seen this all before.

Idiot quote of the night from Milli Vanilli himself:

People need to break out of their ideological rigidity.

Tell that to your friend from the Huffington Post.

I didn’t get to see it, personally (not that the time wouldn’t be better spent playing Minesweeper or something). I was at a Jackson Heights board meeting listening to a different kind of idiot (Marje Cochren) trying to equate 40-year-old (read: outdated) school equipment with firing squads for people who are the same age. No, we don’t shoot them; we just replace them with equipment that don’t rattle as much (and if anyone knows how to rattle, it’s Marje).

I expect to kick things up a little soon with this site. I know you can’t do as much with WordPress as you can with LiveJournal, but hey, I am still learning this thing, and besides, you can’t stay in high school forever.