Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

H.B. 3200

A rel­a­tive of mine recently  for­warded the fol­low­ing email to me: Here are some specifics  on the pro­posed “health care bill.”  If any­one is “okay” with any of this crap, they are insane.  It’s time to call our congressman’s.  offices and tell them we do not want them to sup­port this health bill. No mat­ter what […]

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The Plumbing Nightmare Continues

Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the man­u­fac­turer as none of their sup­pli­ers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep man­u­fac­turer will not ship overnight. Expected tran­sit time of the part? 2–3 weeks Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get […]

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Winter Weather Driving Tips

Given the num­ber of intellectually-challenged per­sons I had to drive around to get home over lunch today1, I fig­ured it was long past time to write up my best win­ter weather dri­ving tips. If the weather looks worse than you feel com­fort­able dri­ving in, then don’t.  Stay home and save the rest of us some headaches. […]

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OBAMA FOR THE WIN!

Barack Hus­sein Obama was elected the 44th pres­i­dent of the United States on Tues­day, sweep­ing away the last racial bar­rier in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics with ease as the coun­try chose him as its first black chief exec­u­tive. Mr. Obama’s elec­tion amounted to a national cathar­sis — a repu­di­a­tion of a his­tor­i­cally unpop­u­lar Repub­li­can pres­i­dent and his […]

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Go VOTE!

Make sure you get out and vote today, espe­cially you, you and you! In fact, if you’re a reg­is­tered vote in the United States and are read­ing this you best be read­ing it on your mobile from the line at polling place while you wait to cast your vote! If you’re think­ing it’s not worth waiting […]

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