I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
Smittie All of Hawaii suffers an interesting and well known economic phenomenon common to areas that have high tourist or resort traffic. Infrastructure employees cannot afford to live in the cities and/or towns they serve. Resort areas require a disproportionately large number of hospitality industry employees as well as government services such as public safety and … Read more
The story of Hamandiya has been reduced to, Angry Marines went looking one night for a suspected insurgent. They failed to find him, so they snatched the man next door from his bed. He was shot to death, and the Marines planted phony evidence. The man they “snatched,” described as “a retired policeman and doting … Read more
Some one needs to send this guy and his sister a copy of Michael Moore’s latest movie, Sicko. They clearly do not understand how wonderful their health care is. No wait, I have a better idea. Let’s send Michael Moore to explain it to them, in person. aloha read more | digg story [posted with … Read more
I’m one of the odd balls that loves bagpipes. Specifically, pipe & drum corps and the military aspect of the bagpipe. The 58th Edinburgh Tattoo is about to get underway. It is my dream to one day attend the Tattoo in person though it sounds like getting tickets can be a challenge. The dancers and … Read more
The study interviewed 444 people and came up with 237 ‘unique’ reasons to have sex. Then 1500 and some odd college students were surveyed to find out how those 237 reasons ranked. Statistically, there are a couple of problems here. 444 people provided 237 unique reasons and the surveyors thought they had a comprehensive list. … Read more
KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 1 — U.S. commanders in Kuwait said Wednesday that they have enormous capability to handle the tens of thousands of troops and their equipment that would stream out of Iraq during a U.S. withdrawal. I’m not sure I believe the “enormous capability” part. At least not in the inference offered here. I … Read more
When I was a kid I used to like to put numbers into the calculator – they had just been invented – and see what words I could make. Pretty quickly I discovered that 7734 spelled hell when you turned the calculator upside down. But hell is a bad word so I figured out that … Read more
The upshot of the article is that the surge is working. That we are making a difference in and around Baghdad and the worst areas of Iraq. I wonder if anyone in Congress will read this article? The US military has fought long and hard to win this while so many people at home have … Read more
“For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there’s another software superpower with which Apple is increasingly butting heads, Adobe.” So, the upshot of the article is that AppleTV and iPhone are in a weaker position because they don’t support Flash. Yet, YouTube is converting it’s library of video to h.264 … Read more
I used to smoke cigarettes. At one point in my life I smoked about 3 to 4 packs a day. Fortunately for me, I didn’t smoke that much for very long. For most of the time that I smoked, it was about a pack a day. I would occasionally run into to people who claimed … Read more