Phil may chime in a bit later with his own Soundboard, but having just tallied my fourth win — that’s 4-0, biatches! — in California administrative hearings makes me want to celebrate early with some happy tunes. Did I mention I’m not a trial lawyer? Makes it that much sweeter. This may be NSFW in your place of employ; if so, I’m sorry for you.
Here, have an earworm. It goes nice with the eye candy, don’t you think? You’re welcome! Crank the bass.
The quote’s from Gerry N in the comments to my post below. He mentioned Pilot Bread, and I said “huh?” Google’s my friend:
“C’mon. It’s empty carbohydrates and fat. How can that be wrong?” …
Pilot Bread’s durability makes it a natural for rural Alaska, where some food arrives after long journeys from the Lower 48 and some people live far from stores. The crackers don’t have much oil or moisture, so they last a long time.
“There’s nothing to go rancid,” he said. “It’s sturdy stuff.”
Hmm. Here’s a half-case — that’s six 32-ounce boxes — for $42.49. Dunno if that includes shipping.
SAILOR BOY PILOT BREAD • Half Case Special •
$42.49
H79-4209 — 6 – 32 oz. Boxes of Pilot Bread
Okay, so I did the first of my Costco runs to replenish our 90-day-for-two-people-and-two-dogs earthquake/survival stored stuff. All of the below fits in a Contico storage locker like the one in this post. (For the heavy canned stuff, I use the locker version with wheels on one end, so you can lift the other end and roll it like a wheelbarrow. I can lift this locker full, but it’s not fun to carry.) Prices below do NOT include my local sales tax. Contents of the “Meat Locker:”
First up, Metal Storm is just bound and determined to get it’s gimmick on a battlefield somewhere, this time with a better mine field. I actually like this idea, sensors are a lot cheaper than actual mines, unexploded ordinance is easily and safely recovered for use elsewhere, and you don’t have bad PR for the next 20 years as kids and farmers find your old mines.
Next up, move over varnish (and shellac, and lacquer, and etc.), liquid glass is better. This just sounds like fun, I hope it comes out soon and in an easy to apply form.
that my home state of WI produces a better quality politician. Agree with them or disagree, at least they are willing to stand alone and apart from the party dogma to try and get things done.
is that the Central Planner is required to not be batshit insane!
“Baffle them with bullshit”
That is an old George Carlin quote.
It is also what this editorial published by the BBC (and then picked up by the progressive “CommonDreams.Org site) boils down to.
The unknown author’s suggestion to Obama is that he needs more “stroies” because the masses aren’t smart enough to understand a wonk.
It has now become apparent that the someones who wrote Obama’s STFU speech are being told to listen to these people.
Don’t read this more than two or three times. Otherwise, your head might explode.
It’s the recession more than the budget that is causing the deficit
He is trying to, essentially, blame Bush for the deficit by saying that if it weren’t for people drawing their unemployment, Medicaid, and other federal assistance programs the deficit wouldn’t be going up so fast.
Umm, first of all, isn’t unemployment supposed to be separate from the general fund?
Secondly, aren’t those other services funded by the federal budget?
Third, just how many trillions was the last budget versus how many hundreds of millions in assistance programs? Last I checked, the deficit was growing in trillions, not hundreds of millions.
Lastly, if his statement was even close to being true, the Republican Party still wouldn’t be using it as a reason to talk about the dismantling of wasteful and costly programs because they’re pussies.
I want to tie-in to Mad Rock’s post from yesterday on the topic of the TABOR crowd in Colorado Springs, Here is a bit of the article he links to
Community business leaders have jumped into the budget debate, some questioning city spending on what they see as “Ferrari”-level benefits for employees and high salaries in middle management. Broadmoor luxury resort chief executive Steve Bartolin wrote an open letter asking why the city spends $89,000 per employee, when his enterprise has a similar number of workers and spends only $24,000 on each.
Businessman Fowler, saying he is now speaking for the task force Bartolin supports, said the city should study the Broadmoor’s use of seasonal employees and realistic manager pay.
“I don’t know if people are convinced that the water needed to be turned off in the parks, or the trash cans need to come out, or the lights need to go off,” Fowler said. “I think we’ll have a big turnover in City Council a year from April. Until we get a new group in there, people aren’t really going to believe much of anything.”
Mayor and council are part-time jobs in Colorado Springs, points out Mayor Rivera, that pay $6,250 a year ($250 extra for the mayor). “We have jobs, we pay taxes, we use services, just like they do,” Rivera said, acknowledging there is a “level of distrust” of public officials at many levels.
The reason there is distrust is that the government thinks it’s OK to pay government employees exorbidant amounts of cash compared to the private sector and then cut essential services first. It is as though trying someone is attempting to scare the people into voting to raise taxes.
And this goes on everywhere there is a government that has emptied their pocketbooks.
I actually saw this story on Monday over at the hyper-leftist FireDogLake where one of their frontpagers is declaring disaster
This is the kind of thinking that the anti-tax crusaders engage in. Even though they know their city is going to be dark and dangerous and ugly they still can’t seem to get it through their heads that they can’t treat it like a business which hires part time people. They would rather have the second largest city in the State of Colorado go down the toilet than raise taxes even a little.
Essentially, the government wants $70 per man, woman and child in Colorado Springs to bring their budget into line. It doesn’t sound like much, but there are over 300,000 people in the city. $22 Million dollars doesn’t just disappear (unless you’re ACORN).
The city knew it was overspending and was betting that they could use the scare tactics that they whips out every five years or so to scare the people into coughing up the cash.
Thankfully, the people are standing their ground.
I hope to soon hear that they tossed out those who gambled with the budget vote some new blood in.
So I’m happily packing a storage container with canned meat following the first of my promised Costco runs, and I notice that for the Kirkland salmon and chicken, and the Chicken-of-the-Sea tuna, the individual cans all have “expiration” dates on them, but the wonderful Libby’s canned beef doesn’t.
Intarwebs to the rescue! Looks like the first line (followed by a ‘b’) consists of the canning date, in YYMMDD format. So most of mine so far seem to have been canned March 25, 2009. Not bad considering my first shipment was just a few months ago.
