Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Month: April 2008
She’s not as bad as you think.
What kind of campaign strategy targets convincing voters that they should vote for some who is ‘not as bad as you think’? Maybe you can pass it off as extreme self-deprecation.
Also, isn’t it it amazing how anti-elitism drives popular votes? Why is that intelligent and successful people are targeted as being disconnected and/or ineffectual? Why do people feel intimidated by successful people? Why don’t voters want someone better themselves to lead our country?
The Kills – U R A Fever
whole ‘nother
why do i say that?
“thats a whole ‘nother problem.”
i know i hear it around me pretty often, its not a scranton thing as i hear it in philadelphia as well.
whole ‘nother: [adjective] additional but separate. (whole other + another?)
best record in baseball
For the past 3 hours the Orioles have had the best record in baseball. They will have it for at least another 20 minutes, until the brewers beat the reds. I am enjoying it while I can.
The Orioles have the league leaders in average (L. Scott – .500) and RBIs (Huff – 11).
I’d also like to thank the Mariners for the nice batch of pitchers.
hold onto your marbles
if you’re into marble collecting, there is a pretty good auction coming up in Denver, PA.
Morphy’s has the listing here.
People know me as a ‘onion skin’ kinda guy, but hell when you see the Indians and micas at this auction, its kinda hard not to fall head over ‘peel’.
Homeland Security waives 34 laws to build the Mexican Wall
I hereby waive in their entirety, with respect to the construction of roads and fixed and mobile barriers (including, but not limited to, accessing the project area, creating and using staging areas, the conduct of earthwork, excavation, fill, and site preparation, and installation and upkeep of fences, roads, supporting elements, drainage, erosion controls, safety features, surveillance, communication, and detection equipment of all types, radar and radio towers, and lighting) in the Project Areas, all federal, state, or other laws, regulations and legal requirements of, deriving from, or related to the subject of, the following laws, as amended: –Michael Chertoff
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly referred to as the Clean Water Act)
- National Historic Preservation Act
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act
- Clean Air Act
- Archeological Resources Protection Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Noise Control Act
- Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the RCRA, and CERCLA
- Antiquities Act
- Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
- Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
- Farmland Protection Policy Act
- Coastal Zone Management Act
- Wilderness Act
- FederalLand Policy and Management Act
- National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act
- Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956
- Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
- Administrative Procedure Act
- Otay Mountain Wilderness Act of 1999
- Title I of the California Desert Protection Act
- National Park Service Organic Act
- National Park Service General Authorities Act
- National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978
- Arizona Desert Wilderness Act
- Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899
- Eagle Protection Act
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- American Indian Religious Freedom Act
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act
- National Forest Management Act of 1976
- Multiple DSE and Sustained Yield Act of 1960