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Yes We Can?

Look. I'm all for Obama. But all of these people (especially the well-to-do white ones) today who are getting all emotional and weepy and in awe of all the "history" taking place...are you people OK? Like, are you OK in the head? Obama won the election two months ago. I understood the need for tears and all that then. But getting emotional about the inauguration is like getting emotional during the ring ceremony after your favorite team wins the Super Bowl. Can we let Obama, I don't know, do something first? �Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.� Or are we going to have to praise and cry over all of Obama's firsts? First White House dump, first trip to Europe, first vacation, first ride in Air Force One, first fart on the White House couch, first time rubbing one out when Michelle and the kids are away for the day. I'm glad we're not treating Obama differently because he's, you know, Hawaiian.

Can't agree more.

I'm with you on the Historical significance of the day, but come on people. How does this DIRECTLY effect you?
Do I hope the economy turns around?
Yes, absolutely.
Does the POTUS have the magic button to make that happen?
Absolutely not.

I'm all for change, it was time for GWB to go, but please, can the guy actually do something before we get all weak kneed?

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 1/21/2009

Stores Closing

If you tend to give gift cards around the holidays; you need to be careful that the cards will be honored after the holidays. Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this. On the contrary, it is referred to as 'Bankruptcy Planning). Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about.
Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
Ann Taylor - 117 stores nationwide closing
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide
Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
Cache will close all stores
Talbots closing down specialty stores
J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)
Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)
GAP closing 85 stores
Footlocker closing 140 stores More to close after January
Wickes Furniture closing down
Levitz closing down remaining stores
Bombay closing remaining stores
Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
Whitehall closing all stores
Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
Home Depot closing 15 stores
Macys to close 9 stores after January
Linens and Things closing all stores
Movie Galley closing all stores
Pep Boys closing 33 stores
Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
Wilson Leather closing down all stores
Sharper Image closing down all stores
K B Toys closing 356 stores
Dillard's to close some stores
Tweeter closed all stores

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 12/3/2008

I'm with stupid

8 Clubs You Probably Couldn't Join
It seems that mensa is for simpletons, the most well known high-iq society on earth is actually at the bottom of the pile when it comes to intelligence based clubs, a world presumably filled with a huge amount of back-slapping and cryptic in-jokes, and is probably scoffed at by members of other clubs whose mere existence is baffling to normal humans.

name: Mensa
iq required for entry: 132
percentage of the population who would fail: 98%
number of members: approx. 100,000

At first glance the numbers look impressive. An iq of 132 is more than respectable and to be in the top 2% is good going.

Until you look at these

8. Ultranet
iq required: 164
percentile: 99.997%
members: <100

7. Prometheus Society
iq required: 164
percentile: 99.997%
members: 65

6. Helliq Society
iq required: 164
percentile: 99.997%
members: 39

5. Mega Society
iq required: 176
percentile: 99.9999%
members: 26

4. Pi Society
iq required: 176
percentile: 99.9999%
members: 8

3. Pars Society
iq required: 180
percentile: 99.99997%
members: 37

2. Olympiq Society
iq required: 180
percentile: 99.99997%
members: 12

1. Giga Society
iq required: 196
percentile: 99.9999999%
members: 7

To put that into some kind of perspective, the Giga Society is so difficult to gain entry to that approximately 6 out of every 6 billion people on earth are eligible.

What They Said:

LBF says WHoa on 12/2/2008
i iz ah membuah of all of deeze dere klubs.

1 Comments | Perm-a-link | 12/1/2008

50 Things about the President Elect

By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 3:40PM GMT 11 Nov 2008

� He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
� He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
� His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
� His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
� He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
� He is left-handed � the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
� He has read every Harry Potter book
� He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
� He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
� His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
� He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
� He can speak Spanish
� While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
� His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
� He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president � he didn't
� He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
� He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
� He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
� His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
� He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fianc�, but left when a stripper arrived
� His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
� He and Michelle made $4.2 million (�2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
� His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
� He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
� He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
� His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
� He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
� He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
� He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
� He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
� As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
� His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
� He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
� He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
� His house in Chicago has four fire places
� Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
� He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
� He uses an Apple Mac laptop
� He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
� He wears $1,500 (�952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
� He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
� He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (�13)
� His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
� He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
� He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother
� He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
� His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
� His speciality as a cook is chilli
� He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
� He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
� His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

What They Said:

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1 Comments | Perm-a-link | 11/12/2008

Veterans Day

Thanks to all the Veterans, and ooh-rah to the Marines on their Birthday.

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 11/11/2008

Digital TV

Forget it, old people. No more TV for you starting in 2009.

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 11/7/2008

The Morning After

An historic day here in the US of A.

For those living under a rock..
Obama: 349
McCain: 163

Senate is 56 to 40.

The House is 251 to 173.

The news is indeed historic, some people are over the moon happy, others not so much. Thinking about some of the alternatives...

I'm willing to keep an open mind, although an all Democratic government concerns me, we shall see.

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 11/5/2008

New Policies

Notice to All Employees

As of November 5, 2008, if Obama is officially elected into office, our company will instill a few new policies which are in keeping with his new, inspiring issues of change and fairness:

1. All salespeople will be pooling their sales and bonuses into a common pool that will be divided equally between all of you. This will serve to give those of you who are underachieving a �fair shake.�
2. All low level workers will be pooling their wages, including overtime, into a common pool, dividing it equally amongst yourselves. This will help those who are �too busy for overtime� to reap the rewards from those who have more spare time and can work extra hours.
3. All top management will now be referred to as �the government.� We will not participate in this �pooling� experience because the law doesn't apply to us.
4. The �government� will give eloquent speeches to all employees every week, encouraging it's workers to continue to work hard �for the good of all.�
5. The employees will be thrilled with these new policies because it's �good to spread the wealth.� Those of you who have underachieved will finally get an opportunity; those of you who have worked hard and had success will feel more �patriotic.�
6. The last few people who were hired should clean out their desks. Don't feel bad, though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free foodstamps, and he'll let you stay in your home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress, you might even get a free flatscreen TV and a coupon for free haircuts (shouldn't all Americans be entitled to nice looking hair?) !!!

0 Comments | Perm-a-link | 10/30/2008

Here we go