Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cars, Detroit, Fractals of Change, government, hybrid
As much as I love my country, if any business can’t do business well enough to stay in business, then it should fail. Sure, it will be painful, but that’s capitalism. Is anyone else a little pissed that the $700 billion bailout is now going to things other than what they said it was for? Now they are talking about bailing out GM & Chrysler: two companies that apparently don’t know how to operate a business.
I read this article that poses a great idea for “fixing” them, without just handing them a bunch of cash – order an entirely new government fleet. Make it only for hybrid, electric, alternative-fuel vehicles. Pre-pay a bit of the order so the companies can retool. This keeps everyone employed, lets the companies continue operating, and gives the government modern vehicles that are green too. It’s not a perfect plan, but it’s better than just handing a bunch of dimwits a bunch of money and letting them continue burning it, but I’m no expert.
Medical craziness! This woman is dead. We’re talking no pulse, rigor mortis dead. Her family says their goodbyes. The doctors put her on a respirator in order to harvest the organs. Then, she wakes up and start talking to the nurse. What…the…crap? The doctor have checked her out and say there’s nothing wrong with her. She says God obviously has more for her to do, so she’s gotten a second chance. I’m no expert, but that sound about right to me.
For any of you who may have had these kinds of debates before, here’s your answer. Let’s just say you don’t mess with a friggin’ gator.
That’s right, the GOB’s are in front of Congress today whining about how they aren’t making THAT much money. Oh yeah, and the high gas prices aren’t THEIR fault. Bull honky. You didn’t earn the title of GOB undeservedly.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/21/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm?cnn=yes
I understand that kids my get discouraged when they get bad grades. Some people just suck at school. However, this is like anything else in life, if you want to succeed at it, you have to work at it. It may not be easy and it may not come naturally. You may just struggle with it and fail. You may get really lucky and find a teacher who helps you understand how to learn. This new idea seems absolutely foolish though.
Round up any grade lower than 50 to 50. Since 50 is a failing grade by any grading scale, they would still fail, but have a better chance at getting a passing grade later if they started from 50 instead 43 or 12 or 0. Honestly, do we need to coddle children that much? This rounding up to 50 mess is just showing them if they fail at something, then everyone will just give you the hand up to get to the next level.
In that case, let’s do that with everyone who goes to prison. Isn’t that the real-life equivalent to failing in school? We just round all sentences down to 10 years. We solve prison over-crowding and keep up the myth that people are entitled to success.
Or, we could teach everyone (kids and adults) that they have to earn it. No one will give them anything and they aren’t entitled to it. No one gets rich or successful because they are entitled, they work their brains out and earn it. If we don’t prepare kids for real life, they will go on to become those people who receive the shorter prison sentences. Prepare them for real life or we all pay the consequences, but I’m no expert.
A doctor in Australia found a dead gecko in his eggs. It was unhatched, uncracked egg. The running theory is the gecko crawled inside the chicken to eat an embryo and got caught in the part of the chicken where eggs are formed. It died and then got put into an egg. Apparently, it was inbetween the egg shell and the egg membrane (where the yolks & egg whites are).
I have eggs every day for breakfast, so this is seriously gross. I get grossed out when the eggs are fully cooked. You know, where there’s a little “juiciness” left top of the eggs and they kinda slop down your throat? Yeah, that’s just nasty. Having a gecko in my eggs? Grosser than nasty. Take not people and geckos alike: stay out chicken’s butts, ok? You’ll just be better off if you stay out of there, um’k? But I’m still no expert.
It’s official, my Bellevue Chick-fil-a is now closed. They fought hard and long and stayed open until the last possible moment, but May 17th, they gave out. From now on, Bellevue will just be a has-been neighborhood of Nashville. It’s a sad day folks. Long live the Chick!
I’m now sad and hungry, but I’m still no expert.
If this doesn’t scream “I’m a greedy jerk!”, I don’t know what does.
A batter hits a line drive and hits the baseman in the chest. It stops his heart. Luckily, he’s revived and lives. But he’s got brain damage and is severly disabled. Frankly, this next bit makes me think the parents got the brain damage. They sued – the bat manufacturer. Yep, the metal bat is reason that the kid has “health issues” now. Not the batter hitting the line drive. Not the ball manufacturer. Not the pitcher throwing it to just right spot. The bat. I guess for balance, they’re suing the store that sold the bat and the little league too. I get suing the little league. They allow he use of metal bats. I’m against metal bats, but it’s more of a nostalgia thing. Wooden bats are just better and they have that cool pop when the ball hits the sweet spot.
So yeah, they’re suing the bat’s maker. I mean, really? What idiot thought this was a good idea? I know, it was the greedy lawyers. They see $$ and get waaaay overzealous and start suing Jesus for making the guy who started the company that made the chemical that’s used to make the bat. I’m sure they’ll find a way to sue the air for not creating an isolated weather front to move the ball away the kid’s chest. Sheesh. People who file these kinds of ridiculous law suits should be neutered, tar & feathered, then deported to some country that speaks a language that’s nearly impossible to learn. But I’m no expert!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: certification, meth lab, Nashville Scene
It’s been long. Too long. But I’m back. I have a good one for you.
I read this article in the Nashville Scene yesterday and it blew my mind!
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/The_Fabricator/2008/01/24/A_Model_for_the_Nation/
Luckily, I found another article in the same column, “The Fabricator”, that says the column is all satire anyway. Whew! The expert wife and I almost had simultaneous coronaries at the thought of any organization giving an environmental certification to a meth lab. I mean, I’m all for the environment and all, but damn the clean air in favor less meth on the streets. I’m actually relieved. I have been working up a good diatribe on this column, but now I don’t have to. I can just go to bed. Which is what we should all be doing, but I’m no expert.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bellevue, Chick-fil-a, chicken nuggets, Four Square Properties, mall, sweet tea
Or at least a convenient Chick. No, I’m not talking about a girl (besides, I’m married – how much more convenient can you get?), I’m talking about my all-time favorite restaurant – Chick-fil-a. I was in my local Chick, at Bellevue Center Mall, the other night because my wonderful expert wife let me splurge and get some Chick. So I ordered my usual: #5, 12 piece, value sized with…lemonade. Normally, it’s sweet tea, but it was late and I didn’t want to be up all night. Anyway, this other guy orders after me and strikes up a conversation with the manager. She begins filling him in on the plans for my Chick and I was appalled. Now, before I go any further, let me give you the back story.
Bellevue Center Mall has basically been dying for years. Recently, it’s become this weirdo hybrid of mall and office complex, complete with churches, realtors, accountants, consignment furniture stores, and an athletics training center…and the only other store really frequented: Chick-fil-a. Well, a group from California, Four Square Properties, just bought it and put together this nice, progressive plan for rehabbing the mall and making it into less of an eyesore (I mean, ugh! Hello 70’s) and more of a community center where people would enjoy coming, and hopefully, spending their money. You can get all the details at the bellevuenow.com site. So their plans include tearing down almost all of the original structure and building other shops and restaurants in the property, but in more of an outdoor, open air mall setting. Which is fine with me. There is new one of these over in Mount Juliet (about 40 mils east) and it’s pretty nice, and there was a nice one of these in Birmingham called the Summit that I frequented. No prob. Back to our story:
So the manager dishes out that the plans for the mall have been approved by the city and they will begin tearing it down in February. So the guy asks the only logical question for a Chick-fil-a fan: where’s the new Chick going to be? She doesn’t know. She says Chick doesn’t own any property in the Bellevue area and they haven’t been invited by the Bellevue Now people to be one of the few restaurants on site. My jaw drops open. We both protest, “That’s not right!” We both launch into our best arguments for keeping a Chick-fil-a in Bellevue, including – and this is my favorite – it’s the best place to eat in the world, much less Bellevue and both of our favorites! She just shrugs and says to contact the Bellevue Now people and petition them to bring a Chick in as one of the restaurants. So, that’s why I’m breaking my blogging silence (I’m really just lazy and wanted to get everyone else on board too). Go to bellevuenow.com and beg, plead, scream, yell, cuss (not really), maim (no, seriously – this won’t work), slap (that’s not possible through a website, is it?), and nuke (ok, that’s enough, really) them to have a Chick. We can’t loose the Chick. If not, I’ll just buy my own! It’s always been a dream of mine to own a Chick-fil-a. So if Bellevue Now won’t do it, I’ll do. Bellevue is just another suburb of Nashvegas without a Chick-fil-a, but I’m no expert.
