Old Time Radio Shows on CD

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Funny

You know the honeymoon is over when the comedians start.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

--Jay Leno

America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

--Jay Leno

Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?

A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.

--Conan O'Brien

Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?

A: A fund raiser.

--Jay Leno

Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?

A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.

--David Letterman

Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?

A: America !

--Jimmy Fallon

Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?

A: Bo has papers.

--Jimmy Kimmel

Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?

A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

--David Letterman

At my favorite price - free!

Do you go to WalMart just to sample the free food samples? Well, this is the page for you - In Store Now at your local WalMart. Just plug in your zip code and you'll find out what free goodies are being offered at your local WallyWorld.

Cobblestone roads, the new way

Well, like they used to say on the Monty Python Show... and now, for something completely different. How about a machine that lays down a cobblestone road.

That's pretty darned ingenious but it sure looks to be one busy job for those the guys on the machine.

The Top Ten (someone else's opinion of it, anyway)

Lists seem to be the thing on the Internet so here's about.com's list of the Top Ten Blogs of 2010.

It's subjective, of course, be interesting nonetheless.

Parking's no problem

The world's largest military aviation museum is at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. I've been to it a number of times. It's packed with military aircraft and aviation displays. It's so full and so big that I defy anyone to honestly say they saw it all in one day. It is a national treasure.

Of course, seeing how I was stationed there and then lived in the area for a total 20 years it wasn't a long trip for me. But if you're some miles away and don't feel like making the drive then go see it the easy way by visiting the Air Force Virtual Museum.

Cool.

Straight and true... Not!

Do you ever feel like you're going around in circles? Well, there's a reason and that reason is because you can't help yourself from doing so.

C-Span maps it

C-Span's map of the 2010 mid-term election results.

You gotta be stupid to vote Democrat

MS Office's equal but w/o the price tag

Not sure if this will have an impact on the functionality of Open Office (OO) but it's now under control of its developers instead of Oracle. I certainly hope it's a smooth transition as I use OO's Calc spreadsheet everyday. Does everything MS Office does but at a price I like - free! Although I have donated $25 to OO in the past... twice, I think.

He's got my vote

Our next president! I hope.

Yes, he's brilliant (in his own mind)

The man that elected two presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama... drumroll, please... ladies and gentlemen, Mr Karl Rove!

What has the Strategic Air Command got to do with it?

Nothing, really. But, somehow my wandering braincells ran into that old memory.

Anyway...

I'm not in the market for a "new" vehicle. I enclose "new" in quotes as I rarely buy "new" vehicles because it galls me that the minute I drive it off the dealer's lot it's already depreciated by a few hundred dollars or even more.

For me a "new" vehicle is one that I've never owned before and is replacing an older one in my stable.

Anyway... MRA... Here's a pretty neat site you can use to search for cars, trucks or whatever wheeled conveyance you're looking for, compliments of Wise Bread.

*MRA? Moving right along. Which was one of the acronyms MSgt Miller, an instructor I had at the SAC NCO Academy, used quite frequently to keep the class, uh, well... moving right along.

Another one he used was NUMOTT.

NUMOTT? Normally, usually, most of the time. He used that one to cut off any conversation that was getting bogged down into something akin to, "Yeah, Sergeant Miller, I know that's the way it's supposed to be done but when I was at Bumfork Airbase in Texas we used to do it like this.... " MSgt Miller would declare, "NUMOTT!" and that was the end of that particular bit of Bravo Sierra and we found ourselves MRA!

I loved it!

No stroke but you'll be bummed out about it

I knew that eating just a bit of chocolate everyday appeared to lessen the risk of strokes. A Canadian study showed that people who ate 50 grams of chocolate once a week were 22% less likely to have a stroke than those who didn't eat chocolate.

But now it seems that chocolate can also bring on a real downer.

Gee, I wonder if the fact that Vitacost doesn't sell chocolate but does market Omega-3 EPA and DHA EFAs, SAM-e, 5-HTP and St. John's Wort which just happen to be the very things that will counteract the chocolate downer have any bearing on the fact that they reported this?

Nah, merely a coincidence, I'm sure.

Gimme another bite of that Hershey bar, dear.

Don't worry, be happy

And if you can't be happy then consider adopting the attitude of this gentleman.

Actually, there is some proof that adopting a positive, optimistic outlook can improve you health and your life. Here's what the Mayo Clinic has to say about it.

Here's some links at Smile Therapy that can help get that 7/24 smile on your face.

I didn't know that

American disc jockeys were banned from playing listeners requests in 1942. The War Department explained that enemy agents might use the format as codes to pass military information on to their superiors.

That bit of WWII trivia and a lot of other interesting facts can be found at this website: GEORGE DUNCAN'S HISTORICAL FACTS OF WORLD WAR II.

Well, just as there are only a few (if any) WWI vets left there will be a time in the not too distant future that the WWII vets will be no more. THen the Korean vets and then, like me, the Vietnam vets. That's a bullet none of us can dodge.

KO_*8109nk*@!!

What's all of that, you ask?

That is a very strong password.

How can I be so sure?

Simple. This website, The Password Meter, says so.

Now if I could only remember the thing.

A picture is worth a 1000 words

How true, how true.




Found at a Big Government webpage

Make all links open in new window

You don't know how long I've been looking for the magic found on the following webpage.

Open Links In New Window.

I know how to do the "target="_blank" thing in posts but I couldn't get the links on the righthand side to accept that bit of html. I knew there had to be a way but I could never seem to figure it out until I found that page with such a simple fix.

WooHoo!

Vraiment une bonne alimentation - frite pois chiches!

That title is French for "Really good food - fried chick-peas!" or close, anyway.

Here's the recipe for Cajun Fried Chickpeas and they are good!

Take your mandatory health care and *!*)%!!

It looks like the Sooners aren't going take it without a fight. Their legislature has put a law on the ballot that would block Obamacare participation for Oklahoma citizens. They've named it the Health Care Freedom Act.

Me? I'd have entitled it the "Stick It, You Socialist Cruds! Act" or something similar.

Charles De Gaulle, an Irishman

Well, not really but his mother was descended from the McCartan clan of Ireland. That line is from County Down.

He might even be a cousin of mine. I've McCarty in my lineage. They hail from a neighboring county in Ulster. Let's see, McCartan... McCarty... somewhat similar, who knows, eh?

The ultimate sacrifice

Memorial Day, 2010

28 Days to a healthier heart

Hey, it couldn't hurt to try and follow this advice from Prevention magazine. After the Memorial Day cookout, of course.

Enough land to bury our dead

General Colin Powell said "...did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead." It can be found at the bottom of this page: Powell - Empire Buidling.

I've been to four pieces of land where our dead are buried: The large one in France above the Normandy beachhead.

Another large one in Hawaii.

One in Cambridgehire, England that holds the remains of those who lost their lives in the Atlantic and in the skies over Europe.

And that last I visited was the cemetery in Luxemborg where General Patton is buried.

I've also been at the German cemetery close by at Sandweiler.

It can be an emotional experience visiting these. It was for me.

More old pictures

Speaking of old pictures (below) here's some from New York City - 20 old pictures of NYC

I know it's one of the world's "great" cities but as an Appalachian redneck the only way I want to see it is in pictures. I have no interest in going there.

Some old pictures

Do you enjoy seeing old pictures of America history? Here you go, The Photographic History of the Civil War: Vol 1 for only $26.99.

Or if you have a PDF reader (and who doesn't in this day and age) you can download it for free from Free History Books and read it on your computer.

More useful trivia

The only state that uses a burgee as it's flag is also where professional baseball got it's start. Where?

Ohio, of course. All of that trivia can be found at the Everything History website.

If that site doesn't satisfy your quest for 50 state trivia then there's this one, 50States.

Remember before the Internet how you'd have to look all of this information up in an Almanac or Encyclopedia?

The Name Game

The Gallipolis Roller Dam was completed in 1938 and is located on the Ohio River near Eureka on Ohio State Rt 7.

Many years ago I used to travel that road with my parents to visit Aunt Ethel who lived in Gallipolis. We went through Eureka on the way and couldn't miss seeing the dam from the road. The town had erected a large sign proclaiming it home of the World's Largest Roller Dam. I was always a bit amazed that such an engineering marvel was located in this area. I had no idea what a roller dam did but still...

I rarely travel that way anymore with the last time being 2001. The dam is still there but Eureka no longer had the large sign along the highway. While there's a wide spot to pull off to view the dam the official entrance is across the river in West Virginia. Cross at Point Pleasant, head south on WV Rt 2 and near the town of Apple Grove you'll come upon the refurbished lock and dam. But it's no longer the Gallipolis Roller Dam - care to guess its new name?

You can continue south on Rt 2 and should you decide to cross the river and depart West Virginia you can always do so in Huntington. Just take the 6th Street Bridge to Chesapeake, OH. But don't look for a sign to the 6th Street Bridge as it's named something else... take a guess.

Square up that table saw blade

Here's a quick way to ensure the table saw blade is parallel to the miter guage slot. All you need is a carpenter's square, the blade of a combo square and a table saw.

I usually do the measuring tape thing to accomplish this. But now I'm thinking this Woodsmith tip would be a more accurate method.