Shooting From The Hip...
The funny thing to me this January is how the 17th amendment, which provided for the popular election rather than appointment of the Senators, and which effectively took away the direct representation of the interests of the sovereign individual "States United" before the Imperial Federal Government of the "United States"--is playing out as coming back into fashion.
In spite of the will of the people, Minnesota is putting that ignorant idiot asshole Al Franken into office as their Senator over incumbent Norm Coleman after conducting what at best could be considered a Circus of a recount involving psychics and Ouija Boards and ballots appearing in the back seats of election officials automobiles....
And Illinois has seen fit to allow their little asshole Governor (and soon to be Federal Prison Inmate) who appears to have a toupee on top of his toupee appoint the "Negro du jour" to fill Obamarama's vacated seat...
And Dick "Turbin" Durbin gets to play the unlikely role of George Wallace in the current drama except instead of the doors of the University of Alabama he's blocking the doors to the entrance to the US Senate...
And in the end I still have the presence of mind to fall back on the idea that was vacated with the ratification of the 17th Amendment.
According to the US Constitution as it was originally written, the Senate is supposed to represent the State Governments, not the people of the states directly, and therefor I guess I have to concede that in spite of my disdain for the individuals involved in the current process I say that we're actually seeing how bastardized and convoluted the selection of Senators could have been prior to 1913.
The only difference is that back then the states' Legislatures did the picking as a group, rather than leaving the result to people not qualified to pick their own noses as they are doing it today.
Dammit...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
And I Thought A "Vista" Was Something Nice To Look At...
Not At My House These Days...
Here's mythe view from my office "Vista" at least once every 24 hours...
What's even more infuriating is that when you click on the little box that wants to go look for a solution on the Internet, all it ever does is act like nothing happened in the first place...
it does make you hit the "Save" buttons more religiously after you lose a couple hours work a couple of times...
Here's my
What's even more infuriating is that when you click on the little box that wants to go look for a solution on the Internet, all it ever does is act like nothing happened in the first place...
it does make you hit the "Save" buttons more religiously after you lose a couple hours work a couple of times...
Monday, January 05, 2009
The Gaza Stripper?
I Think That I Might Be On To Something Here...
So I was sitting around spending the five minutes I haven't been busy in the past 24 hours worrying about the current round of carnage happening over in the middle east, when I had an idea for a new weapon which might just appease the Jihadists and Jihadist wannabes into getting out of the home made rocket business.
Then I promptly forgot it (the idea...)
Then this afternoon while working and listening to FOX News with one ear and eyeball it came back to me.
See if you think this might be effective in stopping the fighting...
(yes...me and my PhotoShop are at it again...)
So I was sitting around spending the five minutes I haven't been busy in the past 24 hours worrying about the current round of carnage happening over in the middle east, when I had an idea for a new weapon which might just appease the Jihadists and Jihadist wannabes into getting out of the home made rocket business.
Then I promptly forgot it (the idea...)
Then this afternoon while working and listening to FOX News with one ear and eyeball it came back to me.
See if you think this might be effective in stopping the fighting...
(yes...me and my PhotoShop are at it again...)
Friday, January 02, 2009
2075 Miles Later
The Turbo Pup's Back Home...
I think that it would be safe to say that we're through driving across the US--at least for the next few weeks.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Years...Did we miss anything interesting?
2009? Dang I'm getting old...I remember 1969 pretty clearly.
After covering various parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas over the past 11 days, I'm glad to be able to sit down on my sofa for longer than a 48 hour period.
Then there was the trip a few weeks earlier that took me to Detroit, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati on airplanes. I'm still recovering from that experience and writing reports and doing follow-up work for our Attorney client and it looks like I might be heading off somewhere on an airplane again in late January or early February. As long as they pay dearly for my time--they just have to name the place and I'll be there with my camera and clipboard.
There was a period of time back in the mid and late 1990's when I averaged nearly 3,000 miles PER MONTH in the old Chevy Suburban, but the past ten years have taken their toll on my patience to sit in a car every day and most of every weekend running around the Southeastern US.
Other than a winter trip back to the farm in south Alabama I think we're done with the traveling for a while unless business dictates my appearance on another part of the planet I can't get to by walking.
I guess I have my work cut out for me this weekend in getting the christmas tree over to the recycling center and taking down the outside lights in order to not gain some kind of negative reputation among the neighbors.
Until next time...
I think that it would be safe to say that we're through driving across the US--at least for the next few weeks.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Years...Did we miss anything interesting?
2009? Dang I'm getting old...I remember 1969 pretty clearly.
After covering various parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas over the past 11 days, I'm glad to be able to sit down on my sofa for longer than a 48 hour period.
Then there was the trip a few weeks earlier that took me to Detroit, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati on airplanes. I'm still recovering from that experience and writing reports and doing follow-up work for our Attorney client and it looks like I might be heading off somewhere on an airplane again in late January or early February. As long as they pay dearly for my time--they just have to name the place and I'll be there with my camera and clipboard.
There was a period of time back in the mid and late 1990's when I averaged nearly 3,000 miles PER MONTH in the old Chevy Suburban, but the past ten years have taken their toll on my patience to sit in a car every day and most of every weekend running around the Southeastern US.
Other than a winter trip back to the farm in south Alabama I think we're done with the traveling for a while unless business dictates my appearance on another part of the planet I can't get to by walking.
I guess I have my work cut out for me this weekend in getting the christmas tree over to the recycling center and taking down the outside lights in order to not gain some kind of negative reputation among the neighbors.
Until next time...
