"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Do you think if we sent a raft of these to Congress we could keep the “idjit congresscritters” busy enough to get ’em out of our hair for a while?
It’s worth a shot…
Note plans and instructions here showing how you too can make The World’s Most Useless Machine.
Strangely, I’m not talking about congresscritters in the blogpost title. Or perhaps not so strangely, as those guilty critters deserve no protection.
No, I’m talking about protecting the perpetrators of…
FRENCH FRY SPAM CASSEROLE
Yield: 8 servings1 pk Frozen french fry potatoes,
-thawed (20 oz)
2 c Shredded Cheddar cheese
2 c Sour cream
1 can Condensed cream of chicken
-soup (10 3/4 oz)
1 can SPAM Luncheon Meat, cubed
-(12 oz)
1/2 c Chopped red bell pepper
1/2 c Chopped green onion
1/2 c Finely crushed corn flakesHeat oven to 350’F. In large bowl, combine potatoes, cheese, sour
cream, and soup. Stir in SPAM, bell pepper, and green onion. Spoon
into 13″x9″ baking dish. Sprinkle with crushed flakes. Bake 30-40
minutes or until thoroughly heated.
No, I’m not linking to the source. You can’t make me. It’d only encourage them.
[audio:Spam-Song-Monty-Python-2.mp3]*heh*
From Kat, on FB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0&feature=player_embedded
Truer scenes were never filmed…
I’m going to have nightmares tonight. Newsmax (emailout) headline:
“The Naked Truth About Nancy Pelosi”
Oh, thanks for the image, Newsmax. *shudder* Now, I just want to put my (mental) eyes out… Give anyone else the heebie-jeebies?
*heh*
Yesterday, Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated offered a piece of historical humor. On this day in…
“1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” and is billed $109.43 in taxes above the phone charge.”
Plus ça change… *heh*
Washington D.C. is engaged in the biggest education project in the history of man. It is attempting to teach 300,000,000 Americans that paranoia is a skill; a skill that is the secret to a long life.
Drudge said, “Kiss of death”–“Obama predicts Colts victory in Super Bowl”
As an acquaintance on FB said,
Everyone said the Saints couldn’t win unless hell freezes over. Did you see there was a blizzard in DC over the weekend?
From the otherwise excellent and usually reliable Windows Secrets newsletter comes this guffaw from the usually serious Fred Langa responding to a reader’s question about outdated browsers (with massive security holes) being required by the “feddle gummint’s” FAFSA web site:
First of all, it appears the site has been updated since your phone call. The FAFSA help page lists all the supported browsers, which now include IE 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4.
Second, consider the threat level: most browser security features exist to protect you against hostile sites that might try to stuff malware into your system or steal information from you. Why would the government need to attack your browser? If the government wants your personal information, it can get it quite openly through legal channels.
Oh. Wait. He was serious. “Why would the government need to attack your browser?” It’s not “need” that drives a “feddle gummint” bureaucrap to do anything, Fred. They pretty much do as they want, because they can. Government of the government, by the government and, especially, for the government shall not perish from the Earth, Fred… *sigh*
Frankly, I consider “feddle gummint” websites to BE malware, unless proven differently.
…so you don’t have to. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking with it.
Calibrating the Clear Type tuning on a Windows system with an LCD screen that’s displaying text just fine? Stupid. So, what did I do? You guessed it. The Clear Type calibration tool uses a series of displayed text images for the user to subjectively choose between in order to tune the Clear Type display. What I got recently out of playing with that was a lesson in “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
At 100% in my browser (pick any of four), here’s an example of what “tuning” Clear Type using the M$ utility resulted in:
Ugly, eh? Makes me want to poke my eyes out. At 120% or higher magnification, the effect disappears, though. Still, now I have to reverse the “tuning” or automatically CTRL+Scrollwheel to a different magnification when such artifacts appear. *sigh* Just a warning to Windows users, once again: if it ain’t broke…
Fortunately, I can always browse just as well in another OS in a VM. 🙂
Today, I finally got my desk cleaned off. Well, almost. Four times today I’ve had my keyboard drawer cleaned off down to the keyboard and mouse.
Four times.
It’s not cleaned off now.
I swear–seriously!–my desk abhors a vacuum. Clean it off? “Stuff” creeps out from some space in some interstice between universes and plops itself on my desk. Really. Today, I found some pictures–just sitting out in the open on my desk–that I HAVE NOT SEEN FOR 12 YEARS. Pictures of me that I had been SURE I’d thrown out (because, like every picture I ever had taken for a yearbook–these as a teacher–they were ugly as sin, that is, looked exactly like me. *heh*). My Wonder Woman asked me to give her one of them, because she’d never seen them before (and has the typical perceptual problem of Good Women: she is unable to see just how ugly I am :-)).
Cue Rod Serling.