and do you know what they are doing. They are watching these videos:
…and singing along.
Yes it’s really odd. Then again considering the other possibilities these days I think I’ll take this every day of the week.
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My 18 year old son and a 19 year old girl are currently on my couch…
Posted: July 7, 2010 by datechguy in odditiesTags: music
The Bookstores they are a changin’
Posted: July 5, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, oddities, opinion/newsTags: bill gunn, books, economics, election 2010, glenn beck, john olver, ma-1, mitt romney, reality, sarah palin
Went to breakfast with a friend who is in town for the 4th. When I brought up the parade with John Olver and Bill Gunn, he expressed satisfaction that Olver was being challenged but expressed doubt that he could be beaten. It’s been a few years since he lived in this neck of the woods, if he had followed me to the local Barnes and Noble he might have changed his mind.
One of the signs of a down economy is that business that once catered to political whims don’t have that luxury, they have to make money to survive and act accordingly. Just two years ago at the local B & N you would find plenty of liberal books in your face while you need to search for conservative volumes near the back.
I’ve mentioned that last year conservative authors started to get more space but I was still shocked when in the prominent works section I found The Road to Serfdom not only in the area for notable books and new bestsellers, but with only 3 copies left on a practically empty shelf.
My surprise was even greater when as I headed for the history section, there on the featured author table were the works of…Glen Beck!?!
Glenn Beck a featured author in Leominster Massachusetts? Totally unheard of. Even worse for the left was the lack of liberal volumes on display. I found Stephen Colbert in the bargain section and he wasn’t alone. He was joined by Bill Bradley (not so odd) but also by…Ted Kennedy?
Run that through your head for a moment. The last of the Kennedy Brothers, the man who won 69% of the vote in 2006. Gone less than a year yet Liberal Lion the fall and rise of Ted Kennedy. is in the bargain bins. 47 years in the Senate and he is an afterthought. His widow had better take that into account when 2012 comes around.
If you want to know why John Olver and company feel the need to run like the wind, this is it. People are voting with their wallets and retailers can’t waste shelf space on unwanted liberal books.
Oh and there is bad news for Mitt Romney as well. Both his new book and Sarah Palin’s were available as audio books. Sarah’s Going Rogue was discounted 20% after being out nearly a year. Mitt’s No Apology was discounted 40% after being out 3 months.
If this is Massachusetts what must be happening in New Jersey?
The Genius of America
Posted: July 4, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, local stuff, odditiesTags: 4th of july, fitchburg, islam, Israel, jews
Here is something you would likely see in no other country
Every year in Fitchburg they march next to each other and every year it is just as amazing as it is the year before
“The ones who aren’t supporting themselves are buying more.”
Posted: July 1, 2010 by datechguy in odditiesTags: culture, reality
at least on lottery tickets.
Hit the market today before supper and I noticed that there was yet another new $10 ticket offered at the local store.
Even when I was working I would rarely buy a lottery ticket. One in a great while I’d spring for a $1 ticket for the wife saying: “Hey it’s a gift to my brothers if I lose” (both work for the state). A $5 ticket was out of the question and a $10 ticket represented just too much work. I couldn’t imagine people paying that kind of money in tough time.
As I was checking out I asked the kid who had been working there for a few years if people’s lottery habits had changed, he answered: “It varies” and the conversation went like this:
“Varies?”
“Yeah it depends on the customer, the ones who are working or just lost jobs have cut down or stopped buying tickets all together, but the customers on food stamps, the ones who aren’t supporting themselves are buying more, a lot more.”
“Why do you suppose that is?”
“Well the state is taking care of them so they figure why not?”
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