Archive for the ‘oddities’ Category

the intelligence of the postal customer seems to be dropping:

Here is the part that makes me suspect these folks are now SO dependent on government they can no longer function in any job and that bothers me. There were maybe 10-12 people in line in front of me. There were 2 instances of people getting to the front with their package to be shipped which it had no address. The people were shocked they couldn’t just tell you who it was for and the general neighborhood and the package wouldn’t get there. THEY DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED THE ADDRESS!!!!

The question becomes: Is creating the culture of dependency a bug or a feature of our educational system?

Via DaScienceGuy who you will be seeing more of later tonight.

Today we are going to start a new feature called around the blogroll where we take a look at three posts from blogs on my blogroll:

At Adrienne’s Corner (It will always be Adrienne’s Catholic Corner to me) she has the: “Are you a Democrat, Republican or a Redneck?” test:

You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.

Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.

You are carrying a Colt 1911 cal. 45 ACP, and you are an expert shot.

You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family

What do you do?

Even my wife found it funny and she hates politics and blogs (Good thing she likes me more).

HotMES goes after that abomination called Jersey Shore:

These kids are such chumps I don’t even know what to say half the time. The guys think that they represent what it means to be Italian? That’s the worst joke I’ve ever heard. I know plenty of Italians and they don’t consider tans and hair gel as representative of their heritage. The best part about the show was when that one girl, who I find to be repulsive on too many levels to list, gets punched in the face.

I don’t know who raised these idiots but if they are not ashamed of themselves the ought to be. They wouldn’t last 5 minutes with my Sicilian mother, she’d straighten them out.

and finally Riehl World View also focuses on New Jersey but with a more substantive issue, namely the old Raaaaacist cry being directed at Tea Party People in Bob Menendez’s name:

several prominent NJ Democrats are playing the race card, actually labeling the movement as raaaacist. This is an issue for Menendez now. If he doesn’t step up, denounce these statements and tell NJ Democrats to chill, he may soon find himself the target of Tea Party and grassroots activists from around the country, not just his home state!

There are no more motivated voters these days than the tea party guys. Menendez goes after them at their peril and it will end badly for him.

Tune in tomorrow for another look at the blogs I look at.

…milkaholic lawsuit nonsense:

Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering,

I’ve always hated this pain and suffering nonsense. In a world where people are actually undergoing real pain and suffering this is just stupidity.

That being said I couldn’t help but smile. I absolutely loathe the E-Trade baby commercials and would love to see them gone, but pain and suffering? C’mon.

…first there was DaScienceGuy, and now there is DaHospitalityGuy.

Is there any limit to this meme, and more importantly can I make a buck off of this somehow?

Welcome to the land of the blogging DaHospitalityGuy. (Partial disclosure, I do know him personally).