Thinking about this some more throughout the day, I think in the end perhaps some other individuals should exercise their free speech rights on the lawn of the church these loons hail from, with the loudest possible bullhorns and other devices in use during the time the church members are trying to worship, strategize, or otherwise have any quiet moments.
News just hit: High court rules for military funeral protesters 8-1 decision (with Alito dissenting) basically saying the First Ammendment trumps all. I'm saddened by this as I think the members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas that have been doing these protests are nothing but publicity whores with a complete and total lack of respect for others. Apparentl
[quote]Good to see ya Terpfan. Glad you had a nice vacation.[/quote] Thanks, though I'm much more interested in how you are doing?
Answer to the question in the article title: because it's a very blustery day (at least it is in my area). Wind gusts up to 60MPH. Uh, yeah, it's definitely blustery. Meanwhile it's been a little while since I last put an article up. I seem to be noticing some difference in the categories that are offered as it took me a little bit to figure out where I should probably file this article at. Anyway, since the last article I wrote I've been able to take a trip to
[quote]They also reduced the amount you can contribute to the HSA - down to $2.5k.[/quote] Not quite correct as written there: the reduced the amounts that can be contributed to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA's). Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) are different animals and have different limits. FSA's did get the changes you mention and in effect those changes will lead to higher taxes on most employees in the country so yeah, he and his friends were fairly blatant in the
As I browse the internets today, I see a headline at MSN.com noting that Wikileaks founder Assange fears that if he is extradited he could wind up being sent to the U.S.A. and eventually executed. Really? He believes he'd be executed for what he's done?! He's not a citizen (to the best of my knowledge, admittedly I've not looked it up to confirm, but I think I'm correct on this) of the U.S.A. so can't really be charged with treason, correct? He could be charged with
Some random thoughts. First, congratulations to the Green Bay Packers. Not that I cared who won the Super Bowl this year, but... for the sake of history, well, I think it's cool that Green Bay gets to take the trophy named for their legendary coach back home with them for a while. Second, AOL is picking up the Huffington Post to the tune of, well, a lot of money. If that rag was worth that much, how much should my prose be worth?! PRICELESS. :p :D
Argh, talk about an idiotic idea. Check out this article (headline is linked): Outages could lift Pepco rates If you read through a little of that you find that somewhere along the lines someone decided that it would be a good idea -- to encourage energy conservation -- if Pepco would be able to charge higher rates wh
Funny that you mention service there Dr Guy as the one big issue I have had with Verizon is service. Well, that and billing. Not that they screwed up my bill, just that their bills are nearly indecipherable when you get them and it takes several billing cycles to get a regular bill after you make changes as they credit this, double bill that to cover additions and subtractions, etc. On the customer service front though, I was really, really disappointed and downright angry
As someone that was a fan of the iPhone, I was previously stuck with AT&T as my service provider no matter how good or bad their network was (mostly bad :( ) Now, with the pending arrival of the Verizon iPhone (finally!!) I will finally have some choice in the marketplace, though in order to have that choice I'd have to make some technical trade-offs and would also have to pay a significant early termination fee to get out of my current AT&T contract. For now I'll likely
Back in slightly older days, when there was a Clueless Old Liberal infesting this site (always crowing that Bush was to blame for everything. Every. Stinkin. Thing.) and President Bush was in office dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq we heard some discussion that thanks to the wars in both places we would be seeing Democracies popping up in the middle East as others in the surrounding countries would get to witness democracy in action in those countries and would in turn desire it
lulapilgrim said: [quote]It's been known all along, at least to those who have some knowledge of the US Constitution and how that effects making laws, that Obummercare is unconstitutional.[/quote] It isn't that I didn't think it would be killed, it's that I didn't think the whole thing might be killed by the one issue. I expected it to fall apart in pieces, or at least to be changed in pieces, with the mandate to buy insurance being the first part to get killed off. T
Country singer Trace Adkins had a hit song in the last few years that was aptly titled You're Gonna Miss This . The lyrics in the chorus go something like this: You're gonna miss this... You're gonna want this back... You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast... I was thinking of these lyrics yesterday when my former father-in-law was getting ready to call up 911 to get carried to the ho
In case you've not seen the headlines at Drudge or other places, apparently a federal judge has declared that the Obama Healthcare plan is VOID because the mandate that U.S. citizens must buy health insurance is unconstitutional and that because of how intertwined that requirement is the entire thing is voided. Wow. I expected that mandate requirements would be tossed and eventually replaced with something that accomplishes the same basic goals, but for the whole thing to be voi
Please forgive my potential ignorance, as I'm not a business owner and thus don't have all the familiarity with all of the rules/ regulations and other issues that affect businesses day-in and day-out. That being the case, I'd like to get some discussion (and perhaps some education) on what business owners think the federal government could really do to spur on the job market. It seems to me that perhaps tax policy could be adjusted to move some tax burdens off the backs of
I took my kids to go see the Gabriel Iglesias show: " Fluffy Shop Tour " tonite. Very funny guy and excellent show. How much of that show would show up in future tour stops, I'm not sure, as he seemed to react well to a few shoutouts from the audience that might otherwise have thrown him off his game. For such a big guy (he's not Fat, he's Fluffy!), he was rather nimble on his feet and quick to respond to and get himself back on track for whatever story he wanted to t
I've been back in a bit of a writing rut lately... every now and then I think of something I might want to comment on, then something else pops up and I wind up getting sidetracked completely and forget whatever it was that I was considering writing about. It isn't like there is nothing going on in the world and yet it seems that what is going on isn't all the impressive or thought provoking. Yet again, I hope things change though in a positive way as we really don't need more tra
Birds mysteriously falling out of the sky, fish dieing by the hundreds and hate-filled gunmen taking the lives of as many people as possible while trying to kill a congressperson. What the heck is wrong with the world we live in?! I'm not a tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but one does have to wonder just what is going on with the world and if perhaps all of these things are a sign that we are horribly off track and well off the path that some higher power might have in
So I see a headline today that cranky old journalist Helen Thomas is going to be "working" or at least writing for a newspaper in Virginia. I'm a bit surprised by this news since my own thoughts are that the only place that bitty should have a byline would be on her own hopefully completely ignored blog. Just to be clear here, she should JUST. GO. AWAY. I'm snickering a bit at the news that John Edwards was "written out" of his wife's will. I wouldn't have written hi
Silly NBC... airing a repeat of Chuck tonite while CBS has new episodes of their Monday night comedies. My daughter will be happy watching the new shows there while I'll have to settle for watching repeats or hunting down something else in the guide since I can't watch a new episode of Chuck and have no real interest in watching a repeat of it. I really wish NBC would start airing Chuck "non-stop" in a similar manner as FOX had done with 24. No repeats during the season, jus
I'm sure I've written on this subject before, but given a deluge of mail that I went through over the last week (and more still stacked to go through), I'm back again to complain about charities that just won't let up on their begging. Over the last few years I've gone out of my way to make some charitable contributions, mostly in memory of my wife, to causes she liked, or that I like, or that her parents like. Most have probably been good by me in not coming back to me with sol
Rumors and predictions that my area could be seeing some snow showers for Christmas day this year. It's been years since we had snow falling on the day, at least by my memory. We had white stuff on the ground last year, but it was from a pre-Christmas day blizzard that left enough behind that it couldn't all melt off before Christmas day. I like the idea of a white Christmas, provided the snow remains light and we don't get a lot of accumulation. I definite
I was in the grocery story last night, waiting for my daughter to finish her grocery shopping, when one of the employees came up to the register area and had to wait for a supervisor to come over and ok the ID check that was required because he was buying a bottle of cough syrup. That reminded me of how ironic it is that so many kids that had so little time and patience for learning in say a Chemistry class in High School are so fascinated by the topic in their everyday lives. Per
In some ways I hope I'm wrong in my prediction, but I really don't think that will be the case. In the end there are enough special interests and social do-gooders out there that so desperately want healthcare coverage for all that they'll find a way to make it happen and the way I've proposed seems to be the way that would be the most legal. I'm not even so sure I'd say that it'll be that much Democrat love for the method I've suggested. Republicans might fall all over th
You guys are hitting the bigger issue that I was aiming for in that I'd much rather artists get their funding from their patrons and supporters of their own particular work. Forcing me to give money via taxes takes away my choice and makes me support art that is anything but (at least in my opinion). If my tax money isn't involved then I have no real right to complain about an artwork if I didn't contribute to it in another way and in those cases I typically would have had the cho
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