Mitt Romney is officially a nobody in the Republican presidential race. The uncommitted voters chose to vote for nobody rather than any of the candidates available to them. 16 plus 13 is 29. So, that's 29 percent of Republican voters in Washington who decided to vote for nobody. Nobody got 3 percent more of the vote than John McCain.
Each week, this blog reviews the world through the lens of some personal observations on life and people. There is nothing factual in these comments, only my own musings.
Why is it if a police car is behind me, I immediately believe they will stop me?
Do you ever wonder if there were no Jews in the [...]
Poor granny, she was all proud doing her first online shopping. And of course she puts her grandchildren first. How shocked she was finding out that her "cool" video games just got plain laughed at. But what did she expect? Come on … Taffy the phony pony?
Taffy The Pony
This interactive adventure video game features Taffy; [...]
Ever heard that saying? The same is true with Real Estate. If Real Estate “ain’t doin’ well, than nobody’s doing well.
Ok, I made that up but I firmly believe it. We have seen foreclosures hit nationwide and in some areas worse than others. We have seen the homeless population go up. We have seen businesses [...]
I don't know who you are but dude you remind me of myself! Rock power!!P.S....Does anyone know of a music player widget for your blog? I have seen them around but I don't know where they get them. Art, I saw you used them when you want to give us a listen to a particular song. The player usually starts off as an arrow that expands when the song is played.. Where do you find this!!Oh yah this is pretty much my post for the day!Nothing special just taking it easy.: )
Each week, we survey the American scene making observations that are strictly personal and bear no relation to any hard evidence.
It snowed in St. Louis the other day and I went to mail a package. I only saw one person at the counter and asked where everyone was. He told me they couldn’t get to [...]
Gosh...! Is it any wonder the "R" word (recession) is now being spoken about openly. Already the US authorities have cut interest rates twice in a week in a massive bid to prevent the country falling into an economic downturn. And UK commentators are saying thinks like "when the US sneezes, the UK catches a cold", which I'm not sure what it means, but apparently suggests we are also going to have economic problems. In the USA, few people have been saving money over the past few years and that means the amount of debt now equals the amount of savings available nationwide. The USA is stoney-broke. In the UK, things are no better; the average personal credit card debt is equal to several years wages for someone in the Far East.However, the real problem for the Western World, it appears, is that no-one is at work. We've all shut up shop and nothing is being done. At least that's what it seems like at first sight when you read surveys like this.According to this latest piece of research, bi
Is Amy Winehouse going to seek help? Like everyone wants?Apparently not, as it's contrary to her worldview:: "I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you."Let's hope she never needs open heart surgery. Or, at the very least, she's got a mirror on a stick and a long-handled knife if she does.
Well it's Christmas Eve day! Don't worry about presents this year, I put in a good word for you all to Santa. I'm sure he would believe me!And to pass the time to tomorrow, I wrote a story! Enjoy my masterful masterpiece!The Fruitcake That Nobody WantedThere once was a fruitcake in Granny's oven. She was so proud of it! The fruitcake was going to be the main piece for the Christmas dinner to which all her family was invited. All sorts of relatives came to her house. While Granny's back was turned, her son-in-law walked over and opened the oven door.Immediately the fruitcake jumped and ran away."Can't catch me im a fruitcake and you have clogged arteries!" he yelled happily.The fruitcake ran through the crowded house and vaulted through a window.He ran across the snowy ground for a little bit then stopped. Nobody was chasing him! Confused, he turned around and yelled ,"Doesn't anyone want fruitcake?!"Cousin Mark threw a brick at the fruitcake and squished him on the ground. Nobody misse
The series of tubes that is the internets has it's first Michigan head coaching rumor. The rumored candidate is...Iowa's Kirk Ferentz?Excuse me for a moment, while I'm totally underwhelmed.......I'm back from being underwhelmed. To be honest, I really don't know how seriously to take this rumor. At face value, I can see the interest in Ferentz...If it was 2003. You think Michigan can do better than someone who's currently underachieving at Iowa? I do.I'm sure this is going to be the first of many rumors that will have Michigan fans scrambling all over the web, making asses of themselves on message boards and blogs, trying to find every and all nuggets that pertain to the Wolverines coaching job. Today, the rumor du jour is Ferentz. Friday, it could be Jeff Tedford at Cal. Over the weekend? God forbid, as there would be riots all across the great state of Michigan, it's the twin terror coordinators, Ron English and Mike Debord.Next week? Monday it could be the Man Mountain at Kansas, Ma
Customers don’t want service! Customers want things that don’t need any service. They want maintenance-free, self-contained solutions, whenever possible. On average, how do you think most people would rate service after the sale over the course of their lives? Do you really think they are looking for more of that? They want cars that don’t [...]
CD Review: Artist: Ron LaSalleTitle: Nobody Rides for FreeWebsite: http://www.ronlasalle.comMySpace: http://www.myspace.com/phqrecordsStyle: Blues/ RockLabel: Ph-Q RecordsRating: 9 out of 10By Senior Writer C.W. Ross Nobody Rides for Free is the follow-up to LaSalle's well-received 2001 release, Too Angry to Pray. Lasalle has been playing music professionally since the young age of 14 and has over 25 years of musical experience, the last ten of them touring with his band, The East Coast Rockers. LaSalle grew up listening to musicians like, The Rolling Stones, the Animals, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. That probably accounts for his blend of rock and blues style of music that he performs. His sound has been compared to artist, Bob Segar, Tom Waits, John Hiatt and Van Morrison. LaSalle has already amassed some real musical history opening for major acts like, Bob Dylan and Aerosmith, working as the touring bass player
It turns out that MoveOn.org has an online tool to write letters to the editors of newspapers which can be used to create wholly plagiarized letters. Not content to give visitors the capability to write what they think and feel in textboxes, MoveOn has decided it needs to add “talking points” that visitors can [...]
As I build up Whole Earth Guide I’m researching what’s to see and do at each place that I get to.
What’s very surprising about this is that already the site is starting to rank fairly well for some of the places that I’ve already covered and also that there’s next to no information available online for some [...]
She might have let us all down by agreeing to kick off the whole circus, but judging by the 3AM Girls decision not to bother with the faux-flattery, Mel C is remaining awkward as ever. Indeed, today's story suggests that Mel C is going to receive all the hatred that would usually be smeared all over the women:It was allegedly Mel C's turn to be scary after she was told by manager Simon Fuller to take singing lessons.All the band were reportedly ordered to have voice training before their reunion tour but Mel stormed: "I don't need lessons. I can sing, thank you very much." Really, Mel, do you need this? It says everything about how Fuller knows the prices of tickets, but the value of nothing. Why would you tell the only one of them who can actually sing that she needs lessons? Couldn't be an attempt to try and hammer down the reluctant member, could it?
Nobody Does It Better: Why French Home Cooking Is Still The Best In The World - on the evidence of this passionate and entertaining book, French home cooking is still in pretty fine fettle.
This takes you to a post from People for the American Way about the “modesty movement” from those dear, oh-so-tolerant hammerheads at Focus On The Family. Quoted is Colleen Hammond, who tells us…'We’ve learned from history that as the morality of women declines, the culture follows with it,' Hammond said."Please do me a favor and take a look at the drawing accompanying this post (and this related news story) and explain to me what separates Hammond and her ilk philosophically from the Islamic fundamentalists who abuse women even slightly uncovered from head to foot; to me, these are two groups of people developmentally immature to the point where they are afraid of the human body in all of its God-given wonder.
I'm probably one of the last Pirates of the Caribbean fans to see At World's End which is still playing at a few cinemas as it nears the end of its run. The title of this post, which is a quote from the movie, aptly describes the difficulties of trying to get your head around the plot.Although it does continue from the previous film in the series (all the characters are there) it doesn't seem critical to know the back story. The main plot is established right at the start. The East India Trading Company is out to wipe out pirates and anyone that so much as glances at a pirate. Our motley crew, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan and Captain Barbossa join forces to bring together the Brethren of Nine pieces of eight (nine pirate lords who can unite all pirates) and stop the massacre of their kind.Slight problem. Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the nine and he died in the last film. Since Captain Barbossa died in the film before that, we know that coming back from the dead isn't an impossibility
To those who aren't of a literary bent, that's the famous final line from the late Mark Harris' book, the great "Bang the Drum Slowly." There's a reason I bring it up today.The line came to mind last night. Thanks to the undeniable fact that Justin Verlander's no-hitter doesn't happen without the highlight reel 8th inning double play started by The Black Hole of Suck Neifi Perez. Yes, Niefi Perez.It's hard for all of us to swallow, but TBHoS Neifi Perez saved the no-no.In honor of TBHoS Neifi Perez's no-hit saving play, TWFE is calling for a moratorium on the use of "The Black Hole of Suck" nomenclature in place of Perez's name in blog posts.So let me paraphrase Harris' line, and say, "From here on in, I no longer rag Neifi."**At least until he reverts back to his normal Neifiness.
With all the talk of anti-Springbok conspiracy theories doing their rounds in France this week, former Bok centre and sport365 columnist Robbie Fleck has a simple theory of his own - nobody is out to get us!
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