So last night, in Oklahoma of all places, winter finally started. It began with thunder and lightning and slowly progressed to a thunder/lightning/sleet/rain/snow mix, Which, coincidentally, covered my car in a sheet of ice.
While in the process of breaking my car out of it's icy prison, I noticed a windshield wiper was frozen to my windshield. After doing a quick "roll call", I realized I still had both wipers in tact. They looked fine, blades and all, but I still had a third one in my hand.
One of a few things happened. Either my windshield wipers multiplied and left one of their offspring to freeze to death on my windshield, or someone left their broken windshield wiper on my windshield just to mess with me. Or, better yet, it could always have been my current windshield wipers getting lazy and outsourcing their work to the Chinese wiper blades.
That being said...If I ever catch someone trying to freeze broken car parts to my car, I'll go medieval on their ass.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Dr. King
Well boys and girls, here's another one for ya.
Recently I saw on the news that President Bush was speaking at the inauguration of a memorial to Martin Luther King. As they were discussing the details, they revealed the price tag for this memorial. One hundred million dollars. That's right. $100,000,000. If you could see me now, I'm putting my pinky on my lip, Dr. Evil style.
I want you to sit there for a moment and think about that. Can you think of any better ways to spend a hundred million dollars to honor a man who dedicated his life to helping others? Don't get me wrong, I'm no rocket scientist, but I can come up with a couple of ideas that would be a little more in tune with Dr. King's legacy.
How about dividing up all that loot between a thousand kids to put them through college? Lets see, that's $100,000 per child. That should get them a 4 year degree or at least well on their way.
Or we could take that money and give it to families in need. All those people that have been stuck living in trailer homes since Katrina? I'm sure they wouldn't mind someone donating a home to a thousand of them.
My point here is this. Dr. King was a great man. A man who should be honored and remembered. But what would he say if someone told him "When you die, we will spend one hundred million dollars for a memorial in your name." Do you think he would be happy? If you do, you are probably looking at the wrong website and should save yourself the time of reading this blog in the future.
Keep on keepin on.
Recently I saw on the news that President Bush was speaking at the inauguration of a memorial to Martin Luther King. As they were discussing the details, they revealed the price tag for this memorial. One hundred million dollars. That's right. $100,000,000. If you could see me now, I'm putting my pinky on my lip, Dr. Evil style.
I want you to sit there for a moment and think about that. Can you think of any better ways to spend a hundred million dollars to honor a man who dedicated his life to helping others? Don't get me wrong, I'm no rocket scientist, but I can come up with a couple of ideas that would be a little more in tune with Dr. King's legacy.
How about dividing up all that loot between a thousand kids to put them through college? Lets see, that's $100,000 per child. That should get them a 4 year degree or at least well on their way.
Or we could take that money and give it to families in need. All those people that have been stuck living in trailer homes since Katrina? I'm sure they wouldn't mind someone donating a home to a thousand of them.
My point here is this. Dr. King was a great man. A man who should be honored and remembered. But what would he say if someone told him "When you die, we will spend one hundred million dollars for a memorial in your name." Do you think he would be happy? If you do, you are probably looking at the wrong website and should save yourself the time of reading this blog in the future.
Keep on keepin on.
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