Here's something I can definitely get into. It's Triad Restaurant Week from November 13-22 and there are plenty of good restaurants participating in Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point. The participating restaurants are providing specially priced three course meals. Since I hit all three cities at some point in any given week this gives me a great excuse to eat out. A lot. Like I need an excuse.
Thanks to Sarah South for the link.
Thanks to Lex for posting this first.
If you live in an area that’s experiencing a drought you really should
consider hiring me to take a business trip to your area. I truly have
a gift for bringing wet weather with me. Today I’m bringing the
remnants of a hurricane with me to Atlanta. In November. In June I
brought a flash flood with me. To Vegas.
Put it this way: if I was an astronaut they’d find water if they sent
me to the moon or Mars.
Someone sent an envelope containing baby powder to Rep. Foxx's office in Clemmons and caused quite a scare for one of her staffers. As someone who lived through the whole anthrax thing in DC (my company was served by the postal facility that had to be decontaminated about 8 years ago, which meant we got some crispy mail for a while and any time we had a "clumpy" envelope everyone got a little nervous) I can tell you that if this was intended as some kind of joke then it's not remotely funny. For that matter, I don't care how much you dislike a Congress-critter, this is a reprehensible way to try and make your point.
Every weekday I get an email from West Forsyth H.S. that contains the school's daily announcements. In today's announcements I found this:
FYI, Dr. Martin is the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' superintendent.
Seriously, am I the only one who finds this lame? I'm not sure what the normal protocol is for the school system during the holidays, but if they normally keep their offices open the day before Thanksgiving and all of Christmas Break, and if the school system's office employees are not getting paid for those "energy conservation" days, then they ought to just call this what it really is: a furlough. On the other hand if the office employees are going to be paid for those "energy conservation" days then they ought to call it what it really is: a paid holiday.
On a side note, someone at the school is getting entrepreneurial. Here's the next announcement:
Something weird is going on between my del.icio.us account and my blog. I'm getting lots of updates from del.icio.us each day when it's only supposed to update once per day. Not sure what the issue is, but sorry for the weirdness of late. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
"For decades, doctors described cases of a rare neurological condition that usually occurred in patients over age 50. Neurologists noted that patients knew their identities, but couldn't retain recent memory, where they were and how they got there. They showed no other symptoms.
Sex is one of the major triggers for the baffling medical condition called transient global amnesia in which patients lose their ability to retain immediate memory."
"It is not a positive to be an incumbent right now. And that's a good thing because the track record of our government sucks. I hope the anti incumbent mood continues to be honest. We could use a good house cleaning throughout our government."
Virginia Foxx just posted this on Twitter:
Will govt-run healthcare require monthly abortion premium? @GOPLeader has details: http://bit.ly/zvl8F
What's interesting to me is that when you click through to the link she references and read it there are links that would seem to be intended to prove John Boehner's assertion that a government run health plan would require all subscribers to pay "abortion premiums," but the link that should go to the reference material detailing the supposed required premium instead goes to another webpage with a quote from Boehner. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to be an assertion that is very similar to the forced euthenasia crap that was being thrown around over the summer. From where I'm sitting the GOP strategy is:
Stay tuned to see if that's the case. What bugs me about this approach is that it distracts people from the "meat" of the health care debate. I have no problem with people disagreeing with each other on the fundamental issues like whether or not it is the proper role of the government to provide an alternative to private health insurance, whether or not there should be programs like Medicare and Medicaid, etc. I do, however, have a very big problem with people using deceptive tactics like these to try and defeat a bill rather than arguing about it on its merits.
BTW, convenient timing of this release, what with the Tea Party event on the Hill today wouldn't you say?
"For decades, doctors described cases of a rare neurological condition that usually occurred in patients over age 50. Neurologists noted that patients knew their identities, but couldn't retain recent memory, where they were and how they got there. They showed no other symptoms.
Sex is one of the major triggers for the baffling medical condition called transient global amnesia in which patients lose their ability to retain immediate memory."
"It is not a positive to be an incumbent right now. And that's a good thing because the track record of our government sucks. I hope the anti incumbent mood continues to be honest. We could use a good house cleaning throughout our government."
For some reason I've been in a great mood today despite coming across a litany of not-so-positive economic news. To wit:
And 50 percent said they anticipate a rebound in 2010, which is down from 66 percent in the survey taken in the third quarter."
The Foundation Center, a New York City organization supported by nearly 550 foundations, also predicts that foundation giving will decrease even more in 2010."
Only 40 percent believe the U.S. economy will improve by the first quarter of 2010, compared to 49 percent of financial officers across all industry sectors. The majority of bankers, about 53 percent, expect the economy to come out of the recession in the second half of 2010.
What the hell, we're all gonna die eventually anyway. As the song says, "don't worry, be happy!"
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