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That’s sad. You know whoever buys the brewery is just going to cut costs and make shitty beer. Pabst Up For Sale | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Dawning horror tinged with self-loathing crept slowly over the face of claims adjuster Robert Pettlebaum, 42, as he described his job and by extension his life to others during a seemingly innocuous Tuesday lunch meeting. “Mostly what I do is I seek out discrepancies in the property appraisal versus the claimant’s estimate of worth and then I…then I defer outpays…with…oh, God…, Increasingly Horrified Man Listens To Self Explain What He Does For A Living | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source Let’s try this: I am a lead web applications developer. My job is to read my customer’s mind to figure out what she really wants, which is usually different from both what she wrote in the email and what she told my boss she wanted. I then decide the proper course of action to deliver as close as possible to the request, well knowing that since my boss was told a different story, I will have to convince him that I am not retarded and that I am actually doing what...
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter  makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. House Committee on Ways & Means - Republican Ouch, more change we can believe in.
Michael Grippo, a 95-year-old Bronx native, told reporters Wednesday that he is “worried sick” that he won’t live to see the Yankees win another 27 World Series titles. “We came so close in 1955, 1960, 1976, 2001, and 2004. 95-Year-Old Yankees Fan Afraid He’ll Never Get To See Team Win 27 More World Series | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
The USS New York (LPD 21), built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center wreckage, sailed into New York City on Nov. 2. The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be commissioned into the U.S. fleet at 11 a.m., Nov. 7, at Piers 86 and 88 in New York Harbor. USS New York to be commissioned Saturday | American Legion
The Pinker Tones “Karma Hunters” (via Nacionalrecords ) A reminder that today is Election Day. GO VOTE. Thanks to Alex Esoterica for reminding me about this song/video.
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~Ann Landers (via iwannotowidigdo ) (via karlaakins ) I always assumed it was adoration, not admiration. In all my life I never felt like any of my dogs admired me much, but all of them loved me to death.
Let this serve as a warning to us all. Iceland has universal health care and now they have no more McDonald’s. McDonald’s Abandons Iceland | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source