The Era Order Quiz: "Think back to your history classes for this one. You may remember that these eras happen, but do you know when they happened? From the choices, can you pick the correct order of these historical eras?"
Fordson Snow Machine - 1929 Concept: This machine was brought to my attention some time back (thx Steve) and since then I have had a design rattling around in my head of a low profile single seat model with a very high weight to power ratio. Capable of high speed land and water locomotion.
Why Government Should Stay Out of the Private Sector: I was not aware that the state of Iowa had spent $58 Million on a golf resort until I found out that the socialist operation was slated to loose $1 Million bucks this year. They should change the name from Honey Creek to Honey Bucket.
Abandon Every Hope Ye Who Enter Here: Discover which level of hell are you headed for in this Dante's Inferno Test. If you are lucky I'll meet you in Purgatory.
DES MOINES (AP) - State auditors say a taxpayer-funded program that pays job training costs for new companies put millions of dollars into projects that failed. State auditors released a report on Tuesday on the Iowa Industrial New Jobs Training Program, which is run by the state's community colleges. The program has borrowed $38.5 million on behalf of businesses who promised to move to Iowa or expand their operations in the state. The audit shows that the companies either closed, went bankrupt or failed to create more than 15,000 planned jobs.
Hundreds of Iowans were removed from the Iowa House chamber Tuesday night after a rowdy crowd consistently applauded and booed speakers.House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, cleared the crowd about 8:30 p.m. His directive came halfway into a two-hour hearing about a plan to end Iowans' ability to subtract what they pay in federal income taxes from their income when figuring their state taxes.The crowd was largely against the proposal.The decision to clear the chamber brought about loud protests from the crowd as people were escorted out by Iowa State Patrol troopers.
My fellow Iowans are mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more. Little disappointed that there wasn't more "hell no we wont go." But this may have been just the warm up for this...
The Des Moines Tax Day Tea Party Wednesday, April 15, 10 AM - 2 PM State Capitol Building (West side) Help us take our country back!
"You'll find that this place is not the real world, I mean, this place is Disneyland on the Potomac." Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley
Crosswind Landings-Flying sideways is soooo much fun!: Early aviation pioneers found that by restricting the passangers view outside the plane they drastically reduced those annoying blood curdling screams.
The Following was forwarded from Mrs. Salmon. The ending however left me dangling.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases, it's just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and then began eyeing each other's cups." Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Enjoy your coffee. Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond th
I kid you not this is how it ended. I NEED TO KNOW...See Beyond What Damn It?
Thought for the day: Men are like fine wine . . . They start out as grapes, and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. Via "The 16 Things it Took Me Over 50 Years to Learn" @ Last of the Few
This sign is an old joke to Alaskans but with the number of bear incidents in Anchorage this year I thought perhaps they could use a little humor. (Click to enlarge)
Every time someone tries to explain the labyrinth of conspiracies that us unwitting sheep are ignorant of I always tell them, "You are going to have to draw me a picture cause I just ain't seein' it." Well, someone has finally done just that. It's all so much clearer now.
From Gateway Pundit, While Iowa senator Tom Harkin and his cohorts go out of their way to defame the efforts of our troops this Aussie has gone beyond the call of duty.
The Moose's Tooth: A granite outcropping jutting from Denali's Ruth Glacier. Or the best Pizza and Brewpub in Anchorage. Love the Ale but as much as I like halibut I found that some things have no place on a pizza.
Those two practicle jokers, Frank and Earl, liked to sneak up on sleeping bears. This is the last picture of the pair. The camera and the plate from Earl's head was found in a big pile of bear scat just outside of Seward in 1957. From the Moose Pass, Alaska photo archives.
Suicidal Moose from the Anchorage Daily News; "A swing-shift trooper based in Girdwood, Peterson was cruising the Seward Highway the night of Feb. 2 a couple miles north of McHugh Creek when something big and black fell from the sky, landing about 20 feet from his car."
Terrorism, bird flu, President Hillary, as if I don't have enough to worry about. Now I find that the government is using aircraft to seed the atmosphere which evidently leads to cooling. The Chemtrail Conspiracy. But wait there's more. Now I discover that some idiot (probably employed at FEMA) has turned off the sunspot generator which is also cooling the planet. The Sunspot Conspiracy. All this has led to the glacerization of the Great Lakes. OK maybe I exaggerate but the pictures are pretty cool. The Lake Huron Conspiracy Perhaps we have been here before and there really isn't anything to worry about. Historical Global Warming Conspiracies.
The Clintons have been resistant to releasing any informantion, personal or presidential. Chances are most people would question such as meteoric rise in the Clinton net worth. It certainly pays to be king! From: The Memling Index
Mark Steyn: "The Democratic primary season seems to have dwindled down into a psycho remake of "Driving Miss Daisy." The fading matriarch Mizz Hill'ry (Jessica Tandy) doesn't want to give up the keys to the Democratic Party vehicle but the dignified black chauffeur Hokey (Morgan Freeman) insists it'll be a much smoother ride with him in the driver's seat. Yet, just as he thinks the old biddy's resigned to a nomination as Best Supporting Actress, the backseat driver plunges her hat pin into his spine, wrests the wheel away and lurches across the median"
Photo courtesy of Hilldabeast.com. Check out the Clinton collection.
Harold Ikes, a key Clinton advisor, FOB, and member of the Democratic National Committee seen here yucking it up with Howard Dean. From MYWAY "Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign who voted for Democratic Party rules that stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass." Can you say conflict of interest? Imagine that!
Hillary's "History of Feminism". It hasn't been perty. Courtesty of Big Lizards
Swimming in the shallows: Pod People I have known.
The Ultimate Politcal Talk Radio Babe, Laura Ingraham. This week Blonde Bomb-thrower Babe Ann Coulter promised to campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain were to win the republican nomination. To that I say, "Don't let the door hit you on the backside we still got Laura."
"By comparison, Clinton was a historical parenthesis. He can console himself -- with considerable justification -- that he simply drew the short straw in the chronological lottery: His time just happened to be the 1990s, which, through no fault of his own, was the most inconsequential decade of the 20th century. His was the interval between the collapse of the Soviet Union on Dec. 26, 1991, and the return of history with a vengeance on Sept. 11, 2001. Clinton's decade, that holiday from history, was certainly a time of peace and prosperity -- but a soporific Golden Age that made no great demands on leadership. What, after all, was his greatest crisis? A farcical sexual dalliance."
We can all use a single image that speaks to us of love, harmony, peace, joy and happiness; an image that suggests the universality of us all. I have been sent that image, and I want to share it with you. All I ask is that you take a moment to reflect on it. Thx. Dave
It was a fun night at the bar. But last call was soon not too far. Censored ..... Now a swear I'll drink liquor no more.
Photo Removed by Order of the Salmon Shack Thought Police.
Keeping to the theme, Beer is Evil. Video here. and the Beer Song Here.
Will Ferrell has a new one man show based on the premise of "a candidate who says absolutely nothing and refuses to commit in any single direction, ever, for fear of losing supporters”. Is this art imitating life? When I entered "unsure" into every issue on this 2008 Candidate Calculator the results were in order; Biden,Brownback, Clinton, Edwards and Obama.
Pepper the deaf dog enjoying warmer times. She has begun to learn hand signals for sit and drop it although the later one is only partially effective. As a Jack Russel she lives by the creed "if it hits the floor it's mine!"
The moose out my back door this morning. More proof of global warming.
"To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." -- Charles Krathammer
Keith Olberman's Top Ten Lies of 2007. Courtesy of Olberman Watch Photo: Howard "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" Beal. "Network "1976
Joke of the Day..... My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves a big fucking red mark on his forehead.Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond. Dumb ass.
Thx Nette.
Thx Amy.
A Day in the Life of a Beluga. "This is so humiliating, I bet the Orcas don't put up with this shit."
I once said, "I'll come back to Iowa when salmon start running up the Cedar River." Ironically, you never know where life's path may lead and after 20 years in Alaska I find myself once again back in Iowa. You can join me here on the banks of the Cedar River as I patiently await the return of the elusive Cedar River Salmon.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Separated at Birth?
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