Will February be as soft as January? I make these observations thinking one day I will maybe go back and check how bad each winter has been year after year. But I don't. These things just languish. Like so many dreams. Contemplating leaving other things aside first, however. The cable TV and direct line telephone are under the budget department's eye. When we had the power outage the other day the land line failed us due to the electrified base the wireless phone depends upon. Why not just have another iPhone for about the same price? At least cable TV brings me 7 months of baseball.
♦ Quite right. Use of a martini glass does not make for a martini. Your government store in action.
♦ "As usual, the Flea is right: "I don't expect I will be back to H+M any time soon. If you work in a "creative industry", or hold any sort of intellectual property in any medium, I suggest you don't either."
♦ Neato. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) shaking hands during his lifetime with both John Quincy Adams, born 1767, and John F Kennedy who died 1963.
♦ As we have fun watching the GOP Super PACs lead to the GOP eating itself, consider, too, the guilt of the Tea Partiers whose great-granddad didn't fill out the right paper work.
♦ Now I know why my Mother was enthroned as the Brisbane Queen in 1949.
So, there you go. I have to make this something more than an eight day commitment. But there is beer blogging to do, you know. Lots of beer blogging.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - January 28, 2012 10:29 PM
The self-deportation thing is a satire site set up by lefties, Alan.
Which you can see the moment you hit play on any of their videos.
"Self-deportation" is a relatively simple concept -- once life as an illegal becomes sufficiently difficult, people decide they can do better elsewhere, often back at home. Before the welfare state, it often happened -- of the people who immigrated in the 19th century, approximately a third went home again, because life in North America didn't work out the way they preferred.
(Which is why my preferred immigration policy is to tighten things up a bit on the work permit verification front, issue lots more immigration visas to people with good North American degrees, and provide no amnesty for those who broke the law. Your punishment for immigrating illegally is that you live as an illegal.)
Alan - January 28, 2012 11:15 PM
I can read, Ben: "...which — if it’s not an elaborate hoax — is hoping the idea catches on..."
Interestingly, my great-grandad was apparently brought through or even born on Ellis Island but he went back to go on @1900 to be the mad British Sgt Major in India and Afghanistan whose legacy was my childhood love of curries.