March 18, 2012

I-pad humor. Are the apps serving you well?

Watch carefully what they do in this short (33 second) video. For non-German speakers the dialog is as follows:
She: Say, Dad, how are you getting along with the iPad we gave you for your birthday?
He: Fine.
She: you mean you are ok with all the apps?
He: What apps?


March 17, 2012

Happy and Lucky Children in Arenal Costa Rica - A Yoga lesson in a one room school

I'm fortunate to visit with friends who live in Costa Rica. Yesterday my camera and I got to shadow my friend when she was teaching her weekly Yoga class to the children.

You will be seeing one family's worth of children arrive with their mother. The kid was driving the ATV, then you see the school building and a few shots of the happy kids.

March 12, 2012

Leave it to Stewie - and that's all I'm comfortable to say about it

March 12, 2012

Unanounced person at my door tonight. Running for Congress again. Read and feel for me.

Loud knock on my door tonight.
"Who's there" produced no answer, though I saw through the peephole a very large man was outside.

http://www.robinsonforcongress.com/

It isn't my first interaction with him, so I opened the door and said: "Hello, Vernon Robinson. If by chance you are running for something, please remember I'm a Democrat for life. Not only that, it makes me very angry how you run your campaigns."

for reasons I don't understand myself this man riles me so much it transcends my being scared in any way

"Why yes" he says "I'm running for Congress".

"Well then" I look at him " I surely hope you don't do it with hatred and on the backs of immigrants again. I for one am in favor of keeping the Immigrants, and deporting the Republicans".

Now he just stared at me.
"Secession", he said "may be an answer.We can keep NC and the Northern States. But some of the Southern ones have to go".

I stared back. "I'm an immigrant, and I became a citizen as soon as possible so I could vote. Now, why don't you go home and read your bible and do the things Jesus REALLY told you to do".

He went to his car, looked back once more, and asked me how I liked his ride. Some sort of Honda.
I liked it fine. And I liked that he was sufficiently rattled to use such a diversion as his last word.

The last time he ran Rachel was still on Air America Radio. She railed against him for these reasons:


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/vernon-robinson

http://www.google.com/search?q=vernon%20robinson&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

March 10, 2012

International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs

Ann Friedman is the executive editor of GOOD magazine and the curator of LadyJournos!, a site that highlights the work of women writers.

click on the link here and enjoy:
http://annfriedman.com/blog

March 10, 2012

Loretta Lynntakes me back to my youth - for some it will be new - for all it is very topical. Sadly.

The Pill

a comment on utube:

In an interview years later, Loretta Lynn said that many physicians told her that this song did more to promote the availability of birth control in rural areas than all the literature they'd distributed.

A comment from me:
The old male farts are dragging out the old male attitudes that women have the sole responsibility and moral obligation in human sexual relations.
These attitudes come from a time so long ago when they strapped our lower bodies into chastity belts when they were away at war. It is an attitude of looking at us as their playground but acting like we play there all by ourselves and all responsibility and "shame" is ours.
My rage is at a peak.
I think it is time we women said
NO.
I want to add: I love the song. I always did.

March 7, 2012

Working late I listened to Romney speak just now and it reminded me of an age old joke

In a third world country a candidate for highest office is giving a speech to the voters:

"If you elect me, there will be two chickens in every pot"
The crowd roars loudly: "OOMgowa"

"if you elect me, there will be a cart in front of every hut"
again, more excitedly the crowd yells " OOMgowa"

"Elect me and your troubles will be over, your children will be fed, your aged ones will be cared for"
OOMgowa -OOMgowa" the crowd cheers ever more excitedly.

As the Elders lead the candidate down from the podium, the Senior Elder pulls on the man's sleeve, points to the floor, and says: "Please be careful not to step in the OOMgowa"

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As I listened to Romney's trashing of our President and his lame assed promises, I was more struck by the crowd cheering him with abandon than any of the rest of the boring spectacle.
Who are these people buying this crap and where are the Elders clearing the street and allowing a little truth to come through?
Then I remembered: That must be our job.

March 6, 2012

Romney’s Bain Capital Owns Media Giant Broadcasting Limbaugh, Hannity

(this is not new but maybe warrants another look under the circumstances)

Romney’s Bain Capital Owns Media Giant Broadcasting Limbaugh, Hannity

Monday, 16 January 2012 09:54

Activists are expressing serious concerns that Mitt Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital owns one of America’s largest media conglomerates, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., which broadcasts numerous popular talk-show hosts with incalculable influence in the 2012 GOP primary. Among the radio personalities syndicated by Clear Channel or aired on hundreds of stations it owns nationwide are Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and many others.

Because of the San Antonio-based media giant’s enormous influence — it is the largest owner of radio stations in the United States, and experts point out that it essentially owns what has come to be known as the conservative talk-radio industry — Romney critics, supporters of Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, Tea Party groups, and elections commentators are all raising the alarm. Some analysts are even calling for the firm to disclose the fact that Romney’s Bain Capital owns a station or syndicates a show whenever a media personality is reporting on the Republican presidential campaign.

much more at link
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10547-romneys-bain-capital-owns-media-giant-broadcasting-limbaugh-hannity

March 6, 2012

Beautiful logo lineup of the Companies paying attention. Prettiest pictures I've seen in a while!

http://pinterest.com/thinkprogress/companies-no-long-advertising-on-rush-limbaugh/

March 4, 2012

For those who don't know about Electronic Pickpocketing: info about RFID chips in Credit Cards

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RFID - Radio Frequency Identification Chips in Credit cards