Comics for the Office

A little office humor:

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Letter to All of my Friends

A letter to all that might read this:

I’m sincerely concerned about the future of my favorite country, the USA. I had a bit of an awakening this presidential election cycle, and the more I continue to learn, the more concerned I get.

Serving a public office in the US was originally intended to be a duty/service that all people were supposed to be willing to do for a period of time, and then move on with their lives. Now, being in politics is a career, and for many, a very lucrative career. Fleecing taxpayers in new and creative ways and furthering politician’s self-interest seem to be common now. The folks who founded this country developed a set of rules to limit the size and power of the federal government and ensure personal liberty; many of these
safeguards have been circumvented to allow unprecedented central control that goes against what we should be doing if we value the ideals that our country was founded with.
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Tea Party Patriots Invite Janeane Garofalo

They have Zo and Michele! Wow!

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IOS: Information Overload Syndrome

Xerox has a blog about this, and ironicly, a 12 page white paper on how to help!

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The Florida Keys

I set out to go explore the Florida Keys today. I stopped at a visitor center on the way for a few suggestions. I drove to Islamorada and decided it was time for lunch. I decided on Island Grill since it was voted “best waterfront restaurant”.

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Video: Obamanation

I received the following video from a fellow west-Texas native: (also see Ed’s Website)

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History 101

received via email – BG

For those that don’t know about World history … Here is a condensed version:

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel.

The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals

And,

2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
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Garden Update – June 21, 2009

The grapes are near ready. The birds love them, and are making a huge mess out of our deck. I have dreams of a giant bird screen.

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A Day of Hard Labor

It’s been 3 years since we did anything with the front flower beds. (see previous post) That plastic we used for weed block does a good job, we haven’t had to pull weeds. I’ve been a little worried that the plants haven’t been getting any nutrients, since the plastic doesn’t let anything into or out of the soil. I brought home 2 cubic yards of blended compost on Friday, to force myself to use it. Amber and I cleaned up two of the raised vegetable beds and added a bunch of compost to those, then we moved on to the front yard. We saved most of the existing cedar mulch, pulled back the plastic, filled the beds up with compost, then replaced the plastic and the mulch. It was a good 3 hours of work, that took us about 8 hours to complete. We are both sore and sunburned.

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Funny Newspaper Ads

You have to laugh at some of these

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