The Audacity of Git’er Done

This is supposedly a local interest site but this time with a past PTA president and "Hockey Mom" in the running for national office the editorial staff had to take a position on the race.

You can run off your mouth about your hopes and dreams all you want but at some point you still need to do something.

Senator Obama says he wants to fight corruption in Washington but has never rocked the apple cart in his own political sleazy town. Gov. Palin took on the corruption in her state and the entrenched members of her own party and won. She worked with people from both parties to bring about positive change, something the senator is always talking about but has never gotten around to actually doing it.

Senator Obama wants to fight waste but he voted for the Bridge To Nowhere. She fought against it "If we need a bridge we can build our own bridge"

Senator Obama says "I am my brother keeper" and "protect the least among us" while his half-brother subsist on $24/year and he votes for infanticide allowing babies born alive to be hidden away in a utility closet to suffer their fate. Gov. Palin knowingly gave birth to a "perfect" baby.

Senator "I don't know what my mouth is saying" Biden was in Scranton trying to identify with the United Steelworkers. Gov. Palin is married to an actual active member.

Obama likes to be photographed showing off his youthfulness shooting hoops. Barracuda Palin played in a championship game with a broken ankle.

Gov. Palin has visited wounded troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and has been to the controversial oil exploration site at ANWR. Obama couldn't be bothered to visit either.

While Obama was a community organizer, what ever that is, in a community that still isn't organized. Palin was the chief executive in her home town.

Senator Kerry said today she didn't have foreign relation experience. Didn't seem that big a deal when he tapped Senator "Which Way Did The Ambulance Go" Edwards. Besides Canada is almost a foreign country and she was instrumental in working with them on a natural gas pipeline and her state is the only one that borders two foreign countries.

The deal clincher is she is the only member of either team that isn't a blowhard U.S. Senator with a career of sitting on endless committee meetings but no real accountability.

Just as the boys at Red State Update discovered, there is a catch to everything, you still have to vote for McCain to elect her.

Flashback

Always interesting how after all the time, money and effort a presidential campaign can turn on a photograph or a misstatement made at the wrong time.

Some People shouldn't be seen operating dangerous machinery

Gov. Michael Dukakis 1988

While for others it could be a career enhancement.

Gov. Sarah Palin 2008

Lost The Nomination By A Hair

“If I had your hair I’d be president, you know what I mean?” he told him. “I wouldn’t be screwing around with this job.” - Sen. Joe Biden to a National Guardsman.

Other thoughts on the Office of Vice President

My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. - John Adams 1st V.P.

This job isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. [ Bowdlerized ]- John "Cactus Jack" Garner 32nd V.P.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?" - Will Rogers

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, & that one word is 'to be prepared'." - Vice President Al Gore, [Need to check this one because it was also attributed to V.P. Dan Quayle. Hate for the proper party not to receive recognition for this jewel.]

Flash Back

Now that summer is cooling off a look at an old summer past time going to the Drive-in.

Pennylvania was an early riser among the Drive-in movie theatre states. It was host to America's 2nd drive-in movie (opened in April 1934), Shankweiler's,which is still in operation today, giving Pennsylvania the added distinction of being home to the oldest D.I. in America.

Within 10 years of Shanks' opening, Pennsylvania had more than 50 drive-ins, and peaked in the late 50's with just over 180 in operation. Twenty years later,less than half remained. Since the Drive-ins' heydey the number operating in Pennsylvania declined by 80%.But, aside from longevity, Pennsylvania has staying power ..
being one of the top 5 Drive-in states, with 35 still open.

For a real historical evening you could drive up to Orefield to visit the Shank and if you are over 21 sneak in a Yuengling. This post is very relevant because without the drive-in a lot of us wouldn't be here today.

Food Services

From the last Committee Of The Whole Meeting

The food services last year had a positive Revenue - Expenses of $33,000 after paying back the general fund $50,000 transfer it ended up with a loss of $17,000. Replacing broken equipment cost another $12K. While still operating at a loss quite an improvement from the previous year when the loss was around triple digits. Some of the improvements were due to new innovations like having a breakfast available in the high school. The food services prior to constructing the high school usually broke even or slightly positive. The cost of operating an additional kitchen with the same or now lower customer base caused it to start draining money from the general fund to operate.

A few years ago automatic swipe payment was introduced into the middle school to see if the ease of payment would increase the lunch count. It had no effect on the number of people eating but many of the accounts were always in the red no matter how many phone calls or letters were sent. Last year the business office and food services recommended that it be discontinued due to new equipment having to be purchased( $7,000), yearly fee, collection problems and no increase in the number of meals sold.

Don't Meddle In - Be

Good advice for future politicians or any field where you would be in a minority.

Did Margaret Thatcher ever go on and on about how she was a woman? Or kvetch about glass ceilings? Did Indira Gandhi? Did Golda Meir? Didn't they all just get on with it? I thought that Mrs. Clinton's stress on her sex was unseemly — made her seem kind of affirmative-actiony, rather than a person who stands on her own two feet.

By the way, do you know the story about Tito and Mrs. Thatcher? He said, in her presence — referring to the wife he had just fired — "Women shouldn't meddle in politics." Thatcher said, "As for me, I don't meddle in politics — I am politics." - Jay Nordlinger posting in The Corner

Free Range Kids

freerangekids.wordpress.com a site dedicated to the revolutionary proposition that kids should go out and play. These heretics do not believe that people under 21 need 24/7 supervision.

College In Three Years

With the current A.P. and dual enrollment courses depending on the major it is easier to finish college in 3 years. Good article on the pluses and minuses.

Soaring tuition costs are prompting a small but growing number of students to compress their college careers into three years and, in the process, save their parents and themselves tens of thousands of dollars. Few schools have current statistics tracking three-year graduates, but several college officials and education specialists predict that more students at private schools will choose this option amid the troubled student loan market and the overall economic downturn.

To Live Long Men Need Big Love

Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations.

Researchers are still not sure why or maybe it just seems that way. They also investigated why unlike nearly all other animals - females live long past the menopause.

One answer seems to be a phenomenon called the grandmother effect. For every 10 years a woman survives past the menopause, she gains two additional grandchildren, Lummaa says. It seems that doting on and spoiling grandchildren aids their survival, as well as furthering some of their grandmother’s genes.

Government Does Work

Business guided by the invisible hand goes through booms, bust, growth, recession and even depression but only by government intervension can a Great Depression be created. An Uncommon Knowledge interview with the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Alternative Self Employment

Tired of school but you can't even contemplate working for the man? Well there are options $10/hour tax free not bad money being a Professional Panhandler.

In Memphis, a local FOX News reporter, Jason Carter, donned old clothes and hit the streets earlier this year, earning about $10 an hour. “Just the quasi-appearance of being homeless filled my cup,” Carter observed. That all the money is beyond the tax man’s clutches adds to the allure of professional panhandling.

Carter prepared for his stint on the street by surfing the Internet, where a variety of websites dispense panhandling advice. NeedCom, for example—subtitled “Market Research for Panhandlers”—offers tips from Baker and other pros on how to hustle. The website’s developer, Cathy Davies, wants it to get people “thinking about panhandling as a realistic economic activity, rather than thinking that panhandlers are lazy or don’t work very hard.”

Russia Slow To Leave Georgia

One thing they don' t teach in Diplomacy School is why a country like Russia would invade a neighbor and then violate the agreement to go home. The following picture of the women on the docks awaiting returning troops explains why they were a little slow to return back to Mother Russia.












Especially when you consider that they were in Georgia and it is almost football season

Best Looking Co-eds: University of Georgia. No college football game road trip is complete without a little eye candy while you get ready for the big game. The University of Georgia has the most incredible collection of beautiful women in the South. Go check out a game at Georgia - even if you don't have a ticket.

Its That Monday Again

Study hard kids you will need to since there will only be two of you supporting not only your family but also a random geezer. Once upon a time there were 12 workers for every retiree now it is around 3 by the time you graduate there will be only 2. The only thing that has saved social security so far as been the increase in the productivity of the American worker.

Don't look for any improvements any time soon.

Pelosi describes with relish her strategy for trouncing Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security — which was to blast it mercilessly, without offering an alternative. The implicit message is that negotiation and compromise are for losers. The reality that Social Security is facing bankruptcy seems not to interest either Pelosi or Reid.

So don't expect the same level of benefits when you retire. The Congressional Budget Office latest report shows that there is only a 7% probability that someone born in 2000 will receive their Social Security benefits as promised today. The better news is that with a probability of 58% the cut in benefits will be 20% or less.

Do We Really Need 24 Hour News

A supporter for Obama said on Neil Cavuto that John McCain does not know hardship, since he owns all those homes.

She does have a point because from 1967 to 1973 while others of his generations were fighting in the jungle or protesting in the streets he and a few friends were setting out the war staying at a Hilton completely paid for by the workers of the People's Republic of North Vietnam.

And people say comments posted on here are dopey. At ;east the posters here aren't being paid and treated as experts. Can't we cut back to at least 18 hour news because the chief on the old test patterns made more sense than most of the people on TV today.

The old test patterns and the playing of the national anthem as the station shut down for the day were great in that they reminded you it was way past bedtime.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend because Monday is the MONDAY.

Purse Ban Rescinded

Female students at the high school will be allowed to keep their purses (no word yet on man purses). The previously announced rule was overturned earlier this week after Dr Handler officially started his new position and discussed the matter with the high school administration.

One of the problems that initiated the policy was the ease of transferring a picture from the ubiquitous cellphone to the web complete with captions, computer access not required.

This little photo blog was published on the web with two clicks on a cellphone in under 5 minutes. What technology enabled teen could resist showing the world a sworn enemy in a compromising position. Once that genie is out of the bottle good luck getting it back, someone somewhere will have a perfect digital copy and if it isn't bad enough there is always Photoshop.

Maybe the original ban was the worst idea since New Coke but school administrators are under a lot of pressure to ensure the privacy of the students. They are more likely to catch grief than the culprit from angry parents. Try bearing with them they were forced into the digital age not born into it.

T. J. was all about freedom of speech but he didn't have to worry about that crazy Hamilton posting a picture of him in the mens room in a wide stance.

Oldest New Eagle Scout At 50

It took 35 years to complete the Procratination Merit Badge but Maryland resident Bill Ehmann finally received his Eagle pin. Good story on how his family worked in secret to obtain the honor he deserved.

No Skol On Old Rocky Top

Last year Cumberland Co, TN located between Knoxville and Nashville lowered their property tax to the lowest amount in the state. As the other schools in the state are starting a new year, the school doors in Cumberland Co. remain close because of a lack of funds. With all the money they save they can always import educated kids from India.

Even Dirt Isn't Dirt Cheap anymore

Especially when it is Gourmet Designer Dirt.

Potting mixes often contain sphagnum peat moss from bogs in Canada or Ireland. Bark fines might come from a sawmill in the Deep South. Coconut "coir," a peat moss substitute, gets shipped all the way from Asia.

A common ingredient in potting mixes is perlite, which makes the soils airier while also retaining moisture. In its final form, small white pellets, it appears to be something synthesized in a factory. In fact, it comes from a volcanic sand mined on the Greek island of Milos. Shipped to the United States, the ore is heated to 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit, at which point it pops into kernels.

Colleges Move To Lower Drinking Age to 18

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth, and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age to 18 from 21, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age.

"This is a law that is routinely evaded," a former president of Middlebury College in Vermont who started the organization, John McCardell, said. "It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory." More

Pistol Packing Granny

An 85 year old woman in Lake Lynn, PA held a would be 17 year old robber at bay with her .22 pistol. Completely destroying all his hopes of street creds she made the teen call 911 and report himself.

Recruiting Females For Oz

The mayor of a small mining town in Australia has caused a stir by trying to recruit women to

Mayor John Molony found himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a local newspaper that read: "May I suggest if there are five blokes to every girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa."

He didn't help his cause by continuing with how happy the current women are

"Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face," he continued. "Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness."

If you are interested in the opportunity maybe you should check further. Turns out the men may not be much of a bargain.

"We've got a saying up here that the odds are good, but the goods are odd," 27-year-old Anna Warrick told The Brisbane Times.

Rapist Sues Victim For Child Support And Wins

The headline is like a real life logic puzzle can you think of reasonable circumstances why this isn't totally nuts?

ANSWER

Longswamp Day Care

Some people have commented on the day care at Longswamp losing money for the District. These Florida entrepreneurs may have solved the perceived problem along with day care the district could also sell drugs and guns. Throw in a coffee pot and it would be one stop shopping for people on their way to work.

Public School Survey

STANFORD -- Public confidence in America’s public schools and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) declined in 2008, according to findings from the second annual national survey by Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University.

No Child Left Behind
In 2007, the Education Next/PEPG survey results found that 57 percent of the public supported renewing NCLB as is or with minimal changes; today only 50 percent of the public do. Public school teachers are especially critical of NCLB with only 26 percent supporting renewal as is or with minimal changes.

Mainstreaming Disabled Students
Neither teachers nor the general public express much support for the practice of mainstreaming emotionally or behaviorally disabled children. When asked whether students “who have been diagnosed with emotional and behavioral disabilities should be taught in regular classrooms with other students,” only 25 percent of teachers, and 28 percent of the public, favored the idea. The rest said they should be “taught in separate settings.”

Single-Sex Public Schools
37 percent of respondents support the idea of public school districts offering parents the option of sending their child to a single-sex school; 25 percent oppose the idea; and the remainder are undecided. Support is stronger among public school teachers--47 percent approve the idea.
When asked whether they would consider enrolling their own child in a single-sex school, 42 percent of all parents, 48 percent of public school teachers, and 53 percent of African Americans say that they would.

Online Education
More than two thirds of American parents say they would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the Internet. In most instances, the American public favors public funding for online courses that high school students take for credit over the internet. The breadth of their support, however, depends on the purpose of the online education. A majority favor funding for high schools offering advanced courses for students online and for high schools that offer rural students a broader range of courses online.

Don't Mess With Texas Teachers

A school district in Texas with 110 students in K-12 recently approved allowing employees to carry concealed firearms. Since this is Texas even with only 110 students betcha it has at the very least a 7-man football team.

Live Free And Design

When bad taste is outlawed only outlaws will have velvet Elvis paintings.

In Alabama it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without a license. In Nevada it is illegal to move any large piece of furniture for purposes of design without a license. In fact, hundreds of people have been prosecuted in Alabama and Nevada for practicing "interior design" without a license.

Don't laugh a similar bill is sneaking through the PA legislature. Currently there are 17 schools in the state offering interior design programs but only 5 are cartel approved. If this insanity passes to be free to advise someone what color to paint their walls you must have graduated from one of the 5 sanctioned programs where the minimum cost is $18,600 per year.

From an excellent article on how the states limit a person occupation based on some arbitrary and often costly rules creating cartels for the benefit of a few.

They will have to tear my framed copy of "Dogs Playing Poker" from my cold dead hands.

Results for 2007-08 PSSA Testing

District	Reading	Math	Avg
Boyertown	82.1	85.5	83.8
Wilson	80.6	84.9	82.75
Twin Valley	78.5	82.4	80.45
Gov. Mifflin	82	81.1	81.55
Fleetwood	76.7	79.9	78.3
Wyomissing	80.9	79.4	80.15
Exeter	78.9	78	78.45
Kutztown	75.8	76.9	76.35
Schuylkill Valley	77.1	76.8	76.95
Brandywine	75.8	76.5	76.15
Daniel Boone	75.1	75.8	75.45
Hamburg	70.8	75.3	73.05
Tulpehocken	69.6	74.2	71.9
Conrad Weiser	68.9	73.9	71.4
Oley Valley	79.4	72.4	75.9
Muhlenberg	68.1	72.1	70.1
Antietam	54.6	55.1	54.85
Reading	47	53.6	50.3
Median Scores	76.25	76.65

For Pennsylvania school districts to meet PSSA targets, at least 63 percent of students must score proficient or better in reading, and at least 56 percent must meet that standard in math.

Pun Intended

Since one of our gentle readers is a fan of the pun everyone has to suffer.

1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The
ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.

2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you,
but don't start anything."

3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.

4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says:
"A beer please, and one for the road."

6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this
taste funny to you?"

7. "Doc, I can't stop singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home.'"
"That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome."
"Is it common?"
Well, "It's Not Unusual."

8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to
Dolly, "I was artificially inseminated this morning." "I don't believe
you," says Dolly. "It's true, no bull!" exclaims Daisy.

9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to
look at either.

10. DejaMoo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't
find any.

12. A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident. He shouted,
"Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!"
The doctor replied, "I know you can't - I've cut off your arms!"

13. I went to a seafood disco last week...and pulled a mussel.

14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and
says "Dam!"

16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in
the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't
have your kayak and heat it too.

17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing
in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about
an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse.
"But why," they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't
stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."

18. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes
to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in
Spain; they name him "Juan." Year's later; Juan sends a picture of
himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her
husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband
responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

19. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which
produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very
little which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered
from bad breath. This made him. (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's
good)..... A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

20. And finally, there was the person who sent twenty different puns to
his friends, with the hope that at least ten of the puns would make them
laugh. No pun in ten did.

Lets Get In On The Ground Floor

. Its the 21st century time is ripe for a new sport Segway Polo. If we start now we can have a team that will crush all future oppositions. Infinity better than watching the Olympic coverage of synchronized diving or trying to determine what is wrong with Bob Costas "hair". Did he inherit Howard Cosell toupee or is he using an old rug from Marv Albert?

The 9 Siblings Do Have To Eat

Philadelphia parents arrested for the starvation death of their bedridden daughter are suing the city on the behalf of their 9 other children. They claim that several municipal employees were also responsible for the death of their 14 year old daughter from malnutrition and maggot-infested bedsores.

Safe Kid = Fat Kid

The WSJ on raising plump snowflakes

Just when we thought playgrounds were accident-proof -- no more merry-go-rounds, high slides, jungle gyms, seesaws or pretty much anything that's fun -- it turns out that safety itself can be dangerous. A recent heat wave in New York exposed a new playground risk: The ubiquitous rubber safety matting gets hot, not as hot as McDonald's coffee, but hot enough to scald tender feet.

The outrage was immediate. "Playgrounds should be designed with canopies," one park- safety advocate declared. "How many burn cases will it take," Betsy Gotbaum, the city's public advocate asked, "before the city wakes up and acts?"

Olympic Double

One of the highlights of the opening Olympic ceremonies was a 7 year old girl singing the Chinese national anthem. She was not the result of an 8 year genetic engineering project, just simply more video enhancements The actual singer failed the "Pixie Test".

A member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl's face with another's voice, the ceremony's chief music director, Chen Qigang, said in an interview with Beijing Radio.

"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.

Living On The Edge

Cheerleading is the most dangerous sport for females both in High School and College.

• Strains/sprains: 52.4 percent
• Soft tissue injuries: 18.4 percent
• Fractures/dislocations: 16.4 percent
• Lacerations/avulsions: 3.8 percent
• Concussions/closed head injuries: 3.5 percent
• Other: 5.5 percent

The Top 15 In Trips To The E.R.:

1. Basketball: 512,213
2. Bicycling: 485,669
3. Football: 418,260
4. Soccer: 174,686
5. Baseball: 155,898
6. Skateboards: 112,544
7. Trampolines: 108,029
8. Softball: 106,884
9. Swimming/Diving: 82,354
10. Horseback riding: 73,576
11. Weightlifting: 65,716
12. Volleyball: 52,091
13. Golf: 47,360
14. Roller skating: 35,003
15. Wrestling: 33,734

R U Really Reading?

What it means to read in the digital age.

I Value Your Opinion But....

Classic couple conversation during a home remodeling.

"Seriously! I can't choose." And so, despite 20 years of marriage, despite all the signs flashing "WARNING, TRAP AHEAD, DO NOT STEP HERE!!" my husband ventured, "OK, brushed nickel."

WRONG! IDIOT! YOU JUST FELL IN THE HOLE!

Get Off The Grid

Tired of high heating bills? Worried about the upcoming increase in electric rates? Then the backyard nuke could be right for you. Can't wait till Weavers starts selling them next to the wood stoves.

Its not Mr. Fusion but its close.

Sex Determines Where You Click

For those of you in doubt let this site can determine your sex from your recent web history.

Ride Proud. Dress Loud

In a state where helmets are optional, the Florida Highway patrol is meeting some resistance in some biker bars for their new motorcycle safety program asking that bright colors like neon green chaps be worn.

"I won't wear chaps," said Billy Dalton, who usually wears black and avoids helmets. "You know what that looks like? That looks like somebody at the Village People."

"I've got black chaps, black vest, black T-shirts, black shoes," said 62-year-old Gary Dove, sipping on a cup of beer Wednesday night outside Quaker Steak and Lube on 49th Street N in Pinellas Park. "I support the Florida Highway Patrol, but I certainly wouldn't wear vibrant green chaps."

The campaign, which runs through September, encourages riders to avoid black, gray, beige and other neutral colors. It is a response to the spiking number of motorcycle fatalities as more bikers have taken to the road because of rising fuel costs.

The paper did find one person that responded positive to the program.

"I want somebody to see me when I'm on the back of my old man's bike because I don't want to get hit first," said Rusty Wilson, a bartender at Tail Gaters sports bar north of Weeki Wachee.

If you are on a motorcycle does it really matter if you get hit first or second?

It might help the campaign if the highway patrol would follow their own advice but they are sticking with taupe uniforms and ride tan and black bikes. They also lose a lot of guy credibility by referring to the color of their uniform as taupe, no man should refer to any color as taupe .

Any Songwriters Out There

There is a whole new genre of music now being written, songs based on comments from a blog post.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution had a post about too much chaff in books titled "Are Books Overwitten". Hillel at Sugar Fix took the public comments and created a song from a writer to his editor named Dear Editor ( Lyrics)

Now if anyone wants to write something like "Why Won't They Close Rockland", "Rocky Forever", "My Kid Don't Need Him None Of That Full Day Kindergarten" of ". "Parent-Coach Leave Them Kids Alone", "Where Is My Agenda?" or "I Got Them Tax Payer Group Blues" go ahead feel free to be creative.

Topton Resident Makes International Headlines

BEIJING - A group of American cyclists has apologized to Beijing Olympic organizers after arriving in China’s capital wearing face masks.

Michael Friedman, Sarah Hammer, Bobby Lea and Jennie Reed released a statement Wednesday, a day after they caused a stir by showing up in the protective gear.

“The wearing of protective masks upon our arrival into Beijing was strictly a precautionary measure we as athletes chose to take, and was in no way meant to serve as an environmental or political statement,” the athletes said. “We deeply regret the nature of our choices. Our decision was not intended to insult BOCOG or countless others who have put forth a tremendous amount of effort to improve the air quality in Beijing.” Article

Politically Blond

Last campaign video I promise but who knew she could read.

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader

In school today, estimation is stressed in 5th grade math class. So how does Senator Obama statement that, if everyone had properly inflated tires it would be equal to offshore production , hold up to some rough estimation.

Average worker commutes 33 miles between work and home each day and that the average car gets about 24 miles per gallon. Thus, the average worker is using 1.375 gallons per day.

Assume properly inflated tire gives a full extra three miles per gallon an average motorist would use 33 /27 =1.22 gallons/day or 0.153 gallons/day.

About 129 million workers commute every day.
1/3 of tires in the U.S. are not properly inflated as to make a difference

So (129,000,000 * 0.153)/ 3=6,579,000 gallons saved.

Now for the other side
Estimated oil deposits under the US continental shelf 86,000,000,000 barrels. There are 42 gallons in a barrel of that 19.6 gallons can be transformed into gasoline.

So 86 billion * 19.6 gallons/barrel= 1,685,600,000,000 gallons of gasoline

Therefore it would take 1685600000000 /6,579,000 = 256,209 days or 701 years of properly inflated tires to save the same amount of gasoline waiting under the continental shelf. Hopefully we can have Mr. Fusion by that time. especially since we can do both.

Men Of Science

Nice to know that there are other people who still question the Big Fraud.

Interesting

This interweb thing may not just be some new fangled fad. Everyone seems to be getting bigger tubes these days.

Visitors To Brandywine Parents
DSL - 42%
Cable - 33%
Dialup - 10%
T1 - 8%
Unknown - 7%

The YouTube Election

Start A Relationship With Amazon

SANDUSKY, OH—Area resident Pamela Meyers was delighted to receive yet another thoughtful CD recommendation from Amazon.com Friday, confirming that the online retail giant has a more thorough, individualized, and nuanced understanding of Meyers' taste than the man who occasionally claims to love her, husband Dean Meyers.

Dean, bases his gift-giving choices primarily on what is needed around the house, what he would like to own, and, most notably, what objects are nearby.

China Dress Code

People complain about the school's dress code. China has one for the entire country during the Olympics.

THE Little Red Book, the sayings of Chairman Mao, has been replaced by a little red booklet that instructs Beijing's residents how to act and dress ahead of next week's Olympics.

Don't mix more than three colours

Do shake hands for three seconds only

Don't wear your pyjamas in public

No Spitting