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Posted on 02.18.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:54 pm
So it turns out that some of those coins advertised every hour on television, radio and the Internet leading up to Barack Obama’s inauguration are just ordinary coins with stickers on them.
I actually ordered two of the Obama coins to use as a prop in a humor video about what The One’s two mites will buy you. I lost that job before the coins arrived at my office within The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but I knew the coins weren’t anywhere near the $20 I paid for them. Good ol’ redneck common sense will tell you that those kinds of mementos are worthless. If you’re willing to pay your hard-earned cash toward funny money, Chia pets and other trinkets of “hope” and “change,” expect to get what you pay for. And don’t whine to the rest of us who knew better from the get-go. Filed under: Coin Collecting and Culture and Just For Laughs and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.18.09 by Danny Glover @ 2:52 pm
Notice the fish at the end of the video. He’s baffled by the turn of events, as if he’s saying: “Hey, where’s my buddy? He was here just a second ago?” Filed under: Fishing and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:58 pm
The libertarian publication Reason.com has created a nifty tool that lets people imagine how they would spend money to stimulate the economy if Congress would but give them a piece of the federal pie. Here’s what the online form spat out for me:
Oh, how I wish that part about a lifetime supply of tickets to West Virginia University sporting events would come true. That part about never having to pay taxes on my stimulus funds would be cool, too. Just call me Timothy Geithner. Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.16.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:41 am
Why did Uncle Jay choose the economic stimulus as his topic? “We’ve got to go with this subject, boys and girls, because otherwise, we would have to talk about Michael Phelps having octuplets after injecting himself with steroids laced with tainted peanut butter.” Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 3:59 pm
But you better shoot from a proper weight-forward stance. What happens if you don’t? Watch these guys fire a .577 T-Rex and see. Filed under: Human Interest and Hunting & Guns and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 3:12 pm
With the anti-gun crowd now in control of both Congress and the White House, we gun-clingers may need to tighten the grip on our firearms of choice. The Intellectual Redneck has the scoop on the stealth attacks against the Second Amendment.
I’m having flashbacks to the early years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, when gun controls were tightened and Democrats in Congress seriously weighed the idea of taxing ammunition. Filed under: Government and Hunting & Guns and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.09 by Danny Glover @ 7:08 pm
Plenty of conservatives have been critical of the Obama White House for its lack of transparency — a governing reality in direct conflict with Barack Obama’s campaign promise to have the most transparent White House ever. But conservatives aren’t alone. Here is a report from NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd, who is as objective as they come in his reporting but who also once worked for the presidential campaign of liberal Democrat Tom Harkin:
Chuck took some grief in the comments of his blog post for “whining” and being a “cry baby,” but he’s right on this one. Obama’s tight rein on the White House press corps, one that ironically has shown itself to be friendly to the president, impinges a free press. And it’s utterly hypocritical coming from a president who vowed to bring change to Washington. UPDATE: Both Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank and Politico protested the National Press Club’s decision to let Obama campaign manager David Plouffe give an off-the-record talk. Good for them. The press club’s president also sent a letter of protest, noting that an off-the-record speech “would run contrary to the spirit of President Obama’s recent executive order and statements in support of a more open government.” She should have gone one better and canceled Plouffe’s appearance. Filed under: Media and News & Politics and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:13 pm
A couple of weeks ago, a supposedly “enlightened” family from San Francisco and a clan of “rednecks” from Missouri voluntarily subjected themselves to each others’ ways of life for an episode of the ABC reality show “Wife Swap.” The clash of cultures brilliantly illustrated the contempt heaped upon rednecks across the land. The rednecks in the show, Alan and Gayla Long and their kids, had their bad moments. I’m thinking in particular of when Alan Long grilled his temporary wife about her patriotism and derided housework as “skirt work,” and when Gayla Long called her temporary husband’s British accent “annoying.” But the sophisticates in the show, Stephen Fowler and Renee Stephens, had far more bad moments. They were so bad to the bone that the rare excesses of the Longs were barely memorable. Stephen Fowler was the by far the worst. He was such a jerk that even an elitist publication like the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag spoke ill of his boorish behavior. “He was phenomenally cruel to Gayla, giving her the silent treatment for much of her stay,” Valleywag noted. “When he did talk to her, he managed to insult, among dozens of groups, fat people — the fat people who pay his wife money to make them not fat.” Filed under: Culture and Hatin' On Rednecks and Human Interest and People and Rednecks and Spotlight Comments: 6 Comments |
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Posted on 02.14.09 by Danny Glover @ 2:25 pm
It’s too late now because Congress has cleared legislation that encompasses a boatload of misguided ideas for stimulating the economy, but the better idea would have been to eliminate the payroll tax for a year and give the money directly to hard-working Americans. We know better how to spend our own money. Just ask us, as this “rebel economist” did: Plenty of enlightened folks in Washington pushed the idea during the stimulus debate but President and Obama, Democrats who supposedly are more in touch with “the people,” wouldn’t listen. It wasn’t their idea, so they weren’t about to embrace it. Too bad. Filed under: Government and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:38 pm
I had a cheap metal detector for a few years when I was young but never found much of anything. Stories like this make me want to try again as an adult, with a better metal detector:
The searchers– one of whom was quoted as saying, “It was the find of a lifetime” — have a great attitude about the treasure they found. “All I want is to see the coins on display with my name and the landowner’s name next to it,” Fox said. “That would be fantastic, The money is not important. It is the history that counts.” Filed under: Coin Collecting and History Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:58 pm
Sen. Judd Gregg today ended his bid to become President Obama’s commerce secretary. The New Hampshire Republican decided not to cross party lines into a Democratic administration in part because of Obama’s power grab to take oversight of the census away from the Commerce Department and put it directly in the White House. The news reminded me of an essay I wrote a decade ago about census squabbling. It’s a tradition almost as old as the United States. The nation’s first president issued his first veto over a bill related to the census as factions of lawmakers tried to gain political advantage after the decennial census. The essay, which I wrote while serving as the associate editor of the long-defunct e-zine IntellectualCapital.com, is worth revisiting as the reapportionment battle is about to be waged again: A Foretaste Of Census Fights To Come Every decade, as the political calendar nears the “zero” year, a story unique to American democracy unfolds. While the enumeration experts at the Census Bureau finesse their head-counting formulas, the power brokers whose fortunes may be decided by the tally of “the people” wield their influence in an attempt to plot the most favorable boundaries for the nation’s 435 House seats. The battlegrounds of census and congressional reapportionment are many — party vs. party, region vs. region, state vs. state, even friend vs. friend. And in the 1990s, the soldiers on both sides have waged war on a new front. They are fighting over the right to statistically adjust the 2000 census numbers. Filed under: Government and History and Media and News & Politics and People Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:05 pm
This quote is one of the “25 Random Things” confessed on Facebook by the programmer who created a Web site I oversaw until a couple of months ago:
The problem is that he would never admit to me, his boss or anyone else who relied on the Web site that he couldn’t even understand his own logic half the time and forgot the other half. And he was adamant about doing everything his way, even when there were sound editorial reasons for taking a different approach. Now I know why I hated working with that programmer. Filed under: Business and Media and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:05 pm
Asked at last year’s Saddleback presidential forum to name the one “significant position” he had held 10 years earlier but “flipped on,” Barack Obama chose welfare reform:
It was a weak answer at the time because Obama had no say in the debate over welfare reform. He was not a member of Congress at the time. But the answer is telling now in light of the current debate over economic stimulus, which includes a policy reversal on welfare. From the Heritage Foundation:
In other words, Obama and Democrats have “flopped” back to their thinking of a decade ago. Another flip-flop is complete, and guess who gets stuck with the bill? Filed under: Culture and Government and News & Politics and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Danny Glover @ 2:40 pm
Abraham Lincoln, America’s greatest president ever in my book for his leadership in abolishing slavery and winning the Civil War, would have been 200 today. Americans will have plenty of opportunities to think about Lincoln this year and in the future as they sift through their change because the U.S. Mint today released the first of four redesigns of the cent design initiated in memory of Lincoln 100 years ago. The Lincoln penny is the oldest coin design in U.S. history; it has been changed significantly only once, in 1959 when the reverse design was changed from wheat stalks to the image of the Lincoln Memorial. The new reverse designs will feature representations of the various stages of Lincoln’s life — the log cabin of his childhood, his youth in Indiana, his professional career in Illinois and his presidency in Washington. Here are the designs:
This momentous change in coinage, something that soon will be apparent to everyone who still buys goods with hard currency instead of credit cards, presents a great opportunity for parents to teach their children about the impact that Abraham Lincoln had in U.S. history. We’ll definitely be having some Lincoln lessons in the Glover Home School. Filed under: Coin Collecting and Family and History and Home Schooling and Human Interest and News & Politics and People Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:19 am
It’s a distinct possibility, according to the financial analysts at Moody’s Investors Service:
Say it ain’t so! We love Krispy Kreme, as these photographs from a stop in Charleston, S.C., prove.
I still remember with great culinary clarity the first time one of those doughnuts melted in my mouth. We were leaving the beach in Destin, Fla., and drove by a Krispy Kreme with the “Hot” sign on. I had never eaten a hot Krispy Kreme doughnut before. I was hooked after that experience. Filed under: Business and Family and Food and Technology Comments: 7 Comments |
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