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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:39 pm
My father e-mailed me a bunch of pictures under the headline above. I searched the title on Google and found this slide show on CNN. Dad’s e-mail had more pictures, but the ability to embed the slide show makes this presentation more user-friendly for a blog. The message: Enlightened rednecks appreciate good art. Filed under: An Enlightened Redneck ... and Business and Culture and Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor Comments: 4 Comments |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:07 pm
Chris has assured our family comfort many a time in both heat and cold since a former neighbor referred us to him five years ago when one of thermostats short-circuited in the winter. We either had to turn the heat off entirely or let it run constantly until Chris could get to our house to replace it. We have had numerous minor problems since then, and Chris is always quick to respond and repair. The latest problem surfaced a few days ago. My wife and son smelled gas in the house. I had the family evacuate and waited for a representative from Columbia Gas come check for leaks. He found a faulty gas-control valve at the furnace, which meant he had to “red flag” the system and turn off the gas flow. Fortunately, it was warn that day and has been since. But Chris was quick to respond anyway. He came to the house the day we discovered the problem, ordered the necessary part and replaced the valve within three days. He did the work on a Saturday. Chris’ goal all along was to make sure the fix was in before the unseasonably warm weather in late October disappeared while we had no heat. He has always worked hard to meet our needs as customers. That’s why I recommended him as the heating/AC contractor for our church building, too, and he has been just as proactive and quick at fixing problems that arise there. Give Squires Home Energy a try. Chris will earn your confidence. Note to the FTC: I received no compensation for this endorsement, so please keep your blog police at bay. Filed under: Business Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 2:27 pm
When it comes to pork-barrel politics, we West Virginians are tongue-in-cheek proud that “Big Daddy” Bobby Byrd is the undisputed king. But Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., is waiting to replace Byrd on the throne. Pajamas TV gives Murtha his due as “Mr. Really-In-Your-Face-Earmarker” in the latest episode of the video parody series “Real Members of Congress.” “Some guys earmark a million here or there for local pork,” the announcer says. “But you jammed in a $200 million airport out in the sticks.” The first two episodes were dedicated to Rep. Charles Rangel (”Mr. Tax-Law-Writing-Tax-Evader“) and Sen. Arlen Specter (”Mr. Faithful-Like-A-Trial Lawyer“). Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:15 am
What a great name for a redneck restaurant! I’m going to have to find a good reason to drive West Virginia Route 2 between Point Pleasant and Huntington just so I can visit.
Let me revise that statement: Visiting Hillbilly Hot Dogs is all the reason I need for the trip. Go to the blog of Charleston, W.Va.-based photographer Rick Lee for the rest of the photos, inside and outside the beautiful dive. (Hat tip to Don Surber) Filed under: Business and Food and Human Interest and People and Photography and Rednecks and Travel and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:07 am
I may have to rethink the renewal of our Costco membership after seeing this mug on the cover of the warehouse retailer’s “lifestyle magazine for Costco members”:
It’s a good thing Costco offers budget-friendly prices on everything from bulk food to electronics because associating itself with Al Gore, an environmental alarmist who preaches the false doctrine of man-made “global warming pollution” that has created a “climate crisis” is a public relations mistake. Gore’s article pushes the fear-mongering theories that global warming is a threat to national security and to a sound economy. “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet,” he wrote. “Every bit of that has got to change.” As Gore jets around the world on private jets to deliver “his message of the need for clean energy” (that quote is from a Costco photo blurb), he is telling everyone else they need to transform every aspect of their lives, from the cars they drive to the foods they eat, in order to save the planet. And he says it all with a straight face as the planet continues it’s cooling trend. How can Costco endorse the hysteria of a man who was just in the news for this claim?
Gore’s enviromania, which ultimately is designed to line his pockets with money from his investments in “green” companies, doesn’t deserve to see the light of day in “The Costco Connection” or any other publication. He needs to be marginalized. Filed under: Business and Government and Media and News & Politics and People Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.30.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:18 pm
Tonight I’m doing the worst chore known to man — matching socks for a household of five. It has renewed my affection for my wife. So far I’ve found 21 pairs of socks — but I have 43 singles. How in the world can there be 43 solo socks hiding in this house? Not that I blame them, mind you. I wouldn’t want to spend my entire life hugging stinky feet, either. Filed under: Culture and Family Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.29.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:06 am
10) $30 million for a spring-training baseball complex And the No. 1 stimulus project that Americans should remember the next time they go to the polls is … $300,000 for mapping radioactive rabbit feces. Don’t you feel so much better knowing the government takes your hard-earned money and invests it in projects as essential to a sound economy as radioactive rabbit feces? Filed under: Government and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.29.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:27 am
The Democratic National Committee — “Barack Obama’s campaign arm,” as Politico puts it — held a video contest on health-care reform. This is one of the 20 videos that the patriotically tone-deaf party chose as a finalist: So let me get this straight: In the mind of Democrats, it’s “un-American” to protest against Big Government in the form of socialized medicine, potentially devastating environmental regulation and unprecedented budget deficits, but it’s OK to deface the flag that symbolizes everything America represents in order to make a point about health care? I defer to one of the contestants whose videos didn’t make the DNC’s final cut: “They should never pick that. It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.” There truly are two Americas politically speaking in this country today. Filed under: Culture and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.29.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:25 am
The Villanova Wildcats start their basketball season in a couple of weeks, and Scottie Reynolds will be on the roster for his senior year after deciding not to go pro this summer. I’m glad he’ll be back. It means I’ll get to watch Scottie make plays like this: He’s just not allowed to make those kinds of moves against my West Virginia University Mountaineers. All other opponents in the Big East are fair game. Filed under: Friends and People and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 10.29.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:07 am
Journalism was still a reasonably respectable profession when I chose it as my career path in 1986. But today, this embarrassment apparently is what passes for journalism education: That’s definitely thinking outside the box, which is not a good thing. The response from Hit & Run: “[T]o the extent this [video] encapsulates anything about the mindset in contemporary media, it explains why people shun it like the plague.” And from Big Hollywood: “[T]he big point: That when applying for a job, the student knows to regurgitate the shared assumptions of the elitists around him. In short, if you bash Fox News, you might land an unpaid internship at Mother Jones.” The White House just today called a truce in its idiotic war against Fox News, one roundly condemned even by liberals in my profession. How long before the Obama worshipers at Columbia’s j-school get the message? Ironically, the stars of this video started it by mocking the lack of creativity in imagined cover letters by tomorrow’s would-be journalists. Their reaction was to create a video that may well haunt them as they enter the job market. I know I’d think twice about hiring them. Filed under: Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.28.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:08 pm
A friend posted this ad to Facebook, and it put me in the mood for Nutella. My wife restocked at Costco today, so I had Nutella for supper: I had never heard of Nutella until friends from church who had spent a few years in Italy introduced it to me after Sunday lunch. It was dessert. I’ve been hooked ever since. But like all enlightened rednecks, I eat my Nutella with peanut butter. It’s the perfect blend of America and Europe — like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup on bread. Europeans like the stuffy dude in the ad don’t know what they’re missing. Filed under: Advertising and An Enlightened Redneck ... and Food and Media and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.26.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:26 pm
There’s no need to watch campaign ads on television. They’re all the same so just listen to Uncle Jay describing the predictable images:
He also has the skinny on issue ads. Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.26.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:41 pm
We don’t want some secretary on an abusive power trip to duct tape one of our children because he or she is misbehaving. And trust me, we have one child for whom that fate would be a distinct possibility if duct-taping were the norm. If the mother’s account of what happened after she heard of the incident is true, the most infuriating aspect of the story is that the school’s principal all but ignored the mother’s complaint. That is a frequent problem in public schools. Administrators are quick to defend their officials and employees for behavior that obviously crosses lines of decency. Parents are better off teaching their kids at home than fighting against the protect-our-own syndrome infecting American schools today. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: News & Politics and Parenting and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.26.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:23 pm
Two years ago, I rejected a great job offer from a major news magazine and instead took a job as the leader of a start-up video-sharing site run by a conservative nonprofit. The sorry financial shape of the news business was the biggest factor in my decision to opt for the “new” over the “old.” I had just endured a layoff and didn’t want to put my family through another one in the short term. I suffered another layoff after only 10 months anyway and have been second-guessing my decision ever since. But with every newsflash about the journalism industry, I am reminded that I should have chosen Door No. 3 — the job offer I rejected in technology industry public relations. The news about the news business, especially in the print world that still generates far more revenue than new media, just keeps getting worse. A case in point (via Instapundit):
Raising prices is the biggest mistake newspapers could make to try to stay alive in a world where everyone expects the news for free, but they don’t really have a choice:
What does it all mean for journalists like me? I have no idea. That’s why it’s so depressing. Filed under: Business and Family and Media Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.25.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:05 pm
And now for a glimpse into a future where the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress get their way and create a government-run health system:
The photo is of people waiting in line to be vaccinated against the swine flu. As Mark Tapscott wrote at Beltway Confidential, “The same government that only weeks ago promised abundant supplies of swine flu vaccine by mid-October will be running your health care system under Obamacare.” How desperate are some people to get the suddenly scarce vaccine? “I lied and told the doctors I was pregnant,” one woman in our area said in a classic case of situation ethics. “I’m religious. I don’t lie. But it’s not about me. It’s for my son. It’s safer for him if I have the antibodies.” Filed under: Government and News & Politics Comments: None |
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