He better stick to level ground

I bet it's a real booger pedalling it uphill ~ The motorhome bike.

Mick Dundee would be impressed

"Call that a knife?"

Well, maybe not the puny switchblade that the New York City hood pulled on Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee II, but the Swiss have certainly answered the question with this edition of the venerable Swiss Army Knife.

My attitude also, Herman!

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! Go ahead and call the politically correct police, I do not care. As a lifelong Christian with many Jewish friends, I do care about religious faith and traditions. The faith and traditions practiced each December in the name of the Judeo-Christian God do not need to hide behind secularism and the threat of lawsuits.

Amen, brother, amen!

Herman Cain is dead-on target with this column.

And I don't miss it, either!

I certainly don't do the air travel thing like I used to. But, if I still did, this might prove a useful website - Airport Parking Lots, all 400 of 'em!

Like a mud fence

Personally, I think we're shouting Ugly here and I'm not talking about the G-Man, either.

Merry Christmas in small town USA

Yesterday at 12:15, Christmas Eve, a Sunday, I got a phone call from the counter lady at our local Post Office. We had a package and she thought it might be a Christmas present and did I want to come over and pick it up? Just knock on the door and she'd open up for me.

No, she's not a relative, neighbor, or anything like that. We're just boxholders like the other 1100 or so residents of the town. After living and working in the Dayton, Ohio area for 20 plus years, that sort of small town helpfulness and consideration just amazes me.

I don't miss the big city one bit.

50 years or so after Sputnik

Wow!

Sartorial Splendor? Maybe, maybe not

This one is not for weak stomachs.

House of whatever

Actually, Vern, at Step 8 some might feel that you qualify for a different category.

Harvesting the green

John Phipps of Chrisman, Ill., harvested nearly 170,000 bushels of corn and soybeans last year on two square miles of fertile soil. He grossed nearly $500,000, putting his farm in the nation's top 3 percent. Still, he received $120,000 in subsidies.

"It's embarrassing," Phipps said. "My government is basically saying I am incompetent and need help."

You're embarrassed, John? I'm PO'd and have been for a long time about payments to farmers like yourself who don't need a federal handout.*

It's not often I agree with the WaPo, but they're on target with this one about the obscenity known as farm subsidies.

*As a hard-right conservative I'm not really for any sort of subsidies. But, conversely, I just wonder if there might be some Mom & Pop operations that do need the occasional helping hand.

Sleep longer and live longer

That's an interesting premise. Another interesting one is that Americans weigh more nowadays as a result of the fact that we are sleeping less. Who knew? Anyway, here's the article.

The real true Grit

Growing up in the 50s, I definitely recall this newspaper. I don't think a Saturday went by when it wasn't delivered to the house.

Another obvious one that I missed

I sure didn't know this. A chainless bicycle that uses a driveshaft.

'Tis the season

Yep, the season for giving and also, for scamming!

There are bonafide charities, of course, but there are also a bunch of con artists out there. At least once a month our caller ID lets us know that the KY Pro Firefighters has called us.

Even if home, we don't bother answering it. The KY Pro Firefighters may indeed be an up and up organization, but I remember this ABC News piece and that turned me off to these little known charities.

Heck, I won't even drop my change in the "Help (insert name) get treatment for his/her (insert disease)" jar at the local service station.

Overlooking the obvious

Well, it should have been obvious, but I swear I didn't know that Google has it's own Official Google Blog.

TSOBJM

Not only from the left, but I see someone on the right has blogged about the latest from that weasel, John McCain

Or should it be I-D-I-O-T?

Can you spell M-O-R-O-N ?

I guess the snake didn't realize it was supposed to be just a pet.

The POS from Arizona

Wow, as if the Campaign Finance Bill isn't enough for me to despise the jerk, here's another reason, he wants to regulate blogs.

Caution - The link is a leftist, commie, pinko, treehugging website.

"No guns within 500 ft" - An invitation to the deranged

I spotted this story at Instapundit and it reminded me of a conversation I've had several times with gunowners and other upstanding, responsible types.

Which is that you never read about deranged idiots doing their gun rampage thing in a police station or a gun shop. There's a lesson there.

A free lunch from an unlikely source

I like freeware and use a number of such programs on my PCs. But, here's something I wasn't aware of. Freeware from the 400lb gorilla, the evil empire, the Big Kahuna itself... Microsoft.

Amazing.

No thanks, I'll pass

I don't care if his Democratic opponent is Ward Churchill or Jesse Jackson, I will NOT vote for this man.

There are alternatives such as this guy, even this guy will probably make a run at it (although I don't think much of his chances.

I don't care, I'm still passing on the asparagus

Your Mom always told you to eat your vegetables as they were good for you, right?

Well, Mom didn't lie. Here's proof.

DIY Google Maps

The site is in German, but if you have ever used Google Maps or Google Earth, you won't need any interpretation. Here you go, do-it-yourself Google Maps.

Okay, sometimes he's right

He was dead wrong on his McCain-Feingold bill. It is nothing but an assault on the 1st Amendment. But on Iraq, McCain is speaking the truth, we cannot run away from it.

Dammit, George, get in there and get it done!

Stop! Don't buy that extended warranty.

How about this consumer factoid?

This holiday season, shoppers are expected to spend a whopping $1.6 billion on extended warranties for laptops, flat-screen TVs, other electronics, and appliances.

I'll confess that I have fallen for it once or twice during my early consuming years. But, thank goodness, my frugal nature kicked in and I began to question the need for that type of warranty.

The folks at Consumer Reports validate my long-ago decision to tell pushy salespeople that it's, "Thank you, but no thank you!"

69 ways? Ha! How about 99?

99 Ways - Oh yeah!

#1 - Everyday!
#2 - I like doing this one, but Mrs GunTrash rarely does
#3 - Eh, I'm not really into it, but Mrs GunTrash? For hours on end, if she could
#4 - Yep, about 3 times a week
#5 - We combine it with #1!
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#17 - Heh, even I have some limits. No way would I ever do number 17!

How about you and your spouse?? How many of these 99 Ways do you do?

Not slacking, just bizzy, but here's a "quickie"

Microsoft's vision of bringing clarity and change to your life. Check out that screen.

Look familiar? Yeah, the infamous Windows BSoD.