Signs

More signs that the world keeps spinning off kilter:

1.  In Toronto, a couple refuses to reveal the gender of their 4 month old baby.  They feel that such info is "private" until such time as the child is old enough to declare their own gender preference. 
The baby, named "Storm" and referred to by the pronoun "it," did not return our calls.

2. Cognitive dissonance.  The recent rampage of killer storms in places like Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas has created terrible destruction, death and injury.  It is always galling when one of the survivors attributes their personal escape from death to "God's grace."   If God was involved at all, didn't he kill a lot of people and animals?  Where was the blessing in that?

3.  When the promised May 21st Rapture did not happen, Harold Camping the nutjob who predicted Armageddon, and who apparently had NOT sold off all his earthly assets, calmly revised the forecast to October 21.  Some people will still believe him, despite every evidence that his reading of the Bible's prophecies is seems flawed.

4.  Coors beer thinks that their customers are so dumb that they need a "cold activation indicator" on the cans and labels of their brew.  Clearly the problem of the ages was that beer guzzlers could not tell when the beer was cold enough to drink.  Perplexed beer hounds roamed the streets of Colorado like zombies chanting "Is my beer cold yet?"

The initial cold indicator has now been supplemented with a Super Cold activation level, which will only turn blue when the can has been in a refrigerator or ice chest.  Whew.  Glad they solved that one!

Pomp and Circumstance

I grew up in Watertown, MA and  I write a somewhat weekly column for the local Patch.com called Hometown Connections. 

One of the recent Patch news stories caught my attention: Watertown High School's graduation will be held On June 3,in the gymnasium this year because Victory Field is not available due to the renovation project.

The story  brought back memories of my own high school graduation at Victory field in 1960.

Folding chairs for the graduates were set-out on the football field, facing the temporary stage/podium. Parents and family members sat in the football stands. It was one of those warm June days. The sun was still high in the clear western sky. The air of excitement and anticipation was like an electric current running through the 360 graduates.......

Read more,  click here:   http://watertown.patch.com/articles/graduation-flashback




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Signs of Madness III

 One enterprising pagan appeals to gullible guilt-ridden Christians who can't take their pets with them when the next Rapture comes.  See the ad http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com/

More Signs of Madness

I happen to think Sarah Silverman is funny, but I must protest the judgement of FOX to invite her to the announcer's booth.  I was watching the game when Buck and the other guy forgot about the game and let her lamely complain that the Red Sox won too many games.  She preferred them when they were losers.  It was inane and inappropriate.  I found myself wishing Dennis Eckersley -who is awful - was there instead, talking about cheese.
If you missed it, click here:  "Sarah Silverman popped into the Fox booth to chat with Joe Buck during the 4th inning of Saturday night's Red Sox vs. Yankees game, and it quickly got weird"

Signs That The World Has Gone Mad

1. Judiciary Republicans kill bill blocking gun sales to suspected terrorists.  Check this out http://thehill.com/homenews/house/161037-judiciary-republicans-kill-bill-blocking-gun-sales-to-suspected-terrorists  - Reps. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (Wis.) and Louie Gohmert (Texas) — argued that restricting [handgun] sales to people on the FBI Terrorist watch list would violate the Second Amendment rights of those placed on the list by mistake.


2. Ashton Kutcher to replace Charley Sheen on 2.5 Men.  Why would anyone watch Ashton Kutcher?
Dude Where's my barfbag?

3.Mitt Romney hates Obamacare but still defends Romneycare.

4. Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump, Ron Paul.  Ha ha hah ah ha

5.  NATO support for rebels in Lybia.  WTF does NATO stand for?  (If you guessed "selectively helping some rebels overcome a regime we don't like" you are incorrect.)


Shall I go on?

Navy Seals We Salute You

Yes we salute the good guys who ended Osama's reign with a double tap.  Now he sleeps with the fishes.
One could only have wished that they could have vidotaped him in a suicide vest to see how he liked it when some one hit the button.

Word has it that there was a typo and I hope he is happy with 72 vegans.