Current Brain Pellets

Silly Season

• Appeasement isn't defined by talking to "bad people" with or without pre-conditions. Appeasement is standing by while "bad people" do "bad things" while hoping they do better. In my opinion, appeasement is how the U.S. deals with China.
• Barry, Michelle is fair game as long as she delivers speeches and goes on the  attack. So stop the whining.
• Cindy McCain is a public person. She needs to release her tax records.
• Anyone counting McCain's flip-flops yet?

Technology

• When I get HD channels over the air, I noticed rain, strong winds, and ice storms affect the HD reception. So this article was no surprise.
  

  What new digital audiences have to fear is the "digital cliff," or the all-or-nothing quality of digital reception. The picture is excellent until the signal weakens or is interrupted, causing the picture to disappear, and it is more sensitive to interference from hills, trees, buildings and bad weather than traditional analog reception. An analog picture degrades gradually, getting more static and snow as signals weaken.

• My Toshiba laptop died after 2 1/2 years of service. Never. Again.

Economics

• My "economic stimulus" check was invested.
• I normally don't play the "what would have happened if" game, but what would have happened if the Fed decided to not flood the market with money? I bet gas prices wouldn't be so dang high. One of the reasons for the high cost of gas is the devalued dollar.

Misc

• Can anyone tell me why a contractor would spend the time, and gas, to come out to your house, inspect what you want to do, give you an estimate, agree to a contract and time frame, and then NOT come out to do the work?

Comments

[LLR]

Barry, Michelle is fair game as long as she delivers speeches and goes on the attack. So stop the whining.
Yep. But it’s too late for her to become a “background wife” that just does intros and not get criticized. Like it or not she has become a part of the campaign in a major way.

I normally don't play the "what would have happened if" game, but what would have happened if the Fed decided to not flood the market with money? I bet gas prices wouldn't be so dang high. One of the reasons for the high cost of gas is the devalued dollar.
Yep but that’s not mentioned a whole lot because it’s just easier to talk about how high gas prices are and complain. The sad part is that the feds are probably going to just print more money as time passes and there isn’t a lot that we can do about it.

[Roderick]

Does everyone know that this stimulus is an advance on next year's tax refund?

Damn them...to hell.

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[Lee Coles]

The contractor must be up to his/her ears in work (or disinterested).