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Do You Ever Wonder….

Posted on November 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Why chickens aren’t endangered or extinct?

I mean, we EAT ’em for gawd’s sake!

The reason why chickens aren’t extinct and buffalo or nearly extinct is that people own chickens.

Weird.

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I’m Thankful For:

Posted on November 25, 2010 | Leave a comment

As we finish the Thanksgiving day feast and begin to clean up, I’m reminded of how thankful I am for the —

Dishwasher.

Yes, that humble machine that makes light work of all our struggles.

But I wonder, how many of our neighbors are so lucky as to have one of these wonder machines?

In 1984, just 13.6% of the poor had a dishwasher.  Today?  Nearly 300% more have ’em.  And much more:

% Households with: Poor 1984 Poor  1994 Poor
2003		 Poor
2005		 All 1971 All 2005
Washing machine 58.2 71.7 67.0 68.7 71.3 84.0
Clothes dryer 35.6 50.2 58.5 61.2 44.5 81.2
Dishwasher 13.6 19.6 33.9 36.7 18.8 64.0
Refrigerator 95.8 97.9 98.2 98.5 83.3 99.3
Freezer 29.2 28.6 25.4 25.1 32.2 36.6
Stove 95.2 97.7 97.1 97.0 87.0 98.8
Microwave 12.5 60.0 88.7 91.2 1.0 96.4
Color TV 70.3 92.5 96.8 97.4 43.3 98.9
VCR 3.4 59.7 75.4 83.6 0.0 92.2
Personal computer 2.9 7.4 36.0 42.4 0.0 67.1
Telephone 71.0 76.7 87.3 79.8 93.0 90.6
Air conditioner 42.5 49.6 77.7 78.8 31.8 85.7
Cellular Telephone 34.7 48.3 0.0 71.3
One or more cars 64.1 71.8 72.8 (2001) 79.5

Clearly life has gotten better.  Not just for me over the past few years, but for all American’s over the last 30.

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Those Damn Robber Barons!

Posted on November 24, 2010 | Leave a comment

The latest word on the streets is that “Big Business” had it’s best week ever.

American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday. That is the highest figure recorded since the government began keeping track over 60 years ago, at least in nominal or noninflation-adjusted terms.

And the Left is pissed.  Very pissed.

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A New Goal

Posted on November 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

I missed this one:

Posted: November 6
Updated: 9:31 a.m. November 7

City of Oaks marathon shuts down Raleigh roads

I hope to run this one:

Tobacco Road Marathon and Half Marathon

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Luck and Skill

Posted on October 19, 2010 | 2 comments

Like just about everything else, football is a game that combines intuition, skill and luck.  There are a lot of things that are repeatable and therefore predictable.  Equally, there are a lot of things that are just dumb luck.

Things that are predictable?

Offensive Passing Efficiency.

Things that are Dumb Luck?

Defensive Interceptions.

And one other very important thing that is often just dumb luck.

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7000

Posted on September 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

the previous 3 months it’s taken an average of just shy of 2 months to get a 1000 hits.  Today marks a new best:

19 days.

Again, trivial nonsense, but not bad for a little kid from a small farm town.

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Senate Race 2010: X

Posted on September 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

Labor day-Gone.

Full on campaign season-Here.

And this is what the folks who are bettin’ are sayin’:

The money says that there is a better than 50% chance the Republicans will have 49 seats after this fall’s election.

In less than 2 years since “Yes We Can”, Obama has found himself with “Change it Back”.

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2 Days 3 Milestones

Posted on September 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, Wednesday, I set a record for most hits in a day.

Then I broke it Thursday.

And on Thursday, I had more than 100 hits in a day.

Awesome stuff.

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Latest Oil Spill: The Good News

Posted on September 3, 2010 | Leave a comment

A sense of doom hit me in the pit of my stomach when I heard the news:

The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig explosion and fire “and people in the water” in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermilion Bay, authorities said.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay and that a helicopter earlier today reported that it was in fire “and that there was smoke and there were people in the water.”

A very tangible sense of “here we go again” washed over me.

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6000 Today

Posted on August 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

I skipped 5000 because I went from 48 days between 1000 hits all the way down to 65.

Today, we are back to 48 days between 1000.

Kinda trivial nonsense, but it makes me feel good.

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