This morning is Donuts and Dads day at DaughterGeeding’s school. It’s like they are trying to entice Homer Simpson to make an appearance.
My back still hurts but I’m slowly getting better. I go back to the chiropractor for the third time this week.
John C. Calhoun has to be the scariest looking Vice President of the United States of all time. He actually served as VP under two different presidents.
There have been eighteen Republican presidents since Abraham Lincoln first ran as a Republican to win the presidency in 1861. Even though the Democratic party has been around longer than the Republican party, there have only been thirteen Democrat presidents. Source As for VPs, there have been 20 Republican and 18 Democrat.
My latest Netflix addiction is ‘Firefly’ and I hope to wrap that up when the new ‘House of Cards’ season drops on Valentine’s day.
I’m surprised I haven’t heard one member of the football media compare Marshawn Lynch’s lack of involvement with the media with former Cowboy Duane Thomas’ five months of silence in 1971. Their actions aren’t exactly the same, but there are similarities.
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username – I thought this was a great read on how the author got screwed with identify theft and held hostage because of crappy employees and policies at PayPal and GoDaddy.
Ted Nugent and a Duck Dynasty star were guests at the last two State of the Unions, one was dressed in jeans and the other in a headband and untucked shirt. We’ll soon see a pop-star or rapper as a guest and I have a feeling the folks at Fox News and conservative talk radio will go bonkers.
I wonder in the future, because of security concerns, will the State of the Union just be a prime-time televised speech from the White House.
Was the AOL Keyword the precursor to the #hashtag?
The twins in The Shining of course are all grown up but I still think they look creepy.
German chocolate cake doesn’t come from the country Germany, but is named after American chocolate maker named Sam German. It’s also the worst cake ever to be invented.
I didn’t have a good answer when DaughterGeeding pointed out that hamburgers are not made out of ham.
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When Tom Cruise dies his last name should then end in a “d” so it would be Tom Cruised.
My favorite Simpsons is the Frank Grimes episode (the April Fools episode is either tied or a close second). In Hank Azaria’s Reddit Ask Me Anything he stated he did the voice of Frank Grimes only after William H. Macy couldn’t do the voice.
Can't wait for HoC to dropped in a few weeks! The first what's urged was actually a pushcart. The first restaurant was technically the second. I lived in Corpus Christi for a year growing up and during a first grade field trip, we took a tour of the city and learned its history, and then had lunch at the aforementioned Whataburger. You're totally correct on the SOTU "Guests"… I personally don't mind The Robertsons… Good folks that just are who they are. Nugent is an ass to the highest degree. If I'm a proud Tech grad, but I'd trade all former players playing in any Super Bowls for one single conference championship. Hamburgers originated in Hambourg (sp), Germany, if memory serves me; I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia. SOTU used to merely be the president addressing the congress at the start of a new year. It didn't really become the production it is until FDR. As for security, after 9/11, there's always been about 10 people locked up somewhere super secret in the event of an attack that were to kill everyone in the capital. Funny thing, Tom Clancy wrote a book in the 90's, I forget which one, where terrorists flew an airliner into the SOTU and for whatever reason, Jack Ryan was practically the only government employee not present so he becomes president. Some conspiracy theorists even maintain that the Bin Laden got the inspiration for the 9/11 attacks from that book.
SOTU: This out-lived its usefulness long ago. When congressmen began bringing celebrities as guests, the format should have been changed. In the past I watched the annual Correspondents Dinner every year. But now that it's become a red carpet event with "celebrity" news people bringing their Hollywood entertainer friends, it has become more of a TMZ affair with the POTUS as a headliner. In fact, the State of Union is now really pointless in that the president lays out a vision for the coming year while fully knowing that congress is incapable and unwilling to accomplish anything. A re-run of NCIS drew a larger audience.
John C. Calhoun was the original Beltway insider. In addition to being Vice President twice, he was Secretary of War, Secretary of State, a senator and a congressman.
Can't wait for HoC to dropped in a few weeks! The first what's urged was actually a pushcart. The first restaurant was technically the second. I lived in Corpus Christi for a year growing up and during a first grade field trip, we took a tour of the city and learned its history, and then had lunch at the aforementioned Whataburger. You're totally correct on the SOTU "Guests"… I personally don't mind The Robertsons… Good folks that just are who they are. Nugent is an ass to the highest degree. If I'm a proud Tech grad, but I'd trade all former players playing in any Super Bowls for one single conference championship. Hamburgers originated in Hambourg (sp), Germany, if memory serves me; I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia. SOTU used to merely be the president addressing the congress at the start of a new year. It didn't really become the production it is until FDR. As for security, after 9/11, there's always been about 10 people locked up somewhere super secret in the event of an attack that were to kill everyone in the capital. Funny thing, Tom Clancy wrote a book in the 90's, I forget which one, where terrorists flew an airliner into the SOTU and for whatever reason, Jack Ryan was practically the only government employee not present so he becomes president. Some conspiracy theorists even maintain that the Bin Laden got the inspiration for the 9/11 attacks from that book.
SOTU: This out-lived its usefulness long ago. When congressmen began bringing celebrities as guests, the format should have been changed. In the past I watched the annual Correspondents Dinner every year. But now that it's become a red carpet event with "celebrity" news people bringing their Hollywood entertainer friends, it has become more of a TMZ affair with the POTUS as a headliner. In fact, the State of Union is now really pointless in that the president lays out a vision for the coming year while fully knowing that congress is incapable and unwilling to accomplish anything. A re-run of NCIS drew a larger audience.
John C. Calhoun was the original Beltway insider. In addition to being Vice President twice, he was Secretary of War, Secretary of State, a senator and a congressman.
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