Bag of Randomness

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  • For a long time, I always wondered what those letters on the water fountain knob meant.  The letters don’t really look like they all come from our English alphabet, like there’s some Greek thrown in it or something, especially with that last letter looking like a D, and odd O, or a triangle.  I think one person even told me it stood for Every Body Can Drink.  So what’s the answer?  It’s the company’s name, EBCO, which later changed their name to OASIS in 1997.  But I can’t find what EBCO actually stood for.  The closest I could come to was European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, but don’t think that applies to a water fountain.
  • Daniel is a common name, but Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are not.
  • I’m expecting the health care debate to get pretty ugly as congress breaks, and I’m already seeing a lot of disinformation out there which is causing some ugly protests, at least here in Texas.  I think before letting our emotions get the best of us or even making a decision about where we stand, we first need to understand what is exactly is at hand.  I found this Time magazine article that is brief, encompassing, and informative.  Just click on ‘Understanding Health-Care Reform’ and go through the ten slides – it won’t take you long if you are interested in the subject matter.
  • There’s so much misinformation out there regarding health care proposals, that the White House has even set up a blog about it.
  • It’s interesting how politics are changing before our eyes.  In the past, political leaders use to ignore or play down all sorts of rumors or whatever you want to call them.  But now because of how fast things spread online, you are starting to see political leaders address this issues much sooner to put out any fires.  For instance, the whole birther movement has gotten out of hand.
  • But you know, it doesn’t matter what anyone says, people are going to believe, who and what they want to believe, no matter how overwhelming the evidence.  For instance, it’s obviously quite clear that Elivs and JFK are still alive and are roommates in Canada.  Vancouver I think.
  • My buddy Shawn that blogs to the east of me made this comment that has me thinking, and I’m thinking there’s a lot of truth behind it  –The wrong people are controlling the dialogue.
  • But I took out the exclamation points. 😉
  • Please know that I’m not trying to convince you to like the health care plan.  I just want you to have the right information, nothing distorted or taken out of context, so that you can be able to make a sound and rational decision on your own.
  • It’s my belief that all this misinformation about people losing their healthcare or Obama not being a natural born citizen, all created by the people who shouldn’t be controlling the dialogue, are causing unnecessary fear that is directly related to the number of death threats at the president.
  • The future needs a big kiss.
  • Nickelodeon is changing its logo – goodbye to the splat.
  • When President Reagan got his first hearing aid in 1983, the sale of hearing aids in the U.S. went up by 40%.
  • Those birthers scare me.  Like, really, really scare me.  And they had a two year election to address this issue.  But fear drives things.
  • Bill Clinton sure is something else.  Take that however you would like.
  • I wonder how ex-presidents refer to each other.  I know they use proper titles when in public, but behind closed doors, I wonder if they are on a first name basis.
  • I wonder what the formality is for a sitting president talking to an ex-president.  I bet the ex-presidents prefer to be called by their first name by the sitting president, when out of public view.
  • I bet the ex-presidents call the sitting president, Mr President.  And I bet a few sitting presidents have told an ex-president to call them by their first name, but the ex-presidents, out of respect, like to set a precedent by calling the sitting president, Mr President, even if the sitting president said it was OK to use the first name.
  • That was a long confusing sentence, I think.  And yes, I forced the word “precedent” in there just to jazz it up.
  • While reading 25 Things We Miss In Football, I had no idea that up to 1977 the Super Bowl champions use to play a college all-star team.  I wish there was old footage of that, or that it still happened today.
  • 10 Things We Don’t Miss About Football
  • It’s weird having Russian subs off our east coast.
  • For some reason I’m thinking about that Diff’rent Strokes episode where Kimberly used rain water to clean her hair, but the rain water ended up being acid rain, and she got green hair.
  • What do you know . . . YouTube actually has the clip (1:25 mark).
  • Dedicated to my friend Jonathan out in Lubbock.
  • The Edge describes why he likes using Twitter and why he only posts pictures.  I like just seeing the pictures, it creates an air of mystery.
  • Grace
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Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service

US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.

Most however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts. Although most threats are not credible, each one has to be investigated meticulously.

Full Telegraph.co.uk Article

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