The Best Washers You Can Buy

I don’t understand the angst. If the parts were ordered and shipped within the agreements made, then it does not matter what the company collected. Too bad if you don’t like it. There are many many US companies who are doing their best to supply screws to our country, so just get over it.
Now if the companies were Chinese (or better yet French), whoo boy….

Adam, you inspire me. From now on, all the books I ship (and Dee, yours are on the way!), are FREE! Shipping is only $1000.00 per title! Is that a great deal, or what.

I guess you’ve heard of the Wikipedia computer program that can trace the internet address of anyone who writes an entry. Fox News got busted for padding Bill O’Reilly’s bio and for monkeying with, among others, Keith Olbermann’s entry. Well, aside form this devious behavior, a lot of good work is being done at Wikipedia. For instance, it was discovered recently that the BBC hacked into President Bush’s entry and changed his middle name from “Walker” to “Wanker”. Who says the Brits are stodgy anal compulsives, I mean besides W.

Dan, I got the books and I’m so glad I ordered before you instituted your new shipping policy. And before we condemn these companies, let’s remember that those padded shippers aren’t exactly free, not to mention the drive to the Post Office (with gas around $3.00 gallon) and the time spent standing in line that should count for something.

At least those are the reasons I see on Ebay.

Okay, Tom Toles is on vacation until August 27th, so Heather and I are going to head up to Beaupre, Quebec and the Sainte-Anne de Beaupre Cathedral. I’m always astounded at the cheap and tawdry display of religious kitsch and the shameless shucking of money from the true believing pilgrims that come from all corners of the globe to visit this shrine. Heather and I like to bet on which of the cripples will enter the cathedral, kneel (if possible) to pray, and then rise up, casting away the crutches, and walk out unassisted - healed and happy. I always win so much money off of Heather on these outings; she’s a real sap for superstition and cult psychology. The priests make sure the crutches, leg braces, white canes, and iron lungs are piled up by the exit doors. This is an absolute gold mine for the Catholic Church and they milk it for all it’s worth. But there’s lots of history in the area and a ski resort for your winter time pleasure, so we keep going up there a regular basis. And, if you speak a bit of French, the waiters may not actually spit into you cocovin. Sage le jour! - that’s French Canadian. I’d better check that to be sure. I think I’m right about that, but maybe the waiters have been hawking into our entrees all along.

So, Adam’s in the other room, right? So, I can blog-whore here a little?

We’d like to announce Jackson Street Books’ blogspot!
http://www.jacksonstreetbooks.blogspot.com/

I still have to fix things and get more links, pictures, etc. But stop on by sometime!

Just to be clear, I do not wish Jenna and her fiance any personal ill, and if she does have a bun in the oven, now or later, only the best for them. Her father is a different story, given the homicidal havoc he has wreaked.

I’m much more interested in what you bring back from Buenos Aires, Danny Boy.

Dale, I kept dialin’ da cell numbah ya gave me and I kept gettin’ Rudy’s Crossdressin’ Bootik. I guess I ‘rote it down wrong or maybe you’re sum kinda comedian. Eat’er way, sorry I coodn’t get up wit’ ya dis time. Maybe next trip, OK? Hey, dat game sucked canal watah, din’ it? Oh, and you know dat home run by Bobby Abreu dat hit the foul pole? Well, I wasn’t de fust guy dere, but I wound up wit’ da ball, if ya know w’at I mean. Got it autographed, too - fa free! Ya know, New York City dudn’t suck as bad as it used ta.

Heh, heh!

Murray, my older sister’s boyfriend at the time (late 50s) was a launch pad engineer at the Cape. He had first-hand knowledge of Martin Marietta overcharging the government $100,000 and reported same to the proper authority. You can guess what happened to him. He did finally find work at the Litton shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. At least as a federal employee your wife has some protection. Hence the push to privatize, where conscientous people can simply be fired.

Only the rich matter to this administration. The rest of us are just externalities, important only for paying taxes, picking up the garbage, etc., and being P.T. Barnumed on election day. As Bush said of the rich, the haves and have mores, they are his actual base. To this group of Kapitalist Kremlinites, the true believer right wing Republicans are exactly what Rove calls them. Ah, Karl, and his dreams of a one party anti-social soviet-style state.

Nah, but thanks for asking. It’s just that those Kapitalist Kremlinite bastards give capitalism a really bad name, rather like what the Christianistas do to the Christianity Jefferson thought could be freed from that batch of bastards.

Wonder what the chemical formula for Kremlinite is.

I knew sniffling salt water is an effective home remedy for sinus congestion, but I was unaware of the role of methane.

Again…