Obama wins Nobel peace prize? Seriously?

Barack Obama wins the Nobel peace prize?  Even Saturday Night Live admitted Obama had accomplished not a whole lot so far as president.  Exactly what peace did he create, negotiate, contribute to or extend?

Basically Obama gets the Nobel prize for a player to be named later.

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Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery

You know you’ve created something good when someone else wants to steal it.

I was reading thetruthaboutcars.com, which is a good blog about the current state of the automotive industry (or what’s left of it), when I came across this:

That's my tshirt!!!

That's my tshirt!!!

I thought to myself, “Hey, the t-shirt in the photograph looks awfully familiar.”   Well that’s because IT’S MY BLOODY T-SHIRT!  It’s my design!  I created the darn thing and they can’t even give a link to my store, only to zazzle.com.  How about a little credit guys?    I gotta move my own merchandise it seems – this t-shirt and others can be found at the JHButcher zazzle.com store.
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The strings the thing, or not

Interesting science quote I heard today:;
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, on String Theory: “Dont hold your breath on that one. They’re not there yet – get over it.”

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Friends

Thanks to Crystal and Jeff for inviting me to dinner on Saturday night. I was orignally going to say no, I guess out of old habit, but fortunately I broke out of old habit and said to myself, “go, damn it!” I had the surf and turf. I’m very glad I went.

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Oh no! How can I live on $2,777 a month?

Why does the New York Times get on my nerves? Stories like this. This guy is bitching and moaning about having to get by on $2,777 a month (after taxes and alimony). It also mentions his base salary of $120,000. It’s shocking that somebody could be that freaking whiny. Don’t get me wrong, I feel sorry for the guy – a little bit. Why do people who graduated college think they’re entitled to Starbucks & beach houses?

Knowing that money is the ONLY thing that matters these days and considering that we never know what tomorrow will bring. this is my personal plan for dealing with the unknowns: no marriage, no kids, no house.

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A Specter Indeed

Why does this Arlen Specter switching parties thing sound familiar? Because he’s done it before, switching from Democrat to Republican in 1966. In short, his firmest allegiance is to the “I want to get re-elected” party.

Also, did you know that Arlen Specter is the guy who came up with the “single bullet theory” (a.k.a. the “bastard bullet”) for the Warren Commission?

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Crystal

Crystal is my friend but Crystal is crazy!

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I wanna work for AIG

OK – all the predictable outrage about AIG and this one hundred and fifty-plus million dollars going towards executive bonuses. Isn’t this the sort of thing we should have figured out…before we gave them the money?

If this isn’t evidence that TARP was just some hastily thrown together crap that nobody really understood, I don’t know what is.

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Muppets sing “Danny Boy”

And now for something completely different.

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We’re congress darn it!

House kills effort to investigate lobbyist-lawmaker ties.

“Asked why he voted with the majority to table the resolution, Murtha said, ‘no comment. ‘”

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