disappointing lack of comments

I am disappointed by the lack of comments on my post about how Senators allow people to title themselves on their website contact forms. So instead of the sterile, non-partisan reporting of that post, here I will make some potentially inflammatory statements based on the results of my research in an effort to generate some comments.

• Senators hoping to hear from radical Muslim clerics: Boxer (D-CA), Durbin (D-IL), Leahy (D-VT), Obama (D-IL)
• Senators hoping to hear from "married" gays: Boxer (D-CA), Leahy (D-VT)
• Senators stupid enough to include titles not held by anyone currently alive: Biden (D-DE), Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chambliss (R-GA)
• Senators expecting to hear from slave owners: Coleman (R-MN)
• The only Senators expecting to hear from monks: Cornyn (R-TX), Durbin (D-IL), Hutchison (R-TX), Pryor (D-AR)
  

a Democrat controlled future

Here's the conclusion of a Wall Street Journal article about what to expect if Obama and the other Leftists end up with total control after next week's national elections.

"In both 1933 and 1965, liberal majorities imposed vast expansions of government that have never been repealed, and the current financial panic may give today's left another pretext to return to those heydays of welfare-state liberalism. Americans voting for "change" should know they may get far more than they ever imagined."

Read the full article here.

I'll hold off until the actual results are in, but I have some ideas as to what anti-Leftists should do in the event of a Leftist take over.

Biden

We still have to hear about Quayle's spelling of potato. Will any of Biden's gaffes be replayed and recounted as incessantly?

why Katrina was such a disaster

This is pretty much what happened in New Orleans. You had a large swath of the population there that had become totally dependent on government for everything and had lost the ability to act independently even in the face of obvious action like walk the 5 miles it would take to get above sea level.

Two Democrats on an escalator.

financial analysts

Common story or headline:

XYZ company announces record high revenue or profits, but fails to meet analysts expectations, stock price plunges.

Wouldn't it be refreshing to read this instead:

Analysts again fail to correctly predict the record high revenue or profits announced today by XYZ company. Analysts discredited and fired, stock price holds steady or goes up.

short in-law visit

J's parents arrived at about 1:30pm Friday. They left by 10:00am Saturday. Her dad was getting calls from his work and decided that he had to go back to Michigan to deal with work. Rather disappointing for J and the kids. The kids are dealing with it though since J's parents gave them a Wii for their birthdays. Now I have Wii elbow.

political direction

Do you "support small business"? Are you in favor of local businesses versus "big corporations"? Do you want a government environment that benefits these small businesses?

Ever notice which candidates' signs are displayed on local, small businesses' properties?

Will your votes align with your professed support for small businesses?

psychology and politics of prefixes

While contacting "my" Senators regarding my opposition to the bailout bill I noticed some interesting things about how the Senators allow you to name yourself when filling in their contact forms. So I went and looked at all 100 Senator's contact pages (linked here) and cataloged all the prefixes/titles they provide on their contact pages.

• 75 have a pull down list or radio button selection to choose your prefix
• 20 offer a free response field
• 3 have no prefix field (Conrad D-ND, Sanders I-VT, Stabenow D-MI)
  
• 2 have no web form for contact at all (Dorgan D-ND, Lugar R-IN)
  

Link to Excel file or web page with the information.

I found a wide range of titles/prefixes offered by the 75 senators. Here are some things I found interesting:

• Akaka (D-HI), Alexander (R-TN), Biden (D-DE), Brown (D-OH), Coleman (R-MN), Whitehouse (D-RI) have their lists alphabetized
• Of those that did not alphabetize, 65 senators have Mr. as the first option
• 3 have Mrs. as their first option (Levin D-MI, Lieberman ID-CT, Wyden D-OR)
• One included the title "Master", Coleman (R-MN)
• Four included the title "Imam": Boxer (D-CA), Durbin (D-IL), Leahy (D-VT), Obama (D-IL)
• 26 included military titles in their lists
• Leahy (D-VT) and Boxer (D-CA) included "Mr. & Mr." and "Ms. & Ms." options
• Biden (D-DE) and Whitehouse (D-RI) used the same list that included "First Sergeant" 4 times
• Chambliss (R-GA) had the most options at 140, Cardin (D-MD) had the fewest with 3
• Biden (D-DE), Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chambliss (R-GA) went so far as to include titles such as Fleet Admiral and General of the Army which are only conferred by act of Congress during war time and singular titles like Segeant Major of the Army which only one person holds
• 43 instances of Sister were found but only 4 offered Brother as an option (monks get no respect!)
• Sequences and combination also varied: "Dr. and Mrs." occurs 40 times, but "Dr. and Mr." only 24 and "Mr. and Dr." just 4. "Dr. and Dr. or Drs." appeared 4 times also. "Dr. and Ms." was used only once. There are 12 Senators who discount the possibility of a woman doctor being married to a man who isn't a doctor: Bond (R-MO), Brownback (R-KS), Cantwell (D-WA), Hutchison (R-TX), Inouye (D-HI), Landrieu (D-LA), McCain (R-AZ), Menendez (D-NJ), Rockefeller (D-WV), Vitter (R-LA), Webb (D-VA), Wicker (R-MS)
• Cornyn (R-TX) wants to hear from all manner of Reverend: "Most Reverend", "Reverend", "Reverend Dr.", "Reverend Monsignor", "Right Reverend"

Take a look through the file yourself and see what catches your eye.

subrogation?

We received an envelope in the mail the other day from "company name here" Subrogation Services. Huh? What are subrogation services and why would I want them? I open the envelope to find a letter from this company regarding a recent health insurance claim for my older son's broken arm. It went something like this: Was this broken arm an accident? If so, did someone else cause the accident? If so, we can sue them! My son broke his arm while playing on a swing set at a friend's house. Accidents like that happen, and nobody should be sued over it.

One more thing, did you really send me a letter asking about treatment for a broken arm and ask me if it was an accident? Did you need to distinguish this claim from all the intentional broken arms for which we have been submitting claims?

homoerotic motorcycle

There are good reasons this motorcycle was parked well away from any of the others in my parking lot today.

seething hatred

As I played trivia at the Grand Prairie Old Chicago tonight, I had to suffer through listening to some tool next to me telling his friends how awesome he is. He went on and on in great detail about the dozens of places he was going to be visiting during his upcoming, year-long tour of Europe. He went on to boast to his friends about a chyck he "went to high school with" who is now a model in Los Angeles and how she called him out of the blue and he jetted off to meet her there. I wanted to kill him. I loathed every molecule of his existence. Where does an ass pirate like this douche bag get the time and money to galavant around Eurpoe for a year? I want him dead. I hate him, everyone like him and everyone who likes him. Die, die, die you vile wastes of oxygen!

quotes for Jaded

In response to Jaded's post, here are some quotes I have collected over the years:

...it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need one and not have it.
--Clarence, True Romance

if we need rope ladders to ascend a peak then we have climbed our ladders and not the mountain itself - Todd Skinner

what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence - Christopher Hitchens

to create a universe you must taste the forbidden fruit --The Sugarcubes--

I have more.

2nd blogger bash for me

Phrase I will remember from last night's event:

The difference between Big Al's and Elliot's is that at Big Al's you can see the boob job scars, at Elliott's you can see the gun shot wounds.

Fun, but late, night chatting with a variety of people that I would not encounter in my daily routines.