Your Tax Dollars At Work

This morning, while driving to work, noticed the traffic info sign that normally has drive times had writing. I suspected another AMBER alert, and felt sad. Then I realized it was advising that the county was in a WATER SHORTAGE EMERGENCY!

Seems they are working on the water plant and want everyone to conserve water. I guess people did not listen and now there is a crisis!! Can you imagine.

Personally, I think the county water board just does not know how things are done. Can you imagine what would happen if this were a private business? Can you say bankrupt and out of business. But wait, our county has already been there....

Geez.

Havana Daydreamin'

Okay, so how to put a positive spin on a story about Cuba? Leave it to Reuters. Here is the opening paragraph of their story:
"Almost half a century of communist rule has saved Havana's eclectic architecture from the urban developer's bulldozer..."

That is it - DOH - communism saved the day. Jeez. Well at least the headline writer told it like it is. And truthfully, the story does go on to say that the country is about to fall apart. But the photo captions and the opening paragraph do their best to convey a positive light on the country.

Granted, we should not be boycotting them - we deal with communist countries all the time. But it is not our fault the country is what it is. They can trade with the whole world so don't blame us for their troubles. We do not blockade them. Hey, just ask Canada.

Home sure ain't what it used to be.

That Girl on the Right notes something posted at LGF that is very depressing about Montreal. Not the reason I left of course. And although I did leave, that does not mean I don't like the city. If fact I recommend it to anyone as a great vacation destination, especially in the summer with all the festivals.

It may be the REAL THING.

Oddly enough, I am a Coca Cola drinker, although these days it is more Diet Coke. Wish they would drop the corn syrup and return to sugar. But I digress.

Nice thing Coke is doing here Power Line: Coke is it! . Sure, it is a benefit to them. But that does not make it bad. Be sure to refresh your memory of the Pepsi story by following the links.

Now I don't not drink Pepsi cause of this, I just like Diet C better. Nor would I boycott if I did drink Pepsi. Just nice to read of a big multi-national doing something right for a change, don't ya think?

Power Line: Was Kissinger right?

From Power Line: Was Kissinger right?

This is what many are afraid of happening in Iraq, should we pull out now. Listen, I am not about to argue whether we should be there or not. Smarter people than I are taking the lead on that argument.

But we are there, just like we were in Vietnam. We need a plan B. This explains what happens when we follow plan A.

And you hate to see this "...I have only committed this mistake of believing in you [the Americans]."

I Got Blisters On My Fingers

Had this conversation with a colleague regarding ‘script’ writing – to be more exact, the reading of same. He observed that people now have a difficult time when they must read someone’s handwriting.

Not only has beautiful penmanship become a lost art, but apparently so has the art of reading handwriting become a lost art. And he was correct, I think. Today, people are more used to reading something typewritten (Ed: can we call it typewritten when it comes from a printer?) thanks to the proliferation of computers.

When was the last time you hand-wrote a letter, or even a note, to someone. And don’t count your signature at the bottom of a Birthday/Christmas/Holiday card….

For me, I recently hand wrote thank you cards to friends and family. It was somewhat painful to write slowly and clearly (hands are sore from too much computer work), took quite some time, and wasted one card and two sheets of fine note paper. Had I simply typed up a generic note and emailed it to all of them, I would have been done in less than 5 minutes. And it would have meant even less, I think.
Ahh, to the lost art of letter writing and script writing in general. I must be getting old.