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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Biggest Storm EVER

Posted on 7:28 AM by Unknown
According to NOAA the storm we just went through was the largest non-tropical storm ever to hit the US in recorded history.

Of course you are saying WHAT? the thing is that there was only rain with it so instead of 15 inches of snow and 70mph winds for 2 days, it was just wind.

This storm was also the largest storm to hit the Great Lakes (which seems logical, I don't know why they distinguish between the two records) surpassing . . .

The Cleveland Superbomb - 1/26/1978
The Armistice Day Storm - 11/11/1940 (I've blogged about that)
The Anniversary Storm - 11/10/1998
The White Hurricane - 11/7-9/1913
The Witch of November - 11/10/75 - The Edmund Fitzgerald Storm

Now we need a name for THIS storm - how about The Big Blowhard.
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My laptop is having problems.  The CD drive no longer seems to exist!  DAMN YOU!!  I don't know if it is software or hardware but it'll probably cost me $200 to find out!  I could buy a nice desktop computer for only $300 more!!!   (plus $90 for Photoshop CS3).

grrrrrrrrrr
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Yesterday was American Beer Day not to be kornfused with National Beer Day or International Beer Day.  Yesterday in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the Cullen-Harrison Act, the first step toward the December 5 repeal of Prohibition.
 
The act allowed for beers under 3.2 percent alcohol to be sold in the United States. Plenty of people felt a weak beer was better than no beer at all, so they lined up at breweries nationwide to buy beer legally for the first time in 13 years.

Beer is proof God loves us, and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin

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 You guys notice that Sherwood Motors is now open on Saturdays?  I went to Frank Porth Chevy to have a trailer hitch put on my car . . . . . they said they could not do it as no hitches were available for a Subaru Outback . . . . .what???    Well - Sherwood Motors said they can do it for $520ish   $275 for the Trailer hitch, $102 for the special wiring needed and about $120 for installation. (so much for a desktop computer . . . . or actually FIXING my lap top).

But - I no longer want to Beverly Hillbilly it to Art Fairs, loading two cars to the brim  - rather rent a small U-haul for $15 a day.
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See that North Carolina legislator that apologized for a campaign flier?     The flier had "Covering Our Solders Backs" which seems like a good thing, except pictured are the backs of four WWII GERMAIN solders!

oops!   I guess they all look the same?
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Sort of like Ron Johnson who when asked how he would help create jobs said "I'm not going to get into that game".  What??   I guess that is why the republican Green Bay Press Gazettes is backing Russ Fiengold.

In an interview last week.

Asked to explain his jobs plan, Johnson banged away at the GOP mantra: cutting spending, regulation, etc. That didn't satisfy the editors.

"There's no real jobs plan?" one interviewer asked.

"I would say bring fiscal discipline to the federal government," Johnson replied. "We've got to curb spending."
That didn't satisfy his interviewers.


"So your jobs plan is to control spending. But what about the middle class?" the editor responded. "I mean, I hear you talking a lot about business, businesses. But I mean, what is your plan for the middle class?"

"We have to get the economy moving," Johnson said, frozen.

"Isn't that pretty simple though what you're saying is just, you know, elect me, to go there and cut spending and everything will take care of itself."

OH MAN!!!
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