The Junk Drawer » We Were Almost a Nielsen Family
My husband Dave and I received a thick, official-looking envelope from the Nielsen Ratings Company last weekend. The Nielsen ratings system measures television viewership in the United States. The information they gather establishes commercial advertising prices and determines which shows stay or go in the program lineup.

This is how to handle persistent sales people.

I suppose it’s more politically correct than a 45 and “you’ve got 30 seconds to get off my property.” –But it’s not nearly as much fun.

London man uses air miles for space trip - UPI.com
The trip cost 2 million frequent flier miles, compared to the 90,000 miles required for a first-class flight from London to New York.
2 million air miles, I wonder if he can remember where he lives?

In reference to the FCC hearings:
Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.

Here’s the explanation from a Comcast spokesperson:
The company didn’t intend to block anyone from attending the hearing. “Comcast informed our local employees about the hearing and invited them to attend,” she said. “Some employees did attend, along with many members of the general public.”

Translation: “Yeah we paid our employees to be there and only a few of them showed, so we hired a bunch of strangers off the street to make sure enough seats were taken so that the people who filed against us wouldn’t be able to get inside. –What’s it to you?”

A number of people in the audience wore yellow highlighter marking pens on their shirts or jackets; Free Press campaign director Timothy Karr said that was to identify them to Comcast employees coordinating the company’s appearance at the event. Khoury acknowledged that Comcast coordinated the employees that it brought to the hearing.
—-Maybe the yellow highlighters were the only way to tell their employees from street people.

This video giving their opinion of the event is from savetheinternet.com.

For the article from the CONDÉ NAST PORTFOLIO: Click here.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saudi men arrested for flirting
Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.

The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported.

They try and suppress a biological imperative. Then they wonder why the behavior of these young men is so bad when they hit the US and Europe.
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Why don’t Baptists have sex standing up?….. It could lead to dancing.

This is from English Russia.
Twenty eight years ago Russian army has entered Afghanistan. They stayed there for 9 years and more than 15,000 Russian soldiers were lost dead, much more were wounded or had psychological problems in their civil life later. The troops that were fighting against Russian army at that times were actively supported by Pakistan and Western World as an opposing effort of the Free World against the Evil Empire - USSR.
One of the most notable leaders supporting the rebels against the “Russian oppression” in Afghanistan was a Western supported Osama Bin-Laden. A few years later, when there were nobody to fight against in Afghanistan he found new victims for his fight. Now in the Free Western World that supported him before, with all the tactical skills his people were studied by Western instructors. In Russia there is a proverb, something like “Don’t dig a hole for someone else, as you will fall into it yourself”, some Russian soldiers found that it was true in this occasion, after learning that those guy they fought for years, took over the Afghanistan after they left and started to fight now against his supporters.

All young soldiers look remarkably alike.

Russia was defeated primarily by western trained and armed Taliban. It took them 9 years to give up and go home.
Now the people we trained have combat experience, and a certain expertise in weapons and tactics, and they are our enemies.
Why can’t we just go home and let whoever wants it, run that mess?

Afghan soldiers train with wooden rifles.




Don’t you just love their slings.

–And you thought we had a funding problem.

Just a little bit of info from Las Vegas, Nevada by Steve Miller writing for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com:

Rick and Lisa Rizzolo found a brilliant way to hide their personal wealth and inspire the court to substitute the Crazy Horse building and property as a means of generating the $28 million. They hired the brother of a Federal Court Judge to provide them “asset protection,” and evidently steer all other Federal Judges away from going after the assets he so cleverly hid.

The lawyer with the firm Lionel Sawyer and Collins illegally transferred the Rizzolo’s assets into shell trusts and LLC’s. After that, no federal official or fellow judge felt comfortable going after the Rizzolo’s personal property in fear of offending the judge whose brother arranged the asset transfer — the same judge who also neglected to disclose that his brother was Rizzolo’s lawyer during trials in his court of several Rizzolo co-conspirators.

This is from the NYT:
For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood sugar actually increased their risk of death, researchers reported Wednesday.

The medical community still says that “Lowered blood sugar can protect against kidney disease, blindness and amputations.”
They were wrong on the first part, so how do we know if they are right in this part.

By their own admission and by the results of a test they sponsored, medical experts haven’t got a clue and they’ve evidently been killing people for years.

I’m not a doctor but if your meds make you feel better and keep you from diabetic coma take them, otherwise I think improved circulation, less weight, and avoiding certain foods will work just as well as anything.
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Also from the NYT:
In a victory for fans of one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations, San Francisco voters soundly rejected a ballot proposal on Tuesday to acquire Alcatraz Island and convert it into “a global peace center,” though advocates of the plan say their dream is not dead.

Why do these self-serving idiots always want to save the world by destroying a national, not to mention money making, monument?
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I just received these, last two bits by email.
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Link to Hema site. Click on the link. It’s in Dutch, and it does require flash, but don’t worry about it. Just watch the pictures.
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Go to Google and type in the phrase “find chuck norris.” Then click I’m feeling lucky.

For a long time I’ve made fun of ole “Walnuts” McCain, but as I look around at the various candidates I think I’m going to vote for him.

I was going to vote for Ron Paul, not because I think he has a chance, but because none-of-the-above doesn’t count.

I watch the back room BS that you get from most candidates. I listen to the rhetoric change from state to state, and I have decided that while I disagree with a lot that John McCain has to say, at least with him you seem to get an honest answer.

I wouldn’t trust another Clinton.
Billary sold us out to the Chinese often enough to make me wonder who’s side they were on.
She worked for, and defends Walmart, an anti-American, Chinese based company. —And now won’t let anyone see her papers from the Clinton presidency. —-Doesn’t that make you wonder?
We currently have an administration that’s owned outright by big business and won’t tell us anything about the decision process. Why the hell would we want another one of those?

Bill “I don’t consider a blow job to be sex” Clinton paid his political debts by taking the black hats away from the Rangers and giving them to all the troops, and then making sure his Chinese contributors got the contract to make them.
–Anybody who doesn’t think Generals are politicians didn’t look closely at that blatant payback.

I’m not certain what’s up with Obama, aside from that association with a known sleaze bag.
There’s just a bad feeling I get when he talks. If I could point to something specific I could deal with it. To me, he’s just too slick. Too manufactured, Too “Stepford Wife”.
He’s just too well rehearsed so I can’t tell where he really stands.

I know this is what it takes to be a successful politician. But, I like someone who says just what they think, not what their campaign manager says they need to say to get the support of a particular voting block.
At least with someone like John McCain you know where he stands and you can have a proper debate.

With most politicians there is no such thing as a firm stand or a flat statement.

Remember when there were “no new taxes.” They were “revenue enhancements.”
Taking the symbol of an elite groups and giving black berets to everybody was for the sake of morale, not for political payback.
There’s no “global warming.” There’s “climate change.”
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.

God I get tired of those people we elect trying to prove we’re stupid.
Wait a minute.. Bush got reelected. –Ok, they’re right.