That vermin you call a spouse...

Somehow, I don't think this guy is married...

 

Sally Kern

Sally Kern is a disgrace not only to the state of Oklahoma, but to the entire human race.  If you voted for her, you should feel ashamed.  Seriously, just stay home next time.


Source: http://www.acluok.org/NewsEvents/Rep.Kern.htm  

It's Not a Dry Heat

60% humidity and nearly 100 °F. Gotta love the Oklahoma summers. Even though Tucson was much hotter, I'd take 100 degrees there over 80 degrees here. The humidity makes it nearly unbearable. Looks like I will have to crank up the air conditioning for the next couple months. It's gonna be a hot one. Can't wait to see the electric bill...

 

My Magic Minivan

I drive a 98 Ford Windstar minivan.  I've had it for about a year and a half and it's got over 173k miles.  Tuesday, it decided to spill coolant from one of the steel return lines.  It was basically a small pinhole leak, and it looked like when you drop a soda can and it starts to spray out its contents.  Unfortunately, it happened on my lunchbreak.  I started hearing a squeal, and when I pulled over to check it out, I could smell the coolant.  Oh crap, I thought.  It had gotten on the serpentine belt and was causing a squeal, but it hadn't lost enough coolant to cause the engine to get hot.  I called my wife, who works nearby and was going to lunch soon and arranged for her to meet me so I could get back to work and I'd try to repair the van later.

Considering I got the van for next to nothing, I've managed to put more miles on it than I expected.   It still sucks when you don't have a vehicle.  Rather than trying to replace the pipe, I picked up some quicksteel metal epoxy and attempted to patch it up.  It seems to have held, as I have driven it the past couple days with no leaks.  I must say, that stuff is magic in a tube.  It's like silly putty but can withstand 500 degrees and hardens like metal.  You can also apply the stuff underwater, if you ever need to.  Still, the van is getting old, so we're starting to look at cars again.  After the dealings with getting my wife a new car back in April, I'm really not looking forward to it.  

Been Tagged? You've Been Hosed...

Apparently, there's a new email phishing scam going around.  You may soon get an email that looks like this:

[Name redacted] has added you as a friend
Is [Name] your friend?
Click Yes if [Name] is your friend, otherwise click No.
But you have to click!
Please respond or [Name] may think you said no :(

Tagged.com claims that you're being contacted by someone you know.  In reality, it means that your friend's email address has become compromised and if you click the link, you're on the way to being a victim, too.  The site is tagged.com.  Avoid it.

Source:  http://consumerist.com/5283453/taggedcom-will-spam-your-friends-and-family

 

Oklahoma Has The Patent On Dumbass

This is from my coworker's blog. Check it out here. He has a Dear Prudence spoof that is a riot. I cannot argue with it in the least. This guy makes this entire state look bad every time he opens his mouth. How does he get so much airtime on C•Span?

Subject: Oklahoma has the patent on dumbass.
My cheeky Okie monkeys,
After watching C-Span’s coverage of President Obama’s speech in Cairo, and downloading the complete text from the New York Times, I am convinced that it is one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard, right up there with his speech on race in Philadelphia in 2008.
I mean, an American President offering a cogent, articulate, and intelligent analysis of the situation in the Middle East, the conflicts among governments and religions, and the need to find common ground rather than seeking differences is music to God’s own ears.
AND unlike Bush/Cheney, He gave this speech in Cairo, Egypt, in the heart of the Muslim world rather than some U.S. Army Base or Aircraft Carrier. If this keeps up, I am going to elevate Barack Obama from American President status to Global Statesman and world changers the likes of which are Mohandis Gandhi, Nelson Mandella and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Politicians are a dime a dozen, Statesman on the other hand are an endangered species.
In this one speech, he spoke to, let’s see, about a billion Muslims, a billion and a half Christians, and millions of Jews the world over; offering peace, reconciliation and a way forward, rather than the same old backward hate-filled, us against them, bullying, war threatening rhetoric the world is so used to hearing from America.
Barack Obama continues to be a redemptive and healing antidote to Bush/Cheney and their miserable reign of fear and stupidity. Being American is almost cool again…maybe we will be able to travel abroad again without someone tucking an IED in our hotel beds or throwing shoes at our leaders.
Alas, should I become too giddy and excited with the USS America making a U turn to avoid foundering of the shoals of shit-for-brains; Congressman shit-for-brains is staring at me from a newspaper vending machine as I walk into Perkins Restaurant.
Yup, that’s right. Right there on the front page of “The Oklahoman” is Congressman Jim Inhofe (again!!) criticizing Barack Obama’s speech as being “Un-American” for correctly referring to the war in Iraq as a “war of choice.” Inhofe continues his festival of stupidity by wondering “which side Obama is on” for closing Guantanamo because “there is not one documented case of torture in Guantanamo.”
“Un-American??” “Which side is Obama on??” “Not one documented case of torture in Guantanamo????????????”
O’Reilly, Hannity, Rove, Limbaugh, Cheney, Gingerich…yeah, all these dumbasses piss me off with their bullshit criticisms of Obama; but when it comes to having a Ph.D. Emeritus in dumbassness, a veritable patent on dumbass, who do they call on?
You guessed it, the good old Republican Senator from Oklahoma- Jim Inhofe, the biggest
dumbest assest of them all…the guy who thinks Global Warming is a hoax, that God created Adam and Eve 6,000 years ago, giving them an M-16 and telling them to subdue and conquer the planet for Jesus Christ and Exxon.
Even though this Okie Neanderthal doesn’t believe in evolution, he is a walking, talking testimony that in some distant past, mankind was un-evolved stupid grunting beasts who clubbed everything that didn’t eat them. Inhofe reminds us of what we came from several million years ago…small-brained, violent, feces-tossing monkeys.
Yet, Inhofe gets elected over and over again….umm…this doesn’t recommend Oklahoma very much.
One can only hope that Oklahoma will move forward and evolve into beings that have a human- sized brain, stand up and walk on two legs, and think.
Stand up and think!!
Steve