— George

On mine, an hour does it. Yours might take two; but it has saved me a bunch because the slow, stop-and-start city driving in this humidity kills a catalytic converter in two years.

— George

As to marriage, I subscribe to the Libertarian view that it’s none of the Federal Government’s business and that it’s a state’s right to decide.

The Feds need to stay the fuck out of our lives, except where the Constitution specifically allows it to interfere.

“The ‘rule of three’ is a principle in writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things.”

Congress doesn’t know how to do things in onesies, let alone threesies but that’s a story for another day.

And the Defense of Marriage Act doesn’t.

Back to work.

Mrs George recently retired, and was begged by at least four otherwise prideful upper and middle-management adults to “please come back as an hourly contract worker and help us out of this quagmire we have bogged ourselves in (or words to that effect)”. She dutifully agreed to do so; and this morning she logged onto the *contract worker* website to obtain an electronic job application — because they do not use hardcopy job applications anymore.

So, guess what? Okay, I’ll tell you what. She discovered that there was no click link to anything that would direct an aspiring applicant to obtain a job application. So, she called them and got a nice young voice who had absolutely no clue how to direct her to a link for *job application*.

She was told that someone would have to call her back.

An hour later she got a call from a woman who said she would mail her an application, and “it should be there by next Tuesday.”

That kind of crap makes me thor, er…sore.

— George

Thank you.

— George

My dog always wags his tail when I do it to him. And then he goes and rolls in sh*t.

– George

I thought Rush had flubbed it; as it would be a giantific embarrassment to misjudge the time by an entire day; but not so. Instead, Rush had purposely decided to hold “Open Line Friday” on Thursday because he planned to be gone the next day — and would have a substitute host; and he wanted to give his listeners an opportunity to sound off while he was still hosting.

So, he is still mistake free — except that he is a pompous ass who considers Ron Paul to be a noncandidate.

Wot’s this thread about, anyway?

— George

— george

My friend Habeeb cannot type. So, his son bought software that responds to voice commands in order for him to benefit from Google’s technology. The problem is he has to call the boy in to help him because the program says it cannot understand a freakin’ word he says.

Now Google has a new privacy policy that promises to make me more secure. If everyone else has as hard a time finding my house on Google Earth as I do, I feel very secure.

— George

— George

According to Yohoo, he said that unemployment is dropping but that we need to bring manufacturing jobs home from overseas, we need more home-mortgage market support, incentives for alternative energy development, more government, and higher taxes.

I read on another website that he mentioned something about a partridge in a pear tree.

— George

But, as to the flying cockroach issue:

I truly don’t believe that cockroaches fly. I think if they want to go somewhere, they either walk or go piggy-back with people who ride Grayhound — otherwise, TSA would catch them and make them de-shoe. I have a theory that they stowaway in backpacks when careless bus riders go to the bathroom and put their stuff on the floor next to the pot.

If I were a cockroach, that’s when I would make my break.

— George

She was not alone.

Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced SOPA in the House as H.R. 3261. The bill was initially co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), John Conyers (D-MI), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Timothy Griffin (R-AR), Dennis A. Ross (R-FL), Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Lee Terry (R-NE). As of the day before the blackout, there were 31 sponsors.

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced PIPA (the equivalent bill in the Senate) with 40 co-sponsors including Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Al Franken (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

PIPA is a re-write of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) which failed to pass in 2010. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a vote for January 24, 2012.

The scariest part of all is that these bills are among the few that have garnered bipartisan support in both houses.

But I am hacked off that when I went to www.titsonline.com yesterday it was blacked out. I mean, do we have to push principle that far? Moderation is my middle name.

— George M. Poleczech

We seem to STILL have the best government money can buy!

“Fair and balanced” is Washington insider speak for “OK, we know we can’t pass this turkey today so we’re going to sneak a little bit in now and we’ll just quietly amend it up to what we always wanted when you guys go away and stop watching us.”

Christopher Dodd, the former co-architect of the mortgage meltdown, has shown up inside the Beltway again. He’s a lobbiest for the motion picture industry.

Funny. If SOPA passes, sites that criticized his political performance could be on the hit list.

— George

GIYF. Here ya go: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45998436/ns/us_news-weird_news/#.TxMNS7I9NEM