An Indecent Proposal

Shamelessly stolen, title and all, from BabbleFest. (O.K., actually, we asked.)

Look Before You Buy

[Reprinted by permission from Personal and Family Finance]

In the run up to Christmas, the rush to get the perfect gift, or the gift someone really wants, can lead to some bad decisions and wasted money. Not everyone can be an expert on every subject, and that is certainly true of high tech gadgets. It’s easy to end up with the wrong thing, or something much more expensive than needed, especially when you don’t know much about the product and you are relying entirely on a salesperson or sales literature. One way to minimize these risks is to be an educated shopper, and know at least the basics about the item you are shopping for.

The blog Tech Toys Explained published the following helpful list, reprinted here by permission. Please note, these are not websites actually selling the specific items, they are informational sites with tons of information.

Apple iphone

Personal Digital Assistant (pda)

Security Cameras

all about Satellite TV and Radio

all about HDTV

What You Need To Know About Digital Photography

High Definition Video Cameras

Bluetooth Basics

Broadband Internet

Cellular Phones

Digital Cameras

GPS Devices

HDTV

LCD and Plasma Televisions

mp3

VOIP

the Apple iPhone

Time is Running Out - if You're Still Not Ready for Christmas

Here are a couple of sites worth visiting if you're looking for tips or hints on decorating or shopping; traditions, trivia, games to occupy the kids, or pretty much anything that says "Christmas":



Christmas Magic



all about Christmas



Looking for Christmas gift Ideas? Try



Holiday Gift Ideas



Merry Christmas ... or, if you prefer, Happy Holidays.

This is Not Your Father's "Nutcracker"

Remedial Geography for Mexican Nationals

Purdue University Joins the Cover-Up!

Purdue University has generated a 3-D computer simulation furthering the LIE that muslim terrorists in hijacked jets, not the evil Chimpy McBushHitler and his secret cadre of demolitions experts using invisible explosives, caused the 9/11 disaster. Quick, somebody call Rosie O'Dumbass to get her mouth in gear explaining why Purdue is now in on the conspiracy!

You can read about this ridiculous effort at hiding the truth, carried out by, like, actual engineers and professors and experts and stuff, here.

Or, you can just go ahead and believe the idiotic theories put forth by REAL authorities, like film-school dropouts and pizza-delivery boys, in their little films.

Sharp as a Sack of Wet Leather

Well, at least the Democrats in congress have got their priorities in order. They won't fund troops in the field unless they get to run the war, a notion unique in U.S. history and directly contrary to the U.S. Constitution, and they'd rather spend intelligence money on global warming research than on stupid stuff like, say, gathering intelligence on terrorists and other enemies.
From the Washington Times:

The House next week will consider the Democrat-crafted Intelligence Authorization bill, which includes a provision directing an assessment of the effects that climate change has on national security.
"Our job is to steal secrets," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"There are all kinds of people analyzing global warming, the Democrats even have a special committee on this," he told The Washington Times. "There's no value added by the intelligence community here; they have no special expertise, and this takes money and resources away from other threats."
Democrats, who outnumber Republicans on the committee, blocked the minority from stripping the warming language from the bill. Intelligence panel Chairman Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat, said the climate-change study is one of several shifts his party has made to intelligence policy.
"We're concerned that global warming might impact our ability to maintain national security," he told The Times, describing the idea as "cutting edge."

"Cutting edge." Yeah. There's a Warner Brothers cartoon where Foghorn Leghorn describes somebody as being "about as sharp as a sack of wet leather." Shifting intelligence policy from gathering intelligence to studying global warming. Yep. About as sharp as a sack of wet leather.