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The Effects of Global Warming

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You would think with all that global warming they keep talking about it would be a little warmer around here.  At 7 AM this morning, it’s minus two degrees Fahrenheit.  It seems like it should be a bit warmer for December 28th.  Anytime I bring this sort of thing up with a ‘believer’, they tell me ‘that’s weather, not climate.’  Maybe, but we seem to be getting an awful lot of cold weather and snow these past couple of years and at some point I would think that it becomes climate. I also don’t understand why I should trust predictions for fifty years in the future when they can’t accurately predict what the weather is going to be two or …

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Christmas Memories

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When I was growing up, my family collected boxes from all the high end stores.  Every time they’d buy something in Jordan Marsh, Remick’s, Gilcrest’s or any other perceived highfalutin store, they would ask for a box or sometimes two.  Come Christmas time they would have a collection of boxes from these places and the gifts that they bought from Kresge’s, Woolworths or Zayre’s would get wrapped up nicely in those boxes (always with tissue paper) and given to friends and relatives. It wasn’t that we were cheap bastards, we were just poor bastards. When the person receiving our gift unwrapped it, they would always ooh and ahh over the box and how special it was that we got them …

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To the Left, it’s Always about Class Envy

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The above graphic was a headline in an article published on the New York Times website today.  Note the subheading: “One man is building a house so enormous, and so absurdly lavish, that it may be the ultimate symbol of our age of thirst, excess and inequality.” They couldn’t focus on the architectural achievement, or the number of people that will be employed building this house and maintaining it after it’s built.  Instead they had to go for the class envy angle. To the leftist crazies it’s always about jealousy; if someone has more that someone else it’s just not fair.  They don’t care if the person that has more, has more because they’ve worked harder, took bigger risks or …

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Why Sears is Slowly Dying

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Living in New England, we have a problem with low humidity in the winter.  The cold dry air of winter does a job on your skin and nasal passages and generally makes for an unpleasant time.  To combat this,  a number of years ago we bought a humidifier from Sears. It’s a pretty simple device, you fill the tank with water which pools on the bottom of the humidifier and a strong fan evaporates the water, sucking it through a filter dispersing it around the house.  Outside of being a little on the noisy side when it’s running full bore, it does a pretty good job of improving the air quality. Little maintenance is required to keep it running; an …

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Guess What’s In The Box

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Guess what’s in the box. This may be the most extreme case of over packaging I’ve ever seen. The container makes it look like it’s something of great value but in reality it contains nothing more than a piece of tempered glass film used as a screen protector for a camera. Sandwiching it between a couple of pieces of cardboard would have worked just as well but the box does add a bit of extra class to the product. As for the screen protector itself; it’s top quality and comes with the appropriate cleaning pads to clean your camera’s screen before installation. I’m really pleased with this and can highly recommend it. $9.99 is a small price to pay to …

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Be Careful What You Google

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I got pulled into one of those click-bait slide shows this morning showing pictures of stars “like you’ve never seen them.” One of the pictures was of a Yvonne Craig who played Bat Girl in the 60’s television series Batman. She was quite lovely, curvy in all the right places and was wearing a bikini showing off her killer body. Being a guy, I was curious if she ever posed nude so I did a Google search. Somehow I ended up typing Yvonne De Carlo (Lily Munster from the Munster’s TV show) instead of Yvonne Craig while doing the search. Who knew there was such a thing a Munster’s porn? While somewhat disturbing, some of it was actually quite creative; …

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How I Spent My Saturday

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About a month ago we had a dead tree taken down and we decided to keep the mulch to use around the property. Since we are entering snow season, I was afraid that we’d have a major snow storm before I got a chance to take care of the pile, which would make things really tough when it came time to plow the driveway. Luckily, the weather today was just perfect to do that type of work so I spent the afternoon shoveling mulch into a wheelbarrow and depositing the mulch on a path down our hill. It went well but it was hard work. The picture of the pile doesn’t do it justice since it’s taken from above which …

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Left Wing Crazies

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One of my neighbors in the next town over was trying to recruit volunteers to help out at the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth on Thanksgiving. From his posting: “Since 1970, Native Americans and our supporters have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day …

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