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During colonial times in America, if you wanted to convince or inform people about some issue that you considered important, you went to the local printer and got some pamphlets printed. You then handed them out, read them to anybody that was interested, nailed them to the town bulletin board, or the nearest tree.
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Why Students Don't Value School Can the State Improve a Hobbesian World? . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: Internet Public Library Provides library services to Internet users. Includes a reference center, a catalog of books and publications, subject-based collections, and resources for kids and teens. ----- Smithsonian Education Educational content for students, families, and educators. Find teaching materials, links to hundreds of online resources, and access to the world's largest museum complex. ----- Danger While Fueling Your Car (From Bob, our correspondent in Bayside.) The Shell Oil Company recently issued a warning after three incidents in which mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling operations In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid during fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline pump. In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to their face when fumes ignited as they answered a call while refueling their car. And in the third, an individual suffered burns to the thigh and groin as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while they were fueling their car. You should know that: Mobile Phones can ignite fuel or fumes Mobile phones that light up wh!n switched on or when they ring release enough energy to provide a spark for ignition Mobile phones should not be used in filling stations, or when fueling lawn mowers, boat , Etc. Mobile phones should not be used, or should be turned off, around other materials that generate flammable or explosive fumes or dust, (i.e. solvents, chemicals, gases, grain dust, etc.) To sum it up, here are the: Four Rules for Safe Refueling 1) Turn off engine 2) Don't smoke 3) Don't use your cell phone - leave it inside the vehicle or turn it off 4) Don't re-enter your vehicle during fueling Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and make people aware of fires as a result of "static electricity" at gas pumps . His company has researched 150 cases of these fires. His results were very surprising: 1) Out of 150 cases, almost all of them were women. 2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back in their vehicle while the nozzle was still pumping gas. When finished, they went back to pull the nozzle out and the fire started, as a result of static. 3) Most had on rubber-soled shoes. 4) Most men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished. This is why they are seldom involved in these types of fires. 5) Don't ever use cell phones when pumping gas 6) It is the vapors that come out of the gas that cause the fire, when connected with static charges. 7) There were 29 fires where the vehicle was re-entered and the nozzle was touched during refueling from a variety of makes and models. Some resulted in extensive damage to the vehicle, to the station, and to the customer. 8) Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the gas cap was removed and before fueling began. Mr. Renkes stresses to NEVER get back in to your vehicle while filling it with gas If you absolutely HAVE to get in your vehicle while the gas is pumping, make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you ever pull the nozzle out. This way the static from your body will be discharged before you ever remove the nozzle. As I mentioned earlier, The Petroleum Equipment Institute, along with several other companies now, are really trying to make the public aware of this danger. You can find out more information by going to < http://www.pei.org/> Once here, click in the center left of the screen where it says "Safe Refueling". I ask you to please send this information to ALL your family and friends, especially those who have kids in the car with them while pumping gas If this were to happen to them, they may not be able to get the children out in time. Thanks for passing this along. . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: “Be happy for this moment..." “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” -Omar Khayyam ----- "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think..." "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -John Burroughs ----- "What we call progress is..." "What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." -Havelock Ellis ----- Sunday, September 24, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Stiglitz is Wrong on Government How We Come to Own Ourselves Preface to What Has Government Done to Our Money? The Hoppeian Way . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: ChildStats.gov Offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education. ----- Adherents.com Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The religions of the world are enumerated here. ----- CEOExpress Business portal for executives created by a busy executive. ----- NASA: Solar System Exploration NASA presents this Solar System Exploration web site with current space news, featured images and a space calendar. ----- The American Heritage Dictionary Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "The flood of money that gushes into politics today..." "The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy." -Theodore H. White ----- "Power always thinks it has a great soul..." "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." -John Adams ----- "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty..." "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one." -Abraham Lincoln ----- "Maybe all one can do..." "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." -Arthur Miller ----- 9 Things I Hate About Everyone (From Pamela, our correspondent in Bay Ridge.) 1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is? 2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually. 3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it? 4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses! 5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor. 6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine? 7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new. 8. When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer? 9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass? . Saturday, September 23, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Professor Stiglitz and the Minimum Wage Liberty and the Warfare State . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "Do not look back in anger..." "Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -James Thurber ----- "Ideals are like stars..." "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." -Carl Schurz ----- The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: Timeline of Art History The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. ----- Download.com Download.com provides free downloads of a collection of more than 30,000 free and trial-version programs, including utilities, music, and games. Download.com is published by CNET, an interactive content company. ----- Blonde Joke (From Pamela, our correspondent in Bay Ridge.) A young blonde was on vacation and driving through the Everglades. She wanted to take home a pair of genuine alligator shoes in the worst way, but was very reluctant to pay the high prices the local vendors were asking. After becoming very frustrated with the "no haggle on prices" attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the blonde shouted, "Well then, maybe I'll just go out and catch my own alligator, so I can get a pair of shoes for free!" The shopkeeper said with a sly, knowing smile, "Little lady, just go and give it a try!" The blonde headed out toward the swamps, determined to catch an alligator. Later in the day, as the shopkeeper is driving home, he pulls over to the side of the levee where he spots that same young woman standing waist deep in the murky bayou water, shotgun in hand. Just then, he spots a huge 9-foot gator swimming rapidly toward her. With lightning speed, she takes aim, kills the creature and hauls it onto the slimy bank of the swamp. Lying nearby were seven more of the dead creatures, all lying on their backs. The shopkeeper stood on the bank, watching in silent amazement. The blonde struggled and flipped the gator onto its back. Rolling her eyes heaven-ward and screaming in great frustration, she shouts out, "SHIT... THIS ONE'S BAREFOOT TOO!" . Sunday, September 17, 2006
Have no Idea How This is Computed...But.. Where's the Cashier's Window?
I'll take it in large bills... . New 2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll (Thanks to GOP Bloggers.) Announcing GOP Bloggers' third 2008 Straw Poll. This month, the poll takes on another new twist. This month, the poll takes on another new twist. Like our last poll, you get to pick which candidates you find acceptable and which ones you don't and you get to choose which candidate is your first choice for the GOP nomination in 2008. New in this poll, you tell us your views on abortion and the guest worker program. How does ones views on these issues influence your vote? We shall soon see! Reason's Weekly Dispatch By Jeff A. Taylor and the Reason staff In this issue: 1. The Massoud Moment 2. Another Epic al Qaeda Production 3. The Gas Pump Primary 4. Quick Hits 5. New at Reason Online - The State of War and Domestic Terrorism 6. News and Events . Highly Recommended On-Line Articles The Economics of Groundhog Day The Snare of Government Subsidies Don't Believe Those Inflation Numbers The Principle of Sound Money . An Interesting View of World Affairs (From Gene, our correspondent in Washington Heights.) The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat: 1990 - Elias James Corey 1999 - Ahmed Zewai Economics: (none) Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad ******************************************************************************* The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.02% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloc h 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis The Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel's part, the following two sentences really say it all: If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel. . New Politically Correct Terminology (From Greta, our correspondent in Astoria.) Due to the climate of political correctness now pervading America, Kentuckians, Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as "HILLBILLIES." You must now refer to them as APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS. And furthermore HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a "BREASTED AMERICAN." 2. She is not a "SCREAMER" or a "MOANER" - She is "VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE." 3. She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE." 4. She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY." 5. She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is a "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION." 6. S he is not an "AIRHEAD" - She is "REALITY IMPAIRED." 7. She does not get "DRUNK" or "TIPSY" - She gets "CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED" 8. She does not have "BREAST IMPLANTS" - She is "MEDICALLY ENHANCED." 9. She does not "NAG" you - She becomes "VERBALLY REPETITIVE." 10. She is not a "TRAMP" - She is SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED." 11. She does not have "MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS" - She is "PECTORALLY SUPERIOR." 12. She is not a "TWO-BIT HOOKER" - She is a "LOW COST PROVIDER." HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. He does not have a "BEER GUT" - He has developed a "LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY." 2. He is not a "BAD DANCER" - He is "OVERLY CAUCASIAN." 3. He does not "GET LOST ALL THE TIME" - He "INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS." 4. He is not " BALDING" - He is in "FOLLICLE REGRESSION." 5. He is not a "CRADLE ROBBER" - He prefers "GENERATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS." 6. He does not get "FALLING-DOWN DRUNK" - He becomes "ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL." 7. He does not act like a "TOTAL ASS" - He develops a case of "RECTAL CRANIAL INVERSION." 8. He is not a "MALE CHAUVINIST PIG" - He has "SWINE EMPATHY." 9. He is not afraid of "COMMITMENT" - He is "RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGED." 10. He is not "HORNY" - He is "SEXUALLY FOCUSED." 11. It's not his "CRACK" you see hanging out of his pants - It's "REAR CLEAVAGE!" . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: The American Heritage Book of English Usage With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style. Related site: Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab: Resources for Documenting Sources. ----- Time Pictures of the Week Archived since 2001, includes several photo montages of what's in the news. ----- Yahoo! Education Everything you need to help you find, apply, and get into the right school. School search, admissions tips, test preparation, financial aid, scholarships, school rankings, and more. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "Never Explain - your Friends do not need it..." "Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway." -Elbert Hubbard ----- "He declares himself guilty..." "He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation." -Anonymous ----- "Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed..." "Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine,incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up." -Walter Benjamin ----- Saturday, September 16, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Fortune Cookie Economics Money and the Stock Market: What is the Relation? Why Are We Worse Off? . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: National Sex Offender Public Registry The public can use this Web site to educate themselves about the possible presence of such offenders in their local communities. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "All my life I’ve known better than to depend on the experts..." "All my life I’ve known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?" -John Fitzgerald Kennedy ----- The old priest lay dying - - - (From Gene, our correspondent in Washington Heights.) The old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation's capital. He motioned for one of his aides to come near. "Yes father", he said. "I would really like to see Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton before I die", whispered the priest. "I'll see what I can do, father" replied the aide. The aide sent the request to the Senate and waited for a response. Soon the word arrived. Kennedy and Clinton would be delighted to visit the priest. As they went to the hospital, Clinton commented to Kennedy "I don't know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our images after the number the Republicans have done on us." Kennedy couldn't help but agree, Finally Senator Kennedy spoke. ”Father, of all the people you could have chosen, why did you choose us to be with you as you near the end?" The old priest slowly replied "I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." "Amen" said Kennedy. "Amen" said Clinton. The old priest took Kennedy's hand in his right hand and Clinton's hand in his left hand and continued..."He died between two lying thieves. I would like to do the same." . Monday, September 11, 2006
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Stereotyping Defended What Happened at the Mises University 2006 The Misesian Sights: An Austrian Visits Vienna The Neglect of Bastiat's School by English-speaking Economists . School Teacher Arrested! (From Gene, our correspondent in Washington Heights.) At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, the attorney general said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," a Justice Department spokesman said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'there are 3 sides to every triangle'." When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes". . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: Rand McNally Driving Directions Driving directions between locations in the U.S. Related site: Reference Desk: Maps. ----- 100 Milestone Documents that Shaped America The People’s Vote, co-sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, National History Day, and U.S. News & World Report, invited Americans of all ages and educational backgrounds to vote for 10 of 100 milestone documents drawn mainly from the holdings of the National Archives. ----- Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court Collection This site by the Cornell Law School features a collection of nearly all Supreme Court opinions issued since May of 1990, as well as a current schedule, a gallery of justices, and a glossary. ----- GovEngine.com Site contains over 17,000 federal, state, and local governmental links. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused..." "The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." -Frederick Douglass ----- "What you fail to understand is the power of hate..." "What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can." -Earl Felton ----- "Every man has a right to his opinion..." "Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." -Bernard Mannes Baruch ----- "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens..." "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!" -George Bernard Shaw ----- "Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment..." "Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busy-bodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare." -Samuel Gompers ----- Saturday, September 09, 2006
Election Prediction For months, I have been saying that the results of the Fall 2006 elections will result in the following Republican gains House +10 Senate +3 John Hawkins of Right Wing News has the following stories: The GOP's Top 18 Pick-Up Opportunities In The House For 2006 The Most Competitive Senate Races For 2006 (3rd Edition) Worth the read. The news for the Republicans looks better than the LameStream Media will admit. . Reason's Weekly Dispatch By Jeff A. Taylor and the Reason staff In this issue: 1. The Wooden Anniversary 2. NATO, My NATO 3. The Incredible Shrinking Viewer 4. Quick Hits 5. New at Reason Online - Other Than That, Mrs. Bush, How Was the Film? 6. News and Events . Highly Recommended On-Line Articles A Wonderful World of Parrillas Why is Medical Care so Expensive? Should Coke Be Banned in India? . Long Island Barbies (From Pamela, our correpsondent in Bay Ridge.) For anyone who is from LI, has visited, or just curious.... These are pretty accurate portrayals. ------------------------------------- Mattel recently announced the release of Limited Edition Barbie dolls for the Long Island market: (this is Suffolk County Version) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Patchogue Barbie - This modern day retro Barbie comes with 2 teeth, acid washed jeans, leg warmers, white Reeboks, feathered hair & a double ring belt (yes, it is 2004). She also comes with Ken, her brother/boyfriend, complete with house arrest bracelet & Dodge Neon. Parole officer sold separately. Brentwood Barbie - This spanish speaking only Barbie comes with a 1984 Toyota with expired temporary plates & 4 baby Barbies in the backseat (no car seats). The optional Ken doll comes with a paint bucket lunch pail & is missing 3 fingers on his left hand. Green cards are not available for Brentwood Barbie or Ken. Wyandanch Barbie - This Barbie comes with hoop earrings, hair weave, food stamps, a bus pass, a search warrant, & a court date. She also comes with 3 babies & 3 different Ken's (Baby's Daddies). Each Ken comes with his own bag of weed (sold separately & on a street corner). Nisseqogue/Bell Terre Barbie - This princess Barbie is only sold at Saks Fifth Avenue. She comes with an assortment of Coach handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired dog named Honey, & a 3500-square foot house. Available with or without tummy tuck & face lift. Workaholic Ken sold only in conjunction with "augmented" version. Selden Barbie - This modern day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Windstar minivan & matching gym outfit. She gets lost easily & has no full time occupation or secondary education. Traffic jamming cell phone included, headset sold separately. Hampton Bays Barbie - This recently paroled former "Porn Actress" Barbie comes with a Chevy with dark tinted windows, & a meth-lab kit. This model is only available after dark & can only be paid for in cash. Preferably small, untraceable bills. Unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking about. Setauket Barbie - This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or Hummer H2. Included are her own Starbucks cup, credit card, & country club membership. Also available for this set are Shallow Ken & Private School Skipper. You won't be able to afford any of them. Riverhead Barbie - This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans 2 sizes too small, a NASCAR shirt, & Tweety Bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Coors Light & a Hank Williams, Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5' & kick mullet-haired Ken's ass when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately & get a Confederate Flag bumper sticker absolutely free. Port Jefferson Barbie - This collagen injected, rhinoplastic Barbie wears a leopard print bikini outfit & drinks cosmopolitans while entertaining friends at the McMansion. Percocet prescription available. Ronkonkoma Barbie - This tobacco chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased Beer-Gut Ken out of Bristol Barbie's house. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, & a see-through halter top. Also available with a mobile home. Huntington Barbie - This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, archless feet, hairy armpits, no makeup, & Birkenstocks with white socks. She prefers that you call her "Willow". She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase 2 Huntington Barbies & the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag sticker for free. Deer Park Barbie - This Italian Princess Barbie comes with teased black hair, 12 gold chains, 7 gold bracelets, 8 rings & 1 ankle bracelet. Included are a permanently attached cell phone & a black Monte Carlo with ILUVTONY license plates. The accompanying Ken doll has been replaced with a black haired Tony doll with hairy chest & gel/hairdryer kit. Fire Island Barbie - Used to be Fire Island Ken, but got a sex change operation. . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: USPS Domestic Calculator Provides assistance on calculating postal rates for domestic U.S. and international mail by package type, ZIP code, and weight information. ----- The Universal Currency Converter Site offers interactive foreign exchange rate conversion using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates. ----- National Geographic MapMachine: Country Profiles Offers maps for just about every place on Earth, viewable by population, climate, conservation, and topography. Also features antique maps, trail maps, and country facts. ----- OneLook Dictionary Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, site will take you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "The penalty good men pay for indifference..." "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -Plato ----- "Equal laws protecting equal rights … the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country." -James Madison ----- "We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft." -Adlai Ewing Stevenson ----- Monday, September 04, 2006
How Is This Possible??? (Thanks to Drudge.) Climate panel lowers global warming forecast... Wasn't global warming settled science? Wasn't the alarms about global warming accurate? Weren't we told there is no dispute or mistakes? Now this... It must be the fault of Karl Rove and George Bush! . Highly Recommended On-Line Articles Are Capitalists Bamboozling the Poor? The Problem of Accuracy of Economic Data The Six Faces of the Terrorist; The One Face of Bureaucracy Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "Under all speech that is good for anything..." "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." -Thomas Carlyle ----- "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself..." "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much." -Albert Schweitzer ----- "We should be careful to get out of an experience..." "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." -Mark Twain ----- "Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands..." "Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away." -Sophocles ----- The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: Acronym Finder Abbreviations, information technology, military, government, science, medicine, engineering, organizations, schools, colleges, business, finance, accounting, popular culture, slang, chat and many more. ----- CIA: The World Factbook The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. ----- The Old Farmer's Almanac Fun and practical information for everyday life including moon calendars, planting charts, recipes, weather predictions, and more. ----- Infoplease Biography Biographical profiles and special features about newsworthy people around the world. Searchable by subject or category. ----- Sunday, September 03, 2006
Reason's Weekly Dispatch By Jeff A. Taylor and the Reason staff In this issue: 1. Katrina Contrition 2. No Turkish Delight 3. Gore: Pause, Rewind 4. Quick Hits 5. New at Reason Online - Beware the Brown Peril! 6. News and Events . Highly Recommended On-Line Articles How to Achieve Scientific "Consensus" Rothbard as Intellectual Inspiration . The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: OnGuard Online OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information. ----- Library of Congress: American Memory American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. ----- Inside the Brain An Interactive Tour explains basic concepts about the brain and what happens to it in Alzheimer's disease. Viewers navigate at their own pace through 16 illustrated screens and follow colored text links that highlight key areas and special features of each illustration. ----- Interstate 50th Anniversary Web Site The Interstate System has been called the Greatest Public Works Project in History. From the day President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the Interstate System has been a part of our culture - as construction projects, as transportation in our daily lives, and as an integral part of the American way of life. ----- Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "America…. It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country..." "America…. It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time." -Thomas Clayton Wolfe ----- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice..." "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -Barry Morris Goldwater ----- "The best way in which to silence any friend of yours..." "The best way in which to silence any friend of yours whom you know to be a fool is to induce him to hire a hall. Nothing chills pretense like exposure." -Woodrow Wilson ----- "We shall not cease from exploration..." "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -Thomas Stearns Eliot ----- "Never complain..." "Never complain and never explain." -Benjamin Disraeli ----- Saturday, September 02, 2006
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles The Freedom to Reject the Best Oil and the Apocalypse Bring Back Fiscal Corruption Who Was Gottfried Dietze? Origins of the Welfare State in America . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies..." "Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth." -William C. Redfield ----- "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say..." "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. -George Eliot ----- "For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill..." "For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world." -John Winthrop ----- | ||
