Snopes and Running wid the Really Big Dogs!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/moveover.asp
Don't know if this is true for Michigan drivers or divers.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/connelly.asp
Michael Connelly: Constitutionality of Health Care Reform....Or how can we successfully kill this bill and hundreds of thousands of Americans in the process?
Greeeeeeedddd!!!! All Greed!

http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/uwmadison.asp
Are you serious?
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~ Est queadam fiere voluptas.There is a certain pleasure in weeping. (Ovid) ~

The Onion and About this Ipad Thing Already!

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Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further

Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called 'Haiti'

Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

I Don't Even Want To Be Alive Anymore- Rush Limbaugh

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About this Ipad thing already....

Okay, something I must say, what's up with all these people and their particular penchant for bad names? Tell me? What's up with that?

I remember when I was told that Microsoft was coming out with a new operating system to replace "XP". My first thought was "Why?" My second thought was, "It's too soon you morons, and you still haven't got all the holes patched up in this one yet." However, when I heard what they were calling the Beta I was intrigued....."Longhorn", Ooooh "Longhorn".

Sounds almost like something your mother is going to slap you-about doesn't it?

There was sort of a snorting of a bull and muscular, leathery, sweatiness about the name. As if it was gleaned from the Montana sky to grace your desktop with its meaty format.
However, somehow, somewhere, someone got it in their head that Microsoft might be better served with another name.

It probably didn't go like this:

"Say let's try another name?"
"Well, like what?"
"Well, let's name it after a really cool car."
"Hmmm, let's name it something like, 'Cougar'?"
"No no, we want something to conjure up visions of home."
"Humph, okay, let's name it 'Road master'!"
"Is it a navigation system or an operating system?"
"Yeah, you're probably right."
"Let's name it after the first car I ever drove!?!"
"Ford!?!"
"No! Let's name it after my dad's rusted out old station wagon and call it 'VISTA'!!!"

And so, the calamity that was VISTA was born.

So we take this walk along our digital lives for a short time and we play with our Ipod's and mess with our Iphones, and then one day we wake up and on the news, here's little Stevie Jobs with the next great technical thing and what does he name it?

Ipad.

Ipad? Really? Ipad? That's a joke right? You're not really going to name it Ipad are you? I mean, why are you guys giving operating systems and information interfaces names that other operating systems and laptops and even mini laptops are going to beat up these operating systems, information interfaces about? Did you name your kid a name that he was going to get beat up by other kids about like, "Günter" or "Kit"?

With massively sweaty palms should you be sending this device into the world….Massively sweaty palms….Because honesty, if this doesn't work out the damage to your ego is going to be astronomical.

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Brier Dudley's Blog:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2010909639_apple_ipad_bad_name_choice.html

"Apple i Pad: Bad name choice?

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple's legendary reality distortion field couldn't protect its new iPad from the sanitary napkin jokes."

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Ouch.

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"Apple's i Pad Name Not the First Choice for Women. Period."

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/apple-ipad-name-not-winning-women

"Is it that time of the month again?"

"It sounds like a sanitary napkin."

"Will the next version have wings?"

"Of all the names that Apple had reportedly secured--Apple Tablet, iTablet, Magic Slate, iSlate--I think it's safe to say that no one truly believed that Apple would name their newest product the iPad. Especially women."

"So will the 64GB one be called the Maxi-Pad?"

"I'm holding out for the iRag."

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CNET

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10442732-36.html

"Instant i Pad reactions: Whoa, awkward name

Who needs opinion columnists when you have Twitter? Once the hub of micro-punditry recovered from a molasses-like slowdown amid chatter surrounding the launch of Apple's iPad, it became clear that the Twittering masses had a thing or two to say to Steve Jobs about his pretty new gadget. And it wasn't all nice."

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The Seattle Times….

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010920987_apusipadwhatsinaname.html?prmid=obnetwork

"Shiny gadget, icky name: i Pad jokes fly on Web

You have to wonder whether there were any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company's new gadget the "iPad." Because the jokes about feminine hygiene products are flying."

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Stevie….Did you get a package in the mail that looked like some rainbow colored windows and in it there was a package that said "Eat me" and you did?

You can tell me.

And after that did you name your gizmo that name? Because I think that Bill Gates just put some saltpeter in your food buddy and you've gone all feminista.

It will be okay buddy…We'll try to fix this, we will……There, there- there, there.

You could have called it "The Information Station" and it would have gotten less grief.

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~ Est queadam fiere voluptas.There is a certain pleasure in weeping. (Ovid) This certainly applies here I'm sure..... ~

ADDENDUM AND BIG NASTY MISTAKES THAT STINK LIKE THINGS THAT REALLY REEK!

Pete Yates pointed out something over top of his desk.
He mentioned that I didn't get the irony of this story and I concluded that there are days I have to slapped in the face with the fish and then told it's an Asian Carp....

This was the headline he saw:Guy kills brother in court over who will use the bathroom first.
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Man-in-Court-for-Allegedly-Killing-His-Brother/bmESoSrfl0alEtkD8kV7HQ.cspx
What I saw was: Investigators tell us the two argued over who would use the restroom first. Zachariah Hooper allegedly grabbed a gun and shot his brother in the neck. Jeremiah Hooper later died at the hospital.

Pete Yates said: "I think it's just a poorly written headline.  The man is in court after shooting his brother, not in court and then shooting him there."
And he is right.
It stinks like uncooked chicken skin left in a trash can for six days, outside in 85* weather.
What I thought was bizarre in sort of a "Jesse James" manner, was that his brother was shot over bathroom privileges....

Can't blame us that the story in and of itself is a double header of weirdness.

Thanks again Pete!
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President Obama's first State of the Union, From The Desk of Pete Yates!

President Obama's first State of the Union:

All I have to say is: Don't hold back now, tell the Republican's what you really think....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/us/politics/AP-US-Obama-State-of-the-Union-Text.html

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Photo credit: kconnors from morguefile.com

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/truck-25175-weed-crestview.html

Possession with intent to smoke and sell.
Which would be a great name for a Marijuana store, if Marijuana ever gets legalized. "With Intent to Smoke and Sell" and people would get to the point where on the weekends they would say to their wives, "Say, honey could you stop at the 'Smoke and Sell' and pick me up some weed?'"
I'll tell you, if they legalized pot....Look at the revenue we could get:

1) There would be the pot alone- being sold as cigarettes.
2) People would be more likely not to drink and drive because you sit on the couch and watch cartoons and eat Cheetos.
3) There could be fines for "Sitting in the park under the influence." Simply because people who do weed really don't do anything except sit and look and laugh at the world.
4) Doritos sales would fly out the roof. (When I was in Jamaica, people would walk by smoking pot and you would get a contact buzz, because I don't smoke period, so that was the only way I would come in contact with it; and even with the contact buzz, I was eating a whole bag of salt and vinegar chips....Yeah).
5) We could once again purchase hemp rope without getting odd looks and it could be grown for those purposes again in the United States.

Just a thought.

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http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Man-Accused-Of-Murdering-Brother-In-Court/bmESoSrfl0alEtkD8kV7HQ.cspx

Guy kills brother in court over who will use the bathroom first.

Wow, I think this tops the gunslinger that shot someone for snoring. I mean A) it's your brother....B) it's in court. So your already in jail and chances are whatever you've done you've pretty much locked yourself up for that, and on top of that now your in jail for killing your brother.

Well, look at the bright side, chances are if you ever get out of jail the recession will be over....Maybe....

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~Actus reus- Wrongful act - as opposed to mens rea - the wrongful intention or guilty mind.~
http://latin.technetium.be/

More Michigan Headlines

Police Investigating Shanty Break-ins in Otsego County

and the story starts like this:
Shanties are being broken into in Otsego County, now several ice fishermen are missing equipment.

Now here's my thing, fishing shanties in and of themselves are not by any means permanent structures, if they were they wouldn't survive the lake becoming a liquid again. So honestly, how hard would it be to break into one? Bigger than that why would you leave your gear in there? For one, the lake could go through a warm up, the ice could crack and melt and your stuff would crash through and be underwater. And it's like leaving the keys in your car and the doors unlocked, in a big city and believing no one will bother it.
I mean come on!
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Mind if I sneer?

Michigan Headlines

Sometimes you just want to go....Hua?

Big Fat Grand Blanc Wedding
Scary and Bizarre, yet, like a train wreck, you can't help but want to look.....

Coast Guard Warning: Dangerous Ice
As opposed to that sinister ice....

Midland Co. speeding ticket dropped
This is news how?


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~There is a certain pleasure in weeping. (Ovid).~

Michigan Headlines and USA Today!

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Will optimism bring auto jobs?

You really want that answered?
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Oh, snap! Bubble wrap celebrates 50th birthday today

I can't get better than that.

Nancy Kerrigan's dad dies; brother held on assault charge

*sigh* Does the drama ever end?

'Avatar' on track to torpedo 'Titanic' as top film

Cameron says he's not playing favorites and that he loves them both equally....

Comets caused differences in Jupiter's moons

Jupiter says it's just hormones....

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