Irritable Engineer

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

PETA Advertisement Fail to Save Turkeys in Savannah

Not that anybody listens to PETA anyhow.
Linked article is a short description of how four NBC affiliates declined to show a PETA television advertisement during morning parade shows Thanksgiving day. If you run the add on Thursday morning of Thanksgiving, the turkeys are already dead and in the oven. The only purpose PETA has here is to create family disturbances, arguments over the meal.
As far as I am concerned, and have already said, PETA is an extension of liberal self loathing. Because these ineffectual people are not happy with themselves, in looking for a place to assign their depression, choose to align their spirit and efforts with animals the have no hope of surviving the butcher knife. They are raised to be eaten as meat, protein. Get over it.
Thanks to the affiliates who have the good common sense not to show the crap.
Question, if Savannah NBC declines to run this, and I am watching the parades on Atlanta NBC, does that mean my son is going pitch a fit over Thanksgiving dinner? The answer is no, my son is not a panty waste.

4 NBC affiliates ban PETA's Thanksgiving Day ad | accessAtlanta

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Up with the white and gold, down with the red and black!

Michelle Obama's Big Earings

This ought to make the wife vomit.
It was apparent after the presidential election that media fawning over the President was going to cover Michelle. Immediately there were comparisons of this regime to the Kennedy's self-styled Camelot. Within that expectation of a magical situation, comparisons of Michelle Obama's appearance were and continue to be made to Jackie Kennedy. My bride spent thirty years teaching clothing in public schools, she has a fervent opinion that Michelle Obama does not know how to dress herself. I try not to pay too much attention to all that clothing crap, but her appraisal points out that the first lady shows too much shoulder, shows too much arm and wears too many wide belts. She looks like a person trying to draw attention away from her big frame.

So here was have an Associated Press article that kisses that bottom from start to finish. The articles tells us how wonderful she is to wear a gown with bangles and big earings that invokes Indian attire. The story goes on to say...

The nice thing about it is the Jackie Kennedy sort of appropriateness.

Earlier I said that this would irritate my wife, but now I'm there too. This is ass kissing, done inevitably because the reporter was born with a Democratic pucker.

Here is a link to the story found in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

First lady wears Naeem Khan gown to state dinner | accessAtlanta

By the way, there was a History channel special on this past weekend. In that Jackie Kennedy was quoted as admitting she had overdone the Camelot yarn. Spin that's all it was, the result of which she spent the rest of her life trying to evade.

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The Hell With Georgia!

2 More West Virginia Hunters Die During Buck Gun Season

Yes that is the Associated Press article title.
Both, you'll find in the first paragraph, had heart attacks.
Big difference, huge difference.
Unfortunate yes, 2nd Ammendment issue, no.

2 more W.Va. hunters die during buck gun season - News - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -

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Go Jackets...Sting Em!

UGA vs. GT Emulates Apple Advertisement

I have said it before, the Apple advertisements where they treat the PC guy as a dolt really piss me off. Apple missed the boat when it came to apps for engineering and have always, always, taken this snottier than thou approach.

For that reason I am at an odd place, the following parody I do enjoy. Does that make me as Georgia Tech alum snottier than thou?

Probably.

Go Jackets...Sting Em!

Kevin Williamson: War Is the Health of the Taxman

This dovetails with what I firmly believe. Like the old saying "starve a cold", citizens should resist all forms of taxation. Our government should not only account for its spending, which now does in both misleading and dishonest application, but it should apply an efficiency evaluation of that money spent. To repeat more simply, the government should report on the effectiveness of revenues spent. This would mean that goals have to be stated, e.g., goal = $. As it is, the government measures effetiveness only by how much money is expended. In that mode, the more money spent the better. How can that be in the best interest of the citizens from whom the money was taken?

When new taxes are introduced it is extremely difficult to uproot them. Our income is siphoned by the government, it is redistributed in a less efficient way than would be employed by the individual. This is done under the threat of imprisonment for failure to comply.

Found this article on the National review site, titled:
War Is the Health of the Taxman

Kevin Williamson on National Review Online

Call to Action

If you feel that the decision by the Obama administration to reroute the KSM trial from a military court to the Federal criminal court is wrong. Please go to this web site and read "Call to Action".

http://911neverforget.us/

There is an opportunity to add your name to a petition styled list as a supporting citizen.

An Actual Craig's List Personals Advertisement

An enjoyable email sent to me by PJMS. It's doubtful the this can be confirmed, but I am going to try.
We in the south, will shoot you.

I then threw your wallet into the big pink "pimp mobile" that was parked at the curb ... after I broke the windshield and side window and keyed the entire driver's side of the car.

Later, I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cell phone. Ma Bell just now shut down the line, although I only used the phone for a little over a day now, so what 's going on with that? Earlier, I managed to get in two threatening phone calls to the DA's office and one to the FBI, while mentioning President Obama as my possible target.

The FBI guy seemed really intense and we had a nice long chat (I guess while he traced your number etc.).

In a way, perhaps I should apologize for not killing you .... but I feel this type of retribution is a far more appropriate punishment for your threatened crime. I wish you well as you try to sort through some of these rather immediate pressing issues, and can only hope that you have the opportunity to reflect upon, and perhaps reconsider, the career path you've chosen to pursue in life. Remember, next time you might not be so lucky.

Have a good day!

Thoughtfully yours,

Alex

P.S. Remember this motto ... An armed society makes for a more civil society!

I probably don't have to ask you to forward this one.

May God Bless You and Keep You until We meet again

It's probably not very Christian to wish harm on a criminal, is it better karma to enjoy it?

Union Chief to Quit After Attempting to Block Eagle Scout Project

These teen aged boys struggle to find projects that are worthy of the highest acheivement in the Boy Scouts. Having sucessfully pitched the project to the department and investing over 200 hours shows a effort that is exemplary.

The union chief's agressive behaviour is not unlike that which I have experienced in industry. There are union men that place more value on maintenance of head counts than the work at hand.

That said, nobody wishes to see another person unemployed.

Boy Scout brouhaha spurs Lehigh Valley union chief to quit post -- themorningcall.com

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We'll End Up a' Sittin' on a Rainbow

Yesterday on the way to work I heard this song on Sirius's "Roadhouse". The lyrics are unique to say the least. A John Prine written song, about a couple if love, sung with Iris Dement called "In Spite of Ourselves".

Here are the lyrics, robbed from Cowboy Lyrics.com.

In Spite of Ourselves

She don't like her eggs all runny

She thinks crossin' her legs is funny

She looks down her nose at money

She gets it on like the Easter Bunny

She's my baby I'm her honey

I'm never gonna let her go

He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays

I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies

He ain't too sharp but he gets things done

Drinks his beer like it's oxygen

He's my baby

And I'm his honey

Never gonna let him go

In spite of ourselves

We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow

Against all odds

Honey, we're the big door prize

We're gonna spite our noses

Right off of our faces

There won't be nothin' but big old hearts

Dancin' in our eyes.

She thinks all my jokes are corny

Convict movies make her horny

She likes ketchup on her scrambled eggs

Swears like a sailor when shaves her legs

She takes a lickin'

And keeps on tickin'

I'm never gonna let her go.

He's got more balls than a big brass monkey

He's a wacked out werido and a lovebug junkie

Sly as a fox and crazy as a loon

Payday comes and he's howlin' at the moon

He's my baby I don't mean maybe

Never gonna let him go

In spite of ourselves

We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow

Against all odds

Honey, we're the big door prize

We're gonna spite our noses

Right off of our faces

There won't be nothin' but big old hearts

Dancin' in our eyes.

There won't be nothin' but big old hearts

Dancin' in our eyes.

(spoken) In spite of ourselves

Have always considered Prine to be an excellent singer songwriter who has received little acclaim. Very much enjoyed his work with the Cowboy Junkies.

Nerd Alert

I am an engineer who works in heavy equipment repair and design. Some of the things I enjoy on the computer make engineering tasks simpler.

In my industry we often do not have the benefit of OEM drawings, yet are asked to make off the cuff analysis on modes of failure. With this program you can sketch on the fly, apply dimensions and material and viola you have stress concetations.

This is really cool Finite Element Analysis software that I hope to get approval to purchase soon.

'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation