Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Lucid Lynx (gimpified)
This is a sure sign that April is approaching and we can look forward to the latest version of Ubuntu. I've been running the Beta 1 version for a bit now, and like many others, I'm not sure yet about the new colors, but in this effort at least, combining the old with the new works out pretty well IMHO. The original is from momez on gnome-look.org.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Rhino Head (gimpified)
Another shot from our trip to the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium down in Litchfield Park a couple of weeks ago.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Where's my Purdey?
The news is that our good buddies in the US Congress have decided that ownership of a health insurance policy is a right not a privilege.
Well, since the Supreme Court has previously decided (along with the folks who wrote the US Constitution) that gun ownership is also a right and not a privilege, then it must surely follow that the Congress will soon make my ownership of a gun mandatory. This being the case then, and since I don't happen to be able to afford a gun, I can now look forward to a Federal subsidy to provide me with my Federally approved gun? And, if I must own a gun, can I insist that my government subsidy buy me a Purdey shotgun?
I don't know a whole lot about guns--I'm afraid the only gun I ever owned was a BB-gun--but that was over 50 years ago. I do think though, that an antique Purdey (say from about 1860) would look like nice hanging over my front door, and that would give me something to show my local IRS agent every month.
Well, since the Supreme Court has previously decided (along with the folks who wrote the US Constitution) that gun ownership is also a right and not a privilege, then it must surely follow that the Congress will soon make my ownership of a gun mandatory. This being the case then, and since I don't happen to be able to afford a gun, I can now look forward to a Federal subsidy to provide me with my Federally approved gun? And, if I must own a gun, can I insist that my government subsidy buy me a Purdey shotgun?
I don't know a whole lot about guns--I'm afraid the only gun I ever owned was a BB-gun--but that was over 50 years ago. I do think though, that an antique Purdey (say from about 1860) would look like nice hanging over my front door, and that would give me something to show my local IRS agent every month.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Obamacare--a new symbol!
I did not realize it a few weeks ago when I visited the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium down in Litchfield Park, but I seem to have captured the perfect image for America's most recent step towards authoritarian government. Barring intervention by the Judiciary Branch (which, I still think is highly probable), we are all merely months away from being monkeys in a cage, looking somewhat askance at the card carrying IRS agents hovering outside our homes making sure we are all healthy and or insured.
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