Happy New Year.

May 2008 be the year of change and prosperity.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Happy Turkey Day… Time to find what we can be thankful for and fall asleep from too much turkey.

I know one goofy girl that I am thankful for everyday! She reminds me every time that there are lots of good things in a world gone crazy! The power of kids.

Just happened to run along Reuters top list and I found it interesting what (or should I say in what order) the top two things were listed.

• Bounty hunter “Dog” off air indefinitely for slur
• Arizona nuclear plant normal after pipe bomb found

Ok, we have Dog being yanked off the air by A&E for saying the N word about his son’s girlfriend.

And then AZ nuclear power plant is all ok after a pipe bomb being found.  I pipe bomb and nuclear power plant!  Boom + stuff that makes bigger boom = really bad boom?

I am glad to see we have our priorities straight in the media.  Racial slurs over atomic explosions.  Thank goodness.  And the think I thought American society was going down the tubes (is that the sink or these internet pipe things in Alaska?)

Oh Chis over at chris.pirillo.com has done it again. He desribes his account of being stopped at airport security checkpoint… read on to see how we have made the US so much safer since 911!

So, I’m passing through the security checkpoint at the mouse fart of an airport in San Jose, CA (coming back from a rather remarkable Under the Radar event)… TSA tells me that my carry-on bag would need to be inspected. I was a bit puzzled, but not shocked – as I decided to store all my electronics in the mini-whale and not check it at the ticket counter.

He tells me that I’m carrying liquid. I was?

I normally check my luggage, so I completely forgot about the small tube of toothpaste (which cost me $47.99 at the hotel mini-bar – a bargain at any price), my lip balm, and my freakin’ can of freakin’ antiperspirant / deodorant. What the freak? Are they freakin’ serious? Yeah, I know – these things should have been in a baggie, but…

Okay. This is how we stop terrorists. Seriously?

I’m just going to check my bag next time, as I should have done tonight (in the first place). The ten minutes I save by not having to wait for baggage to come around on the carousel is simply not worth the hassle of having to chuck products that could apparently take down an entire plane.

And to the guy who was unfortunate enough to sit next to me on the flight, I deeply apologize for all the garlic farts – Brandon was the one who suggested the Macaroni Grill for dinner. I would have popped a few butt mints (great idea – someone needs to fund it) but they were confiscated along with my collection of rare Commemorative Abe Vigoda snow globes (too much liquid, had to abandon at checkpoint).

I come home from the airport, unpack my suitcase, and guess what I find lying underneath all my dirty clothes? A pair of extremely sharp scissors.

I shit you not.

Oh this is just so wrong. I had a flash back of a “don’t run with scissors” episode. Get rid of the toothpaste, but keep the scissors. Great safety review. Maybe next time you should keep the plastic Glock next to the toothpaste.

For those that remember the Dan Quayle Potato fiasco of the 90′s. This one is just as good or maybe even better since he was already in office (got the job), while Hillary is trying to let us (the voter) have the job!

Notice anything wrong with the banner behind Hillary in the picture?

New Jobs for Tommorrow?

Is TOMMORROW a new company?

Oh wait, they mean the day after today. Isn’t that spelled TOMMORROW?

Oh, I get it, they wanted to see if anyone was actually paying attention to what she was saying. Her staff must of figured if they put something misspelled in front of this high tech crowd their spell checker brains would kick in and listen. I hope she doesn’t plan to run the country with this staff!