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If there's one thing Washington is good at, it's forming committees.
Late night Tweet with a lot of truth:
"I guarantee you Obama cares infinitely more about Jon Stewart tearing him apart then just about anyone else in the media."
Also, it defies belief that Harry Reid would keep repeating that the Gosnell trial and verdict was more about unclean surgery rooms than the death of babies.
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After so much news of ugly, ugly crimes, this story of an old style jewel heist is...well...movie-like. Not too threatening, very old fashioned. The thieves get away with 50 million in diamonds, but are caught.
Clear and clear cause and effect.
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Here's a list of the highests paid media CEO's. In aid of nothing really, just an FYI. The highest paid is CBS's Les Moonves who received 62.2 million last year.
Only one woman on the list and she is with something named Regal Entertainment. And, hahahaha, the head of AOL is there too, who knew AOL was stilll viable.
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The second annual Concordia Seminary fund raiser to fight children's cancer (St. Baldrick's) took place late yesterday afternoon. Dale participated for the second time as did 28 of out students and staff.
Here's Dale after
And here's new grandson Nick when he saw him
Good time, great cause.
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The numbers are out for 2013 and the verdict is in: More people make purchases under the golden arches than anywhere else.
McDonald’s beat out such behemoth’s as Wal-Mart, Walgreen’s, and Target to stake its claim as the country’s most visited retail business.
And the numbers behind it are staggering. In March, 49 percent of Americans over 14 years old ate at McDonald’s.
This is interesting information considering all the talk by food experts to convince us to stop going to places like McDonald's, the list of the 50 most visited fast food places is also fascinating. The study published a list of the top U.S. restaurants and beverage destinations by in-store visitors. The top five are McDonald's, Subway, Burger King, Starbuck's and Wendy's. The others are listed here.
Most likely some of those on the list are not commonly present in all parts of the country or they'd be higher on the list. For instance, I'd love to try a Chick-a-Filet but they are rare in the St. Louis area, it would mean making a bit of a drive for fast food.
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Contrary to what most of us have believed, it isn't the tread thinning out or going bald which can cause blow outs or flats, it's dry rot.
"The rubber loses its flexibility and begins to crack at the surface, and the structure becomes more and more brittle (think of a really old rubber band), leading to sidewall damage and eventual failure." UV exposure is the most common cause of dry rot and if you live by the ocean with sun, sand and salt, your tires will dry out much faster.
Something new to worry about. Here's a link with a few examples of what dry rot on tires looks like.
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Gardeners now have more than the Farmers Almanac to help them increase their crop yields or keep track of rain amounts. Technology has begun to plow new ground with gadgets designed to make home gardens more efficient.
The VegiBee is one of these. The idea behind this is to pollinate tomato or other vegetable plants which haven't produced much in the way of fruit. The VegiBee website comes across more like a less than serious infomercial, but according to a story in the New York Times, the inventer has had very good results with it. The only issue I can see is the tediousness of the process which involves holding a vibrating wand next to a tomato blossom so that pollen will fall into a spoon (which comes with the wand). Then the gardener must go to another tomato plant and gently dip its tomato blossoms into the pollen.
That may be fine for someone who only has a few backyard plants, but it would be very time consuming to those who have many. But the VegiBee is only 50 dollars and if you had the money to spare it might be worth trying just to see if the crop yield increased from previous years.
There's also the Rapitest 4-Way Analyzer which measures moisture and pH levels, but also determines whether to add fertilizer and what the sunlight level is in a particular spot in the garden. 30 bucks.
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And they're gonna get married.
Later today, Lauren Popov and Kent Muniz
Collinsville people will be on the seminary campus today!
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Was happy to see this group mentioned somewhere the other day. If you only listen to elected national democrats you'd believe no democrat could be pro life. But having lived in the St. Louis metro east for years, it was fairly common knowledge that many life long local democrats (which was pretty much everyone in Madison and St. Clair Counties) were not comfortable with abortion. They were more likely to be all in for local democratic candidates as their forebearers were, but had to think long and hard for the national ones mainly over the right to life issue.
So there are still democrats for life, albeit quiet in their POV.
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Right Now? We've had such cold weather this spring, but looking outside I see the lawn with an alternating pattern of high grass clumps and no grass growth. It looks horrible. And, what are those awful weeds that have the purple flowers and lots of green? They're massed in the lawn and have grown beyond belief.
So it's out to cut today in both places. I need a new lawnmower to top it all off, mine gave up at the end of last season after years of service. I really want this one. The seminary got one last year and I borrowed it a couple times. This is the best working home lawnmower I've ever used. The color is different this year, but hey so what. The best part other than it is so easy to push and cuts so well? There is only one lever you need to move to raise and lower the blade. All these years I've had mowers where there was a raise lever on every wheel.
So if anyone see Dale today, could you mention I really really need this lawnmower.
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