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A friend of mine had a very loud voice.  As we were driving he would spot someone keying the lock on their own car or house.  He would shout in the loudest voice possible:  "HEY YOU …. GET OUT OF THERE".   The funniest part is that it worked.  People would jump and look guilty as if they were breaking into their own homes!

A couple of friends of mine used to do a funny prank wherein they would wait until someone was walking into some area they were unfamiliar with.  The would blurt out a curt "It’s a bathroom" … and the more times than not the person being pranked would dead foot stop and turn around.

I know a friend of a friend who is working during the week in Las Vegas.  Several large projects are going bust in bankruptcy and alot of the people there are not paying their mortgages.  When the people not paying their mortgages they note that none of them have paid their mortgages in monthes but yet the bank has not contacted any of them.

Also reported was that it used to be hard to get a flight from/to Las Vegas from Phoenix.  There used to be a flight every 40ish minutes.  Now there is a flight only every 3 hours and you can get a seat. 

Las Vegas is going bust.  I never saw the appeal to Los Vegas.   I guess in a difficult economy other people don’t either.

You can apply for a free BMovement Obama pin.  At the same time you will be depleting their resources.  How anti environMENTAL of BMoveOn.

You can do the same by going to www.imao.us and clicking on their google ads.

To add creativity mangle your friends name in creative funny ways.

     I made a food baby THIS big!

I thought liberals were atheist.  The above logo appears to be implying the sun shines out Obamas rectal orifice.  The liberal god is a hairy stinky god populated by Klingons.

When you start getting junk mail, don’t just toss it: open it up, and if there’s a postage paid envelope inside, use it to send back the contents  along with all the other junk you can fit into to the envelope. after all, they pay postage by weight, so load that envelope up.

For the truly evil among us, shred some of the contents prior to sealing the envelope. with any luck, this will jam the automated machine at the receiving location, and maybe even take out a few other replies from useful idiots.

I find the patent system laughable. 

-1- For the small guy it is just a way to publish your technology so it can be used by other bigger fish sans compensation.  How many lawyers can you afford to pay full time?

-2- Its a great way for big companies to bully little ones.

When I worked at Honeywell we engineers were encouraged to apply for patents.  If Motorola sent a stack of paper 6 inches tall Honeywell wanted to be able to respond with a stack of paper 12 inches tall.

Who but a big company could afford the herd of lawyers required to fight such battles?

Watch and learn.

Good presentation on adiabatic quantum computation.    In information theory class I learned that by using the Laplacian form and maximizing entropy you can find the description of physical systems.  The adiabatic minimization will work well in these scenario.

A joke told by Bernie Mac shows a Twain-ish twist that illustrates the high art of communication.  When you take it to this sort of level like Twain and Mac it pays.

His joke was as follows:

My little nephew came to me and he said, ‘Uncle, what’s the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?   I said I don’t know … but I’ll tell you what you do. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she’d make love to the mailman for $50,000.   Mother saying she’d sleep  with anyone  for $50,000 — and daughter hypothetically answering the question in the same way.  Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000……….. But realistically speaking we live with two hos.

This joke is at its core very intellectual.    His illustration of wishful thinking versus realistic thinking contains a clarity hard to explain to people in normal language.   

It shows people who act out of motivation of wishful thinking to be the clowns that they are.( read liberal voter here ).  We conservatives have these laughs at you liberals expenses everyday.  When a liberal starts going on about global warming.  When you go on about raising taxes as a good thing.  We laugh at you.  We laugh hard.  And we wonder how can anyone be so damned square as to believe it.  But that is the "power" of wishful thinking.  It is the power to make use more powerfully brained conservatives laugh hysterically at your clumsy antics.

I predicted there would be war because of falling oil prices on August 1.    It has come to pass on August 8th with Putin’s attack on Georgia’s oil pipeline. 

Liberals be aware:  by not letting us drill at home in the USA you are keeping prices high and making it irresistable for these despots like Putin to take measures to keep the price high.  

But then you libs love despots.  You probably think rainbows emanate from Putin’s rear end.