Some Old Dude

A drinks company moved to tap into a local aquifer in the town of Bundanoon, New South Wales, Australia for its bottled water business and the town rebelled by banning the sale of bottled water, replacing the prepackaged water with refillable bottles.

Hundreds of people marched through the picturesque rural town of Bundanoon to mark the first day of its bottled water ban by unveiling a series of new public drinking fountains, said campaign spokesman John Dee.

I doubt that the bottling plant even noticed the drop in sales but the citizens of the town have. It turns out that by using refillable bottle the towns folk are saving a bundle.

Water is the most common substance in the world and most city water is as safe as anything you can find in a bottle. All it takes to remove most of the bad taste is a simple carbon filter. –So why, pray tell, do we pay $1 or more for a bottle of water?

Here’s a place I bet you didn’t know existed.

Do you have fond childhood memories of a SPAM® recipe your mother used to make and want to re-connect with the historical food? Or are you looking for an out-of-the-ordinary adventure for your entire family? Then the Spam Museum is a must see.

The SPAM® Museum is dedicated to the delicious meat first created at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant in 1937. It’s a fun and informational destination with interactive and educational elements designed for all ages.
It’s Free!

The museum features 16,500 square feet of SPAM® artifacts, history and fun—and all for free! Yes, that’s right— it’s free admission to check out vintage advertising, answer SPAM® trivia, try your hand at canning SPAM® products, stock up on collectible SPAM® memorabilia, and learn about all the SPAM® products, even the hard-to-find varieties.

From details on the role of SPAM® Classic in World War II, to exciting videos and much more, the SPAM® Museum offers something fun for everyone! (Spam — exciting videos????)

You say you’ve seen the museum and you’re a bored with it? Well how about a trip to the Waikiki SPAM JAM® Festival.

If you want to experience an authentic SPAM JAM® Festival, the Waikiki SPAM JAM® Festival is the place to go. It’s a fun filled day of free entertainment and all things about the SPAM® Brand.

Held on one of the most beautiful and famous beaches in the world, the Waikiki SPAM JAM® Festival shows the world how much Hawaii loves the SPAM® Family of Products. It draws thousands of SPAM™ Fans every year with SPAM® recipes from the top restaurants in Hawaii and plenty of live entertainment. Best of all, proceeds go to help the Hawaiian Food Bank.
(Hawaii is the place where they put spam in everything but ice cream….. At least, I don’t think they put it in ice cream.)

Spam: More fun than junk mail.

Have you ever wanted a job where you could run around in your swimsuit all day? Then you need a job at the beach. Not just any beach, but the Beach at Tao in the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tao Beach is currently holding an open casting call today 1pm to 5pm, then again on March 4th and 6th.

If you’ve got the right attitude, and the right body, and want to run around wearing nothing but a bikini and a smile, serving drinks to other folks running around wearing next to nothing, go down and apply. — Who knows? Maybe all that time in the tanning salon will turn out to be a good investment.

And they say there’s no work in Vegas.

This is an excerpt from Doug Hanchard’s blog titled:
How did Congress pass extension of U.S. Patriot Act? Ask your doctor

And then the roof caved in, H.R. 3961 – Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 -was going through the House. Everyone in the House knew about the expiry of the existing extensions of the Patriot Act and thus was slipped as amendments to H.R. 3961. It was either that or watch H.R. 3961 face an uphill battle getting passed on the floor. According to the record, here is how the extension came to the floor as an amendment to H.R. 3961;

I won’t go in to the rest of the details, but I would advise you to read his entire post.

The problem I have with the process is the inherent deceit and dishonesty that our so called representatives use without hesitation, and without any sign of remorse that their bill is so unpopular that it can’t be passed on it’s own merit.

The patriot act is a violation of everything I would consider patriotic. It denies us rights, it assumes guilt and is abused by the police state.

Yes I used the phrase “POLICE STATE.” What else would you call it when an American citizen can be thrown in prison simply because someone didn’t like his name? What else would you call it when the police, in their myriad uniforms, have no oversight?

When the investigatory agencies find a violation of the law by various and sundry police agencies and can’t find a way to bury it, they announce it publicly. And by God they’ll step up and say the law has been violated again if it doesn’t stop.

The law has no teeth; after all, how do you punish an entire agency?

On top of everything else, the NSA / AT&T debacle shows that even if it can be proven that the law has been deliberately violated and names can be provided, the Whitehouse will protect that agency or company. This is done in the name of “national security.”

We have a constitution and a bill of rights that are supposed to protect our freedoms. –Instead they are twisted, ignored or made exception to, because some politician or group of politicians has an agenda.

The bills congress passes are not for our benefit. They are to feed the egos, further the agendas or profit the friends of those in power. And most importantly, they are there to control the peasants.