Carpentology

George W. Bush

I think this explains who I am voting for in the upcoming election.

I got this banner here.

Modern Times

Doesn’t this just say it all!

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house storing up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.” Meanwhile, Geraldo Rivera sketches the whole thing in the sand.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

Iraq

This is why we have not left yet.
I found this at Little Green Footballs.

One of my other web sites

So as many of you know, I do the web site for my unit: “The Commandant’s Own” United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps. Well, I had some pretty disturbing news today. Apparently the person in charge of the DoD servers called to mention the rules that I had broken, and alluded to the fact that he was about to pull the plug on he site. Now I knew that I was breaking some of the rules, so the call was not the disturbing thing. The disturbing thing is that even thoughI am in charge of the web site, I was one of the last people to hear about it! And I still have not gotten the list of what I need to fix.

UPDATE(2004-04-15): I was finally sent the list of what was wrong today, but unfortunately I will not be my office again until Monday. It figures.

Easter

RJ really enjoyed his mini-vacation. Although he was still bothered by some people.