Fifth Grade and Steroids

It appears that Mike Wallace's revealing interview lays Roger Clemens' soul open to us. Roger repeatedly denied using steroids. Mike's journalistic talents came up a zinger of a question and Roger, surely caught off-guard, was exposed for all to see.

"Swear?" Wallace asked Clemens at one point, according to a partial transcript of the show, which is to air Sunday night.

"Swear," Clemens responded.

What a hard-hitting interview! What insight! What..what...UTTER CRAP. "Swear"? Give me a break, that level of soul-searching honesty was given up back in the fifth grade. Good lord, Clemens might as well have said,

"Pinky promise," Clemens responded

Or, better yet,

"Cross my heard, hope to die, stick a needle in my...ooops," Clemens responded with a wink.

Good grief, just end it already, Roger. I know. He knows. We ALL know.

Hat tip to Co for the tip.

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Do NOT let your wife/girlfriend see this

More on the guy who took a rifle and made it cute by putting Hello Kitty on it.

Read the comments on the thread, a lot of guys are now having to see how to get a copy of the gun for their wives and daughters, all because of a paint job.

The gun is a real Stag 2H rifle with a MonsterMan grip, ambi-selector, an A1 stock, a YHM Phantom muzzle brake, and a C Products 10/30 magazine.

Light bulbs and thermostats

Well first I'm going to talk about Iowa. ITS FINALLY OVER. Who won and why? Lots of good blogs and media talking about it so I won't bore you (or me), besides there are two more interesting stories I want to share with you.

Now the scientists are saying florescence lights, especially the compact type can be bad to human health and even cause skin cancer. While the boss doesn't like CFL's I've been using them for a number of years and haven't had any problem. I find this article more humorous and label it junk science. Maybe we should all go back to burning whale oil. After all, it is a renewable source of energy. Each family will get one lamp and it can only be burned for an hour a day, that should keep demand to within reason. (disclaimer, the bit about using whale oil is sarcasm).

The other is from our good State of California (where this blog is written). A proposed change to the building code laws will mandate programmable communicative thermostats in all new construction. That means someone else can control your thermostats and turn off your heat or A/C when they not you think they need too. Currently Southern California Edison is trying to get people to install these system by offering incentives. But we has homeowners have the choice to install them or not. The new law will make sure that someone else (the power company or a government agency) will decide when a house is using too much heat or A/C. No thank you.

Have a good weekend.

Dirty Job

I scuba dive for recreation, but think this job falls under the category "they can't pay me enough to do this". Mike Rowe here is a new dirty job for you.

Some people might pooh-pooh it, but Brendan Walsh likes his job.

I'VE been a professional diver for 25 years. My company will do any job that involves wetness. As long as there's a fluid of some kind, we'll attack it. We'll do anything from pier rebuilds and bringing up boats that have sunk, to high-tech diving in sewage farms.

Mostly we do general maintenance at the sewage farms but it could be rebuilding pumps or clearing blockages. I've done about 1000 hours of sewage diving. Working in a pit of sewage is very difficult; you can't see anything for a start, so everything's done by feel.

Here is the money quote of the article, well for me anyway.

It doesn't really worry us, what we're diving in, but it would be nicer if people actually chewed their corn.

Its finally begun

Finally, after months of so called debates, of professional pundits telling us who we should vote for etc etc, the first caucus will take place tonight and we will see what the voters not the pollsters have to say about the candidates.

I am really starting to like the UK style of campaigns. 3 or 4 weeks only and then its over, unlike here where the Presidential campaign has been underway for the last year or so.

See you tomorrow. Wonder who will win. I have no idea.

New year and new stories

Did you make any New Years resolutions? If so, how many have you broken so far?

One resolution many make is to get organized. The problem often isn't due to lack of space but a lifestyle of keeping everything. The comments at Lucianne are also worth a read.

People move out to the country to get away from city life and then complain about the lack of city amenities and their country neighbors. Well John Edwards got his wish, his country neighbor is moving but the sign stays.

Will Data from Star Trek be with us by 2050? And if the robots are able to replace humans in relationships, Scott Adams (Dilbert) is correct, society will be doomed when robots or virtual reality becomes cheaper then dating.

Wolves and the changes taking place in the West.

World War V, nuclear war between Israel and Iran. Who wins? An interesting and rather frightening look at the subject. Oh yeah, WW1 1914-1918, WW2 1939-1945 WW3 (Cold War) 1948-1989, WW4 (War against terror) 2001-???

A look at life in Fallujah, slightly different then what the media would have us think.

This will drive the anti-gun folks crazy

The law of unintended consequences is alive and well in the State of California.

Guns are evil because they look scary etc. etc. etc.

Go and check out the HK AR-15 at RifleGear.com. No, HK does not stand for Heckler and Koch but rather Hello Kitty. Yep you read that right. Go over and check out the gun. Perfect gift for your 8 year old daughter, introduce her to weapons early so she will know how to use them correctly and how to defend herself if or when the bad guys come and the police are not around.

Hat tip Of Arms and the Law