If you wanted to know why, when the power got turned back on briefly and then went out for good, here’s a visible example.

The power company workers even marked that there was a pecan branch hanging on the line and someone knew that it had to be cleared off before the power was turned back on. Well, someone else didn’t get the memo, and when the power was restored, this homeowner went out and filmed what happened next:

Sound req’d

Full story at Chron.com

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Is this depiction of Sarah Palin sexist?
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Sarah Palin holds up a very large pink vibrator

Because, I don’t want to be sexist when talking about the presidential election.
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I mean, John McCain has one of those things too, right?
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After all, what is fair when talking about the fair sex?

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There are significant gasoline shortages in various parts of the South. Stations that are out have refused to pay the huge price increase because of price gouging on the part of their suppliers.

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Yankee Stadium is closing so they can make a new stadium that generates more income. I don’t know why people get nostalgic about buildings. Do people get nostalgic about an old TV set they’re about to throw in the trash? I mean, I know that buildings are Object’s of Art, so yeah, but you’re about to tear it down. And that the building represents many of the events that took place inside. I get it, as long as you’re talking about the entire building. But grabbing a chunk of a seat cushion or a swath of infield grass is silly. That grass doesn’t represent anything, and neither does any other single piece of the whole.

When a person dies, sometimes they wish to be cremated. What to do with the ashes? Stick them in some cabinet? On a shelf? In the ground with a plaque over the urn? No. The ashes are just a small piece of the remains of the person and it’s silly to keep just a piece of something you used to hold dear. Out of context, it’s just fancy dirt. Mixed in with something (or someone!) else, you couldn’t tell one from the other. People quit being special when they quit being.

Buildings quit being special when people quit using them. Honor people and things that deserve the honors while they’re still alive.

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There was some economic meltdown this past week.

It seems the financial gurus we trust to look after our money were incapable of looking after our money.

George Will on this past Sunday’s THIS WEEK (ABC) implied that with the ownership of the financial services to the tune of whatever we’re going to spend, the United States government is now Socialist.
That’s how much of this country those financial institutions now control, and the United States now owns their collective pink slips. Which means the people do. Kind of.

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If you’re too caught up in the financial mess, just sit back take a double allotment of your prescription of Soma and watch tonight’s season opener of HEROES.

This year’s tagline:

SAVE THE 401K, SAVE THE WORLD

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NASA’s Tuesday news conference (mentioned in my Twitter) about the “dying sun” isn’t really about the dying Sun — but the Sun is being rather quiet these days. The Sun always goes quiet every 11 years or so, but this cycle is longer than expected. We’ve seen it this quiet before — back in the 1950s, and again in the 1930s, so this isn’t anything to worry about just yet.

It’s just a coincidence that during the “quiet period” of the Sun in 1933-34, New York City set a record cold temperature of -15degF. Technically, there’s no relation between the two, and temperature records are too scattered to try making anything more of this coincidence…

So in a completely unrelated news item, the ski season in parts of Europe is opening this week, earlier than in many of the last several years.

And we won’t speak of the record cold winter Australia and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere are just exiting, because that’s just related to oceanic current changes.

Therefore, if this winter season is rather chilly for North America, it’s a complete coincidence and a total surprise.

Have I told you I trust weathermen less than I trust financial gurus?

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Thought experiment:

Why is child pornography considered different?
Because in theory, the child involved is innocent and should not be involved in exposing body parts for the prurient interests of others. Others who are looking for gratification of those under age.

Okay, makes sense. But what of a picture, taken of a mother by the baby daddy of the mother breast feeding the child? That picture is then stolen by, lets say Wal-Mart employees, and then distributed because the mother herself is famous.

Theft perhaps. But the subject matter being the spare boob of a 17 year old mother breast feeding?

Not child porn.

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And finally:

The guy who goes around the world giving away free hugs to anyone who needs one found something else he will give away

His kidney