- Now the gummint wants to predict the future. Given their fear of us, I suspect surveillance of us will play a large part. And their “predictions” will be just as wrong as their pernicious assumptions.
- Yep, I’d say that collection agency got just a tad bit out of hand. Hope that old lady beats the &^%$# out of ’em.
- “Spirit of a Racer in a Dog’s Blood”
- Oh, so this is where all those Downfall videos come from!
- Cubicleism: a new school of art. 🙂 (Actually, this guy does all these copies of classics on a white board. With dry-erase markers. In two-minute intervals. While his computer is booting up. Amazing.)
Thanks to MJR for several of the links here. I would add more, but I’m at the library using their wireless — after stupidly breaking mine during some home “improvement” this afternoon — and they just announced closing in five minutes. So bye for now, and more later, after CenturyLink comes out to save me from myself.
Also, if I owe you an email, it’ll still be a while …
A government that can’t even decide on which versions of past history are correct, will not do so well prediciting the future. It’s more proof that the Government believes they can replace God. It is also proof that various military contractors have found another way to remove tax payers money from the government.
I have heard the heroic story of Balto (with apparent embellishments), but not of Togo — though later I do remember reading about some controversy concerning the dogs on the diptheria run. But never heard what it was. ANY dog that made that run is a hero in my book.
Huskies are good, and fun, dogs and the love of running is so apparent when they’re in full gallop. I can’t speak for other breeds, but the animal rights activists who consider
dog racing abuse don’t know what they’re talking about re: Siberian huskies; it is more abuse NOT to run them, to keep them in an ordinary yard or household. They are truly specialized, and I hope never are bred (or cross-bred) for anything else. It means that most people would never own one, but, to me, the joy of seeing them in their own element is like someone else might enjoy Disneyland.
Predicting the future is very iffy at best. Science fiction writers have the best track record,and even then it’s just odd bits here and there (L.Neil Smith predicted the Internet and laptops/ipad type devices, Dean Ing predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union-even got the year right). I place absolutely no faith in any sort of future predictions…look into the past at their predicitions. How many actually happened? Way too many variables.
There’s a webcomic originally done on a eraseable board-I think it’s called “the Whiteboard” or “Doc’s Machine Shop”. Some guy in Alaska..
Collection agencies do weird things. My Mom found this out the hard way. They may send collection notices out to 500 different people with the same name, looking for one of them, leaving the other 499 to clean up a mess-and maybe some of those 499 are stupid enough to send in money..Collection agency error rate-especially the junk debt buyers-is absolutely phenomenal. I’ve known several people who have spent a lot of hours cleaning up after a collection agency left them a mess. To quote a coworker, there will be a special place in Hell for collection agencies, and he’d like to have a hand in designing that place…
Naw, it’s simple. Whatever future the government predicts, it will require more government control to keep it … under control.
And they’ll be right!
In the infamous words of Master Yoda from Star Wars… “The future is difficult to predict, always changing it is”. Now how the gubbermint is going to beat a Jedi master is anybodies guess 🙂
off topic
Claire, knowing you’re a dog lover, here’s a link to some pictures from an underwater perspective. Very unusual.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/feb/14/underwater-dogs-pictures#/?picture=385913196&index=8
What cool doggie pix……
This looks like the future to me…
http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=25131
D.
An entity that cannot accurately predict the past and is so woefully inept at predicting the present will be totally lost when trying to predict the future. Project stargate, anyone?
OT for sure, but it looks like Greece is in the final stages of collapse. There’s all kinds of rumors about the dreaded bankers holiday coming soon. I see a lot more similarities between Greece and the US than other places. It will be worth watching and learning from.
Brian — Indeed, great doggie pix! Thank you.