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I've heard and read some pretty racist things recently—but none of them were said by white people and the derogatory nature of the statements was aimed at white people. Does this mean that it is okay? I just wondered because normally racist statements or even perceived racist statements cause an uproar—which doesn't seem to be happening in these cases.

Has anyone in the Twin Cities noticed that KSTP - Channel 5 in the Twin Cities has been effectively "ridding itself" of all of its news personalities who are growing older? As one of the people in the world who is growing older myself, I think I take offense to that.

The definition of a " Gift Shop ," is a store that sells overpriced things that you would never buy for yourself; that you can buy to give to someone else.

It was a morning just like any other—except that it was different. For one thing it was raining. Most of the time it wasn’t raining; although occasionally it was. Also, though he had somewhere to go, this morning there was no one to go with him—which was also somewhat unusual. Otherwise the morning was just the same as most any other morning. Except he watched a different news station and I guess that was different too. Otherwise it was a morning like any other…

I asked Said what he had to say. He said screw you! then he ran away! If I said what Said said, They'd all want me dead. But no one is mad that Said said what he said! So hear what I say, and take this as warning, You can't say what Said said, in evening or morning. The thing to remember I said once or twice, To say what Said said, wouldn't be nice. —KJC

Will Winter finally go away???

Before leaving Tomah, Wisconsin , we visited the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge . It is a good 20 minute drive from Tomah and while it was a beautiful place, the bitterly cold wind and temperature below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, kept us from spending too much time outside with our two-year-old son. Being it was Sunday, the visitor center was closed—though the building looked quite impressive from the outside.

We had a wedding to attend in Tomah, Wisconsin on Saturday. We stayed at The Lark Inn in one of the Heritage rooms and found it to be a very nice place. We visited The Tomah Cash Mercantile , The Antique Mall of Tomah , Humbird Cheese , and we ate at the Superior Family Restaurant —which was okay—except who makes a shrimp stir-fry with unpeeled shrimp? We also ate at the China Buffet which was quite good. This was the first buffet to have ever charged us for our two-year-old to eat; but at $2.50 (2yr-3yr) it was reasonable. Unfortunately, several places we wanted to visit in Tomah were closed on Sundays; and that is when we had more time. One of these was the wildlife refuge in the next post.

Carl sent me a photo of his swimming hole. I told him to look at the picture again because it looks like it could be dangerous. Click on picture to enlarge—Click "back" to go back

It's been Spring for over half an hour now. Do you think it is safe to change into shorts?

The CEO sent out several emails during the week about his NCAA college basketball bracket challenge. The person who guesses the winners the best wins a $50 gift card! As this reached a pitched fervor among the workers this morning, one of them began to wonder just how much time/money had been derailed in the pursuit of $50? $500? $5,000 maybe?

I pulled into the parking lot and thought that the big snowbank in the middle would be a great place to park my car. But then I saw the sign...

I may have mentioned somewhere in this blog that I periodically have to work with or remote into a server in another state that is very slow. I recently obtained this picture of it. I had originally thought that it was pulled by a donkey who didn't like me—but you can see that it is much more advanced than that.

Where The Coyote gets his tattoo s...  ACME Tattoo

Remember everyone, don't drink the green beer ! Beer should never be green! If you know about beer , it should not be green! If it is green, it probably has gone bad!

Founded in 1666, Hell-town Foundation is one of the oldest malevolent nonprofit organizations in the nation. The Foundation’s first project was soliciting invalids for death rituals. Over its long history, Hell-town has evolved into a private foundation that makes grants to perverse groups of nonprofit human deviant agencies and programs. The Foundation benefits from the involvement of enraged volunteers, a strong cult base, and a history of excellent management. From its modest beginning to the present day, Hell-town has been run by satanic volunteers who have never lost sight of the founders’ mission of community anarchy.

CuTRis is now the Most Celebrated Human in the room.

Disclaimer: The disappearance of Flight 370 is not funny to anyone involved. However, as we receive "information" from various sources about things that may or may not be found or attributed to this mystery, we will no doubt hear more about oil slicks, course changes and floating debris. For the sake of the people involved I hope something is found soon—though I believe they will suffer through several bogus reports before the truth is known. So here, I make light of the reports—not the event. Wrapper on Shore Thought to be From Flight 370 UnAssociated Press March 13, 1014 A candy wrapper that washed up on a deserted beach near Vietnam may have belonged to one of the missing passengers aboard missing Malaysian Flight 370 . Apparently an alleged passenger was allegedly eating that kind of candy while allegedly boarding the airplane. The wrapper was first spotted by a Chinese satellite a few hours after the plane was reported missing. They did not report the finding unti...

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I bought an under gravel filter system for my aquarium from Petco . It was supposedly a Petco product , as that was the brand. Inside there are cartridges with activated charcoal that are supposed to be replaced monthly (I think they recommend every two-weeks). I went to Petco to get the replacement filters and they told me they don't have any! I was also told the under gravel filter systems have gone on clearance—though they are still selling them. Thanks to the Internet I found that PetSmart sells the (Top fin brand) replacement cartridges that will work in the Petco system. So why would you sell something (and continue to sell it) that needs replacement parts—but not sell those parts? That is just dumb!