Important Stuff -- Or Not: Back To the Future

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Back To the Future

I haven't posted much in the last few days because I've been trying to break into the 21st century, and there are a few glitches in my time machine. I was watching my new plasma TV the other night and reluctantly had to admit that I was just watching a bigger TV. So, I decided to do something I've been putting off for years, which is upgrade to digital cable. I had to get the box. I hate the box. So, I went down to Comcast yesterday and picked up the box. An extra $70 a month for digital, plus an extra $4 a month for the box. Took it home and hooked it up and got a bunch of new channels. But I noticed that some channels were in bold print and I couldn't get those. I also didn't get any HD channels. Called the cable company and found out I have the wrong box. I need an HD box, which is also a DVR and will cost another $5 a month. Of course it will. So, went to Comcast again and switched boxes. Oh, and one more thing, I'd need an HDMI cable to hook it to my TV. No problem. I went to a nearby CompUSA and found a four-foot HDMI cable -- for $101. It's a nice cable, but it doesn't cook, clean or sleep with me. Hooked up the new box and, SURPRISE! Not only do I not get HD channels or bold type channels, I get only about five local channels. So, I fiddled with it for the rest of the day, called customer service and all I got was an appointment with the cable guy for next Tuesday. Great, now I'll have to get off work and stay awake till he shows up. And then have a total stranger casing my apartment. I'll display my six-gun in a prominent place. Well, just about time for Bill O'Reilly. Guess I'll watch him -- only bigger.

Ohhhh, rats. John Kasich is hosting O'Reilly tonight. Good thing I have a Tim Holt movie on TiVO.

2 comments:

Tonto said...: Does Tivo change your life or what? Man I wish I could see your new TV?; 11:49 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Unfortunately, I live in an apartment where dogs and dishes are not allowed. There have often been times I wished I had a second DVR, so I guess that will be nice. But rather than paying $9 a month, I might just buy one.; 6:10 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.