Comedian Al Franken is the rightful winner of a hotly contested US Senate seat, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision which could hand Democrats unchecked control of both houses of Congress.
“Unchecked control of both houses of Congress” ... Gosh you don’t suppose this AP tag line was written by a Republican do you? Just a bit melodramatic => MjL
Rabbi Bloom was getting quite a reputation for his sermons. His synagogue was always packed because his congregation didn’t want to miss a single one of his words. One Sabbath, one member had to go to another synagogue to attend a nephew’s bar mitzvah. Because he didn’t want to miss the sermon, he asked one of his non-Jewish friends to go in his place and tape the Rabbi’s sermon. In that way, he could listen to it when he got back.
When other members of the congregation saw what was going on, they too decided to ask their non-Jewish friends to go in their places to record the sermon. They could then do other things, such as play golf or go to football. Within a short time, there were 100 gentiles sitting in the synagogue recording the Rabbi’s sermon.
The Rabbi got wise to this. So the following Sabbath, he, too, asked a non-Jewish friend to attend on his behalf. His friend brought a tape recorder and played the Rabbi’s pre-recorded sermon to the 100 non-Jews in the congregation who then recorded the sermon on their own machines.
This was believed to be the first incidence in history of “artificial insermonation.”
I gave in. I took a shower. I was getting itchy and couldn’t stand myself. I will have to find another way to offend them so they won’t pick me for a jury.
It appears the coolant leak on the scooter has been fixed. I am pretty happy about that! Next I need to make visor for my GPS so I can see it when the sun is bright.
Tracey has today off ... at least she is supposed to have and the phone hasn’t started ringing ... yet. It will be nice to have her around! She is supposed to have Saturday off too. I hope she gets both today and Saturday because she has been spending too much time at work.
MjL 02 Jul 2009, 04:10 a.m.
MjL 02 Jul 2009, 05:21 a.m.
I love that comic above!! I KNOW Dave would gladly give up his career for me! ;) No such luck for him though. Andy is out baiting lobster traps right now. I bet he is having a ball! He took a picture from the friends’ back deck. Tall green (very green) grasses and a waterway a little ways from the “backyard”. I guess he also got a new “toy” last night. It’s a mosquito catcher. It looks like a tennis racket. I don’t know what that is all about, but I bet Andy was entertained for hours! He’s just too easy! Off to work again today.
Tammy 02 Jul 2009, 06:54 a.m.
I thought the toon was appropriate!
Hope Andy doesn’t get sea sick or fall in!
MjL 02 Jul 2009, 07:57 a.m.
That would be me....sea sick!! (I’d probably fall in too!) My dad is with him and took a picture on his phone and sent it to me. If I ever figure out how to get that picture to you, I will. Hey, I just learned how to send a text message a week or so ago!
Tammy 02 Jul 2009, 08:00 a.m.
That’s the trouble with the cell phone photos ... the greedy wireless people don’t make it easy to share photos on anything but another cell phone so they can make $$$.
MjL 02 Jul 2009, 08:08 a.m.
Tammy, you probably have a miniSD or microSD card slot on your phone, and you can get a mini/microSD card and adapter so it can plug into a normal SD card reader and put it on your computer that way. Not easy at all, huh? Alternately, you could just forward the picture message Andy sent just like an e-mail :P
Noah L 02 Jul 2009, 7:39 p.m.
Hi Noah.....huh?!?!?!?!!! Wow! I think you have just beat your dad out of the “Mr. Technology” title! :) I got my Verizon book out for the phone, but I’m still in the dark. I know I can take it to them and they can email it to my computer. I can’t find anything to send to a computer email address on the phone, but remember...I just learned to text a couple of weeks ago or less! I’ll keep trying and thanks Noah.
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