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Just an older fella’ and disabled vet (Cold War submariner) enjoying life, blogging and the great community that comes with it. Otherwise…anything goes here at Just Thinkin’. Want to know more? Head to my my About page.

The Market is Down. What a Relief.

I’ve been a bit worried about the state of the market over the past month or so. All this talk and news reports on how bad off the economy is getting, big businesses losing their rear ends, high price of oil and food etc, so why wasn’t the overall market reflecting all this? What [...] Read more »

Posted 07 July 2008 § Times a changing ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

I Got a Discount on my House Also, So What?

I may not be the world’s biggest Obama fan but the latest news stories about him getting a “discount” on a new home is absolutely ridiculous. Can’t they do any better than this?
Obama Got Discount on Home Loan - washingtonpost.com
The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent [...] Read more »

Posted 03 July 2008 § Rants § The News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Charlie has Been Sold Out. Anybody Understand Corpspeak?

Poor Charlie, he was sold out to the Koreans along with the StarKist brand when Del Monte decided to unload their seafood division to the Korean Dongwon Group companies for $363 million dollars.
Okay, fine then. Another American standard is sold out, such is life. By what I get out of the article is that Del [...] Read more »

Posted 30 June 2008 § It figures ‡ Comments (0) °

Organic, fur bearing, can fed, anti-blogging device

Need I say more?

Tags: cats, pets Read more »

Posted 28 June 2008 § Life at home ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Bush Buying Time for Big Oil?

This has got to be the most transparent move that the current Administration has pulled yet.

The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact.
Source: Bush administration halts solar energy projects on federal lands: Phoenix Business Journal

Yeah right. [...] Read more »

Posted 28 June 2008 § It figures § The News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

An Icon of an Age Passes On

George Carlin, the originator of the original Seven Dirty Words (upped to eleven as time went on if I remember correctly), the one comedian that’s followed me throughout the my entire life–is gone.
This is the end of an age indeed.
He broke all the rules and made us laugh while he did it. He showed us [...] Read more »

Posted 25 June 2008 § Getting older § Just Thinkin § Times a changing ‡ Comments (0) °

Losing my Mind Again-Upgrading to 2.6 beta 1

Yup, it’s that time again. My absolute addiction to using beta software has left me no choice but to once again update my WordPress install to an official beta 1 release of the upcoming version which in this case is WordPress 2.6.
Things are libel to get very wonky here during the upgrade but as long [...] Read more »

Posted 25 June 2008 § Misc posts ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged:

From the Mail-One for the Irish

I got a set of 4 good Irish jokes in the mail today and I thought the first one was the best and although I’m sure it’s most likely an old one as far as my Irish friends and fellow bloggers are concerned, I thought it was pretty good myself. So with all my respect [...] Read more »

Posted 23 June 2008 § Just Thinkin ‡ Comments (0) °