Sheep Shots: Random Pot Shots

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Random Pot Shots

Tony Snow joined the ranks of folks who are leaving (or have left) the current administration citing "family" and "finances." Seems to me that a person making $168,000 a year (of my tax dollars) ought to be able to afford to send his kids to college. According to many sources, Snow took a pay cut to take this position. Didn't he save anything from that better paying job?

Assuming that he's on-call 24/7/365, that's $19+ an hour. If we assume a 40 hour work week and no vacation (how likely is that??) that's $80+ per hour! Heck, that's $168,000 a year!!People struggling on minimum wage ($5.15 an hour until very recently) are laughing! Middle income people with kids in college are appalled!

Yahoo, host of almost all the knitting e-lists I follow, has been bouncing my emails for over a week. I reactivate, then I have to reset my preferences from "new and improved" to "traditional" (because I like the old format better). This has been going on, as I said, for over a week. Three times a day, many days. Enough! I contacted my isp who responded very quickly with a translation of the error message: Yahoo! (Or should I say "Yahell?"). It's on their end.

Have you seen the new Viagra commercial? Middle-aged men, likely aging garage band types, jamming and singing about their limp members. How likely is that? Elvis is rolling in his grave!

There would be pictures of the felting. It's coming along. Still to go: the felting of the remaining leaves, the assembling of the wreath. The stitching and stuffing of the rabbit, the knitting, stitching and stuffing of the Clauses. Where are those tiny sheep?

Labels: ads, current events, fair entries

// posted by Ann @ 8/19/2007 07:42:00 PM

Comments:

that Viagra commercial is so pathetic.

I'd say it's contrived, but aren't all marketing campaigns?

Tony Snow...I aired my own thoughts on him as well.

My conclusion is that he's dying. Don't tell me all the rich Republicans won't open their wallets for him, or that his old boss, Rupert Murdoch, won't front him some cash for a book deal.

No, something else is going on and I speculate that his health is failing to the point where no amount of money will matter.

Hence the reason Fred Thompson is pulling out the stops raising money for him like he did for Scooter Libby.

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