Bad Christmas Music

Ok, what’s on the Christmas menu?  A nice ham?  Perhaps some lamb.  What better to accompany the feast than music sung by what you’re eating?

A Barnyard Country Christmas could possibly be the most annyoing music on earth (next to the old barking dogs of course).  Plop this in the CD and your guests will almost be able to smell the manure.

Unfortunately, it is not currently available on Amazon.com.

Is It Time to Move Christmas?

With Christmas under increasing fire from non-Christians and, let’s face it, losing most of its religious connotations in an orgy of retail frenzy, perhaps we should look at changing the actual date.

Anyone trying to fly out of London Heathrow or Denver Colorado today is finding that the weather is conspiring to screw up their holiday.  Fog in England and snow in the US is closing airports or delaying flights.

Why not hold Christmas in June?  Just before the start of the summer vacation period.  The weather is better.

Just a thought.

Asshat Of The Day

Today’s award goes to the grandmother who put her 1 month old grandson through the X-ray machine at Los Angeles’ LAX airport.

In second place are the screeners who didn’t notice until the baby was half-way through the machine.

From the article comes this obvious comment:

“Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn’t happen again,” said Dr. James Borgstede, a diagnostic radiologist at Penrose-St. Francis Health Systems in Colorado Springs, Colo., and president of the American College of Radiology. “Human beings weren’t meant to go through those things.”

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Bad Times In BC

British Columbia, and indeed the entire Northwest coast of North America, has been going through some really savage weather lately. Snow, rain and terrible winds have been lashing the area for weeks and the damage cleanup continues.  I haven’t been following the news closely but this story hit home.

I lived in the Vancouver area for a number of years in the 60′s and 70′s.  Many, many hours were spent walking through Stanley Park which is, in my opinion, one of the greatest greenspaces on Earth.  At the edge of downtown Vancouver, the park is a sanctuary of old growth forests, the seawall and numerous walking paths.  It’s hard to believe how powerful the winds must have been to take down some of these huge furs.

Bad Christmas Music

I like Jimmy Buffett.  Heck, I’d even say I’m a honorary Parrot Head.  One of the best concerts I ever saw was Jimmy in the Amphitheatre at Ontario Place.

Why oh why did you decide to jump into the polluted Christmas Music pool?  Did your airplane need an engine overhaul or something? Perhaps the Corona supply was running low.

Jimmy was born on Christmas Day (way back in ’46) so I guess he’s felt entitled.  Whatever.  You can still find it at Amazon.