artsy farts

This is one is for tosa crosser since he feels the arts in this country get a bum rap. I stated the billions wasted on art. I was a wrong - it is a bunch of billions. The liberal ass that wrote the article in the globe even took a shoot at Regan for taking away the tax break to donate to the arts. So I really care about art only if it’s a tax break for me. Nice Thursday, January 31, 2008 But Federal subsidy of the arts in our country accounts for only about 15 percent of the total budgets of established arts institutions, as compared to between 60 and 100 percent in more civilized nations. (The US gives about 9 billion and West Germany gives $26 billion just to the theater.) Still, in the mean-spirited climate bequeathed us by the Reagan legacy, in which the arts are impoverished along with the poor, in which philanthropy is discouraged by the new tax laws and in which corporate and foundation giving usually goes to special projects designated by the donor, the restricted percent contribution remains indispensable at a estimated $9 billion per year. Two paragraphs later Apparently freedom of expression remains a Federal guarantee - unless supported by Federal subsidy. A staff member to Senator D'Amato said that the Senator was ''absolutely opposed to censorship, but we are talking about taxpayers' dollars.'' (Half dollars would be more accurate: the Endowment's funding has been frozen at $70 billion for the next eight years.) But Senator D'Amato's concern is touching in one so deeply implicated in the burgeoning Federal housing scandal. Ok just waiting on the comment now on how much the war cost per day to justify pure tax payer waste. 70 billion over 8 years. I would rather see it spent in schools on books, without pictures.


UPDATE

Well I have been on a conference call the past two hours and have been looking at what the endowment has paid for or will be. What a joke this is a slush fund for pet projects. More than 3b of the money in 08 will go to upgrading the entire PEG (public, education, goverment TV) programming across the county to digital before the 09 deadline. Another 1 b will be release to communities for common area beatification. Then 1.6 b will be shifted to the National education budget for art appreciation. So I stand corrected the amount going to the arts is less than they make you think.

happy birthday shelly

The wifes first road bike is on the way.

only a clyde will understand

10 scoops Vanilla Ice cream
1 can Whipped Chocolate Cake frosting
1/4 cup Hershey Chocolate Syrup
2 Cups Milk
3 bananas
12 cherries

Throw in the blender until smooth.

Serve with a nice cookie.

time for you to understand

First of all when you dial 911, you dial 9 -1 - 1 not 9 - 11 there is no friggin 11 on your phone. Second, so many people post how pissed they get when they call the cable or the phone or satellite or what ever they have to wait for service. Well friends its a rule or law code entitled Communications Code Parity 272. Which set the percentage of customers to the percentage of customer service workers per company. It was enacted to prevent the small little companies from getting a bad name for bad service because they could not hire workers. So if hometown telephone has 10000 line and 5 workers the same large company in the area would need have nearly the same percentage of workers. This was a disaster for the big phone and cable companies in the 90's when Sprint and Worldcom had signed up millions on customers and hire no customers service or field forces of there own. They used contractors to do the work. It forced the ILEC phone companies and cable companies to lay off 1000's of customer service agents and outside field forces. The law was scraped just recently in 07 and big changes will be happening soon in a lot of sectors. I know everyone thinks there are like 6 phone companies, but in the 4th qrt of 07 the FCC still has 2079 registered phone companies and guess what the three big boys in the bunch had the cheapest dialing and data rates. I see why hillairy hates them for saving the public money. In the same report there were 220 satellite providers. Why no cable companies, well the truth is a cable company is a satellite provider. Just drive past a cable offices and see the large arraignment of satellite equipment.

medic

Man last night was rough on the riders at gate practice. I crashed on my first lap when I was going through the rhythm section and my right hand came off the grip. So I have a few scabs on my knee, elbow and shoulder and shoulder blade, yep all that from falling at 5 mph. Then you can tack on the guys with the broken ankle, the smashed up puss, then the dislocated elbow and shoulder, then some guy busted up some ribs when he looped out one jump and chest blaster the next one. I did find myself riding behind the bike a lot so I kept my gate to a minimum. I think Jay was right this cool just has be all jacked with balancing. Well till Sunday at 5:30 try to stay warm.

so good you feel quilty

This is why the government wants to, or should get involved. In the good old days I would eat 2 of these with onion rings and a chocolate shake. That is a lot of protein.

Burger King Double Whopper w/ Cheese w/ mayo
1340 Calories
80 g Fat
185 mg.Cholesterol
1710 mg.Sodium
61 gProtein
820 Calories from Fat
36 gSaturated Fat
60 gCarbohydrates
4 gDietary Fiber
9 gSugar

still ill. Watched all the football.

loosing it

Yep , did gates on Thursday and didn't feel to hot after. Woke up Friday called in sick and got out of bed today after the giants game. After the shower I got on the scale and this sickness really drops the weight fast when you can't even keep water down. Called the doc and he was a good guy a called in some good drugs to take.