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Awesome Car Commercial

Eric Gooch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:49:39 +0000

Someone at work mentioned this, had to share:

Pregnant Pumpkin Belly

Eric Gooch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:59:42 +0000

So my daughter is a Halloween freak, and also happens to be about 8 1/2 months pregnant. She decided that I should paint her belly to look like a pumpkin, so she could lay in some leaves and we could take “pumpkin” pictures. Go figure.

So the family headed out for what is probably our last picnic for the season…once the snow starts, you can’t get up into Lamoille Canyon without snowmobiles.

Click the image below for pics…(then hover your cursor over the right side of the pic to advance.)

We used acrylic paint, which I heard peels off pretty easily afterward. So there you have it!

Drilling for More Oil Not Top Priority?

Eric Gooch — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:11:34 +0000

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had this to say at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, a bipartisan energy summit:

“WHITEHOUSE: Gentlemen, we’re in the middle of a near total mortgage system meltdown in this country. We have a health care system that burns 16 percent of our GDP, in which the Medicare liability alone has been estimated at $34 trillion. We’re burning $10 billion a month in Iraq. This administration has run up $7.7 trillion in national debt, by our calculation. And there is worsening evidence every day of global warming, with worsening environmental and national security ramifications.

In light of those conditions, do any of you seriously contend that drilling for more oil is the number one issue facing the American people today?

[NINE-SECOND SILENCE]

WHITEHOUSE: No, it doesn’t seem so.”

Global Warming Deniers (Including Rush) Fall for Fake “Report”

Eric Gooch — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:57:53 +0000

Ok, this is funny. A report by Low Carbon Kid talks about how global warming is a hoax and gives “evidence” by showing that it’s not due to man, but rather “saprotrophic eubacteria living in the sediments of the continental shelves fringing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.” Global warming deniers jumped all over this, including Rush Limbaugh, who headlined a show with it. The problem? It was a joke. An attempt made to see how gullible people were, and how desperate they are to cling to the idea that mankind is not responsible for global warming.

Low Carbon Kid says: “Its purpose was to expose the credulity and scientific illiteracy of many of the people who call themselves climate sceptics. While dismissive of the work of the great majority of climate scientists, they will believe almost anything if it lends support to their position. Their approach to climate science is the opposite of scepticism.”

A number of people ran with the story without even bothering to verify the source.

Read the whole story at DailyKos here.

Health Warning

Eric Gooch — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:28:33 +0000

Great cartoon by Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Open Government Act receives “Secret Hold”

Eric Gooch — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:58:30 +0000

An unidentified Republican Senator placed a ‘secret hold’ on the Open Government Act.

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

More at Secrecy News

Mommy, Why is my Cheeseburger Glowing?

Eric Gooch — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:30:48 +0000

Awesome.