Mother Jones is back on her diet after this experience:
I was really looking forward to my forbidden treat, but I lost my appetite after I bit into my hamburger. It was blood red in the center.
Fast food can be faster than you want. You might want to at least check the cooking after the first bite instead your usual approach.
Write down your answer before you go below the fold to find out what this is (click on image to see it full size):
Ed Brayton encourages us to applaud these kids and I am happy to join him.
They are certainly taking a step in the right direction.
However, why are they reciting any pledge at all?
The only ones who should be reciting a daily pledge are our servants: government employees everywhere.
As I wrote here a couple years ago:
..there is a group who by dint of their position should recite a pledge…probably several times per day. That would be the set of government employees, elected, appointed or hired, throughout the world. Our servants: congress critters, kings and queens, premiers, secretaries of desks and states, governors, presidents, soldiers, firepersons, police, mayors, etc.
They, each and everyone, in every government job throughout the world should start their day with something like:I pledge allegiance to the people of name your jurisdiction and swear to protect their lives, help them maintain their liberty and assist them in their pursuit of happiness.
…and repeat it frequently throughout the day and once again before going to sleep at night.
Free individuals are under no obligation to recite pledges of allegiance of any kind.
We recently left home for a week and used the USPS online tool to have our mail held.
We gave them the stop date and the restart date and printed out a nice form confirming all the relevant information.
How did they do?
Not well!
They delivered mail for at least two days after the stop date and the restart date has gone by and we are still waiting for mail to arrive….
This level of performance may earn one a high school diploma but out in the real world the grade is failing.
Unfortunately, the USPS has a monopoly on certain types of mail. This needs to change!!
There is some competition and even though I’m a bit of a Luddite when it comes to electronic bills I will confirm our evaluation of the USPS by moving a 4-5 monthly and quarterly items to electronic delivery or payment.
I want one of these!!
No, I want lots of’m, hundreds!!!