Nutrition Nanny, British style

The Economist is bewailing the effect of Great Depression 2.0 on the British diet.  Sales of organic food is down, sales of fresh meat and fish is down.  Sales of heat-n-eats (TV dinners) are up.  Oh woe is Merry Old England.  Even lower than pub grub is a TV dinner. 
   According to the Economist, many Brits actually like TV dinners, which makes them doubly sinful.  How can we keep all those upper lips stiff eating food that actually tastes good (or at least reasonably OK)?  You have to wonder have well connected the Economist really is.  In America only kids really like TV dinners.  Grownups will eat them, but are less than enthusiastic about them.  I would have thought the Brits would work the same way.

Veep

Lotta names been floated on TV for Romney's Veep.  All the names are Republican senators, governors, and US reps.  It would be a shame to waste a good solid vote getting Republican on the office of the vice president.  For instance US rep Ryan does us more good as chairman of the House budget committee than he (or anyone else) could do as VP.  Likewise Sen Marco Rubio, Gov Chris Christy, Gov Bobby Jindal,  are key Republican politicians filling critical offices.  If one of 'em gets pushed into the VP slot, we have opened up that critical office to a democrat, or at best, a less effective Republican. 
    VP isn't all that important (unless the president dies in office).  Let's find some reasonable and competent  second stringer for VP.  Leave the Republican stars in the critical offices they have already.

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Guy pulls up in front of a house in a VW.  Gets out of the car and slams the driver's door.  About 20 kid's toys fall out of the curbside tree and bounce on the sidewalk.  Just to verify things, the guy slams the VW door a second time.  More stuff falls out of the tree, including an orange cat which lands on the VW roof, meows, and scurries away.

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The Geico Gecko meets the Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote.  Geico must have had to pay some serious licencing money, but the result is very funny, at least for old Roadrunner fans.

The Hipping point

Last night I had the FM radio on.  Playing "The Notch" FM 106.something-or-other. They must have call letters but they never bother to say them over the air.  The announcer tells me that I am listening to "The Hippy Radio Show".  Then he says "The situation has reached a Tipping Point."
Tipping Point?  on the Hippy Radio Show.  That oughta be a Hipping Point, if we are remaining true to our themes.
  Of course it's been 50 years since we had any real hip hippies around.  Which goes to show how up-to-date FM radio is way up here in the mountains.

Gotta keep all them drones on the payroll

The new, not yet  sworn in, government of Greece has announced that they will not be doing the big layoffs of government  workers that their EU lenders/bailer-outers have demanded.  Good call that.  With the treasury empty and running a serious deficit and nobody will loan them money, it is essential to the life of the Greek republic that we keep every single bureaucrat on the payroll.  The Parthenon would crumble with out every single paper pusher drawing his pay.  And benefits, and pension.
    I haven't heard any response from Angela Merkel.  She is smart enough to understand that getting into a shouting match with Greeks just makes Germany look mean to the rest of the Euros.  There is a lot of Euro ill will toward Germany left over from the 1940's.  
    Wanna bet the next hand out to the Greeks gets delayed some how?

Mountain Heat Wave

It's so warm up here that I can leave the windows open all night.  Got up to 80 these last two days.  I hear it got warmer down in the flatlands.