Random Ponderings

I may have mentioned some of these before, but here are some interesting business names I've driven by lately.

I Love Lucite
Age of Aquariams
Hogan's Heroes (yes, it's a sandwich shop)

Those led me to look up some others.

The Codfather (a fish and chips shop)
Wok and Roll
Hairanoia (yes, a hair salon)
Many Happy Returns (a tax preparation company)
Budget Burials (their slogan is "cheaper and deeper")

This next one might have been inspired by a shot from the Blues Brothers movie in 1980

Here's the movie image:

Wok This Way
Indiana Bones - Temple of Groom

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Roy Moore is the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.  Now he's been suspended for allegedly exceeding his authority by attempting to keep the state's same-sex marriage ban in place in spite of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling that made such state-level bans unconstitutional.

Maybe he should get Kim Davis to divorce her current husband and marry him instead.  They'd make a really disgusting couple.

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A story in the San Francisco Examiner makes it clear that administrators at Raoul Wallenberg High School in San Francisco attempted to entice a Caucasian student with a Hispanic surname to step in and replace an Asian student in a student government post; "...in the name of diversity."

I find this extremely unsettling.  Doing away with student elections and then trying to twist the arm of a student is just wrong.

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Why in the world does Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker want to drug test recipients of unemployment and food stamps, when such testing is prohibited by Congress?  To send a message?  To make a point, aside from the one atop his noggin?

It is part of the conservative agenda to find any way possible to prevent those in need from receiving help from government coffers.  That's why.  Fortunately the courts will shut him down.

Any employer who furnishes drug test results on former employees to Wisconsin to aid Governor Walker in his efforts should be publicly scorned and boycotted.

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For the 4th time in the history of modern paintball, a player has suffered damage to a major organ.  A teen playing for the very first time took two shots to the abdomen.  No bruises were left.  Two days he was rushed to a hospital with what appeared to be appendicitis.  But it turned out he was bleeding from his liver.  Weeks later he is making a full recovery.

Paintball seems really safe.  It is.  So is riding on a roller coaster and yet someone just died doing that.  Guess nothing is ever completely safe.  Heck, I almost fell out of bed this morning trying to reach down and turn off my CPAP machine.

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If a business is giving money and/or services to a candidate involved in an election; and that candidate is in a current elected office where they will vote on an issue impacting that business, is that proper?  I sure don't believe it to be.

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is running for L. A. County Supervisor and because the incumbent, Michael Antonovich is termed out, someone will replace him after the election.  A commercial billboard company has posted ads supporting Englander's bid, although not in coordination with his campaign.

Totally inappropriate.