Amazed

I went outside last night (I have Sunday and Monday off) to mow the back yard.

Before the actual mowing, I went and got the pooper scooper to clean up…

Food made with injustice is so tasty!

As I previously mentioned I would do, I went to Pei Wei during the protest. I’ll report on it in Random Thoughts style:

• When we got there, just a little after 6, there was one person from the protest inside talking to the manager about it. He tried talking to people inside about the protest, but was quickly run off for loitering. Not that i blame the guy for wanting to stay inside, it was 106 out there.
• Pei-Wei’s orange peel chicken is really, really good.
• People eventually showed up with signs: one said something about not eating food “made with injustice.” Refer to this blog entry’s title for my thoughts on that…
• When I walked outside to take the picture you see above, I pointed out that the fired employees didn’t call in to say they were missing work. One asked “So you want to join us?” I responded with something to the tune of “No, I think y’all are a bunch of idiots!” and walked back inside.
• By the way, more people showed after I took that picture. There were probably 10-15 folks there total.
• As we left, I talked a little with one of the protesters. Here are some highlights from that:
• He asked me if I thought employees should be fired for missing work. I said “absolutely.”
• He then asked me if I’d ever been fired (as if that was really relevant) and I said no. The guy went on to tell me that he has been four times. Which sounds crazy, he couldn’t have been much older than me and fired FOUR times, really? Wow.
• He then brought up the economy and how hard it is to find a job, as if he thought that it should have some sway on the issue. I simply told him “Yea, I know, I just moved here and JUST got hired after looking for a job for two months.”
• He then started talking about that “racist” SB 1070. I asked him “What part of illegal don’t you understand?”
• It was then that I was convinced that the guy should be a talking head on the Sunday talk shows. He was a master at dodging the crux of questions.
• It was then that I left, stuffed with food made from injustice.

So, what did I learn?

• Protesters are stupid, and…
• Pei-Wei’s got some awesome food.

And that’s all I’ve got to say about it. I’ll leave you with this picture of my meal:

Is crazy in the air back in Texas?

[Right: BISD Spokeswoman Jessie Haynes. Photo from BISD website]

Yes, that’s right, I’m blogging about news back in my hometown. Try not to be shocked.

Thursday night, a sign outside the Beaumont school district’s administration building that reads “Recognized” (In regards to the state’s rating for the district) was changed to say a six-letter racial slur that starts with the letter N. I’ll let you figure out what that slur is…

Anyway, they had a press conference about it yesterday afternoon, and these gems came out of it:

[District spokeswoman Jessie] Haynes placed much of the blame for the vandalism on the media for allowing readers to leave comments on websites and blogs, then encouraged media outlets to remove critical comments directed at BISD, [district superintendent] Dr. Thomas and herself in order to prevent further escalation. She went on to say, “Little seeds like this grow into the Oklahoma bombing.”

Really? You think the ability to leave comments is what caused some idiot to do this. Ever think about the precedent you may be setting by asking media outlets to censor comments that are critical of you? That might be pretty ugly too.

You’d think that would be the extent of the crazy from the press conference. You’d be wrong:

New toilet design could help the environment. But will men like it?

As far as the environment is concerned, your #1 isn’t #1.

Thankfully, those crazy Europeans have found a solution for the problem. Read about it over at SciGuy.

Realistically, I could never see something like this being implemented on a wide scale. It would just cost way too much money to be worth it…

Well, that and I prefer to stand when I pee.

I wish she’d just kept her mouth shut

I took my grandmother to a late breakfast yesterday morning. She’d gotten up early yesterday morning (like before 5) when my little brother woke her up and said something to the tune of “I think I’ve got appendicitis, I need to go to the ER.”

They went, and he was right. They caught it early, so it wasn’t anything terribly serious. He’s had it removed and will hopefully be coming home today.

I stayed home because things had to be taken care of, then got up to the hospital about 10:30. My grandmother hadn’t eaten yet, so we planned to go grab a bite in a little while.

When my cousin got there we told him we were going to head out and grab a bite to eat.

While we were chowing down on Breakfast, my grandmother (who, I remind you, broke her wrist in January) said “2009 has just been a bad year for us.”

Now I’m wondering what’s going to happen to me…

Of course, I’m just worrying too much. Right?

And I thought my last name was bad…

… but K T Cat shows me a name that’s way worse.

Heh.

Your very own Sarah Palin?

Yes, that's right! For just $29.95 you can have your very own Sarah Palin action figure, courtesy HeroBuilders.com.

You can choose from three variations. They've got the plain one with her in a pantsuit, one with her dressed up as a school girl, and the "super hero" one.

I think I'll pass...

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Appeals court: Size doesn't matter

This has to be the strangest defense I've ever heard of:

Houston's 14th Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a local doctor for indecent exposure.

The court rejected the argument by high-profile attorney Dick DeGuerin and his associate Neal Davis that the doctor could not have exposed himself to an undercover cop because that which is alleged to have been exposed is too small to have been seen.

It's a column worth reading to the end if just to see the details of the defense and how it was concocted.

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