Sunday, May 17, 2009

Phone state

I'm in Greece for a few days before going to Macedonia. I spoke to a Greek man who described the differences between the United States and Greece. He said when he was in Washington DC, a friend started to wash his car. Within minutes the police arrived. A neighbor had called the police. He said that is the same thing in Albania. Neighbors reporting on neighbors. That doesn't happen in Greece. Greek's make less money, but they enjoy life more.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Pull out of Washington

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week:
"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in
the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total
of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000
soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the
same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be
shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun
control laws in the US, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington."


Wednesday, May 06, 2009

The Oprah Winfrey Show/Kentucky Grilled Chicken Two-Piece Meal Coupon

Dear Oprah, My wife sent me your webpage with an offer for a KFC meal.
She couldn't get it to print from her computer. Not only would the
coupon not print on my computer, but it required me to download a
garbage software before making my attempt. Now I have to uninstall
the software. How many other people had a similar experience? I
wonder.
Ah, finally my wife got the coupon to print. She went to a KFC and they had posted a sign saying "no more coupons accepted." A customer who came in at the same time said he had been to three KFCs and none were honoring the coupons. This is a PR nightmare. Sometimes too much promotion doesn't work.

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