Good Grief

The death of the public school system cannot come soon enough if this is the type of shit propaganda they are teaching.

(the school is a private school...I wonder where these retarded teachers think the money comes from to pay the exorbitant tuition that you know they charge at this school?)

"American" cars and NASCAR

Michael Waltrip, who runs a couple of NASCAR teams that run Toyotas made this comment recently during an interview about "American" cars in NASCAR:
Don't forget: the Camry is the only car of the four [Camry, Fusion, Monte Carlo and Charger] that's built in America. The Monte Carlo and Dodge are built in Canada and the Ford is built in Mexico. There are seven thousand people in Georgetown, Kentucky who build over three hundred thousand Camrys a year.

United screws the pooch

Of course the phone reps in India don't know how to spell Cheyenne or know what state it's in. Story

Tim Hardaway hates gay people

But George Takei likes basketball players. He really really likes basketball players.

Democrats vs Republicans

Anyone who says there's a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans is fooling themselves.

This, after Nancy has made all sorts of noise about how they were going to be above the fray, etc.

Michigan Tech and speakers

What happens when you have way too much snow and want some speakers? You make some.

Go Huskies!

Pictures from Carhenge

It took me less than 5 minutes to see Carhenge in Alliance, NE.

 
 
 
  

My favorite picture from Carhenge

And it's not even of the cars, it's of an iced-over tree.

  

United is confused on states

 

AIA, or Alliance, the tourist paradise I'm trapped in is in Nebraska (NE), not Nevada (NV). I'm trying to figure out how to email United so they can see the screenshot, but there doesn't appear to be a way to do it. 

A post from "elsehwhere"

The subtitle of this blog is "Andy in San Diego and elsewhere" Today, is definitely "elsewhere". I'm in Alliance, NE. (that's Nebraska). I was originally scheduled to fly out on Friday. But, since the job got done, my co-worker and I changed our flights to fly out on Thursday. We even paid for the pleasure opportunity to fly out on Thurs. But, then the saga began. Around, 2:25AM, a plane small, twin-engined plane crashed on approach to the Alliance airport. He crashed approx 5 mi away from the airport. When we left for breakfast around 9:30am, it was cold (25F), icy and foggy. We called the airport after breakfast (11am-ish) and the lady at the airport told us not to check out of the hotel; the morning flight was cancelled and our flight out of Alliance, scheduled for 1:30 wasn't looking good. The plane needed to leave the barn in Cheyenne, WY, head to Denver and then get up to Alliance. Denver's airport was totally screwed up because of the storm.

Around noon-ish, our flight was officially cancelled, so I called United to re-schedule our flights for Friday (back to what they were!). So, they did it. I checked the United site around 3pm and didn't see my flights listed for online checkin, but they confirmed the flights were good for Friday.

Then, I called again around 6pm and they told me that my Denver to San Diego flight was already cancelled. So, they changed our flight for the Denver to San Diego leg to the 8pm flight; if we do everything on time, we have a 5+ hr layover in Denver. I'm not convinced that Alliance's airport will be open tomorrow as the weather forecast doesn't bode well.