{"id":47,"date":"2002-10-22T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2022-12-10T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T03:06:36","slug":"dumb-things-around-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2002\/10\/dumb-things-around-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb things around the island"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep meaning to take my little digital camera with me to work, since I’m all over the place, every day, and take pictures of the signs that I think are cool or, more often, stupid. I forget every single day, since a morning person I am not. Still, there are two things that I can describe, without a problem so here they are:<\/p>\n

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  1. We’ve got a congressman running in our district, Joe Finley or some-such, who has the stupidest tag-line I have ever seen. It says, “Elect Joe Finely. Make America Safe.” Now, I don’t know how electing a freshman into Congress would ever Make America Safe<\/em>, and the sign does not elaborate, but I did check out Joe’s website<\/a>, where I learned that, as a Republican, he shares GW’s vision. Great. I’m so sure that will help. Please, laugh out loud, as I did, when you read his position on Social Security<\/a>. And keep in mind that no matter what Democrats or Republicans or the Media say, Social Security is solvent<\/a> and can currently pay out benefits longer than it could have in the past 40 years, without one bit of change to our taxes or payouts.<\/li>\n
  2. The next bit of stupid signage is a license plate. It says, “IXXI MMI.” At first, I admit, I was the stupid one, trying to figure out what the number IXXI represented. Was it 19–1? 1–21? A score of some sort? Could this guy mean 1921? Oh, oh, wait it is 9–11. Oh! 9\/11\/2001! Oh. Why? We all know the day’s significance, but why put it on your license plate? Why encode it? Useless maudlin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay, well, that wraps up this episode. I really am going to try to get the camera out there. Every day I see something that I think, oh that’s cool, or, oh that’s effen ridiculous. And I’d like to share these with you, my faithful dozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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