Corporations aren't just for breakfast anymore....

 Go take a read

 http://news.msn.com/us/brand-names-in-ny-standardized-tests-vex-parents   
http://news.msn.com/us/brand-names-in-ny-standardized-tests-vex-parents

   Nobody can deny that corporations are invading almost all aspects of our life. With the Citizens United ruling allowing them to have "free speech" in commercials to sway voters, to sports teams with advertising on their jerseys, to menus in restaurants that have cross promotional advertisements for ingredients in the food, to product placements in movies and the list goes on. But now it seems companies have invaded the COMMON CORE curriculum testing in New York. Everyone denies that money exchanged hands but something smells here and its not the smell of hot fresh crescent rolls from the oven.
       As a convenient out, the school board says that they did not alter test questions that were provided by Pearson the test publisher. What it doesn't say is who provided the test questions to Pearson. Whose to say that the questions did not come directly from the companies with the products in the questions. No money exchanged hands in that transaction but I bet the New York public education system got something somewhere from these companies. It was probably some corporate out reach that got good publicity for the corporations as they did this great thing for the school system with no expectation of benefiting from it except for goodwill from the public. We've all heard it before, there is no free lunch.
     The last line in the article pretty much sums up the corporations thinking:

"Brands are part of our lives," said Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York brand consulting firm Landor Associates. "To say they don't belong in academia is unrealistic."

       Mr. Adamson you say they belong, well I say to you Mr. Adamson, "Brands don't belong in academia you horse's ass". I think America has offically jumped the shark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZGKI8vpcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZGKI8vpcg

Real Ale - Micro Brewery in Texas - Go Bucs!

The only people that remember are shouting at clouds

Very interesting read from the Bonddad Blog

http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-thought-for-sunday-society-is-most.html

I have never heard of the Kondratiev cycle but it does sound like a good theory.

For The Godfather

Pretty Funny Website

I like how it calls out people for their asinine comments and hypocrisy. Go give it a look.

http://assholeoftheday.us/

I Have Always Used it...

The 5 second rule for falling food is actually true. Yeah science.

http://www.today.com/health/5-second-rule-study-says-picking-food-quickly-avoid-germs-2D79362567

Missing Plane in the Strait of Malacca

Maybe they need Kelly Lebrock to search for the plane she seems to be into Malaccas.....


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Update on Denver Car Chase

Wow. It came within a block of my office see the 4:05 mark where the dude turns left in front of the white and brown pickup. If he had turned right he would have headed straight to my office about a block away.

http://www.9news.com/media/cinematic/video/6339205/raw-highspeed-chase-part-2/

Missing Malaysian Airplane

With no sign of any debris and the tracking system disabled on the Malaysian Airlines flight I'm really starting to wonder if the plane was hijacked and is now in Afghanistan or Pakistan being loaded with explosives or maybe a nuke. If that is the case then what would be happening to the people on board? Do you ransom them or do you kill them so there are no witnesses to tell the world that you now have a 777 ready to blow up some big target.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/crash-expert-malaysia-jet-will-become-criminal-inquiry-n51036

Welcome to LA fellow Coloradoans

Had a high speed chase happening today on my way into work. It went all over the city including close to my place of employment, the toll road right near my house and close to the Consigliere's place of employment.Never a dull moment in the big city it seems.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/watch-dramatic-high-speed-chase-in-denver-colorado/

Initially it started in Thornton when the guy stole a running mini SUV with a 4 yr old still in it at a gas station. Drove down I-25 in the middle of rush hour(poor planning on his part) then got off the freeway when it was too congested and drove around on side streets before getting onto I-76 via a field and then came blowing past my office on I-76. He commandeered a minivan in Brighton and drove the wrong way on I-76 for several miles until he got on E-470 heading south and then passed by my house on his way down to the DTC where the Consigliere works. In the DTC he commandeered another vehicle and eventually crashed. He tried to steal another vehicle but the police were right there and he was caught after a short foot chase.

What's next.....

Homer says......Happy Shrove Tuesday!

Agree with Homer? Talk Amongst Yourselves......

Real Holiday or Another Hallmark Event?

Maybe the Godfather can help me determine if Steak and Blowjob Day is a real holiday or just another Valentines Day for dudes.

 

What's at Stake for Olympic Hockey This Friday.

Breakfast of Champions

My Type of Race!

Danish Olympic Athletes....

....are now nervous that if they don't do well they might be fed to the lions.

I'm a little worried about the Danish guy with a broken ski - last I saw of him, some nice-looking men were leading him towards the lion enclosure at the zoo.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-10/news/chi-danish-zoo-giraffe-20140209_1_giraffe-zoo-veterinarian-british-zoo

Funny Sochi 2014

http://www.canada.com/olympics/sochi-guide/sochi-facilities-still-a-work-in-progress

https://twitter.com/SochiProblems

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/sochi-winter-olympics-2014-athletes-3124024



Favorite line of the week from the young Sochi volunteer on the bus, "we don't have problems in Russia, we have adventures"

Consigliere Really Wants to Go...

The consigliere really wants to go to Burning Man as it is on his bucket list and I have to say that living in the desert for a week in a tent amid dust storms and heat sounds like a great time. But then I read this....

http://harddawn.com/10-terrible-secrets-behind-the-burning-man-festival-that-sodomites-and-socialists-dont-want-you-to-know/

....and I'm not sure if I want to go especially after reading the comments which included the following which must be a factual story as it is on the internets:

"I journeyed to Burning Man last year to see it before the entire event 
went corporate after being sold by the original organizer. I was greeted
at the ticket gate by two naked homosexuals engaged in anal sex and 
juggling at the same time. I gave my admissions
pass what appeared to be a woman with a penis implanted onto her 
forehead. I was told that's what she used to sodomized goats when out on
her part time job as a desert Shepard back at home where she made extra
money by producing animal porn with various creatures, alive and dead, 
but mostly dead. After entering I was flabbergasted to see thousands of 
naked bodies surrounding a huge stature of Beelzebub chanting something
in Latin I didn't understand. Many of the people were on their knees 
and many of them were being sodomized by other participants who were 
also chanting. Surrounding the idol of the beast in a large pentagram 
shape were living humans nailed tree trunks upside down, all of whom had
been coated in paraffin and oil as to be used as candles in order to 
light up the night with bright flame and who were screaming in agony as 
fire slowly consumed their bodies. I considered turning back, but I 
vowed to continue my journey into this otherworldly Hell in order to 
report back to the unknowing world my experiences."

....and now I'm a little concerned.

Yes I know it is all in jest and I think it is hilarious especially #9 & #2

Terrorist like Bond Films I Guess...

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to be on the look out for toothpaste bombs being smuggled on board airlines

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sochi-olympics/feds-warn-russian-flights-about-toothpaste-bombs-n23101

This immediately reminded me of "Dentonite Toothpaste' from the Bond movie "License to Kill"

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/q-branch/dentonitetoothpaste.php3?t=mi6&s=ltk

So now we will not be able to bring toothpaste, shampoo or deodorant in our carryons. Are they trying to turn us into the French when we go on vacation?