As long as the crayons mostly stay in the box, this should be pretty effective. If they collect dirt (or suffer ultraviolet bleaching), a box of crayons could drift off their reference value.
I have a service that automatically screens anyone calling who doesn’t offer caller ID; they get kicked over to a set of prompts that allows them to input a password to ring through directly, or tell their name to a computer that will then call me to ask if I want to talk to them. The menu that it then prompts me with includes the option of telling them "take me off your list". It has drastically cut down on the amount of phone solicitation; nowadays it's mostly charities, to whom my response is "Let me know the URL of your web site; it is the policy of this household not to respond to phone solicitation."
Traveled? I buy that stuff off the shelf at the Safeway on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale, CA. :-) That recipe looks about right; in addition to selling it coarsely pre-ground in a big container (about a pint), which is very handy when you need to coat a huge slab o’ meat with the stuff, they also sell it in a small cylinder with a grinder on top so you can get the spices freshly and finely ground if you just want to season a sandwich.
For Yule, we slow roasted an 8½ pound top round (after letting it spend the night smothered in Montreal steak seasoning); it came out medium rare all the way through and very tasty.
Excellent!
I've made a habit of researching opinions on all the candidates and propositions on my local ballot and blogging the results to save headaches for my friends and coworkers. (Propositions usually wind up with tables of pro and con opinions, candidates usually wind up with lists of endorsements and grades from organizations that issue them.) It's an extra level of effort from just reading up on the issues, but the thanks I get from my fellow voters makes it worthwhile.
McCain was actually fighting hard for the Batrachian-American vote.
Some of those old-fashioned conservatives are voting for Obama, like a former publisher of National Review.
If you are unhappy with having our electoral choices reduced to only two by Duverger’s Law, I commend your attention to the work of the Center for Voting and Democracy. Isn’t it odd that our politicians pay great lip service to the free market, but won’t give us a free market in politicians?
Sounds like Sarah Palin is eminently qualified to be the 43rd President of the United States.
Just not the 45th.
An analysis of the McCain health plan states:
Senator McCain's health plan has three central features: withdrawing the current tax exclusion of employer payments for employer-sponsored coverage (in other words, taxing premiums paid by employers), introducing a refundable individual health insurance tax credit, and deregulating nongroup insurance by permitting the purchase of policies across state lines....
Eliminating the tax exclusion would greatly reduce the number of people who obtain health insurance through their employers. This decline would be driven by three factors: the effective price of employer-sponsored coverage would increase, the nondiscrimination rules would no longer apply, and low-risk employees would have less incentive to remain in employer-sponsored groups.
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For our analysis, we took a middle-range estimate from these studies and assumed that the elimination of the income tax preference for employer-sponsored insurance would cause twenty million Americans to lose such coverage. We note, however, that the effect could be much larger.
Or, to put it in more personal terms: John McCain wants my wife to die in agony.
Senator McCain, do you remember that promise you made to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell? Just to make sure, why don’t you carry him in?
I'd vote for Sethra Lavode. We could use someone who can plan past the next election.
Disemvowel filibusters! Vote Tor in 2012!
The version of the song I learned in high school choir spelled it gill, a unit of fluid measure.
Sunnydale is close to Santa Barbara; we don’t have a Hellmouth here, just Superfund sites from old microchip factories. :-)
And sunlight here in Sunnyvale has a distinctly orange cast to it.
I suppose they could try being honest and use “I got mine; you’re on your own.”
“It’s better to do something than to do nothing... even LOLcats.†I am reminded of one of my stepfather’s favorite G K Chesterton quotes: “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.â€
Lee @ #26, what do you think those gigantic safes in Cheney’s office are already full of? And note that Bush transferred power to Cheney during a routine colonoscopy long enough for Cheney to write pardons as well.
Born 2/1971. Without any reminders, I remember the Iranian hostage crisis, the 1980 election, Rhodesia becoming Zimbabwe, and the first Space Shuttle launch (got up waaay early Pacific Time to watch it live). Also some vague recollections about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a rabbit. Looking over Wikipedia's list of events, I also remember Three Mile Island, Skylab coming down, and only being able to buy gasoline on even and odd days. For non-political events, I remember seeing Star Wars in 1977 and coming down with strep throat shortly thereafter.
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