Archive for the ‘Quickie’ Category

A little over a week ago, Gatorland park in Orlando, Florida suffered a major fire. The fire charred the giant gator head landmark entrance to the park. It was also responsible for the deaths of 2 snakes and a crocodile. An investigation determined that the fire was caused by a heating pad.

Gatorland is planning to reopen the park on November 24th. Their original plan was to reopen on the 22nd but Gatorland President Mark McHugh said

The construction would’ve been completed, but in order to handle our guests safely and efficiently from the new entrance, I believe we needed another day to work out our operations.

Gatorland will use temporary admission gate near the Gator Wrestlin’ arena until the main entrance can be rebuilt.

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Way back in during the Gulf War (1991), Dick Cheney said that going into Iraq and trying to put a new government in place would be a “quagmire.” What a difference a decade makes.

Actually, it doesn’t make much of a difference. The only difference is that now Cheney & friends think going into Iraq was a brilliant idea. They just can’t see the quagmire that Iraq has become.

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Mark Fiore has come up with 4 possible political ads you might have seen this year. Or at least 3 that could represent ads you might have seen.

ad wars

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I finally had to lock the door and turn out the lights. When I did we had been visited by 148 frightening and cute apparitions. That’s probably the highest amount we’d ever had for Halloween trick-o-treaters.

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Until recently, Bush has been using the phrase “stay the course” to explain his policy for Iraq. Now the administration has abandoned that phrase. Or not. Rumsfeld is still a fan of the “stay the course” vernacular.

As is typical when the Bush administration wants to distance themselves from something, they first claimed that Bush never used the phrase “stay the course” and then changed that to he only used it 8 times.

Let’s see what Keith Olbermann found