Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.
This week….
Robert Ramirez – Sick of love
The Killers – Spaceman
Nelly Furtado – Say It Right
Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
…and finally, Laura Branigan – Gloria
Website Notice : No News stories the mainstream media missed for 09/11/10
There won’t be a “News stories the mainstream media missed” for 09/11/10. I’ve got a double-birthday weekend and some doctors I need to go cough on.
Back Monday!
WalMart in Rio Grande City – money for nuthin’? [PHOTOS]
Soooo I was at the WalMart in Rio Grande City recently, and while I was walking through the store, I couldn’t help thinking of an old Dire Straits song…
…Money for nuthin’…
…and your pix for free!
Lookit dat! Lookit dat!
Great. Now I need to hear the song all the way through…
Who said Wakka Wakka first? Shakira or Fozzie Bear? [VIDEO]
OK, so I’m still hearing Shakira’s “Waka Waka” Africa song all over the radio…
…and to this day, every single time I hear this “Waka Waka” song, this is what I think of…
FOZZIE BEAR WAS ROBBED!!
Seriously. Shakira spells it Waka Waka, but how different is Waka Waka and Wakka Wakka?
You don’t even need to hear Fozzie Bear’s voice in the song!
At least I’m not the only one who noticed. (NOTE : Next video entirely in Spanish.)
I’ll let Statler & Waldorf sum up how I feel about Shakira’s version of “Wakka Wakka”
New LG HDTV display stands! Only at WalMart! [PHOTO]
So I was at the local WalMart checking out the ginormous 52″ HDTVs when I saw this amazing new setup…
Apparently, the best display stand for an 36″ LG HDTV is a 36″ Sony HDTV!
Glass side up!
You can’t see it in these photos, but there were some deep arc-shaped scratches in the Sony HDTV. Apparently somebody pivoted the LG HDTV while it was on top of the Sony HDTV more than a few times.
And here I thought a basic 50″ wall mount was expensive! Who knew it was actually the cheaper option!
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services just launched CuidadodeSalud(dot)gov website
As part of the oncoming public and private health coverage changes everybody is going to have to deal with soon, the US government just updated their major healthcare.gov website with a Spanish-only version.
According to a press release from the US Department of Health and Human Services, a new website called CuidadodeSalud.gov was just launched, and is… “the first website in Spanish of its kind to help consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to new information and resources that will help them access quality, affordable health care coverage.”
“Consistent with the mandate in the Affordable Care Act, CuidadodeSalud.gov is the partner site of HealthCare.gov, which was launched in July 2010, and is the first website in Spanish to provide consumers with both public and private health coverage options tailored specifically for their needs in a single, easy-to-use tool.”
“In addition, the website is a one-stop-shop for information about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act as well as other health care resources. The website connects consumers to quality rankings for local health care providers as well as preventive services.”
“CuidadodeSalud.gov is particularly important for Latinos, who have the highest rates of un-insurance in the nation—more than one in three Latinos are uninsured. Without healthcare coverage, Latinos have less access to care. Latinos are only half as likely to have a usual source of primary care, and half of Latinos do not have a regular doctor. Twenty percent of low-income Latino youth have gone a year without a health care visit – a rate three times higher than that for high-income Whites.”
If nothing else, I am glad the government is giving out information on this oncoming healthcare brontosaurus to everyone possible.
Click here to see the official English press release from HHS, or you can click here to read the official Spanish press release about the new site. You can also click here to jump straight to the cuidadodesalud.gov website or you can click here to go see the English version of healthcare.gov website.
Hermine update – absolutely no damage
Just a quick update to say that tropical storm Hermine did absolutely no damage to the area. As a matter of fact, we didn’t get near as much water as the northern part of Texas is right now! We lucked out down here and were under the “clear” band as Hermine swirled around and we missed 90% of the rain and heavier stuff.
We still have to get all the way through November 30th before hurricane season is over, so I ain’t putting away the duct tape and plywood yet!
Quick pics of incoming Hermine [PHOTOS]
Just some quick photos of Tropical Storm Hermine rolling in earlier today.
*NOTE : These photos were auto-color and auto-contrast adjusted in Photoshop because the 1st generation iPhone camera stinks.
Anyhow, while I was out earlier today re-stocking on emergency hurricane supplies, I noticed there wasn’t the same “grab everything!” mentality at the stores like when Hurricane Alex was passing through. For the most part, people were buying water and some canned goods, but nothing extraordinary.
Unfortunately all the local municipalities said there will be no sandbags available tonight as they were all caught completely unprepared. And, as usual for this kind of incoming weather, the lines at all of the gas stations were qued up two or three cars long.
It’s about 10 pm right now and the air is completely still outside, yet there’s little waves of ice-cold micro-drizzle spraying everything. The streetlights are flickering slightly, and you can see explosive white arcs trying to dig their way out of the thick grey clouds overhead. The local radar shows the big storm bands are making their way around to us from the gulf, so any minute now…
Monday Morning Music : 09/06/10
Every Monday I like to post some music to start the week off on the right foot.
This week….
James Brown – Get On The Good Foot
Lights Out – Rick Astley
Cee Lo Green – F*** You (The Official Video – WARNING!! NSFW!!)
..and finally, Taylor Dayne – Tell It To My Heart
Surprise! Tropical storm HERMINE is here!
OK, I know I said I was going to take the day off from posting, but this weekend, like magic, Tropical Storm Hermine appeared!
It looks kind of Harry. Quite the Sirius storm! Perhaps we should Ron away before it comes in and Fawkes us over!
OK, now that I got the junior-high-level Harry Potter character puns out of my system, in all seriousness, it is coming right for us. That’s not funny. I need to run and refresh my hurricane supplies and prep my home right friggin’ now. According to NOAA, this one might flip into a hurricane right before it hits land.
“HERMINE IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 13 MPH…20 KM/HR…AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. ON THE FORECAST TRACK…THE CENTER OF HERMINE IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE COAST OF NORTHEASTERN MEXICO OR EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS IN THE WARNING AREA TONIGHT.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 50 MPH…85 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER GUSTS. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST AND HERMINE COULD APPROACH HURRICANE STRENGTH PRIOR TO LANDFALL.”
Off to go hurricane shopping now…