http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com One of probably a thousand Mike's Blogs out there... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:20:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just about 10 minutes ago, I had MSNBC on in the background. The incredibly talented and wonderful Contessa Brewer (/sarcasm) had two guests on to talk about the election. Some guy-- Doug was his name-- was one of the two guests. She introduces him and I missed his last name or ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/08/04/partisan-politics-from-partisan-hacks/ We do quite a bit of our grocery shopping at Kroger. They have this thing called the Scan Right Guarantee. Basically, if the price of an item, once scanned, is different than the price marked on the shelf, you get the item for free. I have been taking full advantage of ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/08/04/kroger-scan-right-guarantee/ Hello gardeners and hot pepper fans. It's time for the sixth update for the 2008 garden season. When I posted Garden Update #5, we had just about completed the final transplant for most of the peppers, going from cell packs to styrofoam cups to 7-inch pots, and finally landing in assorted ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/22/hot-pepper-action-2008-garden-update-6/ A couple of weeks ago, Jaime and I stopped at a dollar store that was in the process of going out of business. They had slashed prices and were now a half-dollar store. We bought one of the items shown below. They're sink screen, and we're using the larger one in ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/22/healthy-life-happy-life/ Get this. We bought a brand new car, as you already know if you read my blog. We bought the car down in Jacksonville, mainly because we had a straight-forward salesman (Bobby Mitchell from Hyundai of North Jacksonville) and because the dealership had a huge selection of Elantras. When we bought ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/15/only-in-georgia/ Well, I just ate my last Breyers brand ice cream cone. I have no intentions of purchasing their ice cream again at any point in the future. See, back in 2006, Breyers was acquired by Unilever, the same company that owns Ben & Jerry's, Klondike bars, and the Fudgsicle and Popsicle ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/14/my-last-breyers-brand-ice-cream-cone/ I've setup a page with information regarding the 2008 presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. If you're interested in finding more information about the debates, check it out: Presidential-Debates-2008.com The page is still in active development. Here is the current to-do list: Fix navigation in IE6. Test(/fix) in IE7. Restyle top table ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/11/2008-presidential-debates-mccain-vs-obama/ Major League Baseball had this promotion wherein if you voted in the All-star game final vote, you would receive MLB.TV for free for seven days. MLB.TV allows you to watch pretty much every game, with the exception of games blocked by blackout restrictions. So I voted the maximum number of times, ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/11/as-american-as-baseball-and-balut-pie/ EDIT: So, my it turns out that my voting numbers were based on "test data" that was not marked as such. Grrr. Oh well, Barrow still sucks. So I'm stuck being in John Barrow's "district." I put it in quotes because Congressman Barrow was originally elected as my representative when his ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/09/congressman-john-barrow-sucks/ So our future most recent ex-president has decided to go to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. He is quoted in numerous news articles as saying that if he were to miss the opening ceremony, it "would be an affront to the Chinese people." I want to point ... http://mikesblog.americasdebate.com/2008/07/06/since-when-is-not-attending-a-sporting-event-an-affront-to-an-entire-nation/