Cute Dwarf animal photos

In achondroplastic dwarfism, the critter had a full-sized body and head, but with short limbs and ears.

Everybody knows about dwarf dogs, the cute Dachshunds and Corgi dogs.

In fact, the word “Corgi” means dwarf in Welsh:


"Corgi" means "dwarf" in Welsh!

It happens to humans too, and Achondroplastic dwarf people can lead normal lives:


Achondroplastic dwarfs have a regular sized torso and head, but with stunted limbs

I own several achondroplastic dwarf horses:


Spot – the world’s shortest Appaloosa



Twinkie – Short legs, but she can run like the wind!

Now they have achondroplastic dwarf cats.

They call them munchkin cats, very cool.


A dwarf "munchkin" cat

I may get one, a need more of my collection of tiny critters:


(L to R) BB, Noel and DKB (not a dwarf)

Getting a help desk job

Because of global economics, companies are now “offshoring” their help desk work, but there are issues with quality:



But it’s more than just having a heavy foreign accent.

Today, jobs working the help desk are frequently filled by failed computer professionals. It’s the old adage:

Those who can; do

Those who can’t work the help desk:



For example, Dell was flooded with complaints about staff that spoke with nasty foreign accents:

“Newspapers located near Dell's Austin, Texas headquarters reported that customers were complaining not only about having their calls answered by technical support staff who spoke with accents”.

Today, help desk jobs are filled by “accent neutral” professionals, and help desk jobs require the same Northwest Ohio accent that has been required for TV reporters for many decades.

Allow the verbally disabled to work help desk jobsBut the most disturbing trend is that people with verbal disabilities (stuttering, Tourette's) are excluded from working at help desks jobs:


These people's accents disqualify them for help desk jobs

For example, victims of Tourette’s syndrome who exhibit Coprolalia (involuntary shouting of profanities) may be legally excluded from help desk jobs.

It's just not right.

I think that the American with Disabilities Act should be broadened to allow disabled people to take-on any job they want.

Help Desk customers will understand if their support person randomly screams profane words at them, and they would be impressed that the companies hires the disabled.

This man is your friend

These WWII posters are hilarious.

They were made for Americans sailors and soldiers who did not know an Australian from an Austrian, and the stereotypes from each country are fascinating.

I just love the cute hats:









To an American, a foreigner is a foreigner, they all look alike!

They even have a poster on how to tell a Japanese enemy, based on their facial attributes:



How to tell Japs from Chinese – LIFE Magazine

Hilarious new Nigerian FBI e-mail scam!

I just fished this crap out of my spam bucket!

Just look at the crappy grammar in this e-mail.

I cannot believe that anybody falls for these stupid Nigerian scams anymore:

**********************************************

ROBERT MUELLER III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DC.
Email: wwwfbi.investigationdept@live.com
Telephone Operator: 206-339-2854
FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET

ATTENTION:

We believe this notification meets you in a very good present state of
mind and health. We the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI) Washington,
DC in conjunction with some other relevant Investigation Agencies here in
the United states of America have recently been informed through our
Global intelligence monitoring network that you presently have a
transaction going on with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as regards to
your over-due contract payment which was fully endorsed in your favor
accordingly.

We will find a way to fix a schedule for you to come to our head-quarter
in Washington DC to enable us advise you on what to do, but meanwhile you
are further advised to be contacting us via email for now because we are
having various investigations that we are working on now. Keep everything
regarding to your transaction confidential for security reasons and note
that we have not informed the local FBI department in your state regarding
this matter because we want to keep everything secret until your fund is
been transferred to you accordingly. We the FBI have purposely create an
email in order for us to contact you personally and our phone codes
departments are not aware of this new improvement,so don't call our
service line regarding this email, soon we will provide you with a line
you can call for more information about this contract winning funds.For
the main time we the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington DC will be
helping you to monitor all the transaction w

It might interest you to know that we have taken out time in screening
through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and have
finally confirmed that your contract payment is 100% genuine and hitch
free from all facet and of which you have the lawful right to claim your
fund without any further delay.Having said all this, we will further
advise that you go ahead in dealing with the Central Bank office
accordingly as we will be monitoring all their services with you as well
as your correspondence at all level.

In addendum, also be informed that we recently had a meeting with the Mr.
Tunde Lemo The one incharge of funds transfer in Central Bank of Nigeria,
in the person of Mr. Tunde Lemo along with some of the top officials of
the Ministry regarding your case and they made us to understand that your
file has been held in abase depending on when you personally come for the
claim. They also told us that the only problem they are facing right now
is that some unscrupulous element are using this project as an avenue to
scam innocent people off their hard earned money by impersonating the
Executive Governor and the Central Bank office.

We were also made to understand that a lady with name Mrs. Janet White
from ARIZONA has already contacted them and also presented to them all the
necessary documentations evidencing your claim purported to have been
signed personally by you prior to the release of your contract fund valued
at about US$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million united states dollars), but the
Central Bank office did the wise thing by insisting on hearing from you
personally before the go ahead on wiring your fund to the Bank
informations which was forwarded to them by the above named Lady so that
was the main reason why they contacted us so as to assist them in making
the investigations.

They further informed us that we should warn our dear citizens who must
have been informed of the contract payment which was awarded to them from
the Central Bank of Nigeria, to be very careful prior to these
irregularities so that they don't fall victim to this ugly circumstance.
And should in case you are already dealing with anybody or office claiming
to be from the Central Bank of Nigeria, you are further advised to STOP
further contact with them in your best interest and then contact
immediately the real office of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) only with
the below information’s accordingly:

NAME: MR. TUNDE LEMO
OFFICE ADDRESS: Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Business
District, Cadastral Zone, Abuja,
Federal Capital Territory,
Nigeria.
TEL: 234-1-7601971
Email: tundelemoremittt@gmail.com

NOTE:

In your best interest, any message that doesn't come from the above
official email address and phone numbers should not be replied to and
should be disregarded accordingly for security reasons. Meanwhile, we will
advise that you contact the Central Bank office immediately with the above
email address and request that they attend to you payment file as directed
so as to enable you receive your contract fund accordingly. Ensure you
follow all their procedure as may be required by them as that will further
help hasten up the whole procedures as regards to the transfer of your
fund to you as designated. Also have in mind that the Central Bank of
Nigeria equally has their own protocol of operation as stipulated on their
banking terms, so delay could be very dangerous. Once again, we will
advise that you contact them with the above email address and make sure
you forward to them all the necessary in formations which they may require
from you prior to the release of your fund to you.

All modalities has already been worked out even before you were contacted
and note that we will be monitoring all your dealings with them as you
proceed so you don't have anything to worry about. All we require from you
henceforth is an update so as to enable us be on track with you and the
Central Bank of Nigeria. Without wasting much time, will want you to
contact them immediately with the above email address so as to enable them
attend to your case accordingly without any further delay as time is
already running out. Should in case you need any more information in
regards to this notification, feel free to get back to us so that we can
brief you more as we are here to guide you during and after this project
has been completely perfected and you have received your contract fund as
stated. Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation in advance
as we earnestly await your urgent response to this matter.

Best Regards,
Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA
Email: wwwfbi.investigationdept@live.com
Telephone Operator: 206-339-2854

The elusive nature of Army humor

The Army Sad Sack!

My father was one of the cheapest people I’ve ever met (like many people who survived the great depression), and I remember him telling me that bowling was for rich people! But we were truly poor, a family of three trying to survive on a disabled veteran’s meager pension.

However, dear old Dad was never stingy with comic books. For some reason, he figured that reading, or any sort was to be encouraged, and he bought me literally hundreds of Army related comic books like Beetle Bailey and The Sad Sack.

Actually, Dad enjoyed them more than I did, but it an iconic Army thing, dating from WWII when many folks in the Army "didn't read much" (that's the polite way of saying that they were illiterate).



Sad Sack depicted the lunacy of Army life, like getting a zillion shots each month:



Real Sad Sacks in the Army

The Sad Sack cartoon was targeted at intelligence somewhere below Beetle Bailey, juvenile slapstick humor that only a six year old or an Army private could enjoy:





But far and away, the most talented Army cartoonist was Bill Mauldin, a genius who wrote prophetic one panel cartoons for Stars and Stripes:


The Prince and the Pauper – Bill Mauldin

I just ordered these books of Bill Mauldin works:

- Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front

- Bill Mauldin's Army: Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons

- Willie & Joe: The WWII Years

I grew up within a half mile of an Army base, and I’ve known hundreds of soldiers over the years, and I can say that the Army attracts some very unique characters. People join the Army for a variety of reasons:

Join for the money – It’s sad to know, but there is a whole class of folks who join the Army because of the money! It’s great to get half pay for life after serving only 20 years, but because of the pathetic pay, the Army tends to get the folks from the lowest 10% of the high school graduating class. My Dad told me that his monthly Army pay in 1936 was $18 a month!

Join for free college – I have several West Point graduates who work for me, and while the service academies are not Ivy League, you can’t beat the price! They even pay you to attend!

Join to turn your life around - When I was a kid, I knew several soldiers who were “sentenced” to the Army! The judge would impose a jail sentence and let it be known that it would be forgiven if they signed-up. Even today, I have some family members who were saved by the armed forces because they could channel their violent demeanor into a place where that sort of thing is encouraged.

When I taught school on a military base, one of my students gave me a real Army manual, written in comic book style!



It’s actually as great concept, and I’m thinking of publishing some computer books in comic book form.

Why do Cherokee Indians look like the white man?

I’m proud to be part Cherokee Indian, and after centuries of abuse, I’m happy to report that my Indian cousins have retained a great sense of humor!

On one reservation they have a plastic cut-out of a white man that you can have your picture taken with!



But racism lingers on, and even in the 21st century there are a lot of racists (especially foreigners), and they like to poke fun at my Indian features.

I even had an asshat who worked for one of the world’s largest software companies publish that I look like an “Oompah Loompah”.

It was pure racism, but he had a point, Cherokees do kind of have some Oompah Loompah features:



Judge for yourself: without reservation

Back in the 1700’s and 1800’s, some Cherokee were able to “pass” and pose as white settlers, and it was not always easy to tell a Cherokee from an Italian or “swarthy” southern European immigrant.

Most folks don’t know that many Cherokee Indians descendents have blue eyes! Some experts say that this is because the Cherokee are actually early European settlers, coming to America, even before the Vikings.

There were verified reports from the 1600's by early Americabn settlers who reported American Indians with blue eyes and brown hair!

Judge for yourself, here are some famous Cherokee chiefs:

This is a Cherokee chief from 1837:



And a Cherokee chief from 1834:





This Cherokee Chief looks like an Englishman to me:



These Cherokee chiefs look to have some European facial features:





This is Sequoyah, the Cherokee who created a written Cherokee language



It’s said that this Cherokee Chief was a slave owner:









Cherokee Chief Michael Hicks:



We may have lost the battle, but we won the war, with zillions in gambling revenue coming in from the palefaces:

TV Marketing of cigarettes to kids

There are many things that kids today have never seen:

- Dial telephones
- Punched cards as pay checks
- A card catalog in a library
- Crank-up car windows
- TV ads for cigarettes

In case there was any doubt, watch this TV commercials directed specifically for kids:



Speaking of kids who smoke, Obama is the first presidential smoker since Ike. Reagan smoked, but had thw will power to give it up, but not before helping to create millions of new nicotine addicts:



They call them "fags" for a reason:

Windows 7 now available on eBay

Arrgh pirates, Windows 7 is now available on eBay, the world’s largest thieves market:



Buy stolen Windows 7 on eBay.



Personally, I would jail Meg Whitman for aiding and abetting criminals.

I wish US prosecutors would grow a spine . . .

Every bad guy on the planet knows that they can "fence" their stolen merchandise on eBay, and eBay will hardly make any effort to stop them.



Here is a review of Windows 7, using a pirated copy.

Great Anti-smoking campaign: It’s gay to smoke!

I know that this is The Onion, but there is more than a grain of truth to it!

After all, they call them "fags" for a reason, they turned all of England gay:



Young people are very self-consious and it;s easy to devistate any teen by chuckling at them of questioning their "manliness". This is a joke of course, it it might really work:


New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens 'It's Gay To Smoke'

The best Halloween Pumpkins!

Halloween is coming, and there are some very creative folks out there.

Check out my picks for the best Halloween pumpkins and see this list of the best Hallowwn pumpkins.