Sears is closing at least 100 stores.

That means there will soon be at least 100 less places to buy Wrangler jeans, Kenmomre vacuums, and have your family portrait taken.

It’s the end of an era.

Sears is to the 21st century what Montgomery Ward’s was to the 20th century.

One of the last department stores that seemed to bring white trash, regular middle class, and the occassional less than snooty high end customer together.

Sears is the place you go when you want your oil changed and while you wait you can wander over to the electronics section and watch 13 different professional sporting events at the same time.

When you need to buy a pair of Vice Grips, snow tires, and baby clothes…you go to Sears.

Estimates put retail space in America at 14.2 billion square feet.

And the credit card bills typical American consumers receive at about the same.

It’s time to turn 14.2 billion square feet of retail space into 14.2 billion square feet of manufacturing space.

Or legalize drugs and turn every mall into a prescription and formerly illegal drug manufacturing and dispensing facility.

Let’s capitalize on what America does really well…make war and self-destruct.

While they are making drugs in a department store space they can crank out weapons too.

Top Ten Signs It’s December In Upstate New York

(10) Firewood supplies are shrinking along with good cheer.

(9) Car doors are squeaking along with the joints of non-senior citizens.

(8) Warming up your car involves also smelling your neighbor’s car burning oil.

(7) Your heating bill looks like a chart of a bull stock market.

(6) Even mall security can’t be bothered to get out of their SUVs.

(5) Packs of teens are still smoking.

(4) People wear gloves to make sure their wedding bands don’t fall off.

(3) There are fewer bottles of real maple syrup on the shelves.

(2) A trip to a shopping mall involves taking snacks.

(1) DVRs are no longer full of shows as people stay inside to watch TV in real time.

Rush Limbaugh like the rest of the neo-conservative “revolutionary” media are as blind as Rush is deaf.

Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Levin, and the rest of the intellectually-challenged conservative clones make every effort to denegrate, dismiss, mock, and ridicule Ron Paul, the only GOP presidential candidate and Congressman who represents the old right now rejected by today’s so-called “conservatives.”

Apparently Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Levin, and the rest of the sorry lot are products of public schools as only public school graduates would remain ignorant of the political history.

Only ignorant Americans drunk on nationalism, patriotism, and so-called American exceptionalism would fail to recognize, remember, and understand that Ron Paul represents the views of the Founding Fathers.

Only a man who speaks truth to power like Ron Paul can generate the kind of paranoid, rabid, and outrageous character assaisnation engaged by the neo-con media personalities.

Besides Ron Paul articulates a world view that cannot be summed up in an easily-digestible sound byte.

And that is as much a “sin” as not falling into lock step with the neo-con, ex-Trotskyite world view espoused by the traditional Fox News pseudo-right funded by that Fraggle Rock stunt Muppet known as Rupert Murdoch, a stooge of the CIA and other shadow government forces.

My hands sweat.

There’s no easy way to deal with this in social situations.

I’ve tried wiping them on paper towels only to have paper towel bits come flying out of my pockets before shaking an important person’s hands.

I’ve tried running them under hot water but almost immediately they return to my usual cold clammy temperature.

And I’ve tried the ever-popular slide your hands across your pants and hope no one thinks you are really weird before you shake someone else’s hand.

It’s the anticipation of making human contact and the potential bacteria and viruses that reside on that other person that drives the sweating.

The fashion world could help.

Two words designers…terrycloth pockets.

I need a robe inside my slacks.

Or small fans that require little batteries or hand deodorant that dries without white residue.

That’s a product Secret should hawk.

Ironically my hands never sweat when I wish they would.

If only they would sweat when it was 40 below or when you had too much booze and hoped your armpits would not resemble Niagara Falls.

Sweaty hands…they’ve ruined more business deals than compromising photos, rude gestures, or even lack of sufficient funds.

And it’s so hard to wear black leather gloves in the summer and not have people look twice, clutch their purses and wallets tighter, or call 9-1-1.

This planet is too hot; this planet is too cold; this planet might be just right…even for bears!

Time to start building your personal spaceship.

The way things are going on this planet; it’s time to find greener pastures…or little green men and women.

Of course, we humans seem really good at screwing up what Mother Nature and God produce.

Still, it’s encouraging to see we’re still searching for the next Eden.

Even if there are no apples to eat there.

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope have confirmed a roughly Earth-size planet orbiting a sun-like star in the so-called “Goldilocks” zone where water can exist in liquid form on the surface and conditions may be favorable for life as it is known on Earth.

Along with the confirmed extra-solar planet, one of 28 discovered so far by Kepler, researchers today also announced the discovery of 1,094 new exoplanet candidates, pushing the spacecraft’s total so far to 2,326, including 10 candidate Earth-size worlds orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars.

Additional observations are required to tell if a candidate is, in fact, an actual world. But astronomers say a planet known as Kepler-22b, orbiting a star some 600 light years from Earth, is the
real thing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-57337039-239/earth-like-planet-found-in-distant-suns-habitable-zone/