Ridiculous stuff you hear!

[Adondo]

Reminds me of the sign when you walk into the Big Boy where I grew up. It said "Braile Menu Available". Wonder who that was for?

You'll notice that on most (if not all) drive-thru ATM's there's Braille labeling. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but if you're DRIVING to use a DRIVE-THRU ATM, and you need to read the button labeling with Braille... ???

And the Volt. So, they are ''green'' huh? Where do people think the power comes from to charge the battery pack? The more of these things hit the roads, the more the smoke stacks on coal fired power plants will belch out CO2 and the like. Green my a$$.

Read this article from Car Talk: http://www.cartalk.com/content/rant/r-rlast22.html

[Adondo]

$2 million lottery winner still gets food stamps

msnbc.com news services
updated 5/19/2011 10:44:25 AM ET

DETROIT — A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close.

Leroy Fick, who lives near Saginaw, took a lump sum payment for his June 2010 prize, buying a house, a used 2008 Audi and investing the rest, attorney John Wilson said on Wednesday.

"If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it," Fick told a reporter from local station TV5.

The income he receives from investing the remaining money leaves Fick eligible under federal rules for food assistance of "far less than $5,000 for the year," Wilson said.

"There is no asset based testing for it, it is all based on income," Wilson said. "The amount that he has invested of this winnings spins off an amount of income and that income is such that he is eligible."

Michigan has been working with federal officials for two or three months on ways to close the loophole, said Gisgie Davila Gendreau, a state human services department spokeswoman. She was not speaking about Fick's case specifically.

"We are actively seeking a change to the food assistance policy, which is a federal policy, to ensure that those who are truly needy qualify," she said.

Michigan state Senator John Moolenaar, a Republican from Midland near where Fick lives, has proposed requiring lottery officials to share winners names with government departments and remove them from public assistance programs.

"Taxpayer dollars should be used to help the truly needy, and we must stop situations like this from falling through the cracks," Moolenaar said in a statement on Wednesday.

From here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43091952/ns/us_news-life/

On edit: My headline title was SUPPOSED to say: "This is pretty ridiculous TO say the least" darn it, and now I can't change it!!

[LWM]

On edit: My headline title was SUPPOSED to say: "This is pretty ridiculous TO say the least" darn it, and now I can't change it!!

I fixed it for you, but when you go into the edit mod you can select "advanced" to change your post title (you cannot change thread titles however).

[IamJEEP]

You'll notice that on most (if not all) drive-thru ATM's there's Braille labeling. Now, I'm going out on a limb here, but if you're DRIVING to use a DRIVE-THRU ATM, and you need to read the button labeling with Braille... ???
And the Volt. So, they are ''green'' huh? Where do people think the power comes from to charge the battery pack? The more of these things hit the roads, the more the smoke stacks on coal fired power plants will belch out CO2 and the like. Green my a$$.

Read this article from Car Talk: http://www.cartalk.com/content/rant/r-rlast22.html

LOL, I actually asked the drive through teller about that and she looked at me as if I was a dumba$$. She proceeded to say that they are the same ones used on the inside of the bank, but I allready knew that........guess she didn't get my "joke". Oh well....

[Simplewon]

1. Fiat

2. No more Viper(I know it's coming back, I hope not wimpy like the gc, wimpy as in weak, fragile, breakable, not slow)

3. No more Commander(2nd time the fsj has stopped production)

4. Fuel injection gets less than 40mpg? Who programs the engine computers, oil companies? Quadrajets do better. Sad, Sad.