If Disney Songs Were Historically Accurate

from Cracked.com

Reds Choose Woeber'sThe Cincinnati Reds have ditched their Wisconsin based mustard provider for Springfield, Ohio's award winning Woeber's mustard. OK, the previous brand's company is also an award winner. Anyway, now maybe the Cincinnati stores will actually start selling more of Woeber's line of mustards & condiments. Honestly, I have never even seen the particular mustard the Reds are going to use.

Convoluted Fishwarp article here here
from the comments, it would appear a lot of folks around here just don't like change

More Proof Hollywood Can't Come Up With Anything New

Labor RelationsCincinnati Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan managed to work out a budget by asking union thugs to take a week of unpaid vacation sometime during the year. Head union thug replies - fuck you. Lay us off so we can sit on our butts & collect unemployment. Meanwhile, konservatives who backed Kasich's failed union busting efforts & whose own efforts in conjunction with Kasich caused the local budget crisis, laud the thugs' indignance & blame a non-existent streetcar for everything.
Meanwhile, the Windbag says that it's "shameful" for city employees to have city credit cards. He implies posh vacation resorts & mojitos for everybody. The city manager says it's more efficient than forcing employees to screw around with obtaining purchase orders. The Windbag has whipped his minions into a frenzy over the notion of rampant embezzlement that nobody has offered any proof of. As the names of the city employees with cards & their credit limit has been linked to by WCPO, any loon can now target them for whatever fantasy slight they can imagine.
And to top it off, the Windbag wants to take care of this now by Emergency Ordinance which his pals kinda just recently put the kibosh on.
Simply fucking amazing.

The Old Timber Inn
While I live about a mile from The Old Timber Inn I had not been there since I moved to my house & rented a UHaul truck there - at the bar. For years they have had a sign out front or to the side usually advertising Half fish logs & St Fries. While I vowed in my callow youth to never let such an abomination as a fish log pass my lips, it gradually found it's way onto my bucket list.
And I can now tell you, dear readers, fish logs are, well, ok.
I think mine was overcooked. It's a deep fried fish filet wrapped in mashed potatoes & batter (?). You can get a whole or half log (half is fine for a lunch).
The owner came in while I was there & it turns out he lives up around the corner from me. He told me the mural on the outside wall was originally painted in 1983 & he was able to get the same artist to recreate it after the building was repainted in 2009. it had become fairly ghostly. He was a lot more interesting than Dr Phil & Judge Judy but I think the waitress might disagree.
The bar takes up a surprisingly small part of the building. The kitchen looked ok, the bar area was a mismatched hodge podge of old crap. It was pretty much what you'd expect from looking at the outside.
The Old Timber Inn on Spring Grove Avenue @ Crawford is open from 10 - 8 Monday thru Friday.

Rating The Old Timber Inn from one to ten:
♠ Ambience 8 - dark, piles of junk, ancient wood paneling - the blue urinal was worth the price of admission
♠ Food 5 - it's exactly what I would have expected
♠ Service 6 - ok, I was the only one there, tho
♠ Hot Waitress 8 - jeans, sweatshirt & long brown hair…. can't argue with that

Planning a Summer Holiday in England ?
You might want to check the credentials of your trip planners & & lodging providers. A recent survey found:

Britain is a nation of curious cannibals, with 24% of people saying they would be interested to find out what human meat tastes like.

You might just be the exotic morsel somebody's looking for.

IB Times article here

A Better Represented CincinnatiIt's become quite clear the City of Cincinnati cannot rule itself and needs the leadership of the surrounding communities. These leaders refuse annexation so we need to come up with a better representational criteria than residency.
Home ownership in Cincinnati is about 40%. I don't know what the city real estate holdings by non residents are. Land ownership is an old criteria for voting rights. I guess we'd need some minimum amount of land to qualify a voter. People who couldn't afford that could possibly organize corporations that they could collectively vote. Presumably we could eliminate the lazy socialist renters (including transient college students) in the bargain, too.
This criteria was abandoned long ago because it excluded wealthy, educated people who opted to not participate in agricultural work.
Perhaps a minimum earnings? Average earnings of Cincinnati residents is a little over $30K. What the average wage in Cincinnati is, I do not know. As everything in the suburbs is a virtual paradise, I imagine these people who want a say in Cincinnati all make $100+K, so if we set the minimum wage qualifier at earning more than $50K inside the city limits, the people who want to rule the city but not live there could have their vote & the lowly, probably renting, Cincinnatians could be relieved of their disastrous voting legacy.
Or maybe it should just be where you went to high school. People who graduated from a Cincinnati high school prior to 1990 could vote in any & all Cincinnati elections. They could just use their old residences to define their precincts.
Cincinnati is a failed experiment in radical Marxism and is in sore need of some good old Christianistic, neo-Trotskyism.
What we need is

Victimhood - A Tea Party FortéAn article over at the Wall Street Journal traces the political usage of the IRS through history. It's a Republican slanted article that only cites one Republican president as abusing the authority of the agency, Richard Nixon. That seems to be the MO of a lot of right wing mouthpieces nowadays, using Nixon as a scapegoat to make it look like they are being nonpartisan.
Anyway, it points up the willingness to use the agency for political gain. The FBI has used the IRS a lot, too, for criminal investigations & prosecutions.
As far as proving you're a non-profit, hell, PayPal raked me over the coals when I set up an account for a neighborhood non-profit that was completely above board - something the tease certainly are not.
But this "scandal" gives them their time in the spotlight, wailing and gnashing their teeth over being poor defenseless victims. It gives them more "links" to the Marxist, Muslim, terrorist Kenyan. Nothing new, just another day on the schoolyard.