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Happy April Fool's Hump Day!!

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:39:28 -0700

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbours, or sending them on fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. Traditionally, in some countries, the jokes only last until noon: like UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool".[1] Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day.

LINK TO APRIL FOOLS DAY HISTORY

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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:53:25 -0700

I have not been posting as I have been worried about not having a job and am spending every waking moment trying to raise enough money to buy this business before he has to shut it down. In addition to that I have been applying and interviewing all over in case it doesn't work out!!

We just received our new Signed Limited Edition Shonn Green Prints, which turned out extremely well, and sales should pick up with this new item.

It is so nice out, that the Coral Ridge Mall has been pretty slow this week, so it is actually an excellent time to stop by and do some shopping, if you are in the area.

Have A Happy St. Patrick's Day and please follow the link to Yahoo News, to learn about the Real St. Patrick!!

LINK TO REAL ST PATRICK

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Yesterday was Greatest Presidents 200th Birthday, But Vox Would Not Allow Me To Post ,So Here It Is!

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:36:55 -0800

200th Birthday Of America's Greatest President

My birthday wishes to Abraham Lincoln on his 200th birthday, :
"Today, Thursday , February 12th, is the 200th birthday of the Greatest President in American history, and I just want to say Rest In Peace Mr. President,

what?...sorry someone just looked over my shoulder and "didn't" know who the Greatest President in American history was.

Actaully, no one did "this" year, but I like that line, so I put it in whenever I write or talk about Abraham Lincoln:)

Wow, I was surprised, as Obviously it was Abraham Lincoln. There follows two links to show anyone who cares how great he was!

The first is to the "Lincoln Institute Presents Abraham Lincoln's Classroom" which has days and days of material for a Lincoln fair weather friend or a true fanatic.

The second link is to a website that has a great deal of information about the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, and their preparations for his 200th birthday next year!!

Happy 200th Birthday, Mr. President!!

Your Number 1 fan!!

Daniel

abraham lincoln classroom

abraham lincoln museum

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13 Facts About Friday The 13th Link

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:33:35 -0800

How is your Friday the 13th going?

I can see that Friday the 13th is already going bad, as the House has just passed the Stimulus Bill to kill America, and snow is flying, so I guess we are in for a scary evening ;)

Here is the story at Yahoo News:

If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year.

The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware who has studied the number 13 for more than 20 years.

By the numbers

Here are 13 more facts about the infamous day, courtesy of Fernsler and some of our own research:

13 facts link

Take Care!!

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Depression Ends As Senate Passes Stimulus Bill

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:00:43 -0800

Well, Hell, they just passed the economic stimulus bill in the Senate, and the economy is already recovering~~I mean it will turn around shortly, once the House and Senate agree on which frisbee golf courses, and atv parks, can stay in the bill, and which are just "pork".

I will make no qualms about it, I am opposed to this additional waste of our great-great-great granchildrens money, just as I opposed the original bank bailout bill, which has been wasted and accomplished nothing.

I do want to congratulate President Obama for his win in November, but the approach he is taking with the economy is right of Comrades Pelosi and Reids communist playbook, and will doom his Presidency, and our country. If he really wanted to stimulate the economy by throwing billions of borrowed dollars at it, it would have been quicker, and more efficient to let the workers of America receive it as a direct $7340 to each of the 109 million people who are employed right now.

I mean, this is simple simon stuff, and while Rushie, and Seanie and the other blithering goats on the right are attacking this bill, because they are going to attack everything Obama tries to do, I am attacking it, because I hope he succeeds in making America a better place, but I do not think this is a good way to accomplish that goal.

Anyway, here are links to the House and Senate bills, if you have the stamina to read through this entire piece of crappy legislation.

I shall write more about this in the future, but a friend of mine, who has retained his Republican identity, and has called me a traitor for having voted for Obama, "just to shake things up", asked me to remind everyone that George W. Bush, kept us safe from terrorists for 7 years. Oh, this friend also says if we just kick all of the muslims out of the country, we will stay safe:)

Yes, I do have a very interesting, and diverse group of friends;)

It is part of the fun of knowing most of my friends from the Coral Ridge Mall, which has an exotic mix of people working there.

Oh by the way, this is an excellent opportunity for you all to travel to the Coral Ridge Mall, Coralville, Iowa, and spend some money, which would help "our" economy. There are sales nearly everywhere, and people who will appreciate your presence, and try and make your shopping experience incredible. It is slower during the week, so that would be a prime time, and of course Saturdays are huge, with last weeks crowd, equalling the numbers during the holidays. I invite you to stop by the art kiosk and say hi, anytime you are here.

On a lighter note former Vice-President Dick Cheney, "accidently" shot his next door neighbor, while clearing brush with his shotgun. I did not check the accuracy of this report, because that would have required effort, so take it as fact or not, it really doesn't matter to me, as I just thought it was amusing.

Have a Great Tuesday, and be sure to take everything I write as fact, as it will be a lot easier for me to succeed in this whole change of character to try and grow my ranks of minions:)

As my "friends" at Fox News, say but don't practice, "We Are Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid", whatever--anyway besides, "take care", that will be my other catch phrase, so make sure you practice saying it out loud, so you can chant it with me at my future "rallies"!!

Now I just need to work on getting a radio talk show, and I can blather on as well, and get me some of those "ditto heads"!!

Oh this is going to be sweet fun!!

Take Care!!

Daniel

house bill link

senate bill link

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Dawn Of Dementia: Another Devils Advocate~Oh My!!

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:25:20 -0800

I hope the New Year is being good to all of you out there. I have been very busy through the holidays and January, as I have been trying to find a way to purchase this business, and avoid having it close. I am getting to the end of that rainbow, and will know if my friends can swing it and assist me financially, or if I will be working somewhere else after next week. I have come to a place of acceptance in whatever happens. My preferred situation would be to stay here, buy the business with these silent partner friends, and keep doing what I do, selling framed art prints.

During this whole time I have also been trying to figure out what i want to do with my blogs, and after much soul searching, I have come to conclusion that other than the funny hump day humor posts, I wasn't doing anything more usually than passing on news, that people could get if they just were bored enough, or searched enough. That is all well and good to impart information to others, but I on the whole, will leave that to others from now on.

I look around and see blithering idiots out there who have radio shows, t.v. shows, blogs, and minions of "special" mindless followers, from morons like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on the right, to Randy Rhodes and Chris Matthews on the left, and I think Wow, wouldn't it be nice to just be able to say anything and not worry about facts, figures, or truth!

These are but a few of the "geniuses" out there, and the American people seem to want to see, hear, and read this type of content all of the time.

Therefore, I have decided to allow my inner demented Devils's Advocate to decide what I shall write about, and that way I can just write whatever I want, and if the facts, figures, and truth do not line up with what I am writing, too bad. After all it worked for The Great Communicator "Fabricator" Ronald Reagan when he was in the White House, and it has worked more or less for everyone in public office, and the news media as well, which is Never Fair Or Balanced, but bring their own agendas to every story, everyday!!

I do hope you shall stop by and read my first "new" post tomorrow, which will be a mixture of "my" facts, "my" figures, and "my" truth, and may it please, annoy, or anger you, at least I hope it will get you to think.

Anyway, that is my goal, I invite you to stop back and see how the first attempt turns out!!

Have A GREAT SATURDAY!!! :)

The above post and information may not express the views of any blog sites on which I post, and strictly are the facts, figures, and truths of the demons which control me! Thank You and Take Care!! ;)

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Hooray We Survived The Black Friday Weekend :) !!

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:16:20 -0800

Just a very quick post to let you know that I survived black friday and the whole weekend, and I would like to thank everyone who came to the Coral Ridge Mall and spent your time and money.

I will comment at a later date about the abysmal way that people acted at the mall on Long Island, where the 34 year old man was trampled. Hopefully, everyone who trampled him will do prison time. Enough said for now!!

Anyway, back to our Coral Ridge Mall, I believe nearly everyone acted appropriately, even though I am sure you can tell me of individuals who were idiots. I found most people amusing and upbeat even though there was such a mass of people, even the employees had a good time. We were exhausted by Monday, but all in all it was a GREAT way to start the Christmas shopping season.

The Coral Ridge Mall did an awesome job of arranging the longer hours more toward the end of the month, when it really does help. We are working hard to beat our competitors at Jordan Creek, as we are a much better place to shop :) Personal bias I realize, but we are easier to get to and much happier to have you shop here.

Again this year, the Mall has it set up on the weekends that vehicles coming to the Mall from the South side, come in turn right, and then leaving the mall you continue in the same direction to get out. I personally wish this was year round, but this year it does seem like there are less people unfamiliar with the Mall, who drive toward you in your lane after dark.

Anyway a big hand to everyone from management, office, maintenance, and janitorial, for making the monster weekend a pleasant experience, and I hope shoppers came away with the same feeling. Thank You!!

Now I am getting some things done, and have to be up by early tuesday (day off), as I am doing a nice thing for my boss. I am going to take a one way trip to Des Moines on the 5:40 a.m. Greyhound to pick up his Suburban full of prints, which he allows me to drive the whole month, so I can have backup prints. This saves him driving it over and having to have someone follow him to give him a ride back to Des Moines. This will save him time and money, and only eat part of my one day off. Got to build up those Karma points whenever possible!!

So thanks for shopping and keeping it local, and please come see us again ALL month!!

If you have any good stories from this weekend please leave them in comments or send them to me at danielcarvelkepler@yahoo.com and I shall do a post on them!!

Take Care and Goodnight!!

Daniel Carvel Kepler

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Wrongly Obama Wants Rescue Plan Approved Immediately

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:54:41 -0800

Well, it is an interesting Monday morning as we wake up to hear that high government officials and bankers from Citigroup worked through the evening to "steal", I mean receive a bailout of billions more of our taxpayer dollars. Isn't it nice to see such diligent servants toiling through a weekend night?! Personally, I wish they would have taken the day off and not given anymore of our money away to legalized criminal enterprises like Citigroup. If anyone else did what they did, we would call it extortion, but because they are a bank which is "to big to fail", we give them money until it hurts "US".

What a crock of something smelly this bailout nonsense has become, and daily the line of "bailoutees" grows and grows, and so does the anger out here in "real" America. We have had it with giveaways, and want our elected leaders to do as we say, and not as the "monied" interests want them too. Remember we have elections to send you people to Washington to do our bidding, and giving all of our money away was not what we had in mind. If you are going to do the same thing we did before, then what is the point of even holding elections. We could hire permanent civil servants to give our money away if that is what we want our country to do, instead of wasting all of the time, energy, and money to elect "new" leaders who are going to do the same old thing.

WASHINGTON~~~Wake up now before you drown us in your bailout madness. The markets cannot stabilize when you keep propping up bad companies, instead of allowing them to fail, and letting other better run companies to take their place. Simple common sense should be the mainstay of our government, not this fairy tale that they are trying to sell us, that they know what is best for the country. Just look at how inefficient the government is run, and then tell me that we want the whole economy to be run that way. Nonsense, Nonsense, and more Nonsense!!

Here is a story at Yahoo News concerning President elect Obama's economic recovery plan, and after reading it you may well be asking yourselves where his catch phrase of "Change and Yes We Can", come in, when it is just more Bushie economics. Perhaps it will just be transitionary, but please know that you are not doing what you were elected to do, if you follow Bush policies which have already failed. You promised a fresh approach and that is what we expect~~thank you very much!!

Anyway here is the lead into the story at Yahoo:

With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama called on the new Congress to act quickly in passing a costly stimulus package to create jobs as a follow-up to the hundreds of billions of dollars the Bush administration has committed to rescue financial markets.

"The economy is likely to get worse before it gets better," Obama said in a downbeat forecast, delivered 57 days before he takes the oath of office and with Americans heading into the year-end holiday season.

"Most experts now believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year," he said, urging the newly elected Congress to act quickly on his plans after opening its session on Jan. 6.

At a news conference, Obama was critical of the Big Three automakers, saying he was surprised they did not have a better-thought-out plan for their future before asking Congress to approve $25 billion in emergency loans.

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103 Years Later Einstein Is Proven Right

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:21:31 -0800

It has been a busy week as we prepare everything for "black friday" and the onslaught of customers. I have arranged all of the art prints so they will be easier to flip through, and for me to access any multiples that I might have for very popular prints. Don't let the economy scare you, sales are already ramping up this week, and it looks like it will be a sprint to Christmas.

Anyway, this is the first moment I have had to get anything posted for a few days, and I read this interesting story concerning Einstein's e=mc2 equation being verified after 103 years, and thought this was a good way to start Friday!!

The Yahoo News story begins: It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.

According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent? The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons. In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. The e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass.

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Abraham Lincoln News: Copy Of Famed Lincoln Letter Turns Up In Dallas

nobody@vox.com(Kepler View) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:57:05 -0800

It has been a few days since last posting as thankfully we have been very busy at the Coral Ridge Mall. People took advantage of the cold weather to come out and shop heavily Friday, Saturday, and to a lesser extent Sunday, but all in all it was a very good weekend!! Thank you to the patriotic shoppers who made the effort to pull the retail sales out of the doldrums:)

I see there have been many bad stories out there, from the wildfires in California, to the taking of another ship by Somali pirates, but I found this "cool" story at Yahoo News this morning, and beings I am a huge fan of Abraham Lincoln wanted this to be the first post of the week!!

A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War. The famed Bixby Letter, which the Dallas Historical Society is getting appraised as it prays for a potential windfall, has a fascinating history. The original has never been found. Historians debate whether Lincoln wrote it. Its recipient, Lydia Bixby, was no fan of the president. And not all her sons died in the war.

The letter, written with "the best of intentions" 144 years ago next week, is "considered one of the finest pieces of American presidential prose," said Alan Olson, curator for the Dallas group. "It's still a great piece of writing, regardless of the truth in the back story." Historians say Lincoln wrote the letter at the request of a Massachusetts official, who passed along news of a Boston woman grieving the loss of her five sons. The letter is addressed to "Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass." and begins with an acknowledgment that nothing written could possibly make a grief-stricken mother feel better about such a horrific loss.

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming," Lincoln wrote. After thanking Bixby on behalf of a grateful nation, Lincoln wrote that he would pray that God relieve her anguish and leave her with only the "cherished memory of the loved" along with "the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." The letter, as was the president's custom in his personal correspondence, is signed "A Lincoln."

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