Pat Gaudette

‘Random Thoughts’

It’s too bad that a corporate head made the bad decision to ship out a product that he knew was bad. What compounds it is that the product is a component in thousands of other products — edible products — that have, because of the corporate head’s bad decision, caused deaths and severe sickness.

Lynchburg, Virginia, based Peanut Corp. of America is the peanut processing company that has been determined to be at the bottom of the salmonella outbreak that has killed and sickened people throughout the U.S. Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corp., according to emails to employees, released the tainted peanut products knowing they were tainted. It was all about the dollar.  Read more »

From looking at the fashion magazines and what’s on the catwalks today, it’s very evident that no one is considering that women of a certain age are interested in dressing fashionably. Okay, maybe I need to rephrase that. No one is considering that women of a certain age are interested in dressing age appropriately yet fashionably. Read more »

Watch this video all the way through and think about its message when it’s over:

Twins Abby and Brittany Hensel are 16 years old. Why is that so significant? Plenty of teen twins have birthdays every day.

But not all twins are conjoined.

Watch and be inspired!

The following is one of the most inspiring videos I’ve ever seen. This man has every reason to complain about the adversities he’s been dealt.

There is an email currently going around that gives tips on what potential rapists look for in a victim and gives potential victims recommended ways to avoid or deter a rapist. Unfortunately, if someone were to take the suggestions in the email as “gospel,” it might end up costing them their life.

After receiving the email, I did a search to find the original so that I could post it here. I thought the information was worthwhile… until I found the “rest of the story” on Snopes.com. Every woman and man needs to take a few minutes to read Assaulted Tale (aka This Bird Won’t Fly). Then pass the link along to those you care about. Read more »

Early this morning, after watching about five minutes of a MajicJack commercial on television, I decided to visit the website to see exactly why this telephone service was so inexpensive. What I discovered wasn’t what I expected.

First of all, the MajicJack is a little device that plugs into a USB slot in your computer that you then can plug any type of telephone into and make and receive phone calls. That’s pretty much as difficult as it is except: you must have a cable Internet connection and you’ll have to download software to make the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) work. Read more »

… they certainly didn’t have songs like this one by the Pussycat Dolls. Maybe that’s why it’s on my list of favorites now, a few dozen songs below Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers, which is my all time favorite. There’s a short commercial before the video starts…