I'm only one man, there's only so many people I can piss off in one day. Although, thanks to the internet, my production has gone up nicely.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

VPILF


VPILF


Nah, no resemblence to Linda Carter playing Wonder Woman. Keep going , nothing to see here.

Yes I'm sure it was photo shopped, just shut up about it and let us enjoy it.

Friday, August 29, 2008

2008 Democrat National Convention

2008 Democrat National Convention
Schedule of Events

7:00 pm OPENING FLAG BURNING

7:15 pm PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE U.N.

7:20 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

7:25 pm NONRELIGIOUS PRAYER AND WORSHIP - Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton

7:45 pm CEREMONIAL TREE HUGGING - Darryl Hannah

7:55 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

8:00 pm HOW I INVENTED THE INTERNET - Al Gore

8:15 pm GAY WEDDING PLANNING - Rosie O'Donnell

8:35 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

8:40 pm OUR TROOPS ARE WAR CRIMINALS - John Kerry

9.00 pm MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SADDAM AND HIS SONS - Cindy Sheehan and SusanSarandon

10:00 pm ANSWERING MACHINE ETIQUETTE - Alec Baldwin

11:00 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

11:05 pm COLLECTION FOR THE OSAMA BIN LADEN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FUND - Barbara Streisand

11:15 pm FREE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY - Sean Penn

11:30 pm OVAL OFFICE AFFAIRS - William Jefferson Clinton

11:45 pm Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

11:50 pm HOW GEORGE BUSH BROUGHT DOWN THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS - Howard Dean

12:15 am TRUTH IN BROADCASTING AWARD - Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore

12:25 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

12:30 am SATELLITE ADDRESS - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

12:45 am NOMINATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - Nancy Pelosi

1:00 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

1:05 am CORONATION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

1:30 am Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST

1:35 am Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hilary home

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Football Is Here!

The evenings are getting cooler, but the bath temps are getting hotter.
The pads are cracking. Smash mouth football has begun! In my best Robert Duvall voice (Apocalypse Now)
"You hear that son, thats football, nothing else in the world sounds like it, Damn I love the sound of football in the fall."

Tyler is experiencing his first year of tackle football. He loves the hitting part, but hates getting tackled. They're running his short legs to death, which explains the hot baths. We really should get a hot tub.
He is on the 3rd and 4th grade squad. Being a third grader and still learning the plays, coach has him at defensive end. He is doing great at getting low and powering his opponent backwards. the hard part is getting him to release towards the ball carrier. He is getting it day by day. It would be nice if the kid blocking him would quit holding him. (as shown in the action pic) I took a few pics in practice today. One is with his good friend Aric, who has learned to shoot the gap from linebacker and get to the quarterback. You can see his dad pointing him in the right direction. Two weeks ago these kids weren't quite sure what to do, but are quickly learning, and making a name for themselves. Our first game is in a week and a half. It should be fun.


Monday, August 25, 2008

Condensed History of man

For those that don't know about history...... here is a condensed version.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.


The two most important events in all of history were:

1. The invention of beer, and

2. The invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:


1. Liberals

2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.


Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.


Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.


Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.


Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule becaus e it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.


Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.


Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.


Here ends today's lesson in world history.......

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off....

Yesterday's Chevelle and El Camino car show

After our less than pleasant camping trip I came home and prepped my 70 chevelle for a show in Auburn, Washington.

I really enjoy this show put on by Yesterdays Chevelle and El Camino club in Washington. Four years ago I won a second place trophy for 70 Chevelles. Last year I won 1st place for 70 Chevelles, Mayors Choice, and Best Paint. Those awards put me in the Winners Row this year against all of last years top 15 cars. I wasn't expecting it, but I won Best of Winners Row. This is as close to Best of Show you can get. Typically this show bring out 120 - 150 chevelles and el caminos. Most are show quality, some never leave the house unless it's for a show and are immaculate.

The trip started out with great weather for the drive up Saturday morning. Sunday started out dry, but by 3:00 when the awards were being announced it started pouring rain. The drive home was extremely wet, and the rain didn't stop until we crossed back into Oregon. I guess a good cleaning is due again for the Chevelle, but it was worth it. Unfortunately I was too busy looking at all the cars and visiting with people from Washington, and didn't take any pictures. Oh well there will be next year.

I remembered I had taken these pics at a rest area on the way up to Auburn. The blue 72 El Camino belongs to my friend Sonny. It has a "Ram Jet" 502 cubic inch motor, 507 Horsepower, 568 Ftlbs of Torque. Driving it in the rain is like running on ice skates there is so much power.




Detroit Lake Camping

Actually I don't think it was really camping, more like floating without a boat.
We endured three days of 100* weather Aug. 14, 15, and 16th at home. Then on Aug 17th we loaded the truck and headed down to Detroit lake. Forecast was for a "Little Rain". We set up camp with temps in the 80's with humidity feeling like it was approaching 80%. We had a late dinner and watched the lightning rolling in the eastern sky. When we awoke monday morning it was still stormy to the east, but it was headed our way. We soon experienced a lightning and thunderstorm right on the lake. Needless to say it was both fascinating and scary, with lightning strikes all around us. Eventually the storm broke and we managed to go out on our neighbors boat. All of the kids were pulled around on their new water tube. Trudy took a ride as did Dawn our neighbor. Finally it was my turn. I obviously couldn't fit inside it so I laid acroos the top. Darby did his best to try to dump me, and finally it was my own doing. I managed to get the tube to ride on the edge of the wake, I leaned in the wrong direction and went flipping across the water. Lots of fun and I know the kids can't wait to do it again.

For the remainder of monday, and all of tuesday it stayed pretty windy. Wednesday morning we woke up to a soaker. The rain was never really hard, just that constant miserable Oregon rain. Our campsite was muddy and we resorted to digging small trenches to send the water away from where we were hiding under a 10 X 10 pop up. I added a small tarp tied from the pop up to a tree so we could have enough space to sit around the fire. Which we did for about 18 hours.

At one point in the day I told the kids I would go swimming in the next 36 minutes. What they didn't know was that I extended the 36 minutes every time they mentioned it. I finally went, Trudy took pictures, but it will cost a lot of money to get those published. I'll be on the exercycle tomorrow.
We tore down camp on thurs morning, still raining, with a lot of water in our tent, and headed home.

That will be the LAST Oregon vacation in August.




















Saturday, August 16, 2008

Hot Water Heater...

Ladies and Gentlemen, If you own a Hot Water Heater you should turn it off. Honestly, if you have to heat 130* water you are just asking to scald yourself in the shower. Case in point, you have a WATER HEATER in your house. There is no reason to heat HOT water. I have heard this term at least three times this week in professional and basic reference. Some industrial businesses have a hot water heater, often refered to as a BOILER. Get it to 212* with atmospheric pressure and it becomes a STEAM Boiler. So to make it clear. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A HOT WATER HEATER. The water is heated or it is not, no need to heat hot water.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

She isn't Lance Armstrong....

Today marks the day that all of my kids are without training wheels. One day after her 5th birthday, Taylor was able to ride her bike without training wheels, the length of the street. Should I be happy or worried? She still has to work out starting and stopping, but has been able to maintain balance while pedaling and coasting. I suppose I should get some pics and post them before gravity affects her and she gets scuffed up.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

BK employee bathes in sink...

Sure they sanitized the sink, but what kitchen utensils were used, and in what manner?
you can't fix stupid

Monday, August 11, 2008

Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth

This sounds like it should be the #1 subject during an election year.
Obama can redistribute this new source of wealth through taxes and govt. programs, while McCain will bring in more illegals because this is a job Americans won't do. I'm suprised this commodity hasn't fallen victim to NAFTA and been shipped overseas for cheaper labor.
Pop Can Mafia

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Lenin's useful idiots

Found this surfing. It applies pretty well, maybe not to all blue state Libs, but to most. Sadly, most of these people are nice individuals to know without bringing up politics, but it is the politics that determine the direction we are going.

Lenin's useful idiots
From the Neville awards 2007

You are all good people. Liberals. You were always told that by your parents…products of the Depression/World War II and the Viet Nam generations. They told you that the liberals were the good guys and the conservatives were the spawn of Satan. So it is written...in liberal orthodoxy.

You have the best of intentions. It's your turn now.

You are well educated, went to good schools and universities, smug in the knowledge that you know what's best for the rest of us.

You read the NY Times, LA Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmo, Time, Newsweek and The New Yorker. You watch CNN and hate Fox, even though you never actually watch it. "They" told you it was horrible. And you believed them. After all, you are too busy to do your own research…you're just so busy saving the world.

You are tolerant and sensitive. You celebrate diversity and multiculturalism. You don't make judgments. You don't need to go to bad word rehab…no self-respecting liberal would ever need to go. You practice self-censorship, always watching what you say and do. Invoking the Fairness Doctrine, and claiming right-wing media bias, you also try to censor anything else you don't agree with. Hey, didn't a black, straight Grey's Anatomy guy say a little nasty about a gay Grey's Anatomy guy? In liberal orthodoxy is it even possible for a black to be a bigot or a homophobe? It's OK, he apologized and went to rehab for sensitivity training (brainwashing). So all is forgiven. The transgressor was a liberal actor. The cultural thought police are ever ready to catch you actually speaking your mind.

You are on the politically correct side of all the fashionable issues. You support the campus speech codes. You've got all of the happening student groups on campus…The Che Guevara Terrorist in Training Society, MEChA, La Raza, The Muslim Peoples Liberation for Oppressed This and That Whatever Organization. You shout down the evil conservatives whenever they come to campus to lecture. After all, you are oppressed…you are a victim, you just can't get your message out. And you mustn't, under any circumstances, let an alternative view anywhere near the campus.

You totally get Radical Chic, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, Uncle Ho, Fidel, Che and the latest Commie despot du Jour, Hugo. From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs...as long as it's not your stuff or your abilities. You don't work for free...you need to get paid.

You've read all the essential literature: Das Kapital, The Comm*nist Manifesto, Quotations of Chairman Mao...well, you never REALLY read the books. You just have them around to impress your lib friends. [Guys, you know the drill...get her back to your place, strategically place these books on your coffee table, dazzle her with a little Marxist blather, show her you are a sensitive, caring Metrosexual, tell her you hate Bush and the war, and you can seal the deal.]

You support women's rights, black rights, Hispanic rights, gay rights, Muslim rights, terrorists' rights, affirmative action, smoking bans and global warming. You've got the whole 'white guilt' syndrome down pat. And it's reinforced by the campus establishment and all of the maniactivist pressure groups. You attend courses on women's studies, black studies, Hispanic studies, Arab studies, Pacific Islander studies, peace studies, ethnic studies, all of which prepares you for nothing more than a career in academia so you can recycle the same useless politically correct fluff. At least you will get tenure so you don't actually have to accomplish anything. And if it's a state university you can suck at the public trough forever.

You are down with the feminist theory of social constructionism, which holds that the differences between men and women - apart from all of the visible ones - are not biologically determined, but are created by "society," and in particular by a patriarchal social structure designed by men to oppress women. You've read Betty Freidan's 'The Feminine Mystique'. You have the power. All those evil white men.

You are pro open borders. Never mind that illegal immigration lowers working class wages in general. They are undocumented, not illegal. "Doing the jobs that Americans won't do." They just want to come here and work. They pay taxes. They love Mexico...so much that they are tripping over themselves to break the law to come here. Anything to get away from the corrupt government that screws it's own people and the encourages illegal migration north. Besides, being anti-illegal immigration is racist. You wouldn't want to be branded with the 'R" word.

You blame America first. You know that your country is the source of all the misery in the world. You were taught that in school…it's our fault…you've read Howard Zinn. You saw Dances With Wolves. You agree with Susan Sontag…"the white race is the cancer of humanity." What a burden!! It's all your fault.

You believe Bush (single handedly) blew up the levees…indeed, he planned and caused Katrina, along with Cheney, down in that undisclosed bunker location.

You know the reason we are in Iraq…those nasty hard-hearted Neo-Cons just want that oil (where would they put it after they steal it?). No blood for oil…Bush lied--People died. And what about the WMD? He must have lied. They all lied…Bush, Blair, The Russians, The French, Clinton (Hill and Bill), and the U.N. No matter. Bush lied…it advances your agenda. Just don't let the inconvenient facts get in the way…it'll ruin everything.

You watch 'The View'. You're on board with Tokyo Rosie O'Donnell and the 9/11 truth crowd. You believe the U.S. government caused 9/11. And the British provoked the Iranians into seizing the sailors and marines. It's our fault.

9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan… not bad for the most stupid man we've ever elected president. How could someone so dumb accomplish so much? You are much smarter than the president and you enunciate so clearly.

You want lawyers for terrorists…I'm sorry, insurgents, oh yeah, freedom fighters. Tokyo Rosie said "Don't fear the terrorists, they are mothers and fathers too." You want to shut down Guantanamo Bay. After all we are torturing the poor defenseless terrorists. Bring them here. Give them an ACLU lawyer.

The Democratic Party is the new home of anti-Semitism in our time (impossible, you are still liberals). But the appeasement policies of the Democratic Party and the activism of the New Left, which your party is now beholden to, (Michael Moore, George Soros, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, Code Pink, World Can't Wait) enable our enemy both here and abroad -- radical Islam. International A.N.S.W.E.R. and Code Pink openly hate Israel. But you attend all of the peace demonstrations sponsored by these groups. Did you know that the International Social*ist Workers Party funds International A.N.S.W.E.R.? Nice company you're keeping.

Your carbon footprint is small…unless you are John Travolta and Arianna Huffington flying around on private jets, or Al Gore and John Edwards who own mansions big enough to land planes in. You are walking to all of those peace demonstrations in canvas shoes, aren't you? Have you swapped out all of your incandescent light bulbs yet?

You want higher taxes. You want all of my money. Because you care. You just want to help the disadvantaged…forever. A hand up, not a handout, right? However, if you're rich enough you can hide your money in Belize like Ted Kennedy and still call for higher taxes.

You are, in short, a bunch of useful idiots. You've bought into the liberal lie -- hook, line and sinker.

The ultimate leftist/comm*nist and soc*al fascist Lenin described the "useful idiot" as those people living in liberal democracies who, by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology, were "braiding the rope that would hang them.

Why people who enjoy freedom and prosperity would work passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Today's useful idiots can be found in the unending chorus of appeasement in the 'guilt-ridden hate America first' crowd, and in the naive idealism that prevents our necessary responses to the latest and most fashionable flavor of freedom-hating ideology, Islamic fascism. The list is a long one...too long to mention here. One only needs to look at Round One and Two of the Neville Awards to see the useful idiots of our own era. But there are many others, going back to the 1920's and 1930's who paved the way for our current crop of leftist political and soc*al "geniuses."

For liberals to win national office the United States must fail economically and politically. When the going gets tough you are ready to cut and run. You are invested in defeat and you own surrender because you hate yourself and this country. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid declares "The war is lost". And reminiscent of Chamberlain's infamous Munich meeting with Hitler, "Damascus" Nanci Pelosi returned from Syria for "talks" with Assad. In an eerie "peace for our time" Neville Chamberlain moment she declared "the road to Damascus is a road to peace". She is a useful idiot. The Muslim enemy smiles to your face and laughs at your back.

Newly elected Democrats are voting for meaningless anti-war resolutions and surrender timetables knowing they will be vetoed because they don't have the guts for an up or down vote to cut off war funding. That would be political suicide no matter who was president. But you support the troops…gotta love those brave boys (and girls) in uniform…so long as you don't actually use them. As a liberal you might have to commit to something painful.

You don't even have the stones to debate your issues in a forum hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party. So you haul out Daily Kos and MoveOn.org to kill the messenger and cancel the debate. Mr. Tough Guy Harry Reid caves in to the left and Reid spokesman, Jon Summers says: "This was a decision made by the Nevada Democratic Party. Sen. Reid understands and shares some of the concerns that have been raised about FOX and supports the state party's efforts to address those concerns. Sen. Reid is also supportive of any strategy that helps to grow our party and will help Democrats win the West and elect a Democratic president in 2008." (A true profile in courage)

You believe that the Muslim Fascists couldn't possibly want to harm you because you are so reasonable, enlightened, tolerant and understanding. Believe me, they don't care. They will kill you, and everyone else simply because we are not Muslims. If you are gay they'll start with you…and then get to the straight liberals (the conservatives will be tougher to deal with because we are armed). "They can't possibly want to kill me…I understand the source of their hatred and want to reason with them." The Jews of Germany were similarly confounded as they were being led to the gas chambers. Or are you so consumed with Bush Hatred Syndrome that you are straying into the Holocaust denial zone (popular now amongst the trendy appeasing European leftist intelligentsia and Muslims)? Everybody believed Neville Chamberlain's "peace for our time' nonsense after his meeting with Hitler. Chamberlain was Hitler's useful idiot. Nobody believed Hitler meant what he was saying in Mein Kampf. Nobody seems to take Iran's Ahmadinejad at his word when he says he wants to wipe Israel off the map. The year is 1939…déjà vu all over again.

Liberals did nothing when our embassy personnel were held for 444 days in the late 1970's. They did nothing when our embassies and warships were attacked in the 1990's…we accepted Carter's and Clinton's weak explanations for their lack of leadership in the face of Muslim acts of war. But when Bush finally drew the line in the sand there was great wringing of hands and rending of clothes among the very people who said nothing about Clinton's Kosovo war. Well, Clinton is a Democrat so it's OK.

The list of Democrats who voted for war funding is large and very public. These same Democrats want to bail now that the war has lasted longer than we had hoped. It's a good thing you guys were not around in the 1940's after Guadalcanal, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and every other engagement where we got our nose more than a little bloodied.

The dinosaur media and newspapers are similarly pathetic and in the tank for the left. If we'd had the kind of relentlessly negative reporting of WWII and the publishing of classified data as we did during the Viet Nam era and as we do now in the Iraq era, no doubt, we would have negotiated for terms with the Germans and the Japanese, convinced we couldn't win as we are now by the liberal media machine.


The liberal media and the ACLU have been working ceaselessly to hamstring our ability to gather intelligence. But 9/11 was a massive intelligence failure, you say. The ACLU and the media have opposed every measure passed to effectively gather intelligence to prevent further attacks in the post 9/11 era. If these measures are lost another attack may well occur. And these same liberal losers who decried the Patriot Act will be whining about unconnected dots ad nauseum...unless the president is a Democrat.

Finally you are a moral relativist infected with the virus of multiculturalism. You are incapable of seeing right and wrong when it's staring you in the face. In your world, where judgments aren't made, one culture is as good as another…one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. You long for an America that resembles the enlightened and sophisticated Europeans, who are currently committing cultural and political suicide as they allow the continent to be overrun by radicalized Muslim immigrants. In England, schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government-backed study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques. Declining church attendance, increasing secularization, rampant political correctness and cultural self-loathing have made Europe impotent in the face of the true believer jihadi.

Europe is rapidly losing its culture, which is also the root of our culture. Population and demographics experts expect the Islamification of Europe to be complete by 2050 unless Christian Europe grows a spine and starts deporting its Muslim population and shutting down the mosques. As long as Europe is in the grip of political correctness that kind of necessary religious and racial profiling will not take place. Think it can't happen here? It is happening...just ask the residents of Dearborn, Michigan.

So why not move to Europe, or anywhere else for that matter? You believe you live in a fascist or semi-police state where your freedoms are being eaten away by the heavy-handed Patriot Act. Well, just try living in a real police state. You wouldn't last a month. You'd be outraged at the government intrusion into your activities. Besides, as much as you decry Capitalism and embrace Radical Chic and hang with the Parlor Soci*lists and the Limousine Libs, the money you earn here is just too damn good, and you are just too damn free to speak your mind.

So rant away, useful idiots. The United States Armed Forces has been spilling blood for the last 240 years for your inalienable right to be one.

Olympics or Little League World Series?

The Olympics are here yet again. I have found myself watching the Little League World Series instead. Last night Indiana and Ohio went 11 innings in a 4-4 tie, until Ohio broke it with 9 runs in the top of the 11th. Regulation for this age group is 6 innings. It was an exiting and well played game with very few errors. The regionals are almost done and then the actual championship games begin.

As for the Olympics...
BADMINTON!?!?!? Since when is the game you can purchase for 99 cents an Olympic event. My best memories of badminton was hitting the little "birdie" as far as possible to make my sister chase it. It was her idea to play this stupid game anyway.
I actually enjoy the Track and Field, Boxing, Swimming, and Gymnastics. Those are actual sports involving athletic prowess, strength and endurance. Do they test the badminton players for performance enhancing drugs? While I'm on this rant, ping pong, which is fun to play shouldn't be in the Olympics either. Hey I was pretty good at ping-pong back in the day, but cheap entertainment is not Olympic.
Last but not least is Fencing. An Aristocratic endeavor attempted by people by the name of Wellington, Che avers and Bradley. The only justification in winning is if they take the fake sword and run it up their opponents turned up nose. No blood, no sport, sharpen those things and do some damage. I could then maybe call it a sport.

Happy Anniversary

Yep, Trudy has put up with my crap for 16 years now. 8-8-92 - 8-8-08.
We went out to dinner at the Roadhouse. The place was empty due to the opening ceremonies for the Bejing Olympics. (More to come on the Olympics).
From there we went out to Dukes. It is a Country nite club. Very preferrable without the noise and atmosphere of the Hip Hop crowd.
It is one of the few places where people from age 21 to whatever, can go dancing and have a good time. We only danced the slow dances, and vowed to get line dance and two step lessons before our next anniversary. There just wasn't enough alcohol there to get me in a non coherent state to which I could try dancing without looking the fool and knowing it. It was fun to just sit and people watch, plenty to look at from both percpectives. Ah well, it may be fun to go there with friends some time, but very few of them can appreciate Country music. I look at it as the foundation of this great nation. A place where family and working hard for everything you own is evident.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Part time job... Joke of the week

As many of you know, I had ambitions of finding a simple, uncomplicated part time job when I retired from my 'day job'. Unfortunately, as I have gotten a little older, I have become a little less sensitive. So as a try-out, for a job as a Wal-Mart greeter on the weekend, a good find for many retirees, I lasted less than a day......

About two hours into my try-out day on the job a very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into the store with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. As I had been instructed, I said pleasantly, 'Good morning, and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?'

The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, 'Hell no, they ain't twins. The oldest one's 9, and the other one's 7. Why the hell would you think they're twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?'

So I replied, 'I'm neither blind nor stupid, Ma'am. I just couldn't believe you got laid twice. Have a good day and thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.'

My supervisor said I probably wasn't cut out for this line of work!

Staycation...

Recently with gas prices high and inflation this word has popped up. Where did it come from? If you aren't taking a "vacation" why call it anything? Hey lets go camping in the park down the street, we'll call it a STAYCATION, WTH!!
Just because you leave your neighborhood, but not the state doesn't make it anything more than a weekend getaway. Short outings are just that. Big Deal, you aren't going to Disneyland this year.
Staycation isnt as bad though as the all time worse word to ever make it into a dictionary - Bootyliscious. What flavor is that? Are there 31?
Even the dictionary has lost respect for the Kings English. No wonder kids are so damn illiterate and actually write papers these days in phone texting format.