First Bike Wreck In Thirty Five Years

My Face Hurts...


So there I was last night, heading down the shoulder of Kingston Pike on my fancy Townie bicycle coming home from torturing the audience singing Karaoke.

See...Knoxtown has something like 1700 miles of roads and only 300 miles of sidewalks, so I have to ride in the street if I ride at all.

Any way, apparently I owned a piece of asphalt which at the time some lovely citizen in a auto needed so I had to take evasive measures which resulted in me and my bike tipping over.

When the dust settled the bike was fine and the only part of me that hit the ground in an unagreeable manner was my left hand and my left cheekbone and temple.

Now I have a "shiner from hell" and a renewed desire to bitch and complain about the lack of sidewalks and bike paths everywhere.

After all, if everybody rode a bike every day for a few miles we'd virtually eliminate the "obesity crisis" and end the need for government regulation of health care costs and possibly mitigate global warming climate change in the process.

Healthcare "Reforma"

Watch This And Laugh/Cry With Me...





At least SOME of us voters are trying to get our point across...

"RECORD HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY/PROVIDER PROFITS"= E V I L

To All Of The DUMBAsses Out There...


Do you actually want to buy PORK from the local pig farmer who is LOSING MONEY?

Really want cheap chicken?

Have the Cow walk into your front yard and commit suicide on your front porch?

No?

Then...

DO YOU want to buy an Airplane from a bankrupt Piper or Cessna or Grummand...

Do YOU want TO have the man/woman looking down your throat or up your uretha that's not making money?

I generally try to buy something costing somewere between AVERAGE and WAY DAMN ABOVE AVERAGE and Obama Ramna Ding Dang dropped the ball on that topic in his press conference tonight...

The "First Socialist Couple"

A Match Made In Hell Leningrad???






Heh...

In Favor of "Nationalized Healthcare?"

Watch THIS All You Sniveling, Booger Eating, Eco-friendly, "40 million uninsured" Liberals...





(and my conservative friends...fellow supporters of what is left today of this once great Republic will enjoy it also...)


Thanks for the link Rodger

Giant Vegetables

Friends Kill Us With "Fruits" Of Their Gardens


Just look at this photo of what a friend handed us this evening...




Yes, that would be a giant Zucchini Squash weighing a little over 4 pounds. It's a bit over 16 inches long...



and a little over 4 inches around at its fattest part




By dinner tomorrow night that sucker will be split, cored, and stuffed with Chorizo Sausage and spices and Parmesan cheese.

4 More Hours (6:30PM-10:30 PM) Without Internet

The Voices Told Me To Stay Home Tonight And Clean My Guns...

dEAD iNTERNET cONNECTION

Five nights in a row...


(more blogging later after I get the grinder dust off me.)

Houston...We Have A Problem...

Let The Previously Silent Media Begin Their Frenzy...


I was just doing my daily scan of the weather including that in the tropics and I had to pause when I found this image:




You can go here: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/loop-wv.html to find the latest water vapor loop images and see for yourself.

IF these areas actually manage to develop into storms, just sit back with me and watch the balance of the lamestream "professional" Media and the wild eyed people over at the Weather Channel (recently purchased by NBC and converted into a Global Warming shill media outlet)start going ape shit and crack out their tired old well worn "climate change" and man made global warming stories.

That's exactly what the US House and Senate needs is a bunch of dead black Jamacians or a new batch of homeless Cubans to help push their stupid Crap and Tax "Cap and Trade" bill through for Obama Rama Ding Dang.

Idiots...

Forty Years Ago

Mary Joe Where Are You?


Lest we all forget, it was on the morning of July 18th, 1969 that New York's lovely Senator Ted "Jabba the Hut" Kennedy was just beginning to explain how he drove off a dead end street into a tidal canal and left his brother Robert's former secretary, Mary Joe Kopechne, to die slowly in his overturned car.




I say that you should go here and buy a shirt like this just to piss your liberal friends off.

High Temperature of 74 Degrees F On July 18th

IN KNOXTOWN, TENNESSEE

I write this just so I can remind all of the Owl Gore loving/following, United Nations supporting, sniveling, booger eating, tree hugging , eco-faschist Global man made greenie weenie climate change IDIOTS OUT THERE...

It's JULY...you $%#@ idiots...in EASTERN TENNESSEE...

and I'm having to wear a SHIRT...

and SOCKS...

AT NIGHT...

And it may go down to 55 degrees F tonight...

and your stupid assed congress men and women and so-called Senators want to Tax and Cap and Trade me into oblivion for W H A T?

Go to heck you stupid government edumacated I D I O T S.

Time to light the grill now and thereby burn some C H A R C O A L and DO MY PART IN THE GLOBAL WARMING CATASTROPHE SCHEME...

Stop by about 6:30 and I'll hand you a Fajita and some Guacamole with chips...

Fourth Night In Internet Hell

I've Become A TechnoWuss...


The good news is my Internet service is back on.

The bad news it was out again last night for ANOTHER four hours.

A Comcast found my previous posting and commented here with an apology for my inconvenience.

Consider the apology accepted...

Al Gorgasms

I'm NOT Sorry I'm So "INSENSITIVE"


Just in case you haven't noticed (else you have lapsed into a catatonic comma watching the Senate hearings on soon to be Supreme Court Judge Sotomayer) it's now July 17th, 48 days beyond the beginning of the official government declared and decreed "HURRICANE SEASON"...

And because I'm just really a silly little simple bigoted, egotistical, racist, backwoods redneck blogger...

And as our United States Congressional Assholes--residing in the House and the Senate--spend their time in front of the microphones and cameras considering putting an "enlightened Latina" on the "Supreme Court" and Crapping Passing Taxing "Capping and Trade" and deforming "reforming" or conforming our "health care policies" by spending more money to avoid bankruptcy in the image of Medicare and Medicaid and the VA health system...

But...

But...

I just have to ask...

Has anyone but me noticed that there HAS ONLY BEEN ONE TROPICAL "ANYTHING" IN THE ATLANTIC/GULF BASIN AND ONE IN THE PACIFIC BASIN AND TONIGHT THE NOAA PICTURE LOOKS LIKE THIS IMAGE:



No?

Nan?

Nada?

So all I have to say is screw Al Gore and screw all of you sniveling, booger eating, tree hugging global climate changin', eco-friendly crap heads...


GIVE US 0UR COUNTRY BACK AND GO FIND SOMEPLACE IN EUROPE TO LIVE...

Three Nights Of The Living Dead In Internet Hell

What Hair I have Left I'm Pulling Out...


This morning I'm tempted to utter the words: "screw the Internet and screw modern technology..."

That's said as I think back to what the past THREE nights have been like here in Eastern Tennessee.

Night before last Comcast decided to pull some kind of "maintenance outage" which lasted from somewhere after midnight until somewhere after 4 AM when I finally went to bed again.

That would also be after I spent most of FOUR HOURS resetting my cable modem and router and running around between our home server PC and two laptops trying to decide if the problem was internal or external.

I finally called the bastards and was matter of factly informed that there was in fact a "maintenance outage" and they had sent notification to my Comcast e-mail account to that effect.

I haven't logged on to a Comcast e-mail account since the first months after we signed up for their so called "high speed" Internet while living on our little Island back about 2004 because all I ever got was SPAM BS e-mails from Comcast trying to sell me something or tell me about a "partners" unwanted services.

So any way, then last night we were blasted with a weather front that came through and thunder and lightened and grumbled around for three or four hours dumping over two inches of rainfall in my back yard, and again about 12:30 the power went off here and in spite of having a giant 14 giggawatt battery back up on the server PC I elected to shut down and read some more of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" out on the carport by flashlight (while smoking a cheap cigar.)

The electricity from the federal government power company juice from Tennessee Valley Authority started flowing again about 6:15 by the account given to me by our neighbors who were trying to shower and get out the door to work about then.

Just now I've begun to write this morning's rant after enduring another almost THREE HOUR unexplained Internet outage AGAIN....oh Oh OH Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

Screw civilization and screw technology...I say that IF we actually need to communicate long distance to protect life and limb and property that we all better start buying ourselves a few thousand feet of string and some paper cups because if we stay reliant on the crap we're all relying on right now we're going to pay dearly some day pretty soon when the Koreans and Iranians get their way.

That will be all...for now...

Dammit...

I Can't Leave Well Enough Hard Enough Alone

Additional Pain & Suffering Courtesy of Home Depot...


I was staring at my railing painting project the past few days and couldn't help notice the pealing reddish/brown paint on the front porch and guess what???

I went BACK to Home Depot and spent another hundred dollars on Muric acid and paint stripper chemicals and grinding stuff and exterior concrete patio paint and now I have to go and burn my eyes and skin removing the crappy paint off the railing and the porch surfaces.

Did I mention getting the existing paint splatters off the front brick wall surfaces?

I'm crazy I guess but I've started and now I have to finish.

Dang it...

Grinding The Paint On My Wrought Iron Railings

Dying Of Lead Poisoning In The Process...


So here I am, finding myself immersed in the early stages of my latest home improvement project--attacking 46 years of paint, rust, and paint over rust on about 25 feet of ornamental steel/iron railing.

When we first moved in I had the intention of updating the appearance of the front porch with new columns and railings, but over the past 15 months the obvious heavy upgraded appearance and quality of the railings has grown on us...that and the reality of having limited funding at this time to take on such a project.

Thus after a $50 trip to Home Depot for some Rustolium, mineral spirits, and Bondo I'm now scraping and grinding away the bad spots while trying to avoid swallowing or inhaling paint chips and dust thrown up by the wire brush spinning in my drill.

Time to go back and do another section.

Ronald Reagan On America

'Nuff Said...






(Thanks for the link Rodger.)

Most Explicatives Deleted

You Don't Even WANT To Know What I've Been Thinking...


Besides being busy doing some more Forensic Injuneering work between useless bouts of sitting beside the pool, I hate to admit that my blogging has suffered over the end of this past week because I just didn't have anything civil to write or say here.

The social and political insanity I see around me daily can only be ascribed or transcribe in what I consider to be profane terms, thus my silence as I watch Obama Rama Ding Dang and Nancy Pelosi and her Congressional puppets sputter and blither stupidity quoted as intelligent fact by various and sundry members of the lamestream national "professional" media.

I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen, but I've had it up to here (pointing to the top of my ever greying, ever balding soon to be 50 year old head.)

The "head Negro what be in charge" is a lieing crazy two faced bastard and the Democratic "white crackers" running around supporting him and celebrating his election are self serving simplistic fools who are hell bent on stealing all of your money and running the country into the ground in the name of "change we can believe in."

And Barney Frank is a lisping lieing thieving idiot who apparently spends more time thinking about sticking his penis in men's butts than running the country's business, and the reality that people like him and Al Franken can actually make it into the Senate tells me that we're all in a hell of a mess because I wouldn't trust these stupid assholes to run a car wash or a Laundromat let alone the largest country in the world..

That will be all...for now...

Dammit...

SEVENTY THOUSAND HITS

Milestones In Insignificant Blogging On Social Change...


I realize that by most media standards and even Blogger standards my slice of heaven little piece of the Internet here on this Blog is but a proton or neutron in the giant world of media in all forms, BUT...

I just noticed from the old Hit Counter that within the next 12 to 24 hours this Blog will be enjoying it's 70,000th visitor since I first started writing on August 8th, 2004.

Also, in that same process, with this posting, I will have written twenty three thousand and twenty eight essays or other postings since that day when I wrote on behalf of President Bush during his campaign against that useless windbag/stuffed shirt/Vietnam Veteran John sKerry in a posting called "Speaking for the President" (link).

If you are a regular reader, you also most likely understand that I realize that much of what I have written is not generally originally prophetic nor of any significant commercial value to anyone but ME, MYSELF, and I.

I also accept that much of what I have transcribed from my brain onto these pages of the Internet is annoying to some people and by some standards could be considered simplistic, inane, or down right bigoted in some circles.

That realization makes me only want to do more and more and more of the same, because every once in a while...maybe once in a few thousand or few tens of thousands of words I might strike a chord with someone else and at least make them think. They don't have to agree with me...only THINK about the topic I'm bitching about and possibly correct some error or misconceptions in their ways of living and doing business.

A single solitary success is a prescription averting failure in my book.

That said, understand these words...

For those of you that stopped by and actually cared about what (and possibly agreed with the positions) I was writing about, I thank you for your patronage.

For those of you which were offended but continued to stop here just to see what I would write next...I offer a hearty "you're welcome." Just consider this Blog to be like a train wreck or a car accident--a scene which you can't take your eyes off of as you pass it.

For my personal friends and family which tolerated my sometimes juvenile outbursts and used this page as a barometer with which to discover the level of my sanity or insanity and acted accordingly, I express my eternal gratitude for allowing me to remain out of the government institutions and roam the streets of this lovely planet and continue to inflict myself on the unsuspecting and innocent bystanders that are forced to deal with me on a daily physical basis rather from remote distances on the Internet.

I don't know what the Future holds from a blogging or on a (non)professional basis.

And I certainly don't know where I'm Goin'...but I sure know where I've been...and if I have any say in the matter...In the words of Captain Kirk:

It's Damn Sure Gonna Be "Where no man's gone before..." so stay tuned to this channel of the Internet.


That will be all...for now...

Copy Cats...

I Wish I Had Thought Of This Earlier...

Weird Al Yankovic - New Music - More Music Videos

So There you have it...my honest tribute to Mr. Jackson