I Feel Like A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

Actually More Like An Alabama Redneck In A Sea Of Orange...


Have I mentioned that living in a "college town" pretty much sucks if you happen to not have attended the "town's college"?

Well...it does...at least until the team that's in season (as opposed to the game that's in hunting season like "wabbits" or ducks) loses three or four games.

Then things settle down and quieten up a good bit and you can stand to wander around in public without being assaulted.

Thus my situation here this morning on the banks of the mighty Tennessee River...in the middle of the 2009 College football season.

When you do go out for drinks or dinner or shopping here even with U of T's three losses to date we still see probably 50% of the people wearing orange or at least sporting a big orange T on their heads and breasts and backs and butt and feet and car bumpers.

The local newspaper--the Knoxville Sentinel--is equally difficult to stomach.

If the team is winning, the front page has a story and three quarters of the sports section is UT blaa blaaa blaaaaaa.

Likewise, if the team is losing, the front page has a story and three quarters of the sports section is UT boo hooo hooooo.

You can hardly EVER find any mention of anything except SEC sports...they'll instead print stories about the recruiting prospects of the UT Pick-up-sticks and bowling teams rather than write about anything going on in Atlanta or the ACC or in anywhere else in the country for that matter.

I guess I can understand, but still...the Oak Ridge National Lab and ranks of Tennessee Valley Authority offices are full of Auburn and Clemson and more importantly...

GEORGIA TECH ENGINEERS.

Yet God forbid they should ever mention GT's success thus far this season as UT faces being stomped by Alabama on Saturday.

And ME?

I'm faced knowing the Tech faces the University of Virginia at noon today in Charlottesville and I'm afraid that the Raycom broadcast won't be on our local moronic Comcast schedule.

So any way, I've been wandering around town in my GT shirts just for fun and last night at dinner I happened to end up sitting adjacent to an older Tech alum who was equally happy to find a fellow Rambling Wreck to talk to.

We spent a half hour swapping stories about the good old days down at the North Avenue Trade School, then I came home and went back to my new grind managing a new Website I'm developing and working on some proposals.

BTW...the company I incorporated just got it's first small order yesterday, so we're off and running and hopefully I'm no longer semi-retired/unemployed.

Of course it will take about twenty more orders like this to make some semblance of a living, but it's a start after a great deal of soul searching and planning and false starts over the past 10 months in limbo.

Time for a nap now...and wish me luck...if you will...

Slackard Video Blogging

I'm Still VERY Busy...


Take a look/listen at George Carlin's take on "Saving The Planet"...

(WARNING: George's usual coarse language...probably not safe for work if you work somewhere which monitors your internet usage...)







All I have to say is heh...

Today's Humor

Lazy Bloggin Yields New Commedian?


Anyone but me never heard of "Mrs. Hughes"?

Here...take a listen and try not to blow your coffee out your nose...





Thanks again as always to Rodger over at Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Haunted By "Cash For Clunkers"

I Told Everyone So...


I think some people thought I was crazy when I got heated up when I wrote More thoughts on cash for clunkers earlier.

Well...it looks like my predictions and economic analysis was was pretty darn spot-on, as reported in this News Paper story:

Berks dealers say federal clunkers program has made cheap, used vehicles harder to find

Dealers say program has made cheap, used vehicles harder to find
By Mike Urban
Reading Eagle

In her search for a cheap, used minivan for her and her husband, Krissy Dieroff has visited seven dealerships across Berks and Schuylkill counties in the last week, but to no avail.

"There's not much to pick from, and the ones we do find are overpriced," said Dieroff of Auburn, Schuylkill County, while browsing the lot of a city dealership on Monday.

Dieroff blames the shortage of inexpensive used cars on the federal cash-for-clunkers program, in which almost 700,000 used vehicles were traded in for newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles, and then scrapped.

continue reading here...

See ladies & gentlemen, the sniveling, booger eating, tree hugging, Kumbaya singing patchouli stinking, grown-up 1960's hippies currently residing in Washington DC working under job titles with the words "Economic" or "Economics" in them don't really know shit from shineola...

of if they do they just ignore the realities in pursuit of their own hidden agenda.

Either way the Voters should be PISSED OFF when things like this...so called "Government" taking 700,000 vehicles off the road in the name of helping prevent climate change...ends up hurting the very people they claim to be helping in the process.

Now just you wait for phase two of this government program to kick in...GIVING vouchers to "working families" to help offset the higher vehicle costs coming as result of phase one. Or maybe like some kind of mutant game show or Publishers Clearinghouse they'll just show up in peoples driveways with a new Prius or Corvette.

As usual, I have to go now and soak my head...

Wookin' Pa Nub In Ah Da Wong Paces

Having One Of My Buh-Weet Moments...


Sorry, but I don't have crap to say worth listening to this morning.

Imagine that?

I guess some say that's true most of the time, BUT...

In lieu of my normal original piercing political commentary and insightful wit, I suggest that you just go here and watch this silly video from the Eddie Murphy's SNL days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiZ15x6Vt4


Then laugh with me at this clip:




Finally, I couldn't stop Googling and as a result I found another one of my SNL favorites of Dan Aykroyd doing a drunken Julia Child:




And thus this morning's blogging is saved with cheap Internet Videos.

heh ...

I have "Zero Tolerance" For "Zero Tolerance"

Dumbasses Take Control Of Our Planet and Edumacational System?


I happily, heartily, and with great hubris admit today that in my day I brought all kinds of stupid, non-essential crap to various public schools in the late 1960's and early to mid 1970's.

That said, I'm also sorry to report that if it were up to the current bunch of spineless, mindless so-called teachers and "administrators", emasculated eviscerated by and because of the pandering politicians making things represented to be "LAWS" over the past 35 years, I'd never have made it past the 11th grade because I'd have spent all of my time wearing prison pinstripes.

Then in college I proceeded to build things out of Plexiglas's tubing designed to break national and international drug laws, and spent a good deal of time carrying around a trumpet and a bottle of Jack Daniels in my boot when it was outlawed in a college football stadium.

Yet today I survived without killing anyone I'm aware of (unless they died laughing at my antics) and I sit here realizing that my punishment is watching how SUTPID many Americans have become.

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

Donna Shalala Speaks...

Think About This Government Issued Bullshit...


(paraphrasing)

"those of us that have coverage [health insurance]...can't afford to continue to pay for those of us that don't under our current system..."


I ended up spitting on my computer monitor as I watched this former Clinton era Head of the Department of Health and Human Resources bumble around talking to FOX News Mike Huckaby...

because I have to remind everyone of this.

(taking a big breath here...)

THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO MONEY TO PAY FOR ANYTHING.


They print money, but unless SOMEONE works to pay for it in exchange, it's worth nothing.

Thus the government has to come to a house, knock on a door, point a gun, and proceed to STEAL the MONEY from SOMEONE in order to GIVE it to SOMEONE ELSE.

Food, clothing, a roof, or "HEALTHCARE", it's still paid for with someone else's money if you don't pay for it.

Are you actually willing to demand a portion of someone else's life, energy, and efforts in order to pay for something you mistakenly believe you have a RIGHT to?

Mathmatically Challenged Dumbasses Allowed To Ruin Run The Country

"Sports Writers" Only Marginally More Impaired Than "Political Pundits"...


I'm sorry Folks...but this rant has been coming on for a number of years now.

OK...having been a Georgia Tech sports fan...you can make that a little over thirty years now.

It's not anything contagious or genetic that makes my head spin when it comes to the topic of the politics of "sports rankings."

I guess it's basically just the rank odor which ALWAYS to my way of thinking seems to emanate from that little column in the newspaper and now on the Internet when you see how the minds of so-called "Sports writers" work...and then by default how the balance of college sports ranking systems work when everything is all said and done.

Unfortunately I think that the determination of political candidates on a national level (and possibly a state and local level) also suffers from a related fatal viral illness--but I'll get to that topic later if I have the time and energy.

Any hoooo, most of those of you that don't live under a rock or in a discarded packing crate under a bridge somewhere outside of Macon, Georgia probably know that the College Football rankings come out every Sunday afternoon/evening in the months of August through early January.

This year again is no exception.

I just tuned in my computer and found this evening's latest posting--looking for my GT Yellow Jackets to have launched into the top ten in the national rankings.

WRONG...

Solidly beating the number 4 team...Virginia Tech... a team which has occupied the spots of #6, #5, and then #4 in the AP "sports writers" poll for the past three weeks...only gets them the number 11 spot in the minds of these rocket scientists.

This after crashing out of their national rankings after falling from the number 14 spot because of getting beat by the AP's #20 ranked Miami team a month ago...the VERY SAME MIAMI TEAM which rose up to NUMBER NINE in the rankings that week after beating Georgia Tech at number 14?

WTF?

Let's face it people, if you are a college sports fan you have to understand the bias which exists in the "sports media" just like it exists in the national media covering everything from "the balloon boy" to political races.

Sports writers are, in my personal considered Redneck opinion, biased, narcissistic, idiotic assholes which let their personal interests and opinions threaten and influence what has grown over the past fifty years to be a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR enterprise...

the final outcome of each season of NCAA DIVISION I COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

And that's the reason I don't run around baseing my self worth and public stature on something which is so arbitrarily determined by a bunch of idiots that couldn't make 20 on the ACT or 1200 on the SAT before going to the local community college to get their journalistic education.

And I suspect that three quarters of these "sports writers" were also relegated to the position of "bench warmer" during their limited high school or college "sports careers."

"Sports Writers" or just "Monday Morning Quarterbacks," I totally hate people that spend their lives running around like walking billboards with University of Florida or Miami or Ohio State clothing, when the only time they ever likely set foot on a given College Campus was on Saturday afternoon trying to buy scalper tickets to "THE BIG GAME."

True sports fans are exactly that...FANS

"Sports Writers" should be neutral, but that's not going to ever happen...as evidenced by teams like Boise State and Iowa and Cincinnati hanging around endlessly in the top rankings of their Fraternity poll while at the same time none of these impotent teams ever manage to actually PLAY anyone with any credentials except their own conference "straw man" dummy teams.

In closing I have this to say about THAT to all of the people running around wearing a closet load of RED or Orange or GREEN or whatever color clothes with a big W or T or U on their chest or ass...

GET A REAL LIFE!!

Dammit

Georgia Tech "Up-ends" Virginia Tech 28-23

Wramblings From An Old Rambling Wreck...


As my regular readers know, unlike most if not many men, I rarely spend much time watching or talking about sports.

On this blog you hardly ever see any time or words devoted to the topic.

It's not because I'm entirely unfamiliar with the subject, it's just that I've chosen such a difficult faction of sports enterprises to follow through the years.

Starting with the Atlanta Braves on Ted Turner's Channel 17 TBS Cable network during the Dale Murphy/Phil Nekro era...

and then including the NFL's Atlanta Falcons living and dieing with Steve Bartkowski in the 1970's, my understandably jaded long suffering professional sports affection/affliction has be relegated these days to yelling occasionally about Pat's beloved Pittsburgh Steelers

...else nothing at all.

On the college front, long after the tenure of Heisman, Alexander, and Dodd (and Rodgers and Curry and Ross) and having attended virtually every home football game on North Avenue at historic Grant Field in Atlanta from 1977 until the late 1990's following Georgia Tech, and having season tickets to their basketball program's games throughout the 1990's, I feel I can speak authoritatively to topics relating to young men battling their way through their academic career on the gridiron or basketball court, yet today I spend a limited amount of time and money following those sports on any basis that could be considered anything beyond casual interest.

That said, this 2009 NCAA Division I College football season has again brought my attention back to the TV screen because of Georgia Tech's potential re-emergence on the national football scene.

After losing badly while ranked #13 to a lower ranked Miami team and being dropped from the national rankings, the Yellow Jackets have scratched and clawed and stung their way back past the likes of North Carolina and survived a game with nearly 100 points combined against Florida State...

to culminate last night in pushing past number 4 ranked VIRGINIA TECH with a solid second half performance.

Georgia Tech didn't "dominate", but they (notice I say "they", not "WE" because I didn't play there in my years on campus) won in the end, and for the first time since their 1990 National Championship Season I'm a little bit excited about the possibilities for the balance of this season.

The single loss to date at Miami will most likely keep the team from vying for the national title, but a nice New Years Bowl invitation and a better outcome than last year's debacle in the Georgia Dome against LSU (I spent a couple hundred dollars attending that event) could be in the making for the "Old White and Gold" team.

I'm not making any predictions, but then again things could be pretty interesting come December.

Go Jackets...

Today's 1980's Audio Flashback

The Church..."Under The Milky Way Tonight"



UPDATE: 10/19/09

I did this song at the local Karaoke Bar Saturday night...easy for my vocal range and it got a good crowd response because no one ever does it but everyone remembers it when you sing it.

This Weekend's Audio Flashback

Mushy Mid 1970's Music...




Can anyone believe I used to have hair sorta like that?

One Bad Apple Spoils Every Barrel

Being Your Own Worse Enemy...


I just had an interesting experience this noontime today.

I called the US office of a company based in France which builds a machine that I have the opportunity to support on an O&M basis, and much to my surprise...

THEY WON'T SELL ME PARTS FOR THEIR MACHINE.

Without "Permission."

Paraphrasing the conversation with the polite lady with the title of "Spare Parts Manager":

"We have to have a letter from the company that owns our machine telling us that you are authorized to work on on their machines else we can't even QUOTE YOU PRICES for spare parts."

[silence...heavy breathing]

(Taking a big breath here boss)

WTF?

I guess that now I have to remind everyone of the story of Apple Computer Corporation, the company that owned the "Personal Computer" market until 1982/1983 when IBM came on the scene.

You see, Apple's downfall and relegation to second tier status in the computer business...living a life as the machine favored by the "arty/farty, dope smoking, patchouli stinking hippy and sniveling, booger eating, tree hugger crowd"...was their insistence on clinging to a "closed" hardware/software system architecture where the only innovations and advancements came from within APPLE and their tightly controlled community of software developers.

IBM, on the other hand, virtually gave away their drawings of their computer and begged smart people to write programs and build expansion cards for their "open architecture."

Anyone but me ever buy a "QuadRAM board with extra serial I/O ports" to get a PC with a system clock with a battery back up?

And the end result?

There's a ZILLION IBM PC clones out there today built by companies with names from Acer to Zenith, and computer store isles are filled with software to support the machines based on the ancestry of the old Intel 8080 CPU chip.

Meanwhile Apple languishes in a small back corner area of those same stores, having recently resorted to building their own machines that can act like a "normal" APPLE Computer while at the same time imitating a "REAL" IBM PC clone machine in order to try to draw in a larger user base. (A business associate of mine bought one for about $4000 and absolutely hates it and nevers uses it in "APPLE" mode.)


Needless to say that these French Assholes haven't heard the last from me, because I already have pricing from regular industrial supply houses for a box full of o-rings and gaskets and for the time being I'll just make do without them...probably giving my customer a LOWER price in the process.

Free trade isn't FREE, but my money is as green as the next guy's/gal's and I have a LONG memory and little allegiance to anything without red/white/blue on the label.

Dammit...

Stupid Crap Keeps Happening And The News People Swallow It...

Hook Line And Stinker Sinker


OK Everybody...I'm taking up a collection and building a really big balloon, and then I'm going to spend the afternoon hiding in my attic after I launch it.

Here's my design, modeled after the locally famous "peach" water tower up off I-85 in Gaffney, SC. (Just in case you're wondering, my next balloon design will be modeled after a giant tube of "Preparation H.")



If you see me coming you better watch out and AVOID anything falling out that you see heading your way...

after all...

If the US Congress can Crap all over everyone...

I don't see why I can't take the opportunity to fly past and dump a little well intended feces in your life just to show you that I care.

Heh...

Replacement Terminology For My "Sniveling, Booger Eating, Bed Wetting, Eco-Friendly, Communist, Global Warming Believing Socialist Liberals..."

I Need A New "Anachronism..."


All Liberals are democrats, and all democrats are twig eatin', tofu fartin', lily livered, Prius driving, America-hating, bleeding heart liberal, blinkered, Starbucks drinking, elitist, can't-we-all-just-get-along, granola eating, namby-pamby, Birkenstock wearing, tree hugging, long haired, pansy-assed, kumbaya-singing, Earth First, bed-wetting, patchouli wearing, dirty, smelly, dope smoking, bongo playing, arm pit haired women and feminized, armpit shaved men crying "Mother Earth is Gaia," tortured "artiste" types, Kennedy DNA bearing slugs

Thanks Again Rodge

Slackard Blogging

I Wish I'd Thought Of This Stuff First...


If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.

If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.


If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.

If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.


If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.


If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

If A liberal is facing living on the street, he demands to know who is going to take care of him.


If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.

Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.


If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.

A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course!)


If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.

A liberal with a festering foot or ear lobe...demands that the rest of us pay for his.


If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.

If a liberal slips and falls in his own apartment, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues the apartment management.


If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.

A liberal, moving his lips as he scans these lines, will delete it because he's "offended"
(or comment anonymously calling me a racist and bigot.)

Slightly edited from my Blog Idol Rodger over at Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

Take A Look At This Crap

Then Join Me In Soaking Our Heads In Ice Water... (I'll Buy The Ice)

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Will Somebody Call Someone...Will Somebody Do SOMETHING???

Here...Read These Words...


From my Blog Idols over at Powerline blog:

...What is meant by a "weak mandate" is that, in the current version of the Baucus bill, there is no requirement to buy health insurance at all until after 2013, and by 2017 the penalty for failing to buy health insurance still amounts to only about 15% of the cost of the insurance. Now, think about it: if you know that you don't have to buy health insurance when you are young and healthy, but if you should get sick, or just get older, you can apply for health insurance at any time and it will be illegal for the insurance company to turn you down, what would you do? Obviously, you would defer buying insurance unless and until you get sick. This means that the pool of those who are insured will be lower quality, and the cost therefore higher for everyone who buys insurance. It is as though you could wait until you die, and then your heirs can buy life insurance on you.

This isn't reform, it is stupidity.

It actually would be very easy to make health insurance cheaper. All we have to do is allow insurance companies to compete nationally instead of state-by-state and eliminate all mandates that limit consumer choice. It has been estimated that these simple reforms--which are not part of any of the Democrats' "reform" bills, for obvious reasons--would reduce health care costs by one-quarter to one-third. Instead of such common-sense reforms, the Dems are proposing Rube Goldberg measures that will make health care more expensive. Instead of eliminating mandates, their measures, including the Baucus bill, increase them--in effect making cheaper health insurance illegal.

Once more: this isn't reform, it is stupidity.

I have to go now and fill the kitchen sink with ice and soak my head...If you're interested in this topic , Go here and read the whole blog article.

Nobel Committee Slights Obama

Prize In Economics Goes To Michael Vick


Coming up for air after working in my basement shop all morning, I was cruising Drudge Report trying to find out what was happening in the world when I saw this Wall Street Journal Story lamenting President Obama NOT receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics this year.

With a little more Googling I found this secret photo of the Nobel Committee deliberating their internationally significant earth-shattering decisions:

Obama has as much business winning the Nobel Prize in ANYTHING...Economics, Physics, Peace, or Bungee Jumping...as I have showing up at the Super Bowl in a Helmet, pads, and a Football Uniform.

Speaking of Football, here's a photo of this years Nobel Economics winner prior to declaring bankruptcy after going to jail and forfeiting his Zillion dollar a year contract with the Atlanta Falcons...

You got to love a Brother with spirit...

Heh.

New Dairy Queen Blizzard Flavor

"Chunky Nobel Peace Prize"


Here...take a look at the new DQ menu item celebrating our President receiving his latest round of international recognition...





I guess it's good that you get to keep the cup, but then again... I suspect that the aftertaste will never fade...


(yes...it's me and my Photoshop at it again...)

Foreign Socialists Continue To Meddle

Nobel Prizes Made Of Silly Putty and Dog Poop...


So there I was this morning, pounding away on a proposal with one hand and wiggling my mouse doing an AutoCAD drawing with the other, when I decided to break the silence in my office by tuning in to Neal Boortz's streaming broadcast on the Web this morning.

Then the first thing I heard was President Obama giving some kind of speech.

Then my face fell off as my head exploded as I realized that this wasn't a "hope and change" speech or a "government health care reform" speech....

this empty suit was delivering his "ACCEPTING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE" speech.

As I picked my face up off the floor and stuffed my Cerebellum and Medulla Oblongata back into my fractured cranium I felt a little better because I remembered that this same bunch of foreign sniveling booger eating eco friendly climate change disciples had also previously handed the same prize to the likes of Yasser Arafat and Jimmuh Carter.

Still, it pisses me off that they hand the thing to Obamarama after being in office for less than ten months and having accomplished WHAT?

Nothing

Nada

Buttkiss

I seem to remember in spite of his January pledges that Gitmo's still full of abused naked peaceful Muslim "detainees" being forced to watch Koran's being flushed down the toilet.

And aren't Americans are still dropping on the under staffed battlefields of Afghanistan and Pakistan?

The only thing Obamamrama has done to date is run around the planet apologizing for imagined mistakes and wrongs committed over the past 233 years...

and telling the Israelis to stop building houses and play nice with the Palestinians and Hammas.

Some %$#@ Peacemaker.

I say if SURRENDER and APPEASEMENT is the only thing necessary to win a Nobe Peace Prize, they aught to just print them up and sell them in flea markets and at yard sales.

Dammit...

Paducah Manusha

Road Rumblings--Day Two


After an uneventful trip of reasonable length yesterday, we managed to rumble into Western Kentucky in time for happy hour and dinner at "The Texas Roadhouse" adjacent to our hotel parking lot.

As usual when recovering from a multi day bout of "Internet Deprivation Syndrome," I was up half the night to all hours doing some work and catching up on the news on Drudge and the Blogs.

Now it's time to jump in the shower, reload the Turbo pups lockers and sea chests in the car, and blast on across Kentucky/Tennessee in time for a mid afternoon arrival at the Turbo Pup compound.

Regards Y'all

Eastward Bound

Ready To Sleep In My Own Bed...


We woke up to a light frost on the roofs here this morning in Western Missouri.

There's a busy day ahead for everyone packing the Turbo Pup's lockers and sea chests into the Chrysler 300 in preparation of making the first leg of our journey over to Paducah, Kentucky by mid afternoon, then on back to the banks of the Mighty Tennessee River on Thursday morning.

Pat's been able to spend a week with a daughter and two soon-to-be grown granddaughters and I've made some substantial headway on the professional front and all and all I'd have to declare this to have been a successful trip...assuming that we have a safe return journey over the upcoming 725 miles of interstate highway insanity.

I still haven't had time to come up with anything creative to say regarding the stuffed shirts up in Washington DC or the other world insanities going on which hasn't already been said on FOX News or talk radio, but it's been sort of nice to act like most "regular" Americans and be so distracted I don't have a clue what's going on.

I'm sure that by Friday or Saturday I'll have developed another full "head" of steam and be spouting off about something that's making my head spin at "orbital rotational velocity."

In the mean time wish us a safe trip and continue to feel free to entertain yourselves...

if you will...

Regards Y'all

A Basement Without Internet

Is a Dungeon...


You can probably tell that I've not had much time or energy to write anything here on the blog the past few days during the daylight hours.

Thus since I only have sporatic wireless capability that makes the signal come and go with the phases of the moon and some sort of other mystical phenomena, night time blogging is virtually impossible.

I've had to just learn to live with only two or three hours of Internet...it's been a rather cathartic, soul cleansing experience.

I have a sales meeting with the local production facility for a international plastics products company later this afternoon regarding an enterprise which I still don't feel at liberty to discuss here on the blog, then we head back toward the banks of the Mighty Tennessee River tomorrow stopping overnight in the metropolis of Paducah, Kentucky overnight.

Time to go now and finish my sales outline I guess.

Will someone find me something in the news to be mad about in the mean time?

Weekend Overload

Kansas City Rockin'


If you didn't have to work or spend time mowing the lawn...Man you should have been out here in Kansas City this weekend.

This place was rocking.

Besides the American Royal BBQ event, the city also hosted the NASCAR race and the NFL home football game on Sunday.

Giant crowds everywhere but where we were because other than the Royal BBQ the members of our extended household managed to stay safely away in the KC suburb of Liberty, MO.

On the college football front I was happy to see Georgia Tech beat Mississippi State and Auburn stomped on Tennessee (thus keeping things a little quieter when we return to the Turbo Pup Compound.)

So now there's a little professional business to take care of over the next couple of days as we continue to enjoy fall in the Midwest, then back toward the east on Wednesday.

I'll try to catch up on the news this morning and see if I can find something to complain about here on the Internet.

In the mean time, feel free to entertain yourselves...

Oh By The Way...

In Other News...Remember This promise???


Yes?

Well...take a look at the reality:

and I guess that it's OK that they just keep on keeping on?

(From my Blog Idols over at Powerline)

Let's All Go To Rio...

Yeaaaahhhh...Hurraahhhh....Whaaaaattt?









Heh...

Hittin' The "Reset Button"

Maybe He Pushed It Too Hard...


After hacking into a neighbor's unsecured wireless network (the home we're staying in has wired Internet) I've been spazing most of mid-day today watching some training DVD's and not living on the Internet as I usually do.

Regardless, I had to chuckle when I skipped over to Drudge Report and learned that Rio de Janeiro beat out Japan, Madrid, and Chicago to host the 2016 Olympics.

You see, I'm not just happy (or maybe just not unhappy) about the defeat because Obama and his fellow Chicago Political Democratic Thugs Obamamaniacs had spent a zillion dollars of taxpayer money on their bid...seeing the President make a personal appearance in support of the effort.

No, I'm happy to see a City/County in South America get the Olympics on the Continent for the VERY FIRST TIME and further...

if you read the fine print it's going to SAVE all of us American TAXPAYERS tens of zillions of dollars because in reality the City of Chicago is NEARLY BROKE and was counting on Obama to toss "stimulus funds" in their direction to pay for new stadiums and parks and bridges.

I personally lived through the Atlanta Olympic bid process in the late 1980's and saw the results of the infighting, political double dealing, and outright theft that occurred in my City by the time the actual Games arrived in the summer of 1996. I was so enthused I LEFT TOWN and didn't manage to make or spend a single dime on the Olympics or Olympics paraphernalia.

And then there were all of the rumors of insider dealings already underway giving away political favors and government funding to people inside the White House to do things like renovate dilapidated housing or even build new housing for Olympic athletes which would be turned over to private citizens or companies when the games were over (see Napolitano, Janet.)

When it's all said and done, I believe in all seriousness that it's a GOOD THING Chicago's Olympics Bid ended up "going south", as I resist wanting to drop onto the ground laughing hysterically at yet another event showing our dictator/terrorist butt kissing President/Savior what "TALKING" and "ENGAGING" and "APOLOGIZING" for things we as a country haven't done to the world over the past 223 years gets him and more importantly...

gets US...

YOU and ME as American citizens and taxpayers.

That would be N O T H I N G...

N A D A

Z E R O

Z I L C H.

All of his smiling and romancing and proclaiming he's a different kind of president in charge of a country that has learned our lesson couldn't save an Olympic bid any more than it's going to stop the Koreans or Iranians from building warheads and loaning them to the next wild eyed virgin seeker with a few million of al Queda's cash in their backpack.

Got my point?

Now it's time to watch some more videos I guess

On The Road Again

Low Battery Limits Blogging...


Disagreeable weather today will delay our departure on the second leg of our cross country trip.

An then my ignoring an ongoing power adapter plug problem on the old HP laptop has me sitting here typing with one hand while I hold the power cable with the other.

Feel free to read a few stories of ratbastard Democratic insanity on Drudgereport and then raise heck in the manner you would expect me to in the mean time

They Already Have The Christmas Stuff Out???

And I haven't Even Carved My Pumpkin And Made My Scarecrow...


So there I was, back in Home Depot this morning...making my bi-weekly visit to the "return counter" (this time with receipt in hand...got a cash refund...Woo Hoooo...)

While wandering away into the sea of "home improvement" products counting my change I momentarily noticed something I had failed to comment on EARLIER and which I was JUST again reminded of by a TV commercial on FOX News advertising something defined as "seasonal music."

What I'm talking about is that here it is...the thirtieth day of September...and Home Depot and the late night TV advertisers are already talking about trying to get me to spend money on of all things...

C H R I S T M A S ?

Further...

Christmas Decorations?

Let me ask everyone...IF I bought lights and a boat load of shiny tinsel, where am I supposed to put these trapping to store them between now and the time I can legitimately hang them out on my front door and along the eaves of my house?

Am I supposed to have a pumpkin with colored lights and fake snow and a herd of Reindeer grazing on the lawn nearby?

Or could I erect a display on my lawn of Pilgrims eating the first Thanksgiving Feast with a "weird beard" Santa and a flock of mutant radio active turkeys from the TV series South Park looking on?

Not to worry...being the ultimate "non-consumer" I'll easily pass the animated cackling witches and the smiling and nodding Santa mannequins and keep myself focused on the Tapcon Concrete fasteners and the products on the electrical isles.

In other news, later this morning I'm loading Pat and Missy the Turbo Pup and all of their luggage and lockers and sea chests up in the newly washed and serviced Chrysler 300 and we're heading off toward Kansas City, Missouri for a week or so, stopping over night in St. Louis to break the west bound trip into two smaller segments.

In addition to visiting with Pat's family and celebrating a Grand Daughter's 18th birthday, we also have the privilege of attending a private party at the American Royal BBQ Event on Friday night and then there's a bunch of other business stuff going on which I'm not at liberty to talk about publicly yet.

Once again the Internet availability will be somewhat questionable along the way, but I ask that if you don't hear from me within three or four days that somebody please send up a flare and organize a search party.

Regards Y'all...

This Is The Level We've All Sunk To

Ninnys versus Nannys


So I hear that out at LAX this afternoon some poor unfortunate guy with a rumbling stomach was guilty of ignoring the stewardess...wait I mean waitress in a crappy restaurant in the sky ...no...rather today they're called "flight attendants' " FAA approved mandate that everyone stay in their seats while the airplane was taxi-ing out to the runway for takeoff.

You probably know the rest...things escallate out of control because of new government laws and mandates, then the Police were called and they boarded the plane once it returned to the gate and took the offender (UPDATE 2 AM: and his "companion" ) off the flight...poopy pants and all.

FOX news reports as of 3 PM that the plane had been emptied while "officials" searched the nooks and crannys and all of the passengers were re screened.

They're lucky it wasn't me on board trying to struggle to the phonebooth restroom or I'd probably have left them a loaf posessing an aroma and stain so mighty that Ajax won't get the smell out of the plane for months, and if they hadn't let me into the closet they call a bathroom I guess I'd have had to drop it under the seat cushion (which normally can be utilized as a flotation device.)

I'm fairly certain some socialist democrat "Nervous Nelly" type preppy soccer mom probably was responsible for the origination and reporting of the so-called "INCIDENT."

Oh Crap...now I've done it...

Now I guess that I'll be called a chauvinistic pig for denigrating women...

Ask me if I care?

(and NO..."Denigrating" does not mean a situation where the "authorities" make all of the Rappers and Professional Basketball players leave the room...)

Anyone Want To Join My "Racist" Club?

"Here...Have a White Sheet And Some Scissors"


I love the way most people like to "hit and run" "comment and run" when they find something on a blog which appears to go against their government educated beliefs and/or offends their delicate multi-cultural racial/sexual sensibilities.

It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, it never fails that if you address certain topics or use certain words at least SOMEONE is going to speak up and object. cry and snivel and complain.

I'm surprised it took as long as it did to get someone's ears smoking with this posting from last Wednesday which I titled "One Dumb Stupid Mulatto Negro Black Man African American."

As I posted earlier, the commenter said "How nice of you to inject race into your blog, President Jimmy Carter Got it right. And you Sir, live in the wrong time."

Then they added "Don't bother replying to my comment, I won't be back to read it."

OK...(taking a big breath)...let's get a few thing straight.

NUMBER 1. It's my Blog and I'll say anything I want to here (except things that would make Google shut down my free site or specifically threaten the lives of the President and other high ranking officials.)

NUMBER 2. In writing the words "Mulatto" or "Negro" or "Black Man" in front of the words "African American," I knew that I was going to make some people wince and piss a few others off completely, BUT...

I'd like to point out that each and every one of those words have legitimately been used in my lifetime i.e. the past 50 years in this county by polite "non-colored" citizenry when referring to people of dark skin color descending genetically from the continent of Africa.

When I was a kid in rural Alabama in the 1960's, being polite white people of anglo European descent, I was taught that the word "Nigger" was offensive and instead refered to our maid and other "black" persons as "Negro" or "Niggra" or simply "colored."

I guess that "niggra" was too close to "Nigger" and "colored" left open the answer to the question "what color?", so then sometime in the 1970's, in an effort to keep all the White folks off balance and inject the latest distillations of the current cultural movements from NY and Detroit and LA into everyone's lives, all of us "crackers" were told that "Negro" and Niggra" and "colored" was inaccurate and offensive, we should just call a proud black man a "black man" or a dark skinned woman a "black woman."

By the way...anyone but me ever wondered why the people living here from Southeast Asia and the Caribbean/South America didn't get on the same bandwagon or start up their own movement coining, defining, qualifying, endorsing "official" politically correct self identifying terminology while at the same time expressing outrage at their supposed political and cultural insufficiency?

Fortunately they didn't, and instead elected to melt into the "melting pot" and enjoy the benefits of living in the United By God States of 'Merica and have been rewarded with the kinds of social and educational and financial success which still escape the followers of the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Bless all of their multi-national, multi-racial, mult-cultural, multi-colored hearts for shutting the %$#@ up and getting on with life rather than making a career and thinly veiled political movement out of their "victimhood."

Further, remembering that we're still stuck here under my point NUMBER 2, my reference using the word "mulatto" to address someone of mixed racial descent is not directly an insult....it's simply descriptive (look it up on Wikipedia) :

"Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations. Its current usage varies greatly."

Unfortunately, currently it is considered an outrage to make any reference to any part of a person's appearance or persona which is in fact "different" from yourself and/or your peers.

And finally, apparently not being satisfied with phraseology using something like skin color as an identification, forward looking self appointed black leaders like Jackson and Sharpton settled on the self identification terminology "African American" as the descriptor of choice continuing until today...

although most of these same people using the "African American" identification were at least SEVEN generations from ever having set foot on the continent of Africa ( and I suppose that 3/4 of those same people couldn't find Africa on a Map or Globe with a flashlight and a magnifying glass...)

NUMBER 3. I really don't give a darn what most people think when I write here on this blog.

I do not write specifically to GAIN readership or attract any specific group of readers. If I did I would resort to sticking key words like "Patrick Swayze Death" in my titles and enjoy having nearly a THOUSAND HITS like I did over the past few days when the people in Europe finally found out the guy had died.

Then if I was getting that kind of traffic, instead of the normal measly 50 hits a day I get, I'd have the sidebar and header of this blog covered up with blog ads for Viagra and Hair replacement and "conservative tee shirts and mugs" and God knows what else.

But I DO NOT WRITE TO PLEASE ANYONE BUT MYSELF, thus I do not give a RATS ASS if my lovely, talented, well intended yet culturally/racially sensitive commenter ever comes back.

I offer my sincere, heartfelt approval to anyone who reads and is offended by a single word I write to NOT EVER COME BACK.

EVER....

NUMBER 4. This is the most important point that Jimmuh Carter and my commenter and most of the lamestream/dead tree media don't understand or refuse to recognise...

I would just as vehemently object to Obama's policies and inane utterings and apologizings regardless of the skin color or hair color or shoe size of any other person forcing them upon me and speaking supposedly on behalf of me and my country.

Understand?

Now, let me see if I can find where I put my scissors...I have some eyeholes to cut...

Ahhhhhhhhh the Smell Of Napalm In the Morning..."

The Sound Of Angry Leftists Disguised As "Republicans"...

"How nice of you to inject race into your blog, President Jimmy Carter Got it right. And you Sir, live in the wrong time. I'm a Republican, a gun owner, but not a racist. While your cleaning you gun, and polishing your brass you might spend a little time doing critical thinking, and a little less time watching Glen Beck, and listening to Rush Limbaugh. Don't bother replying to my comment, I won't be back to read it."

O' Tay...


(new comment received tonight about this posting last week...)

Today's Tip for Old "Middle Aged" Homeowners

Quality...Not Tonnage Quantity


As many of y0u already know if you've ever owned your own house, for years now the lovely Men and Women working over at the company called Sakrete have saved the average homeowner the agony of having to wait until they need forty million pounds more than a couple yards of concrete delivered to pour a slab for an AC unit or a pool filter pump or a footing for steps or whatever else said homeowner can dream up to want to make out of "concrete."

They make bags of things like Portland cement and mortar mix and fast set concrete and in my recent endeavor...pouring my own 16"x16"x2-1/2" thick concrete mini concrete slabs...HIGH STRENGTH 5000 PSI FAST SETTING CEMENT.

Be advised, however, that they make most of their products in 40 pound, 60, pound, and 80 pound bags.

The bigger the bag, the cheaper the product on a weight or volume basis, BUT...

I can personally testify, holding my shriveled concrete encrusted hand on a stack of bibles, that saving $3.95 on a $31 purchase isn't worth the pain and agony and potential visit to the emergency room to have your intestines and testicles re-inserted and sutured back into their correct positions in your abominable abdominal cavity.

If you're over the age of 45 40 35 30, please do yourself a favor and buy the forty or sixty pound packages--the label means WEIGHT...not the age you can live to and still pick things up and sling them around while adding water and stirring... and leave the 80 pound bags to the younger guys that still have biceps and abs.

I have to go now and see if I can find my truss...

Turning Up My Squelch Knob...

Deaf & Speechless (OK...Almost)


Well, we managed to get another two inches of rain here today on the Banks of the Mighty Tennessee River.

Wait, let me double check my high tech digital rain gage...

...make that 2.09" since midnight.

Regardless, this weather totally SUCKS for doing things like painting closet doors or staining exterior wooden doors and as of this afternoon that's all I have left to do inside on the current yet never ending home improvement list.

Of course there's still a giant pallet full of mulch sitting tarped at the top of the driveway awaiting distribution and over three hundred pounds of high-strength concrete awaiting being mixed and poured into my home made stepping stone forms.

Then there's a boat load of new news stories out there about the closed door behind the scenes antics of the stupid %$#@ heads sitting around in DC legislating our financial and medical future.

Let me say THIS about THAT.

I personally say that you have to be intellectually corrupt else just plain stupid if you're not paying attention and further...

If you like what you do see that's going on in Washington on YOUR behalf (because you are a earned income, government mandated, income redistribution nanny state beneficiary)...

I hope you keep reading deeper into my archives, get really pissed off, leave me a nasty anonymous comment, then GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WEB PAGE.

On the other hand, if you agree with my ramblings and observations, feel free to stop by often...heck, if you're in the area stop by about 1 tomorrow and have a slice of tonight's left over pizza...

...you're welcome.

The First "Post American" President--Per John Bolton

If It Were Up To Me We'd Fire Him...


I can't even begin to express my opinion of the goings on at the so called "United Nations" this week. When I exclude the use of profanity there just aren't words in my vocabulary to adequately frame my take on the proceedings.

As a public service, I was looking around online tonight and found this photo taken in a nearby hotel bar down the street in NY from the proceedings when I had this horrible thought...

Today, we, as a country, actually find ourselves in a position where our own elected national leader actually comes across at the UN as just another radical crazy moron mumbling inane platitudes which mean nothing to virtually anyone of Anglo American descent, living in the "middle class," sitting here in Eastern Tennessee.

Seriously, Obama looked no more intelligent than Wacky Kadaffy from Libya or Bluto Chavez or that annoying little Capuchian Monkey currently running Iran.

The only person I've seen thus far that had anything worth saying and listening to was Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel who should have pulled out a machine gun and lobbed a few grenades into the building and done us all a great favor as a result of the carnage.

Then as his encore to killing the ground based Missile defense shield in Europe, Obama sat in front of the UN Security council and announced that he wants to cut the US nuclear arsenal from "thousands" of warheads to a few hundred.

Then he hopes that the little troll Kim jong Illness and the Iranian Monkey will not build any nuclear weapons and the Pakistanis will somehow keep Al Qaeda away from theirs.

Yeah...and I feel monkeys getting ready to fly out of my butt any second now...monkeys with golden wings and baskets of million dollar bills...

Feel free to disagree with me but within a couple of years you're going to figure out I'm right...

dammit...

Clothes Dryer Working

Head Still Spinning...

So I flopped and flipped and stood on my head most of yesterday afternoon, and when the dust settled somehow I had managed to install my Mexican made bushings and bearings in my old Sears Kenmore Clothes dryer and when I zipped it all back together it ran quietly without walking around the basement on one foot.

Then I went out to have some drinks to celebrate, came home and cooked dinner, and in the mean time on TV watched our idiot President kissing the feet and asses of every moronic dictator and self important self appointed shit head "world leader" that would present a body part in the direction of his lips.

Then I got a grip on myself and decided to calm my nerves by looking at some new tools I'm wanting to add to my ever growing collection.

Just in case for some reason you don't understand the situation, let me tell you that tool web sites like Grainger.com and Northerntool.com are equivalent to pornography for men over the age of 39.

So there I was happily clicking my way through the weekly sales and specials when I found this doosey (please click on the image and enlarge it so you can see why my head exploded):


Understand?

The %$#@ idiots in the states of California and Washington have decided that you can't burn wood in your house or trailer or hunting cabin to provide heat and cook some bacon and eggs and biscuits in the morning.

I suppose that these assholes want you to eat Tofu and cold Brie with crackers and install solar panels in order to reduce your "carbon footprint"

I'd like to put my footprint on some body's asses out there on the left coast.

So much for personal responsibility and surviving the winter without paying the power company or the gas company without freezing to death.

Can you believe this Crap? They've actually banned the sale of wood burning stoves because of the "pollution" they produce...

in two states which are nearly consumed by wildfires each year...wildfires burning WHAT?

Wood?

I have to go now and fill the kitchen sink with water and ice and soak my head.

Y'all have a LOVELY day...if you can...

One Dumb Stupid Mulatto Negro Black Man African American

A Love Poem Delivered With A Juicy Smooch To The UN From Our Your President


"In an era when our destiny is shared, power is no longer a zero-sum game. No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. No balance of power among nations will hold. The traditional division between nations of the south and north makes no sense in an interconnected world. Nor do alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long gone Cold War."

(got the quote from my Friends and Idols over at Powerline here.)

I don't know about you , but I say that it's time to clean our guns and polish our brass.

And as for me?

Not only am I keeping my Powder Dry.

Heck...I'm Making my own powder.

What about you?

Jeff Healey

Things I Missed By Not Paying Attention...


In reading about and watching TV news stories about the loss of actor Patrick Swayze last week, I learned of the death of another artist which somehow through inattention or Alzheimer's I somehow missed or forgot I heard about.

That would be the March 2nd, 2008 death of the Canadian guitar virtuoso Jeff Healey. Here is a photo of him as he appeared with Swayze as the leader of the house band in the movie "Road House:"



Adopted by a firefighter father from his birth mother, Healey lost his eyesight to a rare cancer at the age of 8 months, started playing guitar at the age of 3, and went on to live another 40 years of life "vision-less" while attaining great recognition as a guitarist and musical executive.

Imagine never remembering seeing the sun or your mom or your dog or even the guitar you make a living playing laying in your lap?

Click on this link and take a listen to his song "Angle Eyes" which I have the audacity to sing every now and again in public:


The Jeff Healey Band - Angel Eyes (Official Music Video) - The best video clips are here

Unfortunately, Cancer has a long memory...and it came back to get him in the end, but today I celebrate Mr. Healey's victories and successes and realize that I really don't have it so bad when I start feeling sorry for myself.

I've Been Unfaithful

Feeble Mind and Attention Span Problems...


I feel really bad because I've resorted to writing just a few words and sticking up photos and You Tube videos on the blog here for nearly the past week.

It's just that my head is spinning with the stupidity on the news and the UN moronity and the upcoming G-20 insanity...

And then there is all of the work I've done installing new floors and new doors...

and did I mention yesterday installing a new double flap Turbo Puppy door in the back wall of the house--requiring chiseling another 10" wide by 16" high hole through solid brick and 2x4's and fiber board and Sheetrock?

Once I get the trim and crown moulding installed I'll put up a picture for your approval.

Then recently our Sears Kenmore Clothes Dryer decided to cough up a couple of tumbler drum wheel bearings so I had to order a rebuild kit online and it arrived via UPS yesterday, so later this morning I'm pulling the guts out of the dryer and doing a "soft" rebuild including all bearings and a new drive belt for the drum and blower fan.

I've done that work a couple of times in the past twenty five years (in addition to watching my father teach me the process in the 1960's and 1970's) so there's another $200 repair charge averted to my credit.

There's all kinds of professional/business rumblings going on around here at the Turbo Pup Compound on the Banks of Mighty Tennessee River--mainly independent business stuff--but I'd have to kill you if I shared the details

Regardless, I'm quite happy to report that we've made it from the December 19th layoff last year all the way to September 23rd this year with me spinning in circles and somehow, by the grace of God, managing to pay the mortgage and keep the lights on and the trash hauled away.

Please excuse me if I just take time to give thanks for my blessings and remain silent in prayer for relief for our country's and world's ills.

Some Divine intervention and well thought out protection from our so called "leaders" and self appointed "experts" would be a good place to start...

Still Alive

Just VERY Busy...


(and angry about the news and why just repeat things on this Blog you already know???)

Southerners Aren't All Stupid...

We Just Can't Keep Some Of Us Off TV...





(At least she's from South Carolina rather than Alabama)

Presidential Legacys

You Connect The Dots...










Don't make me say "I told you so..."

I Want Some Spicy Mustard With My Platter of Turd-Snitzel & North Korean Kim-Shit Cabbage

And Toss In A Hearty Appetizer Portion Of Toasted Iranian Persian Goat Droppings On The Side...


So by now you've heard that our first Black President...imitating his White Idol American Hemorrhoid Jimmuh Carter...has cancelled the planned Eastern European Missile Defense program in deference to the shit head Russians.

As a pubic public service, be advised that the balance of this posting has been deleted in order to keep the Secret Service off my front doorstep this evening.

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

(wait...in a whispering voice...imagine a program paid for by conservative donors which enlists ex Marines and special forces members which have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses with less than a year to live and dispatches them to places like DC and San Francisco to take care of some domestic political business which we all know needs taking care of and which ACORN and the lamestream media continues to propagate through hook and crook...

oops...did I write that?)

More Stupid Government B.S.

Someone Write ME A Check...


I'm sorry Folks...I really was planning on having a quiet evening and not bitching about anything, but then I read this article on Boston.Com titled "Homeless Use Of Hotels On The Rise."

Click on the link and go read the whole thing if you can stand it, but here's the part that got my head over pressurizing and starting to rotate...

The number of homeless families living in motels funded by the state now tops more than 1,000, a dramatic 37 percent increase since June 1, a top official for the state Department of Housing and Community Development said yesterday.

Tina Brooks, undersecretary of the department, said 1,010 families - including more than 1,400 children - are now living in motels, at a monthly cost of about $2.8 million for taxpayers.

“It’s a huge strain,’’ said Brooks after a hearing of the joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

(snip)

“We need to keep the safety net, as vulnerable as it is,’’ said Frost.

In an effort to quickly move families out of state-funded shelters, the housing department started an emergency program in late July to provide rental assistance to families who need help for up to 12 months. Brooks said 352 families received help in the program’s first month, at a cost of $850,000. She said this is a better use of money than putting them in shelters, where families live an average of eight months at a cost of $24,000 per family.

Got all that?

OK...lets get out the old calculator and do some math here.

In the second paragraph they say they've spent $2,800,000 a month keeping 1,010 "families" in motels.

THAT'S AN AVERAGE MONTHLY COST OF $2772.28 PER "FAMILY."

Then in the last paragraph quoted they say they've tossed out $850,000 taxpayer dollars keeping 352 "families" in "motels" because it costs $24,000 per month to keep them in "shelters."

SO THEY'RE TELLING US THAT A "SHELTER" COST $3,000 PER MONTH VERSUS A MOTEL COST OF ONLY $2414.78 A MONTH?

Give me a &%$#!ing break here people.

I own a house and pay my mortgage and utilities every single month for less than $1,750 per month including electricity and water and garbage and cable TV and VoIP phone and even the cost of two cell phones.

But we've got GOVERNMENT spending somewhere between $650 and $1,250 per month more MONTHLY to keep "homeless" "families" in MOTELS?

OK...after thinking for about THIRTY SECONDS I think that I have an idea that could save us all some real money in the long run.

Ready?

Why not cut these "homeless" "families" a CHECK for a reasonable amount like $1,500 each month and kick their stupid asses into the street and let them do like I do and RENT or BUY themselves a place to live.

Seriously, what's wrong with that option?

Could it be that because of generations of government coddling and meddling we have ever increasing hoards of people that either are incapable of or refuse to take care of themselves and their babies?

And look at the cost to society.

Better yet...here's another a neat plan I like...

I'll take the government shelter check for $3000 and continue to pay the current operating expenses and let the "homeless" "family live in my house, and then I'll buy another nicer house and Me and Pat and the Turbo Pup will live there.

That way I'll be making payments on two houses and the government will be subsidizing the increase in equity value I gain over time.

At least at the end of the program two families will have had places to live for a year and someone (that would be ME...your lovely and talented TAXPAYER) will have gained financially from the arrangement...other than the hotel/motel owner.

I swear people, if you don't get agitated every time you see stupid stuff like this in the news and you continue to believe that it's a good idea to allow the Obamamaniacs to extend their filthy tentacles into even more areas of our lives then you deserve what's coming to you in the next twenty years.

I, personally, elect to get old and die fighting before they screw things up completely.

My Hands Hurt

Pat Taking Time Off...


Well Ladies & Gentlemen, I guess I finally reached my limit in the world of home improvement.

Two Grand worth of raw material in the form of sticks or bricks or tiles or boards or raw door slabs is a lot of stuff to try and install in a week.

Of course if you buy me a $2000 front door or a $2000 Chandelier I can probably get them installed in a couple of days, but dozens if not hundreds of pieces of individual crap...

At least I still have two more days before the effort extends beyond a week but the staining and varnishing of the two solid core exterior doors will have to wait until the rain passes and the humidity drops down below 70% so it's gonna be next week regardless of any Herculean efforts I may try to expend.

I managed to break Pat's back wound my helper handling heavy boxes of laminate flooring and bags of mulch so she took a well deserved day off yesterday and will probably be on the sidelines for a while longer.

Today is day two of paint and trim installation and there's another trip to Home Depot in the works and Missy the Turbo Pup will be on guard to give everyone a good barking when needed.

Other than that, I'm too exasperated with all of this ACORN crap in the news...or the lack thereof...as it seems that FOX News is the only one not willing to totally ignore the scandal as it develops.

This isn't intended to be a bigoted or a racist statement, but here goes.

I've said all along since the early days of the Obama campaign that the attendance at his events looked like a Freak show and a Circus and that the crowd he was pandering to and depending on to elect him to the Presidency could not be raised above the consequences of their own poor choices in life (educational, professional, sexual, and skin color be damned)by any "preferences" and "diversity programs" and the expenditure of any amount of taxpayer dollars.

Now I offer as proof the revelations that instead of closing their Whorehouses and going into legitimate business or funding getting an education, these idiots just want to use our money to build a bigger, better building and import a fleet of new illegals and put them in the business of breaking our laws...possibly in my neighborhood.

I say that they've proven time and time again that they can't or won't be helped and I'm tired of paying Government idiots to give them just one more chance or start one more boondoggle program designed to fail from its inception.

Enough already...Dammit...

Swayze & Farley Strippers

I Almost Forgot This One...




I guess they're together again

Will Workman's Comp Cover Them?

No Virgins For You...





Hat tip to Jawa Report for the link

Patrick Swayze

R.I.P.

New Front Door

The Devil's In The Details...


Me and my big mouth and my Ego.

Both (my mouth and my ego) continue to get me in trouble today.

Take my current round of home improvements, for instance.

In order to take maximum advantage of Home Depot's delivery charge, I refuse to just get enough material for one or two projects delivered at one time.

Nooooooooooo

I go out and buy enough stuff and have it delivered--enough to keep a young man busy for at least a week.

That means this old man has enough raw materials lying around the property to last at LEAST a month if I keep at it all day every day.

The good news is that the kitchen floor is lying peacefully in it final resting place now, but there's new baseboards and quarter round to install and of course a new coat of paint on the walls that don't have tile back splash, and there's a solid fir french door slab for the opening out to the carport that has to have hinge recesses routed and holes cut for the knob and dead bolt before receiving stain and marine grade spar varnish and....

Did I mention the new six panel Fir front door slab (needing hinge and knob/dead bolt accommodations) or the three sets of bi-folding closet doors and the new master bathroom door and basement door?

Or the 57 bags of cypress mulch that has to be distributed before it starts raining this afternoon?

I guess I better stop writing and get another nap in before sunrise so I have the energy to start slinging trim and paint around today.

Who's ideas was all this stuff any way?

New Kitchen Floor

Day Three...


Well, I'm happy to report that the new plywood kitchen sub-flooring is in place inside, and 15 of the 75 bags of mulch are scattered around outside.

Better yet, no one lost an eye in the process.

It's a good thing I don't do this sort of work for a living because someone would probably starve or freeze to death if life sustaining cash flow depended on the SPEED of my manual labor.

Today finds me attempting to lay most of eight boxes of Dupont Elite Touch Laminate Flooring in their Tuscan Stone pattern on the floor without cutting off an arm or finger during the proceedings.

My back hurts just thinking about it all, but I signed up for the program and so I guess I have to go now and finish what I started.

Regards Y'all...

Billy Vera & The Beaters: At This Moment

Todays '70's Musical Flashback


Everybody knows that I'm a better singer than I am a dancer. For that reason I generally leave most of the singing and all of the dancing to the other fellows in the crowd.

Given a little liquid courage however, I do seem to remember that I have spent a few minutes hangin' on to the hips and shoulders of a few Bawdy Lasses through the years back in the day listening to this song on the dance floor...

take a listen and enjoy it with me again this morning.





...you're welcome...

Gnawing Success

My Knees Hurt...


Expending 6 hours worth of energy on and off again, I finally managed to get about 90% of the old plywood sub floor cut and pried up out of the way yesterday.

I had to resort to buying one of those "multi-tools" made by Dremel (the Multi-Max) to use to make a flush cut against the edges of the counters underneath the toe kick plates. In spite of what they show you in the TV commercials, it's slow going getting that little flat blade to vibrate its way through 3/4" plywood.

I still have a thin strip about 8 feet long along one cabinet under the sink and dishwasher to cut this morning, then it should be smooth sailing as I cut the new 3/8" plywood sub flooring and move from demolition to installation mode.

Then there's the six doors and 75 bags of mulch haunting me out in the carport and sitting on pallets in the yard awaiting installation/distribution.

Who's idea was all of this stuff anyway?

The World USA According To Ralph Peters

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself...


"Eight years ago today, our homeland was attacked by fanatical Muslims inspired by Saudi Arabian bigotry. Three thousand American citizens and residents died.

We resolved that we, the People, would never forget. Then we forgot.

We've learned nothing.

Instead of cracking down on Islamist extremism, we've excused it.

Instead of killing terrorists, we free them.

Instead of relentlessly hunting Islamist madmen, we seek to appease them.

Instead of acknowledging that radical Islam is the problem, we elected a president who blames America, whose idea of freedom is the right for women to suffer in silence behind a veil -- and who counts among his mentors and friends those who damn our country or believe that our own government staged the tragedy of September 11, 2001. "

Go here and read the whole article.

Tearing Down My House

No Pain No Gain...


I'm pleased to report that I managed to chisel my way through the top layers of the kitchen floor yesterday...finding two layers of old linoleum and a sheet of 3/4" plywood standing between me and my new kitchen floor.

I picked a spot under the Refrigerator to do my excavations just in case I changed my mind and decided to live with the old floor.

Then I worked my way out toward the middle of the room and this morning I'm past the point of no return as I've ripped a big seam across the middle of the floor with the skill saw set about 7/8" deep and by noon I hope to have everything ripped up and laying in a pile outside beside the trash can.

Now we have to run to Home Depot and see if I can get five sheets of 3/8" plywood added to the order which is supposed to go on a truck later this morning for delivery.

Everybody feel free to bring your tools and stop by about 10 if you want to help make some sawdust...

Neglecting The News

Saving My TV Sets...


I have to admit that I didn't watch the Obama show last night when he played to the joint session of Congress.

I couldn't stand another minute watching Nasty Pelosi's rigid Botoxed face staring over the President's left shoulder with frozen lifeless eyes like some sort of political Zombie.

Reading the blogs this morning it's evident that I didn't miss much.

Same old lies and platitudes, all wrapped up in a half hour lecture with a Republican Congressman causing gasps of surprise when he had the audacity to heckle Obamarama when he said that his as yet unwritten "healthcare reform plan" wouldn't cover illegal aliens.

The South Carolinian called the President of the United by God States of 'Merica a "Liar" in front of 534 fellow Senators and Congressmenpersons.

Somebody better lock that sucker up...he's telling the truth.

The guys over at Powerline do a pretty good job of summing things up, and I suggest that you click on the link and go over and take a read there this morning.

Meanwhile, I've got a truck load of kitchen flooring, closet doors, and a few tons of mulch heading this way tomorrow morning and I have to get ready to receive the material and get things installed in the next week or so.

Ya'll have a lovely balance of the week and stop back by to see if anything has pissed me off in the news or in the home renovation business because I'm likely to take my frustrations out on my keyboard in the event something happens.

Toudle loo...

Fred's Fizzeling

Owl Gore & His Sniveling Booger Eating Tree Hugging Hippies Cry W I L M A ... F O U L


So from what I can gather, yesterday newly declared Hurricane Fred was cruising along looking like this...

Then I went over to the NOAA website and found this sorry map here showing how Hurricane Fred was going to end up thrashing around in the Eastern Atlantic and threatening ABSOLUTELY NOBODY rich or poor or Democratic/Republican.

I actually feel sorry for all of the Patchouli wearing hippies and the sniveling booger eating tree huggers because I think that I know that they mean well...

It's just that the world wide SO-CALLED disasters won't follow their line of unreasonable reasoning. THEN DANG IT IF reality doesen't manage to set in every four to eight years.

And then they have to face the prospect of getting a real job else managing to vote somebody into office that will come over to my house or bank and steal some of my money and give it to them under the guise of supporting the latest government sponsored "Program."


Then I have to go back on Vacation and let the cash flow lapse and tell them to go elsewhere to plunder and...

you get my drift I guess...