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October 9, 2008

That didn’t take long

Filed under: Oklahoma,politics,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 3:11 AM
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Picked up the paper this morning and there it is, “Lawmakers put A.I.G. execs on the spot.” Six days after the government rescued A.I.G. with a massive $85 billion loan, the insurance company spent $443,000 on a week-long event for agents at a California resort, according to invoices produced during a Congressional Hearing on Tuesday.

All the pigs are rushing to the trough and you are paying for it. How does it feel?

According to records the committee obtained, the event’s expenses included nearly $200K for rooms, about $150K for banquets and $23K for spa treatments. While Average Americans are suffering economically and yet less than a week after the taxpayer rescued A.I.G., company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation.”

Once again, I hate to admit it, but we are ahead of the curve. Last week I wrote that this would happen and it comes to pass. It is enough to make a guy puke.

McSame is going around now pimping off the Home Loan plan as “his plan” but this is not true. Hillary and a lot of other folks signed off on it BEFORE he even came into the room. Here it is in a nutshell:

“If a homeowner bought a house for $300,000 – and the value then fell to $200,000 – McCain would have the government purchase the mortgage for $300,000, instead of forcing lenders to accept the loss and renegotiate the loan. The only way in which the government then makes a profit is if the house’s value rises above its original market value of $300,000,00.”  …  Which is possible, but highly unlikely.

In case you missed it, “the banker profits” on the deal and you of course, get nothing. I swear, the longer this goes on, the more I am starting to feel like an old dude with Alzheimer’s standing in a whore house, they are demanding that I pay for it, but I just don’t remember getting screwed.

The number of American automobile dealers that are tanking out has been revised, it has now gone to 700 (up 100 from last week). The only thing that appears to be a quick fix would be the thawing of credit (strange term don’t you agree?) something to restore consumer confidence and help the industry. With car lots full of cars, and no one to sell them to, they suddenly find themselves in a pickle.

My 12 year old hoopie is hurting, something to do with the master-cylinder on the brakes, think it needs a new one, but I am not sure. So we, like most American’s have done, just parked it and it is now our big red dust catcher on the driveway.

I started having problems last week, the “Check Engine Lite” came on. But I couldn’t check it; there was too much smoke. Then the “Game Over Lite” came on, I had not seen that one before.

Consumers will pay about 15% more … An extra $150 on average … to warm their homes this winter. Those that rely on home-heating-oil will be hit even harder, the Energy Department said this week. Here in Oklahoma I personally believe we will be sitting in the dark, freezing our hinny’s off, in order to save about twelve bucks. I understand back east, people will actually resort to burning their furniture, times are tough. The average household will spend $1,137 on heating from October to March according to the department.

Meanwhile officials in Colorado announced this week that residents there could face a 23% hike in energy costs starting in February. They of course cite higher costs for natural gas, coal, the increased cost of pumping water, building pipelines and infrastructure.

More? Okay.

Wood pellet distributors have been running short of the product because homeowners have switched over to pellet burning stoves to heat their house (guess they ran out of furniture?) and they are reported to be “stockpiling the pellets” for the upcoming winter. Some are said to have a two year stock on hand to meet their needs.

Yeah sure, I believe that … Portland Oregon.

Joy Sartin says she kept her money in her bra because she didn’t have her purse with her, and was only offering to pay a traffic ticket. But a jury determined the shapely 25 year old “Lingerie model” was trying to bribe a police officer. She was arrested after taking $270 from her bra when her car was about to be towed during a traffic stop.

Again in the northwest.

Monroe, Washington the return of D.B. Cooper? A man armed with pepper spray robbed and armored car guard coming out of a bank and then escaped by way of the Skylomish River with a bag of money. Police said one witness saw the man floating off on an inner tube. Investigators believe accomplices could have picked the robber up at a nearby park or boat launch. D.B. Cooper was the first person to hijack an airliner in the U.S.. And was never found.

Now we have a new urban legend … D.B. Toober.

Yeah I know, but it’s Thursday Y’all.

Here is the quote of the day (possibly the week, as it isn’t over yet). McSame last night on NBC said that “we could not pull out of Iraq; we lose everything we have gained.” Huh? What have we gained? Other than a mountain of debt and ill-will around the world, some 5,000 dead.

He said the first thing he would do when assuming his office in January would be to enact legislation to stop the problem of falling soccer goal posts which killed three American’s this year … And of course, leave all the soldiers right where they are.

Vee-Pee wanna be Palin when asked the same question replied with: “Tee-Hee, giggle-snort-snort” and then winked at the camera.

Now if you will excuse me, I am going back into the kitchen and stick my head back in the oven.

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Parting Shot: “Everyone needs to be loved … Especially when they do not deserve it.”

“The cartoon was published by the Center for American Progress” (online)

September 15, 2008

Into The Mix

Filed under: Oklahoma,politics,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 10:26 AM
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A wealthy Manhattan mother posted a Craiglist ad for a nanny that began, “My kids are a pain in the a**,” and went onto describe in 1,000 words, why the job would make most people miserable. Fifteen people applied, and a 25-year old woman accepted the job without ever meeting the children.

I am staying put!  36 year old Hattie Callan of New Orleans decided to be among the few residents who stayed in town to ride out Hurricane Gustav. “I have liquor, cash, food, ammo and weed” Callan explained.

Who needs reality.

Callan, that is Irish isn’t it? Here is an Irish joke for ya ….Mrs. Donovan was walking down O’Connell Street in Dublin when she met up with Father Flaherty. The Father said, ‘Top O’ the mornin’ to ye! Aren’t ye Mrs. Donovan and didn’t I marry ye and yer hoosband two years ago?’

She replied, ‘Aye, that ye did, Father.’ The Father asked, ‘And be there any wee little ones yet?’ She replied, ‘No, not yet, Father.’ The Father said, ‘Well now, I’m going to Rome next week and I’ll light a candle for ye and yer hoosband.’

She replied, ‘Oh, thank ye, Father.’ They then parted ways.

Some years later they meet again.  The Father asked, ‘Well now, Mrs. Donovan, how are ye these days?’ She replied, ‘Oh, very well, Father!’ The Father asked, ‘And tell me, have ye any wee ones yet?’ She replied, ‘Oh yes, Father!  Three sets of twins and four singles, ten in all!’

The Father said, ‘That’s wonderful!  How is yer lovin’ hoosband doin’?’ She replied, ‘E’s gone to Rome to blow out yer dam’ candle.’

No good huh … Well, whadya expect for free?

Deep Poo-poo.  A man in Tampa Florida who locked himself into a construction site’s portable toilet while allegedly fleeing the scene of a crime. Two angry burglary victims tipped over the potty, and when police arrived, the found the man covered in its contents.

No! I don’t have any recent photo’s of America’s favorite new political neophyte who one day might find herself the new leader of the Free Western World. And I am not selling photo’s of Sarah Palin in the bikini with the automatic weapon … Try U-Tube. (Please feel free to use the private Email feature for more details)

Must be tough file.

Sean “Diddy” Combs the music mogul announced on YouTube that he is grounding his private jet, which was costing him something in the neighborhood of $200,000 per trip for aviation fuel and is now flying commercial. (Wait until he hears what they are charging for the peanuts!)

The word most often uttered by speakers during the Democratic Convention in Denver was “change.” It was used an average of 89 times per day, followed by “McCain” which came in at 78. Energy followed at 49. In 2004 the most common used words were “healthcare” (49), “Jobs” (42) and the word change was only invoked 11 times.

The most popular word in the Bush administration used about “one-thousand-million-billion times” was “Evil Doers” which had the Scotch-Whiskey Distillery people really nervous for a long time.

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Parting Shot: “A man is not a man, unless he can find his way to Sears’ blind-folded and the tool department makes his nipples rock hard.” (Tim Allen, Tool Time)

September 11, 2008

Case Sensitive … Do Not Use !!#@#%!!

Filed under: Oklahoma,politics,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 4:35 AM
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Browsing the net this morning and I come across this site that says:  “passwords are case sensitive, you cannot use !!#@#%!! in your screen name.”  And I thought back to the days of my youth, when my mother would stand on the front porch and scream …. “Don!  Get your !!#@#%!! butt in this house, and I mean right !!#@#%!! now, and when I got there she would say, wait until you !!#@#%!! father gets home.”

Well I got to tell ya … It brought a tear to my eye.

(No, honest, it !!#@#%!! did.)

Speaking yesterday to the annual Conference of the White House Initiative on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that there are too few African-Americans in her agency. “I can go into a whole day of meetings at the Department of State — and actually rarely see somebody who looks like me,” Rice said. “And that is just not acceptable.”

Here is an idea, “Buy A Mirror.”

If you are BORN in the USA then you are African nothing, you are American.  We need to drop this hyphenated crap and become ONE country.

More Big Oil Collateral Damage …One of the nation’s largest Hummer stores will shut its doors.  The Dan Towbin dealership in Las Vegas “is at least the eighth Hummer dealer closing this year, nearly a 5% decline in the brand’s U.S. dealer base.” The WSJ notes that, “with the national average for a price of gas resting at $3.66 a gallon, it costs $84 to fill up Hummer’s smallest model — the H3.”  No more toys for the Big Boys … Pain at the pump has gone to terminal, beyond hope …

It’s time to do your part America … Buy A Truck.

Here it comes, get ready.  One of the oldest scams government pulls on people is the “MORE for more LESS scam” and it appears it is on the horizon.  Cash strapped public transit systems nationwide are now cutting services and raising fares even as more American’s ditch their gas guzzling cars and take to public transportation.

We are now going to see more (fare) increases and more service cuts at a time when the nation is trying to encourage people to use public transit.  The greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has proposed a 50-cent fuel surcharge on fares and a 12% cut on services because diesel prices are up and funding from a local sales tax is down.

Just yesterday the news reported on an Oklahoma company that was manufacturing bio-diesel in our state.  At the end of the media piece they reported, “Don’t look for it here in Oklahoma (the low priced fuel) because the majority of it is shipped overseas to markets where they can realize $12 a gallon for the fuel.”

One thing we are getting good at these days, and that is “shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Curious about the value of your house?  Zellow.Com will tell you how much they are selling for in your area.  Ours apparently is somewhat like a U.S. Savings Bond … The longer we keep it, the less it is worth.

Higher Edu-may-cay-shun … In 2005 authorities sized the assets of California Alternative High School, a chain of 30 private schools, and ordered it to stop handing out diplomas.  The schools, which taught mostly non-native English speakers, charged $450 to $1,450 for a course based on a 54-page curriculum that was loaded with errors.

Among the things the students learned:  There are 53 United States; Congress has two houses – the Senate for Democrats and the House for Republicans; and World War II occurred from 1938-1942.  Kind of sounds like Bush’s alma matter.

And finally:

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has decided to repeal a policy requiring all players to speak English. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is incensed at the change, saying that “the players on the tour that will pay the price in the long term for not speaking English.” Tancredo accused the LPGA of caving to the “politically correct left.”

NO SPEAKAH DE ENGLISH?

A bus stops and two Italian men get on. (Please note I did not say Italian-American men)  They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting next to them ignores them at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of them say the following:

‘Emma come First.  Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more! Two asses. They come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one Lasta Time.’

The lady can’t take this any more, ‘You foul-mouthed sex obsessed pig.’  She retorted indignantly. ‘In this country, we don’t speak aloud in public places about our sex lives.’

‘Hey, coola down lady, ‘ said the man. ‘Who talkin’abouta sex? I’m a justa tellin my frienda how to spell ‘ Mississippi‘ ”

$5.00 says you’re gonna read that again.

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Parting shot: “After 60, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.”

August 28, 2008

Two Down … One More To Go.

Filed under: Oklahoma,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 7:18 AM
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“Although there were signs that its fall was imminent, the empire managed to stave Gotterdammerung for another two-hundred years.”

The Olympics wrapped up and now all the Chinese have to figure out, is how to pay for it all.  All the pageantry and the splendor, isn’t cheap, most countries that host the games end up with a huge tab when it is over.  Olympic games tend to cost an exorbitant amount of money.

The Democrats have concluded the speechifying, glorifying, and pontificating of their chosen hero’s or whatever reasonable facsimile of one, they could dredge up from the gene pool.  The fodder-rall is over in Denver with some noted casualties in the fray.

I hear that Bill Clinton got the loudest applause and roar from the crowd when he said the words “In Conclusion” at the end of his speech the other night.  Bill and Joe Biden seem to be running neck and neck on the verbosity issue, Clinton in the lead, and Biden speaking not in sentences, but rather paragraphs.

I don’t understand why Bill gets all this attention by the media and the Democrats, he has had his day in the sun.

Obammer was talking “Capital Gains Tax” again this week, which is nice, kind of like oatmeal for the masses, but let’s face it, this strategy doesn’t produce one gallon of gasoline, one barrel of oil.  This will do nothing but anger the beast.  You can try and teach a pig to sing, but it will not work, and all it does is irritate the pig.

Another energy genie was there.

Albert Gore has a plan, but his plan takes some ten years to get going, which isn’t going to provide any kind of immediate relief for our dilemma.  And don’t forget the other mover and shaker, T. Boone Pickens, working the room and glad handing those in charge of the federal purse strings.

He finally let the cat out of the bag on what he is really up to.  He says that we need to build a totally new power-grid in this country, and where do you suppose would be the first place that it would hook up?  And who do you suppose he wants to pay for it?

Is it just me or have you noticed, that no one seems to bring up the subject of our refining deficit, why is it no one wants to build a refinery or at best, even talk about it?

The people of the United States deserve a coherent energy policy, a policy that will offer them a future free from dangerous dependence on foreign oil.  We are now sucking down roughly 12 million barrels a day, to put it in the proper prospective.  Saudi Arabia pumps about 9 million barrels per day.  No one, can sustain levels like these.

Man, got my electric bill yesterday, all this hot weather, my tendency to sleep in a cool house at night, really adds up at the end of the month.  Across the nation electric rate hikes are on the move, at least seven states this week announced rate hikes of 20% or better.  The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) said the hike will raise about $2 billion and is expected to be passed on to about 8.8 million rate consumers.  They are blaming the high cost of fuel, and a three year drought that has lowered hydroelectric water levels.

Wonder what it is going to be like when everyone starts plugging in their electric cars?

Yesterday I commented on a poop shooter in Ohio that got fed a hand grenade for lunch.  Today it is a poop shooter seat auction in Lucas, Kansas.  An art gallery is hosting a show and benefit auction of toilet seats to raise funds for a new public restroom.  The Great Toilet Seat Art Show at the “Flyin’ Pig Studio and Gallery” will be held Saturday during the town’s annual Apple Festival.

Sounds like a fun place to take a date.  B.Y.O.P (Bring Your Own Paper)  Don’t forget your digital camera so we can post the photographs later on in the week.  I wonder if they will have “Sunday On The Pot With George” a painting in pointillist style (made up of dots) depicting a heavy man wearing only his underpants, sitting on a toilet.

One reviewer called the work “the single most memorable artistic experience in my life …   a bit like my recent  bout with shingles.”

Ralph Stephens in Virginia Beach is a happy camper this day.  He has won the $100,000 Jackpot in Virginia’s Lottery Cash 5 game three times.  He won on August 3rd of this year, in 1997, and repeated in 2007.  Last night we only had two numbers, not exactly collateral for a new house or a trip to Barbados.  But I believe I know why it is that we are not winning.

You see, they just don’t give you enough time “to wish upon the numbers” they are rolling them too fast.

You want paper or plastic?  Consumers seem to be slippin’ back into their old habits.  Plastic is being used more than cash (paper).  Some customers are using credit cards more often.  What their cards are buying:  Gas 70%, food groceries 67%, clothing 51%, Leisure activities 50% and health care 24%.

One more convention to suffer through and we will be done with it for awhile.

Then we can go back to the “good old days.”  Sit back and take it easy, until November and then finally put it to rest.  Ah … The Good Ol’ Days … When can we go back to wasteful consumerism fueled by reckless borrowing against our children’s’ uncertain future.

Is this a great country or what?

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“The above material [cartoon] was published by the Center for American Progress” (online)

August 22, 2008

Rocky Mountain High …

Filed under: Oklahoma,politics,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 6:25 AM
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Now for all you “nit pickers” out there, the shot above is of the Rockies in Wyoming.  The post is about Denver, but I like the shot from Wyoming better and it is after all … My blog.  It doesn’t seem to matter all that much, whether I am in the mountains outside of Denver or Jackson Hole, just as long as I am there.  Just something about the mountains ……

City fathers in Denver announced this past week, that pot smoking during the Democratic Convention will not be tolerated, and tickets will be issued and fines levied if you are caught toting up.  What are all these Democratic Liberals going to do now?

We cannot have a bunch of pot smoking representatives going around all zonked out, first thing you know, they will be doing something stupid, like “legalizing freedom.”  And we cannot have that.

Our moral leadership doesn’t want to get rid of drugs because, in their own sick way, they think drugs are good for the economy.  After all, drugs get more people in jail.  And then the corrections officers sell drugs to the inmates in order to help them while away the time.  It is not a good deal, but in this day and age, it is good to have “two jobs” because that is what it takes to get by anymore.

I got pulled over back in the seventies, me and another dude had just finished a doobie and things were a little bit out of whack you might say.  The cop walks up to the car and he says to me, “Where is your license?” and I say “It aint on the back of the truck?”

Yeah, like that dog would hunt.

The war on drugs is a huge waste of money, evidently something the city patriarchs in Denver are unaware of.  Basically what we have is this dog and pony show that tells everyone that they are going to eradicate this menace on the land (something they have failed at for over thirty years that I know of) and it makes all the respectable voting folks think something is actually happening, when it is not.  They have to pander to this majority of people who still vote, because most pot smokers do not.

They just show up at the local polling place, Twinkies in hand and lament  ….  “What?  It was yesterday?”

People who smoke hooter get messed up will make all these wild promises.  Say dumb stuff like:  I am from Arizona, which is basically a minimum-security prison with golf courses and undocumented workers.  And my dream for America is for your children to have everything that my children never had. Which is pretty unrealistic.  They already have.  Because of lousy government policies in the past (or rather lack of policies would be more realistic) they already have what YOUR kids didn’t have.

Global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps because we burn to much “Clean Coal.”  Holes in the Ozone because we love spray on deodorant, no retirement security plans, no health insurance, AIDS, 62 STD’s (sexually transmitted diseases), a dollar that is basically worthless (worth at best about 16 cents), gasoline at $4 a gallon ….

Because of past policies, their dream has already been realized.  You don’t have to be loaded to understand that, but it might help you deal with it in the end.

Personally I no longer do drugs.  I had my fair share of them in the sixties, “the sixties were really good to me, a large part of those years are now just a gentle wind blowing in the cavities of my mind” (or some other suitable Glenn Campbell tune) but I don’t do that now, I have moved on.

I got tired of waking up on someone’s living room floor, or surfing the coffee table at parties, and the police cars, all the racket, well, it just wasn’t cool.  So I stopped, as I tired of doing weird stuff all the time.  If you don’t think drugs will mess you up?  Then consider this, The Beatles had to be pretty spaced out … They let Ringo sing on two of their albums!

So that is the sad news, “No Rocky Mountain High” in Denver.  If you want to twist one up in your hotel room I guess that is okay, but don’t take it down on the convention floor.  You will get busted.  If you are still somewhat confused and uncertain, we have for you a quick little update … How you know you are in Colorado.

Click here.

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August 19, 2008

Drilling Me Softly ….

Filed under: Oklahoma,politics,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 3:08 PM
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Biggy Rat and Itchy Brother are back in the news. Obammer reported today that he is going to try and do something about gasoline prices in America.  Part of his new policy of “hope and change” which is basically “I hope they do not remember all these promises, and I sure hope things do change.“  He is pretty sure he is not able to either walk on water or change it into petroleum at this stage of the game.

McSame continues to run all over the country pandering votes, and ignoring roll calls in Washington DC on critical issues concerning energy.  Two of which recently failed by “one vote” and on one of them, he was in his office, but did not bother to go to the floor for the vote. I understand he was in Aspen this weekend, big hotbed of voters there? More >>>

His new policy seems to be convincing young people of America that “liver spots” are the new tattoo of the twenty-first century.  And flip flopping on drilling in Anwar. McCain earlier said he’s “more than happy” to consider flip-flopping on Alaskan oil drilling, but then quickly back-tracked, reiterating his position that the Refuge “is a pristine place and if they found oil in the Grand Canyon, I don’t think I’d drill in the Grand Canyon.”

I have been to the canyon, even rode a goofy lop-eared mule named Sarah to the bottom and this is a safe bet John, there aint no oil in the canyon ……… Trust me.

John McCain is talking a lot about opening up new areas to offshore drilling, and now Barack Obama appears willing to consider the idea, too. A government report supposedly found that drilling won’t lower gas prices, but I’ve also heard that the report was flawed. What’s the deal with offshore drilling, why all the focus on this?

How about solar, how about wind.  How about just showing up to vote on the bills when they come up for a vote. Or the rather obvious solution to this entire problem. How about you boys try removing your collective heads out of the part of you that goes over the fence last!

Three months is a long time during a presidential campaign. Back in early June, neither candidate supported any additional offshore drilling. Now, the Outer Continental Shelf has become Topic A in the presidential race.  Talk about “wind-power” these guys blow back n forth like sunflowers on the Kansas Prairie.

I sure hope that neither of these two guys are “sperm donors” anywhere.

Perhaps we should do like this lady in Estherville, Iowa, did this past week.  I am reading where an elderly woman has been rescued from the trunk of a car that was discovered on a farm in Emmet County in western Iowa.  Sheriff’s officials say a landowner found what looked like an abandoned vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. The man reportedly looked into the car, found a hole in the back seat and discovered there was a person inside the trunk.

Sheriff’s officials say when they arrived at the scene they talked with the 70-year-old woman and eventually found keys and opened the trunk.  They did not identify the woman, who they say was dehydrated and incoherent.

Authorities say foul play is not suspected.  Sheriff’s officials say Spirit Lake police had notified law enforcement on Monday that an elderly woman was reported missing. They didn’t confirm whether it was the same woman who was found in the trunk on Wednesday.  After reading all the way through my copy of USA Today there are times when I feel that she possibly has the best idea.

Drill that boys…

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August 5, 2008

Boring and not important …

Filed under: Oklahoma,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 6:12 AM
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Crazy mean men are usually played by Dennis Hopper.  Weird men are to be played by Robin Williams.  And then we have the political candidates …

Obammer is back from his palooza world tour after declaring himself as something akin to Emperor at Large or some kind of Rock Star. In Germany he described himself as a “citizen of the world” ….. People of Berlin … People of the world … This is our moment!” I believe the quote was.

John McSame was currently behind Obammer in a few southern states, Colorado and Michigan last I heard. But not to worry, Obammer was said to be way ahead of him in Belgium, Germany and France. Meanwhile back at the ranch … When Mr. Bush was asked what he thought about this latest new development in the campaign, Mr. Bush responded that “he thought the bad spellers of the world should untie!”

Still writing bad checks and blaming everyone else.  In totally non-reality-based news, the Bush administration announced this week that this year’s $600 per person tax rebate busted the budget. But we all know that is false, the biggest culprit was Dubya’s determination to launch a war in Iraq, which has cost hundreds of billions of dollars while he sat back and blithely cut taxes. When this guy dies, he ought to leave his body to science fiction. We KNOW why we are broke George ………..

Now the bill is coming due, and the American people and the next president are stuck with it.

Here is some progressive thinking. A New Jersey senator, Jennifer Beck, wants to automatically strip politicians convicted of crimes such as public corruption of their retirement benefits. Finally someone with a modicum of sense, got elected to an office.

By the way, she is a Republican.

Recently I wrote that the good folks in Colorado didn’t want any drilling in their area. Now I have found another stellar example of “The Not In My Backyard” phenomenon. Baltimore county officials plans to take its opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal to the Supreme Court. AES Corp. wants to build a terminal at a former Bethlehem Steel shipyard.

Critics say the plant would harm the environment and be a terrorist target. Hey I got news for you, according to the Bush Administration; this entire country is a Terrorist target.

Yesterday I mentioned Bear Scat (Bear poo-poo) and today I came across this. Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division traveling by boat on a research mission to study whale habitats, managed to capture what they believe is a historical first photo: the water pattern that results from the bubble when a hug whale releases flatulence. Said researcher Nick Gales, “We got away from the bow of the ship very quickly.”

I always wondered why Gregory Peck was yelling … “Thar she blows!” …. In that Hollywood classic, now I know.

Here is something else that I found personally amusing.  “Wordpress.com has announced that support will be open 24/7 as of this month.” Which is kind of like drilling for oil, 15% of nothing is still nothing.

A convicted killer is on a hunger strike in a Colorado jail because he can no longer play the drums. Prison staff shortages and a spate of fights among prisoners, canceled rehearsals of the prison band and the drummer is not all that happy about that. His mother said that she was very concerned because he has lost 32 pounds in the first week. 32 lbs in one week (almost 5 lbs per day average)

Yeah right, like I believe that.

I have at one time or another been on every cotton-pickin’ diet in the world and NEVER lost any kind of numbers like that. I have been so dog-gone hungry that even cat food commercials on TV made me hungry. The last diet I was on was that Grapefruit Diet, where you eat nothing but Grapefruit all day long. But I had to give it up because every time that I went to the bathroom, I found myself squirting myself in the eye!

32 lbs in one week …… yeah sure … And all Desperate Housewives look like that.

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August 1, 2008

Not in my backyard

Filed under: Oklahoma,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 4:53 PM
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Glenwood Springs Colorado residents have gotten up a 17,000 name petition to restrict drilling on the Roan Plateau. BLM spokesman said the land had recently been opened up for oil and gas exploration, but the people living there are having no part of it. Everyone is quick to stop drilling but are the first to complain when the cost of the fuel goes up.

You cannot have it both ways …

What did you do on vacation? Great Falls, Montana has a novel idea. Participants in the Citizens Police Academy, a nine week series of classes and training sessions, will be given the opportunity to experience either one of the two: (1) Shocking by a taser pistol or (2) wearing the bite suit and allowing a police dog to take you down. The “free” academy begins September 10th, call now and make sure you get your reservations in early.

Delta Airlines is doubling its fee for checking a second bag on domestic flights to $50. Effective after August 5th, and the fee for checking a third bag now goes to $125 which is up from $80. The price of a bag of peanuts will remain the same …. Eighty five dollars.

Arizona officials are targeting people who are illegally removing water from the Colorado River. They are now instituting new regulations for well owners who are illegally removing the water, a source of drinking water for some 37 million Americans. More and more demands are being made on this river which no longer makes it to the Pacific Ocean, it is now drying up some 12 miles from the outlet. Water will be the “new oil” of the 21st century.

RIVER WALK … There’s this blonde out for a walk. She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite bank. ‘Yoo-hoo!’ she shouts, ‘How can I get to the other Side?’ The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and shouts back to her, ‘You ARE on the other side.’

In 2004 Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill that included $25,000 for the study of mariachi music. Now tell me again why we don’t need a line veto power for the President. More than 1.6 million businesses in this country owe the Federal government in excess of $58 billion in delinquent payroll taxes, interest and penalties, including money withheld from employee’s salaries a congressional report says. I always crack up when the television barks at me ….. “IRS Problems? We can help. Pay pennies on the dollar on your IRS debt. Call ….. “

Pennies on the dollar? I have been doing it all wrong.

I cannot find any good hard oatmeal cookies, what is going on? Every cookie I found this week was one of those “soft cookies” I want one of them hard snappers. The type of cookie that you put two thumbs into it to break it in half it snaps so loud, the dog will wake up and look around the room to find out what is going on.

Where do they sell those?

You have to love this one. A Salt Lake car passenger got a surprise last month when he mimicked famous Grey Poupon TV ads of the past. The passenger got the driver of another car to lower his window, then asked: “Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?”

That driver, clearly no fan of the ads in which mustard is passed from one car to another, pulled out a handgun and said: “Here’s your Grey Poupon, roll you ##@#!##*#! Window up!” according to documents filed and posted on TheSmokingGun.com. The Poupon fan took down the license number and the gun-wielder was charged last week in court with aggravated assault.

Some people just don’t have a sense of humor.

A woman in Maine who was reaching into her washing machine for clothes got a shock when she found a writhing, 8 foot long python. “I put my hand back in there to get some more” said Mara Ranger “and something moved. I jumped back and all of a sudden its head starts coming out.” Wildlife officials determined the snake squeezed into the house via a water pipe.

I don’t know about you, but if that were to happen to me, we would definitely be doing a new load of underwear!

Have a Great Weekend ….

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July 29, 2008

It’s Getting Ugly …

Filed under: Oklahoma,random,Recent,Uncategorized — ldsrr91 @ 5:47 AM
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GETTING OLDER: “When your body actually starts to resemble the ugly sounds your coffee maker makes in the morning.”

Authorities in Conway, Arkansas have arrested a man who was impersonating an officer and ripping people off.  He would canvas local motels, and approach the residents and tell them “that he had to test their money for drug residue” and inspect it.  He is now charged with robbery and burglary.  I find it simply incredulous that people would surrender their money to a fake cop, or to a “real” cop for that matter.

Things in Kansas don’t seem to be much better.  An electric meter that stood at the Reno County Landfill FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS without being read was finally noticed.  The county will now have to pay Westar Energy almost $10,000 to make up for payments not made on electricity used.  Melvin have your read the meter out at the dump? ….. Uh …. I forgot.  They cited “human error” as the cause.

Again. Here it comes …. Duh, you think so?

If I neglect my utility payments in Oklahoma, for one month, I am sitting in the dark and freezing my A** off and that is the name of that tune.  We don’t have “human error” in our state, and when we do happen across some of it, we promptly elect it to a state office so that it might benefit us even more.  Our state legislative branch is loaded with human error, some of it lives in town and others commute.

Following along the same vein, in Colorado, utility shut-offs are on the rise because of delinquent bills, mimicking a nationwide trend, of American’s living payday-to-payday.  8% of households in this country, earning $33 to $55K a year have at one time or another, turned off utilities.  Over the last three years it has gone from 8%, to 16% and so far this year, 25%.

Evidently there are some thirsty gamblers in Nevada.

Las Vegas is reaching some 300 miles north to the Carson City area for water to feed Sin City.  A bid to pump more than 11 billion gallons of ground water per year was cut to just more than 6 billion gallons this week.  Water will be the “new oil” of the 21st century, as sources continue to decline.

The Big Scratch Off!

An accounting clerk, with the same company for over 16 years, has been indicted on charges of embezzlement in Houston, Texas.  She is accused of siphoning nearly $6 million from the business over a four year period.  That is amazing, she is lifting “$1.5 million” from the till every year, and no one happens to notice this fact?

Sounds like a horrendous gambling problem to me.

Now it is time for me to check out this most recent lead on a late breaking story.  Warning is coming to us from the middle east.  This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan, Taliban Minister of Migration, Mohammed Omar, warned the United States that if military action against Iraq continues, Taliban authorities will cut off America’s supply of convenience store managers, and possible candidates for President of the United States.

And if this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by Dell and AOL customer service reps., and then Motel 6 managers.

It’s getting ugly.

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July 4, 2008

This Is America … We Speak English

Filed under: Recent — ldsrr91 @ 5:05 AM
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On this day, Independence Day, I can think of nothing more appropriate than the “English Only” issue and the erosion of the American Lifestyle. Thirty states now have laws specifying that official government communications be in English. It is a start and it is multiplying tremendously, but it still needs to get done, it needs to be officially instituted and put into working order. We need to keep stoking the firebox on this issue, and get up a good head of steam and take it to Washington DC.

Some folks believe that this issue sends a hostile message to newcomers. It just poisons the atmosphere in local communities. Not so. Studies out have proven conclusively that newcomers that learn the language fare much better than those that hold onto the language of where it is they came from.

All this politically correct non-sense, catering to illegals, pandering to Mexicans and accepting Spanish as a second language, is not good for this country.  A word to the newcomers.  It is also not good for America to try and change it into some satellite clone of the country of your origin.

In a way it does poison the country, it is detrimental to the American Lifestyle and our way of life, it is in fact, “Anti American.”

Ohio approved a bill making English the official language. Oklahoma is working on it. Missouri will decide this fall on an amendment to their constitution.

I don’t give two hoots in you know where what you talk about in your own home, I don’t give a flying whatever the language you use, but when it comes to government, official business, you need to be speaking English.

You want to live here, then the first word you need to learn is “Assimilate” which means to blend in, focus on what everyone around you is speaking.

If you don’t consider this important or just another rant, consider this. You are lying prostrate on the ground, you have a searing burning in your chest and left arm, you tell the person looking down at you, “I have pills in my pocket (for your heart) you beg them ….. please …..”

Now do you want some foreigner standing there looking at you like a calf who is looking a new gate for the first time … Or … Do you want someone who speaks English.

Thought so.

Laws never cover everything, but in this case, they should be covering voter rights, driver’s lic., zoning forms and day to day activities in this country. It is time … High time … we all get on the same page about this issue. This country has been around over 230 years, and it was all done on ONE LANGUAGE and that is the bottom line, that is where the rubber meets the road.

Washington needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Thirty states are now saying … We want this. 19 others have pending legislation; it is time to do something about this.

Enjoy your Fourth of July, they may be numbered “Amigo’s.”

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