I guess this guy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/alex-da-silva-celebrity-c_n_183227.html just wanted to teach them the "pole dance" as well. I always had a suspicion that anyone associated with a reality show also had the propensity to be a rapist, as well.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
I saw the original, delightfully wacky production of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" on Broadway (actually, a bit off Broadway), starring Paul Provenza (Google him - a seriously underrated comedian) so, nayh-nayh to all of you! :)
Oh, and kudos to those parents that are making the effort to keep creative, and, "ooh - scary", "different" points of view and thoughts out of their children's education processes. Wouldn't want the kiddies thinking for themselves. They might learn just enough to realize that their parents, and their parents religion and political view are, in the words of St. George Carlin, "Full of shit".
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Choadwank Screws the Poor
Ahhh, the gov is living in a house that one of his campaign contributors is "renting" to him, even though they were unable to sell the home for a year before the state of Texas began paying $9,900.00 per month in October 2008 for Perry to live in while the gov's mansion is renovated, and, gasp, some unknown "anarchist", i.e. Perry staff member, firebombs the place while the state trooper that is supposed to be guarding the construction site is AWOL, thus conveniently extending the rental of said house by the taxpayers of Tx for at least another year, and THIS GUY rejects the "stim" unemployment funding, knowing full well that the repuke state ledge, and he himself, have been underfunding the Tx unemployment trust fund FOR YEARS, and by hundreds of millions of dollars. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsgUhrz2efKJsA0zLOxrK5B0cY-wD96SRUKO4 This guy is a turd with a nice haircut. I would not piss on him if his pant leg was on fire.
"Texas would also have to expand eligibility to include thousands of low-wage workers. Lawmakers have said the change would help part-time employees like single mothers, college students and senior citizens.
Perry said the requirements attached to the federal stimulus money would require a change in the state's definition of unemployment by expanding it to include part-time employees. He said such an expansion would counteract the package's objective of job creation by leading companies to limit hiring and raise prices.
The governor's decision comes despite warnings from Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken that the state's unemployment compensation trust fund could be operating at a deficit by October. Pauken told lawmakers recently that insolvency might not be not far behind."
Perry said the requirements attached to the federal stimulus money would require a change in the state's definition of unemployment by expanding it to include part-time employees. He said such an expansion would counteract the package's objective of job creation by leading companies to limit hiring and raise prices.
The governor's decision comes despite warnings from Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken that the state's unemployment compensation trust fund could be operating at a deficit by October. Pauken told lawmakers recently that insolvency might not be not far behind."
The Haymarket Incident
This tale shows how effective the capitalists have been in depriving the workers of their rights, and a stake in the riches this country has to offer. Is the "collapse" of the auto industry yet another way to "restructure" that last bastion of a union workforce into a non-union format? I wish the people of today would have the courage, patriotism and passion of personal conviction to stand up to the powers of greed and self-interest that the brave "anarchists and socialists" had back then.
"That the eight were on trial for their anarchist beliefs and trade union activities was made clear from the outset. The trial closed as it had opened, as was witnessed by the final words of Attorney Grinnell's summation speech to the jury. "Law is on trial. Anarchy is on trial. These men have been selected, picked out by the Grand Jury, and indicted because they were leaders. There are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society."
On August 19th seven of the defendants were sentenced to death, and Neebe to 15 years in prison. After a massive international campaign for their release, the state 'compromised' and commuted the sentences of Schwab and Fielden to life imprisonment. Lingg cheated the hangman by committing suicide in his cell the day before the executions. On November 11th 1887 Parsons, Engel, Spies and Fischer were hanged."
On August 19th seven of the defendants were sentenced to death, and Neebe to 15 years in prison. After a massive international campaign for their release, the state 'compromised' and commuted the sentences of Schwab and Fielden to life imprisonment. Lingg cheated the hangman by committing suicide in his cell the day before the executions. On November 11th 1887 Parsons, Engel, Spies and Fischer were hanged."
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Forgive Me Fadder, For I'm a NAZI
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church's Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.
"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church's Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.
"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.
The NAZI pope is keepin' them in line. Ya' gotta' give them credit for sticking with their "beliefs". Nice to see them trying to appeal to main stream people. They are no better than the Mullahs.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
It's Sad
You know it is tough times when the CNN iReporters have to sell of their Starwars Stormtrooper costumes, as well as "Nazgul Ringwraith costume from Lord of the Rings complete with full steel armor". http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-224401 There is still an air of geekly pomposity in this guy's "story": "The last time I wore it was in the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena when I marched with George Lucas." He probably lost his job and had to sell this shit off because he WOULD NOT STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT HIS STARWARS STORMTROOPER COSTUME, AND HIS FUCKING NAZGUL RINGWRAITH SHIT AT WORK!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Better or Worse
I have been trying to decide, in these trying times, if it is better to have never been that rich, so the "hard times" seem like the "all the times", they just never get that much better, or is hitting the economic jackpot, then dropping off to the Madoff induced poverty of WalMart greeter, and dreaming of the central park east Robber-Baron apartment, the servants and the snotty better than attitude. The bitterness seems more bitter to have had, and then not to have at all. I guess it is the less is more, until you get more, then more becomes more than less could ever hope to be.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
50K For Rent?
The state of Texas has paid almost $50,000.00 ($9,990.00 per month since Oct, 2007) in rent for Gov. Goodhair to live in a cheesy McMansion, while they renovate the Governor's mansion, that was torched by a person unknown while the state trooper supposed to be guarding the renovation site was AWOL.
"The home is being leased from Murell Campbell through his daughter and son-in-law, Melinda and Guy Grace. Grace has contributed $2,500 a year to Perry's campaign every year since 2005, but Black said Perry has not met Grace." Can you say "shell corporation"?
The rental sat unsold for a year, originally were going to live there for a year, however with the fire I am sure it will be for quite awhile longer.
Without a Paddle
Seems like Laura, soon to become a household name, has lied to the feds, with prejudice.
"Because the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all"
Jimmy Cliff
"Laura Pendergest-Holt, the third-ranking executive of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, was taken into custody by FBI agents and charged with obstruction of a government proceeding.
The Justice Department late Thursday said Pendergest-Holt will appear before a federal magistrate in Houston Friday.
The complaint alleges Pendergest-Holt made "several affirmative misrepresentations" to SEC investigators seeking information on what she knew about a scheme to defraud investors and account-holders of billions of dollars in deposits.
The complaint says the executive failed to tell the truth on several occasions during the course of the investigation."
The Justice Department late Thursday said Pendergest-Holt will appear before a federal magistrate in Houston Friday.
The complaint alleges Pendergest-Holt made "several affirmative misrepresentations" to SEC investigators seeking information on what she knew about a scheme to defraud investors and account-holders of billions of dollars in deposits.
The complaint says the executive failed to tell the truth on several occasions during the course of the investigation."
Can Alan be far behind? If they can find him again?
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
One of the Good Guys
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Eat This Prayer
Monday, February 23, 2009
Shocked
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Ooooooh! How Generous of You!
A local Houston news channel reported the all-expenses-paid vacation trip to Antigua cost roughly $7,500.00, bringing the tainted cash to $27,500.00. Good to know Cornyn is bizarrely going to donate $4,000.00 to charity in order to "Get this distraction behind us". The average person making minimum wage ($7.00/hr) at a full time job, less taxes, brings home roughly $10,920.00 per year. This would be before paying for health care premiums.
We need to keep this chugnut's feet to the fire to return the rest. I only wish we could recall this moron.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
You Down with G. O. P. (Yeah You Know Me)
Oh snap! MC Steele keepin' it real, he down with his fiscal responsibility, right-to-life homies, and gettin' street wit' the message, it's off the hook, yo!
Quote: “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”
Way to get the one-armed midget "wing" of America on board. Never mind that they (the midgets) prefer to be referred to as "little people".
Monday, February 16, 2009
"NAZI Models?"
Killer Chimps!
This from a chimp attack several years ago:
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Chimpie ... OH NO...LEAVE ME ALONE... AAARRRRRRG! HE IS RIPPING MY NOSE AND GENITALS OFF... AAARRRRGGGG!!!..."
"Davis said St. James lost all of his fingers from both hands, an eye, part of his nose, cheek and lips, and part of his buttocks. The terrifying attack lasted 5 to 7 minutes, said Davis, who has no health insurance and has not spoken to Brauer since the incident."
"The chimps chewed off St. James Davis' nose and severely mauled his genitals and limbs Thursday before the son-in-law of the sanctuary's owner shot the animals to death, authorities said."
And from today:
These amateur chimp wrangler types should be lumped into the same category as those people who build and fly their own experimental airplanes, and crash and die throughout the land, often killing some poor schlub on the ground for good measure. Is it really necessary for every Tom, Dick and Harry to own a chimp, or a personal airplane? NO IT IS NOT!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
O's Blackberry
Can someone please twitter this link http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/12/14424/0375/1023/696657 to Obama's NSA "secure" blackberry? His choice of Geithner was a horrible one to begin with, and Larry Summers, his chief economic adviser is a "Shock Doctrine" http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/system-built-crisis-and-violence Chicago School NeoCon in sheep's clothing. Obama is in dangerous company, and is receiving poor advice from the top guys.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Elbridge Gerry, Gerrymanderer
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/gerrymandering/index.html
Aaaah ... so nice to be a direct descendant of this fine gentleman. Quite a career, from signer of the declaration, Harvard University attendee, to Massachusetts Gov., to Vice President under James Madison, &c.
Aaaah ... so nice to be a direct descendant of this fine gentleman. Quite a career, from signer of the declaration, Harvard University attendee, to Massachusetts Gov., to Vice President under James Madison, &c.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Waste of Skin
Name ONE THING this fartknocker has ever done for the state of Texas. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Cornyns_absence.html One thing. You can't, can you?
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Ooops.
"I say, we're dreadfully sorry to have caused a resurgence of the measles so we could look good amongst our peers. We feel bloody awful. Well, cheerio! Oh, and we're bleedin' sorry for giving parents of autistic children a jolly-good red herring as they desperately search for a cause of their children's malady."
Saturday, February 7, 2009
"Two Pickets to Tittsburgh"
Wooo-Hooo!!
She must be related to 14 kids/octuplet chick. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/nadya-suleman-speaks-octu_n_164559.html
In the immortal words of the Gun's n' Roses song:
"You're crazy, hey, hey
You know you're crazy, oh my!
You're fuckin' crazy, oh child
You know you're crazy
Ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ah,ah,ah,ah, yeah!"
Gov. Sebelius for HHS?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/07/kathleen-sebelius-near-to_n_164954.html Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! I got to meet the Gov. at a campaign rally in Hobbs, NM, October last, while on a "Road Trip for Change" from Houston registering voters for Barack. Met some of the coolest people I have ever had the pleasure of associating with, and was thrilled to have my photo taken with Gov. Sebelius after her speech for a rally in Hobbs. She is super smart, confident and compassion covers her entire demeanor. She could have bolted immediately after the rally, but she stayed behind talking with all of the volunteers and attendees, taking questions, posing for photos, etc. for at least a half hour. She is so cool, and would be a great HHS Sec. Barack could do a lot worse than her.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Gotta Dance With Them That Brung You
Once again, the Repukes have shown who has them by the twig and berries. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-opposes-pay-limits-on_n_164544.html A bunch of real progressives, this crowd. If you were wondering why all this money was handed out to the bankers, no strings attached, one needs only look at the following: http://www.followthemoney.org/database/IndustryTotals.phtml?f=0&s=0&g%5B%5D=6 Since the year 2000, the "financial industry" has given 1 billion, one hundred eighty-five million dollars in campaign contributions to elected officials. That is $1,185,000,000.00, the majority to the Repukes, at least until it became clear they would be voted out, then they started giving more to Dems, although the majority of the cash still went to the Repukes. Talk about "pay to play".
Fox Falters
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Capitalism at It's Finest
What higher power gives individuals, acting as corporations, the right to exploit the natural resources of the country, namely coal, fuel oil, natural gas etc., all power sources that belong to all the citizens of this country, and "sell" them back to the citizens at outrageous prices for the enrichment of the few? http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/04/freezing.death.folo/index.html I have come to view capitalism in a continuing dimmer light as time goes on. Electrical power should be free, as should water. Also, the handing over of tax money for free to a handful of bankers that have fucked things up beyond recognition, so they can turn around and lend the same money back to the aforementioned taxpayers at usurious interest rates rightly, I feel, makes me question the core wisdom of the system, and those who have set up the laws, and continue to enforce these laws. To say nothing of the way we treat our veterans. Killed by the utility company for owing $1,000.00. This happens hundreds of times a year in the summer here in the south, the lack of AC being the instrument of utility company murder. Heat stroke.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Super Bowl, Super Drunk
This is great! I am going to start using that excuse whenever anything goes wrong for me. "Why were you speeding, sir?" "Because, fuck you." Why didn't you make your sales plan this month, Steve?" "Because, fuck you." It's awesome.
St. Pete Beach police say Omar Chehab, 44, was yelling obscenities and prank calling 911 from a pay phone near 600 Corey Ave. last night about 10:30 p.m.
Dispatchers told police that he sounded intoxicated. Officers approached him, and his response was "Fuck you. No, I don't need you," they reported in an arrest affidavit. When they asked why he called 911, he gave this reason: "Because, fuck you."
Dispatchers told police that he sounded intoxicated. Officers approached him, and his response was "Fuck you. No, I don't need you," they reported in an arrest affidavit. When they asked why he called 911, he gave this reason: "Because, fuck you."
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Crystal Clear Hard Times
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/waterford-workers-occupy-plant-1522067.html Do the workers really control the means of production? They will most likely send in the jack-booted riot police to crack some skulls and arrest the workers fro trying to get some social justice.
From "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn:
Once in khaki suits. Gee, we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodle-de-dum.
Half a million boots went sloggin' through Hell,
I was the kid with the drum.
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al- I
t was Al all the time.
Say, don't you remember I'm your pal-
Brother, can you spare a dime?
It was not just a song of despair. As Yip Harburg told Terkel: In the song the man Is really saying: I made an investment in this country. Where the hell are my dividends? .. . It's more than just a bit of pathos. It doesn't reduce him to a beggar. It makes him a dignified human, asking questions-and a bit outraged, too, as he should be. The anger of the veteran of the First World War, now without work, his family hungry, led to the march of the Bonus Army to Washington in the spring and summer of 1932. War veterans, holding government bonus certificates which were due years in the future, demanded that Congress pay off on them now, when the money was desperately needed. And so they began to move to Washington from all over the country, with wives and children or alone. They came in broken-down old autos, stealing rides on freight trains, or hitchhiking. They were miners from West Virginia, sheet metal workers from Columbus, Georgia, and unemployed Polish veterans from Chicago. One family- husband, wife, three-year-old boy-spent three months on freight trains coming from California. Chief Running Wolf, a jobless Mescalero Indian from New Mexico, showed up in full Indian dress, with bow and arrow. More than twenty thousand came. Most camped across the Potomac River from the Capitol on Anacostia Flats where, as John Dos Passos wrote, "the men are sleeping in little lean-tos built out of old newspapers, cardboard boxes, packing crates, bits of tin or tarpaper roofing, every kind of cockeyed makeshift shelter from the rain scraped together out of the city dump." The bill to pay off on the bonus passed the House, but was defeated in the Senate, and some veterans, discouraged, left. Most stayed-some encamped in government buildings near the Capitol, the rest on Anacostia Flats, and President Hoover ordered the army to evict them.
Four troops of cavalry, four companies of infantry, a machine gun squadron, and six tanks assembled near the White House. General Douglas MacArthur was in charge of the operation, Major Dwight Eisenhower his aide. George S. Patton was one of the officers. MacArthur led his troops down Pennsylvania Avenue, used tear gas to clear veterans out of the old buildings, and set the buildings on fire. Then the army moved across the bridge to Anacostia. Thousands of veterans, wives, children, began to run as the tear gas spread. The soldiers set fire to some of the huts, and soon the whole encampment was ablaze. When it was all over, two veterans had been shot to death, an eleven-week-old baby had died, an eight-year-old boy was partially blinded by gas, two police had fractured skulls, and a thousand veterans were injured by gas.
Accountability
One could complain about Obama not putting CEO compensation limits in his new stimulus bill. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/31/obama-ceos-must-stop-drai_n_162780.html As my dad always said, talk is cheap. Now don't get me wrong, I love Barack, however, why is this simple requirement not in the bill? We are giving vastly more money in the bailout, than we could purchase the companies for outright, and then we could fire all of the CEO's and board members. As Walter said to The Dude during the ransom drop, "Are you fucking this up, Dude?" Seems like our "representatives" continue to do just that. We should have the First Nationalized Bank of America, and cut out the damned middlemen. Why must these banks be in business anyway? To steal our money through the bailout, and lend it back to us at interest? The nationalized bank could hire all the tellers and mid level managers, and fire all of the geniuses that got us to this point in the first place, and renegotiate the onerous mortgages that we are going to pay for anyway, at the .25% prime rate. Maybe we could loan money out at 1% so the nationalized bank can make enough to pay the taxpayers back over time. The new bank would be chartered to actually lend money to small businesses, etc., instead of lining the pockets of the top people, while families get evicted from their homes. I don't know why this concept is so hard for our "representatives" to grasp, unless it is the fact that a truly national bank would not give them piles of money stolen from the very people they are supposed to represent, in the form of bribes, I mean campaign contributions.
One Hell of a Piano Player
http://www.ktvu.com/news/18608582/detail.html
This kid will be one hell of a piano player, and can give the "High sixes" when he wins. What was the Lord thinking when he made him that way?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sinner.
The Rev. "ministering" to the young evangelical. By "ministering", I mean stretching his a-hole out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/24/ted-haggard-new-gay-sex-a_n_160619.html
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Burden of the Rich
It is such a bummer to be filthy rich, and have the rabble constantly trying to grab your stuff. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/23/burglary.hillside/index.html Maybe they can do what the robber-barons if Mexico and South America do - cement jagged glass from broken bottles in the concrete in the top of the walls surrounding their mansions. Then, when some poor starving child tries to scale the wall to "steal" something to eat, they will have their hands shredded by the broken glass.
Tao Te Ching
by LAO TSU
Nine
Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
HILL-A-RY! HILL-A-RY! HILL-A-RY!
It is a shame that my recently re-elected douche-nozzle retard Senator, John Cornyn, robbed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of being sworn in with the bulk of the other new cabinet officials today. I hope Barack will make a big deal of swearing her in by herself tomorrow, and give her the attention she deserves. Now this bung-hole Cornyn is delaying Attorney General Holder's confirmation over weather Holder will prosecute the lawbreakers who tortured in our names. He will actually vote against Holder if he admits that he just might uphold the law. This from an enthusiastic supporter of Alberto Gonzales. Behold the Republican party distilled to it's very essence. I am surrounded by stupid assholes here in Texas - I'm talking about the one's who just re-elected this chugg-nut to the senate.
Nose Frozen Off
http://www.kptv.com/news/18531224/detail.html also, see previous posting here: http://thepositionpaper.blogspot.com/2009/01/nose-frozen-off.html
I Loved It !
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
A New Day
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Show Must Go On
Thinning the herd http://www.komonews.com/news/37765479.html Never even stopped the show. Gotta love that capitalist spirit!
A Paucity of Poopers?
Are there going to be enough places to "fire one out" http://www.poopnames.com/ at the inauguration? http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=8261580&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 Attending this event will be like going to Times Square for New Year's Eve - standing around in the freezing cold, ass to elbow with the great unwashed to "witness" an event you are to far away to actually see, or like going to the Tour de France - sit in the hot sun for three hours to see a bunch of homoerotic, shaved guys in tight shorts pedal furiously by you in 12 seconds flat. As the inspector in the Monty Python chocolate sketch said: "Well where's the pleasure in that? If people pop a nice chocy in their mouth, they don't expect to get both cheeks pierced!"
Is it me, or you glad Bush is gone? Sort of waking up and the fever has broken, a psychic fart being disbursed by the window of progressivism being opened, and the curtains are waving in the breeze.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Lookin' Out for the Kids.
Our "allies" the Saudis are still lookin' out for the kids
"A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her."
Don't forget, 16 of the 19 hijackers on 9-11 were from Saudi Arabia, and George H.W. Bush was having breakfast with Osama Bin Laden's father the morning the planes flew into those buildings.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A Giant Screw-Job
This from former Clinton economist Robert Reich, perhaps the smartest guy in the country when it comes to things like this. Why Obama has not brought him onto the fold is curious.
But the easier and probably more correct argument is that American taxpayers wasted $350 billion. No one knows exactly where it went -- at least two recent reports reveal that the Treasury had no idea -- but we do know the money did not go to small businesses, struggling homeowners, students, or anyone else needing credit, which was the major public justification for the bailout. In all likelihood, on the basis of the skimpy evidence we now have, the money went instead to bank shareholders in the form of dividends; to bank executives, traders, and directors as compensation (directors of major Wall Street banks continued to pull down an average of $350K each in 2008 merely for sitting in on a handful of board meetings at which they obviously didn't oversee very much); to some holders of bank debt; and to platoons of lawyers, accountants, and other financiers who have advised the banks about other places to park the rest of the money in the meantime.
His solution is what the morons in congress should have done in the first place. The incredible thing is that they were still arguing about the merits of the original "non-plan", before punting the entire thing to the O team today. These "Representatives" are collectively dumber than a stump.
Also, proof http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28583580/ that banks would rather see homes foreclosed on, and taxpayer money given to the banks to cover the entire mortgage, than attempt to work with distressed borrowers, many victims of predatory lending practices, so they can stay in their homes because, gosh darn it, they want to keep home loan prices low for their beloved future customers, gosh darn it. Why, with the prime treasury rate at 0.25% would it be hard to offer great loan rates, and also re-finance the onerous mortgages of existing customers? Huh? Why?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Pigg Wiggly Cart Killer
Back in the day, which was a Tuesday, by the way, a friend, whom I will refer to as B, had an affinity for the Piggly Wiggly supermarket parking lot in my home town of Sioux City, Iowa. It was good for all manner of fun activities. The first being the turning of doughnuts in his parents car. The lot was ideal for this activity, as it was very large, had a slightly domed shape, combined with a sloping grade that ended on the bottom side with a surprisingly robust, almost highway grade guard rail along it. As I recall, I had not received my driver license yet, so I must have been 15 years old. Mind you, this is when the drinking age was 18, so we would have gone to the 7-11 and purchased a 12-pak of Miller Genuine Draft (before the advent of girly "lite" beer) and a couple of packs of Marlboro Reds for our driving around, aimlessly burning sixty-cent-a-gallon gasoline. Ah, the good old days. a nice dusting of snow had made the lot a lovely skating rink for the '76 white Malibu Classic with maroon interior. We would flip the air breather cover on the engine for better horse power, and a more funner sound. The technique consisted of running up to about 20 mph, and jerking the wheel all the way around, and hitting the gas, thus spinning the rear tires. This action would throw the car into a spin, and the slope, together with the spinning rear tires would allow the car to spin tight 360 degree circles, almost indefinitely. I am sure we could spin 20-30 time before we ran out of lot, or barfed. It was surprisingly fun, and one had to just not spill one's beer, or drop one's cigarette in one's lap, or slam into one of the sparsely placed light poles.
http://www.strayshoppingcart.com/shopping_cart/1_introduction.htm
The real joy that sticks in my mind though, has to do with B developing an activity that to this day I find brilliant, and am indebted to him for "inventing" After all that spinning became routine, B slowly inched up to an "old skool", heavy-duty metal wire shopping cart, not that cheap plastic crap they have these days, and began pushing it in front of the car. This was delicate, since the cart wanted to move side to side, so it took great skill to keep the cart centered as we picked up speed through the lot, on a perpendicular attitude toward the heavy duty guard rail. The rail was about 3 feet tall at the end of the lot, and a street ran about 4-5 feet below, along the other side of the railing. Once we hit around 35 mph, B would slam on the brakes, and the cart would shoot toward the rail, wobbling away, and hit it with such force as to launch it 10-15 feet into the air, and a-tumbling away, to then skitter into the street below, sparks shooting through the cold night air. One had to not get an Icarus-esque enthrallment with this activity though, as sooner or later, unwanted attention would be drawn to one's self. So, two or three cart flips, and it was back to the house to finish the beer, and jam on some Molly Hatchet, "Flirtin' With Disaster", baby! :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhtRxqSrys&feature=related
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Wedded Bliss
Monday, January 12, 2009
Very Interesting
Why is this legal? Because financial firms have historically the largest donors of campaign money to our "representatives" in congress, not he oil companies, not the insurance companies. Witness the consumer bankruptcy bill passed several years ago. Strange, the bankrupt "corporations" have not been forced into draconian pay-back schemes like the average person under the revised laws.
Ann Coulter is Right!
Ann may be right - if Sara's unwed, high school drop-out daughter raises her little bastard to be a republican, he will , by default, be a criminal, or at least part of the republican criminal enterprise. A frame in an old Mat Groening "life in Hell" cartoon, has Binky asking his dad hard questions, one of which is "If you vote republican, does it make you an accomplice to their crimes?" I think it does.
(Another one: "How can God sleep when people are starving?")
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