First with Flair

KFC anyone?

2009-11-30T16:12:00.001-08:00

Yep, that's right, I am in Louisville again. Here for the annual RVIA show. It's been real telling so far. The show is only at about 50%. I guess that's our Hope and Change!! Change from a thriving sector of the economy to merely a shell of itself. There are literally about half of the RV manufactures that have gone out of business, and some still failing today! Between Bush's failed banking policies to Obama's total disregard for restraint on spending they have both together just about killed this industry!

Oh well, at least we are still growing our company, just not very fast. We will just have to do what we can and make it work, right? I will be busy the next 3 days and then travel home so I probably won't get a whole bunch put on here this week. But I will see ya next week!

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-25T15:46:00.002-08:00

This country, much to the chagrin of those that would like you to believe otherwise, was founded on Godly, Biblical priciples. This Thanksgiving proclamation by President Lincoln cementing the holiday we celebrate today shows without a shadow of doubt what our forefathers and our countrymen and women visioned for this great country to be. God bless America, and lets be thankful to our God for the blessings He has bestowed upon this great land!

Here is the Thanksgiving Proclamation by President Lincoln, enjoy!

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
Secretary of State

What 2 posts in one day

2009-11-19T21:00:00.002-08:00

You've got to be kidding me! Ha! I just had to post this video. Just for you Mom!! Love ya!

Great Interview

2009-11-19T11:02:00.002-08:00

Just saw the interview Sarah gave on Sean Hannity. Hit it out of the park in my opinion. I love the real "straight talk" that comes out of her mouth! Not this stuff that McCain spouts! Loser that he is! Why can't we find more people like this to help run this country. Anyways, if you get the chance go check it out.

Btw, in the interview, Hannity said that it may look like the guy from NY that she endorsed may still win that race, has anyone else heard that. I thought the race was over, I haven't been able to look it up, too busy here at work.

Newsweek....

2009-11-18T17:35:00.002-08:00

something to wipe your hiney with!

What a piece of trash magazine! I just don't see how people keep buying drivel like this magazine. I am sure you have all seen, or heard about the Newsweek cover this week. Here it is:

There are so many things wrong with this. I just can't believe they would let their hatred of someone take over and allow themselves to do this. I mean are you a journalists or a hack? It looks like a National Equire article. I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't have in there that she came from aliens, or was born with 2 heads? Although with them being Conservative is like being an alien! What a bunch of losers!

If they had put a picture like this of say... Hillary *full body shiver* People would be coming unglued! How sexist! NOW would be having a kitten fit!

And what's with the whole derogatory, "How to solve a problem like Sarah?" Can you get anymore condesending? I mean why not just say, "Sarah=Hitler" I mean that's what they want to say isn't it? Pathetic really!

Whoo Hooo

2009-11-17T09:27:00.003-08:00

And that my friends is how it is done!!! Back one week and already won my first caption contest!! Check it out! RT eat your heart out!! Bwahahaahahaahahaa!!

I just don't get some people

2009-11-12T13:10:00.002-08:00

I just got done with an argument with some idiot on facebook. Why do I get sucked into these things? Wait, I know why, one of my friends on facebook is a Marine. He had a quote, actually it was 4 quotes smashed into one. Here it is:

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space/Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all/Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow/Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny"

It is actually 4 quotes in one. the first is just a motivation quote by Anonymous. The second is from Helen Keller. The third one is attributed to James Dean, and the last one is attributed to some guy named Kamran Hasid.

anyways, this hippy, that we both know decided to post it on his page, and comment that he liked it. Out comes the moron and says, "I don't see how killing innocent people can be justification for living on the edge." How in the world do you get from making comments about living your life to the fullest to killing innocent people. what a Tard! I know what she did, she assumed because he was in the military, he is a bad person. What a loser!

After I called her on it, all she had was a backhanded insult about me being not human enough. Some people ought to just go away!

Happy Veterans Day

2009-11-11T09:31:00.001-08:00

No we salute you!! Many thanks and prayers go out to our Veterans!!

What? What's this? A new post?

2009-11-10T14:07:00.003-08:00

Is there even anyone out there, there, there..... *crickets*

Oh well, maybe I can get this thing back started up to a few posts a week again. I mean come on, if I can't find anything to talk or rant about now then whats the use? So here goes.

First, Happy Veterans day to all those that have served this wonderful country!! From the very beginning of this great nation, it has been those Men and Women who go to the battle lines to keep us safe, that should be recognized for their service. Not the politicians who serve their self interests who should be lauded, but those Men and Women that served. Our politicians today are mostly not honorable men and women, the fight tooth and nail to erode our values, liberty and freedoms every single day. I wonder how many of those in congress are financially secure. They elite in this country are making decisions for those of us that are working our tails off just to keep all the balls in the air at one time. Serving this country in the House or the Senate was not meant to be a lifelong career. It was meant for people, that still were in touch with the common man, to be the ones in those seats. Now more than ever, we need to have some kind of term limits on these idiots.

Second, my heart and prayers go out to those that have lost their loved ones at Ft Hood. We pray for their comfort. Never again should political correctness get in the way of finding out just who and what a person stands for. If you show tendencies toward associating with known haters of America then you ought not hold positions like this man did. It's not right. No excuses for this man, he did wrong just as much as Timothy McVeigh did wrong. Same sentence! And I'm sorry if this offends those of you coming over from facebook, but as a society and nation, there have to be consequences for this kind of behavior.

Third on the list is, I'm still a fat slob, no wait I take that back, I'm just fat, I've never been a slob! So it's on to getting my fatness to go away. I will keep trying, I'm tired of shopping at the big and tall sections because I'm fat, I just want to shop there because I'm tall. I will always be big that is just how it is. I think my skeleton alone weighs more than The Detective, and let me tell you, that's saying something right there! HA!

Fourth, I miss people like Ronaldus Magnus, Lady Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Theodore "T-Rex" Roosevelt. Where have all the good ones gone! Do we not have someone that will speak the truth and not be ashamed. We need leaders, real leaders, not some pantywaist lawyer who wants to understand the psycho who shoots innocent people, or flies planes into buildings, or even blows himself up on a crowded street filled with people of his own religion. We need those that will stand for this great country, and not be ashamed! We were attacked, we did not provoke it. If you hit the USA be prepared to be hit back. My momma taught me long ago, you play with fire your gonna get burnt! These ought to be the words of our President, our Secretary of State, not appeasement. Ask Europe how well appeasement went in the early '40's!

I think I'm addicted to facebook!

2009-05-24T21:17:00.002-07:00

Man, I need to post more often on here!! I saw that the last 6 posts go back to Dec 12th! That is just not right! So I am going to try and get back on the track with some posting! After all I have lots to say about this President of ours, but the first post back is going to be about ME!!

We have lost a good person in our church to a heart attack, he was not that old either! My father's family has had heart problems and so I have to get my act together and get this weight off!! So starting Tuesday, if you think I ought to start on Monday your out of your mind, my brother-in-law is smoking ribs, and sausage. So one last pig out and then it is off to diet farm!! I am going to try and get it right this time!!

I am also going to post my progress on my facebook page, you know, try and get as much accountability as I can. So go ahead and encourage, berate, whatever you think I need to get this thing going!!

I have weighed and I am 375, so I need to lose about 140 lbs. so here goes!

Man. I thought

2009-03-11T15:06:00.004-07:00

if I posted more I would get more traffic. I guess when you have been hit and miss as much as I have there isn't much you can hope for. Maybe this will do the trick. h/t Joe Cool

Here is how I view our new Presidents ability to manage the economy:

You oughta

2009-03-09T11:19:00.002-07:00

think about joining this group! Tea Party No Wyatt, you can't where your dress and white gloves! I am going to try and be at the one here in Portland, Oregon or the one in Seattle Washington. For one thing it would be a blast, and a fun way to show our politicians that we aren't going to take it! No more taxes!!!! So check this out!

I know, I know

2009-02-24T15:47:00.003-08:00

it's been awhile, right?! Well, I have been busy keeping my proverbial (RT, how about that 5 dollar word) head above water here at work. It has been really slow in the sales dept. but busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest here on the service side of things! Anyways, my Bro-in-law sent me an e-mail, that at first looks funny but then I start to reflect (Julie, that means to think about) on it and found that it was sad really. I could see the dems and our retarded President ( and I say that with all due respect, snort) would try and ram this down our throats too! So without further ado, and a h/t to Andy here it is:

Washington, DC - President Barack Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.

'Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,' said California Senator Barbara Boxer. 'We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.'

In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S employer of Persons of Inability.

Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).

Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million 'middle man' positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.

Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, 'Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?'

'As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint , Michigan, due to her inability to remember 'rightey tightey, lefty loosey.' 'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added.

With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): 'As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.

nice huh?!

You've got to be kidding me!!

2009-01-13T22:01:00.003-08:00

Okay, I haven't even looked yet to see if any of my brother and sister bloggers have even posted anything about this but I have just about had enough and Jan.20th hasn't even come yet!

Where do we draw the line between being excited about history to be made, and turning the office of the Presidency into a circus. I don't know, maybe I am overreacting here, but for Topps to make trading cards out of this is just going to far in my opinion.

I mean where is it going to stop. Is Parker Bros. going to get into the mix now. Maybe, Mobamanopoly. Instead of free parking you get your car payment paid for you. But, the luxury tax is more like 40% not 10! Or maybe, they could change the suspects in the Clue game. Lets see, It was Whitey, in the factory, with layoffs! Or maybe we could change the game Guess who? to Guess who needs a bailout! Or how about Sorry, it would be Sorry, we need your money to give to people who don't work!

I just don't see how this guy is going to make it work. It sure feels like we are getting off on the wrong foot here!!!

And that's how I see it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

2008-12-24T23:11:00.003-08:00

Merry Christmas everyone! With all the commercialization of this Christmas holiday, sometimes we lose sight of what Christmas is all about. Remember that Christ is the reason! His birth, coming down from Heaven to be with man. What a gift!!

Weeeell it has been busy...

2008-12-23T20:52:00.005-08:00

Yeah, yeah I know it's been a couple of weeks since I last posted. With work and the weather, I have just been too busy. Also I haven't been to good on the diet thing. I think I have gone back up a couple of times. I will be back on the horse come the new year though. And I will be trying as much as possible the rest of this week and next. One thing I would like to share with everyone is this:

He is just the best looking beagle I have ever seen. His name is Reagan, and he loves to eat hippies!! HA! We had to give him to the kids early since this was all over the ground with more to come tomorrow:

We have a total of 14 inches. Now I know that is a pittance compared to some of you who live in the northeast. But, they just are not set up out here to deal with this kind of snow fall. Our streets still have not been plowed or sanded. first we got a about 10 inches, then an inch of ice, then 4 inches of new snow. It is truly amazing. I guess we are going to get another 2 to 5 inches. Calgon take me away to... Cancun

Whoo Hoo

2008-12-12T16:23:00.001-08:00

Last week I gained a couple of pounds, up to 373. Well , yesterday morning I weighed in at 371 so I thought I had lost the 2 I had gained. But I just weight a little bit ago, and I just ate lunch a couple of hours ago, and weighed in at 369! So I am going to take the 369 and say I lost 4lbs this week! Yeeee Haaaa!!

Not bad

2008-12-08T15:43:00.002-08:00

if I say so myself. I was in Louisville Ky. all week. We left on Saturday after Thanksgiving and got home last Friday. Now, this show usually packs the pounds on me. There just isn't enough physical labor to burn off all the great food there. There are just great restaurants that have great food. Famous Dave's BBQ, Smokey Bones BBQ, Longhorn Roadhouse, you get the picture! I just can't seem to say no to these places. Anyways, even with all that, I only gained 2 pounds this week. Which I will take.

This week it is back to the grindstone! Water all day, one can of pop at lunch and dinner, Tuna and turkey sandwiches for lunch! Oatmeal and turkey sausage for breakfast. This food I can eat. I actually like what I am eating. sometimes when you try and lose weight we eat stuff we just don't like. And I get burned out quick on salads all week. So this is awesome.

To all of us that are trying to lose weight. KEEP IT UP, and DON'T GIVE UP!! When I look back and see all the times that I started and quit, it reminds me, if I had just kept up and didn't quit I would be thin now and much more healthy! Lets do this!!

Enquiring minds

2008-12-04T19:38:00.002-08:00

want to know! What was going on 9 months ago? Was it a really cold month then? Were the moons aligned just right? Or maybe my friends are just too.... how should I put this delicately? Fertile? randy? really, really, really LOVE their wives?

Wyatt, Jump out, and my brother Pinhead have all had children within a couple of weeks of each other. I got children popping up all around here man!!!

Congratulations to you all! I know Pinhead the best obviously since he is my brother, but I know Wyatt pretty good and have got to know Jump Out pretty good too. And I know that they will all be great fathers.

I love Mothers and all that they do for their families. All the sacrifices of their lives, the 3 am feedings, labor! But they can't do it alone. A great Father is hard to find these days. Especially for our daughters.

Wyatt, Jump Out, Pinhead, their wives, Well done you all! well done!!

Doesn't it seem

2008-12-01T19:54:00.003-08:00

That every time our President-elect talks or one of his minions talks that the market takes a dump! I don't have any positive proof, so if I was like the lefties I would just say it was so and make every one believe me. You know, you say it over and over enough times then it has to be true! That kind of sounds like the definition of insanity doesn't it.

Okay, let me set this up. I work in the RV industry. The company that I work for sells heating systems that heat the coach and gives continuous hot water to the customer. Needles to say, out product is not cheap. We usually sell a system retail for about $7000. To an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture) , these are the guys that build the motorhomes, we sell somewhere around $3500. This puts us in motorhomes that cost over $250,000. So we are in the high end market of the industry. If the industry has a down turn like what is going on right now, usually we don't see too much of a hit. But ever since our beloved leader-elect started spouting off that he was going to start taxing people making over $150,000 a year, we started to see a complete collapse of the RV market. I am not saying that he is completely to blame, a lot of the problem is that banks have pulled out of the lending business in the industry. We have manufactures that were stable a year ago, closing their doors today. Nobody is selling right now. The banks are the problem for the average coach. Like I said, the lower end of the market doesn't usually bother us. But where we get hit, is when wealthy people think they are going to have to come up with extra money to pay taxes. The first thing that goes out the window are luxury purchases. These are the very people that drive our side of the market, and by saying he is going to tax them, takes money out of my pocket!

I would rather get an order from a manufacture for a year or two years worth of furnaces, than to get a one time check from the government. When we look back at policies that the government had put into place we get a clear picture of those that work and those that don't. Raising taxes never provides what those that raise taxes thinks it will do. During Reagan's terms he lowered taxes and created over 20 million jobs. Increase even in the coffers of the government. Create more taxpayers is the way to get more taxes, you don't tax the ones you have into oblivion.

I am currently here in Louisville, KY at our annual Industry show. There just isn't much on the horizon that looks good. I may have to find something else to do. And I do not want to do that. I love what I do, but sometimes you just got to adjust! So we will see.

It's about time!!

2008-11-29T17:44:00.004-08:00

And I'm not talking about posting. Although it has been long overdue for a post or two! HA! No, what I am talking about is losing this weight! It has been too long living with this weight. It has steadily grown to where I can't believe that I am this heavy. I know this will sound kind of sappy, but this is the way I feel. When you become a father, your perception of life changes. You realize that your not here to satisfy all of your selfish desires, but you realize that you have some responsibilities in life. The funny thing is they don't even feel like responsibilities like in a job. When you look into your childrens eyes and see that complete trust. They come to you and know that whatever the problem you will make it right. I think the biggest gift you can give to your children is a home that is a safe haven. And what I mean by that is, they know that no matter what happens outside the home, grief at school, losing friends, whatever that rocks their world. If they know that as long as they can make it through those door everything is going to be okay then you have done your job. The other big thing I believe you should give your child is to be healthy enough to live long enough to be there for them all through their lives. Now I know unexpected things get us in life. Disease, tragic events and such are all out of our control. But overweightness (is that even a word.. RT?) is not our of our control. We choose what to put into our mouths. And have I put the food away!!! My weight is in direct perportion to my weak self will. I know that my weakness is self control. Now I don't mean that I just gorge myself everytime I eat, in fact, it is quite the opposite. Unless it is taco's made the way my Mom makes them. Then all bets are off. It was just what I ate, and when. I used to love, well I still do, I just can't do it anymore, but I love to have some peanut butter toast right before I go to bed. Way too much fat right before you go to bed. I also have a love affair with cheeseburgers. Especially In & Out Burgers from California. I could eat those till I am sick!!

Hey Wyatt, look a new paragraph! HA! One of the things that opened my eyes was the death of Kevin Duckworth. He was the center of the Portland Trailblazers of the NBA. He played a few years ago, and was only 44 yrs old. But he did weight 400 some odd pounds. And you just can't put that kind of strain on your heart. Well, I was approaching 400 lbs ( I can't believe I just wrote that!!) and I am approaching 40yrs old.

Growing up, I was very active in athletics. If I wasn't playing baseball, I was playing basketball, if I wasn't playing basketball, I was playing softball. And I was skinny!! Anyone, who isn't being snarky, that knew me back then, will tell you, I was thin! I didn't start filling out till after I got married. I was 6'4" and only 190 lbs when I got married.

When I decided to try again to lose weight. I weighed in at 385 lbs. That was the first week of November. I now weigh 371!! That is a difference of 14 lbs! That is awesome. All I am doing right now is not drinking pop during the day, no cheeseburgers for lunch, I eat tuna for lunch or a turkey or ham sandwich, I drink all kinds of water during the day. I allow myself one 12 oz pop can at lunch and at dinner. I used to drink a two liter a day, at least. And this is regular pop, not diet. Dinner is usually something Elina has made but just small portions. I also eat oatmeal and low fat turkey sausage for breakfast. I used to get a sausage McMuffin or a Loaded Breakfast Burrito from Carls Jr, that's Hardees for you here in the south. And I haven't even started excersizing with this diet yet. I am really excited to start seeing the weight come off. Thanks to everyone for encouragement and all. Also sorry for the long post, it's been awhile!! HA!

Conservative voice lost

2008-07-12T07:58:00.003-07:00

1955-2008

I'm sure you have heard already, but Tony Snow has passed away at the YOUNG age of 53. He lost his battle with cancer. It truly is a sad day in the conservative movement. I believe he left behind a wife and 3 children. Every time I caught his radio program, he spoke of the values that I believe in. Contrary to what the wacked out left wants everyone to believe, he was not a shill for President Bush. I heard him criticize President Bush when he deserved it. And praised the President when he deserved it.

I wonder if he will get the same love fest that Tim Russert got. He was just as influential as Tim. He was just as fair. But I seriously doubt it. No he will get ripped and slammed on sites like moveon, and others. Regardless that the man just died.

God rest his soul.

Sooo little time.....

2008-07-07T17:21:00.002-07:00

to do what I like doing. Like posting on this blog. My readership has dropped from family and a few blogging friends, down to just one or two friends. Even my family doesn't come around any more. Of course, I can't blame them, with a post a month, who can keep readers right?! Oh well, what can ya do?

So I thought I would let ya know where I have been. I think pretty much around the world. After this trip that I am currently on, I will have been out of the office for a month. I was in Illinois two weeks ago, and then I was in the western part of Pennsylvania, by Pittsburg. By the way, that is a beautiful part of this country. If you get the change see that country. I found some great building built not more that 20 yrs after our Country was bourn. That's right, I saw this brick building, I think it was a tavern at one time, that was built in 1796! Amazing. Cool stuff.

This week and next I will be in Minneapolis for a big show and pre rallys. My wife and children fly out to Missouri, tomorrow. And they will be there for about 6 weeks. So I got to see them for a couple of days between trips and won't see them again for another 6 weeks. That sucks! I already miss them.

Well , I hope you all have a great week.

Elections

2008-06-26T14:23:00.002-07:00

todays decision by the supreme court helped me realize that even though we are all pretty much disgusted with the way politics are today. And with the way the Republican party has seem to leave the right and slide over, no actually, take a giant leap to the left. It helped me realize, I said that already, that not voting because of any reason is wrong. It doesn't matter that McCain is not my first or even 3rd choice for president. You can't try and punish the party by not voting at all. If either one of those last two elections for president had gone to a democrat, there would be a different make up on the supreme court and I think today would have been a sad, sad day for gun owners. People, our rights are flying our of our hands now. We have to close the fist, so to speak. I plead with you to go vote, and vote conservative. Our lives depend on it!

Now, this is funny!!!

2008-06-09T12:41:00.001-07:00

My sister-in-law sent this to me. This is too funny!!

Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws in Berkley, and while there, she went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries.

Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head.

One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes were now open, and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she'd been shot in the back of the head, and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head. When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head.

A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly recovered and tried to hold her brains in for over an hour until someone noticed and came to her aid.

Linda is a blonde and a Democrat who is going to vote for Obama, but I'm certain that's irrelevant.

Hey, lookie there a new post

2008-05-20T14:37:00.011-07:00

Yes, that's right a new post. This past week I had to go and recall a rogue furnace. So on Thursday night I loaded up the wife and kids and headed to Canada! eh. Let me tell you though, it may look alot like the States, but you start talking to the people and buying their crappy groceries and you find right away that you aren't in Kansas any more toto! What a bunch of cheap people. Of course, now I know why. The cost of food in Canada is astronomical. I would say it is half again the cost of the same product here. And gas is just crazy. 134.9 a liter. which comes out to 5.12 a gallon. Of course, we aren't to far there. The coolest thing of this trip was I got to take my wife and children and we stopped at the Grand Coulee Dam. Man, is that thing big! We got to take a tour inside the 3rd power plant. Which was started in 1967 and finished in 1980. It has 6 generators and puts out more energy than the Hoover dam. Here are some pics.

This is the back side of Power Plant 3. it has 6 turbine generators. The water is low right now.

If you look on the right, you can see the black mark going horizontally across the rock. That is the normal water level for the resevoir. The reason that the water was down so far is not because of a drought, but quite the opposite. We haved had so much snow that they have to lower the resevoir down that far to accomodate the Snow melt run off. The resevoir is rising at 3 ft a day! That is alot of water!

Here we are at the top of the dam, getting ready to take a ride down in the vertical elevator. It is a big elevator that holds 28 people with a big glass front for you to look out as you go down and up.

This is the view looking back up out of the little hole at the bottom of the dam. Looking back up to where we came from. Pretty cool!

Here we are in the bowels of the dam. This is a picture of the top of 3 of the turbines. The floor was so clean. It looked like they polished the floors!

This was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. That shaft was spinning so fast. It is the stainless shaft of the turbine. Kinda loud in there too. It was huge, looked like something out of a science fiction movie!

Here is the original Dam that was built during the depression and finished after WWII. In the foreground is the 2nd power plant, and the #1 power plant is on the far side there. With the Spillway in the middle. During the summer from Memorial day to Labor day they put a laser show on the face of the dam and spillway. When the water is coming over the spillway the laser show is awesome. There is enough concrete in the whole dam to make a 4 foot wide side walk around the world almost twice!!

Here we are walking back to our cars. This is on top of the part of the dam that has the 3rd plant in it. The crane is used to pick up the grates that go in front of the pick ups for the turbines. They pick them up with that crane and then sand blast them over by the edge there near the crane! Pretty big grates to need a crane that big! Wow! It was so much fun to go through this Dam. Amazing American Inginuity!

Funny Friday!!

2008-05-02T09:36:00.002-07:00

In celebration of the idiotic trantrums thrown by mexicans yesterday and for Cinco De Mayo I give you this joke:

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States .
He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, 'Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this country , giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and free education!'
The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Mexican.'
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. ' Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America !'
The person says, 'I not American, I Vietnamese.'
The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful America!'
That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East , I am not American!'
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you an American?'
She says , 'No, I am from Africa !'
Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Americans?'

The African lady checks her watch and says...'Probably at work!'

This would really be funny if it wasn't so true!!

Well, I never said

2008-03-24T10:01:00.002-07:00

that is was going to be pretty! I know my weigh day is late but, I was not even near a computer all weekend. So here goes. I weighed in at a svelte 360. Man did I put on the weight!

I am sure everyone has seen the show "The Biggest Loser". I had seen the show a couple of times and noticed that some of these guys were dropping like 8 to 10 pounds a week. Now I know that not everyone is going to get those kind of results. Besides the fact that all they have to do is work out all day and eat right. Not like keeping a job and all the other things that make us lose focus. But with that in mind I decided to buy the Biggest Loser book. It has weight training schedules and a weeks worth of sample recipies. Also on 3 different levels. 1200 calories to 1800 calories per day.

So this week I am working on getting a plan together and working with my wife to get a menu together. Then I will implement that plan next monday. But as for this week, I am just going to try and eat well, and cut out most of my pop drinking. I will also get to the gym at least three times this week.

So look out Detective, I have a plan now, and I am not afraid to use it!

Filed under, "Our Country is going down the tubes!"

2008-03-19T15:56:00.003-07:00

I recieved this article from my brother, everyone here knows him as JoeCool. I don't know it's origin, but at the end there is a link to Snopes.com to verify it's truthfullness. This is not an urban legend. I wonder how much money would be saved from every hospital, if we got rid of the ILLEGAL immigration problem we have.

How it is done in "BIG D" TEXAS Parkland Memorial Hospital

Parkland is home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day---every day) A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.

The average patient in Parkland 's maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. ' Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics'. That's right !!!! NINE.

The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)

'How long has this been going on?

What are the long-term affects?

Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a US citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. Most of these things are available to American citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape involved is almost insurmountable. Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.

Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.)There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U. S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?

As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her. In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multi-cultural) requirement.

Remember that this is only ONE hospital is Dallas , Texas . There are many more hospitals across our country that also have to deal with this.

Here is the link: The reason my roads are so bad!

Mid life hoopla

2008-03-17T12:03:00.002-07:00

Okay, I know, I know I haven't been around much lately. I havne't even visted my peeps from the sidebar! I tell you, I have just not been motivated to do anything on the internet, let alone work on anything on the blog. My family has been sending me some good stuff to put on my blog, I just can't seem to find the time, or whatever, to get it put together on the blog. I haven't even been trying to diet.

I am under alot of pressure with some decisions that I need to make. I think I am what you call a comfort eater. And the trip to SO-Cal was not Lo-Cal! Hamburgers are my downfall. I love them. The best hamburger place that I have ever come across is in Southern California. And I have tried everyones! In-N-Out burgers are the best. When I flew down to Arizona first before I flew to California. I had eaten there 4 times in 3 days. Then I get to California and there is this place called The Hat ! OH. MY. GOODNESS!!!! If you like pastrami or just good grub, you have to eat here if you are going to be in southern California. The Clilli Cheese Fries are a meal in themselves. There is about 3/4 pound of Pastrami per sandwich! Awesome! I ate here to many times too.

So without all the gory details I have not done very well here! I am not even going to go into the incedent with Timmy's hand, But lets just say, you don't try and steal one of Sasquatches chilli fries!!!

And please don't worry too much about these decisions I need to make. Pretty much just mid life crisis crapola! Just alot of stuff on my mind! Who am I kidding?!! Anyone of us has alot on our minds. Especially if your interested in the future of this country!! Right?!! So with that, I will just have to pick myself up off the floor and get up and keep plugging along. Wyatt had a picture of me on his blog here ! I think that is pretty close to what I look like right now! And I feel like FB also. And I believe that I am heavier now than I was when we started. But, starting today, I am going to start again! Cry baby has lost 21lbs so far. Phhhhhbt! I can loose that in 3 weeks! So here goes!

See ya at the scales on Saturday!

Or maybe I will post something by then! HA

Are you kidding me?!!

2008-02-27T20:36:00.002-08:00

20,000 hits!!! WHOOO HOOOO! Can, you believe it?!

Well, how about that. If I hadn't had that little blog vacation I could have made it a little sooner, but hey, who's countin'! Thanks to all who have come here to read this drivel. And that includes even those who don't agree with what I have to say. I appreciate you as well. Now I know I am not nearly as deep as The Professor, or as funny as The Detective , or as uplifting as The Teacher , or as sarcastically funny as The Overlord , or have as many guns as The CUGster , Okay, I am running out of ideas. I know I missed some of you, but I appreciate you all. And thank you so much for coming by!!

If you hear of anyone losing their pants in SoCal, don't worry it wasn't me. I'm not wearing any! Bwhahahahahahahaha!

Weigh day and on the road

2008-02-17T09:17:00.003-08:00

Well, today is Sunday, and I have neither lost weight nor gained it. So I will have to be happy with that. I only got to work out a couple of times this week and slipped a couple of times with what I ate. Thus I just stayed at 350 lbs. Hey, I am happy I didn't gain so that is a good thing.

I will be on the road for 2 weeks now and so I am going to have to really step it up. The good thing is the hotels have excersize rooms so that it good. Also my wife gets to come with me this time! That is totally cool! She can help me stay on course with the eating and working out.

I am sitting in the PDX airport right now waiting for my flight to Pa-honix, Arizona. I will be in Yuma, Lord willing, this evening enjoying that 85 degree weather down there. WHOOO HOOO! Eat your heart out detective! what's it in Philly today, 20, 30 degerees. I'll be thinking of you, for the next two weeks in Arizona and sunny California! looks like 70's in california while I am there. I even broke out the sun glasses! Sweeet!

So I'll yak atcha later gaters! I am working on something to post this week, or a couple of times. I want to try and post more than once a week. Don't want to be called a loser or anything! HA!

Hey, Beavis (JC) and Butthead (Andy) post your weight in the comments and a I will add it to this post!

JC is in at 219

Still Fat!

2008-02-11T11:07:00.000-08:00

I can't beleive it. It has been close to a month and a half and I am not down to my 245lbs. What's the deal?!! I deserve to be skinny! I shouldn't have to work at it!! It should all just magically melt away, without much work on my part, I mean, Come ON! I didn't do much work to put on the weight! Just ate enough food to feed a starving tribe in Africa! Anyways, I am weighing in late this time, Sorry. Couldn't be helped. I weigh 350lbs. So lost a couple I think. Anyways, going to double my efforts at the gym and at the table!

JC is weighing in at 220 today. Jerk!

and Andy is at 242 lbs.

Just so you know,

2008-02-04T16:56:00.001-08:00

Since everyone was nice enough to give me tips on what not to eat while watching the Super Bowl, I will let you know what I did eat while watching the Super Bowl and see if it met with everyone's approval.

Well, I started out with a nice foot long Meat ball and marinara sandwich with double the Mozarella cheese.

then I moved in for the hot wings, oh somewhere around 12 to 15 of those baby's! Man, they were good.

Next, on my plate was a plate of Chili Cheese Nachos. MMMmmm! With extra cheese sauce.

Then I worked my way through a rack of ribs with a Baked Potato Loaded, sour cream, Bacon mmm baaacon, and some cheese to top it off.

then for desert we sent out for Cold Stone and I had a Gotta have it Banana Fudge crunch sundae!

I think I did pretty good don't you?

Nah, I am just kidding, I never watched the Super Bowl!

Well this just stinks!!

2008-02-02T21:54:00.000-08:00

Man, I did not do any good this week. In fact I pretty much just blew the whole week!! I just didn't work at if very hard. I guess I just didn't have any desire to try. Well, I weighed in at 352 lbs this week. That wasn't any good. So I press on with renewed deteermination to loose as much weight as possible. I know that you all are going to encourage me. And I want you to know in advance that I appreciate it. I just have to get it done!!

Andy my brother in law wanted to join in this here little adventure. His weight this week was 243 lbs. When Joe Cool gets me his weight I will post it.

I hope that you all did well and this week will be a success for us all!

Funny Joke

2008-02-01T08:50:00.000-08:00

Philadelphia is the safest city in the nation. No, that isn't the joke I wanted to tell, but it is a joke, or maybe a falsehood. Man, it must be something in the water there. 4 deaths in 16 hrs. Sheesh! Here is the real joke.

Chelsea Clinton got a job as a reporter, and as her first job she was supposed to interview soldiers coming back from Iraq. Oh boy, she thought, here was her big chance.

Here comes her first soldier.

Chelsea, "Hi, I'm Chelsea Clinton from the Daily fish wrapper, while you were in Iraq, were you ever scared?"

Soldier, "Yep, I sure was"

Chelsea, fairly salivating now, "What were scared about? Bombs? Freedom fighters? IED's? What was it?"

Soldier, "There were 3 things I was scared about: 1. Osama, 2. Obama, and number 3. Yo Momma!"

HA HA HA HA I just kill myself! Wheww!

Weigh one day late

2008-01-27T16:55:00.000-08:00

and look what you get. only 1 pound difference from last week. Hey, I was on the road and had no self control this week. Man that stinks! Oh well, keep up the fight, Right?! So here is another week to attack it.

weight 347 lbs.

post from the comments

2008-01-24T20:13:00.000-08:00

I was just going to put this in the comments but thought I would post it instead. Grimjack left a comment about my last post. And I wanted to comment on it.

While thinking about what I wanted to say, part of me wanted to just lamblast everyone and pretty much just quit the whole blogging thing. I didn't just say that so I could get people to try and get me to keep blogging. I don't look for sympathy. Ask my family, they know me better than anyone. I have a hard time giving people sympathy when it is a blatant try at getting sympathy. Anyways, I still don't know if I am going to keep blogging but we will just have to see.

Here were the comments from Grimjack:

"You guys know that was a movie, right? They didn't actually have sex."

I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you don't really think that I am so stupid that I know this wasn't some kind of porno and that it was just acting. So I am not even going to touch that.

"The movie didn't promote homosexuality. It simply told a story. A sad and actually boring one."

You know what, you may be right. I didn't see any commercials that said, "See this movie, two men having sex in a tent, and it is beautiful" I didn't see the movie. Let me be completely clear about my problem with the movie and Hollywood in general is. You can't just simply tell a story. Once, you hear something, whether it be a story or comment, or whatever, you are changed forever. Everything you do or hear or see changes your life in some way or another.

But what did happen, was the media and homosexual society latched onto this movie with all its might and used it for their own agenda. So I have to "cry loud, spare not" when I see people justify their immoral behavior because somebody made a movie about their choice of lifestyle.

"His character will probably kill alot of people, Does that mean "The Dark Knight" promotes murder? Does "Battlestar Galactica" promote humanities destruction by robot"
"I do find it amazing that people are so put off by that movie, and the social harm it can do, while not having a problem with the routine killings in most other movies"

Bud, I find that completely amazing myself. I agree. I will even go a step further than that. I have a problem with people that are put off by something like that movie, yet have no problem with watching TV shows like "Desperate Housewives", or soaps, or watch movies that have things like people cheating on each other, especially, ESPECIALLY, when it portrays it as being okay and the norm. I don't want to see those movies either. I don't think people should watch any of them. It's not healthy for your marriage or your personal life.

"I'm pretty sure god didn't like killing either. Probably more then gay sex."

I agree with you on this one. But, GOD, and please I respectfully ask you, and anybody else out there, when you post a comment here and use His name, don't disrespect it by not capitalizing His name. thanks. Now, where was I, oh yeah, God doesn't like killing either, and He hates it just as bad, He also hates, a proud look, a lying tongue, A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations (that is where I have a problem with hollywood), feet that are quick to mischief, a false witness, and he that soweth discord among each other. Ps 6:16-19

Anyways, there you have it. I hope I haven't offended you or anyone else. that wasn't my purpose. What was my purpose was to respond to your comment more fully than just a little snippet in the comment section. Really, it is my inability to get my thought out in small bite sized comments. It seems I need lots of room for it, kinda like my rear end. I need lots of room.

Here I am in Dallas

2008-01-22T21:08:00.000-08:00

and it is cooold!! It's not supposed to be cold here!! I know it winter time but, I was hoping Texas was getting one of those "warm" weeks that they get every once in awhile during the winter. But, no such luck! Oh well.

Well, I was going to go off on all this coverage of another pampered, over paid, make believe actor, but it just makes me mad. Wait......

you know what, I just changed my mind. I can do that since it is my blog after all. And I can put on here whatever I like. So here goes.

Did anyone know that a US Customs officer was run down by a piece of dirt this weekend? Where was the big coverage of this? Oh wait, he didn't make a bunch of mediocre movies, and get paid WAY too much money, just to entertain people.

Why is there more coverage for this pampered, rich boy living in manhattan but hardly nothing about a man that put his life on the line in the defense of his country! That is just pathetic! Really it is! If we would just stop and put it into perspective. who really did more for their country?

And then there is the whole "brokeback" thing. I'm sorry, but as a Christian (and I make NO APOLOGIES for that) I can't celebrate the life of someone that has put out a movie that glorifies a lifestyle that I don't agree with. As a believer, I have to take the Bible as a whole. Not in part, but in whole. I have been reading the bible for 28 yrs and I have yet to find a passage or even a mention on how homosexuality is okay. I find plenty of passages, and history lessons, about how God says it is wrong. But yet to find where God or Jesus ever made room for something like that.

So excuse if I don't sit here and laud the man for his "achievements". But I do feel sadness for a life that was wasted. And that is how I feel. No wait, that isn't strong enough. I should have said. "That is what I know"

Weigh in this week

2008-01-19T12:17:00.000-08:00

Ok, now this is more like it! Whooo Hooo! Doing back flips people! I jumped on the scale last night after I got done working out. And I didn't have anything to eat since then so I am going to count it! this weeks weight was..... wait for it......

348 lbs!!!!

How about that!! now that is moving! Cool beans! I hope everyone else had as much success, as long as your blogging name doesn't start with W and end in T! HA!! That is like 7 pounds!

I did try alot harder with the eating, and got a chance to work out a couple of times this week. Next week will be a big test. I have to travel to Dallas next week and will be gone for the week. It is hard to eat well on the road. I am will just have to buckle down and make it happen. There is one good thing though, all the hotels I will be at have good excersize centers, so that will help. Maybe I can get a full week of workouts in!

I will post JoeCool's weight as soon as he gets it to me.

My second job

2008-01-17T08:54:00.000-08:00

Apparently this is now my second job. I must come on here and post something so my brother has something to read while he searches for monkeys smelling each others poo on the Internet.

Apparently I am his only other form of entertainment, and am only here for that purpose.

Here, watch me do back flips. 1.... 2.... 3.... GO! Whoooooo Hoooooo! now wasn't that fun. now what should I do, ummm let me think.

Oh I know, I am now picking my nose, Whooo Hooo! Isn't that funny!

Hey Joe, you having fun yet! I know I am!

There, now leave me alone.

Weigh in and meeting

2008-01-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

Well ,I am still in Maryland, took a drive up to MA on Thursday night and fixed on of our units on Friday and then drove back down on Friday night. Saturday I met up with my friends from the blogosphere:Wyatt, Fitch, RT, and Captain America. We met at Famous Dave's for lunch. What a great time. Short of all "constructive criticism" I received from my fellow bloggers about my inability to use punctuation and spell check. Apparently your supposed to use commas and periods and semi-colons and paragraphs and spacing and capitalization and spelling and other fancy things. Whatever! Excuuuuuse me! Ah shoot I just used exclamation marks! I had a great time though!

Now for the weigh in: Looks like I am back at square one. Weight: 355 lbs. Amazing that I even lost 2 lbs. I'll take it, especially with the travelling that I have done this week. My hat off to Wyatt for the big weight loss this week. Well done, Detective!! I hope everyone else did well. Oh yeah, and with all the food wyatt ate today I think he is going to gain weight this week! BWHAAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHHA

How is that for color

Road Trip!!

2008-01-09T20:51:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm on the road again! Got an emergency call to take care of a couple of units of ours in Baltimore and Boston. So I flew out today and now I am in a room in Annapolis. Hope to try and hook up with my fellow bloggers in Philly, who knows maybe! We'll see. But now for a couple of things I saw today:

First up, I think we can do without these type of imigrants: Somebody ought to throw this idiot off a bridge! I mean what in the world were you thinking! Puuuuleaaase let me in a room alone with this guy for about 15 min. that is all I ask. I know this guy had a drug problem, but come on there is just something wrong with you, there are plenty of druggies that don't throw their children off a bridge! It's like this commercial I heard today in the car, it was a public service annoucement. The kid (mexican, just saying is all) said that he got his start into drugs and stealing because he didn't feel like his mom didn't care about him, all she did was sit around the house. Hey Paco, how about you caring about yourself and not letting yourself become a juvvie with a record. Whatever happened to personal responsibility anyways!!

Second: Umm, do you have someone that looks like my wife? What in the world? You have just got to be kidding me here right?
"Hey honey, what are you doing tonight?"

"Um, I um, gotta work late, yeah thats it"

"Oh Okay, I'll see ya later"

Later back at the brothel,

"Hey, wait a minute, you sure look like..... hey you are my wife!"

Unbelievable!

third: Suuuure Muslims love their children All I have to say about this is, where are all the womens rights people coming out against this abortion of a religion!

Finally: Contary to popular belief, I did not fall in the ocean!

What is wrong you ask, Well I will tell you....

2008-01-06T21:15:00.001-08:00

Well, I will probably step on a couple of toes today but, this is just got me really sad!! My wife and I were at Walmart the other day standing in line at the check out and Elina picks up a People magazine. The cover caught our attention. Since I have entered into this challenge with everyone to lose weight, I pick up on things about that. So this is their annual weight loss issue. It has success stories of individuals and couples that have lost tons of weight. And I mean TONS of weight. One wife and husband over 2 yrs time lost 560 lbs combined! THAT IS AMAZING!!!! That is like Wyatt and me combined! Kinda puts that into perspective doesn't it. Anyways, that was nice and all. The stories were uplifting and inspiring. So as Elina was paging through the magazine, we found an article about teenage pregnancy. Girls in their early teens pregnant or have already had their children. How tragic it that! Now here is where I may lose a few of you, but oh well, so be it!

Fathers we are to blame! It’s not the girls fault; it’s not even the boys fault! No matter if we want to smash his little pea brained head in! Sure they bear some of the responsibility for their actions. But we are ultimately at fault here! We have allowed society to minimize the importance of a man in the life of his child! Not just a male presence, but a MAN who will set boundaries, to set rules and disciplines for when they are broken. To set them for both their girls and boys. It does take two to tango you know! But along with that comes the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for that little girl!! The kind of love, no matter what they look like, what they like, whether it is in line with your likes or dislikes, you LOVE them. Trust me, a little girl knows when her daddy loves her! Too many times the MAN of the family does not perform his duties to his family like he should, We have all heard and know the excuses! The MAN of the family should be the rock, the shelter, and refuge from the world for his little girl!! Not the mamby, pamby, emasculated male version that society would have you believe is the right kind of parent for your daughter! Society thinks that a man or woman can be each others roles. I am sorry but that is just flat out wrong! It is not born out in nature, and it surely isn't true for the species on this earth that have a brain to reason with. It is not healthy for a child, boy or girl, to be raised by 2 women or 2 men. or just one woman or one man. I know that sometimes due to problems in the family and such, it is necessary for a woman or a man to leave their husband or wife. But, let me tell you. It makes your job that much harder. If you are a one parent family, then by all means put aside that fact that you hate your ex, I know there are exceptions like the safety of the child, but that person is still your childs Daddy or Mommy. And your little girl needs her daddy and her mommy! Both of them. I know most people may not agree with me, but if you put aside your selfish desires for a minute, and focus on your daughters life for a minute you will realize that your little girl needs her daddy and mommy! And I am not even going to start to broach the subject of same sex parents, because it doesn't even deserve my time. It is just flat out wrong and that is all there is too it! Society thinks that the reason girls are having children at such a young age is due to the fact that there just aren't enough programs in school to teach our children how to protect themselves. I tell you that is nothing but horse puckey! The reason girls and boys are having sex at this age is because somewhere, somebody told them, either through, words or actions, that it is okay, just as long as you protect yourself. The only sure fire way to protect yourself is to not do the act in the first place! If you do your job like you were supposed to, your daughter wouldn't need to feel like it is okay, no matter who or what she was told by others. Yet society, screams and yells whenever concerned parents try and get initiatives passed that allow for the programs that teach abstinence instead of the others. Well, I have rambled on enough. And I don't write all that well. But if I could leave you with one thing. And that is, Think about someone else besides your own desires when you make decisions that will have an affect on others. Your children did not have a say on when they came into this world, you brought them here and they are your responsebility! Own up to it and be a MAN!

Weigh in

2008-01-05T19:22:00.000-08:00

Well, I weighed 355 lbs earlier this week, and now I weighed in at.....

357 lbs!!! WHOOOO HOOOOO!! I am going to be the first one to 400 lbs!! I can just see the gift certificate now! Congrats to the 400 lb dude!! Bow to me the biggest man here!! Whooo,

What?

You mean?

No!

NOOOOO!

Heh, sorry, I thought we were seeing who could GAIN the most weight in 6 months! CRAP!
Well, I think Wyatt needed a head start anyways! HA! I will astound you next week!

JC's weight is: probably really bad since he is not answering the phone to tell me how much his weight is!! HA HA Fatty boy!!

UPDATE: JC came in at 227 so he lost 3 lbs!! Great job little bro!!

I feel like the 500 lbs gorrilla in the room

2008-01-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

Except I don't quite weigh that much. But now for the unveiling.

Announcer: And in this corner fighting in the green and white striped trunks, we got them at one of our sponsers for the fight, so go see Al's Tent and Awning store for all your tent and awning needs, or in Sssteve's case, your boxing shorts. Hailing from the Left coast, the liberal NW, the land of fruits and nuts, weighing in today at.... Wait is this right? Whew, your a big boy, weighing in at 355 lbs!

Man, I didn't realize how grossly obese and fat I was!! What a Lard butt! Man. Well, here we go. I will post my weight loss every saturday. So at least come by and have a good laugh on Saturdays. Oh yeah I will post JC's too. His weight will be fortwith as soon as he gets it to me.

Man, I'm fat.

UPDATE: JC JUST CALLED IN HIS WEIGHT 230 LBS.
wow, what a light weight!

I'm a BBG, Big, Beautiful, Guy that is!

2008-01-01T15:58:00.000-08:00

Okay, here we go! I may not do to well on the fantasy side of competition. (Wyatt smoked me pretty much in both fantasy baseball X 2 and fantasy golf) But, this is the real deal! Good old competition!! It looks so far like there is going to be 4 of us in this competition!! Anyone else want to get it? Now is your chance! I am currently weighing in a 345! but I'm big boned! and 6'4". I think my bones alone why 150 lbs! HA! Anyway, I am shooting for a target weight of 245 or less. I don't think I will make it in 6 months but hey I will give it a shot! So stating today. IT IS ON!!

Oh yeah, we need some kind of incentive, or wager if you will! Maybe, a Ruths Chris steakhouse gift certificate or something. Maybe, everyone could give some ideas. And if any of those that are participating don't want to do the wager they don't have to!

OKAY! LET THE LOSING BEGIN!! you bunch of fatty pants!!

Heeeeeeees baaaaaaaack!

2007-12-30T23:16:00.000-08:00

Not that anyone would notice!! I just looked at my blog and saw that it has been 4 months since my last post!!! What a loser!! But then again, I was out making money so that the Hilderbeast can get her fat, money grubbing mits on them!! I hope no one took me off their blog roll. I first thought that I would take the time to apologize to my blogging brothas and Sistas out there, but then I remembered a couple of posts that my blogging spiritual leader Wyatt posted awhile back. He wrote that he did his blog for his own pleasure (heh!) and no one elses. I always thought that was kind of cold, but I get it know! These last 6 months have been the busiest in my puny little life so far. I have a crude busy joke but my mom watches this blog so I can't say it. Thanks alot mom! Anyways, I thought I would start the new year out right, and put something up on the blog. So here are my New Years resolutions! Yipeee! That is what everyone wants to see is my new year resolutions! Okay, so the serious ones first:

!. First and foremost I need to read my bible more often. I got to put that one on there since my dad sees this blog every now and then.

2. I need to lose about 100 lbs. No joke on that one. I just turned 39 yesterday and now I am getting scared. With my families history(3 out of the 10 aunts and uncles dead to heartattacks before the age of 60) I challenge the Gunfighter to a lose the weight battle!! I know he doesn't need to lose as many pounds as I do so maybe someone out there could come up with a good measurement to see who can lose the most in 6 months time. I don't know what we could play for but we could come up with something!! So how bout it Tom Brady lover!! you up for it?!!

3. Smite more hippies! Because Jimmy says so and there are just too many hippies here in the northwest! It is like a rat infestation or something. Where is John Goodman the Exterminator ( movie: arachniphobia) when you need him!

4. Vote for someone that is going to get this country going in the right direction! I'm really worried with this list of canidates that we have to choose from! Man, would a real American please stand up!! Where is John Wayne when you need him! Write in Chuck Norris!!

5. Blog more! Nuff said there!

6. Golf more! I love this game and just do not get enough time to do it!! COME ON!!!

Well, there you have it. if you want to leave a few of your own in the comments, by all means leave away! Be talking to you soon!!

A couple of Funnies

2007-08-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

Here goes.....

Joe: Hey Ken, do you remember that mexican guy on the Jetsons?
Ken: No, I don't remember a mexican on the Jetsons.
Joe: The future looks bright doesn't it!

BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAA!! Oh, quit your whining, can't you take a joke! Go eat a burrito or rob somebody. Okay, here is the next one. This one is not so funny.

Last week I purchased a burger and fries at McDonalds for $3.58.
The counter girl took my $4.00 and I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies. While looking at the screen on her register, I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried.
Why do I tell you this?
Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s...goes like this...
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Teaching Math In 1950
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
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Teaching Math In 1960
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is
4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
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Teaching Math In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
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Teaching Math In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
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Teaching Math In 1990
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)
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Teaching Math In 2007

Un ranchero vende una carretera de madera para $100. El cuesto de la produccion era $80. Cuantos tortillas se puede comprar?

Help a Brother out!!

2007-08-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

I recieved this e-mail today. I have already signed the petition, so go and do it now!! DO IT! It's for a good cause!

On 16 July 2007, a soldier's home burned. This Soldier is serving in Iraq with the National Guard unit. They lost everything except their lives.Thanks to everyone for their prayers and donations during this difficult time. They are currently living in a Travel Camper.If you would like to endorse your name, there is aweb-site that has been established that could possibly give them a chance for an extreme make-over home. The web site is: help a brother out

FInally back to Civilization!!

2007-07-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Whew, Finally back from the anual trek to SW Missouri. This state has always been 20 years behind the rest of the US. I realized this when I started living there about 1989. They were stuck in 1969! Nothing open past 9 pm. Nothing open on Sunday. The Walmart was open on Sunday's but closed by 5 pm. Talk about culture shock. I come from the NW and Fred Meyers, which had the concept of "one stop shopping" long before Walmart did, was open 24 hrs. If the element in your water heater went on the fritz you could get a new one, anytime! 7 days a week, 24 hrs a day. I'm telling you, 20 years behind!! I said all that to get to this. When I am in Missouri, I can't just get my laptop, fire it up, and log on the internet through my wireless card at my in-laws house. Wireless card? what is that? some kind of Witchcraft?!! They get maybe, and I mean MAYBE, 26K on their dial-up! That is like waiting 2 minutes for a page to load up, and if there are pictures, buddy, you might as well go mow the 2 acre front lawn and then it might be loaded up! So I have to trek into town, 7 miles, and try and find a WI-FI hotspot. Of course I have the computer genius of a Brother-in-law, I really mean that, but for some reason I can't send any e-mails at his place, recieve them fine, sending NO! So I drive around, find the local Java Dave's, trying desperatly to be a Starbucks, and ask them if they have WI-FI.

The lady behind the counter looks at me and says, "We sell coffee here."

AHHHHHHHHHHG!!

Then the owner comes out from the back and says, "Why yes we have Wi-FI we just got it last week." she said this like everyone in the world got it last week.

Where is the duct tape when you need it. I sure wish Wyatt wouldn't hog it all!! So now that I am in a civilized place, and I have washed all the redneck cooties off. Especially, those I got from coverting with my friends from SW Kansas. Speaking of them. If you like bluegrass music, go to their website, Lynette has grey hair , I don't know if that's true or not, but I bet it gets a rise out of her! heh!! Go check them out. Someday they is goin' to be famous!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA

2007-07-11T12:41:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not laughing at RT! Just laughing with RT! Heh!

Here is a, oh btw RT, I was just joking, I needed to start this out somehow. And you were a perfect fit. Where was I, Oh yeah, here is a funny for your humor in the doldrums of the middle of the week. Easy for you to say!

A doctor at an insane asylum decided to take his patients to a baseball game. For weeks in advance, he coached his patients to respond to his commands.
When the day of the game arrived. Everything went quite well. As the National Anthem started, the doctor yelled, "Up Nuts", and the patients complied by standing up.
After the anthem, he yelled, "Down Nuts", and they all sat back down in their seats.
After a home run was hit, the doctor yelled, "Cheer Nuts". They all broke out into applause and cheered.
When the umpire made a particularly bad call against the star of the home team, the Doctor yelled, "Booooo Nuts" and they all started booing and cat calling.
Comfortable with their response, the doctor decided to go get a pepsi and a hot dog, leaving his assistant in charge.
When he returned, there was a riot in progress.
Finding his tizzied assistant, the doctor asked, " What in the world happened?" The assistant replied, "Well everything was going just fine until this guy walked by and yelled,

"PEANUTS!"

Yes, Yes I have been on the road again!

2007-07-06T09:06:00.000-07:00

I just feel awful about not posting much anymore. I just looked and I think I have posted like 6 times since the end of March. That is just pitiful! I do stand behind all the excuses again though! Too busy, yada yada yada! This last trip I went to Gillette, WY. I got to bring my wife with me! Whoo Hooo! She kept me busy, so I couldn't blog, if you know what I mean. :) ! Let me tell you something here. There is nothing, and I mean N. O. T. H. I. N. G. in Gillette, WY! I thought Minot, ND was bad! They were heavy on the Fast food side, very short on the sit down and order your food side. They had 1 national chain restaurant. It was an Applebees. Now don't go getting excited now. This wasn't the Applebees you see on the commercials, or even the one you have at home. This one specialized in teh good, teh bad, and teh retarded. The good was that we could leave and never had to go back, the bad was the service you received, the retarded were the help that worked in this restaurant. This restaurant was the talk of the show. It wasn't just us. It seemed every time someone went to this restaurant they just had completely bad service. There were 4 adults and 2 children. My wife and I, Pinhead and his wife, and their 2 children. We get seated and commence to waiting. It took 15 minutes to get our waitress to come by the table. Another 15 minutes for her to bring us our drinks. And it wasn't like she was overworked. She had 4 tables to take care of. The table behind us had finally received their food, all except on person there. He didn't get his food until his table was completely done eating. The waitress walked by them 3 or 4 times without even acknowledging that he was still missing his food. In the meantime, we are still waiting for our food. It's been an hour. While we were waiting, a couple came in and sat down across the isle from us. We tried to warn them but they just wouldn't listen. So they order GRILLED chicken salads. About 30 minutes later, out comes a woman with FRIED chicken salads. She sets the plates down and the man says, "Um, we ordered grilled chicken on our salad" And I kid you not. This woman looks him straight in the eye and says, "This IS grilled chicken" They just looked at her with these, "you have got to be kidding me eyes", and she just walks away. I couldn't believe it. The chicken was breaded and fried. We told him to just eat it and be happy! HA! Finally, we get our food, after an hour and a half. Needless to say, the manager was walking around giving away free food. I think they need to burn that place down and re-build and start all over again!

We did get to go to Mt. Rushmore and Devils Tower. That was pretty cool. I didn't realize how beautiful SW South Dakota was. Man that is one well kept secret. It is beautiful down there. If you ever get the chance. Do it! Here are some pics from our trip.

This is an old church out in the middle of nowhere, near Devils Tower. It was old enough, that if you needed to go to the restroom you had to use these:

These were off to the right side of the church. No wonder parents said you had to go to the bathroom before church and not during church. They might never come back! HA!

The park rangers were working on something, up on top of Mt Rushmore. I think they were trying to part Jeffersons hair just right!

There was a sighting of a Sasquatch. I didn't see anything though!

This is just one beautiful sunset. This turned out to be a cool thunderstorm! It was a great trip! And I loved taking my wife with me. That was awesome. But, really, Gillette is not a destination, just a passing through point in your future vacations! Trust me on this one!

The Difference, if you were wondering that is....

2007-06-12T15:16:00.000-07:00

simple lesson illustrating the difference between the two parties.

Fred Thompson and Hillary were walking down the street when they came to a homeless person.

The Republican, Fred Thompson, gave the homeless person his business card and told him to come to his office for a job. He then took $20 out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless person.

Hillary was very impressed, so when they came to another homeless person, she decided to help. She walked over to the homeless person and gave him directions to the welfare office. She then reached into Thompson's pocket and got out $20. She kept $15 for her administrative fees and gave the homeless person $5..

Now, do you understand the difference?

40 Years, WOW! Thats like........ Eternity!

2007-06-08T17:07:00.000-07:00

Alright now. Everyone seems to be down in the dumps right now. I don't know what it is. With all the down in the dumps posts, it's looking kinda gloomy with all my blogfriends. Of course, there is always Fatty McButterpants in Philly to make us laugh. But I got something more important to blog about today. Nooooooo, it's not my birthday, I'm not that old! It is the celebration of my Father and Mother's wedding anniversary. They have made it 40 years together. That is amazing in this day and age. I remember when we had their 25th I thought that was a long time, but with my wife and I getting ready to celebrate 20 yrs here in a couple of years, now that seems so short. But 40 years is a milestone for sure. Okay, get your tissues ready because here comes the gushy part. I love my parents! What a great couple of role models! I mean between Dad running around in his T-shirt and boxers, and Mom making sure the waiter knew that her glass isn't full! I mean why wouldn't we be well adjusted, rounded children! They say kids rebel from their parents, so I guess that is what happened. Just makes you want to cry, doesn't it!

Some of the blogs that I have looked at during this past week, got me thinking about my life, and how I was shaped into the person that I am today. How, watching my Mom and Dad struggle to make ends meet, yet with a hope of better things yet to come, and NEVER, losing sight of it. All of that has led me to understand that no matter what happens, how much life throws at you, this too shall pass! There were times when I was a teenager, and we all know teenager have "Needs"! Not wants, mind you, but "Neeeeeeeds!" I need these new pair of Coronado Nike's (how is that for 80's flash back Jo Jo!), I need to go to school not in toughskins, but 501 Levis!, I need that cool OP shirt! Like I said "needs" not wants! There were times when I was a teenager, that there was no money, and I'm not talking no extra money, and we have plenty of groceries to get us through to pay day, I'm talking Old Mrs. Hubbard Cubbard dry, no money! And none in sight! You guys (JoeCool, Sandy, Pinhead) remember the Marion berry cobbler for dinner time?! I'm talking no money! Yet, I never worried once, nor did my parents burden me with the responsibility of worrying about where the next dollar was going to come from, they lived in a way that I felt that no matter what happens, I and my "needs" would be taken care of! I never got the new car for my graduation gift, let alone my 16th birthday. But I did have with the help of my Dad, a screaming Chevelle. It wasn't the cool year, but I sure enough beat some of those that did while cruising the gut! I paid for my own college education, I wasn't given a credit card and told, go ahead and put your expenses on here and I will take care of it! None of that for this family. We learned that you worked for what you got. But the greatest gift I received from my parents, and this is where I believe, that everything stems from. Their love for each other, their hope of the future, the ability to stick it through when the going gets tough, it all comes from their Faith in God.

This is the greatest gift a parent can give to their children. To teach their children about Jesus, and who He is and what He has done for us. Therein lies the hope for tomorrow! Their steadfast faith, that God and His Son have a personal interest in our lives and how they are lived out. Life doesn't always work out like we want it too. There is poverty, there is hard times, We all lose someone at one time or another. But I know who holds tomorrow! This they have taught me! My God is bigger than any problem, that I may face down here! bigger than any 2nd place finish! Bigger than losing that child! Bigger than any disease! While he may not bring back the dead or heal us of our diseases, He has promised that if I just give myself to him, He will go with me all the way! One that sticks closer than any friend or brother! My Dad and Mom lived it like this, they have proven this lifestyle with their life. I know it is true!! Thanks Mom and Dad, for all you have done, thanks for a life led in Christ! Thanks for the example, of a Godly life! And thank you Jesus, for parents like this, for their example of how to live. All those things they went through, show me you had a plan, a plan that included my life. A way I could share with those that want to know how to get through the rough times. I had a great example! I love you guys!!

New Delivery

2007-06-07T15:59:00.000-07:00

I wanted to Congratulate my Brother in law and his wife on the new addition to their already bloated houshold. Whats this make 12 kids now? Dude, I give up, you win!! No really, Congrats!! Little Isaiah Cole was welcomed into this world today. With a healthy head of RED hair, Weighing in a 7 lbs 11 oz. stretching to 20 in. in length. That is half as tall as his dad! So, congratulations Phillip and Cheryl!! Even though Cheryl did all the work! Well done guys! I can't wait to see him and have Elina hold him for me! HA, Sheril, that's for you!

Tomorrow, a new post. I promise!! No really, I will, just you wait and see!

Hit every ugly branch falling out of the Ugly tree!!

2007-05-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

Here is a great one from my mom! What a cool mom! Happy belated Mothers Day to all you Mothers out there.

Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb and Quasimodo were talking to one another one day. Sleeping Beauty said “I’ve always thought That I was fairest of them all, but how do I know for sure?”
Tom Thumb piped up. “I’m pretty sure there is nobody smaller than me, but there could be, right?”
Quasimodo intoned “Surely I must be the most hideous, ugliest person in the whole world, but is that true? How would I know if that is true?”

Sleeping Beauty, being a blonde, naturally had no idea on how to check, but plucky little Tom Thumb said, “I know, let’s go ask those folks at the Guiness Book of world records. Surely they would know!”

So all three went into town into the main office of the Guiness World Record book. They were called into the office of the head researcher one by one.

Sleeping Beauty came out first with a huge smile on her face. “It’s true, it’s true, I AM the fairest of them all.”

Now it was Tom Thumbs turn. He came out of the office with his diminutive chest all puffed out with pride. “At last I know I am the smallest person in the world.

Finally it was Quasimodo’s turn. In he went into the office. After a short while, he came out, but with a look of confusion on his face and shaking his head slowly from side to side.
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He looked at the other two and said, "Who's Rosie O'Donell?"

5th of May!!!

2007-05-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

Since we are the Mexican Territory formally known as the United States of America we get to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I think I'll take Friday off! Then quit my job and change my name to Julio Sanchez, get on welfare and make more money than I do now!! Whooo Hooo, what a racket!!! Here is a little poem I will leave you with. I call it: Poop on the Americans!

I cross ocean,
poor and broke,
Take bus, see employment folk.

Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, "You come no more,
We send cash right to your door."

Welfare checks, they make you wealthy,
Medicaid it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money,
Thanks to you, American dummy.

Write to friends in motherland,
Tell them 'come fast as you can.'
They come in turbans and Chevy trucks,
I buy big house with welfare bucks

They come here, we live together,
More welfare checks, it gets better!
Fourteen families, they moving in,
But neighbor's patience wearing thin.

Finally, American moves away,
Now I buy his house, and then I say,
"Find more aliens for house to rent."
And in the yard I put a tent.

Send for family they just trash,
But they, too, draw the welfare cash!
Everything is very good,
And soon we own the neighborhood.

We have hobby -- it's called breeding,
Welfare pay for baby feeding
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!

American crazy! He pay all year,
To keep! welfare running here.
We think! America darn good place!
Too darn good for the American race. I
f they no like us, they can scram,
Got lots of room in Pakistan

Al Gore is a Hypocrite!!

2007-04-09T17:26:00.000-07:00

The Story of Two Houses

Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you can
tell which belongs to an environmentalist:

HOUSE # 1:

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on
a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In
ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average
American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and
natural gas runs over $2,400 per month. In natural gas alone (which last
time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times
the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or
Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university,
this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction
can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and
is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the
house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk
300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in
winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil
or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a
conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is
collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater
from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into
the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house.
Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding
rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,
Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and
filmmaker)
Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford,
Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence
of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you
WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times
or the Washington Post.

Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."

You can check this on Snopes, here

18 years and counting!

2007-04-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

And no, that is not how long it's been since I have posted anything. Or how long it will be till I post something. That is how many years (come April 8th) that I have been married to my wonderful wife! I really think that I am going through some kind of midlife crisis or something. Because I think about how old I am all the time. And get a little melancholy thinking about all the years that have gone by and what I haven't got accomplished. But then I think about who I have shared the ride with so far and realize what a great gift from God my wife has been! Truly, no one could have been better to live this life with. Her understanding and long suffering has been amazing. Don't get me wrong, we have had our fair share of troubles and heartaches, some caused by circumstance and others by me. But all and all it has been a great 18 years so far. One of the coolest things about my wife is her ability to "get" things. The little nuances of jokes, stories and things. It would have driven me nuts a long time ago to have to explain everything out. She "gets' it. Along with that is her great sense of humor. This is one funny cat! Her ability to laugh at herself as much as anyone else is amazing. And don't you dare do anything that would be detrimental to one of our children!! My goodness, that motherly instinct is strong!

Babe, all in all, I look forward with great anticipation to our years together as we grow old together and watch our children grow and marry. Then of course, grandchildren. Just as long as they don't get in the way of my golf! Love ya!

On the road again,,,,, with Georgia on my mind!

2007-03-13T19:36:00.000-07:00

Well, here I am again. On the road again! This time I am in the great state of Georgia. The rest of this week I am going to be in Southern Georgia, and next week I am going to be in Perry Georgia. This is one of our biggest shows that we have. Should be a good one too! The company I work for is really taking off, should make for some interesting times.

Tonight, while I was checking into the hotel, Pinhead and I asked the girl behind the counter which pizza joint was the best, and she said that she didn't eat pizza. We were like, "You don't eat pizza, what, are you not an American?"

You know, just giving her a hard time. And she says with this little disdain in her voice, "No, I'm not"
My first reaction was, man, she says that like, why would I want to be an American. And then she says, " I am an American in paper only" I was totally blown away. It turns out she was born in Venezuela. And to her benefit, when pinhead made a derogatory remark about Chavez, she curled up her lip like she was disgusted with Chavez. And we said, at least she didn't like that guy. She looked to be in her early 20's, and her accent was all American. And I started to wonder how many other 20 something kids out there that feel like her. And then Pinhead hit it right on the head.
He said, " No longer is America a melting pot, but it's more like a tossed salad, We are all in the bowl but everyone has their own little part. No one is assimilating." I tell you that this is going to be the most damaging problem in our country. Multi-culturalism is evil! It is screwing up our country, faster and more than anything! Especially when it goes hand in hand, with ILLEGAL immigration. You can't have people coming here and then only thinking they are American in paper only! Where is the pride?! How could you possibly be patriotic?! If you are American in name only, would you be willing to sacrifice for the good of the Country in wartime, like our grandparents and great-grandparents did in the 2 World Wars?! I don't think so! What would be the point, to sacrifice for a country that your only reason for being here is that you didn't like the guy that was running the country that you just left. I'm sorry but I just don't trust people like that! In my world, you are either all in, or all out! NO in between!

I think that most of you that know me, know that I am very competitive! When I used to play basketball, I would love to take the couple of guys that no one wanted and beat the idiots that thought they stacked their team! There is no greater feeling that beating someone who thinks they have all the angles nailed down. Now, just messing around with my children or family, unless it's against my brothers or cousin, I just play to have fun. But you get me in a real game and your not trying, I would rather you just quit when your on my team. I would rather have a physically handicapped person that gave their all than some preening, pre madonna that didn't even try. I guess I said all that, to make the point that, When your an American, you had better come correct! NO more of the hyphenated crapola! Besides, that is just a slap in the face to those of us that consider ourselves just as Americans! When you put your ethnicity before American, example: African-American, Asian-American, and so forth, apparently that means that you consider yourself an African first and an American last, or a Asian first and American last. How can that be?!! Anyways, sorry for the long rant! But hey, had to get it off my chest!
Thanks for listening and GO DUCKS!!

Okay I know I'm not the best blogger in the business, just the best looking!

2007-03-02T09:11:00.000-08:00

So I thought I would steal a little from some succseful blogs

WEEKEND CAPTION CONTEST:

I saw this photo and knew that my circle of bloggers could come up with some great captions, so fire away.

disclaimer: In no way shape or form do I believe I am at the level of any of those that do the caption contests, but I am bigger than them all, maybe even all of them put together. so unless you want to get sat on, get captioning!!

I think the cop on the right looks like Wyatt! Heh!

TOP FIVE

5. Welcome to the NBA. the Man

4. Perp: Hey!! Watch what your grabbing!

Cop: Clean underwear didn't help this guy. Hippies really DO stink! S.

3. Wyatt's Partner: You hid your stash where?Wyatt: Oh goody I get to do another internal body cavity search!Dude on right: at least give me a donut pillow to sit on instead of this metal chair after the cavity search... ouch! Peaks

2. "I know I left my nightstick somewhere up here. Oh wait, there it is." RT

And the number 1 was

1. ricola... JT

Thanks for playing everyone, that was too funny!

Stop me if you heard this one....

2007-02-26T11:52:00.000-08:00

I am sure everyone has seen this one already, but it is just classic!!

One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the WhiteHouse from across Pennsylvania Avenue , where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton"

The Marine replied, "Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here."

The old man said,"Okay," and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton".

TheMarine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here." The man thanked him and again walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speakto Mrs. Clinton. I've told you already several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn't reside here. Don 't you understand?"

The old man answered, "Oh, I understand you fine, I just love hearing your answer!"

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow."

Won't that be a great day!!!

I just don't know anymore!!

2007-02-21T18:40:00.000-08:00

Do you ever wonder if the conservative message is getting out like it should. I don't! I have a friend, acquaintance, co-worker (is that enough adjectives?!) from BC Canada, who said he watches CNN to find out what Americans think! Whiskey! Tango!! Foxtrot!! I said you got to be kidding me! I said the only thing that could come to mind, actually I started to just laugh! Is this how the world perceives us, what they see on CNN! I asked him if he ever watches Fox News to get the other side, and all he said was that all Fox news shows is the conservative view! I said, DUH! So there is one news organization that puts out conservative views, and lets see, mmmm, how about a million of the others that show only the lefts views. I tried to explain to him that our print, video, and alot of the audio media was completely filled with people that have an agenda to push the lefts beliefs on all! But he wouldn't believe me. He watched Fat Albert Gore's movie and bought it hook line and sinker. I think they just want to believe that America is bad and evil! That they actually want to believe it! No wonder the world thinks we are bad! Sometimes I think we ought to just take Canada, and Mexico, send all the Mexicans up to Canada to do the jobs that Canadians won't do. They can all live in the frozen tundra up there. Then we can get all the oil from Mexico to pay all of us tax payers back for subsidizing the illegals health care, educating their children and paying for their food! Call me a racist I really don't care right now!! AMERICA RULES AND THE WORLD DROOLS!!!!!!

Crikey, I'm never home anymore!

2007-02-01T05:05:00.000-08:00

Since Thanksgiving weekend last year I have been in my office for a total of 4 weeks. I have either been criss crossing the country or been on vacation. I am now at this moment, half way through my "red eye' from Portland to Norfolk VA. I am sitting in the Atlanta Airport terminal, in a stupor fog! I was looking forward to sleeping on the plane from Portland to Atlanta. No dice. between the bucking and rolling of the plane every little bit, (I felt like Fmragtops must have felt while riding those bulls) and the 18 members of the Lake Oswego High Dance squad doing their cheers and dance routines behind my head, No, sleep for the Sasquatch!! And that makes for one grumpy, hairy beast! So hear I sit waiting for a plane to take me to Norfolk so I can go out in the freezing rain and work on some windbags motorhome! His furnace works fine but he is just not comfortable enough yet in it! Whaaaaaa you big baby! Let me call you a waaaaaaambulance! I guess when you you $975,000, yes that is 3 zeroes! for a motor home you get some special attention! Oh well, at least after this job is done I fly Friday for sunny Ft Myers Florida!! where it is to be 75 through the weekend while I'm there! Gotta look on the bright side! I will visit everyone soon!! After I get some sleep!

Friday cat and dog blogging!!

2007-01-26T08:09:00.000-08:00

I thought I would rip off everyone that has done either of these. Ha! So here goes with a little comedy included. No we aren't going to show you a picture of RT from the 80's, but a cute little story. Man, I love this picture of the golden retriever!!

Subject: A different perspective.

Excerpts from a Dog's Daily Diary:

8:00am Dog food! My favorite thing!

9:30am A car ride! My favorite thing!

9:40am walk in the park! My favorite thing!

10:30am Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing.

12:00pm Lunch! My favorite thing!

1:00pm Played in the yard! My favorite thing!

3:00pm Wagged my tail! My favorite thing.

5:00pm Milk bones! My favorite thing!

7:00pm Got to play ball! My favorite thing!

8:00pm Wow! Watched TV with my master! My favorite thing

11:00pm Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

Excerpts from a Cat's Daily Diary:

This is day 683 of my captivity: My captors continue

to taunt me with bizarre dangling objects.

They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and myself are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape... In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the floor.

Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. The audacity! There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage. Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs. I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released --and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded! The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. The captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe....... for now

EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!

2007-01-19T09:46:00.000-08:00

" .... I have been handed a horrifying, and terrible news story. Our highly professional investigative reporters have uncovered a sad, sad story of a certain lawman from Philadelphia. It has come to our attention that this soft detective, who by the way, in my opinion bears a striking resemblance to Nathan Lane, maybe that's just me though. This pudgy gumshoe, has a secret man crush on the QB of the New England Patriots! Easy now, I know, crazy isn't it. Well, here is the proof in the pudding. Our news organization, HSN (Hairy Sasquatch News), has a video copy of our illustrious detective, singing of his love and admiration for this object of his affection. ATTENTION: This video may not be suitable for all audiences, children and people that like the opposite sex. So watch at your own discretion! There now that the lawyers are satisfied, Click here to view.

I know it's just horrifying. we deliberated long and hard before we decided that the public just needed to see this. Have a good night and good weekend. Good night!

Friday funny

2007-01-12T09:46:00.000-08:00

HT to my cuz Donnie who sent this to me, funny stuff!

The Marine & the Journalists

Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams and a tough old US Marine Sergeant were captured by terrorists in Iraq . The leader of the terrorists told them he'd grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded.

Katie Couric said, "Well, I'm a Southerner, so I'd like one last plate of fried chicken." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with the chicken. Couric ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."

Charlie Gibson said, "I'm living in New York , so I'd like to hear the song "The Moon and New York City " one last time." The terrorist's leader nodded to another terrorist who had studied the Western world and knew the music. He returned with some rag-tag musicians and played the song. Gibson was satisfied.

Brian Williams said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end."The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Williams dictated his comments. He then said, "Now I can die happy."

The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?"

"Kick me in the butt," said the Marine.

"What?" asked the leader? "Will you mock us in your last hour?"

"No, I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the butt," insisted the Marine.

So the leader shoved him into the open and kicked him in the butt.The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he leaped to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine and sprayed the terrorists with gunfire. In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.

As the Marine was untying Couric, Gibson and Williams, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Why did you ask him to kick you in the butt?"

"What!?!" replied the Marine, "and have you three report that I was the aggressor?"

Hey, I kinda love these lists

2007-01-08T17:32:00.000-08:00

Here is another one. I have been thinking about some of these things recently. This list is about people's behavior that I really, really dislike (only because my momma told me to never say hate), here goes:

. Apathy (that was for you Andy, just in case you didn't know what the word means) in the workplace. If you don't like your job, then find a new one! And don't give that baloney that you can't find one. I do not have a college degree, I have 2 yrs of college under my belt but no degree. And I have always been able to find a job that paid better than the average pay in the area. Find something you like doing and do it. This one leads into my next one.

. Bad attitudes in the service industry. If you are dealing with the public at least act like you enjoy helping the customer with what they need. I have just been in DC and at the hotel there I had to deal with front desk help and the bell captain that acted like I was a moron. Now whether or not they felt that way, they came across as if I was bothering them.

. This one is a big one with me. When you ask me a question or I ask you one, at least give me the courtesy of looking in my general direction while I talk to you or we discuss whatever it is that we are talking about. To look away and look at other things is to tell me that you couldn't care less about what I am discussing with you. It is the epitome of rudeness! It's like Foghorn Leghorn says, "I say, I say, I say look at me when I'm talking to you boy!"

. the victim mentality. Woe is me, everything happens to me. It's never my fault. This drives me nuts. Come on, everyone has problems. If you will be honest with yourself and everyone else you will see that everybody has lots of problems. We all deal with things everyday! I have issues that I have to deal with, family, attitudes, the public, stress. Who doesn't though?! I know that if I look at others honestly I see that I wouldn't trade my issues for anyone Else's. This victim mentality is probably the worst one for our Country along with the next one I am going to list.

. The Entitlement mentality. I deserve it. Not because I have worked hard for it, but just because of who I am, or what has happened to my ancestors, or just because I was in the state that was hit with a natural disaster. Hey, you get it after you work for it! It should never be a free ride, it's like the old saying, You don't work, you don't eat!!

. Judgements of fat people just from appearance. Why is it everyone looks at the fat person eating the desert. If you see a skinny person eating it, not a thought. But let a fat person eat a desert and there is the disgust. If a fat person has a spot on their shirt or blouse they are a slob. A skinny person gets a spot and it's like, Oh look isn't that cute, they got a spot on their shirt!

. Personal responsibility. If you see something that needs to be done, then by crikey do it. If there is trash on the ground, pick it up! When visiting DC and southern California this week I noticed so much trash on the ground and all over the place. Quit living like animals or children. It's not my job. Somebody else will get it, I don't need to! Come to work when your supposed to. Don't make it a habit of calling in sick! It makes everyone Else's job that much harder!

Well there you have it. If you have one of your own, leave it in the comments section. Or better yet, if you have a blog. Do one of your own and let us know what ticks you off!

UPDATE: RT mentioned in the comments that she wanted a student to listen more and talk less during class. it totally reminded me of one of my worst pet peeves. And that is when someone starts talking while someone else is either teaching or training or giving a speech. How incredibly rude of you to do that. I guess this one really gets to me. Probably because I train people in my profession. And while I usually don't have that problem while I am training someone, but when I see someone else doing it, it makes me want to get up and ask them to share it with the rest of the group since obviously they think it is more important than what is being said at the time! That really drives me nuts!!

Well, Shoooooo, I'm in DC

2007-01-05T19:03:00.000-08:00

Okay so I know I'm like totally behind in blogging! The hits to this blog prove that out. Ugh! But, I am so stinking busy! So I see that I have been memmed by two different dorks, oops I mean great blogging minds! HA! The first one was TylerD with "Name 6 Weird things about you" Well, here goes.

6. I like to have the house or any room that I am in somewhere around 60 to 65 degrees! It drives my wife crazy! At least she thinks it's weird. You know when your hot, there is only so many clothes that you can take off before they haul you off to jail!

5. I can sit cross-legged (Indian style, Ooohh that was insensitive!) on the floor and grab my foot and put it up to my forehead. I used to be able to able to put it behind my head. It looks weird

4. I make a grimace every time I am concentrating on anything. While fixing things or whatever I make this face and it looks like I'm mad! I guess that is kind of weird.

3. I love the smell of skunk. I'm sorry but I think it smells good. There is just something about it.

2. I like to run the shower in the morning while I sit on my throne. My wife says it makes the water bill to high, but hey, I like it.

1. And the weirdest thing that I do is, I find myself sometimes having to touch something equal times on each side. Like there is four sides on a cell phone, I find myself having to touch each side before I put it away. I think that is like compulsive something or nother.

Well, there you have it, I'm a pretty weird dude!

Then Wyatt memmed me with "name 5 things you don't know about me" so here goes.

1. In my senior year in high school I got kicked out for kissing a girl. Kicked out for the year. No graduation!! That's just not right!

2. I love to got to swap meets. I don't know if it is because we used to go to them with our family when we were kids but, I just love going to them.

3. When I was younger I was quite the athlete! Something JoeCool and wreckse are very jealous about! Kachow!

4. I love to read. I'll read just about anything. Mostly fiction though

just some funny

2006-12-21T10:36:00.000-08:00

Just a funny story that I think is true, while I try and narrow down to 6 wierd things about me. So here goes.

HISTORY,

I thought you would enjoy this little blurb of nonfiction! Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claimed that an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and the federal government. However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., Hillary Rodham, John F. Kerry, William Jefferson Clinton, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Charles E. Schumer, and Barbara Boxer were born. See what happens when aliens breed with sheep. This piece of information may clear up a lot of things.

Oh Snap! as my children say!

2006-12-15T16:37:00.000-08:00

Conversation I had with my blog today:

Hey blog, how you doin'?

"crickets" silence

Hey did you hear me? How you doin'?

I'm not talking to you right now!

Oh man, what did I do this time? Come on Baby, what's wrong? Talk to me don't give me that silent treatment!

I can't believe you don't know what's wrong!!! BOO HOO HOO HOO lots of crying!

(to myself) Man women are soooo emotional. (out loud) Oh baby, I'm sorry what is wrong, you can tell your big strong man.

It's all your fault!! You forgot! How could you!!

Man, Woman what are you talking about!!

Our Blogoversary! It was on the 8th and you didn't remember!! You don't love me anymore!! Waaaaaaaaaah! I know what the problem is, there is another blog isn't there!! What is she some kind of hussy or someting?!! Fine, just go to her and let me be!!

What? Man you are tripping!! Really baby, there's no one but you for me!! Your the only one!! come on, sweetheart I love you!! I'm sorry I forgot! I'll get you something nice! Maybe some more bandwith or we could move our digs from this dumpy blogger neighborhood! maybe a nice .com place! How about that baby!

Oh, would you?!

Sure baby, anything for you!! happy Blogoversary!!

Say Dan, What time is it?!

2006-12-10T00:18:00.000-08:00

It's time for a Birthday Party!! WHOOO HOOO! And who's birthday party is it you ask?! Well, I'll tell ya pilgrim! It's My Cuz over at Wrecks of Oregon turns 29 again! I'll give him this though, at least he got himself a big boy haircut! HA! Happy Birthday Bro!!! Now everyone go over and give him a big smooch on his cheek for his birthday!

Oh so true!!

2006-12-06T10:02:00.000-08:00

This is funny and true! If I was any good at posting videos on my site I would have done that but you will just have to be happy with a link! HA.

living la vida loca

h/t my mom!

2006-11-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

This is pretty cool!!!

The Military: The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired,tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as halfman, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.

He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm howitzer. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march.

He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short lifetime.

He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed. He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful. Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years.

He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood. And now we even have women over there in danger, doing their part in this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so. As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot.. A short lull, a little shade
and a picture of loved ones in their helmets .

Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman, Marine or Airman, prayer is the very best one!!

On the road again.....

2006-11-26T22:16:00.000-08:00

Well here I am in Louisville Kentucky. Home of KFC and the Louisville Slugger! Also the home of the Kentucky Derby. How about those horses?! So cool! Also home of the RVIA show. An RV Industry show. Usually the weather is cold and chances of snow or ice. This year?! 50's and 60's, now that is awesome!! Looks to be a great show. Anyways, if your near Louisville, again, call e-mail me!! I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving

2006-11-22T17:00:00.000-08:00

Whooo hoooo time to pig out!! All the "joecool" you can eat! Oops I mean Turkey!! Ha what a dork my brother is! Seriously though, Happy Thanksgiving to every one! What a great time of the year! I look forward to the start of the holiday season, thanksgiving now, CHRISTMAS next month, my birthday next month, awesome baby!!

As I think about this holiday and what it stands for. Traditionally celebrated as a time of thanksgiving to God for His blessings to us. And I thank Him for the most important blessing and that is the blood His Son shed that I might be saved from my sins! That truly is the greatest blessing and should be always be at the top of my thanksgiving list, and it ought to be daily!

I'm thankful of the wife that God has provided me with! What a wonderful thing it is to know that I have someone to fight my battles with! Someone that loves me for me! She knows me better than anyone, she sees me at my best and at my worst! And still there with me after 17 years! Wow what a woman!!

I'm thankful for 2 loving parents, Mom and a Dad, not 2 mom's or 2 dad's! Who saw fit to discipline me and teach me wrong from right! Who taught me that life is not fair. And you get out of life what you put into it! What great parents!

I'm also thankful for my blogging friends! You guys are awesome! Always helping when I ask for it, reading my drivel, and writing great stuff that makes me laugh and makes me mad! I couldn't be associated with a better group of bloggers!!

Last but not least by any stetch! I am thankful for our Armed Forces! What a great bunch of MEN and WOMEN! I capitalized that for a reason! I hate it when people say, "we're sending our kids out to fight this war" These people aren't kids, or children like I heard them called today on the radio! These are fighting Men and Women who are the best at what they do! The best military in the world! I get to go back and forth to my grocery store, work, gym, Mom's house, families homes without even thinking that it might not be safe! Think about that for a minute! We don't even blink when we go somewhere in this great Country of ours! We just get in the car, plane, train, boat and go. Awesome! All because they keep us safe and do those things that others would not to keep us that way! Thanks to all of them!!

Have a great Thanksgiving and we will see ya on the flip side of the weekend!!

Oh yeah, and if you haven't read the post below this one, you gotta do it! It is worth your while!

Attentions shoppers there has been a flashing on isle 7

2006-11-20T08:15:00.000-08:00

Did I get your attention yet? HA! I have this big RV Industry show to attend the week after Thanksgiving. On a side note, if any of my blogging buddies and family are going to be in Louisville KY give send me an e-mail, we can try and hook up. I will be there from the 26th of Nov to the 30th of Nov. Now where was I..... oh yeah, so I have to atttend this show see, and at this particular show you need to dress up as in suit coat and dress shirt and slacks. Well it was time for Sssasquatch here to get some new dress clothes anyway. So to get the dress slacks we went to the Mall in Oregon since there is no sales tax there, gotta love that. So I'm in the Casual Male XL store, and you gotta know its good stuff since George Forman is on every wall and endorsing all the clothes right?! Anyways, we find some good looking ones that fit and I go in the dressing room to change. As I pull off my pants..... oh wait that's too much info... I change into the first pair and show them off to the wife outside in the store, Yeah Yeah, those look good she says, then I go back and put on the next pair, I come out of the dressing room and start discussing if we should get a pair of kakhis while we are at it. My wife says yeah sure, and then in the middle of the store I get a brain fart and start undoing the dress slacks I just tried on! and to top it all off I let them fall to the floor! So there I am in the middle of the mall, in the middle of Casual Male XL in my fruit of the looms, my wife is just looking at me like I had lost my mind, and moron me, I'm like, What? What! My wife starts to stutter, look around just hoping no one is looking at us and going Steve, Steve, STEVE! What are you doing?! Then it hits me like a mack truck, I'm standing in the middle of the mall, in the middle of a store, with my pants around my ankles! Man, you never seen anyone move so fast!! I pulled those pants up and dove for the dressing room! Unbeleivable! I think I am just getting old! My poor wife!

Happy Veterens Day

2006-11-10T08:51:00.000-08:00

First off I want to extend a Happy Veterens day to all those serving and those that have served in the military. Grandpa in WWII and Wendell in Korea, Tiffany in Afghanistan, and any more of you out there! You guys are true heroes! Thanks for all that you do and did!! My cousin Tara, Tiffany's sister sent me this Tony Blair quote, I thought it was perfect for this day. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America he said: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out." Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1: Jesus Christ
2: The American G.I.

One died for your soul and the other for your freedom."

Thank a Vet today!!

The Day after next

2006-11-09T10:36:00.000-08:00

I was supposed to post this yesterday but, I was way behind at work so here it is today.

Well, it looks like the mexicans have won. Amnesty for everyone! Lets just open up those borders and shut down the customs offices and let the gates open! Come one, Come all. No need to pay taxes, no need to pay for the children you have here, no need to pay for the education for your children, no need to pay for your social security, just come here and squat in our Country!

Lets raise the Minimum wage while we are at it, that way we kill all small businesses that can't afford to raise their employees wages! Nope, no need for personal responsibility to take care of yourself. Make it the responsibility of the employer to take care of your every want and need. If you need more money and the job you have doesn't pay you enough, No Problem, Okey Dokey, just look to your elected official to be the Teet you can suck on. They will raise your minimum wage, take away your bosses tax cut that got you hired in the first place, just so you can have what you want now! Well, for a little bit, until he lays you off because he can't raise his prices enough to keep you employed.

But Sssteve you sound a little bitter! Your not just a whislting dixie my friend! I can not believe my fellow countrymen. I heard on the radio today that 1/3 of the "evanjelicals" SP? voted democrat? Are you kidding me? How can you call yourself a Christian and vote for people that want to kill innocent babies! I'm sorry but that is how I see it. You may think that is too simple but right now I really don't care! If you voted for a democrat, your a stupid moron!

Yippeeee I got trolls, so I got my shots today!

2006-11-07T09:49:00.001-08:00

First off before I Pwn these two trolls of mine, I wanted to let everyone know that my cuz Tiffany that is in Afghanistan is coming home for Thanksgiving leave!! I thought that was pretty cool. Of course she will be heading back after the holiday. Now on to the business at hand.....

Do any of you remember that some of us had teams in a baseball fantasy league. Well, I did one weekly roundup for our league and it totally stunk! It was pitiful, I just do not know how to do those cool things others do with their blog. But, I digress, The title of my post that week (Yes RT, I did post once that week!!) was the name of our league. It had the word conspiracy in it. Well, some moron who goes by the name "enlighten" proceeded to go into this diatribe about how the real conspiracy was that those fags that flew the planes into the towers were not really muslims but CIA agents! You have got to be kidding me?!! Dude, grow a stinking brain will ya?!! Your funny.

The next idiot, who goes by "realist" ooooooohh ooooooh! I'm so smart I call myself Realist! So listen to me, I'm soo smart. Well he starts out with a bang:

"Try not to be such a hypocritical dxxxxxbag"
I had to x out the letters since this blog is read by my mom, Hi Mom, Love Ya! ahem, anyways. So excately what is a hypocritical d-bag? A hypocrite is someone who says they are one thing but their actions show another. So this syphlis filled colastome bag said that sometimes I call myself a d-bag but then I don't act like one? WHAT?! Hey you puss infected polyp, I dare you to go back through these archives and find one place where I called myself a d-bag?! One time!? Never! Next:

"Whatever Kerry's intentions"
So it doesn't matter that he just told our finest, and bravest that they are all stupid!!

"his comment would have to go quite a ways to compare with Bush's heartless statement that in the history books all the death and destruction in this Iraq debacle (including American troops killed) will amount to "just a comma". And, this was not some senator from Massachusetts but the commander-in-chief that said this. Where in the hell was the outrage from the Republicans and the military over this? Nothing but silence and crickets chirping. Enjoy wallowing in your hypocrisy"
Okay, I tire of this, FM and Fiar, I don't know how you guys go through these moronic idiot and fisk them comment by comment. Now you listen you morphidited, gaseous, piece of something that I just scrapped off my shoe, this blog is about what I think, and my opinions. And another thing, Kerry has a history of bashing our troops, and this time it kind of bit him on the posterior! And if you can't see that he has this history then you my fine pedofile, are an idiot! Now get off my phone! beside the only thing that I ever wallow in is Bacon and plenty of it! And don't you try and collect any money from me Fiar, you trademark, copyright monger!

We are taking over the world!! Bhwaaaaaaahaaaa haaa!

2006-11-03T16:51:00.000-08:00

ahem. okay!

I would take it as a personal favor if all 3 it used to be 5 but since looking at my hits counter I think I lost a couple, if all of my readers would go over to my little cousins blog and make her feel welcome. I know I know, not another one! HA! But trust me she's better looking than wrecks ! And Wyatt, no going to her myspace page and oogling over her pics there!! I gotta protect my sweet (yeah right) little redheaded cousin! I will have to think of some old story from her childhood to embarass her sometime but that will have to wait! HA! Anyways go by and say hi! Her name is Terri, go by and make her feel welcome!

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Troops totally Buuuuurn John Heinz Lurch ketchup boy Kerry

2006-11-01T12:53:00.000-08:00

Here is what that Idiot had to say about his comment. This is what he started out his comment with "I apologize to no one..!" What a freaking Spaz!! I found a picture that Drudge has up and it is of some troops with a sign for John Heinz- Kerry! Totall Buuuuuuuuuurrrrnnnn! Love it!! Check it out below! I heard on Rush today that some Democrat said, " He lost the 2004 election so I guess he is trying to loose the 2006!" Great stuff!! John Heinz-Kerry, the republicans best player! HA!

Update: My Mom sent the pic to me here it is:

Now ain't that cool!!!

Obligatory Halloweenie post

2006-10-30T23:14:00.000-08:00

well, here is my halloweenie post, oops oh wait I already did that with the ghoulish picture on my last post! HA! Nasty hag! Anyways, Happy Harvest day!!

10,000 Hits Whoooo hooooo!!!

2006-10-24T08:26:00.000-07:00

Whoo Hooo, "Happy Dance" time!!! I'm sure no one else has reached 10 Thoooouuuusand hits so quickly!! I mean come on! 10 Thoooouuuusand hits in one year! Whew! I'm smokin'! You got to have something special going on to get that many hits in one year! Okaaay Okaaay! I know that isn't many hits. But I refuse to stoop to posting skin pics on this blog to get hits (ahem Wyatt)! Awww who am I kidding! Here is my very first skin pic!!

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Man, that woman is uuuuuugly! I hear they were selling her face as a holloween mask but it was just too much!! Wow! Now I better get some hits now!!

Color me Firsssst!!

2006-10-11T17:22:00.000-07:00

Whooo Hooo! Guess who took first in THE caption contest at The Man's place? Could it have been Wyatt?... Nooooooo! Could it have been Jimmyb?.... Noooooo! It was Meeeeeee! As Jim Carrey says! And pretty funny too I might add! Heh! You know every once in a while, you just got to break out the funny!

Bits and pieces

2006-10-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, busy here at work and last weekend was my wife's birthday! We went to the coast for a couple of days, and the weather was awesome! I think it was the last two days of nice weather they will get there till June of next year! It was like 70 degrees and not windy at all, which is cool because, that way the stinky hippies aren't trying to fly kites and kicking sand and crap on ya! I think I can fit that box kite in his rear orifice. But make no mistake, we knew we were in the good old northwest what with all the women "couples" and male "partners" roaming the town of Seaside. I got one question, If your a homo, male or female, and you say the same sex attracts you, why is it the guys have one that wants to look like a girl, and the females have one that looks more manly than Wyatt, oh wait, he's not a very good example because he cries in hockey! HA! I kill myself!! Heh Heh! Whew, *wipes away tears*.... Okay now where was I, Oh yeah, it was a great weekend!

Second, Tiffany, my cousin is Afghanistan, has sent me an e-mail saying everything is going well there. And she is fine. Some of you had mentioned that you would like to send her something. If you are still interested let me know in the comments and leave your e-mail and I will send the info to you. I also got a list from her sister what kind of stuff she likes. Anyways I'm going to send her some stuff. Please don't take this as any kind of pressure to send something, I just wanted to let anyone know if they had a mind to. We are so proud of her and our military!!

Last but not least, Peaks has a great post about his future plans as a husband, father and man, how he came to the decision to do what he wants to do. I see it everyday people, the lose of the father figure in our nation is going to be the downfall of this nation. Before anyone gets mad at me, let me say that there are always extenuating circumstances. That being said, I want to applaud Peaks for his decision! I know there is a prevailing mind set out there that thinks, I have to give my kids everything I didn't have. How about you give them your time. Let them see how a Man is suppose to treat a Lady. The respect he gives her, so that when your daughter is on her own she won't allow a punk boy to disrespect her! So that your sons see how a Man treats and respects a Lady, so that when he is on that date he can control himself and respect that girl. You know that girl your son dates is some other man and women's daughter, that they love and cherish! When there is a Father figure around that truly loves his children, helps his children, is there when they have problems they want to discuss, when they know that their home is a place of refuge from peer pressure, from the world, they know that Daddy is there to love and protect them, what a head start they will have in this life! When we men have children we HAVE to change our priorities! Trust me when I say, our children do not want riches, they want their parents to be there for them. If you have children, that bass boat is going to have to wait if working 12 to 15 hrs a day is what it takes to get that boat. You want well adjusted children that don't go into schools and kill their peers, that molest other children then wait 20 yrs and take it out on some Amish girls, then be there for them! When you are old and lonely because your children want nothing to do with you. Don't call me and tell me what bad children you have, because you had them for the first 17 to 18 yrs of their life! And those are the years when they form their opinions about the world and what is right and what is wrong! So Peaks, I raise my glass to you, it's a glass of Pepsi but nonetheless a glass, and salute you! May my daughters and sons find sons and daughters raised by a MAN like you!

This isn't even funny! not one single bit!!

2006-09-25T15:45:00.000-07:00

It's funny, but how true it is makes my blood boil! I am so sick and tired of hearing of the tired and poor coming to this country! Quit sending your tired and poor!! Send your intelligent and wealthy! I want some one coming here that is going to be a productive member of society! Come and embrace the AMERICAN culture! Don't bring yours and expect it to fit in here! If your culture is so great, STAY where you are! If this makes me a racist, then so be it! I'm a racist!
" In a new poll put out today, 51% of Americans say that illegal immigration is a serious problem, the other 49% said "no habla ingles"! I would do a upside down exclamation mark but all I know is english!

Blogging fever has got another one!

2006-09-16T23:37:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, all 5 of my readers! HA! I would like everyone to please go and visit my Cuz who has started his own blog. He has commented here as Wreckse. And has now started his own blog called www.wrecksoforegon.blogspot.com Go make him feel welcome. He's a musician so you know you can't believe a word he says but he will be funny! J/K! He isn't funny at all! HA! I just kill myself! Those joke classes are really paying off! Some of his hobbies are long walks on the beach, little puppies, and watching the lifetime channel! Just what the women ordered! You go now!!

You've lost that Blogging feeling, Ooooohooooh!

2006-09-13T09:19:00.000-07:00

I'm scared, I don't know where to turn, I don't know who to talk to! I think that I could give up this blogging thing today and never look back. I don't know, in the past two weeks, everytime I tried to post something, either I couldn't come up with something, or I just didn't care. And that stinks, because anyone that knows me, knows that I can speak my mind about any subject at anytime, anywhere regardless if I know anything about that subject or not! It doesn't matter to me if I know anything about it or not, I'm sure I have an opinion about it!

Somebody answer me this: How is it, that someone could make a movie about Pres. Bush being assasinated, and I don't hear of one, NOT ONE, democrat or liberal speak out against it?! You haven't even heard some one say, "Ya know, that probably shouldn't have been done." Or how about, "My, that is a little over the top". Lets listen and see if we can hear anyone saying that......... *crickets*! That's all ya hear! Now, lets try and make a movie showing the Clinton administration in just a bad light, like they made a mistake ore someting... WHOOOOA! You would have thought that we made a movie of clinton getting his head chopped off... oh wait, we only make movies of Bush having that done to him! What a bunch of hypocrites! I'm telling you this world is not for long! I'm sorry but that is just how I feel! I was going to move on but I can't. Where are the people coming out and saying, Hey, you can't do that, this is still the President of the US!! I don't care if you don't like him! You can not allow someone to show that drivel here in the US! I would not want it shown here if it showed the murder of Clinton, or Carter or JFK or any other presidential democrat! There is a line that is being crossed here and when you cross lines, generally you can not go back! So if this is okay, in 2009, if and I say IF, there is a democrat president, and someone makes a movie about killing that president, what is going to be the outrage? Will the ones that are silent today, voice their outrage over something like that for a demorcratic president? Of course they will! And I will too! It is just wrong for it to be done!!
Rant over*

Oh yeah, have a great day!

Joke of the Day

2006-08-29T10:38:00.000-07:00

First let me say no offense to any Catholic readers. SO DONT TAKE ANY! HA! But this is funny, I don't care who you are!!!

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "Save the Whales" hat, and a "To H**l with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly. As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the bear's chest... The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat. As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic Environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy?" "It was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom."

"Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he sure doesn't know anything about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and snatch another one?"

There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

2006-08-28T09:54:00.000-07:00

I've finally clicked my two heels together and come home! This summer has just flown by! I don't think I've been home for half of it. I left again on the 11th of August and just got home this past saturday. I was in NC. And no I didn't get to meet up with Uber! Man, what a post that was going to be! Wyatt would have never recovered!! HA! She was out camping with family which I think was a great thing for her! Flew to Tulsa to pick up my wife and family to drive home. We had a great time. Went to the Grand Canyon, the painted desert, the petrified forest. The Grand Canyon is just amazing. I thought I would be like, Oh well, another hole in the ground. Nuh Huh! It was amazing! Pictures do not do it justice! Here is on though.

Here is one with the Fantastic Travelling Elwell Family! Man, what a good looking family!

Here is one of the painted desert

And here is one of the petrified forest. I think this is soo cool. Of course thinking of petrified wood, Heh, he said wood, reminds me of Wyatt's golf game! HA! Or maybe, I should say, putrified! Man HA ha ha! *wipes tears from eyes* I kill myself!

Pretty much after that it was just hitting the road and In and Out burgers! Mmmm I love me some In and Out burgers!!! Double Double with onions!! I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. I need to find me some small children to eat!

It's about time!! Recap for Hot Wing Conspiracy baseball

2006-08-18T07:33:00.000-07:00

First off, my deepest apologies to all my fantasy baseball partners, this recap is about 5 days too late. When I signed up for week 19 I thought it was next week and not the week of one of our biggest RV rallys. I just didn't have time to do it. So I'm sorry! But here it is:

So, before we recap, I will give you the obligatory explanation of the rules.
The stats your team builds up are broken down into 12 groups. For batters, there’s runs, homeruns, RBI’s, Strike-outs, stolen bases, and batter’s average. For Pitching, there’s Wins, Saves, Strike-outs, Holds, ERA, and WHIP. Each one of those is a win, a loss, or a tie. So in a given week, you can have any combination of wins, losses, and ties that add up to 12.
On to the scoring!

fmragtops - 7 Right Wing nuts - 5
My team just plain sucks!! It looks like Fmragtops owned the offensive side of the battle. The MVP of this week would have to by L. Overbay, my goodness he was on fire 10 RBI's he hit .393 w/ 2 hr! What a week! The loser this week: RP Walker for the tigers, what a putz! 27.00 ERA. Of course if right wing nuts would spend just a little more time working with his schedule he might put up some better numbers! Nice job Fmragtops!

Webcats-7 Robots Eat Babies-4
Well, the strength of these two teams is there offense. Sorry but your pitchers sucked this week. With Ryan Dempster being the only pitching bright spot. MVP this week: Vlade Guererro he hit .346 with 3 HR and 3 SB. Loser this week: Cuddyer from MN, he only hit .130 with 11 K's.

bRight & Early-5 Baghdad Bombers- 4

B&E won this week with the 2 saves from the Royals reliever. And what has happened to Jason Isringhausen? He used to be lights out! Hero for this week: Jimmy Rollins, 7runs, 3 HR's, 9 RBI's and hit .387 WOW! Zero: Ichiro, 4 strike outs in one week! that don't happen very often. He was just crappy!

Poca Dots Blog!- 9 RFTR- 2

Here is a great example of how the electoral college works. Even though the 11 catagories scored in were close the final score looks like a blow out. Only 2 of the catagories were blow ous the rest were close. 2 winners is this contest: Carlos Lee, 10 Runs, 5 RBI's while hitting .484 then there was Bobby Jenks, 1 win, 3 saves, and no runs scored!! Niice! There really wasn't a big Loser stand out. But since I got to pick one here goes: Shane Hillenbrand, hit .200 with only 2 RBI, and 2 runs scored.

CZC Owns- 5 Wookies will win- 6
Wookies pitching was really good this week. And this one was as close as the score shows. Of course any team with Albert Puljos is the odds on favorite! This weeks winner: Puljos, .385 scored 8 runs and only 2 SO! Loser: AJ Pryzinski you just can't hit .150 in this league and succeed!

Paws- 8 Akhtar- 3
Both teams played hard! (stoopid Rasheed Wallace, when he didn't want to answer any questions he would just repeat that over and over again till everyone would leave, what an Arse!) But here, both teams had great hitting and great pitching. Winner: Split, Brad Penny with 2 wins in one week, and Rodriquez for the Angels with 4 saves and 5 SO and 0.00 ERA. Loser: Lopez with 9 SO and .219

Columbia Cardinals- 8 Repubs lost in SD- 4
There just wasn't any hitting here at all. Repubs combined hitting average was .194 your not going to win to many games like that. The pitching was pretty good though. Winner: Weaver for the Angels was great, 1 win and 11 K's, 3.86 ERA pretty good. Loser: Ivan Rodriguez .091 hitting, that says it all!

Gashouse Gorillas- 8 The Galt-inators 4
Pretty anemic hitting here too. With A Rod being the only bright spot. Imagine that with all the boo birds in NY. And JJ Putz has come out of nowhere to seize the closer role in Seattle. Since then he has been lights out. Winner: A-rod, 3 HR's, 5 RBI's, 5 Runs scored, with a .485 BA! Loser: Coco Crisp, not only because his name sucks but he didn't bat too well either, .167!

Where am I? Well, I'll just tell ya!

2006-08-16T16:08:00.000-07:00

The winner is.........

Katey!! I'm in Charlotte NC! man is it muggy here! Last night while we were eating a HUGE thunderstorm came through and dumped 4 inches of rain. then rained lightly all night till about noon today! Now with the sun coming out it is muggier than before. If that is even possible. There you have it. I'll be going to MO friday and leaving for WA next week. I will be driving my family back home. Finally reunited! Whooo Hooo!

For those of you that care, I will be posting the results from week 19 of Hot wing conspiracy fantasy baseball soon.

Where in the world is Sasquatch!

2006-08-14T19:47:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm not in the NW right now for sure! I apologize that I have not posted in a while. I had to get ready for this trip. And since I got here friday night I haven't really had time to post, what with setting up the show and golfing, you know, priorities! Now see if you can guess where I am at!

Hint #1 It took at least 10 hrs to fly with a 3 hr lay over.

Hint #2 It's warm and muggy!

hint#3 They have an NFL team here.

hint #4 They also have a Nascar track here.

hint #5 There is a blogger on my list on the right that lives not to far from this city!

hint#6 Wait a minute..... that ought to be enough to figure it out! Now get guessing!!

It's Monday and I got nothing!

2006-08-07T12:26:00.000-07:00

Well, how about something from the wide wide world of sports!

First off, Tiger did it again! Man, this guy is on fire! (sorry Dad) He is just smoking everything. Back to back wins. Some of his approach shots were just sick! Coupled along with the fact he has put the driver at the back of the closed and is using his Fairway irons and 3-wood (heh, he said wood!) he is almost unstoppable. I saw a stat that said his approach shots from 150 to 75 yards out are on average 5' inside of the rest of the field. That means he is putting a 10 to 15 footer instead of a 15 to 20 footer for birdie. Five feet closer to the hole on your approach shots is the difference in scoring birdies instead of pars! This win this weekend was his 50th on tour. He is well on his way to 100 wins before he goes to the senior tour! That would be 14 more than the closest person. And nobody thought that 86 wins was attainable! Wow!

2nd we go to Nascar. Jimmie Johnson won the Brickyard 400. Now this is one of the biggest races of the year for Nascar. If you win at Daytona or Indianapolis then your year was a good one. Jimmie became only the second racer to win at both venues in the same year. Dale Jarrett is the only other. This win meant alot to Jimmie since one of his idols was Rick Mears the indy car racer. Rick was from California like Jimmie. A great race that had alot of drama, as much drama as a car race can have. Of course, it would have been better if that Looooooseeeeeer, Tony Stewart had bumped Carl Edwards in the race, then I think it would have gotten crazy then. Before the race Carl called Tony a Moron! Well that about sums it up about Tony! HA!

The NFL kicked off its exhibition season last night with the Raiders beating the Eagles 16-10. Of course this is just that, an exhibition game and really doesn't mean anything. Now I'm a Raider fan but if these two teams met in the regular season the Eagles would take them. And you wouldn't think there would be a lot of hard hitting in this game but there were about 4 or 5 that made you sit up and take notice! Pretty cool!

Last but not least. Baseball! The greatest sport ever invented! Now I know a couple of my fellow bloggers hate baseball. But I think that just means they were never good at it. Just keeping it real here. No offence meant. I hate writing, I have a lot to say, but am intimidated by the fact that I can't write as well as some others do. Insol is one of the best writers I know. The way he puts down his thoughts on paper, well blog paper, whatever, you get the picture. So I know where my weaknesses lie. So no offence when I say that. Anyways where was I going with this. See I told you I suck at this! Oh yeah, baseball! I think I bring bad luck to a team when I start rooting for them. My favorite team is the Dodgers! I used to bleed Dodger blue! They were my boyhood team. I grew up in So-Cal, so it was them or the Angels. But doing as much moving as I have, I have come to have a soft spot for the teams where I live. The Seattle Mariners and the KC Royals. Both of whom suck worse than I suck at writing! And I like the Cardinals too! Anyways the only team doing any good right now is the Dodgers. They are on a hot streak. Man, what a messed up paragraph! Nothing about baseball this weekend just some rambling about baseball! Wow! So much for the sports report! Till next time. So long!

She's Baaaaaack!

2006-08-03T13:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, that would be my like 5 readers, Panda from What Panda is back! Everyone go over and welcome her back! Her husband is still in the service, serving our country over in Germany. So everyone go over and give them our support!! Go now.... Move it.... Go....!

Dog days of summer

2006-07-27T14:41:00.000-07:00

Man I am missing my wife! It's only been 2 weeks and 2 days and 15 hours and 32 minutes and 15 sec, no 16 sec, 17 sec, anyways you get what I mean! Man at first I was like any other red blooded male! Whooo Hoooo Party time! All by myself with no responsibility except going to work on time. I could come home when I wanted, eat what I want, watch what I want, do what I want. The life of Reilly! Well screw that! I'm dying here! Where are my funny children, my awesome beautiful wife?! This sucks and I got 3 more weeks to go!! That's like an eternity man! If I could just smack a hippie everyonce in a while it would be a little bit better! And all these cold showers are getting to me! I need my wife, if you know what I mean?! wink wink nudge nudge! Oooh nudge nudge! Aww man there I go again! Well what are you gonna do?!

I recieved an e-mail from Tiff yesterday. Everything is good where she is at in Afghanistan. Here NCO hooked her up with soldiers angel but Tiff had her take her off since she doesn't have time to even write her family! I told her that was cool but at least send me her address so I could send her stuff! She also wanted me to thank everyone that sent her well wishes from my blog. I sent her all your comments. She said it was greatly appreciated. Hopefully soon she will have time to write some. She said it has been pretty hot there, 120 to 130! Man, I'll quit complaining about 90 degrees!

Am I the only one who hasn't seen Michelle Malkin on youtube? I found her video "give jihad a chance" Man it was funny! There are a few more too! So cool! Check them out if you get the chance! Well now I have to go take another cold shower! bye for now!

Ack! I've been Memmed!

2006-07-23T17:14:00.000-07:00

3 things that scare me:

1. The thought of Helen Thomas naked!
2. My oldest Son turned 15 yrs old, and I have so much to teach him!
3. That in Nov of 2008 we may have a Democrat Pres.

3 people that make me laugh:

1. Aaron my youngest son
2. Comedian john pinette
3. those videos of idiots trying to do stunts and smacking themselves!

3 things that I hate most:

1. Liberals mentality
2. people that hurt children!
3. the feminazation of men

3 things I don’t understand:

1. computers
2. how somebody can be so stupid but still be alive
3. how when a drunk driver gets in an accident and the other person dies but not the drunk

3 things I am doing right now:

1. Sweating like a dog!
2. memming a memm!
3. wishing my wife wasn't 2000 miles away!

3 things I want to do before I die:

1. Play golf in Scotland and England
2. see my grandchildren
3. shoot a 70 in golf!

3 things I can do:

1. beat Joecool and Pinhead at golf
2. fix just about anything mechanical, computers not so much
3.make my wife smile

3 ways to describe my personality:

1. Loud
2. schizo, no not really, but maybe
3. open minded (yeah right!)

3 things I can’t do:

1. fix a computer
2. keep my thoughts to myself
3. be nice to a hippie

3 things I think you should listen to:

1. God
2. your mom
3. your children

3 things you should never listen to:

1.the libs
2. the media
3. your brother when he says this won't hurt at all

3 absolute favorite foods: What only 3!!!

1. small people! their like finger food!
2. My wife's baked beans (sorry mom)
3. My mom's tacos!!!

3 things I’d like to learn:

1. how a baby could have just milk yet have the nastiest diaper you ever seen! Or smelled!
2. how to work a computer better
3. other than those 2, nothing else, I know the rest!

3 beverages I drink regularly:

1.Pepsi
2. Milk
3. $3.00 coffee!!! (I love that stuff JT!)

3 shows I watched as a kid:

1. Happy Days
2. Battlestar Gallactica
3. Hee Haw

3 people I am tagging:

1. my little brother Fitch
2. Damian
3. Katey

Funny Joke for today

2006-07-20T09:53:00.000-07:00

Bubba and Billy Joe are walking down the street in Atlanta, and they see a sign on a store which reads, "Suits $5.00 each! , shirts $2.00 each, trousers $2.50 each. "

Bubba says to his pal, "Billy Joe, Look here! We could buy a whole gob of these, take'em back to Sand Mountain, sell 'em to our friends, and make a fortune. Just let me do the talkin' 'cause if they hear your accent, they might think we're ignorant, and not wanna sell that stuff to us. Now, I'll talk in a slow Georgia drawl so's they don't know we is from Mississippi."

They go in and Bubba says with his best fake Georgia drawl, "I'll take 50 of them suits at $5.00 each, 100 of them there shirts at $2.00 each, 50 pairs of them there trousers at $2.50 each. I'll back up my pickup and..."

The owner of the shop interrupts, "Ya'll from South Mississippi, ain't ya?" "Well...yeah," says a surprised Bubba...."How come you knowed that?" "

Because this is a dry cleaners