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Safety and Saving Money at the Gas Station

2008-06-10T06:31:00.000-07:00

I know, I haven't wrote in a while. I guess that I could say that there was nothing to write about, but that would be a lie since there is always stupidity in the world.
A long, long time ago (10 years) auto makers started making these larger vehicles called "SUV's", I think that stood for Sports Utility Vehicles. I questioned people as to why they would need such a large vehicle, one of the responses that I received was 'Space'. After I would mention to that person that they are a family of three, their next response would be the inevitable 'Safety'. I had no come back to this reason other than to say that it was a self perpetuating safety since the only reason they are safer is that they are larger. If safety was your concern you sure weren't worried about the person in the Yugo that would get plowed by one of these monsters, but I digress.
I now want to know why these same people are selling their SUV's? If safety is such a large factor, then why such the massive sell off. Is it because fuel prices are $4+ a gallon? Could that be it? I don't understand how people could put a value on their families safety, how could they be so selfish about wanting to save a dollar or two (or ten to twenty) by selling their SUV's and buying a Prius. Or could the answer be that they lied to everyone and the reason they wanted that enormous, hulking monstrosity was to look cool and now it is too expensive to look cool? No, that couldn't be it..

Welcome to Black Friday

2007-11-24T19:11:00.000-08:00

Well, I have survived the morning of black friday. If you are not familiar with this annual ritual than here is the lowdown. Retailers open up really early on the day after Thanksgiving with really low prices on a couple of items in their store. Problem being is that there are alot of people that want the advertised item at that really low price. Which means that there are near riots at these outlets for the advertised items.
I have to admit that it is kinda fun going out really early in the morning, waiting in line for hours on the of chance that I might be able to get one of these 'sale' items. This year was the first year that my wife didn't have to work on black friday so she accompanied me. Since I am protective of her this might have shown me the carnage that this really is.
Why is it that on black friday we are able to be rude and just plain mean to other people that we meet? To give an example I did black friday at Nebraska Furniture Mart in Kansas City, KS. We got there at 6am (doors open at 7am) and there was already a large mass of people that were there for the deals. When the doors fianally opened it was every person for themselves. Heaven forbid that someone gets to the $50 guitar hero II game before you do. I saw guys that were shoving women out of the way. I got through the mob of people that was surrounding the $10 DVD players and was able to get one. I figured I would be helpful and started grabbing the DVD players off of the pallet and handing them back to folks behind me. I thought that I would be thanked but instead about got the crap beat out of me due to folks that I failed to hand a DVD player.
Luckily my wife just stayed towards the front of the building which was probably the safest. The whole reason that we were there was an advertisement in the newspaper the day before that had a Compaq laptop for $250. What they failed to mention was that they would give out ticket vouchers to the first 200 people that showed up so that there wouldn't be a bunch of people running towards the cheap laptops. What kind of crap is that? Hell, all of the people there have broke every morale human code, might as well give them their just reward.
I guess what it comes down to is I have seen what I am like and I didn't really like it too much. I think that from now on I am just going to look for sales that are going on in different stores and online and buy from them. I will save all of the cage fighting for the experts in that field.

'fraid not law

2007-08-16T14:29:00.000-07:00

I think that we should come out with a law that supercede's other laws, call it the 'fraid not law. This law would be used when people skirt around the law on a small technicality. Kinda like the double jeopardy law that says you cannot be tried for the same crime twice. The prosecutor could call " 'fraid not" and then set in motion the law.

Maybe it would consist of each side choosing 13-15 people and telling their side of the story then explain that if common sense dictated what would the outcome be? The outcomes would never set a precedent and the judges only job would be to make sure that everything is kosher, the judges hands would be tied as far as a ruling, that would be left up to the group of people.

My thought process is this, we the people make the laws of the land. When people skirt the law, they have basically found a way around what we were trying to block. Apparently, we hire all of these supposedly really smart people to go to Washington and make these laws for us. It seems that with all of their supposed knowledge they keep making mistakes and holes in the laws and letting people either run free when guilty or lock up someone who is innocent. Yes, thats right, we hire them. Which means after their term, they can be fired.

I think that something got lost

2007-08-15T13:50:00.000-07:00

I know that I should have been writing articles about the Michael Vick saga, but to be quite honest I have been lazy and swamped at work and home. So now I am going to try to play catchup here.
Apparently this pretty popular football player has been accused of having dog fights on his property as well as raising and training dogs for this purpose. There has been no comment out of him since this was all raised. The interesting thing to me is that if you are totally innocent of any charges than why isn't there some lawyer or Vicks himself banging a drum saying that this is a conspiracy or "the man" is out to get him. Where is Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson screaming about how it is a black person that was accused? I am by no means trying to sound racial because it isn't about that. It looks to me like there are a bunch of people getting paid alot of money sitting around brainstorming different stories that will sound plausable to the public, which is why we haven't heard a peep from anyone associated with him. Once a good story has been found, they will then come out and tell everyone what this story is. Is this how a role-models are suppose to behave? To hide behind other people until he can get his story straight?
My father always told me "Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time". If Vicks believes with all of his heart that dog fighting is where its at, then it would be worth it to him to go to jail for his convictions, but don't come to me and try to make up stories as to why this was done and I didn't know, etc.. This man was paid alot of money to do a job well, if he loved something else then he should have been pursuing that instead. Maybe starting a petition to make dog-fighting legal, I don't know.
I guess the gist of my rambling here is that I am tired of people that are making alot of money for my amusement all the while telling me how great they are then turning around and breaking the law with little to no retribution. Can you say Paris Hilton? Drunk driving?

Working on a new website

2007-06-11T16:39:00.000-07:00

Hello all. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that I was starting a new project, www.doggiecare.info.
I am hoping to get the site up completely within the next couple of weeks, depending on how busy I am at work and what my social schedule looks like.

Duke Lacrosse Team Innocent

2007-04-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

I'll be damned, they didn't do anything wrong.
Where is Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton standing on their soapbox talking about how race was used in this case and tainted everything that it touched regardless of the truth?
I thought that they would be out talking about how you shouldn't judge cases because of race. How justice should view everyone as the same color. They must be too busy slamming Imus to worry about some Duke Lacrosse players.
I say congratulations to them and I hope that they take every penny from the former District Attorney in their civil suits. I say that they sue their accuser for every penny that she has also.
I'll bet that it is hard to push through life when the whole world is against you, schools kick you out, people spit on you only to finally get proven right.
I hope that alot of people start eating their share of goat pretty soon.

Pet food and your pet

2007-03-31T10:34:00.000-07:00

Where are all the chest beaters that were out when greenies was "killing" of those dogs? Where are the lawsuits for multi-million dollars because peoples favorite pooch was killed by choking?
Here are animals dying by the hudreds from contaminated food. Actually no one knows exactly how many animalshave died, but the FDA has received over 8,000 complaints. The dog companies have received over 300,000. Aren't those interesting figures, no one cares that their pet has been poisoned by reporting it to the Federal Drug Administration, they wish to only know that the company that made to food knows so that they could get paid.

US Doctors warn of poisoning from hand gels

2007-02-01T11:22:00.001-08:00

Yes, you read that right. Apparently some people have gotten it into their head that if you drink hand gel the alcohol content will get you drunk.
I think that we should not do anything, this is a great way to clean up the gene pool for future generations. For those of you wondering, the active ingredient in hand gel is alcohol, its just that its rubbing alcohol called isopropyl, not the kind that you drink that are normally found in beverages. I believe that I learned the difference between the 2 when I was five years old. Of course that means that there would have been some type of drinking alcohol around my household to make the comparison. There was.
So what do you think is the solution that the grand minds of the world have came up with?
According to the CNN article "They suggested that makers of the hand gels change the labeling."
Yea, that will help

She has returned to her roots....kinda

2006-12-28T20:30:00.000-08:00

Ahh, my favorite girl as returned to her roots. She has made a return to the place that has made her famous. Ms. Cindy Sheehan has returned to the Bush ranch to wreak more havoc.
Now she has been arrested for apparently laying in the middle of a road obstructing traffic.
Its kinda interesting that since she has not been making the news lately that she decided to return to the place that had given her alot of media attention. Whats also interesting is that this was some story that was buried in the news papers. No first or second page articles for her this time.
Famous last words according to the arresting officer "Ms Sheehan told me if you want us to move from this road, you will have to arrest us, so I did". Is that great or what?
My guess is that she is running low on funds since she is no longer the center of attention. So in order to get more funding, now she has to stage these shows. Her anti-war protests are becoming pathetic.

The day has finally arrived

2006-12-05T10:00:00.000-08:00

Yes folks, the day has finally arrived. New York has unanimously pass the law that will make trans-fatty acids illegal in New York.
Woe to the New Yorker that wants a good french fry.
According to the mayor, who banned cigarette smoking from bars and restaurants during his first term, he believes that if you can make the product with something less damaging to your health, we should do that.
What I want to know is if the product would taste as good or better without the trans-fatty acid, then why hasn't all of these restaurants and fast food places went to it already. You know, the edge factor, tastes better, that sort of thing.
Now, factoring in my timeline, I would say that pretty soon, other large cities are going to follow suit with the issue of banning trans-fatty acids. During this same period there are going to be alot of news reports and documents from medical journals that are going to show you just how bad trans-fatty acids are. How they are slowly killing people. Pretty soon you are going to hear from health officials telling you how much it costs hospitals to help patients that have eaten too much trans-fatty acids.
At least the health officials have stopped worrying about cigarette smokers for a while.

Finally, irritating things for someone else....

2006-09-27T17:49:00.000-07:00

I had the best day today than I have had in a long while. Why, you may ask? Simple, the government is actually picking on someone else for a change besides the smokers in the world. I am the first person that will be jumping on the bandwagon, marching up and down the streets with a picket sign with dead babies on the front. Well, maybe not that far, but I will be rooting for the government from the comfort of my lazyboy.
The issue at hand is Trans fatty acids. I even love saying the word. Trans Fatty Acids. Anyway, the officials in New York after having ran off all the smokers have decided that they will start concentrating on the oils that are used to fry food. Now you may say that is stupid, why would the government want to step in and take control of Trans Fatty Acids.
I have the answer since I have experienced this scenario in the past. The reason is that they are worried about your health. It is not up to you to choose what you want to put in your body, you don't know what your doing, its the governments choice, whether it be local, state or federal governments. It is in your best interests to not eat these types of foods and by damned they are going to save you whether you like it or not.
You will start seeing commercials about how you will die if you eat foods made with Trans Fatty Acid. They will start coming out with studies showing how many people have died because of it. The people that are real go getters will start having sit-ins at local fast food joints with pictures of dead people on their shirts. Pretty soon people and the government will start suing the companies that make the Trans Fatty Acids. Suddenly these companies will be paying for the commercials that will tell you not to eat their products.
I hope that they start splitting the restaurants between Trans Fatty Acid areas and Non Trans Fatty Acid areas. Then people in the Non TFA areas will start gripping (me being one of them) saying that just sitting close to people that eat TFA is disgusting and that the restaurant should not allow it at all in their buildings. There will be city ordinances that will ban the ability for you to eat french fries in public. You will not even be able to eat them in the comfort of your vehicle. The only way that you will eat them is at home. There will be taxes on your fries and onion rings that will be more than the cost of the product itself. And don't come crying to me that its an addiction, you shouldn't have started eating it in the first place. There have been reports out for years that show how bad Trans Fatty Acids are to you.
How dare you believe that you have any rights when it comes to your health. Have you no shame. Just sit down and take it in the rear like us smokers have been for years.

With tax, that will be.............

2006-06-27T15:01:00.000-07:00

Apparently at the capital they are coming up with alot of great ideas about how we can increase income for the government. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is wanting to tax the sex trade and when they don't pay, then they will go to jail. Apparently the IRS would be the agency that would enforce this law. (Full story here)
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't there a law now that pertains to pimps and prostitutes? If there isn't, then shouldn't that be the first order of business? Why does the IRS need to get involved at all? They are suppose to collect money, not enforce laws.
Also in the article it was mentioned that underage prostitution is especially horrible. Why is it that when someone in politics wants to get something done, they always mention kids? Does this make us lean more towards the bill? Why don't we just make a bill for underage prostitution and leave the 18 and older crowd out of this? Because the bill is aimed at the adults, just using the kids part for the voting aspect. If they do catch the underage prostitutes, do they prosecute them, IRS bust them for tax evasion? I mean the senator is the one that mentioned underage here.
Quoted from the story "Recent headlines have focused on sex trafficking in connection with the World Cup in Germany," Grassley said. "This vile crime is under our noses in the United States, and it's a no-brainer to have the IRS go after sex traffickers. Prosecuting these tax code violations can get these guys off the street and yank from their grasp the girls and women they exploit."
Yank from their grasp the girls and women they exploit? If my understanding of the bill is correct, these girls and women will be serving time right along side the pimp. According to the bill, if you are in the sex trade and you don't pay the taxes, you go to jail for tax evasion.
If the government believes that the sex trade is wrong and should be outlawed, than vote on it. If we agree, than its law, if we don't, its trash. Why do we have to find loopholes to prosecute people. If you can't prosecute without the loophole laws, than don't prosecute at all.
Stupidity knows no bounds.

I just Gave my Congressman a Raise

2006-06-21T12:20:00.000-07:00

I was feeling pretty good last week, so you know what I did? I just called up my local members of Congress and gave them a raise. I figured, what the heck, they deserve it. I mean congressmen have to live, don't they? Know what I am paying them now? Go ahead, take a guess.......$170,000 a year. I mean, I figured its the least I could do. I mean, do you know how much BMW's cost anymore? The prices are skyrocketing, not to mention the fuel that it takes to fill up the Hummer to get to work (wait I think I pay for that seperately).
Don't you think that large of a salary is just a little out of whack, since the people that they are serving are not making nearly that much. Not to mention, don't they get some type of allowance that pays for housing and gas expenses while they are in Washington D.C.? So that means whatever you are currently making, go ahead and not count your fuel or your mortgage, that will be taken care of seperately. Wow, my disposable income just jumped alot. I'm sure that they donate money to worthy causes, but how about we lower their income and we can give our extra money to the same worthy causes?
I think that both the House and the Senate need to make deep pay cuts. I say we pay them $40,000 a year plus expenses. Then we will know who is actually on our side, versus who is actually out to make a buck. Plus once their in D.C. they will be able to make alot more with the PAC money that companies use to bribe.... I mean help out our congressmen.

Save My House

2006-06-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

Yes, thats right folks, Dustin Diamond (Who played Screech) from the hit television show "Saved by the Bell" is trying to save his home by selling T- Shirts for $15, $20 if you want them autographed. Apparently, his home has went into foreclosure and now he is trying to get it out.
So I am here to write that my home is currently in foreclosure and that if I can raise $500,000 (I don't want to be greedy) then everyone will get a T-Shirt that says you saved my house. Of course, My house isn't really in foreclosure and its not worth that much even if it was. Point is, apparently my ability to pay bills is alot more advanced than ex movies stars.
There are alot of people that lose their houses, why does this gimmick work? Because of his name? I think that it would be worse if you were a star and cannot come up with the money to get your house out of foreclosure. Or to not let it get there in the first place.
Of course, if you look at it another way, once it is out of foreclosure, than he has bought the house free and clear with all of the money that everyone has donated. Kinda nice to have a house that doesn't have a mortgage. Just my 2 cents.

Peacock Attacks 3 year old boy

2006-06-16T21:48:00.000-07:00

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but now we know the truth. Like I had mentioned in an earlier post, about peacocks going crazy and attacking people. You can read my blog titled "Staring at Gorillas" back in July of 05.
In case you didn't hear, a 3 year old boy was attacked by a peacock on Memorial Day at the Kansas City Zoo. He had to go to the emergency room for stitches.
I know that it is a bad thing and I am glad that the child is making a full recovery from the instance at the zoo. Just remember, don't stare into the eyes of a peacock.

Illegal still means Not Legal......Right?

2006-04-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

Ok, I am a little lost when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration. I have heard alot of talk on the news about this issue and it still makes no sense to me.
If you are an illegal alien (or immigrant or whatever), that means that your not legally here, right? If something is illegal, it means that you will be punished, right? Where is this big controversy coming from?
People are protesting in the streets about us wanting to send the illegal immigrants back to wherever they came from, not jail, not torture, just a plane ride back home. I might be odd, but this doesn't sound like something that would cause protests in the street (unless you are the one that will be sent back home).
From what I understand, the United States has a legal way of getting access to come into the country to live. I'm also sure that it is a pain the rear, to jump through all the hoops to get here. But going to a place illegally is not the route to take.
If, for some reason I wanted to live in Germany and filled out all the paperwork, and they told me no. I guess my feelings would be hurt, but I wouldn't try to sneak in and start living there illegally. I would find somewhere else that would allow me to live in their borders.

Budget cuts for G'Men

2006-03-20T17:38:00.000-08:00

According to an article on cnn.com, FBI agents don't all get email accounts. Apparently to cut costs they are holding back giving the .gov names out. Now this sounds to me like they are saving billions of dollars by holding back these names. I think that I can think of a few other places that they could cut costs and let all of our Fibbies have their own email accounts. Here are some suggestions to the new guys that didn't get an email address.

Yahoo - Get a Yahoo account, I mean, it does kinda fit, doesn't it? (Get it?, I'll give you a moment to think about it.......Ok, movin' on) It's free and you get a gig of storage space, should be enough space for the newbie FBI agent-in-training.
Gmail - There ya go, Gmail-G'Men, get it? Also free but you have to be invited to get one. Which given the circumstances the newbie g'man might need to lie to someone to invite them to gmail.
Porncity - I remember that they used to give out free email accounts. I don't know how much space they offer, but can you imagine how cool a agent you would be when your FBI card said John.Doe@Porncity.net?
Hotmail - Ok, like if Microsoft is not paranoid of the FBI enough, give our guys hotmail accounts. I think that this would serve a double purpose, free accounts for the government and a very paranoid Microsoft. I'll bet Hotmail would never go down.

Ok, if you haven't caught on, I think this is pretty stupid. In this day and age, you would think that the FBI would have email accounts for all of their agents. I'm sure that if we dug deep enough into government spending, I'm sure that we can find the extra money to support email accounts for all of our agents.

Buy stock in the company that makes Greenies

2006-03-13T17:47:00.000-08:00

Ok, there is my stock tip for the week. I don't normally dole out these great offering, but I read some information today that I think can be benificial to everyone.
Apparently the pet population is at 360 million in the United States, thats 60 million more than the population of people in the US. This stock secret is a win/win situation.
If you believe that Greenies kill dogs, than the Greenie company should expand to other animals, maybe Greenies for hamsters, Greenies for Gold Fish, etc.. This would be the perfect way to control the over population of pets in the US.
If you believe that Greenies don't kill dogs, than it is still a great opportunity for the stock to rise as there is such a tremendous number of dogs which means a very large clientel for your company stock.
By the way, in case you haven't read my earlier article about the Greenies, can you imagine how many Greenies would have to be sold to put a dent into the animal population? Lets see, if 4 dogs per year die from a greenie using my calculation of ...... Ok, well I think you see my point. Thats alot of Greenies!!

The Duke will soon be a Dutchess

2006-03-03T21:20:00.000-08:00

According to CNN.com, Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, has been sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison for taking 2.4 million in bribes. I guess that there are a couple of things about this article that facinate me.
1. First and formost, how do you get a nickname like that. I want one, all I have is a long name that can be shortened. I guess thats a plus, in elementary school, didn't have a long name to have to write on my papers that I turned in......Where was I? Oh, yea......
1b. Apparently "The Duke" sat on a very powerful subcommittee that approves bids for defense contractors. Seems "The Duke" was getting some kickbacks, about 2.4 million by the looks of it. Buying a house worth 2.5 million might have tipped off authorities since his annual salary was 160,000.
2. The biggest highlight was selling his home to a defense contractor for 1.6 million. Doesn't sound too bad, until you find out that the defense contractor sold the house right away with a pricetag of $900,000. Wow, apparently thats where all of our money goes for defense. Losing 700,000 in real estate.
3. When "The Duke" entered a guilty plea, he resigned from Congress and started crying. I'm not sure if he started crying because he got caught, or because he had to quit Congress.
4. Ok I guess this is all fluff that leads to the real reason that I had to write this article. The poll at the bottom of the page asks if you believe that your congressman would take a bribe. The poll showed that 81 percent of the American people believe that their congressman are taking bribes. Isn't that amazing? Apparently 81% of the population think that everyone in congress are crooks. I actually thought that more people would believe that their congressman are slimy. Make me wonder why we just don't do an audit of everyone in congress. Now that would be fun, wouldn't it. Send the IRS guys up there, kinda like government against government. We could put it on pay per view. "Coming up at 7pm last names that start with a B in the senate"

I think that we should elect our officials by drawing. Just stick your hand in the fish bowl, whoevers name is pulled out is going to DC, whether they like it or not. They will serve their time and come back. Apparently the money is pretty good up there, with all the people bribing er..I mean lobbying. If someone wants to do the job, it makes you wonder why they want to so bad. For the common good? I think not.
Anyway, I hope they put him in with all the hardened criminal, that way he can contemplate if all the money was worth it. I wonder if he will still have the nickname "Duke" when he gets out? Might be "Dutchess"

Ha..I was right

2006-02-16T18:58:00.000-08:00

Apparently I am not the only one that thought it was wrong for Google to filter their website for China. The senate is throwing a hissy about it now. Must have read my blog. Now I don't know how to feel, I was right, but that means that my thinking is along the lines of the politicians in Washington, thats kinda scary.
Apparently the big internet search companies are being scorned about doing business in China and following the laws there. Laws being that if you direct a person to the wrong website than you had better pull down your pants and wait for the paddle.
Yahoo gave the government the name of one of their users that published a blog talking about human rights issues in China. I think that he is now doing about 8 years in prison there for writing the blog. Yahoo said that they were following the law in the country they were in. Do I think its right? No. But I also don't think that it is right for Yahoo or any of the others to be there. These companies compete against each other on the basis of how many pages each one has in their database, now they are telling everyone that its not important, bulls**t.

Excuse me Evolution.....Do you have ID?

2006-02-15T14:50:00.000-08:00

I think that this battle has played itself out. In Kansas we had the great debate here last year about whether ID (Intelligent Design) should be taught in our school systems. I personally am of the mind that ID should not be taught in schools but instead taught at church. Evolution is sciences theory of how we evolved, ID is the religeous point of view. If you are going to keep arguing about it, than lets make it fair. (And yes I am a devout pastafarian)

If ID is taught in science class, than it would be best to dedicate a whole year just to it. There are alot of religions out there and you can't play any favorites. For example I am a patafarian who believes that the entire universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (more info here). Why should one religion be left out? I think if it is taught than all religions should be included.
That would also mean that evolution should be taught in all sunday schools and religious classes. Its only fair, I mean the seperation between church and state has been crushed with the ID theory in school, so its only fair to teach evolution at church.

My thought is that evolution is the best theory we have for how we got here. If it is proven wrong and the religious ID theory is right, well that would be our mistake, its not the first one that we have ever made and won't be the last.

Bark at me and I'll feed you a Greenie

2006-02-14T16:43:00.000-08:00

In the news today I read an article about a popular doggie treat called a Greenie that was killing dogs. In the article they described how the greenie wasn't easily digestable for a dog and how it could get caught in the esophagus or worse it could get caught in the dogs intestine. The article goes on to describe, in so many words, that we are the Grim Reaper if we feed our dogs these treats. How horrible could an owner be to feed their dog such a thing. Ok, Ok lets look at the numbers.
The same article said that "millions" are sold each week. Just for the sake of arguements lets say that 1 dog will eat 10 doggie treats a week (Which in my humble opinion is too many to give your dog, these are treats not food) and that the "millions" is 2 million a week. So by my division that means that 200,000, and giving total benefit to the article we will say that only those 200,000 dogs are eating these things.
Since 2003 40 dogs have had problems with the Greenies. So if you feed your dog these you have a 1 in 5000 chance, every 3 years of your dog choking on one of these (Not dying, mind you, just choking or something getting lodged. 13 dogs have died since 2003, which means that your dog has a 1 in 15,000 chance of dying, every three years.
Is it just me or do these numbers sound a bit weird, I mean what are the odds that a dog will get hit by a car? Should we then not take our dogs outside? What are the odds of a dog choking on a childs toy? Would you be shocked if there were 13 deaths in 3 years from a dog choking on a toy? I wouldn't, I would wonder why the number was so low.
Apparently Mike Eastwood and his wife, Jenny Reiff, recently filed a $5 million lawsuit in New York, blaming Greenies for the intestinal blockage that caused the death of their dog Burt. (cnn.com) That must have been one hell of a dog. 5 million dollars. I'm sorry, I have to repeat that, 5 million dollars because their dog might have died from eating a greenie. What the hell? Was this dog the bread-winner of the family? Was he the head of the household? I have a solution for both parties, The Greenie company buys them the same kind of dog that they had. Maybe give them $100 to have a nice dinner. And this would be only if the people that makes the greenies were found guilty, if they were innocent than I would expect this couple to pay for both sides lawyers.
I also can't believe that such a popular new organization has this on their front page, shame on you CNN. We lost more human lives last year from people that were homeless, than in the 3 years of those dogs eating and choking on treats. I love my dog and don't wish any ill towards him, but it is just a dog, not a human life.

Airplanes and Airports

2006-02-13T20:02:00.000-08:00

Had a great time in DisneyWorld, thanks for asking.
I was wondering, as I was getting frisked by airport security, how many bombs has the airport security people found since we started this whole thing after 9/11? I realize that alot of fingernail files have been confiscated and lighters are no longer allowed on airplanes (Apparently they can be used to give a person the hot foot.), but I am talking about the real stuff. Bombs, explosives, that sort of thing.
After we got back from our trip, I read an article on CNN.com that talks about 2 air marshals taking a bribe to smuggle cocaine from Houston to Las Vegas. What the hell is that about? Apparently we are not paying these air marshals enough money that they need to find other forms of income. I don't need a ticked off air marshal in the airplane that I am in, thank you very much. I mean, I paid my dues, I had the security guy feel me up, I walked 5 times through a metal detector, I worked hard to be on this plane. Now apparently the gung-ho security team doesn't check everyone that gets on the plane, just the people that pay. What about the pilots? The stewardess, I'm sorry.... flight attendents, do they get searched? If I have to go through this crap, I expect everyone on that plane to go through the same crap.

Sheehan to our rescue

2006-02-01T14:33:00.000-08:00

Apparently Cindy Sheehan is fighting for our rights once again. She was removed from the house chamber after she had a shirt which read "2,245 Dead. How many more?" a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. I also know that, during the same period, a senators wife was
removed for wearing a shirt that says "support the troops". I'm sure
that she wasn't happy about that happening either.

To be quite honest, I don't know what the requirements are for your dress when you are in the House of Rep. I can only compare it with going to a high scale restaurant. I usually call and check what the clothing requirements are ie, jacket, tie, shorts etc.. You would think going to such a special occasion that you might have wanted to call ahead and check to see if you can wear certain clothes. If you feel that it is not right for them to dictate what you are wearing, I would suggest not going to the function/Game/Restaurant.

Apparently Sheehan commented that she has some lawyers looking into
filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what
happened to her that evening. She had also mentioned that the president wouldn't look at pictures of her son and didn't even know her son's name. Now I AM in the same boat as she is on this issue, the president doesn't know my name either and yes, it really hurts.

I guess I want to know a couple of things...
First....What happened to her sitting outside of houses? I still support her in her efforts to sit outside of the presidents house in Texas waiting for an audience. WHY ISN'T SHE STILL THERE? I mean, she hasn't talked to him yet, so shouldn't she still be there? Why isn't she camping outside the Whitehouse? I thought that Sheehan was a camper? I thought that her mode of protest was squatting? Where does this shirt thing come from? Is she changing her style? Is she now trying to fight for the rights of everybody now, instead of just her son?
Second...How does she support herself? I don't see anywhere that she has gainful employment. Is she a millionare that can afford to just sit in front of peoples houses? Are the photos of her as a walmart cashier being eliminated from the internet? Are people paying her out of charity, like when I give a dollar to a homeless person? You would think that a person that has that much free money would give it to a more charitable organization, United Way, Red Cross, Homeless shelters. I did hear that Sheehan wrote a book, but I haven't seen it on the NY Times best seller list and it hasn't been Oprah approved (to my knowledge).
Anyway, there is my 2 cents on the subject. I'm off to DisneyWorld, be back in two weeks :)

Google takes a stand

2006-01-25T06:10:00.000-08:00

Yes, I know, I am using my favorite whipping boy for my post again. I can't help it, it's fun to watch.

Apparently today Jan25, 2006, Google is mulling over whether to give information to the government that would be used to see what words people are using during the search and what the results are of that search. Point being is that they are "mulling", they don't want to be the people that are giving away information, stomping all over our rights and such. Google is not going to be the type of company that puts up with governments telling them what to do, even if the government is right, they stand for the people. They are going to do whats right for the people. Google is the kind of company to "Do No Evil", and dammit they mean it.

In other news today Google will start blocking politically sensitive terms on its new China website, bowing to conditions set by Beijing in return for access to the world's No.2 Internet market.

Isn't that dandy.

Also, my request for Google Adsense has been denied, I don't know why.......