Happy Holidays

This is Mitsy, our 3 pound Yorkie. She is our Christmas Card this year. Just wanted to share the pic with you all.

Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2 People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3 When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4 When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!

5 When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6 People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!' Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8 When people say "life is short" What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?

The Good Ole Days!!

This is dedicated toThose Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride downthe hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
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We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound, CD's or Ipods, no cell! phones!, no personal computers , no Internet or chat rooms....... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TODEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up askids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
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Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the
country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks,"Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and delete this.For the rest of us.....pass this on

We Close for WHAT?

What are we teaching our kids?

They all learn the (Cute Little Rhyme) ... "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue".....
History places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, although he did not actually reach the mainland of North America until his third voyage in 1498, where he was in route to India and got lost. He landed on the continent of North America and referred to the natives as Indians out of ignorance to his actual location.

How can you discover something that already exists and call it new?

A drunken Spaniard gets his direction wrong and we celebrate it by closing the banks, post office and businesses all over the USA.

We should change it to Native American Day and celebrate the realness of this land's history.

Just a thought, since I waited all day yesterday for the mailman and finally realized he wasn't coming. Then went to the bank to realize that it was closed too.

The Spanish tried to claim this land once and now they are trying again. Instead of an Atlantic Ocean route they just run across our unsecured boarders.

Next Year on what they call Columbus Day, lets all meet at the boarder and kick a little ass in the Name Of Native Americans, then stop by a Casino and give em some support!

More Wasted Money

I am flipping through my channels and pass a NASCAR race. A number 88 car stands out to me as it says NAVY across the side. I stop and watch. I go to the site Navy.com on the bumper. It is the God dammed United States Navy. They are spending our tax money to sponsor a car. I always thought the recruiting commercials on TV the "Be all you can be" ads were PSA's. I am getting an education here. Our tax money is being used to sponsor a car in one of the most expensive sporting events of today. I don't remember getting a chance to vote on this. I am not a normal NASCAR viewer and may be late on this but it does hit a nerve with me.

What's Next? "The U.S. Navy Stadium" maybe they'll spend a few million of our dollars to put their name on an arena somewhere. While people still can't afford to go to the doctor and get their prescriptions filled in this country.

(The Next Morning)

I just woke up and decided to research this a little more and add this info to this posting.

Below is what I found for 2005. Last years wasteful spending.



Military and NASCAR

The military's sponsorships this year total more than $38 million.

*Army: $16 million (32 of 36 Nextel Cup races, a traveling interactive display and two "show cars" for track and event appearances)

*National Guard: $6 million (24 Nextel Cup events)

*Navy: $5 million (35 Busch Series and two Nextel Cup races, show car and video simulators)

*Coast Guard: $4.4 million (35 Busch Series races and show car)

*Air Force: $3.3 million (four Nextel Cup races, at-track advertising and three show cars)

*Marine Corps: $3.3 million (35 Busch Series races and show car)

Military-sponsored NASCAR drivers

Army
Series: Nextel Cup
Car No. 01
Driver: Joe Nemechek

Navy
Series: Busch Series
Car No. 14
Driver: David Stremme

Air Force
Series: Nextel Cup (4 races)
Car No. 21
Driver: Ricky Rudd

Marine Corps
Series: Busch Series
Car No. 25
Driver: Ashton Lewis Jr.

Coast Guard
Series: Busch Series
Car No. 44
Driver: Justin Labonte

National Guard
Series: Nextel Cup (24 races)
Car No. 16
Driver: Greg Biffle


Another thing I learned from this whole event is that The Pentagon spent 600 Million dollars on advertising for the Armed Forces recruitment campaign last year.

WOW! Why shouldn't they use PSA's and our broadcast license holders, (TV and Radio) run the ads for free?

Dying To Learn

My 15 y/o tells us in a recent conversation that drugs are all in her school hallways. On The last day of school last season there was a big brawl planned for after school between 2 large groups of Bloods and Crips, so I was told after it all happened. Earlier this week my 11 y/o daughter ( a middle school student) tells us that an English teacher was sent home with his belongings and was crying as he left the campus. On the evening news that evening he was one of the lead stories. He was accused of touching a student in an inappropriate sexual fashion. Just this evening my kids come home from the High School homecoming game and tell us that there was gunfire at the game and Police all over the place.What is going on?

I am almost scared to send my kids to the bus stop anymore. I am not real comfortable with them going to Friday Night Football games to be honest. As the old timers say, "this world is headed to hell in a hand basket."

Again I drift back to my belief that lack of discipline in schools and the home is the root of these problems. I was a child of corporal punishment in school, from elementary on. From the beginnings of kindergarten we became very aware of the fact, that if we were disrespectful, or acted out violently or in a profane or inappropriate manner consequences were inevitable. Most children grew to respect the authority of our teachers. We might not have liked a lot of them through the years, but we respected them the way a child should respect an adult authority figure. If we didn't, our hands were on the wall and a paddle was hitting our ass in the hallway. I received a number of them from elementary through Jr High. I deserved them all and more. I was never physically harmed. (Yeah my ass stung for a few minutes afterwards) and the class may have giggled when I came back in from the hallway paddle lick. But 9 times out of 10 I never received a paddling for the same thing twice.As we evolve into a nation of Dr. Phil, time out, parents and guardians, our youth are growing up with terrible respect issues. It is so bad in our county school system now that counselors and school security officers are using tasers on High School students.

So we can't paddle them or whip them when they are young. Then they reach high school and have no sense of respect and think they can do what they want to do. How would you like your son or daughter to come home and tell you that a teacher just shot him or her with a taser gun sending 50,000 volts of electricity through their body.Don't paddle them and teach them the boundaries of authority when they are young? Just let them grow up to be unruly and we'll tase them with police tasers. I think a paddle is a little less lethal than a 50,000 volt taser gun.

I also believe we need to quit sending a DARE officer in to teach them about drugs and send in a German Sheppard drug dog in to sniff out and corner every thug in the school system who is bringing drugs to our schools. I think the memory of a dog ripping a drug filled backpack off of a high school drug dealer and watching him lead to prison in handcuffs will have much more impact on our kids than some officer passing a pipe around for them to look at.

Tell the school psychologists to explain how we have come to this?

Free Duane "Dog" Chapman!! PETITION

Sign the petition!!!

Link Below!!


http://www.petitiononline.com/dwayne/petition.html

Murder By Music

Maybe I am getting old and un-cool. But I really don't think that is the case. I was just talking to on of my best friends and we were discussing Rap Music that is at the top of the radio charts today and comparing the lyrics of the late 80's / early 90's when we were listening to Rap Music.

I guess the best way to explain is to share a few versus of a #1 Song then and now and you decide.


Below are lyrics to :

Young Jeezy's "Then What"
A Chart Topper all Summer Long This 2006. With Multi-Platinum Sales
Explanations in red if you aint hip like dad here :-)


First I'm gone stack my flo' (Count His Drug Money)
And then what
Then I'm gone stack some mo'
and then what
Close shop then I do my count
Hide the rest of the yams at my auntie house (Hide his Cocaine at a relatives home)
And then what
Get Fresh and jump in one of dem cars (yeah)
Hit the club and get one of dem broads
And then what
It's a wrap we on the way to the house
by 345 I be kickin' her out (After sex, He throws the Women out of his home)


Patty cake patty cake microwave (cooking powder cocaine into crack using a microwave oven)
These suckas make a square damn I'm paid (drug sales are lucrative for him)
I'm so cool but I'm so hot
I'm I'm so fly and you you're so not
Show me what you're workin' wit just like that (asking a girl to show her ass to him)
Turn around bend over bring it back (self explanatory)
I tried to tell 'em but these niggaz ain't hearin' me
Mossberg Pump ridin' shotgun literally (informing us that he rides around with a pump shotgun in his car)


Now lets go back to 1989 and Look at a summer chart topper of that year and compare lyrics.


KRS One, MC Lyte and Chuck D - "Self Destruction"
Also Multi-Platinum sales and a chart topper
I don't think you'll need translations on this one

KRS-One
Well, today's topic, self destruction
It really ain't the rap audience that's buggin
It's one or two suckas, ignorant brothers
Trying to rob and steal from one another
You get caught in the mid
So to crush the stereotype here's what we did
We got ourselves together so that you could unite and fight for what's right Not negative
Cause the way we live is positive We don't kill our relatives

MC Lyte
Funky Fresh dressed to impress ready to party
Money in your pocket, dying to move your body
To get inside you paid the whole ten dollars
Scotch taped with a razor blade taped to your collar
Leave the guns and the crack and the knives alone
MC Lyte's on the microphone
Bum rushin and crushin, snatchin and taxin
I cram to understand why brother's don't be maxin
There's only one disco, they'll close one more
You ain't guarding the door so what you got a gun for?
Do you rob the rich and give to the poor?

Chuck D & Flavor Flav of Public Enemy
Yes we urge to merge we live for the love of our people the hope that they get along
(Yeah, so we did a song)
Getting the point to our brothers and sisters Who don't know the time
(boyyyee, so we wrote a rhyme)
It's dead in your head, you know, I'll drive to build And collect ourselves with intellect
Come on To revolve to evolve to self respect
Cause we got to keep ourselves in check Or else it's...

Self Destruction, ya headed for Self Destruction
Self Destruction, ya headed for Self Destruction


Can you now understand why we feel like Hip Hop has been hijacked by thugs who promote crime, violence, murder and want to rape our daughters and throw them in the street in the middle of the night after they are finished using them as a device for their drug induced sexual pleasure?

I can post the lyrics of song after song after song............................ From then and now and you'll see the same contrast. The music industry, radio stations, and our own FCC supports this garbage and slowly feeds it to our children. Our children are slowly being brainwashed into thinking that selling drugs, going to titty bars, carrying guns, and sexually assaulting women is cool. It is all over the radio and TV. Our daughters are being taught to be whores and sex objects for thugs. And there is nothing that we can do to stop it...it is a cancer that has grown around us as a society and it's influence is killing the next generation.

When I was growing up we didn't have private corporations building prisons for profit and renting the cells to government. There was no shortage of prison bed space then. Maybe that is because we could whip our kids. Teachers could paddle them if they were unruly and the music and t.v. weren't telling them to be criminals.

Government has told us we can't discipline them in ways that have been around since the beginning of mankind. We now go to jail if we spank our kids. Our kids go to jail cause we couldn't spank them. We can't spank them but the FCC allows them to be brainwashed into criminals over the public airwaves that we pay for and then they kill them on death row or put them in prison and tell us it costs $100,00.00 (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) a year to house them in a 6X10 room. The national average spent is $70,000.00 (Seventy Thousand) per prisoner, per year.

I know families of 4 and more who live on half that yearly in 3 bedroom homes. It appears to me we are being pissed on and told it's rain. How do we stop this madness. We are being charged $70,000.00 per year, per prisoner. Come on .... Lets get real!!

The U.S. prison population, already the largest in the world, grew by 1.9 percent in 2005, leaving federal jails at 40 percent over capacity. Inmates in federal, state, local and other prisons totaled nearly 2.3 million at the end of last year, the government said. The 1.9 percent increase was lower than the average annual growth rate of 3.2 percent during the last decade.

That Means we pay an average of $161,000,000,000 (one hundred sixty one billion dollars) a year to house our criminals. I hope I did the math right!!! That doesn't include the money we spend on public defenders in millions of cases per year.

I believe that if the airwaves were filled with the lyrical content of the 60's 70's 80's and even the 90's we could possibly empty out enough prisons to free up enough money for proper healthcare coverage for our citizens.....

... Oh but our pharmaceutical companies are probably loving what is on the air today.

I have been in broadcasting for 18 years now and embarrassed and ashamed at what radio has become. I can't watch videos or listen to Top 40 radio with my kids as it is embarrassing to them and me. I wonder if George Bush has even listened to a top 40 station lately? Probably never has in the 6 years he has drained our surplus budget into a multi trillion dollar deficit.

GOD SAVE US!!!

I know this post is all over the road and I am frustrated. So I'll end it now and try to get some sleep!!!

Dog-Gone Mad

So I'm watching the news and I see that Duane "Dog" Chapman has been picked up by federal marshals in Hawaii and jailed for failure to appear in court in Mexico. WTF is wrong with our system?

Now let's re-cap the events that led up to this whole insane event and see if it makes any sense to you.

The heir to Max Factor cosmetics, Andrew Stuart Luster was drugging women and raping them once they were unconscious. He was arrested and released on one million dollars bail. He then left the country, moved to Mexico and was enjoying life. Probably raping women there too. He was a high profile fugitive that even our own great FBI couldn't locate. There was a One Million Dollar Bounty on him and nobody could locate him.

Dog, his son and brother hear that he is hiding in Mexico. The go down, find him and arrest him. Mexican Police say that they must turn him over to them. He refuses saying he is going to return him to California Authorities. They arrest him and through him and his crew into a dirty Mexican jail, which got a lot of press.

Now I didn't fall off a turnip truck yesterday. I have known for years how corrupt the Mexican police organization is. It has always been common knowledge to keep a nice stash of money handy in case you ever got stopped in Mexico for the most minor traffic violation. One of the reasons I never visited the areas near the US borders was due to the nightmares I had heard from friends who had been locked up or detained until they could have money wired to the cops so they could come home.

So Dog Pays his bail and is released from Jail and heads back to the US. When he arrives to claim his reward money he is told he isn't gonna get it and called a vigilante. He gracefully writes it off as a loss and states, "Well at least this sexual predator is off the streets and will not rape anymore women" What a spiritual way of looking at the situation.

He then was approached by A&E to do a documentary on his day to day life as a Bounty Hunter.He becomes a role model for kids all over America. He is the only man I have ever seen that will hunt down, wrestle to the ground and handcuff a fugitive, only to hold his hands a pray for him before walking him into a jail. He appears to be a wonderfully spiritual man who is making the world a better place.

He recently received Honors and Awards in Hawaii for his contribution to cleaning up the streets and his vital role in they war against drugs there.

Now Mexico is bitching because he didn't show back up to court after he got out of jail, so they could get more money out of him for their corrupt law enforcement organization. I would think they have bigger fish to fry than be worrying about a man who removed a rapist from their community. Oh, but maybe they knew he was there all along. Maybe Mr. Luster was paying them for protection. Maybe if Dog hadn't made such a fuss back then and turned Mr. Luster over to them it would have all worked out and Mr. Luster would be raping women all over Mexico while the Police Officer's pockets got fatter.

Now Law enforcement from the same community that just honored Dog Chapman for his contribution to the world is arresting him, throwing him in jail and threatening extradition to Mexico for failure to appear in court.Do Mexican police have pictures of George Bush screwing a Sheep? Why are we arresting a man for not reporting to court in a country that will not even help us secure our borders. Why are we arresting a man for bringing a sexual predator of the worst kind to justice. For God's sake, he was Fu#&ing unconscious women against their will.

Dog and his family did what our own FBI and Federal marshals were unable to do.

Law enforcement is waaaaay on wrong side of history on this one. It is shit like this that slowly erodes the way we look at our justice system. How do I explain to my kids what has happened and expect it to make any moral sense to them?

I am pissed. REALLY PISSED. Our government is pissing in our face an telling us it's rain and locking up our heroes, while more crimes are committed on Capitiol Hill in a week than most of the worst criminals commit in their lives!!!

God Help US Please!!!!!