Finally...a Barrack Obama product I ENDORSE!

You can keep all the T-shirts and the glowing Barrack Obama pictures that pop up in magazines and newspapers.

 

Only fitting seeing how the President’s strategy on the economy, (Spend money we don’t have, and expanding government at a rate not seen in decades.  Can’t let a crisis go to waste!!) and Tim Geithner’s bumbling are destroying our Dollar and trying whatever they can to nationalize not just banks, but private businesses as well.

 

Finally, check out this video.  It is a good example of what happens when Countries turn to Socialism for the answer.  I wish someone in our Congress would stand up like Daniel Hannan.

 

Have a good weekend, and hopefully our dollar isn’t devalued too much by Monday.

 

 

When Government Gets Involved....(Picture of the Day)

…You end up with a lot of crap that has been sugar coated for you to swallow.

 

I don’t know about you, but I am sick of the crap they feed us!

The Nova's 1st car show

These are pics from the Olympia Beatniks Car Show in Pasco on Saturday.  As you can see, the Nova won a trophy!  I had many compliments on the cleanup work I have done with the paint job, and several people told me that they haven’t seen a Nova in original condition that was as nice as mine!  Needless to say I am very excited for the next car show I will be attending, which will be sometime in April.

 

The cool part is that Saturday would have been Lisa’s Grandmother Juanita’s 101^st birthday.  Seeing how she was the owner of the car before me, it made for a nice day.

Dumb Blonde(s) Friday

For fairness, I included both a dumb blonde male, and a dumb blonde female.  I am not sure if it is a real knife going through his hand, but I do notice a pile of crumpled styrofoam cups in the lower left hand picture of the screen.  Either way dude still registers as a dummy.

 

All week long I had blog ideas, yet I never posted anything.  Bad El Donaldo!!  I guess it is the miserable weather we have been having.  It’s March for goodness sake.  Can’t we have a little bit of warmer weather?  Or even better, warmer weather NOT accompanied by the WIND?

 

Maybe I will get off my lazy butt and actually post next week.  Time will tell.

 

Have a good weekend.

 

 

The internet is a useful tool, even for stupid people.

You have all received them in your email inbox. Stories about extraordinary events. Reports of people who through either speeches or interviews have warned the public about people and or events that would damage our country. No matter what the context of the story, many people go ahead and forward it to their friends and family believing what they have just read is pure fact.

I for one am sick and tired of receiving emails that are nothing but bull crap. At least once a week I have one of my friends for filling up my inbox with emails that smell worse than Pelosi and Reid's Congress does. And for the last year or so, I have made it my personal mission to try and clear the Internet of emails that pull the heartstrings of the uninformed. So here I have compiled a list of emails that I have received not once, not twice, but several times since I started to use email back in 1997.

Bull crap email #1: OLIVER NORTH WARNS US ALL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN WAY BACK IN 1987

This particular email started to pop up soon after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. During a time when people wanted to know why there was no warning about what had happened to our country, some tweaker in his parent's basement decided that it would be fun to spread lies and discontent across the world wide web.

Sorry folks, no mention of Osama in this intelligence document.

I cannot count how many times I have received this email. However, when I do now receive it, I simply do reply to all (including the person who sent it to the person who sent it to me, so they too know they are clueless.) and write the word FAIL in big letters, and include the same snopes link that I included above.

Bull crap email #2: FOR EVERY TIME THIS EMAIL IS FORWARDED, LITTLE STEVIE SUCKINPUCKS WILL GET 5 CENTS TOWARDS A NEW APPENDIX! (Or a heart, kidney, spleen, knee caps, pinkie finger, etc., etc.)

Emails like these really try to play on people, and it makes me want to throw up. I mean c'mon people, do you really actually believe that there is some magical email program that is racking up silver Jefferson's every time another nitwit sends off this email to all of his friends and family, thinking that they just made 85 cents for some poor sick kid? Gimme a break! If you have ever forwarded one of these emails, shame on you. I would call you names and say how you are a drain on society, but then you might not finish reading this post. Speaking of emails trying to raise money for a cause, that brings me to bull crap email number 3.

Bull crap email #3: PLEASE SAVE ALL SODA PULL TABS! THEY WILL PAY FOR LITTLE JOEY'S DIALYSIS!

This email makes perfect sense right? Pull off the pull tap, throw away can, and turn in pull tap for life saving minutes on a dialysis machine. Nice try UBCEA! (United Bull Crap Emailers of America!) This farce is actually older than email forwards are. This ridiculous sob story has been used for saps to collect not only pull taps, but used cigarette packs too for people to mail off, only for those items to be thrown into the trash by the companies who receive them.

Pop tops are great for flicking with a rubber band, but for dialysis payment? Uh..not so much.

What is really sad is when a family has a child who has been diagnosed with a form of cancer hears of this moronic idea, and starts to diligently collect their pop tops in hopes that they are somehow doing something for their child, when it all actuality they are wasting time they could have otherwise been spending with their sick kid.

Not paid for by Shasta, Coke, Pepsi, or Green River.

There are many different variations of this email, but it is my hope you will be able to spot the bullcrappery.

Now the next time you see this monstrosity come across your desk, do everyone in the world a favor and let the person who sent it know how ridiculous it is. And if they are in reach, smack them upside the head while you are at it.

Bull crap email #4: IN CASE OF IMMINENT ROBBERY, TYPE IN YOUR PIN NUMBER BACKWARDS AND NOTIFY POLICE!

This email isn't as old as other faulty pieces of garbage floating out there in cyberspace, but it is the one that I have seen the most times in the last year or so. And while it sounds like a great idea, all it's going to get you if you pull this stunt with a couple of gun toting hooligans is a bullet in the back of the head. Of course if that happens, hopefully you have a load of pull tabs in a baggie at home that you can use to pay for your hospital stay. Or get the government to pay for it. That seems to be a popular choice more and more these days.

Lloyd tried his PIN backwards. Lucky the robber forgot bullets, and only gave him a shiner.

Bull crap email #5: DAVE MATHEWS HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD!

Now if there was one email that I have received in my inbox that I wished were true, this would have to be it. Sure, Dave Mathews allegedly plays a mean geetar, but that doesn't make his music any less crappy. Case in point: Les Claypool plays excellent base, but you wouldn't travel around the country in a VW Bus to watch Primus now would you? That's right, I didn't think so.

Other variations of this email might be something like the Troll Doll twins (Mary-Kate and Ashely Olsen) have been found dead, or that Brittni Spears has been accepted into a major university. Of course in the case of the Brittni Spears email, even a dunderhead would know that one is a fake from a mile away.

There you have it. Granted, there are 100's more emails out there that have maybe 2 percent truth to them and 98 percent pure lies, but these are the ones that always seem to pop up every few months. But with a little help from you out there, we just might be able to enjoy the day when friends quit spamming friends. The emails for natural male enhancement and free boob jobs from a Pakistani Doctor working out of a strip mall in the San Fernando Valley will still show up every day, but at least a decent email filter will take care of those.

*Editors note: If you have been offended by any part of this email I am sorry. With that being said, you are only offended because you have been guilty of one or more of the above transgressions. Now that you know the truth, you have a clean email sending slate. Make the best of it OK?

And now...we will never know...the rest of the story

Yesterday was a sad day. It was announced that radio news pioneer Paul Harvey died at his winter home in Arizona on Saturday. His voice was heard by millions upon millions of radio listeners since he first when national in 1951, and currently boasted about 22 million listeners a week. He was 90 years old.

I think the first time I heard Paul Harvey on the radio was with my dad in his 1961 Buick LeSabre. I remember it being in the early evening, and he was doing his "And now you know...the rest of the story" bit. I always loved hearing those quirky stories that Mr. Harvey liked to bring to his listening audience.

My liking of Paul Harvey News and Comment only grew from there. This may sound lame, but when I was in high school I would always listen to Paul Harvey. There was something soothing about hearing his voice on KONA 610 AM from noon to 12:15. And it wasn't just me who enjoyed him either. Through my Sophomore and Junior years, I went to lunch with the same group of guys pretty much every day, and we would always try to make it back out to the car by noon every day so we could hear him deliver news that for the most part did not pertain to us in the least. We even had an 8x10 glossy of good ol' Paul in the car!

Once out of high school I never seemed to have the time to tune into Mr. Harvey on a regular basis. But since then whenever I am in a car by myself, and the time of day is switching from Ante Meridiem to Post Meridiem, I would try to find him on the AM dial. But with those days now over, I am left with remembering the fun times I had listening to good ol' Paul.

I just have one more thing left to say to Paul Harvey. Gooood day.

Paul Harvey Aurandt

September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009