bman

I don't know about you, but I'm fed up with hearing about Hillary and Obama. I'm at the point that I don't care. I don't even care about John McCain. I don't care what Obama eats, what Hillary cries about next, what Reverend Wright is raging about, what the Weather Underground guy thinks or does or what John McCain thinks about any of this.

I despise looking at or listening to any of them on TV. Hillary's shrill voice and her continual usage of "I believe..." "I believe..." or Obamas over-usage of "Yes we can..." or McCain's over-usage of "...at the end of the day.." and his hand gestures while speaking. Bleh.

Dear God.. help us, help us quickly.

This election cycle was doomed from the first day of active campaigning. I would almost bet that there has never been a larger under-qualified group of Presidential candidates in any single election cycle ever in the history of the United States.

I hope we can still write-in candidates in because my vote is going for Wyle E. Coyote.

I bought a bird feeder. I hung
It on my back porch and filled
It with seed. What a beauty of
A bird feeder it is, as I filled it
Lovingly with seed. Within a
Week we had hundreds of birds
Taking advantage of the
Continuous flow of free and
Easily accessible food.

But then the birds started
Building nests in the boards
Of the patio, above the table,
And next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was
Everywhere: on the patio tile,
The chairs, the table ...
Everywhere!

Then some of the birds
Turned mean. They would
Dive bomb me and try to
Peck me even though I had
Fed them out of my own
Pocket.

And others birds were
Boisterous and loud. They
Sat on the feeder and
Squawked and screamed at
All hours of the day and night
And demanded that I fill it
When it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even
Sit on my own back porch
Anymore. So I took down the
Bird feeder and in three days
The birds were gone. I cleaned
Up their mess and took down
The many nests they had built
All over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like
It used to be.... Quiet, serene
And no one demanding their
Rights to a free meal.

Now let's see.
Our government gives out
Free food, subsidized housing,
Free medical care, and free
Education and allows anyone
Born here to be an automatic
Citizen.

Then the illegals came by the
Tens of thousands. Suddenly
Our taxes went up to pay for
Free services; small apartments
Are housing 5 families; you
Have to wait 6 hours to be seen
By an emergency room doctor;
Your child's 2nd grade class is
Behind other schools because
Over half the class doesn't speak
English.

Corn Flakes now come in a
Bilingual box; I have to
'press one' to hear my bank
Talk to me in English, and
People waving flags other
Than 'Old Glory' are
Squawking and screaming
In the streets, demanding
More rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe
it's time for the government
To take down the bird feeder.

So true.. so true.

With the upcoming primaries, elections and other various assorted money-wasting, carbon footprinting, and human excrement-slinging blow hard politicians all gathered in mostly one place we need to discuss perhaps this decade's greatest threat to mankind.

Its not border security, Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan, not religion, not Roe vs. Wade, not democrat or republican, not even our French speaking friends in Montreal....

ELDERLY DRIVERS

Now I have yet another friend whom has either lost limb or life in a motor vehicle at the hands of some wrinkled prune who cant see 10 feet in front of their face or the bluehairs whom can see fine but get mentally confused about how to get up out of bed in the morning.

GET THESE BASTARDS OFF THE ROAD. I would personally vote for the next Gubernatorial candidate here whom MANDATES driver testing and real-road-driving test accepted standards for any person over 55 yrs old. Yes it will cost more money, tax me, I'll gladly pay it. Yes it will be an administrative nightmare to oversee, what could be worse than our welfare system already?

I am in serious doubt of the NTSA's finding on the number of accidents of our young, middle aged and elderly. I'm all about real-world facts, figures and findings. Every accident I see along the side most ALWAYS has some wrinkled up prune whom is obviously lost standing amongst the other victims waiting on a cop to take the report.

To any bluehairs reading this:
*Please drive within 5mph of the speed limit.

*Please do not drive at night if you have trouble seeing in the daytime.

*Push the turn signal lever down for left, push it up for right.

*Please do not drive between the hours of 7:30-9:00am and 4:00-7:00pm.

*Please stay home on the weekends. Leave the roads to us whom work during the week that are trying to get all our errands done unencumbered. Drive during the hours of 9:30am and 3:30pm Monday-Friday only.

*Please do not take your Chihuaua, Pekingnese or other small animal on your lap while driving.

*Please do not use the left lane unless you're ready to turn left, not right.

*Please consider hiring someone to do your running for you, its cheaper - especially when you consider my rates won't go up when you wreck, not to mention all the people who you're going to put in the hospital.

*Please consider giving up your drivers license if you have trouble remembering your children's names.

*Please consider giving up your drivers license if you own more than 5 cats.

Get better Gary Mount, We're all praying for you.

D.
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Ok so it's time for ole bman to buy a new truck. I've been doing some research over the past few months and decided to buy a new Ford F-250 Diesel. Why? Well, I haul a ton of things around including trailers AND this new 2008 diesel has the 3 diesel exhaust scrubbers! Yes, you can start it up and go around to the tailpipe and there is absolutely no smell whatsoever - much less than a passenger car from what Im told and what I researched. Ford says that this new exhaust system is cleaner than any other passenger car gasoline engine on the market and the EPA mandated a fuel change for all diesel last year. New diesel cannot contain more than 15ppm of sulfur for anything refined after 2007 - regular gasoline has sulphur equivalent of 550ppm. Wow.. my new truck is really green - Ok so this is cool! I can have the truck I need and help keep the planet greener by having the latest greatest state of the art in exhaust emissions reduction PLUS I can run biodiesel which is made from either used fryer waste oil or corn.

So I'm ready for my 2nd tank of fuel and I head on over the local biodiesel supplier. Hey this biodiesel is only $2.79/gallon! Wow, regular cruddy ole petroleum based diesel is now $3.25/gallon. Im gonna save a ton of money. Just as I start to put some in the tank the attendant stops me and says:

You'll ruin that state of the art EPA regulated exhaust emission system by running this very very clean and green biodiesel."

"What? What do you mean? I'm doing my part by buying this super clean fuel.." I said to him.

He told me to look again and read my owners manual on the engine. So I did. Apparently the oils contained in the new biodiesel are not able to be collected and broken down by my state of the art exhaust system. Ford says that I can use no more than a 5% mix of biodiesel and regular petroleum based diesel. According to Ford, The EPA specs mandated for all trucks as of 2008, very very specific things to scrub petroleum based fuels but will clog with the use of any other fuel - including biodiesel mixtures over 5%.

Any bets that the petroleum refiners had any lobbying interest in this law?

So in short, the EPA has caused all diesel truck owners as of 2008 to be forced to only run mixtures of 5% biodiesel in their vehicles. IF memory serves me right the president, congress and a variety of other 'green' speakers including Al Gore all advised us all to run as much biodiesel and biofuels as possible to reduce our dependence upon petroleum based oils.

Well, now everyone will just remove all the exhaust scrubbers and head over to the biodiesel depot and fill up. They're not paying $3.25/gallon for fuel. Besides, biodiesel without the scrubbers is still cleaner than the petroleum based fuels with the scrubbers.... until the demand for biodiesel goes up forcing the price to be over the price of the petroleum based fuels in which case I'll go back to those.. but wait.. it wont be clean anymore.. oh well, who cares.

So I guess the system is once again fighting itself.. go figure.

Have you ever suddenly realized something about the way somebody speaks that instantly irks you so badly that you can never listen to that person again? I'm having one of those 'moments'.

With all the Media's attention now focused heavily on various candidates from both sides of the aisle it's inevitable that you're going to hear soundbites and interviews from all these tools even when you don't want to. With that being said I would like to point out to Rudy Guiliani that he uses 2 phrases so frequently to prefix most ANY sentence that he has pissed me off and I no longer listen to anything he says even in passing.

1.) "At the end of the day...."
2.) "The reality is.... "

Grrr!

I think the biggest change in my life was a more acute understanding of just how blissfully ignorant the majority of Americans are. I know that sounds harsh, but in the hours and days following 9/11, I struggled to deal with the consistent strong emotions being expressed - especially the repeated phrase "I can't believe (or never believed) it could happen here!"

Anyone who has spent an hour of their lives contemplating the basic tools and knowledge available to evildoers knows that the only reason we are not besieged with terrorist assaults is because the terrorists (for some reason) have chosen not to.

We're not preventing anything; any fool with $1,000 and half a brain could bring down a large aircraft at any one of several key airports. The materials needed to construct rudimentary explosive devices are there for the taking. Most schools still have virtually no protection against any sort of organized suicide attack. I'm not a terrorist, yet I can see how easy these things are to accomplish - how much simpler the picture must be to someone who does this for a "living!"

More importantly, the steps taken to "protect" us since 9/11 have done so much to further empower and embolden those in authority over us, while providing no real security benefits to the vast majority of citizens.

I'm sorry to spoil the mood, but the sadness in my heart today is for my country, for how clueless and unaware we have become, and for the freedoms we have lost. Freedoms lost primarily because we, as a people, refuse to recognize that the world will always be a violent and uncivilized place, where strong men seek power, wealth, and position through the use of violence.

We used to know these things. More of us used to plan, train, and live accordingly. It's good to be in the company of a select few who still do.

Wow. Im really pissed. So I wake to some news today that Congress has supposedly come up with some immigration reform bill that both sides of the aisle have compromised on. On the outside this looks real good however when I found out the details I came unglued. We conservatives have been sold out by our President and our congressional representatives and Im not happy about it.

Those here illegally before Jan 1 2007 can qualify for an Z-visa. The proposed agreement would allow illegal immigrants to come forward and obtain a probationary "Z visa" and — after paying fees and fines of up to $5,000 and returning to their home countries ultimately try for permanent residency, which could take between eight and 13 years.

Um.. excuse me? You cannot find them all now.. how in the hell are you going to find out when they got here? What's to stop them from pouring in en masse now in an attempt to say they've been here since December 2006? Stupid idiots. Um.. ok so how do they intend to do this? How do they figure that we'll be able to collect any money from them? Why is it in their interest to start reporting their wages and paying some silly fine AND having to go back home? Dear god.

In perhaps its most contentious change, the proposed plan would radically shift the entire immigration system from one heavily weighted toward family ties toward one with preferences for those with advanced degrees and sophisticated skills.

Oh so now we're picking and choosing who can come into the US? How can they do this? WHAT?! Anyone who knows me knows Im all against illegal immigration BUT how the hell can we pick and choose who comes in based upon their knowledge and education?!? OMFG

Ok ok.. I need to quit before I stroke out. There are pages and pages of silly little rules that appear to be harder to read than US tax code. Im pissed. This is nothing but more governmental waste and adding even more stupid programs that we'll never be able to keep track of. Even now we cannot find all the welfare fraud so there is no way in hell we'll be able to keep track of all this. They're talking electronic ID systems for all employers, phoning into homeland security to verify a persons status before you employ them etc etc etc etc.

They've taken a complex problem and turned it into an exponentially complex problem that will require even more tax dollars to fund. On top of all this we're now telling the world that we'll accept you faster if you are an educated person and can contribute to society? Yes Im a proud conservative.. but this is just all wrong.. wrong wrong wrong.

Holy shit someone put a stop to this. This cannot be the USA.. can it?