America's Suicide

A story circulating the Internet for the last few of years caught my attention again. I was intrigued by it because most viral emails are usually bullshit but Snopes.com say it is mostly accurate and I usually believe them.

Victor Davis Hanson talked about his book ‘Mexifornia' in 2004, at a conference in Washington, DC, about 'Immigration and Overpopulation'. He explained how immigration, both legal and illegal, destroyed the State of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of the American Dream. Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm, stood up and gave a speech on ‘How to Destroy America’. Lamm said:

"I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, to white bread, to self-satisfied, too rich, let's destroy America. It is not hard to do. History shows that that nations are more fragile than their citizen's think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall, and that:

"An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide."

"Here is my plan" Lamm said:

I. "We must first make America a bilingual-bi cultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way:

"The histories of bilingual and bi cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon—all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons and Corsicans."

II. "I would then invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds."

III. "We can make the United States a "Hispanic Quebec" without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently:

" ...The apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multi-cultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together."

IV. "Having done all this, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated - I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."



V. "I would then get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of ‘Victimology’. I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."

VI. "I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity. "Diversity" is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather that commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together and we can take advantage of this myopia. Look at the ancient Greeks. "Dorf's World History" tells us:

"The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games in honor of Zeus and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet, all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors… (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions...)

If we put the emphasis on the "pluribus"’ instead of the "unum", we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

VII. "Then I would place all subjects off limits - Make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ that halts argument and conversation."

"Having made America a bilingual - bi cultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of "Victimology", "I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: "That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good." I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact."


VIII. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book "Mexifornia." This book is dangerous - It exposes the plan to destroy America. So please, please - If you feel America deserves to be destroyed - please, please - don’t read that book! This guy is on to my plan."

I guess that about sums it, heh? Good stuff, for a Democrat.

Golly Roger

I didn't know Roger Clemons was a Country Music fan!

Not only is Roger Clemons a juicer and a liar, apparently he's a child molester too. Country singer Mindy McCready confirmed today that she had a 10 year relationship with the "Rocket" that started when she was 15 years old.

Fall from Grace

I'm not too sure that I would put too much stock in this story as McCready is no stranger to a troubled life, herself. She has been arrested for various reasons over the years, failed attempting suicide a couple of times and been in one bad relationship after another involving battery and aggravated assault. Perhaps this all stemmed from her relationship with Clemons.

15 years old!; Isn't Miley Cyrus 15?

Ladies and Gentlemen;

the next Britney Spears

Harry Ass

Here is an interesting debate about our tax system. Interviewer Jan Helfeld finds himself in a debate with the very unqualified Senate Majority Leader, from Nevada, Harry Reid about weather or not taxes are voluntary or not.

Reid explains that taxes are voluntary to the tax payer. When questioned about whether tax payers have a choice as to pay taxes or not, Reid contradicts himself and says that of course the tax payer has to pay taxes. He then tries to weakly explain that we have options through "loop holes" not to pay certain taxes and that's why it's a "voluntary system".

The fact of the matter is Harry Reid is a pompous idiot who can't find his ass with both hands much less explain our tax and judicial system.

In addition; Reid is the perfect compliment to the always complaining but never having a good solution, other than to tax everyone, broken democratic party. He's a deflating capitulate blowhard, on a podium, who is detrimental to our citizen's and more importantly our troop moral.

Listen to Comedian Dennis Miller's very sober analysis of Reid:

Poor Devil

I was so drained from having every once of energy sucked out of me the day before, when I put gas in my car and also working the Ravens War Room in yesterday's NFL Draft that I neglected to write my daily entry.

Now, I know you all were disappointed when there were no perils of wisdom from the "Underworld", but you'll have to get over it. I'm going to sleep now; see ya.

Missing in Time

Too Exhausted today.

Gallons Per Paycheck or Miles Per Dollar?

Today I put $50, worth of fuel, into my gas tank. This may not seem out of the ordinary, to you, but I've never put that much gas into any car I've ever owned before. So this is a milestone and it sucks.

I drive an economical vehicle, as cars go; so I'll get my dollars worth. Except... the dollar isn't worth anything, anymore.

I'm not sure if each and every paycheck I get only covers my gas bill yet but it may be getting close. With these fuel prices, we'll have to start the Green Stamp program up again. That would give a whole new definition to "Green".

Oh look; my fuel gage is obsolete, as it only goes to $45.00.

Willie "Mays" Hayes can't even out run the Tax Man

Actor, Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion. I guess you can run from Vampires, White Men Who Can't Jump and US Marshall's; but you can't outrun the IRS.

TMQ

I must apologize to Greg Easterbrook of ESPN, better know as the Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Yesterday, I received an e-mail from my buddy W (not that one) which was basically an excerpt from Greg's column. I did not know and I Blogged it as if it were W's (not that one) eloquent verbiage about balanced budgets and so on. So... Sorry.

The Fallacy of "Balanced" State Budgets - by W (not that one)

W (not that one)

Today's Guest Speaker is W (not that one). He wanted to explain the fallacy of "Balanced" state budgets. Since he can't get anyone to listen to him without bribery or a blind eye, I thought I'd give him the floor.

W (not that one)- Because this is an election year, many states are campaigning for more federal money, and simultaneously boasting of how, unlike Washington, they nobly "balance" their budgets. Speaking recently on NPR, Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, whose deficit will be about $1 billion this fiscal year, said his state urgently needed emergency aid from Washington. In the same interview Strickland complained about the federal deficit, declaring, "The federal government needs to become fiscally responsible." This points to a leading fallacy of American politics: the notion that states responsibly have balanced-budget requirements, while the federal government is the cause of all government deficits. Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992 and George W. Bush in 2000 all boasted during their presidential runs that, as governors, they "balanced" their states' budgets. What nonsense! Most state budgets are "balanced" only in the sense that Washington gives large sums to state governments, shifting deficit spending upstream to the federal level.

In fiscal 2007, the federal government handed out $232 billion in routine operating grants to state governments -- a figure that excludes federal payments for Medicaid, a federally imposed but state-administered entitlement, and excludes special federal hurricane aide to Mississippi and Louisiana. The fiscal 2007 federal deficit was $163 billion. That is to say, if the federal government had not rained money on state houses, Washington's books would have shown a surplus rather than a deficit in the latest fiscal year. So the "fiscally responsible" thing for Washington to do would be to stop giving money to the states! Ohio, for example, received $6.2 billion in other-than-Medicaid federal money in fiscal 2007, toward an other-than-Medicaid state budget of about $31 billion. This means about 20 percent of the Buckeye State budget was billed to the federal taxpayer, making it appear Washington was overspending while Columbus was being careful and cautious with money. The same applies to nearly every other state, where only federal gifts make state budgets appear "balanced."

The situation is basically a bookkeeping swindle. Today federal taxes seem excessive, while state taxes seem affordable, because state taxes don't pay the full cost of state government, while federal taxes fund considerably more than the cost of federal government. The bookkeeping switcheroo makes the federal government appear less cost-effective than it actually is, while causing state governments to appear more prudent in their spending than they actually are. For instance, since the early Ronald Reagan presidency, state government employment has been rising while federal government employment has been declining; yet because states bill so much of their costs to Washington, people think the states are cautious about money while Washington is spendthrift. If states simply raised all their own revenue, federal taxes would decline, the federal deficit would vanish, and state taxes would skyrocket. Then voters would be mad at governors while objecting less to Washington.

California projects a $16 billion deficit in fiscal 2009, much worse per capita than New York, with an expected $5 billion fiscal 2009 shortfall, or Arizona, at a projected $2 billion. Yet California has not taxed itself to cover the problem, expecting instead a federal bailout. When times were flush and tax revenues high from 2003 to 2006, California, New York, Arizona and other states now short of money did not save for a rainy day: They spent freely, and now demand that someone else cover the bill. So far, only Maryland has done the manly thing: raising state taxes to pay off its deficit on its own.

Thanks W (not that one) and Happy Earth Day, to you.

Oh! affordable state taxes? What state do you live in (or county for that matter)? Oh yeah; you live in a commonwealth. Federal government employment declining is a fallacy. All the federal government has done is stop hiring their own employees and outsourced those jobs to the private sector, which is good for you and me. However, the money is still spent albeit not on benefits/health plans (go figure).

What remaining positions there are in federal government, a good deal of them are administrative folks with titles like "Technical Monitor" with inflated salaries that see over the contractors and make sure that they are dotting their i's and crossing their t's. Then they inevitably find fault with the contractor, put the contract out for RFP, and start the process all over. This process justifies their employment. Great gig, heh? Have you seen the prevailing wage determination tables for government outsourced positions? Those gigs are nice too. They certainly don't fall in line with any other private sector jobs. And you should see the benefits those employees are guaranteed, right out of the gate.

Politics of Fear

I guess when Democrats accuse Republicans of using fear to motivate the American people, they must admire them for doing so.

Hillary Clinton pull out all the stops as she went into today's primaries in Pennsylvania. She ran adds which featured the stock market crash, the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the Soviet threat, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Hurricane Katrina and last but not least, Osama Bin Laden.

She was hoping to convince the voters that she would be the person that could lead the country in time of crisis. You know, the 3:00 AM wake up call scenario that she ran adds about earlier in the campaign.

I'm not sure why she thinks this way. Is it because she was present for all of the events mentioned above?

gIRL Winner at Twin Ring Motegi

Congratulations to Danika Patrick for her IRL victory at Twin Ring Motegi; a female first.

Congratulations to all men for her accomplishments, too.

Oh yeah; Happy 4/20... Sponsered by M&M's.

Hey Peanut; what do we eat, when we get the munchies?

We'll have a gay old time...

Chelsea Clinton and Companion

Chelsea Clinton with Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell took a cue from her mother, Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton Jr., and did a little bar hopping in Philadelphia yesterday.

The two of them, along with her entourage, visited a number of gay bars that Rendell seemed very familiar with and they handed out hugs,kisses and fashion advise. "Governor Rendell and Senator John Kerry used to patronize these locations together several years back", recalled regular, Peter Inarse.

One lucky patron was ecstatic, when she was able to grab Chelsea's "taught ass". Kitty Moister then declared, "I will fill in Hillary's ballot, for sure".

In all, Chelsea and party visited 4 bars total. There is no news on whether or not Chelsea threw any shots back, like her mother.

"Crown Royal; good idea!"

I didn't want to forget about this post, from a couple of days back, but there has been so much to write about, I almost did. And far be it from me to preach about abstaining from taking a drink but when you're running for the HIGHEST office in the nation, don't do it in front of a bunch of journalists. It's just foolish...

"We better get some food."

Out With the Old (or BMore Careful)

The flip side of picking other teams heroes

2008 is the year Baltimore sports teams shed itself of other cities former heroes. Two former MVP's, Steve McNair and Miguel Tejada, that were supposed to bring both leadership and strength of character to teams that had a hard time identifying a leader. One proved successful, in a 'flash in the pan' kind of way. The other only showed his ass.

True, the Ravens had and have Ray Lewis who undoubtedly is the heart and soul of the defense. He and his defensive teammates have also been relied upon to inspire the offense as well, year after year. The Ravens defied the odds, in 2001, and won Super Bowl XXXV with more defense than offense. They have not been able to repeat that accomplishment, however, and the inability of Coach Brian Billick to develop a Quarterback to lead the Ravens cost him his job.

In football, teams need an offensive leader. With the exception of a few Running Backs most teams rely on the Quarterback to fill the shoes of team leader. Someone who is polarizing and can find ways to win games, despite insurmountable odds.

The Ravens picked up a former league MVP, Steve McNair, a couple of seasons ago to fill that role and the players responded with the best record in team history. They were energized and jacked up. Then, the following season, the wheels fell off just as quickly when the physical Quarterback's body failed him. Years of physical pounding, in Houston and Tennessee, took it's toll on him and he was unable to play at the level he was used to.

Today, McNair announced his retirement. As like many other professional athletes, he still has the will and desire to go on; just not the ability. He can leave the game, however, with his head held high and no one blames him for it.

The unfortunate thing for Baltimore fans is that McNair becomes another in a long line of veteran Quarterbacks that have come to town and not been able to find the old formula for success they used to possess.

In a tale of two cities, that is actually only one, The Orioles have a different story. After the retirement of Cal Ripken Jr., in 2001, the Orioles needed a central figure to rally around too. They brought in former MVP, Miguel Tajada. Tajada was and still is a very talented player who, at times, still shows his old form.

What the Orioles didn't count on was Tejada's knack for pouting when the team was not successful. Then there was finger pointing. Then there was not running out pop flies. Then there was asking to be traded. Then there was stating that it was all a misunderstanding and that he wanted, more than anything, to play for the Orioles. Then there was asking to be traded again. Then there was the accusation from one of the most popular players in recent team history, Raphael Palmerio, that Tejada may have given him steroids in the guise of a B12 shot. Then there was the response that he was unfairly being associated with Palmerio's problems. Then there was an inquiry by Congress in which he stated that he had nothing to do with steroids or Palmerio's positive results. Then there was finally the trade that sent him packing to Houston for 6 prospects (Revenge for the Glen Davis trade years earlier). Then there was... what was it? ...Oh yeah! being accused of taking STEROIDS in the Mitchell Report.

Today, Miguel Tejada acknowledged that he lied about his age and that he was actually 2 years older than he had reported when he joined the league. He said it was weighing heavily on his conscious and he wanted to clear the air. This coming only after ESPN showed him a copy of his birth certificate during an interview in which he stormed out of.

Miguel Tejada is a looser and a liar and Baltimore Sports fans should be glad to be rid of him. The Houston Astros should demand to re-work his contract since they were expecting a player with more longevity. Tejada says he feels like a 25 year old. He wouldn't be lying about that... would he?

Passing of a Legendary Artist

Sadly, the last of the original 9 Disney animators past away on Monday. Ollie Johnston was 95 and past away of natural causes.

Ollie was the man who created both Bambi and Pinocchio, among many more favorite Disney characters. He was part of a generation of artists that changed the way we look at animation and films in general. The original 9 or "The Nine Old Men" as Walt Disney himself described them, were true pioneers of their field as they crafted and created the original full length feature Disney motion pictures.

Johnston and fellow artist, Frank Thomas were the elite of the 9, as they became the most accomplished. Both worked on the first of those features, 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Johnston and Thomas and their families became next-door neighbors in the Los Angeles suburb of Flintridge, and during their 45-minute drive to the Disney Studios, each day, they would devise new ideas for work. Thomas passed away in 2004 at the age 92.

Johnston was honored with a Disney Legends Award in 1989 and, in 2005, he was the first animator honored with the National Medal of Arts at a White House ceremony.

Happy Tax Day (or Fundraising for Democrats Day)

Get Your Taxes Done!

Curse of the Mussina

Hey Yankees, suck it!

It's good to know the New York Yankees are in good hands, now that senile old George Steinbrenner is not capable of running the show.

Hank Steinbrenner, George's son, now in charge of the club decided that it was a good idea to dig up a portion of the new Yankee stadium, scheduled to open in 2009, and seek out a rumored to be buried David Ortiz jersey.

Gino Castignoli, a BoSox fan and former Gambino Family Shylock living in the Bronx, buried the jersey in freshly poured cement last summer while working on the construction site. Then, the other day, the dumb ass shot off his mouth about what he did and it was reported in the New York Post.

Initially the Yankees front office released a press announcement that said all of this was a joke and no one buried a Red Sox jersey in the construction; the New York Post didn't know what they were talking about.

I guess Steinbrenner had second thoughts, and fearing a curse might be placed on the new stadium, instructed workers to jackhammer and rip up the new construction to find the jersey.

Guess what? They actually located it.

Now, Yankee Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost speculated that Castignoli could be on the hook for criminal mischief. "Even if Castignoli ends up safe from those charges, he said, we're thinking of a civil case, looking for money damages." "Yesterday's excavation alone cost the team $50,000", Trost said. Even though the actual digging took two workers just 15 minutes.

$50,000 to dig up 2 Ft. of concrete! The actual digging took two workers 15 minutes to do. If you think about it, I guess, that really was a bargain compared to what they spend on players.

Curse averted?

Maybe a BoSox curse but let's get real. The Yankees have been playing under a curse, ever since they signed Mike Mussina. That's right; the Bronx Bombers have not been able to even buy a championship since stealing him away from the Orioles in 2001 when I hexed them with this centuries new Baseball curse.

Laugh all you want but since I cursed them in 2001, the "Curse of the Bambino" and the "Black Sox" curse on the White Sox have both been eliminated as they have both won World Series titles. Soon, you'll probably even see the Cubs win a series but not the boys in dark blue pinstripes. Oh you'll see them make it as far as the ALCS or even get in the World Series but that's it; they won't get the coveted ring.

Keep pissing that money away and giving your pitchers steroids and HGH, Steinbrenner's. It'll go over real well when everybody including your fans start feeling the recession. Hey! Did you get a sub-prime interest loan on the new stadium? I hope so.

In other baseball news: Boston Red Sox Slugger, David Ortiz, continued his slump yesterday as the Sox left him out of the line up against the New York Yankees.

Do we live in a Chinese Democracy?

It's like watching a very long Ping Pong match when, watching the Clinton and Obama camps give speeches.

Just a couple of days after Willie Jeff Clinton blundered through a cringing all too late and unnecessary stump speech in defense of Hillary's fact stumbling recollection of her visit while ducking under sniper fire to war torn Bosnia, Obama volleyed back with a speech about small town voters. He called them "bitter".

Yes indeed; Obama referred to working class voters as, economically frustrated people in small towns that get bitter and “cling to guns or religion”, to explain their feelings.

You bet your sweet bippy that Hillary is ripping him a new ass over these remarks, accusing him of elitism, as they came just 10 days before a primary in Pennsylvania. John McCain's campaign piled on Obama too, releasing a statement that accused him of elitism, as well.

At a campaign rally in Wilson, N.C., former state Democratic Party chairman and current Clinton adviser Tom Hendrickson said rural voters don't need "liberal elites" telling them what to believe. Willie Jeff Clinton was the featured speaker of the rally but avoided commenting on Obama's remarks. When asked about it afterward, he said simply, "I agree with what Hillary said".

Obama later said he regretted offending anyone Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly. "If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that,".

The Hole Problem

Oh Great; even Cyber Space has Black Holes. Have you ever been surfing the net and had a problem getting a page to open.

Apparently this phenomenon is caused by parts of the Internet that disappear randomly and when trying to surf for information it appears that your computer or server is malfunctioning.

Hey W, does this mean that Cyber Space isn't infinite either?

I hope you found this Blog, with no problem.

Willie Jeff! What have you said now?

Bill... Shut up!!!

William Jefferson Clinton; that's what the impeached Ex-President will be know as, by all Democrats, after this election is over. Don't they always refer to the infamous by their full name? I mean; he's out to murder any chance Hillary has of winning the election. Maybe they'll just refer to him by his Arkansas Hill-Billy (heh heh, get it) moniker, Willie Jeff.

Every time Willie Jeff sets out to help Hillary out of a jam, he misspeaks. Yesterday, the supposed best speech giving President of all time decided to speak about the Hillary-Bosnia issue. A subject that had all but been declared dead, in the media, was hardly a choice subject matter but Willie Jeff spoke on the subject anyway; in two different speeches for that matter.

He had made light of the Bosnia issue, in a sardonic way, while giving a stump speech to supporters in Indiana. But like his boss, Hillary, he forgot that the media was covering the speech. They really need to give this idiot a Press Secretary.

Willie Jeff said, “[T]here was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated, and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995,” he said. “Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up.”

He went on to say, “I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone (For the record, Pat Nixon was in Saigon in 1969). And you would've thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11:00 at night, too.”

Isn't he talking about the candidate that thinks she'll be the best person for the job when they wake her up a 3:00 AM, with a crisis? And Hillary hadn't just once misspoke, at 11:00 PM, about the Bosnia story; she did it on 4 different occasions, and not just in the evenings. At least 1 time was at 11:00 AM.

None of this even has anything to do with the other story that also came out today regarding, where is Willie Jeff receiving the income for his foundation and library. There apparently is a lot of unanswered question regarding who has given him and Hillary money and why. What purpose? There could be possible conflicts of interests IF Hillary wins the Presidency.

Willie Jeff is a better relative to have around than that Georgian, Billy Carter, ever was. A term with Willie Jeff running around the White House, with nothing in particular to do, might be the 'comic relief' this country needs. Unfortunately, it would come with the steep price of having Hillary running the country.

Willie Jeff: Y'all know I been thinking a lot of being the southern Dave Koch and resurrecting an ancestors recipe for barley pops?

How can $tarBUCKS be saved?

There is a lot of question out there as to how to save Starbucks.

For God's sake no one propose federal assistance. Starbucks got themselves into the jam they are in; let them find their own way out.

I will suggest that they lower their damned prices. Coffee, lattes and espresso are not novelties. Everyone sells it, everyone has good tasting drinks and everyone else is cheaper. They also have standard units of measurements like small, medium and large, to name a few.

Maybe they could try this new blend being sold over seas. A London department store is selling a blend of coffee called Caffé Raro where the beans have been grown in the shit of an Indonesian Jungle Cat, at a $100 bucks per shot.

Made by the Italian company De Longhi, Caffé Raro combines Jamaican Blue Mountain and Kupi Luwak, two extremely rare coffees. The beans of Kupi Luwak are harvested after being ingested by civet cats, and only about 260 kilos (about 573 pounds) of the coffee is produced each year. It is absolutely one of world's rarest and most premium coffees.

Personally, I'm a dog person and they can keep their shit.

Wild Wild Wes... Florida?

Florida lawmakers have gone crazy! Today they have passed a law that allows people to take their guns to work if they keep them locked in their car.

In an age when more and more people are getting shot at work (or school for that matter), is this prudent? I might have to side with my pansy friend W (not that one) on this issue.

Parents had better warn their children from now on; Don't piss off Mickey at Disney anymore or you might see him in the parking lot.

Congratulations Kansas Jayhawks!

2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions

French Resistance

French Police proved to be as ineffective as the French military, President and Parliament today. They threw up their hand in surrender when they were not able to control protests over this year's Beijing Olympics.

To quell protesters, demanding that China Free Tibet, the Police extinguished the Olympic torch for the 2nd time in the day. It was decided that it would be better for the torch to be transported via bus rather by the customary runners.

"It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it." - Charlton Heston 1923 - 2008

"It says right here: Thou shall have the right to bare arms"

Academy Award winning Actor (Ben-Hur), Charlton Heston (86), passed away yesterday evening.

Heston acted in many epics during his distinguished career. He played larger than life characters, albeit many were historical figures, they took on enormous proportions when Heston was in the role. This was certainly necessary when anamorphic lenses that led to "Cinamascope" became prevalent.

These pictures would fill up the entire silver screen with indelible images and all-star casts with literally thousands of extras. Only stand out actors like Heston could pull off roles as large as were needed for these expensive productions.

Heston later became known for a string of science fiction films like Soylent Green and The Omega Man and Disaster Films like Skyjacked, Airport 1975 and Earthquake. My personal favorite and certainly one of his most famous roles was that of Taylor in the Planet of the Apes.

"Kiss me, you damned dirty ape"

My parents took me to see The Planet of the Apes when I was 15 months old. It was my first movie. It was at a Cleveland drive-in theater. Needless to say, I don't remember the experience.

Heston also lived his life larger than life standing up for things he believed in like Civil Rights. Heston marched for Civil Rights as early as the 1950's. During this period he also became the President of the Screen Actors Guild and Chairman of American Film Institute.

Later in life, Heston became known as one of the few actors to lead the conservative charge out of Hollywood. In 1998, he was elected President of the National Rifle Association and posed in ads, gun in hand.

Ironically, even though he was a great actor, my favorite lines of Heston were when he told President Clinton, "America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters, and we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns." and "Mr.Clinton, when what you say is wrong, that's a mistake. When you know it's wrong, that's a lie."

Heston stepped down as NRA president in April 2003 and later that year, Heston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

"The largeness of character that comes across the screen has also been seen throughout his life," said President Bush upon awarding Heston with the award.

Whoo Hoo!!!

As of this posting, the Orioles are in 1st place in the AL East.

Huh...? Wha...?

Kansas and Memphis?

Not North Carolina and UCLA?

What happened?

What do you mean my bracket is no good?

NKOTB

No Kids On The Blog!

Depends Undergarments in association with Hair Club for Men and Geritol Concert Series is pleased to host the 'New Kids On the Block' 2008 Reunion tour. This will be the biggest tour since the Stones reunions in 1983, 1985, 1988, 1996..., stated some guy working for Ticketmaster.

Almost as soon as this announcement was made, people with no lives started pouring out of the woodwork to form lines for tickets. Norman Vargass, a big fan of the band since their earliest days playing in strip malls, said "I've been waiting for this my entire life". "I hung all of my old posters up and even made room by putting my Scott "Charles in Charge" Baio and David "Knight Rider" Hasselhoff posters into storage", Vargass added.

Some changes to NKOTB's repertoire will be the addition of some Barbershop harmony and a Barry White medley, due to changes in the singers voices.

Vargass began leading the crowd in a chant of, "Hang Tough" as the they began hearing rumors that tickets may already be sold out at the Garden.

Trapster: Thwart Speed Traps

There's a new device to help you get through traffic quickly; it's called a mobile phone. It's legal too.

That's right a company called Trapster has developed a database that allows cell phone user's to log speed traps and up load them into cyberspace, on the go. If you own a compatible device, you can use this service.

Isn't it ironic that during a period where more and more states are trying to pass legislation to ban all cell phone use while you're driving you can now use those same devices to thwart the Police.

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The NFL is considering banning long hair. I say, let it stay. It has always been a rule that hair is part of the uniform and that it may be used to tackle an opponent if they have it.

In my opinion, coaches should coach this technique. It would add a lot more action that would ultimately lead to more action. So,Herm Edward, shut up!

Happy April Fool's Day

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