Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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"What would you rather have? A politician taking stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names all the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?" Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying.

"A politician's job is to do what's best for the people and to improve the country, the economy, the environment. Why should I care if a politician takes sleeping pills every night so long as he can do his job?"


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/15/entertainment/main529462.shtml

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Go Dawgz! Sic Em!





In lieu of the Georgia Bulldogs defeating the dastardly Gators, here's a joke:


A man wanted an attack dog to protect his business, so he visited a kennel that specialized in attack dogs. The man explained to the kennel owner that he wanted the biggest, meanest, most vicious dog in the kennel, and the owner offered to take the man on a tour of the premises.


After they had been walking for a few minutes, they came upon a large dog. He was snarling loudly and biting and clawing at the cage. "He looks like he'd be a pretty good attack dog," said the buyer. "Well, he's not bad," replied the owner, "but I have something better in mind for you."


They continued walking around the premises, and after a while they found an even larger, meaner dog than the first. He snarled at the two men and tried to bite them through the wire on his cage. "Ah," said the buyer. "This must be the dog you were referring to earlier." "Well, no," said the owner. "I have something better in mind for you."


The men continued their tour. Eventually, they came upon a fairly large dog that was lying quietly on his side, licking his butt. He did not seem to notice as the men approached. "This is the dog I had in mind for you," said the owner. The buyer was flabbergasted. "You're joking!" he exclaimed. "This dog seems quite tame. He doesn't act at all like an attack dog at all. Hell, he's just lying there, licking his butt!"

"I know, I know," said the owner. "But you see, he just ate a lawyer, and he's trying to get the taste out of his mouth."

Friday, October 26, 2007

Atlanta loses another Grady Jackson





so long, my big fat friend.

sad days, indeed.

It was over a decade ago the city lost a great Sax player, Grady 'Fats' Jackson. I played with this legendary musician a number of times. His trick was he could play 2 sax's at one time.

This week, we found out beleaguered Falcons cut our veteran run stopper to give the 'new kids' some more reps.

I am beside myself. Okay, so the guy is old,fat and slow, but why cut him? Sit him on the bench and use him in short yardage situations..Now, he will probably go to another team in our division while we continue to pay his salary.
This old blubberbutt led the NFL last year in tackles for a loss, and was on pace to meet or break it this year. But our vaunted 'coach' cut him outright.

Stupid,stupid,stupid.

Off to Mouseville with the whole fam damnily for next week. I'll try to stop in and update!

It's a small world after all. At least if your name is Grady Jackson!!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

public servant


I would like to tell a story in response to a blogger I respect:

http://www.mynameiswilliamsmythe.blogspot.com/

He asks " what would you do in the situation" while watching a display of poor parenting...Read his post and here's a couple of my experiences...


My wife and I were departing a Falcon's home game, after a dissapointing loss to an opponent we were expected to beat, a couple years ago. Before the words 'rape stand' became part of our lexicon...

With 80,000 fans streaming out in various egresses, we took a route that required a long escalator ride in a nearby Marta station. This is a loooong escalator, and since the game was over, they switched the 'in/out' to 'out/out' meaning we were bottlenecked from a drunken crowd into 2 narrow lanes exiting.

I observed an older man of about 50, a typical 'redneck' type with 3 kids in tow, no wife, screaming obscenities at the top of his lungs at a 'Godammned Cocksucking Fuck-a-neers Fan'. He continued this assault, at which point I turned to the guy 4 feet behind him on the escalator " Hey man, ignore this guy...Good game! "

This was almost too much for Bubba. He then turned to me, who was exactly next to him on the escalator down, and said " Hey, you fuckin' punk! Mind your own goddamned business!This guy bumped into my child! He didn't apologize, that piece of shit!"

At this point, I was standing next to my wife and looking down the escalator at the landing below. I knew that the radio station I worked for at the time had an engineer near a van parked near the bottom of the landing. I looked about me, and could tell that most of the people around me were embarrassed as hell, too.

So this one time, I calmly said to him " Well, excuse me but I didn't recognize your 'Father of the year' badge because you were too busy swearing like that in front of your 'children'! ( which were like 13, 10 and 5 yrs old..)

This set him OFF. He then started to say " I'll talk to your punk ass at the bottom! "

Then about 10 people around him said " Shut up and go home! " and I observed his 13 year old boy tuggin on his arms, saying 'c'mon Daddy, dont do this....dont do this!"

He left when we got to the bottom, dragged away by his kids, and the guy I told 'good game' said thanks, looked a little hammered.

I still wonder to this day if he bumped that guys kid!

I puffed up and felt proud at the time. But later, when I got home, I felt like a douchebag. Because I remember being that kid with the faced Daddy looking like a prick at a sporting event, and I challenged the guy. He would have muttered and walked away, but I was being 'a good servant' and thought I was doing the right thing.

About a year ago, while driving down Boulevard, I noticed a pimp beating the daylights out of one of his ho's in broad daylight while my baby was in the car..I slowed and rolled down the window and screamed " Hey! "

The guy hit that girl so hard and looked at me as if to say "Get involved, motherfucker! I need 2 asses to kick today "....So I drove on, and never even called 9-11. But I feel worse about the incident at the Falcons game then this one, and I cannot justify it.

Sometimes you just cannot win. My little man makes a decent cowboy, though.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Sunday in the Park

So last sunday, after I shook off all the Pivo I indulged in the evening before, I agreed to watch my nephews while the newly single mother did some non-mom stuff...A trip to the Zoo in Grant Park where we live was in order. Since were members, we can take visiting in laws kids to the Zoo free of charge.

I enjoy these two chuckleheads. They are in a rough spot, one I can empathize with, but like most kids, they are happy go lucky.Anyways, we get to the park, and I notice a bunch of moonwalks and vendor tents set up! I asked the zoo employee 'hey, what's going on in the park today?'

She replied ' it's muslim day!' And on the the nephews says ' aren't we supposed to hate them?' I almost fainted. I told him, 'nope:only the crazy ones'. But it was a glimpse into something dark and scary for me...

Well, it looks like Farrakhan was in town to rile up the dumb masses. WTG, Louis.

http://breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SAVIOO0&show_article=1&catnum=1

The fiery orator spoke for nearly 2 1/2 hours, touching on issues including the disparities blacks face in areas such as education, health care, voting and incarceration, the Jena Six case in Louisiana, last weekend's arrest of Atlanta rapper T.I. on federal weapons charges, the war in Iraq and the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case.

What does Mike Vick have to do with disparities? He is not poor! Why even bring this old tired dog of a ridiculous argument up again? The guy is pondscum, yet so many of my neighbors thinks he is above reproach.

I had to buy some champagne for a work party my wife is hosting, so I went to the Tower Liquor store on Memorial drive. As I was checking out, the black lady behind the counter commented on my Falcons cap. I tossed off my latest lame one liner: 'Did you hear Mike Vick got a new show contract? HUSH PUPPIES.'

cricket cricket. This lady was not amused. She warned me not to tell that joke 'round these parts', as some people might take it 'personally'.

These parts? My neighborhood?

How much you want to bet if the black guy delivering the hennessee told the same joke, they would have laughed, or groaned, but not acted like they did when I told the joke? That's wrong right there: this guy did a bad thing, but a white guy who funds his team cant tell a lame pun like that without 'offending' the righteous sensibilities of the young madam with the tatoo on her neck and the 4 inch nails on the left hand!

Why is Mike Vick portrayed as a sympathetic creature?

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The endangered Crane Loon





Oh, how sweet it is to live in a 'boom' city. I recall when I first got here that the Darlinton Apartments on Peachtree used to have a sign that said " Atlanta Population Now"...Apparently, they had a deal with the hospital across the street and every new birth would be totalled and added the following am. My Father used to live in this building. He still lives close to it: walking distance. The sign no longer works, as it was designed with only 7 led type numerals. According to the latest census and Arbitron, our fair city now is in the double digits, if you include the surrounding suburbs.

But there has been a vast expansion of condo units all over this city. Ridiculous amounts of construction occur everywhere. The condo's being built near my Father boast 6,000 units alone! Who will buy these things? The market is flooded, yet they build even more of these! And still: I have no issues finding renters here in East Atlanta, so they must be coming from somewhere. Will the last person out of Jersey turn off the lights, please?

The by product of all this construction is a large amount of crane's being located in a 'pub district'. Combine alcohol and depression, add an unguarded crane, and you have all the makings of a good ol fashioned clusterf*ck!

The guy on the crane can stay up there for days, effectively stopping the traffic on the city's busiest and most famous boulevard. People cant get to work. Businesses suffer. The police answer to the corrupt 'Good Ol Bro' network downtown, so they cannot snipe these loons, even with rubber bullets. They tried that in 2001, and the guy got caught up in some rope and hung to death! In 2005 a murder suspect stayed there for 6 days, before a cop offering water tased him.

Last month, four men — one wearing a Superman T-shirt — were apparently looking to "see the sights and do something exciting" when they scaled an 18-story Midtown construction crane, Atlanta police said. The men told police they climbed the crane "for giggles."

So I think it's incumbent on these construction companies to make sure nobody can get on thier GD crane's anymore,even if they have to pay for armed guards overnight. Or, they should have to bear the cost of all the lost revenue.

Tonight @ the Northside Tavern: a benefit for Cora Mae Bryant, grandmother of the Peidmont blues. I'll be there: will you??

Monday, October 15, 2007

Monday Night Football.





ugh. Well, our hometown football team is on the big stage, and how many times do you think we will hear the name 'Mike Vick' coming out of Kornheiser's pie hole? I'm wagering at least 10!

I'll be there with my buddy Jerry!!!

http://theevanlee.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-red-card-for-jerry.html





http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html


"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Dr Gray said.

During his speech to a crowd of about 300 that included meteorology students and a host of professional meteorologists, Dr Gray also said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error.

He cited statistics showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperatures, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed.

"The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Dr Gray said.

He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.

"It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."

Friday, October 12, 2007

Nostra dumb ass part deaux





Well, this is sure going to make my 'progressive' bro in law squirm a little....About a decade ago during the Clinton Lewinsky fiasco I had dinner with said BIL and his new wife in a trendy restaurant in L.A. The sex scandal was the topic of the day, and I remarked to him and his old lady that Hillary would most definitely run for President, that is, after she had won a junior post in Congress. The conversation rambled into her 'relationship' with Bill, and I rudely suggested that she was only in the marraige to benefit her future political goals. I queried " why would any woman in her right mind stay with the guy that cheats on her again and again?", but these progressive types could not be moved. I ended the conversation along the lines of " Okay, let's wait and see: But I bet you she will run in 2004".

Well, I was wrong about that, but I couldn't have imagined 9-11 or the undeclared War in Iraq would have put her White House dreams off for about 4 years...But, come the summer, and~ Voila! Hillary announces she will run for POTUS. Gee, who couldn't see that one coming?

Flash forward to where Cynthia McKinney gets defeated in the last elections. I told this guy that not only would Hillary be running in 2008, but Moonbat McKinney would run as a Green Party candidate. Wanna bet she announces sometime in the next couple weeks? How freekin hilarious would that be?

It's really not too hard to read between the lines, unless, of course, your a 'progressive'!

I want to see Mckinney split the moonbat left vote, and Ron Paul run as an indy to screw with the GOP. That should make for some real interesting debates, if they were smart and let these 2 in them. One can dream, huh?

Oh yeah: it's not to late to see me in leiderhosen. I'll be playing with 'Atlanta's most dangerous Polka Band' at Fado this saturday! Ein,Schwine,Soffa!



Thursday, October 11, 2007

BS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h78KSMYlo4c




Beth Sibley





hit the link!

Beth Sibley

Monday, October 8, 2007

Prost!




Apparently the Swiss are nutting up over immigration. Specifically, they are tired of foreign criminals filling up thier jails.

When the Swiss are having violent protests over immigration, you know there is a real problem. This is a country that values it's citizenship above all, it typically takes 12 years of residence before even being considered for citizenship, and it's not guaranteed.

The big issus here is this poster put out by the right wing SVP: it shows 3 sheep on a Swiss flag.....kicking that black sheep off.

How do you think that would fly here? Al Sharpton would be in hog heaven.

But here's my favorite quote:

Foreigners, who make up one-fourth of the Swiss work force, complain that it is harder to get a job or rent an apartment without a Swiss passport, and that they endure harassment that Swiss citizens do not.

James Philippe, a 28-year-old Haitian who has lived in Switzerland for 14 years and works for Streetchurch, a Protestant storefront community organization, and as a hip-hop instructor, said he is regularly stopped by the police and required to show his papers and submit to body searches. He speaks German, French, Creole and English, but has yet to receive a Swiss passport.

"The police treat me like I'm somehow not human," he said.



How much you wanna bet this 'instructor' has his pants below his crack, a full grill and dreads? Hell, if you walk around like that in Georgia your begging for a cavity search. YOUR IN SWITZERLAND! Geeez!!!!

Sunday, October 7, 2007

same road same rules!




I used to ride a bike because I did not have a car. I did not have a car until I was 30 years old, so I know about riding bikes in city traffic.

Why does every cyclist I encounter as I am behind the wheel in Atlanta traffic flagrantly disobey traffic rules? I applaud these 'green healthy' individuals, but how healthy can it be to ride in the street, where danger lives, breathing in car exhaust? Why not use those 'bike lanes' they put in by using emminant domain (sp?) and taking land for city use? I never see cyclists in them: instead, they are almost always in the crosswalk, blowing through red lights, passing cars in between, etc?

Same Road:Same Rules, jackasses.

My little man is awfully cute as a Bavarian!

GO FALCONS!

Friday, October 5, 2007

what are they smoking?





NEW YORK — Nearly one out of every five Democrats thinks the world will be better off if America loses the war in Iraq, according to the(insert joke here) FOX News Opinion Dynamics Poll released Thursday.

The percentage of Democrats (19 percent) who believe that is nearly four times the number of Republicans (5 percent) who gave the same answer. Seven percent of independents said the world would be better off if the U.S. lost the war.

Overall, 11 percent of Americans think the world would be "better off" if the U.S. lost the war, and 73 percent disagree.

Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Sept. 25 to Sept. 26. The poll has a 3-point margin of error.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Harkin: back to a simpler, truthful time....



I'm sure by now, unless you have been living under a rock, you all have heard the fuss about pill-poppin blowhard Limpbaugh calling soldiers that protest the war 'phony soldiers'. Our good buddy, David ( this time, I'm telling the truth! ) Brock's little site is calling for Rush'head, clearly indicating a lack of reason.

I am not a big fan of El Rushbo, but not because of his politics. I lost any respect for him waaay back when he started suggesting that Elain Gonzales should not be returned to his father in Cuba, which I still think was the right move. His addiction aside, he did open the field for News/Talk programming, so I guess I shouldn't be that mad at him.

As someone who worked behind the scenes in this field, I can tell you that the current flap is truly disgusting. Even if Rush did call soldiers that disagree with the current war plan 'phony', which it's pretty clear he did not, its nothing that should ever be discussed on the floor of the Senate.

But, to add even more clowns to this circus, I would think that the one guy who should not be calling out Rush Limbaugh for calling someone a 'phony soldier' is a guy who lied about his own military service. Just state that to any 'progressive' and they will always respond with : "At least he served! What about YOU?" Trust me, it's so predictable it's not even funny anymore.

from wiki:While running for his Senate seat in 1984, and again while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Harkin has faced criticism for claiming that he had flown combat missions over North Vietnam. In a 1979 round table discussion with other Congressional Veterans, Harkin said of his service as a Navy pilot: “One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions”. These comments were later published in a 1981 book by David Broder. After subsequent inquiries by Barry Goldwater and The Wall Street Journal, Harkin clarified that that he had been stationed in Japan and sometimes flew recently repaired aircraft on test missions over Vietnam. His service flying F-4s and F-8s was later, while he was stationed in Cuba. References to this controversy were deleted from Wikipedia by staffers from Harkin's senate office.

Nice, douchebag.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

It's POLKA time!!!


If you cant get to Atlantic Station this weekend,to see the amazing Three Dot Polka Band, may I suggest the following weekend @Fado's in Buckhead? Besides cheesy sounding music, there are sure to be intoxicated non German sluts dressed up like real German sluts!

Ein Prosit!

Monday, October 1, 2007

fowl weather





First: props in order! The Falcons defeat Matt Schaub ( pictured ) and the Texan's for the first win of the season...

Now, onto the main course....

http://www.macon.com/220/story/149281.html


"The project would be the first such plant in Georgia and perhaps the nation, although a Minnesota company announced plans earlier this year to build a $200 million plant fired by turkey litter.

It would produce 20 megawatts of electricity a year by using a mix of chicken litter and wood scraps as fuel to generate steam that turns electricity-generating turbines. Area electric membership cooperatives have agreed to buy the electricity the plant produces to sell as "green" energy.

Georgia's chicken farms produce about 2.3 million tons of chicken litter each year, and the amount is increasing about 3 percent annually, said Billy Jones, the company's operations manager. "



Now, let me see if I have this straight.

We currently have a whole mess of Chicken Poop available, but in order to convert it into 'Green Energy' we have to mix it with wood chips and burn it?

And this is somehow better then burning coal, which we already do, or building a 'truly green' nuclear power plant?

Isn't this a little like bringing kudzu from the orient into Georgia to stem erosion? How did that work out?! Burning chicken feces doesn't have some bad side effect, or we just don't know about it yet?!

Normally, I would applaud this guy's pluck ( pun intended )but this whole concept does not seem to 'thought out'...

Oh yeah, while looking for a pic for 'chicken poop' online I found this lip balm product..... The quote on the box says:


Grandpa says:

"If ya'got chapped lips, put chicken
poop on em so you won't lick em!"