Last day of 2003. All the goddamn drunks will be out tonight, and I will get to see a great portion of them at my restaurant. Luckily I only have to go in for drawer change. Should be safe enough to drive there and back, ought to be home by 10 or 10:30. I hate going out on New Years Eve. I don’t mind getting drunk, but I need to be off the next day, and can’t drive. That way when I blow chunks I am not doing anything important. That and the fact that I have to be back at work at 6am tommorow.
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Followed several links for some reason today after reading something over at Gut Rumbles, and came across The Homeless Guy. I have a couple of things to say to this guy:
Take the time and money that you invest in your blog, and get a fucking job. Flip burger, pickup trash, whatever. I work somewhere in the vicinity of 70 hours+ per week in order to provide for my family. I have had some pretty shitty jobs in my life, but the bottom line is that I was working and trying to better myself.
Spend less than you make. Very simple. If you don’t have the money, don’t spend it. That way you are always saving a little bit at a time. -
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I have been reading my daughter some bible stories for a couple of months. I am far from being a religious person, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying I am an atheist. More like I just don’t give a shit. I don’t particularly worry about whether there is a god or not because I make my own path in life.
Anyway, came across this post over at Gut Rumbles that really struck me as poignant. I don’t think it is quite time to get into THAT with my six year old daughter though. -
Saddam was finally captured. I haven’t watched any TV yet, but I am assuming that all of the people who have been on the President’s ass for months now deriding the war are patting themselves on the back and saying that it is great that we finally caught the criminal. Fucking hypocrites. Of course, as I said, I haven’t watched any TV in a couple of days, so I could be dead wrong. Will have to watch the news tonight and see how much credit the liberals will actually give the administration and if they have the balls to continue bashing them.
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Uncategorized 10.12.2003 Comments Off
Apparently something like 79% of seniors polled say that the new prescription drug benefit will either do nothing for them or will hurt them. 400 billion dollars added to our debt and they are not happy. Crap, everybody just drag out
theretheir credit cards and checkbooks for them to steal. At least then it is a bit more personal than the theft that is already going on.
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Actually managed to get about seven hours of sleep last night. Woo Hoo!!. Don’t know what I am going to do with myself. I might actually be able to get something done today. Too bad it will have to be at work :>
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The baby was up off and on past Midnight. I think I got up once to get a bottle, and S messed with her most of the time last night, but irregardless of who gets her, crying babies still keep me up. Damn, hopefully I will get some sleep at some point this week.
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Uncategorized 09.12.2003 Comments Off
Janklow Says He’ll Resign
FLANDREAU, S.D. (Dec. 9) – Rep. Bill Janklow planned the official close of his political career to coincide with his sentencing in the traffic death of a motorcyclist, a decision that also means the special election to fill his seat will be held during South Dakota’s June 1 primary.
Janklow, a dominating force in South Dakota politics for 30 years, appeared stunned as the verdict was read Monday: guilty of second-degree manslaughter, reckless driving, running a stop sign and speeding for an Aug. 16 crash that killed Hardwick, Minn., motorcyclist Randy Scott, 55.
Within two hours, Janklow announced his resignation.
”I wish to inform you that because of present circumstances, I will be unable to perform the duties incumbent on me in representing the people of South Dakota as their U.S. representative,” Janklow, 64, wrote in a letter to be delivered Tuesday to House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
”Therefore I wish to inform you that I will resign from the House of Representatives, effective Jan. 20, 2004.”
That’s the same day he’s scheduled to be sentenced.
Second-degree manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The conviction would have prompted an investigation from the U.S. House ethics committee without the resignation.
Jim and Dorothy Anderson of Miller said Janklow did the right thing in resigning. They, like many others who reacted to Janklow’s convictions, doubt he will spend any time in prison.
Dorothy Anderson said she thinks Gov. Mike Rounds should pardon Janklow because he has been publicly disgraced and that is punishment enough.
”I think Governor Rounds should pardon him because he didn’t go out and deliberately do this,” she said. ”Things can happen. That’s why they’re called accidents.”
No, an accident is when you spill a glass of milk. Public Disgrace? Who gives a rats ass. The guy killed someone in the process of breaking the law. He deserved to be prosecuted and sentenced just like everyone else. -
Uncategorized 08.12.2003 Comments Off
Very funny and at the same time, informative. Check it out here
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Tossed and turned until about 2am. Finally got up and got on the couch. Managed to get a couple of hours of sleep. At least I will sleep well tonight, I am sure.
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Uncategorized 07.12.2003 Comments Off
Apparently President Bush paid a visit to Baghdad for Thanksgiving. In a photo op, he picked up a tray with a Big turkey on it, apparently unaware that it was not real. Form the Washington Post:
Nevertheless, the foray has opened new credibility questions for a White House that has dealt with issues as small as who placed the “Mission Accomplished” banner aboard the aircraft carrier Bush used to proclaim the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and as major as assertions about Saddam Hussein’s arsenal of unconventional weapons and his ability to threaten the United States.
Credibility? What the fuck are these guys thinking anyway. Can’t they find something a bit more serious to talk about. Apparently not with the economy coming back and production levels higher than in years. -
My granfather died when I was pretty young. Younger than 10 anyhow. One thing I remember clearly about him was that he was missing a fingernail. Just never grew back. He was in a prisoner of war camp, I believe in the phillipines. Not too sure off the top of my head.
The point is that this is the 62nd anniversary of pearl harbor. Remember that? Over 2000 people, mostly servicemen, died that day. Alot of people bitched and moaned about us joining the war. They said alot of the same things that are being said today about the war in Iraq.
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Uncategorized 07.12.2003 Comments Off
CNN -
(Dec. 7) — A retired Roman Catholic priest who admitted molesting three altar boys in 1995 was found beaten to death at his home, police said Saturday.
Joseph Pilger, 78, was found dead in his home Friday night. An autopsy Saturday found the cause of death to be multiple blunt force injuries, according to the Fayette County coroner. The death is being investigated as a homicide.
Pilger lived alone until the past month, when a young man began staying with him, said his neighbor, Karen Owens. Owens said Pilger’s car, which had been at his home earlier in the day, was missing Friday night.
Pilger pleaded guilty to sexual abuse in 1995 for abusing three altar boys in 1968 and 1969, when he was their pastor in Morganfield in western Kentucky. He was sentenced to five years’ probation beginning in January 1995.
Earlier this year, Pilger was named in a sex-abuse lawsuit against the dioceses of Lexington and Covington. Pilger declined to comment on the allegation.
12/07/2003 09:07 GMT-5
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Ran across this link while hanging out at stupid evil bastard. Check out The Two Towers the way it was meant to be seen.
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Uncategorized 04.12.2003 Comments Off
Here is yet another example of eminent domain abuse. When the fuck are Americans going to crawl off the couch and quit watching TV and demand that this shit stop. Every local goverment that wants to put in a new subdivision or super Wal-Mart can just legally force you out of your home since the Supreme Court opened that door.
Eminent Domain is supposed to be used for the public interest, such as new schools, a highway, a fire station. Not to increase tax revenues in a particular area. -
Uncategorized 03.12.2003 Comments Off
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
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“Howard Dean wants the white trash vote,” wrote Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer in mockery of the Vermonter. “[T]hat’s clearly what [Dean] meant when he said he wanted the votes of ‘guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.’”
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Authorities in Ohio now say they believe 12 shootings near Interstate 270 are related. One of the shootings killed a woman as she rode in a car. Law enforcement sources say that while only four shootings have been linked by ballistic evidence, they all “show intention and purpose.”
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WASHINGTON — Productivity (search) of U.S. companies rocketed at a 9.4 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the best showing in 20 years, offering an encouraging sign that the economic resurgence will be lasting.
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U.S. forces arrested 34 people and confiscated hordes of guns and weapons in a raid in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, the military said Wednesday.
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Rock star Alice Cooper showed up in full makeup Tuesday to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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A computer expert accused of killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet went on trial for murder Wednesday at a court in central Germany.
