Christmas 1990. The little one is my U.S. Marine and I am the idiot with the long hair and all black. I spent about a year and a half only working part time and going to school full time to get a history degree. Eventually I will go back and actually finish it.
Want to win a $150 gift certificate? It won’t be in time to buy a Christmas gift but it would be right on the money to get yourself something for being a good little boy or girl…
I would probably enter the contest myself but since it’s my brother AND I already have a copy of the darned book there might be issues there 🙁
All you have to do to enter the contest is to buy a copy of Republic:
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ISBN: 0979411424 |
Buy yourself a copy of the book by December 23rd and email the receipt to Charles Sheehan-Miles (you can get his email address from the blog entry) and then go write a review of the book at Amazon. Simple, no? It’s a damn good book and just the thing to stoke your big brother fears!
When you purchase the book and write a review that’s worth one entry and when you buy a copy for someone else as a gift that’s worth TWO!
He will do a video drawing on Christmas Eve and have it posted with the winner by midnight that night. If you are going to enter you had better buy the book early because most likely he will be at my house for the holidays and I don’t want to be up filming at dark-thirty and then have to get back up…
The link?
Oh yeah, the link to his blog entry is here and the gift certificate is for either Amazon.com or iTunes, your choice.
I don’t really hate them but this is the hardest time of the year for me in my job. It used to be that after every single vacation, weekend off or major holiday in which my family got together I would refresh my resume on Monster.com and start looking for a new job. Yeah, sometimes it’s that difficult. I’m not quite that bad now. I don’t know if I am used to it or if it’s just resignation to what I do but it doesn’t bother me quite as much after vacations anyway.
The period from Halloween through New Years is rough though. Take this week for instance. Tomorrow I will go to work at 6am and get home around 10pm if I am lucky. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, I have to leave the house at 6 and if (big iff this year) everyone shows up for work I will shoot out of there shortly after 2pm and go have Thanksgiving Dinner with my family. If someone hangs me I am pretty much fucked and they have supper without me.
Friday because of all of the fucking idiots that are out shopping before the crack of dawn I will be at work at 5-5:30am and will most likely cook the busiest shift of the year. Of course Christmas Day will be busier overall and I will end up working 20+ hours but Friday I will stay slammed from 6am until about 3pm.
Saturday will be a normal weekend day of work (aside from the fact that I have no manager at one of my stores) but the wife will be driving my son back to NC and my brother and his family will also head home so by the time I get home again I will be by myself for the night.
What a pisser.
Anyone ready to start paying me for this shit yet?
I had the post about Valour-IT up for about a week or more here sitting on the top of my blog. Through the period leading up to Veteran’s Day Soldiers’ Angels held their third annual fundraiser and with the help of web sites and blogs all over the world were able to raise over $200,000. That is great! Thanks to everyone that donated to help out during the fundraiser. It even got my buddy Zonker out of the closet to post for a few days. Amazing…BTW dude, I added your link back in, I had inadvertently deleted it and didn’t realize it until I went looking. Sorry about that.
Anyway, The Gallery Collection is the leading supplier of business holiday cards and just recently it was announced at Soldiers’ Angels that they have made a fairly sizeable donation. Anyone that runs a business knows that giving away your product for free might be one way to create awareness about your products but it can be an extremely expensive proposition because it cuts into your profits. I know because we do things on a smaller scale in the community, mainly for schools and every dime I give away is basically a dime out of my paycheck but the feeling you get being able to help out is unmatchable. Kudos to The Gallery Collection for their donation.
It might not seem like a lot but they are donating a greeting card to every soldier that wishes them Happy Holidays and Happy New Year and tells them thanks for their service. They are also putting in blank cards and envelopes for the troops to write home as well. The cards are being included in care packages that are being sent out by Soldiers’ Angels.
Even though the Veteran’s Day fundraiser might be over, you can still donate year round to Soldiers’ Angels, just go to their web site.
I know one thing and that is that I support the companies that support our soldiers, so here is a plug for The Gallery Collection.
They have a pretty nice selection of different holiday cards for businesses and not just Christmas cards either. I found some Thanksgiving cards over there as well as many different Christmas cards for all manner of gifts. They even have calendar cards and die-cut cards to choose from.
I am lousy about sending out Christmas cards and every year I say that I am going to send them out and never do. I think that this year I will start on a smaller scale and just physically hand them out to all of my employees and managers. Next years I can deal with the whole mailing thing.
Whilst at CNN looking for stuff about Bangladesh I did come across this breaking news.
A Utah judge Tuesday sentenced polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs to two consecutive prison terms of five years to life for his conviction on two counts of being an accomplice to rape, a court spokeswoman said.
The consecutive sentences mean Jeffs will serve at least 10 years. The exact amount of time he serves will be determined by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole in the future.
Couldn’t have happened to a better man. I use that term ‘man’ very loosely as he is more of a scumbag. Here’s a report from CBC
I don’t particularly have anything against alternative lifestyles. Even homos don’t bother me but damn brother, forcing kids to get married and condoning rape of a minor is just not cool. Not at all.
He was accused of using his religious influence over his followers to force a 14 year old girl to marry her 19 year old cousin. Now I know in ages past people got married and had kids at a much younger age than they do now, but that just isn’t an argument for this type of behavior. Maybe in jail he can live out his polygamist’s dream and get ass-fucked daily by several different husbands…
Just the fact that this guy has so many followers shows me how utterly stupid the American Public can be. NoGodBlog.com concurs with this, calling them ‘stupid, stupid followers’. Save the salvation for the mindless and I will keep whatever the hell is coming for me, most likely worms in dirt and not the edible kind either.
ThinkGirl says that he was also fined $18,500 for each count. What happens with the money? Does it pay for the trial or does it go to the victim?
Hey, but guess what? They have already leaked images from his first night in the cross-bar motel…
Don’t Pick Up The Soap!
Have fun in the cross-bar motel dickweed!!
Feeding myself…
No, really. I don’t cook if I’m at home alone, hell I barely cook now when they are here as it is. I used to cook all the time but over the years the wife has assumed most of those duties, mainly due to the fact that I work so damn much.
Luckily for me the wife went to the grocery store yesterday to get a ham for Thanksgiving. While there she got some other stuff as well including lunch meats. Normally I just eat at work or fast food when they are out of town but I don’t want to spend any money and I am off today which leaves me sitting here wondering what to eat…
The turkey she bought is the Oscar Meyer kind that comes in a plastic container rather than one of those bags. I guess they needed to bump the price up so they increased the packaging and decreases the amount of meat. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to get the fucking thing open and almost sliced my hand off trying. I finally just stabbed the bitch and ripped the top off so that I could make a couple of little tasty sandwiches.
The shit was like the packaging that they put electronics and stuff in now. What’s up with that shit? When you buy them the cashier takes the electronic locks off of them but leaves the packaging so that you can impale yourself or worse, break whatever it is you bought just trying to get the damned thing open. I got this headset thing free with my last phone and although I knew I wouldn’t use it I figured I would take it and give it to the Marine when I shipped him his. I almost broke it tearing the package open.
Can’t they create a special ‘retard aisle’ with open packages so that people like me won’t injure themselves with their purchases?
hmmm…I smell a lawsuit coming. Sooner or later someone somewhere is going to stab themselves and then just like the stupid woman that burned herself with coffee at McDonalds, sue the company for not putting a disclaimer on the packaging. ‘Warning, this packaging is not for the mentally handicapped!’
I will occasionally hit adult blogs when I get surfing around (say it isn’t so!) and even have a couple of them linked in my sidebar down there. The Perverted Republican aka Evilicious Blonde aka again the Perverted Republican is one of my favorites. The link’s down there, just look for it. I am far from being a prude and it doesn’t take too long hanging out here to figure that one out. Anyway, I was over at vibrator.com reading their blog earlier. If you aren’t aware, vibrator.com sells sex toys. Don’t get distracted yet. Did I tell you they have a blog?
Anyway, apparently the owner of vibrator.com attended the Blogworld Expo in Vegas recently (wish I could have gone) and was handing stickers out to everyone, a number of whom loved them and stuck them on their clothing. There was such a plethora of different web sites and companies represented at the Expo that he fit right in and had people asking for the stickers. Apparently the co-founder of Blogworld Expo, Libby Durfee, didn’t like the fact that he was there handing out stickers and had him thrown out of the party. Not nice at all. Sounds like she had a silver bullet stuck in her butt to me. I can see if something is invite only or a private party but when everyone is having a good time and most people are not offended it’s almost censorship. There’s a post up about it at the blog, you can read more about it there and read the comments from other attendees as well.
What’s up with people that they can’t loosen up a bit. It’s OK to watch people get blown away in the most graphic manner on television and in the movies, but let two people even consider doing the so-called ‘dirty deed’ and the darned bibles come out and prudes start talking about being offended and protecting the children. It’s all about the children. Shouldn’t we educate them and let them know that sexuality can be a beautiful thing rather than letting them know it’s OK to kill and maim but by god don’t be caught talking about or even thinking about sex?
There I go off on a tangent. I had originally meant to post about some of the cool products that they sell like the Rabbit Vibrators. I picked up a couple of years ago and boy is that about the coolest thing I have ever bought. If it could make coffee I would be in love again.
What is it about people that as soon as they see (don’t even have to read) a post about sex toys or sex itself that you are immediately labeled as an ‘adult’ or ‘sex’ blog? I just don’t see that there should be such stigma attached to it. Even people that probably have two or three sex toys and all sorts of stuff I might consider as ‘perverted’ at home in their dresser or under their bed will get out in public and and try to ban the stuff.
Guess I’m just weird like that.
whoozat?
I didn’t know until a little while earlier when I came across a couple of stories earlier as well as a video from CBS news where Julie Chen did an interview with him.
From what I gather the dude is trying to get a date at match.com and some chick dissed him, at which point in time he send an ugly email back. So what? People send ugly emails to each other all of the time and in a semi-anonymous online dating environment it’s probably worse. The lady, who he terms a ‘fat chick’ turned around and released the email, it was posted to Gawker.com and they have coined him the worst person in the world because of the email. Damn. One would think Osama Bin Laden or Pesident nonamamembawhateva from North Korea would top this list, but no, it’s a guy who doesn’t like fat chicks. I guess it makes sense when your world revolves around gawker.com and Perez Hilton for your daily dose of inane.
Not that I have anything against fat people myself. At 41 (not quite but almost) I am not quite as lithe as I used to be, but he can have his own opinions no matter how overinflated his ego may be. Personally I think the guy is a bit stuck on himself, and the fact that he has to resort to flirting with unseen fat chicks on the Internet should be the first fucking clue that maybe Mr. Personality ISN’T.
Gawker even has an entire page of news stories devoted to the douchebag. Here’s the original email he sent to the lady:
At this point she sent him a polite ‘no thanks’ and had decided they weren’t a match. No harm no foul right? Move on to the next fish in the Internet sea. John sent this email in return.
I guess it’s obvious why he’s looking for love online now, the stuck up metrosexual, but worst person in the world? Fucking hardly. He’s the jock in high school that was so stuck on himself that it was obvious to everyone but him how idiotic he was, except that John never grew out of it.
Dude’s got some hair issues too. Even has a web page. Check out the commercial. I hate to keep making fun of this guy but jesus, there is so much to make fun of here. Even his About Me page (the url is aboutus.aspx, us as in the plural). Here are the contents.
I think it’s time I go find something more productive to talk about now 
In theory I would love to see a Libertarian elected. With exception to the last couple of elections in which I voted mostly Republican I have always voted Libertarian straight down the board (with one guilty exception, I voted for Clinton the 1st time around). Ron Paul, no matter that he is running as a Republican is and always will be a Libertarian. Some of his ideas are pretty far-fetched but in general they are good.
Facts are facts. He won’t get nominated, nor will he get elected, but like Ross Perot many of his ideas will find fruition later on. Although it seems like our politicians don’t listen, they do, it just takes a while and the losers in the 2008 election (most likely the Republicans) will be listening and scratching their heads wondering what the fuck happened. THAT is the point at which they might start listening and asking questions.
The below are some of Dr. Paul’s responses from one of the republican debates that aired. I agree with him 100% that we need to cut spending on the Federal Government level but I also believe that some of the stuff we fund should remain. Completely doing away with the Federal Income Tax is a great idea in principle, but we cannot cut spending enough to completely get rid of it without some other way to bring in income, which is one of the reasons I am behind the Fairtax.
There is a pretty interesting discussion going on at the Fact Checker blog at the Washington Post blogs, which is where I found the link to the above video.
I was very interested in listening to what Mike Huckabee had to say about scrapping the tax cod. I can’t imbed it but you can find a link to the video here.
One of the other big issues of the election will be immigration reform. Here’s what Dr. Paul has to say about Immigration:
This certainly isn’t meant to be an ad for Dr. Paul and I am still undecided as to whom I will vote for but both taxes and immigration are two of the important topics that are going to have to be addressed sooner or later.
I don’t guess I have a huge point to make here, I have been up far too long and am not even making much sense to myself.
This is my open Trackback post for Tuesday, November 20th. I am cross-posting this to several different sites as well. I only normally do it from Shadowscope however I have been working so many hours this week and need something to post on the others 🙂
The purpose of a linkfest is to help bloggers promote their work. The key technology used by linkfests is the trackback ping. The diagram below shows how it works. Each weekday, a new linkfest article is created on one or more of the participating blogs, and hosts sign up by either pinging the festival or using the form on the article’s main page. The host’s article is known as an open trackback post. The linkfest article keeps track of all the open trackback posts and tries as best it can to figure out each one’s trackback URL. The trackback URL is important because you ping this URL to get your article listed as part of the open trackback post.
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