Songs you just can't turn off Volume 4

The Animals' House of the Rising Sun

I've sung Amazing Grace to this tune. Really. Works well too.

And Now, my GOP hero!

McCain nails Paul in the face, then pummels him when he's down!
But no fear, the bulletproof Texan shakes it off and comes back with the nastiest one-two I've ever seen, with the match ending in a technical K.O. for our champion of freedom!

(Also check out the "Hitler caused WWII" clip that comes up at the end)

So I had a hard time finding a Barack Obama Ad attacking John McCain where I didn't think "gee, whats so wrong with that?" or "and you think your plan is better Obama??" Really. And I despise McCain. But I guess I will have to forgive you for your McCain vote since Obama and McCain both seem to be running pro-McCain ads. Anyway, at long last, here is your McCain's-dirt-brought-to-you-by-Obama ad. They must have screwed up and ran this one by mistake!

Biden

Biden provided us with another doozy on Monday:

"Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people ... this is how we can fix this," Biden said. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"

Not only Did Roosevelt NOT get on the barely-invented-and-nowhere-near-widespread-use television (estimates put existing TV sets in 1929 between 3 and 4 digit numbers WORLDWIDE), but Roosevelt didn't even run for president until the 1932 election season, more than 2 years AFTER the 1929 crash. As icing on the cake, Biden was talking about how a leader needs to KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, which he OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T. But the media likes to point out all of Palin's "problems". Did we already forget Biden's plagiarized speech that sunk is own bid for the presidency not that long ago??

Bailout

So the Feds want to bail out wall street, proclaiming how we have to stabilize the economy to prevent a horrific disaster. Well I'm all for said "horrific disaster" if it means the Government won't be spending nearly $1 Trillion of taxpayer money (that means hard-earned money you and I have stolen out of our paychecks every week) to bail out corporations failing because of poor management decisions to lend money to people with terrible credit. To give you an idea how much money this is, my friends over at the Libertarian Party came up with a nice little list:

One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money:

• To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo.
• To buy 88,052, 394' custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around ¼ of the world.
• To buy everyone living in Belize and Malta a Manhattan apartment.
• To get half of the Democratic Party into a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the $28,500 admission price.
• To give one out of every two men in the United States a Men's Presidential Rolex watch.
• To buy every woman in the United States a Tiffany Diamond Starfish Pendant.
• To get two Mitsubishi 73" HDTVs for every household in America.
• To buy four copies of The Office: Season Four on DVD, to every person on earth.
• To send everybody in America on an all-inclusive vacation to Tahiti (and some people can stay a few extra days).

AND…
$1 trillion is enough money for everyone in Buffalo, NY to buy their own 65-acre island in Panama. This is how much the government is going to cost you (roughly $3,278 for every man, woman and child in the United States).

Barack Obama is for it. John McCain is for it.
But, Bob Barr and the Libertarian Party are against it.

But Obama and McCain are so... Different. Right?

Apple picking!

Today I got to go apple picking in South Hero once again :) Because of college, I haven't been since 2003! I picked up my friend Jon from UVM campus before heading north to the Champlain islands, where I met my mom at Hackett's orchard. We picked up some fresh apple cider and apple cider doughnuts at the farm store before heading down to the orchards to pick 3 1/2 bushels of Cortland and Macintosh apples. Even better, while we were there it went from complete overcast to nearly all blue skies with warm sunshine! Afterwards, we stopped at a little gift store a ways down the road for some more goodies and ice cream cones... what a wonderful afternoon of simple pleasures :)

Ad Spoof - Hope For America!?

Are you too ineffectual at work to be secure from losing your job?
Do you have too few friends and coworkers that can give you positive references?
Are you too indolent to have to think about looking for a new job?

Do you have trouble saving for retirement?
Money just burn a hole in your pocket?
No plan for that rainy day?

Do you feel cheated by those big corporations and their fat cat executives?
Are you outraged by their seeming lack of work in return for huge sums of money?
Do you wish you could get your hands on some of that money?

Then do we have the solution for you! Just vote democratic come election day! Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and the rest of their crew will make everything easy for you! They will steal that unfairly earned money from those rich corporate executives and put it in your pocket if you happen to lose your job. Don't worry about finding a new job, just hop on the next bandwagon that happens to pass your way because there will be that comforting safety net of unemployment payments. Don't worry about retirement either, the Obamaites will take the rest of that stolen money and put it into the failing Social Security system to make sure you will have money to retire on. And rest assured, Obama and clan won't make you feel bad for being a useless worker, a terrible money manager, and an accomplice to armed robbery from hardworking entrepreneurs. Instead, they will put your conscience at ease by telling you everyone is entitled to a certain minimum standard of living and that we need to take care of America's poor. And no, they won't even mention how America's poor live like kings compared to a large chunk of the world's population.

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New List

So I am now starting a hall of shame: Second Amendment Weasels - those politicians who took it upon themselves to pass laws contrary to the Second Amendment using underhanded means. The first inductees are House Representatives William Hughes (D-N.J.) and Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) for their parts in amending the because-of-them misnamed Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. Also, negative thanks going out to my former hero President Reagan for actually signing the bill.

Long Day

Today I woke up at 4:15 after not catching up from Monday night's sleep (which is a whole story in and of itself, involving a big party, fights, police, an arrest, and a hospital visit, among other things, at least from what I gather). I spent a total of 8 hours in a car today, 3 riding and 5 driving, only 2 on my dime though. My boss and I spent 6 hours at the auction in CT, selling 1 car and buying 2, which was only our bare minimum goal, and the second car ended up having transmission and motor mount issues... hopefully not too expensive to fix; we did get the car cheap enough to cover some repairs and still make a profit though. The car we unloaded had some significant issues to fix and we sold it for only about $200 less than we had in it so my boss figured good riddance. Anyway, after we got back I went to my parents to pick up some shocks I had ordered last week so I can put them on tomorrow after work, just in time to be all ready for my alignment appointment on Friday...