I like Ben Folds' Music

I first found this video at I-am-bord.com & Thought to post it to hear for your pleasure.

DeCadence (an A Cappella group at UC Berkeley) sings Ben Folds version of Bitches Ain't Shit. NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR LITTLE EARS!

If my tire was slashed, I will do the same to their soul

I left my favorite watering hole @ exactly 2am.

I hear a thumping sound while driving down the street. I thought it was just the crappy plow job.

I quickly found out otherwise when my car grabbed [mind you on black ice] and did a severe pull to the right.

Fortunatly this happened just before the gas stop. So I pulled in & discovered that my right front tire is not only flat, but popped both of the beads. [read it was dead four blocks prior]

I just got home thirty minutes ago, [4:32am]. I have spent this time unthawing my toes, knees, and my right hand fingers.

I am pissed off.

Not just because of the blowout, but I had several boys in blue do drive-by's watching me, many more others just plain pull up to the truck pumps & not ask if I was ok,[all this time I am screaming at the top of my lungs].

But it was one of those situations where I had 3/4 of the crap in my trunk spread out in the parking lot to get to the spare tire & my jack.

NO I WAS NOT OK, AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE SOME HELP DUMBASS!~

Uh,humm, ok be calm....... So anyway I find my 2 ton bottle jack, however I cannot find the bar for it, [now I have totally emptied the trunk, and there is two rows of shit 15 feet back, {one for car stuff, the other for silly crap}, and I still cannot find the bar for the jack.

And I have to pee.

So, knowing that I have a cop watching me from across the street, I just can't walk behind the tow-truck & whip it out. I grabbed a bottle of antifreeze & "diluted the mix".

And now without my bottle jack, I had to use the jack that came with the car.

Bad move.

I broke the knuckle-buster bar on that jack [photos to follow], and then got the car off the ground with the bottle jack using a pry bar, a pipe, & the lug wrench.

I finally got the tire off & got the doughnut on & realized "how the hell am I going to get this bitch back on the ground?"

Simple: Pack your shit up, fire the car up, and throw it in drive.

This is when I realized I could no longer feel my toes, knees, or my right hand down to the palm.

This is also when I realized that the cops were no longer keeping an eye on me. So I 'was good to go'. I circle the gas stop several times, retightened the lug nuts, then made my way home.

But, when I look at the tire tomorrow, and the 5" mark on the sidewall is really a slash.

Once I find out who did it. They will realize what kind of pandora's box they have unleashed.

Blessed Be, and don't fuck with someone that you do not know what, how, or who they know.

Dr. Stranglelove

The Return of Captain Invincible

Look...Up on the Screen...Its Absurd...Its Insane...Its...

I don't know how many people feel about shlocky B-movies, but I love them. And not only is this pure shlock with Alan Arkin as a retired alcoholic ex-superhero, and Christopher Lee as the Evil Mr Midnight. But it is a musical as well! Decide for yourselves. But I'm sure that anyone from Wild Willy's will enjoy it.



Blessed Be, (and don't forget to "Have a short or a Port or a snort of any sort")
Dr. Strangelove

Fuitcake ranks higher than Bush in polls

A CBS News poll states that Dubya' has an approval rating now of 28%.

According to the story linked below getting kicked in the balls [41%], & stepping dog shit [35%] ranks higher among a list of others.

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Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online

Blessed Be, and eat your Brussel Sprouts[51%]
Dr. s.

I can't sleep, I have MIDWAY MADNESS

T-MINUS EIGHT HOURS:
I am watching CBS Sunday morning. I am happy that I still have my father who will be watching the Bears & Colts fight it out in the Super Bowl.

But I wish my Grandfather Chalma was still around to see the Bears get this far. {And possibly beat the snot out of the former Baltimore Colts}.

Which brings to when 'DA BEARS won the play-offs. I was at my favorite pub, the game ended, and I had to call my dad to see if saw the game. Both he & I were born, & are from Hammond Indiana. So I was at an impass of if the Colts won, who should I cheer for?

Beings that where we were born & the family house is several hundred yards from South Chicago, but actually from Indiana, there was an odd convolution of who to side with.

But after asking my father about this he quickly reminded me of how the Colts came to Indiana. They left Baltimore in the middle of the night. Without warning eight moving vans pulled up & packed all of the teams gear & stuff, and disapeared into the night. Thus......

They are not an Indiana team, because true Hoosiers would not do something like that.

So I will remain a Chicago Bears fan as I have for many years through good & bad. {Unlike many of the purple shirted butt-munchers that have no loyalty when the 'queens [more often than not] suck ass}.

I just wish my Grand Father was still alive to see The Bears play this game.

That, and I wish I could get some sleep before the game.

Blessed Be, GO BEARS!!!,

& if you are near Sioux Falls this afternoon come up to Willys. We will have a tonne of food, & a tonne of fun!

Dr. S.

Herpes, no, I said hair piece

As they said in the breakfast club:

"you wear tights grabbing other guys...."

"It is standard sports gear uniform"

"yeah, umm, tights"

And now, after more than 25 years ago when the wrestlers in high school wrote off us theatre geeks as what ever simple minded thing they could pull out of the tiny litttle minds.

WHO GETS HERPES MORE YOU SPANDEX BITCHES?!?!?!?!?

I had to have a big laugh loud enough to wake the people upstairs, [and yes I woke them up], when I hear about 'mat herpes' that all of these kids have been exposed to, yea, unknowingly not told about by wrestleing coaches that have known about this shit since before I was in high-school in the 80's.

So, what I am saying:

1. you wear tights
2. you basicaly hump your opponent to the ground
3. you get herpes from the foam padding that you flop around on, or the other sweaty GUY that you are attempting to get on top of
4. and the coach yells at you if you do not go down on your opponent fast enough
5. he is also wearing tights
6. plain an simple Y.A.F.M
   

Where as in what I did [technical theatre]

1. the women wear the tights, & look a hella better than you will ever will
   
2. the boys that humped each other were private, and not school sanctioned
3. so were the girls, [but that was something GREAT to watch]
4. in theatre/music, we were smart enough to know where & how we got an S.T.D
5. 98% of the time we were not wearing lycra/spandex, and if we did, we wore a condom
6. and you muttonhead jocks think we are the 'fags'?

Who slaps each other on the ass? Jocks 1
Who makes more money after school? Theatre 1
Once you blow out your knee, elbow, etc. Will you still have a career? Maybe in used car sales.
Theatre 2 - Jocks [should be -1] still 1
And between the jocks & the theatre geeks....

Only jocks will shower together.

Theatre people have seperate dressing rooms

And we have fewer S.T.D.'s than the bung headed shitbags that roll around on a plastic mat in jumpsuits that would make a cheerleader blush.

So, right now I say GOOD FUCKING DEAL YOU THUNKERS!

The score as I see it is: Jocks - 1{herpes infected} / Theatre _69 {and clean}

Blessed Be, just wipe down the mat before your anal fantasy.

Dr. Strangelove

Cartoon Net campaign creates Boston bomb scare

When a good [and pretty damn cool] ad campaign goes bad, just call the bomb squad, Department of homeland [in]security, and lock down the city
LiveLeak.com - Cartoon Net campaign creates Boston bomb scare

I saw a blurb on the news about this last night & thought "Who the f%^k would mistake these things for bombs? They are printed circuit boards with leds. What fu*king morons!"

Then I read about it & THEN I thought "Great way of getting a shyte-tonne of free pr". I have friends in advertising that would kill for all of the press this has generated.

Go ahead & click the link to the video above, it's pretty cool.

Blessed Be, but watch out for LED's
Dr. S

UPDATE: NBC Nightly News just did a story on Boston's panic attack.

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And I just found a good page from Gothamist.com that covers the story:

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This week-end at Willy's - [not Bernies]

So, here how it goes, we have a Mega Super Bowl party on Sunday.

But we also have the UFC, [Ultimite Fighting Championship], fight pay per view Satuday the 3rd. So come on up!

And one of our own So. Dak. boys Lutter is the feature match.

It will be fun, it could be ugly, but it still will be fun.

But if you are under age........ You wil be freezeing your ass off in the parking lot or downtown in the pokey.

Blessed Be, and fight fight fare.

Dr. Strangelove

And now for a public sevice annoucement...

All I can say is I wish our local Humane Society had the balls to do a campaign like this.
[giggle]

And my favorite.....

MORE FUN WITH SQUIRRELS!

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

Black squirrel (archive)
Local people suggest hunger is driving squirrels to extremes
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.

They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh.

A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.

The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people.

A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.

"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

"When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."

Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack.

While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd".

"If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added.

Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory.

A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year.

"The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

The Blues Brother, and he is only 11 years old

I loves the blues. This is known by many people that know me. As Drew @ Fark.com said: "Scrawny 11 year old with classes shows you why he'll get laid before every football player at his school"

This kid ROCKS!

So, now I know what to say. Thanks to the Aussie's

Muffin tops beat affluenza in Australia�

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australians love their muffin tops -- but not the kind you buy from a bakery.

The arbiter of Australian English, the Macquarie Dictionary, has declared "muffin top" the word of the year for 2006 -- even though it is two words -- defeating "affluenza", a noun that describes dissatisfaction with consumerism.

The dictionary defines "Muffin top" as a colloquial noun that refers to the fold of fat around the midriff which spills over the top of tight-fitting pants or skirts on the overweight.

"The vivid imagery of this word with its sense of playfulness and the fact that it is an Australianism made it the clear winner," the judges said.

Judges Gavin Brown and Stephen Garton, both professors at Sydney University, and Dictionary publisher Susan Butler said "muffin top" had spread globally due to the popular TV comedy Kath and Kim, which pokes fun at suburban life Down Under.

The victory for "muffin top" came after it was shortlisted for the 2005 American Dialect Society's most creative word, only to lose out to "whale tail" - the bit of a g-string, or thong, that shows above the waistband at the back of pants or skirts.

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The Caviat about bringing a knife to a gun fight.

So in my 'hood, I get jumped by some kids with Glocks.
I won't fight them.
I will reach for my Gerber multi-tool.
They laugh at me.

Then I pop them & "Spread cherry pie all over the place".

wcbstv.com - CBS 2 Exclusive: A Weapon That Even Scares Cops

DA' BEARS ARE GOING TO THE BIG GAME!!!!!!!

Wow what a game!

WE ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!

I'm sorry, I am just sooo pumped up about the win over the Saints right now, I am just giddy.

• I prayed for snow {no 'dome team' has ever won at an outdoor play-off venue}
• And knowing that the weather we have here in SFSD will be the same thing Chicago gets the next day, - - that was an easy in.
  
• Half time came & it was 13 to 7 in the Bears favour
• Then then fluffy white stuff started. [mind you, the field was sloppy footing to begin with]
• And the fluffy white stuff became naughti little snowballs. [many colored groups tend to gang up like that]
• And Rex Grossman pulled his head out of his ass & actually pulled off some plays in a game that actually matters.

My big conundrum right now is that I also sort-of root for the Colts.

I may be from south Chicago, but technically I am from Hammond, Indiana. I concider 2000 yards from the state line, & the tri-state megalopoplis, Chicago.

I AM FROM CHICAGO

Anyone from Hammond, Hiland, Munster, Gary, Cal-City, Merrilliville, all the way to Valpo [Valparaiso, IN].

Plain & simple, We are all concidered "From Chicago", so deal with it.

After the Bears won I called My dad, [who is also from Hammond/now lives in Gary], and asked him about our being born in Indiana, but concidered Chicago.

He told me that right now in essence it is a coin toss of which team would be supported when talking NFL.

If the Colts win, It could be almost as bad as if the Cubs & the White Sox finally went into the World Series.

May the beings above us have mercy.

Blessed Be, & don't spike the ball.
Dr. S.

Bruce Campbell explains "it" all

If you have ever wondered how GoogleEarth REALLY works...

Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Spider Webs

In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave spiders various kinds of drugs and alcohol to observe the effects on their webs. The results were pretty interesting.

(New Years + Beer) * (3 Stuffed Animals) = Empty Fridge

After my last post, I did not think I would have to deal with what I came home to tonight.

I thought I made it clear that people should have fun, but not goto extremes.

I did not consider that Rae, Rosco, & Guin, after posing for the camera would go on a rampage. [I still do not have a clue of how they found the beer, more or less, how they got so pissed up.]

But they made one mistake. Someone took pictures. Just like Paris, Christina, Madonna, & other media whores, [I need the publicity to save my dead career], they made the mistake of documenting what went on.

I had a pack of smokes with one left on the headboard, I thought I was having a 'momentary lapse of blondeness' until I saw Rae scamming it.This explains why my hand is warm, my throat is parched, & my fridge is empty.THE DAMN BUD WAS IN THE CRISPER DRAWER!!! And I really do not want to know what Guin is doing to Rosco. I have a good guess of what Rae & Rosco are up to though.

So, all three of them are now under house arrest, [read in separate boxes in separate rooms], and will be going to in-patient Keystone therapy for addiction therapy.

And to top it all off. All three of my remotes for the tv, vcr, & dvd are missing.

Having a party & not inviting me, trashing my place, and cleaning out my fridge, [I do not want to know what happened to the bicycle pump], and that is all I have discovered so far, I AM PRETTY TORQUED OFF!

Oh wait, I just found out someone named Petey D'Penquin' took the photos.

After I talk to the Sioux-Falls-3, I will know where this naughty influence named Petey can be located. All I have from any of them so far is that he is looking for pie.

I can't make sense of it.

I guess I have to hide my beer better.

Dr. S

MERRY NEW YEAR ! ! ! !

From all of us @ ALE ProCo,
have a safe and pleasant celebration tonight.

Blessed Be All, keep your fluids pure.

Most of all,

DO NOT ARGUE

when someone wants to take your keys.

Some people do care about others.

Doctor Strangelove

Check out the hot tail on thisbabe!

Goto Horny Manatee.com now!

Merry F%@*ing Christmas!

A little ditty by Denis Leary.


Ho, Ho, Ho!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. . . . . . . JAMES BROWN IS DEAD.

I heard about this last night, but could not get on to post about it. He will be missed by many of us that have worked in music, or just listen to it.

This story is from the Associated Press:


'Godfather of Soul' James Brown Dies
Dec 25, 9:46 PM (ET)

By HARRY R. WEBER

ATLANTA (AP) - James Brown, the undeniable "Godfather of Soul," told friends from his hospital bed that he was looking forward to performing on New Year's Eve, even though he was ill with pneumonia. His heart gave out a few hours later, on Christmas morning.

The pompadoured dynamo whose classic singles include "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and "I Got You (I Feel Good)" died Monday of heart failure, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. He was 73.

"People already know his history, but I would like for them to know he was a man who preached love from the stage," said friend Charles Bobbit, who was with Brown at the hospital. "His thing was 'I never saw a person that I didn't love.' He was a true humanitarian who loved his country."

The entertainer with the rough-edged voice and flashy footwork also had diabetes and prostate cancer that was in remission, Bobbit said. Brown initially seemed fine at the hospital, Copsidas said. Three days before his death, he had participated in his annual toy giveaway in Augusta, and he was looking forward to his New Year's Eve show.

"Last night, he said 'I'm going to be there. I'm the hardest working man in show business,'" Copsidas said Monday. He said Brown planned to perform during a two-week tour in Canada after hitting Times Square.

Brown was himself to the end, at one point saying, "I'm going away tonight," Bobbit said at a news conference later Monday.

"I didn't want to believe him," he said.

A short time later, Brown sighed quietly three times, closed his eyes and died, Bobbit said.

One of the major musical influences of the past 50 years, Brown was to rhythm and dance music what Bob Dylan was to lyrics. From Mick Jagger to Michael Jackson, David Bowie to Public Enemy, his rapid-footed dancing, hard-charging beats and heartfelt yet often unintelligible vocals changed the musical landscape.

He was one of the first artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and other founding fathers.

"He was an innovator, he was an emancipator, he was an originator. Rap music, all that stuff came from James Brown," entertainer Little Richard, a longtime friend of Brown's, told MSNBC.

"James Brown changed music," said Rev. Al Sharpton, who toured with Brown in the 1970s and imitates his hairstyle to this day.

"He made soul music a world music," Sharpton said. "What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and hip-hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a different beat, a different style of music. He pioneered it."

Sharpton will officiate at Brown's funeral service, details of which were still incomplete, Copsidas said.

Brown won a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 1992, as well as Grammys in 1965 for "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (best R&B recording) and for "Living In America" in 1987 (best R&B vocal performance, male.)

He even had a brief but memorable role on the big screen as a manic preacher in the 1980's movie "The Blues Brothers."

Brown, who lived in Beech Island, S.C., near the Georgia line, had a turbulent personal life that included charges of abusing drugs and alcohol. After a widely publicized, drug-fueled confrontation with police in 1988 that ended in an interstate car chase, Brown spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program.

From the 1950s, when Brown had his first R&B hit, "Please, Please, Please" in 1956, through the mid-1970s, Brown went on a frenzy of cross-country tours, concerts and new songs. He earned the nickname "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" and often tried to prove it to his fans, said Jay Ross, his lawyer of 15 years.

Brown's stage act was as memorable, and as imitated, as his records, with his twirls and spins and flowing cape, his repeated faints to the floor at the end.

"He was dramatic to the end - dying on Christmas Day," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a friend of Brown's since 1955. "Almost a dramatic, poetic moment. He'll be all over the news all over the world today. He would have it no other way."

His "Live at The Apollo" in 1962 is widely considered one of the greatest concert records ever. He often talked of a 1964 concert in which organizers made the mistake of having the Rolling Stones, not him, close the bill, remembering Mick Jagger waiting offstage, nervously chain smoking, as he pulled off his matchless show.

"To this day, there has been no one near as funky. No one's coming even close," rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy once told the AP.

Brown routinely lost two or three pounds each time he performed and kept his furious concert schedule in his later years even as he fought prostate cancer, Ross said.

With his tight pants, eye makeup and outrageous hair, Brown set the stage for younger stars such as Michael Jackson and Prince. And the early rap generation overwhelmingly sampled his music and voice as they laid the foundation of hip-hop culture.

"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me," Brown told The AP in 2003.

Born in poverty in Barnwell, S.C., in 1933, Brown was abandoned as a 4 year old to the care of relatives and friends. He grew up on the streets of Augusta, Ga., in an "ill-repute area," as he once called it, learning how to hustle to survive.

By the eighth grade in 1949, Brown had served 3 1/2 years in reform school for breaking into cars. While there, he met Bobby Byrd, whose family took Brown into their home. Byrd also took Brown into his group, the Gospel Starlighters. Soon they changed their name to the Famous Flames and their style to hard R&B.

In January 1956, King Records of Cincinnati signed the group, and four months later "Please, Please, Please" was in the R&B Top Ten.

Brown is survived by his fourth wife, Tomi Rae Hynie, one of his backup singers, and at least four children - two daughters and sons Daryl and James Brown II, Copsidas said.

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Associated Press writers Hillel Italie in New York and Greg Bluestein in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Blessed Be to "THE Godfather" of not only soul, but of all music.

She gave too much

So, let's get this right:

• School holds food drive to help the local food bank.
• A student brings in more food than other students.
• The teacher sends food back home so that the other students "would not feel bad for not bringing as much food".

I say the whole warm & fuzzy Poli.-correct bullshit has gotten WAY out of hand when a little girl tries her best to help others & gets repremanded for doing so.

TorontoSun.com - Toronto And GTA - She gave too much

Blessed Be, & Merry Yule!
Dr. S.

U.S. gift givers grab "Bush's last day" gear - Yahoo! News UK

I like the idea. It actually put me in the spirit of the Yule season.

U.S. gift givers grab "Bush's last day" gear - Yahoo! News UK: "01.20.09"

Happy Holiday Video - Charlie Brown Christmas

I saw this & laughed, giggled, and then realized how silly some people are around this time of year.

I am not one for the whole "It's the holiday season, let's be nice for a while to each other".

I subscribe to "You are alive, they are alive, we all need to at least try to be nice to each other regardless of 'the season', all year, and just deal with it".

The time of year should not be the whole or only reason to be nice to the others that you encounter. Do it to be nice, it sometimes will make you feel good. Regardless of the season, the phase of the moon, or how the outlook is for your favorite team, at least try to be nice to others that share this planet with yourself.

OK, enough of the rant. Anyone that has watched the tv show 'Scrubs' will enjoy this:

- Charlie Brown Christmas -

Performed by the Cast of Scrubs


Happy Holidays! Dr. S.

I NEED A WARM BED!

If any of you that has known me for a while, I have had a waterbed for a very long time. I made it for twelve years with my old mattress. Then I got a new one three years ago for christmas. It died last year & the warranty had expired. [The company is not in business anymore anyway].

SO I ASK:

If anyone out there knows of a functional, [read DOES NOT LEAK], queen-size water bed mattress that would not cost me an arm & a leg, write an email or post a comment.
With the cold weather lately, I have been reminded how nice it is to climb into a warm bed after being in sub-zero temps. That, and it is also cool in the hot days of summer when I shut off the heater.

And I am getting tired of sleeping on a futon mattress using comforters as padding. I will be damned to spend $220+ to replace the bladder of my bed when I paid $32.00 + a 12 pack on the whole bed itself back in '90.

So, if you want to help someone in need, do it. If you want to feed hungry kids, do it. And if you feel like helping out the Childrens Home Society. Please do it, they need all the support they can get.



But if you find a queen-size waterbed mattress that is either cheap or free. Let me know.

Blessed Be, and please don't scream at people without prevocation. Just be nice, and tell others to do so too. At least for a few weeks. People need to relearn how before our lives explode into chaos.

DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!

I just found a possibly fun web toy. At least I thought it was fun. It is a warning label generator that allows you to create & customize your own warning labels like those you see all over the place.

I recommend checking it out & playing with it.

CLICK BELOW:

Uncle Sam Want's you. Even if you are a stoner

I have an issue with the 'moral waivers' thing. When I went into the air force, they were not concerned about the dwi I had the weeks before reporting to basic. I got stuck for 2 weeks because of a damn speeding ticket I did not report.

The speeding ticket was years prior, the dui was 2 days before I had to appear @ basic training. But even after asking several people [two of which were states attorney's], "You don't have to report the speeding tickets"

I get munched over to the legal schmucks for two weeks because of a fucking speeding ticket, not the dui.

And now they have no question about taking in some pot-head-dipshit-moron-lazy-motherfuckers that . . . .


WHOOO DUDE! LETS SHOOT SOME SHIT!!!

It really pisses me of that the people I was going to give my life for now think that it now ok to spark up, but if you exceed the speed limit. . . . Your as is out of here.

cbs4denver.com - CBS4 Investigates Army Recruits' 'Moral Waivers'

Beer good, fire baaad, Beer+Fire= Great Party

After waking up @ 6pm with a husky voice like Lauren Bacall. It dawned on me why I like to burn wood.

Last night [read actually this morning], several of us gathered to offer to the gods of smoke & cinder many, many, and even more, pieces of wood. Also just sit around and f^&k off & drink. It was fun. It was self-made entertainment. And yet again it was fun. We burned a butt-load of wood, tried to cook brats, [heat is bad on the eyebrow @ that temp.], and I even made a glass sculpture from two beer bottles. It broke though, & ended back in the 'kiln' never to be seen again.

WARNING: If a fire is hot enough to melt your jacket at 10 feet, meld bottle glass, and bend a heavy gauge coat hanger used to cook a brat. The fire is going to hurt you. Or at least take hair off your forehead & arms whilst attempting to cook formentioned brat.

But it was still a kick assed fun time had by most of us. One of the women decided she was cold & grabbed a vellux blanket & laid down on the ground. COLD? Screw the blanket!!! Just stand up next to the pit for two minutes, [while rotating every 5-10 seconds], and you will be toasty warm for the next half hour.
That, and nobody will trip over you, or kick you in sensitive areas.

So later on, after the women left, we men did our manley praise to the fire by feeding & nudging it to create more fire, heat, and flying embers 20+ feet into the air.

If you have never burned wood, you will not understand what I am saying. But if you have a grill on your porch or patio. . . .

Grab all of those old newspapers, junk mail, twigs, or what ever....

Dump it in your Webber, toss a match, and relax.
Just don't do it indoors.

Blessed Be, Dr. S.

It's All About The Pentiums

Those of you that are wonks, compu-geeks, etc. Will appreciate the new weird Al video.

All About The Pentiums

So sir, Dr. Howser will be doing your prostate exam today . . .

I think this is one of those "I always thought it, but........"

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Patrick Harris Tells PEOPLE He Is Gay | Neil Patrick Harris : People.com

I had to come up with something less serious than leaving women to die because those elected to office think the women in South Dakota are too stupid to make a decision on there own.

VOTE NO ON SIX! You will sleep better at night if you do.

Sorry, I meant "have fun, enjoy life!" That is until someone says that you can't wear anything but a burkah.

Sorry again. Actually no I am not. This is where this sated group of what used to be free thinking Americans are now being sheep to those that tell us what to do & not do.

This is not the America I grew up in.

And as is looks right now, it will never be again.

All that aside, Doogie does dress well.

Blessed Be, Dr. S.

It is things like this that I am voting NO ON #6

I came accross this story in the Argus Leader & I know many other people with simular stories.
The link is below my post. You can click that, or the title line above.

I have long been a supporter of women's rights. One of them is that if they need to make a choice about serious things like having an abortion, it should be the woman's choice. Not some sixty-five year old man hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Myself, I do not believe abortion as a convenience. But if something occurred to my mother, wife, girlfriend, or any other woman in my life, and THEY made that choice.

I would want them to be safe. If something happened, I would want them to be somewhere that can take care of things, & if not get her somewhere that can.

If abortion is banned, [which So. Dak. will lose MILLIONS of dollars in court over], women who have the means to travel will go somewhere that it is legal. While those that are not that privileged, will be going to underground hiding places & getting it done unprofessionally, unclean, unsafe, and if something goes wrong.

There will not be a single thing to help them.

Keep in mind folks that China used to force families to have abortions to limit the population. #6 is just the opposite.

If #6 gets passed, and [big if], survives the lawsuit. Call up Roger Hunt & ask him if he can babysit your kids. Or, for that matter, any of our SD "representatives" that voted for this bill.

$100.00 says they won't.

Law endangers women

Published Nov, 1, 2006 by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader Written by: The Rev. George E. Parmeter, 60, rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Huron - but writing as an individual.

Blessed Be, Dr. Strangelove

A different 404 error page

I like this one, but I don't have kitties:

404 - CelticBear

MERRY SAMHAIN ! ! !

That is right, at sunset I start my own little festivities for what I concider a New Year.

"New year, is Dr. S really FUBAR'd?"

No, I'm just happy to be among the living. That, and for those of you that don't know by now, or have not picked up on it - - - I am a wiccan. Not a witch, worlock, or any other D&D silly assed thing that people have created for TV & movies. But a normal person that has a belief that we actually can make a difference in the world if we work togather instead of beating the snot out of those that don't agree with us.

"an ye harm none" = the golden rule
"blessed be" = "peace unto you & yours"
Not much different than any other religion now is it.

Blessed Be All, Dr. S

Loss of our constitutional rights

NOTE:

This is an email from my father. He actually is a doctor {PhD}, whereas I just play one on the 'net.
For me, this should not happen, it should not be allowed, nor should it be tolerated.

Dr. S.

Good morning,

Please take a moment to watch this video relating to the Military Commissions Act that was signed into law recently by George W. Bush.

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

It basically gives one man, Bush, the power to declare any US citizen who disagrees with him as an "unlawful enemy combatant", allowing him to single out individuals, like yourself, to be arrested and detained indefinitely without giving you your constitutional rights to Habeas Corpus. This means you can sit in jail without being able to contact your family or your attorney.

It means a loss of the constitutional rights of every American citizen based upon the whims of a single individual: George W Bush.

If you decide to send a contribution to the victims of Lebanon, you could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant"...

if you want to contribute to the International Red Cross to aid refugees, you could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant"...

or send food or medical supplies to the people of Iraq, you could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant"...

If you write a Letter to the Editor showing any form of sympathy for groups, individuals, or citizens of a particular foreign county not supported by this Administration, you could be declared an "unlawful enemy combatant"...

You could also be tortured under the rules and regulations now in play by this Administration.

Please view the news clip

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

and decide for yourself.

Be a responsible citizen and follow the news (not on Fox, however) to stay informed.

Check to see how your Congress person voted on this bill at:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2006-259

Write letters. Make phone calls. Let them know of your concern.

Why do people do what they do?

Originally I was going to write about something totally obverse from this, but right now I am pretty pissed off @ the people around me.

To the left of me I have several people that I did not realize how fucking racist they are. These people are, in my vision beneath the status of moron. Some of you know that before going to the cow box I had an extremely low tolerance for idiots. After being a lorded minion of the cow, I became tolerant of those that just did not know better.

I have not heard so many references to dark skined people as the "N-word" in such a short period of time. EVER!

They may be bottom feeders, but they do not have to spread this kind of idiocity & plain ignorant mind set in my bar.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

And the answer to the question of "Why are we here?" will soon be given around 3:12 p.m. tomorrow 20, October.

Then later on @ Willy's shortly after 9 p.m.

Most earthlings, & some others are invited

Please remember your towel.....

Blessed Be, live long, & prosper, and keep your fluids pure


Dr. Strangelove

76 'rusty' trombones in the big parade

I wonder if this would work with the piccalos and the tubas. It definitely could change the whole sax sound.

www.ohgizmo.com

Blessed Be, and keep humming that tune that is in your head.

OK! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS P.C. CRAP!

This is just going too far. I am fed up with the poli-cor attitude that everyone must feel the same, & feel each others pain.

I AM NOT, AND WILL NOT BECOME A DRONE OF SOCIETY!

But to think of the poor schmucks that had to pose for the photos does make me laugh.

The Empathy Belly Pregnancy Simulator Homepage

How stupid can you be?

It is one thing to get married & create a web page to share with your friends & family.

It is another thing that the woman you are engaged to was your best friends ex-wife from the marriage that you broke up.

It is yet another thing to have and open public guestbook on your page that lets EVERYONE comment.

You gotta read this, & don't miss the guestbook!

Your Wedding Webpage

PETA will hate me for this, But it is still funny

I found this video about "Weasel Stomping Day" by Weird Al. Borderline NSFW, but funny all the same.



So celebrate W.S.D. by grabbing your boots & going out to stomp some weasels.

Blessed Be, and wipe your feet before going inside.

Dr. S.

Good Bye Uncle Jim

I was just woke up by a phone call from my mother. The tone of her voice on the ans. machine forced me to roll over & pick up the line. I then found out that my Uncle Jim {my dad's sisters husband}, died in a plane crash yesterday.

I will try to say more later, but right now I can barely type more less think straight. the story is below.

Metro man killed in Wisconsin plane crash

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with my dad. My Aunt Joyce is doing ok for the time & situation. He told me that Jim was heading up to see a friend that was a bit under the weather & that the reason that Joyce didn't go with him was that she wanted to stay home to watch the Bears / Vikings game. Being from Hammond, IN. as I & almost all of my paternal side of my family, but living in the twin cities for so long..... I don't know who she was rooting for.

But that game saved her life.

Blessed Be, and I;m sorry I can;t think anything witty right now.

"you need 'a little churchin' boys" . . . .

I just watched the Blues Brothers last night. This church is one of the last classic places & just renovated.

That & I'm from Chicago, and right now if you can, please help out if you can/want.

Fire damages 'Blues Brothers' church

Blessed Be, and try to see the light.

Castle and Moat Test of reaction

This would be a really awsome test to give people that might have had too much at the pub.

Castle and Moat Test

Star Trek on KSFY-Boldly going where bad acting has gone

I just got home a while ago & turned on the boob-tube. While changing channels I came across something that threw me back.

STAR TREK ON CH. 13!

I hope they continue to air it. I tried to look up the schedule but got conflicting info.

But for right now Midnight, Sundays, Goto KSFY to see how Kirk & the crew of NCC1701 make out with combatant {and sexy} aliens.

Blessed be & prosper

Dr. Strangelove

What happened to World Trade Center (WTC) Scrap?

I and many of my friends have lost work to outsourcing to India.

But this totally is wrong.

What happened to World Trade Center (WTC) Scrap?

The Day After 9.11

I wanted to do this last night but I got distracted by other people & things.

I was doing fine with all of the different 9.11 news stories & other things that I saw in the news & such. Then the bush spoke.

WE HAVE A FRIGGIN MORON RUNNING THIS NATION!

The bush spoke. The bush doesn't speak well on his own. The bush is totally clueless without a teleprompter or in-ear monitor with someone on the other end telling him what to say.

Plain & simple, the bush is dumber than a shrubbery.

As a nation we all mourned five years ago in sympathy for what happened on the east coast. Me personally, I was dumbfounded by the extent of how two huge buildings could become a pile of rubble so easily. That and seeing the front end of a firetruck from a house that I used to walk by on a daily basis crushed like a tonka toy. When I saw that I totally lost it. I knew that crew. They were some fun guys to chat with & had a ton of stories that would carry Rescue Me into more that ten seasons.

But this is not a TV show. They actually died that day.

But for the bush to come on TV last night with the arrogance to say that because of what happened five years ago it is totally ok to allow almost 3,000 of our military to die. There is no friggin 'Weapons Of Mass Destruction', no direct connection of Iraq to Al-Qaida, and nothing to prove in the mid east with exception to seeing how far we can piss them off.

We as Americans are a proud group of people. We have overcome many diverse obstacles in the history of our country. Why now do we have to go out like missionaries and bludgeon our way of life, our mode of thinking, & our 'democracy' on people that have been around a hell of a lot longer than the USA? The original gulf war was "make Kuwait a free country..." Kuwait wasn't a free country to begin with, IT WAS THE FU*@ING OIL that was to be freed! And now curious george {he does look like a chimp} gets on the TV & says that all is right.
Well I am sorry but if that were the case why do we now have the most people living below the poverty level in history, crime is rocketing up faster than an ICBM, and people are killing others because 'they don't look right'. We now are in the land of the free & home of the brave, but should that come at the cost of being constrained & fearful?

Blessed Be, and pay a lot of attention to the men behind the curtain.

Why I loved living in Duluth

I found this article & thought it funny because I actully had to drive by this place several times.
Duluth police pot holds pot

IRONY: Police attribute a dozen marijuana plants at the West Duluth substation to a joker.

BY MARK STODGHILL

NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Justin Hayworth/News Tribune

Marijuana grows in a concrete planter outside the West Duluth police substation, 5315 Grand Ave.

More photos

• Marijuana plant catches the eye of girl-watcher (7/18/1990)

Like all good reporters, the News Tribune's Janna Goerdt has learned to keep her ears and eyes open for whatever might be encountered on an assignment.

Goerdt accompanied law enforcement officials Saturday as they searched for people illegally using all-terrain vehicles in Duluth. She wrote a story about the enforcement campaign for Sunday's newspaper.

Goerdt also uncovered a dozen marijuana plants growing in western Duluth.

The pot wasn't growing off an ATV trail. And she didn't find it in the woods.

Goerdt found the marijuana growing in a planter near the front door of the West Duluth police substation.

You might say she was paying attention.

During law enforcement's briefing on how they were going to conduct the ATV sting Saturday, Goerdt heard two members of a rival news team talking about "something interesting" in front of the police station at 5315 Grand Ave.

Eavesdropping like a good reporter, Goerdt filed the comment away in her memory bank and accompanied law enforcement on the ATV crackdown.

When that assignment was over, Goerdt returned to the police station and took a walk around the building. She found the marijuana plants. Although she said she didn't know that they were marijuana plants.

She plucked one of the leaves and brought it back to the newspaper. "I needed some evidence," she said. "I didn't know if anyone would believe me. I didn't think it was a big deal. I just thought it was rather amusing."

Duluth City Gardner Tom Kasper was given the leaf for inspection Monday and confirmed that it came from a marijuana plant.

Kasper immediately traveled to the West Duluth police substation to inform neighborhood supervising police Lt. John Beyer of the pot growing in the front-yard planter.

Beyer pointed out that he, his police officers and the public use the backdoor entrance to the police station. The front door just off busy Grand Avenue is usually locked and not used.

"The only thing I can say is somebody has a sense of humor," Beyer said. "Now they'll read about it in the paper and say, 'Yeah, that was me.' "

Goerdt provided the scoop and Kasper did the scooping.

The gardener dug out the 12 marijuana plants by their roots and presented them to Beyer. They were 4 to 6 inches high and Kasper estimated they had been growing about three weeks.

Beyer said the plants will be placed in a paper bag and destroyed when the next batch of police-confiscated drugs are gotten rid of.

Kasper said this is the first marijuana found growing in Duluth that has been reported to him in 10 years.

But this isn't the first time marijuana has been discovered growing in a public place in Duluth. In 1990, a citizen pointed out to police that a 3-foot marijuana plant was growing in the northern corner of the Civic Center courtyard near City Hall.

For a day at least, Goerdt is known around here as "Janna The Snitch." She said she can live with it.

Define Irony

I think this is sick, twisted, and totally great!
Saddam's cartoon capers - Yahoo! News UK

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being made to watch his appearance in cult cartoon South Park while he is behind bars.

The deposed leader on trial in Iraq was featured in the movie spin-off as the lover of the devil. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut featured Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together.

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said US Marines guarding the former dictator during his trial for genocide were making him watch the movie "repeatedly".

"I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie last year. That's really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy," Stone said.

The death Penalty + "pro-lifers" = the oxi-morons of South Dakota

At this point in time we are less than six hours away from the state of South Dakota legally killing someone. It is the choice of the elected people that we have that option.

I am wondering though, where the hell is Roger Hunt, Leslee Unruh, the Alpha center, New Haven, and all the rest of the "life is precious" crowd that pushed through a bill that all but says that women here in SD are too stupid to make their own choices.

Where are they?

They should be up on the hill standing outside the prison protesting against the LEGAL death of Elijah Page. But no, all of these so-called "right to life" people will most likely sitting in bed watching the news when 10 p.m. rolls around.

10 p.m. when Mr. Page's life slowly drifts away.

WHY IS IT OK FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, BUT NOT OK FOR A WOMAN TO MAKE A PERSONAL CHOICE TO HAVE AN ABORTION!?

There I said it, yup I said the 'A' word. And I will say it again, ABORTION, ABORTION, ABORTION, ABORTION!

Why is that bad, but lethal injection is good? What the hell is the attitude here folks? "you can't kill them when they cannot live on their own but, once they are born & they screw up. Strap 'em down, hit the button & then you can kill them with the states blessing".

THIS IS WRONG!

How can the same people that say life is so special & cannot be wasted under any circumstance, turn around & support capitol punishment. And don't call a bullshit on me for saying that. As of 1992 over 76% of people polled that said that they were "pro-life" also stated that they supported capitol punishment.

Am I the only one that finds that odd?

Personally I do not like abortion. But, if my mother, daughter, wife, girlfriend, or any woman dear to me in my life became pregnant by accident, rape, or whatnot.

They should make the decision, not some 68 year old man several hundred miles away.

Mr. Page made some choices that got him into this situation. He also made the choice to atone for what he did. I find it odd that the only legal protest at this point in time is from the people around the other person that plead guilty for the murder that had happened. The thinking behind that is if Elijah Page is killed, who is to say the state will not come back & murder his partner in crime.

So here we all sit. Watching & waiting. Waiting & watching. While people tell us what to do & what to believe is right & what is wrong.

And all this tripe is attributed to the good of the nation, because as you know, we all are too stupid to know better. {According to those that supposedly represent us.}

I am calling a bullshit on them for that!

Blessed Be & hope for a new world to come soon.

In Honour of the season finale of RESCUE ME

I thought this would be a nice celebration of the ending of the season. NSFW!!! This is what Denis Leary did a long time ago before Rescue Me. We would play this song to start off boys night out.



Blessed be, Dr. Strangelove

Google Search, How true

I don't think I need to say any more than click below.

failure - Google Search

Frogs can't live in a jar

Tonight's episode of Rescue Me was really intense. I teared up several times. But life goes on & sometimes you gotta say "what the fuck"

I just felt I had to post this right now.

believe in what you are.
believe in what you can do.
Blood-lines do not discern between friends & family
Life is something that is limited. So enjoy it, not mourn it.

In the end none of us will make it out alive.

Blessed be, & take some time today to just appreciate the things around you.

Dr. S.

Just something {REALLY} stupid to post

Sorry blog-surfers but I found this really dumb, but fun.

The Most Disturbing Case Mod EVER - 2Loop.com

Just when you thought YOU were a lonely geek . . .

The Most Disturbing Case Mod EVER - 2Loop.com

Justice on the road

My friend Stu told me about this video of a couple rednecks being total assholes & harassing some couple in "his mommies car". And they videotaped the pursuit until they got a little bit of a surprise.

Put it this way, two bats cannot hold up to a Glock. NOT SAFE FOR WORK JUST FOR THE AUDIO. The vid is 6:30, and watch it to the total end. It is damn hilarious!

Just as long as Stu does NOT try this

It is an odd ball thing of a show

Fuse.tv - TV Shows - Pants-off Dance-Off

Fuse fans can escape reality and the local news by ogling the first dance and strip game show on TV. This show features all walks of life--young and old, men and women, fat and thin-- shedding their clothes down to their skivvies while dancing to popular music videos for the chance to win bragging rights and some hard earned cash. fuse encourages viewers to vote online or via text, Tuesday through Friday, to pick their favorite nakeddancer to make the cut, and the potential for their comments to appear on-air. Each night a new contestant will win the opportunity to go head to head on Saturday’s official “pants-off” to be crowned the week’s Pants-Off Dance-Off winner.

Playing with our minds - The paranoia part deux

They say now that there are over forty people detained for being involved in the "terrorist incident" of last week. But how is it that a 40 person "cell" of terrorists would be so damn stupid to get caught like this you ask? The answer is very easy.

Because they are not terrorists, they are stool pidgeons.

I find it odd that at a time when Bush & Blair are at the lowest approval ratings, as well as both Brits & Americans are massively opposing the war actions going on in the Middle East, something like this would happen.
This did not occur because of a group of Muslims were striking out against the United States. This occurred to strike fear & paranoia into those of us that have either become complacent, or very pissed off about our friends & family being killed for nothing more than a power trip by a group of control freaks.

So now we have a situation:

• that calls for people to show up more than 3 hours before their flight time, {Here @ SFX outbound flights start @ 6am, but the airport is closed at 3am}
  
• cannot have anything for a carry on except for medical & personal things that would be needed during the flight [asthma, heart pills, unboxed & unwrapped tampons], and your ID {ok, I a know lot of creative people, but I have yet to meet ANYONE that can make an explosive device out of a Tampax}, in a clear plastic bag. I see it like going to a summer day camp.
  
• Have to pack your Ipod, cell phone, laptop, pda, or anything else of value in your checked luggage, {BTW your flight insurance will not cover loss or damage}, because these things could be used as a triggering device for a bomb.
• airlines are canceling flights because people are too scared to fly, thus those who are not falling prey to the paranoia get totally screwed over because they have to change plans for a later flight
• tensions are flaring & people are getting even more biased & violent against those who are Muslim {well, they ARE the cause of all of our problems aren't they?} [BULLSHIT!]
• and right now there is more terror in the heart & soul of America than there would have been if this was an actual threat carried out
  

A friend of mine has a daughter that got stuck @ O'Hare because of this.
I also know of someone that was traveling in England & got a bums rush in trying to get back home.
I myself would be really pissed off if I had to dump my contact lens solution, shampoo, toothpaste & other stuff to fly someplace for a meeting, buy another set of the stuff that I had to dump, and then do the same thing 2 days later when I came back.

I'm sorry, but this whole thing does not make sense to me.

Why would they have multiple people leave from the same airport on the same day? On top of which, from one of the most tightly secured airports in the world!! Heathrow has always been a pain in the ass even before 9.11.01, and now it is a major hemorrhoid.

Now they say that you cannot have anything fluid with you on the plane what is next?

• no shoelaces - they could be det-cord
• no chewing gum - could be C4 {as who the hell would chew on C4, it tastes like ass!}
• no eyeglasses - you could set off you shoelace/det-cord by focusing the light from the window like a magnifying glass.
• no shirts with buttons - the buttons could be those things that ninjas have that they throw & create a big puff of smoke
• no hard contact lenses - because of the sharp edges you could slit someone's throat with them
  
• no belts - you could strangle or tie people up with that {I know some people that might even enjoy it!}
• no books, magazines or other reading material - one word, papercut
• no digital watches - the alarm could be used to trigger the det-cord laces that sets off the wad of chewing gum C4 that is stuck to the bottom of your shoe
• no life - a dead passenger can't kill the other dead passengers

I hope you can follow where I am going here. The current attitude from the powers that be is that in order for us Americans to be free, we have to lose our freedom & be confined.

And I am again sorry but,
that shit don't fly with me!

Blessed Be all, and start playing nice with each other O.K.?

The paranoia - SHAMPOO & TOOTHPASTE BANNED?

I just spent the last 2.5 hours building up a rant about how blatant that how can 30+ "terrorists" be caught at one of the highest security [Heathrow] airports.

Then Blogger died. I lost everything, links & all.

So I will try tonight to resurrect the silliness & seriousness of said rant.

I am really pissed right now [non-UK reference, read torqued beyond bounds]

Blessed Be, & don't PLEASE don't believe what is fed to you is actually good for you.

P.S. I used to fart around with flash cameras.

It is not easy, and can be EXTREMELY PAINFUL AND DEADLY to mess with the damn things. The battery won't mess with you, it is the other stuff.

And none of that stuff can be reconfigure on the run, [read they could not build a bomb out of the shit while in the air, more or less multiple ones in an aircrcraft lav.]

A stamp can't take down a helo, but Mentos & diet coke is still cool

I just got done watching MYTHBUSTERS.

The show focused on the myth {blown} that a postage stamp on one of the rotors of helicopter will cause it to fail. BUSTED!

They also did stuff about the Mentos & Diet Coke thing. TOTALLY COOL!

I LOVE THIS SHOW!

And by the way, do not ever EVER drop dry ice into a 2Lt. bottle of water.

It will hurt you. BAD!

And for inquiring minds, yes I am pissed right now {UK expression of being drunk}, due to finding out that one of the people I used to work with @ KDLT died yesterday.

Good guy, tough thing though. I hope his family the best blessings.

For everyone else. . . . .

Blessed Be & enjoy your life and those around you.

You really don't know how long that you will have the opportunity to do so.

Top 10 Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs - Or why Gateway failed

I found this & was quickly reminded of why most of us no longer have jobs with the failing computer company.

Top Ten Reasons Why People Quit Their Jobs

By: Gregory P. Smith, author of Here Today Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to High-Retention

There are many reasons why good employees quit, most are preventable. From my years of experience as a consultant, I’ve identified a “Top Ten” list of reasons why people leave jobs:

1. Management demands that one person do the jobs of two or more people, resulting in longer days and weekend work.

2. Management cuts back on administrative help, forcing professional workers to use their time copying, stapling, collating, filing and other clerical duties.

3. Management puts a freeze on raises and promotions, when an employee can easily find a job earning 20-30 percent more somewhere else.

4. Management doesn’t allow the rank and file to make decisions or allow them pride of ownership. A visitor to my website E-mailed me a message that said, “Forget about the “professional” decisions—how about when you can’t even select the company’s holiday card without the President rejecting it for one of his own taste?”

5. Management constantly reorganizes, shuffles people around, and changes direction constantly.

6. Management doesn’t have or take the time to clarify goals and decisions. Therefore, it rejects work after it was completed, damaging the morale and esteem of those who prepared it.

7. Management shows favoritism and gives some workers better offices, trips to conferences, etc.

8. Management relocates the offices to another location, forcing employees to quit or double their commute.

9. Management promotes someone who lacks training and/or necessary experience to supervisor, alienating staff and driving away good employees.

10. Management creates a rigid structure and then allows departments to compete against each other while at the same time preaching teamwork and cooperation.

Interesting, isn’t it — that all ten factors begin with the phrase “Management….” Interesting, too, just how many of these high-turnover factors are preventable? My retention survey confirmed the truth of the saying, “Employees don’t quit their companies, they quit their bosses.” Thirty five percent of the respondents answered yes to the question, Was the attitude of your direct supervisor/manager the primary factor in your quitting a previous job?

Soft management skills—people skills—are the critical element in battling high turnover and creating a high-retention workforce or what I call, “retentionship.”

About the Author
Greg Smith is the “Retention Expert.” He shows executives and business owners how to attract and keep customers and build organizations that retain and motivate its workforce. He is the author of the book, Here Today Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to High-Retention.

Idiots, stolen cars, & how I almost killed someone yesterday.

Our little big city is growing up & becoming more the urban jungle.

I heading home from work yesterday. Just as I was passing Lewis Eastgate some black kid ran out of nowhere across 10th street almost getting hit by every car in all four lanes, {including mine}. After his passing about 18" in front of my bumper I then heard the sirens.

I looked over to see a cycle cop & patrol vehicle with another cycle cop a block away. As I then looked into the parking lot of the drugstore the only thing I could think of was cowboys rounding up stray cattle. I later found out the kid stole a car, crashed it while attempting to flee from the PD, then decided to run.

Things like this are why I choose to live here in Sioux Falls.

WHY You ask?

Because that crap is not supposed to happen here.

www.argusleader.com/ STORY LINK

Teens charged with car theft, eluding police

August 4, 2006, 2:55 am

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday afternoon for driving a stolen car and fleeing police.

A boy, 17, driving a stolen 2004 Pontiac Grand Am was charged with aggravated eluding, reckless driving and possession of a stolen vehicle, police Sgt. David Osterquist said. His passenger, 13, was charged with fleeing a police officer.

Officer Doug Flora spotted the car in the right-turn-only lane at Sixth Street and Weber Avenue at 1:24 p.m. When the car sped forward instead, Flora tried to pull it over. A low-speed chase ensued for 10 blocks before the driver jumped onto the curb and slid to a stop at Austin Street and Sherman Avenue, Osterquist said.

The driver nearly hit another vehicle by running a red light at Eighth Street to turn north onto Cliff Avenue, he said.

The teenagers fled, and police said they caught the driver in the Lewis Drug parking lot at 10th Street and Cliff Avenue.

The younger boy was found 30 to 45 minutes later when a resident in the 200 block of North Van Eps Avenue found the boy sleeping on the home's rear deck and called 911, Osterquist said.

The car was reported stolen from the 600 block of North Marquette Avenue at 8:11 a.m. Thursday, he said.

- Melanie Brandert, Argus Leader

THIS STUFF DON'T FLY WITH ME. ! ! !

I have a very good friend in Sidero. I met his older sister Meli when we worked together @ some cow-boxed-computer company. {I was almost hammerlocked into passing out when I asked about possibly dating Mel.} Sid is very protective of his clan.

I met his other sister a while back when she was with child.

This woman is a cool shit.

So anyway Chelle right now is in a BIG thing with the Colorado version of children youth & family services.

So please click on either of the links for HELP FREE KADEAN! or Sidero to find out what the hell is going on.

This is not something that should happen.

But, when it does. People must work to make damn sure that kids are safe.

And not false accusations at someone that loves the child that she born.

Blessed Be

This one time at band camp.....

Teen Hides Dead Newborn In Entertainment Center

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A 17-year-old Colorado girl is facing a first-degree murder charge, accused by police of hiding her newborn baby in an entertainment center. Police believe Cheyenne Corbett hid her pregnancy from her parents and delivered the baby in a shower early Sunday. Corbett was taken to the hospital for bleeding and workers called police after determining she had given birth.She said she first started feeling pain while at band camp. Later, she told investigators that she was taking a shower and felt the urge to push, delivering her baby alone, Denver TV station KMGH reported.
She said she wrapped the baby in a towel and hid her, saying she planned to tell hospital workers where the baby was so they could help her. An autopsy determined the baby died of asphyxiation.Corbett is a Palisade High School student. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.

Hi, my name is Dr. S., and I am addicted to firetrucks

Any of you that know me, you know my penchant for firetrucks. I don't know when it started, but my hose is fully charged when talking about them. A few years back I almost bought a 75' ladder truck as a daily use vehicle.

[OK kid, save your kite, alright, no problemo! Save your kitten caught in a tree, sorry, try a pellet gun]

In college, my fraternity [yes I am TKE, and very proud of it], had a late 50's firetruck with a 6volt power system that we only fired up once a year for Hobo-Days, [SDSU's homecoming]. This bitch was my baby. I & others spent several weeks every September attempting to revive her so that we could drive her in the parade, then to the football game. Neverless despite the fact that once we got her started we could not shut her down without a push start, the brakes were on the other side of the cab, [I almost took out an HP at one game], and the bitch was the biggest pain in the ass to handle while driving. And every October for five years I & others had to spend 4-5 hours freezing our asses off in a parking lot in the damn thing waiting for our place in the homecoming parade.

But I loved her so much.

So, anyway, I found this site on a semi-random search for the show Rescue Me wanting to find out what I missed from the last Tuesday episode.

But as I went through the photos I almost broke down because I knew the guys on the crews of several truck & ladder companies that were lost due to the Sep. 11 disasters.

FDNYtrucks.com

Blessed Be.

Toys that I want

I want the HoneyBee

Top 5 Wackiest Toys from the Tokyo Toy Show - New Launches

Help name the baby Penguin

I came across this story on Fark. It is a Macaroni Penguin, so for a name I am thinking "Cheezen". I think it would be cute, "Cheezen Macaroni Penguin". Especially since his mother is named Nibbles.

I would like your like your help. You have until July 31st.

The Story:
kutv.com - Baby Penguin Born At Zoo, Naming Contest Underway

The Voting Site:
Name_the_Penguin_Chick_Contest

Do not under estimate the power of squirrel

The squirrel is an awesome beast to deal with.

Be afraid, be very, very afraid:



Voracious grey squirrel 'is greatest threat to songbirds'

Dog survives squirrel-chasing fall from cliff


So never under estimate the power of the fluffy tail.

Mr. S.W. You have been put on warning. The homeland alert level for your area is

BROWN

Blessed Be, and be aware that the next acorn you might come across could be a WMD.

You have prior knowledge, you have been warned, do not barter with the little buggers.

They will take your nuts.

In the words of Mayor Daly, vote, & vote often.

Yet another Google Idol submission to the Google Idol competition from Phil And Joe Productions that kicks ass.

Please go & vote.

If not for me. Do it for America,

otherwise many baby kittens will die from WMD's.

The video we are up against is from France. Some kid that doesn't know how to wear a hat properly, attempting to do a bad rap, [as if there is good rap].

All I ask is you checkout their video "Tourniquet" by Evinescence, and vote.

Gidol Rock at Google Idol

Blessed Be, & rock on

I Will Suirvive . . . . . well I will try . . . .

This is one of the extreamly few religious oriented videos that I can stomach.

Blessed Be All, Dr. S.

"I'm not fat, I'm just big boned..."

OK this crap of Poli.-Correctness has gone too damn far. If a kid is fat, the kid is fat. Not obese, not buoyantly svelte, not chubby, and don't even say "at risk of overweight."

THEY ARE FAT, PLAIN & SIMPLE.

Do not let them have three double cheezeys for breakfast and a whole box of sugar-zingers before you set their fat asses in the double wide back seat to take them to school. Also Twinkies, Ho-Ho's, & Moon Pies are not part of a normal meal.

They are snacks, nothing more, and should be ate one or two at a time.

NOT THE WHOLE DAMN BOX!

Political correctness is not a substitute of good/smart parenting, and by doing so avoids the issue that YOUR KID IS FAT! Even if the doctors debate how to refer to your overly, and very much avoidably, bloated spawn of blubber.

The kids @ school & on the playground have yet to be brainwashed to lamely dance around issues such like this.
They will be:

• hurtful,
  
• cruel,
  
• and without mercy to your child.

And that is many times worse.

Why? Because they will not use the word obese either.

CNN.com - Experts debate whether children should be called obese

Blessed Be, & put down that damn Choc-o-dile & feed your damn kid something healthy.

Dr. S. [thus ends the foamy-rant]<-{nsfw}

WOW THIS ROCKS!

I was chatting online with my friends Phil & Dori [from the amazing Phil & Joe Productions], & found out that you can watch the shuttle launch, and other stuff live on the 'net.

So my 4th Julie won't be a total suck from working. I was just happy to be able to go racing tonite & then possibly blow some s*&t up later on.

But The Shuttle launching is a one big damn bottle rocket. Check it out here:

NASA - NASA TV Landing Page

Mourn, don't celebrate, this Independence Day

This is a story that I picked up from the Ithaca Journal. It makes many good points. I personally know people that have taken many personal tolls because of this silly assed & non justified war. I hopethat things clear up soon, but I know that Dubya is too stupid to let that happen.

The Ithaca Journal - www.theithacajournal.com - Ithaca, NY

Blessed Be,
And pray, light candles, anything you can to help end this madness.

Beware at any outdoor event.

I think I will hold it in when I goto JazzFest this year.

Japanese Porta Potty Tricks

But it is still soooo funny!

How NOT to steal a SideKick

This is a great story of what can happen if you lose something & you have a friend that is computer savvy.

The timeline of the updates is what amazed me.
That & how stupid the thieves were.

How NOT to steal a SideKick II

THE Mentos & Diet Coke video

I pulled the embeded video because it bogged the page loading down.

If you havn't seen it, two guys, 200 liters of Diet Coke, and 523 Mentos makes a great performance art piece.

CHECK IT OUT HERE

This is their web site: http://www.eepybird.com/