I have wasps.  <3

According to a Rockefeller Foundation poll, 85% of us believe that the country is on the wrong track.  Nearly half of those between ages 18 and 29 say America was better in the 90s.  People in that age group weren’t that old in he 90s, however, and you should probably ask their parents what they think.  82% want public works projects, paid for, of course, by our taxes, to save the economy.  70% say more government programs should help those now struggling.

Why do so many people think that the government that got us into this financial mess actually has the power or the know-how to fix things?  Why is everybody giving up and holding out their hands to wait for the government to take care of them?  Where is the work ethic that once pushed people to either work more or make yourself worth more to earn more money?

The amount of government we have has gotten us to where we are now.  More government will only mean more taxes and more problems.  We need to eliminate income tax and personal property tax right off the bat.  From there we need to reduce our military involvement from 130 countries around the world to one: ours.  We need to stop foreign aid and take of ourselves for a change.

We need to drastically reconfigure our government to a simpler, more economical version, the likes of which we haven’t seen for nearly 100 years.  But as long as 70% of people think MORE government is the answer, we will only continue along this path of decline.  That being the case, it looks more and more like our experiment in democracy is failing and this country is being swallowed by socialism.

This trailer looks amazing.  I was never much of a comic book geek, so I had to do a little googling to get the back story on this new batch of superheroes.  As usual, Wiki has all the info you need.

The good news:  I got off work, went to Hampton to pick up my Scrambler.   It runs like new!  All it took was a new battery, some fuel stabilizer and what was it?  Oh yeah, the pros at All Out Cycles basically ripped out the gas tank, fuel lines and carburetor and scrubbed the dirt and trash off them all.  I can’t believe I’ve finally got it fixed!  I am just as excited today as when I got it new.

The bad news:  After I got back from picking up my Scrambler, I got tied up in a bunch of stuff at my parents’ place.  Between moving some appliances with Dad, eating dinner, helping Ma with the kittens, trying to fix the touch lamp said kittens broke and so on…I just got home and took a shower.  So yeah, tonight is not the night and tomorrow isn’t looking great either unless you wanna tag in to go help Dad set poles for a lean-to.

I will give you another teaser pic.  Here’s me with a cool Hare Krishna guy.  He tried to get me to make a donation to a group I knew nothing about in exchange for a book I didn’t know if I’d like.  After bartering for a bit he decided we didn’t have a deal but on the next trip to the bathroom I scored one somebody left by the sink.  When I passed by him again I asked him if I could put his picture on my web site after I lied to him about how I got a copy of the book.  He said yes and asked what the site was.  When I told him Kevin108.com he got really excited.  He said 108 was a very spiritual number and showed me the significance in the book.  Free book, neat story…I thought that was pretty cool.

Was a long, fun, strange day.  I have a lot of pictures but I didn’t get home until late last night and I was way too drunk to mess with them then.  I’ll try to have them up later this afternoon.

As a teaser, here’s the first pic of the day:

Katy Perry being interviewed by Mike and Bob

I know, it sounds over the top, but wait until you read the stories behind the two headlines that have appeared with in a couple months of each other:

Schoolboys disciplined for ‘refusing to pray to Allah’ sites an instance where two 11-12 year old boys were given detention for not participating in a teacher’s instruction of how to pray to Allah.

Toddlers who dislike spicy food ‘racist’ explains that England’s National Children’s Bureau has published instructions for teachers to disallow children to say, “Yuck!” to express their displeasure with food or when a classmate smells, calling it racist.

This is the writing on the wall.  England is the example we must use to avoid things like this in our own country.  The politically correct movement is a dangerous thing.  The first amendment provides for us to be free to practice any religion, but the politically correct crowd want things like Muslim foot-washing sinks installed in every public bathroom facility.

Freedom of religion is great, and in fact the cornerstone of our country, but nobody should be forced to cater to one denomination or another.  Where’s the freedom in that?

I didn’t realize Google Street View had caught up to the smaller places like where I live.  I thought it was still just big cities.  My friend Cass pointed out that my car is in the shot of our place.  Pretty neat!