This cracked me up!

Source:  thepeoplescube.com

A friend just sent me this story:

“In a local restaurant my server had on an Obama 08 tie. I laughed as he had given away his political preference.  Just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept.

He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need - the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.”

Source:  Woody

While we’re not proud of it, many years ago when most of my friends and I first started drinking, we hadn’t yet developed our taste for real beer.  When we could, we would go through a couple Zimas to sort of dull our taste buds before we jumped into the Ice House.

Today, Miller announced that they will be discontinuing Zima in favor of the modern caffeinated girl beers.  If you no where I can find some locally, I’ll split a 6 with you just to say thanks for the memories.

Source:  chicagotribune.com

The Virginian-Pilot  October 15, 2008
Kerry Dougherty
Virginian-Pilot columnist

A woman alone. After dark. In downtown Norfolk.

A recipe for fear?

Not last Tuesday. Safest place in town, I thought as I pulled into the dimly lit parking garage behind City Hall.

It was, after all, Dirty Harry Night at Norfolk City Council. Dozens of law-abiding gun owners were expected, all openly packing heat, to protest the city’s alleged harassment of a gun owner who had been stopped several times for carrying a weapon.

The man in the bull’s-eye is Danladi Moore, a 24-year-old Hampton man who seems to get in trouble every time he comes to Norfolk. After two encounters with the city’s police, Moore was awarded $10,000 in July, to avoid a court battle.

The security guard barely had time to spend the loot before he says he was booted from an HRT bus - again, for carrying a weapon - and told he might be arrested.

On Tuesday night, just hours after he and others testified before a stone-faced City Council and received assurances that Norfolk police understood Virginia’s gun laws, Moore was stopped again.

He claims he was disarmed, handcuffed and charged with trespassing at Waterside.

Cha-ching.

“Open-carry” is a concept that’s alien to many. While everyone seems to know that the commonwealth issues permits to carry concealed weapons, many don’t know that anyone who can legally own a gun can carry it without a permit, provided it’s in the open.

Ignorance of the law explains the panicky 911 calls to report Moore poking around town with a holstered sidearm.

But it doesn’t justify a police response that, according to Moore, resulted in officers hassling him and insisting he had no right to carry a weapon.

Why open-carry? Some say it’s the comfortable way to carry a gun when it’s hot. Others insist that a visible weapon is a powerful crime deterrent.

“Someone said they thought guys who open-carry are trying to look cool,” Moore told me Wednesday. “That’s not me. I’m trying to look like a guy who doesn’t want to be robbed.”

Moore believes he may have thwarted a convenience store holdup once when a suspicious person left after spying his gun.

His latest brush with authorities came after a knot of the open-carry guys headed to Hooters at the conclusion of the council meeting. Most sported weapons, yet their accessories reportedly attracted no attention in the restaurant. No surprise there; no one looks at men at Hooters.

Later, in Waterside, Moore said he and a friend were stopped by two police officers, told they couldn’t bring guns into the complex, and ordered to leave.

Moore balked and insisted he was within his rights. Within minutes, Moore claims he was disarmed, handcuffed and charged with trespassing. He has a court date in November.

Before leaving council chambers Tuesday night, I spoke with Moore and asked him about his holstered gun.

“It’s a Springfield XD .45,” he said, adding with a grin, “I bought it with some of the money I got from Norfolk this summer.”

Before this is over, Moore may have a matched set.

Source:  hamptonroads.com

He proves the point here that most of Obama’s supporters are voting for him because of physical characteristics and not because they know anything about his take on the issues.  This is a clip of a man interviewing passers by on the street about whom they are voting for and why.  If they say Obama, he proceeds to ask follow-up questions relating to McCain’s policies and issues.  The people being interviewed are firmly behind the platform McCain is running on and even support Palin as VP! It’s really unbelievable how foolish some people are.  To me, supporting someone just because of their skin color is completely racist.  If the Jolly Green Giant was running on a platform of limited government, civil rights and tax cuts, I’d be behind him all the way.  It’s the issues that matter, people!  Anybody too stupid to understand that shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the first place.

I just realized that I’m going to have to vote absentee this year.  I am not looking forward to dealing with the paperwork but I am sort of interested to see just how difficult it is to get your vote in when you can’t make it to the poll.  If it’s easier than driving miles and miles away from home to stand in line forever dealing with the morons in line with you and running the polling venue, a little paperwork may be worth it. I’ll keep you posted on this exercise in bureaucracy.

How does a country become so moronic and neutered?  When you don’t have property rights, what do you have?  Is this bureaucratic ignorance what we have to look forward to here in the US as well?  If we let the “politically correct” crowd get their way, I fear so.

“A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down - in case intruders scratch themselves.  [This] comes just weeks after Bristol council angered allotment holders by urging them not to lock their sheds in case burglars damaged them breaking in.”

Source:  dailymail.co.uk

I was reading an article where Ben Jones was discussing the fact that some rural republicans are planning to vote democrat this year.  The political discussion was one-sided and watered-down but when Jones talked about his own life, he spouted one hell of a good quote.

“There was a time in my life when I spent 90 per cent of my money on whiskey and women. The rest of it I just wasted.”

Source:  timesonline.co.uk

Source:  xkcd.com

Source:  oreilly.com