American Chopper - Back????

I really thought this was dead and buried, but apparently the Teutuls are back.

"American Chopper: Senior Vs. Junior" premiers August 12th. There has not been a reconciliation between the two Pauls - according to what I've heard, the two are not seen together at all, there were two different film crews, and no communication between the crews or the principals. They are really two different shows - somehow TLC is going to put them together somehow into a single episode format. I've heard no mention of Mikey at all.

Oh boy, more of the same - Paul Jr. designing outdoor grills, and Paul Sr. just being his normal a*hole self. Sorry guys, the magic is long gone. I figure TLC threw a bunch of money at both of them, and it was too good to turn down.

Pains me to say it, but this has the makings of some really boring TV.

Happy Upcoming Fourth of July

If you have any inclination of doing something stupid like this with fireworks for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, please don't (unless you are an Obama fan ... then do it and post the video!).

Warning - if brief boy butt nudity offends you, don't view this. Also, if you are at work, try not to laugh too hard.

Dallas' Pro Sports - An Update

Well, we're in summer, and the Texas Rangers are doing very well and in first place in their division. I guess that means their inevitable annual implosiion after the All Star break will just have that much further to fall. It's nice to see them win. It sucks to know it won't last.

A judge has once again halted the sale of the Rangers. MLB, Bud Selig, Tom Hicks, and Nolan Ryan's ownership group are livid. Some of the creditors Hicks owes are doing anything they can to block the sale, to try to get he bidding reopened so that they can get more of what they are owed back. These A*holes have absolutely no interest in the team, Baseball, or its fans - it's just the all mighty dollar causing them to SUCK. There is some talk going around that Selig may fold the franchise, just to end this mess.

STARS! Say it ain't so, Mo! Mike Modano has told the press that he's 75/25 for coming back next season. The problem is, the Stars' management may not want him. Their youth movement may not have a slot open for an aging, though talented, forward. Mike has stated to some reporters that if he does decide to play this coming year, it will probably have to be with another team.

THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!

Mike Modano in another team's uniform is sacriledge - almost as bad as, well, Emmitt Smith going to the Cardinals for his last season. What a pile of dog puke that was ...

Stars management - don't you dare let this happen. If you can't put him on the ice, then give him a front office contract. Keep him a Star for life. If you don't, you SUCK.

Mike, don't sign with another team. Even if you can't play for the Stars, don't go elsewhere. You'll hate it, it will anger the hockey Gods, and you'll lose a lot of your incredible fan base here in DFW and in Minnesota. Don't do it ... PLEASE!!!!!

Dirk Nowitzki has chosen to buyout the last year of his contract and go into free agency this week. He is giving up a guaranteed 21.5 million this coming season to test the free agency market. Local concensus is he's trying to get Mark Cuban to give him a long term contract - if Cuban doesn't give him what he wants, there will be a lot of teams out there who will. Seeing Dirk in another team's uniform would be as bad as Modano.

Come on, guys! Pull your collective heads out of your butts.

Update - Well, the Stars stepped in it today (6/29). GM Joe Nieuwendyk (once a teammate of Modano's and a good friend to Mike - at least he was yesterday) announced publicly that the Stars will not offer Modano a contract for the upcoming season. So, If Mike wishes to play, he has to look for a new team. Joe did say that if Mike wanted, the Stars would find a place to fit Modano into the organization in a non-playing role. What a backhanded bullshit offer that is. If Joe was serious, he would have offered Mike a specific position prior to the announcement, to save Mike the embarrassment of having his team turn its back on him.

Mike is reportedly really pissed off about this - I don't blame him. I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to sign up with a direct competitor with the Stars, just to try and get back at them - much like Emmitt did with the Cardinals. I really hope he doesn't - he needs to be a Star for life.

ATTENTION STARS MANAGEMENT - I will continue to be a fan of the team's but do not count on me showing up and spending any of my money to support you this upcoming season. You just do not do this to the most important player the franchise has ever had. Very poor decision, and very poorly handled.

Focus On The Supreme Court

Two things happend today that should draw our focus to the Supreme Court.

First, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment does indeed give Americans the right to keep and bear arms, stating that state or local attempts to limit such rights are un-Constitutional. The case before it was a Chicago suburb's restrictive handgun restrictions.

"It is clear that the Framers ... counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty."
- Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority opinion.

No matter what your personal opinion is of guns and gun ownership, the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right granted to all American citizens by the Constitution. This ruling affirms that government actions, be they federal, state, or local, cannot deprive you of your Consitutional Rights.

This is a huge victory for those who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law in this country.

What should scare us to our core is that the ruling was 5-4, straight down conservative/liberal lines. One Court seat shift to the left, and this ruling would have been completely opposite. Imagine our country if the Supreme Court gives a green light to anyone in a position of authority being able to curtail your Constitutional Rights - at their discretion.


Second, the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan began. Kagan is in line to replace John Paul Stevens when he retires from the court. Kagan is an Obama clone - inexperienced, far left liberal, activist - a clean sheet he can form and manipulate at will. She's never sat behind the bench, and her experience before any court is minimal. Her claim to fame is in academia - one of the elite Ivy League eggheads everyone makes so much fun of.

Kagan is being put forth as an independely minded moderate - someone who will judge strictly by the rule of law. Bullshit. She worked for Thurgood Marshall, the biggest activist judge the Supreme Court has ever known. She idolized him and his views, and his belief that his judging was based upon what he felt and wanted first, the law and the Constitution second. That's not me saying that - it's his own words. If it is possible, she may be even farther to the left than Sotomayor or Ginsburg. She's also young, so her liberal vote will be on the court for decades to come.

Democrats will praise her. Republicans will throw some tough questions at her. In the end, she will be confirmed - the only way Republicans could stop it would be to filibuster, and they don't have the stomach for it.

One of the incredibly important reasons Obama and the Democrats must be taken out of power is the next Supreme Court nominee. So far, Obama's sent two persons to the court - two liberals to replace two liberals. The next justice to retire may very well be a conservative - and there's not a chance in hell that Obama will nominate a conservative to replace him. If Obama gets to make that pick, he will influence the Supreme Court and its rulings for years after he's an afterthought.


By strict definition, there can't be liberals or conservatives on the Supreme Court. Democrat or Republican should be irrelevant. The Supreme Court's charter states that it is to enforce the law of the land and the Consitution of the United States. There is no grey area in that. There is no room for activism. No room for empathy, no room for personal feelings. This is critical, and the Framers knew it. An attitude that someone thinks is proper and must enforced, another person might believe is wrong and must be blocked. Who's to say which is correct? Judges acting on empathy, or social conscience may believe they are doing what must be done by interpreting or massaging the Consitution to meet their personal beliefs. But they have no right to do that. They are expressly forbidden from doing that. The Framers knew there must be an impartial 'judge' as an equal arm of the government, to make sure that Congress and the President are not allowed to circumvent the Constitution.

No matter if they are on the right or left, Supreme Court justices are not allowed to let their personal feelings affect or become part of their rulings. If they do, they corrupt part of the fabric of our country. Unfortunately, it seems that they all do - some more than others.

Another Shining Example Of Obama's Use Of Our Tax Dollars

A Federal Highway Administration report released back on June 16 announced that the Obama administration had more than doubled the amount of tax dollars spent last year on walking and biking. $1.2 Billion dollars were spent in 2009 promoting the use of bikes and your feet as means of transportation.

$400 million of that came from funds appropriated from the economic stimulus bill.

You know, I am so happy to see my Federal Government make such wise use of my tax dollars in these days of dire deficits and economic strife ....

F***ing Idiots ....

Bryant Gumbel Is A Racist?

I've never watched Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. However, last night I channel surfed across it, and saw he was doing a story on racism in football (that's soccer to us here in the US). A serious subject, and if you're not familiar with it, google it. You'd be surprised at how badly some players, particularly black ones, are treated in Europe. It's disgusting.

Mr. Gumbel ended his broadcast with a diatribe on how much he admired the World Cup - the game, its purity, it's lack of commercialism (really? What's all tha advertising all over their jerseys?), its humanity (yes, stupid refs blow calls and wrongly influencing games repeatedly at the highest level - what's wrong with that?). He even said he preferred the damn vuvuezela horns to noise we hear at sporting events here in the US, like that heard at the weekly, and I quote, "Bubba 500".

Mr. Bryant, you are allowed to say all kind of stupid things, but that comment is blatantly racist. OK folks, laugh if you want ... but that is a vicious slam against white Southerners. I don't care if he didn't mean it that way - many folks have been crucified because something they said was interpreted in a fashion it wasn't meant.

Mr. Gumbel should be made to apologize to all fans of NASCAR publicly, by his employers at HBO. Fat chance of that happening. Because he is black, and he was insulting whites, he gets a pass. Racism is not a one sided street - it goes both ways.

If anyone wants to check this out for themselves, his whole diatribe is posted over at the HBO Real Sports web page.

Eagles 2010 Review

My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing the Eagles at AAC in Dallas last night. The group played for 3 1/2 hours, showing an incredible amount of energy for a bunch of guys who aren't far from a retirement home.

Glen Frey actually introduced their effort as the "2010 Assisted Living Tour". Not far from the truth!

Individually, all four showed signs of their ages. Joe Walsh did not look good at all. Timothy Schmidt looked like a walking skeleton. Their vocals, understandably, were not what they used to be. In harmony, however, wow - they were great. And, even with the length of the performance, there was just as much energy in the last encore as there was in the opening number.

Now, naturally for me, there were some detractions from the performance;

The rendition of "Dirty Laundry". The song was great, and presented well. The video backdrop was full of images of media figures. Fox News personalities started the video montage, and were prominent throughout. Everyone who appears on Fox News was splashed on screen as Henley's lyrics slammed the media. There were a couple of generic CNN screen caps in there, a lot of Jerry Springer and National Enquirer. California musicians - there should be no surprise what their politics are, but I found this offensive.

The proliferation of cell phones. The arena could have turned off all of the lights, and there would have been more than sufficient illumination provided by the hundreds of phone screens. I don't understand it - here you are at the Eagles, and you are spending time texting, or calling someone on the phone? WTF is up with that?

The age of the crowd - male pattern baldness, silver hair, grandma and grandpa acting like kids. People using walkers and motorized scooters to get to their seats?

There aren't many 50+ year old women who can wear a mini-skirt and pull it off well - and none of them were in attendance last night. Likewise, if a woman's boobs hit her bellybutton upon bra removal, her shirt really shouldn't be cut so low that you can actually see said belly button.

Drunken people who insist of standing up in the front row for most of the concert, jumping up and down, yelling, and generally making asses of themselves should be tossed over the railing. The bunch who obstructed our view for a good part of the show were so drunk they coulnd't hear everyone shouting for them to sit down. They were so plastered they probably don't even know where they were last night.

For the rythmically challenged, please understand you should not loudly clap your hands in time to the music if you can't keep time with the music. How annoying!

All in all, an enjoyable evening. Plus, I can now say I've seen the Eagles in concert.

An Open Letter To John Boehner

Not that he will ever read it, but here is an open letter to Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), minority leader of the US House of Representatives.

Dear Rep. Boehner;

I am writing to you as an everday US citizen. I am a Republican, and a Conservative.

The upcoming 2010 mid-term elections are the best chance our country has to stop the attack being waged on our country by Obama and the far left. The table has been set for a fundamental change in Congress, a change that could rival the Republican landslide of 1994. The majority of folks in this country have realized what Obama and his minions are doing, and want to stop it. They are rightfully concerned about the future of our country.

However, I see Republican leadership, both in Congress and across the Nation, pretty much sitting on the sidelines as we approach this critical election. With all that Obama is doing, I expect to see Republican leadership out there publicly and loudly expressing outrage. While Republicans in Congress act correctly in blocking Obama at every opportunity, it seems that for the majority of Senators and Representatives the Rules of Engagement say to lay low. This is absolutely the wrong approach to take. No one is going to win more votes by sitting in the background avoiding conflict.

Look at who is presumed to be the heads of the Republican Party - Rush LImbaugh and Sarah Palin. Most Americans know them, but could not tell you who the Republican leadership in Congress is. Other folks know who Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, and Jan Brewer are - not because they don't make waves, but because they are out taking on Obama, his policies, and trying to defend their states against Democrat lunacy. They are doing so strongly and publicly, and they are very popular because of it.

Mr. Boehner, please take note of this. Republicans in Congress are in danger of reading the polls, listening to the pundits, sitting on their hands, and losing their opportunity in November. There is a very real possibility that complacency will prevent Republicans from taking control of Congress.

The best thing Republican leadership can do is to loudly, publicly tell the American people what Obama is pulling over on us. Just a few people actually realize what is going on. The majority of folks have no idea what legislation is being passed, what it contains, and how it is going to affect them. Your Democrat counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, has publicy stated that if the public wants to know what is in the legistaltion being voted on, just wait until it passes and we would be told. This is being done on purpose.

The majority of impact Obama's efforts will have on the average American will not start hitting until January 1, 2011 - long after the mid-term elections are over. That is not an accident. If everyone knew what was coming, the Democrats would all be tossed out of Washington in November. Secrecy is their ally.

I suggest to you, I implore you ...

Yourself and the Republican leadership must tell the American public what is coming. Tell everyone what outrageous attacks on our personal liberty will begin in 2011. Tell us how much our taxes are actually going to go up. Tell us precisely what is going to happen to our healthcare. Do it loudly, do it publicly. You should be the leader in this effort, not a wallpaper standing behind Rush and Sarah. You should be as well known as Pelosi - but for good reasons.

Do this, and the Republican and Conservative bases will be energized. Moderates who are disgusted with Obama are looking for a rallying point. Give it to them. Many Democrats who are unhappy with the modern Democrat Party are looking for a reason to throw them out and return it to the Democrat Party of John Kennedy.

Please Mr. Boehner - do not allow the Republicans to waste this critical opportunity. If we do not gain control of Congress in November, there will be no hope of stopping Obama';s assault, and no hope of rolling back what he has already done. There is too much at stake for our leadership to sit on the sidelines.

Obama Dep of Labor Helping Illegals

This makes my blood boil ....

The Obama Department of Labor is spending our tax dollars running an ad campaign that encourages illegal aliens to come to the DoL to gain assistance. Specifically, Obama's Secretary of Labor HIlda Solis begs illegals who think they are not being treated or paid fairly for their work should come to the DoL for assistance. The whole ad is about and targeted to illegal aliens.

Secretary Solis pitches her schtick in front of backdrop of images of presumably illegals at work. In the background plays a catchy little jingle:

"We can help. We'll get you what you are due ..."

Solis insists that the help is free and confidential.

I want to throw up.

A division of the US Government is openly, publicly soliciting illegal aliens in order to assist them in continuing to break our laws.

That division is openly stating it will not assist the other divisions that are tasked with apprehending and deporting these same illegal aliens. In fact, the DoL is conspiring to keep information out of the hands of law enforcement - obstruction of justice, which is a felony.

Our tax dollars are being spent on this ad campaing, and more importantly, being spent by the millions to help illegal aliens stay in this country and continue to break our laws.

When is this liberal, far left kook madness going to stop?

The first of these videos is what I believe to be the original ad. The second is a doctored version that is floating around Youtube ... cute, but don't believe that this is the real one ....

Soccer Craziness

The US National Soccer team played Algeria today in their third game of group play at the World Cup. The team tied in its first two games, giving them a total of 2 points in league play. This tied them with England for second place in the group. The top two teams of each group move on to the 'playoffs' after the third game.

The scenario was this - if the US squad won, they moved on instead of England, no matter what England did in their last game against Slovenia (who were sitting in first place in the group). If the US tied and England tied, the US moved on. If the US tied or lost, and England won, the US ended up in third place, and their World Cup would be over.

The two games started at the same time - the England game was actually runniong about 2 minutes ahead of the US game. England scored a goal early against Slovenia, putting them int he driver's seat. The US apparently scored a goal near half time, but it was disallowed on a horrible call by a linesman.

The second half saw the US pepper the Algerian goaltender (who had a wonderful game) with shots and misses almost constantly. As time ran out, it appeared the game would be a tie, sending the US packing back across the Atlantic.

In injury stoppage time, in the 91st minute of action, a fast break down the right side, a centering pass, a deflection off the goaltender, and a followup by Landon Donovan that found the net gave the US a 1-0 win. Coupled with England's 1-0 win over Slovenia, that gave the US top spot in the group, with England coming in second. Slovenia, leaders of the group at the beginning of the day, finished 3rd and are out of the competition.

That sums up the craziness of the World Cup. It is either incredibly dramatic, breathtaking, and a spectacle, or it is madness - depends upon how you want to look at it. One goal, scored after official time had expired, meant the difference between winning the group and moving on, or packing up and coming home.

One thing has certainly been obvious in this World Cup - the quality of the officiating has been horrendous, certainly not worthy of the most important soccer tournament in the world. It is a shame when bad calls, disallowed goals, and phantom fouls dominate the headlines, instead of the play of the teams.

Update - The craziness just keeps coming. Defending World Cup Champ Italy was ousted today, with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Slovakia. Now, the two teams that fought in the World Cup final in 2006, a classic final that came down to Penatly Kicks, have both been sent home without making it out of the group stage. France came in last in their group, failing to score a point. Italy came in last in their group, scoring a measley 2 points.

France is in mourning. It is a national disaster, and the President of the country is promising investigations to find out what happened. After its arrival back in France, the team was taken to an undisclosed location under police escort.

Italy will be the same when their team arrive back home tomorrow.

These two nose-in-the-air countries have just had their noses bloodied, their teams humiliated, and their national pride devestated. The only thing that kept England from being in the same position is a single goal they scored in their final group game yesterday.

Bill Clinton Cruising the World Cup

Bill Clinton was in the crowd at today's World Cup match between the US and Algeria. News reports stated he was there to cheer on the US team, and to give presence as the honorary chairman of the US bid to host the World Cup in a few years.

Clinton's actual purpose became evident in some overheard whispers between him and local bigwigs:

"You know I was the first Black President of the United States, right?"

"Are there any cute interns around here?"

Check the time stamp on this posting - notice I did not steal these lines from any of the late night shows, where these obvious jokes will certainly be repeated tonight!

Obama's IRS Giving Tax Breaks to Prison Inmates

1300 prison inmates, including 241 that are serving life sentences, received Obama's home buyer tax credit this past year. They are part of over 14,000 individuals who fraudulently filed for and received the tax credit from Obama's IRS.

J. Russell George, the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration, authored the report, which stated that over $26 million in tax revenue was lost from the incorrect approval of the tax credits.

To be fair, the IRS says it blocked 100,000 false claims for the tax credit, and has opened 150 criminal complaints as a result.

The report also stated that at least 87 IRS employees falsely claimed the tax credit.

Come on Obama, clean up your waste and our debt won't be nearly as bad....

P.S. - I fully expect Mr. George to be summoned to the White House and fired for authoring a report critical of the regime ....

Update - Another Obama/IRS gem has come to light ... The payments BP is giving out to persons affected by the oil spill are goping to be taxed by the IRS as normal income. So, Obama is going to get his cut of every dollar BP doles out to help the people whose livelyhoods have been hit. This will be the same for payments made out of the $20 Billion slush fund Obama extorted from BP - Obama's hand picked man will decide who gets paid out of that fund, how much, and when. And, the IRS will be there to take Obama's share. Does anyone out there seriously doubt that the slush fund will be very easy to use to reward Obama and Democrat supporters - yeah, right - you laugh at that. But there is one man, directed by Obama, who controls that money, and there is no requirement for any accounting of where it goes to.