All is not lost, yet

I was looking at our local paper, and saw that Medina County voted Republican in all contested races. That's good to know, considering is on the tan side. Not as brown as in the valley, but definitely a lot darker than even San ANtonio.

Since it won't stay up longer than next week, here are some excerpts.
Amid a nationwide blue wave, Medina County remained a solid island of red during the Nov. 4 general elections.
County voters selected the Republican candidate in every contested race on the local ballot, even though their choices for President and U.S. Representative did not succeed in their quests for election.
In the hotly-contested local races, all Republicans came up winners.
Kim Havel easily outpolled Hunter Schuehle in the race to succeed Ralph Bernsen as Medina County Attorney. Havel outlasted Schuehle, a former county attorney for 12 years, by receiving nearly 65% of the vote.
Randy Brown, appointed as Sheriff when Gilbert Rodriguez resigned two years ago, won with an even more commanding 74% of the vote in defeating challenger, Edward Fuentes.
In a three-county race for 38th District Judge, Camile Glasscock DuBose carried 61% of the votes in defeating Tom Cate. She was victorious in all three counties, Medina, Uvalde and Real, which comprise the 38th District. Judge Mickey Pennington is retiring after 24 years on the bench.

~Snip~
On the national scene, Medina County voters sided with John McCain by a more than 2-to-1 margin over Barack Obama, helping him to claim Texas’ 34 electoral votes. Obama, however, with wins in key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Florida, won the race for president.
John Cornyn was reelected to a second term as United States Senator, defeating challenger Rick Noriega by nearly 2-to-1 in Medina County and with a 61% margin statewide.
Lyle Larson drew the support of Medina County voters in his bid to unseat incumbent Rep. Ciro Rodriguez in the race for U.S. Representative, District 23. But district-wide, Rodriguez was the winner, with 45% of the vote to Larson’s 40%. Libertarian candidate Lani Connally pulled a strong 15% of the vote, which was a fairly consistent figure for Libertarian congressional candidates across the state.

...Cool, now I'm going to go out and work on a wood shop that doesn't need reams of paperwork (and fees) handed to an intrusive.gov (so far) because I live in a freedom loving county.

This election proves what I've believed

I firmly believe that instead of making it easier to vote than getting a sub-prime mortgage, it needs to be a little more difficult.

How about some of these changes?

• You have to actually *prove* who you are by showing an official ID- not a water bill. Hey, if Obamas Black Panthers can check your ID in Philly, why not the .gov?
• Mail-in ballots from APO and FPO will get first priority in handling and a longer lead time, because they're actually putting it on the line for the entire voting thing to happen.
• How about a 'clue' test? where you actually have to have some knowledge of both candidates planks? No, I'm not talking about the Jim Crow laws or Literacy tests. Just something that anyone who has the political insite higher than a door knob can pass: "Which party controls the House/Senate?"---"Name one plank in each candidates platform"---"Who has the tie breaking vote in the Senate?"
• Purge the rolls yearly and maybe send out a return card asking if the voter wants to be carried over- if not, scratch the name. If you can't check a box and drop a card in the mail, you don't give enough of a chit to vote anyway.
• Military, property owners and small business entrepreneurs should have two votes so as to cancel out the shiftless money suckers on the dole.

BUT,,, we all know it will never happen because the Dems couldn't get clueless college students, crack whores and dead people to the polls and would never get elected.


AND- Make it a closed primary that candidates can't drop out from, that way the Liberal half of the country can't force a RINO on the rest of us... like this ast time.

This would be so kewl

If someone would make a blog so we could laugh at the Obamabots as they realize that Himself either wont or can't do what he promised.

I mean, all those that think we'll be solving Global warming by Unicorn farts and feeding 'the poor' with manna from heaven. I don't know what manna tastes like, but I can almost guarantee you that the kool-aid drinkers won't like it.

Think of the absolute crushing 'horror' when they realize that the world still hates us and moslems still want to kill Americans.

What do you think their reaction will be to the Carter era gas lines?


I'd even do it if I were near a computer during the day...and I could actually compose coherently.

Rahm Emanuel, huh? So much for Bi-partisanship,,,but then real Conservatives saw that comming. Too bad the RNC is going to be blindsided- AGAIN.

Sigh....

John, John, John...
You really need to get off the Bullchit Express.
Do you *really* believe it was Sarah Palin who wrecked your last chance to cross off 'Be President' from you bucket list?

You don't think it might have something to do with

• The McCain/Kennedy Amnesty bill?
• The McCain/Feingold First Amendment hatchet job?
• The Durbin/McCain Dream Act
• The McCain/Lieberman Carbon tax Act?
• Voting against Both of W's tax cuts?
• Voting against drilling in ANWAR?
• Stabbing your own party in the back more often than supporting it?
• The Gang of 14?

And that's just off the top of my head.

Now McCains' election team is dumping all over Palin for her supposed faults. Anonymously, of course...
They're talking about McCains co-contender as badly or worse than McCain talked about Obama.
And McCain isn't reeling them in-OR apologising like he did to Obama.
(But, then Sarah is only a Governor- not a member of the most elate and exclusive club in America)

John McCain, he'd rather make nice with a fellow Senator than protect a running-mate.
Classy John, and to let you know-- - the ONLY reason you did so well was because of her.


Now, that being said- even though I don't want to hear another election slogan for another 42 months...
SARAH PALIN in '12

Congratulations America

You got what you deserved.

Well, I guess the fix is in

I was *not* going to even try thinking about the results tonight, but the Yahoo election thing piqued my curiosity.

I guess I'm not nuanced enough to understand how they're giving Obama the win with 2% (yes TWO percent)of votes in but are holding off on McCain's win with 65% in.

On some of the rollover states, McCain is in the lead by vote count, but Mr. Redistribution is tagged the winner.

I guess we need to let the dead and fraudulent votes catch up to the results before we question their honesty.







So! How long is this election going to carry over in the courts? Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Winner gets a 2GiG micro memory card.

Mice!

I Got woke up (waken?)by a mouse trying to chew it's way into the master bath.
We've had mice before and some, I think have died in the attempt (given the sudden short in an outside wall wire).

I wouldn't really mind so much if they could just use the same access the other mice used. Then I wouldn't habe motr holes in my walls after the mouse traps do their work.

Getting on to something more important

...is the news that the flying car may be available in a Ferrari model soon.

It's flying ability is based on the Harrier vectored thrust idea.

It can fly at 150mph and up to 5,000feet.
Right now, they're looking at a price of about $1 million per.



Sounds cool, huh?
Well just think that all those clueless morons you were stuck in traffic with tonite will want one too.

Conversations at work

1- "R" is starting to stab "J" in the back, too.

2- Yeah, it's like a dog licking his d*ck- he can't help it.

1- I know...

2- He'd better remember that even though "J" f*cked-up so bad he got demoted, he's still "M" 's nephew and will be back as a foreman soon, so no matter how bad "J" or "K" (his BFF) f*ck up they've got a job as long as they want.

1- Yeah, I wish I had insurance like that.

Just wondering...

Who came up with the Red state Blue state thing?
I'm too lazy to search for it, but I'd bet it was a bunch of journalists who decided to call Dems the Blue states because calling them the Red states would come too close to the truth.

Who out there saw the way Obama operatives used Government records to smear (not) Joe the Plumber- and thinks it won't happen to them if Obama gets elected?
Oh, yeah- the ones that think they're somehow immune from the Party Sturmabteilung because they pulled a lever for Himself.

If you heard this on the radio

You'd at first think it was a 'hard hitting' media piece on our Obamessiah.



Now, wouldn't you?

More PSAs from team Trainwreck

This helpful advice is kinda on the distorted side, but advice well worth listening to.

There was a movie out last year

And the more I watch the McCain candidacy kinda sleepwalk around, the more I'm inclined to think about it.

The movie was "The Bucket List". Basically a movie about two guys with terminal cancer and the list they have to do before they die.

Why do I have the feeling that John McCain has such a list and come Nov. 5th will be crossing off *Run as the Republican part Presidential candidate (weather I win or loose)*?
He hasn't taken off the gloves yet and is reigning in his best shot at becoming President by muzzling Sarah.

I think Fred Thompson Had a *run for President* on his list, too- judging from the effort he put into winning the thing.

The feral cat question

I just took care of another cat that was causing commotion at Casa Trainwreck.
This time the dogs found it under Karens truck and destroyed the wind dam trying to get to it. I don't know if it was the same one they scratched the chit out of my paint trying for last week or not.

This one was an orange one that's not going to be spreading disease vectors, knocking over trash cans, yowling all night long or spraying my trucks.

It was fast and less painful than becoming prey for a car or larger animal.

What I have a hard time coming to terms with is the "Humane sterilization and release" programs out there because of misguided 'caring'.

Look, they're wild. cats.
Cats that only see human beings as a threat.
They kill birds for fun. They have to Savage for food. When they become ill, they suffer. If they get in a fight or hit by a car, they're injured and suffer- maybe an agonizing death.
They're an invasive species to the ecosystem they live in, and in some parts of the world are an economic hazard because of their habits, like the rabbits in OZ.

Why, when you have them trapped, are you going to waste all that extra hard to come-by money spaying or neutering a wild cat when it's ready for $5 of CO or a $10 shot in the arm? Their ummm...pshykie is already freaking because they're trapped and surrounded by HUGE threatening people that have to gas them to even get near them, then spend a hounded dollars and days letting them heal before releasing them.

To a life of searching for food, shelter and just trying to survive another day?

Jeremy Clarkson on motorcycles

To boil it down: "You will be killed."

...A word of warning, though. If you use only the front brake, you will fly over the steering wheel and be killed. If you try to use the back one, you will use the wrong foot and change into third gear instead of stopping. So you’ll hit the obstacle you were trying to avoid, and you’ll be killed.

...The steering wheel comes in the shape of what can only be described as handlebars, but if you turn them — even slightly — while riding along, you will fall off and be killed. What you have to do is lean into the corner, fix your gaze on the course you wish to follow, and then you will fall off and be killed

...you get a horn and lights and indicators, all of which are operated by various switches and buttons on the steering wheel, but if you look down to see which one does what, a truck will hit you and you will be killed.

...the indicators do not self-cancel, which means you will drive with one of them on permanently, which will lead following traffic to think you are turning right. It will then undertake (they will pass you -Kurt)just as you turn left, and you will be killed.

In other words, your small 125cc motorcycle, which has no boot, no electric windows, no stereo and no bloody heater even, will end up costing more than a Volkswagen Golf. That said, a bike is much cheaper to run than a car. In fact, it takes only half a litre of fuel to get from your house to the scene of your first fatal accident. Which means that the lifetime cost of running your new bike is just 50p.

You may know Jeremy from his show on BBCAmerica, including the Stig (which I am informed that Tam resembles).

You may have seen Jeremy picking a fight with a Challenger tank on this You-tube several months ago:

Mistakes

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1.

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

2.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

3.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

4.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

5.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

6.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.

Of such things history is made.

What color

Does a Smurf turn when you choke him?

It's been 50 years since they were first drawn in Belgium.

I think they've lived long enough...



Especially if your creating a demand for Surf costumes.

Humph...

Cops bracing for after election violence.
Yep, no matter who wins there are some who will riot. They'll riot and burn to celebrate, or they'll use it for an excuse to riot and loot if Obama looses.

But one thing I can guarantee you is that less two weeks after the election is over, we'll have soldiers in the streets.
Almost every town will see members of the armed forces walking down their street.
I'm so sure of this that I bet that weeks pay against a payment to my paypal account that you'll hear reports about it on the national news less than two weeks from Nov. 4th.

...And no, I'm not being paranoid- I can use the past to see the future.

Wanna bet?

My guilty (?) pleasure

Karen refuses to even look at them- because they come from the insides of a chicken.

Down here we have in certain Shell stations, a small chicken chain called "Chester's Fried chicken". Nice original name, huh?

Anyway if you can find them, they make the best deep fried gizzards I've had.
I'm trying to get close to their recipe and I'm closing in, I think.

This is what I've got so far:

In a 1 gal food baggie dump-

• about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of flour
• alot of garlic powder 1/3 to 1/2 cup
• about half the amount of onion powder
• LOTS of salt. A good tablespoon is getting close
• a good shot of ground black pepper- nope more.
• a heavy sprinkle of red pepper

In a medium saucepan heat your oil of choice, but be sure to have about 1/2 from lard.
I'm getting good results at a high medium (or low high) on the electric range.

Drop in about 1/3 of the flat into the coating mix and shake -well then let sit until the oil is ready.
When ready to cook, reshake the batch and sift through your fingers as you place them in oil.
Cook about 6 minutes ( I'm looking at seven next time) and set on to drain on paper towels.
Salt
Repeat for the rest.

Sit down and ignore the fawning, drooling dogs at your feet.

"Walk for Change!"

Today is the first day of early voting here in Texas.
According to TV4 news, the UTSA has a new voting center and to inaugurate it- they'll have a "Walk for Change!" around the campus.
I guess they'll walk around the university accepting voter registrations on the way to the voting booths.

I wonder which campaign got that idea?

More 'Cautionary tailes of swords'

The movie


Remember: Swords, they'll cut you wide open!
And ladies,,,Trip Fisk has a moustach in this one.

How ironic

I saw this article about a guy that only admitted to having a Purple Heart from 'Nam- but ended up with over 100 on his Dd-214 with six tours over there.

I was going to mention the last Dem. hero with SIX Purple Hearts from one foreshortened tour, when I saw Himself requested by the vets family to ty to get replacements.

I wonder -just in passing- if any will go onto Big John's "I love me" wall? Or onto his resume for the next time he's looking at a national office?

Any guesses

on how long it will be before "Joe the Plumber" is declared a 'distraction' by one campaign or the other?

AND in seeing all this dirt dug up about Joe, it's nice to know that the Legacy Media remembers how to look into a persons history once in a while.
Too bad they don't do it for Presidential candidates.

So.... just out of curiosity

when DID they start keeping records of the Arctic Ocean?

I mean if they're sending out dire warnings about record temps and ice melts, shouldn't they give some kind of history?

I seem to remember that as late as the mid 19th century it was extremely hazardous to even try to reach the north pole, much less keep weather outposts up on the ice.

The next generation of safety bans

I'd say it's straight from that formerly admirable doughty island nation known as Great Britain. But they left that ideal in the dust of history.
Anyway, this could have been an advert there,,,except for the American accent.

And slightly NSFW because of the F-bomb- alot.



Remember...swords- they'll f#cking kill you!

H/t to Secret scientist

A question about wimmen

Why, when they get out of the shower, do they have to wrap a towel into a turban?
Wouldn't it be more comfortable (and less unwieldy) to drape a towel over your shoulders until you hair is dry?

This doesn't surprise me

I've driven an 18 wheeler in Florida.

The fact that only FOUR cars hit it does.
They're backed up because of a washing machine in the road and I'd bet my next paycheck that NOBODY is even thinking about dragging the thing to the shoulder.

Dear Congress

Thanks for f*cking up the economy.

I just spent about $25 more for the same amount of food than I did even six months ago.
Even the Walmart branded bread costs almost a dollar, and forget anything close to cheap meat; not to mention ANYTHING that has even a whiff of corn attached to its manufacture.

As for that gasahol ADM payback you're calling renuable fuel, I'm not buying any. I refuse to pay more for something that gives me even WORSE fuel economy.

If you really wanted to help the economy, you should have shovelled that $800+ BILLION dollars to every taxpayer in the U.S.- that may have even stopped the hemorraging of Wall St. I know I would have loaded up on stocks if I could have afforded it. I can't, though because everything you touch is costing me more and more.

Have I mentioned I'll not be voting for ANY incumbant this time around?
That includes John Cornyn and the soon-to-be-running-for-Governer Kay Bailey-Hutchinson.
My Rep is a Dem, so that's already been decided.

Who is Travis Barker?

I accidentally clicked on Yahoo images (without a search term) and got this giraffe necked dork.

I'm sorry Albert R. Gore Jr.

But we were at the home of one of those evil rich people yesterday cutting down a tree destroying a carbon offset and one of Gaea's children.

It was an Arizona Ash that was threatening the bosses lake house.
A BIG ash tree that had come to the end of it's lifespan and was threatening his roof.
So I got to stress test the newest boom truck we had.

It was almost found wanting on the first limb we tried because that chunk of tree was lifting both of the opposite side stabilizers. (It felt like the truck was going over when the limb let go.) The weight chart said that it was rated at about two tomes at a 30 degree angle and 50' out...it didn't look that heavy when we first cut it.

After a day of cutting and chipping, we're down to the final big chunks that we can't even give away, because it's not much more than pulpwood. I wonder if Selma has a burn ban in effect today?