Cuba and Fidel Castro (1-20-2006)

Since 1959 our country has engaged in a war of wills with Cuba and it's communist dictator Fidel Castro. Before I go any further with this blog...let me preface this by saying Fidel sucks!! But 47 years of an embargo against Cuba and what? Fidel and his government have outlasted JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II....he has outlasted them all and is still thumbibg his nose at us. I think it's high time we rethink our strategy with him.
Instead of isolating him...we do the opposite. We open up to his country....allow Americans to travel to Cuba or communicate with Cubans. In time the Cuban people will see how the other half live and want this for themselves also it's another country we can do business with...
In the late 80's The USSR opened it's doors to tourism....and guess what Americans went. Once the people of the USSR saw how Americans really were...they to wanted some of that freedom. By 1990 Most of Eastern Europe had opened up the Iron Curtain!!

My Day (12-23-2005)

Im not one to seek attention for good deeds...seeing as how I strongly believe in karma, I believe all good deeds get repaid somehow someway.  Today as Im riding the bus back from Montclair mall to Claremont, the driver suddenly slams on his brake I was able to brace myself but a heavyset man seated in his wheelchair wasnt so lucky. For whatever reason he wasnt strapped in and he fell out of his wheelchair...and hard. Myself, an older gentleman and another guy jumped to his aid. Between the 3 of us and the bus driver we managed to get him back into his wheel chair. The guy had to have been close to 300lbs! Plus he was paralyzed in his left leg and was unable to give us any leverage. After we helped him I noticed blood on the ground just as the bus got to the bus stop...turned out he opened up a pretty deep gash in his leg. Now get this...the bus had no first aid kit!! what the fuck??? How can a mode of transportation used by the public not have a first aid kit in the event of an accident or what happened today? Thinking quickly I ran inside a bike shop next to the bus stop and was able to get a bandage and some gloves...and given that I have First Aid Training from the Red Cross...I was able to apply pressure to his wound until the paramedics arrived. The bus driver did nothing but call his supervisor who in turn called the paramedics....nobody else on the bus lifted a finger...many were preturbed that they were being inconvenienced by the situation. I helped him because it was the right thing to do....if these people had been in his situation they wouldve wanted some help as well.

Guy rules

GUY RULES:

We always hear "the rules" from the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules!
Please note... these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!



1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl.
If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports.
It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it.
That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

 A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem.
See a doctor.

Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

 If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.

 If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways

makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

 You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself !!

 Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

 Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

 ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color.
Pumpkin is also a fruit.
We have no idea what mauve is.

 If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.

If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle...
 If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

 When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine...Really.

Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks.

You have enough clothes.

 You have too many shoes.

 I am in shape.
Round is a shape.

 Thank you for reading this.
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Bush and the Reagan Library (10-21-2005)

So Im flipping channels and I come across the dedication of The Air Force One exhibit at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Reagan was by far one of the greatest presidents ever...he was the reason I became a Republican. Then the reason I stopped being a Republican begins talking.  George W. speaks of Reagan's accomplishments and then compares the war on terror to the cold war with the communists and then just talks about the war on terror.
Hello....did I miss somethig I thought this was a dedication at the "Reagan"  library, not that idiot Bush justifying the war in Iraq.  Was it too much to talk about a man who was 100 times the President Bush is. Rather than talk about the accomplishments of Reagan...Bush sought to improve his own image. Let me tell you something Bush....In the 80's a country called Libya was committing terroristic acts against western interests.  Reagan sent a couple of bombs up Qadhafi's ass and I do believe they were never heard from until recently when he approached the west in a friendly manner.
Bush is by far one of the worst Presidents of the 20th Centuries and week after week he provides me more ammunition for my opinion.

Republicans and Democrats both suck (10-14-2005)

For too long Democrats and Republicans have run roughshod over this country.  Either you are labeled liberal or conservative...democrat or republican...but what people dont realize is that both parties are just two sides of the same coin.  Right now Republicans are being investigated for wrongdoing...6 years ago the Democrats were underseige from the Republicans. When one party is in control the other party spends all of their time figuring out how to debate the other instead of finding common ground and making this country a better place.  All the while they are just distracting the public from the real issues.

In some states they are debating whether or not to legalize gay marriage/unions. Why are we wasting tax payers money debating a non issue? In most of the states involved with this issue drugs are rampant in the streets...child abuse continues...gangs are spreading their filth...schools are overcrowded and underfunded...and we are unprepared for the next major disaster that will hit. But Tom Delay, Karl Rove and Bill Frisk are more important then kids being kept in cages in Ohio and the Social Department that allowed that to happen or our soldiers not having the best equipment to properly deal with Iraq/Afghanistan.  Remember the soldier who asked Donald Rumsfeld about our shoddy armored humvees? Most people have forgotten because our government is more concerned with talking about steroids in sports.

What we need is Common sense...but as long as we continue to be brainwashed by the corporate ran media and our elected politicians....they will continue to do whatever their hearts desire.

Responsibility and Political Correctness

Growing up in the 70's my favorite cartoon was always Bugs Bunny/Road Runner. I would laugh when Coyote would blow himself up or fall off of a cliff...or when Bugs and Daffy would fight over whether it was Duck or Rabbit season and then Daffy always got his bill shot off by a shot gun! Then when the cartoons were over my friends and I would go outside and play sports or get this....chase each other with toy guns!!  You know back when parents actually taught their kids right from wrong and an occasional spanking was called for and it wasnt child abuse!
Nowadays when kids shoot up a school do the parents say that there kids did bad and accept the responsibility for what happened? NO!! They want to blame whatever is on TV and in the movies.  When I was a kid I saw Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street....did It make me want to kill people?? NO!! I am sick and tired of the blame being shifted from where it belongs...in the lap of the people who are fucking up!!  If you go out and shoot people...it is not the fault of the video game you played.....it's your fucking fault asshole!!  You picked up the gun....you pulled the damn trigger!! Its your fault!! Parents...it's your fault for using the tv as a baby sitter....when I was a kid my parents made sure I was outside exercising not vegging my life away on a couch...

Bush and Hurricane Katrina from 9-15-2005

Well the idiot finally came out and admitted the Government screwed up huh...and there are still Bush supporters out there saying it's not his fault....well let's come up with a list of why Bush is an idiot...

1.  24 Hours after Katrina hit Bush was still on vacation in Texas and his staff was wondering how to tell the president that he should go back to Washington.
2. Bush was not watching any information regarding Katrina, as a matter of fact one of his aides compiled a DVD for him to watch on Air Force One that detailed the destruction.
3. The State and Local Governments were overwhelmed, FEMA was not up to the task and the military could not act without the president's consent and Rumsfeld opposed sending in active duty troops as cops.
4. Cheney kept his ass in Wyoming and kept in contact by videoconference.
5. When Bush was told that the levee had broke he continued about his day and accepted a gift guitar at an appearance he made in the day. Souns like when he was reading a book to kids during 9/11 huh?
6. In 1965 the day after a Hurricane hit New Orleans LBJ was in the city visiting a shelter. WIth no electricity he holds a light to his face and said Im the President of the United States Im here to help you". 40 years later rather than hurry to New Orleans, Bush flies to DC first.
Thank you Red States for voting for this man....oh and democrats....Kerry and Gore?? Im so hoping you come up with somebody better in 2008.

To the kids who survived the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Tsunami Warning 6/16/2005

The other day here in California we had a 7.0 earthquake off of the coast of Northern California, which led to a tsunami warning. Now lets analyze just how stupid people really are. After the tsunami warning...which covered beaches from the Mexican border all the way to Oregon...people actually went to the beach to see if one came ashore. Another lady called 911 and asked if it was practice and whether she should take her cats with her...now mind you the warning stated that they had 20 minutes to evacuate...and this lady is wondering what exactly is meant by higher ground! This just goes to show how ignorant some people truly are....werent people paying attention a few months ago to Indonesia?  I wish to God that stupidity was painful!

Summertime (6-3-2005)

Here we are....my favorite time of year...Summer!!! Sure it's hot as hell, but here in Cali we just head down to one of our polluted beaches and make a day of it. You know where the L.A and Santa Ana Rivers dump all of our runoff! You know that runoff Im talking about...all the gunk we dump in the gutters, trash, grass clippings, animal droppings etc. That stuff! So the next time you are in the water and wonder why you can't see your feet on the bottom....thank the guy in El Monte who dumped his paint thinner into the gutter, or the guy in Upland who thinks his oil goes into the sewer....Good going people!

The Pope (4-1-2005)

Let me start by saying I am not catholic and Im by no means a religious man. Pope John Paul II was one of the most remarkable men in the world, he did more to promote World Peace, help the poor, and even helped to hasten the end of communism, he went to Jerusalem and visited a Palestinian refugee, he established relations between the vatican and jewish people. In a world full of hate, violence, oppression, dictatorships, famines and bigotry The Pope was a man of compassion, love and calm in a world of turmoil....a human like him comes along once in a lifetime!!

Why (3-26-2005)

Why do men beat their wives and then say they do it because they love them? Why do courts continue to return kids to their abusive parents? Why do people smoke cigarettes and then sue the cigarette companies because they now have lung cancer? Why does our government continue to lie to us for the reasons of invading Iraq and why do we continue to accept these lies? You notice Bush never even mentions WMDS anymore. Why do people who get fat sue McDonalds because they are fat? Why do people blame video games and violent movies for kids commiting violence in schools? I grew up watching Wile E. Coyote blowing himself up....Irons hitting Tom in Tom and Jerry....Popeye solving his issues by fighting and I came out ok. Could it be I accepted all responsibility for who I was? Why do people still drink and drive? Why in the richest country in the world do people still go without adequate medical care? Why are people so concerned with gay marriage, but not with domestic violence?

My brush with death in 2005

Last week (2/25) having dinner at Macaroni Grill, I suddenly became very warm, I looked up thinking I was under a heat lamp, but when I asked my friend if she was hot, she said my eyes were bloodshot. I excused myself to goto the restroom along the way I became very dizzy. Once in the restroom I thought Id splash some water on my face to see if I could cool down...after that everything becomes a blur. I somehow wound up on the floor of the restroom, I remember somebody asking if I was ok...I said no, somehow I got up and exited the restroom and then I must have passed out again...I was having a hard time breathing, I was burning up....I was in bad shape. It seemed like an eternity to me, 911 was called and from what my friend said, the paramedics arrived in less than 8 minutes, but to me it was an eternity. I arrived at the hospital in what I found out later was critical condition....I had tubes in my arms and was still having a hard time breathing. When my eyes finally opened I saw my friend and I could see she was scared. Eventually I improved, but had to be admitted into the hospital for tests to find out why this happened...after cat scans, heart and lung tests....they still didnt have an answer....other than my potassium and magnesium was low...my blood sugar was so high when I came in they asked if I was diabetic, which Im not. I left the hospital on Sunday and have to follow up with a neurosurgeon in March......I hope all is well

The rain (2-8-2005)

(I think I regret this blog from 2005 now) Here in Southern California we pride ourselves on our weather....usually it's way better than any other states in the U.S. Right now however I think a certain city in the U.S. has misplaced their weather...im doing a public announcement right here to tell Seattle to come down here and get all this frickin rain that is suppose to be yours. We average 8 inches of rain up to this point in a normal year, but noooooooo ...now its 28 gosh damn inches of frigging rain....Ok...thats enough...you may continue about your days...Im done ranting

Things that annoy me (10-1-2004)

---Cell phone sales people in the malls--Im so paranoid about making eye contact with these idiots ---Fat people who need those carts to get around---Maybe your fat ass could walk off that fat ---Smokers--- What makes you think I want to smell your second hand smoke? ---Jehovah Witnesses--- If I was interested....Ill come and find you. ---People who bring babies to movie theaters--- If you cant find a baby sitter....rent a movie! ---When parents let their little kids run wild in a store/restaraunt--- When I got out of line as a kid....I got smacked, now thats child abuse!!! ---When people call you and dont leave a message....but then keep calling and calling--- If its that important....LEAVE A MESSAGE ASSHOLE!!! ---People who talk during movies--- SHUT UP!!! ---People who no nothing about current events or history--- I bet I can find a few people who dont know who there Vice President is.....or when Pearl Harbor was

Thoughts on Gay Marriage (9-1-2004)

I dont care if Gay's marry....you know why? Because it has no bearing on my life whatso friggin ever!! If two chicks or dudes want to marry each other....let them!! Quit wasting my tax dollars debating this. Lets debate gun control! Crime! Terrorism! unemployment! Those are issues that affect everybody!! If one gay says "I do" to another Gay will that have an affect on us?.......NO!!!

Why must people be so hateful to each other? (8-31-2004)

Why if somebody posts an innocent question asking for help on "My Space", does somebody always have to follow up with some foul comment. I grew up with the phrase "If you dont have nothing nice to say, dont say anything at all'. Here is an example of what I mean...... In the Love and Relationship Forum...A girl asked for help on how to approach a guy she liked....the responses she got criticized her for using caps and cussing her out. Then a guy questioned her age?? What does that have to do with anything? Im 33 and still have a hard time approaching women. If I see a post I dont like.....get this.....I SKIP IT!!! I dont waste my time or make myself look like an idiot disrespecting somebody that I dont know.....but then again, I was brought up learning respect for others, which is a foreign concept nowadays!

Thoughts on George W. Bush from 8/21/2004

---Iran and North Korea have WMDS for sure...why didnt we invade them? Oh and North Korea at the rate its going is headed for famine with its ruling government....Iran allowed many of the 9/11 terrorists to pass through their borders, even though a few of them were on Interpol's wanted list...Why didnt we invade Iran?--- ---Homeland Security? Everyday in L.A. and communities across the country gangs kill, intimidate, rob, rape, maim, car jack, burglarize, assault, sell drugs to name just a few things that they do....Instead of worrying about the terrorists who maybe in our country....lets worry about the terrorists that roam our streets and the under armed police forces charged with stopping them.--- ---In the jungles of Columbia they still manufacture and import cocaine into our country....isnt that an immediate threat to our country?--- ---Haliburton the largest contractor in Iraq has been over charging the Pentagon for services rendered....guess who used to run Haliburton? Dick Cheney--- ---Why are we splitting our resources between 2 countries....I think we should've concentrated on Afghanistan...finding Osama and the rest of the Taliban and helping to rebuild Afghanistan...Iraq was not as immediate a threat as Bush made it out to be--- ---Before you Clintonites keep saying yeah...yeah...yeah....if he had any kind of balls Osama wouldve been dead years ago--- Just random thoughts from my mind....feel free to respond with your opinions

Random Ramblings from 2004

 . Why is it we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? Why if 7-11 is open 24/7 do they have locks on the door? If a letter is silent in a word....why does that letter even need to be there? Why do people bring babies into a movie theater, do you think he can provide you with valuable insight in to the movie you are watching? Why do some people order Big Mac, Chicken Niuggets, Large fries and.....A diet coke? Is that diet coke going to offset the other 1000 calories you just ate? Smoking, what's the point? The Los Angeles Clippers, whats the point? Thats it...just random ramblings from my bored and tired head!!

Pediatricians say schools should start later

  I'm baaaaack, this is my first blog in over 3 years and what could possibly motivate me to write a blog? How about this study I read the other day that stated in essence that schools start too early! The study states "Delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. would help curb their lack of sleep, which has been linked with poor health, bad grades, car crashes and other problems, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a new policy".  So Pediatricians blame schools for a student's lack of sleep? Wow, really? When I was a kid my parents had what we called back then a BEDTIME, it was a set time at night that I had to be in bed. As I got older it would get later, but it was never past 10PM and it usually was about 8 hours of sleep.  Pediatricians should be blaming the lack of structure in a lot of homes for lack of sleep not an early school time.  By pushing the school time back kids get home later and have less time to do the homework that is given to them.  Hence they wind up going to bed later anyways.  Also eventually these kids will enter the workforce, what are they going to tell their jobs if the job wants them to start at 6AM? Oh I cant start that early, Im not awake until 8AM.  Schools prepare you for the future or so they use too.
  The fact that I was able to get myself up and out of bed every morning and to school on my own got me prepared for not only college but the working world. Today's kids rely too much on their parents doing everything for them, from waking them up to getting their breakfast ready etc. That's great in your early ages, but once you get to junior high and above it's time to teach some responsibility. By age 9 I got myself out of bed, poured my own cereal, had time to watch a program before school and walked myself to school and I was always on time and usually early.  That translates to now, because Im never late for anything and I always get enough sleep. My structure in my childhood got me ready for this.  Wake up Pediatricians and start teaching our kids responsibility instead of enabling them to become this entitled generation they have become.