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Obama Care – End of Life Counciling Uniform

What is funny… is this Bull is doing a double flip.

This Bull — is definitly the “Freak O’ the Week” He is getting ready of the Olypic Bull Fighting match, and this poor Matador is going to take a hoof to the scull at the end of the flip.

The letter K

The eleventh letter of our alphabet, K is a very powerful letter. Never silent and the beginning of some very powerful words, ex. Kill, Kiss, KKK. This letter can generate a range of emotions from love to hate and all those in between. As I sit here in my MBA class (unfortunately no K there) I hear my teacher using the letter K as her way of pause and seperation between thoughts. Some of us use the breaks like umm, well or uhh but not this teacher. “K” – is here phrase of choice, to the tune of 1,260 times in a 4 hour class, thats an average of 30 k’s per 5 minutes (we have a 30 minute break that needs to be factored into that calc.).

Just like the add for Kay Jewelers “every Kiss begins with K” I believe over the next 12 weeks (lenght of our class) I will be thinking every pause begins with K!!

K aye, I am in need of a beer! K

See you next time K!

Shows Ice Is Back – Is a Mini Ice Age Next

Most of us normal people don’t believe Al Gore and the dooms-day theories, so it is nice when you find support for the normal peoples point of view. It is cold, and I think it is getting colder. We have had more rain and cold weather than ever here in Sunny California.

No one would debate, the world goes through cycles, hot then cold, cold then hot, so here are some interesting thoughts.

• The sun is a million times bigger than us, don’t you think that our rotation closer and farther from the sun would change our little planets temperature?
• Did you know that new global weather stations are not using the classic thermometer? They have new technology, so the “old” numbers are no longer the same as the “new” numbers, so the “control” of data has been flawed.
• During the Russian hardships and turn to a sudo-democracy, they stopped maintaining their weather stations that were used in the global calculations? So lets just take dozens, if not hundreds of weather stations in the cold northern tundra out of the temperature calculations and see if the planet is now hotter.

This just in for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

“Are the world’s ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?

Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.” – Newsmax.com

2008 Angels Spring Training

Now that football is over we look forward to the gear up for baseball. The second best sport in America. Since I reside in sunny southern california and since I detest the Dodgers I am a committed Angels fan. I am not a bandwagoner either, I have been going to Angel games since I was 3! My father took me and my brothers to many games, and I was there in 1979 when the Angels won their first penant, and according to my father, I even touched the dirt because the stampede of people rushing the field knocked me and my brothers onto the field.

Now its 2008 and I look forward to the new season and my annual trip to Arizona for Angels spring training. This will be my 4th trip in 5 years (missed one due to my first child’s birth) and usually a group of 8 to 10 of us go. Its a wildly fun time of boys being boys and taking in two spring training games. If you have never been I highly recommend a trip.

This year holds so much promise, with the offseason acquisitions of Garland and Hunter the Angels look like a lock for another AL West Championship. Hunter provideds another great bat with great speed on the bags and in the outfield. While he is no Alex Rodriguez or Miguel Cabrera he will add plenty of support to the existing lineup. Not to mention the Angels having one of the best outfields in the majors.

So join me if you can for Beer, dogs, fine weather and women in Arizona as we kick off, umm i mean, tee off, no what is it that we say for baseball to get the season started…….oh yeah as we play ball!!

Man verses Man

 I will not take credit, this was some random email I recieved…… but it is true.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters / gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the  summer and  would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.  The two most important events in all of history were:

1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were  the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain, and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.  That’s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these Liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.  Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the  invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.

Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.  Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white  wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are Liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still  provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers,  game wardens, constitutional law lawyers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively.

Conservatives who own companies hire other Conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when Conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today’s lesson in world history . . . . .  It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.  A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off….

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Inland Empire Pool Guard

I’d like to congratulate my brother Ben, for successfully starting his own company; Inland Empire Pool Guard. It’s, of course, located in the Inland Empire, and it specializes in installing removable pool fences around pools. With all the laws these days concerning drowning, its actually almost a requirement to install a pool fence around your pool, with removable pool fences, you save a lot of money being that they are made of mesh rather than rod iron. also they can be removed, hence the wording “removable pool fences”, so if you have a party or whatever, you wont have a fence getting in your way. Anyway, I’m not a salesmen so if you need a pool fence, check out his website: InlandEmpirePoolFence.com

Thanksgiving

I like the real story of Thanksgiving… as told by the right.

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.

“But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness,” destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. “There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford’s own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.

“When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.” Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. “Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. “Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.

“All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the ’60s and ’70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.

“That’s right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn’t work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild’s history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
“‘The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years…that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,’ Bradford wrote. ‘For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense…that was thought injustice.’ Why should you work for other people when you can’t work for yourself? What’s the point?

“Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford’s community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? ‘This had very good success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.’ Bradford doesn’t sound like much of a…” I wrote “Clintonite” then. He doesn’t sound much like a liberal Democrat, “does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.

“Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph’s suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the ’seven years of plenty’ and the ‘Earth brought forth in heaps.’ (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves…. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the ‘Great Puritan Migration.’” Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today — and if it isn’t, why not? —  Rush Limbaugh