“I have to sell weed to get money for school because I can’t get federal aid since I’m a felon. I’m trying to do right.”
– Trenton Kyles, explaining to a Dallas police officer why his home contained nearly a pound of marijuana and a Glock 22 firearm, as quoted in a police report.
Translation: he’s a victim and needs to your tax dollars to help him out.
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Every year around this time in the U.S. we honor and celebrate the Office of the President by giving government employees the day off, having a garden hose sale at Wal-Mart and slinging insults at the President of the United States. Have a nice holiday!
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Buick first affixed the Riviera name to one of their cars in 1949. But, not until 1963 did the Riviera become its own line. Retaining the powertrain and many mechanical components as the first generation – produced from 1963 to 1965 – the 1966 model has a longer and wider body than the first generation. It rested on a 119-inch wheelbase and had a length of 211.2-inches. The body style was a 2-door hardtop with rear-wheel drive; the front and rear bucket seats and center console replaced with benches, allowing room for up to 6.
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Gold today commands a staggering $1,700 an ounce, more than six times the price of a decade ago. The surge is attributable to demand by individual and institutional investors seeking a hedge against losses and also the insatiable appetite for luxury goods made from the precious metal. But, while a great deal of international attention has focused on diamond mining in Africa and its bloody consequences, gold mining in the Amazon River Basin is wreaking havoc on both the Peruvian rainforest and the people who have occupied the region for thousands of years.
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Okay, enough with the Whitney Houston crap. It’s sad she died the way she did. But, let’s give our military heroes the same attention and fly the flag at half-mast when they die.
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When your friends cannot explain why they voted for Democrats, ask them to choose from this list.
1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
4. I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
5. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
6. I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
7. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education and Social Security benefits.
8. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.
9. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
10. I voted Democrat because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.
11. I voted Democrat because, while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised “HOPE AND CHANGE.”
12. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.
On that note, God bless America!
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Survivalist Tip: Along with your collection of knives that I recommended in an earlier post, you’ll probably need a machete. These are large cleaver-like cutting tools used for slicing through thick vegetation. The ancient Mayans cleared the jungles of southern México and Central America with flint versions of machetes and built their massive city-states. Present-day Mayans just use chainsaws, tractors and sometimes goats. If you live in or near a forested area and have to flee your home for whatever reason – flooding, tick infestation, unwelcome in-laws – a machete will be useful to chop through thick under- and overgrowth. You can also use it to slice through protein-rich food sources like blueberries and grub worms. Once the chaos subsides and you’ve eliminated some unnecessary vegetation, you can then build a new settlement – complete with a blueberry garden and goat herd.
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Singer Smokey Robinson (The Miracles) is 72.
Guitarist Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) is 64.
Guitarist Francis Buchholz (Scorpions) is 58.
Actor Jeff Daniels (Ragtime, Terms of Endearment, Dumb and Dumber) is 57.
Britain’s Prince Andrew (Duke of York) is 52.
Actress Justine Bateman (Family Ties) is 46.
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1473 – Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland.
1847 – Rescuers reached surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
1856 – The tintype photographic process was patented by Professor Hamilton L. Smith of Gambier, OH.
1878 – Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (later known as the phonograph) at his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ.
1985 – William Schroeder became the first artificial-heart patient to leave the confines of the hospital (where the historic operation was performed). He spent 15 minutes outside the Humana Hospital in Louisville, KY.
1985 – The Coca-Cola Company introduced Cherry Coke in New York City.
1987 – A controversial anti-smoking ad, featuring actor Yul Brynner, aired for the first time on television. It was a public service announcement recorded shortly before his death from lung cancer in October 1985.
1997 – Deng Xiaoping, the last of China’s major Communist revolutionaries who had ruled China from 1978 until he retired in 1990, died at age 93.
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