YES! YOU COULD BE THAT LUCKY LADY

HOW DO I GET THAT JOB?

I have no love for the American Automakers and this whole debacle, don't get me wrong. I hate the companies and I hate the unions. I think they're way of doing business is antiquated and deserved no help. I applaud Mr. Obama for telling them to stick it.. they have both worked really hard together to drive the industry into the ground.

 

And for that, they've done a fine job.

 

A major catastrofuck requires major concessions and major restructuring. What you are doing, doesn't work. Look around. The death of this bullshit business and perks as usual approach is past due.

A very good friend of mine (and her husband) were laid off from the GM plant in Ontario, Ohio along with a shit ton of other people including a large number people I went to high school with. Mansfield, Ohio is struggling, the once bustling commercial district on Lexington-Springmill is nearly a ghost town. A lot of people depended on that plant and a lot of people in that area in and outside of the auto industry are jobless. Granted the auto union people were laid off with generous compensation packages (much better than the rest of us smucks will ever get) but, there's really no other jobs or opportunities in that area.

 

Most of these people are hard-working blue collar people who thought the union would always protect them like they'd protected their parents and on back from there. This day and age is a very is a different world than it used to be.

 

In spite of the compensation packages that the laid off auto works got or didn't get, I share their outrage with this headline today:

 

GM CEO gets $23 million estimated pension

 

What complete bullshit. This motherfucker helps (yes, he was not alone) drive a major corporation into the ground and he gets rewarded with $23 million for doing it.

 

I need that job. I tell you what, I'd even be willing to do it for half the cost....

 

DEATH TO THE BLUE LAWS!

Bill would OK Sunday sales: Liquor legislation might spell the end of North Carolina's blue laws

Right on. NC blue laws should have died long before I was born.

Creech, executive director of the evangelical Christian Action League. "That's not just an assumption, that's science. With increased consumption you have an increase in alcohol-related problems in the culture."

Note: Reverend is stating what is science. Shut up. If it's science where's your data?

 

You can drink on Sundays (after noon anyway) at a bar, so how's this going to increase consumption? All this is going to do is allow people to make less trips and have greater options. It's your basic human right to be able to drink whatever you fucking want over the age of 21 no matter what the calender date, season, phase of the moon, or location within the US.

 

Europe doesn't have blue laws, good god they must think we are so backwards here and trapped in our own Puritan past... oh.. Yeah, there are right. We are.

 

"People drink on Sundays, too," said Cheryl Caudle, a 58-year-old hotel worker buying a fifth of vodka at the Midtown ABC store in Charlotte on Tuesday. "We're not all Southern Baptists."

 

Exactly.

 

And you know what? Even the Southern Baptists should have the right to roll out and grab a 5th of Jack on Sunday.

 

Isn't that what freedom of religion is? I don't get persecuted because of your beliefs?

BLAGOJEVICH + OPEN MIC

= SUPER ENTERTAINING

 

I am so excited! My favorite nut-job is back!

 

Blagojevich Gets New Gig As WLS (Chicago) Radio Host

 

Well, it's only a temp gig anyway. He'll be on tomorrow (Wed) morning 7am - 9am (Central) "taking calls from listeners, telling stories and talking with guests".

 

I can hardly wait! All this guy needs is a mic and the complete random bullshit begins to flow! I think he's a piece of shit no doubt, I absolutely believe that he tried to sell Obama's seat, but I also find him hilariously entertaining. And he just can't help himself...

 

I imagine he won't be nearly as entertaining in jail, so I am going to have to enjoy it now. You can get on line and listen to WLS AM live on their website. I'm so there.

RIGHT ON

Judge Orders FDA to Reconsider Limits on Morning-After Pill for Minors

"The message is clear: The FDA has to put science first and leave politics at the door. We are encouraged that the FDA under new leadership, when they look at the evidence, will remove the unique barriers that have been in place and it will finally be available to all women without any barriers."

I couldn't agree more. It's about time we start to disengage politics and religion from science.

MISS THIS MORNING SUNRISE

Here's a video of the sun rises of the Atlantic Ocean this morning (March 22, 2009):

Sunrise

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Ferrying back to Hatteras Island

Beach at Ocracoke

Ocracoke Lighthouse

Bodie Island Lighthouse

EVENING VIEW OF KITTY HAWK BEACH

CURRITUCK LIGHT STATION

EVENING FOG ROLLING IN

A FEW DAYS OFF WORK AND AWAY

There's something that a couple of days off work and away can do that weekends away, no matter how many of them, just can't.

We got here yesterday afternoon with the a very loose plan. Actually, I don't think it even qualifies for a plan as much as a brief set of recommendations or guidelines.

We'll probably stay til Sunday (I do actually have to go back to work Monday) and we are going to find booze and eat a lot of seafood with a heavy emphasis on the buffalo shrimp.

So far so good.

Dinner last night at the OBX Brewing Station and crashed early. This morning, after a late start rolled out for breakfast and my requisite stop at the local Kmart. Decided to head up to Duck on a whim and from there we ended up in Currituck.

We wondered around the Wildlife Education Center, sadly no Bear or Otter Literacy courses were in session.. and then over the to Currituck Light Station.

We ran out of road going north a Currituck so we headed back towards Kitty Hawk and found a bar & grill sitting on the sound for lunch.. seafood, booze, and a spectacular view..

Now, we are back in Kitty Hawk. I am sitting on the couch and watching the waves crashing into the beach. I have no idea what I am doing next.

Maybe nothing.. maybe nothing until I get hungry enough I have to move. Maybe not even then.. who knows.

Life is good.

Lunching On The Sound Side

BEACH-BOUND

Katie's here and we are unsupervised (husband left this morning for a golf and booze soaked trip to Tampa with the guys from Akron) so we are beach-bound today.

No plan other than to head towards the beach house for the remainder of the week and if the weather monkeys are actually right, it should be fairly nice out there. I just want to be out there when it's not rainy and windy for a change.

The house is stocked with booze and munchies. You can't swing a dead cat and not hit a bar with fresh seafood. I am sure we'll have no problem at all entertaining ourselves.

YAY!

ON SHAME

Senator On AIG Execs: Quit Or Commit Suicide

I am sure a lot of people think this statement was crass and completely out of line, but I gotta say- I agree with this.

 

What is missing between Americans and the Japanese, particularly in this case, is a fucking sense of shame.

 

People aren't ashamed of anything. Not of being ignorant, or lazy, or under-educated (sheerly because they refused to accept the basic education that is offered to every American).. being thieves, crooks, liars, manipulators, felons, or anything else.

 

We aren't ashamed when we screw up something big and we aren't held to any sort of basis standards professionally or personally in this society.

 

And now, we are outraged.. at actions.

 

But the real issue here is a critical infrastructure problem and not only do we not know how to fix it, we don't actually care.

 

THANK YOU, VATICAN

Every single time a statement is published from the Vatican or from the Pope himself, it reaffirms how out of touch and ignorant they are.

 

Today's statement:

 

"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

 

Condom's increase the prevalence of AIDS?

 

I wonder if Benedict even knows what a condom and how it works or what exactly AIDS is.

My happy yellow beach house chairs are here! YAY!!

OUTRAGE

This is absolutely out-fucking-rageous! The people who are getting unemployment benefits, who opt for the debit card option over the check option are being fucked by the damn banks!

Fees range from 35 cents to $3 per transaction. Forty cents for a balance inquiry. Fifty cents to have your card denied. Thirty-five cents to have your account accessed by telephone. $3 if it is used at an out of network ATM.

The best part, is that they don't tell people upfront about these fees. They don't find out until after the select the option and the card comes in the mail.

The biggest outrage here? These are fucking banks that are getting TARP & Bailout funds! Bullshit!

The U.S. Department of Labor provided what it called "talking
points" to CNN when asked for comment on the fee structure.

"States can do a better job negotiating fees with banks," the department said. "Many states have obtained terms far more favorable to claimants than those described in media reports."

In addition, according to the talking points, the Labor Department
said it was aware states are offering unemployment debit cards for good reasons:

• It is less expensive for claimants without bank accounts because they don't need to pay check cashing fees.
• Claimants can use the card free at merchants and therefore don't need to carry excess cash.
• Generally, these cards are safer and more secure than checks.

Seriously?

This sounds like some bullshit an intern came up with. Hey, Department of Labor, Fuck you.

REALLY? GOOD GOD, WHY?

Occasionally, when I surf the Internet I run across really disturbing things..

 

Things that make me physically shutter and wonder how long it's going to take to shake these overwheming sense of confusion and horror.

 

Today, was one of those days.

 

http://www.snuggiepubcrawls.com/

OK TO $17B, NOT THAT EXTRA $555M

Texas Gov. Rejects Stimulus Money For Unemployment

Okay, fine. Arnold said California will take it. Send it to them.

been thinking a lot about

been thinking a lot about personal improvement plans and I think that first off I need to spend more time drinking

FORMAL NOTIFICATION

It's 77 degrees right now and I am sitting on my screened in porch watching my big cat maximize his surface area for solar powering.. oh yeah, an drinking Guinness.

It's a beautiful thing.

I spend a couple hours this morning reclaiming my porch from the winter and the dogs.

It was quite the chore.. months of dust, dirt, leaves, fur, bugs, etc.

I drug everything off the porch hosed it down from the ceiling to the floor and scrubbed everything. Same with the furniture- top to bottom and underneath-

The poor plants were covered too- even they got a bath. It looks good. The cushions are back out and now it's inviting.

I am taking this porch back.

Dogs, Winter, bugs, whatever.... Consider yourselves notified.

It's spring and this is now my porch.

HALLELUJA!

Hello old friend, I've missed you.

Fat Tire now distributed in NC!

Crabs To Go!