"Nervous Charlie's: Beer, Gas, Fireworks" Ah, I always love stopping here. Why post this picture? Because I was looking through them, that is why. Hey, it's my freakin blog. At least it isn't full of pics of my kids! 

This was in the parking lot of a gas station out in the middle of nowhere on one of our trips to Ohio. 

Now that is marketing. I always laugh when I see this sign. 

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.


Al that for this link?! Oh well.

Question

Do you ever get one of those itchy ticklish feelings somewhere in between the inside of your throat and your inner earn and messing with either one doesn't help?

Yeah, me neither.

Why don't I watch American Idol?

Because I want to SLAP Ryan Seacrest every time he says (IN ALL SERIOUSNESS NO LESS) "Seacrest out."

Then again, my DVR always records the last part of American Idol (where he says his stupid catch phrase) when it records "House". So I don't watch American Idol, and I still get to hear him say it if I don't jump past it in time! THERE IS NO JUSTICE!!!

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I am just in one of those moods today.

Did you ever notice...

Did you ever notice the people who are most likely to wave a flag and and go on and on about how great this country is because of all of the freedoms people have are the same ones who say you should be shot for saying something they don't like?

Bubba: "Hey boy, why ain't you standin’ up for the Pledge?"

Guy: "I am exercising my first amendment right by passively protesting the use of the word God in the official pledge of the United States as a violation of the separation of church and state."

Bubba: " Boy, that ain't 'Merican of you. People like you should be drug out in the street and shot. This is the greatest country on Earth. You're disrespectin' all those people that fought so that you can have all these rights that make this country the best."

Ah freedom of speech is a great thing. As long as you only say what we want you to that is. Now THAT is freedom!

Can we get much more stupid?

By now I am sure most everyone is aware that there is a debate in Kansas over putting creationism in the classroom. Good god, what is next? Are we going to have to start teaching our kids that we are an alien experiment next? Come on, people believe that too.

Just because there are people in this world that believe something does not mean that we have to teach it in the classroom. Next thing you know the Flat Earth Society is going to be pushing that their views be taught in the classroom. My question is, what class do you teach creationism in? Certainly not science class, as creationism does not fall under the category of science. After all, we don't teach philosophy in calculus classes.

So why are they doing this? I think William Harris from the Intelligent Design group that started all this crap summed it up well.

"They are offering an answer that may be in conflict with religious views," Harris said in opening the debate. "Part of our overall goal is to remove the bias against religion that is currently in schools. This is a scientific controversy that has powerful religious implications."

His answer was not that evolution is wrong, or that it was bad science. His argument is that it does not agree with his religion. Of course he apparently doesn'tcare one way or another if the views he is trying to put in the classroom conflict with anyone else's beliefs. What matters is that something in our schools is not jiving with Christianity. What a great way to run our country. Post on government buildings that you must only worship the Christian God, and sweep science under the rug and start teaching mythology in the science class.

Makes perfect sense to me. Well... it would if I had been lobotomized some time in my life.