Category: Rants

The Same Guy Invented Leaded Gasoline AND CFC’s… Ain’t Karma Something?

In 1921, after a long string of inadequate solutions, a clever but chronically catastrophic chemist named Thomas Midgley developed a fuel additive which eliminated ping problems while increasing fuel efficiency. Though the chemical agent eventually gained worldwide acceptance, it left a rash of psychosis, a trail of bodies, an epidemic of crime, and an irreparably […]

Thursday December 20th, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Essays, Information, Rants | 1 Comment »

Even In Worship… Selfishness Can Lead To Ugliness…

  Black-Nosed Buddha A nun who was searching for enlightenment made a statue of Buddha and covered it with gold leaf. Wherever she went she carried this golden Buddha with her. Years passed and, still carrying her Buddha, the nun came to live in a small temple in a country where there were many Buddhas, […]

Wednesday December 19th, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Essays, Information, Rants, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Real Courtroom Testimonies… And We Pay For These Lawyers-

These are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: […]

Wednesday December 19th, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Information, Insults, Jokes, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

OK… This One’s Not Very PC… But I Gotta Admit I Got A Chuckle Or Two Out Of It…

 New study says Hispanics and Asians are acting white Complete with highlighted notes. Courtesy of 236.com 

Sunday December 16th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

16 Things You Shouldn’t Fear (And 16 Things You Should)

By: Pamela Redmond Satran Via: HuffingtonPost What You Shouldn’t Fear:     1. Ditching a secure cubicle for lower pay and an uncertain future in the job where your heart truly lies. 2. Changing your hair, your church, or your opinion. 3. Sweating, outside the bedroom. 4. Traveling to a place where your cell phone […]

Friday December 14th, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Essays, Information, Rants | No Comments »

Woman Gang Raped By Halliburton/KBR Co-Workers In Iraq… No Charges Filed… Does The VP Know About The Cover Up?

Jamie Leigh Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming “20/20″ investigation, said an examination by Army doctors after the incident showed she had been raped “both vaginally and anally,” but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers. A Houston, Texas woman says […]

Thursday December 13th, 2007 in Information, Rants, Uncategorized | No Comments »

ATM Theft Devices…

This is a portable reader that thieves put over the slot on a real ATM machine… It reads your card on the way into the real slot. It was developed and tested in Russia… Look for it at an ATM near you soon. This is a little camera placed in a brochure holder that is […]

Tuesday December 11th, 2007 in Cool Stuff, Essays, Information, Rants, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Beer Seen as More Dangerous than Liquor, Wine says one study:

I agree with this statement and can categorically state that some of my most boneheaded endeavors have been beer fueled…. I have come closer to being killed when intoxicated by beer than at any other time… My hard liquor fueled shenanigans have tended to end in puking and misery… Whereas my beer fueled foolishness has […]

Thursday December 6th, 2007 in Essays, Information, Rants | No Comments »

Buddhist Monks With Guns & Women… Shocking!!!

I showed these pictures to my wife who is a lifelong Buddhist… The shock and revulsion on her face said it all. Picture your parish priest or your local pastor or your imam or your rabbi or whatever you call your local religious ecclesiastic doing the same. Well… Maybe your pastor or rabbi might get […]

I’m Too Stupid To Let Live… And I Breed Too!

Idiots like this guy seriously smoke my hams… I wish him all the worst that life can dish up… I truly wish that the school bus on his chest was a real one instead of a shirt.

Thursday November 29th, 2007 in Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Pakistani Nukes On The Loose… But We’ll Bomb The Snot Out Of Iran Anyway.

Oh yeah… Let’s set the mideast on fire by going after Iran who as of this year… have zero… none… zilch nukes. While we allow our “ally” to steal his government and hang on by the skin of his teeth while his country shelters Osama and Friends. And Pakistan with a proven nuke capability plus […]

Wednesday November 14th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Health Insurer Tied Bonuses To Dropping Sick Policyholders

So you’re in the middle of chemotherapy and your insurer says …”Nope… No more for you.” And they give you some chintzy excuse… Some technicality… And then you find out that it was all tied to your adjuster getting a year end bonus! I’m sure your mom’s real proud of you, Ms Adjuster! She helped […]

Tuesday November 13th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Obama And Cheney Related… WTF?!?

Yeech! OK… So Barack Obama is a blood relative of Dick Cheney. There… I’ve written it. And I didn’t puke onto my keyboard. Although I did have to throw a way a perfectly good McGriddle sandwich when I first contemplated commenting on it… When I first heard this… I thought… Those GOP’ers have gone one […]

Tuesday October 23rd, 2007 in Essays, Rants | No Comments »

We Just Might Survive Being Subjugated By China After All.

Some people might call me a waffle-er… And I still feel that we are at very high risk of falling under the thumb of certain nations because we’ve traded away our industrial capacity… But this sure deserves a look see. I’m watching PBS about fast food taking over the world and the resultant explosion in […]

Monday October 22nd, 2007 in Information, Rants | No Comments »

The End Of The American Era… Or… Why Chinese Needs To Be Mandatory In All Of Our Schools.

I’ve been watching Ken Burn’s “War” series on PBS for a couple of weeks and a thought struck me like a thunderbolt. We (the allies) won the Second World War largely due to this one unmistakable fact… We out manufactured our opponents. America used its enormous capacity to manufacture pleasure goods and necessities and all […]

Monday October 22nd, 2007 in Essays, Rants | 1 Comment »

The Grumpy Old Bitches Offer A Take On Grown Kids At Home…

Why Women Eat Their Young: There are five hung over people in my basement. One is son. Two are son’s friends. Two are son’s friends’ girlfriends. It’s okay to be hung over in my basement. It is not okay to wake me up in the wee hours while you are striving for the hangover. It […]

Sunday October 21st, 2007 in Information, Rants, Uncategorized | No Comments »

All Hail Mona “The Hammer” Shaw For Striking A Blow To The Villanous BBB’s!! (Big Business Bastards)

Taking a Whack Against Comcast Mona Shaw Reached Her Breaking Point, Then for Her Hammer By Neely Tucker Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 18, 2007; C01 “What the hell, I’m 75,” said Bristow resident Mona Shaw about heading into the Comcast office in Manassas with a hammer and using it on a telephone and […]

Thursday October 18th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Let’s See Uncle Annie Get Out Of This One!

Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need ‘Perfecting’ Appearing on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren’t any Jewish people and that they had “perfected” themselves into — Christians. It led Deutsch to suggest that surely he […]

Friday October 12th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Remember me saying that there are some obituaries that I look forward to reading?… Here’s One…

Prosecutor jailed on child sex charges commits suicide J.D. Roy Atchison, the federal prosecutor from Florida who was jailed two weeks ago after allegedly flying to Detroit to have sex with a child, committed suicide, authorities said today. He hanged himself this morning at the federal prison in Milan, where he was taken after trying […]

Saturday October 6th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Because of This… Food Is More Expensive… And Now They Don’t Want To Use The Stuff. The Oilmen That Run Our Government Are Very, Very Smart.

Now There’s An Ethanol Glut?! I Thought We Couldn’t Make Enough?! Wasn’t the main argument against ethanol “we can’t make enough to replace gas”? So if that is true, how can we have a glut of the stuff? In 2006 when ethanol was selling on the spot market for $4 a gallon, it was too […]

Friday October 5th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »

Oh Mama!… $400K Sweetheart Contract? What About The $50 Billion to Halliburton In Iraq?

The FBI is examining the ties between Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson’s department as a construction manager in New Orleans, three federal law enforcement officials said Thursday. Jackson’s friend got the job after the HUD secretary asked a staff member to pass along his name to the […]

Friday October 5th, 2007 in Information, Rants | No Comments »

248 Ways To Annoy People

1. Specify that your drive-thru order is “to go.” 2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others. 3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will “swipe your grub.” 4.Name your dog “Dog.” 5. Insist […]

Thursday October 4th, 2007 in Information, Insults, Jokes, Just Plain Silly, Rants | No Comments »