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Looks like I lost my archived posts.

I probably - well I'm sure I have them backed up. The problem is where do i have them backed up. Between 20 hard drives and a few hundred CDs they are here somewhere. I'll get them back online when I can find them.

Bed Light Cameras

Well I've been an internet slacker. It's been years since I posted on this blog or even had it setup and published under my domain.

Anyway I thought I would add some satire from a post of mine that was deleted on a local forum. There has been some heated discussion about an upcoming election on Red light cameras in College Station Texas. I thought to add some fun to the mix but I guess I went too far. I don't think I got the ban stick but the topic was deleted.

Here is a direct link to the heavily moderated forum. I fixed a few typos in the below text.
MYBCS.com


October 19 2019 (College Station TX)
Voters to decide the fate of bed light cameras.

In 2003 the Supreme Court issued a ruling on Lawrence vs Texas that invalidated anti-sodomy laws. In late 2014 that ruling was overturned by Johnson vs Flowers leading to Texas re-instituting even stiffer anti-sodomy legislation. Any sex act not intended for procreation now falls under these laws and even goes so far as to include married couples. Enforcement was almost impossible as police had to catch the person in the act then burden of proof has been a slippery problem in the courtroom.

The expansion of the Patriot Act in 2015 allowed warrant-less audio and video access to any non-government facility. This combination created an explosion of bed light camera companies formerly located in Europe to expand into the US.

Early in 2017, the City of College Station quickly worked with UK based Bed Light Camera Inc, a pioneer in the field, to install cameras in every bedroom and hotel room within the city limits. Fines from the Bed Light cameras are considered to be a civil penalty unlike criminal penalties when arrested by a police officer. Fines range from $2000 to $5000 per act and are emailed from BLCs Texas office in Dallas.

BLC is paid a flat fee for the service. The rest of the funds are split between the the city and the state of Texas.

In a recent speech at the College Station Municipal Compound Mayor John Thomas was quoted "Bed light cameras are not about revenue, they are about the safety and integrity of our community. All videos are reviewed by the entire department to ensure a violation has been committed, sometimes we review them multiple times just to be sure before we send out a fine. If you don't want a ticket then don't break the law." While BLC opposition spokesman Willie McLuvin points out the Mayor spends more time in hotel rooms in Bryan, which does not have cameras, than he does at his own residence in College Station. McLuvin says "I've been married for 15 years, the rare times my wife is in the mood for something a little different I have to scramble to get a nice hotel room in Bryan and that's no easy task." Another protester who wished to remain anonymous said "My husband and I are trying to have children and well within the law but it's almost impossible for him to finish with the flash going off all the time right in our faces"

Opposition seems to be heavier through online forums but voters are expected to keep the cameras due to the large influx of voting seniors that flocked here over the recent years due to a low frozen property tax rate.

Early voting starts today with the polls open at 7am on Tuesday October 22nd.

/satire off

Texas School Funding Problems

Well as always the schools need more money. So we are scrounging around looking for more ways to tax the public to get the money. I have a better idea. Reduce the spending in public schools. But how?

Expell and remove all of the students that don't want to learn or even be in school. If the students are in the public school system and disruptive, dealing drugs, etc throw their sorry asses out and if their parents still want them to get an education they can move to another state or pay for private school. The school districts don't keep these kids in school becuase they think they can turn them around and make a difference... they do it for the headcount to get the funding. Hmm I hate to harp on a subject but why not dump out all of the illegal alien kids while you are at it.

Think about it. You might lose teaching positions in the public schools but will gain just as many in private schools as their population will boom with little thugs. Those jobs will pay even more than public school jobs. The cost of some of you inner city schools will plummet with only 5 students left and those students can actually focus on learning instead of having constant distrations for their now absent thugs.

Yeah I know it won't work but I can dream can't I?

All these immigrant protests

Well this is a shameless plug to get people to but something. First of all if you are offended by the below image then I made part of my point, and for all of you that don't think it's ever possible......

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The Shameless plug to make money for me.

http://www.cafepress.com/newusflag


And the final simple point.

If all of these immigrants are the base of our economy and work so hard, why are they skipping work to protest (if they work at all) and why haven't I even noticed an impact from all of these missing hard workers that we can't possibly do without when they are not at work?

Getting glued to a toilet seat....

http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_094080915.html

"A Fruitland man became stuck to the seat when he used the restroom early Sunday morning. When he yelled for help, other customers called 911. Paramedics took the man to the hospital and the seat was removed. " From the above link.

Ok so we had the Home Depot glue your ass to the toilet seat and now it's happened at a Denny's in Maryland.

How the hell does this happen? About the only place you could trick me into getting my ass glued to a toilet seat is in my own house.

I hate public restrooms and especially portable toilets. (I have seen too many internet vids of people having them tipped over while they are inside I guess). Anyway I'm not a hoverer either. Hoverers suck, they just leave it where it lies even if they missed... If I have to "release the chocolate hostages" so badly that I am in physical pain I will use a public toilet at that point.

Call me anal (no pun intended) or obsessive but I go into the stall, grab a bit of toilet paper, wet it and maybe even put soap on it and clean off the seat before I sit on it. I would hope most of you would at least wipe it off before you sit down. Think of the grossest nastiest person covered in lice and smelling of roadkill as being the person sitting on the toilet just minutes before you and maybe you would do the same.

I just can't understand plopping your bare ass down on a public toilet without at least wiping the old dingleberries and piss off.

Something makes me think these people just deserved to have a toilet seat surgically removed from their asses. This may become an epidemic, so before "backing the brown Cadillac out of the garage" or "Taking the Browns to the Superbowl" wipe the damn seat off, If the toilet paper is instantly glued to the seat that might be a clue.

Props to the euphemisms for "taking a shit" from my friend Pavlo McBeenis.

Everyone is Prejudice

prej·u·dice
1 An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
2 A preconceived preference or idea.
3. Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion
4. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions.

This article stems from the recent "racial profiling" accusation by Congresswoman McKinney that she was picked out because she was black. I'm not even going to touch on the exact references in this particular case. Mainly because I really don't give a shit what happened, the story is way to trumped up and sensational for what probably went on. I'm going to use it as a trigger to make my point.

Everyone is Prejudice. Everyone. I know you are saying to yourself "well everyone but me." Guess what you are in denial, you are not exempt, are you also an alchoholic? You too are prejudice.

Everyone gets a preconcieved idea about people before they know anything about them. Be it the color of their skin, the way they are dressed, the way they carry themselves, their social status, the way they smell, their teeth or the lack thereof. Well now I have to backtrack, if you have the mental capacity of a carrot and can't perceive the world around you and the people in it then maybe, just maybe you are exempt from being prejudice. We take in people with all of our senses and mix that with our own personal experiences.

Extreme example: You are in a liquor store buying some hooch. A man runs in wearing a ski mask and holding a shotgun. You prejudge this person as being a criminal about to rob the place and possibly kill or injure you. I you do not, natural selection will eventually catch up to you and weed you out. It's entirely possible that this is a setup for a movie or a renactment you have walked upon but the likelyhood of that being the case are almost nil. You were righfully justified in prejudging this person. I know this is a very extreme example but maybe it will help you see the minor ways you do it yourself.

I try to give most people a fair shake when I first meet them because I have been pleasently surprised on occasion how a person really is once you get past your first impression. There are the very few people in my life for no reason I can put my finger on other than "intution" that I instantly loathe. Not just a simple dislike or apathy but a true shiver down the spine hatred for a person I have never met and know nothing about. This is a very rare occurance but the few times I have gone against my gut feeling I have been burned. I just go with the instinct and avoid those people from now on. I may be missing out on something but it just has not been worth it in the past. Maybe I'm subconciously prejudging them and being right, who knows.

Anyway just something for you to think over, I have no real point to make other than if you are sitting all high and mighty on your throne patting yourself on the back for being so tolerant wake up and really look around, you are making judgements about people you don't know and others are doing the same to you.

Now if you are asking yourself what can I do to change it? Don't, just know it exists and make your way through the world.

I got scammed / skimmed

I hate to admit it but I fell victim to ATM card skimming.

The local police are as expected "not able to do anything" and I got my money back so I'm not too worried. The bank I had the account at was more than helpful and I expected to at least have to pay a portion of the scam money lost but they covered everything. The local media keeps babbling on about ATM skimming devices. I think I was skimmed from a local store when I used my card as debit (entering my PIN) not from an ATM.

Looking it over this would be very easy to capture all of the card information from a swipe reader and record the PIN as well. Anyway if and when the "investigation" is finished I want this here so I can follow up and say "I told you so"

Also simple advice I did not follow myself - Don't use your bank card as a POS debit. enter it only as credit. Change your PIN on a regular basis. Or Pay CASH!!!!

N'orleans Be Goode

Sing to the music of Chuck Berry's Johnny Be Goode.

VERSE 1:
Deep down in Louisiana, right in New Orleans
Katrina tore the town down to smithereens
Everyone around you said evacuate
You said I'm stayin til it was too late
FEMA was slow in coming to their aid
Lootin was rampant with money t'be made

CHORUS 1:
Go! Go! Go, N'orleans, go! Go!
Go, N'orleans, go! Go!
Go, N'orleans, go! Go!
Go, N'orleans, go! Go! N'orleans be Good

VERSE 2:

Ev'ryone pointing at Michael Brown
And the scumbags destroyed what was left of town
Grab a plastic bucket get some Heineken
Pull a rifle out to shoot at rescue men
Put what's left into the Superdome
bus 'em to Houston now it's their home

CHORUS 2:
Go! Go! Go, H-Town, go! Go!
Go, H-Town, go! Go!
Go, H-Town, go! Go!
Go, H-Town, go! Go! H-Town be Good

VERSE 3:
Red Cross gives a card worth 10 large bills
spend all that money on some hookers and pills
The man cuts 'em off from their hotel stay
Texans tell 'em it's time to hit the highway
While ev'ry things tied up in committee
Ray Nagin says come on back to our chocolate city

CHORUS 3:
Go! Go! Go, Nagin, go! Go!
Go, Nagin, go! Go!
Go, Nagin, go! Go!
Go, Nagin, go! Go! Nagin be Good




If you didn't laugh at any of the above you need to get your head out of the clouds and develop a more cynical attitude about the world.

Cheney's hunting trip

So the VP of the US goes and pegs a hunting buddy with a bit of steel shot. Ooops. It's amazing how insane the national media has been about this. It was an accident. Shit like this happens all the time to normal people, well not exactly like this but accidents happen.

Anyway on to my point.

I hope that one of these days some obnoxious reporter pisses off the VP during a press conference and Cheney's reply is:
"Ask me another stupid question and I'll invite you on my next hunting trip."

Random sidenote:
Oh and to the rabid Vegans out there against hunting STFU and go eat a burger with extra bacon.

UPDATE 2/15
Give me a break people... this is turning into a friggin circus. I cannot believe how our typical media is pounding on this one issue for days now. What do these guys want? A media notification every time the VP takes a shit too? Yeah if I accidentally shot someone during a hunting trip my first call is going to be to the newspaper..... Any normal person would make sure the guy gets help and proper care and get in touch with his family first and honestly we all know if he had contacted the media that day he would still be hounded just as much.

I'll save the rest of my media bashing for a later post.

Going to the movies

Reading this recent article reminds me why I don't ever go to the movies anymore:

From ABC 13 KTRK in Houston:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=3897523

(2/11/06 - KTRK/WEBSTER, TX) - Things got a little ugly when two women got into a dispute over a cell phone. It happened inside a movie theater in Webster.
On Monday afternoon, a half-hour into the movie Brokeback Mountain, Pauline Clayton said she tried to quiet the woman two seats away who answered her phone and was talking on it during the show.
"She was chatting and chatting and so I go...," said Clayton, demonstrating to us how she put her finger over her lips as she tapped the woman on the shoulder.
Clayton said the woman didn't stop, so she tapped her again.
"I was trying to be polite, to remind her where she was," said Clayton.
That's when police say the woman on the phone started yelling.
"The lady on the cell phone stood up, began cursing and using obscene language and created a scene within the theater," said Sgt. Jeff Tate with the Webster Police Department.
That woman then stormed out of the theater and called police, who ended up citing both women. Clayton, who is here from Australia visiting her brother, can't believe she's accused in the United States of misdemeanor assault.
"Where I come from, which is Australia, touching someone is not considered assault," said Clayton.
If convicted, Clayton could have to pay a fine of up to $700.
"That worries me because in my money, that's $1,000," said Clayton.
The woman in this case who called police is now charged with disorderly conduct. (Copyright © 2006, KTRK-TV)


I hope Ms Clayton gets a free ride on this and the fat bitch on the phone gets the maximum penalty. If the cell phone bitch was from Texas deport her ass somewhere else, we don't need people like that here. I like to watch a movie and the normal Ohhhs Ahha and reactions to major events in the film are fine.

Reading this reminds me of one time I was on a typical date to a movie quite a few years ago. The movie had started and three teenage punks were sitting a few rows up heckling and making loud comments and they were encouraging each other to get louder and more obnixious. I heard a few people quitely comment to each other around me but noone would do anything.

I asked my date to excuse me for a moment, casually walked up to the group, leaned over and said "could you please keep it down"

The retort from one of the smart ass punks was a flippant "whatever"

I replied with (none too quietly)
"Ok let me explain this a different way, If I hear another fucking word from any of the three of you for the next two hours I will drag your asses up and down this isle and beat the ever loving shit out of you for all of the people here to see. Now do you fucking understand me?"

Response "Yes sir"

I went back and enjoyed the rest of my movie in peace, with a few thank you's and a few ackward glances from the others in the movie.

I think I'll just keep renting DVDs except for major movies I have to see on the big screen.

12th man TAMU vs Seahawks

It's simple: Who owns the trademark?

http://finance.tamu.edu/licensing/tamu_trademarks.asp

STFU you bunch of high priced coffee drinking grunge freaks.

State of the Union

I watched the State of the Union address... well I listened to it while screwing around on the computer last night with the TV on in the background.

Today all you hear about are two stupid tards that wore T-shirts and were removed from the house chambers.

Cindy Sheehan - (aka attention whore) wearing a t-shirt depicting the number of soldiers killed in Iraq so far.

Beverly Young (Some congressman's wife) wearing a t-shirt that said support our troops.

I'm not even going to bother touching on the topics of the t-shirts here. My question is this:

You are invited to THE State of the Union Address to hear, in person, THE President of the United States speak in an event that in years past had people hovering around radios or glued to a TV set in more recent decades. ..... Truly an honor to be present at such an event, I'm sure the guest list is rather exclusive.....

AND THE BEST THING YOU CAN FIND TO WEAR IS A FUCKING T-SHIRT?

Both of you bitches are sorry white trash if you can't be bothered to get in your best clothes and insead show up in a fucking t-shirt. Give me a fucking break, neither of you should have even had the right to be there and should be banned from any future events like this until you can decide to dress the part. Even the poorest people out there can swing by a Goodwill and pick up a decent button down shirt. Hell I bet someone you know would even let you borrow something nice to wear if you didn't have anything.

Ok through ranting, Cupid Stunts.

Brokeback Mountain

I keep hearing about this movie... which I have yet to see but I do have a problem with people's choice of words when describing the movie.

Once common phrase I hear is it is a "gay cowboy movie".

Read the below description of the story and pay close attention to the two words that are in bold:

"Ennis and Jack meet in 1963 when they each show up looking for a summer's work herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming, on land owned by no-nonsense rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid). In order to keep his herd safe, Aguirre is happy to break regulations by requiring one of his men to roam high in the mountains, sleeping rough with no fire, while the other maintains a base camp with a one-man tent throughout the summer and into the fall."

Being from Texas a "Cowboy" and a "Sheep Hearder" are two very different things so quit saying "two gay cowboys" and say "two sheep hearders that ride the hershey highway."

I mean what do you expect from two men hanging around alone with a bunch of sheep.... Ok I'm not going to continue this line of thought.....