Complaint Central

Letterman had The Killer on last night. Good to see the old man still rockin'. I have no use for the bald guy in the Late Night band. When The Killer ends the song it's over. The egotistical bald fart ran a four bar stinger after Jerry Lee had gotten up from the bench. Shaffer is a boob....he squelches every musician he can - no respect.

GeeDub announces an investigation into the cost of gasoline at the pumps today. He is not willing to cut the .54 cent fed tax on fuel at the pump though, or at least he's not made mention of it-no. The people that live off of our tax dollars are going to raise the wages for their hired help. If I hve to tell you why they'll do that then you shouldn't be here.

When I was 14 (1978) I worked in a gas station. I made $4/hour. I worked anywhere from 5 to 10 hours a week on the weekends. Good pocket money for a kid. I should have learned back then to save my money but that's another story - lest I digress. Gas prices where pretty high right at that time. If you check history you'll see we were having a big energy crunch. Some places were rationing fuel, you could only go on odd or even dates based on your plate number or your dob or some crap like that. Gas went up into the high dollars in `78. I can recall customers coming into the station (we still had mostly full service and I did all the "check your oil maam?" stuff) and cussing out the station owner (and that was dangerous because he was a REALLY big guy and had quite a right hook) saying he was price gouging and just trying to rip everyone off. There are websites that indicate what fuel prices were, one shows a price in 1978 of $1.86 and into 1981 $2.77 then in 1985 $2.07 and finally in 1986 $1.58. I'm not sure if those are acurate for my area of the country but those prices will do for conversation sake. I got my license in 2-80 and was driving to work at the gas station or a restaurant - several part time jobs at the same time. Gas was $2.76 in 1980. My truck (a gorgeous 1970 Chevy fire engine red) had two fuel 20 gallon fuel tanks. If the above numbers are accurate then it would cost me about $110 to fill up. It seems to me more like fortybucks a tank. The truck got six to eight mpg depending on how heavy my foot was. Now that I was 16 I think I talked the station owner into paying me $5/hour and I'd drive to the race track, pay my way in and work on his pit crew. Evidently this was a good deal so he took me up on it. I worked about 20 hours a week. So I was making $100 a week and it cost me $80 to fill up my truck. I usually planned it out so I didn't spend more than half my income on fuel.
Here we are in 2006 and fuel prices are approaching a $3/gal average. There are people out there working for $8-$10/hr. Suffice it to say some people and I don't mean a kid in school on his first job but I mean the income provider in a family is having to figure out how to pay for fuel to go to work.
If there's one thing I know the elected officials are supposed to do is represent their constituants to the best of their ability. I can say this - either these fuckers are disabled or the voters can pick for shit.
It's time for the folks on capital hill to do their damn job. GeeDub, I've been a supporter of yours since you started running for your first term. You've let me down old boy.

Good friends - Good Dogs - Good Beer
Thank God I am an American!!

Glad to see my donations are going to the right place. In Ohio, HB 9 has language in it designed to confuse both sides - those wishing to keep a list of holders of the Ohio CCW Permit public and those who want to see that list kept out of public record.
Someone has inserted an amendment within HB 9 that provides for the sealing of these records. I'd like to thank Someone. Thank You, Someone!
These records should not be made as the holders of these permits are not criminals. Very few records of personal action should be made public unless that person wishes his records to be on display in which case there are various outlets to publish all the documents you want. Blogs for instance, are free.
I'd like a list of all of the journalists in Ohio. Whenever someone creates an act or performs an action that interferes with the life or livelyhood of an Ohio resident and that act becomes public through the reporting of a journalist, we the residents of the state should have the right to look up that journalists home address and then make that information public.
What reason and what right does the media have to gain access to this information?? Are driver's licenses public information? No. Are fishing or hunting licenses public record? No.
So I'm glad that an amendment has been made to HB 9. If it fails that's fine too.

Reading CNN today about the Rep. McKinney and the Capitol Police. Seems there was a problem with her being identified when attempting to enter the House. Now here is a direct cut and paste from the CNN web article;

"Members of Congress are allowed to bypass metal detectors. But the officer did not recognize her, and, by her own admission, she was not wearing a pin that identified her as a congresswoman."

So the congresswoman states this is an issure of racial profiling because she is one of 14 black women amoung the 535 member Congress. She states that she should be recognized and allowed to pass because she looks like herself. What if someone was to disguise themselves to look like her? What if the Capitol Police officer allowed someone to pass that looked like her but not have this pin?

I'm just sayin' - I fail to see how this is racial profiling. This seems like a situation where someone wasn't recognized and it chapped their ego.

I've been target shooting at the same range for about 20 years. The same people run the place as they always have. Pretty much the same people keep going there every week too. I see the owners of the range at the hardware store and sometimes in the grocery store. Every time I go to the range, despite being recognized, I am still required to follow the same procedures as I was the very first time I ever went there.

I like check points and routine, and safety cautions. My wife and I went to Cancun a few years ago - it's the only time in my life I've been out of the USA. We got tagged at the check in and got stopped at every checkpoint in the airport. I mean a security guard would open our luggage, look through everything, and put it all back while another watched. Then the guard that checked everything would hand the bag to another guard next to him with someone watching him and he would go through our luggage again. This would happen three times at each of the five checkpoints we went through. It was time consuming but at least I knew I wasn't going to be any danger in that plane. I can't say that the guy behind me wasn't going to cause a problem but I was confident that I was not going to be a problem. Funny.

Even Hollywood makes movies showing characters repeatedly showing their identification within the confines of one building. If Hollywood is smart enought to know that security means security then the Reps. in Congress out to get a clue that this is the way things happen.

What shocks me the most about this story is the fact that there is actually a place that anyone can get into the House without being ran through a metal detector as well as had their bags checked.....I don't care who you are, someone came over here - lived here as a citizen amoung us and then hijacked planes and attacked us with our own equipment on our own soil. Doesn't anyone remember that???? Damn skippy someone steps foot on my property and goes against my rules he's gonna get a load a buckshot in his butt and he aint a-steppin' back here again!!!

So we went to the appliance store the other day to check out the new televisions;



And when we got the unit home we were so pleased! So proud!!



Now I can watch my heros right in my living room!




My wife asks, what about those new recording devices??




I agree these are neat but probably a fad. Why, just last week I read in the paper that you can now watch movies on a really huge screen from the comfort of your you know what;

I's standin' overe there by the tomaters, and here he
come, running through the pole beans, through the fruits and vegetables,
nekkid as a jay bird. And I hollered over t' Ethel, I said, "Don't
look, Ethel!" But it's too late, she'd already been incensed. (Ray Stevens-The Streak).
There she is - nekkid as a jay bird. The sheet metal is out to be painted. I hope to have some clothes back on her by the end of the week.