As if 13 year olds acting like 13 year olds ain't annoying enough.....

She walked into the Chevron like she was walking onto a yacht..... (if you recognize those lyrics, you're old. like me.)

Bleached blonde hair. Tight care-bear shirt and a short Levi cutoff skirt. Just enough extra weight on her 20-something frame to make this outfit you usually see on a 7th grade girl look kind of like a poorly stuffed sausage. She walks in talking on her cell phone, loudly, with a sing-song voice that brought me right back to my Jr. High teaching days (well, it was only a year ago). Even at the counter we can hear her talking at the back of the store. Things like whatever!, omg, bff, inbd and other girly texting phrases. She goes through the entire checking-out process talking on her phone like this and as she walks out the door the guy I'm helping turns to me, holding back a laugh, and asks "What the hell was that?" An overweight 13-year-old that's old enough to buy beer. Thats what.

So, please keep in mind that when you are talking on your cell phone in public - it's not all that private, and many of us really don't want to hear it. And what we do want to hear, we just want to make fun of......

Just when you'd decided the human race sucks......

First of all - Happy Cinco De Mayo...

Danny calls me the other day and asks if I'd be willing to help him demolish his mother-in-law's bathroom if she paid us. The first thing out of my mouth was "pay us? what for?" We settled on lunch and the fun of demolishing a bathroom. So today Danny, Alex and I ripped out the whole bathroom and cleaned up (that's why she had to make us dinner, if we hadn't had to clean up we woulda had to pay her.)

So Danny, Josh and I head out to the dump and while we're cleaning the trash out of the trailer, one of the pieces of the toilet (somehow it got broken going into the trailer, can't imagine how that happened), with a nice jagged end decides to slice the hell out of my thumb. Nice and deep, blood all over the place. I'm jumping around holding my thumb, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding and the lady next to us runs over to her Suburban, gets out her first aid kit and calls me over. Cleans it, and wraps it all up. It stops bleeding, as long as I'm holding it tightly, so Danny and I decide he should finish cleaning out the trailer and then we'd head out to the Insta-Care right by my house and get it stitched up. So, I'm there holding my thumb above my head and Danny is busting butt to get the trailer cleaned out when the husband from next to us comes over and helps Danny finish with the trailer. The wife then comes over and checks the thumb again and even helps me get myself buckled into my seat while danny packs up the tarp and gets us ready to go. Just when I was developing a serious distaste for the entire human race.........

Josh was cute at the Insta-Care. You could tell that he was really interested in what was going on, and at the same time, kinda scared of the whole thing. He'd ask his dad to bring him over and let him sdee, look for 5 seconds and then want to go sit back down, did that 5 or 6 times. Wanna see, dont' wanna see. So, dozen and a half stiches later and we're out of there. Thumb's still numb, just waiting until it's all thawed out and I can feel the pain......

Don't pump gas on May 15th?

Got this in an e-mail (twice) today :
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NO GAS...On May 15th 2007

Don't pump gas on may 15th ; In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.On May 15th 2007, all internet users are asked not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places. There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take $2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companys pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldnt) resend this to all your contact list. With it saying, ''Don't pump gas on May 15th"

On the surface, this looks like a great idea. But I thought about it and came to the realization that it is the typical American response. Choking on the crap in the air all winter is irrelevant. Global warming is too. And who gives a crap about the political problems caused by dependance on foreign oil. Nope, but we get really pissed off when gas gets up past $3 a gallon (Europe has been paying over $6 a gallon for years). And then, are we going to do something real about it? Are we going to give up our big-block V8 SUV's? Are we going to transfer our work closer to home so we have a shorter commute (or move closer to our jobs)? Car pool? Take the bus? Hell no, but we will put off filling up the car - for 1 day! That'll show them. Question : of the $3 BILLION dollars we take out of the oil companies pockets, how much will we really be giving them the day before in anticipation of this protest? How much will simply be postponed until the 16th? Doing it in '97 was obviously only temporary, what do we really expect to accomplish?

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Here's a better idea - on the 15th of May flip off anyone driving a big SUV, Crown Vic, Corvette or any other gas-sucking hog, with no one else in the vehicle with them.

Restoring our Constitutional rights.........

White Lioness :

Haven't heard that one in a while, have you? I decided, this being a blog, that I'd go with the old Motel West alias.

Anyway, I signed the petition to reinstate Habeas Corpus and due process, and ask that anyone else that agrees follow the link and sign the petition.

Here is the text of the petition, I took it straight off the ACLU web site - they asked that those who sign spread the word, so I'm assuming that includes the exact wording.....

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RESTORE OUR RIGHTS
Delivery date: June 26, 2007

To My Members of Congress:

The Constitution and due process are in danger in America, as the Bush administration continues to run roughshod over our most fundamental constitutional rights.

We can no longer stand on the sidelines while the president extinguishes the light of American values, our civil liberties, and respect for law.

The America we know is disappearing, and the time to reverse this trend is now. I urge you to act immediately to:

1. Restore habeas corpus and due process.
2. Pass the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007.
3. End torture and abuse in secret prisons.
4. Stop extraordinary rendition: secretly kidnapping people and sending them to countries that torture.
5. Close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay and give those held there access to justice.
6. Investigate wrongdoing and ensure those who broke the law are held accountable.
7. Restore American values and the rule of law.

Our commitment to freedom and fairness has made America the great country that it is today.

That is why we’ve come together to demand that you act immediately to preserve the hard-won rights that define us as a nation.

I stand with the ACLU and my fellow Americans, in person or in spirit, as we gather in Washington to restore our America this June 26, 2007.

Sincerely,
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Here's the link to : Sign the petition to restore Habeas.

If you don't agree with it, that's your right, but it reminds me of this quote :

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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Adding & Reading new comments.

Got a couple good responses to some of my posts, you might want to check them out. If you look at the bottom of each post there is a line that reads :
"Posted by Max at 00:00:00 PM 2 comments"
If there are more than 0 comments, just click on the title of the post to read all the comments.
If you want to add a comment to the post, just click on where it says "x comments" and it'll bring up a page to type in your comments and send them to me to add to the post. This is a real easy way for you and me to add your 2 cents worth to the site. (Go ahead and try it, you know you want to!)
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Ok, good comments to read : check the following posts :
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Jackasses, cellphones and sqheeged shorts
Seniors at the Prom
Ducks in the road......
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Oh and I got accepted to the Masters program at the "U", I'll be taking "Foundations of Instructional Design" and "Foundations of Learning" starting in the fall (unless I really bomb the GRE I'm taking on the 4th of June.)