Candy For Idiots

You know what sucks about taking a vacation? Well, I’ll tell you… All the work that accumulates while you’re gone has to be done when you get back! I don’t know that I have ever been so busy at my job as I am this week. It’s driving me bananas! I think it’s impacting my personal life on a certain level, too. I need to be careful about that.

Well, I’d like to officially and timidly announce here that I am throwing my support behind John McCain. He’s not even close to being my first choice for the position, but of all the “lesser of two evils” choices I’ve had to make, this one takes the cake. Even though my feelings border on utter contempt for John McCain, I can’t and won’t stay home this November and let a socialist become my President. I have to do my part.

Anyway, Neely and I had a great wedding and a great honeymoon but it’s been nice getting back to the regular swing of things. I’ve got to tell you though, I’m ready for another vacation. I think we are planning on heading back down to Florida sometime late in the summer. Hopefully we’ll do something like rent a house and have a bunch of people go with us (sharing the cost, of course). That would just be totally awesome.

That’s all I really have to say. I just wanted to throw a quick update out there. Make war, not love. Peace.

What a year! The past year of my life has simply been the best year of my life. My career is on the right track. I met the love of my life. Everything is just perfect!

Tomorrow, the wedding party is heading to our wedding destination for the rehearsal. I’m looking forward to it, and to the rehearsal dinner afterwards. We’re having Whitt’s! After that, I don’t know what we’re doing, but I’m sure we’ll party at the hotel. I’m staying with Brett & Olivia tomorrow night so we’ll have some fun, I’m sure.

Then the day I’ve been dreaming about. Saturday I am going to marry the love of my life. I’m really excited, but I think the day as a whole is probably going to creep by, just because the wedding is so late in the day and I’ve been looking forward to it for so long. We both have a lot of people who are traveling a long way to come to our wedding, and that is just so awesome. I feel honored that some people are coming from such distances to celebrate with us. My boss is coming, and my bosses boss is coming.

Sunday, we’ll get up, probably head back to the house from the hotel and load the car down. We’re also going to meet up with Brett since he’s watching Jack for us while we’re in Florida. Then we’ll hit the road and make the trek to the Sunshine State for a week of fun in the sun!

I wanted to take the motorcycle with us, but the condo complex we’re staying doesn’t allow for on-site trailer storage, which sucks. It’s probably for the best though, since there will be so many high school kids down in Florida while we’re down there.

Keep on trucking people, and have a sarcastic day.

1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon “unclean.”

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can’t think of anyone you HAVEN’T declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You’ve ever uttered the phrase, “I love what you’ve done with your cave.”

10. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.

11. You bathe at least monthly whether necessary or not.

12. You’ve ever had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.

No longer should global warming be able to be discussed, in my opinion. All the graphs and models that Al Gore spouted as fact have been debunked. Furthermore, I’m going to copy this article in its entirety so you can read just how absolutely moronic the idea of Global Warming really is.

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.
Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

Do you need any other evidence? Any at all?

Listen, I know that everyone has their own beliefs. Some people believe in God, some people don’t. Some people believe in ghosts, some people don’t. Some people believe in aliens, some people don’t. And so on, and so forth. I don’t care what anyone believes in. Their beliefs and feelings are theirs, not mine and there’s nothing I can do to change them, even though I might feel like the world would be a beautiful place if everyone was like me. But seriously, believe what you want!

Whereas I feel that way about most things, the one issue I can’t look past is global warming. People believe this faux religion and are being guided by the self satisfaction they get because they think the little things they do are saving the world. Well, I hate to break it to you, global warming crowd, but that light bulb you use now, and that casket on wheels you drive, and that house hold cleaner that you use that got a new “all green bottle” isn’t going to do one single thing to save this world.

But don’t tell that to the 85-year-old American who just gave up his search for the Loch Ness Monster.

LEGENDARY Nessie hunter Robert Rines is giving up his search for the monster after 37 years.

After almost four decades of fruitless expeditions, he admitted: “Unfortunately, I’m running out of age.”

World War II veteran Robert has devoted almost half his life to scouring Loch Ness.

He started in 1971. The following year, he watched a 25ft-long hump with the texture of elephant skin gliding through the water.

Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.

I believe in God, I am a Christian. I know there are wack jobs that call themselves Christians and I have no excuse for them and it doesn’t change the way I believe or how I feel and my convictions. But dude, you morons (no offense) who believe in global warming have this guy on your side. Someone who thinks that the Loch Ness Monster—THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!—was killed by global warming. It’s time to abandon ship.

Not really related to the previous post concerning the governments ban of incandescent light bulbs, but to follow up on the hoax that is Global Warming comes this story from a place you might not expect to have snow: Baghdad.

After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they’d pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.

For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

Although the white flakes quickly dissolved into gray puddles, they brought an emotion rarely expressed in this desert capital snarled by army checkpoints, divided by concrete walls and ravaged by sectarian killings—delight.

“For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad,” said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.

“When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in the early ‘40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad,” Abdul-Hussein said, referring to snow as a type of rain. “But snow falling in Baghdad in such a magnificent scene was beyond my imagination.”

Morning temperatures uncharacteristically hovered around freezing, and the Baghdad airport was closed because of poor visibility. Snow is common in the mountainous Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, but residents of the capital and surrounding areas could remember just hail.

That damn George W Bush and his Global Warming causing wars!!! Another sign that, in one of the hottest regions on this planet, Global Warming is a no-show.

By the way, what ever happened to the scientist predicted record hurricane seasons for the past two years? Not a single hurricane has hit land since hurricane Katrina. We really put a lot of wasted stock in these scientists, if you ask me.

Cherish now, the days where you go to the store, browse for 100 watt light bulbs, shake them for quality, and screw them into your favorite table lamp. The United States Congress and the United States Senate heartily passed H.R. 6: The Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 and the president subsequently signed the bill into law banning the use of incandescent light bulbs. In the guise of global warming, our government has taken away your right to buy a light bulb, mandating you to use florescent light bulbs by the year 2014.

Some may say that the banning of incandescent light bulbs is good for our environment so it should be welcomed and applauded. It is my interpretation, however, that global warming is a religion, and the scripture according to scientists is being thrust upon us in an oppressive manner.

What Congress, the Senate and the President fail to understand, obviously, is Capitalism. Long gone are the days where consumers decide what’s best for themselves. Now the government takes the advise of an unproven theory/religion (global warming), and FORCE you to comply. Just like the banning of smoking in restaurants, the banning of the use of trans-fats in food (I miss my delicious Oreo Cookies), etc., the government is circumventing the free-market system in favor of a nanny state. Slowly but surely, the government will reach it’s hands in more and more places and take away your rights to choose until there’s nothing left of this nation but a state like the U.S.S.R. or Red China (both being communist states, FYI). All for an absolutely unproven and highly refuted theory.

How have we let our government have so much control over our lives? Literally every freedom you now know is in serious jeopardy as more and more of these bans are being passed, rather than letting the public decide what is best for us.

H.R. 6 undoubtedly had support from well meaning though absent minded politicians. However, more than not, this bill had support and was passed by elected officials who wish to take away your rights to choose and control your lives in order to stay in power and eventually control more power. Govtrack.us has a list of the members of congress and senators who voted for this abhorrent piece of legislation, so if you feel as I do, that the government should keep its fat nose out of my house and out of my light bulb sockets, find out who voted for this and tell them how angry you are. They have banned the common light bulb people! Thomas Edison invented it, and our government has banned it in the name of global warming. Truly disgusting.

Starting another blog because I wanted to try WordPress and, well, because I just wanted to. Fo shizzle.