Catching Up

Haven't posted for awhile, so I figured I'd better catch up.

I went home for memorial day weekend to see family and go to my 10-year class reunion. Probably will post more on that later. Overall, the reunion was fun, but nothing too exciting. Met Sis' boyfriend on Sunday, and he passed initial inspection (confirmed the Star Wars pic was for a costume party). Went to visit the family cemetary and pointed out to the wife where we will be buried. She was less enthusiastic than I anticipated. Spent time at Mom's and cleaned all my guns. That's about it.

Also, evidently a couple of the law school buddies are now reading this, so it's only fitting to give them a mention. As with everyone in this fucking blog, we'll stick with nicknames: Vin, Mox, B. and Sally. (Today, B. stands for "bitch" because he, for some unknown reason, wants me to pay him what I owe from the trip to the casino.) To kind of explain them, here is a quick description:

If each of them were rocks:
B. = Some sort of slate or something. Probably painted orange.
Sally = Granite.
Mox = Medium sized piece of limestone.
Vin = A rock with tattoos.

What they would do if they weren't attorneys:
B. = Teacher. At an all boys school.
Sally = Hippy.
Mox = Alligator.
Vin = Carny.

Their role in our lively little group:
B. = Antagonist.
Sally = Person in charge of always being right.
Mox = Gets the girls.
Vin = Breaking pool sticks for no apparent reason.

Heading Home

Heading back home for the Memorial Day weekend. Here is the things to do list:

1. Drive on gravel roads. A lot.

2. Work through the gun safe. The 45 needs some target practice, I need to make sure the 30-06 is sighted in, haven't shot the .22 at anything for awhile, and all of the shotguns need broken down. Everything needs cleaned and oiled.

3. Go to 10 year class reunion.

4. Spend time with the fam, including meeting sister's new boyfriend. See #2 above.

5. Sit on front porches. Drink iced tea.

A Good Guy

What a great story. Thought that this warranted posting, given my usual level of disgust with professional athletes (as shown here, here and here), trumped only by my feelings for the French.

CLEVELAND -- Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards has pledged $1 million in college scholarships for students in the city who keep at least a 2.5 grade point average through high school.

Edwards' foundation is choosing 100 eighth-graders from the city's 58,000-student district for the program, which will include mentoring and tutoring. The students will also volunteer for 15 hours of community service each year and will not be allowed unexcused absences, the Browns said in a statement.

Edwards is scheduled to announce the program on Wednesday, along with the 100 students and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, at Lincoln-West High School.

The program follows Edwards' decision last year to donate $500,000 to the University of Michigan, where Edwards played from 2001-2004, to create a scholarship endowment for football players.

Sam's an Idiot

Sam Brownback is an idiot.

Here is a quote from a recent speech in Wisconsin (home of the Packers and St. Favre):

"This is your line in football. If you don't have a line, how many passes can Peyton Manning complete? Greatest quarterback, maybe, in NFL history."

Probably not the way to go. Maybe even more telling with respect to this guy's lack of grey matter, he was using the football example to talk about rebuilding the family. Dumbass.

Lawyers and Such

Willie and Waylon were full of shit.

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks,
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.


Yeah, because this is a whole lot of fun.

Pizza

I'm eating pizza for dinner. Maybe two pizzas.

I rock.

Politicians = Dumbshits

Fucking disgusting.

I hate politicians. I am completely disgusted by the fact that we allow these people to have power. They bicker and bitch like a bunch of eighth grade girls and completely ignore the fact that they are supposed to be working to make the country better. The fucking democrats, even though they have known since before starting to draft it, passed a funding bill that included a time table for troop withdrawal. Whether you agree with the time table or not, you have to believe that it was a huge waste of time, tax dollars, public energy and every other precious fucking commodity out there for these jackasses to draft, debate and pass a bill that had no hope of ever becoming law. No single one of these fuckers worked to build on the common ground between the parties (i.e., benchmarks). Instead, they wasted time and energy arguing over something that neither would ever give on .

When I was young, I thought I might want to be a politician some day. After seeing these worthless sacks of shit, I've decided instead that I want to make a fuck load of money and buy a couple of these puppets for myself. The federal government is shit. It is ruled by lobbyists and under the table cash, and any good people still left in DC are so overpowered by the wave of shit of the rest of the crowd that they have no chance to do anything worth while.

Dance you fucking puppets.

Excerpt from the news:

Lacking the votes to override the president, Democrats have already signaled they intend to approve a replacement bill stripped of the troop withdrawal timetable. Determined to challenge Bush's policy, they are turning their attention to setting goals for the Iraqi government to meet as it struggles to establish a more secure, democratic society.

The White House and congressional Republicans have also called for so-called benchmarks, but only if they don't mandate a troop withdrawal or some other major change in war policy.
Bush will meet with congressional leaders — Democrats and Republicans alike — on Wednesday to discuss new legislation.

He said Democrats had made a political statement by passing anti-war legislation. "They've sent their message, and now it's time to put politics behind us and support our troops with the funds," the president said.

S.H.A.B.

Sis has a boyfriend.