OATH OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTER

Why?

2007-10-25T18:58:00.000-07:00

Don't have childeren. Sounds radical doesn't it? Biology compels us to reproduce. Society has pre-programmed many of us that the natural course is to have childeren. The government gives you tax incentives to have kids so they get more worker bees.

Expectant mothers seem happy, the fathers (if they're around) seem to agree, right? Many of them seem to be liars. In private they're wondering how they'll be able to afford them. How it will change what they, the parents, had for dreams and goals in their lives.

Most of the childeren that I've seen come into the world have been accidents. There have been very few planned pregnancies among those I know. That seems strange to me because I look around and believe that I associate with generally responsible people.

I was a child once, I don't remember but there are pictures of me. My parents, aunts and uncles tell me I was quiet and didn't cause much disturbance. I'm glad that's how I was so I don't sound synical.

I don't want childeren because I can't stand screaming, crying or any other noise associated with them. I enjoy spending time with my friends, working hard, building my business and so on. Kids would prevent that and I know I would resent them for it. You must be commited to having childeren and really desire them or I think you should forget about it.

Each generation has had more than the last for 160 years now. This is about to change. As we enter global energy decline everyone on earth will be competing for resources. I'm wondering how I'll take care of myself and I'm financially fit, can perform physical labor and I have useful mechanical trade skills to earn a living. Childeren would be a terrible drain on the scarce resources that will be at my disposal.

If a child is what you want I push my strongest recommendation against it. That will just be another mouth to feed as the economy collapses over the next 20 years.

The happiest couples I know are child-free; doing what they want when they want. My real estate mentor just retired at age 36 so she and her husband can do and see everything they've ever wanted. Tough to do if junior has to get to school. Will you wait until later in life to do those things? What if you don't live that long? What if oil is too expensive for travel then?

This post is more or less a notice to those in my life who are having childeren. I can not pretend to be happy for you any more. Your choice is accellerating the decline of resources in our world. You force me to pay for their education and it doesn't benefit me one bit. You force your employer to pay you while you you're away from work having the baby.

And why do you all send me pictures of your baby, stacks of them! As if I should be proud of you for doing something that a dog can do. Would you be happy for me if I sent you pictures of my new motorcycle? You wouldn't care either so stop being angry at me.

I've dreaded the thought of having a child since I was 16 years old and my belief has only become stronger with time. Everyone dreads a crying baby near them on an airplane. I'm yet to understand why many desire to have that next to them 24 hours a day.

After exposing my true feelings I wonder if I should even post this. Since you're reading it you know I didn't hesitate. I want all of my friends and family to be happy and enjoy their lives however they wish and if that means having childeren, then so be it. But can someone tell me a reason to have childeren without saying, "They're worth it" or "You'll understand when you have them"?

America ............. fuck yeah

2007-08-14T19:55:00.000-07:00

Its almost training time! Kellene, who teaches this class, is unrelenting. Its 12 hours a day for four days straight. Many would dread it but I can't wait. Some of the opportuninty is just meeting and associating with those in the course. This trip will be the best trip I've ever taken and I'll be working the whole time. Sounds strange but its true. I may need professional head-shrinking help.

Hot Wheels

2007-07-25T14:05:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know my truck got smashed while parked at Barley John's. The insurance company that insures the car that caused the damage blows! They've fought me every step of the way through the claim.

The the car rental company supposedly doesn't have enough pickup trucks. If I don't have something to haul cargo the vending business will go belly up. I asked for a pickup and here's what I got.

Everybody put on your rapin' caps cause its FUN TIME!

Yes! In your face buddy!

2007-06-21T06:11:00.001-07:00

A Ron Paul video you've never seen

2007-06-19T00:28:00.001-07:00

This is from 1988. Its just over one minute. You're going to love this one!

Now wasn't that awesome!

Bitches ain't Shit!

2007-06-16T18:55:00.001-07:00

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Charly the Unicorn

2007-05-29T03:33:00.000-07:00

You have to watch it all the way to the end or you're wasting your time. But if you were actually using your time wisely you wouldn't be reading my blog would you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKPLDYKdWU

Porn Bust

2007-05-18T02:49:00.000-07:00

A little way down the post list here you can see where I plugged my cousin's porn site. My cousin was helping his friend Andy get it going on the web. Well someone discovered what Andy was doing in his free time and put it in the paper. Unfortunately for Andy he's a teacher at a Church of England school, this won't do wonders for his teaching career:

http://www.northamptontoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2840227

/rant_on

2007-05-10T23:21:00.000-07:00

I think I'm going to punch the next person who tells me they "made money" owning their home. You didn't make jack shit if your personal residence went up in value. Its true that house values tend to go up over time but most all of the increase is inflationary, not real value. One huge problem is that you're measuring the value of your home in U.S. Dollars which are always going DOWN in value. If you measured your home's value in ounces of gold you'd find the value has been flat for years.

Remember when a three bedroom rambler in Roseville was $120,000, gold was $270, gas was $1 per gallon, smokes were $1.95 and a 20oz bottle of soda was $.93. It was about eight years ago. Here's the update for those of you who haven't left your parent's basement for a while: The house is $250,000, gold is $680, gas is over $3, smokes are over $4 and soda is almost $1.50. It's the inflation stupid.

If one of these savvy economist homeowners sells their home, a comparable home will cost the same (minus the parasidic real estate agent costs), so really they're losing. The only real advantage of buying your own home, financially speaking, is that your payment stays the same and rents (the alternative) tend to only go up. (Legal Disclaimer: This assumes your mortgage is fixed and not adjustable and excludes tax and insurance payments.)

Props to Crispy for pointing this out to me, something I never thought of that really makes people shut up: How long would you have to own your home for it to appreciate enough so you could sell it and buy two neighboring homes exactly like it with the sale proceeds? It doesn't take long to realize that it will never happen. Your house went up because the dollar went down. The real value increase is small or nothing at all.

If your house is your biggest asset then your financial problems are larger than you have ever imagined. Something is always better than nothing but your abode doesn't really look like an ATM, please don't try to turn it into one. (Although if you'd like to ATM your house I can help.)

I try to explain this stuff to people in the real estate business but very few get it. Most of these people are products of the public school system and haven't heard of M3 anyway. Those who do get it are not my converts, they already know what's up. (I've yet to make a convert.) They talk about home appreciation when they should be talking about dollar devaluation. I think most people are so conditioned to prices rising all the time that they view it as normal with no way to stop it. Rising prices are just the way it is and they don't understand why. The Fed is why!

BTW: Why are people buying bonds at less than 4.9% yield when inflation is about 5.5%? Who are these people? Whoever they are they're fuckin' themselves with a Big Inflation Dick (BID). I love you Mogambo!

/rant_off

no title today

2007-04-15T17:29:00.000-07:00

There is only one good kind of cop.

Childeren are the worst STD.

Pawlenty's pen will cause real estate to crash.

Stanhope is awesome.

Not another post, ugh

2007-03-30T00:11:00.000-07:00

Finally government has taken the steps necessary to save us from smoke by force. Remember its for our own good. The only thing left to be decided upon is the start date, hopefully later rather than sooner.

I bought two packs of smokes for $10 at the gas station on Tuesday evening. The only other customer in the store asked me, "What'll ya do when those are illegal?" Without hesitation I replied, "Go home and clean the guns." That seemed to scare the crap out of him and I'm glad it did. People don't even question that cigarettes being illegal could be a reality. It'll never happen though, too much tax revenue at stake.

Speaking of taxes here's a proposal working it's way through the Capitol. The plan is to tax the "rich" a lot more so the poor can get a break, and what a break it is. It's proposed that if your taxable income is less than $5,400 (meaning poor) you'll recieve 90% of your property tax money back in a refund from the State of Minnesota. Don't worry, the "rich" are paying for it, so it's morally palatable.

Ohio passed some nasty lending laws about a year ago that banned about 35% of all mortgage loans. Forclosures have hit the roof, prices are falling and few people can get a loan. The solution now is that the State of Ohio is going into the mortgage lending business. They're planning on selling $100 million dollars in bonds and refinancing people who are behind on their loans. History tells us that government funded bailouts usually are the answer and I'm sure this will work without the usual unintended consequences of government action.

I think its a city in Texas that adopted a law to ban the feeding of homeless people without a license. Obviously it's almost impossible to get the license when YOU'RE A PRIVATE CHARITY FEEDING HUNGRY, MENTALLY RETARTED PEOPLE so most organizations quit trying. One church is suing the state over the issue which is a better use of resources than wasting those funds helping those in need like a charity should be doing.

The police were doing well this week too. In Saint Louis Park they raided the wrong house. Now the home owners can't sleep without nightmares of Storm Troopers. Somewhere else in the country some Storm Troopers tasered a guy three times while he vomited all over himself. That wasn't enough so a Storm Trooper stood over him and shot him three times in the chest, at point blank range, in front of his friend and her two childeren. The victim was a veteran of Iraq so at least he was familiar with treatment like that. How does it feel?

A group of people who had been tortured by the US gubbamint and found to be innocent tried suing Donald Rumsfeld and had their suit thrown out of court. The judge said that Rumsfeld couldn't be held responsible for the actions of people under his command, he can't keep track of all those people. Torture, it's all good now.

How much longer can this continue? Forever. That's right, forever. And it'll only get worse.

DDO killed my friends

2007-03-05T22:37:00.000-08:00

Hey you, it's been a while. How've you been? So sorry about not calling lately, or blogging for that matter. It's all my fault.

Seven days a week of work is getting old. I always thought I wanted to work harder and harder but now I realize I need to focus and work smarter. So much of what I do is hit and miss but it all seems to pile on one day of the week and nearly kill me. To my good friends who I haven't spent much time with lately I apologize. Give me a call so we can hang out. I think the vending company may go up for sale this summer. One person has already expressed interest upon mention of the possibility, I'll call ya first Daddy.

In the inspiration department Tim at the mortgage company got back from his commercial carreer seminar with a fresh dose of inspiration. The woman who runs the program is BIG TIME and very inspiring. I spoke with her on the phone for just a few minutes recently and even that had a big effect on me. She doesn't take any excuses for not growing your business. This woman earns more in one day than anyone reading this blog earns in a year. Its just amazing what she does. Tim and I are going fishing for bigger fish now. Well, not me really, more just Tim.

Went to a car dealership to get an oil change today. When the girl typing my information in the computer asked for my name she and I made eye contact for just a moment. One second later she and I both realized the last time we saw each other we had a conversation in the bathroom at a house party years ago. Previous to today that was the first and last time I saw her. It was uncomfortable to sit in that waiting area for the next half-hour.

Remember that security in life doesn't exist, so stop looking for it. All there is in life are different degrees of risk.

Keep your iron clean and ready.

Mortgagebringer

Responding to j x 2

2007-01-19T12:42:00.000-08:00

j x 2 said, "Ahhh...Libertopia. A "community" of individuals concerned solely with #1."

Here's the deal. Everyone is selfish to a point and we all need to look out for ourselves. Even after stealing half of our resources each year the government still can't help us. If you think I'm selfish, I am. Here's my question: What's the object of the game of Monopoly? I'll help you. The object is to buy as much property as you can, charge as high of rent as possible, collect all of the money, property and resources from the other players until you have all the money, they have none, you're rich, they're broke and you win. Life is no different.

Anyone under age 35 who thinks that social security will help them in retirement needs a brain transplant. There's no help coming, it will be every person for themselves. As the government steals more the people will become more and more selfish and the spiral will continue.

You seem to dislike the fact that a Libertarian may look out for themselves before others and I'll tell you that I certainly do. The last thing that I'm worried about is how you're going to pay your rent this month, frankly I don't care.

It's really simple. You either sit down and make a plan to make more money in your life or your life will be the result of somebody else's plan, maybe even mine.

After reading all of that I do give back. I donate $100 per month to Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly because I hope I'm not lonely in my old age. See we aren't as selfish as we sound.

A Recent Newspaper Article?

2007-01-16T23:14:00.000-08:00

Predatory real estate practices have become more common in the Twin Cities area. As housing prices decline some Real Estate salespeople and mortgage brokers have taken advantage of those in need of help. A common tactic used is called a "Sale Lease-Back." In this transaction the victim doesn't realize they have had their home stolen out from underneath them and their equity stripped away. Landlords are also becoming more desperate as rents have been falling throughout the Metro Area.

Cassandra Lopez of Minneapolis is one of those victims. Now homeless and living outside the Campbell Mithun Tower in Minneapolis Lopez says, "He said it was the right thing to do, now look at me! I'm homeless!" Taken advantage of by a crooked mortgage broker she sits and begs a passer by, "Change sir?" Less than a week ago while begging for money Lopez was kicked in the teeth by a man who refused to help. The man charged in the crime, Luke Douglason (L - St. Paul), commented, "Get a job you dirty lobster cunt." Police used a chemical irritant to subdue Douglason when he was arrested at his place of employment after the lunch time incident.

Lopez accuses Lex Taylor (L - New Brighton) of stealing her home and defrauding her of thousands of dollars. "She should have known better," said Taylor when reached for comment. "All these people who speak nothing but Mexican think they can buy all of our houses. They're OUR houses! I'm the only one trying to stop it. You should be thanking me."

Landlords are getting more money hungry too. Recently at HCMC three people were shot to death while being treated for smoke inhilation after their duplex caught fire in Northeast Minneapolis near Arthur and Broadway. Two others died in the fire. Their landlord, Kory Sachs (L - Minneapolis) has been charged with arson, murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, insurance fraud, sexual assault and sodomy. "You don't pay rent, you don't leave, you trash the place and you expect me to just sit there? Screw You!," screamed Sachs through the bars at the Hennepin County Jail.

Most of the charges stem from the fire that Sachs is accused of starting. When asked why he shot the survivors Sachs said, "Cause they'd sue me! That's the kind of sub-human animals they are!" The sexual assault and sodomy charges stem from when police found Sachs at another of his rental properties in Minneapolis. According to the criminal complaint Sachs forced a tenant to perform oral sex on him as a "Late Fee."

Using the term "Sub-Human Animals" to describe tenants comes from a man known only as Mike (L - St. Paul), founder of the "$lumlord$," a street gang in the Highland Park area of St. Paul. Standing outside his home and leaning against his 2006 Chevrolet Corvette he said, "I had to throw a lot of single moms out on the street in the dead of winter to get this fuckin' thing! It's like a rounding error in my checkbook to buy shit like this!"

Mike's laugh is more of an evil grunt say his neighbors. We asked Mike if he feared being prosecuted by the Ramsey County District Attorney for all of the building code and human rights violations his gang commits. Mike responded by saying, "I've got it covered, they're on the payroll."

David Thune (Douche - St. Paul) could not be reached for comment. His secretary said he could be found mingling with his constituents from the driver's seat of his M1 Abrams Tank smashing tobacco shops and running down cigarette smokers with the .50 caliber machine gun today.

Porn

2006-12-13T00:27:00.000-08:00

I always thought pornography was an interesting business. It's not as if there's a shortage of porn out there. If you can imagine anything being shoved into any orifice on a body, someone has probably filmed it and put it on the web. That being said there's always a demand for more and more and more. The supply will never exceed the demand, what a great business model!

There's tons of money to be made in the industry and now someone I know is working on a porn site. I wanted to share it because I'm proud to be associated with anything that runs against social norms or would piss off your common religious zealot. I can share this becuase the only member of my family who reads my blog is the person working on this site. I'm now officially related to a pornographer. Check it out!

www.am69.net

Why should you buy a home if the price may go down?

2006-12-12T04:17:00.000-08:00

I meet a lot of people who are delaying a first time home purchase because they think the prices may come down somewhat in the near future. That's true, prices may fall in the near term but here's why these folks should buy now.

First of all mortgage rates are near historical lows. Inflation fears in the mortgage market are low and that keeps rates down. The 30-year fixed rate has fallen from 6.77% a few months ago to 6.11% today. If inflation fears or other risk factors in lending worsen the rates will go up.

So say you buy a home today for $200,000 and one year from now you could buy the same home for $190,000 because the price goes down. If you buy the home today your principal and interest payment at 6.11% would be $1,213 per month. This excludes insurance and taxes but those are influenced by other factors.

If you wait for a year and buy the same home for $190,000 and interest rates are three quarters of a percent higher your payment would be $1,311. You'll be paying an extra $125 per month in interest and your payment is $98 higher. If you had bought a year earlier you also would have reduced the principal amount by $2,123 already. You also (depending on your situation) have probably reduced your income taxes with credit for mortgage interest and property taxes paid by about $1,000 for that year as well. Plus you own a home of your own instead of renting.

The alternative: If you had kept renting your rent probably went up by $30-$40 per month for your one bedroom apartment over the year you waited. And what if mortgage rates AND prices go up? Now you really got hosed. Plus if you keep renting your rent is going to go up with inflation each and every year and it will probably outpace your paycheck. How many times can you downsize before you live in a closet?

One of the biggest regrets in my life is listening to the advice that dad gave me about buying a home. He told me to save up a down payment to get a better interest rate. I didn't quesiton his advice and I got screwed. Prices of homes went up 35% while I was saving. I kick myself every day for not looking for more advice.

There are two groups of people in this country. One group is making mortgage payments and buying real estate for themselves. The second group is paying rent and buying real estate for someone else, their landlord. Which group would you rather be in?

And if you're willing to live in an apartment you own and you make about $35,000-40,000 per year here's something really cool. I can show you how you could buy a 4-unit apartment building, live in one of the units for about the same as your current rent and only pay taxes on $10,000 of your income for the next five years.

The Bridges of Saint Paul

2006-12-11T03:25:00.000-08:00

I'd do some copypasta or give you a link to what I saw in the Sunday Pioneer Press but I can't. It wasn't an article or editorial, it was an advertisment. The ad was on the back of the North Metro section. It was a full page ad describing the reasons why the Bridges of Saint Paul is a good idea in a futile attempt to win public support.

There's always going to be people who disagree with whatever someone else is doing and for many different reasons. The people developing this project (I have no idea who) just need good public opinion to get this through the development process. People object to the Bridges of Saint Paul because they say it's too big, too expensive, too ugly, too obtrusive........who gives a fuck. If someone wants to build the thing with their own money, let them build it for fuck sake. If someone wanted to take the duplex next to me and convert it to a dirty book store I'm all for it. And if any of my neighbors tried to use the force of government to stop it, I might become an investor in that new small business myself.

I just don't care at all. Personally I think the Bridges of Saint Paul is a disgusting endorsement of consumerism with the gazillions of square feet of retail space it'll have but I still don't care. If someone wants to build it, go ahead.

What caught me about this ad was the really disturbing though. It wasn't that the ad touted the new jobs it'll create and the construction jobs it'll maintain at least for a while. It wasnt' that the ad showed a nice rendering of one of the buildings and invited you to come see their condo models that are now open. The problem is that it BOASTED of the ESTIMATED TAX REVENUE IT WILL CREATE!

The ad agency that created this knows that the people in Minnesota are so pro big government that they'll cum in their pants when they hear the government is getting more tax money. So much so that they need to specify that! If the sheeple just see that more tax will go to the government then they'll do the lobbying for project themselves!

As if more taxes will fix our problems. That's a bunch of crap but the sheeple believe it. Maybe the increased tax dollars can be used to take some D average high school dropouts and turn them into police officers. That would certainly fix some problems. Yeah, sure. More tax revenue (theft) won't fix dick but no one see that. If we just had more worthless cops, social workers, paper pushers, middle managers and $31 per hour MNDOT employees producing next to no benifit to society this just might be a better place to live. Hell no.

I can't believe a group of people had to advertise the fact that they'll pay more taxes just to develop a new piece of real estate, sick.

It's 6:00 a.m. I think I'll cry until I have to go to work. :(

A little polish ..... aw forget it, not even funny anymore

2006-11-24T17:58:00.001-08:00

My apologies to those who read my blog and actually care about what I'm up to, it's been too long since my last update.

Started hanging out with Max again on a more regular basis which is great. I wish he would make it to poker night to talk a little treason with the rest of us. Maybe next time.

It's been great to have some free time lately which has been seriously lacking for months now. The mortgage biz is up and running except for some finishing touches. Tim, the owner and only other person there has been seriously stressed out lately. Some things haven't gone as well as they were supposed to.

Tim reached his breaking point on Wednsday. A telemarketer from Pitney Bowes called for the third time in two hours to waste our time trying to sell us crap we don't need. I answered the call on speakerphone. As soon as Tim heard it he ran into my office, picked up the phone and screamed, "FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, STOP CALLING HERE!" As if that will make their dialer remove our number or something. It was kind of scary, never seen him like that before, he's a really nice guy.

He slammed my phone handset down so hard he cracked it. I bought a new one with my own money figuring if I told him he broke it, he'd be pissed off again. I almost felt like a beaten wife that day, speaking softly to avoid pain. Everyone has their bad days though, I was yelling about the cunts who run this fuck stick operation later that same day. That company really needs to fire everyone and start fresh.

My neighborhood has now turned into da hood for two reasons. First, my neighbors have a couch and loveseat on their deck exposed to the elements. Second, there was a guy slapping his wife/girlfriend/baby momma in their driveway while he held her by the throat (I didnt' get to see that, the neighbors told me). This city's going downhill, or maybe it's just the slum rental property area I live in.

If anyone would like a 1 bed, 1 bath 750 sq ft co-op unit at 36th and Grand in S. Minneapolis give me a call. It's not on MLS and the lady would probably sell it for about $115K if I don't have to put it on MLS. We're putting it on MLS the first week of January. Last unit that sold there went for $134K three months ago.

My condolences to Jeremy who has been hospitalized with a terminal case of copypasta disease, what a terrible way to go. :(

Lee and Luke

2006-10-15T01:54:00.000-07:00

I found some sites for you guys:

http://www.startrekuniformguide.com

http://www.starbase1.com

http://www.realdoll.com/

http://inyourmouth.com

You're welcome,

Rex

The stock market playas

2006-10-12T21:07:00.000-07:00

I read Jim Kunstler's blog on occasion and "playas" is what he refers to the financial market kingpins as. I thought it would be a good term to start using, just calling them what they are.

You and I don't set the price in the markets, the playas do. The mutual, hedge and pension fund managers set the prices. Most of the pension fund managers are little more than bumbling government workers. They, like many money managers, do well when the Dow is up and poorly when the Dow is down which brings me to my topic: Is the Dow up over the last few years or not?

In U.S. dollar terms the market is even with where it was about 5 years ago, at a record high. The Dow is a good indicator of the on-paper wealth in the stock market but over time it's decieving. Why? INFLATION!

The dollar has lost about 25% of it's value since 2000 against a basket of other currencies (depending on which basket you use, that number changes slightly.) When the market playas talk about oil prices they always qualify it by saying oil prices are not near their inflation adjusted high from at least a hundred years ago. Why don't they say the same thing about the Dow? In order for the Dow to be even, it would have to be (depending on what inflation data you use) at least 20% higher than it is today!

The root of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the dollar-denominated share price of each component company. If it's dollar based, why doesn't anyone calculate the inflation adjusted value and report it? I think it's just protectionism of a system trying to prop itself up higher and higher. When you adjust the stock market over time for inflation the returns are sad. The bottom line is that you have to beat the market by at least 5% to overcome real inflation (not that core crap.) Then you must make another 9% annual gain to have a real gain so you can pay the taxes on your inflated gains and come out about 6.5 -7% ahead in real terms.

Bottom line, if the Dow is up 6% and inflation is 5%, you got pwned by the playas. You're lucky you broke even. You say you made 1% in that scenario, huh? You forgot about the TAXES!

I'm sorry

2006-10-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted for some time. I've been setting up a new office for the mortgage company I work for. Fifty hours were spent on the IKEA furniture alone. Now we're trying to get some internets. Hopefully we'll be done soon. But in vending news I found this on ytmnd.com, enjoy!

http://angryvendingmachines.ytmnd.com/

What did you say?

2006-09-12T01:25:00.000-07:00

I just returned from a newspaper reading excursion at Perkins in Fridley. At the tables in front of me, behind me and to my left I was surrounded by the Jerry Springer Show. The conversations at these tables were totally void of intelligent thought. They were so sad, yet funny at the same time.

There were four or five women at each table, no men at all. All of these women looked to be 20-35 but no older. Most were white, some were black, one was hispanic and one looked to be native american. The white trash girls were by far the funniest, most of the quotes are from them. I used the blank part of an ad in the Wall Street Journal to write down some great quotes from their conversations, enjoy.

"This shit is too damn much money. Why'd we come here? We should've gone to Denny's."

"Girl, I ain't got no idea who it is! The guy I thought it was passed the paternity test!"

"The first time I cheated on him he found out somehow but he ain't found out about any of that other shit."

"He's always talking about his other baby mamma, I hate that shit."

"My manager (of her apartment building) said I gotta pay with a money order cause my checks ain't no good, that's some bull shit."

"I can't get no money from that muthafucka, he all locked up."

"They bitchin at me when I'm like five minutes late for my shift, well, like 15 sometimes, but they should fuckin chill out."

"Does your man gotta job?"

Those are some of the best quotes but many of the others I wrote down are just more of the same. I'm grateful that I don't have anyone who is even close to this level of behavior in my life. I'm glad that my friends stand on higher ground and conduct their lives in a responsible manner, for the most part at least.

I, as an outsider looking in, think that these women's lives a complete mess. Sad part is that it's more normal than I realize. This is not the first time I've overheard conversations like these and it certainly won't be the last.

What's worse? These people vote.

Negative Balance

2006-09-02T21:52:00.000-07:00

The savings rate in this country has been negative for over a year now. This is one of the many things that will lead to the economic ruin of our country. The savings rate in China and Japan is over 40%! That's my goal and I don't think I'm even close to that yet.

It's not really hard to save, you don't have to be a severe cheap-ass like me. Just cut out some of the extra crap in your life. The following are some tips that don't even require you to change your lifestyle one bit:

1. Call your internet provider and tell them that you are going to switch (from dsl to cable or cable to dsl, whichever may apply. You will be transferred to their customer retention department who will ususally give you a low introductory teaser rate for the next three months. I go through this procedure every couple of months with Comcast now and it saves me about a hundred bucks per phone call.

2. Call your trash service provider and do the same thing. My trash bill is $43 every two months. If I call they'll drop it to an introductory rate of $25 for about four months. Then I repeat the process every four months just like with the Comcast.

3. Call your insurance company and raise the deductables on your car, renter, homeowner's and/or motorcycle insurance. This will save you some big bucks. Besides, when was the last time you made a claim? It's probably been a while. If an increase in your auto deductable of $500 decreases your annual premium by a $200 bucks, it'll save you money as long as you don't make a claim more than every 2.5 years. (I double checked my math this time Liz) By the way, the deductable on my B2300 is $2,500 and I only have liability coverage on my Jeep and Honda Shadow.

Most Americans have way too much insurance because they're broke and don't think they can risk having a lower premium. If something happens I'm sure you'll be able to find the extra $500 anyway.

Those are some tips to save some bucks. You could save a few hundred extra dollars per year if you put these into action. If you spend the money you save on more stupid crap you'll be no further ahead. In some future posts I'll cover some of the interesting income tax dodges I've learned over the past year.

Here is some fun anecdotal evidence of the current state of affairs. I had a good laugh reading this thread of discussion. The following thread began on theoildrum.com by a user named SelfAggrandizedTrader, several responses from other users follow:

SelfAggrandizedTrader:

"Twice, recently, the person in line in front of me at the drive-through ATM has accidentally left his receipt hanging out of the, "money-machine." Both of them were driving large SUV's: one an Escalade, the other an Explorer. The guy in the Escalade had a total of $12 left in his bank account, the guy in the Explorer, $19."

AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom: (this is Matt Savinar who runs www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net)

"oh god I wish you could have photographed the guy getting into his escalade with your camera phone and then I would have scanned the photo and his receipt on to the net! Absolute hilarity!"

Substrate:

"For an autocentric perspective:
Escalade 13 / 17: @$3/gal, $12 in bank account...roughly 52 miles city and 68 miles highway left in bank account
Explorer 16 / 21: @$3/gal, $19 in bank account...roughly 101 miles city and 133 miles highway left in bank account."

TechGuy:

"But how many miles left on the credit card is the real question. The good news is that I believe that many Americans may dump there McMansions and downsize into a new line of ultra tiny homes. Escalades and Explorers may just become the new american McMansions."

Another car question

2006-08-18T01:39:00.000-07:00

Insurgent Asks: I have noticed that exhaust is getting pulled in to the vent intake when I come to a stop, and the exhaust system is louder than it used to be. When I took it in to a shop, they told me that the muffler hanger had rusted off and that there is also a leak from the joint connecting the header pipe to the pipe going to the cat. They quoted me $269 to fix it.

My Response: Usually when a vehicle gets over 120,000 miles or so the engine mounts begin to give way. You don't notice it as shaking of the truck or anything like that. The only way to actually see it would be to remove the hood and watch the engine sway while you drive.

As the engine mounts allow the engine to twist more and more as torque is applied it wears out the flexible connection in your exhaust system that your shop wants to repair. The engine rocks to the side when you press on the accellerator and rocks back when you take your foot off the pedal. It's even worse in vehicles with manual transmissions because the engine rocks more times due to the gear changes and reapplication of the accellerator after each change. An automatic transmission applies the torque more smoothly with less change in torque throughout accelleration.

You can put a new gasket, known as a "doughnut" into that connection but it will probably just wear out and start leaking very soon. If you wanted to fix it properly new engine mounts are probably needed as well. Most automotive technicians don't make this connection and only repair the symptom of the illness (the exhaust leak) and don't look for the possible disease (the engine mounts).

The bottom line is that adding two engine mounts to the repair would probably add about $300 to the cost.

To see the engine move in your truck Jeremy will require help. Since your parking brake doesn't work, hook your trailer hitch to a tree with your tow strap. (I accept no responsibility for what might happen from doing this.)

Open the hood, put the truck in 1st and have someone rev it up and lightly apply the clutch. You'll see the engine rocking probably toward the passenger side. If the engine seems like it wants to jump over the fender, the mounts are junk.

When you're doing this stand on the side of the truck when you're looking at the engine. Just in case the strap falls off and the truck goes forward! There is no specification for what the engine should do or not do when you try this but it shouldn't move more than three inches or so from side to side for sure. Granted if you floor it and dump the clutch it will move more than three inches.

To do this by yourself put Play-Doh on the driver's side of the engine and close the hood. Reopen the hood and note how much the Play-Doh compressed. Now drive the truck and give 'er hell! Now recheck again and see how smashed the Play-Doh is. This will tell you how much the engine moves up while driving due to worn mounts.

Bored are you?

2006-08-14T20:45:00.000-07:00

Are you bored just crusing around the internet? Would you like some more excitement in your life? Well if you want the government thugs to break your door down and send you to Gitmo soon then you should read this blog every day! Not mine silly, this one:

www.ahmadinejad.ir

Yes, that's the new blog for the Supreme Leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! It's really him! Now that he's a fellow blogger, I must add him to my list of links.

When you go to his blog click on the flags in the upper right-hand corner to pick your language of choice.

Your car questions answered

2006-08-12T02:27:00.000-07:00

On Nitrogen filled tires:

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen anyway. So if you get to 100% nitrogen, what's the difference? Really nothing. Aircraft tires are filled with pure nitrogen because it can be considered completely moisture free. The tires on a 747 go from 120 degrees to below freezing soon after take-off and the reverse when landing. If there was any moisture in there it would freeze and could cause tire leaks along the bead which an airplane can't afford. This level of precision isn't needed in your car.

When you fill your car tire with air it is usually very low in moisture content when the air comes from a stationary compressor. The moisture in the compressed air condenses inside the tank and settles to the bottom. The air that you put into a car tire from the compressor is quite moisture free.

I've heard some people say that nitrogen is great for tires because it doesn't change pressure when the temperature changes. That's a bunch of crap, go back to 9th grade chemistry and retake that class. All gasses change pressure with temperature, including noble gasses.

On the Ford driveability issue:

The repair for this problem in a 2002 Ford Tore-ass can be acomplished by any do-it-yourselfer on a Saturday afternoon. First open all four doors of the car, the hood and trunk. Now take the five gallon gas can that you use for filling the lawnmower and dump all the gas on the seats, carpet, trunk liner and engine. Make sure you pour a trail on the ground from the car to a location behind something solid. Now light a Newport with a match and place the match in the trail of gasoline. Sit back and watch the show. When the show is over, call your insurance company and get some new wheels. Problem solved! (If you'd actually like to know what I think you can call me Luke, I just didn't want to type it all out. That is unless you copied and pasted that or just made it up.)

Submit more questions in the comment box if you'd like, real ones only.

By the way Paul B. who writes repair advice for the Red Star and on A.M. 1.5.0.0. is an idiot. The last time he was turning wrenches was probably during the Nixon administration. Anyone can read Alldata Paul so just quit reciting Technical Service Bulletins on the air and in print. You don't know shit about shit.

Once in Paul's column I remember him telling people how to do a key-off battery drain test with a test light. Paul said to make sure not to try to start the car with the light hooked up because it would "burn up." All it would actually do is glow brightly just as it would if you put it across the battery terminals. Shut up Paul, I wrote so many letters to the editor about your stupid ass. I think they just handed them to you because no matter how plainly I explained your errors they still thought you were still the expert.

We used to make fun of his column almost weekly in class at Dunwoody. The insturctors would bring in his column, read it and then the students would point out all of the technical errors. Don't read his shit.

Save some gas

2006-08-08T09:15:00.000-07:00

I wanted to stop talking about politics and my reunion for a day and share some of the knowledge I don't use anymore. Since gas prices are high more and more people are buying scam products that are supposed to increase the fuel economy of a vehicle. I'm just going to dispell some of the more popular ones one by one. The people who claim that these work just want to believe that they work. Many times when someone puts one of these on their car their driving habits change because they want to see how efficient their car can be. This alone causes the increase in fuel economy for the users of these products.

The Tornado Fuel Saver:

This product claims to save fuel buy forcing more air into the engine. They advertise a "cyclonic action" created by this thing in the air intake hose causing a denser intake charge. The reality is that this device actually creates a restriction in the air intake and reduces engine effeciency. They've sold over 100,000 of these things and at $40 each someone is laughing all the way to the bank.

Fuel Line Magnets:

These are magnets that you are to install on the outside of the fuel line to put the fuel molecules "in line" so they flow into the engine better. What a bunch of crap. Even if these things arranged the molecules as it says the fuel injector is engineered to spray the fuel in a mist form for complete combustion. That alone negates the purpose of the device.

Some of the magnets are becoming quite fancy looking and that's why they continue to sell. When these first hit the market what you were actually buying was a set of COW MAGNETS. Dairy famers feed these magnets to their cows and they would stay in the cow's first stomach. Cows actually have three stomachs. (That was a free fun fact.) The magnet in the cow would hold onto any nails, screws or junk the cow ate so it didn't pass to the more sensitve parts of it's digestive system. Farmers pay a few cents a piece for them but the gas saving version (identical in every way) sells for $9.99 for a set of two. What a great business. It's almost like buying codoms for 8.5 cents and selling them for two bucks like I do!

K&N and other "High Performance" air filters

When they test these things they do get performance and fuel economy results. The reason they work is because the control for the test was using a dirty, clogged air filter. If you read the fine print in the testing reports from the companies you can actually see this. The only time a washable air filter makes sense is if you have a Powerstroke, Cummins or Duramax diesel and the air filter is so expensive to repalce that it makes sense to wash it instead. These will not save you any gas either versus a regular replacement air filter.

Fuel additives:

Any fuel additive that claims it will increase your fuel economy is a bunch of lies. The only time an additive will help is if it is a carbureator cleaner or fuel injector cleaner and it actually cleans out a clog in your fuel system. Otherwise you're wasting you money again.

Some things you CAN do to save gas:

Check your tires:
Inflate them to the maximum pressure stated on the tire. Never use the vehicle manufacturer's specs in the owner's manual because they're usually lower than those on the tire. They do this because it makes the car ride a bit nicer and the EPA doesn't factor tire pressure into their fuel economy testing. The EPA uses the rolling resistance data from the tire manufacturer which is calculated at the maximum pressure rating.

Just change your air filter:
Many people don't do this and you should do it about every 15,000 miles at least. I've seen bird and mouse nests in air cleaners before on cars that are driven daily. How many little passengers do you have?

Clean out your trunk:
You'll save about one mile per gallon for every 200 pounds of crap you get out of your car. That's a lot when you add it up over time. How much junk do you really need anyway?

Get a wheel alignment:
If your wheels are out of alignment you're just pushing the front tires sideways down the road. We know that isn't good. Usually you won't see a noticable difference in fuel economy because if your alignment was really bad your tire tread would already be destroyed.

Lose some weight:
The same applies to the human body, lose 100 pounds and get 1/4 mpg back!

Something else disturbing

2006-08-07T19:43:00.000-07:00

This is a quote from a Fox News story (no suprise it came from there) but it's really disturbing:

"All of this falls in the category of the coarsening of the culture that does concern us tremendously," said Charmaine Yoest, a spokeswoman for the Family Research Council, a conservative group whose causes include the push to adopt more stringent indecency standards for television. Yoest, who has five children, worries that because there are no age regulations on sales of condoms and lubricants, kids and teens could easily get their hands on them.

I can't believe people actually think like that. Yeah, let's regulate the sale of condoms, then the kids will quit fuckin' all the time! Like that'll fix anything. If there's anything worse than drugs that you could create a black market for it's condoms! I know I charge two bucks a piece for the ones I sell but I'm a greedy capitialist without nearby competition, so haha.

Mpls! stupid is as stupid does

2006-08-02T00:34:00.000-07:00

If you look back quite a ways in my blogging history you'll find the post about the City of Minneapolis License Department. I didn't even look at how long ago that was but I just got my license stickers for my vending machines about a week ago.

Now today I got a letter from the City of Minneapolis, here is an excerpt with commentary added:

"A public hearing is being held (to listen to the annoying, whining peasants) to get citizen input (as if they fucking care) on the proposed 3% inflation increase in fees (UNJUST AND MORALLY OBJECTIONABLE TAXES) for city licenses. (Tea party anyone?) You have been selected to recieve this letter (we know where you live beeatch) because this may affect your business (of course it does asshole, I pay the shit). Please contact the Minneapolis Department of Health (Ministry of Health) with any questions regarding this notice (if you can find someone there who has not suffered a rectal-cranial inversion and can actually answer a question in English).

This increase will amount to an increase in fees of ONE DOLLAR for my business annualy. No kidding, that's it! I'm overjoyed that it cost the city more to generate this letter and send it to me than they'll get out of me. The only problem with that is THE FUCKING POST OFFICE got most of that dollar!

I'm actually thinking of going to the hearing and wasting as much of their time as I possibly can. I probably won't though because I'm too busy trying to think of new ways to avoid paying taxes!

My awful friends

2006-07-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

I have two quotes to share here. The names of the people who uttered them are being withheld to protect them.

Quote #1

"One of the world's scariest sights is a WOMAN driving an SUV while she's on the phone. Even without the phone, it's scary!"

Quote #2

"There was a kid in my high school class who I always called Douche Bag. Another guy just called him Mr. Bag. He killed himself a couple of years ago." The person who said this then proceeded to laugh, giggle and laugh again.

Old Friends

2006-07-21T08:31:00.000-07:00

Last night I paid for the full membership to classmates.com so I could start sending emails. I have volunteered myself to be the reunion master because it looks like nobody else is going to do it. It's a lot like being the Treasurer or Chairman of the LPMN. You can have the job if you want it because no one else does.

I was crusing around match.com and found Jenny who was in my high school class. I emailed her and we'll be hanging out sometime next week. We talked on the phone for about 2 hours last night. She was always really cool and it'll be fun to see her again. She and I never hung out in high school but it's funny how all of the cliques disappear after graduation.

I also have already heard from several people from my emails last night on classmates.com. All these people ask me what I'm up to so I've just typed a few paragraphs so I can cut and paste the responses. I can't respond to that many emails.

I wrote all that because I'm trying to kill time before Carl's closing today. I know you all read that and thought, "Why did he write that? I don't care about Rex's class reunion!" I know you give less than a shit but I don't care either!

More signs of collapse

2006-06-30T01:30:00.000-07:00

At 3:15 am I stepped outside of my house to have a smoke. I'm working late, I know. Standing near my Jeep I was watching a truck pass by on County Road E. As it passed, with subwoofers thumping, a whole bunch of stuff came flying out the window of this Suburban. Several bags spewed their contents as they hit the street. I was pissed immediately and I thought, since I was properly equipped at the time, that this would be the correct response to the occupants of the Suburban. I decided to just watch them drive away.

I headed out into the street to survey the damage. There must have been ten guys in that Suburban because I found several bags from White Castle, a Crave Case and 30 individual hamburger containers. This crap was all over the street. I now regreted just watching them drive away.

I put out my smoke, went inside, and came out with two Cub Foods grocery bags. I started picking the junk up off the road but I paused because I heard a car. I looked up and saw headlights a few hundred feet down the road. I leaned up against the telephone pole on the side of the street with my two Cub bags to wait for the car to pass. I probably looked like an apartment building dweller who went to Cub and walked past the building because I was too drunk or something. The car didn't pass. It stopped and I realized I would have to put my vocabulary away and speak more slowly than usual to deal with this rocket scientist. Being naturally lazy he rolled the passenger side window down, leaned over and started yapping.

"What are you doing out here tonight?" he asked in a nasty, trying to intimidate, kind of tone.

"I refuse to answer any questions you ask me without my attorney present. Unless I am being detained or being placed under arrest I request that you don't ask me any more questions and I also refuse to identify myself." (By this point I'm shocked he hasn't cut me off.) "If I am being placed under arrest I will identify myself with my full name and birthdate. I do not consent to any search of my person or my posessions. If I am not being placed under arrest please inform me immediately so that I may go about my business. This conversation is over unless I am being placed under arrest."

This cop had never heard anything like that. I wish he heard it from everyone he talked to every day. He looked me in the eye and had no idea what to say. I heard the crickets chriping inside his head. Then he turned, sat up, faced forward, put the car in gear and drove away.

I thought I could at least get him pissed off and get him out of the car and ask me if I had any weapons. I would have responded proudly to that question just to make him call in backup because I was wearing two concealed guns and 40 rounds of ammo. Then after he would have called in backup I would have explained that I was just picking up trash in the street if someone asked me kindly. Otherwise I would have given the silent treatment to all new arrivals. But no, he had a confused look on his face and just drove away. I'm sure he felt pretty dumb and is currently trying to think of what to say if someone does that again.

Final Score:

Rex 3
Cop 0

I WON THAT MENTAL CHALLENGE! (I shouldn't brag, it wasn't a fair fight.)

The rest is uninteresting. I picked up the rest of the trash, had another smoke, wrote this and now I'm going to bed. Goodnight.

And they're off.........

2006-06-19T20:53:00.000-07:00

Just watched some great friends leave MN for the last time. Jeremy, Anthony, Carl and about six tons of stuff in and behind the moving truck will soon be in a better place. A better life awaits them in a brand new home. Good luck guys!

Funny, Funny Myspaces

2006-06-01T03:00:00.000-07:00

Here's two myspace profiles with examples of their text that you should look at before the censors delete them:

John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

http://www.myspace.com/johnrbolton

"Why hello Mr. America, we need more money!" in which I say "HOW ABOUT INSTEAD I GIVE YOU A PITCHFORK THROUGH YOUR DIRTY AFRICAN THROAT." Yep, that's me, and you kids better start thanking me because I'm the only reason you shitfaces aren't speaking ching-chong right now.

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Saddam Hussein, Former Dictator of Iraq

http://www.myspace.com/therealpresidentofiraq

About Me: Killing Kurds, hanging out in torture and rape rooms, hiding WMDs, playing hide-and-go-seek with the US military, sodomy, removing veils from women (then laughing about it while condemning them to death

There's little hope for the future

2006-06-01T00:10:00.000-07:00

As the oil crisis worsens in the years to come there isn't much to fall back on. America doesn't have a savings account, only debt. Almost 5% of home mortgages are more than 30 days behind in payments today and the economy is still growing! The average household credit card debt level is about $10,000. Yes, that's a one with FIVE zeros behind it. What's going to happen when GDP goes negative?

For those reading this blog who still have hope for the future you really need to start reading about peak oil. Some of my friends read this (you know who you are) and have refused to invest in gold (which I pimp on a regular basis to them) or other precious metals. You know who you are and there's going to be a big "I told you so" when the Dow is going down and gold is going up. Those two will probably cross at about 3500 creating an X on the chart and I'll be laughing all the way to the coin shop.

An omen of the future comes from Zimbabwe where the current inflation rate is 1,000% per annum. Their central bank is coming out with a note worth $100,000 Zimbabwe dollars. This bill replaces the $50,000 dollar note which only came out about four months ago. Zimbabweans are carrying around thick stacks of cash just to buy food. Hmm, sounds like Germany a few years back. I wonder how long it will take before the Zimbabweans are paid twice a day, every day. The new improved note (only improvement being more zeros) is worth about thirty cents in the US. That's right, $100k worth of Zimbabwe dollars can't even buy you a loaf of bread in the US. It can't happen here, right? Don't be so sure.

Nik saw a good sign of collapse on Sunday afternoon. He and Liz, on their way to my place, saw someone throw a paper plate out of a car window. Liz was disgusted but Nik was overjoyed, "Ah, society is colapsing, nobody cares about anything, the end is near" he thought. I think so too.

That's how little people have to care because someone else is paid to clean up the streets with an oil powered machine. About a fourth of all people living in metropolitian areas are dependent on the government for food, clothing and shelter and don't have to give a shit about anything. They'll be the first to go hungry in the coming depression.

You think they're building walls down on the Mexican border because of the current situation? Oh, no way, they're planning for the future. The US government will have enough starving Americans to worry about, they gotta keep the starving Mexicans out. And the bottom line is they will try to feed people by devaluing our currency.

Most wealth will be wiped off the map in the future of the stock and bond markets. People who were comfortable with thier IRA balances will become paupers in short order. The whole thing is overvalued because there is a finite amount of financial instruments out there for all the money to chase. There's inflation in the stock market just like any other supply and demand equasion. Too much money chasing too few goods has driven the prices to the stratosphere.

I for one can't wait until our governments can't sell any more bonds becasue nobody has any faith in them. I can't wait for China to dump its foreign currency reserves of dollars in favor of euros, riyals and gold. I can't wait for a nice healthy 10% inflation rate in the US to cripple the stock market. I just want everyone to realize that you can't depend on government for your well being. Let the collapse come. I'm ready, mentally and financially. Every day the Dow drops and the fed prints another sheet of bills I'll be getting wealthier.

Its too late to change course now. No matter how you act, vote or think, you change nothing until you change the way that money works. There is no hope, only waiting.

Its more than Big Brother watching now

2006-05-14T02:46:00.000-07:00

Before you read this go to the side of the screen and click on Max's myspace and read his latest blog entry and the comment by Alisha. Ok, now click on Alisha's myspace and read her latest blog entry. Don't skip those parts, they're essential to the rest of my blog entry.

I have this blog on something other than myspace for specific reasons. Many of them were pointed out by Max and Alisha. I don't want everybody watching me and I really don't want News Corp. watching me. If you want to get onto all the government lists everywhere, just click on Jeremy's blog to the right, and then link to his myspace, now you're screwed!

Everyone is watching everyone and government issued RFID chips aren't far away. The FIRST people that are sure to get them against their will are sex offenders. Oh, you're not a kiddie rapist, don't worry, thought crimes probably aren't far away from getting chip status. Within my lifetime I will see a nurse implanting people at the DMV when they renew their permission to live and drive card. (This assumes that I'll die of natural causes, that's open to debate) This card will also be known as the NATIONAL ID CARD. That's so everyone knows who the Jews, I mean, the terriorists are.

(Note, the paragraphs don't seem to flow well in this entry because I'm quite mad, I hope you're all getting my point, but there's more:)

Everyone is watching and I mean everyone. I just rejoined match.com to find a date or two. They now offer "read email verification" which is very fucking disturbing. You pay EXTRA money and you get an email confirmation from match.com that the person you wrote to opens the email you sent them. That's some real stalker stuff. I got an email from a woman several days ago with whom I'd had no previous contact. I read it but I didn't respond because I had to leave. Came back a few hours later, logged on to respond, only to find another email from her asking why I didn't write back! Holy crap! If someone doesn't write back they aren't interested or they don't have time! Maybe you're too fat, broke, stupid, missspelll 2 much or just look like you've been beaten with an ugly stick! Whatever the reason that person doesn't want to talk to you right this second so leave them alone.

I sent out a fair number of emails that never get responded to and it doesn't hurt my feelings. Maybe those women think I'm too fat, hey, that's fine, hope you find someone you like. I just can't believe that you can now pay to stalk someone else's inbox! Maybe I'll join Bob Smith on yahoo personals instead.

Oh, and today at the coin shop four people including the owner of the place were talking about fiat currency collapse! There's more of me out there and it was nice to hear.

Saturday Afternoon -- Kuggies: 730 each -- Shiny Walking Libertys: 17 each
They'll double in a year or two, you need some too!

Holy Jobs

2006-05-11T01:01:00.000-07:00

I recently ran into my friend Mike from tech school. He seemed well but he told me his father had passed, hate to hear the bad news. Mike said he had tried to locate me through the social circles and looked for me at Porky's once but to no avail. The reason was he needed a manager for one of the two repair shops his father owned. He's going crazy running both. I jokingly said that it would take a figure starting with at least a 7 to get me to do that again. Mike said that it's a really busy shop with 7 technicians working there that wouldn't be a problem. I still had to say no to even discussing it. I hate auto service that much.

More promising additional employment opportunities exist at my friend Tim's small mortgage company. Tim and I met while I worked at the V-dub dealer, he was a customer there. Tim is buying an office condo to expand his business out of his home. He needs a more capable office staff than what his current assistant can provide. He and I just began discussing me taking that role on. The flexability would work well on both sides. Thing is that if business takes a dive and he doesnt' need me anymore, I as an anarcho-capitialist will NEVER file for unemployment. Tim seems to like that idea.

I also got more emails yesterday than ever before from internet dating. About 6 or 7 inquiries arrived in my inbox. Upon further review I found that while editing my profile I had accidentally changed my description from "seeking women" to "seeking men." That explains the names of the inquiries like Steve, John and Max. I thought I was getting popular with the ladies but no, only getting offers for anal stuff. No thanks boys.

A Change in Attitude

2006-05-03T23:48:00.000-07:00

I let my bills pile up for about two weeks in the "To Be Paid" folder on my desk. Last night I went through all of them and wrote a check for each. They all totaled about $3200, wow. The last "bill" I had was a donation solicitaton from the Libertarian Party, the national organization. Every time they send me a letter asking for money I always send at least ten or twenty federal reserve notes, not this time though.

As I was writing the check.....Libertarian Par.....stop.......is it really worth it. Thirty years and government has grown out of control. That whole time dedicated libertarians have worked locally and nationally to stop it to no avail. I threw the letter in the shred file.

If you read any history the only time the size and scope of government shrinks is when it becomes so huge that it cannot sustain itself. I used to have some small hope that it can be turned around with votes but I no longer believe that. Local, State and Federal governments will grow until the U.S. dollar colapses due to peak oil. Small government activisim will remain my passion but I think I'll use my money to buy some silver. Holding back that donation will yeild one more ounce of shiny stuff.

Time and time again

2006-04-26T02:35:00.000-07:00

Just saw this story: http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_115170824.html

All of these fools seem to think they're above the law!

"Sgt. Vick I'm wasted! I Need backup!"

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The reason I came to post tonight is to display an uncanny similarity between two individuals: One is my friend Nik and the other shouldn't need any introduction. All Nik needed was a mustache which I kindly drew on a printed picture of him.

First Click Here

Then Click Here

Let the good times roll!

2006-04-24T20:49:00.000-07:00

Had quite the eventful weekend. Chris and I went out to Psycho Suzie's on Friday night. He needed some brews and time with me away from his wife. His wife is really awesome but I think he's still trying to adjust to living with her 24/7. They're not the first couple to go through that. Chris is selling his Ducatti 750 Super Sport if anyone is interested in a sweet bike. It has about 5000 miles on it and has been well cared for. $3500 makes it yours.

Saturday night was fun at Luke and Lee's place again. This time things got out of hand. First problem, everyone was armed to the teeth. When will the government do something about all the guns! Next we played dress-up with Kari, she was a good sport about it.

The most disturbing part of the evening was when someone suggested that they put BULLETS in their shot glasses and take 'em down. My only thought was WTF. So Lee, Jeremy and Dan all swallowed a .380 automatic bullet with their whiskey. I've been meaning to ask Jeremy if he passed it yet, I'll do that later.

All this to get two little stickers.......

2006-04-19T22:57:00.000-07:00

WARNING: This post will contain many f-bombs. If you are a little sissy, and cannot deal with a lot of f-bombing, click here. If you are not a little sissy, read on.

Fuck! Months ago I renewed my vending machine licenses with the City of Minneapolis far in advance of their expiration date. My papers were obviously not in order. The Ministry of Health placed stickers over the bill and coin acceptors of the machines saying that the fees had not been paid to the Ministry. Becasue the fees had not been paid, no one can use the machines. Well people are fuckin' hungry so the hotel guests ripped the stickers off (exposing themselves to criminal liability according to the sticker) and bought some fuckin' candy ANYWAY? Why would someone commit such a terrible criminal act? Because when you've smoked a bunch of weed you want a fucking snickers! That's why! And you'll do whatever you can to get the candy!

The following is the just of the conversation that I had at the license counter at Minneapolis City Hall. I have changed my side of the conversation. The following is WHAT I THOUGHT, NOT WHAT I SAID! In her defense, Carol seems like a very nice lady.

"Hi," said Carol from behind the counter.

"I fuckin' paid this crap months ago and you shut down my vending machines! What the fuck!"

Carol reviews my papers and checks her computer, "I don't show your licenses as paid."

"Yeah, why would you show them as paid, that wouldn't make any sense, CONSIDERING I FUCKING PAID THEM! You have the reciept with YOUR paid stamp on it in your fucking hand! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh You were the bureaucrat who took my money for them! I remember you! Why do I remember you? Because you told me exactly how many days you had until retirement and could start sucking on the government tit for the rest of your fucking life!"

"Well if it's not shown as paid in the computer I'll have to find out where the money went," Carol stated.

"I'll just pay the shit again, what is it, $30? That'll be cheaper than my legal defense will cost if I ever find who wrote the city law to LICENSE fucking vending machines! If I just pay you again will you quit fucking with my vending machines? Damn it! Shit! Fuck!"

Carol took out a three page form and handed it to me. "Fill this out and I'll get your renewal through again."

I filled out the whole fucking three page form, what a waste of time! Carol took it to her computer to start puting the data in. "Your form says Product Vending Systems, LLC and my computer says Product Vending Systems, Inc., which is it?" asked Carol.

"The LLC is mine and the Inc. is the FORMER OWNER! I wrote that on the last two fucking renewal applications I filled out!"

"Oh, then you need to fill out an application for a new license, not a renewal because you're a new business," Carol said.

"Fine, give me the fucking thing!" The next form I filled out was the SAME FUCKING FORM except it said "New Application" on top instead of "Renewal Application." Five more minutes later I was done with that mother-fucker too.

"That'll be a $141," stated Carol.

"What the fuck! I thought it was $30! You criminal dickheads! Why don't you just fuck me with a frozen, cast iron dildo! Damn it all to hell!"

"You have to pay a NEW APPLICATION FEE, that's where the extra money comes in," said Carol.

I now felt as though the government had just cum in my mouth. (I know that sounds gross but you can thank Lewis Black for that line, I'm not the first to say that.)

So I paid the fees for my permission to conduct business. I couldn't believe that shit. What a bunch of crap. Click on the No Force, No Fraud and scroll down a bit to read Bob's writing on city government, it's more of the same. Sue happened to call after this all happened. Thank goodness she did. I got to scream at her about the whole fiasco. She was very nice and listened to everything I had to yell about, plus it's nothing compared to what she's dealt with.

One word sums it all up: Fuck.

Just a funny blurb

2006-04-12T23:26:00.000-07:00

Tonight at the Oil Awareness Meetup Hugh introduced an interesting finding:

A ailen biologist from a distant star formation came to study life on earth. The ailen biologist concluded, from studying the United States, that there was one form of life at the top of the food chain, cars.

The biologist saw that cars have enslaved servants known as humans. Many cars sleep in garages at night but some are homeless and sleep outside. Each day the human slaves bring the cars to parking lots outside of large buildings so the cars can spend all day socializing.

The ailen biologist further observed that the human slaves use much of their disposable income on the keeping of the cars happy. They provide health care for the cars (repairs), food (gasoline) and jewelry (22's). Some slaves provide their masters with tatoos and other adornments to keep them happy.

This tale comes from Hugh, a man who owns two cars but hasn't driven either of them for more than 9 MONTHS!!! Good job Hugh!

Buffalo girls won't ya come out tonight

2006-04-09T22:36:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's quotes to remember:

Scene One
Setting: The drive home from Luke and Lee's on Saturday night in my truck.
Jeremy: Rex your truck's clock is off.
Rex: Not by more than two minutes maybe.
Jeremy: Oh, sorry, I was looking at the CD counter.

Scene Two
Setting: In the garage next to the box of toothbrushes for my vending business.
Jeremy: Could I have one of your toothbrushes?
Rex: Take one of the bigger ones, they don't fit in all of my machines.
Jeremy: I gaged when I was brushing my teeth and puked a little mustard on my old one.
Rex: That's fuckin' disgusting, just take the new one!

Scene Three
Setting: Me typing this blog entry in my room and Jeremy folding laundry in his room.
Jeremy: I have never cleaned all of my laundry in the same day, I have too many t-shirts.
Rex: (laughs, laughs again, and again)
Jeremy: I might just give you the libertarian ones because I don't give a rats ass anymore.
Rex: So you don't see any hope for the libertarian party?
Jeremy: I would see hope if there were a bunch of billionare libertarians, but we're screwed!

Jeremy and I watched "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart tonight. I've never been a classic movie fan but it was a great film. Jeremy confessed that he usually cries at the end of that movie. That statement just reinforces my thesis that Jeremy may look like a mad dog killer, but he's really just a fuzzy teddy bear.

Backing up to previous events, good times were had on Saturday. My cousin Kari and her husband Micheal had a baby named Gabriel in January. Gabriel is cute and polite. He only cried when Karin held him. Gabriel was probably jealous that he will not be the only cute baby around soon because Karin is pregnant now as well (Go Brian!). We crammed more than 25 people into Jolene and Steve's house to celebrate Gabriel's birth last Saturday afternoon. Good times were had by all.

I told Uncle Dick that I wouldn't use him anymore to do my taxes because he's quitting the business soon. It didn't seem to hurt his feelings. Dick believes in "paying your fair share." I told that to my new accountant Deborah "Frenchie" McDonald. That almost made Frenchie cry, I saw a tear form but she fought it back. I told Frenchie that the ultimate goal number on the bottom line of your 1040 form is zero. Her boss corrected me and said, "No it's a negative number!"

I think I'll refer to her in the future as "Frenchie the Tax Ninja!" She found multiple missed deductions from 03 and 04 that Dick and his coworker missed for me in past years. Frenchie then pulled out her katana swords from behind her desk, took off her glasses and did some crazy chop, chop, slash, chop on my adjusted gross income (agi). She was like Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I swear. Reciepts were flying and people ran screaming down the hallway, she went totally nuts!

When all the dust and shreded tax forms settled on the ground, my AGI was around 14k bucks. That is so awesome, lovin' that depreciation! I gladly paid the bill for "Ninja Services Rendered." It's not often that you can write a check for $475 and smile!

Talked to Chris finally and he's alive and well. I keep finding more of his stuff in the house even though he moved out months ago. Today I found a box with a karate belt and some shirts and his leather motorcycle jacket.

I need to get a picture of the ghetto fabulous body work we did on Chris's Honda. He spent about $225 on mostly junkyard parts after nailing some other person's bumper. Part of the car we straightened out by yanking on it with my Jeep and a tow strap. Now Chris and his beautiful bride Karin cruise the neighborhood, straight pimpin' in a red Accord with a gray hood. From time to time Karin leans out the window and screams, "We're Rich Beeeeeeatch!" Thank goodness he has that RX-8 too.

Busy week coming up: executive committee meeting monday night, sign tax forms on tuesday, meetup wednsday, tax day protest, convention and poker saturday!

The status of things:

2006-03-31T23:32:00.000-08:00

Chris: Haven't talked to him for a week, could be dead, I'd better call him
Laundry: Half done
Newsletter: Done
House: Dirty
Alisha: Happy
Motorcycle: Battery Dead
Jeep: Broken (In Several Ways)
Intoxicated: No
Lungs: Still Recovering from the Smoker's Meetup and Poker Night
Jeremy's Chest: Quite Furry (does anyone have a hedge trimmer?)
Jeremy's Rent: Still Unpaid as of 12:30a.m. 4/3/06

The Thursday night Smoker's Meetup was fun, but only beacuse of the good friends there. We gathered at Fern's to take advantage of the last bits of smoking freedom that remain. Depressing. Want to know more about that, read Luke's post.

Happier notes: Friday night I hung out with Max for the first time in a long time. It was great to see him again. The two of us happened to converge on Alisha's place at the same time. Also saw Rowdy later at Barley John's, that was awesome too. Those guys seem to be doing well. Rowdy is now engaged to be married to Munky (nickname). They're looking for a first home right now and I hope they can find something they both like.

Saturday night Lee reclaimed the position as butt of all jokes at poker night. I hope he cried himself to sleep with Kari whispering, "It'll be O.K. honey, I'm sure they really do like you." I wouldn't usually wish dispair on my friends but if you recieved the birthday cake I did, you would say the same thing. :)

Start a blog? Me? Never!

2006-03-29T21:20:00.000-08:00

I retract that. I was one of the last in my circle of friends to get a cell phone so this is no different. Even Luke has a blog now too. Funny thing is that I haven't posted anything yet, but I already have logged 16 profile views. Seems many people want a look inside my mind, or maybe they're waiting to heckel my first post. This is soon to be determined.

For those of you who haven't researched Peak Oil much I encourage you to check out the first three links here. The wikipedia entry for Peak Oil is a great summary of the situation.

Tonight Lee, Kari, Anthony and myself tried to get the newsletter out. It has to go out soon due to the upcoming convention. We had only printed 60 of the hundreds needed when the printer committed suicide. Jeremy has volunteered the vast resources of CM to complete the job.

The rest of the week will be nuts! I'll be filling machines throughout the day Thursday and Friday, getting the boat into more permanent storage, smoker's meetup thursday night, hopefully get to the bank with Bob so I can be a signatory on the LEF accounts, meeting with Deborah the Tax Ninja Saturday morning to pay my unfair share, putting Carl's townhome on the market Saturday afternoon, poker Saturday night, showing homes to Candice on Sunday in Buffallo and sleeping somewhere inbetween.

Silver north of 10 frn's, looks like Jim's goona pay,

Rex