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Bummer. You need a big can of bee bopper (the sell it at Tru-Value, good stuff) and some bennadril. And a beer!

You'll like this one then Flies: By the way, you would not happen to be Pop under an alt would you?

Was going to cut the grass today, but it can wait. I spent yesterday replacing the check valve on my well. That was a much bigger job than I thought it would be. Marlins and Rays are playing today at noon, there is beer in the mini-fridge, I've got chili going in the crock pot and I turned off my cell phone so it sounds like my day is booked.

That seems to be the very point the OP wants to make - not funny, but terrible political cartoons. Although some of them are actually funny imo if you think what idiots the people drawing them or the people they are aimed at must be I used to, two or three hard drives ago. Let me look.

Interesting note: the mascots of the two main political parties in the US were actually first used in political cartoons long before the respective parties ever identified with them.

Ditto what Kelverin said.

Just got home from St Louis. I went up there to buy an old Coke machine (made in the 1960's) and an old Frogger machine. Neither work...yet. Morgan (the lady I've been seeing) came with. It was our first weekend trip together and the longest consecutive time we've spent together. It went ok, I think she had fun. But to tell the truth I think living alone for so long has ruined me for relationships. She was starting to get on my nerves a little. Anywho, when I got home all of my booze was gone. Either the dogs had a party or the 19 year old kid (a friends son) who baby sits the dogs did. I tend to think it was the latter since I found a tube of lipstick in the trash that I just know dosen't belong to me. I hope he got lucky and I hope it didn't take that entire bottle of Knob Creek to do it.

i'm gonna get me one of them thar donkey kong machines. oh yeah! in other news, today my ears are ringing to the point i'm going crazy. it is, of course, partly because i am already crazy (serotonin issues are the likely culprit), but i don't know why today it chose to come back with a vengeance after being mostly a non-issue for several months now. perhaps it is a sign from my brain that caffeine really is a no-no? i've been feeling well enough (no anxiety issues) that i started back on the coffee every morning recently, but alas, perhaps cessation of the black oil was reason for my remission in the first place! oh well... back to zombie-land for taks. no more morning go-go juice. i'll still partake whence camping, but my next trip ain't for a few weeks. taks You should try restoring old video games. It's pretty theraputic. I'm looking for another one now. I also saw an old 1970s jukebox on Craigslist. The kind that played 45's. I had an idea to buy it and try to restore it. This is fun and so far profitable.

I listed the Ms. Pac Man machine on craigs list. I got a call on it the next day and sold it for $750. Pretty cool!

I have a theory about why the death penalty has such high public support here in the US. Our justice system is weak, lenient, and indulgent to convicted felons. The prisons are too cushy, sentences too short and parole is too easy. Once they are on parole, too little is done to keep track of them and if they violate they are often as not, not returned to prison. I truly believe we should eliminate parole for violent offenders (stats show that violent offenders have the highest recidivism) and adopt truth in sentencing laws. In other words if you draw a 25 year sentence you will do 25 years. If you draw a life sentence you will leave prison in a body bag. Do that and I think support for capital punishment will fade. Prison sentences as they are now are not really a deterrent. We need to make them one. Just my $.02.

It's 1:40 AM here. I just finished a project I've been working on here. It's a Miss Pac Man machine! Yes indeed an honest to god Miss Pac Man stand up arcade game, circa 1985. I bought it from a bankruptcy sale up in Covington for $150. It was a little beat up and had a bad power supply. I repaired the power supply (it had a bad transformer, and needed re wiring), replaced the CRT with one from another old machine I found. I sanded and repainted it and found a place online that sells the decals and put new Plexiglas on the control panel. It looks nearly brand new and I only have about $400 in it. It took a week but I must say I thoroughly enjoyed working on it. In the ingural game on the finished maching I score 26590 and got to the fifth maze. Woo Hoo.

Heh, I'd hang out with Shryke if I wanted to meet women. But not when I've already found one. That dude has the Kavorka! Kudos if you get that reference!

I met someone this week. Nice lady, 34 professional (sort of), divorced no kids. I'm taking her to dinner tomorrow night. Not expecting a Shryke night but you never know...

I know this is a little OT but I'm curious what everyone thinks. Is there a real difference between an accredited degree (a law degree for the sake of argument) from some small no name school like Austin Peay University and a big name like Rutgers for example? I'm exempting Ivy League for obvious reasons. I've found that at least as far as engineering degrees go unless it came from Cal Tech, MIT, or Georgia Tech a degree from one school is treated much the same as another.

Close! It's the Fallout 3 digital content like Broken Steel, The Pitt, and Operation Anchorage.

Last night I played fallout 3 for a while, then watched the Marlins-Rays game and drank beer while doing so. Then I played fallout 3 some more and drank even more beer. At some point I ran out of beer and hit the bourbon bottle. I woke up at 9 this morning still at my desk with empty beer cans, an empty Bourbon bottle and my Visa card littering the desk. Apparently I did a little shopping while under the influence. I checked my email and it seems I hit Amazon to the tune of $160 and hit Windows Live for all three FO DLCs. Not too bad I guess. I am definitely getting old. Ten years ago after a night I got that drunk I'd wake up next to an ugly woman, with a new tattoo and a helluva story I would not remember enough of to even tell. Now my big night is baseball, fallout 3, and beer. I need to go find a girlfriend. Even a temporary one. It's been a while!

I was no fan of GWB as you all know but I must give the man credit for one thing. Since leaving office he has returned to Texas, gotten on with his life, and had the dignity and class not to criticize or sling mud at political enemies including (especially) the current administration. I wish Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and **** Cheney had exhibited as much grace as Bush has.

Under the circumstances I thought a life sentence would be a given. Heck IMHO life in prison is too good for beasts like this because prison is too humane and comfortable. I'd rather see them locked in a windowless, lightless cell with a slot in the door for food and a hole in the floor for a toilet. And if they are sentenced to life they will leave that room in a body bag and not before.

I started playing Fallout 3 for the first time on Saturday. I've barely slept or eaten or done much else since. Holy crap this is a great game!

Is this not the coolest picture? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2431157.ece Great shot!

I'm driving up to Dyersburg tomorrow to get my new foster dog. I've blocked off a spare bed room for her until she is acclimated and we can work on socialization a little. I'm always a little on edge before getting a new one. You never know what baggage they are bringing with them or how your dogs will react.

interesting. my brother was in AIT in 1990, at camp pendleton. he went on to saudi arabia a few months later. deep... never mind. taks I was there on Mainside for school for a few months at the end of 1990. After that I went to Okinawa and from there to Desert Shield. If you brother was in AIT he would have been up in San Onofre. No doubt he's told you stories about Old Smokey, Mt. Motherf****r and jumping spiders. Most were probably true! Pendleton is huge. It's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Someone once told me you could put all of Camp Lejune, Camp Geiger, and Cherry Point (the next three largest Marine bases) inside it.

This is a solid choice. But if I'm going to watch all three back to back I'd like me memory of them wiped too so I'd be seeing them for the first time again.

When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton I used to hang out at a bar out in Vista called the Iron Pony. Anyway, I was dating a girl who played in a local band. A lot of local bands played there, but hers was the best. For my silver ticket I'd like to go to the Iron Pony on a Thursday night ($10 all the draft you want) in 1990 and hang out with old friends especially Cindy, and watch her band (The Little Red Vettes) play.