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This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Check out this guy massacring Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." I hope this guy auditions for American Idol next season cause Simon Cowell would have a field day with this guy. I'd also love to see Robert Plant's reaction to this.
    

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/therawker.html

You can tell a lot about people by the way behave during natural disasters. Never is that more evident than in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the savages in New Orleans right now. The video footage from nearly every news channel clearly shows that the black community in New Orleans failed to heed the mandatory evacuation and now that same group of people who are begging America for help are the same group that is looting the city, shooting at police and supply helicopters (how stupid is that?) and roaming the streets in gangs raping women.

You can say that's an unfair analysis of the situation but it's really not. Ever notice how whenever a hurricane passes through Florida you never hear about a large group of white guys roaming the city, fully armed and looting and raping people like a pack of wild animals? I can't imagine in a million years that if these were white people stranded in New Orleans right now they'd be killing cops and shooting at supply and rescue helicopters.

White people never view power outages as an opportunity to go ransack department stores in a free-for-all "shopping spree". The same can't be said of the people left in New Orleans right now and while it is true that not every person in New Orleans is looting, shooting and raping right now, like it or not, white people just don't behave this way.

People trapped in the Superdome of New Orleans are literally sleeping in puddles of urine and feces and despite that, two women and a young girl were raped in the Superdome Wednesday night after it got dark. I'd give you 3 guesses of the ethnicity of the rapists but you really only need even one. How much a low-life monster do you have to be to rape someone in conditions like that?

Bonus: Check out this cop joining in the free-for-all

One of the things I love the most about living in the South Bay is that on any given night you can look out your window and see a beautiful sunset. We may not be overlooking the ocean (yet) but we still got palm trees in our neighborhood and these are the two we see from our bedroom window. I took this pic a few minutes ago standing in my front yard. Not bad...

With the price of gas continuing to climb each day, I think this is what more and more American piggy banks are starting to look like!

Courtesy of Kim!

I'll never understand how people sitting in cars get manage to get their asses kicked. If I'm sitting in my car and someone tries to attack me, I'm attacking back...with my car! This just reinforces my views that some people in our society are just savages.

•  http://www.big-boys.com/articles/ghettofight.html

Remember that story about the HUGE camel spiders found in the middle east that I posted a few months back? Well, check out the size of this camel spider feasting on lizard. This spiders really look like the creatures in the movie Aliens. Insane!

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/camelspider.html

1. A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah". The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?" The little girl replied, "Then you ask him".

2. A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl: replied, "They will in a minute."

3. A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

4. One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

5. The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."

6. A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."  "Yes," the class said. "Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?" A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."

7. The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching." Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not all doom and gloom! Here's some great LOL's to put everyone in a good mood! :^)

Joke #1: The Beaver Joke

A 90-year old man said to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think of that?"

The doctor replied, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day he was in a hurry and picked up his umbrella instead of the rifle. When he got to the creek, he saw a beaver. He raised his umbrella and went "bang, bang, bang"..... AND THE BEAVER FELL DEAD!!! What do you think of that?"

The 90-year old said, "I'd say somebody else shot the beaver."

The doctor said, "My point exactly."

Joke #2: Osama Gets His 72 Virgins

When Osama bin Laden died, he was met at the Pearly Gates by George Washington, who slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to
destroy the nation I helped conceive!"

Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted
to end our liberties but you failed." James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson was next, hit Osama with a long cane and snarled, "It was evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence." The assaults and affronts continued as George Mason, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the terrorist leader.

As Osama lay confused and distressed, an Angel appeared. Bin Laden wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?"

Joke #3: Clinton Orders A 'Quickie'

Bill Clinton and Al Gore go into a local diner for lunch. As they read the menu the waitress comes over and asks Clinton, "Are you ready to order?"

Clinton replies, "Yes, I'd like a quickie."

"A quickie?" the waitress replies. "Sir, given the current situation of your personal life I don't think that is a good idea. I'll come back when you are ready to order from the menu" and then walks away.

Gore leans over to Clinton and says, "Bill, it's pronounced 'Quiche'."

All jokes courtesy of Shannon Powell.

Proving my point that rappers are a bunch of uncivilized animals who shouldn't be allowed in public, rap mogul Suge Knight was shot yet again at a Miami nightclub this past Saturday. Suge Knight is a notorious criminal, gangster and rap music heavy-weight who has made millions by being everything that civilized humans despise. The party was in honor of Kanye West who's name seems to be everywhere these days despite the fact that I've never heard one song by him. There used to be a time when you became famous once everyone heard your music and not the other way around but that's a different story altogether.

Anyway, all these rap and hip-hop people where at this club when someone shot Suge Knight but only got him in the leg. How do you try to shoot someone this big and not hit him in the chest or his big fat head? I mean come on! I was all stoked when I heard that Suge had been shot again and hoping he'd finally do the world a favor and just die. Unfortunately it looks like he'll live though.

All this comes on the heels of the 2005 MTV Music Awards which is being hosted by "Diddy" this year who will no doubt try to turn the event into some grand celebration of himself and his out of control ego. I also wouldn't be surprised if he finds some way to work in some tribute to long dead rapper Notorious B.I.G. before the night is over. I'm so over rap!

Update: Well, it seems "rock" actually managed to get some awards at this year's MTV VMA's but I'm not holding my breath that rock is making a comeback and that this horrible rap garbage is going away. Green Day got most of the awards and Cold Play is not a rock band in my opinion.

Speaking of birthday wishes, today is Stacy Tingen's birthday. Stacy is one of our East coast peeps with whom I grew up and spent endless summers terrorizing our quite little neighborhood. Have a great birthday Stacy and we'll see you in a few months!

Kim says Happy Birthday too! :^)

After our dinner at Joe's Crab Shack we headed down to the International Boardwalk in Redondo Beach to party at Naja's...a local bar right on the marina with a house band and lots of cold beer! Most of our little clan of peeps met up with us there where we obviously drank, danced, and acted really silly. I believe we even had a little girl on girl action going on at one point which is always...well, you know...totally awesome!

Now I wonder if I remembered to get that on video? Yeah, I did! :^)

Maybe we'll see that posted here later this week...stay tuned!

Kim's never-ending birthday celebration continued this weekend as a bunch of her gal pals and former co-workers met us at Joe's Crab Shack for drinks and delicious seafood. She got lots of cool girly gifts and a nice big bottle of Bacardi which even I may enjoy. We both had Alaskan King Crab legs and blackened shrimp which was awesome. I think we could live off King Crab Legs. Thanks to all those that showed up and look for more pictures in the coming...uhmmm, months? :^P (Yeah, I'm slack when it comes to pics these days...I'm really busy.)

Now this is what I call a wicked skyscraper. It's called the Turning Torso and it just opened in Sweden. It's 54 floors and 190 meters high. It consists of nine cubed sections stacked on each other with each cube turned slight forming a 90 degree twist from top to bottom. The bottom three floors are office space while the top three will be apartments.

I hope they start building a few of these here in America...this looks totally awesome!

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/27/sweden.skyscraper.ap/index.html

Comparing the people in this next video to a bunch of savage monkeys would only be an insult to monkeys everywhere. This very graphic video was reportedly shot in Oakland in 2002 and shows a crowd of black people converging on car and viciously attacking a young black girl who identified local gang members to the police. Her own "community" turns on her and traps her in the back seat of a car while they confirm that she is indeed the person that identified the local gang members. Once they do, the owner trying to save his car, actually opens the door and lets the mob have her.

After punching, kicking and ripping her top off while she's still in the car, they eventually pull her out and the whole crowd converges on her. She's running thru the street half naked and being punched and kicked like a dog by both men and women. The guy filming this is actually yelling to the crowd to let him get it on tape which goes black once she hits the ground and is being beaten to the verge of death.

Update: The woman in the video came forward this past Thursday (August 25th) and let Oakland police know that she is still alive. More details as I find them out.

The saddest part of this video is that this girl "did the right thing" by reporting the gang members and it isn't the gang members who retaliate. It's her own people in her community. You can clearly see both black men and women beating her mercilessly and chanting "*F* that bitch up."

• http://www.shooshtime.com/clips/video.php?id=5868

The other sad part of this story is that it hasn't gotten any national attention until now presumably because it's black on black violence. If this had been a video of a black person being beaten by a white mob it would have been on the news in less than 24 hours. Everyone from Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton to Louis Farrakhan would have had the whole country up in arms and ready to riot but I guess it's no big deal when a black mob beats one of their own.

With gang members, illegal aliens and Muslims continuing to erode the moral fabric of this country, I can only imagine what America will be like 100 years from now. Glad I won't be around.

I almost got t-boned in a parking lot by the crazy driver of this Penske truck on Friday. I was sitting in my "parked" car in the bank parking lot getting ready to deposit some client checks when something caught my eye. I looked to my left and here's this big Penske truck headed right for me. He came to a very quick stop less than 3 feet from my driver side door and the whole truck seemed to lurch forward from the quick stop. He got out and walked right past my car like it was no big deal and proceeded to make some delivery to the bank.

When he was headed for me, I honestly thought he had lost his brakes or something and was about to slam right into me and there was absolutely nothing I could do but just sit and watch. I took this picture sitting in my car (you can see my interior at the top and bottom) and realized this is what it must look like...one second till impact.

He didn't have one of those "how's my driving" stickers on the back of his truck. If he did, I think I would have called it and emailed them this photo.