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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

East Hillsborough County

What a difference a few miles makes.  One minute you are in America and the next moment your in Tea Party heaven, or hell depending on your views.

The Occupy Wall Street crowd was never my fav but at least those folks stayed true to their roots.  Yea, some were stuck up, over educated college kids, who wanted a job that paid them $100K a year.  Like that number is just handed out to every new grad with a Liberal Arts Degree, hey it's just money.  These same kids forget that many of their parents busted their asses for $30-$50K a year, it was enough to put their asses through school and exceeded every little want they had growing up.  You see Mom's & Dad's that whole "Everyone Gets a Trophy" thing was a REALLY bad idea.  Also, that bumper sticker you put on your car, the one that says "My Child is a "A" student", didn't help either.  Life isn't fair sometimes you bust your ass and you get crap in return and sometime you win.  Other times you win big and become someone else, something else...a Republican or worst.  Not that being a Republican is bad, heck some of my best friends are Republicans, but these strange days are bring out the worst of the Righty Bunch.
The Tea Party started out the same way as the Occupy folks, all be it they were mostly white, they had a real issue they were fighting for, the debt & some out of control spending.  Somewhere along the way the Tea Party folks really got fucked for lack of a better word. The Republican Right, the Ultra Conservative Right Wing Republicans, got its teeth into the group.  David & Charlie, Karl, Casino Owners and Mormons took hold of the group.  Suddenly it wasn't just the debt, which got it's cascading start during a Republican's turn at the head of the table, it was collective bargaining and pensions.  Leaders who once could work with other members of the House & Senate were kicked out, told they were no longer "Right" enough.   It would seem that the Tea Party has one line of attack/compromise-Do it our way or we all die.  Think it's a bit too much of an over statement?  Remember the debt ceiling fight?  Well, get ready it's coming up again.

I got a email today from my father, it was his usual Right wing rant on how Obama is taking our guns, taking the country over and handing it over to the UN.  The UN??? Really, you can't really think that, can you?  Like the UN could do a better job, have you seen the Middle East Lately?  The email went on to explain how Oklahoma, Texas and a few other states have recently passed bills in their state houses to be a "Sovereign" State, not under Federal Government directives. Like the state of Oklahoma, while a fine state with some OK College football programs could it on their own, where you gonna get your water if the Great Lakes stop piping it down to you?  When the state Alabama decides to raid your state for it's riches, like what oil you have left and those "Blue Chip" football prospects, who's gonna save you from invasion?  Those Alabama boys don't play did you see what they did to LSU?  Have you ever cheated on a girl from Alabama?  Let me tell ya it's nothing your National Guard can handle.  By the way, that's your only defense.  Your National Guard, not "OUR" U.S. Military.  That highway, you know the one with that bridge that is about to fall into the river, fuck you it's on your residents, don't you dare call your congressman... wait now you don't even have a congressman.  That my friends is why the Tea Party is dangerous, People believe all this BS.  I hate Taxes but I love free lunch.  I love my house and I love my tax deduction even more but don't you dare take it away from me.

Wake up, we can't have it all.

Monday, July 30, 2012

99 Days, 99 Bottles and Billions of Dollars yet to go

Only 99 days left until Election Night!  Only a few Billions left in Mitt's PAC war chest and a hell of a lot more than 99 beers will be drunk before that date.   The folks in Golden will be happy with my purchases this fall, heck I might just be able to re-start this crappy economy with my beer consumption alone.
As anyone really checked out the unemployment news lately?  I don't think so.  Yes, we are still at 8.2% (or higher) Yes, that number is lower than it should be due to people not even trying anymore.  But the number you don't hear FOX NEWS talk about or even show...Government Jobs are shrinking! See righties, Obama really is making gov't smaller even if it hurts his chances in November.  WOW.


The summer air is starting to get sticky in the Bay area, TPD is out hunting for homeless and other crazy folks who just may not be following the rule.  The rule which states that you must be dressed just so, really to stand at attention for the RNC.  The folks in Romenyville are still standing though as of 6am monday morning...so we'll see.

Its nice to see that the US Auto-bail out was just an utter waste of taxpayer money...GM & Chrysler seem to be just hanging on.  Just hanging on to profits that is.  Profits equal jobs in the auto biz and Detroit making a case for "Come Back City of the Year".  Be they should be on the look out for a strong push from Mississippi's BMW & AirBus plants.  Even Grant couldn't have dreamed this shit up, "What, you mean to tell me those fucks are stealing the Northeast Manufacturing base?"  Grant I hear is local for Volunteers for the next Civil War. But I hear the folks in Tennessee are up for an attack on Mississippi after losing out on the AirBus Plant.

After beer 40 the light seems to grow dim in the Duke and the Shark's auto poilot is not ready to handle the rough road ahead.  The couch is call this man home for the Republicans are coming and the smell of smoke is soon to fill the air.

The RNC is Coming, the RNC is Coming

After spending a day walking the streets of Tampa it would seem that nothing big is coming in less than 30 days.  Sure, there are new trees were there were none and yes the city/county spent millions on Bayshore Blvd. instead of other roads in much, much more need of repair.  Other than that nothing, wait they are tearing up the Ice Palace to make remove for the Mitt's & Twitt's that will take a very large stage and speak to wary nation.  The one question that has not been addressed is the Homeless.  Where will they put the Homeless?  Gaslight Park, have you ever been there?  Homeless central!  The Faith Kitchen is out of a home, it was a soup kitchen for our areas Homeless now our Cities neediest are once again without a safe place.  But there is a bit of Good News, "Romneyville" has popped up in Downtown, look for the Pink Tents.  The Homeless have settled there, thanks to someone "Renting" a lot behind a business and the Republicans are not happy.  The City Code enforcement folks have told the group they must leave by today...But the Residents of Romneyville have a contract with the Land Owner...We shall see what happens.

During the RNC I suggest that we all hold Occupy your Backyard events!  Yes, grab some cold beers and invite your neighbors!  What fun you can have, that jerk of a next door neighbor, the one who lets his dog take a dump in your yard only to blame the neighbor from the other side of the neighborhood, ask him to join ya.  Start a convo about Guns and the bible and watch the sparks fly.  Me, I'm having a few Penn State Alumni & Catholic Priest over for a cookout and Nick at Night Marathon.  Not only am I have fun at someone else expense but saving the children of my neighborhood.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Gun Control & the NRA

They are coming to take your Guns!!  Wayne LaPierre, David Keene, Charlton Heston & others before them have made that statement many times over the years, in the face of more and more gun related crimes.  Now, reader, I'm not for banning Guns, taking guns away from Americans, it's our right!  But lets face some facts, when those old white men in 1775-1776 wrote the US Constitution they were talking about Muskets & Kentucky Rifles not Uzi's, AR15's and .50Cal's.  The folks who claim these types of weapons are protected are, in my view, just as crazy as Holmes, Columbine Shooters, Jared Lee Loughner and many more have used Assault Rifles to kill. The NRA folks claim these assault rifles are used for hunting....Right and I drove sports cars for their GREAT GAS-MILEAGE!  Is there a Deer in Upstate NY in Full-Body Armor waiting & taunting NY hunters each fall?  No!  By banning Assault Rifles or at least making them hard to obtain is NOT an attack on the 2nd Amendment.  Why would any American want criminals to have better fire power than their own police?  I would hope not.

I own guns and believe in the 2nd Amendment, but I will never understand how the Right & the NRA keep using this very American right to push it further & further.  In Florida the "stand your ground" law is making the state an old west style shooting range.  The Tampa Bay Times looked over the past few years of shootings that used the "stand your ground" law and found that many of the people involved in these cases were the criminals themselves.  Drug dealers shooting Drug dealers, Gang Members shooting other Gang members and even one guy who chased down a suspected  robber and shot him in the back...after a 3 mile chase!!   Its Time to face some facts, We are become more and more like a society that resembles a Hollywood Western.  "Guns don't kill people, People Kill People," that's what the NRA & Right-wingers say...it would seem that they believe in more regulation of People.  Yes, Republicans for more regulation of the sick and the weak...and Black, Brown and Tan, in other words anyone not like them.  Yes, it's a slippery slope to some but sometimes you have to remember the SPIRIT of Idea, not just the Words.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Night with Michelle & Wal-Mart

As my night my with Ms. Bachmann continued, I could feel an attraction building, her eyes, her hair with not a single strand out of place and her firm B-Cups...sure I'd do her.  Not for sex but for the party, Michelle needs a little democrat in her, a bit of liberal love juice to soften her up.  Maybe it could help her get back on the mainstream or maybe it would give her downs or some-other mental problem like the shot young girls take to stop pussy cancer.  Or at least that's what Michelle says.

When you start drink at 8 am, the people at Wal-Mart are much more friendly!  I pull into the parking lot with the Silver Shark warm and ready for long run, searching out BMW's and trashing them.  But first a run to America's favorite shopping palace, Wal-Mart, once the darling of the South now an InterNational Mega Chain supplied by China.  As I roam the aisles of the suburban trailer-park supply store I find I'm out of beer.  My cart make a bee line to the cold beverage section and grab a cold case of Rocky Mt Water, tear a can out and drink it down...as I walk through the store picking up steaks and chips.  Lays Chips seem to have a new flavor each week, Spicy Ketchup or Dill Pickle, no I choose Loaded Baked Potato!  God Damm I love America!!  As I approach the Menswear area a clerk stops me and questions why I have an opened beer in the store, what it's not ok to look the part while shopping at Wal-Mart?  No worries it, the can, was empty by now.  Jeans for $10!  Yes, that's Good Ol' American consumerism at its best.  If you cant make it cheap call China.  This Wal-Mart sits on the sites of a Sex Peep Show Place & Sticks & Stuff store, which is most likely an upgrade for the South Tampa area.

Has anyone noticed the Presidential Campaign is beginning to look & sound like the Reagan/Carter Election of 1980?  Reagan was not gonna win, Carter even though he was bright, he was not getting the job done.  A leader but not the leader the country needed at the time.  Reagan beat back the crazies in the GOP and made a race of it.  Carter played the same card over and over only to have his nuts clipped in November.  It was the only time my parents waited in line to vote, Reagan while not their favorite got their vote.  That's when I knew my folks were losing their grip.  They split up six months later.  The Whole Trickle Down thing never really made it to our family.

As I hop back into the Silver Shark, I open another can of the Beer and get behind the wheel. the shark welcomes me with a purr, The Band is playing on the CD player, The Weight...I pull out and head toward the great Trailer Park Beach that is Gandy Beach.  The only place where the lower class can go these days.  Confederate Flag and all that.  Women in two piece bathing suits, their fat asses bubbling over, men in cut offs and 15 year old pick up trucks.  The America that does the dirty work for the rich.  Just keep these folks stocked up with Natty Light, guns and cheap drugs and they will stay in their hole.  Away from your nice house at the Beach or Bayshore Blvd.  You call them when you need them.  

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

I was sitting with Ms. Bachmann having a Bong Hit

The other day I happened upon a great little place in the Bay area where the Sweet smell took me inside.  After paying a hefty cover charge to a very large man I stepped in to a world that was getting ready for the big show.  The manager took his time to show me around the place, this is where the big, no names mentioned, will enter so no one will know their here.  Which is odd since once inside wouldn't the folks inside then know Mr. "I shouldn't be here" is actually there?  The carpet was new the smell of freshly cut wood hung in the air like a cloud of smog that only means one thing...Republicans. The ladies, I mean "Entertainers," were busy practicing their routines and fixing their hair.  As a man with no hair on his head I found it odd how much time people spend on that grass like stuff that grows atop a persons head.  With all those ads for hair removal you would think that everyone wanted to look like me...but hey that's just my view.

After taking the grand tour the manager asked if I was interested in joining this private club, get in now cause in a few days we have to close our membership rolls, the suits in accounting had made a deal with the RNC not be too Showy during the Big Event.  Even if the folks from Fox News had already purchased 2 private party rooms at the club.  Who knew Sean Hannity was a closet freak!  No matter the cost I said I was in!  I want to see these scum-bags from Fox getting their freak on and then write about it.  The sights, the view and the ladies, not to forget the booze nor the finest grass from that Liberal Strong hold, California!  Which takes me to my chance meeting with Michelle.  She's kind of hot, that devo formed hair, that smile that reminds me of a drugged out Step-ford wife, Michelle Bachmann!  Who cares if she's married to a closeted gay man who just happens to be a preacher, that fact alone make this quest more fun.  Like having sex in a crowded bar or a public park, you know you shouldn't watch but its just too darn hot not to look.  I eased up to Michelle and offered a hit of my fine Cali bud and to my surprise she said yes but found Texas weed to be better. Ah, the fine herb that is carried across an international boarder by illegals under the fear of losing a parent back home in Mexico City.  Well, Of course I should have known that the Tea Party leader such as Michelle Bachmann would be for the little man.  Through the haze of booze & grass Michelle's face had a glow, like Jamie Gertz walking out of the pool in Fast Times.  I almost wanted to run to the mens room and do unspeakable things in private but I kept my cool.   I asked why she had worked to become the head of the Tea Party Caucus leaving her roots.  She was a small town girl who did well at school and was active in her community.  Now she is laying waste to any group that is brown or American.   She spoke on how the Isamlic peoples are coming for our rights, our guys and our Virgins.  Please God not OUR Virgins!!  I mean really what will High School QB's & RB's do on prom night with out our virgins? I pressed for more.  How would these people do this? What about Dearborn, MI aren't "these" people already here?  Aren't they Americans?  Why just "These" People, why not Mexicans?  I was told that Mexicans do better yard work and except lower pay.  So Nice, I reply, that the Tea Party & Many Republicans believe in low wages for all non-white males in America.  I ened up feeling taken advantage of, after 15 years of cutting the grass for a few dollars a week, I mean Dad could have paid me less or maybe even less.  Heck, Dad could have made me a supervisor over a ground crew.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Herd is here and Tampa gets a its old time groove back

While riding the "Bat Bike" from my S. Tampa Home to the Center of the Tampa, you can see the changes happening...Not just the dead grass & trash from Trop. Storm Debby but new mass sightings.  New Trees, Plants, people and the RiverWalk may be mostly done...Yep the Right Wingers are coming to town and the People of Tampa are getting ready.  Well, maybe not Everyone, but the city leaders are making an it known that our city is ready to shine. ( And it did it without help from Tea Party Favorite-Rick Scott) Elephants are being placed everywhere, it was said that Lowry Park Zoo let them out, The Bush Family could be here soon but that was a misplaced story, Both Sr. and Jr., said no We'll pass. Now if the City & County could find the dollars to help the City's west & Central Neighborhoods...But I guess the Right Wing doesn't really go there.

The Grand Hotel on the City's North End is finally opening!!!  The Party is set for July 28th and "is" booked for the RNC.  Millions & Millions later The Floridan Palace is here.  The Tampa Mural is back to its grand glory.  I'm looking forward to hitting the "Sure Fire Room" with a fist full on $50 dollar bills.  The Grand party will sure be bumping.


Sunday, July 15, 2012

Jobs, Tampa and Football

As the Country gets closer to the start of its great race both political parties are setting up their base command posts in Tampa & Charlotte. Here in Tampa the Right is looking to frame their party as the all things business while portraying the left, i.e. President Obama, as leader of a Socialist Government Takeover of the USA. All the while forgetting to mention that Mitt and his friends find good in these vary programs.  The underlining "Race Card" the right continues to play is beginning to show some "green shoots" of growth within the American people, only showing how far we have yet to go.  For every President Obama mistaken path, caused by letting congress do its job, you have Mitt running from his record and blaming everyone else...heck at this point the only real person who some Americans can believe is Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, at least he makes mistakes and takes ownership of them.  Though if a "whale" can grab $6 Billion from him maybe he isn't the right guy for the job....

In a few weeks the Tampa area will be become Fort Tampa, making Harbour Island an island under siege.  With only one road in & out, the people of that patch of land will feel worst than the prisoners in an American Military Base in Cuba.  Well, maybe not that bad but I'm sure the lack of a grocery store will hurt.

On the road to no where...Hey JD, how's that new school coming?