We can climb out of hell one inch at a time. Yes we can.

Either we heal, now, as a team or we die as individuals.

Yes we can.

I’d wish you good luck but you wouldn’t know what to do with it when you got it.

Merchant Circle Economic Survey

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Small Business Economic Stimulus Survey

 

Here are the results of our survey conducted from a pool of 700,000 local business owners spanning all 50 states from 2/19/09 to 2/22/09.

word du jour: PROSELYTIZE

Word du jour is back, and once again we are relying on our trusty friend, Merriam-Webster online.  Today’s word is PROSELYTIZE.

intransitive verb

1 : to induce someone to convert to one’s faith

2 : to recruit someone to join one’s party, institution, or cause

transitive verb :

to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause

Now let’s use that in a sentence:

Jehovah’s Witnesses are the worst offenders, in my opinion, when it comes to PROSTELITIZING.

You can be in the shower, or on a ladder fixing an electrical fixture, or whatever…  and then the door bell rings and you jump out of the shower, or climb down the ladder and then you open the door and instead of your sister you see two young white dudes with short sleeve white button-down shirts and ties, carrying “literature” and you know what they are going to say before they even open their mouths.

photo du jour: Pamela Anderson

Some things just speak for themselves:

song du jour: Bang Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down

Original (the audio, anyway):

And live…

Bang bang you shot me down
Bang bang I hit the ground
Bang bang that awful sound
Bang bang my baby shot me down

I was five and you were six
We rode on horses made of sticks
I wore black and you wore white
You would always win the fight

Bang bang you shot me down
Bang bang I hit the ground
Bang bang that awful sound
Bang bang my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
And I grew up I called you mine
He would always laugh and say
“Remember when we used to play?”

Bang bang you shot me down
Bang bang I hit the ground
Bang bang that awful sound
Bang bang my baby shot me down

Music played and people sang
Just for me the church bells rang

HEY!     HEY!      HEY!     HEY!

Now you’re gone I don’t know why
Sometimes I cry
You didn’t even say good bye
You didn’t take the time to lie

Bang bang you shot me down
Bang bang I hit the ground
Bang bang that awful sound
Bang bang my baby shot me down

You shot me right between the eyes
You left me paralyzed
Bang bang bang bang bang
Oh, oh baby I’m laying on the ground
I’ll never come around
Bang bang
Oh baby, come on back to me
You see how sweet it’s gonna be
Bang bang

Montana Prisoner Sues For “Satanism Interference”

Here in the United States anyone can sue anyone else for any reason or no reason at all.  Case in point, as reported by The Telegraph:

Jason Paul Indreland, who is serving a three-year sentence at the Yellowstone County state prison for drug possession, claims jailers confiscated a medallion that is a “protective symbol” in his religion. Indreland says

He has been a practising Satanist for the past decade.

The lawsuit claims jail staff refused to return the medallion or allow Indreland access to a “Satanic Bible or Book of Satanic Rituals”.

The suit alleges that Yellowstone County jail staff placed “Christian greeting cards under (his) cell door,” that said “Jesus was ready to save and accept him”.

The lawsuit also alleges that Indreland was denied medical care for his drug addiction, that he was placed in violent situations and that he suffered harassment and retaliation while incarcerated.

Indreland initially filed the handwritten federal lawsuit last March while he was still held at the jail. The lawsuit names as defendants the Yellowstone County Board of Commissioners, Sheriff Chuck Maxwell, Undersheriff Jay Bell and Sheriff’s Capt. Dennis McCave, who oversees county jail operations.

The lawsuit seeks $3 million for alleged civil-rights violations, $2 million for “the deprivation of his rights and injuries both mental and physical,” and $5 million in punitive damages.

County officials said they have not seen the lawsuit and could not comment.

Personally, I really don’t care how prisoners are treated.  They are PRISONERS for crying out loud.

This guy (and the situation) and the cocksuckers in Oakland are some of the real problems in our society.  Oh yeah, and Wall Street and…

SWEET!!!: BART holdup victim grabs knife, kills robber

Finally, an article about Oakland that brings a smile to my face:

(02-20) 11:29 PST OAKLAND — A man being robbed by two Oakland men in the parking lot of the Fruitvale BART station managed to grab a knife from one of the assailants and stabbed the other one to death, authorities said today.

The robbery victim was approached by the two 18-year-old men about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. One of the men showed a knife and the other said he had a gun, BART spokesman Linton Johnson said.

Their target, a 23-year-old man who lives out of state, was robbed of some items before wrestling away the knife from one of the men and stabbing the other robber, Johnson said. He said the stabbing “appears to be a self-defense move.”

The two assailants ran, and the robbery victim, whose name was not released, called Oakland police.

A short time later, police got a 911 call from a nearby home about a stabbing, Johnson said.

That call came from a house around the corner from the station, where the family of Christopher Gonzalez lives. Gonzalez ran into the home, cried out for his parents and sister and collapsed in his father’s arms, the father, Javier Gonzalez, said today.

The elder Gonzalez said he had tried to perform CPR but had been pulled away by police. Christopher Gonzalez died at the home.

The other alleged robber was also at the home and was arrested, Johnson said. He had items from the holdup but was not armed, Johnson said. His name has not been released.

How much you wanna bet that the cops get taken to task (or court) for SUPPOSEDLY “pulling away the elder Gonzalez” that was attempting to perform CPR.  Maybe if the little cocksucker wasn’t robbing someone at knife point he wouldn’t have gotten stabbed, eh?

Something tells me vigilanteism is going to make a big comeback.

Sa-Weet! 

(If you check the comments at the SF Chronicle you will see that I am not the only one that feels this way.)

Greta interviews Bristol, I mean Sarah (does that woman ever shut up?)

Wait!  here’s a few seconds of Bristol acknowledging that abstinence is a ridiculous notion (and that we are all animals driven by the primal urge to procreate!)

To believe that Bristol planned this on the spur of the moment and that Big Fat Flapping Mouth Sarah didn’t orchestrate this is also ridiculous.  Note that there are only two minutes here for Bristol, nothing like the 5+ minute rant by SP (that no one wanted to hear in the first place).

And here’s another 30 seconds:

Then enters Trig, because SP can’t even let her own daughter have  a moment of her own.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3639027&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494205,00.html

I can’t believe that Greta gets paid to interview people.  She’s horrible.  On so many levels.

song du jour: Delta Dawn (Bette Midler)

No particular theme for today’s song other than I like it and it’s been going through my head.  Now it can go through yours too.  Turn it up loud and sing along!

She was forty-one and her daddy still called her baby.
Everyone in Brownsville thinks she’s crazy,
’cause she walks to the station with a suitcase in her hand.
And she’s looking for a mysterious dark-haired man.

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn.
Prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on.
But a man of low degree stood by her side,
and he promised he would take her for his bride.

Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
Did I hear you say he was meeting you here today
to take you to his mansion in the sky?

Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you got on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
Did I hear you say he was meeting you here today
to take you to his mansion in the sky?

Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you got on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
Did I hear you say he was meeting you right here today?
He’s gonna take you to his mansion in the sky.

Delta Dawn, oh, what is that flower that you’ve got on?
Could it be, could it be just a faded rose from one of those days gone by?
Well, did I her you say
that he was gonna meet you right here, right here today?
He’s gonna take you to his mansion in the sky.
To take you to his mansion in the sky.

He’s gonna take you, he’s gonna take you.
Oh, he’s gonna take you and you and you and you.
Oh, gonna take you, take you to that mansion.
He’s got to, gonna take you to that mansion.
He’s gonna take you and you and you and you,
oh, you and you and you.
Take you to his mansion in the sky.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Gonna take you. Oh, oh.
He’s gonna take you, gonna take you,
he’s gonna, he’s gonna take you to that mansion,
he’s gonna take you and you and you, oh . . .