Let's Give It Up For Our Catholic Brothers!

Catholic Bishop Grasida has a no nonsense radio ad that tells it like it is. Now if the protestants would stop worrying about their tax exempt status maybe we could end the "slaughter of the innocents".

Does This Camper Make Me Look Fat?

I was looking for a pop-up to pull behind my Honda Element. Now the Element has a towing capacity of 1,000 lbs. This leaves me with a choice of a few HOT WHEELS size models. If only it could tow 300 lbs. more I'd have a choice of pop ups with full amenities. This Alite model seems pretty nice.






























A couple of years ago Dodge came out with a new van, the Sprinter. It has a 3 liter Mercedes diesel that gets 22 mpg. I thought that would make a great camper. A company in California beat me to it. The Sprinter van with the conversion costs about $58,000. I'm thinking if Obama wins this may become an option. No more pesky real estate taxes to support the failing school system. In a couple of years Fed-Ex and UPS will be selling off their used Sprinters; ooohh project!

Now I have to convince CP that all three of us would be happy living in a van.

Book Notes

My blog goes from the ridiculous to the sublime.

After being on the waiting list for six weeks and after starting out at number twenty three, I got my copy of The Shack. First let me say that my mild case of Aspergers Disease usually precludes me from enjoying novels. Unless the novel is very believable or historical, I much prefer non-fiction.

The Shack is a spiritual odyssey that loosely follows the format of a Christian caught up into heaven story. There the similarity ends. I think this book is another treatise on how Christianity is changing in the post -church era: the idea that relationship trumps rules, people trump programs and God can be packaged and and placed in one's pocket like a PDA.

The book did lag a bit in the middle. The symbolism, metaphors, and allegories began to overwhelm my Vulcan brain. Something told me to press on, though, and the book had a great conclusion. I can see why this book got mixed reviews. Ninety percent of the people loved it and ten percent of the people thought it was an abomination. I can imagine it won't be a hit with the KJV only crowd, or the Christians who preach grace and live works.

I give it 4 stars.

Colon Cleanse Those Extra Pounds Away

Am I the only one to notice an increase in infomercials for colon cleansers? Perhaps this is related to the decrease in the DOW. Even my beloved History Channel interrupts its Nazis at 4 am to put on a Colon Cleanser half hour commercial. After ten minutes of this crap the "blab-it and grab-it" preachers seem interesting. Lately the late night lords of the high colonic are pitching this stuff as a weight loss miracle. You can lose 10 lbs. overnight by taking a mega-dump! (the plumbers must love this stuff). Now just in case your idea of a good time on a Friday night is crapping out an Anaconda and you believe this stuff is what you need to pep you up, I'll list the reasons why these clowns are F.O.S.:

Plain old fiber is your colon's best friend and it costs pennies a day.
Need to get that clean as a whistle feeling? Just down yourself a 99 cent bottle of citrate of magnesia. One caution however, if you're expecting company you may want to use something gentler like Mira-Lax.
That secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices contained in these fad products are all homeopathic nonsense.
The people featured in the testimonials are the same people who visit Roswell every year and sit at home with aluminum foil on their heads.
Having a two foot long, three inch wide stool is no way to lose weight. I tried it and I actually gained 3 ounces, not to mention you will probably be calling for an epidural.

So to all the anal retentives out there I say short of an implanted colonic pacemaker the best way keep that colon happy is to cut out the fat and increase the fiber.

If you feel you absolutely must cleanse that colon of all the toxins, heavy metals, mold spores, yeast, bacterias, and the rest of the crap that belongs in there, I recommend watching the evening news.

Black Friday, "The Day The Music Died"

Friday Oct. 3rd. 2008, the day Congress passed the bail out and shredded our constitution. Not since the Weimar Republic, has a government manufactured such an enormous panic in order to seize individual freedom and property. The looters are close to seizing half the economy and ensuring that they have a majority of non-taxpaying voters. The next goal of the looters is to give us "Fannie Mae" health care and "Freddie Mac" energy.

BARNEY FRANK
"I'm only here to help you."

Mark Levin's
Anatomy of a bail out:
Homeowners want protection from their own bad judgment.
Investors want protection from market forces.
The old want free medicine.
The young want free schooling.
The unemployed want jobs and money.
The rich want money in their pockets .
The poor are never satisfied.

Is there anyone left in this country who isn't trying to get something for nothing?

In "Atlas Shrugged "the producers all fled to a secret island where they created a paradise of success and industry. The Looters were left behind in their collectivist hell and wondered why nothing functioned anymore.

I'm looking at Costa Rica. My Scots-Irish relatives didn't emigrate here to bow their knee to another Lord.

Open Season on Biden Begins Oct. 2nd.

"Oh yep he's a big one. I bet there are at least 500 plugs in his rack. Now if he would just step out of that group of fawning liberal media. Come on, Joe, turn sideways so I can land one right between your squinted botox eyes. Come on Joe, the light is getting flat and I have to go pick up the kids and take em to hockey. Yep I'm going nip right down and bag me a big lib and get home in time for the Ski-Doo races."

KAABOOM!

"Got em, right between his lying liberal Klingon eyes."