This is a personal note. After working at the best job I ever had, for 15 years, I'm moving on. The business was sold. The new owner failled to meet my standards, so I felt that I owed it to myself to move on. I took the adjoining picture 2 years ago, never thinking that I'd be working there. Well, I am. I start tomorrow at Fuson Cadillac - Buick - GMC. Wish me luck...
I spent a lot of time in school, but I don't think I ever saw this before. A 47 year old 7th grade teacher in California was arrested for teaching while intoxicated.
Tonya Neff was arrested, last week, by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department at Toro Canyon Middle School in Thermal CA. She was booked for investigation of felony child endangerment.
Sheriff's Sgt. Mike Tapp says Neff had taken prescription drugs and alcohol and an alcoholic beverage was found inside a container.
Coachella Valley school district Superintendent Ricardo Medina says there was never a threat to Neff's seventh-grade students. Neff has been placed on leave.
I like to have fun with this blog. You know, highlighting the wild and wacky.
I received the following e-mail this morning and I thought I'd share it with you. This is not intended to divide us. I'm posting this in an effort to make things better...
'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked-on-Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and has all types of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....
I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards Africa . So stop, already!!!
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back..
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.
This happened over the weekend in the San Antonio area. 71 year old William Clark Moore shot his daughter's boyfriend as he caught the two in a sex act. Actually, the daughter is 40 years old, lives with daddy and she has permission to have gentlemen callers visit the premises. They must leave before midnight. Well, the other night, our boy, William hears a noise coming from the garage. He sees daughter getting oral with boyfriend. He tells boyfriend to leave immediately, gets his shotgun, boyfriend is still there and gets shot in his left hand.
Moore is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Guys, be careful, be very careful...
Dennis Hopper finally got his "star" on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, yesterday. He's 73, has prostate cancer and is in the middle of a messy divorce. Wow! At the ceremony he was surrounded by friends, colleagues and family. Good medicine for a guy who we've seen in more than 100 movies. He's probably best remembered for "Easy Rider." He wrote, directed and stared in that movie. Easy Rider has probably lost its meaning - in 1969 it was relevant. At yesterday's ceremony, one of his friends called Hopper, "One of the coolest guys in the world!" Despite the phony world of Tinseltown, I believe it.
Imogen Mary Thomas (born 27 November 1982) is a bar hostess and former beauty queen from Llanelli, South Wales, although she was residing in London before her entry into the house. She has a degree in Psychology and Health Studies from the University of Worcester and was crowned Miss Wales in 2003.
As usual, click the picture to get the full effect and have a nice weekend!
I would rather that this blog not turn into an obituary column. I am saddened, this morning to hear of the passing of Johnny Maestro, most recently of the Brooklyn Bridge and formerly of The Crests. As a kid growing up in Mt. Vernon, NY, I used to listen to him...a lot. He was among the best of the doo wop acts. Strong voice, perfectionist and great guy! Again, he was one of those pros who loved what he did and performed up to the end. Johnny had cancer. Knowing that the end was near, he left a message for his fans, click here.
Johnny was 70. Plenty of his music is featured on YouTube. This is one of my favorites.
R.I.P. Mr. Maestro.
Robert Culp died today. It's interesting that as successful as he was as an actor, writer and director, he kept working right up to the end. He was 79.
Most of us first saw Culp on the NBC series "I Spy" which ran in the '60s. TV was a little different, back then. The show was hip, funny, had some drama, but was mostly hip. It was the first TV drama to feature an interracial starring cast. They filmed 28 episodes for a season. That's a bunch. For me, Culp was a neat actor - he made it look easy.
Apparently he was taking a walk, this morning and fell. They say he died from head injuries.
RIP, Bob.
Katherine Heigl is gone from Grey's Anatomy. I must admit that I've never seen the show. I live in a burg where there is no ABC station. I can't even get it on Dish Network
Heigl had 18 months remaining on her contract with the show. ABC says that the decision was a "mutual agreement." There's been speculation for a long time that she'd be leaving early...now it's official. She says that she wants to devote more time to her adopted daughter.
Although I don't watch Grey's Anatomy, I've seen her in other stuff. I realize that this isn't earth shattering news, but it's a real good excuse to run a picture of her. Click the picture, you'll understand.
They say that crime doesn't pay. Of course crime pays. If crime didn't pay, there wouldn't be any crime! So, this husband/wife team of shoplifters visits the Dr. Phil Show in November of 2008. They boasted about stealing more than $100,000 worth of stuff and selling it, on-line. Dr. Phil was supposed to help the couple's addiction. Well, it didn't work. The twosome was busted four months later (cops don't watch Dr. Phil) in March of 2009 and recently sentenced. He gets 27 months, she gets 366 days. Soft...very soft. They made well over 100 g's and didn't pay a dime in income tax? Crime pays.
The judge sized up Dr Phil by saying: “What a charlatan this man is,” she said. “What a terrible, terrible man.”
My take on this is that since the admission was made on TV, they could have kept the case within the TV jurisdiction - maybe Judge Judy should have tried the case!
Earlier in the week, I was looking at the blog's hit counter. I noticed that we have been visited by more than 13,000 people from 113 countries. That's a lot considering the material offered, here. I also noticed that among all of these people, only 3 were from Iceland! That's 3 out of more than 13,000!
With this week's Friday Foto I hope to change that. Asdis Ran is a famous Icelandic model and personality. Here's a link to her site, http://www.asdisran.com/.
Click the picture for the full effect and have a nice weekend!
Scroll down to see three of fifty billboards that I recently stumbled over....
Want more? Visit BestWeekEver.tv!
He had an international #1 hit record when he was only 16! Alex Chilton and the Box Tops had a number of hits. The biggest were The Letter, Neon Rainbow, I met Her In Church, Cry Like A Baby and Soul Deep.
Alex Chilton died of a heart attack yesterday morning in New Orleans. He was 59.
In the picture, Alex is in the center. Instead of trying to do a biography, I'd rather let you listen to some of his music. Here's a link to Alex and the boys lip syncing "The Letter" on YouTube.
The 2010 Census has to be the dumbest government program EVER! Why would I say that? Haven't I been watching the commercials on TV? Didn't I see the Super Bowl Commercial? Yeah, I did....and they were dumb, too. The program is costing you (and me) more than $18 billion dollars to count 300+ million people. Can anybody in the room do math? I know that there are a lot of zeros to mess with, but this comes out to about $57 for each person counted. Here's my idea. No advertising. Send out news releases to all media outlets including E!, TMZ, Extra, Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, The National Enquirer - you get the picture. Make it so that, if you follow instructions and fill out the census form correctly, you take it to the Post Office and get $50 cash! Since most households contain two or more people, I cut the cost of the census (at least) in half and put $50 in the hands of each American household. This money would probably be quickly wasted or as we say in the business world, the economy would be stimulated! Much of each $50 bill would go straight back to the government through sales tax, excise tax, income tax, etc.
I know that I deserve some money for this idea, probably a six figure amount. That's OK. My real job is a little shaky....maybe Mr. Obama could appoint me "Blog Czar" or something like that. "General Tom, Blog Czar" - Yeah, I'd like that.
Today's Military Quote Of The Day:
"When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual,
then it became optional.
I'm getting out before it becomes mandatory."
MSGT Harry T. Serres, USAF Ret.
Feeling sad and mentioning Ron Lundy in the same sentence is a major contradiction. Ron Lundy was without doubt the happiest and among the funniest guys I ever heard on radio. He was a radio disc jockey. This is back when djs actually hosted music shows and read live commercials. Personality was involved. Ron reigned during the mid days on WABC in New York from September 1965 until the station changed its format to Talk on May 10, 1982. I remember, once, Ron was reading a live commercial for a local supermarket. They were featuring a sale on chicken breasts with wings. He ad libbed, "Hey, does Hugh Heffner know about this?!" Ron would ad lib frequently. He was always a down-to-earth, folksy kind of guy. He'd open every show with a robust, "Helllllllllooooo love, gooood mornin'! It's 10 o'clock in the greatest city in the world!"
Ron had been retired for a number of years, he died this week of an apparent heart attack in Mississippi.
RIP, Ron.
Julie Galindo is a Tight End for the San Diego Seduction of the Lingerie Football League. I tell you this because in this particular picture we find Julie "Out Of Uniform."
Click the picture for the full effect.
Have a good weekend.
Moving the clock ahead one hour every spring is a relatively new concept for people in Indiana. We hate it. Until recently we remained on Eastern Standard Time all year. This put us on "Chicago Time" in the summer and on "New York Time" in the winter. This was fine for people who had no dealings with other Americans outside of Indiana.
Hoosiers are now in-step with the rest of the country and at 2AM Sunday we officially move to Eastern Daylight Time by turning our clocks foward one hour. We still hate it. My beef is that we have no business being on NY Time. We should be on Chicago Time. Does anybody around here have a map? My other beef is that we lose an hour on the weekend. WHY CAN'T WE TURN OUR CLOCKS AHEAD AT 4PM ON MONDAY? This would do much to make Daylight Savings Time a welcomed event...even in Indiana.
It amuses me to see wealthy, powerful people cheat on their spouses while we little people look on. French President Sarkozy has been married all of 2 years and they say that he's having an affair. This comes after reports that his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, began having an affair. The world is shocked! After all, these kids dated for a full three months before they tied the knot! I was thinking that they'd go the distance! Sure, Carla is said to have had affairs with Jagger, Clapton, Trump and one or two or a hundred and ninety others. She's been quoted as saying that monogomy bores her. This is (or was) Nicholas' third marriage. You know, some people just are not good at some things. Normally, I would simply be amused at seeing that these two rich kids are getting the "seven year itch" five years too early. There is one nasty little thing here, Mr. Sarkozy is supposed to be running a country. We can learn something from this. We can learn that in this day and age, it is easier to be the head of state of an industrialized country than it is to remain married. Fascinating!
I may get some flack from the redneck faction, but I don't care! Rednecks don't read blogs - or anything else. You can tell by the way they talk.
This is another reason why NASCAR does not interest me. This segment of motorsports has evolved to a non-sport and is racing to the status of professional wrestling. If you look at the picture, you see Brad Keselowski's red Dodge flipping as a result of a nudge from Carl Edwards - the other car in the picture. Edwards was "out of the race" at this point, having spent much of the afternoon in the pits. What you see is "payback" for some of Keselowski's earlier alleged transgressions involving Edwards.
Where is the officiating? People could get killed with this kind of horsesh*t! There's so much money involved that the NASCAR bosses care about nothing else.
NASCAR...professional wrestling on wheels! This Sunday afternoon, I'll be taking a nap!
