What a bunch of crap

Sometimes, I have random thoughts pop into my head. No real rhyme or reason, just connections made from unassociated events. Here are two random connections made from a video I saw of a SUV, with a minigun, that they use to protect the President. So here was the first thing I recalled: In 1965, Congress authorized the Secret Service (Public Law 89-186) to protect a former president and his/her spouse during their lifetime, unless they decline protection. In 1997, Congress enacted legislation (Public Law 103-329) that limits Secret Service protection for former presidents to 10 years after leaving office. Under this new law, individuals who are in office before January 1, 1997, will continue to receive Secret Service protection for their lifetime. Individuals elected to office after that time will receive protection for 10 years after leaving office. Therefore, President Clinton will be the last president to receive lifetime protection. WTF?! Why would we not protect the President for life?! Every President?! For God's sake, and this was my second realization, we just protected Jimmy Carter's trip to Syria to meet with Hamas and we aren't going to protect GWB in 2018?! What the fuck is that?! This needs to be a congressional issue that gets fixed. Bipartisan and across the board, the President deserves secret service protection for life.

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Thanks to CJunk!

My suspension of disbelief

Here is my point, perfectly captured, in comic form.

Tap, Tap, Tap.... Is this thing on?

So, eh.... How's it going? I know we haven't been posting a lot. Sorry about that. Life, and what not, seems to be getting in the way. Who would have thunk it. Anyhoo, let me give a brief update and then scatter shoot a few things. First, the new job is pretty kick ass. Just like my last job, I can't say for whom I am employed due to corporate images and PR departments and so on. However, I can say that I went from a smaller million dollar oil and gas company to a multi-billion dollar energy company. At said company, I'm the, or rather "the", map guy. If it's to be mapped, it is my job. Pipelines, wind, solar, coal plants, well location, water rights, right of way's, Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders house's or whatever. The plus side is that any soft or hardware that I ask for or that I need, I get. I think my personal computer software bill is around 25 to 30K. No complaints, just an email approving the purchase. That freaking rules. Also, we have lunch catered every day. Very nice. I like food and I like free, so free food is the greatest. Add to that, they have a gym and a trainer on staff. So, I now get paid to work out and I do. Cardio 5 times a week with weights 3 times a week. I've lost about 15 lbs and my cardio is getting better daily. So as far as work goes, I'm happy as a clam. A free food, working out, computer laden clam. It also engenders you to be a hard working clam and right now I'm busy from pretty much 6am to 6pm. It's good for the paycheck and I enjoy it but it sucks for you, the reader. (Of course, some could argue that "less Rob" is "less suck.") So that is my world in the current state, except that we got the wife a new car. It's a Dodge Journey. It's pretty cool, it drives ok but, most importantly, it has satellite radio. All hail Hair Nation. Hair band metal at it's finest. Sweet. Now for some scatter shooting: ~ MSNBC was doing a report from the North pole on global warming the other day. They were bitching about the thinning ice and talking about how they don't see any penguins up there at all, anymore. It could be because all 17 species of arctic penguins live on the south pole, dumbass. ~ The Dallas Stars beat the Sharks and play the Redwings today. My prediction: Stars in 6. Why? Because no matter how good the Wings are, that's Chris Osgood between the pipes. ~ The price of oil? $150 by July. ~ God bless that Harpy, Hillary. Keep on going! Don't let those men convince you to drop out! (I love train wrecks.) ~ If you lived in Florida in 2000, voted for Kerry and then voted for Hillary in the primaries, you have to admit it: Your vote just really doesn't matter does it? Why not just stay home? ~ I turn 35 this year. Can I start my mid-life crisis yet? ~ Finally, I leave you with a question? If everyone on the earth disappeared except you and Richard Little, Rosie O'Donnell and Brittney Spears would you really want to repopulate the earth with that gene pool?

Where the hell is everyone?

As for myself, I've been working with/entertaining clients at work. This usually carries over into the evenings. As for everyone else, I shall speculate! Diana - Would love to be blogging in succinct, two-sentence bursts but her internet can't seem to stay connected due to the frequent power outages induced by this ice-cold global warming. Yeah, apparently that asshole Gore put our eventual self-induced death and extinction on a 10-year hiatus. Dave - very busy going back to all the points on his recent motorcycle tour of the southwest to meet all of his court dates for the various charges: In Ranger, TX for indecent exposure to a barnyard animal; in Monahans, TX for aggravated assault of a bale of hay; in Deming, NM for attempted polygamy and finally to Sierra Vista, AZ for impersonating a police officer's wife. Rob - his recent change of employment to the apparent CIA of the oil and gas industry allows him no time for anything ever. And we're all safer because of it. I drive by and check daily for an additional star on the wall of his employer. Thankfully he stays safe Too busy to blog because most of his day consists of making fun of my fantasy baseball teams, downloading pictures of Lucy Pinder (and forwarding them to me for scientific study), doing research on Jeramiah Wright's influence on Obama's past and why Obama gets a pass on it, changing a flat tire on his car, and traveling everywhere in the state of Texas twice. Where do you think everyone is?

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