Rosie O'donnel is a fat pig

You know that feeling you get when you either see someone else barf, or you smell nearby vomit? You know... How you feel like you are gonna puke too?

That is the feeling most Americans get looking at a big fat disgustingly ugly obese, unattractive pig like Rosie.

I think the advertisers for "The View", as well as the producers finally recognized that and fired her.

Apparently Rosie has a worse approval rating than the president. More than 65% of Americans do not like Rosie.

The sad thing is, aside from her obvious weight problems, and ugly fat face, horrible hair do, and potty mouth, it is her personality that people cannot stand the most.

If she was just a little nicer, people might be able to overlook the fact that she looks like a hippo that go hit by a train.

You're one fat fuck Rosie! Do us all a favor and kill yourself.

So we saw "Shrek the Third"

Make no mistake about it, I am not a big Shrek fan. I like Mike Myers, think he is funny has hell, and accept him even though he was born in communist Canada.

All this aside, I thought it would be a nice family thing to do, to go to the movies. I figured we'd all see "Shrek the Third". Again, while not a huge fan, I have a 4 year old, and after watching the making of "Shrek the Third" on HBO, I found it to be pretty funny.

So we went to the Showboat of Lyons in Lake Geneva for the Sunday matinee showing. The matinee is always cheaper, so it's a bit of a bargain when you figure 2 adults, one child and a healthy dose of popcorn, pretzels and soda are figured in.

When we got there, all the showings were sold out. So sadly, we left... It was a pretty crappy day, rainy and overcast, which is why going the matinee was such a nice prospect. Oddly enough as we left the movie theatre, the sun broke through the clouds and it stopped raining. We ended up going home and getting some serious play time in, as well as a bit of garage cleaning, yard work, etc...

The story does not end there. NO. I promised my kid Shrek, and all be darned, he was gonna get Shrek. After a little research into the company that owns the Lake Geneva theatres, I was able to find their web site (no easy task mind you - as it is not called something obvious or intelligent, or even relevant.) I found that you can pre-order tickets for any movie online.

So I ordered up some tickets for the Monday afternoon matinee at 4:20PM for me and Taylor. I left work early, picked Taylor up and headed out again to the Showboat, internet tickets in hand. Once there, there was a hideously long line (as usual) and of course, while 4 attendants, only one person doing concessions and tickets. So while we had pre-bought our tickets, we still had to wait in line nearly 20 minutes behind 7 other people (yes only 7) to redeem our internet ticket vouchers for the real thing.

This was not a total loss. We had to wait in line anyway to get the obligatory popcorn, pretzel and soda. So one large drink, one pretzel, and one medium popcorn rang in at another $9.50 on my PayPal debit card. This on top of the already $11 ticket fees for the matinee. So figure $20.50 for 1.33 hours of entertainment with my son... Not including the $4/gal terrorist gas it took to get there... not once, but twice if you remember.

In any event, we got in the theatre, sat down close to the front, and I gave Taylor his pretzel, sharing bites from time to time, all the while munching on my stale popcorn, which by the way was soda water flavored.. This was thanks to the malfunctioning/out of order help yourself soda fountain that was so conveniently left on so that when you attempted to fill your drink, carbonated water sprayed from every orifice all over you, anyone near by, and of course my popcorn which happened to be within inches of the hell machine.

Anyway, onto the movie. As I said, I am no big fan of Shrek. However, I enjoyed this movie. Found it funny, though a bit on the "adult humor" level at times. It was funny, had some incredible animation, and great music. I especially love seeing Snow White turn from bird and animal friendly, soft spoken and sweetly singing her usual cheery songs, metamorpasize into one freaky bitch to the tune of Zepplin. Man, she kicked some ass.

All in all I had a good time. Taylor did too.

So for Taylor and DaDa, I give this two big thumbs up. On a kiddie bordom factor, Taylor gave this an awake factor of, never once dozed off!

Jimmy Carter is a moron

The worst president in the history of the United States calls Bush the worst?

WTF? Carter, you are a retard, and you are getting even more retarded in your old age.

"Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday his remarks were "careless or misinterpreted" when he said the Bush administration has been the "worst in history"

Ok, let's just compare Apples to Oranges shall we?

Carter:

Highest unemployment rates ever
Highest inflation rates in history
Highest oil prices in US history
Highest unaccounted for terror threats, second only to Clinton
Highest interest rates in history

Bush:

Lowest unemployment rates ever
Lowest inflation rates in history
High gas prices, but certainly not as high as Mr. Embargo
No terror attacks on US soil since the War on Terror began
Lowest interest rates in history

Should I really go on? Carter, you are a bumbling idiot, and a complete and total fuck tard. I was alive during your presidency, and remember all too well how you fucked this country almost overnight. You cut our military, you left us vulnerable to attacks, you drove up the price of gas and interest rates with your inept domestic policies. You have done nothing useful since your presidency except back pedal in a futile attempt to reverse your legacy, which is, you are the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - PERIOD!!!

"Maxim" calls Lindsay Lohan "Hottest"?

Lindsay Lohan "Hottest Women in the World"? This according to "Maxim" magazine. It does not surprise in the least that "Maxim" would call Lohan, hot, given they think that Jessica Simpson is hot. To Jessica's credit though, while dumb as a box of rocks, she does not appear to be a drug addicted skanky slut like Lindsay Lohan.

What's next, "Rosie O'Donnel, hottest fat carpet muncher in the world"?

Come on "Maxim", give us a break. What do you take us for?

Grass Cutting! ARGH

Well, as some of you know, we own a 3 acre parcel of commercial property in Lake Geneva, WI. This is where our data center and ISP office are located btw. The grass here was getting pretty overgrown, so I suggested we get it cut. We used to have someone cut our grass, but have since been doing it ourselves, transporting my dad's John Deere 265 back between his house outside Burlington, and the office here in Lake Geneva.

Dad has 2.5 acres to cut at his house. It would appear that the Deere has some problems, and will not stay running. Could be fuel system, but we do not know for sure. Long story short, I went to dad's house yesterday to try and get his tractor running. I brought my trailer with the idea of first fixing the tractor, then transporting it to the office to cut the grass.

Well, it would appear that there was no fixing this problem, so we instead used the trailer to bring the Deere to the local Deere dealer in nearby Burlington. After stopping there, we found out that it would be faster to bring the tractor to the main Deere Dealer in Salem. This was about another 35 minutes or so away.

I headed out to Salem, and dropped the tractor off and picked up a rental. They gave me a John Deere 585. This is the Rolls Royce of Deere's. Keep in mind that John Deere is already the Rolls Royce of tractors... Anyway, this 585 had a amazing 62" cut, 4 wheel drive, a fuel injected Kawasaki engine, and things like, tilt steering, cruise control, cell phone plug in, etc...

I've never had more fun cutting grass. This machine was amazing. It even had power steering and brakes. One a lawn tractor. That is insane!

Anyway, I brought the rental to the building first where it took about an hour or so to mow down the heavy over grown weed/grass combo. Then figure another 30 minutes or so to blow the clippings into the brush that borders the back of the property.

From there, I loaded up and head to dad's house to mow his nightmare of a yard. In some places the grass was nearly 2 feet tall. Me thinks dad spends too much time watching NASCAR and not enough time mowing his yard.

Anyway, this 585 did a wonderful job tearing up that grass and weeds making the yard look less like a jungle and more like suburbia.



One nice little machine! I'm told these cost around $12,000 or so? OUCH!

Long story short, on the repair front, I'm told it could be up to 4 weeks. We are right in the middle of crazy grass growing season. You know, that part of spring where the grass must be cut weekly, sometimes twice a week. I think we may be renting this big bad boy again soon!

Happy Birthday Taylor

Well, my kid turned four yesterday! Hard to believe. Seems like just yesterday he was born! Had a great time together. I picked Taylor up around 2:30PM. We went to Wal-Mart so he could pick out some toys. He picked out three die-cast Thomas the Train's, Bertie, Soder Smelting Works and Soder Timer Works. Then he picked out a number 24 Jeff Gordon, HotWheels.

After that, we went to Dairy Queen. I had a Hot Dog and lemonade and Taylor got a kiddie Sunday... Yummy.. He had a choice of Mickey D's or DQ, and chose DQ.

Then we went with Grandpa to play Mini Golf. My four year old shot a hole in one on number 12. By far the second most difficult hole on the course! Could he be a White Tiger some day? Who knows.

After that we went home and Taylor played with this new toys while I did some much needed house cleaning and laundry. Then I bar-b-que'd some Pork Chops and made Taylor's favorite crescent rolls stuffed with cheese.

All in all my kid had a great birthday. Of course we're having the real party this weekend, but it's always important to do a little something on the actual day!

"Spider Man" 3 SUCKS ASS!!!! Don't pay for this movie

If ever there was a more appropriate time to download a pirated version of a Hollywood film off the internet, now is the time.

Take "Spiderman" three, as a for instance. I took my son to see this movie, along with some friends and their kid. We did the SUV back in thing, at the drive-in theater in McHenry, IL. What a treat.

Hell, I have not been to a drive in since the 70's. I think the last film I saw was "The Cat From Outer Space" at the Crestwood Drive-In in Crestwood, MO.

Anyway, it was a real neat thing to do, what with all the nostalgia of the old drive-in feel. Bringing in your own chairs, blankets, food, drink, etc...

Only problem was, this movie sucked. No, it sucked balls. NO>>>!!!!!!! IT SUCKED ASS AND BALLS!!!

It was horrible. My kid was about 5 minutes into the movie when he said, "da da, I don't like this movie, lets go home." We probably should have at that point. A lot of people did.

The best part of the movie was about 3/4 way through this boring flick when the projector got stuck and the film melted. Seriously... The film melted. It was like one of those spoof movies where the film burns while the projector is stuck. Only, this was no spoof. It on a 150' screen, what a site this was. It was probably the most exciting part of the entire film.

At that point, people started leaving in large numbers, my friends and their kid included. We stuck it out though, and after a 25 minute delay, the last 10 minutes (God only knows how much of the film was left) of this crap movie were played.

This was supposed to be an action movie. Instead it was another lousy attempt at a love story. With the disgustingly skanky and horribly scummy acting of one Kirsten DUNCE! ICK... Jessica Simpson could act her way out of a paper bag before Kirsten, and that is not saying much!

This movie was crap. An absolute rip off... Meanwhile it is making millions... Some 60 million, opening night, when we saw it.

I will say however, the whole drive-in experience was well worth it. Lots of good old family fun that brings back such wonderful memories of my own youth. Spending time with my son, and sharing this kind of experience made it well worth it.

Ironically, prior to the movie, the previews, which lasted some 30 minutes plus, were full of other useless sequels that should not have been made. Things like, "Rush Hour 3"... WHAT? I did not even know there was a two. WTF??? "Shreck the Third".. Christ, why? "The Amazing Four" part two? God, no!! The first one should have been reason enough for the people that created it to commit mass suicide. Filming that would have been much more gratifying.

You have my permission to download "Spiderman" three, off the net.... To be honest, I am not sure it is even worth the bandwidth it will use.

What a rip off!

Cardinals Pitcher Derserved what he got

And the team deserves to lose this season if they continue to hold this worthless asshole on a pedestal.

For those that do not know, the WORLD CHAMPION, St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock was driving drunk and drugged up when he crashed his dumb pathetic ass into a tow truck. Hancodk was driving an SUV (what's left of it below) on I64 in the early morning hours of Sunday April 29.



What a fucking idiot. We was so drunk, he was twice the legal limit. Cops found more wacky tobacky in what was left of his wrecked SUV.

I guess Hancock was 3/4 decapitated and died instantly from his injuries.

"8.55 grams of marijuana and a glass pipe used to smoke marijuana were found in the rented Ford Explorer. Toxicology tests to determine if drugs were in his system had not been completed."

What a fucking tard. You know, growing up, I would have given anything for the chance to play in just ONE major league ball game. Guys like this Hancock get the opportunity, no... privilege and then just piss it all away.

Meanwhile the team plays tribute to this fuck tard. He should be whiped from all the record books, and anything at all published in the future that ties him or his life to the Cardinals and Major League Ball.

Hancock, you are a COCK! He should be shamed, and the team should do their part to shame him and his legacy. What a pathetic loser!

My damn car!

Well I took my Olds Intrigue into the dealer for the fifth time today. This is the result of an ongoing issue surrounding my Power Steering pump.

Ok, so about 2 years ago I was driving to Burlington to get my hair cut when my serpentine belt blew. The end result was loss of power generation (alternator), Cooling, ie., AC Pump, etc., and of course power steering...

Apparently the cause of the serpentine blow out was the result of a locked power steering pump pulley. I had some PS problems prior to this.. The car would make noise, it was sluggish on the wheel, and hard to steer at times when the car was not in motion.

Well the complete and total blow out of the belt and subsequent power steering completely killed it at that point.

Ok, so after taking it to the dealer they day the belt blew they found that the power steering pump and pulley had shattered launching shrapnel into the power steering reservoir, the end result was about $500 in damage/replacement.. What a mess...

Anyway, shortly after having things replaced the car was again sluggish at the wheel and hard to steer. I brought it back in thinking I had a transmission problem. I ended up paying $80+ for a transmission inspection I did not need...

Long story short, I had it back in a short time there after, still having problems, and they ended up topping off the power steering fluid. So was it leaking?

YES... All over my DRIVEWAY!

So back in again; this time, they replace the power steering pump. Charged the shit out of me again.

A few weeks later, problem returns.. This time they replace the pump again; under warranty, and send me on my way.

Well the problem is back. Now I have no power at all.. Cannot run the AC without the car clunking and banging like it is mis-firing. Power steering barely works. The PS makes a lot of noise. There is more fluid leaking. The vehicle is smoking and there is a burning oil smell...

Lastly, I now have a check engine light on. I've never seen this in the 8 years I have owned this car.

What the hell man? Stay tuned... It's still in the shop!