Florida Politics

Another good article on Florida politics from the Old Man (who has now been invited to contribute to this blog):
Term limits put clueless newbies in charge in Tallahassee
Tease ya with this quote from article:
"Republicans in the House have opted to elevate an individual to one of the three most powerful political posts in the state who is facing foreclosure of his $1.2 million home, a $2.7 million legal judgment against him and even had his driver's license temporarily suspended and failed to pay highway tolls.
This is the party of financial restraint, fiduciary responsibility, balanced budgets?"

Twitter comes to the small screen....

I follow a twitter/blog called "Shit My Dad Says" and now it looks like it might be a TV program with Captain Kirk as the dad.

New add to the blog roll.....

With text like these I'm coming back....

"this morning i woke up under the kitchen table. i went to my room and there was an inflatable whale in my bead with a banana duct taped to where its penis should be. there were trails of cheez-its around my apartment and i found $67 in the crotch of my underwear, im guessing i had a very happy birthday"

Go see others at Texts from Last Night

Play by the Rules......

Had an interesting little conversation with one of the project managers at work yesterday. We were talking about an article that one of the other project managers had sent out. With that article and the Texas IRS plane guy we got into a discussion about taxes in the US. It turns out that he has had a run in the IRS a while back and is still bitter about the experience. After listening to his story I understood how the incident came to pass and I asked him a simple question "If you had filed your tax returns do you think this problem would have never happened?" His first response was "Yes", but then he started to back track. After several back and forths he still could not see his responsibility in what happened. It was the same as the Texas plane guy and the house bulldozer guy or for that matter my former roommate who also had a run in with the IRS. There is a connection in all these stories, THEY DID NOT FOLLOW THE RULES.

The Texas guy didn't file his returns and didn't pay his taxes so the IRS came after him. If you don't file after years of filing it throws up a red flag on your account and you will get audited.

The Bulldozer guy has IRS liens on his property and the state has liens on his property for not paying property taxes. He can't just pay off his mortgage as those liens have priority over the bank mortgage.

The project manager in my office didn't file his taxes which caused a red flag on his account and the IRS came after him.

My former roommate didn't report all of his income and the IRS came after him.

If you follow the rules and file your return and pay your taxes ON TIME the IRS might audit you but as long as you haven't played fast and loose with the rules you'll come out unscathed. But if you don't file your taxes when due, don't pay your taxes when due or pay less than what you should due to fudging the numbers you will have problems.

People take some responsibility for your actions!!! Quit blaming others for your actions or inactions, you got what was coming to you.

In my 25+ years of filing taxes and paying taxes I have not had any of problems with the IRS. I don't take deductions I'm not entitled to and the deductions I do take I've got the proper paperwork to back them up so if was to get audited all my ducks are in row.

People complain about taxes and I wish I didn't have to pay as much as I do, but its the price of living in a great country and its a price I'm willing to pay.

Now sit down and shut up we're running late.

Police Chase in Tampa, Fl

This new Florida news article courtesy of the Godfathers and Consigliere's old man, Terry:
Police Chase in Tampa, Fl
And why am I posting this article......For this awesome excerpt: "After officers cuffed him, Leonard banged his head on a curb and started eating grass."

Hey kid your worth $87.50 and 1/2 a Cockatoo

I forsee these children needing some help establishing their self worth after being sold for $175 and a Cockatoo.

Excavating the Internet

Sometimes I feel this blog is like the little yellow excavator, adding my bucket full of commentary on the world.

Other times I feel like the dirt.......

Flaming Puck of Death.....

The Winter Olympic Opening ceremonies were pretty cool especially the Orca's swimming across the floor of the stadium with their spray coming out of the floor, the ice breaking up and the performers trying to stay on the ice, and oh and the skiers and snowboarders doing tricks and spins while on wires in front of the mountain scape.

The lighting of the Olympic torch is always talked about quite a bit in the pre-ceremony and this year the talk was about whether "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky would have any part in it. When I heard that he might be a part of it, the idea that came through my mind was wouldn't it be cool to have the traveling Olympic torch light a hockey puck and have Wayne Gretzky shoot the flaming hockey puck over the cauldron to get it lit.

It was too bad they had a problem with one of the ice columns for the flame in the stadium not functioning. On the other hand its good the games are in Canada because if that problem had happened in Beijing, the people responsible for that item would probably have been executed.

Patchouli scented males mourn......

The inventor of the frisbee has passed, and here I thought it was Norville Barnes (@ 1:22)? If you haven't seen "The Hudsucker Proxy" go rent it. It's a Cohen Bros film, you know of "Raising Arizona", "O Brother Where Art Thou", "Burn After Reading", "The Big Lewbowski" ,etc fame. Now go out and play a little frisbee golf in honor of the creator.

I'd rather have someone that uses technology...

There's been a lot of talk about Obama's use of a teleprompter during speeches. Now compare that to Sarah Palin's use of notes on her hand to describe her priorities at the Tea Bagging Convention.....I'm gonna go with the guy that uses the latest technology.

She couldn't remember her priorities, so she pulls a elementary school move like that. These were scripted questions by the way which makes it even funnier.

RUN SARAH RUN

........................................... just like Forrest Gump

It has begun.....

We all thought this would be the end of mankind.....

Turns out it might be this.......

Most of the problems with the current recalls are problems with the on-board computers....

The computers have become self aware and they're trying to kill us!!!!

Happy Birthday to Our Favorite Sister!

Super Athletes of Sierra Madre

Great video about the Raramuri Indians and The Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon. The film is by Sterling Noren and narrated by Caballo Blanco.
Very good book on the same subject: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Friends Kate and Ken gave me the book after I helped crew the Leadville 100 Trail Race. Caballo Blanco is a regular at that event.

Breckenridge Snow Sculpture Festival

At the recommendation of the Godfather, I dropped by Breckenridge Snow Sculpture Festival this past wknd. Took many pics of the big blocks of snow. Enjoy the slide show:

Portion of Recent Email to the Corporate IT guy

"What I’m hearing most though from the Project Managers is that today’s business is done almost exclusively through email and you must retain those emails until the warranty period expires(3 years after completion of project) to be able to take care of the all the problems that crop up. The Mothership needs to understand that this way of business is the future and they need to expect that email storage will need to be expanded to accommodate this new business model. (Wow don’t I sound all executive like(LOL).)"

IT guys response

"Executive.....Dude......You don’t stand a chance."

At least I know where I stand.

Actually me and the corporate IT guy get along quite well............as long as I refer to him as a Deity or some godlike entity.

Al-Kitty

Coming Soon....Literally

Well looks like 3-D Porn will be coming to your TV real soon. The adult film industry has latched onto 3-D and is even offering a package deal for $3,999 which includes a 3-D TV. I'm wondering if it will play like Avatar, which was very life like or more like those 3-D films that stuff comes popping out at you like the 3-D movie in the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom. I'm hoping for the former but it will probably be the latter.