The Old Fart… enjoying a Sunday on the deck, drinking and gambling online.

Damn… life is still good.. although I gotta get to the store for some razors, starting to look like a freakin hippy!

Reports from Six Flags Over Georgia are that a seventeen year old moron was killed at the Batman The Ride inverted roller coaster earlier today.

But he was killed in spectacular fashion… decapitated while wondering around in the secured area, after scaling TWO six foot fences and ignoring numerous posted warning signs of the dangerousness of being in that area.

So, why did he climb those fences and ignore not only the posted warnings, but the obvious to any thinking person danger?

He’d lost his hat while on the ride.

BRILLIANT! Now he doesn’t need it.

Time for the next (second) installment of The Saturday Night Song. In these posts, I pick a song from my MP3 player, find a video of it, and share it with you… possibly adding some comments.

Tonights song is actually going to be multiple songs, on a theme.

Superman

First up will be Superman by a band called Lazlo Bane. If you watch the TV show Scrubs, you’ll know this is the theme song to that show.

Lazlo Bane is a group from California that has basically “made it” as independents. Most of their material is self released, and actually pretty good stuff. Their latest album is called Guilty Pleasures and is nothing but covers of hit 1970’s songs.

Next up is Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

This band is from Mississippi, and became popular on the heels of this song. It is certainly a fun video.

Last up is Crash Test Dummies, Superman’s Song. I’ve always enjoyed Brad Roberts voice, and lyrically this is one of the best Superman songs ever written.

So, I hope you’ve enjoyed this installment of The Saturday Night Song, Superman Edition. FYI, my MP3 players Superman folder has eight total songs.

Can’t understand how I scored so low.

We folks here in Johnson County Kansas have a real problem. I’m not sure why, but we seem to elect fairly retarded people into office to run our local justice system.

Phill Kline wasn’t technically elected, but it fits.

Now we have the JoCo Sheriff being quoted in news articles about the proposed 1/4 cent sales tax on the August ballot.

Sheriff Frank Denning wants the tax to pass, and I can see why. His department will get lots of new stuff, including jails and a crime lab. He’d be foolish to not support this tax.

But that isn’t why I’m implying that he’s as mentally challenged as our illustrious district attorney. No.

If the sales tax is rejected, the sheriff said the jail expansion and the crime lab projects will still move forward, but the county will have to find another way to pay for them.

Uh, Sheriff Denning… when exactly did the county appoint you “the decider” for what gets paid for? If the citizens vote against this (and they should, it will never “sunset”), the county commissioners, not the Sheriffs office, will have to decide what can be paid for, and whether they need to find some other type of funding. Of course, the commissioners will become mentally challenged if they decide to go against a no vote by the residents and impose some other tax to pay for all this.

Being libertarian I am anti-tax. I strenuously oppose any tax that is a “forever” tax, and this particular tax would never go away, not even after paying for all the new toys that would make up a JoCo crime lab. Taxes with no expiration date are a misuse of the taxing ability of government, especially on a local level.

So, to Sheriff Denning I say… don’t make promises with your mouth that your ass can’t deliver on. You do not have the authority to tell the citizens what will be built with their tax dollars. To the JoCo County commissioners I say… tread carefully on this tax issue. If the citizens vote it down, it will be a message, loud and clear.

Wake up at 9:30am, make coffee. Of course the only reason I’ve slept until 9:30 is that Mrs Old Fart got up early to let the greyhounds go outside to take care of business. Business being pissing and shitting. Nice business, huh?

Of course she didn’t make coffee while she was up, because she sleep walks letting dogs out. It’s second nature for her.

So, at 9:30am I brew the coffee, half thinking about drinking the left over brew from yesterday.

I’ve done it. It’s not so bad.

But today is my only day off from work. I won’t drink yesterdays leftover shit. No No.

The combo of Folgers Columbian and Dunkin Donuts coffee is almost enough to wake me up just scooping it into the coffee pot. Well, not really. I gotta drink at least two cups of the stuff to even be civil to anyone, including the wife. But it does smell awesome! I love Dunkin Donuts coffee. For me, nothing else is in the ballpark

After enough coffee has entered my system, and I’m fully booted up into operating mode, it’s YARD WORK time.

Yeah, calm down people. It’s not as exciting as I make it out to be.

But after, probably around 1:00pm, the beer starts flowing.

Oh The Beer!

Nothing special mind you. Actually it was shitty beer. But I was hot and sweaty, and the beer was cold. Cold is the ONLY requirment in that situation. So Bud Light Lime it was. And I’ll tell ya, if I have to make a choice between water and Bud Light Lime… it’s BL every time. Say what you will about that swill… at least its not a Miller product!

So I’m mowing and weeding, weeding and mowing… and mulching, and the sun is beating down. I tell you, BLL tastes good in 85 degree weather after a couple hours busting it in the front yard.

Late afternoon brings the laptop onto the back deck for some online poker… while drinking BLL.

I made some money today. So BLL can’t be too bad.

And to top it off, I just hopped out of the pool, and I’m playing online poker while telling this story.

It could probably be better. I could hit Powerball. But I’ll take this life I have. I love it. Oh, and I just bluffed out 5 people with A K off suit for 2570.

And the Mrs? She’s one of a kind. In poker one of a kind isn’t playable, but its a winning hand if she’s involved.

Yeah, lifes good.

OK, time to start a weekly feature on this blog.

The Saturday Night Song will be where I post a video of a song that I have on my MP3 player. I may or may not comment on the song or the artist.

To get things started, I’m going to post four videos on tonights premier of

The Saturday Night Song(s)

Hope you enjoyed the varied selection from my musical tastes. Next Saturday I’ll limit it to one song/video, and comment on the artist and/or song.

I’m anti-child. Actually I guess I’m more anti-screaming-kid-in-public-places-that-I-am-also-at. I get REALLY upset, and tend to make LOUD comments about the parents of any noise making rug rat in my general vicinity. Usually loud enough for said parents to hear.

So, when I saw that Kellogs is now encouraging kids to eat Lego’s… well I teared up just a little. I love it!

Parents spend years teaching their little dirt munchers to NOT put stuff in their mouths. Some of those things look EXACTLY like Kellogs Lego Fun Snacks. AWESOME!

Of course in the near future, assuming this yummy gummy snack continues to be marketed, some toe headed, diaper crappers parents will wind up owning Kellogs, after junior figures out you can’t pull oxygen out of the air if you have a Lego Brick jammed in your esophagus, turning all kinds of blue and purple.

C’mon you pre-schoolers and kindergarten rug rats. I got some major whoop ass to open up on you!

How ’bout you? You wanna piece?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.