Happy Halloween

Looks like someone is trying to steal a costume from a scarecrow:


-Doc

I bet there are some interesting conversations that happen in this house...

An actual picture taken by a reporter of a house in Martinsville Indiana and featured on Ben Smith's blog at the Politico which shows a house flying a Confederate Battle flag but also sporting an Obama for President sign. Something tells me these folks are not converts due to "The Great Schlep"... (youtube video here) LOL!


Just goes to show that race is a very multi-faceted issue in this country.

-Doc

It must be the Moosehead Beer that Sarah Palin brought

Happy (early) Halloween!!

- TMC

Go Phillies! Free Taco Bell today!

- TMC

Coffee is not helping me today....

I'm going to sleep early tonight...zzzzzz................. - The Mountain Cat

Martinsville NASCAR race pictures

Here are those promised pictures I took during last weekend's trip to the race in Martinsville Va:

Here is me with Clint Boyer answering questions in the background

Martin Truex answering questions in the hospitality tent

Jeff Gordon on the mic telling everyone he is going to win

Jeff Gordon up close escaping the tent



Sam Hornish Jr. on the mic

Dale Earnhardt Jr. escaping in the Tahoe. yep that's him in the window

Matt Kenseth signing autographs

Jeff Gordon passing Tony stewart on the track

Hope you enjoy!

-Doc

Hapy Birthday Doc!

Please send out a holler to my blog partner on his special day!

- The Mountain Cat

My B.S. Detector is going off Again

When my B.S. detector goes off it's rarely wrong. Previous examples include Susan Smith, Jennifer Wilbanks, The Duke Lacrosse rape case, and recently Casey Anthony. Well this time it's going off again and ringing loudly. I am thinking that Ashley Todd (pictured below) isn't being entirely truthful when she says that she was attacked at an ATM in Pittsburgh because she was a John McCain campaign volunteer. She claims that the attacker carved the Letter B (seemingly for Barack) on her face after she was robbed. While I think that if true this is terrible there are questions being raised about this woman's story. Starting with the fact it looks as if the letter was carved in mirror image on her face. Give this blog a read and see that there is more to be known about this story. I would love to hear what you guys think about this story:

-Doc

Sarah Palin Has a Fluffy Tail

I had this funny conversation with my dad recently:

Me: 'Look at that cute squirrel.'

Dad: 'Yeah.'

Me: 'But squirrels are rabid. Really now, what's the difference between squirrels and rats?'

Dad: 'Lipstick.'

Thanks for the political jest dad!

- The Mountain Cat.

Top Ten Discontinued Consumer Products Due to this Recession

(Besides Zima):

10. Tabasco Pepper Spray

9. Lamborghini's Mini-Van

8. Fredrick's of Hollywood's 'Lady's Best Friend'

7. Flintstone Viagra-mins

6. Obamargaritas

5. Stolichnaya Oat Bran

4. The Mountain Cat Ode de Toilette

3. Signing Christmas Dolls (Thank God!!!)

2. Mortgages (Yikes!)

1. Cubs Hats

- The Mountain Cat

Finally something positive about this recession

I know that the economy really stinks these days. Prices for everything except homes are up. The stock market has motion sickness and could implode any minute. Mortgage lenders and banks are in trouble and most 401(k)'s have turned into 201(k)'s. The government is intervening where they never should and there seems to be no end in sight however I have managed to find a silver lining in this whole recession thing. The makers of the worst product of all time ZIMA have finally decided to stop making it. Hopefully this will give you some reason to smile and see that at least something positive has come out of this troubled economy. God bless this recession, now if we could only get them to stop making peeps the second worst product of all time we would really be heading in the right direction.

-Doc

The payoff of my weekend quest

And here is what it looked like when John McCain was in Concord on Saturday....

I completed my weekend Quest !!!

-Doc

(LOL!)

Busy schedule this weekend and my quest

This weekend is going to be a busy one at our house. Tomorrow we are going with some friends of ours to the pumpkin farm to take the kids to pick their own pumpkins, we have a birthday party and I am going to try to attend John McCain's rally in Concord. Sunday we are going to Martinsville Virginia to do the only thing there is to do in Martinsville Virginia and that is to attend the NASCAR race as guests of a great sponsor SNAP ON TOOLS. We are going to hospitality and possibly meet and greet with drivers etc. Sounds great huh?

Here is my quest for this weekend. Of all that fun stuff my goal is to get my picture taken with either John McCain or Kevin Harvick. What do you think? Does anyone else have anything fun going on this weekend? What is your weekend quest?

-Doc

McCain in the Membrane

I thought this photo from last night was funny and figured it was photoshopped but it's not. This is an actual Reuters news photo from last night's debate. I figured you guys would like it.

To me it kinda of looks like John McCain is trying to dance to his own version of Cypress Hill's Insane in the membrane... This one is McCain in the Membrane. (McCain in the brain)

-Doc

Nik Wallenda

I suppose I should give my congratulations to
Nik Wallenda for his World Record bicycle high wire act live on the Today Show this morning. (video)

However, I still remain unimpressed!
Really now, what's the big deal?
It wasn't dangerous enough in my opinion.

So Nik if you are reading this, I offer the following suggestions for your next stunt:

- Ride the bike across the wire with a
rabid, in-heat wolverine on your head.
Now that would be impressive!
or,
- Eat six bean burritos & laxatives an hours before the stunt. Have a toilet attached to the seat and then ride across the high wire.
Now that would be impressive!
or,
- Ride the bike at full speed and jump over David Blaine who is lying still on the wire for 3 days in another one of his own stupid stunts.
Now that would be impressive!
or,
- Ride across the wire on a two seater bicycle with your mother-in-law on the back seat as she is yelling at you about what a loser her daughter married because you never got a real job.
Now that would be impressive!

But Nik I guess you've already decided that your next stunt will be to walk across the Grand Canyon on a high wire next spring. I am still unimpressed. Unless of course a bunch of desert vultures see you and start to hover a few inches above your head in anticipation to munch on your maimed carcass.
Now that would be impressive!

- The Mountain Cat

Escape proof Pack-n-Play

My good buddy the Mt. Cat was thinking about my son Patrick and his well being after he found out that Patrick has the ability to break out of "baby jail" and pretty much anywhere else we try to contain him. So Mt. Cat decided to invent an escape proof pack and play to make sure that Patrick is always safe. Here is what he came up with:


Mt. Cat is going to start selling these in stores soon. I think the model shown above is in "Alcatraz Azure Blue" Models will also be available in "Guantanimo Green" and "Abu-Gharib Gray" as well.

-Doc

Patrick is doing his chores

Yesterday was really nice here and so we figured that Patrick could help out around the house and mow the lawn. I figured you guys wanted to see how big the little guy is getting so here are some pictures:

-Doc

Queen Quiz

Please read the following article and please let me know who you think 'The Queen' is:

Who has bigger ego? Aretha Franklin says it's Tina Turner By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY

The Queen of Soul is in high dudgeon. Aretha Franklin, who expressed her displeasure in February after Beyoncé referred to Tina Turner as "the queen" during a salute on the Grammy Awards, is now fuming over remarks by her royal rival.

Turner, currently on tour, was silent when Franklin dubbed Beyoncé's remark "a cheap shot for controversy." Asked to comment in a USA TODAY interview last week, Turner said, "She's the queen of soul, and I'm the queen of rock 'n' roll. There were so many kings and queens there that night. Her ego must be so big to think she was the only one." She joked, "That's how queens are!"

One queen wasn't laughing. In a statement to USA TODAY, Franklin says Turner "clearly was talking about herself" in terms of ego.

"I never figured her to resort to tacky press just to sell a few tickets," says Franklin, who adds she has never met Turner. "I really had put her in a different class — higher than that.

"No one has been more gracious … to their peers than I have, and I am confident and secure enough to do so, unlike some others." Turner did not respond to requests for comment.

- TMC

Haloween is gonna be scary this year

-Doc

Bobby D

This following post is from my cousin Anthony who is sad to see his favorite actor Robert DeNiro play shitty roles lately. He has some movie suggestions for him...

Why doesn't Scorsese just continue to take the Goodfella's/Casino story on the road...

1) Deniro as a Cuban-Jew Drug dealer in Miami. Like what Tony Montana would be in his 60's if 3000 Colombians didn't shoot up his mansion.... Joe Pesci is his partner and they meet for early bird dinners in South Beach's Famous Wolf's Deli, like John Gotti and Sammy the Bull used to meet at the Ravenite Social Club on Mulberry Street. Scorsese plays fast talking Deli owner Manny Wolf. Deniro wears double breasted Armani Suits, Pesci is repulsive in Hawaiian shirts and cargo shorts. Sarah Palin plays Deniro's Mob-Doll wife in the Michelle Pfeiffer/Sharon Stone Milf roll, having an affair with Leo DiCaprio who plays center for the Tampa Bay Lightning, taking her "Hockey Mom" Roll to a new low. Ray Liotta is an undercover DEA Agent, posing as a gay House DJ at Club Madonna, who kills people "Dexter" style when they refer to Sauce as Gravy. Moonlighting as a waiter at Wolf's Deli, he offers Deniro his sauce on the High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, and his cover is blown, and the plot, like an unwatched pot of gravy, thickens!!

2) Deniro as a Mob connected Studio Exec/Movie Producer in Hollywood. Pesci is his "Turtle"driving him around. Travolta reprieves his role from "Get Shorty" and they compete for Vinnie Chase in the prequel , "Medellin...The Early Years", Ray Liotta plays Vinnie Chase's other brother, "Too Much Drama", who makes sauce for the entourage. Scorsese plays Vinnie's fast talking agent "Arnie". Leo DiCaprio is his homo-sexual assistant "Floyd".

3) Deniro as an Al Capone type character in 1920's Chicago..."Scarpuss, the Untold Story". Ray Liotta plays a corrupt "G-Man" who'd rather make sauce on Sundays than put Deniro away. Geraldo Rivera ironically plays a victim shoved inside a bank safe alive and dumped into Lake Michigan by, who else, Joe Pesci. Barack Obama plays Deniro's chauffer, in black face, who's trying to get his boss to "change" the sports landscape of the Second City, and fix the World Series for the Cubs to win, a few years after they fixed the Black Sox Series of 1919, for the White Sox to lose. Scorsese plays a shorter Lou Pinella type, volatile Manager of the Cubbies. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the young Deniro in flashbacks to the 1890's city of Ciacca, on the island of Sicily, where he scars his face when a local rival dips his head in a hot pot of sauce for calling it gravy. Liotta doubles as the rival.

4) Deniro as a corrupt Texas Chief of Staff, selling Mexicans coming over the border into slavery. Deniro wears a Dick Cheney mask to hide his true identity when he's dealing with Joe Pesci, the "auctioneer" who wheels and deals with Washington Fat-Cats and Wall Street Execs to get the Mexicans placed as servants and concubines to the rich. George W. plays the clueless Governor of Texas, Elliot Spitzer plays the NY connection for placing the hottest Mexican Girls in a high priced whorehouse, run by Hillary Clinton, playing herself.. Ray Liotta plays a corrupt Border Patrol cop who can't get good sauce deep in the heart of Texas, and smuggles girls on the side up to Spitzer in return for some sauce from Little Italy's S.P.Q.R., owned and operated by Scorsese himself as a shorter version of Emiril. All the characters meet at the restaurant for a GOP fundraiser, and it all comes to a head at the restaurant as Journey's "Don't Stop Believin" plays on Leo DiCaprio's IPOD, as he tries to park W's Limo on the narrow streets of Little Italy. This one's a comedy....

- BuffTony (The Mountain Cat's elder cousin)

PS - Here is one more movie idea: Martin Scorsese's Sesame Street

Fenway Bias

The Angels shortstop lets an easy ground ball go under his glove and it is called a base hit??

Then Jason Fairytek lets a ball get by him that just misses the strike zone and it is called a wild pitch??? Bull crap!

God forbid Fairytek makes an error! Holier than thou Captain Fairytek! He couldn’t hold Thurman Munson’s Skoal tins.

The Boston Red Sox and the California Los Anaheim Angels of Anaheim, California north of San Diego are my least favorite teams in baseball!!!!

…And as I am writing this Fairytek drops the ball in a rundown and the runner is called out!! UGH, it sickens me!!

Go Rays! Go Phillies!

(Only on TBS. Very funny.)

Vince

Who is/was your favorite Beatle ?

New poll up today about the Beatles. Who is/was your favorite Beatle? An no I didn't put Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best in the poll... LOL

-Doc

Randomness

Sorry folks I have zero creativity lately. So please enjoy these photos below. Thank you - TMC