Flush 'em Friday: The 7 22 11 Edition

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Happy Flush 'em Friday! It's time to Flush the blogosphere of that which bothers, annoys and irritates you.


My list for this fine Friday, July 22, 2011 is as follows:

• People who do not know how to merge...you alternate...

• People who use their turn signals every other turn or after they are already half way through the turn.

• "Unromantic comedies" about friends having sex.

• The NFL lockout

• The NBA lockout

• Reserve not met messages on ebay. Come on, just list your bottom line price, we know you're not going to sell a Rolex for $0.99.

• Purple cars...especially if they say Mary Kay...

• Bruno Mars (my son finds his songs annoying)...

• People who hate on David Beckman for being old, he is, but ignore how great a passer he still is (better than anyone else in the league).

• Eldrick "Tiger" Woods for dumping his caddie like one of the waitresses he "loved"

Well, that about does it for this fine Flush 'em Friday.

Except if you have an addition...

Black Widows, Geocaching and Family

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Happy Wednesday to you all, whether you deserve it or not!

I am on vacation this week and as busy as if I was working a 10+ day. It is all good of course because it is with my family. We have discovered the joys of geocaching.  So, we spent the better part of the day at the Botanic Gardens searching for hard to find little containers with the geocaching symbol on them. We found two caches inside the park itself. We also found some Black Widow spiders. The actual caches were fun because I guess you are not supposed to let non geocachers, also known as muggles, see you make the grab. Of course I, at one point, became impatient and just jumped across a barrier and grabbed the thing. Apparently most people just ignore crazy people who jump into bushes and pull out a container with funny markings. They are probably wondering why anyone needs a GPS device to locate a bush. Oh well, many have thought I was crazy for less.

The best part of course is seeing different sites with the family. While my family and I were traipsing around the Botanic Gardens we were amazed at how big it actually was and how much there is to see. If you get a chance to visit the Botanic Gardens in Rancho Palos Verdes, it is well worth it. Plus, every third Tuesday is free. Usually when you go on a site seeing trip you go, walk around and leave. But, with the geocaching I found an extra level of engagement with the kids. With a preteen in the mix, that is a good thing.

By-the-way, we found two on the way home and then stopped for some well deserved frozen yogurt at Yogurtland.

May you find some fun with your family this summer too!
PTVoice out.

No Tax Tuesday 7 19 11 Edition

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Happy No Tax Tuesday. I hope you all are enjoying your summer with your families.  Summer soccer is talking up most of our summer nights with two children playing on two different teams. The real trick is trying to feed the family on nights like these without eating out all the time. Which leads me to my No Tax Tuesday rant for the week. 

I am an average man making average money with an average family. How do taxes affect me and my family? First of all they don't help. Paying nearly 10% on just McDonald's for a family of four can be $2.00 a meal. If your family has to do the fast food boogie two or three times a week that can be $6.00 to $10.00 a week easily! $24 to $40 a month is an extra meal for the family! So, via our taxes we sacrifice a meal out a month for the government. What do we get out of that sacrifice? Where I live we get bad roads, bad traffic and schools where the teachers think they are good because I (we) tutor my (our) children to make up for what they are not getting at school. 

Now, when my two oldest children try to get into college, I (according to the government) make to much money and we don't have a last name that will allow us to benefit from any of the "investments" in our government we have made up to this time. To go along with that the cost for attending ANY college or university from a city college to a major UC is rising as I blog, making a college education either just for the wealthy or those whom some liberal elitist feels is more deserving! To demonstrate the foolishness of the system allow me to share a personal experience. I have a friend who just happens to be of a "minority" decent. He works for the same "company" as I do. We have the same pay scale. But, because his children are who they are, they get some help with their SAT scores. In other words, my children have to score a few hundred points higher than his solely because of their color and race. They also get special status as in easy entrance. Fair? My tax dollars at work.

My point? Where are the tax dollars going? Who or what are they benefiting? 

Flush 'em Friday: The 7 15 11 Edition

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Once again it is time for Flush 'em Friday! Time to dispose of those and that which annoy, irritate or sometime just confound you.

This week my nominees are (in no particular order except the first):

• 54% of my fellow Californians who live in the 36th Congressional District. 
• Skinny jeans because those of us who are not skinny should not be wearing them and who needs to see that much of anyone?
• Jerry Brown and the California Dems for forcing teachers to teach and children not their own to be taught the "history" of gays. Like that won't be revisionist liberal crap.
• Revisionist liberal crap known as "social science"  because it is just liberal ideology being forced upon us all.
• Eugene Robinson for being such a liberal propaganda hypocrite by accusing the Republicans of doing what the Democrats always do, putting ideology over country.
• People who let their dogs crap anywhere and don't clean it up.
• Leisure suits.
• Plastic bag laws.
• Green light bulbs. 
• Carmegeddon
• The McCourts, for spending more time in court than running the team...please sell.

That's it for this week, unless you would like to add a few...

No Tax Tuesday or No Cash for Gangs 7 12 11 Edition

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I am not sure if it is a Happy No tax Tuesday yet, but, I wish you all one just the same!

Nationally we have President Obama pushing to increase the debt limit, thus, seeking to raise my taxes even more. That is the Democrats big plan. Tax and spend. They spent, now they want to spend more. How will they pay for such spending? How do they ALWAYS want to pay? Taxation. Tell my Representative NO!

Locally, I have Janice Hahn running against Craig Huey for the vacant 36th Congressional seat. Janice is know for such great ideas like adding parking meters near popular businesses to boost revenue. Thanks Janice for raising the cost of living just a few bucks more when I go out to eat. You see, that is the great thing about Democrats, they lower the standard of living by increasing its' cost. But, that's good because when they get the money they can redistribute it to those who by basic human rights should have it. For example, Janice Hahn thinks gang bangers should be called gang interventionists and given money. Mayor V. likes to give them Blackberrys too. (Maybe that is why the police officers I have spoken with "dislike" the Mayor so much.) Please don't represent us. 

Craig Huey believes in less taxes, less government control and the freedom to create and provide more jobs. He has done so. Now, maybe he hasn't "employed" as many know gang members as Janice, but, he has provided jobs non the less. Yes, be my Representative!

No more cash for gang members! Elect Craig Huey!

California Needs Craig and Craig Needs You!

Happy Monday to you all! I hope you had a great week end.

It has been, weather wise, a beautiful summer here in SoCal. This looks like the first real week of June gloom (even though it is July). Tomorrow is an important day for those of us in the South Bay. It is really an important day for American politics. Jane Harman's vacant seat for the 36th Congressional District will be decided by a run-off special election. Craig Huey surprised the political left by getting enough votes to enter the run off. 

The decision could not be more plain. Janice Hahn is a true tax and spend Democrat whose family has been in politics since before she was a wink in her mommas' eye. Republican Craig Huey is a local business man who ,believes in less spending and lower taxes.

Janice Hahn's campaign has been the typical leftest try to alienate and falsely accuse your opponent, demonizing and basic deceptive stuff. Those who voted for Jerry Brown thinking he might actually have a different plan than sucking the life out of every single working Californian via taxation probably will vote for  Janice Hahn. That is my worry. The women can't he even maintain a consistent stance on parking meters! 

I have followed Craig Huey for a few years on his site http://www.electionforum.org/ where Craig has provided, free, information on candidates and issues for 20+ years. He is an honest man who will help Californians and Americans. California needs Craig Huey and Craig needs your vote! Vote for Craig Huey!!! http://www.craighuey.com/

Flush 'em Friday: The 7 8 11 Edition

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Happy Flush 'em Friday,
It's time to list the "winners" to be Flushed!

• Sprint Long Distance phone "service" for charging me a full month when I canceled them for their lousy service on the 6th.
• Selena Gomez for dating Justin Bieber (my daughter's choice)  
• Justin Bieber (my son's choice)
• Janice Hahn for paying gang bangers to be gang "interventionists" - stupid is as stupid does.
• The baseball team from LA. Next year? Next owner?
• Streaming movies that take longer to stream than play.
• Potato chip bags that are 1) hard to open 2) contain fewer and fewer chips each time I am desperate enough to buy one.
• Drunk-text drivers...you know, people who drive like they are drunk, swerving and drifting in and out of their lanes, but, they are texting.
• Fill in the blank_________________________________.

That's all for this week!