Tales of Interest
IRS to Car Wash Visit
Mar 20th
Published: The Sacramento Bee / Saturday, Mar. 13, 2010 – 12:00 am
By Bob Shallit bshallit@sacbee.com
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2604016/irs-suits-pay-visit-to-car-wash.html#ixzz0iS2jlbC3
Author Daniel Clark
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Loading ...Words that ring true…
Feb 6th
He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he once fought in and the deeds that he had done, in his exploits with his buddies; they were heroes, every one.
And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbors his tales became a joke, all his buddies listened quietly for they knew where of he spoke.
But we’ll hear his tales no longer, for ol’ Bob has passed away, and the worlds a little poorer for a Soldier died today.
He won’t be mourned by many, just his children and his wife. For he lived an ordinary, very quiet sort of life.
He held a job and raised a family, going quietly on his way; And the world won’t note his passing, ‘tho a Soldier died today.
When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state, while thousands note their passing, and proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell of their life stories from the time that they were young, but the passing of a Soldier goes unnoticed, and unsung.
Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land, some jerk who breaks his promise and cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow who in times of war and strife, goes off to serve his country and offers up his life?
The politician’s stipend and the style in which he lives, are often disproportionate to the service that he gives.
While the ordinary Soldier who offered up his all, is paid off with a medal and perhaps a pension, small.
It’s so easy to forget them, for it is so many times that our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys, went to battle, but we know,
it is not the politicians with their compromise and ploys, who won for us the freedom that our country now enjoys.
Should you find yourself in danger with your enemies at hand, would you really want some cop-out with his ever waffling stand?
Or would you want a Soldier– his home, his country, his kin, just a common Soldier who would fight until the very end.
He was just a common Soldier and his ranks are growing thin, but his presence should remind us we may need his like again.
For when countries are in conflict we find the Soldier’s part is to clean up all the trouble that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor while he’s here to hear the praise,then at least let’s give him homage at the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.”
Publisher Unknown
-Dan
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Age before Technology
Feb 3rd
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitch-hiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Publisher Unknown?
-Dan
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Craig’s List Personals
May 7th
Again, not sure about the legitimacy of this but it is funny either way and could be true.
*/Posted to Craig’s List Personals:/*
*/To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last./*
*/Date: 2009-03-23, 3:43 A M EST/*
*/I was the guy with the black Burberry jacket that you demanded I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend. You also asked for my girlfriend’s purse and earrings./*
*/I hope you somehow come across this message. I’d like to apologize./*
*/I didn’t expect you to crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket. Truth is, I was wearing the jacket for a reason thatevening, and it wasn’t that cold outside. You see, my girlfriend had just bought me that Kimber Model 1911.45 A CP pistol for Christmas, and we had just picked up a shoulder holster for it that evening. Beautiful pistol, eh?/*
*/It’s a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head, isn’t it? I know it probably wasn’t a great deal of fun walking back to wherever you’d come from with that brown sludge flopping about in your pants. I’m sure it was even worse since you also ended up leaving your shoes, cellphone, and wallet with me. I couldn’t have you calling up any of your buddies to come help you try to mug us again. /*
*/I took the liberty of calling your mother, or “Momma” as you had her listed in your cell, and explaining to her your situation. I also bought myself and four other people in the gas station this morning a tank full of gas on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 150 gallons and was extremely grateful! I gave your shoes to one of the homeless guys over by Vinnie Van Go Go’s, along with all of the cash in your wallet. /*
*/ I threw the wallet in a fancy pink “pimp mobile” parked at the curb after I broke the windshield and side window out and keyed the drivers side. I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cellphone. They’ll be on your bill in case you’d like to know which ones. Ma Bell just shut down the line, and I’ve only had the phone for a little over a day now, so I don’t know what’s going on with that.. I hope they haven’t permanently cut off your service./*
*/I could only get in two threatening phone calls to the DA ’s office and one to the FBI with it. The FBI guy was really pissed and we had a long chat (I guess while he traced the number). /*
*/I’d also like to apologize for not killing you and instead making you walk back home humiliated. I’m hoping that you’ll reconsider your choice of path in life. Next time you might not be so lucky../*
*/- Alex/*
*/P.S. Remember this motto…….an armed society is a polite society!/*
-Ruger
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Real McCain
Oct 21st
Well here it is. The truth. This is truely what McCain does not want you to see. Check out just one of the video’s and check out the site:
The Real McCain (http://bravenewfilms.org/)
This is just one truth from this site:
-Dan
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Getting Skunked
Aug 25th
I have smelled skunks before. Driving down the road and seeing road kill of a skunk and then you drive by and the smell hits you and gets into your car etc… I think everyone knows what that smells like.
Saturday morning around 6 AM my wife wakes me up and says that our Golden Lab / German Shepard mix jumped the fence in the back yard. The dogs wake us up wanting out to do their business every morning. Sam is less then a year old and her name is Samantha (Sammy) for short. Luckily the other yard was also fenced in so she was trapped in our neighbors back yard. I went in our back yard to keep her next to our fence while my wife drove over to the other street to get Sammy. I was right there with her and didn’t notice any smells. My wife got in the other back yard and got Samantha and drove back home. When she pulled in the drive, she tells me that Sammy had been sprayed by a skunk. Being an older puppy that didn’t surprise me as she probably didn’t know that this could happen. I am thinking great, just great how the hell do we get the smell off of her now?
We have an enclosed front porch so when my wife brought Sammy up and closed the front gate, the smell hit me. She must have had a direct hit on her from that skunk. There is no way I can describe the smell, I’ll try but your probably thinking you know what a skunk smells like. Let me tell you, you do not. Being that close to an animaly that has just been sprayed with a direct hit on the face is the worst smell that has hever came into contact with my nostrils. My wife and I immediately went inside the house and left Sammy on the front porch. I made it inside and I just closed the door when I started gagging. I gagged 3 to 4 times before getting my reflexes under control.
Again, if you have ever driven by a skunk road kill, your only getting about 10 to 20 percent of the full experience. It smelled so strong that you could actually smell (at least what it smelled like to me) some type of chemical mixture that was so potent, that my eyes were literally burning and watering (not from breathing it in but just from the normal air that came into contact with my eyes). My nostrils were on fire not to mention the immediate gagging of almost throwing up. I don’t know how else to describe the smell. It did not smell like road kill skunk at all. The hint of road kill skunk was there sure but being that close it was more of a violent sharp stinging chemical smell. It felt like it could literally kill you if you inhaled to much of it.
Poor Samantha was drooling really bad and her eyes were watering extremely. Thats one hell of a way to wake up on a Saturday morning. We started researching on what the best course of action would be to remove the smell. What we found and used was almost to good to be true. It worked so good that Sammy only needed one bath in this concoction to remove the smell. She got hit in the face and right leg/paw. Below is what we found and used. I highly recommend this if you need to remove the violent smell of skunk.
This solution was supposedly invented by Paul Krebaum, an Illinois chemist:
- 1 quart of hydrogen peroxide.
- 1/2 cup of baking soda.
- 1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap.
Combine the ingredients at the time of use. This solution works to remove skunk odor because of a chemical reaction initiated immediately upon combining the ingredients. If it sits for too long, it will become ineffective.
Apply the mixture to the affected areas, let it set for about five minutes and rinse. If you need to repeat the process, you must create a new solution, as the chemical reaction quickly expires. Avoid getting it into your pet’s eyes, nose and mouth.
Dealing with a dog that has been skunked is a miserable experience. No matter how horrible the skunk odor that emanates from your dog, keep in mind that he/she was only fulfilling an instinctual curiosity. Your dog is probably suffering from this encounter more than you are; being sprayed by a skunk, especially in the eyes, is very painful, not to mention that a dog’s sense of smell is much keener then that of humans.
This may also lighten your animals coat but it is better then the obvious.
We also got some eye drops for the puppy because this mixture does harm your animal so make sure you use soothing eye drops on your dog after its bath. That alone made the difference from a scared puppy to a happy one. This mixture worked so well that we didn’t have to repeat the wash.
Our neighbors dog across the street got hit two years ago and used the tomato juice recipe. It didn’t work very well according to them – FYI. Take it from me, this mixture listed above is the miracle cure for removing skunk odor from your animals.
-Dan
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